 who were held hostage in Gaza for nearly two months are back in Israel. Here they are earlier being handed over by Hamas terrorists in Gaza. 21 year old Mia Shem and 40 year old Amit Susanna. They are now safely back in Israel. They were greeted by crowds lining the streets and Mia Shem who also has French citizenship you'll remember was in one of the first Hamas propaganda or the first Hamas propaganda video that was released. A horrible video there she is with a very painful looking broken arm she'll be getting proper medical treatment tonight in the Sheba hospital here in Tel Aviv. Earlier in the day there was a terrorist attack in Jerusalem three people two women and a man were murdered by Hamas terrorists they were both the terrorists were shot dead by police two others are undergoing surgery in Jerusalem tonight for their wounds Hamas claimed responsibility for that and Israel is yet to confirm whether it will extend a truce with Hamas which expires at seven o'clock tomorrow morning bearing in mind that there are still 143 hostages being held in Gaza no word as yet but Qatar and Egypt say that they are both working to have that truce extended well with me in the studio this hour Yakov Lapin is the military and strategic affairs analyst at the Jewish New Syndicate and the Miriam Institutes good to see with this Yakov so that is a dilemma then as we wait for eight more hostages and there is a bit of a delay the first hostages were released at around five fifteen this afternoon Mia and Amit the two women that I mentioned we're waiting for eight more we are also expecting three bodies a lot of speculation that the bodies may be tragically horrifically the B-bass family but of course we don't know that is unconfirmed at this stage right and as we see every 24 hour block in this hostage deal with Hamas the deal with the devil is very different from the previous one every 24 hour block has its own tensions its own lists its own attempts by Israel to improve the lists and Hamas coming back through the Qatari mediators and then we only get the full picture of that day the results of all of these negotiations you know under under the currently silent guns of Israel and the guns of Hamas but will these guns will surely be fired up I think probably sooner rather than later and under that cloud under that shadow we see this outline continuing the momentum is continuing I think you know if we zoom out for a second it's beginning to stall think that the outline is beginning to reach its end and I think the more Hamas attempts to play games to extort Israel to say it can't bring you know deliver what it has promised to deliver I think that's when Israel will start moving towards a decision to go back into this war and so do you think Israel will be able to recover the momentum if the guns do fire up at seven points more money I think that the IDF has been preparing for that moment intensively look you know when it first began this ground offensive it went from a static position where it was camped outside of the Gaza Strip in staging areas for three weeks approximately and from there it went in so it can certainly go from its current positions fortified defensive positions in northern Gaza Gaza Strip and continue south it can absolutely do that Hamas of course has also improved its position I'm sure that it's you know armed requipped reorganized gathered intelligence on the battlefield surfaced from the tunnels and you know got a proper look at what's going on above ground which it wasn't able to do so both sides have used this time to improve tactically their situations and we'll see the result of that I think on the battlefield going forward an Israeli official who spoke to US media says that the hostages slated to be free today will be transferred at various times and places because they are being held by other terrorist groups and this is what we saw earlier in the week isn't it with the Palestinian Islamic jihad terrorists taking part in the kind of media show of their of the handover and that is an interesting development and that kind of proves isn't it the hostages being held in different parts of the Gaza Strip throughout the Gaza Strip they were brought in from different places you know in the Gaza envelope from Israel and then once they entered Gaza with their kidnappers they were moved partly through tunnels and through you know taken to various hideouts above ground and underground but you know what this really shows is that this claim by Hamas that it has trouble locating the other hostages and that other terror groups are holding them it's bogus we see that when Hamas really wants to it can call up the junior terror factions in Gaza and say bring and deliver these hostages and let them go and that's exactly what's what happens day after day so that you know really tells us that Hamas continues to have control over the hostage situation and it just continues to try and extort Israel going forward to buy itself time that's that's the main goal the Hamas is doing here it's trying to buy itself time and try and survive all right yeah for the moment thank you very much let's go to the south of Israel now we're joined by our correspondent Nicole Zedek so the two Israeli women Mia and Amit are back safely home no words yet though on the other eight hostages no and as you were saying Laura some of those reports are stating that we'll be seeing them bought back here to Israeli territory first handed over to the Red Cross and then re-entering Israel at various times throughout the night depending on where they have been held by different Hamas terrorists and we even heard from the IDF spokesperson telling us get ready to prepare for a long night which is also what we've seen night after night just yesterday we didn't see some of these hostages even be transferred over to the Red Cross until roughly 11 p.m. Israel time and so where we are here on this road right here near the Gaza border we're hoping to see some of those Israeli hostages finally return home after more than 50 days as you mentioned as we're looking at exactly who is going to be returned home it's important to note that at least four children do remain in Gaza right now and that does include those two little bebis boys 10 year old fear and or 10 month old excuse me fear and four year old Ariel now we are hearing from the family of Asia and Bilal Ziyadeh two other children 17 years old and 18 year old there from the Bedouin village of Lahat they had been kidnapped as well and their family member claims that they are on the list to be returned back to Israel tonight so that's something that we are anxiously waiting for as I said that confirmation coming from the family members but even if Asia and Bilal are coming back to Israel tonight their father and another older brother who's 22 they are still in Gaza so as we do continue to see more and more of these Israeli hostages returned home finally freed we are coming close to the the limit as to how many women and children are still in Gaza as I said at least four but that's about the the limit when it comes to these negotiations and so that's why we have seen the negotiations extend to this seventh day now but it came at the last minute right before the 7 a.m. deadline for this fighting to resume and so as we're going into the overnight hours again it will be interesting to see exactly how these negotiations and the hostage dilemma plays out Laura all right Nicole thank you very much indeed and Nicole Zedek there and the French president Emmanuel Macron has just posted on Twitter ex Mia Shem is free Mia of course holds French nationality as well she he says that he shares this great joy with her family and all French people Macron also saying he expresses his solidarity with all of those who remain hostage of Hamas and France is working with its partners to secure their release as soon as possible other Israelis with French citizenship were released earlier in the week including of course 12 year old Eitan who whose testimony was absolutely devastating his aunt said that he had been held in a room alone for 16 days after witnessing the extreme violence of Hamas terrorists he was forced to watch videos of Hamas atrocities and the terrorists threatened to shoot him when he cried so little boy 12 year old Eitan and now another French dual national Mia Shem is free and Yachov Lapin is here with me the studio and Yachov we've also seen a kind of very sinister development in the release of these hostages more and more guards and civilians coming out onto the streets with their mobile phones jeering shouting I'll walk bar apparently trying to intimidate the hostages it seemed to be particularly bad for the two ladies last night one of him was in her 70s you know being jeered by the crowds what is the thinking there do you think utterly barbaric behavior I think stage managed by Hamas calling on its affiliates to flood the streets to pretend to be you know this sort of mob that's that's proud of Hamas and this is all being packaged domestically as some sort of Hamas achievement you know we control the streets this is the message that's coming out of the Hamas leadership will decide who gets to go and look at the power that we've retained despite Israel's offensive this is all part of Hamas domestic propaganda I think and it's designed to send a signal of strength and to externalize it looks you know utterly barbaric to treat people who have come out of more than 50 days of you know being held hostage under horrific conditions to treat them in that in that way is you know beneath contempt all right yeah thank you very much well let's talk about the north because there there has been a certain amount of quiet on Israel's northern border in recent days but as we hear from the Hamas leader Sinwar saying that October 7th was just a rehearsal there are concerns about when Israeli citizens will be able to move back to the north because of the threat from the Radwan unit the Hezbollah terrorists who are based just across the border in Lebanon while our lieutenant colonel Saeed Zahavi is the founder and president of the Alma research and education center and so your warning that people should not be complacent here in Israel about the threat from the north I can say that over here up north the greatest fear is that we will be forgotten that people will go back to their homes the government will just say you know leave it kind of the way it is and our fate will be the same fate as the people of the south meaning that we will suffer from these drops of missiles every now and then and then eventually a fate of a massacre because all these capabilities still exists right on the other side of the border inside the communities and towns inside Lebanon except the firepower of Hezbollah is ten times more than the firepower of Hamas and the Radwan Brigades have exactly the same plan as the plan that was executed by Hamas on October 7th. So do you think that the government is being complacent about the threat from the north do you think they're not taking it seriously enough? I don't know all I can say is that our defense minister Gallant words were troubling and I hope that there will be a statement that will create a different impression here. People are afraid to go back to their homes people are afraid that this threat will not be dealt. It's not enough to talk about the mechanism of 1701 because the