After Netanyahu’s meetings with President Trump in Florida, the security question in Israel is sharpening: are we heading toward another strike on Iran’s war machine? Intelligence presented in the Iran file points to renewed missile production, increased missile training, and rising concern over non-conventional weapons. Inside Iran, protests and economic collapse are fueling fears of internal unrest even as the regime escalates threats outward.
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Boots on the Ground | Trump Gives Israel “Green Light” On Iran; Hamas Hoards 60,000 Rifles | Boots on the Ground | January 1, 2026
- Iran did not disappear in 2025.
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- It moved closer.
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- Hamas didn't surrender in 2025.
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- It went deeper underground.
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- Hezbollah did not vanish in 2025.
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- It tested red lines
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- And watched what israel was willing to do.
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- And the houthis, they proved something very dangerous,
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- That they still remain capable
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- Of launching rockets towards the jewish state.
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- This year, israel fought on multiple borders:
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- Gaza, judea and samaria, lebanon, syria,
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- And beyond the borders,
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- Yemen and also iran.
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- And while soldiers fought with rifles and jets,
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- Israel also fought an information war
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- In studios, on social media
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- And on campuses all around the world.
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- Tonight is an end of the year report,
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- And the only way to understand 2025
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- Is to see it like a map.
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- We start in gaza.
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- A year of corridors, raids, tunnels, warfare,
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- Relentless pressure on hamas' command structure,
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- Not just fighting squads, but dismantling the system
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- That planned and celebrated october 7th.
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- In 2025, israel kept pushing hamas
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- Into smaller and smaller spaces
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- And at the same time,
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- The hostage story remained the moral clock of this war.
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- Then judea and samaria,
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- The nightly front.
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- Raids, arrests, weapons
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- And a constant effort to prevent terrorist infrastructure
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- From turning northern samaria into another gaza front.
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- To the north, lebanon stayed an active front.
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- Israel struck when red lines were crossed
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- And hezbollah watched carefully,
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- Reducing exposure in some areas,
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- Trying to preserve its capabilities in others.
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- And in syria, israel kept working
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- To stop strategic weapons and hostile forces
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- From turning that border into a new launch pad.
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- I'm yair pinto, and this is your boots on the ground report,
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- Where i'm bringing you the full truth
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- About what's happening in israel.
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- This is the end of 2025.
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- One second before we continue,
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- Thank you for standing with us and for spreading the truth,
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- And of course, for praying for the situation.
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- If you want to receive daily updates
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- From israel, please visit
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- Our tbn israel youtube channel.
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- Make sure to like, share, and subscribe
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- So that you never miss another episode
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- Of boots on the ground.
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- And now we will go to a short commercial break,
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- And when we come back,
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- We'll tell you one story that still isn't finished.
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- We'll tell you one story that still isn't finished.
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- Welcome back.
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- In a year of maps and fronts,
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- There is still one name that reminds us
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- What this war is truly about.
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- Ran gvili.
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- He went out to defend israelis on october 7th
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- And he hasn't returned yet.
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- Here is our special report
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- With tbn israel's senior middle east analyst mati shoshani,
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- And the story of the hostage, ran gvili.
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- In the last couple of weeks,
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- Hamas has violated the ceasefire step after step,
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- Stretching every deadline, twisting every detail,
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- Trying to drag israel into chaos and humiliation.
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- And now, with the first stage almost finished,
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- They're doing it again,
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- On the final and most painful point of all,
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- The last fallen hostage still held in gaza.
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- Tonight, this is not politics.
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- This is a family's last chance to bring their son home.
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- Hi, everyone. i'm mati shoshani,
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- Here from the land of the bible.
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- And we're going to tell you
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- The truth about what's happening
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- On the ground,
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- What god is doing here in israel
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- Without any filters, without any slogans
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- And without lies. only the truth.
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- But before we start, please continue to spread the truth
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- And be our ambassadors of that truth.
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- Because of you, we can do this.
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- For weeks now, israel has been trying to complete
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- Stage one of the ceasefire and return framework.
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- Not because israel trusts hamas, israel obviously doesn't,
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- But because israel made a promise
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- To bring every last hostage home.
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- And hamas, well, hamas has turned the deal into a weapon.
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- Not rockets, not tunnels.
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- A different weapon altogether - psychological terror.
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- They delay. they confuse.
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- They leak rumors. they change the conditions.
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- They hide behind mediators and statements,
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- While real families in israel are forced to wake up every day
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- And ask, is today the day we finally get our loved one back?
