 news 24 news desk as we report the latest live updates from Tel Aviv on the Israel Gaza War. We are now entering the fourth and final day of the ceasefire with Hamas, a last group of 11 Israeli hostages are set to be released tonight. While government this morning has the list of names, it has not been made public yet. A burning question right now, what happens next? Hamas has formally requested that Israel extend the temporary ceasefire and is willing to keep releasing small batches of hostages for the next several days. Last night Prime Minister Netanyahu released a video saying that he is willing to extend the ceasefire. We brought back another group of hostages, children and women, and we are moved to the bottom of our hearts, the entire nation. When we see this union of the families, it just shakes the soul. I just spoke with President Joe Biden with great excitement. Of course, also about the little girl Abigail, what a joy to see her with us. But on the other hand, what a pity that she returns to the reality of not having parents. She has no parents, but she has a whole nation that embraces her and we will take care of all of her needs. But beyond that, I want to say there is also an outline that you can release 10 more every additional day. It is a blessed thing. But in the same breath, I also told the president that at the end of the outline, we will return with all our strength to realize our goals, the elimination of Hamas to ensure that Gaza will not return to what it was, and of course, the release of all of our hostages. Many children and their mothers who were freed from Hamas captivity are being treated at the Schneider Children's Hospital near Tel Aviv, where teams of doctors and medical professionals are providing round-clock care. I, too, if it is correspondent Pierre Kloshengler, is live for us with an update. Pierre, good morning. Right at the Schneider Hospital for children, there are nine children and two women who have been released from their captivity in the hands of Hamas yesterday evening at around 10.30. They arrived here. Their condition is stable. Let's hear what the CEO of the Schneider Hospital had to say. I must say it's a very laconic message. The physical condition of the children and their mothers that came to us is now stable. They are undergoing a medical and emotional evaluation by the medical and psychosocial team of the Schneider Children's Hospital. They are in a private and dedicated complex, and we ask you to respect their privacy. This event is a national mission, and we are feeling proud and privileged to take care of the returning families, children, and their mothers. Our hearts are with the hostages who remain at the Gaza Strip, and their families that are here. We sincerely hope that very soon they will come back home, they will be free again, and live a healthy life as soon as possible. Right. A laconic message in order to respect obviously the privacy of those who were freed from captivity and their families that have been reuniting with them after a 51-day predicament. Now there is another elderly woman, Elma Avram, she's 84, she's hospitalized in Soroka Hospital, she's in critical condition and a sedative and a respirator, and that's due to the fact that she never received any medications during the time that she was in captivity for 41 days. Here at Schneider Hospital you have also maybe the symbol of the predicament that went through the Israelis who live in the vicinity of the Gaza Strip on October 7th massacre, and in captivity Avigay Leidan. For year old she marked her birthday last Friday, she's here, her parents were killed by Roy and Smadar during the October 7th massacre. She managed to go to a nearby family, the Brodez family who has been released already overnight. She was probably taken care of by this family while they were in captivity, and what's remaining from her family is her two siblings that were unscathed, at least physically, until they were hiding in a closet in Kva'aza during the October 7th events. Jeff? Pierre, thank you for that update this morning. Let's bring into the conversation retired IDF Colonel Miry Eisen, now the director of the International Institute for Counterterrorism at Reichman University. Thank you so much, Miry, for being with us this morning. I want to ask about the possible extension of the ceasefire even beyond today, Prime Minister Netanyahu expressing his support for temporary extension and return for more hostages. If the goal of this war is to destroy Hamas, to destroy this terror group and make sure they cannot rule Gaza anymore, can you kind of weigh the pros and cons if there are of extending the ceasefire by several more days? So there's no question as you put it that the goal is to eradicate as much as possible all of the terror capabilities of Hamas, but Jeff, let's all be realistic. There are still more or less 200 hostages. They keep adjusting the number. That's part of the attack itself that this terror organization did on October 7th and that continues until now is that on the one hand, we need to destroy them. On the other hand, we need to get our hostages back. So within that delicate balance, you're going to do both. You're going to do the diplomacy if you can, and you're not just going to threaten with the continuation of the ground operations and the military operations. You are going to do them. So after these three, four days as we look at that and our hearts are filled, you just see what it does to us. When these hostages come back, I don't think that the correct term would be that we're all happy. We're all on a roller coaster of emotions because as Israelis as human beings, these hostages are both from Israel and from around the world, they are part of us. But for us as Israelis to be able to continue to live here, for all of us, we need to continue to do absolutely the military campaign against Hamas, both in the northern Gaza Strip where we are right now. They released some of these hostages yesterday in the northern Gaza Strip, not down south, and also extended to the areas where Hamas are still completely enruling in the south of the Gaza Strip. I don't see any way out of the two different roads, the diplomatic, but hand in hand with the military. Miriam, Hamas wants a longer ceasefire, but they also hear these messages from Israeli leaders that the IDF is not going to stop the military campaign. They're going to come back with the ground operation. Does this extra time give them an important chance to reset their terror tactics, to revise their game plan, come up with perhaps a surprise of their own when the campaign resumes, now that the IDF has stopped its momentum? Well, there's no question whatsoever that terror organizations themselves, as we saw in the worst, most barbaric way, can be innovative. Is that not a term we like to think of when we think of terrorists? They certainly want to define themselves, Jeff, as being the ones in control. And when we talk about certainly in eradicating or in really heavily hurting the Hamas, it's mainly on their capability and control. Look, it only took them, they never admitted, the amount of Hamas terrorists that have been targeted and killed over the three weeks of the ground operation. And before that, they've never put out those numbers. We have been erasing, and it's been up to the Israeli Defense Forces to come in to say that they build, they, the Hamas, have battalions that we've been destroying, these battalions. They're not a regular army. They are a terror army. So they're certainly going to try to adapt. They certainly are going to try to do surprises. We have to take that into account. We're certainly continuing with our intelligence gathering. We are still in force there. And yes, we are going to have to take it into account at that next stage. But it doesn't mean that we don't do it, Jeff. Just means that we need to prepare and go on to that next stage. Mary, thank you so much. Stay with us. I want to note here some of the video that we're seeing on our screens now. This is propaganda video, of course, released by Hamas. It's important to note that in many video clips, there is no audio, and in the audio that we do have in other clips, the Hamas terrorists are ordering their captives to keep on waving, smile for the cameras, keep on waving. It's easy to understand why the captives are listening to their terror kidnappers and also the duress that they are under as they're being released. Many of them have loved ones and parents who are still being held by Hamas. Let's go live now to I-25 News correspondent Nicole Tegik for us in Tel Aviv. Nicole, as Mary mentioned, the exact numbers are fluctuating a little bit, but generally the consensus from Israeli media is Hamas still has about 180 hostages remaining, 18 kids, including a 10-month-old baby, 43 women, and about 115 or so men. We weigh the scenes of the kidnapped being released. The emotions of that with the knowledge that so many are still in Hamas's hands this morning. It really is a conflicting scene when you come to Hostage Square here because all of those hostages that have been released so far, 58 total who have been released, 39 of them who have been a part of this Hostage deal, 39 Israelis, but 58 total because we have those foreign nationals, those Thai citizens as well. All of them are being welcomed home with open arms and you see those emotional videos of these children, these four and five-year-olds hugging their family members for the first time after 50 days and you can't help but get emotional watching that. But on the other hand, as happy as you are to see them finally reuniting with their family, it does make you think about those 180 others that are still captive in Gaza. And if today is the last day of the ceasefire, if it is not extended, although we do have those reports stating that both sides Hamas and Israel are willing to extend it, another day for each additional 10 hostages who are released, but today is day four. So if we only do get some more citizens today, as part of the deals, we have 39 Israeli citizens, that would mean 11 more are released out of that 50 that we originally talked about in this ceasefire deal. As you said, 18 children still remain in the hands of Hamas terrorists. So if we only saw those 11 released today, that would mean still a handful of children held captive. And it absolutely makes you think of the situation that they're going through. The propaganda, as you mentioned, as we see some of these videos of them being released by Hamas terrorists, walking hand in hand with these masked terrorists who have been keeping them in underground tunnels, it's complicated. Because when you hear the, I can't say festivities, but at night time, when we do see these Israelis being returned home, it is almost a joyous feeling for the first time in seven weeks for so many people here. However, they are left not only thinking about the captives in Gaza, but also those who have returned. Because although we're saying we're welcoming them home, we're welcoming them back to Israel. We can't truly say they're going home because their homes have been destroyed. They can't even go back to their homes in the southern communities. So as joyous as it is to see them all coming back here, it is a very mixed bag of emotions when you're speaking to the citizens, the residents, the Israelis who want to see every single one of them returned. Yeah, Nicole Forrest live in Tel Aviv with the weight on the country's shoulders this morning. More emotional video now into our newsroom as freed Israeli hostages Sharon Avigdori and her daughter Noam reunite with their immediate family members. After over 50 days in Hamas captivity, Sharon falling into the arms of her husband and her son there on your screen. For Noam, it's her dad and brother. These images really do speak for themselves the first embrace in weeks. This family is from Kibbutz Baeri, one of the worst hit in the Hamas attack. Several other family members were murdered. Others remain in Hamas captivity. And the grandfather of a four-year-old American Israeli girl who was freed last night from Hamas is thanking President Biden for his help. After his granddaughter Abigail, Edan spent more than 50 days being held hostage. Abigail witnessed both her parents being murdered, then was kidnapped by Hamas killers. It was wow. I couldn't believe until I saw her. I simply couldn't believe it. Now I'm a bit more relieved. Not relieved completely because there's happiness mixed with her missing parents, Roya Nadar. There are other people who have not returned. I want them to return and I want the army to finish the mission, as they promised. All the hostages and Hamas both go together. I thank Joe Biden very much. We love him for all the help he's offered us, and also for all the American people. Thank you very much and continue to support us. What do we know about today's kind of plan of action? Now, there's already, as you mentioned, talk about the extension of these pause in the fighting for the release of more hostages. We know that Israel is already demanding of Hamas in advance a list of 20 Israelis that will be released in the next two days, so that we will not see the same weight and holdups that we saw in the first two days, at least of this deal. Really difficult moments for the families who had to wait until midnight in some of the cases to know that their loved ones are being returned. So Israel want that assurance, want that list in advance so that they can move ahead with this. And of course, this will have to be decided upon very soon because if we wait until the very last moment, well, we saw what happens. And we know that tonight at midnight, should these hostages return? Well, that's the end of that pause in the fighting, and we could see the war resume. So there is a formal extension. Formally, it has to be done before midnight. It has to be done now. Of course. Otherwise, we will see the return of the fighting, rocket fire and Israel's ground operation in Gaza that is vital. We also know that Hamas has managed, whether that is an effort for Hamas at all, to take control of more Israeli women and children from the hands of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad that was holding on to some of the Israeli hostages. And we need to also mention that it is not just these two militant groups, these two terror groups that were holding on to Israeli hostages, but also just regular Ghazan civilians who joined the bloodbath party of October 7th, who joined the penetration of Israel's borders and also grabbed some Israelis with them on the way back, holding a Jew at your basement. That was something that some Ghazan civilians thought would be a good idea. And we know for sure that there are Israeli hostages being held in the homes of just private people in Gaza. That makes it even more difficult for Israel and for Hamas to check their whereabouts and bring them to any sort of hostage deal. Of course, we're talking about quite a few more children that are being held in Gaza and need to be released. Yeah, including toddlers and babies. I want to bring back Mary Eisen into this conversation. Mary, you talked about a wrinkle here. Any extension of a ceasefire is predicated on Hamas releasing more hostages. Hamas might say they can do it, but can they deliver? The whole idea right now is about control. Hamas want to control the situation. They took the hostages as bargaining chips. So they need to show that they're the ones who hold the hostages, that they can bargain with them and that they get some kind of return on them. Now, we're Israel. We don't want to succumb to that. But having said that, this is one of the reasons that not, it's pretty much the only reason that terror organizations use hostages. But what Guy was describing before is that this is an unprecedented mass hostage taking, both in an organized and unorganized way, meaning the events of October 7th are not specifically about the massacre and barbaric genocidal attack on October 7th. It's also about the fact that they did this to take these hostages. So Hamas need to show they're in control. So we have here this imbalance. We are trying to break their control, but we need to negotiate with them. We hold them responsible for the hostages. That's for sure. That's who we are negotiating with. If Hamas want to show that they control the Gaza Strip, they have to be able to deliver. So that's where we are right now. It isn't like clear-cut situation. If Nicole was talking about the emotional roller coaster of all of us Israelis who are all ourselves in trauma beyond the hostages, the negotiations, talk about the complexities that it's not Israel, that's doing the direct talks, that Hamas are the ones who want to be in control. And as Guy said, they're not all in control of everybody who is in the Gaza Strip. And yet you and me both, and all of us, want to arrive at a deal that brings back those hostages. Having said everything we said, let's take note that they're not talking about the 150 hostages that Hamas, not Israel, that Hamas says are not part of the deal, not just men, but also women. Anybody that Hamas defines is what they're going to say military. They're trying to create an additional equation, which again, this is part of Hamas's bargaining chips. And this is the real challenge in these negotiations. I'll note here also that Israeli doctors say that physically the conditions of the kids, the children who have been released, are stable. But doctors are telling Israeli media that they will need emotional and psychological treatment for a long time. Israeli Irish child hostage Emily Hand, back with her family after being freed. The nine-year-old girl was kidnapped after watching her stepmother be murdered. Emily's father says her daughter is now on the long road to recovery. We finally got Emily back from the hands of the guards and terrorists. She's lost a lot of weight from her face and body, but generally doing better than we expected. We're still fighting and want Raya, Rotem, Yaya's sister and Hila's mother. We want her back, as they promised. They wouldn't release children without their mothers, but they did. We're in the hospital, Safra, Tela Shabair, taking care of Emily. We'd like to thank everyone that has helped and supported us throughout this whole 50 days. It's been great. We can't do it without you. Back here in Studio Guy, the IDF is preparing for the moment that the ceasefire ends, vowing that the military operation will continue. Will it look much the same, do you think, as it had in these last seven weeks? Aerial bombardment, ground encirclement of terror camps, elimination of terror targets primarily in the north? Or is now the time really that it's going to be a new focus or shift towards the south, towards Khan Yunus and the Rafa area where these terror leaders are hiding? I think it depends a lot on the intelligence that the IDF has managed to collect during these days of this pause. One thing that is very interesting yesterday with the release of a large part of those hostages was the fact that they were released from the central part of the Gaza Strip. This is an area that we at least thought that the IDF was fully in control of Gaza City. Well, they were released from Gaza City. And what we're hearing from the IDF was that they were, in fact, in the neighborhood of Sajair that is the eastern neighborhood of Gaza, an area that the IDF has yet to conquer, has yet to even engage in fighting in. And it is very interesting that those hostages were still being held here. I think that is a positive sign to the possible fact that hostages may still be in areas close to the IDF, where we saw IDF forces entering some of the hospitals like Arantisi and Shifa hospitals. There were some evidence that Israeli hostages were being held there, but were moved once IDF troops entered that area. Now, if we know that there are still hostages close to where the IDF is, well, that is good news. If we're thinking about the possible operation to release hostages, of course, only one Israeli soldier has been released using a ground operation of the IDF, the soldier Ori Megidish, that was pretty much in the start of that ground operation. And there was a lot of hope that the IDF will be able to release a lot more of those Israeli hostages that wasn't to be because the IDF moved very slowly in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, allowing those Hamas terrorists to flee together with those Israeli hostages. But if we do know that some others are being held still in Gaza City, and as we know, the IDF does encircle that city, that gives hope that you will be able to get hold of more hostages, hopefully even without a deal. And it is important to stress that all these deals with Hamas only involve women and children. We did hear from Hamas yesterday saying that they're also willing to release some elderly men that are being held in Gaza if they don't reach the quota that's needed for every day of a ceasefire, 10 Israeli hostages every day. But there are still so many other Israelis that are being held there, men over the age of 19, women also above that age, Israeli soldiers, so many Israelis that are still being held hostage in those underground tunnels, no information about their well-being. And that's another point that was mentioned yesterday by National Security Advisor Jack Sullivan. He stressed that under that deal that was signed with Hamas, there is a clause that specifies that Hamas must give access to the Red Cross to see all the remaining Israeli hostages that will not be freed under this deal. Both Hamas and Qatar have ignored this so far. Americans confirmed that this was a clause in the deal and that they must do so by today. Obviously, the last day of this pause, last day of this deal, we've seen no signs that the Red Cross will indeed get that access. Okay. Guy, thank you so much for that update. And for our guests, Mary Eisen, joining us as well at this hour. Again, this is the fourth day of the four-day ceasefire. Hamas is set to release more Israeli hostages that they've been holding for more than 50 days. The group of 11 hostages set to be freed today has been listed and that list given to Israel, the name is not yet made public. Unclear what happens tonight at midnight if there will be an extension, if more hostages may be freed in the days ahead or if the IDF will continue its major military campaign to destroy Hamas' terror infrastructure inside Gaza. We'll keep you posted as these events unfold all day long right here on i20 for news. Thanks for watching. We'll see you soon. Altis, la red global de los dominicanos. i20 for news, Jessica, as we report the latest live updates from Tel Aviv on the Israel-Gaza war. We are now entering the fourth and final day of the ceasefire with Hamas. A final group of 11 Israeli hostages are set to be released today. Israel's government confirms they have a list of names. It has not been made public yet and the government says they are holding internal discussions on the names provided. A question right now burning in this country. What happens next tonight at midnight? Will the military campaign continue? Will the ceasefire be extended? Hamas has requested that Israel extend the ceasefire and says they're willing to keep releasing small batches of hostages. Last night, Prime Minister Netanyahu released a video saying he is willing to extend the temporary ceasefire. We brought back another group of hostages, children and women, and we are moved to the bottom of our hearts, the entire nation. When we see this union of the families, it just shakes the soul. I just spoke with President Joe Biden with great excitement. Of course, also about the little girl, Abigail. What a joy to see her with us. But on the other hand, what a pity that she returns to the reality of not having parents. She has no parents, but she has a whole nation that embraces her, and we will take care of all of her needs. But beyond that, I want to say there is also an outline that you can release 10 more every additional day. It is a blessed thing. But in the same breath, I also told the president that at the end of the outline, we will return with all our strength to realize our goals, the elimination of Hamas, to ensure that Gaza will not return to what it was. And of course, the release of all of our hostages. Let's go live now to I-25 News correspondent Nicole Sinek. Nicole, minutes ago, an update from Israel's government on the list, perhaps, of hostages to be released today. What's the latest on what we may expect? Well, they are currently going over that list, and that means they have received that list as of this morning. So