Trump says Gaza hostages should be freed by today
DNA
WASHINTONG: President Donald Trump said that the Gaza hostages should be released on Monday or Tuesday and that he hopes to attend a signing ceremony in Egypt.
Trump opened a White House Cabinet meeting to discuss the deal reached on Wednesday under which the hostages held by Hamas militants are to be released as part of a first phase of a broader Gaza plan. He said he believed it would lead to “lasting peace.”
Iran called on the international community to prevent Israel from violating its obligations in Gaza, its foreign ministry said in a statement, after Israel and the Palestinian resistance group Hamas signed an agreement to ceasefire.
The foreign ministry said Tehran supports any effort that ends the “genocide” and the war in Gaza.
Israel said that a ceasefire in Gaza would begin “within 24 hours” after a meeting of the security cabinet scheduled for 1400 local time on Thursday.
“Within 24 hours after the cabinet meeting takes place, a ceasefire will then begin in Gaza,” government spokeswoman Shosh Bedrosian told journalists.
