Israel’s ambassador to the US has expressed hope that Hamas could release a significant number of hostages held in Gaza “in the coming days”, amid reports of talks that are also aimed at securing a days-long humanitarian pause in the conflict.
Declining to go into details of the “very sensitive” negotiations to free some of the estimated 240 captives seized in Hamas’s brutal cross-border incursion into Israel on 7 October, Michael Herzog told ABC’s This Week: “They are very serious efforts, and I’m hopeful we can have a deal in the coming days.”
