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    Let them all come home: Britain's plea on hostages held by Hamas as truce begins

    by Jitendra Joshi Nov 24, 2023 3 minutes
    Source: ES Composite

    Britain appealed on Friday for the release of every hostage taken by Hamas from southern Israel as a four-day ceasefire took hold, offering some respite from seven weeks of bloody war in Gaza.

    One London woman, Sharone Lifschitz, said that her 83-year-old hostage father would insist that others seized by the Palestinian militants from their kibbutz in southern Israel on October 7 should be released before him.

    “My father spent 65 years building

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