President Donald Trump announced Friday evening that another group of 10 hostages is expected to be freed from Gaza in the near future, though he did not offer any further specifics regarding the timeline or identities involved.
Trump shared the update during a dinner at the White House attended by members of Congress, where he praised the work of his special envoy, Steve Witkoff. Witkoff has been playing a central role in the latest efforts to broker a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, with negotiations currently underway in Doha. Talks resumed on July 6 and center around a U.S.-backed proposal that calls for a 60-day halt to the fighting.
“We got most of the hostages back,” Trump said. “We’re going to have another 10 coming very shortly, and we hope to have that finished quickly.”
According to Israeli officials, around 50 hostages remain in Hamas custody out of the roughly 250 people the group abducted during its brutal assault on southern Israel on October 7, 2023. Of those still being held, 27 are believed to have died in captivity.
Deny Gazans “humanitarian” aid and the hostages will be freed. That’s it.
It’s unforgivable that so many Jews suffered torture and murder in captivity, when they could have been freed a long time ago.
Every single Gazan associates with one terrorist group or another (except for the violent crime families in Rafiach, who traffick drugs, weapons, and people). The so-called Gazan “children” also looted and burned Jewish homes, physically and mentally and verbally abused Jews (including Jewish children), and preteen Gazans also charge Israeli soldiers while shooting at them with AK-47s. Why pretend they are civilians in need of humanitarian aid? What is humanitarian about giving them aid, which increases the torment and deaths of our fellow Jews?
Rafael Chiyun’s listening network already proved that Hamas (including Sinwar when he was alive) were ready to give up ALL hostages a very long time ago – only they received a second wind when the humanitarian aid started coming in.
so 10 are coming back? that’s great!!
but the remaining 10?? just forget about them?
How much longer will we have to wait for the rest of the hostages?