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for more on this i spoke to david hale — former us special envoy for middle east peace and ambassadorbanon and jordan — — he's now a global fellow with the wilson centre. i just want your thoughts on what we saw today, specifically the conditions of the people involved in this swap on the israeli side and the palestinian side, and really what did you see there? it's a relief that the exchanges are continuing, and that innocent victims of the horrible events of october seven are being released, and obviously this is a demonstration as to why the sooner the better. obviously, people are not going to be in good health on the conditions they were being held in, and that should be investigated, by the way, but as your correspondent said, the real question now is what is phase two going to look like? and how are these negotiations to move into that phase going to work? do you think, you said sooner the better, what we saw today in terms of the condition of the israeli hostages, and we should say there are questions about the condition of the palestinian detainees, will that add to the urgen

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