 who understood that below the engine will probably find the... In 924 news we're coming to you live from Tel Aviv and some relief tonight in Israel because 14 Israeli citizens are back in Israel after being held by terrorist in Gaza for six weeks. President Biden is speaking about that now, let's listen. We need help and to facilitate release of hostages and we know that innocent children in Gaza are suffering greatly as well because this war that Hamas has unleashed is so has such consequences. Thousands have been killed and from the earliest days of this crisis I've worked closely with President Sisi of Egypt, the Israeli government, King Abdullah of Jordan and leaders throughout the region to expand the delivery of critical humanitarian assistance to help innocent Palestinians in need. We're not part of Hamas. Under this deal fighting in Gaza has now been paused for three days. Over that time 58 hostages have been released including the Thai, Filipino and Russian nationals. Dozens of families have been reunited and we worked urgently, urgently to take advantage of the pause to surge aid into Gaza. We've moved approximately 200 aid trucks into Gaza each day loaded with food, water, medicine, fuel and cooking gas. More is needed but this deal is delivering life-saving results. Critically made today is going in and hostages are coming out and this deal is structured so that it can be extended to keep building on these results. That's my goal, that's our goal to keep this pause going beyond tomorrow so that we can continue to see more hostages come out and surge more humanitarian relief into those in need in Gaza. We've seen this is the day-by-day approach hour-by-hour process and nothing is guaranteed and nothing is being taken for granted. But the proof that this is working and worth pursuing further is in every smile and every grateful tear we see on the faces of those families who are finally getting back together again. And the proof is a labigail. More than 20 other children, 18 years and younger, have been released. They've been released through this deal as well. They've endured a terrible ordeal and they can now begin a long journey toward healing. And I'm going to continue working with the Emir of Qatar, President C.C. of Egypt and Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel to do everything possible to see the hostages or to freed all the hostages. I'm grateful for the personal partnership as we've pursued this deal from each of those when I just mentioned. And as we've worked together to see all this implemented and now to try to extend it further, I'll continue working with all our partners to take the hard but necessary steps to build an integrated and more prosperous and more peaceful future in the region. A two-state solution is the only way to guarantee the long-term security of both Israelis and Palestinian people. To make sure Israel and Palestinians alike live in equal measure of freedom and dignity. We'll not give up on working toward that goal. But thank you very much. But thank God she's home. A little shot. I just can't imagine the enjoyment and I just, I wish I were there to hold her. Mr. President, do you have an update on the other Americans for being held in any sense as to when they would be released? We are hopeful, but I don't have anything firmly to tell you at this moment. Sir, do you expect that if you are able to use this momentum to extend the pause, have you extracted any guarantees about proof of life for other hostages? Or do you have an expectation of how much longer you could push this pause? Well, look, you know the deal calls for every 10 hostages released to extend another day. So I'm hopeful this is not the end that's going to continue. But we don't know. And but I get a sense that all the players in the region, even the neighbors who aren't and have been directly involved for now, we're looking for a way to end this so the hostages are all released. And Hamas is is completely, how can I say it, no longer in control of any portion of Gaza. Do they have control of all of the hostages or there's still other militant groups that you have to deal with? We think there are probably other militant groups that we're not certain. Mr. President, Mr. President, how is Abigail doing? What's her physical condition? Do you have any information? I haven't gotten that information. I just wanted to let you know immediately they were going across into Egypt, as you recall. That was rude. But an older non-American elderly woman is very sick and was in need of immediate medical help. So they arranged to cross directly into Israel to be able to take her to a hospital. All I know is that she has been held. I don't know. I haven't seen a photograph. I've just put in communication with my team. But she is safely ensconced in Israel. But there's a lot more work to be done. How many days would you like to see the possible on board? I would like to see us move to a point where we were able to, well, let me put this way. I'd like to see the pause go on as long as prisoners kept coming out. All right. Thank you all so very much. I know we have to call you. I know you say, what's he calling me with only 10 minutes or so? I said, that's a notice I get. Because we didn't know I didn't want to be having this press conference if they weren't physically, even when they were in the Red Cross ambulance, I didn't want to do it because they were not out. They were still in Gaza. So I don't thank you enough. But thanks for your patience. I know. All right. Okay. Happy holidays to you guys. Oh, there we are. A smile from President Biden there. Thank God she's home. That's what he had to say about Abigail Dan. She's just turned four and she is now back in Israel. One of the hostages, Abigail holds Israeli and American citizenship. She's now back home. Tragically, she won't be reunited with her parents. Both of her parents were murdered by Hamas terrorists. Her brother and sister are alive. And she will be taken to one of the three hospitals in Israel tonight. Well, our Zach Andrews is in southern Israel with the latest Zach. What's happening? We're south of Afakim and we're expecting that young American hostage that was released to travel on this road behind me with about a dozen other hostages. You can see the crowd has turned into it's become somewhat of an event. This is Israeli patriotism on display as roughly 100 people have stood out on the side of the road. They're anticipating the arrival of these hostages inside a convoy that's going to be heavily guarded by special forces on this journey to Hatsarim Air Base, where they will then board helicopters after a brief rest. They're going to get the chance for a shower and a change of clothes. And then they'll board those helicopters and fly north towards your direction in Tel Aviv and finally get the chance to reunite with their families. But before they do so, these people are going to give them a nice send-off and their well wishes. Wow, a warm welcome indeed. And the whole country has just been praying for a little Avigal, haven't they? I can tell you the emotions here. Every single car that drives by blows its horn. All of the eyes across the road, the young and the old, they're all filled with tears. People are so emotional right now. Just the chance. They're not going to get a very good view of the people inside the vehicles. I don't think they really need that. They just want a moment. They just want themselves to be seen so that these hostages, as they drive past, know how much they're loved. Incredible and wonderful to see and indeed so different to what we saw with the other hostages being released in those red cross vans from Gaza. And we saw them being jeered, stones thrown at them in some cases. This is going to be such a relief for their eyes, isn't it? A huge relief. And that convoy, we're expecting, should be here in any moment. This is just one part of the journey, right? It's going to be quite a long ways till they reach you. But for now, they're supposedly moments away. All right, Zach, thank you very much. Zach Andrews there. Lots of Israelis have turned out to welcome the hostages home because they are now back in Israel. There we are. We can see Daphna. That's 15-year-old Daphna Elia Kim, her and her sister Ella. There we are. Wow, what a sight that will be for her mother Mayan, who's just been through absolute torture over the past six weeks. Daphna's coming home with her little sister Ella. Wow, that just gives us all chills, doesn't it, to see that? These children, we feel like we know them so well. Here's that we can see. We can see little boys. Is that Tal? I'm not sure. That might be Tal Goldstein. Might be Tal Goldstein. All these children, they were kidnapped from their homes, tragically had family members murdered. We don't know what kind of violence they've witnessed. We don't know how they've been treated by terrorists in Gaza. But the good news is they are now home. They are in Israel, and they will be reunited with whatever family members they have left. So moving, so moving, these rare moments of joy. I think the whole state of Israel really needs that after the national trauma that we've gone through on that October 7th. After all the agony, all the suffering, to see some relief, some joy for the families, but really it's a national joy to see some families being reunited, some small children returning to their homes safely after being captured by these animals. It's extremely moving for every Israeli. I think everyone that watches these images right now. Okay, well let's see some more scenes. I suspect of celebration. Emily Francis is with some of the families and their supporters. Emily, some rare good news. Those kids, those Israeli citizens, they're back in Israel tonight. It is such good news and such heartwarming news. And you can really see, last night there were thousands of thousands of people here. Tonight, much more subdued because everybody is glued to the television and watching this miracle unfold before our very eyes of the hostages that are now returning home. A little bit more information about some of the hostages that are being returned. I do want to mention, you know, Yotam Chaim who I've interviewed, his mother Iris Chaim not too long ago who suffers from anxiety. He's in a heavy metal band and he is amongst the returnees. Obviously the Brodette's family, Hagar, Ophria Uval-Oria from Kfar-Aza as well. As Abihai, husband and father, was defending the Kibbutz as his family was taken hostage. Obviously we're all talking about Abihail Edan who just tragically lost both of her parents, not even aware that she lost her parents. So obviously this is going to touch on a lot of people's heartstrings. Not only is she coming home but also having to come home and having to face another trauma. So the list goes on and on of these amazing people that the whole world, not only in Israel but the whole world has been praying for. You can see there are still people here. There have been prayer circles throughout the night, us singing, people really hanging out trying to lend support. But a more subdued environment as like you said and like we're seeing all of this, all these images unfolding and a great big homecoming. But again let's not forget we still have well over 100 hostages, men that have not been released that we're all praying for. So of course it is, it's exciting but it's also bittersweet because we cannot forget the rest of the hostages that are still in Gaza at this time. And another rare note of good news, a rare positive here Emily, is that this time no families have been broken up. Thank goodness