Hostage Families Say It’s Time for a Deal to Free Their Loved Ones From Hamas

The families of Israel’s hostages say that with the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, now is the time for Israel to negotiate a deal and bring home the hostages still being held by Hamas. Sinwar, mastermind of Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel that started the current war, was killed on Oct. 16 in the Tel Sultan neighborhood of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, close to the Egyptian border. “My first reaction was shock; I wasn’t expecting it,” Michael Levy, 41, brother of hostage Or Levy, told The Epoch Times on Oct. 20. “And my second reaction was hope that, with this monster out of the picture, and he’s the one that pretty much ruined the previous deals, now there’s really a chance to find someone who can reach a deal....