ceremony has come to an end and the minutes of the memorandum of hands or has been handed to the international red cross staff. okay so as we speak so they they, you are watching the red cross officials after having signed some documents with the mouse of officials on the ground. they're not preparing to receive the 3rd captive, keith siegel who were expecting to come out of that civilian vehicle. honey, my mood is on the ground for his honey. what are you seeing from where you are as well as soon as the cars fall then? so they are yacht the red cross bundle assembly by 3rd got on the phase, the did the 30 paper work and i filled out the paperwork for under sign. went back and now he did see go is out of the big on the executive the vehicle and now he is going off the stage for this plan. over here, off you're look into background. people are cheering. good. what's my guys a moment still valid with? do you think you're right here on the case during your back and his number is also have that identification card right handed out of over there. right now in between is waiting. yes. a crowd on his right. a

it's through the international committee of the red cross. also, i do have and we can right now see that police officers are securing the way out for the members of the international committee of the red cross. once they leave from the side, a mazda fight. so right now was sitting next to the member of the international committee of the course, signing the papers in order to make sure that the names on identity is of the captives are matching all descriptions that they have to start right now personally . so you think the release of the palestinian prisoners in the uh is really jails. know that to be re united again with the families we need to remind our view is again and everyone was watching us right now. that's the hand over of the really the of the is very tough to got to is taking place in the city of hon. you and it's, it's a the 2nd largest city in the gaza strip. that has been widely invited by the is very military and which also is really top military leaders have announced that they managed to manage. sally dismantled the infrastruc

we can see that the cause of the international committee of the red cross are lined up. they are waiting right now to carry out a very smooth and an easy release of the is very comfortable spot. so now the captives did not show and release and the sides of the, of the release of the hand or above the is very captive. now the military fighters are not quotes, anything with the members of the international committee of the red cross. there were the same stuff and was responsible for a 100 and old by the is very captives during the previous release in the same city here. in the central con, you in a spot what is so dominating today is the very uh, well sophisticated for patients that were made in this mary box. its area was all secure, its images and procedures that have been made. and now we can see that the ministry of fighters with their most uh faces are trying to deploy more in the area. they are organizing everything with the power of sending a flag with aflac over the many true ingle from us and with their vehicles that are almost done by for any further development.

thomas miller since handing those 2 hostages fast to the international red cross. seeing if it will fall more organized than the kale to come do. but we, so just a few days ago, this is when a female is rarely hostage was being handed over and crowds who bang and beckoning at her, which of course led to huge criticism within israel. now, under the deal of this release this weekend, for those 3 is really hostages, 3 men, a 183 palestinians. detainees offset to beat freed late to own with waiting for the details of that. let's head straight to them. at least 2 or 3 were chase that maria phenomena who can take is through the ongoing details now of that 412 and i'm not sure. was there any difference from what we've seen during the previous exchanges to you? well, let me just tell you 1st where i am, we are in your mom. i'm probably signs to say to a massive crowds have started gathering since early morning preparing to welcome tele students, please. it are reset to be released on sunday. their families, of course, eagerly anticipating the return of their loved ones and

b, a, c, e, and the specialized agencies documented by representatives of the international committee of the red cross. and will become a subject of investigation by international human rights mechanisms, including non governmental organizations. well, for my pentagon senior security policy, unless michael believe, says caps, attempts to blame most go for the military atrocities on a parent cover up. this is all part of a propaganda war by the ukrainians are desperate. they want to say they want to show that to you. they want to suggest that the russians were firing on their, of finding on their own people and, and they had actually set up uh, uh, had actually done that and bodies can book and blamed it on the ukrainians when in fact it is just the opposite is a very desperate move by the ukrainians to uh, to do this. and it is a and i suggest a cover up of what they did do. and this others in the m a. m a. this other city in the course screeching which was described earlier. they're trying to terrorize the population in the, in the course career gym and that's very clear all of their targets for the

prisoners have arrived to the review and hospital where we are at the moment, the international committee of the red cross as managed to transport the public opinion. the prisoners will have been scheduled to be released today. we are attempting about approximately a 150 pounds of sydney and prisoners who are right now inside these buses and waiting to be re united again with the families, we can see them or from behind, disagrees as they are trying to wait a wave to their family members that are speaking with them and these buses because they have been completely separated from them behind the is ready past for decades . the son inquisitively, a very overwhelming and emotional scene at the moment as it can. so, you know, these buses on a right now, we tend to hear the celebration, married, or the, our families or the club, a city in prison, those are sort of right thing. they're not return from the is very j. u is, we are expecting that the prison is with i'm the go in mega to check about the international committee of the risk within a few minutes. as you can see, it's a very overwhelming until you see

different sorts of preparations made by the international committee of the red cross, which is responsible for delivering there is a palestinian present as to the gaza strip as we have uh completely unders understood that uh the i c r c managed to carry out and to do pre departure interviews for the palestinian prison is in order to confirm the identities and to access their health condition and the fitness for the trip back to the gaza strip. they have deployed at 2 missions. one right now is indeed a repeated hospital and the other one is waiting for palestinian prisoners income asylum of course. and once they will have the permission from the is what the authorities to make the journey into the gaza strip. they will be immediately transported to the european hospital in order to finish their medical procedures in order again to have the chance to be through united again with the family members. and uh, overall, we are expecting the release of the 150, posted in prison is a 111 of them were detained by the is with the military fully october. the 7th type 2023. and we are talking about th

that's the international committee of the red cross. and they are driven to ramallah. that's the scene that you are seeing now now of the 183111 are supposed to be sent back to gauze. the reason being that they were captured and taken in gaza since october 7th, 2023. they were among the palestinians, were taking him guys, so they should be sent back the guys to ask for the deal. all of this is unfolding . ask for the terms of a deal that was negotiated between israel and homos over a prolonged period of time. we know that the negotiations broke down way more often than they actually succeeded. but what we're seeing today is the result of a successful negotiation that was mediated by the us, by egypt, by guitar. that happens in 3 phases. and right now we're not quite in the middle of phase one. phase one is 6 weeks long, 42 days it will end on march 1st. and that phase one will see the release of 33 is really captives in exchange for roughly 1900 palestinian prisoners. this is supposed to take place every saturday. now, there was a change to the plan recently this week

and what we saw in the images of in gaza was, of course, the transfer to the international committee of the red cross, the icrc. and that's something, by the way, that is under threat. the icrc are being defunded by the new u.s. administration, and we're seeing today just what a vital role, indispensable role they play, not only here but in many parts of the world. >> yeah, that's a good point as well. i appreciate you bringing us those details about what the people were were yelling there in in hostage square in tel aviv, something that they've been a chorus they've been shouting for months and months, as many have been protesting against the netanyahu government as well, to try and pressure him to bring home more hostages. as we see the crowds now, uh, moving around and dispersing as we saw the release, finally, of keith siegel, the third of the hostages to be released today. um, i want to ask you about this process here. this is now the fourth successful hostage transfer and release of palestinian prisoners. um, next week, hamas and israel are meant to begin negotiating the second phase of the cea

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