Israel knows there are still 24 hostages remaining alive in Gaza, but with every day that passes, “there’s less of a chance that they’ll remain alive,” Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, a former deputy mayor of Jerusalem, told Newsmax Sunday.

“They’re being tortured and they’re being starved, Hassan-Nahoum said on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America Weekend.” “We’re in a very, very dangerous situation.”

She noted that Steven Witkoff, the United States special envoy to the Middle East, put together a plan that Hamas has rejected. 

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