Hostage negotiations. There has been a great deal in the press over the weekend. He asks whether i am optimistic. The answer is that i am neither optimistic nor pessimistic but i can tell them that the British Government is doing everything it can to ensure that those negotiations are successful. I am sure the Minister Negotiations are successful. I am sure the minister agrees negotiations are successful. I n sure the minister agrees that it is profoundly in the british interest that there should be a properly functioning system of International Rules and laws and that the International Court ofjustice is central to that system. So what concrete steps as the government taking to enforce its ruling with regard to this can affect conflict, enforcing the ruling and in relation to the assault on rafah, is at the ministers view that the assault and the impact it will have on the civilians, and as he points out, 600,000 children, that that would be in role with the lining in line with the ro