Daniel Rosenberg is a Millbrook High School graduate who's been living in the Middle East for the past 20 years.
He spoke to ABC11 less than 24 hours after the release of these images of Israeli hostages being reunited with friends and family after the groundbreaking peace deal brokered by President Donald Trump.
Rosenberg described the current mood for the Israeli people right now as joyous, as many celebrate the homecoming of those 20 hostages.
"Everywhere you go in the State of Israel, you see signs all over that say, 'Not until the last hostage,' that there's these people, the hostages are, I don't want to use the word celebrities, but there's everyone in the country knows them, is worried about them, and has deep concern for the horror that they've been through," Rosenberg said.
The hostage swap is considered the first phase of the peace deal, with talks now taking place on what will happen to Gaza next.
"Thank God that everyone is home right now. All the living hostages are home," Rosenberg said. "For the first time since 2014, there's not a single Israeli hostage in Gaza."
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