 This is an I-24 News Special Report, Israel at War. I'm Albert Lewin. This is an I-24 News Headquarters in Tel Aviv. Let's bring you up to speed with what you need to know right now. Number one, a source close to Hamas says the group is willing to extend a temporary truce for four more days in exchange for the release of more hostages and also for the release of more Palestinians jailed under terror charges. Number two, we are being told another 12 Israeli hostages will be released tonight, 10 Israeli hostages and two Russian-Israeli dual nationals reportedly as a thank you to Vladimir Putin. You should know that 81 of more than 240 hostages have been released. All but one are women and children, nine children, including the bebis children are still being held by terrorist groups in Gaza. Israel has freed 180 Palestinian prisoners. Number three, the head of Mossad is in Doha, Qatar as we speak, meeting with the Qataris and with CIA chief William Burns. There's strong pressure on Israel to agree to a permanent, use that word in quotes, permanent ceasefire in exchange for the release of the remaining 160 being held hostage by Hamas. Number four, there's also a report in the Washington Post that a continued ceasefire would allow for the hostages to be released in this order, remaining civilian women and children first, then female soldiers, then men no longer of the age to do reserve duty, then IDF reservists and then male soldiers and the bodies of those killed on October the 7th and afterwards. In an interview with Germany's actual Springer newspaper group, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed claims that he strengthened Hamas prior to October the 7th. In order to divide the Palestinian people, this will be a long quote, but I'm quoting now, did I want to strengthen Hamas? It's ridiculous. It's a big, ridiculous lie. If I wanted to build Hamas, we would not have launched an operation three times against it. Netanyahu claimed he only allowed a Qatari money to flow into Gaza to avoid humanitarian catastrophe. Extending the quote now, we wanted to avoid a civilian humanitarian collapse, disease, rampant hunger and other things that would have created an impossible humanitarian situation. He went on to say that's why successive Israeli governments allowed this money to go in. Not in order to strengthen Hamas, we didn't want to strengthen Hamas at all. We wanted to weaken it and degrade its capabilities as far as we could. We have live team coverage of every angle of the story as we speak right now. Let's go first. He's I-24 News Correspondent. He's in the hostage and missing square in downtown Tel Aviv. Pierre, the stories coming out from the hostages who have been released is utter, just horrible things to hear. You and I have been doing this long enough in our careers to hear some horrible things and wars all over, but we've never seen something like this. Right. It's unprecedented. Experts have been trying to consult people that were involved into the Boko Haram saga of the kidnapping of over 240 schoolgirls in Nigeria, in northern, in northern Nigeria. That launched a huge campaign for the liberation and not all of them were eventually liberated. But this is unheard of. You have kids as young as 10 months old. You have women, elderly, as old as 84, 85 year old. You have civilians only, people that were actually for coexistence with the Palestinians. People in the Kibbutzim were always for coexistence with Israel. Yorchevet Lipschitz, who met in jail in Gaza, the head of Hamas, Yakhiesi Noir, after three or four days of captivity, as said that she said to him, she was a supporter for peace, and she said to him, shame on you, he never answered to her, he never answered her. Now that's unprecedented and thus there is no model to tackle that problem. The psychological, the emotional problem that the people will endure after they're released from hospital and usually they're released after a couple of days or three days in hospital. This is a long-term treatment of those people. They need to rebuild their life, to recompose the puzzle, the fragmented puzzle of their life because most of them have lost relatives, close relatives, friends, Kibbutzim are close to society, so these people know each other and many of them died or many of them were abducted. How do you rebuild those lives when you're an elderly grandmother? You live at home, you're mostly at home with your momentos of your life and that has disappeared because the houses have been destroyed. It's going to be a very long process and it's also a very long process in terms of fighting Hamas. We're not talking about days, we're not talking about weeks, we're talking about months at least. Peter Kloschunder in Michigan, Hostage Square in downtown Tel Aviv, always. Thank you very much for that. We're going to continue our live team coverage. I'm joined now by Major General Yaakov Amidroor, he's the fellow researcher for JISS and JINSA, the Strategic Center. He's also, most importantly, the former Israeli chairman of the National Security Council. Thank you so much for joining us. General, I have to ask you a question about this extended ceasefire that apparently we're two days extra, now there's talk of some more days extra after that. At some point, are we going to fall into a case of complacency where we're just expecting it to be a permanent ceasefire? There is no any mathematical way to have a permanent ceasefire because the number of hostages in the end of Hamas. If we speak about 10 for each day of ceasefire will be ended after two weeks. So the longest time that it might take is another two weeks, not more than that. But at that point, do we, the Israeli society feel maybe we should not go back into war? Maybe that this is just, we should just stay status quo. I think that the whole sentiment in Israel is exactly on the other side. The everyone within the military forces and within the civilians in Israel, the civil society in Israel, the voice that you hear is almost, almost universally saying, we have to finish the job. We have to destroy Hamas. Whatever will be the length of the operation, the end will come only when Hamas will be destroyed. I think that this is the sentiment in Israel and no question that it will be almost impossible for the cabinet to decide against this sentiment. But General, as you see that the Israeli government is right now getting pressure from abroad. Right now, the chief of Assad is in Qatar. He's there with the CIA chief that he's getting a lot of pressure from the world to kind of continue this. How does Israel then play it with the rest of the world to say we still have a job to do here? But what they have now in Qatar is negotiations about the extension of the ceasefire for getting more hostages. And if the deal will be a good deal, I mean, the other side will not put on the table demands, for example, to stop the war or something like that. I think that Israel should accept it and we will have to go to a longer time period during which we get more hostages. And the question will be at the end, how and when we resume the ground operation. And as I told you, the sentiment in Israel is very clear that should be continued. Now, at the same time, some of the conditions allow for one hostage to be released, three Palestinian prisoners being held in terrorism charges to be released. That ratio seems to be continued the same. If that were the case, when all is sudden done, there'll be 800 or so Palestinian, maybe a little less than 800 Palestinian prisoners being released back into the society. Yes, that might be the deal. And of course, we will have to pay what was promised and three Palestinians will be released for each Israeli. But is that a secure, someone who has dealt with national security, is that good for national security? Yes, no question that Israel took here three risks, at least. One is the release of terrorists into the West Bank and Jerusalem. The other one is stopping the momentum of the ground forces in Gaza and third, giving Hamas the ability to tie, which is needed after the pressure of the IDF forces to reorganize and to refill its units and so on and so forth. No question, we took a risk here, but we were ready to take the risk to free, to release the hostages. General, the question also has to do with what happens in Gaza itself. Now, Hamas has always been the target, right? But there's still other factions, there's still Palestinian-Islamics. You had last night, in a lot of the celebrations of the Palestinian prisoners who released, there was a lot of joint chance with Palestinian-Islamic jihad. So besides from PIJ, you've got Al-Qassam, you've got five or six others. How do you deal with those if you're just going to go specifically on one? No, we are not going specifically on Hamas. All these organizations are targets of the IDF, where air strikes and ground forces are going to their centers as well. They don't have so many centers as Hamas. They don't have as big centers as Hamas. But last few days before the beginning of the ceasefire, we captured one of the most important place of the Islamic Jihad with the place in which they are preparing the weapon system and we conquered it and destroyed it. So no, all these organizations are legitimate targets in this war. General Yaakov, I'm going to have you hold one second because we're going to go now around 10 hostages are being treated at two large Tel Aviv area hospitals, Iqbalov and Sheba. Let's go live to Ariel Levin-Walman. He's actually now in Sheba for an update. Ariel, the 10 that are being released are most likely head to where you are. What about those that are already there? So what we know about the ones that were released last night, there are eight of those 10 currently here at Sheba. The majority of which are elderly. Out of the 10, eight of them are above the age of 60, which is the overwhelming majority of them. There was only one person that was not even an adult, that was a 17 year old hostage that was released the other night. What do we know about their conditions is the next question. Now the hospitals did release a statement, all the hospitals, not just here at Sheba, that nobody released last night was in any sort of risky condition. They are stable, but what does stable mean? Stable and good are not the same thing and it's important to keep that in mind. These hostages were held underground in very bad conditions for almost two months straight. We're talking about severe malnutrition. They were fed a little bit of bread and a little bit of rice every day if they even got fed every single day at all. So they're extremely nutrient deficient, extremely malnourished and extremely weak from that alone. We also know they've been kept underground in the dark for almost that entire time. So they're vitamin deficient for a lot of the critical things that the body needs to maintain its stability. And on top of that, I mentioned that the majority that were released yesterday are the elderly. One of the things that a lot of elderly people rely on is life-saving medicines at regular intervals, typically every single day. They went without that for nearly two months. That's why one of the hostages released just a couple of days ago is still fighting for her life in a catatonic state. So it shows you that physically everyone is not exactly in great conditions despite being stable. But the doctors say despite this, the bigger concern is actually their mental condition and that's because they were subject to horrifying abuses, torments and traumas while they were held by Hamas. Here, some of the stories that we heard for children that were forced to watch videos that Hamas took of the October 7th massacres, forced to watch those videos at gunpoint, told if they are to cry or make any