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The girl in bloody sweatpants is free · The Front

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  Speaker 1: From The Australian. Here's what's on the front. I'm Claire Harvey.
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  Speaker 1: It's Monday, January twenty seven. Marcia Langton, one of Australia's
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  Speaker 1: most eminent historians and Aboriginal leaders, has accused university leadership
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  Speaker 1: of allowing antisemitism to flourish under the false cloak of
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  Speaker 1: academic freedom. That's an exclusive live now at the Australian
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  Speaker 1: dot com dou The federal government is overhauling the rules
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  Speaker 1: to bring in thousands of registered nurses from the UK, Ireland,
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  Speaker 1: the US, Canada, Singapore and Spain, dramatically slashing wait times
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  Speaker 1: to transfer their qualifications. Big smiles and a show of
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  Speaker 1: defiance from four young women Israeli soldiers kidnapped by Hamas
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  Speaker 1: on October seven and freed over the weekend as part
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  Speaker 1: of the Middle East's fragile peace a trade in human
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  Speaker 1: beings as her mass releases hostages and Israel freeze Palestinian prisoners.
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  Speaker 1: Today we look at the fate of Nama Levy, who
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  Speaker 1: was nineteen when she was seized by Hamas in harrowing
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  Speaker 1: scenes from her military base in southern Israel. She was
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  Speaker 1: wearing bloodstained gray tracksuit pants that became an emblem of
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  Speaker 1: contested claims about sexual violence. In Palestine Square in Gaza City,
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  Speaker 1: a gleaming white Heyundai station wagon pulls up. Surrounding it
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  Speaker 1: is a thick group of men in black or camouflage.
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  Speaker 1: All their faces are concealed. They wear green Hamas, bandanas,
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  Speaker 1: Sarma carrying ak forty sevens. Others hold cameras. There's a
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  Speaker 1: crowd of people surrounding the square, cheering, and then from
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  Speaker 1: the car step four Israeli soldiers, young women aged nineteen
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  Speaker 1: and twenty, Ena Ariev, Daniella Gilboa, Larry Albag and Namalev.
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  Speaker 1: They look fresh and clean. They're wearing military style khaki uniforms.
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  Speaker 1: Each girl has her long, dark hair swept back from
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  Speaker 1: her face. And as the crowd of Palestinians reaches a
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  Speaker 1: roar and the girls are marched onto a makeshift stage
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  Speaker 1: adorned with Palestinian flags and her mass banners with slogans
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  Speaker 1: like Gaza is the graveyard of the criminal Zionists. Something
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  Speaker 1: remarkable is happening. The young women are beaming. They're waving
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  Speaker 1: and smiling to the crowd, to the representatives of Hamas
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  Speaker 1: and Palestinian Islamic Ghad who have kept them hostage for
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  Speaker 1: four hundred and seventy seven days, and who are handing
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  Speaker 1: them over to the Red Cross. It's a deliberate show
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  Speaker 1: of power. These young women, they will later tell Israeli media,
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  Speaker 1: are not going to cower or cringe despite the ordeal
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  Speaker 1: of captivity they've endured. Daniella, Leary and Nama are holding
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  Speaker 1: their heads high. We showed them on the stage that
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  Speaker 1: we were not phased, one of the women told their
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  Speaker 1: families in a report on Israeli station can TV. It
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  Speaker 1: had no impact on us. We are stronger than them.
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  Speaker 1: Back in Israel, watching the live footage, the girl's parents
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  Speaker 1: know what they're seeing. Footage released by the Israeli Defense
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  Speaker 1: Forces shows the parents laughing and pointing with delight at
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  Speaker 1: their girl's show of strength, and a few hours later,
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  Speaker 1: the girls leap back into their parents' arms in an
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  Speaker 1: Israeli hospital, their hair freshly washed, wearing civilian clothes. It's
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  Speaker 1: a scene that families have been dreaming of since the
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  Speaker 1: girls were kidnapped. On October seven, twenty twenty three. In
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  Speaker 1: shocking scenes captured by Hamas fighters of the young women
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  Speaker 1: wearing civilian clothes, including what looked like pajamas being tide
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  Speaker 1: and forced up against a wall inside their base. On
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  Speaker 1: October seven, namal Levi pleads I have friends in Palestine.
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  Speaker 1: Larry Albag asks for the men to speak English.
