Isreal-Hamas war: Joe Biden welcomed the ceasefire, said a big thing about Hamas

US President Joe Biden on Friday (local time) welcomed the release of the first 24 hostages in exchange for a four-day ceasefire as part of the deal agreed between Israel and Hamas. He called it a “positive start”. According to one report, he also said he did not trust Hamas to “do anything right”. “This is only a start, but so far, it’s been good,” Biden told reporters in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Twenty-four hostages, including 13 Israelis, 10 Thais and one Filipino, were released by Hamas.

Biden said Hamas “did not care about innocent Palestinian civilians”. He said, “I don’t trust Hamas to do anything right. I only trust Hamas to respond to pressure.” Biden reiterated his commitment to securing the release of three US citizens, including women and children, who were not part of the first batch of detainees released on Friday. He said that we too will not stop until we bring these hostages home and get answers to their whereabouts.

He said that we too will not stop until we bring these hostages home and get answers to their whereabouts. The US President said he was hopeful that the names of the three American citizens would be mentioned in the second list to be released on Saturday. “My hope is that it will happen soon,” he said. When asked about the fate of the remaining 10 Americans who are still unaccounted for, Biden said, “We don’t know all of their situations.” He said the success in negotiations to secure the hostages held by Hamas since the October 7 attack on Israel was “the result of extensive US diplomacy”.