The families of Israelis held by Hamas try to make sense of the release of the surprise two American captives.
A boy lights candles in the form of the Star of David in memory of victims of the Hamas attacks during a vigil at the Dizengoff square in central Tel Aviv on Oct. 18. JERUSALEM — Sasha Ariel was watching the news Friday night — as she has done almost constantly since her sister Karina was kidnapped by Hamas militants on Oct.
The day after being briefly electrified by Hamas’s surprise release — after the group steadfastly ignored demands from around the world to free at least the children, ill and aged — hostage families agonized Saturday over what the gesture might mean.
The first 20 trucks of humanitarian supplies entered the enclave from Egypt Saturday. Aid groups said it would require many times that number of deliveries coming every day to head of the growing crisis. Neither Hamas or Qatar have described any of the terms that may have been agreed to for the women’s release. The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declined to comment on what role Israel had in brokering the arrangement.U.S. officials, speaking anonymously to The Washington Post to discuss delicate negotiations, described the arrangement to release the women as.
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