Barnea returned from Doha and immediately updated the war cabinet on a potential hostage deal in exchange for Palestinian prisoners.
Hamas’s tunnels are filled with people just like Itay. Every day they remain in captivity could be the end of the sand in the hourglass for another hostage.
Shlomi Eldar, an Israeli journalist, told the interviewer that hospital staff supporting Hamas should not be surprising because most of the doctors and nurses were appointed by Hamas.
Police confirmed they had cleared the road and reopened it for traffic.
Families of hostages believe the hostage relief efforts from volunteers have kept them going.
"Hope dies last," one family member told media while waiting to board her flight to the Netherlands.
The two rescued hostages said that they received medication while in captivity, but a medical team estimates they did not receive the specific medicine they needed.
Families of hostages and those murdered by Hamas on October 7 may have lost family, but have gained another in the process of grieving and searching for hope.
Mansour weighed just over 120 pounds at the time of his kidnapping, creating immediate and grave concern for his health.
A consultant who worked as a special assistant in former President Bill Clinton's administration had
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