resolution of the UN that ended the previous war is actually failed. The past 17 years the UN failed to prevent Hezbollah from deploying just on the other side of the border and I don't see how this can be changed with the current arrangements. So a new arrangement is needed whether it's diplomatic or not I don't know but a new arrangement is needed that will make sure that we can live safely and 60,000 people can go back to their homes. Well there seems to be a kind of feeling in Israel that the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has not gone as far as he could in this conflict. It's been very tipped for tat. It's been very measured very limited. He's even been mocked for that by some in the Arab world. The ceasefire with Hamas could expire at any time from seven o'clock tomorrow morning. Do you think we're going to see a resumption of fire from the north? Does that put pressure on Nasrallah to do something? First yes. Second I'm not sure that Nasrallah needs the pressure. I think that you know maybe he's in his own interests and probably his own interest is to take over Lebanon and to make sure that if there is a campaign between Israel and Hezbollah it's not about Hamas. It's about Lebanon. So what Nasrallah had done since the war started actually until the ceasefire was to escalate every week a little bit more the attacks who came from Lebanon putting us on the Israeli side in a situation which is eventually unbearable, which is clear that eventually we'll have to deal with it. So I believe that if the ceasefire will end yes we will see Hezbollah again renewing the attacks over here from the north and I wish I'm wrong. I wish this is not going to be the case. But I believe Hezbollah will look for any excuses it can make to drag Lebanon into war on behalf of the Lebanese cause rather than the Hamas cause. I mean the concept as it's known here in Israel the idea of trying to contain Hamas has been blamed for what happened to a certain extent for what happened on October 7th. Do you think that there is a similar philosophy with regard to Hezbollah and that actually Israel is going to have to grasp the nettle one of these days. However costly that conflict might be. I truly hope that it's not going to be this way and that eventually IDF along with our political leadership it is clear to me that this is a political decision will make what is needed to be done. I must say that I totally understand that at this time in the south is prioritized. We still have hostages in Gaza. We still need to win against Hamas. That's that's we all understand that over here up north. But at the same time it is also very important to make sure that everybody in Israel and outside of Israel understand that the threat from Lebanon was not eliminated that it still exists and that on the other side of the border the Hezbollah is no less cruel than Hamas. It is just more sophisticated. All right. Sorry to have you. Thank you very much indeed from the Alma Institute. Thank you. Thank you. Well to talk more about the threat from Lebanon we joined by David Dowd. He's a Hezbollah and Lebanon research analyst at United against nuclear Iran. Thank you for being with us David. So just your reaction to what you've just heard. Do you think that there is some complacency in Israel about the threat from the north and do you think Hezbollah is planning to resume its hostile actions once the ceasefire with Hamas expires. I can't speak to a degree of complacency. I know that for over a decade vis-a-vis Hezbollah Israel has basically ceded the initiative to Hezbollah on on setting red lines on basically setting the rules of the game as it relates to my bum. This has been confined largely to Syria. Whereas if these game changing weapons reach Lebanon Israel has kind of played along with this game that they won't touch it in Lebanon because Hezbollah has set the rules. I think this puts Israel at an unnecessary disadvantage when it has the military economic and social upper hand. Well Hezbollah resume attacks. Look I think that they burn Israel as admission on on November 3rd had these attacks occurred prior to the Gaza war. Israel would have responded much more forcefully. Hezbollah is betting on Israel's involvement in Gaza. It's deepening involvement in Gaza to blunt any Israeli retaliation against Hezbollah and Lebanon that has been operating so far where Israel has been engaged in this tit for tat with Hezbollah to avoid opening up a second front. There's also the matter of American pressure on Israel not to initiate escalation. I think we're seeing that in action. When the war resumes as Prime Minister Netanyahu has said it will. We can expect Hezbollah to resume this gradually increasing harassment from the northern border. If it can be called that as Israel becomes once again very busy with Gaza. And how does this fit in with what's going on inside Lebanon. David is there still a lot of concern that there will be a war we did see earlier on and we civilians leaving Beirut and heading north. How does this fit into the internal situation in Lebanon. Look I think Hezbollah doesn't want to invite a war that will compound Lebanon's economic misery. This will result in a situation where in the day after the war Hezbollah will have to deal with a angry Lebanese street whose houses it can't rebuild because it's lacking the funds to do so. There's going to be no economic aid from the West. Iran's pockets are not currently deep enough to to to channel to supply the $10,000 per destroyed home that they did after 2006. The Gulf states are likely not likely to step in. So Hezbollah battered by an Israeli military operation will have to be dealing also with Lebanese street anger over an unnecessary war. Hezbollah knows this. And so it's treading this very fine line of trying to maximize its benefits while incurring minimum costs. Now we see this that Hezbollah is not interested in more indirectly through Hezbollah's media. They're already declaring victory. They're declaring that the ceasefire, the temper of ceasefire to release the hostages is already an indication that the resistance as they put it has won in Gaza. What this suggests to me is that Hezbollah is trying to declare victory prematurely and say, look, we've done what we need to. Israel has been defeated. Let's not we don't need to go any further. Suggesting that Hezbollah is not interested in war. Now there's always the possibility of unintentional escalation. And that's a chance that Hezbollah is willing to take right now. But I think they prefer to stay kind of in this tit for tat harassment rather than go to a major escalation. David Dowder, United Against the Nuclear Iran. Thank you very much. Thank you. By Cohen Israel in the south of Israel in sterot, the police station you remember was attacked by dozens of terrorists on October 7th. A bulldozer later went to demolish what was left of it. Now a new police station has already been inaugurated. We're in this report by our estate. Like other Israelis, I heard the sirens at home at six thirty a.m. I put my wife and children in the shelter. I realized that if I was hearing sirens at my home in Beersheba, chances were high. There were also sirens in sterot. Madi Sephardi drove through the heavy rocket barrage, trying to reach the police station as fast as possible. While I was on my way to the police station, I saw a terrorist in front of me. He was in uniform and carrying an AK-47. He shot at me five times. At this point, I realized it was an exceptional situation. Madi met several of the placement from his team, assessed the situation and got ready for the battle. I took an assault rifle. I was not armed at all. I had just returned from my vacation. Even my gun was in the office with all my other stuff. So I took an automatic weapon, checked the magazine, did two shots to check if the gun was working. Three more magazines. I just tucked into my shirt as I had no other place to put it and continued on my way to the station. On the road leading to the police station, we neutralized approximately four terrorists. One of them, after we neutralized him, fell and tried to get at his weapon. So I shot again in the direction of the head, eliminated. At this point, a sniper who was standing on the roof shot me in the chest. I fell backwards and got another bullet in the leg. His fellow policemen grabbed Madi and hid him behind a mignette, a concrete protective barrier. I called my wife and told her that I was injured in the chest and in the leg. I told her that I love her and I love our children and I'm not willing to die. The battle at Steroat police station lasted for around 20 hours. The station lost 10 of its officers, both men and women. But if not for the heroism of the unit, the whole city of Steroat could have suffered heavier losses. At least 40 terrorists came here. Whose goal was to take control of the police station to kill all the policemen and after that to move on to slaughtering civilians in Steroat. And Steroat is only one example. The terrorists planned the same thing for Ophakim, Netivot, Ashkelon and Ashdod. Madi fought not only for the city of Steroat but also for his own life. He bled for several hours before the police were able to evacuate him. But on the way they again came under fire. Madi was moved to a private car and only then was he able to get to an ambulance. Madi survived but he was hospitalized for weeks and is still receiving treatment. Nevertheless, he couldn't stay home on the day of the inauguration. One of the reasons why it was so important for me to come and to meet my team is that we're very strong and we're always keeping our heads up. People who understand battle tactics know that police should join only in the third circle but my policeman fought in the first circle. The inauguration of the station is a historic day for the policemen and for the whole city of Steroat. Inaugurating the police station in Steroat is a sign of pride for the Israeli police and its strength and its ability on the one hand to shut down the station and destroy it with the dozens of terrorists hiding inside and on the other hand to decide and to work so that within four days we would build a new one that could help civilians to receive their complaints to give a sense of security to the residents. Not all the residents of Steroat have left and they need the sense of security and this is what we will do here at the Steroat police station. Though today policemen from Steroat station stay strong and try to smile, their thoughts are with the friends that they lost. To alleviate their grief at least for one night the Gad Dairy Company joined the event with their special project called Secret Dinner. The project was created seven years ago and lets people buy a ticket to the dinner without knowing in advance where they'll be going or what they'll eat. Since the start of the war the project has changed years and these days organize a surprise dinners for security forces and medical teams. When we thought about the project in wartime the first thought we had was about the policemen from the Steroat station. They survived a tragedy. Only now have they finished the morning period for their friends. We owe them this. After the whole station was destroyed we're raising a new police station together with them. This time the dinner was cooked by renowned Israeli chef Ayal Shani who has recently awarded a Michelin