Israel awaits hostage release

以色列期待释放人质

Newshour

2025-10-12

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President Trump's Middle East envoy has told a packed rally of relatives of Israeli hostages and their supporters in Tel Aviv that they were coming home. Steve Witkoff's remarks come ahead of Monday's expected release of 48 living and dead hostages by Hamas, as part of the Gaza peace deal. Mr Witkoff praised President Trump -- to cheers -- as well as the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu -- whose name was booed. We speak to a doctor at one of the Israeli hospitals where they're expected to arrive. Also, protests in Madagascar, where at least twenty two people have been killed in recent weeks. And the Hollywood actress Diane Keaton has died. She was 97. Known for her versatility, Diane Keaton first became famous in the early 1970s when she appeared in the Godfather films. She later won an Oscar for her role as Woody Allen's love interest in the 1977 romantic comedy, Annie Hall. (Photo: U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff speaks at "Hostages square", flanked by Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, after a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza went into effect, in Tel Aviv, Israel, October 11, 2025. Credit: Reuters)
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  • In Tel Aviv's hostages square tonight,

  • chants of thanks to President Trump as crowds who've gathered there regularly on Saturday nights listening to impassioned and emotional speeches from hostage families and freed hostages.

  • came to take in a very different mood,

  • with the release of all the remaining captives being held by Hamas and other groups in Gaza expected within the next two days.

  • Donald Trump's envoy to the gathering, his envoy to the Middle East and to just about everywhere,

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  • This is what he told the crowd.

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