It was terrific — terrific meeting and conversation. I think we all came away feeling that as families of hostages, of American-Israeli hostages, which are eight out of a total of 138 hostages, we felt that — and we felt before and we were only reinforced in seeing and believing that we could have no better friend in Washington or in the White House than President Biden himself and his administration. What we do know and we’ve seen that the U.S. administration from the previous round of negotiations and hostage release, the U.S. administration is completely committed to getting the hostages out: the eight Americans who remain there and the other nearly 130. We have no doubt about that. And today’s meeting with President Biden and Secretary Blinken only reinforced that, and that they are willing and ready to do all that they possibly can.

Source: New York Times December 13, 2023 22:11 UTC