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On Saturday, Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari stated in a podcast that the issue of the two remaining bodies of hostages — taken to Gaza on October 7, 2023, during the Hamas onslaught on southern Israel — is allowing Israel to potentially delay the next phase of the Trump peace plan. Horovitz weighs in on the readiness of both sides to move forward.
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