US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told former hostages and hostage families yesterday that the Trump administration needs to “rethink” its strategy regarding solving the war in Gaza, after being unable to end the conflict since coming into office in January, Channel 12 news reports, citing two unnamed sources who took part in the meeting.
Rubio says that it was necessary to “come to the president with new options” on strategy regarding the war, the report quotes him as saying, without detailing what those options may be.
Captivity survivors and hostage families met with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington on Friday.
Participants included Hamas captivity survivors Keith and Aviva Siegel; Lishay Miran-Lavi, wife of hostage Omri Miran; Liran Berman, older brother of twin-brother hostages Gali and Ziv Berman; Anat and Hagai Angrest, parents of captive soldier Matan Angrest; Ronen and Orna Neutra, parents of slain captive soldier Omer Neutra; and Ruby and Hagit Chen, parents of slain captive soldier Itay Chen.
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