that is the good news that they are going over. We don't have any names or ages so far as we usually wait until later in the day when they can truly confirm. And although they have notified the family members on this list really until the list is made public, they don't want it to be in the media attention because they know we can't trust Hamas, which we've seen day after day as they continue to manipulate some of these deals. So until it's truly happening and until all of those hostages, whether it's 11, as you said, because we have seen 39 Israeli so far and if today is the last day of the ceasefire, as far as the terms of the deal, we would see 50 in total release. And so that means the number would be 11 as of today. But until those 11 are actually handed over to the Red Cross and Israelis are able to identify them personally, that's when the public truly knows because once they can see it themselves, that's when they'll believe it. But as far as what we continue to see, it still remains difficult because if we only see 11 hostages released today, we know probably 18 children right now are still held captive by Hamas. Although we continue to see about 58 hostages released so far, that's including the 39 as well as some foreign nationals as well, 180 roughly hostages remain in Gaza held captive by terrorists. So it is a very difficult and complicated situation. And that's why you're hearing from the prime minister stating that they are willing, it seems, to extend this ceasefire more and able to bring more of these hostages home in order to see more of those emotional reunions. This is what the Israeli public truly needed to see when they see these people finally reuniting with their families. Nicole, thank you so much for that report. With us in studio is I-Twitter News correspondent Robert Swift and analyst Amir Oran. Amir, I want to start with you, Israeli media reporting that the list of names that was just provided to the government overnight, it's the words are being used as problematic, it's insufficient, it's unclear what the problem is, but there doesn't seem to be a problem. And it seems that this will indicate we're in for a long day. Well, as Nicole said, you can't trust Hamas. I would suggest not the same term, but trust and verify. You cannot in any negotiation put your trust on the other side. And here too, all in all, throughout the three days, there were hitches, ups and downs, but in general, it has gone through. And obviously, as both President Biden and Prime Minister Netanyahu have said, there is this will to extend it. And if you take 10 additional hostages per day, it must, you time it 10 days or so, 100 hostages, this will be a very, very good chunk and very good news for the Israeli public. And mind you, the Israeli government has backed off gradually from all of its militant positions. It started out without regard to the hostages. It sounds incredible now, only seven weeks later. But when it started out, its only war aim was to destroy Hamas. And the hostages were considered somewhat of a nuisance. Then under pressure by both the families, the Israeli public and President Biden, the government changed its tune. The same goes for the ceasefire. Only a couple of weeks ago, it vehemently opposed the ceasefire. Now, not only has it embraced it, it is quite willing to extend it. And what happens next when the ceasefire is over, we will see. Despite the words from the Prime Minister, from the Defense Minister and others in the war cabinet, do you think there's a chance that this could become a permanent ceasefire, the end of this round of fighting? Well, as President Biden said in his press conference last night, the conflict, the crisis, must end with Hamas no longer in control over any portion of Gaza. Right now, Israel is in control of northern Gaza, even though some of the hostages were still hidden there. The Israeli control did not extend to the tunnels or to the either other hideouts. Now, for Hamas to lose control over the southern portion of Gaza, there must be either a diplomatic solution in which they will depart out of their own volition or as part of the arrangement, or Israel will come and get them. Hopefully, the first option will be used. But if Ayachi Sinwar and Mohamed Def and their colleagues are obstinate, if they refuse to budge, they will get their comeuppance. I'll note here on the channel, we are playing on occasion a video of the hostages that's released by Hamas, the Hamas propaganda video. And it's important to note that the hostages are being ordered to keep waving or smile for the cameras or being told by their captors to keep on waving. Most video clips have no audio at all, perhaps for that reason. The few that do have audio, they are being ordered to keep smiling. Many of the hostages clearly under duress and they still have family members, siblings, or parents even that are still being held hostage. But it's just important to note this when we play the Hamas video. I want to go now to Children's Hospital near Tel Aviv, where I'm joined by I-24 News correspondent Pierre Colchandler. Pierre, a lot of kids thankful have been released from Hamas. Do we have an update perhaps on their condition, how they are doing both physically but also emotionally? We have very partial details Jeff. We have only the laconic message of the Chief of the Hospital of the Children's Center who says that they're in a stable physical condition and their emotional condition is being evaluated, assessed 24 hours a day. But they've arrived only at around 10.30 here, nine children and two parents, two mothers. One of the children, Avigail Idan, who marked her fourth birthday on Friday, is an orphan. Her two parents, Roy and Smada, were killed in one of the massacres on October 7 in Kfar-Aza. She managed to run away and seek shelter with a neighbor's family, the Brodez family, who has also been released yesterday. So we assume that she was in care of that family during the 51 days of captivity, although we cannot confirm it. Her two siblings hide in a closet during the October 7 massacre and are safe there in the care of their aunt and uncle. And that's maybe the symbol of the predicament of those families because they've lived the October 7 massacre. They're wearing captivity. Some of their relatives are still in captivity. Some of their relatives were killed in October 7. So you imagine the realm of emotions that is running through these people. And this is going to be probably the hardest process to heal. There's going to be a need to reinsert them into Israeli society, but also a need for them to cope with their emotional distress at the same time. We know already that, for instance, for the children, the children are encouraged to invite to the hospital their friends from classroom or from kindergarten in order to share with them their experience. And that's part of the healing process. We know also partial details, the fact that they ate very little in the past two weeks. There was a shortage of food. They were fed with rice and pita bread. We know also they slept on plastic benches without mattress in damp dark tunnels. They didn't know the difference between night and day because they were in those damp tunnels. So there's a lot, a lot to be taken care of by the psychosocial personnel in the Children's Hospital here in Achnider. Yeah, absolutely. Difficult days ahead on the road to recovery. Pierre, thank you so much. And more emotional video now into our newsroom as Freed, Israeli hostages Sharon Avigdori and her daughter Noam reunite with their immediate family members. After being held in captivity for over 50 days, these images now really speak for themselves. Sharon falling into the arms of her husband and her son. For Noam, it's her dad and brother. This family is from Kibbutzbaeri, one of the hardest hit communities in the terror attack. Several other family members were murdered and others still remain in Hamas captivity. Many of the kidnapped hostages come from the Kvar-Aza Kibbutz near the border. It's a community that has been evacuated since the war displaced residents were watching on TV screens the release of their neighbors and loved ones. They say it's bittersweet. Families, Goldstein and Borodach, both of them are neighbors, our neighbors. And I recognize them immediately. The mom can and the children were very excited. They're here. We can we I couldn't stop crying seeing them because it was very like real. They were hostages. They've been through so much and now they're home. The feeling is unbelievable. I can't even describe this in words. It's so exciting to see that some of our people is coming back, the little kids. But on the other side, on the other end, it's very sad that we know we have another 10 people that stay on Gaza. And we don't know what will happen with them when they will come back. Back here in the studio, Robert, as this truth enters its fourth and final day, what is the situation like with the ongoing violence in the north of Hezbollah across Lebanon, the war there, and also with the Houthi rebel group backed by Iran, which has been periodically trying to attack and send missiles. Right. So Hezbollah said early on that they were not subject. They were not a party of the negotiations that led to the ceasefire, but that they would follow with it. And there has been one or two incidents there. But for the majority of the cases, the violence there has significantly dropped since the ceasefire kicked in with regards to the Houthis in the southern front, if you want to call it that, that has not been the case. They are not in the same way adhering to the ceasefire. They were never conducting attacks against Israel at the same scale. So they've kind of just continued the incidents that they were conducting. Now, there's been a string of attacks against shipping in the area with just yesterday U.S. destroyer having to intervene in an attack that was ongoing against a cargo vessel there. That was a civilian cargo vessel with links to an Israeli billionaire. It appeared that Houthis were attempting to hijack it. Then when the U.S. forces moved in to interrupt this attack, they were fired upon with two ballistic missiles that emanated from territory inside Yemen controlled by the Houthi organization. Is this something we need to keep our focus on, do you think, Amir? I mean, what is what we're seeing out of Yemen, the attacks and the attempts to disrupt shipping, either hijack the ships. And we have seen other ships alter course avoiding the gulf because of these ongoing attacks. They may not be successful in terms of violence or in terms of a body camp, but they do seem to be having a global impact and they're ongoing. So piracy and terrorism in that region is a long phenomenon. You remember the USS Cole 23 years ago in the port of Aden. And of course, there are task forces, unilateral or multinational, sometimes even headed by the Chinese Navy in rotation against piracy and other forms of interference with shipping. So it is not an Israeli problem, even though this is Israel's gate to the south, especially to the far east where cars come from at one time, oil was flowing through there. So obviously, if the ceasefire holds in Gaza, and if Hezbollah does not attack, Israel will retaliate there. It will not stand idly by when the Houthis interfere with the shipping or launch missiles at Elaph. Right now, as we are waiting to see how the plot unfolds in Gaza and around the Lebanese border, Israel is keeping its powder dry, but apparently not for long. Back to the ongoing hostage release situation on this fourth day. One of the elderly Israeli women who was freed is 85 year old Yaffa Adar, her granddaughter, speaking out, saying the recovery so far has been difficult because only now is she learning that so many neighbors were murdered that day. And she knows still her grandson is in Hamas captivity. I can say that she's deaf and I can say that she said that she was thinking about the family a lot and that it helped her survive and that she could hear the voices of the great grandchildren calling her and that it gives her a lot of power and that she's now trying to realize what's happening here and about a lot of friends and neighbors that are either dead or kidnapped from the kibbutz and about Tamir, her oldest grandson that is also a hostage and that she has no house to return. She gives us a lot of motivation to keep fighting for the other hostages. She really wants to be a part of this fight, of this effort to bring them all back home. So she's like, she's all in. Just want to know how can she be part and how can she help. But also we're telling her right now, please start from recovering from taking care of yourself and then we will think about how can she help. But right now, she comes first. Thank you, Instructor Robert. The fog of war, it was thought by many analysts, IDF officials that in the early days of the given the scale of the bombardment that the terror commanders from Hamas moved south with hostages that they were moving to the south, which was at that time unscathed from Israeli attacks on terror targets. We hear from Israeli officials that the north is under IDF command, IDF control, but we see that these hostages, many of them come from the north. They still more still might be there, which is where the IDF is currently located. Where does that indicate? I think it indicates a couple of things. First of all, there's a difference between territory on the ground, which is controlled and which is contested. Now the IDF does appear to be in control of the north, but also Hamas doesn't seem to be really standing up and fighting. Although it has sent out anti-tank teams to fight against the Israeli military, they seem to have been to a certain extent just letting Israel take control of it and that is a standard classic of guerrillas. They're not taken on ahead on fight because the IDF would annihilate them. So therefore it does appear that they might be simply just trying to outweigh the IDF, assume that the diplomatic pressure will be so much that eventually the IDF has to leave. What's worth noting is whether they'll be able to continue this indefinitely. There's only so much space inside the Gaza Strip. Sooner or later they might have to fight. The other thing is if captives have been held in the tunnels inside the north of Gaza, you can only assume that additional Hamas fighters could also have been in those tunnels and that's something that the IDF will likely be taken into account now that we've seen these hostages released from the north. There's another factor linked to what Robert just said. The IDF has perfected innovative technologies to fight in the tunnels, to bomb the tunnels, to smoke out the Hamas operatives there. But this was all contingent on the idea that the tunnels are only filled with Hamas. If there are captives there and you cannot be sure that there are no captives in the tunnels, you cannot use it. And this is why we have seen most of the fighting being done above ground and the IDF not going down into the tunnel until they are clear and secure. Is the tunnel network more sophisticated than the IDF assessments initially believed? Is it deeper? Is it more complicated than was initially thought? There is a difference between what you know through intelligence even if you have ways of taking pictures from the UAVs or satellites and building or simulating what there is there and seeing it with your own eyes, seeing the depth and the complexity and the way they survived including the hostages. The way if you see them they are in relatively good shape. They have of course suffered and they endured an ordeal but nevertheless after 50 days they could come out on their own feet. Which means that Hamas fighters who probably have better nourishment and better conditions and then can come out to the sun once in a while, they can still fight from the tunnels. Robert you mentioned you know as a guerrilla warfare in these dense urban environments like Gaza city or Jabalia camp you know that the Hamas is not engaging head on out in the open conflict with the IDF. I know that that would just be a route but they're there. They're hiding, they're underground, they're hiding in hideouts. The IDF is there, they can't fight for now, they can't move, they can't attack. The Hamas is presumably on the move as we speak. The longer that the ceasefire is extended does it endanger exponentially the IDF soldiers who are camped out there. I think that essentially depends on whether it is the Hamas's advantage to continue with the ceasefire or not. Would it be worth Hamas getting some small tactical advantage killing a few IDF soldiers if it then broke the ceasefire which could would unleash the IDF upon the on Hamas once again. It doesn't seem that that's in Hamas's interest. What rather seems to be in its interest is trying to stall this out for as long as possible, apply additional diplomatic pressure to Israel so that essentially they can try and snowball the currencies fire into a permanent arrangement because the Hamas and its allied factions cannot stand up to the IDF. That's been demonstrated through the first stage of this war. It seems that the only thing that they can really do and they are talking about surviving, it does appear that Hamas thinks he can outlast the IDF here. The only thing they can really do is try and draw this war to an end whilst they still retain control in the Gaza Strip. Amir, you often liken current events here in Israel to historical examples, historical metaphors. In the situation that we're now seeing right now in Gaza with this hostage deal that may be extended the ceasefire to get more hostages by several more days. It may not. The IDF pledging to resume the military campaign kind of put this in perspective both in Israeli history or even world history here. Well, there are two examples which come to mind and both have to do with the final phases of the Yom Kippur War in late 1973 and into the spring of 1974. The first has to do with the encirclement of the Third Army, the Egyptian Third Army, which was really a core, a multi-division formation, not an army the way we saw in World War II. But nevertheless, Israel managed in the final days, Israel having broken the ceasefire of October the 22nd, violated the agreement, nevertheless managed to encircle the Third Army. And it was under great danger of being starved. And there was American pressure, Soviet pressure, Israel finally relented, and it led to agreements. First, the military agreements on disengagement and then to peace. The other example has to do with the way Syrian President Hafez Assad managed to squeeze the prisoner of war issue in his prisons, the Israeli pilots mostly, but also people, soldiers from tank battalions or the German outposts in order for the first, the least of the prisoners, the number of the prisoners, the number of the wounded. Finally, during the Henry Kissinger shuttle, finally Assad managed to get an Israeli withdrawal from the city of Kunatra in the Golan Heights. So there are presidents for Arab interlocutors managing to get concessions from Israel on these issues provided there are superpower interventions. Mayor Robert, thank you both so much for being with us. Again, this is the fourth day of the ceasefire. We can confirm Israel's government has received a list of names of hostages that are set to be released at some point today. Unclear if the ceasefire will be extended or if at midnight tonight, the idea of military campaign continues. More updates here on the channel. Stay with us. Israel is in a state of war. Families completely done down in their beds. We have no idea where she has. Our soldiers are fighting on the front line, but the general perception is something that certainly needs to to be fought as well. 24 news just as we report the latest live updates from Tel Aviv on the Israel Gaza war. We are now entering the fourth and final day of the ceasefire with Hamas. A final group of 11 Israeli hostages are set to be released today. Israel's government confirms they have a list of names. It has not been made public yet and the government says they are holding internal discussions on the names provided a question right now burning in this country. What happens next tonight at midnight? Will the military campaign continue? Will the ceasefire be extended? Hamas has requested that Israel extend the ceasefire and says they're willing to keep releasing small batches of hostages. Last night, Prime Minister Netanyahu released a video saying he is willing to extend the temporary ceasefire. We brought back another group of hostages, children and women, and we are moved to the bottom of our hearts. The entire nation, when we see this union of the families, it just shakes the soul. I just spoke with President Joe Biden with great excitement. Of course, also about the little girl, Abigail, what a joy to see her with us. But on the other hand, what a pity that she returns to the reality of not having parents. She has no parents, but she has a whole nation that embraces her and we will take care of all of her needs. But beyond that, I want to say there is also an outline that you can release 10 more every additional day. It is a blessed thing. But in the same breath, I also told the president that at the end of the outline, we will return with all our strength to realize our goals. The elimination of Hamas to ensure that Gaza will not return to what it was. And of course, the release of all of our hostages. Let's go live now to I-25 News correspondent Nicole Sinek. Nicole, minutes ago, an update from Israel's government on the list perhaps of hostages to be released today. What's the latest on what we may expect? Well, they are currently going over that list, and that means they have received that list as of this morning. So that is the good news that they are going over. We don't have any names or ages so far as we usually wait until later in the day when they can truly confirm. And although they have notified the family members on this list, really until the list is made public, they don't want it to be in the media attention because they know we can't trust Hamas, which we've seen day after day as they continue to manipulate some of these deals. So until it's truly happening and until all of those hostages, whether it's 11, as you said, because we have seen 39 Israelis so far, and if today is the last day of the ceasefire, as far as the terms of the deal, we would see 50 in total release, and so that means the number would be 11 as of today. But until those 11 are actually handed over to the Red Cross and Israelis are able to identify them personally, that's when the public truly knows because once they can see it themselves, that's when they'll believe it. But as far as what we continue to see, it still remains difficult because if we only see 11 hostages released today, we know probably 18 children right now are still held captive by Hamas. Although we continue to see about 58 hostages released so far, that's including the 39 as well as some foreign nationals as well, 180 roughly hostages remain in Gaza, held captive by terrorists. So it is a very difficult and complicated situation. And that's why you're hearing from the Prime Minister, stating that they are willing, it seems, to extend this ceasefire more and able to bring more of these hostages home in order to see more of those emotional reunions. This is what the Israeli public truly needed to see when they see these people finally reuniting with their families. Nicole, thank you so much for that report. With us in studio is iTwitter News correspondent Robert Swift and analyst Amir Oren. Amir, I'm going to start with you Israeli media reporting that the list of names that was just provided to the government overnight, the words are being used as problematic, it's insufficient, it's unclear what the problem is, but there doesn't seem to be a problem. And it seems that this will indicate we're in for a long day. Well, as Nicole said, you can't trust Hamas. I would suggest not the same term, but trust and verify. You cannot in any negotiation put your trust on the other side. And here too, all in all, throughout the three days, there were hitches, ups and downs, but in general, it has gone through. And obviously, as both President Biden and Prime Minister Netanyahu have said, there is this will to extend it. And if you take 10 additional hostages per day, it must, you time it 10 days or so, 100 hostages, this will be a very, very good chunk and very good news for the Israeli public. And mind you, the Israeli government has backed off gradually from all of its militant positions. It started out without