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Speaker 1: We're coming on the air right now with breaking news

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Speaker 1: from the Middle East. Hamas has just released thirteen Israeli hostages,

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Speaker 1: including two Israeli Americans.

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Speaker 2: They have agreed to a two day extension. This is

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Speaker 2: coming from the Katari Minister of Foreign Affairs.

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Speaker 3: I'm your host Roslin Matheson today on the Big Take,

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Speaker 3: Bloomberg's Israel Bureau chief Ethan Bronner and journalist Vadwa Hodali

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Speaker 3: join me for an update on the Israel Hamas war,

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Speaker 3: including the temporary truce, the release of hostages and prisoners,

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Speaker 3: and what the international community thinks about the conflict. Almost

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Speaker 3: two months on. Ethan and Fadwah, thank you for joining

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Speaker 3: me for this conversation. It comes almost eight weeks into

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Speaker 3: the war between Israel and Hamason, of course, with a

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Speaker 3: short lived truce coming into effect. Ethan, could you just

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Speaker 3: bring our listeners up to day in terms of what's

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Speaker 3: been happening in the past few days.

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Speaker 4: The Americans, the Egyptians, and the Kantries organized a truce

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Speaker 4: between Israel and Hamas last week, which originally was to

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Speaker 4: last for four days, and there was to be an

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Speaker 4: exchange of hostages that had been taken by Hamas into

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Speaker 4: Gaza for Palestinian prisoners that Israel holds. In all cases,

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Speaker 4: these are women, children, and elderly people. There were no

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Speaker 4: men involved in this deal, and part of the deal

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Speaker 4: also included a huge increase in the number of aid

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Speaker 4: trucks coming in to Gaza, where people are beginning to

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Speaker 4: suffer from hunger and disease after, as you said, nearly

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Speaker 4: eight weeks of war.

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Speaker 3: It was obviously a very really delicate deal to get done,

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Speaker 3: as you say, involving mediation between Katar officials from the

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Speaker 3: US Egypt essentially passing notes between Hamas and Israel in

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Speaker 3: very circumstances. Was it surprising to you, Ethan that the

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Speaker 3: truce actually has had throughout It does seem like it's

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Speaker 3: been largely respected.

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Speaker 1: There was many, many reasons to imagine that it would

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Speaker 1: fall apart.

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Speaker 4: But I guess what's driving it is that both sides

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Speaker 4: are desperate for a deal, as are the sponsors.

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Speaker 2: So Israel is desperate for.

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Speaker 4: A deal because it really wants to bring back its hostages,

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Speaker 4: at least as many as it can. There has developed

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Speaker 4: in Israel an exceptional campaign of pressure to put the

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Speaker 4: hostages at the front of the agenda. Ahead of victory,

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Speaker 4: and also to assert that it doesn't make victory difficult

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Speaker 4: or harder.

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Speaker 2: It's both things are equally important.

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Speaker 4: On Hamasa's side, the desire for some kind of a

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Speaker 4: pause that would allow it to reorganize its troops and

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Speaker 2: For the people of Gaza also is huge.

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Speaker 4: And for the Americans, who are the major sponsor of

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Speaker 4: to the needs of civilians, that it was way too

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Speaker 4: many people, ordinary people being killed, and by creating the

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Speaker 4: conditions for this truce, there would be time to rethink

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Speaker 2: So there was a lot of desire on all sides

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Speaker 3: Outside Gaza Fadua, we did see some skirmishes continuing. We

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Speaker 3: that Israeli missiles we're hitting targets inside Syria. Can you

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Speaker 3: talk a little bit about what's been going on outside

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Speaker 5: West Bank has been living allsort theence moments since the

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Speaker 5: aggression on Gaza continue was raised by the Israeli different forces.

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Speaker 5: The West Bank has been on a lockdown since Ako

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Speaker 5: regards to what's going on on continuous raid. They're not

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Speaker 5: those raids. Schools have been put onto a course of

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Speaker 3: And of course the IDF is the Israeli defense forced work.

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Speaker 3: Has the pause in fighting did that allow us to

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Speaker 5: I think the people in Gaza got a time to breathe,

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Speaker 5: and the assessment is huge. The damage is huge. The

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Speaker 5: these days of ceasefire gave people time to go check

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Speaker 5: their homes they were destroyed, restock on goods. The humanitarian

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Speaker 5: situation is devastating. Most of the hospitals are not working,

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Speaker 5: a couple of hospitals only in the south, two hospitals

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Speaker 5: to the infrastructure, and the humanitarian aid is not enough

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Speaker 5: to reach into the Gaza strip. The UN has been

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Speaker 5: working constantly to kind provide the facilitation or humanitarian aid

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Speaker 3: It was interesting just in the immediate aftermath of the

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Speaker 3: But Ethan, I was interested in something you were talking about,

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Speaker 3: which is the motivation on both sides to have this CESPI,

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Speaker 3: this pause in the fighting, and why it was to

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Speaker 3: the benefit of both Israel but also Hamas. I'm curious

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Speaker 3: for example, to now stop the war entirely.