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  Speaker 2: Someone Subsequent videos show the women being loaded into what
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  Speaker 2: seemed to be Israeli Army vehicles to be taken into Gaza.
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  Speaker 1: Another video shows Nama Levi being transferred into a jeep.
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  Speaker 3: You can see a barefoot woman pulled from the trunk
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  Speaker 3: of a jeep by a gunman and then forced into
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  Speaker 3: the backseat of a car. Her face is bleeding and
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  Speaker 3: her wrists appear to be cable tied behind her back.
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  Speaker 1: Number is wearing a black T shirt and pale gray
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  Speaker 1: tracksuit pants as in the earlier videos, but in this scene,
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  Speaker 1: the back of her pants is dark with what could
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  Speaker 1: be blood staining. This image caused huge concern in Israel
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  Speaker 1: and beyond that Narma and the other women held by
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  Speaker 1: her mass were being sexually assaulted. It also fed into
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  Speaker 1: something that became a raging argument in places like social
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  Speaker 1: media as the world reacted to the horror of October
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  Speaker 1: seven and the devastation that came after. As Israel acted
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  Speaker 1: out its vow to destroy her mass. Israel accused her
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  Speaker 1: mass fighters of raping and sexually torturing women in the
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  Speaker 1: October seven attack that triggered denials and conspiracy theories, claims
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  Speaker 1: that stories of sexual violence were all Israeli propaganda, and
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of all that, Nama Levi's bloody track
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  Speaker 1: pants were freighted with meanings. Over the past fifteen months,
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  Speaker 1: women around the world have demonstrated by holding up pictures
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  Speaker 1: of Narma captioned to don't look away, and by dressing
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  Speaker 1: as Nama wearing a black T shirt and gray tracksuit
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  Speaker 1: pants stained with dark red at marches and demonstrations, including
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  Speaker 1: in the US, Canada, France, and in the UK. In August,
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  Speaker 1: a twenty foot replica of NAMA's gray stained pants was
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  Speaker 1: erected outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Yoonni Bashan
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  Speaker 1: is a senior journalist with The Australian and he's reported
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  Speaker 1: from Israel in Gaza over the past fifteen months. Yi,
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  Speaker 1: what was it about Nama of all the people who
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  Speaker 1: were taken hostage on that day that made her story
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  Speaker 1: resonate around the world.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think it was the image of Nama Levy
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  Speaker 4: that really crystallized the type of barbarism that we saw
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  Speaker 4: on October seven. I mean, there are many images that
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  Speaker 4: arise out of that awful day, and one might think
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  Speaker 4: of the scenes of another hostage, Noah Agamani, who has
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  Speaker 4: since been freed, and the photographs and footage of her
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  Speaker 4: being loaded on the back of a motorbike and taken
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  Speaker 4: into Gaza.
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  Speaker 5: But really it's.
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  Speaker 4: The images of Namah Levy, a young girl of nineteen
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  Speaker 4: who was seen being basically dragged by the hair out
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  Speaker 4: of her car, appearing to have had her achilles heel
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  Speaker 4: cut so she couldn't run away, and really the sight
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  Speaker 4: of her soiled clothing that seemed to suggest the nightmarish
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  Speaker 4: possibility that she'd already been attacked and abused. And it
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  Speaker 4: really felt to people watching that it was a taste
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  Speaker 4: of what these poor hostages were likely to endure for
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  Speaker 4: however long they would remain in captivity.
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  Speaker 1: What did you make of that very stage marriage scene
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  Speaker 1: in Palestine Square in Gaza City.
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  Speaker 4: I was certainly hardened to see them looking reasonably well
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  Speaker 4: and smiling and giving thumbs up for the cameras, But
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  Speaker 4: I was well aware in my mind that this is
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  Speaker 4: a highly stage managed affair, and we know from other
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  Speaker 4: hostages who've been released that in the lead up to
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  Speaker 4: being handed back to Israel, they were fed correctly, they
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  Speaker 4: were treated better, they were given better clothing, and once
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  Speaker 4: they arrived back in Israel and granted interviews to meta
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  Speaker 4: outlets and spoke to people close to them, we know
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  Speaker 4: how they were treated in captivity, and it was terrible,
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  Speaker 4: and it varied for each of the hostages. Some of
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  Speaker 4: them were held underground, some of them have been murdered underground,
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  Speaker 4: and some were held captive in the homes of certain
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  Speaker 4: individuals who are either aligned directly with COMMAS or affiliated
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  Speaker 4: with the terrorist group loosely. But what I would say
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  Speaker 4: is that looking at that stage managed and quite grotesque
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  Speaker 4: affair of having these four young women paraded before a
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  Speaker 4: crowd and put on a stage and seen to be
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  Speaker 4: smiling and seen to be joyful, I wouldn't trust any
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  Speaker 4: of it, nor would I suggest to anyone that they
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  Speaker 4: draw anything from that. I mean, we really need to
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  Speaker 4: hear from these hostages what they went through, and in
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  Speaker 4: all likelihood what they went through was the worst experience
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  Speaker 4: that anyone could go through in that scenario.