regard to the hostages. It sounds incredible now, only seven weeks later. But when it started out, its only war aim was to destroy Hamas. And the hostages were considered somewhat of a nuisance. Then under pressure by both the families, the Israeli public and President Biden, the government changed its tune. The same goes for the ceasefire. Only a couple of weeks ago, it vehemently opposed the ceasefire. Now, not only has it embraced it, it is quite willing to extend it. And what happens next when the ceasefire is over, we will see. Despite the words from the Prime Minister, from the Defense Minister, and others in the war cabinet, do you think there's a chance that this could become a permanency spire, the end of this round of fighting? Well, as President Biden said in his press conference last night, the conflict, the crisis, must end with Hamas no longer in control over any portion of Gaza. Right now, Israel is in control of northern Gaza, even though some of the hostages were still hidden there. The Israeli control did not extend to the tunnels or to the either other hideouts. Now, for Hamas to lose control over the southern portion of Gaza, there must be either a diplomatic solution in which they will depart out of their own volition or as part of the arrangement, or Israel will come and get them. Hopefully, the first option will be used. But if Ayachi Sinwar and Mohamed Def and their colleagues are obstinate, if they refuse to budge, they will get their comeuppance. I'll note here on the channel, we are playing on occasion a video of the hostages that's released by Hamas, the Hamas propaganda video. And it's important to note that the hostages are being ordered to keep waving or smile for the cameras, they're being told by their captors to keep on waving. Most video clips have no audio at all, perhaps for that reason. The few that do have audio, they are being ordered to keep smiling. Many of the hostages clearly under duress, and they still have family members, siblings, or parents even, that are still being held hostage. But it's just important to note this when we play the Hamas video. I want to go now to Children's Hospital near Tel Aviv, where I'm joined by I-24 News correspondent Pierre Closchenler. Pierre, a lot of kids thankful have been released from Hamas. Do we have an update perhaps on their condition, how they are doing both physically but also emotionally? We have very partial details, Jeff. We have only the laconic message of the chief of the hospital, of the Children's Center, who says that they're in a stable physical condition, and their emotional condition is being evaluated, assessed 24 hours a day. But they've arrived only at around 10.30 here, nine children, and two parents, two mothers. One of the children, Avigayl Idan, who marked her fourth birthday on Friday, is an orphan. Her two parents, Rory and Smada, were killed in one of the massacres on October 7 in Kfar Azar. She managed to run away and seek shelter with a neighbor's family, the Brodetz family, who has also been released yesterday. So we assume that she was in care of that family during the 51 days of captivity, although we cannot confirm it. Her two siblings hide in a closet during the October 7 massacre and are safe. They're in the care of their aunt and uncle. And that's maybe the symbol of the predicament of those families, because they've lived the October 7 massacre. They're wearing captivity. Some of their relatives are still in captivity. Some of their relatives were killed in October 7. So you imagine the realm of emotions that is running through these people. And this is going to be probably the hardest process to heal. There's going to be a need to reinsert them into Israeli society, but also a need for them to cope with their emotional distress at the same time. We know already that, for instance, for the children, the children are encouraged to invite to the hospital their friends from classroom or from kindergarten in order to share with them their experience. And that's part of the healing process. We know also partial details, the fact that they ate very little in the past two weeks. There was a shortage of food. They were fed with rice and pita bread. We know also they slept on plastic benches without mattress in damp dark tunnels. They didn't know the difference between night and day because they were in those damp tunnels. So there's a lot, a lot to be taken care of by the psychosocial personnel in the Children's Hospital here in Achnider. Yeah, absolutely. Difficult days ahead on the road to recovery. Pierre, thank you so much. And more emotional video now into our newsroom as Fried Israeli hostess Sharon Avigdori and her daughter Noam reunite with their immediate family members. After being held in captivity for over 50 days, these images now really speak for themselves. Sharon falling into the arms of her husband and her son. For Noam, it's her dad and brother. This family is from Kibbutz Baeri, one of the hardest hit communities in the terror attack. Several other family members were murdered and others still remain in Hamas captivity. Many of the kidnapped passengers come from the Kvar-Aza Kibbutz near the border. It's a community that has been evacuated since the war, displaced residents. We're watching on TV screens the release of their neighbors and loved ones. They say it's bitter sweet. Families, Goldstein and Borodach, both of them are neighbors, our neighbors. And I recognize them immediately. The mom Chen and the children were very excited. They're here. I couldn't stop crying seeing them because it was very like real. They were hostages. They've been through so much and now they're home. The feeling is unbelievable. I can't even describe this in words. It's so exciting to see that some of our people is coming back, the little kids. But on the other side, on the other end, it's very sad that we know we have another 10 people that stay on Gaza. And we don't know what will happen with them when they will come back. Back here in the studio, Robert, as this truth enters its fourth and final day, what is the situation like with the ongoing violence in the north of Hezbollah across Lebanon, the war there, and also with the Houthi rebel group back by Iran, which has been periodically trying to attack and send missiles? Right. So Hezbollah said early on that they were not subject, they were not a party of the negotiations with the ceasefire, but that they would follow with it. And there has been one or two incidents there, but for the majority of the cases, the violence there has significantly dropped since the ceasefire kicked in with regards to the Houthis in the southern front, if you want to call it that. That has not been the case. They are not in the same way adhering to the ceasefire. They were never conducting attacks against Israel at the same scale. So they've kind of just continued the incidents that they were conducting. Now there's been a string of attacks against shipping in the area with just yesterday, U.S. destroyer having to intervene in an attack that was ongoing against a cargo vessel there. That was a civilian cargo vessel with links to an Israeli billionaire. It appeared that Houthis were attempting to hijack it. Then when the U.S. forces moved in to interrupt this attack, they were fired upon with two ballistic missiles that emanated from territory inside Yemen controlled by the Houthi organization. Is this something we need to keep our focus on, do you think, Amir? I mean what we're seeing out of Yemen, the attacks and the attempts to disrupt shipping, either hijack the ships, and we have seen other ships alter course avoiding the Gulf because of these ongoing attacks. They may not be successful in terms of violence or in terms of a body camp, but they do seem to be having a global impact and they're ongoing. So piracy and terrorism in that region is a long phenomenon. You remember the USS Cole 23 years ago in the port of Aden. And of course there are task forces unilateral or multinational, sometimes even headed by the Chinese Navy in rotation against piracy and other forms of interference with shipping. So it is not an Israeli problem, even though this is Israel's gate to the south, especially to the far east where cars come from at one time, oil was flowing through there. So obviously if the ceasefire holds in Gaza, and if Hezbollah does not attack, Israel will retaliate there. It will not stand idly by when the Houthis interfere with its shipping or launch missiles at Elath. Right now, we are waiting to see how the plot unfolds in Gaza and around along the Lebanese border. Israel is keeping its powder dry, but apparently not for long. Back to the ongoing hostage release situation on this fourth day. One of the elderly Israeli women who was freed is 85-year-old Yaffa her granddaughter is speaking out, saying the recovery so far has been difficult, because only now is she learning that so many neighbors were murdered that day, and she knows still her grandson is in Hamas captivity. I can say that she's deaf, and I can say that she said that she was thinking about the family a lot, and that it helped her survive, and that she could hear the voices of the great-grandchildren calling her, and that it gives her a lot of power, and that she's now trying to realize what's happening here, and about a lot of friends and neighbors that are either dead or kidnapped from the Kibbutz, and about Tamir, her oldest grandson that is also a hostage, and that she has no house to return. She gives us a lot of motivation to keep fighting for the other hostages. She really wants to be a part of this fight, of the effort to bring them all back home, so she's like, she's all in, just want to know how can she be part and how can she help, but also we're telling her right now, please start from the recovering, from taking care of yourself, and then we will think about how can she help, but right now she comes first. Thank you, Instructor Robert. The fog of war, it was thought by many analysts, IDF officials that in the early days, given the scale of the bombardment, that the terror commanders from Hamas moved south with hostages, that they were moving to the south, which at that time unscathed from Israeli attacks on terror targets. We hear from Israeli officials that the north is under IDF command, IDF control, but we see that these hostages, many of them, come from the north. They still, more still might be there, which is where the IDF is currently located. Where does that indicate? I think it indicates a couple of things. First of all, there's a difference between territory on the ground, which is controlled, and which is contested. Now, the IDF does appear to be in control of the north, but also Hamas doesn't seem to be really standing up and fighting. Although it has sent out anti-tank teams to fight against the Israeli military, they seem to have been to a certain extent just letting Israel take control of it, and that is a standard classic of guerrillas. They're not taken on ahead on fight because the IDF would annihilate them. So therefore, it does appear that they might be simply just trying to outweigh the IDF, assume that the diplomatic pressure will be so much that eventually the IDF has to leave. What's worth noting is whether they'll be able to continue this indefinitely. There's only so much space inside the Gaza Strip. Sooner or later, they might have to fight. The other thing is if captives have been held in the tunnels inside the north of Gaza, you can only assume that additional Hamas fighters could also have been in those tunnels, and that's something that the IDF will likely be taking into account now that we've seen these hostages released from the north. There's another factor linked to what Robert just said. The IDF has perfected innovative technologies to fight in the tunnels, to bomb the tunnel, to smoke out the Hamas operatives there. But this was all contingent on the idea that the tunnels are only filled with Hamas. If there are captives there, and you cannot be sure that there are no captives in the tunnels, you cannot use it. And this is why we have seen most of the fighting being done above ground, and the IDF not going down into the tunnel until they are clear and secure. Is the tunnel network more sophisticated than the IDF assessments initially believed, or is it deeper? Is it more complicated than was initially thought? There is a difference between what you know through intelligence, even if you have ways of taking pictures from the UAVs or satellites and building or simulating what there is there, and seeing it with your own eyes, seeing the depth and the complexity and the way they survived, including the hostages. The way, if you see them, they are in relatively good shape. They have, of course, suffered and they endured an ordeal, but nevertheless, after 50 days, they could come out on their own feet, which means that Hamas fighters who probably have better nourishment and better conditions and then can come out to the sun once in a while, they can still fight from the tunnels. Robert, you mentioned as a guerrilla warfare in these dense urban environments like Gaza City or Jabalia Camp that Hamas is not engaging head-on out in the open conflict with the IDF. They know that that would just be a route, but they are there. They are hiding. They are underground. They are hiding in hideouts. The IDF is there. They can't fight for now. They can't move. They can't attack. Hamas is presumably on the move as we speak. The longer that the ceasefire is extended, does it endanger exponentially the IDF soldiers who are camped out there? I think that essentially depends on whether it is to Hamas's advantage to continue with the ceasefire or not. Or to risk it in an engagement with the IDF. Would it be worth Hamas getting some small tactical advantage killing a few IDF soldiers if it then broke the ceasefire, which would unleash the IDF upon Hamas once again? It doesn't seem that that's in Hamas' interest. What rather seems to be in its interest is trying to stall this out for as long as possible, apply additional diplomatic pressure to Israel so that essentially they can try and snowball the currency's fire into a permanent arrangement. Because Hamas and his allied factions cannot stand up to the IDF. That's been demonstrated through the first stage of this war. It seems that the only thing that they can really do, and they are talking about surviving, it does appear that Hamas thinks he can outlast the IDF here. The only thing they can really do is try and draw this war to an end whilst they still retain control in the Gaza Strip. Amir, you often like in current events here in Israel to historical examples, historical metaphors. The situation that we're now seeing right now in Gaza with this hostage deal that may be extended the ceasefire to get more hostages by several more days. It may not. The IDF pledging to resume the military campaign kind of put this in perspective both in Israeli history or even world history here. Well, there are two examples which come to mind and both have to do with the final phases of the Yom Kippur war in late 1973 and into the spring of 1974. The first has to do with the encirclement of the Third Army, the Egyptian Third Army, which was really a core, a multi-division formation, not an army the way we saw in World War II. But nevertheless, Israel managed in the final days, Israel having broken the ceasefire of October the 22nd, violated the agreement, nevertheless managed to encircle the Third Army. And it was under great danger of being starved. And there was American pressure, Soviet pressure, Israel finally relented and it led to agreements. First, the military agreements on disengagement and then to peace. The other example has to do with the way Syrian President Hafez Assad managed to squeeze the prisoner of war issue in his prisons, the Israeli pilots mostly, but also people, soldiers from tank battalions or the German outposts, in order for the first, the least of the prisoners, the number of the prisoners, the number of the wounded. Finally, during the Henry Kissinger shuttle, finally Assad managed to get an Israeli withdrawal from the city of Kunetra in the Golan Heights. So there are presidents for Arab interlocutors managing to get concessions from Israel on these issues, provided there are superpower interventions. Mayor Robert, thank you both so much for being with us. Again, this is the fourth day of the ceasefire. We can confirm Israel's government has received a list of names of hostages that are set to be released at some point today. Unclear if the ceasefire will be extended or if at midnight tonight, the IDF military campaign continues. More updates here on the channel. Stay with us. This is the fourth and final day of the ceasefire with Hamas. A final group of Israeli hostages is set to be released tonight. Israel's government confirms this morning they have a list of names and it is evaluating the proposal. The names have not been released publicly. A burning question right now. What happens next after midnight? Hamas has formally requested that Israel extend the ceasefire and says they're willing to keep releasing hostages for the next several days. Prime Minister Netanyahu also says he's willing to extend the temporary ceasefire. We brought back another group of hostages, children and women, and we are moved to the bottom of our hearts, the entire nation. When we see this union of the families, it just shakes the soul. I just spoke with President Joe Biden with great excitement. Of course, also about the little girl, Abigail. What a joy to see her with us. But on the other hand, what a pity that she returns to the reality of not having parents. She has no parents, but she has a whole nation that embraces her and we will take care of all of her needs. But beyond that, I want to say there is also an outline that you can release 10 more every additional day. It is a blessed thing. But in the same breath, I also told the president that at the end of the outline, we will return with all our strength to realize our goals, the elimination of Hamas to ensure that Gaza will not return to what it was. And of course, the release of all of our hostages. With us now is I-20 News correspondent Pierre Kochendler at a children's hospital near Tel Aviv, where so many of these children and their families have had to receive care. Physically, they're okay, but there's an extensive battery of tests and assessments that need to be completed. Pierre, are these children, are they able to see friends and loved ones? Can they have guests and visitors as they start to resume their lives back here at home? Right. I think resuming their lives back here at home is going to be a long, long emotional, psychological, and also social process. There are nine children here that came overnight to this hospital with two mothers. They're not right now receiving any friends because it's still too early in the morning. They arrived only at around 10, 30 p.m. local time yesterday evening. But in principle, yes, the kids are encouraged to call their friends and bring them here, ask them to come here and play with them. And that's what happened, for instance, with Oad, nine-year-old, who was liberated from captivity a couple of days ago. And yesterday, he called his friends and they all came together, his classmates. They all came together, they played together, their toys for them, they ate pizza together. So in principle, yes, that's one of the critical things for the children, not just to reunite with their family of what's left from it, but also to meet with their friends and play with them and share with them their experience. We know, for instance, that Oad, a nine-year-old, wrote a diary while he was in captivity. But the Hamas terrorists who kept him in captivity confiscated this diary. But that's one of the things, you see, to try and share your experience with your peers and not just with psychologists, social workers. Yeah. Now, Pierre, we're looking at these images now on the screen, in fact, of the importance of having a cone of ice cream and being able to watch videos again with your friends. Physically, they're okay. As you mentioned, psychologically, I guess, how is Israel equipped to be with these children and their families long term, because this kind of trauma, of course, does not disappear, does not go away, it requires a lot of attention. Do you believe that the country is able to handle those needs? I think economically, yes. Psychologically, it's a different story. Most experts agree that this is an unprecedented situation. There is no such case in the whole world of children taken hostages after a massacre, after they've endured that massacre. Some of the kids have lost their parents. Some of them have lost at least one parent. Some of them have a brother, a sibling, a father in captivity still. This is an unprecedented situation. And Israel's experts have contacted experts around the world, for instance, in Nigeria, regarding the 240 young Nigerian women who were schooled in Nigeria, who were captured by Boko Haram. And many of them are still in the hands of Boko Haram after so many years. But this is not exactly the same situation. Here you have children who bear witness to the massacre of October 7, who bear witness to captivity in Hamas' hands, but also who lost their dear ones, or their dear ones are in captivity. This is something unheard of. And it's going to take some time of learning for Israeli psychologists, social workers, medical personnel, as well as for the children and their mothers. Thank you for that update, Pierre, for us at Schneider Children's Hospital near Tel Aviv. One of the child hostages that has been freed is Israeli-Irish girl Emily Han, nine years old. She is now back with her family after being freed. She was kidnapped after watching her stepmother be murdered by Hamas killers. Emily's father says her daughter is now on the long road to recovery. We finally got Emily back from the hands of the guards and terrorists. She's lost a lot of weight from her face and body, but generally doing better than we expected. We're still fighting and want Raya Rotem, Yaya's sister and Hila's mother. We want her back as they promised. They wouldn't release children without their mothers, but they did. We're in the hospital, Safra, Tel Aviv, taking care of Emily. We'd like to thank everyone that has helped and supported us throughout this whole 50 days. It's been great. We can't do it without you. With me in studio is former senior IDF intelligence officer Rafael Urshalmi, and I'd like to introduce senior editor Guy Azrael. Thank you both for being with us here in studio. Rafael, I want to start with you. Just a simple question. Do you believe that the ceasefire will actually be extended and what does that mean? All the signs seem to indicate that it will be extended at least for a couple of days. The Israelis have expressed their interest in prolonging that ceasefire in exchange for at least 10 hostages a day. Now we'll see they're waiting now for the confirmation of the Hamas. The Hamas had also expressed that wish because they're interested in having that truth extended so they can regroup and redeploy, reorganize. Will they accept the 10 hostages per day? Will they try to negotiate and say five only? And then we are into more negotiations. But everything seems to indicate that it will be the case. The IDF is willing and ready to cope with that problem of prolonging the truth. Does it harm the IDF's readiness? Does it harm the military goal? Overtime, yes, because we lost the momentum and the troops are still very motivated, but it's not easy to just sit there in Gaza. It's dangerous. You're a sitting duck. You don't have a lot to do. It's not easy. On the other hand, it is an opportunity for the IDF also to regroup for fighters to rest for ammunition and vitals to be brought to the troops. So their advantages are also a lot of intel is being collected while we are sitting there. First, for instance, yesterday night we had a kind of show from the terrorist of the Hamas bragging in a very big square of Gaza City where they had the hostages path through that square and around you could see dozens of armed terrorists of the Hamas. These guys we could actually monitor where they came from and where they went back to. So we are gathering a lot of intelligence. This regrouping and redeploying of the Hamas involves moving troops, moving equipment, moving ammunition and vitals so that the IDF is monitoring all this. We're gathering a lot of intel, but of course at some point we have to go back into action. We have to finish the job. We've only done only 10% of the job. We've