The hostages were headed toward a military base in Israel to be reunited with their families.
Ten additional Americans remain unaccounted for, Antony Blinken said, some of whom are held hostage alongside another 200 people from a variety of countries. | Evan Vucci/APSecretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday said U.S. efforts to secure the release of further hostages were ongoing after Hamas freed two Americans kidnapped in the group’s surprise attack on Israel.
“The urgent work to free every single American, to free all other hostages, continues, as does our work to secure the safe passage out of Gaza for the Americans that are trapped there,” Blinken said in a State Department briefing. A Hamas spokesperson said the hostages were released for humanitarian reasons, according to an Associated Press report, but Blinken emphasized he “would not take anything Hamas says at face value.”
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