President Donald Trump said at the top of Thursday’s White House cabinet meeting that he expects the release of Hamas’s remaining hostages on Monday or Tuesday, adding that it is a “complicated process” to retrieve them.

Trump updated the world on the timeline for the hostage return at the beginning of the meeting, which comes a day after he brokered the first phase of a historic peace agreement between Israel and Hamas.

“We secured the release of all of the remaining hostages, and they should be released on Monday or Tuesday,” he said.

“Getting them is a complicated process. I’d rather not tell you what they have to do to get them,” he added. “They’re places you don’t want to be, but we are getting the hostages back on Tuesday, Monday or Tuesday, and that’ll be a day of joy.”

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