 Esta semana en News 24, Israel bajo ataque. News 24 en español trae el análisis y la información de los acontecimientos de la guerra, espadas de hierro. Entrevistas exclusivas, reportes desde la zona de guerra, la reacción de los países hispanoparlantes. News 24, el único medio en español que te mantiene informado y conectado con la comunidad latina en Israel. News 24, únicamente en I-24 News. I-24 News es el coverage de Israel en la guerra. Soy Ariel Levin-Waldman. Atenso, Cisfire está still holding between Israel y the Hamas terror organization. But for how long? Hamas has already violated the terms of a Qatari immediate deal to free hostages. The release of 13 more of Israel's kidnapped women and children was delayed yesterday for agonizing hours past the 4 p.m. deadline. Last night after Hamas refused to relinquish the people they had promised. Eventually, 13 hostages were released, though some were swapped from the list. This has raised questions as to their fates, particularly in light of the terror group, refusing access to the international Red Cross to determine the condition of the hostages. One of the conditions that was not met by the terror organization was to not separate children from their mothers. Among the released hostages overnight was Hila Rotem, who was indeed released without her mother Raya. Other hostages who returned home include Sharon Avigdori, her 12-year-old daughter Nayul. And more members of that family released include Shoshan Haran, her daughter Adi, Shoshan, and Adi's two young children, including the three-year-old Yael and her brother Nava, who's eight years old. Their father Tal, though, is still left behind in captivity. Noam and Alma Orr were also released without their father Jor. Maya Rega released without her brother Itai. Maya was amongst those wounded and kidnapped from the Nova Music Festival. And is currently being treated in an Israeli hospital. You can see right here as well the emotional moment. The Emily Hand, a nine-year-old Irish Israeli girl, was reunited with her father who had thought she had died and only learned afterwards that she was kidnapped. Israeli medical professionals say that 12 of the 13 hostages released are in good condition. We turn now to our senior diplomatic correspondent, Owen Alterman, who was standing by the Shiba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel, where hostages have been taken for a medical evaluation. Owen, what does good condition mean? What are these hostages going through as far as their medical checkups are required? Well, listen, Ariel, according to the hospital staff here, they certainly have the marks, whether physical or mental, of having been in captivity for seven weeks, but that it is said that all things considered, they're in good condition. Still are hospitalized here at the Shiba Medical Center. 12 of the 13 Israeli hostages who were released. They are here. The medical staff here has said until they no longer need to be here or no longer feel they need to be here. The hostages are far away from the public. The media does not have access to them, as you can well imagine. Family members starting to come out, at least in one case, and be interviewed by the media and have spoken to us as well. Talking about the emotions that they have gone through in terms of having their family members be freed by Hamas, even with all of the difficulties over those very, very tense hours yesterday, the happiness on one hand at having those family members released. But of course, the continuing tension and the continuing sense of anticipation about those who may be yet to be released over the next few days and those many hostages who sadly will stay in captivity. It's definitely a challenge because it's not just the families that are released. As you mentioned, all their men are still being held in captivity. Have we had statements from the families about this? Well, listen, Arielle, look, as I mentioned, we spoke with a family member. We can get to that soundbite if we have it. I'll let you lead to it. But in any event, you're right, that in many cases, the daughters have been released with their mothers, or in some cases not, as you mentioned at the top of the broadcast. But in any event, the men are being left behind. The men are being left behind because they're not part of this arrangement which is focused on children and on women. And we do have that soundbite that you just mentioned. So I'm going to ask the producers to roll that for us right now. Thank you very much, Owen. I think my smile is speaking better than me. They're better than my English. It was, we all could felt our heart bombing and, you know, it was unbelievable. It was unbelievable that that's what was the situation. Okay, it was unbelievable. We were so thrilled, we were so emotional. We were so waiting for them for so many days and so many hours and the clock was ticking and ticking and not moving. And, you know, it was complicated yesterday, but it finally happened. Well, thank you very much, Owen, for bringing us those details. Now, this is all following an hours-long nerve-wracking delay, those 13 hostages that were helped captive by Hamas for 50 days, finally returned to Israel late last night. But two days of hostages releases and two days that didn't happen according to plan. Now Israeli officials warn that today's waiver releases is also in jeopardy. Middle East correspondent Ariel Ossaran has more. Until the last moment, it almost didn't happen. 13 Israelis, 8 children, 4 mothers, and a young woman, along with 4 Thai nationals, were released by Hamas and delivered to the Red Cross Saturday night, the second stage of a hostage deal between Israel and Hamas. The last-minute delay caused by Hamas threatened to derail the entire agreement. The occupation has not, until this moment, fully complied with the terms and standards of the ceasefire agreement, whether concerning security breaches and firing at our people, the number of aid trucks to reach northern Gaza, or manipulating the names and criteria for the release of our prisoners. This puts the agreement at risk. But in fact, no less than 200 aid trucks entered Gaza on Saturday. At least 50 of them reached northern Gaza, a claim confirmed by the Palestinian Red Crescent. Israel said it was Hamas who didn't keep its end of the deal by splitting up families of hostages. 12-year-old Hilarotem was released without her mother, Raya. While 21-year-old Mayra gives brother, Itai, who is 18 years old, remains in captivity. Hamas reportedly claimed it couldn't locate the two and offered to release two elderly hostages instead of Raya and Itai. Israel refused. We stopped the fighting in order to execute the deal. We need to make sure that the agreement is implemented. If it is not, we will resume the fighting. After Qatar received most of the praise for the first wave of release the day before, Egypt wanted to highlight its role as mediator too. And having full control over the broadcast of the release doesn't hurt. The swift and last-minute efforts by Egyptian mediators are what brought the successful resolution of the crisis. Two days of hostage releases and in both, it didn't happen according to plan. Israeli officials warn of additional delay attempts of the third wave of hostages by Hamas who continue to hold some 200 hostages deep inside Gaza. And for more on this, we are joined by Yaqui Dayan, former Israeli consul in Los Angeles. Yaqui, thank you very much for being with us. Thanks for having me. Two days of releases, two days that Hamas has violated the terms of the ceasefire, all this uncertainty, last-minute mediations by Qatar, by Egypt. Ultimately, how much did they do and what does this say about the fate of the next two days? Real, what do you expect? I mean, we are dealing with a terrorist organization that is conducting a psychological warfare day in, day out, and they know exactly which nerves to play and they are doing that, and they will continue to do that. And we see that the third day is very similar to the second day and they will continue to conduct this psychological warfare. But eventually, at the end of the day, we have to remember that this deal is different than any other deal because the American administration is vouching for this deal and we saw the leverages and the pressure that they had yesterday, both on the Qataris and the Egyptians, that played a very significant role in making sure that this deal will take place. And at the same time, the IDF was preparing itself if this deal was not going to happen till midnight, they were ready for igniting the fighting in Gaza. So we see that everybody is taking that with a grain of salt and this is how they are conducting themselves. But at the same time, we see the American pressure, we see the leverages that they have over the side, the Egyptians and the Qataris. So we should be carefully optimistic that the same is going to happen today. And we can talk about all the levers the United States has over Egypt and Qatar. But at the end of the day, Hamas is, as you mentioned, a terror organization. ¿Cómo se leveran los que realmente tienen sobre ellos? Oye, los Qataris, los Qataris y los Egyptians tienen un tipo de leverages en el Hamas y vemos eso sucediendo. Oye, si no, el Hamas podría haber conducto eso de nuevo y de nuevo. Pero tienen los Qataris. La leadership del Hamas está en el Qatar. Los Qataris están en un puerto de billones de dólares para el Hamas en Gaza. Las fuerzas de seguridad de la Egipcia están en Rafa y también muy involucradas con el Hamas. Así que tienen leverages sobre el Hamas. Y esto es lo que pasa. Pero al final del día, tenemos que recordar que sin los americanos, más probablemente, esto no podría haber sucedido. Yo realmente quiero traer a nuestro reportador ahora mismo, antes de continuar la discusión. Robert Swift está estando a lo que hemos conocido en Tela Veeve. Hemos hablado con las familias durante el día. Y estamos ahora viendo esto. Algunas personas están lanzadas, pero también esta incertidumbre, dos días de cosas no funcionando en el plan. Y, sí, el Hamas está siendo muy incertidumbre del negociador en todo esto. ¿Qué dicen las familias cuando vamos al tercer día y el tercer día de incertidumbre? Bueno, si no, las familias son los que esperan ver sus relatives lanzadas como parte de la estación, o son los que, tal vez, porque sus amantes son soldados o son más viejos, mares de la edad de 18 no son parte de la estación, por lo tanto. Y si no, son parte de esto. Están expresando un sentido de comienzo a uno a otro, que, mientras están contentos de ver sus relatives regresando, a los que están afortunados suficiente, todo el mundo está still looking forward to the potential release of far more hostages, the remainder of the hostages, the majority of them, in fact, who are still in the Gaza Strip. Many of the people we've spoken to are focused on that point. And if you'll notice behind me, the tent, this is actually a tent that's been set up by members of the community from Kibbutz Berry. There's a small number of these tents dotted around Hostages Square, which have been put up by specific communities. And just to remind our audience that Kibbutz Berry was one of the most heavily hit during the attack of the 7th of October, with about a tenth of its population being killed, over 100 people. And of the hostages that were released yesterday, the majority of them, 12 of them, came from Kibbutz Berry. So while, obviously, this remains very much a time of mourning, at least there's some happiness there for that community. Thank you very much, Rob, for that update from the hostages, families at Hostages Square. We are now going to return to the studio with Yaki Dayan because we had just seen the family statements and you had been talking before about America working very hard to ensure that this deal goes off. But ultimately, it is still Hamas that we're dealing with on the other side. If, and perhaps maybe when, they ultimately violate the agreement, what does America do then? Then the Americans put pressure on, again, on the Qataris and the Egyptians and eventually we'll see the resume of fighting in Gaza. This is the ultimate consequence of violating the deal. We'll see Israel continue to fight within Gaza and the Americans understand that, the Qataris understand that and the Egyptians understand that. And this is why they are coordinating together. We saw a team of Qataris that yesterday landed in Israel and sat together with the Mossad people in Israel conducting this whole crisis together with the Egyptians. And we'll see that again today and the consequences are extremely clear. I mean, no deal, no progress in the deal, we'll see the resume of fighting in Gaza. It's not just Israel's hostage crisis though. We're talking about an international one. We know that there were at least 30 Thai nationals that were taken hostage on October 7th. Do these other nations not have a role to play in these negotiations too? So the Thai conducted the direct negotiations with the Iranians and this is how the Iranians are taking responsibility de the ties that were released without this scale that one to three of terrorist, Hamas terrorists being released from jail. So they conducted directly. We know that the Russians conducted direct negotiations with the Hamas. We know, but what we have to understand about this deal is that this is a kind of a victory for Israel because the Hamas wanted to conduct this deal according to foreign passports. This is what they wanted to release only the people that have foreign passports Israel refused to that. The only measurement that Israel agreed is that kids and women will be released and this was what was agreed upon eventually at the end of the day. So the idea of the Qataris that divide and conquer the two separate between those who have foreign passports and those who don't have foreign passports failed and eventually what we see is the humanitarian scale that women and children are being released first. I guess there's some progress on that front. We will continue the discussion in a brief moment, but first we are going to hear from from families themselves. Reminder that 26 Israel has just have been freed after a weeks long nightmarish or deal they've been reunited with remaining families when possible. These reunions have been bittersweet. There's relief for those que no han recibido visitas, but it's pain for the shattered families that many are returning to. For many others, their men still remain in the hands of the Hamas terror organization. Each one of these families has a different story of a life entirely uprooted, a different reaction to returning home. Let's listen to Marav Mour Raviv, the relative of 9 year old Ohad Munder who is released by Hamas just on Friday. Ohad is a very smart and sensitive kid. He doesn't really understand how famous he is and how everyone loves him in Israel and all over the world. And Karen as well. They don't know what happened. They now they're still in the house in the hospital. It will take time them that they will realize and understand what happened here and in the world regarding the hostages. He was happy yesterday. He was very excited. We showed him a lot of videos that were filmed for him for his birthday which was on the 23rd of October. He got a lot of presents. He got new clothes which it wasn't that important to him. His friend came the hospital told him that he can pick two you can invite two friends so we said I can't pick only two. I have lots of friends and I think there was like 10 of them or eight that arrived. I was there when they arrived. They were all very excited. You know their kids. They were playing their things. The hospital gave them a special room for that with toys. But they were talking and laughing and like normal kids it wasn't that easy for him but Karen said that he behaved very nice. There were the time that he was crying and also when he came back I mean you know the tears when he saw a sensitive movie or something that someone told him something so it was emotional but he's I hope he will get back to normal as soon as possible and Ohad compares to other kids he's lucky since he has his room he lives in Kfar Saba he has his friends he has his mother and father he has his class he's cool he's tennis lessons he's soccer lessons everything can come back to normal In return now the former Israeli consul Yaqui Dayan Yaqui, hostages for ceasefire has been a very divisive topic in Israel and we're already seeing why Israel's regional partners are already saying that this ceasefire is in direct opposition to Israel's stated goals and it states backing to entirely obliterate Hamas as a real ruling entity in Gaza what are we supposed to make of this messaging that we're seeing right now? I'm not sure that it was so divisive I mean you are right there was an opposition to this deal but the vast majority in Israel political majority and also the public opinion majority agreed to this deal and understand that you know that the major contract between the state of Israel and their citizens was broken and the state of Israel has to do everything in order to return those hostages now let's speak about the continuation of the ceasefire