Around 50 hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza could be released within days
AROUND 50 hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza could be released within days.
America and Israel have been working for weeks with Qatar’s government — which speaks to the terrorist group — to try to arrange it.
Officials are confident they will allow women and children to go in return for a ceasefire lasting three to five days.
US president Joe Biden was asked yesterday if an agreement was near.
He said: “I believe so . . . yes.”
Around 240 hostages were taken on October 7.
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Four have been released and a female soldier was rescued.
The bodies of two others were found by Israeli soldiers.
To mark World Children’s Day yesterday, Israel’s official X/Twitter account echoed The Sun’s front page this month — with names and photos of all 32 kids being held — to call for the release of child hostages.
Relatives of the hostages yesterday spoke of their anguish at a press conference at the Israeli embassy in London.
Iris Haim, whose 28-year-old son Yotam was kidnapped, urged Britain to “fight this new evil” as Winston Churchill did with Hitler.