"Netanyahu chose war and to free his hostages through a belligerent operation, but he failed and now he's back to square one," says Qadura Fares, head of the Commission for Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs in Ramallah, during a press conference on the second day of the truce between Israel and Hamas. Hamas militants were to release a second batch of hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners in Israel on Saturday, officials said, as a truce largely holds in the devastated Gaza Strip after seven weeks of war that killed thousands. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES