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We have been told that it’s now just a question of dotting the Is and crossing the Ts,
We’ve had at least eight months of counterfactuals,
There appears to have been a breakthrough overnight on Monday,
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 We are close, we are not there yet."
The deal ... would free the hostages, halt the fighting, provide security to Israel and allow us to significantly surge humanitarian assistance to the Palestinians who suffered terribly in this war that Hamas started,
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,
Time is of the essence,
said Gil Dickmann, cousin of former hostage Carmel Gat, whose body was recovered from a Gaza tunnel in September Hostages who are alive will end up dead. Hostages who are dead might be lost,
Dickmann told AFP at a rally in Jerusalem I am anxiously awaiting the truce. I will cry for days on end,
If Hamas accepts, the deal is ready to be concluded and implemented,