 Welcome to I-24 News, continuing our coverage of Israel at war. I'm Nicole Zettick, live in Tel Aviv. The ceasefire continues for two extra days, and Israel is expecting to welcome home another 10 hostages this evening in exchange for this extra day without fighting. The Prime Minister's office confirms Israel does have the list of hostages expected to be released. And just like we've seen over the past four days, for every one Israeli returned home, Israel will release three Palestinian prisoners. All of them sentenced for committing acts of violence or terrorism, including attempted murder. Over the past four days, 69 hostages have been brought home, 50 Israelis as part of the original deal, as well as 19 foreign nationals released through outside negotiations with Thailand and Russia. But still, more than 160 hostages are believed to be in Gaza, including the Bebest family, little ten-month-old Kfir and his four-year-old brother Arielle. They've reportedly been passed from the hands of Hamas to other Palestinian terror groups, making their return home that much more complicated. Their family now sending an urgent plea for this psychological warfare to stop now. This has been 52 days for a baby activity. There is no precedent in modern history for something like this. This can't keep growing up. It can't keep growing. 52 days is so long. Arielle has several medical conditions and fear-need baby formula and need to develop rights. We've already lost so much. Meanwhile, we are still getting new footage and images of some of these released hostages finally able to leave the hospital. Take a look at Yafe Adar as she's walking out of Wolfson Hospital, hugging some of those doctors, nurses, being welcomed home with the Israeli flag. You can see the emotion there, and not only for Yafe Adar, but also for all of those nurses, all of those citizens, all of those volunteers who have also been waiting for her return as well. So it's these type of emotional reunions, returns, as she's now finally able to leave the hospital that is really gripping the Israeli society right now. Now, speaking of exactly what we are seeing on the ground, let's turn live to our I-24 News correspondent Robert Swift. He's at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv. Robert, what's the general public been, what's the feeling been like throughout the day? Because we do continue to see more and more of these pretty emotional reunions. There's quite a mixture of emotions. These images and videos coming out on social media and being shared by the Israeli press, they obviously touch an emotional chord among the Israeli public. They are a sign of optimism, something that people can put their hopes into. At the same time, people are very much not forgetting the fact that only a minority of the hostages held inside the Gaza Strip have been released. For every group of hostages released, there are still others left to come. Earlier today we spoke with one young woman who, you know, she was very happy to have the fact that four of her family members had been returned, but she was still waiting for her grandfather to be released. That sort of emotion is very much present here on the ground. We've also been speaking with a number of school teachers who brought their students here to see what the situation was on the ground, to experience the memorials that are here in Hostage Square. And so a lot of the people we've been speaking to, they were either expressing optimism or a bitter sweetness over the mixed emotions of the release and the longing for others to be released. But also, there was still some anger among some of the people that we spoke to. One individual that we spoke to had some harsh words to say about the Red Cross. And he's not been the only protester that we've seen here with signs essentially demonstrating their lack of sympathy with the Red Cross's position. Let's take a listen to what he had to say. I am a volunteer with the Australian Red Cross and I'm sitting here very ashamed and troubled by the lack of transparency and assistance given by the Red Cross to all sides, which should be equitable according to their charter. I would call upon all people who are friendly, governments, organizations, corporations who support the Red Cross to withdraw their support until the Red Cross stands up and mans up for their lack of diligence in helping the Jewish people in this hostage situation. They are inequitable and they are judgmental as if we are to blame. It is those disgusting and unacceptable and I am reviewing my thing whether I can go back and act as a volunteer in Australia. Certainly a mixed bag of emotions felt around the country. Robert Swift, thank you for that update from Tel Aviv. Now, meanwhile, we are still learning more about the condition of the freed hostages that had been held for the past seven weeks and exactly what they experienced. As more Israelis come back from Hamas captivity and begin to tell their stories to family members, the question of what is life like as a hostage? It's finally starting to be answered. Our Senior Defense Correspondent Jonathan Rugev has the details. 51 Israelis are back home from Hamas captivity. The public is not yet aware of everything they went through during their seven-week ordeal in Gaza, but some family members have given a few insights into the living hell they experienced. We remove various times from place to place. Sometimes those places were below ground and sometimes above it. When we needed to go to the toilet, we had to knock on the door and wait for them to take us. Sometimes it took hours before they took us. They were well aware of the Israeli military operation which had an effect on the conditions they were held in. We were afraid as we could feel the bombardment above us. It shook our beds. Sometimes our captors would lock us in and run away during those times. And perhaps the most astonishing testimony of them all was of a very surprising visit shortly after they were kidnapped. We walked a long time in the area of Khan Yunus until we reached a tunnel and then a large hall. The Hamas people seemed to be quite nervous and then Yahya Sinwar walked in. Speaking perfect Hebrew, he asked us for our names and then calmed us, added that nothing will happen to us here. A comment from the Hamas leader meant to reassure but was probably far from reassuring. Just part of what these hostages went through, those still in Gaza, more than 160 hostages, are still suffering. To talk more about these latest developments, I want to bring in my studio guest. I'm joined in studio by Rafael Ursalmi, former senior intelligence officer with the IDF, as well as a security analyst, as well as our I-24 News senior editor, Guy Osriel. Guy, I want to begin with you because we are still learning more and more different hostage testimony about exactly what they've been experiencing and what they had experienced for more than 50 days, some of them. Yes, so over 50 days in captivity for most of these hostages and I think the most chilling testimonies are those of the children that were held there at the hands of Hamas. I'm going to give you two testimonies of two children that returned from captivity. This is what we're hearing from their families. In the case of 12 years old Eitan Yahalomi, we hear from his aunt. He was being abused in Gaza when he arrived there. He was beaten by civilians upon his arrival on the street. He was forced by Hamas in the tunnel to watch horror footage from the massacre by Hamas. What use is this from Hamas to show this to a 12 years old boy who has just been uprooted from his family who may have seen his friends and families being slaughtered in front of his eyes who's been taken to captivity. This is what Hamas attempted to do. And you can only imagine what they are doing to the adults that are there. A 12 years old child was forced to live in fear and watch these movies. When he cried, they threatened him with weapons. This is what the 12 years old boy is saying about what he's gone through through Hamas. And that is so important to hear when we see these ridiculous films of Hamas is the return films that these are the films that we're seeing. Well, this would perhaps already in Israeli territory, but Hamas releases the footage of the so-called humane treatment he's giving to the Israeli prisoners, the Israeli hostages rather. It's just insane. Very poor sanitary conditions, very few food. No shower for the entire duration of their captivity. We're also hearing from the father of Emily Hand, the Irish Israeli who was taken kidnapped. Her father says when he first met her upon her return, he was unable to hear what she was saying because she was trained only to whisper. He could not hear what she was saying. He had to put his ear next to her mouth to understand what she had to say. He says you could see the horror in her eyes and she learned how to say in Arabic, be quiet to her friend that was with her in captivity. And when he asked her, how long do you think you were there? She said she thought she was there for a year just to emphasize the complete lack of understanding of the time when they saw no daylight in almost all of their captivity, horrors that were just revealing to, starting to reveal right now from these testimonies of these kids, horrific. We've seen the horrors in the Israeli communities, what they've done to entire families, slaughtering them, shooting them, burning them alive in some cases, but that was not the end as if these children and the other hostages didn't experience enough in what they've gone through in the communities. They were molested, tortured even more in those tunnels, including those children as young as nine and 12 years old. And again, a reminder, a 10-month-old baby is still there as well. When we're hearing these witness, they're these hostage testimonies, it's heartbreaking. And also to remember that as they're coming back here, so many of their family members are still held captive in Gaza. So as they're saying what's happening, the psychological trauma, it can... Either held captive or finding out that some of the relatives, including their parents, have been slaughtered on that Saturday. Some of them did even know about that. It's, as we continue to learn more and more, it really is just a quite emotional experience. And meanwhile, as there's still many of them being treated in hospitals right now, let's cross live to our I-24 News correspondent, Pierre Kloschenler, who's at Ecolov Hospital in Tel Aviv. Pierre, we continue to learn more about the condition of these hostages, the physical treatment that they're receiving at many of these hospitals, but they're also being evaluated for the mental trauma that they've received as well. Right, and that's the difficult part of the recovery. The emotional distress that these kids and their mothers felt during those days of captivity. It's not gonna last for two or three days until they are released from hospital. It's gonna be a long-term process of recovery. We know that, they know that probably. They also need to reinsert themselves into Israeli society. They've lost their homes. Their homes were torched, burnt. The people that are here, the nine kids and the two mothers are from the same kibbutz, a close-knit society, Nahal Oz, but it's completely destroyed. So they're gonna have to be moved to other dwellings. But what about that society that they were living in? Are they gonna be all together? Are they gonna be fragmented into different dwellings? What about the educational system? Where are they gonna be schooled? All these questions, the material questions and the mental questions, all that remains to be solved. It's gonna take a long, long time. The kibbutzim are gonna be reconstructed, but it's gonna take a year, maybe two years. In the meantime, these people are gonna be a bit like nomads. And given that it's a very close-knit society and that everyone in that kibbutz knows somebody who was abducted or knows somebody who was killed during the October 7 massacre, the trauma is even stronger. Now, regarding those nine kids, what they have in common, except for the fact that they all come from the same kibbutz and that kibbutz was martyred in October 7. They lost 100 members of the kibbutz plus 18 additional agricultural workers. In addition, 77 of them were abducted. Only part of it returned. 