Hostage families call for Netanyahu to publicly declare deal will be fully implemented

Relatives of hostages held in Gaza deliver their weekly statement to the press outside the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, with the brother of captive Itzik Elgarat urging US President-elect Donald Trump to demand Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly declare the multiphase hostage-ceasefire deal be fully implemented.

“We are asking you to stand on guard. Ensure the deal is implemented in full and doesn’t come apart. Demand Netanyahu declare that the war is over,” says Danny Elgarat.

Einav Zangauker, whose son Matan was abducted by Hamas during the terror group’s October 2023 onslaught, accuses “The extremists in the government” of working to prevent the agreement’s full implementation and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of making promises to Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, “that contradict the commitment to end the war and endanger the agreement.”

She also calls on Netanyahu to publicly announce that the war is over and the terms of the deal will be fully carried out.

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