Hamas will do it's outmost to continue the ceasefire and no doubt I mean to prolong it as much as they can in order to recuperate and we hear messages from the Qataris and from the Egyptians although there is a major strategic difference between the Egyptians and the Qataris and the Qataris wants to see the continuation of the Hamas role in Gaza they want to save the Hamas the Egyptians on the other hand understand that Hamas should be eradicated they support the eradication of the Hamas and although they have to pay lip service to the public opinion saying that ceasefire should be maintained and should continue they want to see the Hamas being obliterated eradicated from Gaza so there is a strategic difference between the two and the bottom line and obviously the Americans understand that in their vision that the Middle East will look differently on the day after the Hamas shouldn't be there so they want to see the continuation of the war so eventually the bottom line is that as long as this deal is continuing and it might continue for a few more days depends if the Hamas decides to release the hostages or not but if let's say assume that this deal continues and this pause continues for a few more days nobody in Israel and in the United States and I would say even in Egypt have no doubt that the war will be resumed so yeah, definitely divided messages there but there is definitely a path forward for Israel's military continue this discussion briefly but first we do have to point out that there is still another faction on the war here and that is going on in Israel's north as temporary ceasefire might be agreed to in Gaza but there are still red alerts sounding in Israel's north throughout the weekend in the village of Matula no stranger to war and evacuation unfortunately it's surrounded by the border of Lebanon on three sides 180 families have been forced to leave Matula which during the war acts as a full time IDF military base Emily Francis had the chance to go into this military zone with the community's leaders to give us up and close personal look at this area driving through the pastoral village of Matula you would never know it's surrounded by enemy territory this is Calquile Y para Mayan Weinberg, quien recibió su servicio de armamento, la guerra le llamó a la duty de reserva. Puedes ver ahí, tienen ojos con ellos. El día en el que viajo con este vehículo en Mayans y hago un montón de cosas. Es todo. Mayan está haciendo los rounds en Matula mientras los 2,000 residentes están evacuados. ¿Qué es eso como estar aquí ahora, cuando todo el mundo está evacuado y tienes a las personas de Hezbollah, ¿cuándo puedes dar una estona y atacar? La gente de Hezbollah no es nueva a mí. Puedo mostrarles mi teléfono. Es todo con las estonas de Hezbollah antes. Esto es raro estar en Matula porque no puedo ir a casa con mis padres, no puedo ir a mi apartamento, no puedo caminar en Matula. Matula se ha convertido en una base militar para la IDF durante la guerra, donde, casi a día, Hezbollah envió short-range anti-tank misiles. Todas las casas están ruedas aquí y aquí. Y los soldados de IDF necesitan responder rápido. Esto es el trabajo de los tanques, ¿no? Ellos están usando nuntas anti-tank misiles. El rango de ellos es de 4 kilómetros, algo así. Así que es muy cerca de la proximidad. Así que necesitas utilizar y asegurar que es efectivo. Así que ellos están enviando en casas. Así que, solo este mañana, tuvimos un directo hit en una casa, una familia de gino. Una de las muchas farmacas en Matula, que ha sido un hub agrocultural durante un décimo. ¿Lo gustan, Kiwi? ¡Oh, gracias! Try it like this and then... Mmm! Hay una historia que se ha visto, porque estamos intentando a las personas a venir y ayudar, a tomar la fruta, porque, en un mes o dos, todo esto se va a perder. Y estamos trabajando en eso y hemos tenido personas voluntarios y queriendo venir. Y luego, una noche antes, hemos tenido una situación muy cerca de este área, así que todo estaba como, sí, blanco abajo, puedes venir, puedes venir, el hecho de que estamos aquí ahora, es muy único. Matula es la ciudad más norte de Israel. Estamos la única ciudad de Israel que se ha convertido en tres direcciones, por la Borda de Lebanon, hacia el norte, el norte y el norte. La única manera en que Matula es del sur. Founded by nearly thirty pioneer families in 1896, you could feel the history with original stone homes and buildings still standing. And nearly half of the original family's descendants still live here. Usually it's full of life and it doesn't look like this. Clearly you had a lot of IDF tanks coming back and forth. You have a beautiful, beautiful community. Please come visit us when the war is over. Yes, we will. And so that's Lebanon right there. Yes, that is why we cannot move further from this point because we're going to be revealed and it's, we like you. So we want you to stay safe. Sababa. Bye, bye. During times of peace, Matula is also a popular tourist destination for nature lovers. So normally when we're not in this situation you can just wake up and you take a walk. You can drink coffee and you just look at this view every morning. Not bad. You can look at this view still now, but in normal days you can look over this way, over those ways, in the normal days, to Lebanon. You can see from here a UN base. You see this? Oh, that's a UN base. This is UN base. And what are they doing? Now? Hiding. See, when you stand there and you look towards Lebanon, it's a beautiful country. I want to think that there are some beautiful people over there that also suffers from the fact that Hezbollah and Afghan forces are taking over and hurting their prosperity and their right to live peacefully. These days, it's the IDF that is using the local community center as their military command center with eyes and ears looking at what is happening on the other side of the fence. Not just Matula, of course, estimates say that anywhere between 50,000 to 200,000 israelis are internally displaced from this war. That's a lot of people that are yearning to return to their homes. Something they will hopefully be able to do sooner rather than later. That said, we are about to go on a break. So stay with us. We're going to be back in just about three minutes to discuss this and so much more. So we'll be right back. Israel is in a state of war. Families completely gone down in their beds. We have no idea whether our soldiers are fighting on the front line, but the general perception is something that certainly needs to to be fought as well. There have been countless memorable moments broadcasting with I-24 News in the past six years. But for me, the one that stands out the most was the first time that I had ever personally heard a rocket siren sounding in Tel Aviv. And at that moment we were live on air in studio. I will never forget the moment our senior producer said to me in my ear the sirens are sounding in Tel Aviv. The control room is going to the shelter. With me in studio at the time were Michael Herzog, a former Brigadier General. Today, the Israeli ambassador to the United States. And Austin Ostrovsky, an international human rights lawyer. And their responses were completely different. Michael Herzog was calm and composed. And on the other hand, Austin Ostrovsky was trying to phone his family and check in to make sure that his loved ones were okay. The camera that normally faces us was hoisted from above. There was an overhead shot of the three of us in the studio. You could see colleagues going to the shelter if you looked at the glass behind the studio. And obviously, we lost contact with our team on the ground, our reporters in Ashkelon and all the witnesses that we were speaking to during that time. When rockets are coming towards a residential area they don't distinguish between race, religion, political views, cultural views. They just intend to harm civilians. And that moment, being in studio, hearing those interceptions overhead was the most real coverage I've ever been involved in. Thank you for staying with us. In the aftermath of the October 7th massacre, Israeli society united to try to heal the bleeding wound inflicted on the nation. Private enterprises, new charities from the smallest acts of kindness to eight societies that raised hundreds of millions of dollars. And what the government did not to help one another, sometimes from the unlikeliest of places. Art is one of those avenues. Now joining us right here in studio is Michal Berman, who's the owner of a Tel Aviv Art Studio, as well as an art teacher and art therapist, running an artist's fair with all the proceeds I understand going to help some of the kibbutzim in the south. Absolutely. So this Friday, we're putting together an amazing initiative where artists, vendors, face painters, yoga teachers, musicians are coming together in the Khalat Bin Yamin at the Nasikh. And we're coming together to raise money for kibbutzim in the south, especially Berri, who have been struck the hardest. I think what's remarkable about this initiative is that most of the people going to be vendors and artists are actually olim like I am. We want to give back. We want to help. We want to show that you can actually make a difference with your art. And what sort of difference are we talking about making? We're just talking about the proceeds. We're also helping to raise awareness. What other ways can art be used as a means to heal a shattered nation? That's an amazing question. Besides the proceeds going to kibbutzim in the south, I'm personally working with soldiers that have gone through PTSD, through art therapy, and I really see a difference every day how the process helps them heal and talk about what's going on. So how much are we talking about as funds go that you think is going to be raised here? I'm hoping a lot of funds are coming. We have a lot of support both from the local community and people from abroad who really want to make a difference. So right now, 30% to 100% of the profits are going to go to kibbutzim and others, kibbutzim in the south, and we hope that it will be matched by the community in the states as well. Now, I've seen the art markets in Nakhala Pinyamin myself. Generally, hundreds and hundreds of people and dozens of artists themselves. Have you seen increased interest from a part of the artist? Do you think there's going to be a much bigger full house kind of situation this time? Absolutely. I'm imagining it completely, completely packed. Our goal is to bring everyone together and to show that art can absolutely heal but also unify people. I think, especially now, we really need an avenue to show that we're together and also show that we can make a difference. I absolutely think that since, unfortunately, the last events, people want to make a difference. People want to be together. People want to buy art and support local businesses as well. Walk us through the network because raising money is one thing. Then you still have to make sure it gets to the right place. So how are you joining one to the other? Absolutely. So when thinking about how to fundraise, it's a really great question because I specifically come from the art world. We looked at different organizations and we picked Culano Berri to really make sure that the money goes to really, really good hands and that it really helps rebuild the self. So when we're talking about the needs in the south, do we have a general idea of how much they actually need? For what I understand in terms of the Kibbutzim, right now needs to go back into rebuilding the actual Kibbutzim in terms of physical structures and the economy there. Now I want to turn away from the Friday Art Fair and more to your work as an art therapist. You said that you're using to help people with PTSD but it's not just PTSD anymore. We have an entire nation that is in a state of fear. They're in a state of darkness. Do you see a way to use art to heal the nation's collective soul right now? Incredible question. Absolutely. I think that everyone can use art and art therapy and just therapy in general to speak about their problems. Unfortunately, a lot of us are left with scars and a lot of us need helpful healing right now. Art therapy is just one of the mediums you can use in order to tap into your emotions, connect to yourself and connect to community. As of now, I'm also running a night where we come together and do group art therapy for the community, regardless of if you are in the IDF or not. And we're talking about largely adults right now, but when we're talking about the traumas faced by the nation, one of the themes we've had over the course of the day and unfortunately over the course of the last month and a half is that children who have been so heavily damaged, children we see very often tend to let out their internal suffering in the form of art, probably stronger even than adults do. Is there a way you can use our program that perhaps can help children more? I think children in general use art as a basis to connect to themselves and show their emotion. A lot of children aren't verbally able to connect to themselves and say this is how I'm feeling. So through art that's the medium of connection. When I'm looking at art therapy and I work with children, especially children from the south, I see that all the time seeing that I'm telling me that they're okay, but I see that in their artwork they're not necessarily okay and that's what we try to work on. That's why we try to leave in that world of figure. Michal, I'm glad that people like you are using every method available to try to help people that in many cases don't even know what they even need. Michal, thank you for being in here and maybe I'll swing by Friday and check that out and see you there. We'd love to have you. I'd love to be there. We, though, are going to turn de nuevo a un último estando en Shiba Medical Center en Ramacán donde so many of the family, so many of the hostages that have just been released have been taken for a medical evaluation. We've been coming to you over the course of the day for updates so far. But let us know what's going on right now. What do we know about the status of the 12 people that have passed through the gates of Shiba? Well, Ariel, Drips and Drab's doctors and representatives of the medical staff coming down to speak with the media member of several of the released hostages just a short time ago. But in the meantime, 12 freed hostages of the 13 are here at Shiba Medical Center. The 13th needed more immediate medical care, so it was taken by helicopter to a hospital to the Soroka hospital in Berseva closer to the Gaza Strip so she could get the treatment that she needed. These 12 are said to be in good condition and we know that in part from comments made just about two hours ago at 12 o'clock or so, local time here in Israel by the head of the children's hospital here at the Shiba Medical Center. Let's take a listen to part of what he had to say. Last night after a very confusing and stressful period at around 3.30 a.m. we received these 12 captives children and women that came back. They underwent a medical evaluation and a psychological evaluation. I am happy to say that despite the fact that the harsh conditions that have been under and the experience of captivity they did not require any emergent medical intervention. We will keep them here at the Edmond & Lely Staffer Children's Hospital for as long as they need and care for them help them in their preparation of coming back to their communities. Some of them have no homes to come back to but they have a very significant and supporting community that will embrace them as the whole nation embraces them when they come back. As we have seen throughout this. From the perspective of the medical staff we understand obviously a very difficult evening these hostages came here at 3.30 in the morning local time after all of the delays in their being freed and handed over to the Red Cross and then the Egyptians and then the Israeli military and of course it's not over for these hostages. Some of them lost loved ones who were massacred on October 7th many of them lost homes and the community from which so many of them came Kibbutz Berri has of course become an emblem and a symbol of the massacres in that horrible day so there's a long road ahead for these hostages Ariel as they reintegrate into Israeli society. Long road ahead but once again at least there's some hope on the table now for so many families across Israel. Thank you very much Owen for that report from Shiba. Now as we've been focusing on over the course of the day it's not just Israel's hostage situation they weren't foreign workers that were taken as well 14 Thai hostages and once Filipino hostages were just released into Israel without condition. They're being looked after at the Shamir Medical Center here's an update from the director of that place. We received 15 hostages 14 from Thailand one from the Filipino they're in stable condition and they're improving they get here all the coverage all the medical nursing and the additional mental care that they need they're very happy to be here and we're very happy that we can give them the best care that they need they don't have families