49 are still in captivity. All those kids, their fathers, are in captivity. So the trauma is immense. The worry for the future is immense. The worry for their dad's future. Eitan Yalomi, for instance, 12-year-old, was abducted. He was on his own. His father was defending the kibbutz. He was wounded and he's in captivity, but it was not with Eitan. His mother and two sisters were also abducted. But at the last moment, before they crossed into the Gaza Strip, they managed to escape. So all these stories, all together, makes it very difficult to recompose the puzzle that existed before October 7. It's even impossible. So you need to rebuild your life. When you're an elderly woman and you had hold your memories at home and you stayed at home more than when you're younger, your home is gone, your memories are gone. It's a trauma that you cannot recover from. In materially, you cannot recover from it as well. Yeah, you raised such a good point that while we're saying we're welcoming these hostages home, we're really welcoming them back to Israel because they have no home to go back to. Gear Close and the Earth, thank you for that update from Iqloh Hospital. Now, meanwhile, it's not just the 50 Israelis who have been brought home. It's also more than a dozen foreign Thai workers. They were also ripped out of the southern communities that they've now learned to call home. Foreign Minister Eli Cohen spoke about their condition earlier today. As of now, 17 foreign workers from Thailand returned to Israel. 15 more are still held captive. In the meeting with the Thai officials, we saw the Thai workers who came back. They feel safe here in Israel. We were happy to hear that most of them want to stay here and continue to work here. The Thai workers, their dear workers, their dedicated workers, and for many of the farmers, they became family. Meanwhile, we are still waiting for later today. 10 more Israeli hostages to be released from Hamas captivity brought back here to Israel. I want to bring in Rafael Yerusame because there are now some reports, claims in different media, that some of these hostages have been passed around, not just held by Hamas, but now passed around to different Palestinian terror groups. Specifically, little Kfir, the nine, now 10 month old baby, claimed that he originally was held by Hamas, but now different Palestinian terror factions. But I'm curious, because as we saw on the day one of the release, we saw Hanukkah Tseer, who originally, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed she had been killed, but then she was released over by Hamas. So it seems like these terror groups can work together and Hamas can get the hostages back if they wanted to. I think there's a lot of disinformation going on on purpose, so we cannot really trust anything we hear from the Palestinian side. We have to trust only the intel that we can gather from the captured terrorists, from the released hostages, and try to get a kind of a better picture, which we are getting now, and which is an astonishing picture, because you would think that these Israeli hostages being such assets for the Hamas, being like the life insurance of the leaders of the Hamas, would have been treated in a completely different way. And this is very worrisome for those who are staying behind, because they are not fed properly, they are not treated properly, they are treated harshly, not at all like a treasure. And like you'd think, there would be like, some of them at least would be treated very well because they need them alive and well just to negotiate. And the conditions are appalling, so this is very surprising. So this might be the sign that the Hamas doesn't see them as such important assets, which of course would be easier for us to negotiate their release. We were convinced that they were gonna hold on to them so fast, so fast, so steadfastly, because they represent such a human shield, if you will. I mean, you have really in the Gaza Strip today, 2 million and 200 hostages. Two million above ground are held hostages are the human shield of the Hamas, which are, of course, the civilian citizens of Gaza. And underground, you have another 200 hostages which are the second layer of the human shield. But this human shield doesn't seem to be well maintained. So this is one hand worrisome because of the conditions, meaning the longer these hostages stay there, the more dangerous for their life and well-being it is. On the other hand, if they're not valued as much and if they're treated like that, maybe the Hamas doesn't think they are so important to them because Mr. Sinoua, for instance, a gather can always escape through a tunnel towards Sinai in Egypt to save his own skin. And what about the fact that Mr. Sinoua actually visited some of these hostages, some of the hostages are now reporting? What type of intelligence might the IDF be able to use with that? Well, first of all, we have to see exactly where it was, apparently it was in Hanyounis, which would confirm what we think that the majority of the hostages are, first of all, in the south part of the Gaza Strip and most of them in Hanyounis and most of them close to Mr. Sinoua, close to the political branch. They're still, even though they're mistreated, they're still used as a human shield in a way. So they are, and that's why we could destroy some of the tunnels knowing that the hostages will not be detained in operational tactical tunnels where it's only armed terrorists who are operating there to create skirmishes, to come in and out quickly. You're not gonna detain hostages there even in bad conditions they wouldn't survive very long. So they are in the better, let's say bunkers where the political branch of the Hamas is hiding, mostly in Hanyounis. And I would like to remind everybody that when we speak of the horrible conditions that these hostages were detained, you have to remember that non-Jews were detained just as harsh conditions like the Thai workers, but also that usually in peacetime, a lot of Palestinians from Gaza are tortured and mistreated and beaten up by the Hamas. This organization is of course anti-Semitic and when they see a Jew, their hatred is doubled, let's say, or even more, but they are used to torture and beat people up because they think they are the king of the earth, they are the jihad, Allah Akbar, and they're entitled to treat everybody like a cattle. And we have to remember that. But of course the Jews as usual in history get the special treatment. And meanwhile, as we are welcoming home these 50 Israeli hostages, it was in exchange for 150 Palestinian prisoners. They were draped in Hamas flags just yesterday when 33 of those Palestinian security prisoners were greeted as heroes in the streets of the West Bank on Monday night. Their release was celebrated as these violent offenders were exchanged for innocent Israeli civilians hostage, kidnapped by Hamas. Now after four days of hostage and prisoner releases, Israel is running out of women and minor terrorists to free from its jails, just raising questions regarding the ability to continue releasing hostages. Our Middle East correspondent, Ariel Osiron, has the report. In the dead of night and for the fourth night in a row, Israel released dozens of Palestinian security prisoners. We are free, it's true. We are happy now, but we want our freedom with the blood of martyrs. The blood of those martyrs is a debt owed by every prisoner and every free Palestinian. And we will certainly not forget it. Shaban, a mother of four from the Jenin area, was serving a life sentence over plotting to pose as a pregnant Jewish woman and detonate a suicide vest. She was one of 150 women and minors released from Israeli jails since Friday as part of a ceasefire agreement with Hamas in exchange for 50 Israeli hostages held by Hamas and other terror groups in Gaza since October 7th. Like Maesuna Jabali sentenced to 15 years in prison after stabbing a soldier and seriously wounding her in 2015. God willing, all the prisoners will be released, especially those condemned to life sentences and all the others still inside. Others simply chanted in support of Hamas and the head of its military wing. Hamas, I don't know what you're talking about. Hamas, I don't know what you're talking about. And we're the men of Hamas. And we're the men of Hamas. Since October 7th, Israel has arrested over 3,000 Palestinian terror suspects in the West Bank. While the numbers change rapidly, it's believed that of the 7,000 security prisoners in Israeli jails, roughly 250 of them are minors and 80 are women. After Wednesday and the two-day extension to the ceasefire, Israel will have released 210 prisoners. That doesn't leave many women and minors left to release an exchange for over 140 Israeli hostages. When Hamas stops releasing hostages under the existing framework, Israel will return to realizing our three goals with full force, eliminating Hamas, ensuring that Gaza never again pose a threat to the people of Israel, and of course, releasing all of our hostages. And so, with the next group of 60 prisoners, including known teen Ahad Tameemi, set to be released over the next two days, Israel needs to prepare for the moment when Hamas decide whether to release more dangerous terrorists. We're getting some new details now into the I-24 News Desk about a possible incident that's happening in Gaza. This is day five of a ceasefire. Guy Azrael, what can you tell us about what's happening? Yeah, the ceasefire has been held until today, and now confirmation as we speak from the IDF spokesman confirming that over the last hour, three explosive devices were detonated adjacent to IDF troops in two different locations in the northern Gaza Strip, violating the framework of the operational pause. In one of the locations, terrorists also opened fire at the troops who responded with fire. A number of soldiers were lightly injured in these incidents, and in both incidents the IDF says the troops were located in positions as per the framework of the operational pause, emphasizing that the IDF troops did not go beyond where they are supposed to go through during this pause, during this pause in the fighting, a violation of this ceasefire with these two separate incidents. Several Israeli soldiers lightly wounded. We do not know yet the extent of the damage to the terrorists who operated there, but we know the IDF troops have returned fire, and of course it will be very interesting to see how this violation impacts the current negotiations on the possible extension