It's unclear exactly how many people have been taken hostage by Hamas, or where they are being held - and the fact this is playing out in an active war zone will make things exceptionally difficult for the people trying to get captives out safely, experts tell Sky News.
Hidden in Gaza, or in the network of tunnels that run beneath it, are upwards of 100 hostages. Soldiers, women, children, the elderly, taken from their homes, snatched from a music festival. With so many people held in an under-siege war zone, experts told Sky News it was one of the most complex hostage situations they have seen. Now governments and negotiators have to try and get the hostages out alive.
Governments will be drawing up rescue plans to make sure every option is available to them - but they rely on having a high level of certainty about where the hostages are and whether they can safely get them out without losing any personnel. Hostage rescues happen 'relatively rarely' because they are so high risk, Ms Briggs said. 'It can end badly as often as it ends well.
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