Of israeli hostages. They want their hostages back. They want them alive. As many as still remain alive. And the mood was encapsulated by a Facebook Post from elad katzir� s sister, she posted. Basically, she was the one who announced as much as the israeli army announced that her brothers body had been recovered and returned to israel. And she wrote on facebook, youre going to hear from the army about their Daring Rescue operation in which they got my brothers body and returned it to israel. And she said, dont let anyone fool you. This is not a rescue operation. This is an incident of my brother having been abandoned to die. The first abandonment took place when the military did not move into the kibbutz from which he was kidnapped, in time, and he was kidnapped. And there were two videos released of her brother alive and in captivity. So they know that he did not die on october 7th, that he was killed by his captors, by islamichhad, who was handing him. And she said, make no mistake, this is a failure of the Israeli Government to have achieved a hostage deal that would have brought my brother back alive and instead im getting his body. And you have to understand, this is a Woman Writing whose mother was taken hostage. She was returned in the first hostage deal and whose father was killed and murdered by hamas on the kibbutz on october 7th. So this is a family that was completely devastated by the attack. And shes been fighting for her brothers release for months. And now she gets the news that that she gets a body back and not her brother back alive. So its certainly not viewed as any kind of reason for celebration. Our middle east correspondent hugo bachega told me about the reaction to the discovery of the hostage� s body. You can imagine the agonising wait of the families of the hostages. More than 100 israelis remain in captivity in gaza and almost every day these families have been demonstrating urgently urging the government and Benjamin Netanyahu to engage in negotiations with hamas, to strike a deal for the hostages to be released. The fact another hostage has been found dead is adding to the desperation of these relatives. We understand tomorrow hamas will send a delegation to cairo in an apparent effort to restart these negotiations being mediated by doha and cairo in an attempt to reach a deal between israel and hamas. We understand for weeks there have been conversations and these are very difficult talks, there have been in a number of obstacles and differences remain between both sides. Any kind of deal would see the release of hostages in return for palestinians who remain in israeli jail. We understand that one of the main obstacles in these negotiations is that hamas continues to demand a permanent ceasefire, not a temporary one but a permanent ceasefire in gaza and also that people should be allowed to return to northern israel. The israeli authorities reject those demands. We have seen Prime Minister netanyahu has been adamant this more netanyahu has been adamant this war is going to continue until hamas is defeated. Very difficult negotiations and again the news today adds to the agonising wait of the families here in israel. Israels strategy in the war is under renewed pressure. President biden is facing calls from senior figures within his own party to pause us arms sales to israel. Lets talk to our correspondent in washington, will vernon. This pressure has come in the form of a letter signed by dozens of democratic politicians. Tell us more about what the letter says. I democratic politicians. Tell us more about what the letter says. About what the letter says. 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I dont think this letter will be to any sudden change in us policy but it is a sign of the growing discontent over the buy in administrations support for israel. Just a few days ago we saw the tense phone call Betweenjoe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu. In which the us president essentially gave the Israeli Government and ultimatum. Protect civilian life, to do more to protect the humanitarian situation in gaza otherwise the situation in gaza otherwise the situation will change. We dont know the details exactly of that. What joe biden threatened to withdraw from israel. But there has been speculation that perhaps he said that conditions would be attached to the supply of us military aid for israel. But near hours after that phone call we got the announcement from the israelis that they would be reopening or widening the three minute hearing aid cottages. Biden has giving himself a bit of a pattern about publicly about that, seeing i asked the israelis to do this, they did it. But we know he made other demands in the phone call that the israelis have not yet fulfilled. Butjoe biden is under pressure from all sides of on israel as we have seen from the letter, Many Democrats are not happy with the extent of support for israel but republicans too in congress have accused mr biden of abandoning key allies, backing hamas over israel, and remember it is also an Election Year here and that plays into everything, it is shaping up to be particularly closely fought and polarising campaign and the war in gaza has become a large issue, traditionally democratic voters, joe biden� s party are extremely unhappy with the support the Biden Administration offers for israel. Many of minority voters, young people, exactly the sort of people thatjoe biden needs to wind over he has any chance whatsoever of remaining in the white house, november and that crucial election. Thank you very much. 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