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00:00 There are some far-right leaders, like the national security minister, Ben-Gvir, who
00:05 is threatening essentially to bring down the Israeli government if he believes that deal
00:11 to release hostages and a temporary cease-fire is too lenient on Hamas or demands the release
00:19 of "thousands" of jailed Palestinians or requires Israel to end the war.
00:26 But having said that, Netanyahu is very unlikely to agree to a deal that will end this war
00:33 in the immediate future.
00:36 It appears that the mediators, United States, Qatar, Egypt, it appears they are trying to
00:43 get both sides to agree here to phase one of a phased deal, a three-pronged deal.
00:52 And it seems that they're trying to get both sides to agree to that before we really -- before
00:57 they've agreed to the details of phase two and three.
01:00 So in the first phase, we would see -- and these are things that both sides have generally
01:06 agreed to -- we would see the women, civilian women, the elderly and the injured hostages
01:14 be released by Hamas in exchange for, it looks like, about a six-week cease-fire, as well
01:22 as Israel releasing prisoners, Palestinian prisoners with blood on their hands, that
01:27 is, Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks against Israelis, but also at a three-to-one
01:33 rate, so perhaps about 125 to 145, depending on how many Israeli hostages are released.
01:43 And that would still fall within the range of Netanyahu's most recent comments last night,
01:51 today, that he will not agree to release -- quote, unquote -- "thousands of prisoners," and that
01:56 Israel will not leave the Gaza Strip.
01:59 That phase one will require Israel to redeploy some of its troops and move to certain lines
02:05 within the Gaza Strip, which we saw during the first hostage deal release, but certainly
02:10 will not require Israel to leave the Gaza Strip.
02:13 The real gaps still remain on the larger picture here for Gaza, both when this war will end
02:20 -- Hamas wants it to end as soon as possible, Israel does not -- and who will govern the
02:26 Gaza Strip.