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A breakthrough has been achieved in the talks, the announcement of the agreement is expected tomorrow."
Palestinian source KAN News also stated We have a responsibility to ensure that the strategic gains of the last 15 months endure and lay the foundation for a better future,
Blinken told the Atlantic Council, a Washington-based policy research organization I believe we will get a ceasefire,
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a Washington speech I appeal to you, the international community, with a simple yet urgent plea: help us bring the hostages home,
she said, according to a statement from the Hostages and Missing Families Forum This is not about politics—it is about humanity and the shared belief that no one should be left behind in darkness,
We have been told that it’s now just a question of dotting the Is and crossing the Ts,
There appears to have been a breakthrough overnight on Monday,
We’ve had at least eight months of counterfactuals,
We can't miss this moment. This is the last moment; we can save them,
said Hadas Calderon, whose husband Ofer and children Sahar and Erez were abducted Both leaders committed to remain in close coordination directly and through their teams over the coming hours,
the White House said in a statement after the leaders' telephone call The deal ... would free the hostages, halt the fighting, provide security to Israel and allow us to significantly surge humanitarian assistance to the Palestinians who suffered terribly in this war that Hamas started,
We are close, we are not there yet."
The cost of leaving 98 hostages in captivity is higher than the price of the painful deal that has been on the table since April,
Please President Trump, do not pressure us to give into Hamas. Pressure them to give in to us.”
Protester Tamar Gesundheit, 69, said We await final word from Hamas on its acceptance and until we get that word, will remain on the brink,
We understand how painful any agreement with the terrorist organisation Hamas is for Israel. Nevertheless, the lives of the hostages must now have top priority,
said Scholz in a statement, In the last year, using our political power, we managed to prevent this deal from going ahead, time after time,
The conditions are ripe, it’s time for a deal, the prime minister said it. How can you, the minister of finance, oppose the return of all these abductees,
asked Ofir Angrest, whose brother Matan was taken hostage during the Hamas-led attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 This move is our only chance to prevent (the deal’s) execution, and prevent Israel’s surrender to Hamas, after more than a year of bloody war, in which more than 400 IDF (Israel Defence Forces) soldiers fell in the Gaza Strip, and to ensure that their deaths are not in vain.”
Time is of the essence,
said Gil Dickmann, cousin of former hostage Carmel Gat, whose body was recovered from a Gaza tunnel in September