because we know you know the hope was just mixed with trauma yesterday after hours and hours of delays thinking that it wouldn't happen. And then to take people away from their families was just heart wrenching. So at least there's a little bit of a reprieve and families have been kept together this evening. And of course we have to remember that many families will not be seeing their loved ones tonight or indeed tomorrow lots of people will remain in captivity. We don't know when they'll be home. Yeah that's right we just have to keep praying that we will get all the hostages home. We know that the spirit here in Israel is not going to give up till every hostage comes home. Yeah all right thank you so much Emily, Emily Francis there. Well all of the hostages will be taken straight to medical facilities across the country. Of course they've been through a very traumatic ordeal. We're talking about young children and elderly people as well. Our P.S. Dekalbach is at one of the hospitals, the Schneider Children's Hospital. P.R. staff on alert there are waiting for the children to arrive. All right Laurie well they've been preparing for quite a while to receive those hostages. At least part of them tonight. We do know that the hostages are in the hands of the Israeli army which means that they are now in Israel and the last leg of their journey out from Gaza on the way back home is to be transported via helicopters to those hospitals that have been chosen to receive them. We do speak about Schneider Medical Center where we're at right now. Also the Shiba Hospital and also Wolfson hospitals those are the three hospitals that will receive those hostages but we do also hear that one elderly woman, woman who is critically injured has already been brought to Soroka Medical Center in Rashiba which is located in the south of Israel because she's being treated there right now. Once those hostages arrive here to Schneider and those two other hospitals here in the center of Israel they will of course be receiving also medical treatment both physically and also psychologically and this will also be the place where they will see their families for the first time. The families have of course been notified they have been asked to come to those hospitals and this is where they will see their loved ones for the first time again after seven weeks and as you can see here behind me the hospital team has already been setting up an area well later the those who have been treating or who will be treating those hostages will speak to the press about their condition. What we've been hearing from for example the first round of hostages that was released on Friday has also been brought or many of them have been brought to Schneider Medical Center is that those who were here on Friday they were all in a good at least physical condition but of course lawyers do speak about seven weeks of captivity we do speak about severe and serious trauma and therefore they will be received there by medical doctors but of course also by a team of experts in psychology, psychiatry especially when we speak about children who might not have even grasped what have happened to them we do need to be of course very very careful and very very sensitive what we've been hearing from also other hospitals is that it is very important to go according to their pace to speak to them and their pace and to let them open up in the pace that they put forward now here in the Schneider Medical Center everything is prepared and we are waiting for that helicopter to take off and to arrive to the hospital here there are also many journalists waiting but we do not really expect to see the families or the hostages themselves because again this is a very very obviously sensitive issue privacy is very very important so we do not really expect to see the hostages or the families here but the families are arriving now and so will the hostages do as well we are speaking about a matter of hours only we're waiting for that helicopter to depart from southern asron to really arrive here this is again one of only three hospitals that will be receiving the hostages the roca medical center in the south has already received one critically injured elderly woman from that round of hostages that were released just now and here everyone is really waiting for them to come including of course the families who are waiting here behind the the coast of course doors to receive their loved ones again after seven incredibly tense weeks and the tension isn't over yet because what we've been also hearing from families in recent weeks is that they will be relieved only once their loved ones are really back and once they can actually really hug them which is only a matter of hours as we believe right now all right pia thank you very much pia segelbach is at the schneider children's hospital where medical staff are on alert waiting for the helicopter to bring the now freed hostages to them for medical treatment 14 israeli citizens back in israel tonight including nine children all right well with us now ramy igra he's the former head of the mosads missing in action unit ramy thanks for being with us some rare good news then your reaction to the fact that nine children back in israel tonight 14 israeli citizens in total yes very good news but we should all remember the price that israel is paying for these for this good news israel at the end of the game must eradicate the hamas we can't continue living with the hamas and if tomorrow we don't get any more if the day after tomorrow there are no more hostages released we'll go back i hope we'll go back into fighting and i would imagine at the end of the day the more we pressure the hamas the closer we are to sinwar's neck the more hostages we will see and the more releases we will see rescues we will see from them so hamas has relayed on some parts of the deal already hasn't it it hasn't allowed the red cross to access the remaining hostages nor has it kept family members together we saw yesterday for example a mother and a daughter separated and a brother and a sister i mean does israel have any leverage at all when it comes to stopping them from doing that again i don't think that really did hamas reneged on the deal with the vis-a-vis the question of the red cross i i i heard netanyahu saying it's part of the deal i i know the hamas there is no way hamas would agree to that it's not in their resume they don't let the red cross go anywhere and imagine they would this would open a possibility for israel to find these hostages and try to rescue them via military where via military means what we do what they have done is they haven't stuck to the deal vis-a-vis the question of families and connecting mothers and daughters etc etc and they're saying and that could be right that they don't know what the other part of the family is because they don't have all the hostages they have some of the hostages most of the hostages some are with the jihad and some are with families with the crime or mafia kind of families in the Gaza Strip well hila one of the hostages hila hotem who's 12 she says that she was with her mother until two days ago and they were separated so do you think this is all part of the psychological warfare that hamas is deploying against israel hamas is deploying a psychological warfare against israel is trying to show the neighborhood the middle east that even though it was hit very hard they're winning the war they are they are manipulating israel and not the other way and if you consider all the things that they have done and they're not far from the truth now imagine one of the things that is happening and none of us are really focusing on is the fact that every day we released somewhat 40 criminals or murderers or murderers to be to the west bank no murderers released no murderers are being freed as part of the deal i said murderers to be i didn't say people with blood in their heads people who who will be or tried to be or were on the way and these people are raising raising the support for the hamas in the west bank and that you can see for what happened yesterday in tulkarem where they executed two palestinians for what they think is helping israel and in a very brutal way they are uh they're manipulating us and this is all because of israeli public sentiment to have the hostages as soon as possible back home well are you worried about do you think that we should be concerned about that are we likely to see a spate of terrorist attacks attempted terrorist attacks in jerusalem uh on the west bank yes this is another another front we have two fronts today the hezbollah and the hamas and the west bank we are not listening to what's happening there but there is a lot of turmoil in the west bank daily if the daily daily skirmishes between the israeli defense forces and and hamas operatives and this might might spur into a much larger thing that we all should be worried about this is part of the deal now i want to say one more thing now remember go back to the gilad shalit deal we released in the gilad shalit the murderers that executed whatever executed the 7th of october and by releasing these people today to the west bank god knows who we're releasing in the future god knows if we're not going to see the same people in five seven years do you think there's a difference though because this time i mean i know they are uh they have attempted terrorist attacks um or have in some cases actually uh gone ahead and stabbed people or attempted bombings um but but are they the same caliber as the you know the hard and murderers and terrorists that we saw released back in 2011 in exchange for gilad shalit well you never know you never know and one thing that we've learned on the 7th of october is that you can't feed the dragon and and and make him docile at the end of the day the dragon does not change his nature and it comes the nature comes out and uh one of the things that we should all worry about is these releases and future releases it might come around when they want to release let's say soldiers that are hostages today in in the chamas's hand the answer to all of this in my mind is continuing the eradication of the chamas this is the real answer to the gilad's problem at the end of the day we can't have the chamas or the khizballah or any such organization on our border like no other country can have and because of that once we achieve that you will see a release of everyone uh i in my mind this deal as happy as it is for everyone in israel is a premature deal and if we waited several more weeks we would have seen a different deal look at what they've done today today they have they have released our hostages in the gaza city gaza city is occupied by israeli army by the israeli army and nonetheless with their chutzpah they release uh the hostages there in order to show their the arab world that they're there they're continuing fighting and nothing has happened to them i see so you think that that is uh that's a strategy to to show that they are still in control despite the the fact that the idf says it is in control yes and i've done this i mean if you were if you were watching al jazeera this evening you would have thought that nothing happened to the gaza to the gaza to gaza city and in reality gaza city is no more all right rami agar great to talk to you thank you very much indeed rami great he's the former head of the mosads missing in action unit and so just to update you then 14 israeli citizens they're back in israel tonight on their way to hospital as we speak nine children among them elderly lady elma she's she's been taken ill and has had to go elma