The songwriter gained inspiration from a released hostage who looked her captors in the eye with an intense glare, noting that she was now free from their shackles.
Rachel Goldberg-Polin described her son, Hersh, and said that she believed he would be home for Passover seder.
"Such vile and callous acts of antisemitism are not acceptable anywhere," said The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs in a social media post on Tuesday. "This hate has to stop!"
Barnea returned from Doha and immediately updated the war cabinet on a potential hostage deal in exchange for Palestinian prisoners.
Hamas’s tunnels are filled with people just like Itay. Every day they remain in captivity could be the end of the sand in the hourglass for another hostage.
Shlomi Eldar, an Israeli journalist, told the interviewer that hospital staff supporting Hamas should not be surprising because most of the doctors and nurses were appointed by Hamas.
Police confirmed they had cleared the road and reopened it for traffic.
Families of hostages believe the hostage relief efforts from volunteers have kept them going.
"Hope dies last," one family member told media while waiting to board her flight to the Netherlands.
The two rescued hostages said that they received medication while in captivity, but a medical team estimates they did not receive the specific medicine they needed.
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