On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN International’s “The Brief,” Amnesty International Secretary General Agnes Callamard responded to arguments that Hamas could simply end the war right now if it surrendered and released hostages by saying that “Hamas must release all hostages. They must do that. Humanity must win. But this will not happen as long as the Israeli government keeps playing games on the back of its own Israeli citizens.”

Host Jim Sciutto asked, “President Trump, again, today, places the blame for suffering in Gaza entirely on Hamas, as does Israel. And they say that the war could end tomorrow if Hamas were to lay down its arms and return the hostages. What’s your response to that?”

Callamard responded, “Well, first of all, let’s be clear that what happened on October 7 was horrend

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