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Overnight tuesday, the idf began strikes in the gaza st
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Began strikes in the gaza si began strikes in the gaza sp
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Began strikes in the gaza sp targeting terrorists involved in
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The october 7th massacre. idf chief of staff alcs levy
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Conducted a situation assessment last night in the jabalia area
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Of northern gaza, telling his operational commanders that
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Hamas sees what you are doing to them and understands that this
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Is becoming unbearable. i tell you, we will not stop. later in
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The report, tbn.tv, israel's senior middle east analyst,
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Matti shoshani will give us a look at the hostage negotiation.
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Recently, marti interviewed sapir cohen, who is a former
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Hostage. we will show you a segment from that interview, and
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Marti will give us the rundown of all the facts about where the
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Negotiations for the release of the hostages currently stand.
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Facing catastrophic defeat in the gaza strip and also in judea
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And samaria. hamas is increasingly frustrated and
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Seeking achievements abroad. an israeli official warned that
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This will likely include attempts to carry out violent
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Attacks against israeli and jewish targets. meanwhile, hamas
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Has already assembled a force in syria that is estimated to
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Number around 10,000 fighters, and there is a strategic shift.
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Khamenei, the leader of iran, is losing his grip on syria
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Following assad's fall and will take a look at the implications.
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To start with jordan and the new regime in syria are exploring
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The possibility of forming a joint security committee to
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Secure their borders, combat arms and drug smuggling and
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Cooperate to prevent the resurgence of isis next door in
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Lebanon. the national army has finally begun to deploy in areas
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South of the litani river. following the withdrawal of idf
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Forces. at the same time, there is a significant political shift
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In lebanon, as supporters of hezbollah are losing ground to
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Other factions. but today's biggest story comes from the
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United states, where the idf deputy chief of staff is meeting
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With senior us military officials ahead of a us
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Administration transition. the meetings are focused on
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Preparations for a potential strike in iran, which has
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Dramatically ramped up its processing of uranium for use in
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Nuclear weapons. they will also discuss the transfer of
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Additional military equipment, including 134 d9 bulldozers and
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1700 heavy bombs for the israeli air force. back home in israel,
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The deadly attack in samaria on monday signifies the growing
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Strength of palestinian terror groups in northern samaria and
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The palestinian authority's inability to combat terrorism.
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Senior security officials say there is no choice but to
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Conduct a large scale military operation to eliminate terror in
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Northern samaria. we've got a lot to talk about today, so
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Let's dive into the details. i'm yael pinto, and this is your
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Boots on the ground report about what's happening in israel. on
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Day 460 of the war against hamas, hezbollah, the houthis in
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Yemen, and all the shiite militias in iraq, all of which
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Are acting under the orders of iran's islamic revolutionary
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Guards corps, which is the head of the axis of evil in the
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Middle east. on tuesday evening, israeli air force aircrafts
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Carried out several strikes in the area, guided by intelligence
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From the military intelligence shin bet and the southern
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Command, targeting several terrorists who participated in
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The massacre carried out by the hamas terror organization. on
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October 7th inside israel. idf chief of staff alcs levy
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Conducted a situation assessment last night in the jabalia area
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Of northern gaza. following his inspection of the troops, he
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Told an assembly of commanders and soldiers i want you to know,
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I look at the situation hamas is in and they see every day what
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You are doing to them, and they understand that this is close to
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Becoming unbearable. i'm telling you, we will not stop. we will
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Bring them to the point where they understand that they must
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Return all the hostages. earlier in the day, the idf
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Spokesperson's unit updated that the combat team forces of the
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Kfir brigade, under the command of the 162nd division, completed
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Their mission in the northern gaza after three months of
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Fighting in that area. the idf stated that during the mission,
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The forces eliminated numerous terrorists throughout airstrikes
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And face to face combats, some of whom participated in the
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Massacre of october 7th. they uncovered weaponry and destroyed
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Underground tunnels and infrastructure used by hamas to
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Carry out attacks against israel. hundreds of terrorists
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Were also captured during these operations, and they have
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Provided their interrogators with substantial amounts of
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Information that assists the idf in finding depots where hamas
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Has stored weapons and ammunition, equipment, and more
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Terrorist cells. one of the terrorists that was captured and
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Interrogated in this operation was anas muhammad faiyaz al
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Sharif. his interrogation was filmed, as is a standard
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Procedure in israel, and on tuesday the idf published some
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Of that footage. it is somewhat surreal to watch this footage,
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As sharif openly reveals what israel and the idf have been