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- The name is ran gvili,
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- A young israeli who ran towards fire on october the 7th
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- To defend civilians.
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- He was taken from that battle. he was never returned to israel.
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- And today he is the last hostage still in gaza.
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- The last one.
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- There's a working assessment in israel
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- That there's a real lead on where ran is currently held.
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- A possible location
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- Connected to areas searched previously in the gaza strip,
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- Including gaza city, zaytun area and additional zones.
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- Secondly, israel didn't just ask nicely.
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- Israel has transferred information to the mediators,
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- Including names and maps
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- Connected to the people in islamic jihad network
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- Who, according to israel's assessment, know where ran is.
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- If the people holding this information actually want to,
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- This can be done quickly, but there's a problem
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- That has nothing to do with the capability.
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- It has to do with motivation.
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- They have the ability,
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- But they don't have the will
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- Unless pressure is applied to them.
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- The third thing is hamas announced search activity
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- Within the red cross in new areas,
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- And then nature steps in.
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- Bad weather hit, storms, delays,
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- And suddenly the search is postponed.
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- It's "canceled." it's pushed back.
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- Storms are real, of course, the weather is real,
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- But families don't live inside weather reports.
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- Families live inside time.
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- And hamas knows exactly how to use time as a weapon.
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- And while all of this is happening,
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- There's the bigger strategic tension.
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- Because once stage one is completed,
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- The world moves immediately to stage two.
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- So what happens next in gaza?
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- Is it reconstruction? is it the rafah crossing?
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- Is it international forces? is it demilitarization?
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- And ran's family is saying:
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- Stop. not before ran comes home.
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- Not before the promise made by our country is kept.
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- And tonight, i'm meeting with ran's uncle.
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- Ziv, thank you for being with us, first of all.
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- Thank you for inviting me.
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- And i want to start with where we are today.
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- The israeli state said when this war started,
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- "till the last hostage,"
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- And ran is the last hostage.
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- How does a family hold on for two years?
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- You're his uncle. your sister is his mother.
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- How does a family hold on so long
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- To such a difficult situation?
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- It's very hard for us
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- As a family.
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- We are very tired,
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- But we are not losing hope.
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- We feel that israel
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- Is with us
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- And this gives us the strength and the power to continue on,
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- Understanding that we can't continue
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- To the second phase of the agreement
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- Without bringing ran back.
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- This young man, 24 years old,
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- He leaves his home where he was injured,
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- Expecting a surgery on his shoulder.
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- Yes. -from operational activity
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- And goes to the gaza strip.
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- For over an hour he holds off,
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- The numbers i heard were 70 to 80 terrorists.
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- One man stopping 70 to 80 terrorists.
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- After he was shot in his leg and his arms and a broken shoulder.
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- Yeah, rani was a soldier.
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- He was a fighter in golani.
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- He was a fighter in the swat team of the police.
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- Very big, very strong man.
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- And he's very strong physically and mentally.
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- So this is what makes us believe
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- And give us the hope and the strength
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- To continue on and to wait for him.
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- We really believe that if anyone can survive, it's ran.
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- We've interviewed several of the hostages that have been freed,
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- And every time you meet these people
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- You say: i can't imagine where you found the strength.
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- They found faith. they found god.
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- They helped others survive captivity.
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- And then, as we were preparing for this interview,
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- I was reading about rani.
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- He's part of a unit called the yasam. -yes.
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- And for people who don't live in israel
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- And don't know what it is, yasam is an elite police unit,
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- And by elite i mean, these are the kind of guys
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- Who, in the face of enormous danger,
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- Not only do they storm forward,
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- They do so without any fear whatsoever. -yes.
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- And then you see that rani, among those people,
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- Was larger than most and braver than most. -yes, of course.
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- And you say to yourself,
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- Who would have been able to survive two years
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- In hamas captivity? -only ran.
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- This is the kind of guy. -yeah.
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- This is the kind of guy where he walks and you say:
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- How on earth do you survive?
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- And you realize they have the physique, but also the mindset
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- And the spirit to survive these kind of things. -yes.
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- So i've heard his parents
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- And you talk about this in other interviews,
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- About why he left on october 7th.
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- His unit, of course, is called up
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- On the morning of october 7th,
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- And he's injured at home,
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- About to go through surgery.
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- Yes. -that's how injured he was,
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- In his arm, so technically
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- He shouldn't be able to use a rifle.
