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Netanyahu thanks Trump for securing hostages deal

2025-01-16

[GEO.TV] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked in a phone call on Wednesday US President-elect Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
for securing a hostages deal and putting an "end to the suffering of dozens of hostages and their families," according to a statement by his office.

Netanyahu agreed to meet Trump soon in Washington, the statement said, adding the Israeli prime minister also thanked US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
Joe <q>The Big Guy</q> Biden

...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing...
for his help in the hostages deal in a phone call.

PM’s office: Hamas seeking to dictate which Palestinian prisoners will be freed but Israel has veto
[IsraelTimes] As negotiators in Doha iron out the final details of the hostage-ceasefire deal, the Prime Minister’s Office releases a statement shortly before 3:30 a.m. declaring that Israel has a veto over the release of “mass murderers who are symbols of terror.”

The statement says Hamas “is demanding to dictate the identity of these murderers” and accuses the terror group of seeking “to go back on the understandings” in the agreement.

US official says 2 American-Israeli hostages to be freed in first phase of deal
[IsraelTimes] American-Israelis Keith Siegel and Sagui Dekel-Chen will be among the 33 hostages released in the first phase of the hostage deal announced today, a senior Biden administration official tells reporters.

Siegel is part of the category of elderly hostages, while Dekel-Chen was shot on October 7 and is therefore considered among the wounded. The third American hostage believed to still be alive, Edan Alexander, is a soldier, and therefore won’t be released until the second 42-day phase, but the US is committed to securing his release, the senior official says during a briefing.

The bodies of four other Americans still held in Gaza will be released in the third phase, the official says.

While the senior US official says five female IDF soldiers captured on October 7 will be released on the first day of the deal, Israeli officials later tell reporters that is not the case.

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