the ends of trees starts october 28th on dw, the w line from berlin, amounts releases to american hostages, for what it called humanitarian reasons. mother and daughter judith and natalie run on were among the over $200.00 people, abducted in the terror attacks earlier this month. meanwhile, there are growing concerns about the conditions in god. the un secretary general demands the opening of a border crossing to bring in aid from agent. the

article fairly, it's good to have you with us says it has released to american hostages for what it calls humanitarian reasons. they've been named. as judith and natalie run on from chicago, the mother and daughter were among some 200 captives, abducted by her monitoring its terror attacks. and israel on october, 7th from us also says is working with mediators from guitar and egypt to release civilian hostages. journalist assembly, socal in jerusalem told me more about the 2 us citizens released by i'm a us. yeah. well, the mother and thought the familiar suburb outside the chicago were visiting and is around and they were staying and they keep boots over enough outlaws which is just outside the gaza strip. they were visiting family when the attack yet took place on

the 7th of october. uh they were hiding in the safe room and that was the last time they communicated with their mobile phones. from there they were taken captive into the gaza strip at by a mouse and the today the were very of release. we know that they're being brought to beat their family members this evening. now, among the hostages, there are many who will need care. elderly people, sick people, babies, can we expect more of them to be released? yeah, well, this is exactly what the mazda announced today. they said, and you can see it on the telegram kind of, that there's a how mosse movement decision. as to close the 5 of the civilians, that means they want to release the civilians according to this statement and the

they will release the ones the have. the proper security is situation that would enable it and that that means that they couldn't release them . that's what i would read into this statement. they could not release them was, is released bombarding the gaza strip. was there is no possibility like a technical possibility to release the a to the other side. yeah. so we know very little at this point. this could well be the results of, of negotiations, who is taking the lead here in these back channel talks with him on as well. it is very clear that the cut, the emerging is a very important the player and all of this. a cut that has both very good relations with the united states of america. and it has at the same time,

very good relations with the, with him us in the statement of the, the how most released. they're saying that they released these 2 women. and because of the cut in another statement, they're saying that their efforts are and, and the assign can both egypt and cut the. so it seems like these are the main players here that are acting at behind the scenes in order to release at least that the 1st stage, the civilians outside of the gaza strip are released that also the us and the red cross have been taking credit for that was during liz saw me circle in jerusalem, thank you. and the us secretary of state antony blinking has been engaged in diplomatic efforts, welcomed the release of the hostages, and called on her mouse to free, more captives during my own recent travel of the region. i have,

besides the urgency and importance of this to the united states and pressed our partners to do everything they can to help us secure the release. since that time we continue to work for you, let loosely was partners to do just that. i can't speak publicly about the details of these efforts. i know you understand that. but the urgent work to free every single american to free all other hostages continues as our work to secure the safe passage out of gaza for the americans who were trapped there. in this particular instance, i want to thank the government of cutter for their very important assistance. special corresponding to abraham has more a. these are the 1st hostages released by him off since the attacks on israel. what else have you heard from you as the officials? it really is a glimmer of hope and what has been the very, very difficult a 2 weeks or so for this administration. so far we've heard from

a president biden and a written statement and secretary of state anthony blinking. so let me just walk you through some of the main takeaways from both of these statements. president biden said that he was thrilled that the 2 women, the mother and daughter have been released and that they can count on the us government for any support they may need as they recover. the president also said that his administration has not seized its efforts to secure the release of those still being held by him us and that the release of american hostages is his top priority. so this tells us that there are indeed more hostages, more us how to just being held by him as a group designated as a tear group by the us. and the e. u, and notably, he thinks is real. but he also sent a cutoff for its efforts in a, in the release of these hostages. this is not the 1st time that we're seeing

concert take this role of a mediator between the united states and adversary just in september. because there was also the mediator in a now very controversial preserver exchange agreement between the united states and iran. and so, as of this story continues to develop, i mean there over 200 hostages being held and we've heard from the us government and these really government of course, that they will try everything to get them released. we can expect the contact to continue playing an important role in mediating these offers. yeah, you said more americans are expected to be under the hostages. what do we know about them? these us citizens held by him a of the will speaking to the press today, a secretary of state, anthony blinking said that there were 10 americans that were still on accounted for . but he didn't specify how many of those uh,