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Saying for months that the terrorists used the hospitals of
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Gaza as operation bases because they know that they will be safe
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From the idf there, and even if the idf operates against them
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While they are in the hospital, it will make israel look bad in
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The international media to the point of tachlis. as we say in
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Hebrew. the bottom line of all of this is that the war against
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Hamas in gaza is not over. after 15 months of major combat
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Operations, the terror organizations are struggling to
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Maintain their positions of power through threats and
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Control. an israeli official explained on tuesday that hamas
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Is frustrated with the situation and is seeking achievements
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Elsewhere, and concerns are growing in israel about attempts
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By hamas and the palestinian islamic jihad group to carry out
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Terrorist attacks against israelis and jewish targets
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Abroad. for starters, israel is closely monitoring the
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Activities of palestinian terrorist organizations in the
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Neighboring syria, which has a very weak and fragile governing
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Regime that does not have the capacity to control all the
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Territory of syria. large sections of syria are simply
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Ungoverned, where terrorist groups can operate freely. hamas
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And the palestinian islamic jihad are taking advantage of
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This to organize new fighting units, import weapons and
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Ammunitions, set up training bases and set up new units of
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Fighters. currently, intelligence estimates put the
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Number of hamas fighters in syria at approximately 2000,
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With another 7000 palestinian islamic jihad members. their
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Obvious first target would be the golan heights area, adjacent
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To syria's border with israel. and this is one reason that the
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Idf has been deployed to the buffer zone on the syrian side
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Of the border. there has been some criticism of this
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Deployment in the international arena, but it is clearly
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Justified given the chaotic situation in syria, which is
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Allowing these terrorist groups to organize themselves in that
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Location. and now we'll take a short commercial break, and
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We'll be right back with more news from israel.
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We'll be right back with more news from israel.
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Welcome back to boots on the ground, where we bring you the
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Truth about israel, one report at a time. we've been tracking
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All the latest developments surrounding the negotiations to
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Free the hostages that hamas is still holding captive in gaza.
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Several key pieces of information have come to light
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In recent days, and there's talk of a so-called humanitarian
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List. questions about who on that list is even alive. and, of
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Course, the heated debate over a temporary cease fire. now, to
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Help us unpack where these negotiations really stand, i'd
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Like to hand things over to our senior middle east analyst,
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Matti shoshani. matti, what can you tell us about the state of
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This proposed hostage deal?
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>> thank you. yael, right now there is a flurry of reports and
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Counter reports circulating. so let's break down what's truly
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Happening with the hostage situation. first of all, it's
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Clear that any potential deal between israel and the hamas
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Hinges on what the media has called a humanitarian list of
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Hostages. this list includes more than 30 individuals
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Women, children, elderly and those considered ill whom
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Hamas claims it's prepared to release first in a
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Goodwill gesture. but there's a glaring
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Complication. hamas hasn't clarified who among them is
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Actually alive, and they're demanding a prolonged cease fire
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Just to verify each hostages status. now israel, on the other
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Hand, insists on receiving genuine signs of life right
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Now, or at least an initial partial release of hostages
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As a gesture of good faith before any extended pause in
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The fighting. secondly, we'v the fighting. secondly, we'e
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The fighting. secondly, we'e seen new tensions around the
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Possibility that hamas is deliberately withholding
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Accurate information. they're talking about a week long or
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Even two week long pause. but there's deep skepticism within
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Israel's leadership about the fact that they're intending to
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Use that time as intended or as declared. now, why is that?
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Because throughout these negotiations, hamas has
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Repeatedly asked for concessions without making meaningful ones
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On their end. and meanwhile, both the united states, qatar
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And egypt are all engaged, each with its own leverage. yet the
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Deal remains stuck on fundamental issues like how long
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Israel is expected to halt its offensive, and whether hamas
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Will actually produce all living hostages or conceal others for a
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Future deal. third time isn't standing still on the diplomatic
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Front. officials note that u.s. president elect donald trump is
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Firmly pressuring hamas to finalize an agreement sooner
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Rather than later. the iranians, the longtime backers of hamas,
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Are also factoring in worried about losing further ground
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Regionally. so from every angle, the clock is ticking for hamas
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To decide if it wants to risk more intense military pressure
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Or attempt to salvage some arrangement by cooperating with
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Israel and the international community. lastly, amidst all
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This turmoil, we must not lose sight of the human dimension.
