US President Joe Biden stated Tuesday he was deeply relieved that some hostages taken when Hamas militants stormed into Israel on October 7 will quickly go free below a deal brokered with assist from throughout the Middle East.

“I am extraordinarily gratified that some of these brave souls… will be reunited with their families once this deal is fully implemented,” Biden stated in a press release launched by the White House.

Biden thanked the leaders of Qatar and Egypt for his or her “critical leadership” in reaching the deal and likewise hailed Israel for agreeing to an prolonged pause in preventing in Gaza to permit for the supply of humanitarian help.

He famous that two American hostages had been freed in late October as a part of intense diplomacy.

“Today’s deal should bring home additional American hostages, and I will not stop until they are all released,” Biden stated.

The four-day truce introduced Tuesday after weeks of all-out struggle marked the primary main diplomatic breakthrough since preventing started greater than six weeks in the past.

Under the Qatar-brokered deal, Palestinian militants will launch 50 ladies and kids kidnapped throughout their October 7 raids, through which Israel says 1,200 folks had been killed, most of them civilians.

A senior US official stated three Americans, together with three-year-old Abigail Mor Idan, had been among the many 50 earmarked for staggered launch from Thursday.