Netanyahu calls for hostages to be released during Gaza visit | World News

Israeli Prime Miner Benjamin Netanyahu visited northern Gaza on Tuesday, accompanied the country’s defense miner, head of the military and other senior officials, his office said.
A statement released the prime miner’s office said Netanyahu received a security briefing in northern Gaza on the military’s effort to free Israeli hostages and to defeat Hamas.
“We ins that our hostages be released and we ins on achieving all of our objectives for the war, and are doing so thanks to our heroic fighters,” Netanyahu’s office cited the prime miner as saying during a meeting with soldiers.
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The statement did not specify where in northern Gaza Netanyahu visited or mention Hamas’ claim on Tuesday that it had lost contact with those guarding Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander after the military purportedly bombed their location.
The Palestinian militant group still holds 59 hostages. Almost 200 hostages have been released Hamas or rescued the Israeli military over the course of the war, now in its 18th month.