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They look like Holocaust survivors. They were in horrible condition. They were emaciated,
Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on his way to New Orleans to attend the Super Bowl I know we have a deal ... they dribble in and keep dribbling in ... but they are in really bad shape,
Trump said of the Israeli hostages The occupation humiliated us for over a year,
We missed you so much,
the mother of Or Levy, Geula, said as she hugged her son He looked like a skeleton; it was awful to see,
Ohad Ben Ami's mother-in-law, Michal Cohen, told Channel 13 News as she watched the Hamas-directed handover ceremony, which included the hostages answering questions posed by a masked man as militants armed with automatic rifles stood on each side Seeing the condition of these three hostages, hearing that Or had no idea what happened to Hersh, that Eli was unaware of the fate of his wife and his daughters, is just a gut punch to all of us that we need to do more,
We received the wonderful news that Eli, Or and Ohad we released today,
Rachel Goldberg-Polin said in a video shared to the "Bring.Hersh.Home" account, which has garnered more than 173,000 followers I need to get answers to a lot of things, and I know some of them will be difficult answers,
he said in footage released by the Israeli Prime Minister’s office All the prisoners who were released today are in need of medical care... as a result of the brutality they were subjected" to in jail
said the advocacy group, which has long decried abuses of Palestinians in Israeli custody An entire nation demands to see the hostages return home,
the Israeli campaign group said in a statement Now is the time to ensure the agreement is completed -- until the very last one,
Our plea to you (Trump and Witkoff) right now is, now that you’ve done the hard part of getting movement, getting a deal started, let’s not think about phase one and phase two and phase three and many months,
Jon Goldberg-Polin said in video He assumed that he had been released long ago,
Rachel Goldberg-Polin said He did not know. He assumed, and asked, and we told him,
she told Israel’s public broadcaster Kann 11 News Her loss has left an enormous void in all our hearts,
All 76 hostages out this week. End of war. Who benefits from dragging it out for so long? Not the people of this region. Let’s get it done right now,
We all saw what a person who survived an inferno looks like. So if anyone had any doubt about how urgent it is to bring everyone back, if anyone imagined that the kidnapped could wait for after Iran, after Gaza, after the elections, if anyone dreamed that there were more important tasks than returning all the kidnapped, if anyone tried to sell us that 75% of the kidnapped who returned is a lot, today we got a wake-up call,
When will he ever stand up for his responsibility and be able to say, I was responsible for 7 October and I will guide the negotiation team to enter into intensive talks and agree on the release of not the next hostage - the last hostage we want to see how he comes out,
Our first duty as doctors, as humans and as a society, is to work for the return of all the hostages until the last one,
I say to them again: They will pay the price. We will do everything to return all of our hostages. We will see to their safety. This is the directive that I gave to the delegation – say this to the mediators and demand it. But beyond this, President Trump agrees with me completely: We will do everything to return all of the hostages, but Hamas will not be there. We will eliminate Hamas, and we will return our hostages,
