Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on Saturday night with the four freed Hamas hostages and their families at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, praising the soldiers who carried out the daring daytime rescue operation in Gaza earlier in the day.
“We’re committed to getting the release of all the hostages, and we expect Hamas to release them all—but if they don’t, we’ll do whatever it takes to get them all back home,” he continued.
“Hamas is committing war crimes every day, including the holding of these hostages. Our soldiers are performing in the most valiant and moral way to end this war with a victory against these killers and against these kidnappers, and we shall prevail,” he said.
“Thank God. I thanked the prime minister and I thank you. He promised that he would take action and he did,” said Yaakov Argamani, whose daughter was rescued on his birthday. “We have a strong and courageous prime minister. With God’s help, I believe that the prime minister, with our army, will bring all of our hostages [home],” he said.
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