got 90% to go. Yeah, and at this point more than three dozen hostages have been freed. I want to go live to our correspondent, Nicole Setic, for us in Tel Aviv. Nicole, we've seen and we continue to see these powerful videos of Israeli mothers and children and elderly women being freed and reuniting with their families and these tearful reunions. What do you think is the impact of those images for Israeli society? What's going to, how will that continue to resonate for this country? It's incredibly emotional and this is the footage that Israeli society truly needed to see because when we're starting on Friday, when we first saw those videos, it's the first sign of life really of these 240 hostages that were ripped out of their communities seven weeks ago. And so by seeing this, it does give a little glimmer of hope and it also reminds the Israeli society exactly why Israel is fighting and why they have been fighting for the past seven weeks. We continue to see here in Hostage Square, people walking through looking at this iconic how it's become over the past seven weeks, this iconic Shabbat dinner table empty, a reminder of those lives that have been lost. However, as we continue to see these emotional reunions one by one, family members reunited, it is giving the Israeli society what they need. However, on the flip side, it's also a reminder of those who remain captive of the 180 roughly that are still held captive by Hamas terrorists. So every time you see a little five year old girl running to her father or her grandfather for the first time, you have to think about the other 18 children that are still captive and they have been for seven weeks. So it is so emotional for the Israeli society right now and really anyone watching around the world, you can't help but look at those reunion videos and want to see 240 of them. I could watch them every second of every day. However, when we only get one at a time and we're only seeing 13 here and there and hopefully 50 over this four day period, it does make you think about every other one that you want to see and it's a good reminder because it does remind our viewers and Israeli residents exactly why Israel is fighting for and why they need to return to the fighting as we continue to hear from the Israeli Prime Minister and the War Cabinet stating that this is just the beginning and until we get all of those hostages home, that is when the fighting will stop. Nicole, thank you so much for that update for us from Tel Aviv's Hostage Square. Speaking of those reunion videos, here is a powerful one into our newsroom, Freed Israeli hostages Sharon Avigori and her daughter Noam reuniting with their immediate family members. After spending over 50 days in Hamas captivity, these images really do speak for themselves. Sharon falling into the arms of her husband and her son, for Noam it's her dad and her brother. This family is from Kibbutz Berry, one of the worst hit communities in the attack. Several other family members from this family were murdered. Others remain in Hamas captivity. Back here in studio with ICON for New Senior Editor Guy, Israel Guy, I want to ask about the hostages because the IDF says they have control of North Gaza. Much of the ground operation is focused on North Gaza encirclement of terror camps in Gaza City, aerial bombardment, intense, a little bit less so in the south, there's no intense ground operation. The hostages, do we know where in Gaza they came from and what does that indicate perhaps that where they're remaining, you know, 180 where they might be? Yes, I think you can learn a lot on the where hostages were held by where they were kidnapped. So in the first two days, we saw hostages that came from the Kibbutz of near Oz and Berry. These are in near the southern tip of the Gaza Strip. They were all released from the Eurofa crossing. Yesterday, we saw hostages being released after being kidnapped from Nachal Oz that's much up north, much more up north in the Gaza Strip. And these were released near Gaza City through the Carney crossing. Two points about this. First of all, we see that they were held close to where they were hijacked. And second is the fact that they were held there, despite the idea of presence in the northern tip of the Gaza Strip. Now, we're talking about the neighborhood of Saja'i in Gaza City. That's the eastern neighborhood there. The IDF has operated in the past and previous operations as well. The IDF has yet to fight for that neighborhood. So Hamas operatives are still active there. And it's interesting to see that despite the idea of being so near to where these hostages and Hamas operatives are, they kept them there. As we know in previous cases, IDF found evidence of hostages that were held under hospitals like Al-Rantisi and Shifa, but they were smuggled out of the area as the IDF troops made their way there. That was not the case with these Israelis in Saja'i. And it tells a lot about the possibility perhaps of finding more Israelis, Israeli hostages in those areas in northern Gaza Strip. Hopefully there could be some sort of an operation to rescue them if they haven't been smuggled. As we know, the IDF encircles Gaza City as well. Just a quick note here on some of the video that we are occasionally playing in the background. This video is released by Hamas and his Hamas propaganda. Many of these video clips had no audio at all. The few that did have audio, you can hear the Hamas killers and terrorists clearly saying keep waving, keep waving for the cameras, giving commands to their detainees, obviously given under duress. Many of these hostages who are being released have family members still in captivity. All of them have family members and neighbors that were murdered by Hamas. But this is just Hamas video, but it does show the release from Gaza. You can see the fear in many of their eyes. And studio Rafael, the tunnel network in north Gaza, is it different than the tunnel system in south Gaza? Are they connected? Is the entire network perhaps a little bit more complicated than the IDF initially believed it to be? Yes, absolutely. That was a bad surprise of first of all how many miles of tunnels there are under Gaza. I mean, we might control the north of the Gaza Strip but only above ground. We do not control underground. We've destroyed a lot of tunnels. We've destroyed the shafts taking into the tunnels. But yet again, we've done only like 10, 15% of the job. There's much, much left. Not only are they connecting, which he allows now during these days of truth for forces from the south to come up north while we had already created a kind of retreat from the north to the south. Now they're coming back. And who are coming back? The elite troops, some elite troops and commandos of the Hamas were not involved in the fighting up till now from the start of the war. They are now going to be activated in view of a possible renewed and more intense assault of the IDF. So yes, the tunnels are essential to this operation. And some of these tunnels might even go as far as Egypt, as the Sinai, and they might be used for escape by the leaders of the Hamas if things gets too rough and tough for them. So this is a big problem. Technologically, there are many means to destroy these tunnels. Means even not to destroy them, to just bury alive the terrorists. As I mentioned, there's a chance that even in the tunnels, even in North Gaza, there might be hostages still there. Exactly. What is stopping us from performing what we could perform as to destroying those tunnels is the possible presence of Israeli hostages. There are human shields. There are two human shields in Gaza. The Gaza people on both ground, two million hostages. There are two million hostages. And underground, the second human shield, the Israeli hostages. And this is what's stopping us, even though we have sometimes enough intel to know that there are no hostages. For instance, with what you call tactical operational tunnels used really for fighting, for skirmishes. You're not going to keep a hostage there. You don't have the conditions to keep a hostage. There's no water there. There's no condition there. So there are tunnels that we can destroy, being quite sure we will not find hostages there. The tunnels we are interested in destroying and the bunkers we are interested in destroying are actually those where the hostages are held. And that is where the political branch of the Hamas is hiding. These are the guys we want to hit, because these are the guys when we put the pressure that actually come out and say, please take some more hostages for truth or for saving their own skin. The war began back on October 7th with this multi-pronged, unprovoked Hamas terror attack on Israeli military positions in so many civilian towns and communities in Kibbutzim. And we're still even now getting new pieces of video, new stories to tell. Guy, tell us some of the new video that's just been kind of uncovered and discovered recently. And what story it shares with us. Yes, we can see that on our screens right now. This is a CCTV footage from a convenience store in a gas station that is in the McGinn junction that's very close to Niroz and Kisufim. We can see the two employees there in the gas station seeing what's happening outside the hearing the gunshots, realizing that there are dozens of these terrorists that are approaching them. They had to quickly find out, decide what to do, rushed to the back of that store, eventually locked themselves up in a refrigerated room as these terrorists continued to make their way into that gas station firing into whatever they could. This is again an illustration of what Hamas attempted to deny the indiscriminate shooting towards civilians. This was what they're all about. You can see them taking over that store, shooting at whatever they can. They're searching for the staff. Miraculously, they were not able to find those two Israelis that were hiding in that refrigerator, still shooting at everything that they came around. And then when there was no Jewish blood around, they just simply looted that store. We could see that in front of our eyes right now, grabbing everything they could. And I think it's important to note to your guy the two gas station employees who were saved. It was a Jewish employee and an Israeli Arab employee, not to them, but for them. It did not matter. For sure. They came to slaughter Israelis, beat them, Jewish Bedouins, Druze. All of them were victims of this Hamas onslaught. We even saw Hamas terrorists torturing and murdering a Bedouin man outside of a shelter in footage that was captured by a dash cam of one of the cars. So certainly all warfare game for these Hamas terrorists, as long as they are Israelis. Having said that, obviously the main target was the Jewish communities, what for the people of Gaza, the terrorists were settlements. And the Jewish employee and his Israeli Arab friend working together to try and save their lives. As you mentioned, I mean, you have a split second decision there. You see these dozens of gunmen coming at you. You have to make it. Do you run out of the store and try and hide outside? Do you run inside? They got lucky. They chose a freezer room that no one could... Terrifying. And we saw so many cases of other Israelis that were not that fortunate that ran into shelters first hearing the rocket alarm sirens and thought that that would be a safe place for them. We saw cases where dozens of Israelis were inside the shelters. Terrorists then attempted both to shoot at the shelters, but also throw grenades at them. In one of the famous cases, a very brave young man throughout the grenades seven or eight times, grenades that were thrown at him and his friends, threw them out, eventually was taken down. But he saved many, many lives in that case. And these two Israelis were some of the lucky ones. They hid in the freezer and their lives were saved and they're able to share their story and their stores video today. Meanwhile, the grandfather of a four-year-old American Israeli girl who was freed last night from Hamas is thanking President Biden today for his help. After his granddaughter Abigail Edan spent more than 50 days as a hostage, Abigail witnessed both of her parents being murdered as we saw, as we heard Prime Minister Netanyahu alluded to earlier. And then she was kidnapped. It was wow. I couldn't believe until I saw her. I simply couldn't believe it. Now I'm a bit more relieved. Not relieved completely, because there's happiness mixed with her missing parents, Roya Nadar. There are other people who have not returned. I want them to return and I want the army to finish the mission, as they promised. All the hostages and Hamas both go together. I thank Joe Biden very much. We love him for all the help he's offered us, and also for all the American people. Thank you very much and continue to support us. Back here in Studio Rafael, the ceasefire officially scheduled to end at midnight. There is a list of names that the government has. They said they are evaluating the names. There appears to be some sort of hiccup in this list of names given by Hamas terrorists. Could we be in for a long confusing heart-wrenching day here? Yes. Every day, Hamas has found something to bother us a little more. Delays, mistakes in the names, breaking also the agreement, because one child was released without the mother, which is completely against what was agreed upon and who have guarantors for this agreement, Egypt and Qatar, not to speak at the United States. So this is another way that Hamas must have found to play with our nerves. The Hamas knows they're not only playing with the nerves of the families of the hostage but with the nerves of the whole nation. And that's a psychological warfare that they lead. We're not impressed. We're strong. We will bear all these aggravation. We have one goal, and when we see the images, we're just so of reuniting these families. It's worse every minute of it, every effort, and let the Hamas play the cynical game they're going to lose. Rafael, Guy, thank you so much for being with us. According to the latest reports from Israeli media, Qatar is now involved in trying to mediate the discussion over the final list of perhaps 11 names set to be released today. More updates throughout the day here on iQuaqa News. Stay with us, and thanks for watching. Israel is in a state of war. Families completely gunned 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 to be fought as well. In the iQuaqa News Desk, this is the fourth and final day of the ceasefire with Hamas. A final group of Israeli hostages is set to be released tonight. Israel's government confirms this morning they have a list of names, and it is evaluating the proposal. The names have not been released publicly. A burning question right now. What happens next after midnight? Hamas has formally requested that Israel extend the ceasefire and says they're willing to keep releasing hostages for the next several days. Prime Minister Netanyahu also says he's willing to extend the temporary ceasefire. We brought back another group of hostages, children and women, and we are moved to the bottom of our hearts, the entire nation. When we see this union of the families, it just shakes the soul. I just spoke with President Joe Biden with great excitement. Of course, also about the little girl, Abigail. What a joy to see her with us. But on the other hand, what a pity that she returns to the reality of not having parents. She has no parents, but she has a whole nation that embraces her, and we will take care of all of her needs. But beyond that, I want to say there is also an outline that you can release 10 more every additional day. It is a blessed thing, but in the same breath, I also told the president that at the end of the outline, we will return with all our strength to realize our goals, the elimination of Hamas to ensure that Gaza will not return to what it was, and of course, the release of all of our hostages. With us now is I-20 News correspondent Pierre Kloeschendler at a children's hospital near Tel Aviv, where so many of these children and their families have had to receive care. Physically they're okay, but there's an extensive battery of tests and assessments that need to be completed. Pierre, are these children, are they able to see friends and loved ones? Can they have guests and visitors as they start to resume their lives back here at home? Right. I think resuming their life back here at home is going to be a long, long emotional, psychological, and also social process. There are nine children here that came overnight to this hospital with two mothers. They're not right now receiving any friends, because it's still too early in the morning. They arrived only at around 10, 30 p.m. local time yesterday evening. But in principle, yes, the kids are encouraged to call their friends and bring them here, ask them to come here and play with them. And that's what happened, for instance, with Oad, nine-year-old, who was liberated from captivity a couple of days ago. And yesterday he called his friends and they all came together, his classmates. They all came together, they played together, their toys for them, they ate pizza together. So in principle, yes, that's one of the critical things for the children, not just to reunite with their family of what's left from it, but also to meet with their friends and play with them and share with them their experience. We know, for instance, that Oad, nine-year-old, wrote a diary while he was in captivity, but the Hamas terrorist who kept him in captivity confiscated his diary. But that's one of the things, you see, to try and share your experience with your peers and not just with psychologists, social workers. Yeah, now, Pierre, we're looking at the images now on the screen, in fact, of the importance of having a cone of ice cream and being able to watch videos again with your friends. Physically, they're okay. As you mentioned, psychologically, I guess, how is Israel equipped to be with these children and their families long term? Because this kind of trauma, of course, does not disappear, does not go away. It requires a lot of attention. Does Israel, do you believe that the country is able to handle those needs? I think economically, yes. Psychologically, it's a different story. Most experts agree that this is an unprecedented situation. There is no such case in the whole world of children taken hostages after a massacre, after they've endured that massacre. Some of the kids have lost their parents. Some of them have lost at least one parent. Some of them have a brother, a sibling, a father in captivity still. This is an unprecedented situation. And Israel's experts have contacted experts around the world. For instance, in Nigeria, regarding the 240 young Nigerian women who were schooled in Nigeria, who were captured by Boko Haram, and many of them are still in the hands of Boko Haram after so many years. But this is not exactly the same situation. Here you have children who so, who bear witness to the massacre of October 7, who bear witness to captivity in Hamas' hands, but also who lost their dear ones or their dear ones are in captivity. This is something unheard of and it's going to take some time of learning for Israeli psychologists, social workers, medical personnel, as well as for the children and their mothers. Thank you for that update, Pierre, for us at Schneider Children's Hospital near Tel Aviv. One of the child hostages that has been freed is Israeli-Irish girl Emily Han, nine years old. She's now back with her family after being freed. She was kidnapped after watching her stepmother be murdered by Hamas killers. Emily's father says her daughter is now on the long road to recovery. We finally got Emily back from the hands of the guards and terrorists. She's lost a lot of weight from her face and body, but generally doing better than we expected. We're still fighting and want Raya Rotem, Yaya's sister and Hila's mother. We want her back as they promised. They wouldn't release children without their mothers, but they did. We're in the hospital, Safra, Tel Aviv, taking care of Emily. We'd like to thank everyone that has helped and supported us throughout this whole 50 days. It's been great. We can't do it without you. With me in studio is former senior IDF intelligence officer Rafael Urshalmi, and I'd like to introduce senior editor Guy Azrael. Thank you both for being with us here in studio. Rafael, I want to start with you. Just a simple question. Do you believe that the ceasefire will actually be extended? And what does that mean? All the signs seem to indicate that it will be extended at least for a couple of days. The Israelis have expressed their interest in prolonging that ceasefire in exchange for at least 10 hostages a day. Now we'll see they're waiting now for the confirmation of the Hamas. The Hamas had also expressed that wish because they're interested in having that truth extended so they can regroup and redeploy, reorganize. Will they accept the 10 hostages per day? Will they try to negotiate and say five only? And then we are into more negotiations. But everything seems to indicate that it will be the case. The IDF is willing and ready to cope with that problem of prolonging the truth. Does it harm the IDF's readiness? Does it harm the military goal? Overtime, yes, because we lost the momentum and the troops are still very motivated. But it's not easy to just sit there in Gaza. It's dangerous. You're a sitting duck. You don't have a lot to do. It's not easy. On the other hand, it is an opportunity for the IDF also to regroup for fighters to rest for ammunition and vitals to be brought to the troops. So there are advantages. Also, a lot, a lot of intel is being collected while we are sitting there. First, for instance, yesterday night, we had a kind of show from the terrorist of the Hamas bragging in a very big square of Gaza City where they had the hostages path through that square and around you could see dozens of armed terrorists of the Hamas. These guys, we could actually monitor where they came from and where they went back to. So we're gathering a lot of intelligence. This regrouping and redeploying of the Hamas involves moving troops, moving equipment, moving ammunition and vitals, so that the IDF is monitoring all this. We're gathering a lot of intel. But of course, at some point, we have to go back into action. We have to finish the job. We've only done only 10 percent of the job. We've got 90 percent to go. At this point, more than three dozen hostages have been freed. I want to go live to our correspondent, Nicole Setic, for us in Tel Aviv. Nicole, we've seen and we continue to see these powerful videos of Israeli mothers and children and elderly women being freed and reuniting with their families and these tearful reunions. What do you think is the impact of those images for Israeli society? What's going to, how will that continue to resonate for this country? It's incredibly emotional. And this is the footage that Israeli society truly needed to see because when we're starting on Friday, when we first saw those videos, it's the first sign of life really of these 240 hostages that were ripped out of their communities seven weeks ago. And so by seeing this, it does give a little glimmer of hope. And it also reminds the Israeli society exactly why Israel is fighting and why they have been fighting for the past seven weeks. We continue to see here in Hostage Square, people walking through looking at this iconic how it's become over the past seven weeks, this iconic Shabbat dinner table empty, a reminder of those lives that have been lost. However, as we continue to see these emotional reunions one by one, family members reunited, it is giving the Israeli society what they need. However, on the flip side, it's also a reminder of those who remain captive of the 180 roughly that are still held captive by Hamas terrorists. So every time you see a little five-year-old girl running to her father or her grandfather for the first time, you have to think about the other 18 children that are still captive and they have been for seven weeks. So it is so emotional for the Israeli society right now. And really anyone watching around the world, you can't help but look at those reunion videos and want to see 240 of them. I could watch them every second of every day. However, when we only get one at a time and we're only seeing 13 here and there and hopefully 50 over this four-day period, it does make you think about every other one that you want to see and it's a good reminder because it does remind our viewers and Israeli residents exactly why Israel is fighting for and