Race against the clock (and the tunnels) to free hostages: is Israel waiting for support or not? | Israel-Palestine conflict

Israel has identified most of the hostages and began notifying their families yesterday. About a hundred families have already been contacted, ‘The Times of Israel’ quotes Israeli army radio. Can Israel free them on its own? And how do other countries feel about negotiations with Hamas? “Israel fears the hostages will be smuggled through tunnels to Egypt.”