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An entire nation embraces you,
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said I know how to be the one that will be left behind watching other hostages bring relief to their families. My partner, Avinatan Or, and many other hostages are in hell, and they wait for the second that you will be released, too.”
Former Hamas hostage Noa Argamani said at a rally for the hostages in Washington Emily, Doron and Romi arrived at Sheba and met with their families and began to go through medical examinations,
Sheba medical staff members said in a statement We know the parents of the three women that are being freed today. We love them; we admire them,
Omer Neutra's father, Ronen Neutra, told NBC News at a rally for hostage families in Washington We are just filled with gratitude for the work you have done and your willingness to have your team work shoulder to shoulder with the Biden team in recent weeks,
We welcome the release of three hostages in Gaza, including British national Emily Damari, and thank Qatar, Egypt and the US for their support in bringing these individuals' and their families' horrific ordeal to an end
The release of three hostages today is wonderful and long-overdue news after months of agony for them and their families
UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said I'm happy to report that they are in stable condition
A member of the hospital staff said I want to thank everyone who never stopped fighting for Emily throughout this horrendous ordeal, and who never stopped saying her name,
I'm excited, I was so nervous, that they would come safe and alive to their mothers' hands. They were in the hands of terrorists for 471 days, three young women,
said Shay Dickmann, whose cousin was found slain by her Hamas captors in August We didn't have any sign of life from her for a whole year and this is the first time we are seeing her, and we are seeing her walking on her two feet and we are just waiting here to hug her and say how much we love her,
We are committed to dismantling Hamas and bringing every hostage home.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made clear this ceasefire is temporary, emphasising How good is it that you’ve come home,
read a sign in Hebrew held by the young daughter Romi is coming back! Emily is coming back! Doron is coming back!”
a group chanted in the square Thank you, thank you,
one woman cried as she was embraced by another We can breathe a little more again”
Mai, another woman, who declined to give a second name, said ... after months I really hope that an international force will influence the ultimate decision to continue the release of the hostages and to stop this tragic war,
You literally get to feel all the amount of feelings out there,
If you have that amount of power to survive another day and another day, then you must be the strongest person,
Yanai, 41, told NBC News at a rally in Tel Aviv Saturday, I think it’s beyond words, and I cannot really describe it,