star. Never in my life have I been so proud to belong to this people as I am now. This is the most amazing people. We see it in our warriors and our parents. We have become one body. Each one a cell that contributes to the life of our country. I believe we are here today right now in large part thanks to you. Indeed being united supporting one another and the ability to start from scratch even in the darkest of days is one of Israel's biggest strengths. And some news just in from close to Steroat actually a rocket alarm has gone off and no confirmation if a rocket actually has been fired from Gaza but the sirens have gone off close to Steroat will keep a close eye on that. And of course the country is waiting for eight more hostages to be freed from Gaza. Two women 21-year-old Mia Shem and 40-year-old Amid Susanna were released earlier. They are back safely in Israel but eight more hostages including two other children 16-year-old Aisha and her brother Bilal from the Israel's Bedouin community are supposed to be released. We're also hearing that the bodies of three hostages are also supposed to be handed over. This is the Rafa crossing in Egypt. No words yet of any hostages being handed over to the Red Cross or making their way towards Israel. We will of course keep you updated. Stay with us. We're taking a very short break but we will be back right after this. Don't go away. Is in a state of war. Families completely done down in their beds. We have no idea where she is. Our soldiers are fighting on the front line but the general perception is something that certainly needs to to be fought as well. Mia Shem is from Tel Aviv as the country waits for eight more hostages to be released from Gaza where they've been held by terrorists for close to two months now. Two women, a 21-year-old and a 40-year-old are safely back in Israel. We are waiting for eight more hostages including two children. In the last hour one of the Kibbutz here in Israel, Nia Oz, has announced that one of its members Aviv Adzili, he was 49 years old. He had been presumed missing. He's now been confirmed dead. He had been presumed to be a captive. He's now been confirmed dead. His wife, Le'at Itzili, was released by Hamas yesterday so she and the two children survived the October 7th onslaught tragically. Husband and father Aviv has now been confirmed dead. The IDF recovered his body so that's another on a very long list of victims Aviv Adzili who has been confirmed dead. So we are waiting for eight more hostages to be freed from Gaza. With me in the studio this hour, Yachov Lapin from the Miriam Institute and the Jewish News Syndicate Militant Security Analyst. A bit of a delay here tonight. We had two women released at around 5.15 this afternoon. There is some delay with the rest of the hostages and we're hearing that they are being held in different locations and will be handed over to the Red Cross at different parts of Gaza. What does that tell us? It tells us first of all that the delays are a repetitive characteristic. We've seen this time and time again over the past week. Hamas operates on its own schedule and it's in no rush to deliver and release these hostages. Regarding the release from different locations and that is new and I think that's really Hamas digging deep and putting pressure on the junior tariff actions in the Gaza Strip that are under, very much under its authority, receiving orders to release the Israeli hostages that they've held in order to facilitate this release. And you know everything here is Hamas buying time. This is the reason that it's releasing these hostages that kept buying itself another 24 hours, another 24 hours and it's waiting for these dynamics in its leadership's desperate hopes. These dynamics that will solidify the truce or improve its position. It's probably, you know, very happy to hear about the international pressure that's being put on Israel. It's actually probably encouraged when it sees the United States telling Israel to tone down its offensive in southern Gaza. I think these are all messages that are making the Hamas leadership hopeful. It seems to me that these are totally false hopes, but this is sort of the grand strategy of Hamas by itself time and everything is designed to serve that function including the release of these hostages and every other release going forward. All right, Jacob, thank you very much. So we are still waiting for eight hostages to be handed over. One horrific feature of the attack by Hamas terrorists is the extent of rape and sexual abuse that was carried out against Israeli women. The Israeli police are putting together a dossier. They've got hundreds of testimonies from survivors. They've also got forensic evidence, the corpses of women and girls which were found to have been raped and mutilated. However, it has been something of a deafening silence from worldwide feminist groups such as the Me Too movement, UN Women, to mention a couple. But the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres two months later has come out with a statement. He says there are numerous accounts of sexual violence during the abhorrent acts of terror by Hamas on the 7th of October. They must be vigorously investigated and prosecuted. Well, to talk more about that, we're joined now by Marcus Sheffey, the CEO of the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education or IMPACT-SE. And we're going to talk a bit about UNRA in a moment, but I just wanted to get your reaction to the UN Secretary-General coming out with this statement today. Thank you. I think it's just it is frankly appalling Guterres's 52-day late reaction is inexcusable. And the tardy, the lukewarm provocations of UN women is equally shameful. I don't think any other group of women would have been abandoned like this by international bodies. And bodies who have a duty of care for women, they believe all women, except for Israeli women, and no other crimes of these depths of depravity would have been ignored by the UN or by other international bodies. The evidence is staggering. Broken pelvises caused by violent rape, girls shot, wild rape, gang rapes by these Hamas monsters. And these girls, these women have been abandoned. They've been abandoned by the UN, by Guterres, by UN women, by international organizations. And they have confirmed what we know, what we expected. It is me too, unless you are a Jew. Well, let's talk about UNRWA then. This is the organization that is funded by tax payers around the world to take care of the descendants of Palestinian refugees in Gaza. Israeli journalist Alamog Boko saying today that one of the hostages told him that he was held by a teacher for UNRWA. And this isn't the first instance, is it, of UNRWA employees being very much caught up in Hamas and in terrorism. What are your thoughts on that? Well, you know, the idea that a UNRWA teacher, a United Nations employee, an employee who is financially supported by the United States, by the EU and by Germany, would hold Israeli captives abductees in his attic for 50 days would be something which, you know, one would not possibly believe if it wasn't for all the other evidence that we have about UNRWA. UNRWA is the organization that teaches more than half of the school students in Gaza. And you don't have to be a great statistician to estimate that over 1,500 then of the 3,000 terrorists who butchered rape to be headed and kidnapped their way through Israel's southern communities studied in these UNRWA schools. A report we published a couple of weeks ago reveals that at least 100 Hamas members who have carried out terror attacks against Israelis over a number of years are graduates, if that is a correct word, of the UNRWA education system. Hamas is actually so proud of their UNRWA education that they put them on the website. Another report of ours reveals teachers and staff at UNRWA schools who publicly celebrated the October the 7 massacre and other Hamas attacks on their social media accounts. Everything that we know about UNRWA points to the fact that they have educated to hate. They teach the Palestinian authorities curriculum, a curriculum which teaches gay in, gay out, year in, year out, that you should slit the throat of the enemy, that Jews are liars and fraudsters who need to be exterminated. UNRWA's own teaching material talks about the attack on a bus of Israelis that burning of a bus of Israelis as a barbecue party. You know, this is a curriculum full of hate, full of violence, which essentially tells young people that their job is to indulge in violent jihad to martyr themselves, that dying is better than living. And this is what they are expected to do. This in United Nations schools, because that is what UNRWA is. So given everything that we know, given everything that we have learned over the last few years, the idea that a teacher who would put abductees from Israel in his attic for 50 days, actually, sadly, doesn't surprise me at all. We'll have to see if there is any action against UNRWA after that. I know the Germans have already cut off funding to UNRWA and Gaza, maybe other countries will follow soon. The German Development Agency has frozen money for Gaza development to UNRWA. The EU has frozen. Other countries have. You know, the United States really needs to start following suit and doing something about the $350 million a year to UNRWA just doesn't make sense anymore, does it? Marcus, thank you very much, Marcus Schefter. Jacob, if you wanted to react to that, what you just said, we know about the extent that Hamas has dug itself into the civilian population. And there's more and more evidence, isn't there, that UNRWA is very much a part of the Hamas infrastructure. Right, because it adopts the, you know, education curricula, which is filled with incitement, the Palestinian curricula. And it claims that it has this sort of internal mechanism for screening out the hate and incitement to, you know, jihad and violence. And clearly it doesn't have that effective internal mechanism. And we see, you know, the results of that. And I think, you know, this touches on an even bigger issue, which is that whatever happens post-Warren Gaza, this continuous brainwashing and incitement of young people and children who are innocent and then they enter this education system and are brainwashed into essentially a death and murder cult that has to stop as well. All right, Jacob, thank you. Well, meanwhile, Israel's President Heltog is in Dubai tonight. He's been meeting with the UAE president, Mohamed bin Zayed Nayan, and he's there for the COP 28 climate summit, which is due to take place soon. The UAE is hosting that summit. But we can imagine that the war between Israel and Hamas will very much be on the agenda this week. We're joined now by our Dubai correspondent, Bashar Mbari. So, Bashar, there we have a picture of President Heltog sitting down to talk to NBZ, Mohamed bin Zayed, today. They did appear to genuinely have a warm relationship, didn't they, before the war? We will have to wait and see what is being said. Well, this war in Gaza had already an early impact on this COP 28 since it affected the opening ceremony, which in fact opened with a moment of silence in tribute to all the civilian victims of this war. In other words, on both sides, Israeli and Palestinian. So these are fairly neutral words chosen by the President of this COP 28. And it's obviously a kind of strategic calculation because the UAE, which is, as you said, hosting this conference on climate change has every interest in, if you'll pardon the expression, but in minimizing the impact of this conflict. Because first of all, it is happening only three hours away from Dubai. And secondly, it's a conflict that has great potential to disrupt the negotiations that will take place during the two weeks of this conference, despite the this footage of Aya Zakharzog and President Mbz being together. The fight to protect the environment is a fight that by definition must be global. And yet, divisions between states have been exacerbated by the situation in Gaza. And as a result, you have countries in the world that count in the fight against climate change. Countries like Israel, for instance, which are investing heavily in this sector and which will not be sending some of their leaders to speak and negotiate at COP28. Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Eli Cohen were due to make the trip, but their visit was canceled and much was expected from other potential, even informal meeting with Mohamed bin Salman, in particular, the Saudi crown prince who needs Israel to ensure Saudi Arabia's energy transition. Yeah, because, of course, environmental projects were one of the kind of bridges of cooperation between Israel and its partners in the Arab world. Israel, of course, an expert in desalination and other such projects, solar power, etc. But we're going to hear tomorrow, aren't we, from President Herzog, but also the U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and also the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. I mean, it's going to be interesting to hear that in the context of what is going on. Definitely, Laura. My secretary and Mahmoud Abbas will be speaking actually almost at the same time on the main stage, literally one following the other tomorrow in the middle of the afternoon. Anthony Blinken also will be speaking a bit later. There will be no mention of Gaza in the American speech, but it's hard to imagine Herzog and Abbas not talking about it since the COP is followed worldwide with hundreds of journalists. So it's a very political forum, as you know, where negotiations are often hijacked, so to speak, by considerations that go way beyond the climate issue. Yeah, and we're hearing as well, Basia. There is a report that Iran's President Raisi, he's decided not to attend the summit because of the presence of Israel's President Herzog. Yes, this is a pretty normal situation, but this is not to undermine the fact that the relationship between Iran and the UAE is very good. The Iranians have a lot of assets in UAE banks, so this is just a political stance, as I said. The Iranians are using the COP 28, in which they have very little interest at the end of the day to just express their political stance towards the situation in Gaza. All right, Basia. Thank you very much indeed, Basia Boreh. They're over in Dubai. So, Yakov, it is somewhat reassuring, isn't it, to see the Israeli President sitting down with Mohamed Bin Zayed, the Emirati President, who himself has been at the forefront of the aid effort, the first country to set up field hospitals in Gaza, taking in wounded people from Gaza to treat them. It's reassuring to see that he still has a relationship with Israel. Hugely significant, in my view. We are in the middle of a war, the most severe war between Israel and Hamas to date, and the Arab world is bubbling up with anger and hatred towards the state of Israel. A lot of it is the result of wild incitement. And here we have the Emirati leader hosting the Israeli President. I think that that is a very strong signal regarding the commitment by the UAE to the Abraham Accords, a recognition of its interest in maintaining this relationship. I don't think it's a given. It could have been canceled. It could have been postponed, this kind of meeting. And it wasn't. So I think that that's actually a very bold act by the UAE when we take into consideration the general climate in the Arab world towards Israel right now. They are sending a message that they are standing firm in the Abraham Accords and that they are not going to cave to this incitement against Israel. I think it's remarkable. And it says a lot about the sturdiness of this block. And it's not only about the UAE. I think this is also there's a kind of signal here that could be interpreted also from the Saudis. Behind the scenes, I think they're still interested long-term in normalization with Israel. The entire moderate Sunni block I think is still very much on board and is waiting for this war to end. That's how I would interpret this looking at it from sort of the big picture view. A lot of them are very keen to see the back of Hamas. 100%. Yeah, Islamist foes as far as they're concerned, even if they can't see it explicitly, but we can. Yeah. Thank you, Jacob. Okay. Well, thanks for playing a key role in the war against Hamas, more so than any other previous operation in Gaza, more in this report. From these winter-proof tents, near the city of Bersheva in the negative desert, the Israeli Army's armored corps leads its fierce battle in the Gaza Strip. And from here, strategic plans are issued for the forces in the field. The high-ranking officer of the armored corps is taking advantage of this truce to inspect the headquarters. He came here to ensure that lessons were learned and that his soldiers' performance in the field can be improved when the fighting is renewed. It is the armored corps' finest hour. The Israeli people see this war as an armored corps' war. The advances in Gaza and much of the work there is being done by the armored corps. Unlike previous rounds of escalation in Gaza, where armored forces were more sparingly used, the Israeli Army has assigned them a major role in this war, realizing that relying solely on air support is not sufficient. The high-ranking officer of the armored vehicles lists what he considers the war's achievements so far. The elimination of Hamas terrorists in battle and the destruction of terror and weapon facilities in the heart of Gaza City. Everything we see in Hamas videos about the destruction of tanks is inaccurate and distorts the truth. I'm not saying that they don't fire or hit the tanks, but they hit certain parts of the tanks that we can allow them to hit. Our tanks have been fortified, and since the beginning of the fighting, not a single tank has been destroyed. Tanks have taken damage, but all of them were serviceable. Not a single tank has been destroyed? No. I tell you again, there must be a distinction between damage to the tank and destruction of the tank. They claim they destroy tanks, but I tell you, there is not a single tank that was damaged and did not return to service within a few hours and was soon back in combat. The Israeli army attributes the relatively small losses to advanced technology, the 360 range of vision made possible by the new smart helmets in the tanks, and to the system that destroys anti-tank missiles before they hit the target. But it also attributes it to infantry raids prior to armored forces arrival that have eliminated Hamas anti-armor units. A conversation with brigade and battalion commanders conducted by Hisham Ibrahim who participated in the invasion of Lebanon in 2006 did not leave the generational gap in Israeli society unmentioned. Maybe we should be satisfied with this generation. We doubted their abilities a little. We described them as the screen generation and said they couldn't take it. Listen, they fight like heroes. They lived up to the expectations and were victorious in every situation they were put in. All right, so some brand new military hardware being used for the first time in Gaza. You know, we've seen so many people try to write off tanks as being irrelevant and relics of the 20th century. Here they are actually revolutionizing the idea of stability to conduct effective urban warfare. And the fact that they have systems like the trophy active protection system that provides them with this 360 degree active protection. And that means that anti-tank missiles can be intercepted before they strike as well as their reactive armor and other defensive systems. And the comments we hear we heard just now in this report that not a single tank has been destroyed. They've been damaged and they've returned into the battlefield within hours is remarkable. So not only does this show that the tank is completely relevant in the 21st century Middle Eastern battlefield but also the technology is enabling it to essentially punch through lines of defense that Hamas was sure would actually destroy tanks. They were probably inspired by scenes in Ukraine. And they probably, you know, looked at 2006 when Israeli armor had a much tougher time. And we are seeing the complete opposite. So Israeli armor is actually could not be more relevant going forward. And we see that in Gaza right now. Right. And when you talk about tanks, of course, your mind goes back 50 years to the Yom Kippur War when heroes like Avigdor Kahalani defended Israel in tanks from an onslaught from Syria. Egypt also tried to attack Israel in a surprise assault on Yom Kippur 50 years ago. Well, why am I talking about this? Because the veteran American diplomat Henriquezka died today. He was 100 years old, believe it or not. And he was involved really pivotal in U.S. foreign policy, defined figure of the Cold War, of course, also controversial for the offensive against Vietnamese communists in Cambodia. He ended the diplomatic isolation of China and even though he wasn't actually in office for very long at the time, he also spearheaded U.S. military aid to Israel in its hour of needs on the Yom Kippur War. So I wanted to talk a bit about how he's viewed in Egypt, or if he is talked about at all today. Dr. Maril Mazyad is visiting Associate Professor of Israel Studies and International Relations at the University of Maryland. He helped Israel overcome that surprise assault from Egypt and from Syria. But he also had a role, didn't he, in brokering the peace between Egypt and Israel? Well, I think Kissinger's legacy has its failures when it comes to Vietnam, Chile, other cases, but when it came to dealing with Egypt, he gave a speech at actually the University of Maryland Kissinger did about Anwar Sadat and he said that he is one of, he's the most statesman he met in his life. He thought that he underestimated Sadat. He did not understand him at the beginning. But he came to understand how much of a great man he is because Sadat had a strategy of war and peace. And he had an understanding of the psychological makeup of four different American presidents. And that's out of Kissinger's speech about Sadat. So I think the attribution for the peace between Israel and Egypt goes to Sadat. And that's because he understood that Israel needed to understand that for it to exist in the region, it had to change its security doctrine altogether. And the surprise attack when the intelligence from the United States and Israel alike never estimated that the Egyptians would dare attack. And that's why when they did that was the surprise and it had a long lasting effect. Coming to peace, Kissinger described also Sadat's attitude is that it's not the classic kind of negotiation where you start from an extreme position and keep slicing until you get to something. Sadat's