Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the hostages in his statement, saying that "despite our brilliant achievements, we are neither complacent nor overconfident. We have no intention of taking our foot off the gas pedal. We must defeat Hamas and free all hostages. To the families of the hostages I say: we have not stopped for a moment, even during the war, our efforts to bring all our hostages home, and we will not let up on this sacred mission until it is completed." Netanyahu turned to the bereaved families: "Your loved ones, our heroes, did not fall in vain, because their heroism and sacrifice allowed us to break the Iranian axis. Without these tremendous achievements, we could not have reached Tehran. With the elimination of Iran's axis of evil, a path of prosperity opens with the peoples of the region. We are already working vigorously on this and the time will come to reveal our actions."