so we're we are actually their families we and the embassies that are here helping us with everything as well as with translations we're longing for the rest of all the hostages to come back home. And in the aftermath of the October 7th massacres thousands of testimonies have been recorded to provide undeniable evidence of Hamas's atrocities here on I-24 News we have made sure to share these eyewitness and survivor accounts with the world Jonas now is Irit Lahav the survivor of the Kibbutz Niro's Massacre Irit it's good to have you with us though I am going to have to ask you to share a story that's not going to be easy can you talk us through what happened on October 7th? In terms of the Thai people In terms of everything everything on 7th of October 6 35 a.m. the Red Alert which is the missile alarm went on in Kibbutz Niro's and my daughter right away said I hear sounds of shooting and I said no, no, no it can't be right away my neighbor said somebody is shooting at her house and a minute later our other neighbor sent us a message saying that he sees armed Palestinians block your doors we in the safe rooms we don't have doors that lock there against missiles not against humans so we were we knew that they can come in anytime we started hearing constant automatic weapon from all parts of the Kibbutz and messages from different people saying that they are breaking into their houses and they are burning their houses helplessly we didn't know what we could do and it's really, really terrifying your whole body is shaking from the fear knowing that any minute they can approach your own house constant, constant endless shooting grenades we started hearing also RPGs and I knew that I had to figure out a way to lock the door somehow so finally my brother sent me a picture of how he locked his door he lives five kilometers away I got an inspiration of how he did I got the idea and I took an ore a roaring stick for the boat and took apart my vacuum cleaner it has a long hose and tied it really strongly with a leather string to the door handle and blocking the door so that they won't be able to pull it open and yeah they've tried to they finally really reached our house shooting and then shouting in Arabic very, very loud voices very scary, broke the whole house we're still hoping they wouldn't reach our house but the safe rooms door sorry and then they did and they tried really strongly beating it and shouting and beating it and shouting but they couldn't get it open but at that time we would just say it goodbye words to each other saying to each other how much we love each other and it was really, really scary but they came again four different times tried to open it couldn't open at six in the evening eleven and a half hours later the military came and took us out accompanied us through the burning keyboards to a kindergarten where we stayed the night and only the next day in the afternoon we were taking out from the keyboards all of the cars were burnt or destroyed so nobody could drive out from the keyboards probably they've done it on purpose that nobody would be able to escape and so buses came and took us out to Elat where I'm staying here regarding the foreign nationals we have really touching stories but the saddest story is about the Thai workers who worked in the fields and in the chicken house and in a cow shed we had 19 Thai people all together they live in their own quarters which is at the edge of the keyboards the Palestinians came there and the Thai people begged that they won't hurt them but they gathered 11 of them into one area and shot them all I went there last Tuesday for the first time I couldn't go into that room just the walls on the outside were all smeared with blood and it's just terrible they killed 11 of them in that room terrible terrible they kidnapped 5 of them and released yesterday released 2 of our Thai beloved workers 3 more of the Thai people were not at the Kibbutz pristine on 7 of October 2 of them were working in a cow shed which is about a kilometer away and one was not at the Kibbutz at all and so these 3 were okay while 11 Thai people were slaughtered really this is the word slaughtered without mercy it's easy to recognize that these are not Israelis you can see by the look that they are not Israelis they have slanted eyes it's very clear they don't speak Hebrew they can hardly speak English but the Palestinians had no mercy at all for these foreign workers who just came for 5 years to work make some income to bring back home to Thailand killing as I said 5 11 and kidnapped 5 now 2 have returned and are in the hospital and they are basically okay not perfect but basically in okay health and we have somebody from the Kibbutz who was always in touch with them throughout the years and she is there taking care of them giving them helping them with the connection to their families and mediating between the hospital and them and we are trying to really hug them and take care of them they really they were in Israel but they are not connected to this war between Israel and the Palestinians it's so unfortunate that these good people found themselves in such a situation and the brutal way the Palestinians treated them is just unhuman unhuman, really so sad absolutely monstrous waiting for the rest of them to be released and the rest of the people from Niroz the Niroz people a third of the kidnapped people a third of the kidnapped people you are describing a situation they are not just workers you are close to them you live with them every single day they are practically family as you are describing it what sort of response have we seen from the Thai community here in Israel in response to what happened in the aftermath of what they said do they still feel that they are members of the family or do they feel forgotten actually one of the Thai people who was not at the keyboards during that time he moved to a different location in Israel started working there two of them if I understood correctly are either on their way to Thailand or will be going back to Thailand most of the three were not actually at the keyboards during this attack now those two that are in the hospital we still don't know what they would like to do I think it would be only natural that they would like to go back to their families to be hugged this is the way I felt when I came out I just wanted to meet my closest family anyway the keyboards is not functioning I cannot go back to the keyboards for the next three years because it has been so destroyed by the Palestinians so many houses were burned and destroyed 50% of the keyboards is destroyed so people cannot go back there so even if they do decide to stay with us it will be a little bit difficult because we are all staying in the hotel they are welcome to stay here some of them were staying here in the hotel earlier people move from the hotel to their relatives and come back to the hotel so we will see what they decide to do but we definitely care for them like they are part of our family we respect them, we love them we've always been this way during the years that they've been here so it's not something different that will happen now well it's a collective nightmare not just for Israel but for so many other nations well Irrit I thank you very much for coming here to share your story and for your quick thinking on the 7th that saved your lives and so many others yeah so sad and also we have Filipinos and one Filipino person Jimmy he tried to save Amitai but was kidnapped and Amitai was executed Jimmy was released the day before yesterday and he is a Filipino and we also love him and care for him and he saved several Indian two Indian ladies who held the door while the Palestinians tried to break in and they are the ones who actually saved the family that they take care of so we are very grateful for all of them to help us and we are praying for communities to be rebuilt whatever form those communities take thank you very much Irrit for sharing the story we are going to go now al set celebri we are coming back to you again have some updates on what families are saying in light of everything we've been hearing HaShizjil uncertainty, reneging on the deals by Hamas and the unknown of what's going to happen and in the days ahead what are people saying? the unknown I think is a factor that is just unavoidable in a situation like this y no confiar en cada otro, y eso lleva a las familias de los hostigios, solo tener que esperar. Están optimistas, están prestando por buenas noticias, pero, básicamente, están en Limbo. Las familias que han sido fortalecidas para tener a los familiares regresados a ellos en las últimas dos noches, muchos de ellos han hecho un punto de decir que están muy felices y muy felices para ver que los amantes regresan, pero están todavía esperando para la retrasa de otros hostigios. Hay docentes más a venir y, por supuesto, muchos de las familias que están esperando, tienen a los familiares que no son parte de este paro, sean sonidos o viejos. Definitivamente, un desafío de corazón para muchas familias, Rob. Muchas gracias por tu noticia de las familias de los hostigios en el centro de Tel Aviv. Y, tras todo de Israel, muchos corazones están lleno de hogares destruidos por terror y guerra. Estos estimatos de más de 200.000 personas desplazaron de las comunidades bordas, batallaron y murieron, y muchos de ellos han sido cerrados en las zonas militares, nuestro Ereche Pira, con la residencia de los formadores que le permitieron regresar a su tierra. Kibbutz Mishmara Emek, norte de Israel. Esto ha sido un nuevo hogar para la residencia de Kibbutz Nachal Oz en la Envelopa Gaza, donde docentes de personas fueron murderados. A partir de las 6.28 horas, escuchamos el siren. Entro en el desplazamiento y cerrar la puerta. Empecé a pensar que este es, tal vez, un evento más grande. Un día antes de eso, recorrimimos un evento especial para marcar 70 años de Nachal Oz. Hemos escuchado alertas reyes, uno después del otro. Empecé a escribirle a mis amigos. A partir de las 7.00 horas, empecé a dar mensajes para mis amigos diciendo que hay terroristas en nuestros hogares. No me quería creer en eso. En el principio, pensamos que era algo local, solo un poco de terroristas, solo en Nachal Oz. El poder murió en mi apartamento. A partir de las 7.00 horas, nos dijeron que no dejé el desplazamiento para desplazarlo y quedarse quieto. A partir de las 11.00 horas, me dejé sin una batería y sin electricidad. Después de un par de horas, pensé en escapar del desplazamiento. A un cierto punto, me entendí que los terroristas estuvieron más cerca. Me escuché sorprendidos en el árabe. Empecé a mi hogar de mis amigos. A ese punto pensé que podía salir y tal vez estar con mis amigos, pero algo dentro de mí me dijo que no iba a salir. Empecé por 12 horas más. Respectivamente, esto es lo que me salvó porque si me dejé el hogar, no estaría aquí hoy. Entre los cientos de evacuistas son varios jóvenes. Son miembros de una organización llamada Tocereta Aretz. Esta organización fue establecida 12 años atrás para estrenar las comunidades a través de Israel. Tenemos 1.300 jóvenes en 16 comunidades diferentes, de Kiryat Shmono en el norte y de Demono en el sur. Estamos en sensaciones para jóvenes. Podrían ser los miembros de la comunidad que decidieron decir o los miembros de otros lugares que mueven. Más de las comunidades de Tocereta Aretz están en áreas urbanas. La primera en Nachal Oz, por lo tanto, fue unica. En el año 2040, Nachal Oz tenía un desastre tremendo. Ellos perdieron el joven de 4 años que murieron de un rato directo. Su desastre, Nachal Oz, casi perdieron toda su residencia. Más de las familias jóvenes dejaron las puertas. Ellos tenían que cerrar el jardín de los niños porque no había niños en la cubana. Nachal Oz entendió que su futuro es detrás de la generación joven. Entonces, se convirtieron en Tocereta Aretz y nos preguntó para llevar a nuevas personas aquí. Y hay una discusión entre nosotros porque esto no es donde normalmente construimos nuestras comunidades, pero decidimos ir por ello porque entendimos lo gran significado de ello. Miembros de Tocereta Aretz dicen que, aunque no estaban en esta pequeña comunidad, se arruinaron perfectamente como una parte de la rutina del día de la cubana. Tenemos una copia, una mujer de Tocereta y un miembro de la cubana que metió en Nachal Oz y la semana pasada, ellos se convirtieron. Yo llegué por 2 años a el programa de estudios y decidí que estuve después de terminarlo. Después de octubre 7, miembros de Tocereta Aretz decidieron mover a Mishmara Emek con sus amigos de Nachal Oz despite el hecho que no son miembros originales de la cubana. Y muchos de ellos tienen familias en otros lugares en Israel. A partir del día, no tengo familia, niños o propiedad en las cubanas. Solo renté un apartamento ahí. Esto es lo que fue muy hermoso, que las cubanas nos tomaron en consideración cuando se evacuaron. Estamos parte de las actividades aquí. Es todavía complicada como en cualquier otro lugar donde las jóvenes vivieron. También me pregunté si soy un miembro de la comunidad o no. Pero a partir del día, ahora siento que soy una parte de la comunidad. ¿Me gusta o no? El nombre de Tocereta Aretz refiere a una música famosa por uno de los israeles que llamó al poeta Natan Alterman. El sonro habla de la falta de unidad en la comunidad jews en el país de Israel en 1938 siguiendo la revista de el gran árabe. El director de Tocereta Aretz dice que en este caso es bastante oposente. A veces cantamos esta canción. Es una canción familiar en Israel. Pero en Tocereta Aretz hay mucha unidad. Si vas a una de nuestras reuniones generales vas a encontrar a la sociedad israelí en todas sus colores, formas y formas trabajando juntos. Y eso es todo, todo el tiempo que tenemos para nuestro show hoy. Muchas gracias por ver. Por eso, puedes capturar algunas más noticias en nuestro próximo broadcast. Vamos a comenzar en apenas unos minutos. Así que, déjate de atención por más de I24 News. Esta es una reporta de I24 News. Soy Albert Lewitton de I24 News Headquarters en Tel Aviv. Bienvenidos a nuestros viewers de Around the World. Estamos llevando a ustedes la información de la guerra. Vamos a darles una noticia como es. Número uno, otro batallón de israelí hosteges que están llevados por Hamas fueron expectativas para ser lanzados durante los próximos días. Nuestro 9 están expectativas para ser niños pero un oficial de Red Cross. En una entrevista con Sky News, Arabia, al primero dijo que no estaba confundido de que el próximo batallón de hosteges estaría lanzado, pero luego clarificó que no había indicaciones que no iba a ser planificado. La noche anterior, Hamas refusó a relinquirse a las personas que han promedido el deslizamiento fue agonizando. Número 2, Hamas freó 13 hosteges la noche anterior y cuatro tiempos. Releasó Sharon Avigdori y su hija Noam, hijas Alma Anouam o Hila Rotem sin su madre Raya. Una de las condiciones de esa noticia no fue separar a las mujeres de sus hijos pero Hamas dice que no pueden encontrar Raya, Sherry Weiss y su hija Noga. Adishoham y su hija y sus hijas Yahel y Nave Maya Regev Shoshan Haran y Emily Hand. Número 3, Emily Hand es israelí pero el presidente israelí solo no podría llevarse a condemnar Hamas por reducir y mantener una de sus ciudadanos un joven de 9 años hostegio por 50 más días y eso fue a Israel para el ministro Cohen fumando algo que el embajador israelí a la ministra. Número 4, 200 estados carrying humanitarian aid food water medical supplies enter the Gaza strips some with supplies heading to the northern part of Gaza. Número 5, there was a report that Vladimir Putin personally reached out to get Hamas to get one Russian Israeli dual citizen freed separate from the Israelis. We have live team coverage of what is happening today it begins now with Robert Swift he's the I-24 news correspondent joining us now live from Tel Aviv Robert. Yeah, I'm standing in a square which has become known as hostegio square. This place has become essentially a focal point for families who have loved ones stranded in the Gaza strip and also for members of the Israeli public who wish to show their solidarity. Scattered around the square here there are a number of impromptu memorials pieces of art and also music the pianos and set up for people to play so that people can come together to share in the grief of the Israeli public as they agonize over the wait for these hostegios. We spoke to the mother of one of those trapped in Gaza a soldier whose tank unit was overrun during the 7th of October. Let's listen to what she had to say. We came this morning to paint the hearts of those who returned yesterday and this is what we will do in the coming days until the last of the hostegios returns to Israel. We will come paint his heart and add the yellow hearts every day and we will celebrate life with them but we will not leave behind all those who did not return yet. We just pray that everyone will come back and that all hearts will be painted yellow. Now there are a number of individuals who are coming here to share in the grief and it's worth knowing that many of the families who have had their loved ones returned to them are still nonetheless pointing to the fact that