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We are committed to dismantling Hamas and bringing every hostage home.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made clear this ceasefire is temporary, emphasising Based on these two lists, the actual implementation will be carried out on Sunday,
This is the agreement and must be adhered to,
the official told Reuters There's this double feeling we're living in, on the one hand, this feeling of freedom, that we thank everyone for, and on the other hand, this pain, of losing so many Palestinian martyrs
Khalida Jarrar, a leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine who was arrested in late 2023 and is the most prominent of the Palestinian detainees freed, told The Associated Press This is a moment of tremendous hope...Fragile, yet vital."
U.N. humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher has said [T ... T]oday the guns in Gaza are silent" and this deal was "one of the toughest negotiations I have been a part of."
President Joe Biden spoke late on Sunday morning, praising the deal I left hell and now I’m in heaven, we are out of hell,
Romi, Doron and Emily - an entire nation embraces you, with congratulations on your homecoming. This moment was achieved thanks to the sacrifice and fighting of our heroic fighters - the heroes of Israel. I promise: We will bring everyone home!"
Netanyahu said in his X post I'm hiding under the bed and I hear them trying to enter my apartment,
her brother Dor recalled her as saying They've got me! They've got me! They've got me!"
And in the moments of her abduction, she yelled We are doing everything we can so the world will not forget,
she had told AP on the six-month anniversary of the Hamas attack Mommy I was shot, the car was shot, everybody was shot. ... I am wounded and bleeding. Mommy, I think I’m going to die."