Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, visited five of the 20 recently returned hostages at Beilinson Hospital in Petach Tikvah on Tuesday evening, expressing gratitude and a commitment to securing the return of those still missing.

“Upon the conclusion of the holiday, my wife, Sara and I came to the hospital to meet the dear boys who have returned home,” Netanyahu said. “Over the past two years, my wife and I have met with their families many times. We cried with them, we hugged them, and I promised them: We will bring them back. There wasn’t a day I didn’t receive reports on their condition—what we knew, what I requested to know.”

He continued, “I promised to bring them back, and we brought them back. And now, after they have been embraced by their families, we will also embrace them.”