why they need to return to the fighting as we continue to hear from the Israeli Prime Minister and the war cabinet stating that this is just the beginning. And until we get all of those hostages home, that is when the fighting will stop. Nicole, thank you so much for that update for us from Tel Aviv's Hostage Square. Speaking of those reunion videos, here is a powerful one in through our newsroom. Fried Israeli hostages Sharon Avigdori and her daughter Noam reuniting with their immediate family members. After spending over 50 days in Hamas captivity, these images really do speak for themselves. Sharon falling into the arms of her husband and her son for Noam, it's her dad and her brother. This family is from Kibbutz Berry, one of the worst hit communities in the attack. Several other family members from this family were murdered. Others remain in Hamas captivity. Back here in the studio with the new senior editor, I want to ask about the hostages because the IDF says they have control of North Gaza. Much of the ground operation is focused on North Gaza encirclement of terror camps in Gaza City, aerial bombardment, intense, a little bit less so in the south. There's no intense ground operation. The hostages, do we know where in Gaza they came from and what does that indicate perhaps that were there remaining 180 where they might be? Yes, I think you can learn a lot where hostages were held by where they were kidnapped. So in the first two days we saw hostages that came from the Kibbutz of near Oz and Berry. These are in near the southern tip of the Gaza Strip. They were all released from the Rafa crossing. Yesterday we saw hostages being released after being kidnapped from Nachal Oz that's much up north, much more up north in the Gaza Strip. And these were released near Gaza City through the Carney crossing. Two points about that. First of all, we see that they were held close to where they were hijacked. And second is the fact that they were held there despite the IDF presence in the northern tip of the Gaza Strip. Now we're talking about the neighborhood of Sajai in Gaza City. That's the eastern neighborhood there. The IDF has operated in the past and previous operations as well. The IDF has yet to fight for that neighborhood. So Hamas operatives are still active there. And it's interesting to see that despite the IDF being so near to where these hostages and Hamas operatives are, they kept them there. As we know in previous cases, IDF found evidence of hostages that were held under hospitals like Al-Rantisi and Shifa. But they were smuggled out of the area as the IDF troops made their way there. That was not the case with these Israelis in Sajai. And it tells a lot about the possibility, perhaps, of finding more Israelis, Israeli hostages in those areas in northern Gaza Strip. Hopefully, there could be some sort of an operation to rescue them if they haven't been smuggled. As we know the IDF encircles Gaza City as well. Just a quick note here on some of the video that we are occasionally playing in the background. This video is released by Hamas and his Hamas propaganda. Many of these video clips had no audio at all. The few that did have audio, you can hear the Hamas killers and terrorists clearly saying keep waving. Keep waving for the cameras, giving commands to their detainees, obviously given under duress. Many of these hostages who are being released have family members still in captivity. All of them have family members and neighbors that were murdered by Hamas. But this is just Hamas video but it does show the release from Gaza and you can see the fear in many of their eyes. In studio, Rafael, the tunnel network in north Gaza, is it different than the tunnel system in south Gaza? Are they connected? Is the entire network perhaps a little bit more complicated than the IDF initially believed it to be? Yes, absolutely. I was about surprised of first of all how many miles of tunnels there are under Gaza. I mean, we might control the north of the Gaza Strip but only above ground. We do not control underground. We've destroyed a lot of tunnels. We've destroyed the shafts taking into the tunnels. But yet again, we've done only like 10, 15 percent of the job. There's much, much left. Not only are they connecting which he allows now during these days of truce for forces from the south to come up north while we had already created a kind of retreat from the north to the south. Now they're coming back. And who are coming back? The elite troops, some elite troops and commandos of the Hamas were not involved in the fighting up till now from the start of the war. They are now going to be activated in view of a possible renewed and more intense assault of Tzahal, of the IDF. So yes, the tunnels are essential to this operation. And some of these tunnels might even go as far as Egypt as the Sinai and they might be used for escape by the leaders of the Hamas if things gets too rough and tough for them. So this is a big problem. Technologically, there are many means to destroy these tunnels. There are means even not to destroy them, to just bury alive the terrorists. There's a chance that even in the tunnels, even in North Gaza, there might be hostages still there. Exactly. What is stopping us from performing, what we could perform as to destroying those tunnels is the possible presence of Israeli hostages. There are human shields. There are two human shields in Gaza. The Gazan people above ground, two million hostages. There are two million hostages and underground, the second human shield, the Israeli hostages. And this is what's stopping us, even though we have sometimes enough intel to know that there are no hostages. For instance, we use what you call tactical operational tunnels used for really for fighting, for skirmishes. You're not going to keep a hostage there. You don't have the conditions to keep a hostage. There's no water there. There's no air conditioning there. So there are tunnels that we can destroy. Being quite sure we will not find hostages there. The tunnels we are interested in destroying and the bunkers we are interested in destroying are actually those where the hostages are held. And that is where the political branch of the Hamas is hiding. These are the guys we want to hit because these are the guys when we put the pressure that actually come out and say, please take some more hostages for truth or for saving their own skin. The war began back on October 7th with this multi-pronged, unprovoked Hamas terror attack on Israeli military positions and so many civilian towns and communities and kibbutzim. And we're still even now getting new pieces of video, new stories to tell. Guy, tell us some of the new video that's just been kind of uncovered and discovered recently and what story it shares with us. You can see that on our screens right now. This is a CCTV footage from a convenience store in a gas station that is in the McGinn junction that's very close to near Oz and Kisufim. You can see the two employees there in the gas station seeing what's happening outside the hearing the gunshots realizing that there are dozens of these terrorists that are approaching them. They had to quickly find out, decide what to do, rushed to the back of that store, eventually locked themselves up in a refrigerated room as these terrorists continue to make their way into that gas station firing into whatever they could. This is again an illustration of Hamas attempted to deny the indiscriminate shooting towards civilians. This was what they're all about. You can see them taking over that store shooting at whatever they can. They're searching for the staff. Miraculously, they were not able to find those two Israelis that were hiding in that refrigerator, still shooting at everything that they came around. And then when there was no Jewish blood around, they just simply looted that store. We could see that in front of our eyes right now, grabbing everything they could. And I think it's important to note here, Guy, the two gas station employees who were saved, it was a Jewish employee and an Israeli Arab employee. Not to them, but for them. It did not matter. For sure. For sure. They came to slaughter Israelis, be them Jewish Bedouins, Druze. All of them were victims of this Hamas onslaught. We even saw Hamas terrorists torturing and murdering a Bedouin man outside of a shelter in footage that was captured by a dash cam of one of the cars. So certainly all warfare game for these Hamas terrorists, as long as they are Israelis. Having said that, obviously the main target was the Jewish communities, what for the people of Gaza, the terrorists were settlements. And the Jewish employee and his Israeli Arab friend working together to try and save their lives. As you mentioned, Guy, you have a split second decision there. You see these dozens of gunmen coming at you. You have to make it, do you run out of a store and try and hide outside? Do you run inside? They got lucky. They chose a freezer room that no one could. You're terrifying. And we saw so many cases of other Israelis that were not that fortunate that ran into shelters. First hearing the rocket alarm sirens and thought that that would be a safe place for them. We saw cases where dozens of Israelis were inside the shelters. Terrorists then attempted both to shoot at the shelters, but also throw grenades at them. In one of the famous cases, a very brave young man threw out the grenades seven or eight times, grenades that were thrown at him and his friends, threw them out, eventually was taken down. But he saved many, many lives in that case. And these two Israelis were some of the lucky ones. So they hid in the freezer and their lives are saved and they're able to share their story and their stores video today. Meanwhile, the grandfather of a four-year-old American Israeli girl who was freed last night from Hamas is thanking President Biden today for his help. After his granddaughter Abigail Edan spent more than 50 days as a hostage, Abigail witnessed both of her parents being murdered as we saw, as we heard Prime Minister Netanyahu allude to earlier, and then she was kidnapped. It was wow. I couldn't believe until I saw her. I simply couldn't believe it. Now I'm a bit more relieved. Not relieved completely, because there's happiness mixed with her missing parents, Roya Nadar. There are other people who have not returned. I want them to return and I want the army to finish the mission, as they promised. All the hostages and Hamas both go together. I thank Joe Biden very much. We love him for all the help he's offered us, and also for all the American people. Thank you very much and continue to support us. Back here in Studio Rafael, the ceasefire officially scheduled to end at midnight. There is a list of names that the government has. They said they are evaluating the names. There appears to be some sort of hiccup in this list of names given by Hamas terrorists. Could we be in for a long, confusing, heart-wrenching day here? Yes, every day Hamas has found something to bother us a little more. Delays, mistakes in the names, breaking also the agreement, because one child was released without the mother, which is completely against what was agreed upon. And we have guarantors for this agreement, Egypt and Qatar, not to speak at the United States. So this is another way that Hamas must have found to play with our nerves. The Hamas knows they're not only playing with the nerves of the families of the hostages, but with the nerves of the whole nation. And that's a psychological warfare that they lead. We're not impressed. We're strong. We will bear all this aggravation. We have one goal. And when we see the images, we're just so over uniting these families. It's worse every minute of it, every effort. And let the Hamas play the cynical game they're going to lose. Rafael, Guy, thank you so much for being with us. And according to the latest reports from Israeli media, Qatar is now involved in trying to mediate the discussion over the final list of perhaps 11 names set to be released today. More updates throughout the day here on I-21 News. Stay with us and thanks for watching. The I-21 News Desk at this hour, this is the fourth and final day of the ceasefire with Hamas. A final group of Israeli hostages is set to be released today. Israel's government confirms they do have a list of names, and they're evaluating the proposal. The names have not been released publicly. A burning question right now in Israel. What happens next? What happens at midnight? Hamas has formally requested that Israel extend the ceasefire, and Hamas says they are willing to keep releasing hostages for the next several days. Prime Minister Netanyahu also says he too is willing to extend the temporary ceasefire. We brought back another group of hostages, children and women, and we are moved to the bottom of our hearts, the entire nation. When we see this union of the families, it just shakes the soul. I just spoke with President Joe Biden with great excitement. Of course, also about the little girl, Abigail, what a joy to see her with us. But on the other hand, what a pity that she returns to the reality of not having parents. She has no parents, but she has a whole nation that embraces her, and we will take care of all of her needs. But beyond that, I want to say there is also an outline that you can release 10 more every additional day. It is a blessed thing. But in the same breath, I also told the president that at the end of the outline, we will return with all our strength to realize our goals, the elimination of Hamas, to ensure that Gaza will not return to what it was, and of course, the release of all of our hostages. With us now live in Tel Aviv, as I-25 News correspondent, Nicole Cedric, Nicole, the numbers do fluctuate slightly because depending on Hamas' estimates, depending on who Hamas says they no longer have contact with or control over, but generally, do we have a sense of how many hostages remain and their age range and who might be released today and any idea on when today's hostages might be released, what the timeline could be? The general consensus is that there's roughly 180 hostages that remain held captive in Gaza, and within that 180 roughly, it's about 18 children that still remain captive in Gaza, along with 43 women. So when we're talking about this initial hostage negotiation deal, today is day four, and we know that women and children were prioritized. However, we've seen 39 Israelis released so far as part of the hostage negotiation deal. We've also seen some additional that bring the total number of released up to 58, but that is due to some outside negotiations via different Thai officials, Filipino and Russia, of course, as well. So when we're looking in those 39, that would mean 11 more are going to be released today, and we do know that Israelis currently looking at a list of the potential hostages that would be released today. However, we're hearing some reports that there's some problems with that list, specifically the names that are involved in that list, and that could absolutely add to a delay when we are talking about these hostages released. Now, those same reports say that Qatari mediators are trying to work on this to avoid a potential delay. They don't want to see this delay, and neither does anyone here in Israel. However, this is something that we've seen before. So we don't know what the exact problems that Israel might be having when they're looking at this names of the list. But as we've seen in the past, it could be perhaps that maybe some of these children are not with their family members, not with their mother, as it was intended by the terms of the negotiation. Women and their children should not be split apart. That was all part of these negotiations. However, we've already seen Hamas break that, as we heard from a 13-year-old girl just yesterday who was released. She's now saying that she was with her mother up until two days before she was released. Hamas claims they don't know where her mother is. They can't find her. Well, the 13-year-old girl is now saying she was with her for nearly 50 days in Hamas captivity right up until she was released. So it just goes to show that the Israeli democracy, a democratic government, is negotiating, unfortunately, with Hamas terrorists. So delays in some of these negotiations aren't to be expected. We've seen them really for the past three days now. And so when it comes to this list of the potential hostages that are going to be released, those 11, perhaps, that are going to be released, it remains to be seen exactly what's going to unfold throughout the day. Yep. Nicole, thank you for that live update for us on Tel Aviv. So many unanswered questions right now. Who are these 11 names on this list? Why is there a potential hiccup in today's delivery of these hostages? What happens at midnight? Will the IDF campaign resume? Or will there be some kind of ceasefire extension? With us in studio to discuss, I-24 News senior editor, Guy Azriel, and retired IDF colonel Amit Asa, also a former member of the Shin Bet security agency. Thank you so much for being with us, gentlemen. I want to start to meet with you with a question about the knowledge that we know about where these hostages were released from, inside Gaza, from Hamas. There was the fog of war in the early weeks of the campaign that it was many analysts believed, assumed that the hostages were in the north and then had to be moved south for their protection and their safety of the captors. They were moved to the south of Gaza, which was not part of the extensive IDF campaign. But we now know that many of these hostages were released from areas of central Gaza Strip or even the north areas under IDF control near where the IDF positions are. Also, because of the Hamas captors, the terrorists that have been captured by Israel, interrogated by Israel, is there a chance that you believe Israel might have a better sense of understanding where the remaining hostages might be? Could there be some kind of new knowledge about the remaining locations? Of course, the remaining location of the hostages is very important for the intelligence of the Israelis. And the sign for us is that part of them released from the northern side of Gaza is signing us that maybe some of them is still there. But we can't know because they are spreading all over. And the Hamas have another aim to confuse us as he is releasing from the north to say we have few of them here, few of them there. And this is the play that he is playing this game. Do you think that the Hamas terrorists who have been interrogated by Israel, are they telling the truth about what they know, like the tunnel system and where hostages might be? And even if they aren't telling the truth, how much does anyone terrorists know about the network here? I think there's a lot of questions about it. And when you interrogate somebody, always you are seeking if he's telling the truth or not telling the truth. But what you got from him is another part and another part. And you got it from another person that you are interrogating. And interrogation is like a puzzle. And you are taking pieces from all of the sizes. And then you will see the picture, the whole picture. And the whole picture of the intelligence picture is very complicated now in the Gaza Spree. And little by little, we're getting pieces, as you mentioned, information from the released Israelis about their conditions and also where they were held inside Gaza from within the video clips that we know of their transfer out of Gaza. And new stories are starting to emerge also. Guy, tell us, I guess, what some of these freed hostages are starting to reveal, what they claim about their conditions and their location and how they tried to survive. Yes, so one of the most extraordinary stories we heard so far comes from one of these Israelis that were actually, it was actually released, not part of this deal, but as a gesture by Hamas to Russia following President Putin's support for Hamas in recent weeks. Well, that Israeli with a Russian nationality as well that was released is Ronnie Krivoi on your screens now, 25 years old. He worked at that nature party at the Nova Festival. And on that day, he was captured by Hamas terrorists after trying to flee. Was taken in captivity and was held there. Now, what we hear this morning from his aunt speaking to Israeli radio. And this is extremely interesting. What he had told her was that during the Israeli operation, during the bombing of Gaza, he actually has managed to escape from the terrorists who are holding him in Gaza. He managed to free himself from them and then made his way by himself in the Gaza Strip for four days. He attempted to find his way back into Israeli territory to free himself from the terrorists into Israel. Sadly for him, he was recaptured as he had no means of communication with the Israelis, of course. And I think his look obviously really stands out shows that he's not a Ghazan resident, a Russian Israeli blonde guy. And he was sadly recaptured. Unfortunately for him, he eventually was released as part of this deal between Putin and Hamas. Nonetheless, I think it does say a lot about the chaos in Gaza following these Israeli bombardments in maybe there are other cases in which Israelis attempted to flee themselves, managed to escape from the hands of the terrorists. And nonetheless, still are held in Gaza without being able to contact any of the Israeli officials, the IDF, trying to find some sort of help to get them out of there. Yeah, two things stand out for me about this. First of all, we'll know this isn't even firsthand. This is this freed hostage. This is what he allegedly told his aunt and the aunt is doing. Yeah, correct. That being said, well, we heard he's on. So he was from the family that, you know, he was being held in a building that was moved to a building that was bombed by the IDF, the claim is. So after an IDF airstrike destroyed the building, that's when he was moved back into that building. Perhaps Hamas thinking that building would no longer be targeted or viewed by the IDF. We don't know the exact circumstances following that bombing. But yes, since that building collapsed to some degree, he managed to escape. And also this raises new questions about Hamas's claims that we've lost contact and we can't trace all all hostages. It was believed individual civilians are holding some of them, maybe the PIJ held, the Islamic Jihad held, but maybe others, as you mentioned, escaped. And maybe, you know, this story leads credence to a question about how closely guarded these hostages are at all times. And if they really know where they, I think one thing we can learn from this, but also from the story of Orymy Giddish, I can remind you that IDF soldier soldier who was only soldier so far, the only Israeli hostage so far that the IDF has managed to free within ground operation. What we learned both from this story and from her story is that both of them were not held in tunnels. And I think another thing that Hamas has been trying to do from the little information that we're getting from the Israeli hostages that were freed, that not all of them were held together, definitely not being held in large groups. And that does give a way for a captive or two that are being held by not a large number of terrorists to find that way to escape. I think Amit here can tell us more about how Gaza is built up and what operational opportunities does that give to Israeli forces? These are new stories, but what kind of lessons or analysis do you have on this? What we understand now, we can understand more when we will speak with this poor guy that was held in a building that was collapsed. And he was free himself and tried to move between the building because this kind of situation for him is able to see more than people that was being hostages inside the ground. So maybe he will give another information, other information that we need about places that Hamas is occupied or under some kind of operation, and he will give us more information. When we are talking about how much information we can get from the hostages that get free, he is the one that I think we will get the most information from him to have other information about other hostages and also places that we can seek for them. And we're learning more about the conditions every day of the hostages who were freed. Let's go live now to I-25 News correspondent Pierre Colchonla for us at Schneider's Medical Center, Children's Medical Center near Tel Aviv. Pierre, what do we know about these hostages' conditions in Hamas captivity? Do we know how they ate, where they slept, if they knew what