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Israel is preparing for the largest hostage return operation since the October 7 attacks, as 20 surviving hostages and the bodies of 28 others are expected to be transferred back from Gaza in a landmark deal coordinated by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).  In a press briefing, Shosh Bedrosian, spokesperson for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, confirmed the operational details saying that 20 living hostages will be handed over and transported in ICRC vehicles into Israeli-controlled territory.  The hostages will receive immediate medical attention and be taken to Sheba, Beilinson, and Ichilov hospitals, where families await. 28 deceased hostages, and others in captivity, will be returned with military honors and traditional Jewish burial rites.  The remains will be taken to the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute for identification before being released to families for burial.  President Donald Trump is set to arrive in Israel tomorrow to address the Knesset alongside Netanyahu.  #Israel #HostageReturn #Gaza #RedCross #Hamas #Netanyahu #MiddleEast #IsraelNews #HostageDeal #TrumpInIsrael #HumanitarianCrisis #October7 #BreakingNews #IDF

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00:0020 of our living hostages to be released together at one time to the Red Cross

00:05and transported among six to eight vehicles without any sick displays by Hamas, the terror

00:11organization. The hostages will then be driven to forces inside of Israeli-controlled parts of Gaza

00:17and then transferred to the Reim base in southern Israel, where they will then reunite with their

00:22families. Israel is ready. If a living hostage requires any urgent medical attention, they will

00:28be brought to a medical facility immediately. The Prime Minister instructed Gal Hirsch, the

00:34coordinator for the captives and the missing, to arrange with the ICRC to have a convoy of

00:39ambulances ready for our hostages and all equipment needed in case a hostage needs immediate medical

00:45support, in which case both Soroka and Barzilai hospitals will be on standby. There will be

00:51medical staff accompanying the hostages during their entire journey back to Israel. From Reim,

00:56the hostages will travel with their families to one of three main hospitals. Ten hostages will be

01:03sent to Sheba Medical Center, five hostages at Bellinson, and five hostages will receive treatment

01:08at Ikhilaf. All three hospitals are prepared at all levels to receive them. Prime Minister Netanyahu

01:15visited Sheba Medical Center just the other day, one of the hospitals who will receive our hostages,

01:20and he examines the preparations for the hostages and their family members. The Prime Minister walked

01:26through the rooms they will be staying in with their family spaces as well, and control center to

01:32understand the enormous procedures that are in place to rehabilitate the hostages. Now, he praised the

01:38readiness of the medical teams who have experts on staff at all times to assist our hostages in any

01:44condition that they may be returning in. Our living hostages will face difficult tasks of physical

01:49and mental rehabilitation during this time. The entire nation of Israel will embrace them and

01:56help them get back on their feet and ensure proper Jewish burials for those who were taken from us.

02:02We are also ready and prepared to receive the bodies of our 28 hostages who have the living

02:09hostages after the living hostages are released. These hostages were either murdered by terrorists on

02:14October 7th, murdered in captivity or have been held in Gaza by terrorists since 2014. Now, once the Red

02:22Cross hands the remains to the IDF forces inside of controlled Israeli territory in Gaza, our forces will

02:29hold a short ceremony in the Gaza Strip during that handover. The coffins will be draped with Israeli

02:35flags and traditional Jewish memorial prayers for the dead will be said. The mourners' cottage prayer will be

02:42recited. The bodies will then be brought to the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute for Identification in the

02:47Yafo area. Now, following the ID process and in coordination with the Jewish law and, of course,

02:54tradition, their families will then be notified in an appropriate time frame to bury their loved ones in a

02:59timely fashion. Tomorrow will be a day of reunification and excitement for some families who have waited two

03:07years to embrace their loved ones, while other families will grieve the return of their loved ones,

03:13closing a painful circle with proper and dignified burials. An international body, which was agreed on

03:20in this plan, will help locate the hostages if they are not found and released tomorrow. The Prime

03:26Minister insists that we will act to locate all of these hostages as soon as possible, and we will do that

03:33as a sacred duty of communal responsibility. Now, we ask the media, please, to use utmost sensitivity

03:39when covering this story, as there are emotional complexities and trauma tied to the events to come.

03:46Next, let me address the visit of President Trump to Israel tomorrow. Prime Minister Netanyahu invited

03:52President Trump to speak at the Knesset. The President will arrive tomorrow around 9.20 a.m. at Ben-Gurion

03:59Airport. He will be welcomed by Prime Minister Netanyahu, Mrs. Sarah Netanyahu, and the President

04:05Herzog. The Prime Minister and President will then travel to the Israeli Knesset in Jerusalem for

04:11meetings, and the President will then address the Knesset around 11 a.m. The Prime Minister will turn

04:17Simcha Torah, the two years since our hostages were brutally taken, and Hamas launched a horrific war on

04:25Israel from a day of national grief to a day of national joy. I'll be taking some of your questions

04:31right now. Many of these questions that are actually listed in this chat have already been

04:41addressed. Many of you have been asking about the procedures for the release of our hostages,

04:46as like I said. The first question I'm going to take is from Joel Pollack from Breitbart News.

04:52He asked, what do you make of the fact that some participants in last night's demonstration

04:57booed the Prime Minister? Prime Minister Netanyahu has gotten us to this point. In cooperation,

05:05in coordination with President Trump, this is why we are here today, waiting for our hostages to

05:12return home. Through military, through diplomatic pressure, Prime Minister Netanyahu took risks,

05:17and those risks led us to this point. The first phase of this plan is releasing all of our

05:23hostages, and that was a dedication and a promise he made to those families. And here I am standing

05:28today telling you that the Prime Minister is following through on that promise.

05:33One of the questions that doesn't list the outlet is asking about the timing of Hamas,

05:44also referencing the reports that they could release the hostages at any point in time,

05:49like I said. And a statement that was released by the Prime Minister earlier today addresses that

05:54we are ready for our hostages whenever Hamas wants to release them. We are expecting them tomorrow,

06:00but if there is an early release, we will be there to receive them.

06:07Adam Parson, Sky News. Will Marwan Barghouti be released? I answered that last week. He is not

06:13part of this release. Going through the rest of these questions, like I said, a lot of them are repeats.

06:25There's a question from Beltrou from The Independent. If not all the bodies of the hostages are handed over,

06:35or if Hamas misses the deadline, would that be a violation of the deal? Let's get something

06:41straight. Israel is committed to this plan that was signed off on. All 48 of our hostages will be

06:47returning back to Israel, whether they are alive or deceased. Like I mentioned in this briefing before,

06:53there is this international committee that will be finding and helping locate any of the

06:59hostages' bodies if they do not, if they are not released tomorrow.

07:11Going through the rest of these questions.

07:13Recording in progress.

07:16From Ellie Ott, CBS News to everyone. She is asking, when will the Palestinian prisoners

07:21be released? And I do have an answer for that. I just want to grab this. Basically, what we're

07:28saying right now is that the Palestinian prisoners will be released once Israel has confirmation that

07:33all of our hostages set to be released tomorrow are across the border into Israel. And once we have

07:40that confirmation, we are expecting that the prisoners will already be on the buses. But once

07:44the confirmation comes through, they have crossed into Israeli territory, those buses will start

07:48and they will begin their journey. Thank you so much to everyone asking these questions. We

07:54appreciate it. Thanks for your time.

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