abraham that's her name she's had to go for medical treatment quickly guy again extremely moving to see those images going back to president biden speaking about abigail saying i wish i was there to hold her we can only imagine whether there was someone to hold her there for over 50 days this orphan this four years old orphan uh alone in in gaza it's unimaginable uh we do hope that one of the the elderly the uh one of the mothers was was there and she was not by herself in captivity it's just that right because she was with the she was with the brodez family right they have three kids five year old ten year old nine year olds um and and avigar was actually with them wasn't she at the time yeah but we don't know in captivity and obviously that's uh heart wrenching to just imagine that situation we also saw the the sisters elah and dafna and the akim also who had to view their family members being murdered in front of their eyes whether they even have had any time to understand what happened to them to their family to mourn that was tom out right he was the teenage boy who they used to lure out families from their homes and then tom out uh was was murdered as well and they they saw that the girls all right i don't know what they see so many uh tragedies there um but going back to biden and i think some important things that he said he couldn't keep the smile of his face could he well i i think that was a special effort and and i hope the you know i really do believe that the uh while uh and poor abigael and her brothers are orphaned that the world will take care of them i think yeah it's it's it's it's beautiful to see that look at this guy there's only minute now the convoy is two minutes away a convoy of vehicles carrying the 14 hostages sorry 13 because the israeli russian citizen has gone with the thai citizens via rafa these 13 all women and children they came through the carny crossing um so we can see well wishes on the side of the road zaki there i am and i believe that we are either seeing the anticipatory first round of vehicles yeah this is just a few of the part of the security detail and we have a source ahead of us that says they are still on their way so they've cleared the road somewhat and we're still anticipating that they're just a few moments away they're coming down the highway out there we can see lots of well wishes more people have gathered with their israeli flags everybody wants to be there to welcome the hostages home 13 israeli women and children on their way home they're going to get in a helicopter and be taken straight to one of three hospitals in central israel where they will receive immediate medical treatment but there we can see people just want to be there don't they like they want to be part of this and they want uh the hostages to have a warm welcome and that's we've spoken to a few of them and that's really all that they're here for is just to show the love we're seeing some more this is going to be a procession of several special forces vehicle i believe that's what you're seeing now or potentially just some more military equipment yeah that looks like just some more uh heavy equipment have no real word that they obviously they want to secure this route so they haven't released the details or shared any sort of information as to when they're coming but i'm sure you can hear the traffic it's not every car that comes by blows their horn the people across the road they play music there's a lot of children and it really it strikes you how many children across the road in this community that on october 7th was under threat they were under fire these children that are out there waving flags and anticipating this moment very well could be one of the kids in the van that they're about to drive past it it's so remarkable it really is this is uh you know this is uh israeli history in the making isn't it everybody will remember where they were on this day uh when these latest hostages were freed who knows what they have been through in the past six seven weeks held by terrorist groups in gaza after witnessing unimaginable scenes of cruelty and violence in their homes that saturday morning that shabbat on october 7th when they awoke to find thousands of Hamas terrorists had breached the border and made their way into israel savagely massacring civilians families all sorts of atrocities committed against those innocent people throughout the day but now some relief for israel because some of the hostages 40 13 women and children in a convoy set to drive past any moment now among them young avigail avigal morey dan she just turned four she's an orphan both her parents were murdered here we go here's the here's the convoy coming now i believe it does appear there we go to the convoy here we go it does appear to be the convoy yes wonderful and here's some of the vans now this appears to be them here are the hostages they are free they are home there we go four mini vans inside those mini vans 13 israeli women and children dafna's home ella's home agam is home gal is home tal is home of free you and we hope many many more will join them but for now these are the people who are back in israel they have suffered unspeakably over the past few weeks but tonight their recovery begins they will be taken to hospital to have medical treatment they will be reunited with the family members who are still with us our wonderful scenes much needed guys who are still with me in the studio and i just wanted to point out the difference with the red cross okay because the red cross seem to be parading them around like trophies everybody looking in the windows you can see this is much more dignified isn't it with the these are straggler israelis who heard that the hostages are on their way and and and wanted to show them some love after what they've been through to be the first smiley faces that they encounter really just a glimpse of the amount of love that these people will be getting in the in the coming days i'll tell you another story that is just really uh again just miraculous story uh one of the israeli ministers spoke today ariel buso and he says that he met yesterday with adina moshe she is one of the first hostages oh she's the lady who slapped away the terrorist hand right uh that was released 72 years old and listen to this story because when he met her she told him about the story of her release and actually when the hamas terrorist told her that she's going on the van and she's about to be released she argued she said i'm not going on i'm not leaving there's an older woman here in a much difficult much more serious state take her leave me here i want i want to stay so that she can go wait a minute who are we looking at here oh looking at some of the families at one of the hospitals wow okay that is um the israeli russian citizen who's going with the the tai hostages he went via the raffa crossing uh ronnie he's called he was taken from the uh ronnie cowboy he was taken from the uh the nova music festival um he was kidnapped from rayim and you were pointing out guy that is interesting to note the the differences because he's being held in the south and we gives us a clue perhaps about where the others yeah and not just the significance of uh hamas showing that it has presence in the central part of the gaza strip we see that the hostages that were taken from the south from kibbutz perry from near oz in and the ash call region were uh released through the raffa crossing in the southern tip of the gaza strip while these hostages that were taken from nacho laws much more to the north are being released in in in a similar area just shows that not all the hostages have been taken to the southern part of the gaza strip it is still possible that others are in areas close to where the idf is and and and that is i think interesting and reassuring perhaps for the israeli officials abby pasnoe is with us uh former ambassador to france initially wonderful to see you we have some we have some rare good news tonight daphnir at home all the all the lots of other children are home nine children free tonight in israel you know it is such an emotional moment when you see those children and also evidently the others you know the waiting is of a people a whole people is waiting here it's incredible you know the the jewish solidarity is such you know that we i feel very close i don't know these people i feel very close to them as though i know them you know and i hope that we will be able to take out many more i mean whatever whatever number we can take out we should take out even if it costs us a day or two or three of truth between before we begin our operation i think that the truth should be extended because i've been taking some military men and they say the opposite they say no we've got to we've got to get back on with the job we have to destroy humas because the only reason they'll release hostages is if they're under pressure if the knife is at their neck i think that if we can liberate more hostages and that the price we have to pay is some days two three four days of truth this is worth paying we can always resume operation it doesn't make a difference if it is after four days or seven days and this is exactly what we heard from President Biden just a short while ago he wants to extend this pause but he certainly used the phrase pause and not to ceasefire to extend it for as long as more hostages can be released and this is exactly with the same line of israel a day of pause for each 10 hostages that are being released also reiterating that humas must not be able to control gaza and that is extremely important hearing that from biden and we speak about those happy images i still want to at this very moment to remind our viewers of little baby qfir bibas ten months old qfir bibas the youngest israeli to be taken by humas on that october 7 10 months old baby he's still there and we will not forget that we will not be we will not forget him until he's being released he's there here we are there he is and he's with his little he's with his big brother arielle and his mother and his father and we know tragically the father will not be released the mother and the two children we hope will be released but the father will not be considered for release with what a tragedy i think that the humas is holding this very famous baby on purpose until the last minute i think so and maybe to ask a higher price for it because the image is such and that every israeli knows this baby i think he's known around the world around the world so maybe that for the humas it's a higher price to pay who knows and we know in this propaganda game that humas is playing they're also trying to uh bizarrely pass themselves off as as uh you know having taken good care of the hostages we've seen these sickening propaganda videos where they're literally telling released captives wave keep waving uh smile you know it's important to them who are they talking to with with that you know they try they try to rebuild their image especially in the western world i mean i think that we have succeeded very much in presenting them as what they are a terrorist organization a cruel terrorist organization without any scruple and they are now trying by those images for example i saw this humas terrorist carrying an old lady you know as though if he cares about i mean it's ridiculous he may have killed her husband the same terrorist may have killed her husband i mean we have to know who we are facing we are facing a cruel terrorist organization that we have to wipe out its leadership but in due time i think when if we can get hostages let's get our hostages you think