time it was, if they knew if their family members were okay? What kind of stories are we hearing? Most of the questions you've asked are negative, I would say. They didn't know what's the distinction between night and day simply because they were in damp, humid, dark tunnels for 51 days, for most of them at least. So they didn't have any sense of time. They knew time was passing. Some of them had the expectation that they would be released within a number of, you know, within four or five days, but that didn't happen. And that obviously increased their sense of despair. Regarding food, we know that they ate very little in the past two weeks, probably because of a shortage of food, because they say, according to relatives that spoke to them, that the terrorists that were keeping them were on the same diet of rice and pita bread. Regarding how they were kept, they were kept on plastic chairs and plastic benches. That's where they slept. That's, they had no mattresses. So that's fine for kids probably, but it's much more difficult for elderly women, for the elderly women who were released. Some of them didn't get any medication at all. For instance, Elma Avram, 84, is now in critical condition, seemingly because for 41 days, she didn't receive any medication. We know also that the day before yesterday, a young woman in her 20s was, was evacuated, freed. She was injured by bullets at the Nova Festival on October 7, in which 360 people died for a massacre, actually. And so she was in a moderate condition, but she probably didn't get the treatment that she ought to get in terms of humanitarian assistance to people in distress. And she was still in moderate condition after 51, after 50 days in captivity. So these are the problems that some of the hostages are facing. Emotionally, it's much more difficult to assess. And sometimes it takes time before the trauma starts coming up. But for instance, the personnel of the hospital here in Schneider encouraged the kids to invite their classmates or their kindergarten mates in order to play together, because then that's the time when they can share their experience. The October 7 massacre, but also the 50 days of captivity, or add nine-year-old who was released in the first group of hostages, invited his friends. They played together with toys that are provided by the hospital. They ate pizza together. They shared their experience. Oad, for instance, might be more willing to tell his story to his friends than to a psychologist, an adult, whom he doesn't know. So this is part of the healing process that is just starting. They're going to have to be reinserted in the society. Most of them lost their homes. They were burned in the fighting in October 7. And many of them have nothing left. Even though their families returned to the villages that were martyred in October 7, there is barely nothing to take from those places. And as a result, they'll have to start a new life scarred, bloodied by the events. They may have lost not only relatives, but close friends in the Kibbutzim. Some of their relatives are still held in captivity. So the nightmare is not gone. When your father is still in captivity and you've been released, the nightmare is definitely not gone. And it's going to go on and on. And there is no guarantee that their father, for instance, will be released at some point. So all that has to be taken into account. And this is an unprecedented case study for experts, because nothing in contemporary history could illustrate the kind of predicament that they've been going through. Here, thank you so much for that update. Israeli hostages, Sharon Afdori and her daughter Noam, reuniting last night with their family after spending over 50 days in captivity. Here's that reunion caught on camera. Sharon fallen into the arms of her husband and her son, holding their faces tight. For Noam, it's her dad and brother. This family is from Kibbutzberri, one of the worst-take communities from the Hamas attack. Several of their family members were murdered that day. Others still remain in Hamas captivity. Back here in the studio, I mean, do you believe that the ceasefire tonight will be extended? And do you believe there is a chance that the ceasefire actually becomes kind of a permanent ceasefire, that the major round of fighting will actually end and there'll be diplomatic pressure, global international means of continuing the battle, but there won't be IDF soldiers anymore? I think, sorry, I think, yes, of course, the Hamas wants this ceasefire to go on. And if he will promise, of course, that it will be released tomorrow, Israel will go forward for another day and another day and another day as the government of Israel decide of 10 days the most. So we can see in, I think, the most chances that we will move on for another day because of the, this is what Hamas wants. This is his game to play. But another question that you asked, if it will be a permanent, and if it will go on like we will have some pressure from the world, I think we will have the pressure as time is going. But Israel is determined to move on with this operation. And nobody will stop the army of the IDF for killing everybody that connected to Hamas until the end. We're playing here the video from release from Hamas. This is the Hamas propaganda video. And they are instructing their free captives to wave to the camera, probably to smile the audio and most of these clips cut out. But this is Hamas propaganda here. Guy. Yes, what we said is exactly what we heard from Netanyahu yesterday, the prime minister saying that we're obviously willing to extend this pause and not a ceasefire, but rather a pause in the fighting in exchange for more hostages that will be released. But I think even more important than Netanyahu is what we heard from President Biden yesterday. He also said he hopes for the pauses to to continue in exchange for hostages. It is very clear this is not the end of the game, not for Israel, not for the U.S. The treaty understands the goals of Israel here in eliminating Hamas. And Israel has the still has the full backing of the U.S. But I do want to stress another point. And these are the comments that we heard from Defense Minister Gallant yesterday. He said that we have retreated the forces of Hezbollah from the front, and we will translate the achievements into a situation that would enable the return of the residents in the north for their villages. If you read between the lines here, it seems like Gallant is content to a certain degree with the current fighting with Hezbollah, and he feels that that would enable a situation in which Israelis will be able to go back to their homes. We're hearing from the head of the Matiasheh Regional Council saying this is a complete absurd. We demand to take Hezbollah away and the Red One forces beyond the Tani River. Obviously, after what the residents of the south have been through with Hamas forces right at their doorsteps, the residents of the north will not have anything like that, will not live in a situation in which Hezbollah forces are right on the border. Now, with what has been going on in recent weeks, that is not enough to really deter Hezbollah from being there. What the residents of the north want is a more decisive action that would cause Hezbollah to retreat, to go way up north in Lebanon. That is not the situation. It seems that for now, the Israeli defense establishment is content with that, but not so the residents in the north. Yeah, for now, you know, it's the tension with the north, the violence against Hezbollah, the Hezbollah attacks have tampered down significantly the last four days. Again, that ceasefire for now is set to end at midnight, who knows what to expect from Gaza or from Lebanon after that. A new soundbite here, one of the elderly Israeli women who was freed is 85-year-old Yaffa Adar, her granddaughter is speaking out, saying that the recovery so far this weekend has been difficult because only now after her release is she learning that so many of her neighbors and friends were murdered on October 7th and only now is she able to learn that her grandson is still in Hamas' captivity. I can say that she's tough and I can say that she said that she was thinking about the family a lot and that it helped her survive and that she could hear the voices of the great grandchildren calling her and that it gives her a lot of power and that she's now trying to realize what's happening here and about a lot of friends and neighbors that are either dead or kidnapped from the Kibbutz and about Tamir, her oldest grandson that is also a hostage and that she has no house to return. She gives us a lot of motivation to keep fighting for the other hostages. She really wants to be a part of this fight, of this of the effort to bring them all back home so she's like she's all in just want to know how can she be part and how can she help but also we're telling her right now please start from recovering from taking care of yourself and and then we will think about how can she help but right now she comes first. We're going out for a break, want to thank our guests so much for being in studio Amit Guy, great to have you and your analysis again this is the fourth day and the final day of the written agreed upon Hamas Israel ceasefire a final list of names has been sent by Hamas to the Israeli government for review. There appears to be some kind of problem with this list as well as government says it is reviewing the list and is in conversation with Qatar to address some of the problems. Questions remain what happens at the end of the day today if the idea will resume its campaign or if the ceasefire will be extended we'll keep you posted right here more live team coverage here in Israel as the war goes on thanks for watching we'll see you soon on i24news. Is in 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 to be fought as well. i24news dusk at this hour this is the fourth and final day of the ceasefire with Hamas a final group of Israeli hostages is set to be released today Israel's government confirms they do have a list of names and they're evaluating the proposal the names have not been released publicly a burning question right now in Israel what happens next what happens at midnight Hamas has formally requested that Israel extend the ceasefire and Hamas says they are willing to keep releasing hostages for the next several days prime minister Netanyahu also says he too is willing to extend the temporary ceasefire we brought back another group of hostages children and women and we are moved to the bottom of our hearts the entire nation when we see this union of the families it just shakes the soul i just spoke with president joe biden with great excitement of course also about the little girl abigail what a joy to see her with us but on the other hand what a pity that she returns to the reality of not having parents she has no parents but she has a whole nation that embraces her and we will take care of all of her needs but beyond that i want to say there is also an outline that you can release 10 more every additional day it is a blessed thing but in the same breath i also told the president that at the end of the outline we will return with all our strength to realize our goals the elimination of Hamas to ensure that gaza will not return to what it was and of course the release of all of our hostages with us now live in tel aviv is i-21 news correspondent nicole said that nicole the numbers do fluctuate slightly uh because depending on Hamas's estimates depending on who Hamas says they no longer have contact with or control over but generally do we have a sense of how many hostages remain and and their age and their age range and who might be released today and any idea on when today's hostages might be released with a timeline could be the general consensus is that there's roughly 180 hostages that remain held captive in gaza and within that 180 roughly uh it's about 18 children that still remain captive in gaza along with 43 women so when we're talking about this initial hostage negotiation deal today is day four uh and and we know that women and children were prioritized however we've seen 39 israelis released so far as part of the hostage negotiation deal we've also seen uh some additional that bring the total number of released up to 58 but that is due to some outside negotiations via different tie officials filipino and and russia of course as well so when we're looking at those 39 that would mean 11 more are going to be released today and and we do know that israelis currently looking at a list of the potential hostages that would be released today however we're hearing some reports that there's some some problems with that list specifically the names that are involved in that list and that could absolutely add to a delay when we are talking about these hostages release now those same reports say that katari mediators are are trying to work on this to avoid a potential delay they don't want to see this delay and neither does anyone here in israel however this is something that we've seen before so we don't know what the exact problems that israel might be having when they're looking at this names of the list but as we've seen in the past uh it could be perhaps that maybe some of these children are not with their family members not with their mother as it was intended by by the terms of the negotiation uh women and and their children should not be split apart that was all part of these negotiations however we've already seen hamas break that as we heard from my 13 year old girl just yesterday who was released uh she's now saying that she was with her mother up until two days before she was released hamas claims they don't know where her mother is they can't find her well the 13 year old girl is now saying she was with her for for nearly 50 days in hamas captivity right up until she was released so it just goes to show that that the israeli democracy a democratic government is negotiating unfortunately with hamas terrorists so uh delays in some of these negotiations are to be expected we've seen them really for the past three days now and so when it comes to this list of the potential hostages that are going to be released those 11 perhaps uh that are going to be released it remains to be seen uh exactly what's going to unfold throughout the day yep michael thank you for that live update for us in tel aviv so many unanswered questions right now who are these 11 names on this list uh why is there a potential hiccup in in today's delivery of these hostages what happens at midnight will the idf campaign resume or will there be some kind of ceasefire extension with us in studio to discuss i-24 news senior editor gaia israel and retired idf colonel amit asa also a former member of the shin bet security agency thank you so much for being with us gentlemen i want to start to meet with you with a question about the knowledge that we know about where these hostages were released from inside gaza from kamas there was you know the fog of war in the early weeks of the campaign that it was many analysts believed assumed that the hostages were in the north and then had to be moved south with their for their protection and their safety of the captors they were moved to the south of gaza which was not part of the extensive idf campaign but we now know that many of these hostages were released from areas of central gaza strip or even the north areas under idf uh control near where the idf positions are also because of their kamas captors that uh terrorists that have been captured captured by israel interrogated by israel is there a chance that you believe israel might have a better sense of understanding where the remaining hostages might be could there be some kind of new knowledge about the remaining locations of course the remaining location of the hostages is very important for the intelligence of the israelis and the the sign for us is that part of them released from the northern side of gaza is signing us that maybe some of them is still there but we can't know because they are spreading all over and the kamas have another aim to to confuse us as he is releasing from the north to say we have few of them here for you all of them uh there and this is the the the play that is playing this game do you think that the kamas terrorists who have been interrogated by israel are they telling the truth about what they know about the tunnel system and where hostages might be uh and even if they aren't telling the truth how much does anyone terrorists know about the the network here i think there's a lot of questions about it and when you interrogate somebody always you are seeking if he's telling the truth or not telling the truth but what you got from him is another part and another part and you got it from another person that you are interrogating and interrogation is like a puzzle and you are taking pieces from all of the sizes and then you will see the picture the whole picture and the whole picture of the intelligence picture is very complicated now in the gaza spirit and little by little we're getting pieces as you mentioned information from the released israelis about their conditions and also where they were held inside gaza from where they are and the video clips of we know of their transfer out of gaza and new stories are starting to emerge also guide tell us i guess what some of these freed hostages are starting to reveal what they claim about their conditions and their location and how they tried to survive yes so one of the most extraordinary stories we heard so far comes from one of the israelis that were actually it was actually released not part of this deal but as a gesture by hamas to russia following president putin's support for hamas in recent weeks well that is really with the russian nationality as well that was released is ronnie crevoy on your screens now 25 years old he worked at that nature party at the nova festival and on that day he was captured by hamas terrorists after trying to flee was taken in captivity and was held there now what we hear this morning from his aunt speaking to israeli radio and this is extremely interesting what he had told her was that during the israeli operation during the bombing of gaza he actually has managed to escape from the terrorists who are holding him in gaza he managed to free himself from them and then made his way by himself in the gaza strip for four days he attempted to find his way back into israeli territory to free himself from the terrorists into israel sadly for him he was recaptured as he had no means of communication with the israelis of course and i think his look obviously really stands out shows that he's not a gaza gaza resident a russian israeli blonde guy and he was sadly recaptured well fortunately for him he eventually was released as part of this deal between putin and hamas nonetheless i think he does say a lot about the chaos in gaza following these israeli bombardments in maybe there are other cases in which israeli is attempted to flee themselves made managed to escape from the hands of the terrorists and nonetheless still are held in gaza without being able to contact any of the israeli officials the idf trying to find some sort of help to get them out of there yeah two two things stand for me about this well first of all we'll know this this isn't even first hand this is this is this freed hostage this is what he allegedly told his aunt and the aunt is doing the spoke to the radio that being said well we heard he's on so he was yes from the family that you know he he was being held in a building that something was moved to a building that was bombed by the idf the claim is so after an idf airstrike destroyed the building correct that's when he was moved back into that building perhaps hamas thinking that building would no longer be targeted or viewed by the idf we don't know the exact circumstances following that bombing but yes yeah since that the building collapsed to some degree he managed to escape and also this raises new questions about hamas's claims that we've lost contact and we can't trace all men all hostages it was believed individual civilians are holding some of them maybe the pij held the islamic jihad held but maybe others as you mentioned escaped and maybe you know how this story leads credence to a question about how closely guarded these hostages hostages are at all times and if they really know where they i i think one thing we can learn from this but also from the story of origami gidisha can remind you that idf soldier soldier who was the only soldier so far the only israeli hostage so far that the idf has managed to free within ground operation what we learned both from this story and from her story is that both of them were not held in tunnels and and i think another thing that hamas has been trying to do from the little information that we're getting from the israeli hostages that were free that not all of them were held together definitely not being held in in in large groups and that does give a way for a captive or two that aren't being held by not a large number of terrorists to find that way to to escape i think amit here can tell us more about how gaza is built up and and what operational opportunities does that give to the israeli forces these are new stories in but what do you what kind of lessons or analysis do you have on what we understand now we can understand more when we will speak with this poor guy that was held at the in a building that was collapsed and he was free himself and tried to move between the building because this kind of situation for him is he is able to see more than people that was being hostages inside the ground so maybe he will give another information other information that we need about places that hamas is occupied or under some some kind of operation and he will give us more information when we are talking about how much information we can get from the hostages that get free is the one that i think we will get the most information from him to have other information about other hostages and also places that we can seek for them and we're learning more about the conditions every day of the hostages who were freed let's go live now to i-24 news correspondent pere coloshenla for us at schneider's medical center children's medical center near televiv pier what do we know about these hostages conditions in hamas captivity do we know how they ate where they slept if they knew what time it was if they knew if their family members were okay what kind of stories are we hearing most of the questions you've asked are negative i would say they didn't know what's the distinction between night and day simply because they were in damp humid dark tunnels for 51 days for most of them at least so they didn't have any sense of time they knew time was passing some of them had the expectation that they would be released within a number of you know within four or five days but that didn't happen and that's obviously increased their sense of despair regarding food we know that they ate very little in the past two weeks probably because of a shortage of food because they say according to relatives that spoke to them that the terrorists that were keeping them were on the same diet of rice and peter bread regarding how they were kept they were kept on plastic chairs and plastic benches that's where they slept that's where they slept that's they had no mattresses so that's fine for kids probably but it's much more difficult for elderly women for the elderly women who were released some of them didn't get any medication at all for instance elma avram 84 is now in critical condition seemingly because for 41 days she didn't receive any medication we know also that the day before yesterday a young woman in her 20s was was evacuated freed she was injured by bullets at the nova festival on october 7 in which 360 people died were massacred actually and so she was in a moderate condition but she probably didn't get the treatment that she ought to get in terms of humanitarian assistance to people in distress and she was still in moderate condition after 51 after 50 days in captivity so these are the problems that some of the hostages are facing emotionally it's much more difficult to assess and sometimes it takes time before the trauma starts coming up but for instance the personnel of the hospital here in schneider encourage the kids to invite their classmates or their kindergarten mates in order to play together because then that's the time when they can share their experience the october 7 massacre but also the 50 days of captivity or add nine-year-old who was released in the first group