Senator Markey Statement on Israel-Hamas Ceasefire

Washington (January 15, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) released the following statement after Israel and Hamas agreed to a cease-fire deal.

"I welcome the great news of a cease-fire and hostage deal between Israel and Hamas. This is a moment of hope and peace after more than a year of despair for the Israeli and American hostages, their families, and the people of Gaza. This six-week cease-fire will help us begin to bring hostages home to their families and deliver badly needed humanitarian aid to suffering Palestinians. We must do the hard work of seeing it implemented and enforced and, ultimately, ending this brutal war, establishing an enduring peace, and achieving the return of all the hostages. Thank you, President Biden, for your efforts and those of your diplomatic team and negotiators from Qatar and Egypt, to make this agreement possible."

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