Abigail Mor Edan, who celebrated her fourth birthday as a Hamas hostage last Friday, smiled again this Sunday. This girl has become the first American national (she is also Israeli) released after the attack on October 7 and the subsequent pact between Israel and Hamas. President Joe Biden appeared before the nation from Nantucket (Massachusetts) for the second time this long weekend for the Thanksgiving holiday, to confirm the good news.
“Nothing can be taken for granted, but the proof that this is working, and that it has deserved to do so, is in each of those smiles, each of those tears of gratitude on the faces of those family members who can finally have their loved ones. theirs back,” he noted about the four-day ceasefire to make the exchanges. “The proof is little Abigail,” he congratulated himself.
“I still have no information about Abigail’s condition, but I know that she is now safe in Israel,” the president stressed. Yes, she also spoke of a released woman of a certain age who had to be transferred to a hospital given the fragility of her health. “There is still much more work to do. “I would like to see this pause extended to the point where all the prisoners are released,” he stated.
So he expressed his confidence that this will not stop this Monday, the last day established in the initial agreement. After remaining silent to weigh his response, Biden insisted that “I have the feeling that all of us involved in the region are looking at a way for all the hostages to be freed and Hamas no longer has control in any portion of Gaza,” he stressed. . “This is my goal, that the pause continues starting tomorrow,” he insisted.
He also stressed that at least 208 trucks enter Gaza daily due to this ceasefire with food, medicine and fuel, urgent and highly valued goods in the strip. “This pause is saving lives, it offers the critical opportunity to bring more than necessary humanitarian relief to Gaza and the kidnapped people are leaving,” stressed the US president. He also expressed his confidence that other compatriots who are still held will be exchanged. He clarified, however, that “I have nothing firm to say regarding this at this time.” The White House believes that there are still a dozen Americans deprived of liberty.
Biden recalled that, along with Abigail, more than twenty young people or children, under the age of 18, have been able to reunite with their families thanks to this pact on which he reiterated that he has been working for weeks with partners in the region, especially prominence of Qatar and Egypt. “I am proud of this collaboration and we will continue,” she said.
“I will continue working with our partners to take the most difficult, but necessary, steps to build a more prosperous and peaceful future in the region,” he indicated. “The only solution that guarantees long-term security for Israelis and Palestinians is that of two states, with equal measures of freedom and dignity. We will not go until we achieve this,” he said.