noise at all, they would be shot. There are some hostages, at least one hostage is 12 years old that has come back and has not been able to speak above a whisper because they were conditioned at gunpoint not to make any noises. That sort of abuse went even as far as the hostage release ceremonies, situations where you had mobs, angry mobs of Palestinians, not Hamas itself, Palestinian civilians, surrounding them as they're loaded onto the international Red Cross ambulances, jeering and mocking them, mocking helpless children I might add and taking a great deal of pleasure in the suffering that they caused while they did it. All these abuses add up and it shows that there is a very long road ahead for recovery. Even if they're physically okay and some of them could be released in as little as a few days, the mental process is going to be a lot longer. On a personal level, there was a great relief. On a general level, we are still worried. For about a month and a half that she was there, my mother did not receive any medical treatment. She didn't even get a doctor's visit. The sanitary conditions were bad. They had very little food. These are conditions in which even a young person has great difficulty surviving it. Not to mention an 84 year old woman who is not healthy. This underscores our concern for the remaining hostages. There are old and sick people there, heart patients and injured people. We demand from the whole world and also from the state of Israel that they do everything to get them as soon as possible. And you could just hear right there that family member giving us a glimpse into the sort of situation that it was all around. Underscoring the point that again, stable and good are not the same thing and highlighting the abuses that these civilians went through in the hands of their tormentors. Our 11 woman, thanks again for joining us live from the Shiba Hospital in Tel Aviv. Thanks again. We're gonna continue our live team coverage of the hostage deal. We have some news coming in now about an IDF situation that's going on in Geneva. Let me bring in Guy Azrael who is our I-24 news senior editor at Guy. Right, so an announcement from the IDF just a short while ago in a joint operation of the Israeli military, the Shin Bet and the border police, a high level elimination of a senior terrorist in the West Bank, in the Genine refugee camp. His name is Muhammad Azbaidi. He was taken down together with two other terror operatives. He was involved according to the IDF in a long list of terror activity, including executing several shooting attacks himself. He's the son of Zaharia Azbaidi, a well-known terrorist who is still in Israeli prison. He was the head of the Genine refugee camp from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. And that is a part of the ongoing operations of the IDF and the Shin Bet in the West Bank trying to keep that front quiet as much as they can as Israel is obviously heavily involved in the war in Gaza obviously, and also the fear of war in the North. So far, since the start of this war, the Israel has arrested 2000 terrorists, terror operatives in the West Bank. 1,100 of them belong to Hamas. Guy Israel, thanks so much. Let me go back to Yaakov Amrador and bring him in on this discussion about Genine. This highlights the fact that IDF has multiple situations to deal with. Many fires put out at the same time. I mean, we prepared ourselves to this situation. And as you know, there are huge forces waiting in the North. If Hezbollah will make the mistake and the open fire there, we are very active. And unlike in the North, in which we are passive, we are waiting to their decision. In the West Bank, we are very active based on intelligence that we are gathering. We are making many operations, almost every night. And yes, we understand that we are facing multi-front challenges. The main effort is in the South, in the Gaza. But at the same time, we are very active in the West Bank. And if Hezbollah will reopen, fire it as it did at the beginning of the operation. As you know, we killed around 100 members of Hezbollah during the operation. And that will be continued probably. General, if I can ask you about Gaza for just one second. One of the things that a lot of the people in the, I want to call them the red-green-black coalition. This is in America especially, but in Europe. They complain about civilian casualties. They say, why should Israel restart if they're civilian casualties? You and I both saw a video in October the 7th that looked like civilians were actually taking part in a lot of the atrocities of October the 7th. They were brought back into Gaza City. They were spit on. The Israeli citizens were not only spit on butchered, beheaded, all of that by civilians, not military. Or what you would think would be military. So what do you say to those who say, well, you can't restart because you have all of these civilians there. I think that it's not the logical argument. If they agree that Hamas is a terror organization that should be destroyed, the question is, can it be done without harming civilians around it? And the answer is, yes, it's possible. If Hamas surrenders, all some Hamas let all the Palestinians to live in the area and they will be, they will go evacuate themselves to the safe haven which was designated by Israel, civilians will not be killed. But if Hamas is using them as human shield, what is the alternative? To give immunity to the organization which has successfully used its own people to defend itself? I think it's not logical. General, I'm not even talking about using them as human shields. I'm talking about civilians who actually want to take up arms for Hamas. I think that's, it's a slightly distinction. This is, if there are civilians which are taking guns for Hamas and taking part in the raid, for example, this is their enemy. And speaking about innocent civilians, this is the main problem in the Gaza Strip. It's not the civilians which are part of Hamas. Speaking about civilians which are not part of Hamas, innocent, but those innocent are used by Hamas as a human shield. And if we will take seriously the argument of this coalition, which is peculiar opposition for itself, it's left-wing guys, very liberal, liberal supposed to be with the Islamic movement which does not have any attitude towards women or with Jalsa, it's very peculiar. But leave that alone. If we take them seriously, we are giving them unity to a tele-organization. Is it logic? It's not logic at all. So if there isn't a claim, the target or the address is Hamas. Hamas does not use them as human shield. They will not be killed. And what about those who, I mean, you've heard a lot from the hostages who've been released and they've said, a couple of them have said that they were being held by families, by, in homes, they were not necessarily, not 100% always put in tunnels and not always there, but people held them inside in a home. And normally what the left, I call it again the red-black-green coalition would say is the civilian areas. So how do you get against Hamas? How do you fight Hamas in those situations? We have a list of those who took place in the raid into Israel, including the state, so-called civilians. And we promised them they will be killed one day. Well, we will go after them even if it will take 10 years. We will kill them all because those took place in the invasion of Israel and killing the civilians and butchering their babies and women will not be alive within a few years because we will go after them. And about families which hosted the hostages, it's very much depends on the circumstances. I don't know how to answer an easy answer that we will, I don't know, we will punish them because we have to learn and to investigate the hostages and to investigate the Hamas members that we found and which surrendered to our forces in the Gaza Strip. And when the picture will be clear, those who took part in the raid or had been part of the Hamas system, they are supposed to be punished. I have one more question for you if I may. Sir, what do you feel about the hierarchy that's been reportedly set up with the release of the hostages? First, remaining women and children, then men who have been aged out of reserves, then the women soldiers, then the IDF reservists and then the IDF soldiers. Have we put a currency to our hostages? Yes, we prefer to take out the civilians, the women and the babies. Yes, there is kind of levels. And at the end, people in uniform, soldiers supposed to defend the civilians and this is why the civilians will go out first and only then the soldiers, this is the way that we are educating our people that the army is there to save the civilians and not vice-versa. General Yaakov Armador, the former chair of the Israeli National Security Council, thanks so much for joining us live here on I-24 News. Thanks for your insight, as always. Thank you very much for the opportunity. After he was captured, 12-year-old Eitan was kept alone in a room alone for 16 days. He was forced to watch videos, hemastatopsies, and if you cried, they pointed a gun at him. Other children, like 9-year-old Emily, she was ordered not to raise her voice above a whisper. Some elderly people were kept on the brink of starvation and they were deprived of vital medication. These are just some of the horrific, horrific details of what the hostages went through at the hands of the terrorists in Gaza. We've compiled them and Robert Swift has this. As Israeli hostages return home, the stories of their days spent in captivity underground or being moved between bombed buildings are filtering out. They were kept in houses for a few days and then they took them to the tunnels. Emily Han's father described how his daughter returned from Gaza thin, pale, and believing that she had spent a year inside what she refers to as the box. The most shocking, disturbing part of the meeting was she was just whispering. I had to put my ear on her lips like this close and say, what did you say? Some hostages have described being treated without abuse. After the initial brutal violence of their capture, others have spoken of beatings, repeated threats of violence, and of children being made to watch footage from the October 7th massacres. Etan apparently experienced horrors over there. Hamas forced them to watch horrific films. Maybe I'm naive, but I wanted to hope that he was well treated, but apparently not, they're monsters. As the war has run on, conditions for captives appear to have deteriorated, with the quantity and variety of their food reducing. They haven't eaten well. They are thin, they are exhausted. Hamas has attempted to portray itself well, releasing video of smiling and waving captives being handed over to the Red Cross. But some of the hostages, even under Jures, have not played along with their game. A long path to recovery awaits those recently returned to their families and to freedom. They're not talking too much, but they are telling us some details that help us to help them. A process that for each of the returned begins with a reunion. We're a great, great site. We don't forget the hostages that remain, but we honor the 10 Israeli hostages that were released last night. Ditsa Haiman, Tamar Metzger, Nurelin Babadella, Agzho, Adasagi, Meraftal, Rimon Kirscht, Ophelia Reutman, Gabriela Leinberg and her daughter Mia. And of course, Clara Marmon. And this, we will end with this. I'm Albert Lewits and I-24 News here on Tel Aviv. Take a look. This is what we're looking for. This is an I-24 News special report, Israel at War. I'm Albert Lewits and at the I-24 News headquarters in Tel Aviv. Let's bring you up to speed with what you need to know right now. Number one, a source close to Hamas, says the group is willing to extend a temporary truce