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- And he says to his parents, your sister, your brother in law,
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- He says: "i can't let my team fight on their own.
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- "i'm going to be with them." -yes.
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- And they say, i've heard them say this on several interviews -
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- "we didn't expect anything else from him.
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- "it was obvious to us that he would go." -it was obvious.
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- When ran decides to do
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- Something, no one can stop him.
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- So he got on his uniform,
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- He said to his parents: "i go"
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- And he went.
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- He took his father's car, went to his unit in beer sheva
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- And his friend asked him: "what are you doing here?
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- "you are supposed to be at home.
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- "you're supposed to be waiting for your surgery."
- 00:10:56.495 --> 00:10:59.365
- And he told him: "i'm with you.
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- "i can't stay at home when i know you're fighting.
- 00:11:02.435 --> 00:11:05.404
- "you endanger your life.
- 00:11:05.404 --> 00:11:07.206
- "i want to help you to save other people
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- "and i'm coming with you."
- 00:11:09.609 --> 00:11:11.744
- So this is ran.
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- When testimonies that have come out
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- From other commanders in his unit,
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- From other soldiers in his unit... -yes.
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- And they all tell the same story.
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- He fights for more than an hour on his own
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- Against several dozen terrorists.
- 00:11:22.788 --> 00:11:25.324
- They all say he had multiple chances to go back.
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- To go back, yes. -and he chose not to. -yes.
- 00:11:28.594 --> 00:11:31.030
- Every time he chose not to. -yes. every time.
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- We need to understand the mindset of this person.
- 00:11:33.633 --> 00:11:36.168
- I've heard many testimonies from people that were there.
- 00:11:36.168 --> 00:11:38.537
- It's not 50 soldiers against 50 terrorists.
- 00:11:38.537 --> 00:11:41.507
- No. -it was a handful of people that are underequipped,
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- And they're fighting against, they said,
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- At least 70 to 80 terrorists
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- Who have machine guns, rpgs and a huge amount of ammunition.
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- They weren't expecting this kind of fight. -no.
- 00:11:53.286 --> 00:11:55.454
- And tell us the story of how does he fight?
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- What does he do that day?
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- They're supposed to go to the nova festival. -yeah.
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- On the way to the nova festival,
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- Someone stopped them in the junction of kibbutz alumim.
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- He told them: "you can't go forward
- 00:12:08.034 --> 00:12:10.136
- "because there is a lot of 'nukhba' terrorists. stop here."
- 00:12:10.136 --> 00:12:15.107
- And they stop in the junction, go out from the car,
- 00:12:15.107 --> 00:12:18.244
- And just in the second they go out,
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- They start getting fire from the "nukhba" terrorists.
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- There was a big fight,
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- Something, more than 50 or 60 terrorists who died over there.
- 00:12:26.185 --> 00:12:30.323
- After a while, they go to kibbutz saad. the gas station.
- 00:12:30.323 --> 00:12:35.027
- There were more than 100 people
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- Who ran away from the nova festival.
- 00:12:39.231 --> 00:12:41.968
- Those people wanted to go home, to the north.
- 00:12:42.902 --> 00:12:46.505
- Ran stopped them with his body, he stopped them,
- 00:12:46.505 --> 00:12:48.908
- "you can't go to this road. go to the other way."
- 00:12:48.908 --> 00:12:52.178
- We know it from the people,
- 00:12:52.178 --> 00:12:53.713
- "our lives were saved because of him,
- 00:12:53.713 --> 00:12:55.514
- "because he told the way to go."
- 00:12:55.514 --> 00:12:58.017
- In the same time, he gets a phone call
- 00:12:58.818 --> 00:13:00.753
- From his friend in kibbutz alumim who stayed there.
- 00:13:00.753 --> 00:13:03.055
- "ran, we need help, there are a lot of terrorists, come back."
- 00:13:03.055 --> 00:13:07.293
- So he took the person who was with him,
- 00:13:07.293 --> 00:13:09.495
- Went back to alumim.
- 00:13:09.495 --> 00:13:12.064
- When they arrived to alumim junction,
- 00:13:12.064 --> 00:13:14.500
- They get into an ambush from both sides of the road.
- 00:13:14.500 --> 00:13:18.404
- I don't know how much, but a lot of nukhba terrorists
- 00:13:18.404 --> 00:13:22.074
- Shot on the car from both sides.