take the deal however much it costs i am not however much no no no no no i mean if it takes a few days of truth and i also don't use like guy i don't use the word ceasefire this is not a ceasefire it's impose the truth if it takes two three four more days to get 40 50 people out why not oh i spoke a few days ago with uh an israeli official who was part of the negotiating team of of ronarad and his message was clear if you have a chance to get someone out alive do so we will deal with the ramifications all right guy i remember very well the tragedy of ronarad i was in the government then we missed some opportunities to get ronarad we were not ready to pay the price then to get ronarad and he disappeared of course nobody knows who had to abandon his place it's history it's in 86 you know yes of course it's history but he had to abandon his and he was captured by amal amal was then the main Shiite organization before his bala and we were we could have gotten him and we were not ready to pay but others would say you know yaya sinwa was released as part of a deal to release uh gilad shalit yaya sinwa in my view the shalit release was a mistake i believe too high a price the price was absurd i mean it is it was a big the the price to release 1027 terrorists with blood on their head including the whole leadership of the khama this was a terrible terrible mistake and we are paying the price now so we have to be reasonable in the price we pay to release our host i think the the shalit deal first of all throws the asymmetry between israel a democratic state and that dictatorship of Hamas a murderous terror group um in israel and and i'll say this as a member of the media the media had a major impact on the release of those over 1000 uh palestinian terrorists uh from israeli prisons for that one israeli soldier israeli media has pushed for this deal almost under any circumstances just to get gilad shalit out was uh described by all as our son the son of every one of us and and it's true that israel does need to do everything possible to bring back he was held for several years our boys yes um and i'll go back to myself i i found my post on facebook from the day gilad shalit was released and and i said that day well i'm proud to be israeli today and you know what i do not regret at the time with what i knew uh being proud of that fact because israel goes to extreme lengths to bring back its boys to bring back its captives its hostages yes in retrospect it is easy to say the price was too great when we released a psychopath like ikhia sinwar who has caused israel such immense damage after saving his life twice i think israel for such a long time i've always tried to do the right thing on you know be the the price as it may be also when it came to gaza i think now i think that now the price is reasonable i think that now when we released three terrorists for each hostages this is a reasonable price it's a balance price it is not the hundred it is not the time three are you worried when you see scenes coming out of the west bank particularly over the weekend in tulkad and where palestinians lynched two men they accused um of uh collaborating with israel they strung them up on electricity parlance horrific scenes and we saw a lot of hamas flags uh we saw a lot of uh you know that they have laura they had a survey in the west bank there's more support for the hamas in the west bank than there is in gaza you know of course i'm worried and this is why the idea of every night every night operates in judia in samaria and we arrest people and we kill terrorists because if we let things go the way they are going now then we can face a similar problem because let's face the truth the palestinian authority is absolutely unable to deal with the situation absolutely unable we have to do it ourselves and we are doing it yes it's it goes back to previous point that we mentioned earlier about some voices in the israeli political field uh saying very clearly that uh um we're we just saw over the weekend two palestinians uh being executed uh for collaborating allegedly uh with israel and there was a claim by a member of the opposition saying if this is happening under the rule of the palestinian authority how the on earth could we expect them to uh have a different rule over the gaza strip how are things going to be any different and it's a valid question yeah and you know a guy in general i think we have to wait for the day after we have to wait until we wipe out the control of hamath from the gaza strip you know you see it took us now 50 days to take control of part of the northern part of gaza not of all you see for example the hostages were liberated now come from the northern part the part where we are in so it will take time and i think we it would suggest wouldn't it that they have literally been held underground in tunnels for this whole time of course it is very difficult they were the end strikes going on around them the fighting and they those little kids little avigail three years old when she was taken hostage uh elderly people we can see i think that's uh elma we're looking at elma abraham the lady who uh i'm not sure if that's who we're looking at but uh you know elderly people a woman in her 80s and you know we're hearing that the conditions that they were held in would have been absolutely horrific of course it's hard to see how these little children will ever cover from that laura even if the physical condition let's say is relatively okay i don't know some of them not but most of them the psychological has been hit maybe for for a lifetime i mean when you are when you have when you are four years or six years or ten years old and you are in captivity of a terrorist group for a month and a half this you bear your whole life these these children will need to be treated to be followed for a long time to see to it that they are not left with this trauma for all their life and of course we know that many of them witnessed horrendous scenes of violence some of them have lost family members abigail is an orphan both her parents were murdered we don't know if she's aware of that or if she can comprehend that how do you tell her that how do you tell her that it's heartbreaking i mean really heartbreaking i mean both are those are incredible situation we are in i have never been in such a situation before i don't think the world has been in this situation before they spoke to Israeli psychologists who were meant to deal with these cases and they say as as as scientists whenever we need to deal with the situation we go to the books we learn from precedents well there's there are no precedents for cases like this of of of babies and children toddlers being taken hostage by terror group from their homes from their beds that sort of trauma just has no precedents yeah and some of them have seen their parents being killed before their eyes i mean this is something i don't know you know i you know sometimes when when the world blames us for what our action against the Hamas i asked where were you on the 7th of october or on the 8th of october when all that happened how come there was not an outcry immediately how come you did not get up and come here to show your solidarity with us on the country we are being blamed well do you think that when the world watches these images because this is the headline around the world the hostage is being released and people will see how tiny those children are you know they will because Hamas of course has also denied uh targeting civilians taking civilians hostage uh which doesn't make sense of course when they're now releasing hostages but do you think people are now going to see with their own eyes and it will hit home for them you know they did i want to give you the i don't know if we talked about that before i came in about the prime minister of ireland oh yes this idiot who says that uh she she had a nice uh your words abby not mine okay that yes i don't regret it okay well because let's just for those who haven't seen because he has been all over social media today he said if he's talking about emily hand who turned nine in captivity uh a little girl was lost a little girl has been found you know in the passive and a lot of people pointing out no tea shock prime minister she was her parents were murdered uh sorry she was taken hostage by Hamas terrorists you know and that has just been released in a deal which sees uh you know Palestinian prisoners who have tried to commit murders being released and did he understand that oh we don't know we haven't heard that we heard an outcry has he tried to clarify let's uh no no the israeli government no no is calling in the irish ambassador of course yes they have called the irish ambassador but do we have another problem i do have the tweet from uh conor mcgregor the mma fighter uh who's uh of course uh oh yes the same nationality saying uh to the prime minister she was abducted by an evil terrorist organization what is it with you and your government and you're paid for media affiliates constantly downplaying attempts to repress horrific acts that happen to children you are a disgrace the day after a stabbing of children in ireland no one paper had it on their front cover we will not forget a very clear message that not everyone in ireland really share uh those uh those views uh wanting to undermine some common sense prevails in our those evil acts both in ireland and here in israel we have to talk about the the media coverage as well i don't know if you saw reuters uh they said 13 israeli prison soldiers were released soldiers they said 13 israeli they issued a correction once again not well it goes but that may be a mistake but you also have uh many i want to be lenient towards them you're being very well we may have been a mistake well we don't need to be lenient with the sky news uh uh who corresponded to uh asked the israeli uh government spokesman elon levy uh uh about uh the uh israeli is being released versus the uh the palestinians comparing the numbers and asking whether that doesn't show that israel doesn't care about palestinian lives uh i mean the choice of photo i think it was the new york times they they they talk about a hostage release or a prisoner exchange and they're kind of equating these little kids these seven-year-olds three-year-olds four-year-olds with uh people palestinians who have been jailed for trying to stab people trying to blow up a gas canister at a bus station uh you know actually stabbing people uh leaving people with uh you know severe disabilities and putting their photos side by side it's like we're living in a parallel universe you know really also the new york times uh i i read the new york times i can see that 90 percent of the coverage is about the plight in gaza you know every story almost coming printed on the new york times on the internet of the new york times is a story about gaza what about our plight what about our hostages what about the people with lost their home those were murdered a whole nation suffering i mean there is very little about that uh meanwhile as we speak about this pause and the return of these hostages uh news out of gaza that's hamas as allegedly has given the green light to add two to four more days of pause in the fighting allowing the four days yes yes right so we've got one more day tomorrow is the last day of the four days right it won't be until friday right that's what is really depending whether it'll be two or four days uh to allow the release of more hostages well hamas apparently miraculously have managed to find more israeli hostages uh as it was uh uh as it needed to find well