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Hamas 'hostage scam' in Gaza: Remains buried, then dug up for cameras · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest News from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. Israel has accused Hamas of taking
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  Speaker 1: the remains of a hostage out of a building in Gaza,
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  Speaker 1: reburying them, and then staging a pretend discovery and excavation
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  Speaker 1: for the Red Cross and photographers. The remains belonged to
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  Speaker 1: murdered hostage of Fiatzafati, who was kidnapped at the Nova
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  Speaker 1: Music Festival on October seven, twenty twenty three. He was
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  Speaker 1: there to celebrate his twenty seventh birthday. This is the
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  Speaker 1: third time Hamas has handed Israel parts of a Fiatzafhadi's body,
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  Speaker 1: first in December twenty twenty three, then in March twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four, when Hamas said it had discovered more remains.
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  Speaker 1: Then on October twenty seven this year, Hamas provided a
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  Speaker 1: third body bag, which Israel says is the one Hamas
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  Speaker 1: took from a building buried under rubble and then re excavated.
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  Speaker 1: The whole alleged operation was captured on an Israeli military
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  Speaker 1: drone hovering high above the scene. The t Safardi family
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  Speaker 1: says their grief and despair is exacerbated every time they
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  Speaker 1: are forced to open the grave it comes as her
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  Speaker 1: Mass claims it doesn't have the equipment or ability to
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  Speaker 1: recover some hostages bodies in the rubble from the devastated territory.
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  Speaker 1: The Israeli Defense Force overnight struck what it said was
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  Speaker 1: her Maas infrastructure in southern Gaza after shots were allegedly
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  Speaker 1: fired at Israeli troops. The International Committee of the Red
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  Speaker 1: Cross says the staged discovery was unacceptable, adding the return
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  Speaker 1: of remains to loved ones must not be politicized. The
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  Speaker 1: Reserve Bank of Australia will have to scrap plans for
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  Speaker 1: an interst rate card after an unexpected jump in inflation figures.
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  Speaker 1: The central Bank's preferred measure of price rises. The trimmed mean,
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  Speaker 1: rose one percent in the September quarter and three percent
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  Speaker 1: year on year, while the headline Consumer Price index rose
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  Speaker 1: by one point three percent. Headline inflation includes the cost
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  Speaker 1: across a giant basket of goods and soar services from
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  Speaker 1: housing costs to phone bills. The trimmed mean is similar,
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  Speaker 1: but takes out the highest and the lowest changes. It's
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  Speaker 1: designed to eliminate short term volatility, like as sudden jump
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  Speaker 1: in petrol prices. The fact the trimmed mean is out
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  Speaker 1: of whack with the RBA's expectations means interest rates will
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  Speaker 1: stay high. The Reserve Bank was thought to be heading
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  Speaker 1: for another cut in the cash rate in February, but
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  Speaker 1: it's now likely to be in May before mortgagees get
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  Speaker 1: any relief. The Reserve Bank Board meets on Monday and
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday and will announce its decision on the cash rate
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