for four more days in exchange for the release of more hostages and also for the release of more hostages and also for the release of more hostages and also for the release of more hostages and also for the release of more hostages and also for the release of more hostages and also for the release of more Palestinians jailed under terror charges. Number two, we are being told another 12 Israeli hostages will be released tonight, 10 Israeli hostages and two Russian-Israeli dual nationals, reportedly as a thank you to Vladimir Putin. You should know that 81 of more than 240 hostages have been released. All but one are women and children. Nine children, including the Bevis children, are still being held by terrorist groups in Gaza. Israel has freed 180 Palestinian prisoners. Number three, the head of Mossad is Indoha Qatar, as we speak, meeting with the Qataris and with CIA Chief William Burns. There's strong pressure on Israel to agree to a permanent, use that word in quotes, permanent ceasefire in exchange for the release of the remaining 160 being held hostage by Hamas. Number four, there's also a report in the Washington Post that a continued ceasefire would allow for the hostages to be released in this order, remaining civilian women and children first, then female soldiers, then men no longer of the age to do reserve duty, then IDF reservists, and then male soldiers and the bodies of those killed on October the 7th and afterwards. And an interview with Germany's actual Springer newspaper group, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed claims that he strengthened Hamas prior to October the 7th. In order to divide the Palestinian people, this will be a long quote, but I'm quoting now, did I want to strengthen Hamas? It's ridiculous, it's a big, ridiculous lie. If I wanted to build Hamas, we would not have launched an operation three times against it. Netanyahu claimed he only allowed Qatari money to flow into Gaza to avoid humanitarian catastrophe. Extending the quote now, we wanted to avoid a civilian humanitarian collapse, disease, rampant hunger and other things that would have created an impossible humanitarian situation. He went on to say that's why successive Israeli governments allowed this money to go in. Not in order to strengthen Hamas, we didn't want to strengthen Hamas at all. We wanted to weaken it and degrade its capability as far as we could. We have live team coverage of every angle of the story as we speak right now. Let's go first to Pierre Kloschender. He's I-24 News Correspondent. He's in the hostage and missing square in downtown Tel Aviv. Pierre, the stories coming out from the hostages who have been released is utter just horrible things to hear. You and I have been doing this long enough in our careers to hear some horrible things and wars all over, but we've never seen something like this. Right, it's unprecedented. You know, experts have been trying to consult people that were involved into the Boko Haram saga of the kidnapping of over 240 school girls in Nigeria, in northern, in northern Nigeria. That launched a huge campaign for the liberation and not all of them were eventually liberated. But this is unheard of. You have kids as young as 10 months old. You have women elderly as old as 84, 85 year old. You have civilians only. People that were actually for coexistence with the Palestinians. People in the Kibbutzim were always for coexistence with Israel. You have at least kids who met in jail, in Gaza, the head of Hamas, Yes, he's in war. After three or four days of captivity, as said that she said to him, she was a supporter for peace and she said to him, shame on you. He never answered to her. He never answered her. Now that's unprecedented and thus there is no model to tackle that problem. The psychological, the emotional problem that the people will endure after they're released from hospital and usually they're released after a couple of days or three days in hospital. This is a long term treatment of those people. They need to rebuild their life to recompose the puzzle, the fragmented puzzle of their life because most of them have lost relatives, close relatives, friends, Kibbutzim are close-knit society. So these people know each other and many of them died or many of them were abducted. How do you rebuild those lives when you're an elderly grandmother? You live at home. You're mostly at home with your momentos of your life and that has disappeared because the houses have been destroyed. It's going to be a very long process and it's also a very long process in terms of fighting Hamas. We're not talking about days. We're not talking about weeks. We're talking about months at least. Pierre Kloschelder in Bissingen, Hostage Square in downtown Tel Aviv. Always. Thank you very much for that. We're going to continue our live team coverage. I'm joined now by Major General Jakov Amidroj. He's a fellow researcher for JISS and JINSA, the Strategic Centre. He's also, most importantly, the former Israeli chairman of the National Security Council that he's joining us from Rana. Thank you so much for joining us. General, I have to ask you a question about this extended ceasefire that apparently we're in two days extra. Now there's talk of some more days extra after that. At some point, are we going to fall into a case of complacency where we're just expecting it to be a permanent ceasefire? There is no any mathematical way to have a permanent ceasefire because the number of hostages in the ends of Hamas, if we speak about 10, 4-h day of ceasefire will be ended after two weeks. So the longest time that it might take is another two weeks, not more than that. But at that point, do we, do the Israeli society feel maybe we should not go back into war? Maybe that this is just a we should just stay status quo? I think that the whole sentiment in Israel is exactly on the other side. The everyone within the military forces and within the civilians in Israel, the civil society in Israel. The voice that you hear is almost almost essentially saying, we have to finish the job. We have to destroy Hamas. Whatever will be the length of the operation the end will come only when Hamas will be destroyed. I think that this is the sentiment in Israel and no question that it will be almost impossible for the cabinet to decide against this sentiment. But General, as you see that Israeli government is right now getting pressure from abroad right now that the chief of Assad is in Qatar. He's there with the CIA chief that he's getting a lot of pressure from the world to kind of continue this. How does Israel then play it with the rest of the world to say we still have a job to do here? What they have now in Qatar is negotiations about the extension of the ceasefire for getting more hostages. And if the deal will be a good deal, I mean if the other side will put on the table demands for example to stop the war or something like that I think that Israel should accept it and we will have to go to a longer deal during which we will get more hostages and the question will be at the end how and when we resume the ground operation and as I told you the sentiment in Israel is very clear that should be continued. At the same time some of the conditions allow for one hostage to be released, three Palestinian prisoners being held in terrorism charges to be released. That ratio seems to be continued the same. If that were the case when all is sudden done there will be 800 or so maybe a little less than 800 Palestinian prisoners being released back into society. That might be the deal and of course we will have to pay what was promised and three Palestinians will be released for each Israeli. But is that a secure, someone who has dealt with national security is that good for national security? Yes, no question that Israel took here three risks at least. One is the release of terrorists into the West Bank and Jerusalem the other one is stopping the momentum of the ground forces in Gaza and giving Hamas the ability the time which is needed by after the pressure of the IDF forces to reorganize and to refill its units and so and so forth. No question we took a risk here but we were ready to take the risk to free to release the hostages. General the question also has to do with what happens in Gaza itself. Hamas has always been the target right? But there's still other factions that still Palestinian-Islamic jihad last night and a lot of the celebrations of the Palestinian prisoners who released there was a lot of joint chance with Palestinian-Islamic jihad. So besides from PIJ, you've got Al-Qasem, you've got five or six others. How do you deal with those if you're just going to go specifically on one? No, we are not going specifically on Hamas. All these organizations are targets of the IDF where airstrikes and ground forces are going to their centers as well. They don't have so many centers as Hamas. They don't have as big centers as Hamas. But last few days before the beginning of the ceasefire we captured one of the most important place of the Islamic Jihad with the place in which they are preparing the weapon system and we conquered it and destroyed it. So, no, all these organizations are legitimate targets in this war. General Yaakov Amridar, I'm going to have you hold one second because we're going to go now around 10 hostages are being treated at two large Tel Aviv area hospitals, Iqbalov and Shiba. Let's go live to Ariel Levin Wallman. He's actually now in Shiba for an update. Ariel, the 10 that are being released are headed would most likely head to where you are. What about those that are already there? So what we know about the ones that were released last night, there are eight of those 10 currently here at Shiba, the majority of which are elderly. Out of the 10, eight of them are above the age of 60, which is the overall majority of them. There was only one person that was not even an adult, that was a 17 year old hostage that was released the other night. What do we know about their conditions is the next question. Now the hospitals did release a statement, all the hospitals, not just here at Shiba, that nobody was in any sort of risky condition. They are stable, but what does stable mean? Stable and good are not the same thing, and it's important to keep that in mind. These hostages were held underground in very bad conditions for almost two months straight. We're talking about severe malnutrition. They were fed a little bit of bread, a little bit of rice every day, if they even got fed every single day at all. So they're extremely nutrient deficient, extremely malnourished and extremely weak from that alone. We also know that they kept underground in the dark for almost that entire time, so they're vitamin deficient for a lot of the critical things that the body needs to maintain its stability. And on top of that, I mentioned that the majority that were released yesterday are the elderly. One of the things that a lot of elderly people rely on is life-saving medicines at regular intervals, typically every single day. They went without that for nearly two months. That's why one of the hostages released just a couple of days ago is still fighting for her life in a catatonic state. So it shows you that basically everyone is not exactly in great conditions despite being stable. But the doctors say despite this, the bigger concern is actually their mental condition. And that's because they were subject to horrifying abuses, torments and traumas while they were held by Hamas. Here some of the stories that we heard for children that were forced to watch videos that Hamas took of the October 7th massacres, forced to watch those videos at gunpoint. Told if they are to cry or make any noise at all they were shot. There are some hostages. One, at least one hostage is 12 