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PM’s office clarifies that it ‘received’ the list of hostages; says it didn’t mean to use the word ‘acceptable’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleLazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter
After sending out a statement that the list of three hostages Hamas released today is “acceptable to Israel,” the Prime Minister’s Office erases the message and issues a correction, calling it “an unfortunate writing mistake.”
“Instead of the writing ‘this list is acceptable to Israel,’ it should have read ‘this list was received by Israel,'” claims the PMO.
The two words — acceptable and received — have the same three-letter root in Hebrew.
“This is a purely factual description that does not reflect any reference by Israel to the issue,” says the PMO.
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