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The meeting focused on the war between Israel and Hamas and the fight against Iran's influence in the Middle East.

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres is slated to meet with Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Jan. 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Seeking to protect intelligence sources amid the possibility Hamas was conducting a drill, Israeli security forces decided by "wide consensus" not to act.

The large number of Israeli companies specializing in the nationality of other countries is a fact that has existed in Israel for three decades.

"Every last hostage must be released, and humanitarian aid must be provided to the hostages who are still waiting to come home," said Mandy Damari, whose daughter was one of the freed hostages.

The prisoners had been transferred from various prisons across the country to the Ofer Prison in the vicinity of Jerusalem.