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Vance to meet with group of freed captives and relatives of hostages still in Gaza

By Jacob Magid

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9 April 2025, 9:06 pm Edit

Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief

US Vice President JD Vance arrives for a "Make America Wealthy Again" trade announcement in the Rose Garden at the White House on April 2, 2025, in Washington. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images/AFP)

US Vice President JD Vance will meet later this afternoon in Washington with a group of former hostages and relatives of Israeli captives still held in Gaza, a source familiar with the matter tells The Times of Israel.

This will be Vance’s first organized meeting with such a group, which met yesterday with US President Donald Trump at a National Republican Congressional Committee event in Washington.

Hostage families were hoping for a positive development in the negotiations between Israel and Hamas on freeing their loved ones when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the White House on Monday.

Trump lamented the conditions of the hostages in Gaza and said he’d like to see an end to the war soon, while also praising Netanyahu’s commitment to freeing the captives.

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