of our soldiers invited his friends they played together with toys that are provided by the hospital they ate pizza together they shared their experience or add for for instance might be more willing to tell his story to his friends than to a psychologist an adult whom he doesn't know so this is part of the healing process that is just starting they're going to have to be reinserted in the society they've most of them lost their homes they were burned in the fighting in october 7 many of them have nothing left even though their families returned to the villages that were martyred in october 7 there is barely nothing to take from those places and as a result they'll have to start a new a new life scarred bloodied by the events they may have lost not only relatives but close friends in the kibbutzim there some of their relatives are still held in captivity so the nightmare is not gone when your father is still in captivity and you've been released the nightmare is definitely not gone and it's going to go on and on and there is no guarantee that their father for instance will be released at some point so all that has to be taken into account and this is an unprecedented case study for experts because nothing in contemporary history could illustrate the kind of predicament that they've been going through here thank you so much for that update israeli hostages sarona victoria and her daughter noam reuniting last night with their family after spending over 50 days in captivity here's that reunion caught on camera the arms of her husband and her son holding their faces tight for noam it's her dad and brother this family is from kibbutz berry one of the worst-take communities from the hamas attack several of their family members were murdered that day others still remain in hamas captivity back here in studio i mean do you believe that the ceasefire tonight will be extended and do you believe there is a chance that the ceasefire actually becomes kind of a permanent ceasefire that the major round of fighting will actually end and there'll be diplomatic pressure global international means of of continuing the battle but there won't be idea of soldiers anymore i think sorry i think yes of course the hamas wants this ceasefire to go on and if he will promise of course that it will be released tomorrow israel will go forward for another day and another day and another day as the government of israel decided of 10 days the most so we can see in i think the most chances that we will move on for another day because of the this is what hamas wants this is the his game to play but another question that you ask if it will be a terminate and if it will go zone like we will have some pressure from from the world i think we will have the pressure as time is going but israel is determined to move on with this operation and nobody will stop the the army of the the idf for killing everybody that they're connected to hamas until the end we're playing here the video from release from hamas this is the hamas propaganda video and they are instructing their free captives to wave to the camera probably to smile the audio and most of these clips cut out but this is hamas propaganda here guy yes what i mean said is exactly what we heard from netanyahu yesterday the prime minister saying that we're obviously willing to extend this pause and not a ceasefire but rather a pause in the fighting in exchange for more hostages that will be released but i think even more important than netanyahu is what we heard from president biden yesterday he also said he hopes for the pauses to to continue in exchange for hostages it is very clear this is not the end of the game not for israel not for the us the treaty understands the goals of israel here in eliminating hamas and israel has the still has the full backing of the us but i do want to stress another point and these are the comments that we heard from defense minister gallant yesterday he said that we have retreated the forces of his bala from the front and we will translate the achievements into a situation that would enable the return of the residents in the north for their villages if you read between the lines here it seems like gallant is content to a certain degree with the current fighting with his bala and he feels that that would enable a situation in which israelis will be able to go back to their homes we're hearing from the head of the matias she original council saying this is a complete absurd we demand to take his bala away and the red one forces beyond the tani river obviously after what the residents of the south have been have been through with hamas forces right at their door steps the residents of the north will not have anything like that will not live in a situation in which his bala forces are right on the border now with what has been going on in recent weeks that is not enough to really deter his bala from being there what the residents of the north want is a more decisive action that would cause his bala to retreat to go way up north in lebanon that is not the situation it seems that for now the israeli defense establishment is content with that but not so the residents in the north and for now you know it's the tension with the north the violence against hezbollah the hezbollah attacks have tampered down significantly the last four days again that ceasefire for now set to end at midnight who knows what to expect from gaza or from lebanon after that uh new sound bike here one of the elderly israeli women who was freed is 85 year old yafa adar her granddaughter is speaking out saying that the recovery so far this weekend has been difficult because only now after her release is she learning that so many of her neighbors and friends were murdered in october 7th and only now is she able to learn that her grandson is still in hamas captivity i can say that she's tough and i can say that uh she she said that she was thinking about the family a lot and uh that it helped her survive and that she could hear the the voices of the great grandchildren calling her and that it gives her a lot of power and that uh she's now uh trying to realize what's happening here and uh about a lot of friends and neighbors that are either dead or kidnapped from the kibbutz and about tamir her oldest grandson that is also a hostage and that she has no house to return she gives us a lot of motivation to keep fighting for the other hostages she really wants to be a part of this uh of this fight of this uh of the effort to bring them all back home so she's like she's all in just say i want to know how can she be part and how can she help but also we're telling her right now please start from recovering from taking care of yourself and and then uh we will think about how can she help but right now she comes first we're going out for a break want to thank our guests so much for being in studio a meat guy great to have you and your analysis again this is the fourth day and the final day of the written agreed upon hamas israel ceasefire a final list of names has been sent by hamas to the israeli government for review there appears to be some kind of problem with this list is what government says it is reviewing the list and is in conversation with qatar to address some of the problems questions remain what happens at the end of the day today if the idea will resume its campaign or if the ceasefire will be extended we'll keep you posted right here more live team coverage here in israel as the war goes on thanks for watching we'll see you soon on i-24 news the i-24 news desk at this hour this is the fourth and final day of the ceasefire with hamas it is set to end in 12 hours and a final group of israeli hostages are set to be released today israel's government has the list of names the names have not yet been released publicly hamas has formally requested that israel extend the ceasefire and hamas says it's willing to keep releasing hostages for the next several days israeli prime minister netanyahu also says he too is willing to extend a temporary ceasefire but beyond that i want to say there is also an outline that you can release 10 more every additional day it is a blessed thing but in the same breath i also told the president that at the end of the outline we will return with all our strength to realize our goals the elimination of hamas to ensure that gaza will not return to what it was and of course the release of all of our hostages and some good news to share right now minutes ago former hostage 78-year-old margolite moses was released from the hospital margolite was held in hamas captivity for 50 days she was released by her terrorist kidnappers on friday as part of the first wave of released hostages she is a resident of kaboots near azz which was hard hit by hamas killers who kidnapped and killed dozens of those kaboots residents here she is hugging her hospital the hospital staff and the doctors and nurses who checked her and took good care of her this weekend she is in good condition physically and again she is now on her way not to her home in near azz where she is unable to return but she's with her family and she is in good hands as she leaves the hospital right now 78-year-old margolite moses and with us now is i-24 news correspondent pierre colchendler at a different hospital also near televieve where many children are being attended to by medical staff she he's at the schneider children's hospital for an update on their condition and the care that they're going to need pierre right there's nine children here and uh two mothers uh but there are some details that are starting to filter out we just met the grandfather of the brodach family moshelotem is also from kfar azzah the place where the brodach family family lived and which has been basically destroyed during the october 7 massacre her his daughter agar and her three kids of free 10 uval 8 and oria 4 are here on the third floor they were liberated yesterday at 1030 they arrived at the hospital what he tells us is first of all that avigail he done that little girl with a jewel american-israeli nationality uh that president biden has spoken so much about she was in captivity with that family because avigail when she when her two parents rory and smada were murdered she flew uh toward the neighbor's house the brodach family's house and as a result she was taken in captivity with them and she was in captivity with them the whole time which is at least some consolation for a little girl that's marked her birthday only on friday her fourth birthday what we know from moshelotem the grandfather is that they're malnourished and many doctors in the hospitals that received the liberated hostages are also stressing the fact that they were very very much malnourished during their days of captivity uh for the past two weeks uh some indirect testimony tells us that um they they were only fed with a little bit of rice and peter bread and that was it now another thing on a lighter note uh we know uh from the corporal or it megidesh which was who was liberated by the idf on the first days of the ground offensive she's 19 year old she's a soldier she was liberated by the idf it's the only person only hostage that was liberated during the ground offensive up until now and she just published a little uh film on tiktok in which she says that she feels great she feels she's enjoying her family and that she is so glad that she has recovered her life back from captivity so this is maybe a lighter note on what these hostages have been going through um the brodage family the nuclear family is uh they no one was killed in the massacres of october 7 but for 36 hours they didn't know about the whereabouts of agar of free uval and oria only after 36 hours did the idf notice them notify them that they were in captivity the air close channel for us with the update thank you so much for that report again as peter mentioned nine children being cared for right now and several mothers as well in the hospital there with me now in studios dr david chimoni former intelligence official at commanders for israel security david thank you so much for being with me in your view do you think that the ceasefire should be extended if it means getting some more hostages home and for how long can hamas toy with israel string this out keep it going terminology we don't call it a ceasefire israel calls it a humanitarian pause of a few days up to 10 days in order to um safely safeguard the release of our hostages the entire world and you call it uh ceasefire uh the deal as far as we understand it is four days uh bringing to safety 50 of our hostages with the option to extend it if the hamas provide 10 more hostages per day if you ask my opinion it's worth it yes i would hope i would pray that not only for 10 days but for 20 days every day we'll get 10 of our hostages back and that way will be all of our hostages will be back home and safe let's rely a lot on hamas to be able to deliver what they are saying they're going to do that's relying a lot on hamas to be able to deliver we don't know if all of that we know that not all of the hostages are in hamas hands some of them are with the islamic jihad some of them might be with um some local families crime families so we don't know if they can deliver we also don't know if they want to deliver because there's some some kind of paradox here we're talking about releasing all of our hostages and then killing all of the hamas leadership and fighters and in a way it doesn't make sense that they will keep up this flow of of release of hostages every day until all of our hostages are back and then we are free to eliminate them that that doesn't make sense eventually i believe the hamas leadership will try to negotiate and trade their lives and their safe exit of gaza for our hostages especially for our soldiers we know nothing about the whereabouts of the soldiers and their well-being i hope we can use the term well-being of our soldiers over there but i believe that the uh negotiation will turn from numbers how many do we do we get per day and how many prisoners do we release per day if you remember the beginning of the war there was this kind of a formula that we release all of our six thousand prisoners and they release all of our hostages or 240 uh then um but eventually i think the equation will change and the hamas will try to negotiate their safety and their uh free exit from gaza yeah the exact numbers unknown as you mentioned for several reasons hamas doesn't have uh an accurate accounting or we can't trust the hamas to have an accurate accounting exactly but roughly 115 or 16 men believed to be in captivity including soldiers and and civilians i want to bring into the conversation our reporter nicole said it who is live for us in tel aviv at a hostage square this emotional kind of a scene of a national solidarity and national a national vigil really for the return of the hostages there appears to be some kind of issue with today's scheduled release of hostages a lot of emotions once again today on this last day of uh the ceasefire this is the emotional turmoil that we've seen definitely over the past four days but really for the past 52 days we continue to see this and so as as you said this hostage square in the center of tel aviv it has become a symbol for the hostages the 240 at least people that were ripped out of their communities seven weeks ago today uh seven weeks ago on october 7th and so you continue to see people coming out here and paying tribute uh a vigil of sorts to all of those who were kidnapped and held hostage in gaza and even though we continue to see more and more of them return it is an emotional reunion and while everyone says that they are so happy to welcome them with open arms it it still gives them a heavy heart to not only think about the experience and the trauma that they went through over the past seven weeks but also as you mentioned to think about the other ones who are still there whether it be the men uh the the soldiers the still 18 children if we're still talking about the women and children as well we have 39 people just nine children were released yesterday 39 so so far released as part of this hostage negotiation and so we're speaking to some of the people out here who have been visiting hostage square about the emotions that they're feeling over the past four days and the emotions that they feel as they walk through really this this vigil take a listen to what they had to say so yeah this is the first time for me here i'm here with my school and we decided to visit this place to make some photos and to just to be with the families and just to to show our support here it feels really empty and really really hard to be here for me especially when i see the places here that's just empty like the you know heart i'm very excited with pain in my heart i hope with god's help that everyone will return home safe and sound and that we will never experience another tragedy like this i love israel i love the children we are one nation it hurts i hope god will help us and save us from this thing so you you can see jeff just how emotional of an experience it is to be here and i want to note also when we saw some of those tours of those students that were here their their teacher not only informed them about what they were about to walk through but also told them what to do in case a rocket sirens here in tell of eve so even though we are in a ceasefire that's something that these teachers are still preparing their students for and just gives a glimpse into the still the current situation although we're waiting for these hostages and we are in a four-day pause from the firing many people are still preparing for an active state of war to follow and and that's clear when you're seeing people who are still walking through here in the streets of tell of eve thank you so much for that report for speaking with those young men and women about their experiences and what they're feeling on this powerful day thank you so much under call back here in studio david there's a lot of questions about what happened we already know kamas has violated the terms of this pause of the ceasefire that they already have not abided by the pledge not to split up families kids have been released without their parent who is still being held hostage there's reports that that may be one of the issues with today again the the hamas trying to split up families what happens if they do if they split up families and the ceasefire officially ends would would have to go back to another vote before the war cabinet would there be another debate would there be you know hamas's interest as you mentioned perhaps is in splitting up families in terms of lengthening the ceasefire then it doesn't become quite a crystal clear answer on how this will proceed right again if you're asking my opinion yeah hamas our terrorist organization they're they're vicious people they're cruel people they're unreliable but if they continue to deliver 10 hostages every day even if it's not the exact order that we understand this is the deal because they're also different interpretations of exactly what is the deal also regarding our part of the deal with the Palestinian prisoners is it by the amount of time that they're serving in prison or what is the list so there's their differences in interpretation two days ago there was a big big hold in the delivery of of these hostages because some of the supply trucks that were supposed to reach Gaza northern Gaza did not reach Gaza we say we allowed them to enter the the the Gaza Strip but they were holding on the way they had the mud or dirt because a lot of the roads are destroyed there and so hamas said that we are violating I say as far as every day we get 10 more hostages even if they play with the order of it as far as I can see it it's a blessing it will save lives it will save uncertainty for many many families maybe provide us more information about other people have been kidnapped to disappeared or missing so we'll get more more information less demand from the military to intervene and suffer casualties to to rescue these people so I say they're nasty people they cruel people they're they're blood thirsty we don't like them but if they can continue to supply 10 hostages a day civilians at first and eventually enable the families to reunite that's a blessing there's a report today in the wall street journal the first report saying that Hamas already speaking with Qatar about terms for the release of deceased hostages bodies of Israelis that they would be willing to release so they can be repatriated home then if we're no longer talking about hostages who are alive but rather bodies and the families can vary properly and grieve here in Israel should the ceasefire your be extended even then then or is it a new discussion at that point I believe it's a new discussion at that point because what the urgency is to bring back the people who are alive because the situation can deteriorate we just heard your reporter talking about malnutrition yeah in captivity and there's an urgency with their there's an urgency with the with the live captives and it's much less unfortunately sadly it's much less urgent with dead bodies and I believe the pressure will go on from Israel to receive live people as many as we can as fast as we can again Israel is debating as you asked whether to resume the full assault into into Gaza or not there are many considerations we still have an eye open on the north if if Hezbollah will join the fighting we don't want to reactivate the Iranian missiles coming in from Yemen and from Syria and the Houthi rebel group yeah of course so I believe it will be useful to try to maintain this 10 day 10 hostages a day a flow of live people when it will come to the soldiers I believe the negotiations will be much much tougher and then as I said before I believe the Hamas will try to negotiate their own safety do you think the IDF then turns its campaign to the south when it resumes will there be ground offensives in Khan Yunus and Rafa and some of these really tough terror strongholds in the southern part of the strip that haven't been the focus yet I believe so because of the two declared goals of the war one is to try to hit and dismantle as much as Hamas capability military capability and the other is to do anything possible to get the release of our hostages which means if we apply more and more military pressure and we cause more and more damage and more erosion of their abilities there's a better chance that's a theory there's a better chance that they will negotiate and will agree to release our hostages or maybe we'll be reaching some of them physically by by ground forces some more good news here to report Israeli hostages Sharon Avigdori and her daughter Noam are reuniting with their family they met last night for the first time after 50 days in Hamas captivity Sharon overcome with emotions hugging her husband and her son again the families from Kibbutz Baeri one of the hardest hit communities from that horrific Hamas attack and i-24 news correspondent Uri Shapiro has a deeper look at Kibbutz Baeri which was devastated by terrorists now finding its way back to life and pledging to grow even stronger nearly 40 years Iran Avni has been documenting Kibbutz Baeri by the Gaza border here in this small but advanced studio he broadcast a local tv station of the Kibbutz called channel 900 the significance of this channel is its values we talk about the connection between the people of Baeri to the place and the involvement we saw it very strongly during the coronavirus pandemic people said at home and all the events happened here some of the shows on channel 900 have a new chilling meaning today for example this show called a surprise dinner where members of the Kibbutz cooked a dish for each other this episode shows Iran's nephew Hagi Avni and his friend Ken even both were murdered by Hamas on october 7 Hagi is the son of my brother Ken is the son of my wife's brother they grew up together like brothers Hagi was a member of the security squad of Baeri when the whole thing started he was recruited and he was shot to death Ken safe room was burned he had to leave his house and hide with his family then a terrorist shot them from the roof i took a classic picture of the old dining room look how it looks now on october 7 iran and his wife were touring in the united states when he returned home kibbutz was evacuated we have a letter here dear Avni family we hope you're all safe and healthy we are fighters from the paratroop brigade we stayed in your house we wanted to say thank you we are sorry for the mess the jewish people is eternal it's fun to come back home but it's