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Speaker 1: From The Australian. Here's what's on the front. I'm Claire Harvey.

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Speaker 1: It's Monday, January twenty seven. Marcia Langton, one of Australia's

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Speaker 1: most eminent historians and Aboriginal leaders, has accused university leadership

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Speaker 1: of allowing antisemitism to flourish under the false cloak of

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Speaker 1: academic freedom. That's an exclusive live now at the Australian

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Speaker 1: dot com dou The federal government is overhauling the rules

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Speaker 1: to bring in thousands of registered nurses from the UK, Ireland,

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Speaker 1: the US, Canada, Singapore and Spain, dramatically slashing wait times

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Speaker 1: to transfer their qualifications. Big smiles and a show of

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Speaker 1: defiance from four young women Israeli soldiers kidnapped by Hamas

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Speaker 1: on October seven and freed over the weekend as part

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Speaker 1: of the Middle East's fragile peace a trade in human

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Speaker 1: beings as her mass releases hostages and Israel freeze Palestinian prisoners.

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Speaker 1: Today we look at the fate of Nama Levy, who

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Speaker 1: was nineteen when she was seized by Hamas in harrowing

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Speaker 1: scenes from her military base in southern Israel. She was

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Speaker 1: wearing bloodstained gray tracksuit pants that became an emblem of

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Speaker 1: contested claims about sexual violence. In Palestine Square in Gaza City,

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Speaker 1: a gleaming white Heyundai station wagon pulls up. Surrounding it

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Speaker 1: is a thick group of men in black or camouflage.

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Speaker 1: All their faces are concealed. They wear green Hamas, bandanas,

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Speaker 1: Sarma carrying ak forty sevens. Others hold cameras. There's a

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Speaker 1: crowd of people surrounding the square, cheering, and then from

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Speaker 1: the car step four Israeli soldiers, young women aged nineteen

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Speaker 1: and twenty, Ena Ariev, Daniella Gilboa, Larry Albag and Namalev.

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Speaker 1: They look fresh and clean. They're wearing military style khaki uniforms.

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Speaker 1: Each girl has her long, dark hair swept back from

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Speaker 1: her face. And as the crowd of Palestinians reaches a

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Speaker 1: roar and the girls are marched onto a makeshift stage

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Speaker 1: adorned with Palestinian flags and her mass banners with slogans

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Speaker 1: like Gaza is the graveyard of the criminal Zionists. Something

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Speaker 1: remarkable is happening. The young women are beaming. They're waving

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Speaker 1: and smiling to the crowd, to the representatives of Hamas

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Speaker 1: and Palestinian Islamic Ghad who have kept them hostage for

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Speaker 1: four hundred and seventy seven days, and who are handing

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Speaker 1: them over to the Red Cross. It's a deliberate show

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Speaker 1: of power. These young women, they will later tell Israeli media,

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Speaker 1: are not going to cower or cringe despite the ordeal

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Speaker 1: of captivity they've endured. Daniella, Leary and Nama are holding

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Speaker 1: their heads high. We showed them on the stage that

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Speaker 1: we were not phased, one of the women told their

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Speaker 1: families in a report on Israeli station can TV. It

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Speaker 1: had no impact on us. We are stronger than them.

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Speaker 1: Back in Israel, watching the live footage, the girl's parents

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Speaker 1: know what they're seeing. Footage released by the Israeli Defense

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Speaker 1: Forces shows the parents laughing and pointing with delight at

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Speaker 1: their girl's show of strength, and a few hours later,

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Speaker 1: the girls leap back into their parents' arms in an

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Speaker 1: Israeli hospital, their hair freshly washed, wearing civilian clothes. It's

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Speaker 1: a scene that families have been dreaming of since the

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Speaker 1: girls were kidnapped. On October seven, twenty twenty three. In

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Speaker 1: shocking scenes captured by Hamas fighters of the young women

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Speaker 1: wearing civilian clothes, including what looked like pajamas being tide

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Speaker 1: and forced up against a wall inside their base. On

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Speaker 1: October seven, namal Levi pleads I have friends in Palestine.

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Speaker 1: Larry Albag asks for the men to speak English.

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Speaker 2: Someone Subsequent videos show the women being loaded into what

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Speaker 2: seemed to be Israeli Army vehicles to be taken into Gaza.

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Speaker 1: Another video shows Nama Levi being transferred into a jeep.

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Speaker 3: You can see a barefoot woman pulled from the trunk

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Speaker 3: of a jeep by a gunman and then forced into

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Speaker 3: the backseat of a car. Her face is bleeding and

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Speaker 3: her wrists appear to be cable tied behind her back.

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Speaker 1: Number is wearing a black T shirt and pale gray

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Speaker 1: tracksuit pants as in the earlier videos, but in this scene,

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Speaker 1: the back of her pants is dark with what could

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Speaker 1: and beyond that Narma and the other women held by

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Speaker 1: her mass were being sexually assaulted. It also fed into

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Speaker 1: something that became a raging argument in places like social

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Speaker 1: media as the world reacted to the horror of October

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Speaker 1: seven and the devastation that came after. As Israel acted

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Speaker 1: out its vow to destroy her mass. Israel accused her

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Speaker 1: mass fighters of raping and sexually torturing women in the

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Speaker 1: October seven attack that triggered denials and conspiracy theories, claims

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Speaker 1: that stories of sexual violence were all Israeli propaganda, and

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Speaker 1: in the middle of all that, Nama Levi's bloody track

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Speaker 1: pants were freighted with meanings. Over the past fifteen months,

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Speaker 1: women around the world have demonstrated by holding up pictures

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Speaker 1: of Narma captioned to don't look away, and by dressing

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Speaker 1: in the US, Canada, France, and in the UK. In August,

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Speaker 1: a twenty foot replica of NAMA's gray stained pants was

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Speaker 1: erected outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Yoonni Bashan

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Speaker 1: is a senior journalist with The Australian and he's reported

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Speaker 1: from Israel in Gaza over the past fifteen months. Yi,

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Speaker 1: what was it about Nama of all the people who

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Speaker 4: Well, I think it was the image of Nama Levy

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Speaker 4: that really crystallized the type of barbarism that we saw

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Speaker 4: on October seven. I mean, there are many images that

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Speaker 4: of the scenes of another hostage, Noah Agamani, who has

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Speaker 4: since been freed, and the photographs and footage of her

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Speaker 4: being loaded on the back of a motorbike and taken

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Speaker 5: But really it's.