of another hostage deal, of course. Well, you're speaking about, we're expecting hopefully to see ten more Israelis return within the few coming hours now, and it's these emotional reunions that are really reminding Israelis about what we are fighting for. Seven weeks, 50 days in Hamas captivity, and these people are finally able to hug their loved ones for the first time. We want to end our broadcast on that note of hope and resilience. From Israel, with dozens of correspondence throughout the world, brings the truth from Israel to hundreds of millions of people in scores of countries. Completely gunned down in their beds. Bringing Israel's story to the world. I-24 News Channels, now on Hot. Welcome to I-24 News, continuing our coverage of Israel at war. I'm Nicole Zedek live in Tel Aviv. The ceasefire continues for two extra days, and Israel is expecting to welcome home another ten hostages this evening in exchange for this extra day without fighting. The Prime Minister's office confirms Israel does have the list of hostages expected to be released, and just like we've seen over the past four days, for every one Israeli returned home, Israel will release three Palestinian prisoners. All of them sentenced for committing acts of violence or terrorism, including attempted murder. Over the past four days, 69 hostages have been brought home. 50 Israelis as part of the original deal, as well as 19 foreign nationals released through outside negotiations with Thailand and Russia. But still, more than 160 hostages are believed to be in Gaza, including the Bebes family. A little ten-month-old fear and his four-year-old brother Ariel. They've reportedly been passed from the hands of Hamas to other Palestinian terror groups, making their return home that much more complicated. Their family now sending an urgent plea for this psychological warfare to stop now. This has been 52 days for a baby captivity. There is no precedent in modern history for something like this. This can't keep growing up. It can't keep growing. 52 days is so long. Ariel has several medical conditions and fear needs baby formula and need to develop rights. We've already lost so much. Meanwhile, we are still getting new footage and images of some of these released hostages finally able to leave the hospital. Take a look at Yafe Adar, as she's walking out of Wolfson Hospital, hugging some of those doctors, nurses, being welcomed home with the Israeli flag. You can see the emotion there and not only for Yafe Adar, but also for all of those nurses, all of those citizens, all of those volunteers who have also been waiting for her return as well. So it's these type of emotional reunions, returns as she's now finally able to leave the hospital that is really gripping the Israeli society right now. Now, speaking of exactly what we are seeing on the ground, let's turn live to our I-24 news correspondent, Robert Swift. He's at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv. Robert, what's the general public been, what's the feeling been like throughout the day? Because we do continue to see more and more of these pretty emotional reunions. There's quite a mixture of emotions. You know, these images and videos coming out on social media and being shared by the Israeli press, they obviously touch an emotional chord among the Israeli public. They are a sign of optimism, something that people can put their hopes into. At the same time, people are very much not forgetting the fact that only a minority of the hostages held inside the Gaza Strip have been released. For every group of hostages released, there are still others left to come. Earlier today, we spoke with one young woman who, you know, she was very happy to have the fact that four of her family members had been returned, but she was still waiting for her grandfather to be released. That sort of emotion is very much present here on the ground. We've also been speaking with a number of school teachers who brought their students here to see what the situation was on the ground to experience the memorials that are here in Hostage Square. A lot of the people we've been speaking to, they were either expressing optimism or a bitter sweetness over the mixed emotions of the release and the longing for others to be released. But also, there was still some anger among some of the people that we spoke to. One individual that we spoke to had some harsh words to say about the Red Cross, and he's not been the only protester that we've seen here with signs essentially demonstrating their lack of sympathy with the Red Cross's position. Let's take a listen to what he had to say. I am a volunteer with the Australian Red Cross and I'm sitting here very ashamed and troubled by the lack of transparency and assistance given by the Red Cross to all sides which should be equitable according to their charter. I would call upon all people who are friendly, governments, organisations, corporations and corporations who support the Red Cross to withdraw their support until the Red Cross stands up and mans up for their lack of diligence in helping the Jewish people in this Hostage situation. They are inequitable and they are judgmental as if we are to blame. It is those disgusting and unacceptable for reviewing my thing whether I can go back and act as a volunteer in Australia. Certainly a mixed bag of emotions felt around the country. Robert Swift, thank you for that update from Tel Aviv. Now, meanwhile, we are still learning more about the condition of the freed hostages that had been held for the past seven weeks and exactly what they experienced. As more Israelis come back from Hamas captivity and begin to tell their stories to family members. What is life like as a hostage? It's finally starting to be answered. Our senior defence correspondent, Jonathan Rugev, has the details. 51 Israelis are back home from Hamas captivity. The public is not yet aware of everything they went through during their seven-week ordeal in Gaza but some family members have given a few insights into the living hell they experienced. We remove various times from place to place. Sometimes those places were below ground and sometimes above it. When we needed to go to the toilet, we had to knock on the door and wait for them to take us. Sometimes it took hours before they took us. They were well aware of the Israeli military operation which had an effect on the conditions they were held in. We were afraid as we could feel the bombardment above us. It shook our beds. Sometimes our captors would lock us in and run away during those times. Perhaps the most astonishing testimony of them all was of a very surprising visit, shortly after they were kidnapped. We walked a long time in the area of Han Yunus until we reached a tunnel and then a large hall. The Hamas people seemed to be quite nervous and then Yahya Sinwar walked in. Speaking perfect Hebrew, he asked us for our names and then calmed us, added that nothing will happen to us here. A comment from the Hamas leader meant to reassure but was probably far from reassuring just part of what these hostages went through. Those still in Gaza, more than 160 hostages are still suffering. To talk more about these latest developments, I want to bring in my studio guests. I'm joined in studio by Rafael Yursalmi, former senior intelligence officer with the IDF as well as a security analyst, as well as our I-24 news senior editor, Guy Osriel. Guy, I want to begin with you because we are still learning more and more different hostage testimony about exactly what they've been experiencing and what they had experienced for more than 50 days some of them. Yes, so over 50 days in captivity for most of these hostages. And I think the most chilling testimonies are those of the children that were held there at the hands of Hamas. I'm going to give you two testimonies, those of two children that returned from captivity. This is what we're hearing from their families. In the case of 12 years old Eitan Yahalomi, we hear from his aunt. He was being abused in Gaza when he arrived there. He was beaten by civilians upon his arrival on the street. He was forced by Hamas in the tunnel to watch horror footage from Damasica by Hamas. What use is this from Hamas to show this to a 12-years-old boy who's just been uprooted from his family who may have seen his friends and families being slaughtered in front of his eyes who's been taken to captivity. This is what Hamas attempted to do. And you can only imagine what they are doing to the adults that are there. A 12-years-old child was forced to live in fear and watch these movies. When he cried, they threatened him with weapons. This is what the 12-years-old boy is saying about what he's gone through Hamas. And that is so important to hear when we see these ridiculous films of Hamas, the return films that these are the films that we're seeing. Well, this would perhaps already be in Israeli territory, but Hamas releases the footage of the so-called humane treatment he's giving to the Israeli prisoners, the Israeli hostages, rather. It is just insane. Very poor sanitary conditions, very few food, no shower for the entire duration of their captivity. We're also hearing from the father of Emily Hand, the Irish Israeli who was taken kidnapped. Her father says when he first met her upon her return he was unable to hear what she was saying because she was trained only to whisper. He could not hear what she was saying. He had to put his ear next to her mouth to understand what she had to say. He says you could see the horror in her eyes and she learned how to say in Arabic, be quiet to her friend that was with her in captivity. And when he asked her how long do you think you were there, she said she thought she was there for a year just to emphasize the complete lack of understanding of the time when they saw no daylight in almost all of their captivity, horrors that were just revealing to, starting to reveal right now from these testimonies of these kids, horrific. We've seen the horrors in the Israeli communities, what they've done to entire families, slaughtering them, shooting them, burning them alive in some cases. But that was not the end as if these children and the other hostages didn't experience enough in what they've gone through in the communities. They were molested, tortured even more in those tunnels, including those children as young as nine and 12 years old. And again, a reminder, a 10-month-old baby is still there as well. When we're hearing these witness, these hostage testimonies, it's heartbreaking. And also to remember that as they're coming back here, so many of their family members are still held captive in Gaza. As they're saying what's happening, the psychological trauma, it can... Either held captive or finding out that some of the relatives, including their parents, have been slaughtered on that Saturday. Some of them didn't even know about that. It's, as we continue to learn more and more, it really is just a quite emotional experience. And meanwhile, as there's still many of them being treated in hospitals right now, let's cross live to our I-24 News correspondent, Eric Kloschenler, who's at Iqalov Hospital in Tel Aviv. Pierre, we continue to learn more about the condition of these hostages, the physical treatment that they're receiving at many of these hospitals, but they're also being evaluated for the mental trauma that they've received as well. Right, and that's the difficult part of the recovery. The emotional distress that these kids and their mothers felt during those days of captivity. It's not going to last for two or three days until they're released from hospital. It's going to be a long-term process of recovery. We know that. They know that, probably. They also need to reinsert themselves into Israeli society. They've lost their homes. Their homes were torched, burnt. The people that are here, the nine kids and the two mothers are from the same kibbutz, a close-knit society, Nakhal Oz, but it's completely destroyed. So they're going to have to be moved to other dwellings. But what about that society that they were living in? Are they going to be all together? Are they going to be fragmented into different dwellings? What about the educational system? Where are they going to be schooled? All these questions, the material questions and the mental questions, all that remains to be solved. It's going to take a long, long time. The kibbutzim are going to be reconstructed, but it's going to take a year, maybe two years. In the meantime, these people are going to be a bit like nomads. And given that it's a very close-knit society, and that everyone in that kibbutz knows somebody who was abducted or knows somebody who was killed during the October 7 massacre, the trauma is even stronger. Now, regarding those nine kids, what they have in common, except for the fact that they all come from the same kibbutz, and that kibbutz was martyred in October 7, they lost 100 members of the kibbutz, 18 additional agricultural workers. In addition, 77 of them were abducted. Only part of it returned. 