not really coming back home i miss my home i miss the view and most of all i miss my coffee machine on our way back iran meets an old friend sigal crowny closer husband arik who was the chief security officer of kibbutz baeri i decided to come back here to change the picture in my head of a dark place full of terrorists this is the last image i recall from here it's a place which was home to my children and to other children here i was here once and now i come back to see this place in daylight to meet some of the people i love who are part of our community i want to see the green areas here i just want to take the picture that i have a picture of a frozen place and to bring colors inside of it iran has taken two main missions to himself the first is to document the houses of the broken kibbutz the second is to create a private archive of testimonies of the survivors every story here is a story of courage like a story about a mother who protects her children or decisions of survival in real time and amazing stories of mutual aid people who sacrifice themselves for the other recently iran planned to purchase a portable studio and to expand his activities something that became even more relevant after october 7 in the meantime he continues to document the kibbutz and hopes to return to broadcasting live from berry channel 900 gives us a window to the history of berry i hope it will continue to exist and show the future of berry we'll continue to film to document and to create original shows near kibbutz berry is kvarn asa along the gaza israel border that community has been evacuated since the war began displaced residents are watching the release of their neighbors and loved ones from as they're released from being hostages they say it is bigger sweet families um gold chain and brodach uh both of them are neighbors our neighbors and i recognize them immediately the mom can and the children um were very excited they're here we can we i couldn't stop crying seeing them because it was very like real they were hostages they've been through so much and now they're home um the feeling is unbelievable i can't even describe this in war it's so exciting to see that some of our people is coming back the little kids but on the other side on the other end it's very sad that we know we have another 10 people that stay on gaza and we don't know what will happen with them when they will come back i can see you david the longer that the idf sits in gaza not being able to attack or advance there's the danger increase i believe so first of all there's a there's a national concern with 350 000 troops mobilized to reserves it hurts the the economy the the families many many settlements towns villages all over is in the north and in the south have been evacuated and people are not living at home so there's great pressure i think the danger to our troops is always there i believe now after the lessons learned sadly uh there's high alert all over in gaza there's still always danger of some occasional sniper maybe trying to uh you seize an opportunity and hit a soldier but i believe the ceasefire which you turned the other pause we know it's good for the Hamas they can regroup they can reorganize but it's same for the idf the idf is replenishing replenishing supplies changing uh units allowing spare parts into the gaza strip so there's also a better preparedness on our side should the order be given to resume fighting david thank you so much for being with us in the studio here and giving us your analysis great to have you on the program going out for a break again stay with us tonight 24 news more live coverage from across israel more updates stay with us on i 24 news and thanks for watching is in a state of war families completely gun down in their beds we have no idea where she has our soldiers are fighting on the front line but the general perception is something that certainly needs to to be fought as well era la reacción de los países hispano parlantes news 24 el único medio en español que te mantiene informado y conectado con la comunidad latina en israel news 24 únicamente en i 24 news to the i 24 news desk at this hour this is the fourth and final day of the ceasefire with hamas it is set to end in 12 hours and a final group of israeli hostages are set to be released today israel's government has the list of names the names have not yet been released publicly hamas has formally requested that israel extend the ceasefire and hamas says it's willing to keep releasing hostages for the next several days israeli prime minister netanyahu also says he too is willing to extend a temporary ceasefire but beyond that i want to say there is also an outline that you can release 10 more every additional day it is a blessed thing but in the same breath i also told the president that at the end of the outline we will return with all our strength to realize our goals the elimination of hamas to ensure that gaza will not return to what it was and of course the release of all of our hostages and some good news to share right now minutes ago former hostage 78-year-old margulite moses was released from the hospital margulite was held in hamas captivity for 50 days she was released by her terrorist kidnappers on friday as part of the first wave of released hostages she is a resident of kaboots near azz which was hard hit by hamas killers who kidnapped and killed dozens of those kaboots residents here she is hugging her hospital the hospital staff and the doctors and nurses who checked her and took good care of her this weekend she is in good condition physically and again she is now on her way not to her home in near azz where she is unable to return but she's with her family and she is in good hands as she leaves the hospital right now 78-year-old margulite moses and with us now is i-24 news correspondent pierre colchendler at a different hospital also near televieve where many children are being attended to by medical staff she he's at the schneider children's hospital for an update on their condition and the care that they're going to need pierre right there's nine children here and uh two mothers uh but there are some details that are starting to filter out we just met um the grandfather of the brodach family moshelotem is also from kfar aza uh the place where the brodach family family lived and which has been basically destroyed during the october 7 massacre her his daughter agar and her three kids of free 10 uval 8 and oria 4 are here on the third floor they were liberated yesterday at 10 30 they arrived at the hospital what he tells us is first of all that avigail he done that little girl with a jewel american israeli nationality uh that president biden has spoken so much about she was in captivity with that family because avigail when she when her two parents rory and smada were murdered she flew uh toward the neighbor's house the brodach family's house and as a result she was taken in captivity with them and she was in captivity with them the whole time which is at least some consolation for a little girl that's marked her birthday only on friday her fourth birthday what we know from moshelotem the grandfather is that they're malnourished and many doctors in the hospitals that received the liberated hostages are also stressing the fact that they were very very much malnourished during their days of captivity for the past two weeks uh some indirect testimony tells us that um they they were only fed with a little bit of rice and peter bread and that was it now another thing on a lighter note uh we know uh from the corporal orit megidesh which was who was liberated uh by the idf on the first days of the ground offensive she's 19 year old she's a soldier she was liberated by the idf it's the only person only hostage that was liberated during uh the ground offensive up until now and she just published a little uh film on tiktok in which she says that she feels great she feels she's enjoying her family and that she is so glad that she has recovered her life back from captivity so this is maybe a lighter note on what these hostages have been going through um the brodage family the nuclear family is uh that no one was killed in the massacres of october 7 but for 36 hours they didn't know about the whereabouts of agar of free uval and oria only after 36 hours did the idf notice them notify them that they were in captivity for the air closer and for us with the update thank you so much for that report again as peter mentioned nine children being cared for right now and several mothers as well in the hospital there with me now in studios dr david chimoni former intelligence official at commanders for israel security david thank you so much for being with me in your view do you think that the ceasefire should be extended if it means getting some more hostages home and for how long can hamas toy with israel string this out keep keep it going uh terminology uh we don't call it a ceasefire israel calls it a humanitarian pause of a few days up to 10 days in order to um safely safeguard the release of our hostages the entire world and you call it uh ceasefire uh the deal as far as we understand it is four days uh bringing to safety 50 of our hostages with the option to extend it if the hamas provide 10 more hostages per day um if you ask my opinion it's worth it yes uh i would hope i would pray that not only for 10 days but for 20 days every day we'll get um 10 of our hostages back and that way we'll be uh all of our hostages will be back home and safe let's rely a lot on hamas to be able to deliver what they are saying they're going to do that's relying a lot on hamas to be able to deliver we don't know uh if all of that we know that not all of the hostages are in hamas hands some of them are with the islami jihad some of them might be with um some local families crime families so we don't know if they can deliver we also don't know if they want to deliver because there's some some kind of paradox here uh we're talking about releasing all of our hostages and then killing all of the hamas leadership and fighters and in a way it doesn't make sense that they will keep up this flow of of release of hostages every day until all of our hostages are back and then we are free to eliminate them that that doesn't make sense eventually uh i believe the hamas leadership will try to negotiate and trade their lives and their safe exit of gaza for our hostages especially for our soldiers we know nothing about the whereabouts of the soldiers and their well-being i hope we can use the term well-being of our soldiers over there but i believe that the uh negotiation will turn from numbers how many do we do we get per day and how many prisoners do we release per day if you remember the beginning of the war there was this kind of a formula that we release all of our 6000 prisoners and they release all of our hostages or 240 uh then but eventually i think the equation will change and the hamas will try to negotiate their safety and their free exit from gaza the exact numbers are unknown as you mentioned for several reasons hamas doesn't have uh an accurate accounting or we can't trust that hamas have an accurate accounting exactly but roughly 115 or 16 men believe to be in captivity including soldiers and and civilians i want to bring into the conversation our reporter nicole said it who is live for us in tel aviv but a hostage square this emotional kind of a scene of a national solidarity a national a national vigil really for the return of the hostages there appears to be some kind of issue with today's scheduled release of hostages a lot of emotions once again today on this last day of uh the ceasefire this is the emotional turmoil that we've seen definitely over the past four days but really for the past 52 days we continue to see this and so as as you said this hostage square in the center of tel aviv it has become a symbol for the hostages the 240 at least people that were ripped out of their communities seven weeks ago today seven weeks ago on october 7th and so you continue to see people coming out here and paying tribute a vigil of sorts to all of those who were kidnapped and held hostage in gaza and even though we continue to see more and more of them return it is an emotional reunion and while everyone says that they are so happy to welcome them with open arms it it still gives them a heavy heart to not only think about the experience and the trauma that they went through over the past seven weeks but also as you mentioned to think about the other ones who are still there whether it be the men uh the the soldiers the still 18 children if we're still talking about the women and children as well we have 39 people just nine children were released yesterday 39 so so far released as far as this hostage negotiation and so we're speaking to some of the people out here who have been visiting hostage square about the emotions that they're feeling over the past four days and the emotions that they feel as they walk through really this this vigil take a listen to what they had to say so yeah this is the first time for me here i'm here with my school and we decided to visit this place to make some photos and to just to be with the families and just to show our support here it feels really empty and really really hard to be here for me especially when i see the places here that's just empty like the you know heart i'm very excited with pain in my heart i hope with god's help that everyone will return home safe and sound and that we will never experience another tragedy like this i love israel i love the children we are one nation it hurts i hope god will help us and save us from this thing so you you can see jeff just how emotional of an experience it is to be here and i want to note also when we saw some of those tours of those students that were here their their teacher not only informed them about what they were about to walk through but also told them what to do in case a rocket sirens here in tell of eve so even though we are in a ceasefire that's something that these teachers are still preparing their students for and just gives a glimpse into the still the current situation although we're waiting for these hostages and we are in a four-day pause from the firing many people are still preparing for an active state of war to follow and and that's clear when you're seeing people who are still walking through here in the streets of tell of eve thank you so much for that report for speaking with those young men and women about their experiences and what they're feeling on this powerful day thank you so much under cold back here in studio david there's a lot of questions about what happened we already know kamas has violated the terms of this pause of the ceasefire that they already have not abided by the pledge not to split up families kids have been released without their parent who is still being held hostage there's reports that that may be one of the issues with today again the the hamas trying to split up families what happens if they do if they split up families and the ceasefire officially ends would have to go back to another vote before the war cabinet would there be another debate would there be you know hamas's interest as you mentioned perhaps is in splitting up families in terms of lengthening the ceasefire then it doesn't become quite a crystal clear answer on how Israel proceeds right again if you're asking my opinion hamas our terrorist organization they're they're vicious people they're cruel people they're unreliable but if they continue to deliver 10 hostages every day even if it's not the exact order that we understand this is the deal because they're also different interpretations of exactly what is the deal also regarding our part of the deal with the Palestinian prisoners is it by the amount of time that they're serving in prison or what is the list so there's there are differences in interpretation two days ago there was a big big hold in the delivery of these hostages because some of the supply trucks that were supposed to reach Gaza northern Gaza did not reach Gaza we say we allowed them to enter the the the Gaza Strip but they were halted on the way they had the mud or or the dirt because a lot of their roads are destroyed there and so Hamas said that we are violating I say as far as every day we get 10 more hostages even if they play with the order of it as far as I can see it it's a blessing it will save lives it will save uncertainty for many many families maybe provide us more information about other people have been kidnapped or disappeared or missing so we'll get more more information less demand from the military to intervene and suffer casualties to rescue these people so I say they're nasty people the cruel people they're they're blood thirsty we don't like them but if they can continue to supply 10 hostages a day civilians at first and enable eventually enable the families to reunite that's a blessing there's a report today in the wall street journal the first report saying that Hamas already speaking with Qatar about terms for the release of deceased hostages bodies of Israelis that they would be willing to release so they can be repatriated home then if we're no longer talking about hostages who are alive but rather bodies and the families can very properly and grieve here in Israel should the ceasefire your be extended even then then then or is it a new discussion at that point I believe it's a new discussion at that point because what the urgency is to bring back the people who are alive because the situation can deteriorate we just heard your reporter talking about malnutrition yeah in captivity and there's an urgency with their there's an urgency with the with the live captives and it's much less unfortunately sadly it's much less urgent with dead bodies and I believe the pressure will go on from Israel to receive live people as many as we can as fast as we can again Israel is debating as you asked whether to resume the full assault into into Gaza or not there are many considerations we still have an eye open on the north if if Hezbollah will join the fighting we don't want to reactivate the Iranian missiles coming in from Yemen and from Syria who's the rebel group yeah of course so I believe it will be useful to try to maintain this 10 day 10 hostages a day a flow of live people when it will come to the uh soldiers I believe the negotiations will be much much tougher and then as I said before I I believe the Hamas will try to negotiate their own safety do you think the IDF then turns its campaign to the south when it resumes will there be ground defensives in in Khan Yunus and and Rafa and some of these really tough terror strongholds in the southern part of the strip that haven't been the focus yet I believe so because of the two declared goals of the war one is to try to hit and dismantle as much as Hamas capability military capability and the other is to do anything possible to get the release of our hostages which means if we apply more and more military pressure and we cause more and more damage and more erosion of their abilities there's a better chance that's a theory there's a better chance that they will negotiate and will agree to release our hostages or maybe we'll be reaching some of them physically by by ground forces some more good news here to report Israeli hostages Sharon Avigdori and her daughter Noam are reuniting with their family they met last night for the first time after 50 days in Hamas captivity Sharon overcome with emotions hugging her husband and her son again the families from Kibbutz Be'eri one of the hardest hit communities from that horrific Hamas attack and I-25 news correspondent Ori Shapiro has a deeper look at Kibbutz Be'eri which was devastated by terrorists now finding its way back to life and pledging to grow even stronger for nearly 40 years Iran Avni has been documenting Kibbutz Be'eri by the Gaza border here in this small but advanced studio he broadcast a local TV station of the Kibbutz called Channel 900 the significance of this channel is its values we talk about the connection between the people of Be'eri to the place and the involvement we saw it very strongly during the coronavirus pandemic people sat at home and all the events happened here some of the shows on channel 900 have a new chilling meaning today for example this show called a surprise dinner where members of the Kibbutz cooked a dish for each other this episode shows Iran's nephew Chagi Avni and his friend Ken Evan both were murdered by Hamas on October 7 Chagi is the son of my brother Ken is the son of my wife's brother they grew up together like brothers Chagi was a member of the security squad of Be'eri when the whole thing started he was recruited and he was shot to death Ken safe room was burned he had to leave his house and hide with his family then a terrorist shot them from the roof I took a classic picture of the old dining room look how it looks now on October 7 Iran and his wife were touring in the United States when he returned home Kibbutz was evacuated we have a letter here dear Avni family we hope you're all safe and healthy we are fighters from the paratroop brigade we stayed in your house we wanted to say thank you we are sorry for the mess the Jewish people is eternal it's fun to come back home but it's not really coming back home I miss my home I miss the view and most of all I miss my coffee machine on our way back Iran meets an old friend Sigal Kronik lost her husband Eric who was the chief security officer of Kibbutz berry I decided to come back here to change the picture in my head of a dark place full of terrorists this is the last image I recall from here it's a place which was home to my children and to other children here I was here once and now I come back to see this place in daylight to meet some of the people I love were part of our community I want to see the green areas here I just want to take the picture that I have a picture of a frozen place and to bring colors inside of it Iran has taken two main missions to himself the first is to document the houses of the broken kibbutz the second is to create a private archive of testimonies of the survivors every story here is a story of courage like a story about a mother who protects her children or decisions of survival in real time and amazing stories of mutual aid people who sacrifice themselves for the other recently Iran planned to purchase a portable studio and to expand his activities something that became even more relevant after october 7 in the meantime he continues to document the kibbutz and hopes to return to broadcasting live from berry channel 900 gives us a window to the history of berry I hope it will continue to exist and show the future of berry we'll continue to film to document and to create original shows near kibbutz berry is far as along the Gaza-Israel border that community has been evacuated since the war began displaced residents are watching the release of their neighbors and loved ones from as they're released from being hostages they say it is bigger sweet families um gold stain and brood dutch uh both of them are neighbors our neighbors and I recognize them immediately the mom and the children um we're very excited they're here we can we I couldn't stop crying seeing them because it was very like real they were hostages they've been through so much and now they're home the feeling is unbelievable I can't even describe this in words it's so exciting to see that some of our people is coming back the little kids but on the other side on the other end it's very sad that we know we have another 10 people that stay on Gaza and we don't know what will happen with them when they will come back I can see you David the longer that the IDF sits in Gaza not being able to attack or advance there's the danger increase I believe so first of all there's a there's a national concern with 350 000 troops mobilized to reserves it hurts the the economy the the families many many settlements towns villages all over Israel in the north and in the south have been evacuated and people are not living at home so there's great pressure I think uh the danger to our troops is always there I believe now after the lessons learned sadly there's high alert all over in Gaza there's still always danger of some occasional sniper maybe trying to uh seize an opportunity and hit a soldier but I believe the ceasefire which you turn to the pause the other pause we know it's good for the Hamas they can regroup they can reorganize but it's the same for the IDF the IDF is replenishing supplies changing units allowing spare parts into the Gaza strip so there's also a better preparedness on our side should