Witkoff, at rally, issues promise about hostages: ‘We are not leaving anybody behind’

Speaking at a Miami event marking 500 days since the massacre at the Nova music festival in Israel’s south, US President Donald Trump’s Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff says: “I can tell you we are not leaving anybody behind.”

“We have to get everybody home,” Witkoff says. “There are people here [at the event] like Noa [Argamani] who were fortunate enough to get out. There are people here who were part of a hostage release in phase one. There are people here who just want to get their children home, who they know are dead, so they can give them a proper burial. And then there are people here who have children in phase two, and they’re hopeful that we can be as successful in phase two as we were in phase one.

“And I can tell you that we intend to be. We are not leaving anybody behind.”

Steve Witkoff, Special Envoy to the Middle East, at a ceremony marking 500 days to October 7 in Miami: "We are not leaving anybody behind." pic.twitter.com/nsLtR7CcLx

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