00:00Like we said, Hamas weekend, but also the hostages are the one bargaining chip.
00:06I know it's awful to say that, it's human life, but that's what they have in their arsenal now, despite them being so weakened.
00:13I mean, they have a few things aside from that as well, but the hostages were, it estimates between 50 and 58 hostages that are being held by Hamas currently.
00:21But the number of those who are alive is around 20, 20 to 24 is what, and that's even what many experts say is overestimation.
00:30But aside from that, they do still have rockets. You have to remember Hamas also continues to have rockets.
00:34They do have the tunnel system, which continues to operate, and there's the ability for them to have a political stalemate.
00:39So it's maybe not just the hostages, but that is certainly the bargaining chip that they will be surrendering if they go into the ceasefire agreement and give up those hostages,
00:47because that is what they have been using since the very, very start of this, in order to be able to have something to hang against Israel.
00:54So giving those up will be tricky.
00:56As you also rightly said, they will also want a complete removal of Israeli forces from Gaza.
01:02And I don't know if that's something that necessarily will happen.
01:04I don't know if Netanyahu...
01:04Seems unrealistic.
01:05At this point, certainly it seems unrealistic that Netanyahu will say, let's remove all forces from Gaza.
01:11So I think on both sides, there will be a little bit of leeway.
