Hostage survivors Naama Levy, Ohad Ben Ami, Doron Steinbrecher, Sasha Trupanov, Arbel Yehud, Yair Horn and Michal Lobenov, the wife of abducted fallen soldier Alex Lobenov, appealed in a video to US President Donald Trump, warning against expanding the fighting which would endanger the hostages. They stated that Trump has the power "to change history, to be the 'peace president' who ended the war and suffering, and returned all the hostages home." They added that "every day is a struggle to stay alive, every sound made their hearts stop - every bullet and every attack could be the one that ends their lives."