Trump will greet Israel hostages 'in person' after Hamas releases them from Gaza, Vance says

President Donald Trump plans to greet Israeli hostages "in person" aft they are released by the panic radical Hamas from Gaza, Vice President JD Vance said Sunday.

Trump is scheduled to alert to Israel connected Sunday afternoon.

Vance confirmed reporting by The Wall Street Journal that Hamas has said it holds 20 surviving hostages 

Vance, successful an interrogation connected NBC News' "Meet the Press," said the hostages volition beryllium released astatine "any infinitesimal now."

Trump intends to "greet the hostages Monday morning, Middle Eastern time, which should beryllium late, you know, Sunday nighttime oregon precise aboriginal Monday greeting present successful the United States," helium said.

The planned merchandise of the hostages comes days aft Israel's authorities approved the archetypal signifier of a bid woody with Hamas.

Hamas took astir 250 radical hostage during its Oct. 7, 2023, onslaught connected Israel from Gaza, sparking a two-year warfare that has devastated that Palestinian territory.

Vance called the hostages' merchandise "a monumental thing."

"It's great, of course, for their families," helium said. "But I truly bash deliberation that it shows what happens erstwhile you spell extracurricular the accepted failed diplomatic routes and really effort thing new."

During a abstracted quality connected Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures," Vance said helium does not expect that Israel volition beryllium capable to retrieve the remains of dormant hostages from Hamas.

"I deliberation that we volition yet get astir of the bodies, but we won't get each of them," Vance said.

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