way called the Sadat style was to actually make a grand statement and not care about the details but be focused on that outcome. So instead of like starting from an extreme position and kind of negotiating to something reasonable, no, you're very exact about what you want. And then you get to it. And I think that's the basis of this relationship between Egypt and Israel. They mutually understood each other. Egypt wanted its land back and Israel wanted security and never having to fight the Egyptians again because of the way they fought in the Yom Kippur War. Sadat was so underestimated so sideline he was giving just threats and he wouldn't act on them. But when he built a relationship with Kissinger they came to understand one another and Sadat's goal was to be a friend of the United States and shift from Soviet alliance to actual American alliance. So even discussing the weaponry eventually Egypt became a partner. It started having a kind of aid that is proportionate to Israel relative to their size, their sense of threat, etc. But that of itself was a strategic change that was in Egypt's own interest and it coincided with also U.S. interest. So I would say I agree with Kissinger than Sadat was maybe the greatest statesman he met because he operated in circumstances that were so underestimated. You know you wouldn't think that this would be the outcome after a war. He was understanding all of that so they built a relationship. Mara, I'm sorry to interrupt you. I would love to continue with you but sadly we are out of time. Dr. Mara O'Mazia, we appreciate it. Thank you so much. And Mara Sadat, Henry Kissinger, neither of us neither of them with us peace between Israel and Egypt. It's thankfully, stay with us at 924 news. Is in a state of war families completely done down in their beds. We have no idea where she is. Our soldiers are fighting on the front line but the general perception is something that certainly needs to to be fought as well. This is Breaking News Edition. I'm Vanessa Levine. Two freed Israeli hostages are back in Israel. 21 year old Mia Shem and 40 year old Amit Susana being welcomed here on your screen going through or for Kim moments ago. Eight other Israeli hostages should be reunited with relatives in Israel tonight having spent more than seven weeks in captivity in Gaza since being abducted during that Hamas terror onslaught on the 7th of October. Mia and Amit were released in recent hours. Here you can see them being transported by armed masked terrorists in Gaza. It's seen unfolding nightly since this truth started nearly a week ago. Palestinian civilians jeering taking pictures and throwing rocks at vehicles. The rest of the hostages said to be freed today will be transferred to the Red Cross at different times apparently because they were held captive at different locations. Two Israeli Russians might also be added to the group in yet another gesture by Hamas for President Vladimir Putin. Hamas is reportedly saying three bodies will also be sent from Gaza to Israel. Now the extended truce broken in Qatar is set to end at 7am tomorrow morning. Earlier in the day the terror group claiming responsibility for a fatal terror attack in Jerusalem in which three Israeli civilians were gunned down. And in recent hours US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken meeting with Defense Minister Joaf Gallant as the Israeli war cabinet discusses how to eliminate the Hamas threats. We appreciate very much your personal commitment to this just war and we are going to fight Hamas till we prevail no matter how long it takes. It's a just war it's a war to win Hamas the ISIS of Gaza and it's a war to bring the hostages back home. At the same time this was the seventh day of the humanitarian pause the seventh day of hostages coming home to their loved ones. And I know that for Israel for the United States for a number of other countries around the world who have their citizens being held hostage by Hamas we want every hostage to come home. And so we look to see if this can continue certainly that would be a good thing. It's also allowed much more humanitarian assistance to get in to the Gazans who need it. But it's going to be up to Hamas whether they will continue to to do this. And now for more on the ground let's go to our correspondent Nicole Zedek she joins us from Ofakim in southern Israel and Nicole we saw the visuals of two women freed from captivity in recent hours passing through Ofakim 21 year old Mia Shem and 40 year old Amit Susana the rest of the group said to be coming through in the coming hours talk us through the latest there Well you see those images of Mia Shem and Amit Susana being welcomed through here in Ofakim and it really is a heartwarming scene Israelis waving the Israeli flag welcoming them and showing them a very warm welcome to everything that they've been missing for the past nearly two months now and we're hoping to see eight more Israelis come home in that same fashion throughout the night however it could be a long night it's already 8 p.m. Israel time and as I was speaking to some IDF spokespeople they were telling us that be prepared for a long time as we're hearing different reports all of these different Israeli hostages might be coming back in different stages in different places throughout the day depending on where they've been kept in Hamas captivity for the past nearly eight weeks at this point so the IDF is preparing the Red Cross is preparing to continue to welcome back eight more Israeli hostages and also as you said Hamas claiming that they will also be releasing three bodies as well you can hear some of these Ofakim residents screaming I'm Israel Chai the nation of Israel lives that's really the feeling of the emotion from so many of the residents here in the south as they're finally welcoming some of these Israeli hostages back home such a special moment indeed to see the flags and you can imagine for these freed hostages to have that site after these unimaginable seven weeks in captivity quite a moment indeed Nicole very briefly the truce ends at 7am tomorrow morning what happens next that is a good question Benita especially because as far as the terms of this truce Israel wants to see women and children brought back home and right now there's at least four children who remain in Gaza little Kaffir Bebas if only 10 months old and his four-year-old brother Ariel now in addition to them we also know Aisha and Bilal Ziyadne 17 and 18-year-old Bedouin teenagers who were kidnapped they are from the the Bedouin city of Rehat their family says that they are on the list to return home today they are expecting to welcome them back within the coming hours anxiously waiting to hopefully receive some of that good news but I can't even say it's fully good news because Aisha and Bilal's father and older brother who's 22 years old are still held captive in Gaza and this is the reality that so many families even if some of them have returned home many of their loved ones are still in Gaza and so when it comes to that extension of the truce and what might happen at 7am when the truce does expire we know for certain it might not be the same deals of a negotiation if the negotiations do continue to hold out we're hearing from Egyptian and Qatari negotiators that they do want to see it push forward but it likely won't be under the same terms because women and children there aren't many of them left to come back here to Israel well we certainly will be holding our breath and waiting for updates for now thank you so much correspondent Nicole Zedek from Ofakim in southern Israel thank you Nicole and now we go to our correspondent Zach Anders and he joins us from the Shiba Medical Center and Zach we know that Mia Shem one of the feed hostages 21 years old is being brought there to Shiba she was of course abducted from that music festival also 40 year old Amit Sasana is now in Israel talk us through what is happening where you are what can you share well the hospital is in motion as we're anticipating her arrival the flow of how this works will hear the whir of the helicopter as it makes its approach in then it will be a transfer to another ambulance for a very short ride from the helipad to this emergency room bay that will then begin that process of being around an entire care team that involves specialists and additional a really rather large team of doctors that can be attentive to just each individual patient now this hospital Shiba Hospital has taken in 27 of the freed hostages 13 of those still remain in care that's for a variety of reasons they haven't been specifically giving reports as to each individual hostage freed hostage but they have generalized and spoken about the overall health of all of their patients in their care and for the majority of them they've all lost weight 10 to 20 percent of their body weight the hospital says still they give good news they say that they're improving and that things are for all of them going well thank you so much for now we will be coming back to our correspondent Zach Anders from Shiba Medical Center thank you so much Zach and now take a look at this moment 21 year old Mia Shem here she is embracing relatives what a moment mother brother Mia Shem all together for the first time in over seven weeks since the 21 year old was abducted from the music festival on the 7th of October we heard pleas from her mother in recent weeks begging begging for Mia to be released and just moments ago this was the moment reunited after all this agonizing time what a moment and so for more we now welcome Dr David Shimoni former intelligence official at the Commanders for Israel's security Dr Shimoni thank you so much and all these emotions look at that that picture a mother a brother a daughter not knowing for all these weeks if they would ever see each other again and at the same time holding our breath the nation waiting to see who else is coming home and what exactly is going to unfold your thoughts on what we've just seen with a very emotional moment of course and very big relief for any family that its members are returned from from Gaza from captivity we still don't know exactly we don't hear exactly all the details of the ordeal they went through we know it was captivity they were kept mostly in the dark in a damp place almost no food very very little food and very basic food we know of some abuse physical abuse of of hostages so any any one that returns to Israel is a great relief I think a few amazing things are that the families whose members have been released and sent back to Israel are still maintaining contact and are still in the circles of the other families they they define themselves as a huge family of Israelis and they will not go away before all of the hostages have been released I think another thing you spoke about holding our breath the whole country is waiting to see the what's going to happen with the two red-head little bibas clear bibas and aerial bibas yes because the younger one is 10 months old beautiful small children and yesterday the Hamas said that they have died and we have no confirmation of that I hope it will never be confirmed and I hope we will be seeing them here but talking about tension talking about uncertainty talking about terrible days and nights that all these and agony these families are going through it's really really really bad and therefore the this deal of 