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Gallant: We’re at an opportune moment for hostage deal, face difficult decisions; fighting would resume afterward
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Defense Minister Yoav Gallant visits the IDF Northern Command HQ in Safed, March 29, 2024. (Shachar Yurman/Defense Ministry)
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant says he believes Israel is “at an opportune moment” to bring about the release of hostages in Gaza, but that this will require “difficult decisions.”
Speaking to new soldiers being drafted to the Armored and Combat Engineering Corps, Gallant says, “We have the utmost obligation to bring our captives back home.”
The months of war in Gaza and Israeli achievements, he says, “enable us to be flexible, to act freely and to make difficult decisions in order to bring back the abductees. I believe we are at an opportune moment, but there’s another side that must agree to it.”
He adds: “Afterwards will return to the fighting, and do everything we must.”
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