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I know his parents. We talk all the time. He's critical. It's one of President Trump's most important objectives is to get all Americans home, and we're going to be successful in getting Edan home, I believe,
Witkoff told Brennan
We will get to stage two, or phase two, and I'm very focused on that, and I think it's going to happen,
Witkoff said Sunday on CBS News' "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan."I think the devil is in the details, and we've had a lot of discussions around it. I'm not at liberty to have that, that specific discussion today, but we've got some ideas, and that will be part of the negotiation,
he saidWe have cut off the path before the enemy's false justifications, and it has no choice but to start negotiations for the second phase,
Hamas said on Telegram
Our sacrifices and imprisonment were not in vain,
Yassin said
We renew our full commitment to the ceasefire agreement, and confirm our readiness to enter into negotiations for the second phase of the agreement,
the group said in a statementIn this difficult hour, there is some comfort in the fact that they will be laid to rest in the tomb of Israel,
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In these suspended hours of pain and anguish, the nation stands by their side.”
French President Emmanuel Macron posted on X about Israeli-French hostage Ohad Yahalomi, whose body was also expected to be released
Now Israel will have to decide what it wants to do,
he said
This is outright abuse of a family that has already been enduring hell for 16 months,
Ofri Bibas, Yarden’s sister, said
Our disaster as a people and as a family should not have happened, and it must not, must not happen again,
she said
Yesterday, the funeral of Oded Lifshitz took place; today, the funeral of Shiri, Kfir and Ariel Bibas is taking place. We remember all the victims of October 7. We remember, and we will not forget,
said speaker Amir Ohana
The Bibas family, I think, is like the symbol of everything that happened to us since October 7,
said retired teacher Ayala Schlesinger Avidov, 72, visibly emotional as she spoke to AFPShiri, I’m sorry I couldn’t protect you all,
Bibas said in his eulogy, his voice cracking
In accordance with Israeli demands, an agreement was reached with the mediators: our four fallen hostages will be returned tonight... without Hamas ceremonies.”
Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office also confirmed the handover stating
I think if I stop to think about it for more than a split second, I feel so sickened, so sickened,
said Simi Polonasky, 38, who travelled from Miami to support hostage families
Mediators have informed Hamas that the (hostage-prisoner) exchange will take place on Thursday ... Hamas and other resistance factions will hand over four bodies of Israeli captives, and in return, Israel will release more than 600 Palestinian detainees,
a Hamas official told AFPIt's not a regular situation: if you're not feeling numb, you're feeling so shattered and broken that it almost feels hard to continue,
she told AFP, starting to weep as she spokeThe two babies and the mother that did nothing to the world and were murdered in cold blood,
she addedIn light of Hamas’s repeated violations, including the ceremonies that humiliate our hostages and the cynical exploitation of our hostages for propaganda purposes, it has been decided to delay the release of terrorists that was planned for yesterday until the release of the next hostages has been assured, and without the humiliating ceremonies,
the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement