Relatives of 3 hostages set to be released express joy, but warn: ‘It’s not done until it’s done’

Relatives of Romi Gonen, Emily Damari and Doron Steinbrecher — the three Israeli hostages set to be released later today — express their joy that their loved ones are coming home, but say there’s a “long road ahead.”

Eitan Gonen tells the Kan public broadcaster that while Israeli officials have not provided information on his daughter’s condition, “Romi is finally coming home, alive, there is nothing more joyful than that.”

A source close to the Damari family tells the BBC that it has been a “torturous 471 days but a particularly torturous 24 hours.”