Vice President JD Vance confirmed to ABC “This Week” co-anchor George Stephanopoulos that Hamas has mentioned they’re holding 20 residing hostages, and that these hostages are anticipated to be launched within the subsequent 24 hours as President Donald Trump was headed to the area later Sunday to mark the event.
“Effectively, they have been confirmed, George. After all you do not know till you see these individuals alive. However thank God we count on to see them alive right here within the subsequent 24 hours, most likely early tomorrow morning, U.S. time, which shall be later within the day, after all, in Israel,” Vance mentioned.
Vice President JD Vance speaks with ABC Information whereas showing on This Week, Oct. 12, 2025.
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“We’re on the cusp of true peace within the Center East. Actually, for the primary time in my lifetime, actually these 20 hostages are going to return residence to their households, George. I believe this can be a nice second for our nation. Our nation needs to be pleased with our diplomats who made this occur. It is actually an amazing second for the world, too, which is why the president’s going to go over there and have fun with these hostages. Nevertheless it’s an amazing factor, and I am very enthusiastic about it,” he mentioned.
Trump is scheduled to depart for his go to to Israel and Egypt on Sunday afternoon and can meet with hostage households on the Israeli Knesset on Monday.
The Wall Road Journal was the primary to report Hamas’ affirmation of the 20 residing hostages.
With the U.S. Central Command establishing a coordination heart in Israel to help and monitor the ceasefire settlement between Hamas and Israel, Vance mentioned it was “misreported” that extra members of the U.S. army had been being despatched to the area — claiming that “We have already got troops at Central Command.”
A U.S. official informed ABC Information that 200 troops are being despatched to Israel, nonetheless, to concentrate on transportation, planning, logistics, safety and engineering. Vance additionally repeated claims from high officers that no U.S. troops are supposed to enter Gaza.
“So, that story is definitely misreported. We have already got troops at Central Command. We have had them for many years on this nation. They are going to monitor the phrases of the ceasefire. That is every thing from making certain that the Israeli troops are on the agreed upon line, making certain that Hamas isn’t attacking harmless Israelis, doing every thing that they’ll to make sure the peace that we have created, really sustains and endures,” Vance mentioned.
“However the concept we’ll have troops on the bottom in Gaza, in Israel, that that’s not our intention, that’s not our plan. There was a little bit of a misreporting there, however we’re going to monitor this peace to make sure that it endures,” he added.