- 00:13:22.074 --> 00:13:25.211
- In the same ambush, the driver, guy madar,
- 00:13:25.211 --> 00:13:28.748
- Was injured in his leg.
- 00:13:28.748 --> 00:13:31.751
- Ran was injured in his leg and the arms.
- 00:13:31.751 --> 00:13:34.387
- The car stopped.
- 00:13:34.387 --> 00:13:35.688
- They jump from the car
- 00:13:36.188 --> 00:13:39.058
- Just five seconds before the rpg blow the car.
- 00:13:39.058 --> 00:13:42.595
- And this time they are separated.
- 00:13:43.362 --> 00:13:45.998
- Ran took cover in a bush,
- 00:13:46.565 --> 00:13:49.535
- A very... -very dense bush. -very dense bush.
- 00:13:49.535 --> 00:13:53.005
- And he can put his hand and lie down
- 00:13:53.773 --> 00:13:56.475
- And no one can see him.
- 00:13:56.475 --> 00:13:57.810
- But this is not ran.
- 00:13:57.810 --> 00:14:01.347
- He saw terrorists arrive
- 00:14:01.847 --> 00:14:04.250
- With the cars, with the tenders. a lot of them come.
- 00:14:04.250 --> 00:14:08.587
- He said to his friend that they are 500 meters behind him.
- 00:14:08.587 --> 00:14:12.658
- "be careful. they are arriving"
- 00:14:12.658 --> 00:14:14.994
- And start making a fight with them.
- 00:14:14.994 --> 00:14:17.563
- He fight, i must say, with injuries in his leg, in his arm
- 00:14:17.563 --> 00:14:22.468
- And a broken shoulder,
- 00:14:22.468 --> 00:14:24.203
- And he continue fighting till the last bullet,
- 00:14:24.203 --> 00:14:27.540
- And then they got him. -for more than an hour.
- 00:14:27.540 --> 00:14:30.009
- More than an hour, yes.
- 00:14:30.009 --> 00:14:31.177
- More than an hour against 70 to 80 terrorists. -yes.
- 00:14:31.177 --> 00:14:34.747
- There's been stories that came out
- 00:14:35.514 --> 00:14:37.650
- Where he's... while he's doing this,
- 00:14:37.650 --> 00:14:40.352
- He's texting his friends and saying: "i'm holding them off."
- 00:14:40.352 --> 00:14:43.022
- Yeah. -but he's one guy. -one guy.
- 00:14:43.022 --> 00:14:45.124
- One guy hiding behind the bushes.
- 00:14:45.124 --> 00:14:47.093
- Not some, you know, big stronghold.
- 00:14:47.093 --> 00:14:51.230
- And he killed... they don't know how many exactly,
- 00:14:51.230 --> 00:14:53.232
- They say at least 14 directly in that spot. -yeah.
- 00:14:53.232 --> 00:14:56.435
- In that spot. after he's done a lot before them. -yes.
- 00:14:56.435 --> 00:14:59.572
- Held them off for a very long amount of time
- 00:14:59.572 --> 00:15:01.207
- While other forces were showing up.
- 00:15:01.207 --> 00:15:03.008
- And he said to them: i'm not going to let them get past me,
- 00:15:03.008 --> 00:15:05.411
- Because if they get past me, they'll get to my friends,
- 00:15:05.411 --> 00:15:07.012
- They'll get to the civilians.
- 00:15:07.012 --> 00:15:10.015
- While he was in the bush, his brother called him.
- 00:15:11.016 --> 00:15:15.521
- His brother is a policeman too.
- 00:15:16.155 --> 00:15:18.124
- He knows that ran's at home because ran is... -injured.
- 00:15:18.124 --> 00:15:21.060
- Injured. and then ran said: "i can't speak with you now.
- 00:15:21.060 --> 00:15:24.163
- "i'm surrounded. i'm injured in my leg, in my arms.
- 00:15:24.163 --> 00:15:27.633
- "don't tell mother and father, don't tell my parents,
- 00:15:27.633 --> 00:15:30.603
- "i'm okay" and hung up.
- 00:15:30.603 --> 00:15:32.771
- Very calm, very easy, very...
- 00:15:33.405 --> 00:15:35.674
- You know, it's like, "i'm on a vacation now."
- 00:15:35.674 --> 00:15:38.711
- "a lot of terrorists around me, i'm injured,"
- 00:15:38.711 --> 00:15:40.546
- But very calm.
- 00:15:40.546 --> 00:15:43.048
- His brother is the last one to speak with him.
