AROUND 50 hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza could be released within days.
America and Israel have been working for weeks with Qatar’s government — which speaks to the terrorist group — to try to arrange it.
Officials are confident they will allow women and children to go in return for a ceasefire lasting three to five days.
US president Joe Biden was asked yesterday if an agreement was near.
He said: “I believe so . . . yes.”
Around 240 hostages were taken on October 7.
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Four have been released and a female soldier was rescued.
The bodies of two others were found by Israeli soldiers.
To mark World Children’s Day yesterday, Israel’s official X/Twitter account echoed The Sun’s front page this month — with names and photos of all 32 kids being held — to call for the release of child hostages.
Relatives of the hostages yesterday spoke of their anguish at a press conference at the Israeli embassy in London.
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Iris Haim, whose 28-year-old son Yotam was kidnapped, urged Britain to “fight this new evil” as Winston Churchill did with Hitler.
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