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Lapid says Trump ‘is right that there is an opportunity like never before to free the hostages, end the war’
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Opposition Leader and Yesh Atid chairman MK Yair Lapid attends a Yesh Atid party conference in Tel Aviv, September 1, 2025.(Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
In the first comments by an Israeli official following US President Donald Trump’s statement on the Hamas response to his Gaza peace plan, Opposition Leader Yair Lapid says the American leader “is right that there is an opportunity like never before to free the hostages and end the war.”
“Israel needs to announce its joining deliberations led by President Trump to finalize the last details of the deal. I informed the American administration that Netanyahu has political backing to continue with the move,” Lapid says in a statement.
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