steps, and in order to be prepared, prepared for that. of course, we're on told her rights attacks against us and therefore it is as the your reports are right. they pointed out the very front you all situated question them around. we are expecting to maintain our positions and where and maintaining our defensive capabilities correctly saying we don't want people returning to the most precisely because this war is most of our we are in a pulse and operational pause. that is dictating the way forward it the operation is currently focused on to call things festival and getting the hostages out. and maintaining conducting the, the, the, the release of the terrace and criminals coming out of as rarely prisons. and this is the focus for the next at least 4 days. we will be prepared in order to respond to any aggression against us. how do you think this falls into fighting will impact israel's plans to eliminate from us? is this going to compromise the is really military's ability to prosecute is war

against him? us a deal for the war if it will continue, the government has set so the prime minister states of it explicitly, our role in this is to implement the government policy in order to make sure that from us can never wield the sort of death against us. right is ever again, um, you know, they utilize and abused all of the tools of government in order to build their charter as capabilities in order to build the rockets in order to build the tunnel system in order to build. that's iris all me that infiltrate to this route on the 7th of october. so the, the, the, it doesn't change the end goal. it doesn't change the directive. we are but focused because the 2 goals of this war go hand in hand. we have to bring on the hostages, and this is what we're focused on today, haven't over the next few days. and we also make needs to make sure that from us never have our again, in order to utilize it against the people of is around the neighbor that against

the people of god's us. what is really forces, understand our warning, displaced palestinians, and gaza. those have moved to the south, telling them not to go back to the northern part of the strip, but understand that a mouse is telling people indeed to go north will is really soldiers stop palestinians trying to go north if they attempted i know we've been very clear, and i think it was part of the agreement that people should not be moving most. we want permits that people should, can kind of continue to go south, but not go to the most. there is a very, very expensive as you are aware, military presence on the grounds. the combat zone is still very active and dangerous. people should not pretend to know. with me now is to grab you as a melinda crime and the student here breaking news coming in this house, searching is rarely hostages on that. now be handed over to addiction authorities by the red cross. what are the next steps that they will be taken to has every in

our base in israel, where they will be examined medically examined, but also examined of course, for signs of trauma for now, nutrition, for dehydration, it is fascinating because the international red cross will now take them in charge, but in fact has next to no information. certainly none that it has gotten directly . it has not been permitted by a mouse to visit the hostages. that is, in contravention of international law. it has received some documentation from the n g o in israel that assembled essentially medical details on the hostages. yet, essentially we're told we're hearing from officials that they've never faced a situation like this where they know so little about the condition of the people they are going to be receiving. and there's great concern, of course,

about what condition people will be in it. presumably most, if not all, have been held under ground for the past 6 weeks. we do know on the basis of the elderly lady who was released, the 85 year old is rarely hostages, who was released that she was held in a tunnel, sleeping on a mattress on the ground, killed in a small group there. and she said she did get some medical treatment while she was held, but we, we don't know whether that's true of all of the hostages. so a very uncertain situation as they now do face medical examination and treatment before then eventually being taken on to be brought for some of them, not all to be brought finally into contact with their families. and now, even though some progress being reported adults, which is now being taken by a 2 to the cost of the $2.00 will buy each eviction into israel.

i'm, i'm, i'm, i understand that, but still this whole situation, this whole day is very volatile. everybody is holding the, the brass still many unknowns. do you think there's a risk of everything anything could still fail? absolutely. there's a long history of fail to cease fires in this region. it goes back decades. and it of these really government has pointed out, how much is the terrorist organization? how reliable are they as an interlocutor, as a negotiation partner in this pretty complex deal? so the fact that this release has now occurred is a 1st sign that there may be some reliability to the deal, but it is still very early days. this is day one of 4 days. there are some very important conditions that are attached to this deal. there's an operation room in doha and katara guitar, of course,

was instrumental in brokering this deal together with the united states. that operation room will be watching my new lease for any possible breach in hopes of being able to squelch it right away and ensure that the deal does move forward. but there is no question that it is fragile. take the issue that you were discussing earlier with our colleague sean, in regard to the movement of people, apparently from the south to the north in the gaza strip. that is not supposed to be occurring that could provide cover for her mouse to move some of the hostages. israel had hoped that through its prior surveillance work and now essentially notices where that certainly may become more difficult in the course of the ceasefire. so lots of factors that to that operations room and of course the i, d, f and all others will be watching as this progresses. and that is just the beginning of the many uncertainties associated with this. one of the big factors.

