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US troops will monitor ceasefire from Israel · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: Maybe who's foreign correspondent Ian panel is in Tel Aviv
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  Speaker 1: with the latest in Israeli authority say, AID is now
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  Speaker 1: moving into Gaza. What are you learning about that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 3: We know.
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  Speaker 2: A few hundred trucks actually crossed over yesterday on October
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  Speaker 2: the ninth, and more trucks appear to be going in
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  Speaker 2: right now. I think, probably most significantly, apart from the
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  Speaker 2: fact that this is desperately needed and they're going to
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  Speaker 2: need a lot more than that, it's back to the
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  Speaker 2: old aid delivery system, the one that Israel with US backing,
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  Speaker 2: tried to abandon. It's the United Nations and the Red
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  Speaker 2: Crescent are essentially running it.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: We're seeing images of one of those Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
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  Speaker 2: AID sites having been abandoned. Remember this was the system
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  Speaker 2: that was set up to try and bypass the UN.
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  Speaker 2: It was ostensibly an American company that was delivering it,
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  Speaker 2: and it was hugely controversial. Hundreds of people were around
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  Speaker 2: those sites, we saw those desperate images and people trying
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  Speaker 2: to get aided were It now appears that that's almost
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  Speaker 2: just been pushed to one side as this deal starts
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  Speaker 2: to move forward.
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  Speaker 1: So what's it like there now? That this ceasefire is
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  Speaker 1: an effect.
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  Speaker 2: I mean astonishing images, almost biblical images of thousands of
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  Speaker 2: people streaming up that coastal road through the dust and
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  Speaker 2: the desert, with the sea on one side, towards what
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  Speaker 2: is left of their homes, of their communities, of their country.
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  Speaker 2: And more and more images are now starting to emerge
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  Speaker 2: of the scale of destruction inside Gaza. Barely are building
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  Speaker 2: standing and those that are a heavily bombed damaged. The
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  Speaker 2: scale of destruction is immense in some senses, Gaza as
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  Speaker 2: we knew it has gone, and it just underlines the
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  Speaker 2: importance and the huge need of reconstruction.
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  Speaker 1: And Ian is really priminent who said this morning, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm quoting here, we are gripping Hamas from all sides
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  Speaker 1: in preparation for the next stages of the plan. What
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  Speaker 1: does he mean by that? And what else did out
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  Speaker 1: to you from his remarks?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. I mean he kind of said that
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  Speaker 2: despite you know, because of the massive military pressure and
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  Speaker 2: the massive political pressure from President Trump, that Harmas was
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  Speaker 2: forced to return all the hostages. I mean, it was
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  Speaker 2: Nettagnahu trying to say that he was vindicated by the
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  Speaker 2: strategy that he had pursued, even though many hostage families
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  Speaker 2: would disagree vehemently with that. Yes, he said that her
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  Speaker 2: Mass is being squeezed from both sides in preparation for
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  Speaker 2: this next stage, the next stage being when Hamas will
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  Speaker 2: be disarmed and Gaza will be demilitarized. In his words,
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  Speaker 2: now this is an important quote. He said, If this
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  Speaker 2: has achieved the easy way, so be it. If not,
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  Speaker 2: it will be achieved the hard way. Clearly a threat
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  Speaker 2: of a return to military action. And if ha Mass
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  Speaker 2: doesn't comply. But already we're seeing that it's ha Mass
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  Speaker 2: resuming charge in those areas, HA Mass police force take
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  Speaker 2: in control of the streets once again.
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  Speaker 1: Ian Pennell, thank you. Absu's contributor and former Deputy Assistant
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  Speaker 1: Secretary of Defense for the Middle East mcmulroy has more
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  Speaker 1: on this Hi Mix. So, the US is thinking about
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  Speaker 1: two hundred troops to Israel to help support the ceasefire deal,
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  Speaker 1: but the White House says no US troops are intended
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  Speaker 1: to go into Gaza, So how will that work?
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  Speaker 3: So, Diane, likely they'll be part of the effort to
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  Speaker 3: get this large increase in humanitarian aid in the Gaza
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  Speaker 3: under the twenty point plan. It's supposed to go back
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  Speaker 3: to the six hundred trucks per day. All the food
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  Speaker 3: is available, it is in warehouses, but it will be
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  Speaker 3: a herculean effort to get this started in going and
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  Speaker 3: flowing in. But it is very much needed. And I
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  Speaker 3: imagine these troops that are going in specialize in this,
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  Speaker 3: so logistics based type forces that could be very helpful
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  Speaker 3: to get this going. It's very much needed.
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  Speaker 1: People in Gaza say Israel was still shelling even after
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  Speaker 1: the cabinet approved the ceasefire plan. What's the strategy there?
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  Speaker 3: So when you withdraw as a military unit, it's a
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  Speaker 3: very tense time because you're vulnerable, you're leaving likely fortified positions,
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  Speaker 3: and you're moving back in this case, to this yellow
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  Speaker 3: line that they've agreed to. There's a lot of groups
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  Speaker 3: in God that they're not all controlled by Hamas, and
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  Speaker 3: many of them could take the opportunity to attack these
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  Speaker 3: rarely defense forces which up until now, whether their enemy
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  Speaker 3: or they at least they viewed it due to them
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  Speaker 3: that way. So there could be skirmishes going on, and
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  Speaker 3: of course the IDEF is going to defend themselves, so
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  Speaker 3: if that happens, you could see these skirmishes going on.
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  Speaker 3: It will look, of course like combat operations because it is,
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  Speaker 3: but it doesn't necessarily mean the ceasefire has broken. As
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  Speaker 3: soon as they get back to these agreed upon lines
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  Speaker 3: of the forces, they will likely fortify and get themself
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  Speaker 3: prepared and then be more able to defend themselves. But
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  Speaker 3: during this time it is very vulnerable. It's very tense,
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  Speaker 3: and of course we're also waiting to see these hostages
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  Speaker 3: be released, and that is a very tense time as well.
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  Speaker 1: So what are you watching for ahead of the planned
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  Speaker 1: hostage release next week?
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  Speaker 3: So I would look for all of the logistics that
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  Speaker 3: goes into this. It's very complicated. The International Committee of
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  Speaker 3: the Red Cross. They've been given armored personnel carriers by
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  Speaker 3: the IDF to be able to move in and get
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  Speaker 3: these twenty living hostages and all of the deceased. It's
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  Speaker 3: very complicated. At the same time, hundreds, if not thousands
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  Speaker 3: of Palestinian prisoners are going to be released. That has
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  Speaker 3: to be orchestrated and essentially to gain trust, so it
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  Speaker 3: needs to all happen at the same time. And then
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  Speaker 3: of course many of these hostages are very much malnutrition
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  Speaker 3: that they need to go directly to medical facilities. So
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  Speaker 3: this is a very difficult time but obviously a very
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  Speaker 3: good time for the families of these hostages and is
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  Speaker 3: real and the people of Gaza, which will see a
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  Speaker 3: substantial increase in humanitarian assistance.
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  Speaker 1: MC mulroy always great to have you. Thank you.
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