years old that has come back and has not been able to speak above a whisper because they were conditioned at gunpoint not to make any noises. That sort of abuse went even as far as the hostage release ceremonies, situations where you had mobs, angry mobs of Palestinians, not Hamas itself, Palestinian civilians surrounding them as they're loaded onto the international red cross ambulances, jeering and mocking them. Mocking helpless children I might add and taking a great deal of pleasure in the suffering that they caused while they did it. All these abuses add up and it shows that there is a very long road ahead for recovery even if they're physically okay and some of them could be released in as little as a few days the mental process is going to be a lot longer. On a personal level there was a great relief. On a general level we are still worried. For about a month and a half that she was there my mother did not receive any medical treatment she didn't even get a doctor's visit. The sanitary conditions were bad they had very little food these are conditions in which even a young person has great difficulty surviving it not to mention an 84 year old woman who is not healthy. This underscores our concern for the remaining hostages there are old and sick people there heart patients and injured people we demand from the whole world and also from the state of Israel that they do everything to get them as soon as possible. And you could just hear right there that family member giving us a glimpse into the sort of situation that it was all around underscoring the point that again stable and good are not the same thing and highlighting the abuses that these civilians went through in the hands of their tormentors. Alright, I love a woman thanks again for joining us live from the Shiba Hospital in Tel Aviv. Thanks again we're going to continue our live team coverage of the hostage deal we have some news coming in now about an IDF situation that's going on in Jenin. Let me bring in Guy Azrael who is our I-24 News senior editor, Guy. An announcement from the IDF just a short while ago in a joint operation of the Israeli military the Shin Bet and the border police a high level elimination of a senior terrorist in the West Bank in the Jenin refugee camp his name is Muhammad Zbaidi. He was taken down together with two other terror operatives he was involved according to the IDF in a long list of terror activity including executing several shooting attacks himself he's the son of Zacharias Zbaidi a well-known terrorist who is still in Israeli prison he was the head of the Jenin refugee camp from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and that is a part of the ongoing operations of the IDF and the Shin Bet in the West Bank trying to keep that front quiet as much as they can as Israel is obviously heavily involved in the war in Gaza obviously and also the fear of war in the north so far since the start of this war the Israel has arrested 2,000 terrorists terror operatives in the West Bank 1,100 of them belong to Hamas. Guy Azrael Hamas let me go back to Yaakov Amrador and bring him in on this discussion about Jenin this highlights the fact the IDF has multiple situations to deal with many fires put out at the same time I mean we prepared ourselves to this situation and as you know there are huge forces waiting in the north if Hezbollah will make the mistake and open fire there and unlike in the north in which we are waiting to their decision in the West Bank we are very active based on intelligence that we are gathering we are making many operations almost every night and yes we understand that we are facing multi-front challenges the main effort is in the south in the Gaza and but at the same time we are very active in the West Bank and Hezbollah will reopen fire at the beginning of the operation as you know we killed around 100 members of Hezbollah during the operation and that will be continued probably General if I can ask you about the Gaza for just one second you know one of the things that a lot of the people in the I want to call them the red green black coalition this is in America especially but in Europe they complain about civilian casualties they say oh you know why should Israel restart if their civilian casualties and you and I both saw video in October the 7th and it looked like civilians were actually taking part in a lot of the atrocities in October the 7th they were brought back into Gaza City they were spit on the Israeli citizens not only spit on butchered beheaded all of that by civilians not military or what you would think would be military so those who say well you can't restart because you have all of these civilians there I think that it's not a logical argument with respect if they agree that Hamas is a terror organization that should be destroyed the question is can it be done without harming civilians around and the answer is yes it's possible to surrender all some Hamas let all the Palestinians to live the area and they will be they will go evacuate themselves to the safe haven which was designated by Israel civilians not be killed but if Hamas is using them as a human shield what is the alternative to give immunity to the organization which is successfully used its own people to defend itself but I'm not even talking general I'm not even talking about using them as human shields I'm talking about civilians who actually want to take up arms for Hamas I think that's a it's a slightly distinction this is if there are civilians which are taking guns for Hamas and taking part in the raid for example this is easy they are an enemy and speaking about innocent civilians this is the main problem in the Gaza street it's not the civilians which are part of Hamas speaking about civilians which are not part of Hamas innocent but those innocent are used by Hamas as a human shield and if we will take seriously the the argument of this coalition which is the clearly opposition for itself it's left guys very liberal, liberal supposed to be with the Islamic movement which does not have any attitude towards women which is it's very peculiar but leave that alone if we take them seriously we are giving immunity to a teleorganization is it logic it's not logic at all so if there isn't a claim the target or the address is Hamas, Hamas do not use them as human shield they will not be killed and what about those who I mean you heard a lot from the hostages who have been released and they've said a couple of them have said that they were being held by families by in homes they were not necessarily not 100% always put in tunnels and not always there but people held them inside in a home normally what the left I call it again the red-black green coalition would say is that civilian areas so how do you against Hamas how do you fight Hamas in those situations we have a list of those who took place in the raid into Israel including the state so called civilians and we promise them they will be killed one day where we will go after them even if it will take 10 years we will kill them all because those took place in the invasion of Israel and killing the civilians and butchering their babies and women will not be alive within a few years because we will go after them and about families which hosted the hostages it's very much depends on the circumstances I don't know how to answer an easy answer that we will I don't know we will punish them because we have to learn and to investigate the hostages and to investigate the Hamas members that we found and which surrendered to our forces in the Gaza Strip and we will when the picture will be clear those who took part in the raid or were being part of the Hamas system they are supposed to be punished I have one more question for you if I may Sir what do you feel about the hierarchy that has been reportedly set up with the release of the hostages first who were remaining women and children then men who have been aged out of reserves the women soldiers then the IDF reservists and then the IDF soldiers have we put have we put a currency to our hostages yes we prefer to take out the civilians the women and the babies there is kind of of levels and and at the end people in uniform soldiers supposed to defend the civilians and this is why the civilians would go out first and only then the soldiers this is the way that we are educating our people that the army is there to save the civilians and not vice-versa General Yaakov Armador the former chair of the Israeli National Security Council thanks so much for joining us live here on i24 news thanks for your insight as always thank you very much for the opportunity you know after he was captured 12-year-old Eitan was kept alone in a room alone for 16 days he was forced to watch videos hemacelotocides and if you cried they pointed a gun at him other children like 9-year-old Emily and she was ordered not to raise her voice above a whisper some elderly people were kept on the brink of starvation and they were deprived of vital medication these are just some of the horrific horrific details of what the hostages went through at the hands of the terrorists in Gaza we've compiled them and Robert Swift has this as Israeli hostages return home the stories of their days spent in captivity underground or being moved between bombed buildings are filtering out they were kept in houses for a few few days and then they took them to the tunnels Emily Han's father described how his daughter returned from Gaza thin, pale and believing that she had spent a year inside what she refers to as the box shocking disturbing part of meeting was she was just whispering I had to put my ear on her lips like this close and say what did you say some hostages have described being treated without abuse after the initial brutal violence of their capture others have spoken of beatings repeated threats of violence and of children being made to watch footage from the October 7th massacres Etan apparently experienced horrors over there Hamas forced them to watch horrific films maybe I'm naive but I wanted to hope that he was well treated but apparently not they're monsters as the war has run on conditions for captives appear to have deteriorated with the quantity and variety of their food reducing and they haven't eaten well they're thin they're exhausted Hamas has attempted to portray itself well releasing videos smiling and waving captives being handed over to the Red Cross but some of the hostages even under Jures have not played along with their game a long path to recovery awaits those recently returned to their families and to freedom they're not talking too much but they are telling us some details that help us to help them a process that for each of the returned begins with a reunion we're a great great site we don't forget the hostages that remain but we honor the 10 Israeli hostages that were released last night Dica Hyman, Tamar Metzger Nurelin Babadella, Agzho Adasagi, Meraftal Rimon Kirscht, Ophelia Reutman Gabriela Leinberg and her daughter Mia and of course Clara Marmon and this we will end with this I'm Albert Lewitton at I-24 News here in Tel Aviv take a look this is what we're looking for this is an I-24 News special report Israel at war I'm Albert Lewitton at the I-24 News headquarters in Tel Aviv let's bring you up to speed with what you need to know right now number one a source close to Hamas says the group is willing to extend a temporary truce for four more days in exchange for the release of more hostages and also for the release of more Palestinians jailed under terror charges two we are being told that another 12 Israeli hostages will be released tonight 10 Israeli hostages and two Russian Israeli dual nationals reportedly as a thank you to Vladimir Putin the head of Mossad is in Doha Qatar right as