The United States ambassador to Israel, Jack Lew, stressed this Saturday that Joe Biden’s Government “will not rest” until the release of all the hostages taken by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in Israel is completed on October 7.
“The freed hostages are being reunited with their loved ones. We will not rest until everyone gets home,” Lew said on his official profile on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
Israel and Hamas committed to the release of 150 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for 50 of the approximately 240 hostages captured seven weeks ago, including twenty with Argentine nationality.
The release is part of a four-day truce that began yesterday and that also includes Israel’s facilitation of the entry of humanitarian aid into the enclave.
A total of 24 hostages, 13 of them Israeli, ten Thai and one Filipino, were handed over yesterday by Hamas to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Gaza, while Israel freed 39 women and adolescents from its prisons, reported the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Qatar.
The words of the US ambassador add to the position of Biden, who hours before had expressed his hope that “dozens more” of hostages could follow in the footsteps of those released the day before.
The release of these hostages occurred 49 days after their kidnapping, following the attack by Palestinian militiamen on October 7, in which they killed more than 1,200 people.
That attack sparked an open war between Israel and the Islamist group in the Palestinian enclave, where nearly 15,000 Palestinian deaths were recorded, of which 6,100 were children.
Source: Ambito