49 are still in captivity. All those kids, their fathers, are in captivity. So the trauma is immense. The worry for the future is immense. The worry for their dad's future. Eitan Yahalomi, for instance, 12-year-old, was abducted. He was on his own. His father was defending the kibbutz. He was wounded, and he's in captivity, but it was not with Eitan. His mother and two sisters were also abducted. But at the last moment, before they crossed into the Gaza Strip, they managed to escape. So all these stories, all together, makes it very difficult to recompose the puzzle that existed before October 7. It's even impossible. So you need to rebuild your life. When you're an elderly woman, and you hold your memories at home, and you stay at home more than when you're younger, your home is gone, your memories are gone. It's a trauma that you cannot recover from. In materially, you cannot recover from it as well. Yeah, you raised such a good point that you're saying we're welcoming these hostages home. We're really welcoming them back to Israel because they have no home to go back to. Gere Kloschenler, thank you for that update from Igloof Hospital. Now, meanwhile, it's not just the 50 Israelis who have been brought home. It's also more than a dozen foreign Thai workers. They were also ripped out of the southern communities that they've now learned to call home. Foreign Minister Eli Cohen spoke about their condition earlier today. As of now, 17 foreign workers from Thailand returned to Israel. 15 more are still held captive. In the meeting with the Thai officials, we saw the Thai workers who came back. They feel safe here in Israel. We were happy to hear that most of them want to stay here and continue to work here. The Thai workers, their dear workers, their dedicated workers, and for many of the farmers, they became family. Meanwhile, we are still waiting for later today. 10 more Israeli hostages to be released from Hamas captivity brought back here to Israel. I want to bring in Rafael Yerusame because there are now some reports, claims in different media that some of these hostages have been passed around, not just held by Hamas, but now passed around to different Palestinian terror groups. Specifically, little Kfir, the nine, now 10-month-old baby, claimed that he originally was held by Hamas, but now different Palestinian terror factions. But I'm curious, because as we saw on the day one of the release, we saw Hanukkah Seer, who originally, the Palestinian Islamic jihad, claimed she had been killed. And then she was released over by Hamas. So it seems like these terror groups can work together and Hamas can get the hostages back if they wanted to. I think there's a lot of disinformation going on, on purpose. So we cannot really trust anything we hear from the Palestinian side. We have to trust only the intel that we can gather from the captured terrorists, from the released hostages, and try to get a kind of a better picture, which we are getting now, and which is an astonishing picture. Because you would think that these Israeli hostages being such assets for the Hamas, being like the life insurance of the leaders of the Hamas, would have been treated in a completely different way. And this is very worrisome for those who are staying behind, because they are not fed properly, they are not treated properly, they are treated harshly, not at all like a treasure. You'd think that some of them, at least, would be treated very well, because they need them alive and well just to negotiate. And the conditions are appalling. So this is very surprising. So this might be the sign that Hamas doesn't see them as such important assets, which, of course, would be easier for us to negotiate their release. We were convinced that they were going to hold on to them so steadfastly, because they represent such a human shield. I mean, you have really in the Gaza Strip today 2 million and 200 hostages. 2 million above ground are held hostages like the human shield of the Hamas, which are, of course, the civilian citizens of Gaza. And on the ground, you have another 200 hostages, which are the second layer of the human shield. But this human shield doesn't seem to be well maintained. And so this is one hand worrisome because of the conditions, meaning the longer these hostages stay there, the more dangerous for their life and well-being it is. On the other hand, if they're not valued as much and if they're treated like that, maybe the Hamas doesn't think they are so important to them because Mr. Sinoua, for instance, Gaza can always escape through a tunnel towards Sinai and Egypt to save his own skin. That Mr. Sinoua actually visited some of these hostages. Some of the hostages are now reporting. What type of intelligence might the IDF be able to use with that? Well, first of all, we have to see exactly where it was. Apparently it was in Hanyounis, which would confirm what we think that the majority of the hostages are, first of all, in the south part of the Gaza Strip and most of them in Hanyounis and most of them close to Mr. Sinoua, close to the political branch. They're still, even though they're mistreated, they're still used as a human shield in a way. So they are. And that's why we could destroy some of the tunnels knowing that the hostages will not be detained in operational tactical tunnels where it's only armed terrorists who are operating there to create skirmishes to come in and out quickly. You're not going to detain hostages there. Even in bad conditions, they won't survive very long. So they are in the better, let's say, bunkers where the political branch of the Hamas is hiding, mostly in Hanyounis. I'd just like to remind everybody that when we speak of the horrible conditions these hostages were detained, you have to remember that non-Jews were detained in just as harsh conditions like the Thai workers, but also that usually in peacetime a lot of Palestinians from Gaza are tortured and mistreated and beaten up by the Hamas. This organization is, of course, anti-Semitic and when they see a Jew, their hatred is doubled, let's say, or even more, but they are used to torture and beat people up because they think they are the kings of the earth, they are the jihad, Allah wakbar, and they're entitled to treat everybody like cattle. And we have to remember that. But of course, the Jews, as usual in history, get the special treatment. And meanwhile, as we are welcoming home these 50 Israeli hostages, it was in exchange for 150 Palestinian prisoners. They were draped in Hamas flags just yesterday when 33 of those Palestinian security prisoners were greeted as heroes in the streets of the West Bank on Monday night. Their release was celebrated as these violent offenders were exchanged for innocent Israeli civilians hostage, kidnapped by Hamas. Now, after four days of hostage and prisoner releases, Israel is running out of women and minor terrorists to free from its jails. Just raising questions regarding the ability to continue releasing hostages. Our Middle East correspondent, Ariel Osaron, has the report. In the dead of night and for the fourth night in a row, Israel released dozens of Palestinian security prisoners. We are free. It's true. We are happy now, but we want our freedom with the blood of martyrs. The blood of those martyrs is a debt owed by every prisoner and every free Palestinian, and we will certainly not forget it. Shaban, a mother of four from the Jenin area, was serving a life sentence over plotting to pose as a pregnant Jewish woman and detonate a suicide vest. She was one of 150 women and minors released from Israeli jail since Friday as part of a ceasefire agreement with Hamas in exchange for 50 Israeli hostages held by Hamas and other terror groups in Gaza since October 7th. Like Maesouna Jabali, sentenced to 15 years in prison after stabbing a soldier and seriously wounding her in 2015. God willing, all the prisoners will be released, especially those condemned to life sentences and all the others still inside. Others simply chanted in support of Hamas and the head of its military wing. Hamas, Hamas, Hamas, Hamas. Hamas, Hamas, Hamas, Hamas. Since October 7th, Israel has arrested over 3,000 Palestinian terror suspects in the West Bank. While the numbers change rapidly, it's believed that of the 7,000 security prisoners in Israeli jails, roughly 250 of them are minors and 80 are women. After Wednesday and the two-day extension to the ceasefire, Israel will have released 210 prisoners. That doesn't leave many women and minors left to release in exchange for over 140 Israeli hostages. When Hamas stops releasing hostages under the existing framework, Israel will return to realizing our three goals with full force, eliminating Hamas, ensuring that Gaza never again pose a threat to the people of Israel and, of course, releasing all of our hostages. And so with the next group of 60 prisoners, including known teen Ahad Tameemi, set to be released over the next two days, Israel needs to prepare for the moment when it must decide whether to release more dangerous terrorists. We're getting some new details now into the I-24 News Desk about a possible incident that's happening in Gaza. This is day five of a ceasefire. Guy Israel, what can you tell us about what's happening? Yeah, the ceasefire has been held until today, and now confirmation as we speak from the IDF spokesman confirming that over the last hour, three explosive devices were detonated adjacent to IDF troops in two different locations in the northern Gaza Strip, violating the framework of the operational pause in one of the locations terrorists also opened fire at the troops who responded with fire. A number of soldiers were lightly injured in these incidents, and in both incidents, the IDF says the troops were located in positions as per the framework of the operational