"Qatar has played a major role in getting Israeli hostages out of Gaza, but it’s facing growing pressure to distance itself from Hamas.

In this week’s episode of “The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green”, Fran Townsend, president of the Counter Extremism Project, says her organization believes Qatar is harboring terrorists."

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed on DW News: "There is no direct contact. So this goes via Qatar... they're going between Israel and Hamas." 

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed on DW News: "Israel and militant Islamist group Hamas have agreed to extend a temporary truce by another day minutes before it was set to expire, Israel and mediator Qatar have confirmed. Qatar and Israel said the truce would continue under the existing framework where Hamas, considered a terror group by several countries, released 10 Israeli hostages per day in exchange for Israel releasing 30 Palestinian prisoners."

"'Hamas wants these images, it produces these images , it causes the dead civilians in order to serve the narrative, to illustrate the narrative: Israel is completely disproportionate and is taking revenge on the Palestinian people,' explains Hans Jakob Schindler to contrasts. The senior director of the international organization Counter Extremism Project is based in Berlin and researches terror strategies."

"Hans-Jakob Schindler, who currently heads the political non-profit Counter Extremism Project, told DW that Israel was balancing the twin goals of safely releasing the hostages while eradicating Hamas in the Gaza Strip."

"Israel announced Sunday that it had 'eliminated' four senior Hamas military leaders. In this week’s episode of 'The Hunt with WTOP National Security Correspondent J.J. Green', Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project, elaborates on who these men were."

"Hans-Jakob Schindler, a senior director of the Counter Extremism Project non-profit, told BI that groups like the PIJ may seek to play the situation to its advantage.

'Hamas cannot just order those hostages to be handed over, especially since all of the others understand that the hostages could be very valuable for them as well,' he said."

"The hostage situation has shown that Hamas’ control over Gaza is not absolute, said Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter-Extremism Project, a policy institute based in Washington and Berlin.

Schindler said he believes Hamas enlisted the aid of the PIJ and organized crime groups in Gaza for the raid, but that the groups are competing when it comes to the hostages."