there are many more hostegios left in Gaza and rather than focusing on the those who have returned they're offering them a moment of privacy whilst maintaining their calls for the dozens of Israelis still trapped in Gaza to be returned. Robert Swift joining us live from the hostage of missing square in Tel Aviv. He'll be without with all of us I should say all through the night here on I24 News. Robert, thanks very much. You know, one of those released on Friday a nine year old Ahad Mundar from Kibbutz near Oz together with his mother Karen Mundar and his grandmother Ruthie Mundar were released. Ohad was then transferred via an IAF helicopter to a hospital to undergo medical assessment. What you're about to hear is amazing. You're going to see this. It's really, really amazing. A recording of Ohad Mundar during the helicopter flight. Take a look. That's amazing. That's amazing little. Ohad is being taken care of right now at Schneider. And hopefully there was a great video of him being playing with his friends and having some ice cream was really amazing. I'm joined now in studio by Grisha Yukubovic who's a former head the civilian department of Kogad. Kogad, in case you don't know is the territories that the Israeli government authority that oversaw the territories and you for a long time were running that. And let's talk a little bit about the back and forth that occurred last night, the delay, the four hour long delay, the agonizing delay. Hamas claimed Oh, the aid trucks weren't coming in fast enough. And then the reverse was that they were supposed to they were not supposed to separate mother and child, but they did in a couple of situations. What are we dealing with here? Well, first of all, let's get a title what happened last night. It was a mock crisis. First of all, so let's be let's be let's be clear about this is a terror organization fighting in an asymmetric war as a terror organization with different values. It's something that should be clear to everybody. We as a society, we as a state, respect human life. We save lives. And as a terror organization, they do exactly the opposite. And they are using a psychological warfare. As we have seen, this is what happened yesterday. And they even enjoy, if I may say so, from what they've actually created yesterday, a seven hours delay. Now, let's let's just put ourselves in the shoes of the families that know that one of the deers is about to be released. And then they have to wait for another seven hours to see if they will be released or not. The emotional emotions that they carried those seven hours is something that is unbelievable. Unbelievable. I don't want to be in their shoes. I mean, imagine after the first days, after hearing some of the reports from the first hostages saying that they were afraid that they were being put into the cars and trucks to be executed. Imagine that. Yeah. Now, let's enter to the head of Hamas, of Yahya Sunwar. Okay. This crazy guy, if I may say so. He understands that Israel's goal is to eliminate him, to eliminate his regime, to eliminate his abilities, to delete his victory. So, he is already prepared himself to the day after, to the day after the war. How? If he's alive. Let's see. Let's see. Okay. I have to be careful here. And why? I want to be careful because if I'm going to pull out myself from the emotional feeling as an Israeli citizen, to be filled with joy when I see prisoners being released. Okay. But I just want to step outside. Okay. From this emotional situation and look at it as an expert. What did actually Hamas did? You are the Israelis trying to defeat us. We will not let you. We are still relevant. We will be the ones who will decide what will happen and how. How many will be released? What exactly will happen? And who will do what? It means we are relevant. Actually, if when I look at the Hamas, Qatar and Egypt are begging me to implement the deal. Well, I have my best reasons as Hamas. If I'm Hamas. Okay. The reasons is Israeli. Israel did not. Okay. Implement. According to what? According to that. According to them. Did not implement the agreement fully. So we have all the right to delay. But if you are asking us so nice and you really want us to be good to you, Qatar and Egypt. Okay. We will make some efforts and make you look good by the Americans. So a power play. Yes. More than that. The day after, if Israel will continue the war. Okay. They will call Qatar and Egypt and say, ah, guys, do you remember the favor I did you? Not once. Maybe today is going to be the second time. There is a Qatar delegation in Gaza. I already smell the same scenario that it's about to happen because Israel, according to Hamas, already valuated. Somebody was killed at the eastern part of Gaza. According to some evidence. Only 160 trucks entered to Gaza from the 200 that we've mentioned at the beginning. By the way, Hamas is using a roadblock between the north and the south. And this is what the Spokesman just released that they are blocking the entrance of the trucks to Gaza. And later on, they will blame us that because of us, they didn't reach to the northern part of Gaza. Seven Gaza that were injured. Also trying to move to the north. And Hamas is trying to push as much as much aid as possible to the north as much people to the north. So if Israel will want to renew the war again after four days or 10 days, it depends if you ask. It will be provoking Israel to do something about it. It will be difficult. It will be very difficult because the world will look at Israel and say, come on, guys, be careful. Many, many, many civilians and you already killed too much and enough. Right. So they think about the day after. Always. Two, three, four steps ahead. This is Hamas. Grisha, hold on one second. We're going to go now to Owen Altman, his I-24 news correspondent. He's at Sheba Medical Center in Ramacán and he's there because that is where today's batch of hostages will be headed once they are released. Go ahead, Owen. Yeah, that's right. Now, of course, we have the batch that came yesterday that are still hospitalized here. 12 de la 13 freed Israeli hostages en la trancia de la mañana are here at Sheba Medical Center. The 13th needed more immediate medical care, so it was taken by helicopter to Soroka Medical Center in Berseva, closer to the Gaza Strip, so she could get the care she needed. I reported by that hospital this morning to be in moderate condition, set to have surgery today and thankfully set to have a full recovery. She had been injured by a gunshot wound at the Nova Met Music Festival on October 7th. As for the 12th war here, eight children, four women, we heard from the director of the Children's Hospital here at Sheba Medical Center earlier on today, saying they were in good condition and telling us a little bit more about their condition and more, but even more than that, Albert, about what it meant to him and to the staff to be caring for these freed hostages. Let's hear what he had to say. Oh, I'm sorry. So beyond hearing from just the director of the hospital, we also heard, amazingly, Albert, from a family member of several of the freed hostages. Really special came out to speak to the media here at the hospital to tell us about those family members, about their condition and what it meant for her to be there with those family members as they were freed from captivity yesterday. Let's hear what she had to say. I think my smile is speaking better than me, better than my English. It was, we all could felt our heart bombing and, you know, it was unbelievable. It was unbelievable that that's what it was. This was the situation. Okay. It was unbelievable. We were so thrilled. We were so emotionless. So waiting for them for so many days and so many hours and the clock was ticking and ticking and not moving. And, you know, it was complicated yesterday. But it's fine. So Albert, we can only imagine what it was like and we hear from at her actually what it was like for those family members. By the way, for the director of the hospital here, talking about how they're in good condition, the 12 were hospitalized here and also saying how at a children's hospital, there are always so many emotional moments and special moments, difficult moments and inspiring moments. But this for him over the course of his career really does stand out. And Albert, you can certainly imagine why both for the staff here at the hospital and for the families of those hostages who have been freed. Why it was is such a difficult but also inspiring day. But of course, we have to remember there are still families waiting for loved ones hopefully over the course of today and many, many, many other families, Albert, whose family members are still held captive in the tunnels of Gaza. You're right, Owen Ultriman, thanks so much for joining us. In fact, you're right about that because joining us now is Udi Goran, his cousin, Tal Haimi, is believed to have been taken captive by Hamas and he joins us now. Udi, thanks very much for joining us. You heard just a moment ago from Owen Ultriman at Shiba. And I just want to get an idea from you how that makes you feel to see the happiness of that family but the anxiousness and the nervousness that you must be feeling at the same time. So the Victoria family that you've just heard the sisters speak are friends of mine and we've been in this struggle for the past couple of weeks and I am thrilled for them. I'm very happy that some of their suffering is relieved and that doesn't take away from the fact that they're going to stay with us in the struggle as they've clearly said none of the families that got their loved ones back is leaving the struggle and aside from that it gives me hope it just shows beyond any doubt that there is someone to talk to we can pressure Hamas to a negotiation and to get other deals going it was made very clear to us the families that there is no deal that would bring all the hostages back at once and considering that if this is step number one excellent it means that step number two is closer than ever Tell me a little bit about Tal Tal is a family man he's shy he's never seeks the spotlight he is a civil engineer he likes waking up early in the morning spending time with the kids before they go to school or to kindergarten he likes to come back home rather early so he can spend the afternoon with them reads them bedtime stories he's a he's a really great guy he's the first one that people want to call to fix stuff around you know around the kibbutz or to help out lend a hand and he is very much missed in the family Is have you been trying to I guess I wondered whether or not you feel frustration that you don't even know whether whether or not Tal is alive just even even just an indication I know that many of our family members have said that they wish that even the Red Cross would push harder on Hamas to try to at least get some sort of indication what's your feeling on that very much so very much so one of the most agonizing you know sentiments in in this entire occurrence is that we're not getting any new information and we were told we were told you know by the Israeli government by the war cabinet that a part of this deal would be that the Red Cross would go visit the families and right now we're hearing it's not a part of the deal and this could be crucial this could be a matter of life and death for many of these people with Tal specifically we don't know how he is we don't know whether or not he's injured we don't know if he needs any medical attention and for other families there are people that are chronically ill that are dependent on medications even if they weren't taken in wounded they're dependent on medications to just continue living and at this point this is a serious cause for frustration among the families because even if not everybody can come back home at this point we want to make sure they're alive for the next deal Udi, me voy a preguntar una pregunta que es un poco difícil pero me voy a preguntar de alguna manera a muchos de las personas que han sido realizadas son mujeres y niños excepto para algunos de los países nacionales que son heridos nos espere que la razón que no están realizando los hombres israelíos es porque ellos valoran a Udi entre los otros hombres israelíos como currencies ¿es que te interesa que eso ha ocurrido? Es, en este caso tendré que pensar que no hay nada que puedo hacer sobre esto estas son las reglas del juego ¿lo gusta? No creo que cada vida cada vida cuenta solo lo mismo y no importa si es los países nacionales o si es mi cumpleaños o si es un niño todos ellos deberían volver a casa y continuar viviendo pero algunas personas decidieron que estas son las reglas del juego y en ese escopo esta es la manera que tenemos que manejar la situación así que es para nosotros las familias y el público israelíos a seguir creciendo todo el tiempo para asegurar que el gobierno recuerda que nosotros israelíos no somos jamás que nosotros valoramos las vidas humanas no importa la vida de quién es y tenemos que recordar que esto es uno de los principales que Israel tiene que adquirir y es para nosotros para asegurar que saben cada momento cada día que tienen que hacer todo primero y por lo menos para llevar todo a casa incluyendo Tal incluyendo todos los otros hombres incluyendo todas las mujeres incluyendo a todos porque esto es mucho mayor que solo esta guerra que solo defiende jamás esto es el coro el principal en el que este país está construido y si nos adquirimos a esto no hay diferencia entre nosotros y nuestros enemigos y nosotros tenemos una diferencia porque las vidas humanas nos importan y es para nosotros que mantenemos recuerdos en eso Udi Gorin, esperamos que tengas ese teléfono que dice Tal es en su hogar un día gracias a Dios te espero que seas ok gracias muy bien Udi Gorin, nos vemos ahora en live aquí en I24 News gracias de nuevo voy a continuar con Grishe Yakubovic por un segundo una de las preguntas que le dijeron es sobre los hombres que por suerte traen los hombres detrás de las mujeres y los niños primero ¿Es que es un tactico que esperamos a ocurrir? Sí, es parte de un tactico El hombre estaría en el final si en todo pero es más en eso Hamas se lanzó primero para todos los prisoneros de la West Bank y de cada Jerusalén nadie se lanzó de Gaza y los turistas son los que están de Gaza entonces cuando llegará si estaríamos en esa situación para los hombres estarían lanzando el precio no sería 1-3 el precio estaría probablemente 1-2 más de eso ¿Qué dices a ellos? Vamos a ir a una pieza solo un momento ¿Qué dices a los que dicen oh, los israelíos están devaluando las líneas palestinianas por no hacer un 1x1 están haciendo 1x3 1x4 vas a la media social eso es todo los palestinianos lo digo Sí, lo sé lo sé, esto no es nada esto es algo que fue negociado entre Israel Qatar y Hamas el mejor es 1x1 pero esto es una demanda que viene de Hamas no se olviden para Gilad Shalit pagamos 1,025 fue el deal preguntado por Hamas queríamos reducir el precio insistieron que eso sería el precio entonces los que no están devaluando las vidas o no devaluan la vida actualmente en Hamas no en Israel guns ha Castell therapistrado en la red cabezas y una autu para Hao demonst canoe y un partido no el mat Gimme L No hay israelíos en el mundo y no hay nada, no hay israel y nada de esa situación. Sí, ya he tenido algo como una hora anterior, justo quería verlo. Hay una organización, UK, MTO, algo como eso que están responsables de eso, que actualmente han publicado las noticias. Esto es la segunda, si no estoy mal, o la tercera o la segunda. Según ellos, hay otra. Sí, sí, y habrá un gran impacto en la economía global, si el mundo de occidente no dejará de hacer eso, porque habrá impacto en cada una de las personas que viven en el oeste de Europa, Estados Unidos, porque todos van a ir a India, China y ahí. Si no estoy malo en el gobierno de Estados Unidos, el Pentagón fue muy fuerte diciendo que estamos enviando un grupo de personas, estamos enviando un grupo de warriors a la Red Sea y a la Gulf de Oman para asegurar que la Irán no take control of these ships. Lo y behold, this happens. En el Oeste Middle East, we need to speak the language that is... People speak in the Middle East. What's that? Apparently, Americans don't have a speak the language. This is not the language that we in Israel speak and the language that the United States speaks. There is a very clear language. The message must be, don't play with us. If you do something, we will hit you and hit you hard. Israel, I should say, what does Israel do and then what does the US slash EU do that doesn't drag this entire conflict into a global scale? I think this is the problem. Everybody is so afraid from being dragged to a bigger conflict that it looks like it will be inevitable. So if it's inevitable, and that's what I estimate, I believe that people that are way smarter than I am also understand that, so let's be there. There is also a report that... I mean, we know that we are about 48 hours before the end of the ceasefire. So at some point, someone somewhere is now negotiating either an extension of the ceasefire or the ceasefire will end. How does that work? How exactly does that work? The ceasefire was agreed upon for four days and it's already was discussed yesterday that it might be extended to nine or 10 days. If every day Hamas will release 13, kidnapped civilians, I will say it again and again, not prisoners, it will last something like nine to 10 days. And as long as it will extend, it will be more difficult to return. Don't forget we had a ceasefire. There was a ceasefire before October the 6th. Yeah, we were in a situation of ceasefire since May 2021, guardian of the walls, of course. And this is exactly what the Arab world wants. This is exactly what the Europe wants because they see too much damage, too many casualties. And this is what they will press on Israel or push Israel to accept. Just in case you're joining us now on 9.24 News there, we are monitoring the release of 13 hostages that are expected to be today. We continue to find out whether or not this will actually occur. It's at 3.30 almost here in Israel in 3.30 hour. Normally the process begins at about 4 o'clock. What we want to do before we go is we want to show you a clip of the 13 that were released last night after a seven hour delay. This is women and children who were released and sent to the Red Cross. And then they're now back in Israeli soil. Let's take a look. State of war, families completely gone down in their beds. We have no idea where is she as our soldiers are fighting on the front line. But the general perception that certainly needs to be fought as well. With dozens of correspondents throughout the world brings the truth from Israel to hundreds of millions of people in scores of countries. Completely gone down in their beds. De la frontera de ces par Israel, the state of emergency and war in Israel. Bringing Israel's story to the world. 