initially it said it would need the time it was given the time it found the time i'm hoping we're going to see raya otem among them the mother of hila certainly israel is going to insist on that yeah but by the way they were together hila and raya were together until yesterday or the day before yesterday and the hamas separated them when the agreement was the written agreement was the children be returned with their parents yeah they did they went back on that and we're also waiting to hear uh when the red cross will access the remaining hostages because a lot of people are absolutely frantic not even knowing if their loved ones are still alive yeah uh what condition they're in uh how they're being held so that is another important point that's because national security advisor jack selvin made it very clear today in his interviews that that is indeed a clause in the deal signed between israel and hamas that the red cross will have access to all the israeli hostages that are not said to be released that are to remain in gaza hamas and katar both did not mention that clause but the americans assure that this is what was signed and it is up to the red red cross and up to hamas to fulfill this clause in the deal he says there are to do so by tomorrow that is the last day of this deal so tomorrow uh red cross workers should be uh according to the deal if you believe that hamas is going to abide with what it signed yeah okay i'll be a final word yeah um you know the red cross is like an insurance policy once they have seen somebody you cannot deny that he is alive um you know yeah that was in all or in all israel's wars in the past we always insisted that the red cross see our prisoners in syria and egypt and only then did we know that they are alive and then the syrians and the egyptians had to keep them alive and this goes the same with those hostages we want to know who is alive and that the hamas keeps them alive aviv has a thank you very much indeed guys thanks to you as well and just uh reminded them the uh the good news tonight um 13 israeli women and children are home here they are elah and dafna sisters they're home uh little abigail she's home uh gal yuvail off with they you can see their little faces um they're back in israel tonight uh with their surviving family members stay tuned to i24 news we'll have all the updates for you next day stay with us this is breaking news edition i'm benisa levine coming to you live from tel aviv a collective sigh of relief in israel with confirmation a short while ago that the third group of hostages released from captivity in gaza is heading home they are in israel on the way to local hospitals the brodoch family maibah agar children offry 10 yuvail eight and oria aged four the goldstein almog family maibah khen and children agam 17 11 year old gal and tal nine 84 year old elma avraham 62 year old aviva seagull and siblings 14 year old dafna and eight year old elah el yakim and finally avigail idan she turned four a few days ago while being held hostage by khamas terrorists her parents were killed during that terror rampage in southern israel on the 7th of october avigail was abducted and has been held captive inside gaza since then when she gets to the hospital in israel she will be running into the arms of her aunt and extended family and you can actually see if you look carefully she is in that vehicle on your screen right now now three foreign hostages are also part of the group khamas handed to the red cross in recent hours and the terror group announcing it's also releasing a russian israeli hostage 25 year old ronnie krivol as a gesture to president bloody mere putin making him the first male to be freed one of the hostages 84 year old elma avraham has been airlifted to soroka hospital she is in a serious condition right now we're going to take you live to our emily frances she joins us from tel aviv at the site now known as hostage square and emily israeli officials saying 13 israeli hostages one russian israeli hostage and three foreigners have been handed over to the red cross earlier they're now in israel on their way to hospitals in the country what is the reaction there at hostage square listen a collective sigh of relief i mean for the most part today has been somewhat calm because everybody is literally at home glued to the television watching this miracle unfold but right now people are gathering inside a media tent where a former chief rabbi mayor lau is speaking and doing a very special bracha there's a Torah scroll here you can see i'm just gonna step out of the shot and you can see a little bit i know there was a big crowd but a really a time to pray this is the first time we've seen something like this it's been going on for about a half an hour they have challah they have wine and just praying and giving gratitude for you know like they said for hasham granting this opportunity to release these hostages and we're all of course continuing to pray for the hostages that are remaining in custody in gaza a little bit more information about some of the hostages that are released that just came from the hostages the missing family the hostages forum hagar brodich 39 years old a sensitive and patient soul brimming with a captivating sense of humor oh free brodich 10 years old birthday october 8 she's musical plays guitar i mean the the descriptions and the bios goes on and on and on i wish i had more time to be able to read you the just the the beautiful stories of who these people are who are coming home now to a warm embrace not only their own individual families but to the entire country that's all for now benita back to you in the studio now from tel aviv thank you very much emily francis one can only imagine what the families are going through right now now it's day three of the truce and hostage release deal broken by katar egypt and the us terms of the deal have already been broken by hamas children siblings and their parents were supposed to be freed together but early this morning 13 year old hila rottem shashani came home without a even though she says they were held captive together up until two days before she was released and 21 year old maya reggae was released on crutches without her brother itai she had been shot and wounded at the nova music festival and is today having surgery in israel now the deal is supposed to see 50 israeli children and women freed from captivity in groups during the four-day truce it also involves aid trucks being sent into gaza and the release of palestinian security prisoners women and teenagers who have tried to kill israelis after the first two groups of hostages arrived in israel over the past two days emotional reunions taking place at local hospitals look at those moments on your screen right now the nation of course is hoping to see similar scenes when the newest group of freed hostages is reunited with their loved ones so now for more we're going to be crossing to our correspondent zack and is and he joins us from close to khatirim base so the nation holding its breath obviously relieved joyful to hear the good news the next set group of hostages heading back to israel where exactly they talk us through the process right now zack well some of the images that you saw on your screen of them passing our position towards khatirim air base they're now going to arrive on the base they may have already done so but the possession was moving quite slowly because there were so many people along the road well-wishers that were waving israeli flags and the convoy slowed down was blowing their horn and it was a quite touching moment there were many people that were crying as they they saw this scene go by i was able to see inside the window of the vans and look at a few of the hostages and they were smiling they they saw the crowd they were smiling with what they saw and they were waving back at the people inside the road waving at them they're on their way to the air base now they'll arrive they'll get their first chance at a change of clothes a shower they're going to also receive further medical care we saw inside the van that there were additional staff there was what looked like idf soldiers but also doctors as well that were tending to them but as far as we have been told they don't need immediate medical attention they're still going to receive some early psychological staff will be on on hand at the base to provide some sort of debrief they're then going to board those helicopters when they feel ready and head towards hospitals in tel Aviv and that will be the moment that we saw like the last two days where they'll finally get to meet their family you'll remember that video that's all over the internet right now of them inside the hospital corridor running to to be with their loved ones that's going to be the reunification moment certainly a reunion moments the whole country is waiting to see for now thank you very much correspondent Zach Anders more to come from Zach in the coming hours and now it's a pleasure to welcome to studio a major general in the reserves Eitan Dungott former military secretary to three Israeli defense ministers and former coordinator of government activities in the Palestinian territories in the idf political commentator Daniel Sheik the former Israeli ambassador to France and our senior defense correspondent Jonathan Regev thank you gentlemen for being here what a momentous time in this war what a moment so many emotions I'm going to start with you Eitan because this latest group of hostages is on its way to hospitals they are in Israel this is a huge moment it's a collective sigh of relief your thoughts first of all a very warm and happy evening from the fact that we have the third group that is coming to Israel it was after what we faced yesterday it was it started today with something that shows like there will be some problems but at the fact they came and they came very in the short way you see idf is deployed on the north path of Gaza and it was used to bring them back what is the main one thing here is that you see here two mothers with three children another cup of brother and sister together or two sisters and you will see two elders and another civilian this is the evening of the children and above the top of it is the the child the girl that lost her parents Avigael Eitan the hearts of the nation waiting for her and she is like a symbol and it's something to come and to hug everybody together and to be on one day with a big smile on the other hand you have to remember that there is a a lot of sadness first of all we have to continue to make all the efforts to release all the other hostages doesn't matter soldiers female men other children and other men we cannot agree for such a division they are doing and we have to work for it each second as it is being now and today and tomorrow will be taken I believe a very important decision about the continuing or not for another one two three days we will see it we can talk about it later secondly don't forget everybody of us about the tragic on the 7th and we have thousands of soldiers that are deploying Gaza risking their life continue to be in readiness and they are one of the men reason that come from love from understanding for giving themselves the first step lost life of soldiers as well and they are there to help us to bring back all the others in the future we're going to unpack a lot more of what you've been talking about but talking of the children who are coming home let's go to our correspondent Pierre Steckelbach she's at the Schneider Children's Medical Center in Israel and Pierre the nation waiting to see those scenes that we saw