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Today alone, we've seen multiple families staging protests,
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Reminding everyone that these are not abstract
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Discussions. they're about fathers and mothers,
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Children and grandparents who've all been trapped in
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An impossible nightmare since october the 7th. now,
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Since october the 7th. now,s since october the 7th. now,s
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Part of our ongoing coverage, i recently sat down with one of
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The hostages who did make it out alive, sapir cohen. she was
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Abducted by hamas terrorists on october the 7th, forcibly taken
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From her home along with her boyfriend, who remains yet in
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Gaza. sapir gained her freedom in the first prisoner exchange.
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In the conversation, she opened up about her ordeal, what she
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Witnessed in captivity and her desperate hope for her
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Boyfriend's safe return. now, please stay with us as we take
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You to that conversation recorded just days ago in
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Kibbutz near knows this first hand account from sapir offers a
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Crucial personal perspective on why the struggle to bring every
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Hostage home must remain at the forefront of our national
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Mission. today, we find ourselves well over a year since
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The harrowing events of october 7th, 2023, when hamas terrorists
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Infiltrated israel, brutally murdering over 1200 people and
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Abducting over 250. i'm meeting sapir cohen, who survived 55
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Harrowing days in hamas captivity after being abducted
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From kibbutz neros on october the 7th. her nightmare of being
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Held hostage ended with her release on november the 30th,
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2023. yet her partner sasha trufanov, who was taken
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Alongside her, remains in captivity, a painful reminder
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That this story is far from over. shalom sapir, thank you so
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Much for meeting with us. so, sapir, what goes through your
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Mind when you walk through what's left of this community?
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>> when i'm here, i have flashbacks. i can hear the
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Screams that i heard on october 7th. i can see sasha face.
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>> this was the home of sasha's family, correct?
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>> sasha's family lives there, very close. and on october 7th,
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We were here. so we used to come to visit in the kibbutz.
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Sometimes on october 6th. we came here on saturday, i woke up
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Maybe at six that morning because the rockets, it was like
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A rain of rockets. so we stayed near the walls. i felt that
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Maybe the wall can protect us. after an hour of rockets, we got
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A message from his mother and the message is there are
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Terrorists in kibbutz be'eri that it's ten minutes from us.
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After maybe two minutes, we got another message. sasha just
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Looked at his phone and turn it around. i asked him, sasha, tell
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Me what? the message. and he told me, just. you have to be
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Quiet no matter what. just be quiet. and then i took one of
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The blankets and i covered myself. i didn't want to see
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Anything. i decided no matter what, i don't want to see that.
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Then i heard allahu akbar. i heard maybe hundreds of
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Terrorists came inside. i heard things explode. and the screams
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Of the terrorists, the screams of the people that killed by
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Them. i heard that they come close and close to us and they
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Shooting everywhere. everyone. and we just went to our town.
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>> what's going through your mind?
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>> i thought. maybe to send a message to my family. or maybe
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To say some words to sasha like i love you, but i didn't want to
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Say something with the meaning of goodbye. i'm not sure how
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Much time it was. i just remember that i was shaking and
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All my body was water and i was terrified. i was sure that they
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Will come inside and will kill us. and i just prayed. i decided
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To pray. i promised many things. i talked with god. then the
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Terrorist came and i heard they are trying to block the door. i
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Don't know how to describe what you feel in these moments. then
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They came inside and i heard them take everything in the room
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And broke everything. and they took me from the blanket. i saw
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Maybe ten terrorists in front of my eyes in this small room. in
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This small room. wow. and they catch us. they took us
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Separately outside.
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>> what do you think? when you come back to this room?
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>> this is the place that reminds me, sasha, more than
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Anything. i hope that one day we will come back here. then they
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Took us outside. then they took me to the bike that weighed
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Their. on the bike. there were two terrorists, one in front of
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Me, one behind. they took me to gaza. one of them, one of the
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Terrorists, said that he wanted to stop driving. and then he
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Hold me like he wanted to take me. he was with a gun and i was
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With pajama. i looked around and it was in the middle of nowhere.