because of course, the, the, the international pressure that's being exerted, especially, of course, on israel, that in how far has that played into, uh, israel's decision to accept this the spot? well, i think there's not only international pressure, but domestic pressure in israel. and of course, that has grown over time. we've recently saw the march by 20000 people from television to jerusalem to essentially tell the government it is time to bring these hostages home. there has been a great deal of questioning of the is rarely governments decision to keep prosecuting the more and essentially not perhaps of make a greater effort to get the hostages released. so that's one source of pressure from hostages family. but also for many, many other is really concerned as the time went on and the hostages did not come back. and then the traditional pressure, of course, from the u. s,

which essentially has now been pushing hard for this deal since around november 12th. the deal as, as you know, was initially suggested by cuts are not long after the october 7th attack around october 12th. it presented the 1st idea of a release of all palestinian women a sorry, oh is really hostages. all women hostages, and also all palestinian women held in these rarely jails. count. israel turned that down, and then there was a period of further discussion until around november 12th, where essentially uh, the us made it clear that this needs to move faster and put a lot of pressure on the nearest katara who then put pressure on her mouse, which eventually did then agree to take it forward only then to essentially go dark

. when is rarely forces under the aisle chief a hospital at which point the deal looked like it might fall apart. us put on more pressure together with tar. and that resulted in the fact that at the beginning of this week, we did see movement. so lots of pressure indeed from the to mediators of the deal. and then finally, interestingly enough, for the 1st time, actually by the united nations, the 1st un, the resolution, the 1st un resolution since 2016 on the middle east. that's how hard it is to get any kind of agreement in the security council. now the us and u. k. of stained on the resolution demanding a humanitarian ceasefire, and humanitarian aid to be admitted into the gaza strip. once again, none the less, the fact that this resolution was passed without abstention by the us and by the u . k. is assigned that international pressure is growing and therefore all of that,

i think, does culminate in israel taking a step that the cabinet long did not want to take it wanted to keep prosecuting the war. so this was a tough call, but nothing yahoo eventually got on board. but talked about the international pressure, the spanish and the belgian prime ministers out on a state visit in egypt at the moment. they went to the roof crossing the gave the statement that of speech and as a, just as see here. now the is really government has summit, the spanish and uh, the, uh, the belgian ambassador, presumably to complain about tonight or that fact. so the base, the sensitivities are quite real and it's, you know, an interesting to be you from mystic an interesting choice of timing on location for this statement. on this day they spoke after rough crossing and spain is the current president of the you. so that also give that as a way to,

to the presence of the spanish prime minister there. and his words were quite a, they were strong. he basically said that is real, had not been a being international law, not been in compliance with international law in the way that it's prosecuting it's military operation in gaza and called for a humanitarian ceasefire. not a temporary ceasefire. better so, mandatory and cease fire in order to essentially put that military operation on hold. so not surprising that uh, that the net on yahoo government that the cabinet wants to see uh, the spanish ambassador and, and ask him what's up. but it shows the level of growing dissatisfaction with in the international community. and that essentially with every day that the situation continues. and especially if israel does resume

operations after day for that pressure, that dissatisfaction will grow. and the big question is going to be very much, what does the us do and do 5. you're going to discuss that also in a moment, but also does it give this how mosse a tool to sell hostages for time? and in this time, international pressure will keep right and how much has essentially puns. now, it is releasing only a fairly small fraction of the total $240.00 and certainly it will try to use this additional provision that says that for every 10 additional hostages released the ceasefire will be extended by a day. it will certainly try to use that because an extension tends to favor him

off. there's simply no question. it can regroup, it can reposition it. gains points in a way, also in the international perspective. and that makes it very tough but, but this is a provision of the deal. and hum us essentially will certainly want to exploit that to game and hold onto its leverage because these hostages are the main levers are it has a, again, still in this route. and most of the, of the following a pressure on is a my last question for these, you alone. the, there are certain time nationals that also have been released today on top all see is really hostages. not part of this deal. i understand. uh so what can you tell us about that? that was an agreement brokers interestingly enough, by iran with the thai government and it was essentially iran that in this case put

the pressure on him off to release them. they are a part of a very large group of tie nationals who were working in israel. many of them as field hands, many of them doing manual labor, at least 30 to tie citizens were killed on october 7th and $26.00 were taken hostage. now i believe it's 12 that has been released. i may be wrong in that number, but at any rate, it is nearly half of those were being held in a deal that was brokerage by iran, whether the rest will then be released in coming days. we don't know yet, but indeed they also are apparently now out of custody. then i'll come back to you . in a few moments you are watching b. w. news is rarely media reporting. that's 13 is really the hostages. have now been transferred to gyptian authorities. they're expected to arrive soon at the

outset a base in these routes. this transfer comes as a full day time per se slot appears to be holding and follows weeks of the most intense fighting. the is really how most conflict off to such a major destruction on the strip is hardly. i would tend to know more for the people off gaza. but this pause, you know, still disease is allowing some now to move about with relative freedom of to weak send them bod. meant people of back on the streets across the guys. the street like here in con eunice, in the south. the forward a truce may be fragile, but even a short break and fighting is welcome. definitely move on and we look at the truth as a way to breathe after 45 or 48 days of suffering for us. god's sense i'm from god's the city and i was displaced. the rough i.