{"id":977,"date":"2025-10-12T14:30:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T14:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/?p=977"},"modified":"2025-10-13T08:49:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T08:49:23","slug":"vance-says-israeli-hostages-should-be-released-any-moment-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/12\/vance-says-israeli-hostages-should-be-released-any-moment-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance says Israeli hostages should be released 'any moment now'"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vice President Vance said on Sunday that the 20 remaining living hostages should be released from Gaza \u201cany moment now\u201d as the president prepares to travel to the Middle East to welcome them home.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt really should be any moment now, Kristen,\u201d Vance told Kristen Welker in an interview on NBC News\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press,\u201d when asked for the exact timing of their release.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe president of the United States is planning to travel to the Middle East to greet the hostages Monday morning, Middle Eastern time, which should be late Sunday night or very early Monday morning here in the United States,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo you can’t say exactly the moment they will be released. But we have every expectation \u2026 that he will be greeting the hostages early next week,\u201d the vice president added, noting that\u2019s the reason President Trump is traveling to the Middle East.<\/p>\n

Trump will depart Sunday afternoon for Israel to address its legislature, the Knesset, Monday morning local time before traveling to Egypt for a peace ceremony to welcome the remaining hostages.<\/p>\n

Last Wednesday, Trump\u00a0announced Israel and Hamas<\/a>\u00a0had reached an agreement to release the remaining Israeli hostages and stop the fighting in Gaza.<\/p>\n

In an interview on ABC News\u2019s \u201cThis Week,\u201d Vance told George Stephanopoulos that Hamas confirmed that it\u2019s holding 20 living hostages and that they will be released in the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/strong>Well, they’ve been confirmed, George,\u201d Vance said when asked about The Wall Street\u00a0Journal reporting about Hamas\u2019s confirmation. \u201cOf course, you don’t know until you see these people alive. But thank God we expect to see them alive here in the next 24 hours, probably early tomorrow morning, U.S. time, which will be later in the day, of course, in Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

The vice president touted the peace deal as a \u201cremarkable achievement from an administration that really chose a nonconventional path to diplomacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the interviews, he also pushed back against reporting suggesting U.S. troops would be on the ground in Israel.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe already have troops at Central Command. We’ve had them for decades in this country. They’re going to monitor the terms of the ceasefire. That’s everything from ensuring that the Israeli troops are at the agreed-upon line, ensuring that Hamas is not attacking innocent Israelis, doing everything that they can to ensure the peace that we’ve created actually sustains and endures,\u201d Vance said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the idea that we’re going to have troops on the ground in Gaza, in Israel, that is not our intention, that is not our plan. There was a bit of a misreporting there, but we are going to monitor this peace to ensure that, that it endures.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vance said Indonesia \u201cand a number of other majority-Muslim states\u201d have \u201coffered to send ground troops to Gaza to ensure the necessary peacekeeping takes place,\u201d but \u201cthat\u2019s not something the United States is going to be expected to do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vice President Vance said on Sunday that the 20 remaining living hostages should be released from Gaza \u201cany ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":978,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions\/978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}