00:00So we are now learning that this release will actually begin at 5 o'clock local time,
00:06that is just under an hour from now.
00:09That is a three-hour delay. It was supposed to begin earlier in the day.
00:13The Israeli prime minister's office earlier in the day
00:16sending a very concerned message regarding the way that the release was handled today.
00:23The second release, we have to say, when the soldier was released in the morning,
00:26it was relatively calm, as was in previous cases.
00:29But the afternoon release was very chaotic.
00:33Just making the few steps from the Hamas vehicle into the Red Cross vehicle
00:39was a terrible ordeal for the two Israelis, Gadi Moses and Yehud Arbel,
00:46and the five Thai nationals.
00:48Just as you mentioned, they were swarmed with people around them
00:53and it was difficult to make that very short journey.
00:58And then it was difficult for the Red Cross vehicles to make their way.
01:01Eventually they did, and Israel wants to make sure that this does not happen anymore.
01:06Apparently there are some guarantees from the mediators,
01:09especially from Qatar, which is the closest mediator to Hamas.
01:13There are guarantees that the next releases will not be seen like this anymore.
01:19This will be put to the test quite quickly,
01:22as the next release is expected in less than 48 hours on Saturday morning.
01:26Once some kind of an understanding has been achieved,
01:29we're now learning that Israel will now release the 110 hostages set to be released today.
01:36And that release is set to begin, as mentioned, at 5 o'clock local time,
01:40that is in just about 15 minutes from now.
01:42Jonathan, regardless of the delays and the difficulties surrounding the delays,
01:46Israeli families, or some Israeli families, are clearly delighted by the return of their loved ones.
01:53Absolutely. Three more families are getting their loved ones today.
01:58First was the Gamberger, the soldier.
02:01Her four other soldier friends were released on Saturday.
02:04Out of the soldiers, she was left alone in Gaza.
02:07And today they reunited, all five of them, just minutes ago at the hospital in central Israel.
02:15So a clear relief for her and for her family.
02:20Later on in the day, some three hours later, two more hostages, two more Israeli hostages were released.
02:26Gadi Moses, an 80-year-old man, surviving this ordeal, 15 months of captivity,
02:33he's now back to his family in Israel.
02:35And Arbelia Hood, she was meant to be released on a Saturday.
02:39She's a civilian, not a soldier.
02:41And due to the crisis that erupted on Saturday, due to the fact that she was not on the list,
02:46this release happened today on Thursday instead of Saturday, and on Saturday we will see another release.
02:53Of course, a lot of happiness, a lot of joy in Israel.
02:58It will, of course, look a little bit different.
03:00As we just mentioned, less than an hour from now, the prisoners will be released.
03:04And this is very uneasy for other Israeli families to see the murderers of their loved ones being released.
03:11They were supposed to spend the rest of their lives in prison, but it is not happening.
03:15A great reward with the hostages coming back, but coming with a great price of releasing many, many Palestinian prisoners.
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