10 at least 10 hostages a day for Israel for the families of course it's a good deal and it's been going on more or less smoothly with a few snacks the first day was the postponed but a few snacks but I see with great happiness every one that comes back goes to get his medical care his family meet him and I hope this flow will still continue we still have two or three days in the deal because it's our seventh day of the execution of the of the deal but the first day where there were no releases so you know it depends how you interpret that so hopefully we can get at least 10 or 20 and maybe 30 hostages more again there's the debate if we'll insist that they'll first come the children or the women maybe the Hamas for some reason will want to give us men again personally I'll accept anyone with great happiness I don't think this gender thing is is totally justified because it depends on the built of each one each individual how can he endure this this calamity and the terrible conditions but I believe that also some men will need a lot of help when they come back we certainly are waiting for every single hostage old young male female every hostage to get home safely Dr. Shimoni stay with us we've got much more to discuss but right now let's go to our Middle East correspondent Ariel Osirin and he joins us from Tel Aviv Ariel what is the latest there what can you share right Benita so throughout the evening there have been impromptu music concerts across Hostage Square and attempt to try and raise morale among the friends and loved ones and just hundreds of supporters who came to show their support in a universal call for the immediate release of all the remaining hostages that are still captive in Gaza by Hamas now while there is excitement for the over the release of Mia Shem as well as Amit Susana there is still the clear constant reminder that still 146 hostages 145 sorry Israelis remain captive in Gaza and now I'm here joined by Aviv Gerzi he is a friend of Omar Venkert who was kidnapped in the Nova Music Festival in Reim Aviv thank you for joining us what tell us what brings you and your friends here this evening to Hostage Square what brings us like every day we come and talk about Omar and about how he kidnapped and about our friend that murdered there and Omar have a disease a flaming disorder disease that's called crown colitis and we're trying to get more people to know about this disease and trying to help them to get soon released from the hostages that he is now as the hostages are being released we're hearing stories of their conditions in Gaza one of these stories is the story of Ohad Mounder nine years old who received he managed to receive the message from HaPuel his favorite soccer team wishing him a happy birthday and he people who gave him the message didn't know that he would see it and obviously he didn't expect it so in case Omar is somehow watching you today what message do you want to deliver to him from Hostage Square here in Tel Aviv this evening I love you and I love you very very very much and you know that and we're trying our best to to get you sooner here with us and I give you a hug like the biggest hug you can imagine and we're going through this together and everything you need I'm here bro and you know that and we are very optimistic about when you come we really truly believe that it's right now at like one day from now something like that but it's really close and we can feel it and that's why all our friends here and we're trying to come every day just be optimistic about it and share your story and we love you and that's it I think thank you thank you Aviv and you know good luck to you and also to all I mean this story of Omar Venkart is just one of many posters you can see behind me of hostages who remain in Hamas the captivity and their friends and loved ones are here as they are every evening trying to also raise awareness and to unify the call for the immediate release of all hostages still remaining in Hamas captivity but also if somehow they can get their message out and have their friends and loved ones see see them on TV or radio sometimes there are reports that that's those conditions so they're trying to also pass their message of encouragement to their friends and loved ones who remain in Hamas captivity after 55 days the support and the solidarity is palpable there in Tel Aviv thank you so much for now that's our Middle East correspondent Ariel Osirain thank you so much we will be coming back to Ariel for more updates in the coming hours and now that moment that we spoke about just a short while ago freed hostage 21 year old Mia Shem with her family her mom and her brother just moments ago after being released from captivity let's take a look Mia Shem with her mom and her brother reunited safely in Israel after more than seven weeks in captivity what a moment and Dr. Shimoni to think that there are at this hour 145 other hostages inside Gaza right now we heard the solidarity from all the families waiting to be included on that list to know that their loved ones are coming home to know that they can be reunited like we just saw the Shem family right there it's a painful few days ahead still especially for the families of the soldiers we have no official information about the soldiers I believe that the Israeli intelligence has knowledge about some of them who of them survived how many of them are alive maybe something about their whereabouts but the families know nothing the families are totally in the dark we're talking about 18 year old 19 year old kids who've been kidnapped actually not fallen in in battle they were kidnapped and we know nothing about the whereabouts and I believe nothing can stop before we have them back with us and when we're talking about the continuation of the war or continuation of having deals I think the Israeli idea is to resume fighting to exert more pressure on the Hamas because the Hamas will be reluctant to release our soldiers you mentioned the solidarity you mentioned the Israeli public demanding action to get the hostages back all of them hopefully alive we don't know about many of them what happened to them some of them as we know now have died on October 7th and their their bodies are kept by by Hamas so yeah we still are expecting terrible days and awful nights for all of us and especially for the families you spoke earlier about the conditions in captivity and we're hearing more and more about exactly that an account from young people older hostages as well talk to us from a strategic point of view the fact that these people have spent seven weeks not knowing if they would see their families again but also not knowing if they would live and what was going to be happened even when they were taken out to be brought back to Israel it's not clear that they would have been told that that's what is happening and what is it doing to the psyche of these people that are coming home right now well first of all the the long period of time in in captivity was devastating it's they were they were kept away from any news and they were kept away from daylight they haven't seen a daylight for you know almost two months now and many of them were instructed not to talk and if to talk to whisper and we've seen the kids that are coming back now that they're still whispering because of fear that something will happen to them if they raise their their voices so I believe that the psyche is is damaged I think those who are released engulfed by the love of their families and medical support and the professional support many of them I believe will will recover many of them will carry scars and maybe deeper psychological damage for the entire of their of their lives so as their family members family members who were in tension who couldn't sleep couldn't eat for this period it's it's a it is a trauma to to all involved but I believe some a good percentage of them will recover will return to to life because they came back to their family again the people from the from the south and the Kibbutzim mostly they have no homes their homes were burnt were destroyed were were blown up so they went to join their families in hotels all over the country those who came from the from the party they go back home they go back to Tel Aviv they go back to the big cities and they have a chance to I hope to get a a better recovery and certainly we're looking at images on our screen there of children hugging their parents again their pets again certainly having that connection and feeling the love you can see it in these pictures on our screen right now certainly means the world what a special special reunion now talking of exactly that and what is happening at local hospitals exactly what we are discussing right now the chief executive of the Schneider Children's Medical Center Efrat Bronhar Lev has these insights let's take a listen before dawn this morning 14 ages arrived to Schneider Children's following a long period of 53 days in the captivity of Hamas their physical condition is stable and they're undergoing medical and emotional evaluation everyone who returns to us has a very moving experience every boy every girl every mother each of them is an entire world first we look then we listen and only then we check and we're interrupting that moment to take a look at this one these are live images a helicopter about to land at Shiba Medical Center to our knowledge 21 year old Mia Shem is being brought to Shiba Medical Center right now we know that she was abducted from the music festival more than seven weeks ago and now we saw those images reunited with her mother and her brother what a moment she is coming right now landing in that helicopter being brought safely safely to Shiba Medical Center you're looking at live images on your screen right now what a moment for Mia Shem and her family just 21 years old and now she will get the treatment that she needs after all this time in captivity we saw so many images of her on that day being taken from that music festival terrifying images and now these are images of safety these are images showing Israeli officials bringing her to one of the top medical centers in the world for the treatment that she deserves right now so she can recover and get back to being with her family we saw those moving images just moments ago reunited Mia Shem with her mom and her brother who for so long didn't know if they would get to see her again and now we know that she is safe and we know that she is with her family and we know she is going to be treated at one of the top medical institutions in the world surrounded with the welcome for 21 year old Mia Shem we saw the flags at Ufa Kim we saw the noise the joy to see that she is coming home safely one of the hostages set to come home tonight Mia Shem you're looking at live images on your screen what a moment our coverage continues we're taking a short break we leave you with these images stay tuned we're casting from Israel with dozens of correspondence throughout the world brings the truth from Israel to hundreds of millions of people in scores of countries bringing Israel's story to the world back to this breaking news edition eight more Israeli hostages should be reunited with relatives in Israel tonight hopefully having spent more than seven weeks in captivity in Gaza since being abducted during the Hamas terror onslaught on the 7th of October the first two women