Anat Peled
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first heard Jan 2025
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This deal has a lot of details, a lot of stumbling stones that the sides are going to reach pretty quickly. Not everything has been already worked out.
Yeah, so we have 94 hostages who were taken on October 7th who remain in Gaza, including over 30 that have been confirmed dead by Israel based on intelligence. We also have another four hostages from before October 7th included in Israel's count, and they're negotiating over them as well. So we have 98 total hostages.
Over 30 at least. We understand that that number is higher. Privately, Israeli and American officials believe that this number is much higher. But we're going to see a group of 33 hostages under the humanitarian category. So kind of the most vulnerable people. You know, we have injured elderly women and dead bodies. And so they're going to be coming out after 15 months of captivity.
Israel is going to release Palestinian prisoners. It has thousands of Palestinian prisoners in its prisons. It also detained thousands of prisoners from Gaza throughout the war and in the attack into Israel on October 7.
Yeah, stage two is going to be super tricky. So for many months, we've had a big problem. And that is that Israel has wanted to free its hostages, but has not wanted to end the war. And Hamas has said, we will not free the hostages unless you commit to ending the war. So An end to the fighting, a permanent ceasefire has been a huge barrier in these negotiations.
And that's kind of phase one lets us kind of ease into that. And the negotiations only start on day 16 of that. Phase two is going to be really tricky. We already have far right politicians in Israel who oppose going to phase two from the beginning. And they have threatened to quit the ruling coalition over that.
Yeah, that's a really good question. That's one of the biggest questions that remain open. Israel set out to destroy Hamas as also a fighting and military power, but also as a ruling power. There is no alternative to it right now.
Basically, you have a few options on the table that we hear from Israeli officials, which could be either Israel takes over as a military occupier, it could be that Hamas continues ruling, or you have the Palestinian Authority coming in. The problem is that Israel has ruled out all three options.
So Netanyahu and people close to him would say, you know, we can't propose any kind of alternative until Hamas is destroyed. And now, you know, would be that moment. Now we need to see what's going to happen.
So I think from my conversations with hostage families, there's a lot of anxiety in the air. People are afraid that they've been let down before and they say that they will believe it when they see it. We also have opponents to the deal in Israel. So we have had some smaller protests, hundreds of people who oppose the deal and have taken to the streets, but it hasn't been very large numbers.
But yeah, so I don't think you're seeing the same images of celebrations as you're seeing coming out of Gaza. It's a bit different here.
So the Gaza enclave has been through just a devastating air campaign, a land invasion. Parts of the strip have been just decimated. There's just, you know, in Jabalia, we've seen photos where it's just rubble. So we've seen just celebrations, like people just so happy that this is coming through, waiting for this for so long.
These two men have been tough negotiators, kind of going head to head, not agreeing. At certain points, it seemed close. You know, we thought that we were going to reach a deal. And, you know, sometimes it was, you know, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu just... insisting on certain things. And, you know, sometimes we would hear from mediators and Israeli negotiators that he was sabotaging a deal.
Other times, Hamas would make very difficult demands, or Sinoir would go quiet. We've had all kinds of barriers.
So you have all these moments that kind of came together and weakened Hamas. And that made Hamas, I think, understand that it had to make some serious concessions in the negotiations. And then we had another factor that was very important, and I would say that's the Trump effect.
The Trump effect is basically the fact that Trump was able to put more pressure on both sides, on Hamas, but also very importantly on Israel, on Netanyahu. And basically, we saw that Trump said very publicly, he gave a deadline. He said, I want this deal done by January 20th when I take office or all hell will break loose.
Now, people don't know exactly what the all hell will break loose means when you actually ask them. But the fact that he said this very publicly, I think, really put new energy into the negotiations and made them get through the finish line.
Yeah, so the Biden administration worked closely with Trump people in these negotiations. So a real estate mogul turned Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, met with Netanyahu on Saturday. He made it very clear that he wanted to get this done. What I have heard from his meetings between him and hostage families is that they got the impression he was very serious, wanted to get this done.
So he really brought new energy that kind of helped this get it through.
It's a really tough question because I think the Biden administration has been in the thick of this for so many months. And it's been grueling negotiations that have seemed impossible many times. So I think the Biden administration does deserve a lot of credit.
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