we speak meeting with the Qataris and with CIA chief William Burns there's strong pressure on Israel to agree to a permanent using that wording quotes permanent ceasefire in exchange for the release of the remaining 160 being held by Hamas number three there's also a report in the Washington Post that a continued ceasefire would allow for the hostages in this order to be released the remaining civilian women and children first then female soldiers then men no longer of the age to do reserve duty then IDF reservists and then male soldiers and the bodies of those who were killed on October the 7th and afterwards number four Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that any claims that he helped Hamas prior to October the 7th is a now quoting a big ridiculous lie end quote Netanyahu claims he only allowed Qatari money to flow into Gaza to avoid humanitarian catastrophe he went on to tell build we wanted to avoid a civilian humanitarian collapse disease rampant hunger and other things that would have created an impossible humanitarian situation end quote and the number five thing you need to know right now that Israel has tracked down and killed Hamas al-Zabadi the commander of the Janine battalion a terror group that was responsible for the killing of Israeli Mayor Tamari Tamari was killed back in May in a terror shooting near the northern West Bank settlement town of Hamash we have live team coverage of every angle on this I'm joining in studio right now by Colonel Dr. Jacques Nariah the former deputy head of assessment of Israeli military intelligence he's also the foreign former foreign policy advisor to Prime Minister Yitzle Jacques the the idea of an extension a continued extension and another extension after that and a continued extension after that there's some who are saying the Israeli government is wimping out well I don't know if we live in the Middle East we are not talking Middle East language we are talking European I don't know what sort of language with our enemies we should speak Arabic and this is not the good this is not the way that we should behave or conduct ourselves facing Hamas by the situation if it freezes as it is today in fact I could very much say that we have lost the war the mission the objective of eradicating Hamas will not be attained on the country there'll be a sort of of imposing Hamas on Israel as the partner and then we see that in the part that Israel has has has gone inside the northern part of Gaza what should we do if there's a ceasefire we should be there for years for months for what what is the the logic behind this but what you just said the fact that if this continues on we have lost the war that's very strong that's a very strong word Israelis don't lose wars well there you know the it will be another round instead of being a war that would eradicate Hamas it'll be another round and a few rounds that we had in the last in those last years and this was not the the goal of this of this campaign this campaign began with the murder with the massacre of 1400 Israelis and the and this is and this and we are paying today the price of that of a government that did not care about those Israelis and did not take the necessary measures the government the army the the intelligence everybody here is responsible and this is the price we are paying so instead of killing the one who came to kill you like I mean like the Bible says I mean we are just now negotiating we have just turned all the priorities we had the priority well eradicate Hamas and liberate the the hostages and now it's the other way around the other way around so if it's the other way around you cannot move just add to that obviously the US did not lose the second world war because of Pearl Harbor however if Israel at the end of this war allows Hamas to continue to operate both militarily and in terms of governance over the Gaza Strip obviously this is something that would not be accepted I don't think that the Israeli government would have a right if that would be the case I don't think that the state of Israel as a whole will have a right to exist if it allows this threat to continue to grow on its borders the residents of the southern communities will not agree to go back to their homes will not settle for anything less than eliminating Hamas completely and if we believe the government then the government secretary is saying today every report about a hostage release deal that leads to an extended ceasefire or to the secession of the war is fake news we can believe that or not I can say something else we are right now the mockery of the Arab world the Arab world is looking at us and just laughing this is the the strongest army in the Middle East look what's happening and the the implications of this state are enormous for Israel's existence because Hezbollah is looking at what's happening and if we are stuck in Gaza we will be definitely stuck in Lebanon we cannot advance in Lebanon and the whole Arab world will say what sort of tiger is this why is that happening because somebody is holding the army somebody is holding the army and telling the army just stay put don't move and this one is also counseled by somebody beyond the ocean who comes here in order to dictate us the ceasefire having said that the release of those women and children is something that Israel wanted to do and the price to pay for now a ratio of 1 to 3 hostages for Palestinian prisoners women and children who committed acts of terror is something that Israel can't tolerate as well as these days of the pause in the war if we go for something more extended obviously that is a whole different story Guy and Jacques hold on one second because around 10 hostages are being treated in the Tel Aviv area hospitals one of them Shiba is the other one we are going live now for our team coverage Zach Andrews he is at Shiba right now for an update Zach what is going on with the ones who are there now well we are still hearing that their conditions are relatively good considering the situation that they have managed to find themselves in or find themselves out of the 10 additional that were released yesterday as far as we have been able to tell are still receiving with their families and that is a process that will repeat itself again tonight as that journey as long as they are able to get out of Southern Gaza and through the Rafa crossing they will head this direction the 10 additional that will be released which we are hearing several of them could be teenagers on the list but that has yet to be confirmed of course this is a more of a delicate dance as they continue to delay some of these lists that were released and the names exactly who will be out of Gaza great Zach Andrews joining us now at Shiba hospital with this update thanks so much we'll check in with you later during the day let me go back in studio now with Jack and Maria and also with Guy Israel as well I just with Jack let me start with you first because we were talking momentarily we we grew up here in the Middle East I grew up in the Middle East family when somebody kicks us you not only kick them you hit them harder so and that was always that instruction right that was the instruction that Netanyahu said in the beginning if someone hits us we hit harder back and it seems as though it's sort of like well we're afraid of whatever everyone in the world is going to say yeah we're afraid that instead of behaving like Middle Eastern people we are behaving like Europeans so I don't know what I mean but the fact is right now that we are in a position we were on the verge of collapsing of collapsing Hamas Hamas was quite I mean quite the senor is quite an intelligent guy he understood that he had the hostages in his hand and he could play in order to reach a ceasefire and he did and he succeeded and now he knew that the game was I mean it's because the public pressure is mounting in Israel for releasing the hostages so he can use this card against and getting more and more at the beginning we said that he needed four days in order to reorganize now he needed he needs more in order to price as much now much more Guy there is part of this deal it seems to be like a ratio for every 10 Israeli hostages it's 30 Palestinian prisoners who are released and then they go back into Palestinian society they go back to places like Genine and today with the IDF in Genine talk to a little bit about why the West Bank still remains high on the agenda before we get into that there's reports that among the Palestinian prisoners that will be released today there will also be several Israeli Arab women who are convicted of terror that will be released as part of this deal why is that important that the fact that they're Israeli Arab because Hamas is striving to be the sole representative of the Palestinian people and if he is the one that releases the Palestinian Arab Israelis and the Palestinians the West Bank and the Palestinians all over then he is the one and not the not the Palestinian Authority this is the so-called partner we don't have a partner but this is the enemy and the enemy who wants to annihilate us he hasn't changed his ideas concerning Israel and it's a dangerous connection between Hamas and its responsibility for Israeli citizens be them involved in terror activity or not that Hamas has the leverage to do so now as for Jinnin, a high level elimination of a terror operative of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Jinnin refugee camp we're talking about Mohammed Zabedi the son of the Kharia Zabedi a well known Palestinian terrorist who is still in Israeli prison he was involved in a long list of terrorist activity including several shooting attacks that he executed himself he was eliminated today in a shared activity of the IDF together with the Shin Bet and the Israeli border police the Israeli activity in the West Bank continues for already since the start of this war Israel has arrested 2,000 terror operatives in the West Bank 1,100 of them are Hamas operatives and the latest polls in the West Bank show that Hamas has at least 80% of the of the poll in his favor so that the Palestinian Authority does not exist in fact the people, the Palestinian people are waving very high the standards of Hamas and you see in the videos that are released every night if you hold on one second Jack and Guy we're going to continue our live team coverage of the release deal Nicole Zedek is I-24 news correspondent from the Dead Sea Nicole thanks let me come to you about something that's very interesting about a quarter million Israelis have been displaced that many of them are here in Tel Aviv I see them they go into hotels they've been living in hotels now for seven weeks you're in one of the areas near the Dead Sea that a lot of those residents have been moved to talk a little bit about where you are and why you're there exactly we are at the David hotel here in the Dead Sea and this is where residents of Kibbutz Ferry have been evacuated to they've been here for more than 50 days some of them at this point so when we're talking about we're nearly eight weeks into this war we have to think about these people who not only have been evacuated from their homes they've been staying here with many of their other community members all of this while also waiting for hopefully the return of some of their community members Kibbutz Ferry it's thought that maybe more than two dozen community members were kidnapped held captive in Gaza now they have already been able to welcome home more than 12 community members over the past five days but still so many of them are their health is unknown they're still captive in Gaza and so when we speak about these people here especially those hostages those ones from not only Kibbutz Ferry but all of these southern