Latest / DEEP INSIGHT / Almost 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees return to Gaza and West Bank

Transcript

Almost 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees return to Gaza and West Bank · DEEP INSIGHT

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Israel has confirmed the last twenty living hostages held by
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: her Mass since October the seventh, twenty twenty three have
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: been freed from captivity, and in return, nearly two thousand
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: Palestinian prisoners and detainees have been released by Israel, just
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: one of many reunions today. The twenty five year old
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: had been working as a security guard at the Nova
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: Music Festival. His father said he saved dozens of people
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: before being kidnapped by her Mass gunmen on October the seventh.
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: This is some of what he had to say.
• 0:41
  Speaker 2: And I always boasted there about my parents and the
• 0:46
  Speaker 2: good upbringing they gave me. Eli Yakim of blessed memory
• 0:51
  Speaker 2: always told me that his father used to say to him,
• 0:54
  Speaker 2: don't be right, be wise. Many times there you had
• 0:59
  Speaker 2: to be wise.
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: And this was the moment that Mattan Zangalku was reunited
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: with his mother. The twenty five year old had been
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: taken with his partner, Ilana Pritzevsky, from near oz Ilana
• 1:13
  Speaker 1: was released during the November twenty twenty three ceasefire. Well,
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: there's been overwhelming joy too for the family of twenty
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: two year old Mattan Angrest as well his parents watched
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: their son being handed over to Israeli Army officers this
• 1:37
  Speaker 1: morning from inside an army base, and there were family
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: and friends waiting for him at an Israeli hospital, jumping
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: and cheering when they saw that he was being released
• 1:50
  Speaker 1: at last from her Mass captivity. Or October the seventh,
• 1:54
  Speaker 1: the Israeli Defense Forces soldier had been in a tank
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: that was attacked near the guard as a strip perimeter.
• 2:02
  Speaker 3: Well.
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, in the West Bank, they've also been jubilant scenes
• 2:05
  Speaker 1: today as hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and detainees freed by
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: Israel began to return to families and friends, some having
• 2:13
  Speaker 1: been in prison for several years. This is plan Unis
• 2:22
  Speaker 1: in Gaza, where some of the returned prisoners and detainees
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: have been arriving back. Two thousand Palestinian prisoners and detainees
• 2:34
  Speaker 1: altogether have been released by Israel in exchange for the
• 2:39
  Speaker 1: return of the hostages, the living hostages and the dead
• 2:44
  Speaker 1: hostages as well. And her Mass. By the way, have
• 2:47
  Speaker 1: said that of the twenty eight dead hostages whose bodies
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: they were supposed to be returning initially, only four actually
• 2:56
  Speaker 1: are going to be returned, and that has caused some
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: anger amongst the hostage families and relatives as well, and
• 3:05
  Speaker 1: in fact, Israel's Defense Minister, Israel Cats has said the
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: announcement that Hamas will hand over four bodies of Israeli
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: hostages is a failure to meet their commitments. Well, US
• 3:17
  Speaker 1: President Donald Trump received a rapturous welcome from the Knesset,
• 3:21
  Speaker 1: the Israeli parliament, where he declared a new chapter of
• 3:24
  Speaker 1: peace in the Middle East.
• 3:27
  Speaker 3: And after so many years of unceasing war and endless danger,
• 3:32
  Speaker 3: today the skies are calm, the guns are silent, the
• 3:35
  Speaker 3: sirens are still, and the sun rises on a holy
• 3:39
  Speaker 3: land that is finally at peace, a land and a
• 3:43
  Speaker 3: region that will live God willing in peace for all eternity.
• 3:54
  Speaker 1: So that was President Trump, while our Middle East correspondent
• 3:57
  Speaker 1: to Hugobshega is in Charmel Shake and joins us with
• 4:01
  Speaker 1: the very latest from there now. And while we've had
• 4:04
  Speaker 1: momentous scenes already Hugo, the release of the hostages, the
• 4:07
  Speaker 1: release of the Palestinian prisoners and detainees, but in a sense,
• 4:12
  Speaker 1: what's going to happen in Charmel Shaikh is equally momentous
• 4:15
  Speaker 1: because it is supposed to chart the future of peace
• 4:18
  Speaker 1: in Gaza.
• 4:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Ben, after those dramatic scenes in Israel, with the
• 4:26
  Speaker 4: return of the twenty living hostages, those dramatic scenes in
• 4:31
  Speaker 4: the occupied West Bank as well, with the release of
• 4:33
  Speaker 4: hundreds of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails, and after that
• 4:38
  Speaker 4: speech the President Trump gave to the Israeli Parliament the
• 4:43
  Speaker 4: can Acid. The focus now at least the political focus
• 4:47
  Speaker 4: turns to Charmil Shaikh because of this summit with more
• 4:50
  Speaker 4: than twenty world leaders for the official signing of the
• 4:55
  Speaker 4: Gaza Deal. This is where the deal was reached last week.
• 4:59
  Speaker 4: This is a summ that is being co hosted by
• 5:01
  Speaker 4: the Egyptian President of Adel Fatal Alsisi and President Trump.
• 5:06
  Speaker 4: And I mean this is very significant but also very symbolic.
• 5:09
  Speaker 4: This will be another victory lap for President Trump who
• 5:13
  Speaker 4: has been having involved personally involved in these negotiations for
• 5:18
  Speaker 4: a deal.