9.24 News Channels. This is an 9.24 News Special Report. I'm Albert Lewitton at the I-24 News Headquarters in Tel Aviv. Welcome to our viewers around the world. We are bringing you live team coverage of the war. Let's give you an update as it is. Number one. Another batch of Israeli hostages that are being held by Hamas were expected to be released within the next few hours. 9 are expected to be children. But a senior official of the Red Cross in an interview with Sky News Arabic at first said he was not confident of the next batch of hostages would be released, but then clarified that there was no indication it was not going to go as planned. Last night Hamas refused to relinquish the people they had promised. The delay was agonizing. Number two. Hamas freed 13 hostages last night plus four ties. Released Sharon Avigdori and her daughter Noam, siblings Alma and Noam Or, Hila Rotem, without her mother Raya. One of the conditions of that truce was not to separate mothers from their children, but Hamas says they can't find Raya. Shiri Weiss and her daughter Noga, Adi Shoham and her daughter children Yahel and Nave, Maya Regev, Shoshan Haran and Emily Hand. Number three. Emily Hand is Irish Israeli, but the Irish Prime Minister just could not bring himself to condemn Hamas for abducting and keeping one of his citizens, a nine year old girl hostage for 50 plus days. And that had Israeli Foreign Minister Cohen fuming, summoning the Irish ambassador to Israel to the ministry. Number four. 200 trucks carrying humanitarian aid, food, water, medical supplies enter the Gaza Strip. Some would supplies heading to the northern part of Gaza. Number five. There was a report that Vladimir Putin personally reached out to get Hamas, to get one Russian Israeli dual citizen freed separate from the Israelis. We have live team coverage of what is happening today. It begins now with Robert Swift. He's the I-24 news correspondent joining us now live from Tel Aviv. Robert. I'm standing in a square which has become known as Hostage Square. This place has become essentially a focal point for families who have loved ones stranded in the Gaza Strip and also for members of the Israeli public who wish to show their solidarity. Scattered around the square here there are a number of impromptu memorials, pieces of art and also music pianos and set up for people to play so that people can come together to share in the grief of the Israeli public as they agonize over the wait for these hostages. We spoke to the mother of one of those trapped in Gaza, a soldier whose tank unit was overrun during the 7th of October. Let's listen to what she had to say. We came this morning to paint the hearts of those who returned yesterday. And this is what we will do in the coming days until the last of the hostages returns to Israel. We will come, paint his heart and add the yellow hearts every day. And we will celebrate life with them, but we will not leave behind all those who did not return yet. We just pray that everyone will come back and that all hearts will be painted yellow. Now there are a number of individuals who are coming here to share in the grief and it's worth knowing that many of the families who have had their loved ones return to them are still nonetheless pointing to the fact that there are many more hostages left in Gaza. And rather than focusing on those who have returned, they're offering them a moment of privacy whilst maintaining their calls for the dozens of Israelis still trapped in Gaza to be returned. Robert Swift joining us live from the Hostage of Missing Square in Tel Aviv. He'll be with all of us, I should say, all through the night here on I-24 News. Robert, thanks very much. One of those released on Friday, a 9-year-old Ahad Mundar from Kibbutz near Oz, together with his mother Karen Mundar and his grandmother Ruthie Mundar were released. Ohad was then transferred via an IAF helicopter to a hospital to undergo medical assessment. What you're about to hear is amazing, you're going to see this, it's really, really amazing. A recording of Ohad Mundar during the helicopter flight. Take a look. That's amazing, that's amazing. Ohad is being taken care of right now at Schneider and hopefully there was a great video of him playing with his friends and having some ice cream was really amazing. I'm joined now in studio by Grisha Yakubovic, who's a former head, the civilian department of Kogad. Kogad, in case you don't know, is the territories that is really government authority that oversaw the territories. And you, for a long time, were running that. And let's talk a little bit about the back and forth that occurred last night, the delay, the four hour long delay, the agonizing delay. Hamas claimed, oh, the aid trucks weren't coming in fast enough. And then the reverse was that they were supposed to, they were not supposed to separate mother and child, but they did in a couple of situations. What are we dealing with here? Well, first of all, let's give a title of what happened last night. It was a mock crisis. First of all, so let's be, let's be clear about it. This is a terror organization fighting in an asymmetric war as a terror organization with different values. It's something that should be clear to everybody. We as a society, we as a state, respect human life. We save lives. And as a terror organization, they do exactly the opposite. And they are using psychological warfare, as we've seen. This is what happened yesterday. And they even enjoy, if I may say so, from what they've actually created yesterday, a seven hours delay. Now, let's just put ourselves in the shoes of the families that know that one of the deers is about to be released and then they have to wait for another seven hours to see if they will be released or not. The emotional, the emotions that they carried those seven hours is something that is unbelievable. Unbelievable. I don't want to be in their shoes. Imagine, after the first days, after hearing some of the reports from the first hostages, saying that they were afraid that they were being put into the cars and trucks to be executed. Imagine that. Yeah. Now, let's enter to the head of Hamas, of Yahya Sunwar, okay? This crazy guy, if I may say so. He understands that Israel's goal is to eliminate him, to eliminate his regime, to eliminate his abilities, to delete his victory. So, he is already prepared himself to the day after, to the day after the war. How? If he's alive. Let's see. Let's see. Okay, I have to be careful here. And why I want to be careful? Because if I'm going to pull out myself from the emotional feeling as an Israeli citizen, okay, to be filled with joy when I see prisoners being released, okay? But I just want to step outside, okay? From this emotional situation and look at it as an expert. What did actually Hamas did? You are the Israelis trying to defeat us. We will not let you. We are still relevant. We will be the ones who will decide what will happen and how, how many will be released, what exactly will happen and who will do what. It means we are relevant. Actually, when I look at Hamas, Qatar and Egypt are begging me to implement the deal. Well, I have my best reasons as Hamas. If I'm Hamas, okay? The reasons is Israeli... Israeli did not, okay? Implement. According to them. According to them. They did not implement the agreement fully, so we have all the right to delay. But if you are asking us so nice and you really want us to be good to you, Qatar and Egypt, okay, we will make some effort and make you look good by the Americans. So a power play. Yes. More than that. The day after, if Israel will continue the war, okay? They will call Qatar and Egypt and say, ah, guys, do you remember the favor I did you? Not once. Maybe today is going to be the second time. There is a Qatar delegation in Gaza. I already smell the same scenario that is about to happen because Israel, according to Hamas, already evaluated. Somebody was killed at the eastern part of Gaza according to some evidence. Only 160 trucks entered to Gaza from the 200 that we've mentioned at the beginning. By the way, Hamas is using a roadblock between the north and the south. This is what the spokesman just released after blocking the entrance of the trucks to Gaza. Later on, they will blame us that because of us, they didn't reach to the north and part of Gaza. Seven Gaza that were injured also trying to move to the north and Hamas is trying to put as much aid as possible to the north, as much people to the north. So if Israel will want to renew the war again after four days or 10 days, it depends if you ask. It will be... It's provoking Israel to do something about it. It's a bit of a provocation. It will be difficult. It will be very difficult because the world will look at Israel and say, come on guys, be careful. Many, many, many civilians and you already killed too much and enough. Right. So they think about the day after. Always. Two, three, four steps ahead. This is Hamas. Grisha, hold on one second. We are going to go now to Owen Alterman, his I-24 news correspondent. He's at Shiba Medical Center in Ramacan and he's there because that is where today's batch of hostages will be headed once they are released. Go ahead, Owen. Yeah, that's right. And Albert, of course, we have the batch that came yesterday that are still hospitalized here. 12 of the 13 freed Israeli hostages in yesterday's tranche are here at Shiba Medical Center. The 13th needed more immediate medical care. So it was taken by helicopter to Soroka Medical Center in Beersheva, closer to the Gaza Strip, so she could get the care she needed. I reported by that hospital this morning to be in moderate condition, set to have surgery today and thankfully set to have a full recovery. She had been injured by a gunshot wound at the Nova Met Music Festival on October 7th. As for the 12th war here, eight children, four women. We heard from the director of the children's hospital here at Shiba Medical Center earlier on today, saying they were in good condition and telling us a little bit more about their condition and more, but even more than that, Albert, about what it meant to him and to the staff to be caring for these freed hostages. Let's hear what he had to say. Oh, I'm sorry. So beyond hearing from just the director of the hospital, we also heard amazingly, Albert, from a family member of several of the freed hostages really special came out to speak to the media here at the hospital to tell us about those family members, about their condition and what it meant for her to be there with those family members as they were freed from captivity yesterday. Let's hear what she had to say. I think my smile is speaking better than me. They're better than my English. It was... we all could felt our heart bombing and, you know, it was unbelievable. It was unbelievable that that's what it was. This was the situation. It was unbelievable. We were so thrilled. We were so emotional. We were so waiting for them for so many days and so many hours and the clock was ticking and ticking and not moving. And, you know, it was complicated yesterday, but it's fine. So, Albert, we can only imagine what it was like and we hear from her actually what it was like for those family members. By the way, for the director of the hospital here talking about how they're in good condition, the 12-4 hospitalized here and also saying how at a children's hospital there are always so many emotional moments and special moments, difficult moments and inspiring moments, but this for him over the course of his career really does stand out. And Albert, you can certainly imagine why both for the staff here at the hospital and for the families of those hostages who have been freed, why it was such a difficult but also inspiring day. But, of course, we have to remember there are still families waiting for loved ones hopefully over the course of today and many, many, many other families, Albert, whose family members are still held captive in the tunnels of Gaza. You're right, Owen Ultriman. Thanks so much for joining us. In fact, you're right about that because joining us now is Udi Gorin, his cousin, Tal Haimi is believed to have been taken captive by Hamas and he joins us now. Thank you for joining us. You heard just a moment ago from Owen Ultriman at Shiba. And I just want to get an idea from you how that makes you feel to see the happiness of that family but the anxiousness and the nervousness that you must be feeling at the same time. So, the Victoria family that you've just heard the sisters speak are friends of mine and we've been in this struggle for the past couple of weeks and I am thrilled for them. I'm very happy that some of their suffering is relieved and that doesn't take away from the fact that, A, they're going to stay with us in the struggle. As they've clearly said, none of the families that got their loved ones back is leaving the struggle and aside from that it gives me hope. It just shows beyond any doubt that there is someone to talk to. We can pressure Hamas to a negotiation and to get other deals going. It was made very clear to us, the families that there is no deal that would bring all the hostages back at once and considering that if this is step number one, excellent. It means that step number two is closer than ever. Tell me a little bit about Tal. Tal is a family man. He's shy. He's never seeks the spotlight. He is a civil engineer. He likes waking up early in the morning, spending time with the kids before they go to school or to kindergarten. He likes to come back home rather early so he can spend the afternoon with them, reads them bedtime stories. He's a really great guy. He's the first one that people want to call to fix stuff around, you know, around the kibbutz or to help out, lend a hand. And he is very much missed in the family. Have you been trying to... I guess I wondered whether or not you feel frustration that you don't even know whether or not Tal is alive. Just even just an indication. I know that many of our family members have said that they wish that even the Red Cross would push harder on Hamas to try to at least get some sort of indication. What's your feeling on that? Very much so. One of the most agonizing sentiments in this entire occurrence is that we're not getting any new information and we were told we were told by the Israeli government, by the war cabinet that a part of this deal would be that the Red Cross would go visit the families and right now we're hearing it's not a part of the deal and this could be crucial. This could be a matter of life and death for many of these people. With Tal specifically we don't know how he is, we don't know whether or not he's injured we don't know if he needs any medical attention and for other families there are people that are chronically ill that are dependent on medications even if they weren't taken in wounded they're dependent on medications to just continue living and at this point this is a serious cause for frustration among the families because even if not everybody can come back home at this point we want to make sure they're alive for the next deal. Woody I'm going to ask you a question which is a little tough but I'm going to ask it anyway many of the people who have been released they're all women and children except for some of the foreign nationals who are male we would suspect the reason they're not releasing men Israeli men is because they value Udi among the other men Israeli men as currency does that bother you