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Speaker 1: It's one of the biggest days in Israeli history. It's

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Speaker 1: about seven thirty in the morning there right now, this

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Speaker 1: is in Israel. Crowds have already started gathering in the

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Speaker 1: streets ahead of the hostage released deadline, which is twelve

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Speaker 1: pm their time, ten pm our time. First, Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: is going to touch down in Jerusalem in the next

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Speaker 1: I want to say a couple of hours where he

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Speaker 1: will be greeted by Benjamin nettin Yahoo. Alexander Cornwell is

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Speaker 1: at the Kinnessa ahead of Trump's arrival and with us

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Speaker 1: right now. How Alexander you there?

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Speaker 2: Hi? Yes, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: Now, when do we expect the hostages to start to

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Speaker 1: actually be released?

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Speaker 2: So the deadline is that they've be released at twelve

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Speaker 2: noon local time, which is just over four hours from now. However,

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Speaker 2: Israeli media reporting that it could start happening in the

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Speaker 2: next twenty minutes, and Reuter's is reporting that the Red

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Speaker 2: Cross convoys are on their way in Gaza, two positions

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Speaker 2: to collect at least some of those sassages that will

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Speaker 2: be released today.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so the involvement of the Red Cross, is this

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Speaker 1: an indication of what kind of a state these people

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Speaker 1: are in or are they simply the people who act

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Speaker 1: as the intermediary.

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Speaker 2: Throughout the war. There has been hostage releases by Hamas.

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Speaker 2: The Red Cross has acted to collect them, so this

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Speaker 2: does not necessarily suggest anything about their condition. That's the

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Speaker 2: role they're playing. They are receiving the hostages in Gaza,

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Speaker 2: and then they will hand them over to the Israelian

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Speaker 2: military who will then take them to Israeli territory.

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Speaker 1: And then at what stage does Israel start releasing the

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Speaker 1: Palestinians prisoners.

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Speaker 2: So israelifiiciers have said that the Palestinian prisoners will start

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Speaker 2: being released once those living hostages arrive in Israeli territory.

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Speaker 2: So in the next few hours we should see twenty

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Speaker 2: living hostages released, mostly the Israeli hostages, excuse me, and

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Speaker 2: then we should start seeing soon afterwards the Palestinian prisoners

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Speaker 2: start to being released.

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Speaker 1: Have we got to the bottom of the niggle that's

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Speaker 1: been going on in the last day or so between

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Speaker 1: Hamas and Israel about who should be released?

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Speaker 2: No, No, there's been no clarity over that. It seems

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Speaker 2: that the list is set and it doesn't appear that

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Speaker 2: it's going to derail the agreement.

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Speaker 1: At all.

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Speaker 2: So while Hamas wanted other prisoners, some more prominent Palestinians,

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Speaker 2: to be released, it doesn't appear that this is going

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Speaker 2: to break the ceasefire.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so what is Trump expected to say to the parliament?

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Speaker 2: Trump will give an address in a few hours now

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Speaker 2: to the Knesset. He hasn't made. He's given a few

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Speaker 2: details about what exactly he will say. He will talk

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Speaker 2: about peace, He'll talk about and expected that he will

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Speaker 2: talk about an end to the war. And he's also

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Speaker 2: expected to meet with families of hostages who have been released,

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Speaker 2: and even hostages. Now it's not clear if that would

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Speaker 2: be hostages and families released in previous instances in the

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Speaker 2: war or those being released this morning. And then he

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Speaker 2: flies off to Egypt, does he That's correct, He'll be

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Speaker 2: off to Shamel Shaik, where he is going to be

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Speaker 2: taking part in an international summer of world leaders that

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Speaker 2: is going to focus on the agreement to ending the

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Speaker 2: war in Gaza.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff, Alexander, Thanks for talking us through that. Alexander

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Speaker 1: Cornwell Ruyters, senior correspondent in Jerusalem.

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