pause emphasizing that the IDF troops did not go beyond where they are supposed to go through during this pause, during this pause in the fighting, a violation of this ceasefire with these two separate incidents. Several Israeli soldiers lightly wounded. We do not know yet the extent of the damage to the terrorists who operated there, but we know the IDF troops have returned fire, and of course it will be very interesting to see how this violation impacts the current negotiations on the possible extension of another hostage deal, of course. Well, and as you're speaking about, we're expecting hopefully to see 10 more Israelis return within the few coming hours now, and it's these emotional reunions that are really reminding Israelis about what we are fighting for. Seven weeks, 50 days in Hamas captivity, and these people are finally able to hug their loved ones for the first time. We want to end our broadcast on that note of hope and resilience. A state of war. Families completely done down in their beds. We have no idea where is she. As our soldiers are fighting on the front line, but the general perception is something that certainly needs to be fought as well. News continuing our coverage of Israel at war. I'm Nicole Zadik live in Tel Aviv. The ceasefire continues for two extra days, and Israel is expecting to welcome home another 10 hostages within the next few hours. Just like we've seen over the past four days, for every one Israeli returned home, Israel will release three Palestinian prisoners, all of them sentenced for committing acts of violence or terrorism, including attempted murder. Meanwhile, the fragile ceasefire is being tested. The IDF says a number of soldiers were injured today by explosive devices detonated in the northern Gaza Strip, and in one incident terrorists opened fire at Israeli troops in a clear violation of the ceasefire. Now over the past four days, 69 hostages have been brought home. 50 Israelis as part of the original deal, as well as 19 foreign nationals released through outside negotiations with Thailand and Russia. However, still more than 160 hostages are believed to be in Gaza, including the Bebas family. Little 10-month-old fear and his four-year-old brother Ariel, they've reportedly been passed from the hands of Hamas to other Palestinian terror groups, making their return home that much more complicated. The family sending out an urgent plea for the psychological warfare to stop now. My only brother was kidnapped with his entire family from their home in New Oz on the 7th, his wife Shiri and two boys. Today, not today, the reason we are talking to you today is because tomorrow is the last day of the current ceasefire and the current deal that Israelis have for releasing hostages. And they still haven't been released. Every day there is a danger to their life. They must be released as soon as possible. Maybe it's part of a psychological war against us. I have no idea. It's working really good because the last four days has been a complete nightmare for us. It's psychological trauma, not just for these family members, but we're learning more from the freed hostages themselves as they're being treated at different hospitals around the country. Let's cross live to our I-24 News senior diplomatic correspondent, Owen Alterman, who's at Ecolov Hospital right now in Tel Aviv. Owen, we're learning more about the condition of these hostages, the physical condition that they're being treated for, and also the mental treatment that they desperately need. You're right, Nicole, maybe today even more than other days, hearing more from the families and from the hostages themselves, children here at Ecolov Hospital, nine children and two women who were freed yesterday are being treated here and have been hospitalized. The director of the hospital telling Israeli media over the course of the day talking about the nutritional problems they have, orthopedic problems they have, of course we saw one of the children in a wheelchair when she was freed in the Gaza Strip last night. But also, of course, we're hearing from the family members about the tremendous mental strain that the captivity placed on these children. Emily Hand, nine years old, still whispering. Her father told CNN that she calls Gaza the box and talking about the way that she cries herself to sleep. She doesn't know how to be comforted, her father said. Can only imagine what it meant for that nine-year-old girl to go through this. Twelve-year-old Eitan Yalomi was forced by his captors, by Hamas, to watch video of the atrocities on October 7th when he cried, when other children cried, they had guns pointed at them by Hamas. So obviously, Nicola, a long, long, long, long journey ahead for these children, physically but much more so mentally as they only start their journey to recovery. And again, today, maybe even more than on days prior, we're hearing from the family members and we're hearing from the children just about the depths of the trauma and just how long that road to recovery will be. Owen Alterman, it's certainly going to be a long road to recovery, but we appreciate that update from Tel Aviv. Now, meanwhile, as our correspondent Owen Alterman described some of the harrowing testimony we're hearing from some of these freed hostages. 78-year-old Ruti Munder, she was released along with her daughter and nine-year-old grandson Ohad. However, her husband Abraham, he is still captive in Gaza. Ruti spoke to Israel's Channel 13 News and described the, quote, suffocating conditions she and others were kept in for nearly 50 days. There's a part of a long story to be told. A story that came out from the past. It's a story that came out from one of these stories of a group and we tried, in the past, we saw everything that happened in the past. We tried to get rid of this, to get rid of it, but there's a part of us that doesn't seem to be enough to get rid of these people on the road. And of course, when we came here, we had to get rid of them. Of course, when we came here, we wanted to get rid of them, and also to get rid of them. They were all released in the past and they were released in the past. They were released in the past, and there were many times of death. And we had to get rid of them. And we had to get rid of them. We had to get rid of them. We had to get rid of them. And that's what happened. We didn't know anything about who they were. These children were taken under their control. They were taken under their control. We knew that they were with us, that they weren't taken under control. For example, they were taken with a man and a man from the United States and a man from the United States. And that was the reason we came here. And in the past, there were many children, and they were taken under control. They were taken under control. Let's continue our team coverage now with our I-24 News correspondent, Pia Steckelback, who's at what's now known as Hostages Square in Tel Aviv. Pia, I'm curious, what's the feeling right now when you're speaking to some of these residents, some of these civilians here in Israel about this ceasefire being extended? Well, Nicole, obviously the extension of the ceasefire is raising the hopes of the people here that more hostages will be released today and tomorrow and first and foremost that more children will be released. We do know that there's still a number of children who at this moment are being held captive in Gaza and this is what people are saying should have the first priority here, the release of the children. Now, one child that has sort of become the symbol of the hostages is the 10-month-year-old baby Khvir. He was captured together with his four-year-old brother Ariel and his parents, Shiri, and Yarden from the Kibbutz of Niroz. And their family is here today and this is what we are waiting for at the conference in a matter of minutes because they do want to rally more support for their release yesterday. The idea for now is that they assume that this family is not being held by Hamas but was captured by another Palestinian faction which of course makes them being part of a release deal more difficult. So the family is here in order to speak in a matter of minutes about what they think can be done in order to bring about their quick release again. Khvir is a 10-month-year-old baby, the youngest of the hostages but he still hasn't been brought home he still wasn't part of any exchange of course the hopes are very very high that it might be the case today or tomorrow however we know that the families have been notified the families of those hostages that are expected to get released today so there's still another day left for this family to hope that their loved ones will get released but they're really united here with many family members that are coming to the hostage square here to rally for support and to just tell their stories both of course to national international press but also just to people who come around and to show solidarity we have lots of residency of Tel Aviv who on a regular basis come here in order to share their sympathy and their empathy with the family of the hostages to just show that these families are not alone in those difficult times Nicole. It's an emotional experience out there PN will certainly be coming back to you later to continue to hear what some of those family members are saying thank you for that update. I want to bring in my studio guests now our former Sheenbet agent Gonen Benitzak as well as our I-24 new senior editor Guy Azrael Gonen we're in now day five of the ceasefire it's been extended by two days and while we're speaking here in studio Masajif is currently in Qatar not only meeting with different Qatari officials but also the CIA director Bill Burns what's the significance of this because this is his third trip to Qatar since this war broke out on October 7th. I think that right now everybody is playing by the rules of I-24 I-24 understands that as long as he has the hostages in Gaza he can try and make the ceasefire go longer we saw today that Hamas is not really obliged to the ceasefire and probably we'll talk about it in the show and everybody now is trying to see how to bring those people out we heard what Hamas did to Eitan Yalomi to Emily Hand they are the people that are still in the hands of Hamas are in hell in hell this is the way they treated we saw Elma Avraham that came back almost dead now the doctors are fighting to save her life she didn't get medication she didn't get any medical treatment and we need to bring those people back unfortunately he understands the situation he understands by the way how much the Bebes family and Qfir and Ayel how much this thing is painful to the Israeli society and he enjoys just to torture us you mentioned as we've seen today this ceasefire let's talk about that I want to cross live to our I-24 News correspondent Zach Anders who's in southern Israel right now near the Karam Shalom border crossing with Gaza Zach what do we know about this incident today about this breach in the truce really the IDF says that three explosives were detonated near one of their vehicles and that they were fired upon they returned fire IDF soldiers lightly injured they say it is a notable breach of the ceasefire but so far there does not appear to be a major escalation after the fact in that the larger scale ceasefire does appear to be holding now in the greater context of ceasefires in war these are often