that has occurred? In such cases I tend to think there's really nothing I can do about this these are the rules of the game do I like them? No I think every life counts just the same and it doesn't matter if it's the foreign nationals or if it's my cousin or if it's a child all of them deserve to go back home and continue living but some people decided that these are the rules of the game and within that scope this is the way we need to handle the situation so it's up to us the families and the Israeli public to keep pushing hard all the time to make sure that the government remembers that we Israel are not Hamas that we do value human lives no matter whose life it is and we need to remind them that this is one of the principles that Israel has to adhere to and it's up to us to make sure that they know every moment every single day that they have to do everything first and foremost to get everyone back home including Tal including all the other men including all the women including everybody because this is much bigger than just this war this is the core the principle on which this country is built on and if we don't adhere to it then there's no difference between us and our enemies and we do have a difference because human lives do matter and it's up to us to keep reminding them that Udi Goran we hope that you get that phone call that says Talaz on his way home one day God bless you, hope you're okay Udi Goran joining us now live here at I24 News, thanks again I'm going to continue with Grisha Yakubovic for just one second one of the questions I did ask them is about the men that they purposely kept the men behind they let the women and children first is that a tactic that we expected to occur men would be at the end if at all but it's more than that Hamas released first of all all the prisoners from the West Bank and from each Jerusalem no one was released from Gaza and the hardcore tourists are actually the ones from Gaza so when it will reach if we would be at that situation for the men they would release the price would not be 1 to 3 the price would be probably 1 to more than that what do you say to those what do you say to those who say the Israelis are devaluing the Palestinian lives by not doing a 1 for 1 they're doing 1 for 3, 1 for 4 you go on social media that's all the pro-Palestinians I saw that this is nonsense this is something that was negotiated between Israel, Qatar and Hamas the best would be 1 for 1 but this is a demand coming from Hamas let's not forget for Gilachelit we paid 1,025 it was the deal asked by Hamas, we wanted to reduce the price they insisted that that will be the price so the ones who are not evaluating the lives or do not value life are actually Hamas not Israel we're getting word right out into the I-24 News Desk there has been another apparently a capture of an Israeli tanker by the Houthis in the Red Sea again this is just coming into I-24 News Grisha this is something else that the Israeli government has to also worry about is the Houthi takeover this is not just let everyone know these are not Israeli tankers they're only Israeli owned but they're not Israeli functioning tankers they're no Israelis on board I got it already something like an hour ago just wanted to verify it there's an organization UK, MTL something like that that are responsible of that that they actually published the news this is the second ship if I'm not wrong or third or the second second by them there's another one and it will have a huge impact on a global economy if the western world no the Houthis from doing that because it will have an impact on each one of the people who live in the west Europe, United States because all goods go to India, China through there and if I'm not mistaken the US government the Pentagon was very strong about saying oh we're sending a group of people we're sending a group of warriorships to the Red Sea and to the Gulf of Oman to make sure that the Iran doesn't take control of the language that people speak in the Middle East and this language this is not the language that we in Israel speak and the language that the United States speaks there is a very clear language the message must be don't play with us if you do something we will hit you and hit you hard and so now what do we do Israel I shouldn't say we what does Israel do US slash EU do that doesn't drag this entire conflict into a global scale I think this is the problem everybody is so afraid from being dragged to a bigger conflict that it looks like it will be inevitable so if it's inevitable and that's what I estimate I believe that people that are way smarter than I am also understand that so let's be there there is also a report I mean we know that we're at 48 hours before the end of the ceasefire so at some point someone somewhere is now negotiating either an extension of the ceasefire or the ceasefire will end how does that work how exactly does that work the ceasefire was agreed upon for 4 days and it's already was discussed yesterday that it might be extended to 9 or 10 days if every day Hamas will release 13 kidnapped civilians again not prisoners it will less 9 to 10 days and as long as it will extend it will be more difficult to return there was a ceasefire before October 6 yeah we were in a situation of ceasefire since May 2021 guardian of the walls of course and this is exactly what the Arab world wants this is exactly what Europe wants because they see too much damage too many casualties and this is what they will press on Israel or push Israel to accept just in case you're joining us now 9-24 news there we are monitoring the release of 13 hostages that are expected to be today we continue to find out whether or not this will actually occur it's at 3.30 almost here in Israel in the 3.30 hour normally the process begins at about 4 o'clock what we want to do before we go to the news this is a woman and children who were released and sent to the Red Cross and they are now back in Israeli soil let's take a look this is an 9-24 news special report welcome to our viewers around the world we are bringing you live team coverage of the war let's give you an update another batch of Israeli hostages that were being held by Hamas are expected to be released within the next few hours it is 4 p.m this is when the process begins we are getting word from Egypt that 13 Israelis are expected to be released 9 are expected to be children one of them 4-year-old Avigar Eden her family has confirmed this she was one of the hostages that US President Biden pushed to release American National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has just told NBC's Meet the Press to be one of those released Egypt also says that 39 more Palestinians jailed on terrorism charges are expected to be released as well 2- Hamas freed 13 hostages last night after an agonizing 7 hour delay plus 4 ties released Sharon Avigdori and her daughter Noam siblings Alma and Noam Or Kila Rotem without her mother Raya remember one of the conditions of the truce was not to separate mothers from their children as they can't find Raya Shiri Weiss and her daughter Noga Adi Shoham and her daughter Yael and Nave Maya Regev Shoshan Haran and Emily Hand 3- Emily Hand she's Irish Israeli but the Irish Prime Minister just could not bring himself to condemn Hamas at all for abducting and keeping one of his own citizens a 9-year-old girl hostage for 50 plus days and that had Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen bringing the Irish Ambassador to Israel to his office 4- Within the past hour Houtti Rebels have hijacked a tanker in the Gulf of Oman owned by an Israeli flying the flag of Liberia 5- There was a report that Vladimir Putin personally reached out to Hamas to get one Russian Israeli citizen freed separate from the Israelis we have live team coverage of all of the angles in this story I want to first go to our studio guest Amir Avivy Israel's Israeli Defense and Security for the IDSF he's also a former Deputy Commander of the Gaza Strip Division for the IDF 13 are expected to be released 39 Palestinian prisoners are also expected to be released at the same time as part of this deal this is the third time this has happened 39 Palestinian prisoners are expected to be released they're not exactly someone who went through a red light Of course not we're talking about convicted terrorists trying to commit a terror attack not always succeeded but yes, we're talking about terrorists this is not our case where we have citizens being abducted from their homes just to give you an idea of what some of these terrorists the ones who were released that have been released in the past couple of two days 39 Palestinians Nafoz Hamad stabbed her neighbor with a foot long knife in 2021 when she was 14 years old another woman attempted to murder a police officer and tried to shoot a point blank range shot to Israelis in a car what's the security risk why do that calculation to allow 39 every day 39 for three days, it's almost 120, 150 Palestinian prisoners total what's the security risk of doing that so I think the real security issue is not necessarily justice terrorists themselves which are mostly people who committed the terror attacks on their children women it's about what will happen especially in the west back in Judea and Samaria and is Jerusalem what kind of you know a sentiment we'll see in the streets and this might ignite the streets to start and be more proactive we have seen that overall since they were started we are managing to control what's going on in Judea and Samaria and this we move forward might change and we need to follow this and be very very careful and make sure that the police and the army track the 39 150 and also see what's going on in the streets what you're seeing live in the picture there in the right hand side of your screen is ofare prison this is a prison that's right inside the Judea Samaria in the west bank as many call it this is where they will be released so our viewers around the world understand what happens around this time Israeli officials are giving a list of the 39 that they've already been giving the list and then they will scan the list to determine if there's anyone that's severely problematic and those that are not considered severely problematic are then allowed to then be released when they're released as they have been in the past two days, if I may say so what ends up happening is that they go back to the communities and they're considered heroes that there's candy thrown at them as flags are flown which is against the law within Israel proper but not against the law there right, so Hamas are becoming the big heroes of the Palestinians also in the Palestinian Authority we have seen Hamas gaining a lot of strength in the last 10, 15 years this is why Abbas didn't hold any elections all these years, he knew that he would lose to Hamas a becoming real heroes and this might be a huge problem for us going forward especially looking at the day after Abu Mazen which is probably not a long time from now taking consideration that the guy is around 90 so it will be interesting to see how this evolves and this support, the growing support for Hamas You ran the Gaza Strip Division for the IDF I just have one question in terms of now that the IDF is within Gaza City there has been a truce pause, I want to call it a truce a pause for 4 days does this allow the IDF to now get better indications to how to work from here on in once the truce is complete well this truce is working for Hamas they are rebuilding their forces they are recovering from the massive attack we were just about to really storm the last stronghold inside the northern part of the Gaza Strip mostly in the area of Sajair in the eastern Jibalia all the terrorists went inside there we surrounded Jibalia we were ready to go in and then there was a pause not exactly the best moment for the IDF but now we have to renew this once the government says to the army you can move forward we have to finish taking over the northern part of the Gaza Strip removing our forces south to take over South Gaza before we move on one final question about this this also gives the opportunity for Hamas to also take a breather and figure out where they are yes definitely it helps a lot Hamas this will make fighting harder for the IDF but I think we can overcome it the point is not pushing this pause more and more because the more time Hamas gains it will be harder it will be for the IDF to renew the attack and be effective Hamas is recovering it was on the run inside the tunnels with no understanding really what's going on and now they're organizing and this will have replications I mean it's obvious that it's going to be harder I'm going to have you hold on one second we're going to continue our live team coverage from I-24 news correspondent Zach Anders he's joining us now from southern Israel not too far away from the Gaza border yeah the big news that we're waiting tonight again 13 more hostages set to be released after these Palestinian prisoners are released as you were just speaking about the news out of Washington in the last hour is that the Biden administration expects potentially one of the American hostages is going to be included in the release tonight of course there was high drama last night with the delays the families as those delays were taking place and it was a very nerve racking experience for them they were very thankful and ecstatic to see that it could be resolved I've reached out to several sources to see where we stand at this hour and as far as everyone can tell it does appear that things are moving the way they should but they were reserved in the fact that there could be additional hiccups waiting to see what develops in the next few hours great Zach Andrews joining us live now from southern Israel thanks so much for the live team coverage as we continue on now moving on one of those released on Friday 9 year old Ahad Mounder from the Kibbutz of near Oz together with his mother Karen Mounder and his grandmother Rujy Mounder were all released this was on Friday Ahad was then transferred by an IAF helicopter to a hospital to undergo some medical assessment what you're going to hear is pretty amazing so this is a recording of Ahad Mounder during that helicopter flight now his family said that they agreed to this they wanted everyone to see a good smiling young boy take a look I mean he was so smiling he's having a joyous time these are the kind of moments that everyone wants to have from those who are coming out those hostages that are being released in fact Emily Francis, I-24 news correspondent from Tel Aviv Emily these are the scenes that's what the family wants they want these happy moments of course the families want these happy moments and you know listen Albert as you've seen you've been live on the air even from the first night the happy moments are also dimmed by the sad moments let's not forget that yesterday the release of the hostages was delayed because Hamas was throwing all kinds of tactics to really test our patients as well as their medical well-being it got delayed and delayed and delayed and then there was word today that even though they released the list of the 13 hostages that there should be releasing around now earlier today that was going to be delayed but now it does look like it is going according to plan we of course are not releasing those names yet the families know who they are also the 39 Palestinian hostages I mean not hostages Palestinians that are going to be release of the fact that people are being let out but also the low lows let's not forget what happened yesterday we have families that you know that were again hostages that were separated from their families which was not the conditions in fact this one just literally blew over toward me this is one example we know Yahel Navey and Adi Shoham were released yesterday but their father is still in captivity so you know the fact of the matter is they are releasing children without their parents so this is still a psychological nightmare it's still a nightmare and you know people are starting to gather more people will be coming of course later this evening and we just have to hope and pray that these 13 hostages are going to be let out on time and they are going to continue to be okay we've also of course heard from the doctors at Shiba Medical Center saying that their condition seems to be stable so we have to just continue to hope and pray that hostages will be released one by one and at some point you know so it's a short term panacea but it is by far not the end of this nightmare in fact you know Emily yesterday after work I took a scooter ride around the city the city was empty on a Saturday night usually people are riding out there trying to enjoy and granted it's been a war now for seven weeks but people try to make a light of their days and it was empty everyone was glued to the TV set to see who the next batch were but interesting enough where you were standing where you're standing right now was packed because people just wanted to be part of something to help unify this country I find that to be very impressive that's absolutely true and you're right Albert it's like you know