Youssef told LBCI that the families are pinning their hopes on the efforts deployed by political leaders to ensure the release of their loved ones.
Following the meeting, Aoun said that political leaders have wronged the families of the troops "because they knew nothing about the negotiations," adding that the families have the right to know what is happening.
He also noted that an officer from the internal security forces and another from the Lebanese army should be tasked with keeping the families up-to-date with the latest developments in the case of the hostages.
He voiced hopes that the crisis cell would take this proposal into consideration.
Yesterday, Kataeb party leader Amine Gemayel hoped that the Lebanese troops who were kidnapped from the northeastern border town of Arsal in August would be released.
“We must hold negotiations to secure the release of the Arsal hostages whenever the circumstances are favorable,” Gemayel said following talks with Speaker Nabih Berri in Ain El-Tineh.
“We seek to deploy all the needed efforts so that the captive soldiers can return to their loved ones,” he said, adding “we must cooperate with all those who can help settle the case”.
The hostage troops and policemen were captured when jihadists from the Nusra Front and the Islamic State militant groups briefly overran the border town of Arsal in August and engaged in fierce battles with the Lebanese army.
Four captives have so far been executed, and the jihadists have threatened to kill the remaining hostages unless there is a deal to free Islamist prisoners in Lebanon.
In a statement issued Friday December 5th via Twitter, the Nusra Front declared that it had executed Lebanese hostage Ali al-Bazzal, as a response to the arrests carried out by the Lebanese Armed Forces, threatening to murder another captive if the female detainees who were arrested were not released.
In the same regard, the Nusra Front released on Saturday (September 20) a video depicting the execution of the Lebanese soldier Mohammad Hamieh with a bullet to the head.
The video also showed Lebanese soldier Ali al-Bazzal pleading his family to act or else face execution.
On Saturday (September 06), Turkey's Anatolia news agency quoted a commander of the Islamic State as saying that the group had executed one of the captured Lebanese Armed Forces soldiers for trying to escape.
Also on August 28, the Islamic State posted photos and a video online depicting a militant beheading a blindfolded hostage who was identified as Lebanese Armed Forces Sergeant Ali al-Sayyed.
On Sunday (August 31), Lebanon's military said an al-Qaeda-linked Syrian rebel group released five members of the Lebanese security forces captured earlier in August in a cross-border raid.
The men were taken hostage when militants from Syria took over the Lebanese border town of Arsal for five days before withdrawing toward the Syrian frontier, taking with them Lebanese soldiers and policemen as hostages.
The clashes were the most dangerous spillover of violence from the civil war in neighboring Syria.
The clashes flared up when Syrian gunmen deployed across the region after the Lebanese Armed Forces arrested Imad Jomaa at a checkpoint.
The detention of Imad Jomaa, the leader of the Fajr al-Islam Brigade, had caused security tension in the border town of Arsal, claiming the lives of 20 soldiers and leaving 86 others injured.
While the release of the five men provided a degree of relief, concerns remain about the troops and policemen still in captivity.