How Ukrainian children could offer hope to terrified hostages in Gaza

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : 'Every country with contacts to Hamas has tried.'Diplomatic sources in Qatar, who were visited last week by the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, say Hamas initially offered to give up some hostages in return for the freeing of Palestinian fighters currently held by Israel, including some who carried out last Saturday's terror attack.
50% : Qatari officials have been overseeing the process of verifying who the children are and trying to identify family members back home, in an operation orchestrated via Sheikh Mohammed's Minister of State for International Co-Operation, Her Excellency Lolwah Rashid Al-Khater.
48% : Last month, it brokered a prisoner swap between the US and Iran which saw five American citizens released in return for allowing Tehran to access around $6billion in frozen oil revenues.

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