people are you know in times of crisis we're seeing how Israel is pulled together from volunteering everybody is called into action this is the soul of the Jewish people and even just being here gives a sense of solace because it's such a lonely feeling it's I think we're all experiencing it no matter how directly we are impacted you know by the situation it's all this extreme extreme loneliness this torment this fear this psychological warfare that is affecting all of us so you're absolutely right it's a it's a weird even with the ceasefire you're right people are out there's more traffic right now on the street but people are glued to the television sets and you know going through their own journeys of this emotional roller coaster that we've all been on even as journalists that you know trying to remain objective it's very very difficult Emily Francis joining us live from the hostage and missing square in Tel Aviv thanks so much for joining us with our live team coverage. I want to move now to Rabbi Dr. Kenneth Brander he's the president Rosheshiva of Orta Raut Stone and he's joining us from Jerusalem thanks so much for joining us Rabbi. Rabbi it's something that Emily mentioned about the soul of the Jewish people being united when something like this happens how do you from when I how does the Jewish people move on you've had seven fallen soldiers from the larger network of the fall killed in action how does someone like you convey that to the Jewish people how do you move on well thank you Albert for allowing me to discuss my courageous students yes we've had seven fallen soldiers were students and 23 from the extended Orta Raut Stone family who have lost a sibling a father or a husband and it's really obviously a painful experience that we're all going through throughout Israel but I think it speaks to first of all the families and the students who are dedicated and committed to the future of the Jewish people they chose on their own to be in commando units it's the ethos many times of our students who attend our high schools they want to be in the most advanced combat units even though they know that there's risk for that and their parents as one of the parents told me my son didn't fall in war in war he didn't fall in battle he was he rose in battle he was elevated by the opportunity to protect the Jewish people and you also see the same thing when it comes to other verse students one of the students of Levesh Morella I see you're showing you know Yonatan Samo decided to dedicate all of his organs he saved six people I spoke to I spoke to his mother and she was telling me that she was able to hear her son's heart in the body of a 50 year old that he had saved so they're saving us Jews in Israel and Jews around the world through their courageous actions and even posthumously some of them have saved have saved other people and I think that's the message that Orturba Stone relates and believes in and that is the responsibility to engage in helping to protect and guarantee the eternality of the Jewish people and it's not just that it's something that you also see from the Jewish community worldwide I mean I can't I belong to a number of groups all around the world and what I notice about all of them it's not about what denomination you belong to what rabbi you follow whether you're Mizrahi, Ashkenaz Dati, I mean religious and not religious the idea You're 100% right Albert your point is so beautiful I mean you had hundreds of thousands of Jews that came together in Washington DC it was a large North American Jewish community that was there and they came from all stripes and it just reminds us that we are one people and for a small period of time before this war we forgot about that but we've come together and we recognize the fact and when I go to the to the crowd when I go to the various areas in which our students are fighting either the North and the South I share with them that under the leadership of the Jewish federations of North America and the leadership of the president's conference of major Jewish organizations hundreds of thousands of Jews came together to support them it gives them strength because they realize they're not just here to protect the Jews in Israel they know they're here to protect the Jews around the world and the fact that we've all come together and share the idea of together we will triumph is really something that is important to our soldiers both in the North and in the South my final question to you is about the fact that it's from a larger perspective also I was driving through South Florida recently and I just saw all over on Baptist churches evangelical Christian churches on many of the Armenian and Roman Catholic churches I was in former Soviet Georgia the Republic of Georgia and the Christian Orthodox there who support Israel this is a bigger picture than just Jews you're 100% right and I'm so happy you mentioned South Florida because I was a rabbi in Boca Raton Florida for 15 years so South Florida is a second home not as great as Jerusalem but a wonderful place and it's true Bishop Robert Stearns and others who I've had a personal relationship with Pastor Hage and they speak truth to power by speaking about their commitment to the state of Israel and to the Jewish people Rabbi Dr. Kenneth Brandon the president of and Roche Shiva of Orter A Stone joining us live now from Jerusalem thank you very much for joining us thank you for having me I want to go back to our studio because I wanted to ask you about the hold on we're just getting word in now that they're we're now getting word that the hostage families have just been notified that they should start moving to the hospitals all across Israel to the Sheba Hospital in Israel we're being told now they have been notified to start heading there so we're of course the process seems like the process has begun Amir, this is the process we saw now for 3 days around this time the families get notified and then they go yeah I hope it will work better than last night we weren't sure this is going to happen anymore and we really make sure that Hamas takes to the deal exactly as it is it doesn't try to extend it to more days because if they do this is a red line this is a red line that will require Israel to go back to operation and stop negotiating with them at least for a while so I think they got the idea that we're not going to really... what's the idea of the ploy what's the idea of this right you didn't do this right I'm going to cross the T dot the I you didn't do this right I think they are trying to check our boundaries and whether they can manage to extend this ceasefire for a longer time they want to see if they can maybe manage to start releasing less less hostages and for more days every day they believe will bring them to the point where they maybe are able to stop the war and get a permanent ceasefire this is what they want this is the strategic goal of Hamas and look like heroes to the palestinian people look like heroes to the pro-palestinian demonstrators yeah but more important than that they want to exist they want to make sure that this doesn't end in their destruction that they stay in control and this is their win they don't care how many palestinian terrorist or citizens or the destruction they just want one thing they want to stay in charge of Gaza and rebuild themselves for the next time and this is what we cannot afford let me ask you a question since you were the former deputy commander for the IDF there in Gaza we've been told Hamas has screamed to everybody that 11,300 13,000 people have been killed how do we get accurate numbers how do we make sure in Israel every Israeli citizen has a social security number a number that we would in the US and if something were to happen we can write down exactly who, what, where and why how do we get accurate numbers it's very hard I'm sure there are many bodies under the rubbles of the houses inside the tunnels we exploded I don't think Hamas really knows exactly what are the numbers I think it will take many months to understand it after the war but we'll see until the last moment it almost didn't happen I really have that report just a moment we're going to get to it in just a moment but basically just to give everyone up to speed let me give you up to speed update as to what's happening momentarily it's now 422 eastern 422 Israeli time which is about 10 22 eastern time in New York we have been told now that families of the hostages that are expected to be released today should start making their way to the hospitals to start receiving their loved ones this is the process that has occurred now for three days and this is what is so important this hours long delay that occurred yesterday does not want to happen again Middle East correspondent Ariel Oceran now has that report until the last moment it almost didn't happen 13 Israelis, 8 children 8 mothers and a young woman along with 4 Thai nationals were released by Hamas and delivered to the Red Cross Saturday night the second stage of a hostage deal between Israel and Hamas the last minute delay caused by Hamas threatened to derail the entire agreement the occupation has not until this moment fully complied with the terms and standards of the ceasefire agreement weather concerning security breaches and firing at our people the number of aid trucks to reach northern Gaza or manipulating the names and criteria for the release of our prisoners this puts the agreement at risk but in fact no less than 200 aid trucks entered Gaza on Saturday at least 50 of them reached northern Gaza a claim confirmed by the Palestinian Red Crescent Israel said it was Hamas who didn't keep its end of the deal by splitting up families of hostages 12 year old Hilary Rotem was released without her mother Raya, while 21 year old Mayra y her brother Itai who is 18 years old remains in captivity Hamas reportedly claimed it couldn't locate the two and offered to release two elderly hostages instead of Raya and Itai Israel refused we stopped the fighting in order to execute the deal we need to make sure that the agreement is implemented if it is not we will resume the fighting after Qatar received most of the praise for the first wave of release the day before Egypt wanted to highlight its role as mediator too and having full control over the broadcast of the release doesn't hurt the swift and last minute efforts by Egyptian mediators are what brought the successful resolution of the crisis two days of hostage releases and in both it didn't happen according to plan Israeli officials warn of additional delay attempts of the third wave of hostages by Hamas who continue to hold some 200 hostages deep inside Gaza And to bring everyone up to speed in case you're just joining us here on i24 news the 13 hostages that are expected to be released they are expected to now start making their way towards the Rafar crossing in Gaza like they've been doing for the past three days now there are 13 hostages Egypt has just told the world that 13 hostages will be released 39 Palestinian prisoners will be released in exchange for the 13 one of those that are expected to leave a 4-year-old Avogail Eden she's an American this is someone that President Biden pushed hard to get released Emily Hand who's an Irish Israeli was released but it looks as though the Irish Prime Minister just could not say Hamas was a bad group that did this who are these 13 let's take a look y esta semana en news 24 Israel bajo ataque news 24 en español trae el análisis y la información de los acontecimientos de la guerra entrevistas exclusivas reportes desde la zona de guerra la reacción de los países hispanoparlantes news 24 el único medio en español llamado y conectado con la comunidad latina en Israel news 24 únicamente en i24 news especial report I'm Albert Lewitan at the i24 news headquarters in Tel Aviv welcome to our viewers around the world we are bringing you live team coverage of the war let's give you an update another batch of Israeli hostages that were being held by Hamas are expected to be released within the next few hours it is 4 pm this is when the process begins at 13 israelis are expected to be released nine are expected to be children one of them four-year-old Avigal Eddin her family has confirmed this she was one of the hostages that US President Biden pushed to release American national security advisor Jake Sullivan has just told NBC's Meet the Press that she is expected to be one of those released Egypt also says at 39 more Palestinians jailed on terrorism charges are expected to be released as well number 2 Hamas freed 13 hostages last night after an agonizing 7-hour delay plus 4 ties released Sharon Avdori and her daughter Noam siblings Alma and Noam or Kila Rotem without her mother Raya remember one of the conditions of the truce was not to separate mothers from their children but Hamas says they can't find Raya Shiri Weiss and her daughter Noga Adi Shoham and her daughter Yael and Navey Regev and Emily Hand number 3 Emily Hand is Irish Israeli but the Irish Prime Minister just could not bring himself to condemn Hamas at all for abducting and keeping one of his own citizens a 9-year-old girl hostage for 50 plus days and that had Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen summoning the Irish Ambassador to Israel to his office number 4 within the past hour Houthi rebels have hijacked the tanker in the Gulf of Oman owned by an Israeli the flying the flag of Liberia number 5 there was a report that Vladimir Putin personally reached out to Hamas to get one Russian Israeli citizen freed separate from the Israelis we have live team coverage of all of the angles in this story I want to first go to our studio guest Amir Avivi he's the director of Israel's Israeli defense and security for the IDSF he's also a former deputy commander of the Gaza Strip division for the IDF 13 are expected to be released 39 Palestinian prisoners are also expected to be released at the same time as part of this deal this is the third time this has happened the 39 Palestinian prisoners are expected to be released they are not exactly someone who went through a red light no of course not we are talking about convicted terrorists some of them try to commit a terror attack not always succeeded but yes we are talking about terrorists this is not our case where we have citizens being abducted from their homes just to give you an idea of what some of these terrorists the ones who were released that had been released in the past couple of two days 39 Palestinians Nafoz Hamad stabbed her neighbor with a foot long knife in 2021 when she was 14 years old another woman attempted to murder a police officer earlier this year there was two that tried to shoot a point blank range shot to Israelis in a car what's the security risk en relación to allow 39 every day 39 for three days it's almost 120, 150 Palestinian prisoners total what's the security risk of doing that I think the real security issue is not necessarily just these terrorists themselves which are mostly people who committed the terror attacks on their children or women it's about what will happen especially in the west back in Judea and Samaria and it's Jerusalem if you know a sentiment will see in the streets and this might ignite the streets to start and be more proactive we have seen that overall since they were started we are managing to control what's going on in Judea and Samaria and this as we move forward might change and we need to follow this and be very very careful and make sure that the police track the 39 track them and also see what's going on in the streets what you're seeing live in the picture there in the right hand side of your screen is Ofer prison, this is a prison that's right inside the JSM as many call it this is where they will be released so our viewers around the world understand what happens around this time Israeli officials are giving a list of the 39, they've already been giving the list and they will scan the list there's anyone that's severely problematic and those that are not considered severely problematic are then allowed to then be released, when they're released as they have been in the past two days if I may say so, what ends up happening is that they go back to the communities and they're considered heroes that there's candy thrown at them a mass flags are flown which is against the law within Israel proper but not against the law there becoming the big heroes of the Palestinians also in the Palestinian Authority we have seen Hamas gaining a lot of strength in the last 10, 15 years this is why Abbas didn't hold any elections all these years he knew that he would lose to Hamas but now Hamas are becoming real heroes and this might be a huge problem for us going forward especially looking at the day after Abu Mazen probably not a long time from now taking considerations that the guy is around 90 so it will be interesting to see how this evolves and this support, growing support for Hamas You ran the Gaza Strip division for the IDF, just one question in terms of now that the IDF is within Gaza City there's been a pause I want to call it a pause for four days does this allow the IDF to now get better indications of how to work