President Donald Trump said Sunday that Hamas may release the 20 hostages it is holding ‘a little bit early.’<\/p>\n
Trump spoke with reporters aboard Air Force One en route to the Middle East, where he was asked about the latest on the hostages and when they might be released.<\/p>\n
‘So, they have the hostages \u2014 I understand all 20 \u2014 and we may get them out a little bit early,’ Trump said. ‘Getting them was amazing, actually, because we were involved, and they were in places you don\u2019t want to know about.’<\/p>\n
The president\u2019s comments come as Hamas faces a deadline to return all remaining hostages to Israel, following a peace deal that ended the two-year-long Israel-Hamas war.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The peace agreement, brokered by President Trump, sparked celebrations across a region plagued by violence since the Hamas terror attacks on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.<\/p>\n
Earlier on Sunday, Vice President JD Vance warned that some of the hostages who were killed while in captivity by Hamas may never be returned to their families.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
‘The reality is that some of the hostages may never get back, but I do think, with some effort, we’ll be able to give them to their families so they at least have some closure,’ Vance said on Fox News’ ‘Sunday Morning Futures.’<\/u><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
He continued, noting that while rescuing living hostages remains the Trump administration\u2019s top priority, returning the remains of those killed is also an important effort to give families closure.<\/p>\n
‘We do want to give these people the ability to have a proper burial with their loved ones who were murdered by brutal terrorists, and that matters to us,’ Vance said. ‘It matters to the families, and it will remain a focus, but it’s going to take some time.’<\/p>\n
The vice president stopped short of certainly, though, saying he believes most of the victims\u2019 remains \u2013 but not all \u2013 will eventually be recovered.<\/p>\n
Fox News Digital\u2019s Taylor Penley contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President Donald Trump said Sunday that Hamas may release the 20 hostages it is holding…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailystreetchronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailystreetchronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailystreetchronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailystreetchronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailystreetchronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailystreetchronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailystreetchronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailystreetchronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailystreetchronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailystreetchronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}