Hostage Families Forum calls for deal to bring all captives home in response to Egyptian proposal for partial release

While expressing appreciation for any effort to release hostages, the Hostages and Missing Families Forum demands a deal that brings all captives home in one go.

“Israel will continue to delay for weeks, which could result in the fate of dozens of hostages being decided — some sentenced to death, and others will disappear,” the forum says in a statement, responding to reports of an Egyptian proposal for Hamas to return five hostages in exchange for a 50-day ceasefire.

“We turn to the Prime Minister [Benjamin Netanyahu], [Strategic Affairs] Minister Dermer, and members of the cabinet: Why only some of them when it’s possible to return everyone?”

The forum asserts it is possible to return all 59 hostages in one go in exchange for a permanent end to the war.