Israeli hostages handed over to Red Cross, on way to border crossing with Egypt

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00:00 moment everybody's waiting for those pictures because it's been reported on

00:04 social media that what we're that the hostages which now includes of course as

00:09 you know the ties as well the 12 ties and the 13 Israelis have been met by the

00:15 Red Cross or the Red Crescent in Khan Yunus making their way to Rafah and the

00:20 pictures behind me are the Israeli ambulances waiting at Rafah so that's

00:26 what we're that's what we're waiting all waiting to see you in Paris and of

00:33 course all the journalists here in Tel Aviv and it was talk us through what

00:36 happens once they reach the Rafah border crossing I guess it's going to be the

00:40 same protocols for the ties who have been held hostage as well as for the

00:45 Israelis presume that you know because they weren't part of this deal but it

00:51 might just be easier to get them out at one stage there was a whole discussion

00:55 that they would go straight to Cairo or perhaps to Tehran do you remember there

00:59 was a an Iranian initiative to release them but I imagine it will just be

01:04 easier to get them out via Kerem Shalom the border crossing the Israel-Egypt

01:09 border crossing area back up to hospitals in Tel Aviv you know they have

01:14 to be seen for the health reasons all the same treatment that the Israeli

01:19 hostages are getting would be very helpful of course for the ties who've

01:22 been in the same situation under the ground for 49 days. Iris earlier we had

01:28 our colleague Claire Paquelin who was at hostage square in Tel Aviv and she was

01:33 talking to someone's who has their brother held hostage in in Gaza and who

01:39 was obviously not part of this this deal who won't be released over the next four

01:44 days and something he said that struck me he said the government needs to do

01:48 whatever it takes to just release these hostages give them whatever they want it

01:53 should be about that not about fighting Hamas but getting the hostages back will

01:59 that kind of pressure weigh in on and affect things in the days to come you

02:03 think? I think it's only the pressure of these families that even has brought

02:09 about the release that we're seeing today and the deal that we're seeing

02:13 today because I know there were some in the military who were opposed to it and

02:18 even within security cabinet there were some who thought it was better to wait

02:21 but the pressure from the families the fear after finding two hostages two

02:26 female hostages dead near al-shifa hospital a third one reported by Islamic

02:31 Jihad the other Palestinian militant group who are holding her reporting that

02:35 she was dead there's a very real fear that the longer you hold them the real

02:39 fear is that they simply won't survive so you can understand the pressure from

02:43 the people whose families are not whose relatives are not being released you

02:48 know there's one three-year-old child in fact today is her fourth birthday she's

02:54 she and she has no parents no parents to return to and no one with her there's

02:59 another boy who's there with his father shouldn't his father come with him his

03:02 mother's his mother isn't alive either so there's all these questions that the

03:07 relatives are asking and of course you can understand that. It seems that things

03:11 are in motion Iris because while you were speaking we do have confirmation

03:15 from the Thai Prime Minister that those 12 hostages have in fact been released

03:20 by Hamas so clearly we're all waiting for that Red Crescent convoy to make its

03:27 way to the Rafa border crossing where we will see those I imagine Iris we're

03:33 gonna see those images of of people getting out of whatever trucks and being

03:39 loaded into helicopters is that it?

03:43 Iris will people be be taken to hospitals in Tel Aviv by helicopter?

03:53 That's right I'm sorry I was just turning around to see the images behind

03:59 me which are of still of the same image so that is it seems like we have a

04:07 technical problem with Iris. I've heard two versions I originally I heard helicopter

04:12 and recently I've heard planes so I don't know which of those two it is but

04:16 it will be by air also having said that I just heard a third version a third

04:20 version that said vehicles but I do believe it'll be a plane.

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