Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to cancel sending a delegation to Washington headed by Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, after the U.S. did not veto the proposal for a cease-fire that passed the U.N. Security Council on Monday morning in New York. The proposal called for the release of the hostages, but did not condition the cease-fire on their release. "The U.S. has withdrawn from its consistent position in the Security Council where it only a few days ago made a connection between a cease-fire and the release of the hostages. This withdrawal hurts both the war effort and the effort to release the hostages, because it gives Hamas hope that international pressure will allow them to accept a cease-fire without the release of our hostages," according to a statement from the Prime Minister's Office. (Itamar Eichner)
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