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  Speaker 1: Coming up after the break, what did the women go through?
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  Speaker 1: And what happens next in this prisoner swarp. The Australian
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  Speaker 1: Open is over after thrilling men's and women's finals. You
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  Speaker 1: can read the latest from our correspondents at Melbourne Park
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  Speaker 1: right now at the Australian dot com dot au and
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  Speaker 1: we'll be back after the break. Reports are starting to
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  Speaker 1: emerge about what Karina, Daniella Leary and Nama went through
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  Speaker 1: in captivity. According to Israeli media, the women have told
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  Speaker 1: family and friends they were held in domestic dwellings and
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  Speaker 1: were frequently moved, and had gone for lengthy periods without food.
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  Speaker 1: They said they had been ordered to cook and clean
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  Speaker 1: for the families holding them captive. One said she'd been
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  Speaker 1: held in a tunnel alone. Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, an
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  Speaker 1: IDF spokesman, said Israel was gravely concerned about some of
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  Speaker 1: the civilians still being held in Gaza.
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  Speaker 5: Hamas failed to meet its obligations to first release Israeli
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  Speaker 5: female civilian hostages as part of their agreement.
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  Speaker 1: This seas of ideal was supposed to be that Hamas
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  Speaker 1: would release civilian women and children before soldiers. In return,
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  Speaker 1: Israel is releasing Palestinian prisoners in tranches of hundreds at
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  Speaker 1: a time. In return for the four soldiers, Israel released
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  Speaker 1: two hundred Palestinians, who were welcomed by jubilant crowds in
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  Speaker 1: the city of carn Yunis. Some of the most famous hostages,
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  Speaker 1: the Bibas family, father Yaden, mother Shiri, toddler Ariel and
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  Speaker 1: baby Kafir have not been released, and now the Bibas
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  Speaker 1: family is terrified that Shiri and her children are dead,
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  Speaker 1: a fear enhanced by Daniel Hagari's words.
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  Speaker 5: We are determined to return to the return of our Beeliahood,
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  Speaker 5: an Israeli citizen kidnapped from near Oz, and also Shiri
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  Speaker 5: Beavas and her two children, Kafir and Ariel, whose welfare
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  Speaker 5: we are extremely concerned about.
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  Speaker 1: Along with Shiri, there are two more female hostages supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be freed in this round, a Beeliahood and another soldier,
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  Speaker 1: a Gamberger. A Hamas official has told reporters Abeliahood, a
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine year old from the Kibbutz near Oz, is
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  Speaker 1: alive and will be released next Saturday. Palestinian Islamic g
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  Speaker 1: Had claims she is a soldier, but her family in
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  Speaker 1: the Israeli government say she is not until she is released.
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  Speaker 1: Israel says it won't allow Palestinians to return to the
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  Speaker 1: northern Gaza strip, which it pounded with artillery and a
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  Speaker 1: land invasion after October seven. For its part, Hamas claims
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  Speaker 1: Israel is breaching its end of the deal and accuses
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  Speaker 1: Israel of firing on Palestinians attempting to return to the north.
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  Speaker 1: In total, Hamas has agreed to release thirty three hostages
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  Speaker 1: in missed first phase, including women, children, the elderly and
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  Speaker 1: wounded men. The first week of the deal, with seven
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  Speaker 1: hostages now released, is over. Now three hostages per week
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  Speaker 1: are due to be released over the coming four weeks,
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  Speaker 1: with fourteen to be freed in the final sixth week
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  Speaker 1: of the first phase. Concern is growing in Israel that
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  Speaker 1: some of the remaining hostages are dead, and her Mass
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