Ichilov hospital says it’s briefing teams, ready to treat returning hostages

4 October 2025, 12:08 pm

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Yael Alexander gives a statement a day after her son Edan was released from 584 days in Hamas captivity in Gaza, as other members of the family listen, at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, May 13, 2025 (Alon Gilboa/Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital says that it is ready to accept and treat any hostages should the be released.

“Ichilov is ready at any given moment to accept the returning [hostages] and provide them with medical treatment and the highest level humane environment as was done throughout the war,” the medical center says in a statement.

“At the moment, the teams that are responsible for treating the returned are being briefed,” the hospital says. “Ichilov stands with the families of the hostages and hopes for their immediate return.

Overnight Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office declared that Israel was ready for the “immediate implementation of the first stage of Trump’s plan for the immediate release of all the hostages.”