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Netanyahu hopes to announce hostages' release in days and vows Hamas will be disarmed

  • On October 4, 2025, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated he intends to reveal plans for freeing all hostages held in Gaza as indirect negotiations with Hamas proceed in Egypt.
  • These talks follow the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel and aim to implement a US-proposed ceasefire plan involving hostage releases and Israeli military withdrawal.
  • Hamas stated readiness to begin negotiations immediately, agreeing to release 48 hostages—including about 20 believed alive—in exchange for stopping Israel's offensive and allowing reconstruction.
  • Hamas advised residents of Gaza to stay away from northern areas and regions with military activity, while the European Union's top executive expressed optimism that ending the conflict could soon be achievable following Hamas’s favorable response.
  • Meanwhile, Gaza's Health Ministry reported over 67,000 Palestinian deaths and European protests demanded an end to the war, highlighting continued regional tension despite ceasefire efforts.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched a serious attack at the address of the European Union, accusing her of "missing against Palestinian terrorism" and of becoming "weak and irrelevant" in the Gaza conflict.

·Romania
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Author Haznain Kazim shares Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu's statement that Europe "has become irrelevant: "Foreign Minister Wadephul is now travelling the area – I don't know what he really is doing, except to watch.

·Dortmund, Germany
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Several Western states have recently recognized Palestine as a state to support the two-state solution. Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu sees this as above all the weakness of governments and a "reward" for Hamas. In sharp words, he criticizes Europe - and praises US President Trump at the same time.

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Israel's head of government Benjamin Netanyahu strongly criticises European leaders who, in his view, "show weakness and even "reward" the radical Islamic Palestinian organization Hamas. Some European states had "subsequently yielded to Palestinian terrorism and radical Islamist minorities in their midst," he said on Sunday in an interview with the news channel Euronews, referring to the recent recognition of a Palestinian state by leading Weste…

·Vienna, Austria
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Israel's Prime Minister accuses Europe of capitulation to Islamist terror, while the US presents a peace plan for Gaza.

·Berlin, Germany
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Deutsche Welle broke the news in Bonn, Germany on Saturday, October 4, 2025.
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