- 00:15:43.048 --> 00:15:45.384
- It was like 10:46, 10:47 a.m.
- 00:15:46.085 --> 00:15:51.590
- This is the last time we hear about him.
- 00:15:52.458 --> 00:15:56.829
- And now i think we get to the question
- 00:15:57.663 --> 00:15:58.764
- Of what has happened with ran,
- 00:15:58.764 --> 00:16:01.834
- And where is he right now?
- 00:16:01.834 --> 00:16:04.537
- And we're here talking because he's the last hostage
- 00:16:04.537 --> 00:16:08.073
- That's held in hamas captivity,
- 00:16:08.073 --> 00:16:11.043
- And we don't know what his situation is.
- 00:16:11.043 --> 00:16:12.845
- We know that he was taken.
- 00:16:13.412 --> 00:16:16.248
- There's video footage that came out
- 00:16:16.248 --> 00:16:18.184
- In the days after his captivity.
- 00:16:18.184 --> 00:16:21.086
- But since then, nothing.
- 00:16:21.086 --> 00:16:22.855
- The last picture is from the day we saw him in gaza.
- 00:16:22.855 --> 00:16:26.392
- We saw him get into shifa hospital
- 00:16:26.392 --> 00:16:29.795
- When he was lying down on the motorcycle.
- 00:16:29.795 --> 00:16:32.364
- We know that the islamic jihad,
- 00:16:32.364 --> 00:16:35.367
- They kidnapped him, not the hamas.
- 00:16:35.367 --> 00:16:37.736
- We believe that they know where he is.
- 00:16:37.736 --> 00:16:42.875
- We believe that they keep him as a bargain,
- 00:16:42.875 --> 00:16:46.645
- And we hope to see him back soon.
- 00:16:47.413 --> 00:16:50.583
- So let's talk about that hope. -yes.
- 00:16:50.583 --> 00:16:53.285
- One, there is no clear intelligence.
- 00:16:54.086 --> 00:16:56.422
- And we've been reporting on this every day for weeks now.
- 00:16:56.422 --> 00:17:00.492
- Ran is the last hostage, and the idf says:
- 00:17:00.492 --> 00:17:04.430
- We know who was with him on the day that he was kidnapped.
- 00:17:04.430 --> 00:17:07.733
- We know their names.
- 00:17:07.733 --> 00:17:08.867
- Some of them are alive, some of them are not alive.
- 00:17:08.867 --> 00:17:11.103
- We know where he was last seen by those people. -yes.
- 00:17:11.103 --> 00:17:14.607
- Islamic jihad and hamas say: we don't know where this person is.
- 00:17:14.607 --> 00:17:19.178
- And the idf and the ministry of defense in israel say publicly:
- 00:17:19.178 --> 00:17:22.414
- You're lying. you do know where he is.
- 00:17:22.414 --> 00:17:24.483
- We've told you where he is. we want him back.
- 00:17:24.483 --> 00:17:27.152
- Yes. -hamas and islamic jihad,
- 00:17:27.152 --> 00:17:29.154
- They're not doing this for the sake of fun.
- 00:17:29.154 --> 00:17:31.523
- They want to torment the people of israel.
- 00:17:31.523 --> 00:17:33.792
- And five years from now, if we don't get him back now,
- 00:17:33.792 --> 00:17:36.395
- Ten years from now, they'll continue using this
- 00:17:36.395 --> 00:17:38.497
- As a bargaining chip against israel. -definitely.
- 00:17:38.497 --> 00:17:40.432
- And we've seen them do this time and time again.
- 00:17:40.432 --> 00:17:43.269
- And we need people to understand that we can't move forward
- 00:17:43.269 --> 00:17:47.006
- Until he's back with his family. -definitely.
- 00:17:47.006 --> 00:17:49.708
- We can't move forward. there was an agreement.
- 00:17:49.708 --> 00:17:52.344
- The agreement said in the first phase,
- 00:17:52.344 --> 00:17:54.513
- It's all the hostages back.
- 00:17:54.513 --> 00:17:57.283
- 48 hostages must come back home.
- 00:17:57.283 --> 00:18:01.020
- We bring 47.
- 00:18:01.353 --> 00:18:02.821
- We're still waiting for ran, and we must hold for it.
- 00:18:02.821 --> 00:18:07.793
- No, we can't agree to go to the next phase.
- 00:18:07.793 --> 00:18:11.764
- I don't think we can see ran anymore
- 00:18:11.764 --> 00:18:13.732
- If we go to the next stage of the agreement.
