"Netanyahu met separately with two different hostage family groups in Jerusalem — the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, which represents the majority of families, and the Tikva Forum.

According to Netanyahu’s office, he told the family members that the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria “could help advance a deal to bring back the hostages.

For more than a year, waves of negotiations have stalled and failed to reach another agreement to return the hostages still held in Gaza, after 105 of them were released in a weeklong truce in late November 2023. Israel believes that 96 of the 251 hostages kidnapped on October 7 are still in Gaza."

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