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Wednesday, April 30, 2025
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Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Knesset speaker to hostages at state ceremony: Israel committed to bringing you home
At the prerecorded Independence Day ceremony, Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana offers a message to hostages in Gaza.
“Even this evening, the State of Israel is not whole, because 59 of our brothers and sisters are still held hostage in Gaza,” he says.
“I speak to them, in the hope that they can hear me — and I also speak to their families, who surely are listening: The State of Israel is committed to bringing you home, each and every one of you! Just as the country has managed, since the outbreak of the war, to secure the release of most of the hostages, so too will it secure the release of all of them, and it will not cease this mission until it is completed.”
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