The prime minister said he and Trump spoke “at length about the efforts we are making to free our hostages,” but declined to go into specifics. “We are working all the time, without rest, to bring our hostages home, the living and the fallen together,” he said, but added, “the less we talk about it, the better — that way, with God’s help, we will succeed.”
An unnamed Israeli official told the Israel Hayom daily on Sunday that a ceasefire-hostage deal will likely be completed by Hanukkah, which begins this year on the evening of December 25.
For now, however, talks are hung up over the number of hostages to be released in a partial deal, according to Channel 13. Hamas insists on releasing far fewer than Israel demands, and Israel is not willing to budge, the report said.
Channel 12 news reported Sunday evening that during the Netanyahu-Trump conversation, the prime minister told the president-elect that the US must pressure negotiators to agree to a much higher number of hostages being released, and that Hamas is currently offering “an unacceptable number” to be freed within the “humanitarian” category.
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