None of the announcements specified how many hostages would be released under the extended agreement, but earlier the head of Egypt's State Information Service, Diaa Rashwan, said the deal being negotiated would include the release of 20 Israeli hostages from among those seized by Hamas during its Oct. 7 assault on southern Israel.
Some had their father stay behind in captivity; others had to survive without cancer medication. Here are their stories.
According to the survivor's testimony Yahya Sinwar entered the tunnel and spoke to them in flawless Hebrew without any discernible accent, having learned the language during his long imprisonment in Israel.
The emerging formula is based on the two-state solution stipulated in the Arab Initiative from 2002, with a demilitarized Palestinian state under international and Arab supervision.
The US administration continues to view the Palestinian Authority as the lesser of two evils compared to Hamas. This shows that they haven't learned the lesson of the misconception that led to Oct. 7, the failed deterrence, and the self-delusion that you can buy off Hamas.
