Avigail Mor Edan, who celebrated her fourth anniversary as a Hamas hostage on Friday, smiled again on Sunday. She is the first American (she is also an Israeli citizen) released during the truce between the Government of Israel and Hamas.
President Joe Biden appeared from Nantucket (Massachusetts), where he spent the Thanksgiving weekend. “The proof that this works, and that it was worth doing, is in each of these smiles, each of these tears of gratitude on the faces of relatives who can finally have family and friends back,” he said. to emphasize the four-day ceasefire that has allowed the exchange of hostages. “The proof is little Avigail”, he congratulated himself. “I still don’t have information on his condition, but I know he is out of danger in Israel”, he remarked. “There is still much more work to be done. I would like to see the break extended to the point where all the prisoners leave,” he said.
So, he expressed confidence that the process will not be interrupted on Monday, the last day established according to the initial agreement. After keeping silent to weigh the answer, Biden insisted that “I have the feeling that everyone involved in the region is looking at the way that all the hostages are released and Hamas no longer has control over any portion of Gaza,” he emphasized . “This is my goal, that the break continues”, he insisted.
Biden also highlighted that at least 208 trucks enter Gaza every day thanks to the ceasefire with food, medicine and fuel, urgent and highly valued goods in the strip. “This pause saves lives, it offers the critical opportunity to bring more than necessary humanitarian relief to Gaza and the abductees are leaving,” he insisted. The President of the United States expressed confidence that other compatriots still held will be exchanged. However, he clarified that “I have nothing firm to say right now”. The White House believes that there are still a dozen Americans deprived of their freedom.
Biden recalled that, together with Avigail, more than twenty young people or children have been able to reunite with their families thanks to the pact he has been working on for weeks with Qatar and Egypt.
The president was informed that the FBI is investigating in Burlington (Vermont) the shooting by a white man of three young men of Palestinian origin (two from the United States). Everything points to the fact that he attacked them because of their appearance, since they were wearing the Palestinian headscarf. All three, students, were visiting one of them for the Thanksgiving party.