from this group are already in Israel we just saw that helicopter landing moments ago with 21 year old Mia Shem she is being taken to Shiba medical center and also coming home 40 year old Amit Susana you are looking at live images on your screen right now these two women were handed over to the Red Cross in recent hours and it appears that the rest of the hostages will be coming back hopefully at a later stage these are live images on your screen right now from Shiba medical center still with me in studio Dr. David Shimoni former intelligence official at the Commanders for Israel's security so what do you make of exactly that that we've had these emotional images seeing two women safely back in Israel and now separate different groups we don't know if it's a group of eight people we don't know if they're also going to be split up into smaller groups but ostensibly this is because these people have been held captive at various centers across the Gaza Strip your sense yeah we noticed that the Hamas are very sensitive about their own safety and security and they will try to conceal any movement from the locations where the hostages are held and yes they might be split between different locations a few days ago we've seen people released from the northern part of Gaza from neighborhoods in actually related to Gaza City that have not been taken over by the IDF and so and we know that they're trying to hold the Red Cross officials away from the hostages so not to disclose their exact locations so they're playing many many tricks I think quite successfully to protect their whereabouts and where they are hiding and where they're hiding the rest of the hostages and again we're very emotional about each hostages that's released and coming back but the big picture is as you said before we still have a big big big group of especially soldiers that I'm worried about we don't know the whereabouts and I and we don't know if it will be able to continue this kind of deal with the soldiers in a way it will be fantastic for Israel if every day until 15 days from now weeks from now everybody will be back home but it doesn't make sense it doesn't make sense because the Hamas eventually would be fighting for their lives and for their survival as individuals and as a group and the only negotiating coins they have are the hostages so I believe eventually today tomorrow will be the end of this they might be all kinds of negotiations and trying to play tricks and misinformation and disinformation and we can't locate everybody etc but I believe eventually this flow will seize and we'll go back to to resume fighting in the south 7 am tomorrow is when this apparent truth is supposed to end but we do know that there could well be an extension and obviously as you say if each time there's an extension more hostages come home and there are more reunions like the one we just saw with the Shem family then that is obviously first prize for the Israeli nation but the security risks are very high how much longer can Israel push out this truth and not continue with its operation to eliminate the Hamas threat the time is playing also against Israel we have to bear in mind that most of our army are reservists 350,000 reservists are away from home away from work many businesses are closed people don't produce people don't make money and you have to feed and supply and resupply huge army of reservists and there'll be a limit of how long we can maintain this and keep all of this huge army mobilized so eventually again if we're talking about 10 hostages a day it's nothing it's negligent if it will continue and within two weeks we'll have everybody back that's terrific but it won't happen and eventually the government will have to make a decision whether they go back to war full scale war or they let this thing trickle and trickle and trickle and I don't think they can afford that both because of what you asked it's impossible to keep this effort on this huge mobilized reservist army for such a long time the economy is suffering family is suffering people are getting tired fatigued worn out even if there's no fighting they're on high alert again the ceasefire did did something good to the Hamas but did also the good things to the IDF the IDF sent many many soldiers home for a day for two days to take a shower we heard this morning in Jerusalem where there was a terror attack that one of the soldiers who killed the terrorist was a soldier who came for short vacation from Gaza but it's a that demonstration that yes many people are coming now for short of occasions something we're going to talk about in a short while in more detail but right now let's go back to our correspondent Nicole Zedek she joins us again from of Akim Nicole what is the latest there what can you tell us we are still waiting Benita at this point because it's been about three and a half hours now since those first initial hostages freed hostages now Mia Shem and Amit Susanna since they were first handed over to the Red Cross and then not long after that brought back into Israeli territory and crossing through the streets of of Akim here now and that was about three and a half hours ago and since then it's been very very little word as far as the movement on the timeline as when we're going to see the rest of these hostages even be transferred over to the Red Cross before entering back into Israeli territory all we know at this point is that it is possible and likely that they will be released at different points throughout the night and from different places just depending on where they have been kept for the past more than 50 days at this point nearly two months so that is what the IDF is preparing for that's what these hospitals are preparing for really just waiting to see exactly when and where hopefully these eight other hostages will come back to Israeli territory hopefully when within the coming hours Benita one cannot imagine what the families are going through the angst waiting to find out exactly how it's all going to unfold for now thank you very much correspondent Nicole Zedek live from Ofakim and Dr. Shimoni I want to pick up on something we were talking about a little bit earlier not only the waiting as Nicole is explaining it's such a tense time with these families who would have been told earlier in the day their loved ones are hopefully coming home and now they are waiting to find out exactly what is going to unfold but also the fact that there was this terror attack in Jerusalem something happening in broad daylight very scary and something we will talk about again in more detail but right now let's go back to our correspondent Zach and as he's at Shiba Medical Center we saw that helicopter landing moments ago what is the latest there what can you tell us about 21 year old Mia Shem where is she what can you share well as we were just about to come on here that van that shuttles from the helicopter to the entrance to the hospital like the almost the emergency room the servicing entrance for the children the pediatric ward pulls the curtains behind over my shoulder they'll shut those tight and give the family and her Mia Shem privacy as they take her into the hospital for intake now as we were speaking before there are several challenges posed for the doctors and the team here the medical team at Shiba Medical Center as they are getting someone who received care and the attention of doctors inside Gaza but they don't have they don't keep medical records they aren't going to be sharing that information so from the media that we see of the break on her arm and the medical device the metal rods implanted into her right arm which looks like it's appearing to set a fracture or assist in some sort of healing for her arm that was that's something as the doctors described here going to be one of those things that they have to walk in somewhat blind to as they begin the care for her and start this new process they don't know what was exactly undertaken by the doctors inside Gaza so they have to start at square one in the medical evaluation here and begin to perform the best care they can for her there's also going to be a team of specialists standing by this hospital fully staffed prepared to intake the two hostages that we're expecting to see tonight the first we believe was Mia Shem her family is here in the hospital they're anticipating the arrival much more than that we're going to have to wait for the medical staff to come down and brief the media to explain what exactly they've been able to interpret but that may take some time as again their first immediate priority is providing that initial care well we certainly do know that right now she is getting the best medical care correspondent Zach Andrews Achieve a medical center we will be coming back to you for more updates very soon thank you very much for now and now we go to our senior diplomatic correspondent Owen Ultiman and he joins us now we are waiting to hear a word from Anthony Blinken yet again the U.S. Secretary of State some big meetings he's been involved in what is the latest Owen what can you share so Benito we're here at a hotel in Tel Aviv waiting for the secretary to get here for the press conference that will cap his trip to Israel is forth since the start of the war this will be his main set of statements to the media at around 915 local time zone just less than an hour from now and you mentioned being there a series of meetings here met with the prime minister of course with President Herzog with defense minister you have Galan and just over the last few hours with Benny Gantz of course a central minister in this Israeli government and the third voting member in the narrow war cabinet and also met with opposition leader Yair Lapid as well as a quick trip to Ramallah to meet with Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas and then as we mentioned coming here to the podium behind me to tell us how it all went Benito I think there are real questions at this hour if you look it's very very carefully at what the secretary said about the extent to which the extent to which the Biden administration still supports that Israeli goal of ending Hamas control over the Gaza Strip and eliminating Hamas's military capacities across Israeli media reported just under an hour ago that essentially in that war cabinet room Secretary Blinken told those Israeli ministers that he wants to see less civilian casualties in the warfare in southern Gaza something that he's essentially said publicly and is par for the course of what we've heard from the administration in recent days but also told the ministers quote you do not have month to carry out the operation being that if Israel needs to fight this differently with lower civilian casualties putting real restrictions on what kinds of targets can that can be hit and it's also time limited so that it's not a long time frame in which those targets could be hit over time going to be very very difficult for Israel to achieve that goal of eliminating Hamas's military capability and ending its control over the Gaza Strip so you start to get the picture that the administration all things being equal subscribes to that goal but if that goal involves too high the cost to Gaza's civilian populations they might be willing to abandon it and obviously that's going to open a real gap between the Biden administration and the Israeli government and frankly the