- 00:18:13.732 --> 00:18:17.136
- Yeah. every last hostage. -every last hostage.
- 00:18:17.136 --> 00:18:20.005
- Including ran. -including ran. -yeah.
- 00:18:20.005 --> 00:18:24.643
- There's a chance that ran is alive.
- 00:18:25.377 --> 00:18:27.613
- There's still a chance, yes. -there's very much a chance
- 00:18:27.613 --> 00:18:29.415
- That ran is alive. we don't know.
- 00:18:29.415 --> 00:18:31.383
- No one has seen any evidence that says otherwise.
- 00:18:31.383 --> 00:18:34.286
- We have people around the world who watch this,
- 00:18:34.286 --> 00:18:36.055
- About half of north america and then in many, many countries,
- 00:18:36.055 --> 00:18:38.824
- In several languages around the world.
- 00:18:38.824 --> 00:18:40.726
- What do you want them to know
- 00:18:40.726 --> 00:18:42.194
- About why we can't move forward without ran?
- 00:18:42.194 --> 00:18:44.897
- Ran is more than 800 days
- 00:18:45.464 --> 00:18:48.834
- Under the streets of gaza, in the dungeons of gaza.
- 00:18:48.834 --> 00:18:53.472
- No one knows about him. no one knows what happened with him,
- 00:18:53.472 --> 00:18:57.209
- If he's alive or not.
- 00:18:57.209 --> 00:19:01.413
- We must do everything to bring him back
- 00:19:01.413 --> 00:19:03.649
- And i want your sound.
- 00:19:04.149 --> 00:19:06.018
- I want you to speak with anyone you can,
- 00:19:06.018 --> 00:19:09.488
- To go to anywhere you can, and ask him
- 00:19:09.488 --> 00:19:12.424
- Not to go to the second phase until ran comes back home.
- 00:19:12.424 --> 00:19:16.195
- Ran is a hero. israel needs him back.
- 00:19:16.195 --> 00:19:18.430
- You know, the children of israel,
- 00:19:18.430 --> 00:19:21.467
- Now they hear the story about ran,
- 00:19:22.234 --> 00:19:25.604
- We must do everything to bring this hero back home. -yeah.
- 00:19:25.604 --> 00:19:29.541
- What is the government telling you?
- 00:19:30.309 --> 00:19:31.944
- The same. they tell us that they know
- 00:19:32.778 --> 00:19:35.514
- That someone knows where ran is
- 00:19:35.514 --> 00:19:38.350
- And they continue to do everything to bring him back.
- 00:19:38.350 --> 00:19:42.788
- Prime minister benjamin netanyahu just spoke
- 00:19:42.788 --> 00:19:45.591
- With tali and itzik, the parents of ran,
- 00:19:45.591 --> 00:19:49.027
- And promise them that they don't continue on
- 00:19:49.027 --> 00:19:52.364
- Until ran's come back. we really want to believe him.
- 00:19:52.364 --> 00:19:55.734
- We hold our hands and waiting
- 00:19:55.734 --> 00:19:58.170
- For ran to come back home.
- 00:19:58.170 --> 00:20:00.806
- I want to thank you for taking the time
- 00:20:01.673 --> 00:20:03.842
- To sit down and tell us the story.
- 00:20:03.842 --> 00:20:05.778
- And i want to say this to people at home that are watching.
- 00:20:05.778 --> 00:20:08.313
- There's a family in southern israel
- 00:20:09.047 --> 00:20:11.550
- Who's been praying for over 800 days to see their son come back.
- 00:20:11.550 --> 00:20:14.887
- And imagine yourself in his...
- 00:20:14.887 --> 00:20:17.289
- In the father's seat, in the mother's seat,
- 00:20:17.289 --> 00:20:20.292
- In the uncle's seat.
- 00:20:20.292 --> 00:20:22.194
- You wouldn't wish for anyone else to say
- 00:20:22.194 --> 00:20:24.029
- "let's just move on." no.
- 00:20:24.029 --> 00:20:26.064
- We bring back every last son, every last daughter,
- 00:20:26.064 --> 00:20:27.733
- Every last grandfather until the very last one.
- 00:20:27.733 --> 00:20:30.769
- And this is the last one. -yes.
- 00:20:30.769 --> 00:20:32.404
- And after this, we're able to move on as a people.