never perfect situations one of the military strategies that I've spoken to say that you can never really count on there not being the noise or the sound of explosions over the course of an entire ceasefire but the both parties will do their very best to stop things from expanding or blowing up into some grand exchange so we're still unsure exactly the consequences of earlier today and when exactly this took place so how long this relative lull that some of the cameras and some of the reports from on the other side that are looking into Gaza don't appear to be showing the same level of heavy activity that we saw before the ceasefire began so that could be a good sign we are still told at our location that we should expect that this hostage release is still going forward as planned tonight Zach Anders will be coming back to you for updates throughout the evening as hopefully we do see those 10 Israelis returned home coming back to my guests in studio when we're looking at this breach in a ceasefire really how might it expect or halt what we are expecting not only today with 10 Israelis but also tomorrow as well I'm sure the Mossad chief and the Qataris will have a lot to say to Hamas for this violation in this case Israel obviously does everything it can to carry on with this deal as the main priority of Israel at this hour is to bring back as many hostages as possible we know this war will renew we know it's all just a matter of time be it tonight or in a few more days Israel will go on with its operation to eliminate Hamas of course that is the catch 22 of this entire negotiation with Hamas when obviously it is very clear for everyone that that is the third goal of Israel how do you negotiate a longer pause in the fighting or even a wider agreement with Hamas on the release of more hostages the next stages will include if this deal does come into fruition more hostages not that don't only include women and children but also men over the age of 19 and later on the issue of IDF soldiers many of them are also being taken hostage by Hamas Israel wants to exploit this opportunity to the best to the best that it can because that may all be extremely complicated as this war renews and they may turn a blind eye to this for now when the war does resume some different challenges because of this operational pause in the fighting in fact there's reports coming out from the Hamas run Gaza health ministry that dialysis units at Shifa hospital they've now reopened and they're accepting more patients so a lot of the headway that the IDF had accomplished in their five week long ground operation it seems to now be going back to square one and I agree and I ask myself are we going to see the war renewed because right now we see that there is an ongoing pressure also among Israelis to get back the hostages we see that Prime Minister Netanyahu launched a campaign if you look at what he's doing he launched a campaign so I don't know how and when they will renew the war the international pressure that is also growing to make Israel stop now and now that we see the casualties in Gaza and we need to talk about it the number of casualties in Gaza is huge so I don't know if we're actually going to see Israel getting back into the war I really have to differ here on this point both with the statement that we are hearing from Benjamin Netanyahu and also from all the security officials this is not just the Netanyahu government this is obviously a unity government with Benny Gantz and other members there that are all sending the same message Israel will go all the way to eliminate Hamas but you don't even need to listen just to the Israelis listen to US President Joe Biden he was very clear this pause only refers to the idea of releasing more hostages and when you have the backing it does not matter what Spain or Belgium say as we saw a few days ago Israel does have for now has the backing of the US it is very clear what Israel wants to do here yes there could be pressure of course from families this is very natural at the end of the day Israel will have to exploit this opportunity of releasing as many hostages as possible during this pause but for the Israeli government and for the Israeli public there cannot be anything less than eliminating Hamas no Israelis will return to their homes on the Gaza border communities unless Hamas military capabilities are eliminated that is very clear this is what you hear when I speak to those residents there there will not accept anything less than that and the Israeli government would not be able to explain that to the public at the end of this war if Hamas is not eliminated completely there is just no chance that the Israeli government would be able politically and in terms of the operational needs not to go all the way through here I totally agree with Guy but I need to say that I heard what Minister Gallant said just two days ago about the North and he said they can go back we finished the job basically if I can translate what he said and this is not a picture because naturally the people that live in the north they say no we can't go back and they are right I agree with them so it's not that I hope that we will stop right now the war I think that what you said is 100% right but I'm not sure that the government is actually going to renew the war when it comes to the north yes that statement of Gallant was problematic for the residents for sure he did not say the same for Gaza when we're talking about what's happening and people say we're not going to return to what happened on October 6th but we're continuing to learn about what happened on October 7th specifically the intelligence failure we heard from the IDF chief of staff Herzilevi commenting on really the intelligence failure that happened on October 7th take a listen in recent days there has been a debate regarding the operation of the army and military intelligence prior to October 7th the gravity of the outcome the interest is obvious we will answer for our failure we will listen carefully to any and all subordinates and learn what they thought as well as what they said the IDF and military intelligence failed in the events of October 7th there will be meticulous investigation into this failure but now we must focus on fighting IDF commanders especially military intelligence and southern are currently busy at war military intelligence are working day and night guiding our warriors in Gaza warning them and marking their targets and I must add that they are doing it excellently we're focusing on the fighting at hand but many people especially here in Israel and really around the world are wondering exactly how and why this was allowed to happen on October 7th 7 weeks later we're still asking this question for many more years to come likely so what exactly do we know at this point I heard you Levy, they are referring to several reports about the failure both the intelligence failure ahead of October 7th and just in the hours prior to that massacre the main report refers to a very junior officer of the A-200 unit that officer has warned her commanders of a scenario under which Hamas will execute meticulously planned and highly organized mass invasion into Israeli territory really foreshadowing the massacre that we saw that was based on an era of raw material, raw intelligence data that she has collected from the training of Hamas I think we reported many of these trainings right here on A-24 news there was no secret Hamas was bragging about their training she went to her commanders they dismissed her saying she was fantasizing another report this morning refers to the phone call overnight just three hours before the attack IDF chief Hurtzi Alevi together with three other officers but not including the intelligence chief nor the air force chief really discussing something that is happening they had some signals about abnormal activity on the Gaza border the Shin Bet sent a very small unit to the border also didn't think too much of it we saw obviously the very sad results there were many other reports about other intelligence units that were not operating on that weekend at all as part of a strategy of the IDF not being in full capacity over holidays and weekends and of course that was both a holiday and a weekend intelligence chief himself was on holiday in the city of Elat with his family a lot will be investigated in the years to come the main message of the IDF chief is that this is not the time for these IDF officers to deal with these accusations leave it for after the war as a former Shin Bet agent as we're getting more and more of these reports about the intelligence failure that really did happen what's going through your head first of all I'm frustrated because when I walked in the Shin Bet I brought many times intelligence about terror attacks and so on we always needed to wave with the red flag every time we had something some intelligence even if it wasn't strong and here we see that intelligence from all over was very very consistent about what Hamas is planning and Israel knew and you know there is a video of Netanyahu talking in May on May talking about the tunnels and talking about the fact that Hamas planned to go through the tunnels into the Kibbutzim kidnapped and murder people so everybody knew about the plan and the fact that we see that you know military intelligence and also the government thought that this border is a peace border we give the money they give us some quiet time everybody of course failed but I have to say secret service secret service commander of military intelligence all of them they took responsibility I have a suspicion that right now the fact that we see more and more articles and rumors about intelligence is because someone wants to put all the blame with intelligence which is they have okay they have responsibility they are responsible they took responsibility but there are some others that they didn't of course the political leaders need to base their decisions according to the information that they are given by the IDF chiefs by the intelligence chiefs I heard a speech of Mr. Khalifa just a few months ago arguing with Netanyahu saying that with all due respect to Mr. Netanyahu we have professionals and that is their job so I don't know what you're basing your assessments of and I was here in studio Nicole on October 6 we were discussing the Yom Kippur war and the lessons to be learned on that day we quoted an IDF officer saying Hamas is deterred we kept that out of the conversation completely the entire conversation here with a very senior former IDF officer was about the risks in the West Bank to Syria, to Hezbollah etc Hamas was completely off the table obviously the government is to blame for allowing Hamas to grow to this extent that is the main point that we need to remember as far as the intelligence I think both the government and the IDF wanted to believe that this border is quiet that is why they continued with this policy that the IDF was supporting of course supporting the idea of allowing for example more Palestinian workers every day, I live next to Ashkelon I saw thousands of them coming from Gaza every morning some of them were in my home as well and we know that many of them used that opportunity to collect information about the homes of Israeli communities that were butchered in that October 7 massacre there was so much will in Israel both in the political way the IDF and among the public in the