Thanks to President Biden’s backchannel diplomacy, Israel and Hamas paused fighting temporarily in order to allow the release of hostages and the delivery of humanitarian aid into Gaza.
As of Friday when hostilities sadly resumed, 105 hostages had been released.
Among them was a four-year-old American citizen, Liat Beinin.
Her father explained what her release meant to him and his family.
While we would have liked the truce to have lasted even longer, Aaron Parnas puts it well:
And Americans seem to agree, with the 4 most recent polls all showing Biden leading Trump in head-to-head match-ups.
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