are believe to be in the gaza. strip or are hostages, but 10 americans are an, a, an accounted for an administration does believe that some of them are being held hostage. he was not really able to give any details about their state or their whereabouts or to that and giving any details about the rest of the negotiations. the administration has in such a time and time again that giving details about their efforts to release these hostages would be counter productive, but that didn't, does remain a priority for them. and we can expect that priority to continue as this unfortunate crisis. tragedy continues to abraham, thanks for your reporting. israel has confirmed and will allow a limited number of trucks carry humanitarian aid to enter gaza and will not block supplies. but as the un calls for unrestricted access residents and guards,

a wait for the shipments, the region is still being bumped. last thoughts of the gaza strip have been reduced to rubble by israel's retaliatory. air strikes. the need for humanitarian aid is becoming desperate. the strikes have taken a heavy thought on families like uses. his sister was killed in the bombing. he and 2 other family members suffered serious injuries. you know, i don't even saw the on the issue that why did this really is randomly bump my house is what i use that it's betsy. we are civilians. and to disagree of that there's no one here but us. my father is with us and just disability, so let's move it and what his eyes on what i mean. so if it doesn't cost liaison

just over the border in egypt, trucks filled with 8 or waiting to cross into gaza. the head of the united nation says the board must be opened as a matter of urgency. behind these walls, we have 2000000 people that is suffering in honor mosley. that says no water, us, no foods, no magazine, no for israel has persisted in bumping the directory, including this neighborhood in garza city. many hoping to escape before an anticipated ground offensive, including use of the father and his family could not secure safe passage near how why, so we went to the crossing but they told us it would open but it didn't think, i don't know. we tried to find shelter in the south and couldn't. so we decided to return home when the mag, unfortunately a house was found while we were inside because that's plus,

but these are all ready for 1. 8 is expected to arrive soon. many fear it wouldn't be too lucky and too late. if israel launch is a ground offensive into gaza, it will have to deal with a sophisticated network of tunnels under the territory used by homos and other islamist groups. perhaps hundreds of kilometers long. it's known as the gaza metro . one of many is rarely airstrikes on gauze. this one targeting cause tunnel network according to the israel defense forces for id f, destroying the tunnels used by the militant islam is the group come off, has long been a priority for israel's military. the network runs underneath gaza, connecting its cities running to the border with israel, and also connecting the strip with egypt. the tunnel slip militant store weapons launch attacks and are believed to contain how must command centers because those

tunnels are also lifeline to the outside world. passage ways for importing essential goods, as well as weapons under a long standing is rarely blockade. this animated video released by israel shows what they suppose that they looked like inside militant as lemons. tomas has been developing the tunnel network since they came to power in 2007. recently have us claim that tumble network is 500 kilometers long from us another to how does groups use tunnel exits? basically, holes in the ground to launch rock and attacks on israel. the launchers are then brought back underground. that makes them nearly impossible for israel to see or target. israel has tried bombarding the tunnels and 2014 in 20172021. to destroy the network without success, but with significant civilian casualties. the terminal network is reportedly woven underneath marketplace as apartment blocks and hospitals. the

conflict has prompted and pro palestinian and protest around the world. peer and berlin. such demonstrations have been bandwidth, felice citing fears for public safety despite the band. hundreds of people have been arrested at rallies in support of palestinians not has raised questions about free speech. and the right to demonstrate. for the seems like desktop, played out your tongue. bell lane streets, large groups of angry men throwing rocks, both tools and even fireworks out. police who responded with walter counting. hundreds have been arrested. parts of the city have been on a knife edge since police fund pro palestinian protest with the official saying, such gatherings have been used to incite hatred calls for the killing of jews or the destruction of israel, their small skin barrel in worship,

or se bonding protest is the wrong approach that started to diminish, should be the possibility is this also included in german law for demonstrations as long as they are not violent. is committed to this end up applying this. so you have the feeling about the german state use of freedom of speech when it wants. that means freedom of speech movie is really citizen, the not for the palestinian citizens to do for this. and then just look at the spanish speaking at the jury school in the capital, the head of the center, right, cd your party said he backs the bond is good to go. so that will have to be a band on activities against people on this. we have not turn this off, and of course it will also have to be a band on demonstrations machine. so if what happens is what we have seen often enough or too often in the last 10 days and images, namely that, that hasn't been violent demonstrations here. to that,

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