Responding to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu telling the parents of a hostage that he is working on a deal that would see 10 live hostages freed, the Hostages and Missing Families Forum urges him to reach an agreement that would see all the remaining hostages freed.
“While the families wait hopefully and would welcome the release of any hostage from Hamas captivity, we continue to call for a comprehensive deal that will return ALL hostages immediately,” the Forum says in a statement.
“Every additional day in captivity endangers the lives of those still being held by Hamas terrorists, who are subjecting them to horrific conditions including starvation, physical abuse, and confinement in darkness,” the Forum says.
“We urge the obvious, possible, and appropriate solution: end the war and return all the hostages, the living and the dead, immediately,” it says.
Hamas is still holding 59 hostages, only 24 of whom are still believed to be alive.
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