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Sa’ar tells EU counterparts Israel interested in extending Gaza ceasefire if more hostages released
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Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar, right, meets Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Maria Valtonen in Brussels, February 24, 2025. (Shalev Man/Foreign Ministry)
In Brussels, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar tells EU counterparts that Israel is open to extending the ceasefire if more hostages are released, his office says.
“It will not happen without the release of hostages,” says Sa’ar in his meetings with the Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Finnish, and Slovakian foreign ministers. “We are committed to the release of our hostages and to the war’s objectives that we set.”
Sa’ar also tells them that it is time to enforce existing sanctions on Iran and impose new ones.
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