communities as they are welcome back to Israel they don't have a home to come here we see these residents these communities that are living in hotels where they have been for more than 50 days now so not only dealing with the devastation the unknown not knowing if or when some of their community members might be returned but also just completely uprooted from their lives so it's so many emotions that they're feeling or speaking to many of these residents and especially over these past five days we're hearing that here in the hotel they've often gathering around TVs watching the release of these hostages waiting to see if it is some of their community members if it is anyone from Kibbutz Ferry or any of the other nearby southern towns that maybe they knew maybe their family members knew so they are all coming together right now but I have to tell you Albert for the past seven weeks nearly eight weeks now they say it has been an incredibly difficult time however at the same time seeing how different people like David and as you mentioned others in Tel Aviv and really all the country have truly opened their doors and welcome them in with open arms that has been a small glimmer of bright light during this very dark time for them Great Nicole Setic joining us live now from the area of the Dead Sea with the residents from the Oteth who are now there thanks so much for joining us I'm going to go back Jack you saw the video that we were running underneath Nicole and you saw that when they released the messages and then they released the Palestinian prisoners back into the West Bank civilians? I asked myself is this real? You can see the joyous events, festivities and wait and see when the ceasefire will be announced you will see all those crowds just waving high very high all the standards of Hamas in fact saluting Hamas and they will forget all the bombings everything will be forgotten they will be throwing flowers and sweets among them because unlike President Biden I say very much that Hamas and the people of Gaza are one they are not they are separate Hamas the people of Gaza have voted for Hamas in a democratic way and last I checked on October the 7th when I watched all those videos you can't watch the videos of the Israeli hostages after they were captured being brought through Gaza City being spit on by not military people Even the convoy of the Red Cross was thrown at stones they were just stoned all the way until they got to Israeli territory I will go beyond that it's not just Gaza as we mentioned the recent surveys show the immense support for Hamas also in the West Bank and it brings about the next question about whether the Palestinian Authority should be the body that rules the Gaza Strip at the end of this war obviously there's many problems with that with the fact that the Palestinian Authority first of all has no control over what's going on there Israel is the only reason why the Fatah movement the PA is still in power because Israel every night to arrest these Hamas terrorists that are just growing in power as well as Palestinian Islamic Jihad it is the same Palestinian Authority that continues to incite against Israel and also pay salaries to terrorists on a regular basis so the debate there is much greater than just the separation between Hamas and Palestinians in Gaza it is Hamas and the Palestinians in general as the most popular movement on the streets but then that begs the question if not them then who I have an answer the answer is that why are we stuck like we are today because we don't have an exit strategy because we don't want what we don't know what we want at the end of the campaign this is why we are hesitating all the time and this is why we don't hear a clear cut solution what is expected to become of Gaza after the Islamic finishes the job but you would think that many years of planning that you would be able to do that right it's not as though they didn't think this plan up like last week Albert there were no plans were given to the army to eradicate Hamas during those last 10 years it was only in exchange of rounds we just hit here and hit there but there was no clear cut the definition of what to do against Hamas you don't think anyone in the carryout had plans here's the book in the event here's what we do this was discussed today in the interview it was really Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Politico he said he transferred the money to Hamas in Gaza in order to prevent a humanitarian crisis there well we heard just a short while ago from Avigdor Lieberman a strong opposition to Netanyahu saying to him you're lying everything you wanted is to buy quiet you were afraid of war and you chose shame at the end you received both shame and war and you have resulted in the greatest humanitarian crisis in the history of the state of Israel so explain why that's important for those outside of Israel who may not understand the internal politics of Avigdor Lieberman I would add to that that Netanyahu is of course the the man in charge for this policy and having said that that was supported by the senior officials in the IDF who have pushed for this policy as well who have pushed for bringing in more Palestinians into Israel every day as workers with the concept that the economic peace is going to is going to prevail here that Hamas has an interest in the well-being of the people of Gaza what we saw on October 7th that that is the complete opposite of reality if Hamas cared at all about the well-being of the people of Gaza he would not go ahead with this murderous onslaught that Hamas knew very well will cause extreme devastation to the people of Gaza to the entire Gaza Strip Hamas does not care about its people and the concept that that you could negotiate a better conditions for the people of Gaza with Hamas well that failed miserably and the responsibility lays both on the Prime Minister but on the entire security establishment that bought that concept we failed to understand Hamas Hamas is the Muslim Brotherhood the Muslim Brotherhood tried to topple the regime in Egypt in 2011 they did they saw havoc in Syria since the 2011 and then before that in 1982 they tried to topple the King Hussein they are present all over the this is the ideology of Hamas failed to know or failed to understand there's a difference not failed to know, failed to understand what is the ideology of Hamas Hamas is the embodiment of the Muslim Brotherhood this is what it is one of the things that were brought up in fact giving all the money the Qatari money that was supposed to go to the Palestinians in Gaza was not any NGO a monitoring group could tell you that a lot of the NGOs that were there have their own ties to Hamas so it's not as you and I have seen this report on this it goes back to the fact that nothing operates in Gaza without the approval or even the appointment of Hamas for whoever is entitled to work for any of these NGOs in Gaza everything goes through Hamas Gaza is a dictatorship ruled by Hamas for the good part of the past 15 years or so and that is the reality but it almost plays into the convoluted logic that you see online especially about the American west the western liberals who basically are saying Israel help Hamas why are they worried now why are they concerned now and it's the convoluted idea Israel always wanted to find a solution that will be good for its people and also for the people of Gaza the idea and the disengagement in 2005 was to ensure a better future for the people of Gaza when Prime Minister at the time the late Ariel Sharon disengaged from Gaza he took out thousands of Israeli settlers out of their homes in hope for a better future for those people in hope that they would want to make Gaza what they said would be the next Singapore in the Middle East what the people of Gaza eventually elected was Hamas who then invested billions that were sent to Gaza from all sorts of international communities, organizations etc used almost all of it for its terror infrastructure and into the devastation that we're seeing today so a lot of people also need to think about the money that they've given Gaza without checking where it goes to all it went to everything else that we're seeing the arming of Hamas throughout so many years in case you're just joining us here on I-24 News I should let you know that right about this time at about four o'clock is when we usually find out how many hostages are going to be released and in what process they'll be going from what we are told the Israeli government actually has a list of 10 hostages that are being released or 12 hostages are being released 10 Israelis and two others I want to go back to Jack Naria for one second about this discussion about the foreign idea and here's what I want to get at the idea that the Israeli government speaking in a western terminology now as opposed to an eastern terminology or a Middle Eastern terminology is it because the fear at one point that we want to make peace with everyone in the region so if we have to do what we have to do we have to do it there's a lot of factors involved here one is definitely Israeli mentality Israeli behavior we are we excel in vanity we excel in vanity we think that the other side is idiotic and imbecile he doesn't know how to behave he doesn't know how to organize and we just belittle him all the time so and then this comes as it is translated in this sentence they are deterred and when you try to convince those who say that Hamas is deterred or Hezbollah is deterred they can't understand you we say no we are stronger we have a stronger army certainly they are there now the issue is finally is one sentence we thought the government all the governments since 2017 now thought that we could live or coexist by the beast and we could feed the beast and the beast would become we've been receiving rockets from Hamas we've been having kidnappings inside Israel in the West Bank and this is the price we have in order to calm down the impetus of Hamas this is what we have to do so just feed them with more let them fish more fish in the sea let them have more daily workers in Israel let us receive cash money from Qatar this is the way it is just one second go ahead guys going back to the prospect of a wider deal whether a senior Israeli official is giving a briefing to journalists a short while ago saying there was never such an offer of releasing all the hostages in exchange for all the Palestinian prisoners instead what Hamas wants is the stopping of the war and he says that will not happen period I want to now bring our viewers there's a report coming in right now at a CNN that apparently the Red Cross has not yet received any details as to the remaining hostages that are in Gaza you'll remember that they were supposed to as part of the truce agreement they were supposed to have an information on the hostages by Tuesday the close of business Tuesday and I'm checking on my clock and it does say it's Wednesday and it's also 4 o'clock in the afternoon so what happened to that information we'll never know they haven't been able to get access to any of the hostages that's against the truce agreement again that's also problematic because if you remember this is something we have here been trying to push hard on I-24 news as part of the Geneva conventions the Red Cross is supposed to have access to hostages that are being held in conflict zones and as we spoke about the wider agreement having said that just yesterday we knew there was an agreement in principle in the extension of this smaller deal of releasing hostages 10 a day in a ratio of 1 to 3 Qatar is saying that there is an option of declaring an extension in the coming hours we're going to come back right after the break you're watching I-24 news I'm Albert Lewitson thanks for