Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Trump's special envoy, Steve Wittkoff, who arrived at the government meeting discussing the approval of the agreement, saying that "we are in the midst of a decisive development. In the last two years, we have fought to achieve our war objectives, and one of the central goals is the return of all hostages - and we are going to do that." According to him, "We could not have reached this without the extraordinary assistance of the President and his team. They worked tirelessly together with Ron (Dermer) and his team. Our team. These efforts, together with the courage of our soldiers who entered Gaza, created combined military and diplomatic pressure that isolated Hamas. I believe these brought us to this point."