Visiting freed hostages at hospital, Netanyahu vows to return all slain captives

By Lazar Berman

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14 October 2025, 8:45 pm

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Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara while visiting released hostages at Beilinson Hospital, in Petah Tikva, October 14, 2025. (GPO/screenshot)

Visiting freed hostages in Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikvah, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promises to bring the bodies of the slain hostages home, as he did with the living ones.

“With the same determination, with the same sense of responsibility and seriousness, we are working to bring them back,” says Netanyahu in a video statement from the hospital. “We will spare no effort and no means to bring them back.”

He says that Israel “will soon receive news about the return of additional fallen hostages — I hope in the coming hours. But we are determined to bring everyone back.”