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Speaker 4: The images of Namah Levy, a young girl of nineteen

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Speaker 4: who was seen being basically dragged by the hair out

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Speaker 4: of her car, appearing to have had her achilles heel

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Speaker 4: cut so she couldn't run away, and really the sight

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Speaker 4: of her soiled clothing that seemed to suggest the nightmarish

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Speaker 4: possibility that she'd already been attacked and abused. And it

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Speaker 4: really felt to people watching that it was a taste

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Speaker 4: of what these poor hostages were likely to endure for

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Speaker 4: however long they would remain in captivity.

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Speaker 1: What did you make of that very stage marriage scene

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Speaker 1: in Palestine Square in Gaza City.

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Speaker 4: I was certainly hardened to see them looking reasonably well

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Speaker 4: and smiling and giving thumbs up for the cameras, But

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Speaker 4: I was well aware in my mind that this is

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Speaker 4: a highly stage managed affair, and we know from other

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Speaker 4: hostages who've been released that in the lead up to

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Speaker 4: being handed back to Israel, they were fed correctly, they

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Speaker 4: were treated better, they were given better clothing, and once

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Speaker 4: they arrived back in Israel and granted interviews to meta

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Speaker 4: outlets and spoke to people close to them, we know

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Speaker 4: how they were treated in captivity, and it was terrible,

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Speaker 4: and it varied for each of the hostages. Some of

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Speaker 4: them were held underground, some of them have been murdered underground,

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Speaker 4: and some were held captive in the homes of certain

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Speaker 4: individuals who are either aligned directly with COMMAS or affiliated

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Speaker 4: with the terrorist group loosely. But what I would say

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Speaker 4: is that looking at that stage managed and quite grotesque

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Speaker 4: affair of having these four young women paraded before a

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Speaker 4: smiling and seen to be joyful, I wouldn't trust any

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Speaker 4: draw anything from that. I mean, we really need to

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Speaker 4: hear from these hostages what they went through, and in

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Speaker 4: all likelihood what they went through was the worst experience

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Speaker 4: that anyone could go through in that scenario.

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Speaker 1: Coming up after the break, what did the women go through?

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Speaker 1: And what happens next in this prisoner swarp. The Australian

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Speaker 1: we'll be back after the break. Reports are starting to

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Speaker 1: emerge about what Karina, Daniella Leary and Nama went through

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Speaker 1: in captivity. According to Israeli media, the women have told

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Speaker 1: family and friends they were held in domestic dwellings and

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Speaker 1: were frequently moved, and had gone for lengthy periods without food.

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Speaker 1: They said they had been ordered to cook and clean

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Speaker 1: held in a tunnel alone. Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, an

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Speaker 1: IDF spokesman, said Israel was gravely concerned about some of

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Speaker 1: the civilians still being held in Gaza.

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Speaker 5: Hamas failed to meet its obligations to first release Israeli

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Speaker 1: This seas of ideal was supposed to be that Hamas

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Speaker 1: would release civilian women and children before soldiers. In return,

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Speaker 1: Israel is releasing Palestinian prisoners in tranches of hundreds at

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Speaker 1: a time. In return for the four soldiers, Israel released

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Speaker 1: two hundred Palestinians, who were welcomed by jubilant crowds in

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Speaker 1: the city of carn Yunis. Some of the most famous hostages,

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Speaker 1: the Bibas family, father Yaden, mother Shiri, toddler Ariel and

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Speaker 1: baby Kafir have not been released, and now the Bibas

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Speaker 1: family is terrified that Shiri and her children are dead,

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Speaker 1: a fear enhanced by Daniel Hagari's words.

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Speaker 5: We are determined to return to the return of our Beeliahood,

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Speaker 5: an Israeli citizen kidnapped from near Oz, and also Shiri

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Speaker 5: Beavas and her two children, Kafir and Ariel, whose welfare

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Speaker 5: we are extremely concerned about.

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Speaker 1: Along with Shiri, there are two more female hostages supposed

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Speaker 1: to be freed in this round, a Beeliahood and another soldier,

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Speaker 1: a Gamberger. A Hamas official has told reporters Abeliahood, a

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Speaker 1: twenty nine year old from the Kibbutz near Oz, is

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Speaker 1: Had claims she is a soldier, but her family in

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Speaker 1: the Israeli government say she is not until she is released.

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Speaker 1: Israel says it won't allow Palestinians to return to the

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Speaker 1: northern Gaza strip, which it pounded with artillery and a

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Speaker 1: land invasion after October seven. For its part, Hamas claims

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Speaker 1: Israel is breaching its end of the deal and accuses

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Speaker 1: Israel of firing on Palestinians attempting to return to the north.

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Speaker 1: In total, Hamas has agreed to release thirty three hostages

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Speaker 1: in missed first phase, including women, children, the elderly and

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Speaker 1: wounded men. The first week of the deal, with seven

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Speaker 1: hostages now released, is over. Now three hostages per week

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Speaker 1: of the first phase. Concern is growing in Israel that

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Speaker 1: some of the remaining hostages are dead, and her Mass

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