00:00The current hostage release pause can be extended for another five days on the basis of the three-for-one
00:08swap between Israeli hostages and Palestinian violent criminals.
00:12As I said, we've also allowed for another 50 prospective Palestinian prisoners to be released if Hamas wants to continue
00:20releasing hostages, as we want to see.
00:22Then, once Hamas stops returning hostages, we will resume the military pressure on Hamas until it releases more of them,
00:31and then we will continue this campaign to bring to justice the perpetrators of the October 7th massacre and totally
00:38dismantle the Hamas terror state, totally destroying Hamas's governing and military infrastructure inside the Gaza Strip so that it can
00:46never hurt our people again.
00:48The road ahead is going to be long. We have set targets, not deadlines, so I don't want to speculate
00:54about how long this is going to take, but it will take as long as it has to take, not
00:59a day more, not a day less, because we have to be sure that after 16 years of Hamas's reign
01:06of terror inside the Gaza Strip, with each successive round ending with a ceasefire in which Hamas was temporarily deterred
01:14and then returned to attacking the Israeli people,
01:16This time, after the atrocities of October 7th, we are going to finish the job, we are going to topple
01:23Hamas from power, we're going to bring security to the people of Israel, and we're going to give new opportunities
01:29for the Palestinians as well, at least the Palestinians who realise that terrorism is a dead end and they need
01:36a sharp course correction if we're going to see a brighter and more prosperous future for everyone in this region.
01:41The current number of hostages held by Hamas is 173, including six children under the age of 18 who were
01:50not released in the original four-day hostage release pause.
01:56Shockingly, we've all seen that unforgettable image of 10-month-old Kfir Bibas and his four-year-old brother who
02:04remain captive.
02:05Those 173 hostages include 17 foreign nationals, not including dual citizens, there have been 76 hostages released to date, among
02:16them 58 Israeli citizens, there are also four abductees currently being held in Gaza that predate the 7th of October.
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