from here on in once the truce is complete well this truce is working for Hamas they are rebuilding their forces they are recovering from the massive attack we were just about to really storm the last stronghold inside the northern part of the Gaza Strip mostly in the area of Sajaya in the eastern Jibalia all the terrorists went inside there we surround the Jibalia ready to go in and then there was a pause not exactly the best moment for the IDF but now we have to renew this once the government says to the army you can move forward we have to finish taking over the northern part of the Gaza Strip and started moving our forces south to take over south Gaza before we move on one final question about this also gives the opportunity for Hamas to also take a breather and figure out where they are yes definitely it helps a lot Hamas this will make fighting harder for the IDF but I think we can overcome it the point is not pushing this pause more and more because the more time Hamas gains the harder it will be for the IDF to renew the attack and be effective Hamas is recovering it was on the run inside the tunnels with no understanding really what's going on and now they're organizing and this will have repercussions I mean it's obvious that it's going to be harder Mayor Vieira, I'm going to have you hold on one second we're going to continue our live team coverage of the IDF from IDF 24 news correspondent Zach Anders, he's joining us now from southern Israel not too far away from the Gaza border Zach, go ahead yeah the big news that we're waiting tonight again 13 more hostages set to be released after these Palestinian prisoners are released as you were just speaking about the news out of Washington in the last hour is that the Biden administration expects potentially one of the American hostages is going to be included in the release tonight of course there was high drama last night with the delays we were with the families as those delays were taking place and it was a very nerve wracking experience for them they were very thankful and ecstatic to see that it could be resolved we I've reached out to several sources to see where we stand at this hour and as far as everyone can tell it does appear that things are moving the way they should but they did not they were reserved in the fact that there could be additional hiccups they're waiting to see what develops in the next few hours great Zach Anders joining us live now from southern Israel thanks so much for the live team coverage as we continue on now moving on one of those released on Friday 9 year old Ahad Munder from the Kibbutz of near Oz together with his mother Karen Munder and his grandmother Rujim Munder were all released this was on Friday Ahad was then transferred by an IAF helicopter to a hospital to undergo some medical assessment what you're going to hear is pretty amazing so this is a recording of Ahad Munder during that helicopter flight now his family said that they agreed to this they wanted everyone to see he was so smiling having a joyous time these are the kind of moments that everyone wants to have for those who are coming out those hostages that are being released in fact Emily Francis I-24 News Correspondent is continuing our live team coverage of this she's going to join us here from Tel Aviv at the Missing in Hostages Square Emily these are the scenes that's what the family wants they want these happy moments and you know listen Albert as you've seen you've been live on the air even from the first night the happy moments are also dim by the sad moments let's not forget that yesterday the release of the hostages was delayed because Hamas was throwing all kinds of tactics to really test our patients and our psychological well-being it got delayed and delayed and delayed and then there was word today that even though they released the list of the 13 hostages that they should be releasing but now earlier today that was going to be delayed but now it does look like it is going according to plan we of course are not releasing those names yet the families know who they are also the 39 palestinian hostages I mean not hostages palestinians that are going to be released from jails are known but you know people here are waiting on baited breath you know they're the high highs of the fact that people are being let out but also the low lows separated from their families which was not the conditions in fact this one just literally blew over toward me this is one example we know Yahel Navey and Adi Shoham were released yesterday but their father is still in captivity so the fact of the matter is they are releasing children without their parents so this is still a psychological nightmare it's still a nightmare and people are starting to gather more people will be coming of course later this evening and we just have to hope that hostages are going to be let out on time and they're going to continue to be okay we've also of course heard from the doctors at Shiba Medical Center saying that their condition seems to be stable so we have to just continue to hope and pray that hostages will be released one by one and at some point you know 50 is not all so it's a short term panacea but it is by far not the end of this nightmare in fact Emily yesterday after work the city was empty on a Saturday night usually people are writing out there trying to enjoy granted it's been a war now for 7 weeks but people try to make a light of their days and it was empty everyone was glued to the TV set to see who the next batch were but interesting enough where you were standing right now was packed because people just wanted to be part of something to help unify this country I found it to be very impressive that's absolutely true and you're right Albert people are in times of crisis we're seeing how Israel is pulled together from volunteering everybody is called into action this is the soul of the Jewish people and even just being here gives a sense of solace because it's such a lonely feeling I think we're all experiencing it no matter how directly we are impacted by the situation it's all this extreme loneliness this torment, this fear this warfare that is affecting all of us so you're absolutely right it's a weird even with the ceasefire you're right people are out there's more traffic right now on the street but people are glued to the television sets and you know going through their own journeys of this emotional roller coaster that we've all been on even us journalists that you know trying to remain objective it's very very difficult Emily Francis joining us live from the Hostage of Missing Square in Tel Aviv thanks so much for joining us I want to move now to Rabbi Dr. Kenneth Brander he's the president of Russia Shiva of Orta Raut Stone and he's joining us from Jerusalem thanks so much for joining us Rabbi Rabbi it's something that Emily mentioned about the soul of the Jewish people being united when something like this happens how do you from what I how does the Jewish people move on you've had seven of your students from the larger network of the Shiva Fall killed in action someone like you convey that to the Jewish people how do you move on well thank you Albert for allowing me to discuss my courageous students yes we've had seven fallen soldiers were students and 23 from the extended Orta Raut Stone family who have lost a sibling, a father or a husband and it's really obviously a painful experience that we're all going through throughout Israel but I think it speaks to first of all the families and the students who are dedicated and committed to the future of the Jewish people they chose on their own to be in commando units it's the ethos many times of our students who attend our high schools they want to be in the most advanced combat units even though they know that there's risk for that and their parents as one of the parents told me my son didn't fall in war he didn't fall in battle he was, he rose in battle he was elevated by the opportunity to protect the Jewish people and you also see the same thing when it comes to other of our students one of the students of Levesh Morella I see you're showing now Yonatan Samo decided to dedicate all of his organs he saved six people I spoke to his mother and she was telling me that she was able to hear her son's heart in the body of a 50 year old that he had saved so they're saving us Jews in Israel and Jews around the world through their courageous heroic actions and even posthumously some of them have saved have saved other people and I think that's the message that Orturba Stone relates and believes in and that is the responsibility to engage in helping to protect and guarantee the eternality of the Jewish people and it's not just that it's something that you also see from the Jewish community worldwide I belong to a number of WhatsApp groups all around the world and what I notice about all of them it's not about what denomination you belong to what rabbi you follow what ashkenaz.t I mean religious and not religious the idea your 100% right Albert your point is so beautiful I mean you had hundreds of thousands of Jews that came together in Washington DC it was a large part of the North American Jewish community that was there and they came from all stripes and it just reminds us that we are one people and for a small period of time before this war we forgot about that but we've come together and we recognize the fact and when I go to the to the crowd when I go to the various areas in which our students are fighting either the North and the South and I sit with them I study with them and I speak to them and I share with them that under the leadership of the Jewish federations of North America under the leadership of the president's conference of the Jewish federations hundreds of thousands of Jews came together to support them it gives them strength because they realize they're not just here to protect the Jews in Israel they know they're here to protect the Jews around the world and the fact that we've all come together and share this idea of together we will triumph is really something that is important to our soldiers both in the North and in the South my final question to you is about the fact that it's from a larger perspective also I was driving through South Florida recently and I just saw all over on Baptist churches Evangelical Christian churches on many of the Armenian and Roman Catholic churches I was in former Soviet Georgia the Republic of Georgia a Christian Orthodox there who support Israel this is a bigger picture than just Jews you're 100% right and I'm so happy you mentioned South Florida because I was rabbi in Bokritown, Florida for 15 years so South Florida is a second home not as great as Jerusalem but a wonderful place and it's true Bishop Robert Stearns and others who I've had a personal relationship with Pastor Hague and others they have really come to the plate and they speak truth to power by speaking about their commitment to the state of Israel and to the Jewish people Dr. Kenneth Brandon, the president and Rosh Hashiba of Oratora Stone joining us live now from Jerusalem thank you very much for joining us thank you for having me I want to go back to our studio because I wanted to ask you about hold on, we're just getting word in now we're now getting word that the hostage families have just been notified that they should start moving to the hospitals all across Israel to the Sheba Hospital in Israel we're being told now of course the process seems like the process has begun Amir, this is the process we saw now for three days around this time the families get notified and then they go yeah, I hope it will work better than last night we weren't sure this is going to happen anymore and we really need to make sure that Hamas sticks to the deal exactly as it is it doesn't try to extend it to more days because if they do this is a red line this is a red line that will require Israel to go back to operation and stop negotiating with them at least for a while so I think they got the idea that we're not going to really... what's the idea of the ploy what's the idea of this oh you didn't do this right you didn't do this right I'm gonna cross the T dot the I you didn't do this right they want to extend this ceasefire for a longer time they want to see if they can maybe manage to start releasing less less hostages and for more days every day they believe will bring them to the point where they maybe are able to completely stop the war and get a permanent ceasefire this is what they want a lot of people look like heroes to the pro-Palestinian demonstrators but more important than that they want to exist they want to make sure that this doesn't end in their destruction that they stay in control and this is their win they don't care how many Palestinian terrorists or citizens will be killed they don't care about their destruction their houses they just want one thing they want to stay in charge of Gaza let me ask you a question since you were the former deputy commander for the IDF there in Gaza we've been told Hamas has screamed to everybody that 11,313,000 people have been killed how do we get accurate numbers how do we make sure in Israel you have a I'm not an Israeli citizen but I know that every Israeli citizen has a social security number not exactly who, what, where and why how do we get accurate numbers it's very hard I'm sure there are many bodies under the rubbles of the houses inside the tunnels we exploded I don't think Hamas really knows exactly what are the numbers I think it will take many months and maybe more to understand it after the war but we'll see he's held captive by Hamas and Gaza for the past 50 days as we mentioned they finally returned to Israel after this craziness two days of hostage releases and two days that it didn't happen according to plan and now Israeli officials warn that today's wave of release is also in jeopardy so what we've done is we've asked Middle East correspondents to go and Israel also want to take a look at this and he has this report until the last moment but basically just to give everyone up to speed let me give you up to speed update as to what's happening momentarily it's now 422 eastern 422 Israeli time which is about 10-22 eastern time in New York we have been told now that the families of the hostages that are expected to be released today should start making their way to the hospitals to start receiving their loved ones this is the process that has occurred now for three days and this is what is so important this hours long delay that occurred yesterday does not want to happen again Middle East correspondents now has that report until the last moment it almost didn't happen 13 Israelis 8 children, 4 mothers and a young woman along with 4 Thai nationals were released by Hamas and delivered to the Red Cross Saturday night the second stage of a hostage deal between Israel and Hamas and the delay caused by Hamas threatened to derail the entire agreement the occupation has not until this moment fully complied with the terms and standards of the ceasefire agreement whether concerning security breaches and firing at our people the number of aid trucks to reach northern Gaza or manipulating the names and criteria for the release of our prisoners this puts the agreement at risk but in fact no less than 200 aid trucks at least 50 of them reached northern Gaza a claim confirmed by the Palestinian Red Crescent Israel said it was Hamas who didn't keep its end of the deal by splitting up families of hostages 12 year old Hilary Rotem was released without her mother, Raya while 21 year old Mayra gives brother Itai, who is 18 years old remains in captivity Hamas reportedly claimed it couldn't locate the two and offered to release two elderly hostages instead of Raya and Itai Israel refused we stopped the fighting in order to execute the deal we need to make sure that the agreement is implemented if it is not, we will resume the fighting after Qatar received most of the praise for the first wave of release the day before Egypt wanted to highlight its role as mediator too and having full control over the broadcast of the release doesn't hurt the swift and last minute efforts by Egyptian mediators are what brought the successful resolution two days of hostage releases and in both it didn't happen according to plan Israeli officials warn of additional delay attempts of the third wave of hostages by Hamas who continue to hold some 200 hostages deep inside Gaza and to bring everyone up to speed in case you're just joining us here on I-24 news the 13 hostages that are expected to be released, they are expected to now start making their way towards the Rafar crossing in Gaza what they've been doing for the past three days now there are 13 hostages, Egypt has just told the world that 13 hostages will be released 39 Palestinian prisoners will be released in exchange for the 13 one of those that are expected to leave is four year old Avigile Eden, she's an American this is someone that President Biden pushed hard to get released Emily Hand who's an Irish Israeli was released but it looks as though the Irish Prime Minister just could not say Hamas was a bad group that did this who are these 13 let's take a look