Israeli public as well and as you say some big decisions to be made we will be coming back to you to hear more a little bit later on in the broadcast for now thank you very much senior diplomatic correspondent Owen Altman live from Tel Aviv thank you Owen and while the fragile truce in Gaza is still in place at least for another few hours a terror attack taking place in Jerusalem on Thursday morning three Israelis shot dead at a bus station at the entrance to the capital our senior defense correspondent Jonathan Regev has the details The shots can be clearly heard echoing in the Jerusalem rush hour Here are the two terrorists armed with an M16 rifle and a handgun shooting at anyone they see killing three people and injuring various others I saw the car stopping by the station it seemed suspicious from the start the driver got out of the vehicle and pulled out a weapon I realized immediately that this is a terror attack they ran to their car for more ammunition and that is when they were stopped a very quick reaction from two soldiers and the civilian on site neutralized the terrorists and they were both eliminated this event illustrates another thing how important is the policy of delivering weapons despite the criticism I will continue with the policy of handing out weapons everywhere including to emergency units and civilians the terrorists are two brothers from the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Tzurbacher both with a history in Israeli prisons and with connections to Hamas police and border police units raided their homes searching for more potential terrorists our forces are spread in every arena to neutralize every possible threat these two terrorists were eliminated and the same will happen to every terrorist coming to Jerusalem Israel's focus may be on Gaza but as we learned once again the potential for escalation comes from every possible arena and I'm coming straight to you very briefly Dr. Shimoni for exactly that threat from Hamas perpetrating in broad daylight a terror attack in Jerusalem so we see it's the same enemy and I think Hamas was very disappointed with external assistance to its assault on Israel the Hizballah was a big disappointment Iran is a disappointment they're trying to do some things through the Huttis and now they're trying to rely on their affiliates in the West Bank Hamas terror sales in the West Bank are being activated we've seen that in the past few weeks there's been a lot of IDF activity in the West Bank trying to gun down or to arrest many of these but they're still around and they will still try to join the Hamas assault on Israel certainly a very worrying scenario playing out right now Dr. Shimoni Dr. David Shimoni thank you as always for being here we always appreciate your security insights thank you very much at a very important time in this war and now it's a pleasure to welcome to studio American actor and comedian Brett Gelman best known for his role in the Netflix series Stranger Things and in the BBC comedy Fleabag Brett thank you so much for being here in studio thank you so much for having me and what a time what a time to be here I think a lot of people would wonder why you would be here at this time day 55 in a war how's it been what have you seen what have you felt well I came here with with my partner Ari Diane who is an Israeli American and we have a real connection to Israel and we felt like we had to come here and show support both to our family and friends and then also go around and try to spread the word because I'm sure you're aware that in the United States right now it's a very very misinformed thing that's going on and so we wanted to come out here and visit a lot of different communities individuals to tell the truth you know the true story of Israel and the Israeli people and all the heartbreak that you're all feeling and that I mean really this is like a battle between good and evil and one of the reasons it's so strange the response that we are seeing as you say in America the misinformation certainly on student campuses and certainly in the celebrity world why it's so stark is because on the 7th of October Hamas filmed what they did there is graphic footage that quite frankly no human being should have to ever know or see but it exists and still there are people questioning what actually took place yeah it's I I'm so heartbroken for the Israeli people but at the same time I felt immediately when I landed here relaxed in a strange way because there's a clarity here that doesn't exist in the United States you know the truth and there has been this steady stream of propaganda misinformation that has been slowly leaked into our college campuses into our social justice groups that has totally flipped this upside down the reality of what's going on and and I feel such a clarity is that you know we've been visiting hostage families we've been visiting hospitals we've been visiting farms just seeing the what has happened here how this has so deeply affected the Israeli people and and there is a major connection between Israel and the western world I mean it's truly the guardian of the western world if things are not all right here things are not right with us and and you you're seeing that in these protests it's just it's a completely chaotic moronic thing and and so what we're trying to do is you know just talk to people we've been filming people so we can try to flip this thing right side up and what kind of reaction are you specifically getting for doing exactly that filming speaking to people getting the truth out what kind of response are you seeing from from the Israeli people I mean yeah I'm overwhelmed with their gratitude is overwhelming it's it's amazing to me you know that's and it really it's that's very healing to me and the reaction from the American audience the fans so to speak I see you laughing I can only imagine it's very split it's very split but I'm getting a lot of hate you know nobody could ever nobody could ever accuse me of doing this for popularity in the United States absolutely not so but I don't care I mean what's the use of popularity what's the use of a career if you don't have a soul if you don't have integrity for sure talking about integrity or perhaps the lack of integrity when you have a supermodel the likes of Jiji Hadid making outrageous comments about what is happening here and then choosing a little bit later on to perhaps apologize for it what kind of impact does it have in the celebrity world that American student world that you're talking about so many followers believing her and when the apology eventually comes maybe it's a little bit too late what kind of impact do you think it has I think the apology came way too late and I don't think that it was a full apology she's still accusing Israel of breaking international law which is a lie and I I mean Jiji Hadid has more followers she has 80 million followers that's way more than there are Jews in the world so I think it's I think it's reprehensible what can I say I think that any apology now would be too late the damage is done you know what we need to do is people need to start speaking out and people need to be putting the real truth out there because people don't know the history of this country people don't know the situation they've never been here they've never talked to an Israeli they've never talked to a Palestinian even you know to actually find out what is happening and so really even though I'm I know the situation you can't know it too you can't know it well enough and so that's what I'm why I'm here is to is to learn from from all of you what you've been experiencing not just now but for all time to really understand what is happening and to share that with the many ignorant as people have been calling them useful idiots I'll give you another example that also just jumps out for me Cynthia Nixon the star of Sex and the City is on a two-day hunger strike right now she is demanding a permanent ceasefire a two-day hunger strike we won't unpack that in Hollywood but she is vocal about what is happening in Gaza right now and my question sincerely is where were you when women were being raped tortured shot at on the 7th October where was your voice where was your moral clarity when that was happening why is it that there is silence out of people who are choosing to speak now surely they must know what unfolded children were butchered in front of their parents mothers are being held captive in Gaza their children are being sent home they don't even know if their children are alive or not where are the celebrity voices when that happens in the world I don't know I don't know if it's just blatant anti-semitism which I think in some cases it is I don't know if you know I think that we have a lot of a lot of people have unconscious biases also there's just been a steady stream of propaganda that has slowly framed Israel and the Jewish people as the oppressor as a white supremacist there was this sort of propaganda that was leaked in I'm sure by regimes like Iran and Qatar into our universities into our social justice groups in the United States that started to frame this and started to inject American politics into this situation making Palestinians people of color and Israelis white and that's absolutely not the case here Israel is surrounded by enemies and so much of Israel are not white people and even if they were it just it's a country that was built on refugees themselves trying to escape tyranny throughout the world on their indigenous land and so all of this has been left out of this propaganda it's just been this and you only see like the news that I watched before this the liberal media only posting bombing never talking about why that response is happening the fact that it is it is a defensive response to attacks that are happening So Brett what is the solution so to speak down the line and I'm talking about it through your perspective because you've been here what has stood out for you the message that you would take back to the United States not only to the Hollywood world the celebrity world so to speak but to the general public what has stood out for you the message from the Israelis that you have met in the middle of a war I've been I've been so moved by how the Israeli people have banded together in this with zero support the way in which I you know I went and visited brothers and sisters the way in which brothers and sisters have almost been functioning as a government you know the way at Lekit you know the way that giving farmers a workforce again of volunteers you know it's things like this I went to the Nova rehab center in which they're taking care of the survivors and giving them all types of different therapy in a positive space to hopefully heal from the horrible trauma that they went through so I'm trying to take that what is the answer is spreading that message of the goodness of the Israeli people that you're about life we're about life whereas Hamas is Islamic jihadism is purely about death it's all about death and we have to stop that we have to stop that we have to you call somebody a terror a terrorist a terrorist in the United States and people call you Islamophobic that's insane that's not only bad for Jews that's bad for moderate Muslims that's bad for the Palestinian people so trying to make people realize you're not for humanity if you're marching for this cause you're against