joining us Israel is in a state of war families completely done down in their beds we have no idea where is she as our soldiers fighting on the front lines but the general perception is something that certainly needs to be fought as well I-24 news only in I-24 news I-24 news special report Israel at war I'm Albert Lewitson at the I-24 news headquarters in Tel Aviv let's bring you up to speed with what you need to know right now number one a source close to Hamas says the group is willing to extend a temporary truce for four more days in exchange for the release of more hostages and also for the release of more Palestinians jailed under terror charges two we are being told that another 12 Israeli hostages will be released tonight 10 Israeli hostages and two Russian Israeli dual nationals reportedly as a thank you to Vladimir Putin the head of Mossad is Doha Qatar right as we speak meeting with Qataris and with CIA chief William Burns there's strong pressure on Israel to agree to a permanent using that word in quotes permanent ceasefire in exchange for the release of the remaining 160 being held by Hamas number three there's also a report in the Washington Post that a continued ceasefire will allow for the hostages in this order to be released the remaining civilian women and children first then female soldiers then men no longer of the age to do reserve duty then IDF reservists and then male soldiers and the bodies of those who were killed on October the 7th and afterwards number four Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an interview with the German magazine build says that any claims that he helped prior to October the 7th is now quoting a big ridiculous lie end quote Netanyahu claims he only allowed Qatari money to flow into Gaza to avoid humanitarian catastrophe he went on to tell build we wanted to avoid a civilian humanitarian collapse disease rapid hunger and other things that would have created an impossible humanitarian situation end quote and the number five thing you need to know right now that Israel has tracked down and killed Muhammad Zabadi the commander of the terror group that was responsible for the killing of Israeli mayor Tamari Tamari was killed back in May in a terror shooting near the northern West Bank settlement town of Hermesh we have live team coverage of every angle on this I'm joined in studio right now by Colonel Dr. Jacques Nariah the former deputy head of assessment of Israeli military intelligence he's also the foreign former foreign policy advisor to Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin and with Guy Azrael or I-24 the idea of an extension a continued extension and another extension after that and a continued extension after that there's some who are saying there's the Israeli government's wimping out well I don't know if we live in the Middle East we are not talking Middle East language we are talking European I don't know what sort of language with our enemies we should speak Arabic and this is not the good this is not the way that we should behave or conduct ourselves facing Hamas if it freezes as it is today in fact I could very much say that we have lost the war the mission the objective of eradicating Hamas will not be attained on the contrary there will be a sort of imposing Hamas on Israel as the partner and then we see that in the part that Israel has has gone inside the northern part of Gaza what should we do if there's a ceasefire we should be there for years for months for what what is the logic behind this what you just said the fact that if this continues on we have lost the war that's very strong that's a very strong word Israelis don't lose wars it will be another round instead of being a war that would eradicate Hamas it will be another round and a few rounds that we had in the last in those last years and this was not the goal of this campaign this campaign began with the murder with the massacre of 1,400 Israelis and this and we are paying today the price of that of a government that did not care about those Israelis and did not take the necessary measures the government, the army everybody here is responsible and this is the price we are paying so instead of killing the one who came to kill you like the bible says I mean we are just now negotiating we have just turned all the priorities we had the priority to eradicate Hamas and liberate the hostages and now it's the other way around the other way around so if it's the other way around I will just add to that obviously the US did not lose the second world war because of Pearl Harbor however if Israel at the end of this war allows Hamas to continue to operate both militarily and in terms of governance over the Gaza Strip obviously this is something that would not be accepted I don't think that the Israeli government would have a right to exist if that would be the case the whole would have a right to exist if it allows this threat to continue to grow on its borders the residents of the southern communities will not agree to go back to their homes will not settle for anything less than eliminating Hamas completely and if we believe the government then the government secretary is saying today every report about a hostage release deal that leads to an extended ceasefire or to the recession of the war is fake news we can believe that or not we are right now the mockery of the Arab world the Arab world is looking at us and just laughing this is the strongest army in the Middle East look what's happening and the implications of this state are enormous for Israel's existence because Hezbollah is looking at what's happening and if we are stuck in Gaza we will be definitely stuck in Lebanon we cannot advance in Lebanon and the whole Arab world will say what sort of tiger is this why is that happening because somebody is holding the army somebody is holding the army and telling the army just stay put don't move and this one is also is counseled by somebody beyond the ocean who comes here in order to dictate us the ceasefire having said that the release of those women and children that Israel wanted to do and the price to pay for now a ratio of 1 to 3 hostages for Palestinian prisoners women and children who committed acts of terror is something that Israel can tolerate as well as these days of the pause in the war if we go for something more extended obviously that is a whole different story Guy and Jacques hold on one second because around 10 hostages are being treated right now at two large Tel Aviv area hospitals the other one we are going to go live now for our team coverage to Zach Anders for an update Zach what is going on with the ones who are there now we are still hearing that their conditions are relatively good considering the situation that they have managed to find themselves in or find themselves out of the 10 additional that were released yesterday as far as we have been able to tell are still receiving treatment after meeting with their families and that is a process that will repeat itself again tonight as that journey as long as they are able to get out of southern Gaza and through the Rafa crossing they will head this direction the 10 additional that will be released which we are hearing several of them could be teenagers on the list but that has yet to be confirmed of course this is more of a delicate dance as they continue to delay some of these lists that are released and the names exactly who will be out of the Gaza great Zach Anders joining us now at Chiba Hospital with us update thanks so much we will check in with you later during the day let me go back in studio now with Jack and Maria and also with Guy Azrael as well Jack let me start with you first because we were talking momentarily we grew up here in the Middle East I grew up in the Middle East family when somebody kicks us you not only kick them you hit them harder and that was always that instruction that was the instruction that Netanyahu said we hit harder back and it seems as though it's sort of like well we're afraid of what everyone in the world is going to say we're afraid that instead of behaving like Middle Eastern people we are behaving like Europeans I don't know what the fact is right now that we are in a position we were on the verge of collapsing of collapsing Hamas Hamas was quite quite the intelligent guy he understood that he had the hostages in his hand and he could play in order to reach a ceasefire and he succeeded and now he knew that the game was because the public pressure is mounting in Israel for releasing the hostages so he can use this card against and getting more and more at the beginning we said that he needed four days in order to reorganize now he needs more much more Guy there is part of this deal it seems to be like a ratio for every 10 Israeli hostages it's 30 Palestinian prisoners who are released and then they go back into Palestinian society they go back to places like Genine with the IDF in Genine talk to us a little bit about why the West Bank still remains high on the agenda Before we get into that there's reports that among the Palestinian prisoners that will be released today there will also be several Israeli Arab women who are convicted of terror that will be released as part of this deal Why is that important? The fact that there is really Arab? Because Hamas is striving to be the sole representative of the Palestinian people and if he is the one that releases the Palestinian women Arab Israelis and the Palestinians the West Bank and the Palestinians all over then he is the one and not the the Palestinian Authority this is the so called partner we don't have a partner but this is the enemy and the enemy who wants to annihilate us and he hasn't changed his ideas concerning Israel And it's a dangerous connection between Hamas and its responsibility for Israeli citizens be them involved in terror activity or not that Hamas has the leverage now as for Jinnin high level elimination of a terror operative of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Jinnin refugee camp we're talking about Mohammed Zabedi son of the Kharia Zabedi a well known Palestinian terrorist who is still in Israeli prison he was involved in a long list of terrorist activity including several shooting attacks he was executed himself he was eliminated today in a shared activity of the IDF together with the Shin Bet and the Israeli border police the Israeli activity in the West Bank continues for already since the start of this war Israel has arrested 2,000 terror operatives in the West Bank 1,100 of them are Hamas operatives and the latest polls in the West Bank show that Hamas has at least 80% of the poll in his favor so the Palestinian authorities does not exist in fact the people the Palestinian people are waving very high the standards of Hamas and you see it in the videos that are released every night if you hold on one second Jack and Guy we're going to continue our live team coverage of the release deal Nicole Zedek is the I-24 news correspondent she's joining us from the Dead Sea Nicole thanks let me come to you about it's very interesting about a quarter million Israelis have been displaced that many of them are here in Tel Aviv I see them they go into hotels they've been living in hotels now for seven weeks you're in one of the areas near the Dead Sea that a lot of those residents have been moved to talk a little bit about where you are and why you're there exactly we are at the David hotel here in the Dead Sea and this is where residents of Kublaz Ferry have been evacuated to they've been here for more than 50 days some of them at this point so when we're talking about we're nearly eight weeks into this war we have to think about these people who not only have been evacuated from their homes they've been staying here with many of their other