Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with the families of the hostages in the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv and promised "We are committed, I am personally committed to the release of all the hostages. Rescuing them is the ultimate mission." Netanyahu added "Just now I sent the Mossad director twice to Europe to advance the release of our hostages. I will exert every effort on the matter and the demand is to bring them all home." (Itamar Eichner)