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Gershon Baskin is a veteran Israeli peace activist and back‑channel negotiator who in 2025 was publicly identified as conveying U.S. and Qatari ceasefire proposals to Hamas and as a participant in neg...
Available reporting and writings show Gershon Baskin has had long-standing personal and professional contact with Marwan Barghouti since the 1990s and has corresponded with him during his imprisonment...
Available reporting in the provided results shows extensive documentation about Gershon (Gershon) Baskin’s long career as an Israeli negotiator and peace activist, including recent work on ceasefire a...
Gershon Baskin and Ghazi Hamad maintained a long-standing back channel and did meet in person multiple times; Baskin says they met face-to-face about four times and explicitly notes meetings such as a...
Gershon Baskin has a long-documented history of both direct and back‑channel contact with Hamas officials — most prominently with Ghazi Hamad — stretching back to 2006 and resurfacing at various momen...
Available reporting shows Gershon Baskin acted as a back‑channel between U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Hamas in early September 2025, delivering a U.S. proposal/principles for ending the Gaza w...
Gershon Baskin says he passed draft terms and worked as a back-channel between U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and Hamas in early September, and reports say Witkoff conveyed a set of principles to Hamas via ...
Gershon Baskin publicly says he met and communicated with U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff in December 2024 in Abu Dhabi (Baskin says he flew to Abu Dhabi and “managed to speak with him” and then main...
Multiple contemporary accounts and interviews show Gershon Baskin says he communicated with U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and worked to create back channels between the Americans and Hamas in the run-up to...
Gershon Baskin is widely reported as a long-time back-channel operator between Israel and Hamas and says he worked on elements of the diplomatic architecture that fed into the Sharm El‑Sheikh talks, b...
Gershon Baskin publicly stated that , and that both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and U.S. officials including President Biden rejected that proposal . Independent public documentatio...
Gershon Baskin, an Israeli back-channel negotiator, says he received a Hamas proposal more than a year before the current ceasefire framework and that , with Baskin further asserting that U.S. leaders...
US-brokered deals under President Trump produced notable short-term breakthroughs — including a Gaza ceasefire with hostage releases and withdrawals, expanded Arab-Israeli normalization through the Ab...