unfolding over the weekend children being reunited with their families after all the horrors they've endured over the last seven weeks what is happening there talk us through what you are seeing and hearing at that hospital right so Benita the hospital is prepared to receive at least some of those hostages that were released tonight Schneider hospital has also received some of the first hostages that were released on Friday now they will be released so they will be delivered to three different hospitals tonight which is Wolfson and Cholon and also Sheba in Ramadan and this one Schneider here in Petah Tikva we are hearing that one severely injured elderly woman has already been brought to hospital in Bershiba because of the severity of her injuries but here in Schneider everyone is really waiting we do see a lot of journalists and of course the family members have also arrived to that hospital now I just spoke to the aunt of Davna and Ella Eliakim 15 and eight years old who have been held hostage and who we know are now on their way to that hospital they're still of course all those hostages that have been released in the south of Israel but they will get on a helicopter soon and fly here and the aunt is really waiting for them and she was full of emotions of course she was crying because she's so happy that her nieces will be back very soon she didn't had the chance to speak to them yet but she saw images of them in the south of Israel and that really made her feel of course very emotional very thankful that at least her family members are it's only a matter of hours that she will be able to really hug them but she said and this is what you are hearing from many of those family members of the hostages that of course they will not give up until the last hostages freed and that they do still feel sad for those who cannot really hug their family members yet but she emphasized how thankful she is that her nieces are back but she's also worried about their medical condition because this is something that we do not really know about and what conditions these hostages are getting back to us and this is why the first stop after the release is hospitals because here there will be examined of course physically but also psychologically doctors are waiting and also experts in psychology and also in child psychology because seven weeks of captivity of course impact a person doctors do expect them to have severe trauma especially when we speak about the children so this is why they will be receiving hospitals first of all and this is also where they will be physically be reuniting as you mentioned Benita with their families they have been notified that they should come to those hospitals that I just mentioned as I as I just mentioned some of the family members are already here and this is why only in a matter of hours we expect they will see the loved ones again and from what we hear from both this hospital also she by medical center is that some of the hostages that have been brought back yesterday and also the day before yesterday will already be able to go home but this is not where the physical or medical care stops because of course the psychological care will take a lot of time and what we've been hearing from experts is that this needs to be done in the in the hostages space especially when we speak about the children they will be accommodated by psychologists for a long period of time and that everything should be done in their own pace of course this is also very very individual and personal how these people are feeling right now but especially when we speak about children they are expected to need a lot of attention on psychological care as well and this is here now the first station if you will the first place that where they will be examined and where they will reunite with their families and everyone is waiting for that moment here Benita one can only imagine what those families are feeling right now waiting to see exactly what is going to unfold hopefully very soon you spoke about the psychological treatment there's also physical treatment we know 21 year old Maya reg if we saw her coming out she was one of the first of the hostages to have to undergo surgery she was shot at the music festival on the 7th of October we saw her on crutches 50 days later when she was freed in the early hours of that morning and we also know that she is having to have had surgery and as soon as we know her condition we will of course update you it was quite something to see a young woman coming out of captivity on crutches knowing that she was wounded on the 7th of October it's seven weeks later for now thank you to our correspondent Pierre Steckelbach from Schneider Children's Medical Center more to come from Pierre in the coming hours back to our studio and I want to pick up on the concept that we were talking about a short while ago Daniel Sheik and that is the heart-wrenching weight for the family's tears in our eyes as we saw over the weekend children running up to their relatives many of them don't even know what has happened to their families their homes their communities in the last seven weeks you have been intimately involved with the organizations helping and supporting these families what is your sense right now at this moment well first of all I have to say that I'm very happy that we didn't that they didn't have to live through the emotional roller coaster of yesterday and that things went smoothly and I hope that at the last day of this first round of agreements for exchanges of hostages against prisoners and against truce will finish smoothly and possibly we will be able to obtain more liberations if this deal is indeed extended as I hope it will be you know spending so much time with many of those families you have a feeling that you've sort of known that you're beginning to know the hostages although obviously you've never met them so you share with their joy and you share with their grief and with their excitement and you know Friday night nobody planned this it was the first day of the exchange but suddenly dozens of people of volunteers from the forum of families just congregated to our offices and we spent the evening together watching what's going on many other families came and I keep repeating the thing that touches me most and literally brings tears to my eyes often is these families both those who have a happy ending like the families of these last days who have seen were seeing their loved ones coming back but even those who do not have a happy ending and who have had to recognize that their loved ones are no longer hostages but they are killed they're grieving both of them say the same thing we will get over the first days of emotional intensity and we will come back to the forum to continue the fight and to support the other families until the very last of the hostages is is released we keep on hearing that again and again on the channel we're speaking to relatives of the hostages and they all say exactly that it's not over until all the hostages are home jonathan reggae we've been talking about the fact that the process in terms of the hostage release in the first two days there were many delays it was very frustrating and an agonizing wait for the relatives today was slightly different because the hostages came through the carny crossing why exactly is that what is your take on what is unfolding right now first whatever i'm going to say is not official there's nothing official it's just my own assessment but maybe something we can learn about the whereabouts of the hostages because that's remember there are still roughly around 170 180 hostages that need to be brought back now the those who came today came from the communities of far asa and nachal os both of them in the central part of the gaza border area and both they all came back through the carny crossing which is very close to their home it is very close it's right next to very close to far asa therefore we can assume i'm going to stop you right now because daniel higari the idea of spokesperson is about to speak today agar or free yuval and avigail have returned home avigail yidan four years old an orphaned from both her parents who were murdered by the murderous hamas terror group she's a hero and she's the living proof that fighting the hamas terror group is a justified war it is a war against a cruel and evil enemy like avigail to each of the hostages there is a relative who is murdered or being held hostage it is unbearable pain elma who was returned to us in a serious condition was immediately evacuated by helicopter to the hospital where she's being treated she was taken by idf troops from the gaza area for medical reasons idf took some of them through the central area of the gaza strip with full coordination from the egyptians four hostages among them one israelian three ties were returned through the rafa crossing in egypt after initial medical assessment they have arrived at the moment at the khatsarim air force base and from there to the hospitals where their families and loved ones await them it is an exciting day but we do not forget for one moment the hostages that are already 51 days in captivity by the murderous terror group hamas the work will not be complete until they're all returned home this is the moral duty of all idf soldiers and commanders together with the security bodies the idf ready for the next stages of the fighting the chief of staff has today approved plans for the next stages of the war a few weeks ago i updated you about a significant airstrike that the hamas attempted to hide today we can confirm that the idf and the shin bet have taken down five senior hamas operators commanders in gaza all were had key roles in the group that operated against the state of israel and also part of the october 7 massacre in recent days we have published new guidelines for the home front they include some easing of the guidelines we maintain vigilance and even at this time la kurva continue to follow the guidelines that are updated every day questions is israel prepared for the renewal of the fighting and is the fact that many Palestinians have moved from south to north will make it difficult for the idf we are set for the next stages of the fighting our forces are executing preparations reinforcement and with the approval of the next stages of the plans even if we need to do so tomorrow we're ready but as long as we can release hostages back from captivity of hamas we will do so that with regard to the rest of the fighting as for the movement from south to north i don't know the information there are many civilians the idf is prepared and manages to secure the safety of our troops and the lines that we have set the hostages were released from the northern part of the gaza strip where we are allegedly are in control other hostages next to the idf we have idf spokesperson daniel higari taking questions there after his daily briefing day 51 of the war as the nation waits to see the next group of hostages getting back to those hospitals in israel they are in the country we wait to see when they get from the khatsir in base back safely home jonathan reggae main takeaways there certainly plans are in place plans are in place yes to continue the fighting the idf is ready we heard it from daniel higari idf spokesman now we heard it also from prime minister benjamin antonio earlier today in gaza and we heard it from defense minister you have gallant yesterday in in gaza so plans are set for the continuation of the fighting yes but daniel higari also said we will be considering to extend the temporary ceasefire as long as we keep on bringing