MEDIA RELEASE

Family First welcomes the release of the hostages.

Israel has waged a war against forces which don’t just want to destroy the Jewish state, but all of Western Civilisation.

Sadly peace has had to be wrought through strength because Hamas could have given us this day two years ago, but chose to fight - perversely using its own people as human shields.

Hamas and the citizens of Gaza who joined them should never have embarked on an orgy of rape, murder and kidnapping - the worst killing of Jews since the Holocaust.

Credit to President Trump for his statecraft and to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his war time leadership which has led to this momentous day.

May the Islamists lay down their arms and their ideology and live in peace with Israel and the rest of the world.