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All 20 living hostages released in Gaza now back in Israel · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: We're just waiting now as we continue our special coverage
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  Speaker 1: of this momentous day for Israel, for the Palestinians and
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  Speaker 1: the Gaza Strip, for the region and far beyond. This
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  Speaker 1: is the day that's been long awaited. Protracted negotiations to
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  Speaker 1: bring an end to the Gaza War have now resulted
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  Speaker 1: in the first phase of a cease fire deal being implemented.
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  Speaker 1: Hour after hour. I'm leased to set We're broadcasting from
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  Speaker 1: Jerusalem and from capitals across this region as part of
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  Speaker 1: our special coverage of a day of days here in
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  Speaker 1: this region which has known all too many wars. In
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  Speaker 1: the last few hours, the US President Donald Trump has
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  Speaker 1: arrived in Israel. He will address the Kinesta shortly, where
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  Speaker 1: he will emphasize again that today marks the end of
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  Speaker 1: the war and the beginning of peace in the Middle East.
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  Speaker 1: And whether or not that holds true, there is no
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  Speaker 1: denying that today is a day of extraordinary significance and
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  Speaker 1: extraordinary emotion, a day freighted with history, a day that
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  Speaker 1: many feared they would never see. All of the last
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  Speaker 1: living hostages twenty in all, have returned to Israel today,
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  Speaker 1: and the remains of the hostages who didn't survive their ordeal,
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  Speaker 1: who died in captivity or during the horrific events of
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  Speaker 1: October seven, twenty twenty three. Their remains will soon be
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  Speaker 1: brought back one by one in the hours to come
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  Speaker 1: and in the days as well as Hamas tries to
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  Speaker 1: retrieve their remains. On your screen, you're seeing pictures of
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  Speaker 1: the military helicopters in the military base of Realm in
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  Speaker 1: in southern Israel as they take they receive the hostages
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  Speaker 1: from the International Committee of the Red Cross from Realm
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  Speaker 1: after an emotional reunion with a few members of their families.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, the concern now is for the emotional and
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  Speaker 1: physical state of the hostages. They will be taken. They'll
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  Speaker 1: be taken to. There's been five hospitals in Israel, three
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  Speaker 1: around the coastal city of Tel Aviv, two in southern Israel,
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  Speaker 1: if necessary to take the hostages, depending on their medical condition.
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  Speaker 1: As we've been reporting, the first seven hostages to be
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  Speaker 1: handed back despite their weakened condition, despite the conditions of
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  Speaker 1: their ordeal, they were well enough to walk walk to
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  Speaker 1: the waiting vehicles. The white vehicles with the distinctive red
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  Speaker 1: cross and the symbolism of the International Committee of the
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  Speaker 1: Red Cross that sent such a huge signal to the
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  Speaker 1: people watching in Hostages Square, waiting for ever, watching every
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  Speaker 1: moment that they have so long waited for, they have
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  Speaker 1: called for their You see on the screen now the
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  Speaker 1: dust being kicked up by the rotor blades of the
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  Speaker 1: Israeli military helicopters, waiting to take the last thirteen of
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  Speaker 1: the hostages into the hands of their waiting loved ones,
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  Speaker 1: into the hands of the medical staff, waiting to give
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  Speaker 1: them both the physical and the emotional support that they
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  Speaker 1: will need. Let's also bring you an image of the
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  Speaker 1: Israeli Parliament, the Knesset, where President Trump arrived a short
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  Speaker 1: time ago. There it is inside the Kanesset, not all
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  Speaker 1: the seats. People are still you can see taking photographs,
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  Speaker 1: selfies of this madear moment. It seems as though that
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  Speaker 1: President Trump hasn't arrived yet. We did hear reports that
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  Speaker 1: he would be meeting families of the hostages. That meeting
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  Speaker 1: may be taking place there in the Israeli Parliament. It's
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  Speaker 1: a short distance away from where we are broadcasting from
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  Speaker 1: this more and throughout the day from Jerusalem. All members
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  Speaker 1: of the Karnessi are certain to give him the warmest
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  Speaker 1: of welcomes. Even though President Trump is a president who
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  Speaker 1: likes to take credit, in this case, on this day,
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  Speaker 1: credit is due. It was his decision to exert what
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  Speaker 1: historians say was unprecedented pressure personal political on his most
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  Speaker 1: strategic of allies, Israel and its prime minister, Prime Minister Netanyahu,
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  Speaker 1: to end the war in Gaza. In the week which
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  Speaker 1: marked two years of this grievous war. He is being
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  Speaker 1: thanked by the families of the hostages. He will be
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  Speaker 1: thanked by the people in the Israeti Kaness. A few
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  Speaker 1: members of the parliament are staying away. They don't like
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  Speaker 1: this deal. They want the war to go on. They
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  Speaker 1: don't believe that what for them is the most important
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  Speaker 1: warim it is indeed the most important warrem for the
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  Speaker 1: Prime Minister that the Hamas should be destroyed. Hamas has
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  Speaker 1: not been destroyed, but it has been weakened. And they
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  Speaker 1: too have signed on to this deal. It is the
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  Speaker 1: first phase of the deal, but all the same, it's
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  Speaker 1: a very important start.