back hostages same pretty much the same things as us president joe biden said about an hour ago he said i think the ceasefire should go on as long as hostages come back and of course there's another side to the story which is hamas but i think they can provide another 40 another 50 hostages at least the women and children and elderly therefore will will there be an extension we don't know but but it seems as if the answer is going to be yes something we're going to unpack in a very short while but right now we are taking a very short break our breaking news edition continues in just two minutes so don't go anywhere you are looking at images on your screen the third group of hostages on their way home back to israeli hospitals we tracking all the developments as they happen so stay tuned to i24 news breaking news edition and all broadcasting from israel with dozens of correspondents throughout the world brings the truth from israel to hundreds of millions of people in scores of countries bring israel's story to the world i24 news channels now on hot our breaking news coverage and it's a collective sigh of relief in israel with confirmation a short while ago that the third group of hostages released from captivity in gaza is heading home they are about to fly from the khatsirin base to local hospitals now for the latest let's go back to tel aviv and we're joined once again by our emily francis she's at the site now known as hostages square emily what's the latest hi bonita obviously people here are very happy that the hostages the next group of hostages are back in israel and now there's a very uh special rabbi rabbi airman who has been doing a special service here for not only people that are here just supporting what's happening but also some of the families so i'm going to get out of this shot this has been about an hour long special prayer even though it's not shabbat there's khala there's wine and they're giving very special blessings not only for the miracle of the return of these hostages for those of you watching that don't understand he grew he's saying on israel is never seen anything like this has man has a amen this time amen so also some of the families that have hostages still held in gaza also got a special blessing from the rabbi and earlier this evening i did speak to the cousins of one of the hostages who suffers from colitis a hostage we've been hearing a lot and here's what they had to say we are happy for every hostage who is released we are happy for their families omer is 22 years old and he is not currently on the list he is a man but he is a man with serious illness we pray and hope that the next releases will bring the sick and the wounded they need to be taken care of omer needs to be taken care of and it's such an important point that we keep on hearing so many relatives saying even if they are rejoicing over having their loved ones back they cannot rest until all hostages are safe and our home our hearts are with all the families emily francis what more can you tell us about what people there are saying we heard the praise we can feel the atmosphere even from here give us a sense of what the families have been saying to you come back come back listen listen the families are obviously relieved they're smiling but a lot of the families here are families that have sons and men and their families that are still held hostage but the incredible thing that is showing the spirit of amy swile is that they know that even though their children and their loved ones are not going to be the ones coming back as this original 50 they are happy and they are joyful with all of israel for those who are coming home a silver lining a sense of hope but again no one is going to give up and no one is going to stop all the hostages come home thank you so much that is our emily francis live from tel aviv thank you so much emily and back to studio and i want to pick up on what we were discussing a little bit earlier before the break and eight times specifically about the next plan of action from the idf we know at the moment the truth is a four day truth but it was alluded to in the press conference with daniel higari just moments ago it could be extended if it means that hostages more hostages will get home safely what is your take what are the risks involved is it a good idea i think that we are already has entered to the very sensitive 34 or even 30 hours about the future on this war on the immediate timing what does it mean it means that one of the principles that were agreed at the beginning that israel agreed to opportunity of continuing of release of prisoners for each day and to give for it silence or what we call a ceasefire we identify that the plan that has arrived to israel yesterday in shabbat from katar that i think was already the first sign to show off the continuating of some suggestion negotiation secondly you are aware about the effort that the operators around us egypt katar are doing in order to create situation of continuating of this situation the third is you are already the president biden a very close and good friend that says its need to be conning waiting on releasing but i hope it will be done it means that the american are giving very large umbrella towards going here i think also support today there is a cabinet cabinet meeting that will i think it's very important for the few hours and come in future meanwhile i think remain decision or subject has to be discussed and plan first of all in any case continuating of the war whether it's going to the regular plan whether we are going to surprise to change this is on the shoulders of idf commanders secondly the second meaning is for the day after we have to start to talk about the day after i mean why we will succeed in the goal on a moving aside hamas entity hamas power as a terror organization what will be the next or the next two steps who will be the meanwhile operating the civil activities and what will be the next step and above it a very big question mark about the palestinian authorities the third question will be during the coming days and turns they're supposed to be how the idf on readiness in order to change immediately is deployment from defensive been readiness to defensive offensive during these readiness but the main part if you are main my says that there is a big chance and it's i support it personally to continue with each opportunity to release more and more we have to do it but one main remark we have to do it with the end of the of the story of all the hostages including soldiers and female and making the agreement completely that is something that i believe as i know the cheaters the butchers of hamas they will not agree because they would like to hold all the time something that they will try with me to make a game changer to their situation and certainly it's something that's being raised all the time and that is the fact that the deal needs to be adhered to meticulously and that families need to come back together something that has already been transgressed i want to pick up first though on these images this is maya reggae we spoke about her earlier on in the broadcast 21 years old she's the first of the hostages to have to undergo surgery she was shot at the music festival on the 7th of october we saw her on crutches 50 days later when she was freed in the early hours of this morning so here you are looking she is being reunited with her family members inside hospital she is having to have surgery obviously the injury is something that happened seven weeks ago it's obviously not clear what kind of care she had while she was in captivity one can only wonder and right now she has the top specialists in the country working on her no doubt to make sure that she is able to go home where she belongs what a moment and daniel shek you know all these families so well you've been dealing with them another layer of the trauma a child comes home and she has to go to surgery well you know yeah that's you know we're we're aware that many of the hostages could be injured we we knew that many of them have medical conditions preconditions that we could know of and we informed the Red Cross of a while ago I'm glad to see that my area gives injuries are not serious and they're not life-threatening and I have to say that it is also a relief for the remaining families to see that although the trauma remains the trauma by and large the hostages are coming home in a decent condition decent physical condition and I'm sure that's reassuring for for the families although I mean it doesn't guarantee that everybody enjoys that a relatively good treatment certainly not if it will go on for a long time and that's why one has to consider this not as the hostage deal but as the first deal for hostages not the hostages and immediately after the conclusion of this round there needs to be the efforts have to start for the next round I don't know if it will be under the same conditions by the way I'll just mention that the host the forum of families has requested a meeting with the Qatari delegation that has landed in Israel yesterday right asking to meet directly with them the deal that the Qataris are brokering concerns these people directly and they would like to voice their concerns and to hear directly from the horse's mouth what the next steps could be we're still waiting for a reply well let's see if that meeting does in fact take place I want to add something emotion we call it the night of the children you see the group of the children and if you're looking there is eight children if I'm not mistaken that are coming to something with the happiness and sadness the three of Goldstein and Mock family are coming and don't know whether they are aware that they lost their father and they lost their elder sister the the two sisters that are returning lost their father as well and Avigai lost their parents the three the four years old child so you see how this situation with happiness and with a lot of sadness so I'll show you what is the mission to tell these children tonight or tomorrow what will be and how to bring them them and this is the symbol of all the situation of all the circles but above all to see a child returning back home for us after he has been taken I think it's the most important time for this project that happened besides the fact that we have very soon to return back for our future for our fighting for our owner for our safety to complete the mission and the goal we have a new development just in Hamas saying it's seeking to extend the truth Jonathan Regev but there are details tell us more yes they're saying they want to extend the truth and they say that they can provide more hostages based on the humanitarian agreement that has been reached that's of course a very vague expression the conditions set by Israel when the first the original truth was was announced is that Israel will be willing to extend the truth maybe even up to 10 days as long as every day brings with it 10 more hostages if Hamas is speaking of four more days that would mean 40 more hostages can they provide it I think the answer is yes I think so if if we're speaking of some 50 or so in the first stage the other stage would would mean another 40 I think if I remember correctly there was a number of people spoke of 98 women and children before before this whole process began if Hamas is able to put their hands on everybody and and I think that they do therefore it can be extended I don't think anyone here will be surprised if I say that that the army is not very happy with the fact that they had to stop the army was in a strong momentum pushing into Gaza and