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Yeah. so i thought, like, why want to take me? and it was one
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Of the scared moments that i had. i just hugged tightly. the
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Terrorist in front of me, that he was older. he could be my
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Father. and i'm say, i'm a kid, i'm a kid, i'm a kid. he looked
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The other terrorist and he told him, no, no, no. and he
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Continue.
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>> and then they take you all the way into into gaza.
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>> yes. we come inside gaza and i saw maybe thousands of people
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There. all the street was full of the civilians. i just look at
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Them and they are all come to touch me. they come to beat me.
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They beat me strong. in that moment, maybe the terrorists
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Decided that they want me alive, and they just told each other.
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And we continue the way until i came to the first place.
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>> were they hide you away for the first time? yes. so let's
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Talk a bit about your captivity. it's a life that no one else
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Could understand. you were hostage in the hands of a
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Violent terrorist organization. what does the day to day life
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Look in that situation?
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>> i remember the first days in the captivity that i saw the
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Other hostages, that one of them just lie down, and he closed his
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Eyes. he doesn't want to be a part of this reality. i saw a
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Young girl that shaking, and i saw people that all their
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Families was in the kibbutz in that day, and they didn't know
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What happened to their children, to the parents. when i saw them,
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It reminds me my last wish that i'm saved. god, please keep me.
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I just need to choose that. i want to help the hostages. i
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Want last chance to do something meaningful in my life. i
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Remember that one day in our room, there were maybe seven
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Terrorists together, and i saw tiny kids in the corner of the
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Room. i took them and i put them in the middle, and then i look
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On the reactions, the terrorist reactions. so most of them were
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Very violent toward the kids, and one of them took them and
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Pet. when i see someone pet cats in my life, i don't care about
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That. but in the captivity, it's a huge thing to see that. so i
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Just remembered this terrorist that after a few days it was a
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Part of our group. and i think that this connection that i
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Finally created helped us a lot.
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>> i'm sure it did.
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>> after you create a connection, you have to be very
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Careful because you don't want the other terrorist will see
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That you can get a food from one of them and you don't want the
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Other terrorist will be against him because then it will destroy
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The connection. so before every step, you need to think, because
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Every step can be your last one. i was 55 days in the captivity.
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I wasn't in the list. but finally they took me home. i was
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Sure that everyone will come back. and i can say that eight
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Of the people that i met alive in the captivity, they killed as
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A jewish people, right now, we know that we are not under
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Existential threat, but the hostages they are. we can't win
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Without them.
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>> i agree with you 100%. this war doesn't end until we've
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Brought every last hostage back to the country.
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>> sapir cohen story is one of unimaginable pain, resilience
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And unwavering faith. her survival is a testament to the
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Strength of the human spirit. but her journey is not yet
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Complete. with her partner sasha, and so many others still
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In captivity, we cannot ignore the urgent need to bring them
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All home.
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>> thank you very much, matti shoshani, for the truly
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Important information. we believe in the power of prayer
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And god's ability to bring the hostages home.
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And god's ability to bring the hostages home.
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Please continue to pray for the return of our hostages that are
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Held in the gaza strip. god wants to have a personal
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Relationship with him, especially when we pray. so in
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Order to make your prayers personal, i would like to
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Introduce you to emily taylor damari. she's a 28 year old
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British israeli dual citizen. she was abducted from her
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Apartment in kibbutz kfar aza during the hamas attacks on
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October 7th, 2023. she's the only known british national
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Currently held hostage in gaza. in the early hours of october
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7th, emily sent a final message around 10 a.m. indicating that
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Terrorists were in her neighborhood and shooting near
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Her apartment. since then, there has been no direct communication
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From her. however, other hostages who were released say
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That they saw her in gaza, and they noted her bravery and
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Resilience, recalling her leading sing alongs to uplift
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Spirits during challenging times. emily's mother, mandy,
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Has been actively campaigning for her daughter's release,
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Meeting with uk officials and urging the government to take
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Decisive action. so how can we pray for the situation? please
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Keep praying for the release of the hostages. pray for the idf
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Soldiers wherever they are, in the air, at the sea and on land.
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Pray for the peace of israel. and most importantly, don't
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Forget to pray for the peace of jerusalem and together we will
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Win this war because god is on our side.
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