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Netanyahu says Israel is ready to immediately receive hostages · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: Families of the hostages are being told the process of
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  Speaker 1: releasing their loved ones will begin Monday morning local time.
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  Speaker 1: Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Natanyahu posting on his official ex
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  Speaker 1: account that the country is prepared to quote immediately receive
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  Speaker 1: all of the hostages. They'll be released all at once,
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  Speaker 1: and Vice President of Vans had this to say to
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  Speaker 1: our this Week anchor George Stephanopolis, just a short time ago, have.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty living hostages been confirmed? When do you expect to
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  Speaker 2: see them?
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  Speaker 3: Well, they've been confirmed, George. Of course, you don't know
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  Speaker 3: until you see these people alive. But thank god, we
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  Speaker 3: expect to see them alive here in the next twenty
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  Speaker 3: four hours, probably early tomorrow morning US time, which will
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  Speaker 3: be later in the day of course in Israel.
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  Speaker 1: And while on Hamasa's side, there have been movements around
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  Speaker 1: Naser Hospital and Connie Unice where former Palestinian prisoners held
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  Speaker 1: in Israeli jails are expected to be received. So joining
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  Speaker 1: me now for more on this is ABC news Chief
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  Speaker 1: Foreign correspondent and panel live from Tel Aviv, along with
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  Speaker 1: ABC news Nationals security and defense analyst and former Deputy
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  Speaker 1: Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East mc mulroy.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you both for being with us.
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  Speaker 3: Ian.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start with you. What more are you hearing about
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  Speaker 1: that hostage release plan?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, do you know, there's just been a briefing by
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  Speaker 4: the Israelis. They're talking about potentially six to seven am
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  Speaker 4: in the morning. Here. Of course, it's not set in stone.
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  Speaker 4: There are so many moving parts. We're about seven hours
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  Speaker 4: ahead of East coast time, so around midnight, all very
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  Speaker 4: early in the morning. The process will be that when
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  Speaker 4: Hamas has all the hostages, presumably in one place, that
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  Speaker 4: the Red Cross will send in a convoy, probably of
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  Speaker 4: ambulances because of concerns about the condition of the hostages.
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  Speaker 4: They will then hand them over to IDF custody. IDF
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  Speaker 4: has set up at a reception center at rain Camp
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  Speaker 4: that's down on the border, where doctors, family members will
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  Speaker 4: be gathered, and there's already a plan that ten of
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  Speaker 4: the hostages will go to one hospital down south and
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  Speaker 4: five will be going to two different hospitals, one here
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  Speaker 4: in Tel Avivion the most serious cases will go to
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  Speaker 4: the bes Sheva hospital, which is down south, so there's
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  Speaker 4: less distance to carry. The huge concerns about their health conditions,
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  Speaker 4: and they're warning family members in particular about the dangers
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  Speaker 4: of refeeding syndrome. In other words, if someone is severely malnourished,
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  Speaker 4: you've got to be very, very careful about reared and
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  Speaker 4: ministering food and nutrition because their bodies have adjusted to
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  Speaker 4: having so little, so they are going to require a
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  Speaker 4: lot of medical care, a lot of psychological care. But yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we are expecting that to happen in the coming hours.
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  Speaker 1: A long road ahead of them, for sure, Nick, Let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about the risks for Hamas by agreeing to release
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  Speaker 1: the remaining hostages. Does this show how severely they've been
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  Speaker 1: weakened during the two year war.
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  Speaker 2: I think it does, Janey. This really is a combination,
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  Speaker 2: of course, of political pressure put on a Moss by
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  Speaker 2: Katar in Egypt and Turkey, political pressure quite frankly put
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  Speaker 2: on Israel by the United States, but also the IDEAF,
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  Speaker 2: so the Israeli defense forces and their a central assault
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  Speaker 2: on Gaza City. Really the last holdout of Hamas was
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  Speaker 2: putting so much pressure arm it was either choose this
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  Speaker 2: or potentially that was the end of them. And I
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  Speaker 2: think all of that came together, hopefully to see all
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  Speaker 2: these hostages come out in a lot more humanitarian aid,
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  Speaker 2: go in.
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  Speaker 1: And make the ceasefire deal. So has the outstanding issue
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  Speaker 1: that include a plan for post war governance of Gaza,
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  Speaker 1: as well as Israel's long standing demand for Hamas to disarm.
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  Speaker 1: Has Maas essentially put its trust fully in the United
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  Speaker 1: States to ensure that Israel doesn't restart the war.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think they had a choice, but yes, the
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  Speaker 2: part of this plan is they have the ability to
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  Speaker 2: request amnesty, they lay down their weapons, and then they're
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  Speaker 2: essentially protected from Israeli targeting them in the future. They
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  Speaker 2: can also if they want to leave Gaza. That's a
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  Speaker 2: big step for Israel. But it's something that's in this
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  Speaker 2: plan and it's going to be agreed to and it
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  Speaker 2: needs to happen. The only way this plan is going
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  Speaker 2: to work is if both sides adhere to what they
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  Speaker 2: agreed to do. Any of them fall apart and it
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  Speaker 2: could challenge the rest of the plan. And the rest
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  Speaker 2: of the plan is very beneficial, I believe to both
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  Speaker 2: Israel and to the people in Gaza. There's big benefits.
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  Speaker 1: To both and Ian as Israel awaits the return of
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  Speaker 1: the hostages. Half a million Palestinians are trekking back to
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  Speaker 1: their homes in Gaza City largely bombed out as well
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  Speaker 1: as the northern Gaza Strip. What are you watching for next?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and if you look at some of those images
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  Speaker 4: and now emerging of the scale of destruction, I shock.
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  Speaker 4: You know, many people are saying they simply can't find
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  Speaker 4: their home. Not just so it's been demolished, but even
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  Speaker 4: the streets are gone. It's just a pile of rubble.
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  Speaker 4: And our local producer inside Gaza has been telling us
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  Speaker 4: that some people are returning back to those tank caps
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  Speaker 4: in the south because in the north they don't have food,
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  Speaker 4: don't have running water, there's no internet signal, no electricity.
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  Speaker 4: So there is an enormous, enormous task. I mean, you've
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  Speaker 4: basically got to rebuild a country from scratch.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 4: Katar and the UAE and other countries stand ready to
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  Speaker 4: help with that, along with the United States, but we're
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  Speaker 4: not there yet. That At first, the first and most
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  Speaker 4: important thing is to start getting the aid in. We
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  Speaker 4: talked about the dangers of refeeding syndrome for the hostages. Well,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we've been reporting on the many, many deaths
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  Speaker 4: of severe malnutrition amongst Palestinians. In fact, one little girl
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  Speaker 4: who we profiled only a few days ago died this morning.
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  Speaker 4: So that aid cannot come in soon enough. The infrastructure
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  Speaker 4: for looking after people also has to be put in place,
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  Speaker 4: and only then can we start talking about governing some
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  Speaker 4: rebuilding the country.
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  Speaker 1: Such a long road ahead, and Panel and Mick Mulroy
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  Speaker 1: are thanks to both of you.