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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,
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,
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.”
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,
Time is of the essence,
said Gil Dickmann, cousin of former hostage Carmel Gat, whose body was recovered from a Gaza tunnel in September I am anxiously awaiting the truce. I will cry for days on end,
Hostages who are alive will end up dead. Hostages who are dead might be lost,
Dickmann told AFP at a rally in Jerusalem If Hamas accepts, the deal is ready to be concluded and implemented,
The ball is now in Hamas's court
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said I tell the mothers of the prisoners to put their trust in the almighty, and that relief is near, God willing,
said the mother of one prisoner, Intisar Bayoud This is the chance, we can’t let it go until they are all here with us,
said Shay Dickmann, whose cousin in Gaza has been declared dead by the military I believe we will get a ceasefire,
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said during a speech on Tuesday, asserting it was up to Hamas We’re eagerly waiting for a truce to happen so we can live in safety and stability,
her mother, Rola Saqer, said And if we will see terrorism in the Gaza Strip at any point in the future, we will do the same thing we are doing in Judea and Samaria,
he told a press conference in Rome with Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani Certainly, Hamas will comply with the ceasefire, and Israel is not interested in opposing Trump or angering him,