- 00:20:32.404 --> 00:20:35.474
- So that is our prayer that he comes back alive and well,
- 00:20:35.474 --> 00:20:38.210
- Reunited with his family,
- 00:20:38.210 --> 00:20:39.778
- And that we get to move on to better days.
- 00:20:39.778 --> 00:20:41.713
- We hope so. -thank you. -thank you very much.
- 00:20:41.713 --> 00:20:45.984
- In the coming days,
- 00:20:46.452 --> 00:20:47.686
- Watch for three things that are going to happen.
- 00:20:47.686 --> 00:20:50.255
- Whether the searches resume immediately
- 00:20:50.255 --> 00:20:52.324
- When the weather clears,
- 00:20:52.324 --> 00:20:53.525
- And whether there's a real momentum that's carried on.
- 00:20:53.525 --> 00:20:56.595
- Whether hamas and the other terror factions
- 00:20:56.595 --> 00:20:59.264
- Actually cooperate or keep playing games,
- 00:20:59.264 --> 00:21:03.502
- And whether international pressure
- 00:21:03.502 --> 00:21:05.337
- Tries to force a jump to stage two
- 00:21:05.337 --> 00:21:07.673
- Before ran comes home.
- 00:21:07.673 --> 00:21:10.242
- Hamas and islamic jihad
- 00:21:10.242 --> 00:21:12.411
- And many news outlets around the world,
- 00:21:12.411 --> 00:21:14.379
- They want you to think that this whole debate
- 00:21:14.379 --> 00:21:16.014
- Over the last hostage is a technicality
- 00:21:16.014 --> 00:21:18.817
- Or a matter of statistics, and that israel should just move on.
- 00:21:18.817 --> 00:21:22.621
- But let me tell you something, none of this is accidental.
- 00:21:22.621 --> 00:21:26.325
- None of this is unintentional.
- 00:21:26.325 --> 00:21:28.126
- It's a well-orchestrated ceremony
- 00:21:28.126 --> 00:21:30.562
- About the identity of the last hostage.
- 00:21:30.562 --> 00:21:33.499
- Ran gvili was a hero, a man who fought his entire life for good.
- 00:21:33.499 --> 00:21:38.270
- While on the morning of october 7th, with an injury,
- 00:21:38.270 --> 00:21:41.073
- Went to fight alongside his comrades
- 00:21:41.073 --> 00:21:43.342
- And killed with his own hands terrorists
- 00:21:43.342 --> 00:21:44.810
- That were on their way to murder innocent israeli civilians.
- 00:21:44.810 --> 00:21:49.381
- This is the man that they're holding last.
- 00:21:49.381 --> 00:21:51.617
- This is the bargaining chip. this is the symbolic character
- 00:21:51.617 --> 00:21:55.387
- That they want to make sure doesn't make his way
- 00:21:55.387 --> 00:21:57.523
- Back to israel.
- 00:21:57.523 --> 00:21:59.491
- I want to end with a prayer.
- 00:22:00.092 --> 00:22:02.427
- God of israel, we pray for the peace of the people of israel
- 00:22:02.427 --> 00:22:06.164
- Who are fighting and carrying this burden.
- 00:22:06.164 --> 00:22:08.433
- We pray for the return of the hostages
- 00:22:08.433 --> 00:22:10.202
- Still held in the gaza strip,
- 00:22:10.202 --> 00:22:12.070
- For that one hostage,
- 00:22:12.070 --> 00:22:13.472
- And for his family that is waiting for a miracle.
- 00:22:13.472 --> 00:22:16.542
- We pray for the safety of the people of northern israel
- 00:22:16.542 --> 00:22:19.444
- Who were forced to leave their homes,
- 00:22:19.444 --> 00:22:21.313
- And for every family living with fear and uncertainty.
- 00:22:21.313 --> 00:22:24.783
- And lord,bring comfort to the brokenhearted,
- 00:22:24.783 --> 00:22:27.219
- Especially the gvili family,
- 00:22:27.219 --> 00:22:29.221
- Until ran is brought home
- 00:22:29.221 --> 00:22:31.123
- With the dignity he and his family deserve.
- 00:22:31.123 --> 00:22:34.059
- And don't forget to pray for the peace of jerusalem.
- 00:22:34.059 --> 00:22:37.362
- Subscribe. stay with us. keep telling the truth
- 00:22:37.362 --> 00:22:41.333
- And we'll keep bringing you what's really happening
- 00:22:41.333 --> 00:22:44.169
- Here on the ground in israel.
