Gaza Hostage Deal Could Come as Trump Takes Office, in Echoes of 1981

Dozens of American hostages held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran for more than a year were freed just as Ronald Reagan was inaugurated.

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Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal reached by Israel and Hamas

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