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I don't think I want him to be far from home again,
It felt like I died and I was reborn,
he said in an interview video distributed by Thai officials I never thought this day would come,
the 65-year-old told the BBC I cannot wait to see my son,
Our plea to you (Trump and Witkoff) right now is, now that you’ve done the hard part of getting movement, getting a deal started, let’s not think about phase one and phase two and phase three and many months,
Jon Goldberg-Polin said in video He assumed that he had been released long ago,
Rachel Goldberg-Polin said He did not know. He assumed, and asked, and we told him,
she told Israel’s public broadcaster Kann 11 News Her loss has left an enormous void in all our hearts,
All 76 hostages out this week. End of war. Who benefits from dragging it out for so long? Not the people of this region. Let’s get it done right now,
I say to them again: They will pay the price. We will do everything to return all of our hostages. We will see to their safety. This is the directive that I gave to the delegation – say this to the mediators and demand it. But beyond this, President Trump agrees with me completely: We will do everything to return all of the hostages, but Hamas will not be there. We will eliminate Hamas, and we will return our hostages,
Our first duty as doctors, as humans and as a society, is to work for the return of all the hostages until the last one,
When will he ever stand up for his responsibility and be able to say, I was responsible for 7 October and I will guide the negotiation team to enter into intensive talks and agree on the release of not the next hostage - the last hostage we want to see how he comes out,
We all saw what a person who survived an inferno looks like. So if anyone had any doubt about how urgent it is to bring everyone back, if anyone imagined that the kidnapped could wait for after Iran, after Gaza, after the elections, if anyone dreamed that there were more important tasks than returning all the kidnapped, if anyone tried to sell us that 75% of the kidnapped who returned is a lot, today we got a wake-up call,
In a visit to Tehran, Hamas leaders claimed 'The victory in Gaza is a victory for Hamas and Iran.' One thing is for sure there was no victory for the Palestinian people and their case."
Khalil Sayegh, a political analyst, wrote in a Saturday X post The people of Gaza prevailed over the Zionist regime. In fact, they prevailed over the United States, and by God's grace, they didn't allow the US to attain any of its goals."
In a series of posts on X, formerly Twitter, mirroring meeting notes from Iran's state news agency IRNA, Iran's Supreme Leader praised Hamas and Palestinians, writing The ultimate result of all the sufferings of the people of Gaza was the victory of truth over falsehood, and they became a role model for all those devoted to the cause of the Resistance."
Islamic countries will definitely be able to rebuild Gaza together and restore life to the Muslim people of this region."
Iran's president Masoud Pezeshkian said during the meeting, per IRNA On a day when #Hamas released three hostages from #Israel including Eli Sharabi, whose wife and two daughters were murdered by Hamas, and Or Levy, whose wife was murdered by Hamas, Hamas leaders meet with their patron #Iran's regime's supreme leader. It's unclear whether Eli and Or even know of their murders. Their blood is on Khamenei's hands."
Jason Brodsky, policy director of United Against Nuclear Iran, wrote in an X post Saturday From Oct. 7, 2023, to today we don’t know anything about what is happening outside the prison,
All the prisoners who were released today are in need of medical care … as a result of the brutality they were subjected” to in jail
said the advocacy group, which has long complained of alleged abuses of Palestinians in Israeli custody