- 00:22:44.169 --> 00:22:49.741
- Thank you.
- 00:22:50.042 --> 00:22:51.109
- This is why the next phase, phase b, stage b,
- 00:22:51.109 --> 00:22:55.414
- Is not just politics. it's not just strategy.
- 00:22:55.414 --> 00:22:59.017
- It's a promise that israel lives by.
- 00:22:59.017 --> 00:23:01.453
- We do not leave our people behind.
- 00:23:01.453 --> 00:23:03.655
- We go now to a short commercial break
- 00:23:03.655 --> 00:23:06.425
- And when we come back
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- We will close this end of the year report
- 00:23:07.693 --> 00:23:10.062
- With prayer, together. so don't go anywhere.
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- With prayer, together. so don't go anywhere.
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- Thank you for coming back.
- 00:23:26.201 --> 00:23:27.803
- As we close 2025,
- 00:23:27.803 --> 00:23:30.505
- Here's the truth.
- 00:23:30.505 --> 00:23:31.740
- The world did not end,
- 00:23:31.740 --> 00:23:33.141
- But israel proved something this year,
- 00:23:33.141 --> 00:23:35.577
- That it can fight on borders and also beyond the borders,
- 00:23:35.577 --> 00:23:40.415
- That it can adapt, that it can protect the home front,
- 00:23:40.415 --> 00:23:44.453
- And that it will keep hunting terror leadership
- 00:23:44.453 --> 00:23:47.789
- Even when the world tries to look away
- 00:23:47.789 --> 00:23:50.692
- And the near future is already here.
- 00:23:50.692 --> 00:23:53.328
- The discussions about phase b in the gaza strip
- 00:23:53.328 --> 00:23:56.231
- Are not theoretical. they are imminent.
- 00:23:56.231 --> 00:23:59.468
- The pressure will be heavy, the diplomacy will be intense
- 00:23:59.468 --> 00:24:03.572
- And israel's security and their demands will be clear.
- 00:24:03.572 --> 00:24:07.776
- We will keep bringing you the full truth as it unfolds,
- 00:24:07.776 --> 00:24:11.346
- Because what we understand from two years of war
- 00:24:11.346 --> 00:24:15.283
- Is that this is a spiritual battle.
- 00:24:15.283 --> 00:24:18.253
- And the only way that i know how to fight a spiritual battle
- 00:24:18.253 --> 00:24:22.023
- Is by praying and asking god to intervene.
- 00:24:22.023 --> 00:24:25.560
- Asking god to give wisdom to our leaders, to us,
- 00:24:25.560 --> 00:24:29.364
- Every single day, in every decision that we make.
- 00:24:29.364 --> 00:24:33.502
- God is using israel the same way that he used israel
- 00:24:33.502 --> 00:24:38.206
- 2,000 years ago in biblical times,
- 00:24:38.206 --> 00:24:41.810
- To show to the entire world that if he's faithful to us,
- 00:24:41.810 --> 00:24:46.782
- To the stubborn people of israel,
- 00:24:46.782 --> 00:24:48.950
- He will be faithful to each and every one of you
- 00:24:48.950 --> 00:24:51.887
- In whatever it is that you're struggling with,
- 00:24:51.887 --> 00:24:54.790
- Going through in your life.
- 00:24:54.790 --> 00:24:56.491
- He's there. our god has not changed his promises,
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- And he is faithful for eternity, and that's encouraging.
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- So let's pray.
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- Our father in heaven, thank you that you are with us
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- That you are taking care of your people, israel.
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- Our father in heaven, thank you that you are with us
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- That you are taking care of your people, israel.
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- That you are faithful to all of us around the world
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- That believe in you. thank you for protecting us.
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- Thank you for performing biblical level miracles
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- In modern days here in israel.
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- Thank you, on a personal level,
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- For protecting my family, my children and my wife
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- Throughout this intense time.
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- Please protect us also against all the anti-semitism
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- And the propaganda and the media hatred.
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- Please help us spread the truth
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- Of what you are doing in this land
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- So that people can be encouraged.
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- We pray for our enemies not to succeed
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- In launching missiles at us, but in loving the jewish people,
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- Having a change of heart
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- From hatred to love,
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- From the enemy to you.
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- Only you can make that happen.
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- We are praying for the peace of jerusalem.
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- In the name of yeshua.
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- In the name of jesus. amen.
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- Thank you for joining us
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- And keep praying for the peace of jerusalem.
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