Netanyahu meets security chiefs, top ministers on hostage talks

Nava Freiberg is The Times of Israel's deputy diplomatic correspondent.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened a meeting of senior officials this evening to discuss “next steps” in the ongoing hostage talks, the Prime Minister’s Office says in a statement.

“In light of certain progress in the negotiations,” the PMO writes, Netanyahu met with Defense Minister Israel Katz, IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir, Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, and members of the negotiation team “in order to receive updates on the framework for the release of our hostages and to discuss next steps.”

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