By Adam Ma’anit

The news that a deal has finally been reached to bring home the remaining 48 hostages is what we have been dreaming of and fighting for throughout these painful two years.

It’s impossible to describe the mix of relief and heartbreak we feel – relief they may at last come home, and heartbreak that for some, it will be for burial.

Their families deserve to grieve properly, and those still alive must be brought back urgently for medical care and the embrace of their loved ones.

Let us be clear: they should never have been taken hostage in the first place. They should never have been treated as bargaining chips, traded for concessions to their brutal captors.

How many more could have been saved had the international community stood firmly with them from the outset and demanded, with one voice, their unconditional release?

My cousin Tsachi was murdered by his terrorist captors. Let no one be fooled by........

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