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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,
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 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,
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 In the last year, using our political power, we managed to prevent this deal from going ahead, time after time,
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, 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.”
The ball is now in Hamas's court
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Time is of the essence,
said Gil Dickmann, cousin of former hostage Carmel Gat, whose body was recovered from a Gaza tunnel in September We’re eagerly waiting for a truce to happen so we can live in safety and stability,
her mother, Rola Saqer, said 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 I am anxiously awaiting the truce. I will cry for days on end,
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 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,