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Speaker 1: There is an enormous amount of international pressure on Israel.

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Speaker 1: The view from abroad is that this is an inexcusable

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Speaker 1: Gaza in the past has created the conditions for it

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Speaker 1: ought to be handling the situation far differently.

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Speaker 2: At the same time, there is support.

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Speaker 4: By the United States for the goal that Israel has set,

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Speaker 4: which is to dismantle Hamas, and it must be said

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Speaker 4: that there appears to be support for that goal in

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Speaker 4: I think the problem is, you know at what costs

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Speaker 4: is it's a rather abstract goal because Hamas is something

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Speaker 4: there is a huge amount of pressure inside Israel to

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Speaker 2: As it has been laid out.

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Speaker 4: There is a surprising amount of unity in this country

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Speaker 4: to do what is possible to destroy Hamas. And that's

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Speaker 4: partly because the events of October seventh were so traumatic

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Speaker 3: And it's interesting to hear you talking Ethan about the

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Speaker 3: question of domestic unity political unity, and we want to

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Speaker 3: talk about that in a bit also. But I want

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Speaker 3: to pick up a point that you made about Hamas

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Speaker 3: being sort of really part of the fabric for many people,

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Speaker 3: we know that they've lost a bunch of senior commanders,

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Speaker 3: We know that the air strikes from Israel have been

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Speaker 3: very widespread and highly damaging. Is there a sense that

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Speaker 2: All of this?

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Speaker 1: That is absolutely the sense that Israeli have, that the

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Speaker 2: So, yes, the whole idea.

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Speaker 4: Was that you have to put enormous pressure on them

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Speaker 4: and only then will they yield in any way. So

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Speaker 4: you had these two competing goals for the war, which

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Speaker 4: bring back the hostages. They really are not easy to

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Speaker 2: One kind of obviates the other.

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Speaker 4: But the way the Israelis have handled it is to say, well, actually,

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Speaker 4: it also must be said, I think that from Hamas's

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Speaker 5: As we know, Qatar has been funding the Gaza Strip

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Speaker 5: since the division of the Palestinians the year cool that

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Speaker 5: Hamas has kept a really good relationship with the Katari

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Speaker 5: need to take into consideration that Egypt does not want

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Speaker 5: into consideration that the Palestinian authority is in a very

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Speaker 5: sure that none of the Palestinians that live in in Gaza,

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Speaker 5: wanted to make sure that the Egyptians are on the

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Speaker 5: same line as all the Arab countries supporting the Palestinian issue,

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Speaker 3: One other delicate relationship in this obviously is also involving Iran,

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Speaker 2: So there's no doubt.

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Speaker 2: So I don't think we've seen the end of the situation.

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Speaker 3: We were talking earlier about the truth itself and the

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Speaker 4: Well baked into the original deal was that after the

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Speaker 2: And so that has now happened.

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Speaker 4: exchange for these hostages. What does it mean in theory,

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Speaker 4: it means that there's a greater humanitarian aid coming into Gaza,

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Speaker 4: The desire of the nation to move forward could be reduced,

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Speaker 4: and this poses a threat to your ongoing task. Now

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Speaker 4: we'll see whether the Israelis in fact are able to

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Speaker 2: This is something that has arisen lately.

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Speaker 4: So all of these things are sort of in play

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Speaker 5: Yes, it is. The humanitarian situation is really devastating. We

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Speaker 3: Ethan. It was also interesting hearing you talk earlier about

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Speaker 4: Look there is definitely unity to the plan to take

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Speaker 2: We need to put our army.

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Speaker 3: It's interesting you talk about that contrast domestically and internationally,

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Speaker 5: believe that you cannot leave your people, you cannot differentiate

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Speaker 5: war started. That the PA is the only entity and

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Speaker 5: it's the only entity that recognized by the international community.

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Speaker 5: The you owned resolutions is the one that needs to

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Speaker 5: run gazas in regards to that. So this is where

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Speaker 5: the efforts also not only of the Palestinian authority, but

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Speaker 5: effort is being exerted. Is forty PA to go back

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Speaker 5: and run Gaza.

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Speaker 3: Ethan in Fatworth. Thank you very much for your time today.

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