communities that wanted to give work to these people in hope for a better future everybody hoped for good and eventually the result was the worst possible scenario Gai Israel, Gonan Ben Itzak I appreciate your analysis as always as we continue to look into the events happening and I want to remind our viewers that this is day 5 of a ceasefire but as we're speaking we are still waiting and hopefully expecting changes to be released brought back here to Israel later today we'll be continuing to update you on all of those movements and the latest news here on I-24 news so we're going out for a break but stay with us throughout the evening as we continue to update you on the latest, thank you news 24 coverage of Israel at war I'm Nicole Zadik live in Tel Aviv the ceasefire continues for two extra days and Israel is expecting to welcome home another 10 hostages within the next few hours just like we've seen over the past four days for every one Israeli returned home Israel will release three Palestinian prisoners all of them sentenced for committing acts of violence or terrorism including attempted murder meanwhile the fragile ceasefire is being tested the I-F says a number of soldiers were injured today by explosive devices detonated in the northern Gaza Strip and in one incident terrorists opened fire at Israeli troops in a clear violation of the ceasefire now over the past four days 69 hostages have been brought home 50 Israelis as part of the original deal as well as 19 four nationals released through outside negotiations with Thailand and Russia however still more than 160 hostages are believed to be in Gaza including the vivas family little 10 month old fear and his four-year-old brother Ariel they've reportedly been passed from the hands of Hamas to other Palestinian terror groups making their return home that much more complicated the family sending out an urgent plea for the psychological warfare to stop now it was kidnapped with his entire family from the home in your house on the 7th his wife Shiri and two boys today not today the reason we are talking to you today is because tomorrow is the last day of the current ceasefire and the current deal that Israeli have for releasing hostages hostages and they are still still not they still haven't been released every day there is a danger to their life and they must be released as soon as possible maybe it's part of a psychological war against us I have no idea and it's working really good because the last four days has been completely night for us it's a psychological trauma not just for these family members but we're learning more from the freed hostages themselves as they're being treated at different hospitals around the country let's cross live to our I-24 news senior diplomatic correspondent Owen Alterman who is at Ecolov hospital right now in Tel Aviv Owen we're learning more about the condition of these hostages the physical condition that they're being treated for but also the mental treatment that they desperately need right Nicole maybe today even more than other days hearing more from the families and from the hostages themselves children here at Ecolov hospital nine children and two women who were freed yesterday are being treated here and have been hospitalized the director of the hospital telling Israeli media over the course of the day talking about the nutritional problems they have orthopedic problems they have of course we saw one of the children in a wheelchair when she was freed in the Gaza Strip last night but also of course we're hearing about the mental strain that the captivity placed on these children Emily Hand nine years old still whispering her father told CNN that she calls Gaza the box and talking about the way that she cries herself to sleep she doesn't know how to be comforted her father said can only imagine what it meant for that nine-year-old girl to go through this 12-year-old Eitan Yalomi was forced by his captors by Hamas to watch video of the atrocities on October 7th when he cried children cried they had guns pointed at them by Hamas so obviously Nicole a long long long long journey ahead for these children physically but much more so mentally as they only start their journey to recovery and again today maybe even more than on days prior we're hearing from the family members and we're hearing from the children just about the depths of the trauma and just how long that road to recovery will be when Alderman it's certainly going to be a long road to recovery boat we appreciate that update from from Tel Aviv now meanwhile as our correspondent Owen Alderman described some of the harrowing testimony we're hearing from some of these freed hostages 78-year-old Ruthie Munder she was released along with her daughter and nine-year-old grandson Ohad however her husband Abraham he is still captive in Gaza Ruthie spoke to Israel's channel 13 news and described the quote suffocating conditions she and others were kept in for nearly 50 days the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the We don't see people on the street. And of course, when we live here, we have to live here. Of course, when we live here, we want to have the right to live here. And we also want to have the right to live here. They all come later. And the parents go first, and the children come later. And it was very much like we said, about the relationship that is in the group of children who live here, they have to live here, we have to make progress, and that's what we had. I don't know about everyone else, but for those of us, these children, we have to go under these conditions. We had a chance, we decided that they would be with us, that there would be no problem. For example, we had a meeting with the parents, and they were all in the group of children, and they were all in the group of children. And that was the reason why we had a chance to live here. And in the era that we were in, and there were many things that we could do, we had to be ready to live here. And the people were there. Let's continue our team coverage now with our I-24 News correspondent, Pia Steckelback, who's at what's now known as Hostages Square in Tel Aviv. Pia, I'm curious, what's the feeling right now when you're speaking to some of these residents, some of these civilians here in Israel, about this ceasefire being extended? Well, Nicole, obviously the extension of the ceasefire is raising the hopes of the people here that more hostages will be released today and tomorrow and first and foremost that more children will be released. We do know that there's still a number of children who at this moment are being held captive in Gaza. And this is what people are saying, should have the first priority here, the release of the children. Now, one child that has sort of become the symbol of the hostages is the 10-month-year-old baby Khvir. He was captured together with his four-year-old brother Ariel and his parents, Shiri and Yarden from the Kibbutz of Niroz. And their family is here today and this is what we are waiting for because they're holding a press conference in a matter of minutes because they do want to rally more support for their release yesterday. The idea for now is that they assume that this family is not being held by Hamas but was captured by another Palestinian faction, which of course makes them being part of a release deal more difficult. So the family is here in order to speak in a matter of minutes about what they think can be done in order to bring about their quick release again. Khvir is a 10-month-year-old baby, the youngest of the hostages. And he still hasn't been brought home. He still wasn't part of any exchange. Of course, the hopes are very, very high that it might be the case today or tomorrow. However, we know that the families have been notified, the families of those hostages that are expected to get released today. So there's still another day left for this family to hope that their loved ones will get released. They're really united here with many family members that are coming to the hostage square here to rally for support and to just tell their stories, both of course to national and international press, but also just to people who come around and to show solidarity. We have lots of residency of Tel Aviv who on a regular basis come here in order to share their sympathy and their empathy with the family of the hostages to just show that these families are not alone in those difficult times, Nicole. It's an emotional experience out there, PN. We'll certainly be coming back to you later to continue to hear what some of those family members are saying. Thank you for that update. I want to bring in my studio guests now. I'm joined by former Sheenbet agent Gonan Benidzak as well as our I-24 News senior editor, Guy Azrael. Gonan, we're in now day five of the ceasefire. It's been extended by two days. And while we're speaking here in studio, Masajif is currently in Qatar, not only meeting with different Qatari officials, but also the CIA director, Bill Burns. What's the significance of this? Because this is his third trip to Qatar since this war broke out on October 7th. Yeah, I think that right now everybody is playing by the rules of I-24 News. I-24 News understands that as long as he has hostages in Gaza, he can try and make the ceasefire go longer. We saw today that Hamas is not really obliged to the ceasefire and probably we'll talk about it in the show. And everybody now is trying to see how to bring those people out. We heard what Hamas did to Eitan Yalomi, to Emily Hand. They are the people that are still in the hands of Hamas are in hell, in hell. This is the way they treated. We saw Elma Avraham that came back, almost dead. Now the doctors are fighting to save her life. She didn't get medication. She didn't get any medical treatment. And we need to bring those people back. Now, unfortunately, he understands the situation. He understands, by the way, how much the Bebes family and Kfir Nareel, how much this thing is painful to the Israeli society. And he enjoys, you know, just to torture us. And you mentioned, as we've seen today, a possible breach in this ceasefire. Let's talk about that. I want to cross live to our I-24 News correspondent, Zach Anders, in southern Israel right now, near the Council on Border Crossing with Gaza. Zach, what do we know about this incident today? About this breach in the truce, really? The IDF says that three explosives were detonated near one of their vehicles and that they were fired upon. They returned fire. IDF soldiers lightly injured, they say, in this statement. It is a notable breach of the ceasefire. But so far, there does not appear to be a major escalation after the fact in that the larger-scale ceasefire does appear to be holding. Now, in the greater context of ceasefires and in-war, these are often never perfect situations. One of the military strategies that I've spoken to say that you can never really count on there not being the noise or the sound of explosions over the course of an entire ceasefire. But the both parties will do their very best to stop things from expanding or blowing up into some grand exchange. So we're still unsure exactly the consequences of earlier today and when exactly this took place. So how long this relative lull that some of the cameras and some of the reports from on the other side that are looking into Gaza don't appear to be showing the same level of heavy activity that we saw before