00:00a strike mission if that was the case. If it's something where Hamas was using this as an
00:05opportunity to strike the IDF or to cause harm to civilians or do something else,
00:11that would probably warrant what Israel is doing. One thing I should mention is this is not part of
00:16a ceasefire. This was a wholly Israeli decision based on what President Trump asked them to do
00:24to stop strike missions. When they do this, really the only person they have to explain this to or the
00:30only country they have to explain this to is the United States. We have a very close relationship
00:35with Israel. I'm sure that within that, they have probably established some rules of engagement.
00:43In this case, it would be more of an informal rules of engagement and what that defensive posture
00:48would look like. They would explain to their U.S. counterparts who would then pass that on up
00:52eventually to the President of the United States to explain what that is. That's kind of what it is,
00:58but there is no ceasefire going on there. There's no ceasefire agreement. What you have right now is
01:04just Israel has said, we're not going to continue offensive operations. Really, that's a unilateral
01:13thing on their part, which is not something where Hamas can really say much about it. I'm sure they
01:18well, but they really can't say anything about it. You know, Egypt is going to be the next place that
01:23we're really looking ahead to. Negotiators are arriving in Egypt for talks on Monday,
01:27expected to focus on the release of hostages held by Hamas and then eventually a broader end to the
01:32war. The Egyptian Foreign Ministry says that Monday's talks are focusing on the first phase of
01:38President Trump's plan to end the war in Gaza. What does the first phase entail, Hal? We just saw a live
01:44blast on TV, by the way. Yeah, I just saw that blast as well. In fact, I just saw another one.
01:50Things may be heating up out there. There may be more going on. One of the things is, first off,
01:56I just want to point out as a backdrop that you remember President Trump said Sunday to accept it.
02:03Well, I will say this, they're playing for time now. You know, now I've talked about these talks ago
02:08Monday. The U.S. appears to be letting them go into Monday, recognizing that there's a heck of a
02:13lot of details that got to get worked out on this thing to include phase one. Phase one is really
02:20about two things. Number one, release the hostages, which includes not just the live hostages, but the
02:26remains of those who have deceased. And then the second one is Israel pulling back to really that
02:33first line. And they have lines on the map, literally, of how far they will pull back. But
02:37it pulls back out of a lot of Gaza City and some other areas as far as that goes out. That's really,
02:43I think, all they're planning on accomplishing in phase one. But then, of course, the other part would
02:48be they got to look at disarming Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad and any other groups aligned
02:56with them. They have to do that. And then, of course, in follow-on phases, they got to figure out
03:02how they transition this to some sort of peacekeeping force, which could be an Arab peacekeeping force.
03:08And once you create, what this will do is it'll kind of create, once Hamas is stepped aside.
03:14I know many of you think I'm AI. I'm not AI. But this is a vacuum of leadership or a vacuum of
03:21governance. So they really have to work out what is going to step in and govern. And obviously, they're
03:27very far apart. Hamas wants to somehow be part of a future governance thing. The Arab League,
03:36European countries, the US, others have all said there is no way that they're going to be part of
03:42the governance and they're not going to be allowed to remain an armed organization. That's really more
03:47phase two, I would think, but I'm sure they're going to have to kind of narrow down what the plan
03:52is on that before they even start implementing phase one.
03:57You know, let's move over to the flotilla story. It's something that we've been tracking closely.
04:05If our producer Julie here could remind me the location of this live shot that's coming through
04:09right now. It is Portugal, Spain. So yeah, it's Portugal, not Spain. So I'm hearing that we're seeing
04:21the people that were a part of that flotilla, they're returning home after their efforts.
04:29The camera's not on some of the, I believe there are some demonstrators here that are a part of this
04:35media scrum, if you will. The reason why I show this, Hal, is because I want to ask the question
04:39that might be on some people's mind relating to this flotilla. Did it have any tangible impact
04:45whatsoever on Gaza? Zero. Nothing. It didn't get anything in there. And here's the thing. Gaza is an occupied
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