community members all of this while also waiting for hopefully the return of some of their community members Kublaz Ferry it's thought that maybe more than two dozen of their community members were kidnapped held captive in Gaza have already been able to welcome home more than 12 community members over the past five days but still so many of them are their health is unknown they're still captive in Gaza so when we speak about these people here especially those hostages those ones from not only Kublaz Ferry but all of these southern communities as they are welcomed back to Israel they don't have a home to come back to we see these residents these communities that are living in hotels where they have been for more than 50 days now so not only dealing with the devastation the unknown not knowing if or when some of their community members might be returned but also just just completely uprooted from their lives so it's so many emotions that were their feeling when we're speaking to many of these residents and especially over these past five days we're hearing that here in the hotel they've all been gathering around these families watching the release of these hostages waiting to see if it is some of their community members if it is anyone from Kublaz Ferry or any of the other nearby southern towns that maybe they knew maybe their family members knew so they are all coming together right now but I have to tell you Albert for the past seven weeks nearly eight weeks now they say it has been an incredibly difficult time however at the same time seeing how different hotels like David and as you mentioned others in Tel Aviv and they have truly opened their doors and welcome them in with open arms that has been a small glimmer of bright light during this very dark time for them. Great Nicole Setic joining us live now from the area of the Dead Sea with the residents from the Otef who are now there thanks so much for joining us I'm going to go back Jack you saw the video that we were running underneath Nicole and you saw that when they released the hostages and then they released the Palestinian prisoners back into the West Bank civilians I asked myself is this real you can see the joyous events festivities and wait and see wait and see when the ceasefire will be announced you will see all those crowds just waving high very high all the the standards of Hamas and in fact saluting Hamas and they will forget all the bombings everything will be forgotten they will be throwing flowers and sweets because unlike President Biden I say very much that Hamas and the people of Gaza are one they are not they are separate Hamas the people of Gaza have voted for Hamas in a democratic way and last I checked on October the 7th when I watched those videos you can't unwatch the videos of the Israeli hostages after they were captured being brought through Gaza City being spit on by not military people even the convoy of the Red Cross was thrown at stones they were just stoned all the way all the way to they got to Israeli territory I will go beyond that it's not just Gaza as we mentioned the recent surveys show the immense support for Hamas also in the West Bank and it brings about the next question about whether the Palestinian Authority should be the body that rules the Gaza Strip at the end of this war obviously there's many problems with that with the fact that the Palestinian Authority first of all has no control over what's going on there Israel is the only reason why the Fatah movement the PA is still in power because Israel operates every night to arrest these Hamas terrorists just growing in power as well as Palestinian Islamic Jihad it is the same Palestinian Authority that continues to incite against Israel and also pay salaries to terrorists on a regular basis so the debate there is much greater than just the separation between Hamas and Palestinians in Gaza it is Hamas and the Palestinians in general as the most popular movement on the street in Gaza is the question if not them then who? I have an answer. The answer is that why are we stuck like we are today because we don't have an exit strategy because we don't want what we don't know what we want at the end of the campaign this is why we are hesitating all the time and this is why we don't hear a clear cut solution what is expected to become of Gaza after planning that you be able to do that right it is not as though it is not they didn't think this plan up like last week Albert there were no plans were given to the army to eradicate Hamas during those last 10 years it was only in exchange of rounds we just hit here and hit there but there was no clear cut the definition of what to do against Hamas. You don't think anyone in the carryout had plans here is a book here is what we do. This was discussed today in the interview with the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Politico where he said he transferred the money to Hamas in Gaza in order to prevent a humanitarian crisis there well we heard just a short while ago from Avigdor Lieberman a strong opposition to Netanyahu saying to him you are lying everything you wanted is to buy quiet you were afraid of war and you chose shame at the end and you have resulted in the greatest humanitarian crisis in the history of the state of Israel. So explain why that's important for those outside of Israel who may not understand the internal politics of Avigdor Lieberman. I would add to that that Netanyahu is of course the man in charge for this policy and having said that that was supported by the senior officials in the IDF who have pushed for this policy as well who have pushed for bringing in more Palestinians into Israel every day as workers with the concept that economic peace is going to prevail here that Hamas has an interest in the well-being of the people of Gaza what we saw on October 7th that that is the complete opposite of reality if Hamas cared at all about the well-being of the people of Gaza go ahead with this murderous onslaught that Hamas knew very well will cause extreme devastation to the people of Gaza to the entire Gaza Strip Hamas does not care about its people and the concept that you could negotiate a better conditions for the people of Gaza with Hamas well that failed miserably and the responsibility lays both on the prime minister but on the entire security establishment that bought that concept we failed to understand Hamas Hamas is the Muslim brotherhood the Muslim brotherhood tried to topple the regime in Egypt in 2011 they did they saw havoc in Syria since the 2011 and then before that in 1982 they tried to topple the king Hussein they are present all over there this is the ideology of Hamas failed to know or failed to understand failed to understand not failed to know, failed to understand what is the ideology of Hamas Hamas is the embodiment of the Muslim brotherhood this is what it is one of the things that were brought up in fact giving all the money the Qatari money that was supposed to go to the Palestinians in Gaza was not any NGO monitoring group could tell you that a lot of the NGOs recognize Hamas so it's not as you and I have seen this we've reported on this it goes back to the fact that nothing operates in Gaza without the approval or even the appointment of Hamas for whoever is entitled to work for any of these NGOs in Gaza everything goes through Hamas Gaza is a dictatorship ruled by Hamas for the good part of the past 15 years or so and that is the reality but it almost plays into the convoluted logic that you see online especially about the American west the western liberals who basically are saying oh well Israel help Hamas why are they worried now why are they concerned now and it's the convoluted idea Israel always wanted to find a solution that will be good for its people but also for the people of Gaza the idea that disengagement in 2005 was to ensure a better future for the people of Gaza when Prime Minister at the time the late Ariel Sharon disengaged from Gaza he took out thousands of Israeli settlers out of their homes in hope for a better future for those people in hope that they would want to make Gaza well what they said would be the next Singapore of the Middle East what the people of Gaza eventually elected was Hamas who then invested billions that were sent to Gaza from all sorts of international communities, organizations etc used almost all of it for its terror infrastructure and into the devastation that we're seeing today so a lot of people also need to think about the money that they've given Gaza without checking where it goes to all it went to was to the tunnels and to the rockets and everything else that we're seeing the determining of Hamas throughout so many years in case you're just joining us here on I-24 News I should let you know that right about this time at about four o'clock is when we usually find out how many hostages are going to be released and in what process they'll be going from what we are told the Israeli government actually has a list of 10 hostages that are being released or 12 hostages are being released 10 Israelis and two others I want to go back to Jack Naria for one second about this discussion about the foreign idea that the idea that the Israeli government speaking in a western terminology now as opposed to an eastern or middle eastern terminology is it because the fear at one point that we want to make peace with everyone in the region so if we have to do what we have to do we have to do it there's a lot of factors involved here one is definitely Israeli mentality we are we excel in vanity we think that the other side is idiotic and imbecile, he doesn't know how to behave he doesn't know how to organize and we just belittle him all the time so and then this comes as it is translated in this sentence they are deterred and when you try to convince those who say that Hamas is deterred or Hezbollah is deterred they can't understand you we are stronger, we have a stronger army certainly they are there the issue is one sentence we thought the government all the governments since 2017 now thought that we could live or coexist by the beast and we could feed the beast and for 17 years we've been receiving rockets from Hamas we've been having kidnappings inside Israel in the West Bank and this is the price we have in order to calm down the impetus of Hamas this is what we have to do so just feed them with more let them fish more fish in the sea, let them have more daily workers in Israel, let us receive cash money from Qatar this is the way it is just one second, go ahead guys to the prospect of a wider deal whether a senior Israeli official is giving a briefing to journalists a short while ago saying there was never such an offer of releasing all the hostages in exchange for all the Palestinian prisoners instead what Hamas wants is the stopping of the war and he says that will not happen period I want to now bring our viewers there's a report coming in right now at a CNN that apparently the Red Cross has not yet received any details as to the remaining hostages in Gaza you'll remember that they were as part of the truce agreement they were supposed to have information on the hostages by Tuesday, close of business Tuesday and I'm checking on my clock and it does say it's Wednesday and it's also four o'clock in the afternoon so what happened to that information we'll never know they haven't been able to get access to any of the hostages that's against the truce agreement again that's also problematic because if you remember this is something we have here been trying to push hard on I-24 news as part of the Geneva conventions the Red Cross is supposed to have access to hostages that are being held in conflict zones and as we spoke about the wider agreement having said that just yesterday we knew