yet I think that that almost everybody at the army understands that this is a price worth paying for the images that we're seeing of every day of of third up until now 40 Israelis coming back if we can get if if after tomorrow if if Israel gets 10 or 11 or 13 I don't know exactly how many people how many hostages will come hopefully tomorrow but if Israel can get another 40 hostages then as difficult as this price is I think there's a general understanding that this is a price worth paying for for the hostages to be back as you say the country wants to see more and more of those images of families being united after seven weeks of sheer horror talking about what could happen next let's take a listen to Benjamin Netanyahu the Israeli prime minister was in northern Gaza earlier sharing this message let's take a listen we are here in Gaza with our heroic fighters we make every effort to return our abductees and eventually we will return them all we have three goals for this war eliminate Hamas return all our abductees and ensure that Gaza does not become a threat to the state of Israel again I am here to say to my friends here to the fighters here who tell me the same things and I repeat this to you citizens of Israel we continue until the end until victory nothing will stop us and we are convinced that we have the power the strength the will and the determination to achieve all the war's goals and we will and we're going to be unpacking more about that message very shortly but right now we want to go back to our correspondent Zach Anders and he joins us from Khatsirim base what is the latest there what can you tell us Zach well we're hearing that they have made it to the base and are anticipating that flight to Tel Aviv here soon via helicopter they are going to get that opportunity to reunite with their families once they reach the hospital some of them may be booked for longer term care inside the hospital that will be evaluated once they reach there of course there was the one hostage the 84 year old woman who was immediately flown for care we are told that her condition was serious but we have not received an update since they flew her to the nearest hospital the additional hostages I'm hearing from sources inside the IDF appear to be in good condition and in good spirits as they made their way to the airbase but that's where the real initial evaluation is going to begin the first task was to transport them away from the Rafa crossing and get them to that airbase where there'll be more staff and better attention as you say 84 year old Elma Avraham airlifted to Soroka hospital earlier the last we are hearing is that she was in serious condition of course we will have more updates as they emerge Zach we know in total now 58 civilian hostages have been released so far including Israelis and foreign nationals the next group should be coming through tomorrow all being well and then what is likely to happen next we've been discussing here in studio the possibility of an extension to the truth talk us through practically what it could mean for hopefully more hostages and that's what the Biden administration and it appears Qatar as well are pushing for an additional few days of this ceasefire which has held day three of the ceasefire has held that's an important milestone considering the amount of effort and energy that has to go into facilitating both sides through this a brutal engagement over the last 40 plus days to get both sides to pull apart and to stop the fighting this seems to be a major breakthrough and the Biden administration and the mediator of course Qatar wants to capitalize on this success so far and keep this keep this continuing the negotiations that of course we're not privy to will be happening with you would imagine the same incentives as there has presently been with the number of Palestinian prisoners included in the swap to necessary to make this happen but we are seeing more and more comments on social media from residents inside Gaza the people of Gaza posting more and more about the hostage exchange and what that means and what they're seeing many of them have been posting of course this is anecdotal just based on the the social media that is getting out there but many of them are posting about the such a welcome change to the ability to get the aid in through the Rafa crossing there appears to now be fresh fruit that's made it to markets and people can finally begin to have full real meals and so it does appear that there has been some sort of momentum shift inside Gaza as well for the humanitarian situation for them and only time will tell where the the negotiations take this from here of course the Israeli side are relishing this opportunity to see the hostages returned we're going to see more women and children tomorrow but then there's still so many men men are going to be remaining in captivity inside Gaza and that turns this negotiation into a different tenor thank you so much correspondent Zach Anders more to come from Zach of course in the coming hours appreciate the update Daniel Sheikh I want to pick up on this issue we're discussing right now the possibility of a truce being extended could mean more hostages coming home but Hamas has to locate those hostages what do you know about the verification process we are hearing it's only a day in advance that families are hearing that their loved ones may be coming home so would you believe would the families believe that there could be an ability by Hamas to locate that many more hostages your take I'm like Jonathan Regev I'm convinced that the answer is yes and in any event I mean Hamas claims to be in charge of the Gaza Strip so they are the the authority and they are responsible for the well-being of the hostages I'd just like to say a word about 84 year old Alma Abraham we've been saying all along that of course the objective is the release of all the hostages but the intermediate most urgent one is access and medical access to all the hostages some of them are very fragile and some of them may have life-threatening illnesses chronic diseases they need special medication and I would not be surprised if the case of Alma Abraham is one of those that she came in in a fragile condition an 84 year old woman and she was not treated properly and she came back in serious condition and had to be airlifted immediately to hospital hopefully she will be okay an absolute travesty to think that the Red Cross has not been able to get that access by the way that is supposed to be part of the agreement exactly it's sort of being watered down but I personally think it's no less important than the actual release of the people is the access for the Red Cross a list a credible list of the hostages and visitation rights for the Red Cross Daniel because you've been dealing so intimately with the families and the support that the nation has been given them I want your take what you've heard about the playing of games we looked at images of hostages waving next to them is a man with a mask and a gun holding onto a child the child has been through enough without having to be escorted by an armed man and a mask into a van and then be instructed to wave what do you make of that and what is your sense of the way that is perceived by the world what is your take on that shenanigans so to speak I can only hope that nobody falls into this ridiculous trap it's infuriating to see these attempts to sort of absolve themselves of the crimes of the of October 7th by I mean I'm glad that they treated these people humanely but they shouldn't have touched them to begin with none of these people were supposed to be in captivity to begin with so I am really not impressed and I'm sure that the families and I hopefully the rest of the world understand that treating a hostage you shouldn't have taken to begin with humanely doesn't absolve you of mistreating and killing others on October 7th the most absurd of images we were looking there inside a Red Cross van you've got foreign workers smiling and giving a thumbs up to armed terrorists outside who have just helped them get into a van you can imagine what was what they were told before they boarded these cars that they better do a thumbs up otherwise they will have a thumbs down one can only imagine I think that the the fact that the the screen should be divided to two to those who are living and the pictures we saw on the 7th or the 8th of October that are shown all over this is the story this is the story of the theater of such a butchers we have to continue and to put it to the world in the face even many millions are not like to see it and like to see such a guy with cover this face making on his hand this is there are the killers there the the the blood of the children that has been murdered will be on their hands and their mind on from my point of view for generations and this organization is the risk not even for Israel and from other parts of the world that are now putting their head on the ground in order not to watch and to see what's going to be in their place in a few years. Jonathan I want to bring you in on that point because as Zach was describing as well at the same time as this is all unfolding Palestinian security prisoners are being released and are being taken where and exactly what have they done to have been in jails in the first place. We call them terrorists with no blood on their hand the only reason there's no blood on their hand is because they were unsuccessful that's the only reason they try to murder Israelis but they they were unsuccessful because they were stopped on time that's the only reason why they're not murderers but just attempted murderers that is the only reason minors women minors and women kill so so so this is the case and now they're out again. I have to say that the price that Israel is paying in terrorists I hate to see it but but it's not very high certainly less than anything we've seen we only speak of the Shalit deal because that's the biggest deal that we have on the minds a 1027 terrorists released for for one soldier but if we go back there's a Jibril case in in in 1985 back then more than a thousand terrorists for three soldiers so so the the the Israeli public has been accustomed to a very high number of terrorists for a small number of Israelis and the case now is different one for three is is clearly a price that the Israeli society can live with and if we have a 40 or 50 more people are coming I think that the Israeli society will be willing to to pay that price of 150 more I call them terrorists blood on their hand or not they're terrorists loud and clear regarding the process or taken to the offer prison which is in between Jerusalem and Ramallah right next to the bitunia checkpoint and once there's verification that all of the Israeli hostages are in Israeli territory that is when they're released through bitunia to the west bank and those who live in east Jerusalem are taken to east Jerusalem because let's remember there is really residents and something we will unpack as well very shortly Jonathan reggae thank you so much you will be staying with us eight and done got also staying with us Daniel chef thank you very much for your insight as always appreciate you being here for this breaking news edition a quick break we're back in two minutes stay tuned Israel is at war make an investment in Israel bonds it is the most powerful and direct way to stand with Israel visit israel bonds.com and invest now made for me a unique concept in Israel custom made men's fashion to your measurements made for me designer of all your events schedule your appointment at www.madeforme.co.il