Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Israeli president Isaac Herzog that the current ceasefire proposal on the table, which has been flatly rejected by the Hamas terror group, may be the last opportunity to save Israeli captives kidnapped on October 7th who’ve been held hostage in the Gaza Strip for more than 10 months.

Israel is in “a decisive moment, probably the best, maybe the last opportunity to get the hostages home, to get a ceasefire, and to put everyone on a better path to enduring peace and security,” Blinken told Herzog during their meeting in Jerusalem on Monday morning.

Blinken is in Israel for the ninth time since the October 7th terror onslaught, and has said that the purpose of his visit is to help “bridge gaps” between Israel and Hamas in order to achieve a ceasefire.