the ceasefire began. So that could be a good sign. We are still told at our location that we should expect that this hostage release is still going forward as planned tonight. Zach Anders will be coming back to you for updates throughout the evening as hopefully we do see those 10 Israelis returned home. Coming back to my guests in studio when we're looking at this breach in a ceasefire really how might it expect or halt what we are expecting not only today with 10 Israelis but also tomorrow as well. I'm sure the Mossad chief and the Qataris will have a lot to say to Hamas for this violation. In this case Israel obviously does everything it can to carry on with this deal as the main priority of Israel at this hour is to bring back as many hostages as possible. We know this war will renew. We know it's all just a matter of time be it tonight or in a few more days Israel will go on with its operation to eliminate Hamas. Of course that is the catch 22 of this entire negotiation with Hamas when obviously it is very clear for everyone that that is the declared goal of Israel how do you negotiate a longer pause in the fighting or even a wider agreement with Hamas on the release of more hostages. The next stages will include if this deal does come into fruition more hostages that don't only include women and children but also men over the age of 19 and later on the issue of IDF soldiers. Many of them are also being taken hostage by Hamas Israel wants to exploit this opportunity to the best that it can because that may all be extremely complicated as this war renews and they may turn a blind eye to this for now. But when the war does resume we are going to see some different challenges because of this operational pause in the fighting. In fact there's reports coming out from the Hamas run Gaza health ministry that dialysis units at Shifa hospital they've now reopened and they're accepting more patients so a lot of the headway that the IDF had accomplished in their five week long ground operation it seems to now be going back to square one. I agree and I ask myself are we going to see the war renew because right now we see that the reason ongoing pressure also among Israelis to get back the hostages we see that Prime Minister Netanyahu launched a campaign. If you look at what he's doing he launched a campaign. So I don't know how and when they will renew the war the international pressure that is also growing to make Israel stop now and now that we see the casualties in Gaza and we need to talk about it the number of casualties in Gaza is huge. So I don't know if we're actually going to see Israel getting back into the war. I really have to differ here on this point both with the statement that we are hearing from Benjamin Netanyahu and also from all the security officials. This is not just the Netanyahu government this is obviously a unity government with Benny Gantz and other members there that are all sending the same message Israel will go all the way to eliminate Hamas but you don't even need to listen just to the Israelis listen to US President Joe Biden. He was very clear this pause only refers to the idea of releasing more hostages and when you have the backing of President Biden of the US it does not matter what Spain or Belgium say as we saw a few days ago Israel for now has the backing of the US it is very clear what Israel wants to do here. Yes there could be pressure of course from families this is very natural at the end of the day Israel will have to exploit this opportunity of releasing as many hostages as possible during this pause but for the Israeli government and for the Israeli public there cannot be anything less than eliminating Hamas. No Israelis will return to their homes on the Gaza border communities unless Hamas says military capabilities are eliminated. That is very clear this is what you hear when I speak to those residents there there will not accept anything less than that and the Israeli government would not be able to explain that to the public at the end of this war if Hamas is not eliminated completely there is just no chance that the Israeli government would be able politically and in terms of the operational needs not to go all the way through here. Then I see you have a child in here. No I totally agree with Guy but I need to say that I heard what Minister Gallant said just two days ago about the North and he said they can go back we finished the job basically if I can translate what he said and this is not a picture because naturally the people that live in the North they say no we can't go back and they are right but I agree with them so it's not that I hope that we will stop right now the war I think that what you said is 100% right but I'm not sure that the government is actually going to renew the war. When it comes to the North yes that statement of Gallant was problematic for the residents for sure and he did not say the same for Gaza. When we're talking about what's happening and people say we're not going to return to the status quo we're not going to return to what happened on October 6 but we're continuing to learn about what happened on October 7 specifically the intelligence failure we heard from the IDF chief of staff Hortzi Alevi commenting on really the intelligence failure that happened on October 7 take a listen. In recent days there has been a debate regarding the operation of the army and military intelligence prior to October 7 considering the gravity of the outcome the interest is obvious we will answer for our failure we will listen carefully to any and all subordinates and learn what they thought as well as what they said the IDF and military intelligence failed in the events of October 7 there will be meticulous investigation into this failure but now we must focus on fighting IDF commanders especially military intelligence and southern command personnel are currently busy at war military intelligence are working day and night guiding our warriors in Gaza warning them and marking their targets and I must add that they are doing it excellently we're focusing on the fighting at hand but many people especially here in Israel and really around the world are wondering exactly how and why this was allowed to happen on October 7 7 weeks later that we're still asking this question we're going to be asking it for many more years to come likely so what exactly do we know at this point right so Hortzi Alevi they're referring to several reports about the failure both the intelligence failure ahead of October 7th and just in the hours prior to that massacre the main report refers to a very junior officer of the A-200 unit that officer has warned her commanders of a scenario under which Hamas will execute meticulously planned and highly organized mass invasion into Israeli territory really foreshadowing the massacre that we saw that was based on an area of raw material raw intelligence data that she has collected from the training of Hamas I think we reported many of these trainings right here on I-24 news that was no secret Hamas was bragging about their training she went to her commanders they dismissed her saying she was fantasizing another report this morning on Yudyot Honot refers to the phone call overnight just three hours before the attack IDF chief Hortzi Alevi together with three other officers but not including the intelligence chief nor the air force chief really discussing something that is happening they had some signals about abnormal activity on the Gaza border the Shin Bet sent a very small unit to the border also didn't think too much of it we saw obviously the very sad results there were many other reports about other intelligence units that were not operating on that weekend at all as part of a strategy of the IDF of not being in full capacity over holidays and weekends and of course that was both a holiday and a weekend intelligence chief himself was on holiday in the city of Elat with his family a lot will be investigated in the years to come the main message of the IDF chief is that this is not the time for these IDF officers to deal with these accusations leave it for after the war Gonan as a former Shin Bet agent as we're getting more and more of these reports about the intelligence failure that really did happen what's going through your head? first of all I'm frustrated because when I walked in the Shin Bet and I brought many times intelligence about terror attacks and so on we always needed to wave with the red flag every time we had something some intelligence even if it wasn't that strong and here we see that intelligence from all over was very very consistent about what Hamas is planning and Israel knew and you know there is a video of Netanyahu talking in May talking about the tunnels and talking about the fact that Hamas planned to go through the tunnels into the Kibbutzim kidnapped and murdered people so everybody knew about the plan and the fact that we see that military intelligence and also the government thought that this border is a peace border they gave us money they give us some quiet time everybody of course failed but I have to say we know that Herzli Alevi, Ronen Barr Chief of Secret Service Khaliwa, the commander of military intelligence all of them they took responsibility I have a suspicion that right now the fact that we see more and more articles and rumors about intelligence is because someone wants to put all the blame with intelligence which is they have responsibility they took responsibility but there are some others that didn't of course the political leaders need to base their decisions according to the information that they are given by the IDF chiefs, by the intelligence chiefs I heard a speech of Mr Khaliwa just a few months ago arguing with Netanyahu saying that with all due respect to Mr Netanyahu we have professionals and that is their job so I don't know what you're basing your assessments of and I was here in studio, Nicole, on October 6 we were discussing the Yom Kippur war and the lessons to be learned on that day we quoted an IDF officer saying Hamas is deterred and we kept that out of the conversation completely the entire conversation here with a very senior former IDF officer was about the risks in the West Bank with the guards to Syria, to Hezbollah, etc Hamas was completely off the table obviously the government is to blame for allowing Hamas to grow to this extent that is the main point that we need to remember as far as the intelligence I think both the government and the IDF wanted to believe that this border is quiet that is why they continued with this policy that the IDF was supporting of course supporting the idea of allowing for example more Palestinian workers every day I live next to Ashkelon, I see I saw thousands of them coming from Gaza every morning some of them were in my home as well and we know that many of them used that opportunity to collect information about the homes of Israeli communities that were butchered in that 7th October 7th massacre there was so much will in Israel both in the political wing, in the IDF and among the public, in the communities that wanted to give work to these people in hope for a better future everybody hoped for good and eventually the result was the worst possible scenario Gai Israel, Gonan Ben Itzak I appreciate your analysis as always as we continue to look into we want to remind our viewers that this is day 5 of a ceasefire but as we're speaking we are still waiting