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Hostage’s father: Netanyahu associate told us ‘conditions have ripened’ for deal
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) with Israel's Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer, at the president's guest house, in Washington, DC, February 14, 2017. (Avi Ohayon/ GPO/ File)
Eli Albag, the father of Liri Albag, one of five surveillance soldiers kidnapped by terrorists from the Nahal Oz base on October 7, says a top government official has told him a hostage deal may be imminent.
Albag tells Army Radio that he and other relatives of abductees have recently met Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, a close confidant of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“He told us that conditions have ripened for a deal that can be implemented,” he says.
“When he speaks, it’s [as if] the prime minister is speaking. I believe him.”
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