Ex-Israeli official: Israel’s goals are the return of the hostages and the removal of Hamas

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00:00What is Israel's priority right now? Is it the return of the hostages?

00:06Israel has two priorities. To bring the hostages home and to bring Hamas down.

00:12And those are intertwined. We have to bring the hostages home. We know they are being starved

00:17and tortured and held in the most inhumane conditions in underground tunnels.

00:22But we also have to bring Hamas down or it will do this again. Because Hamas is promising to do

00:29October 7th again and again. It's proud of it. It's proud of the acts of barbarism. It's proud

00:36of killing the Bebas children. It's proud of those atrocities. And we want to bring the hostages home.

00:42That means they have to sleep safely in their homes and not be afraid that Hamas is going to

00:47invade tomorrow and take them hostage again. So everyone in Israel agrees we have to achieve

00:53these two goals. Bring the hostages home. Bring Hamas down. And then we can open a new chapter,

00:58a new opportunity for peace in the region when the Hamas regime in Gaza

01:03is part of Gaza's history and not part of its future.