00:00 The leader of Hamas met with Iranian officials on Wednesday before flying to Egypt for what
00:05 one source described to Reuters as intensive talks on a new ceasefire that would let aid
00:11 reach desperate civilians in Gaza and free Israeli hostages held captive for more than
00:16 two months.
00:18 Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who normally resides in Qatar, has in the past intervened
00:22 in diplomacy publicly only once progress appears likely.
00:27 Haniyeh last travelled to Egypt in early November, before the announcement of a prior ceasefire
00:31 that secured a week-long pause during which more than 100 hostages were released.
00:38 The hostages have been held since Hamas fighters rampaged through Israeli communities on October
00:42 7, killing 1,200 people and taking more than 200 captive, including young children.
00:49 Israel readied trauma support specialists to meet the needs of those returning, and
00:54 some of them described the challenge as "uncharted territory."
00:57 It basically introduced new forms of trauma for children and their families that we never
01:02 witnessed before.
01:03 Professor Asher Ben-Aryeh is a specialist in child trauma at the Hebrew University in
01:07 Jerusalem.
01:08 How do you explain to a child that he is safe now when he has seen his safest place, his
01:15 bedroom, burned and his parents murdered in his house?
01:19 Most of the remaining captives are adult men and women, and some of them are elderly.
01:23 My father, Gadi Moses, was kidnapped from Niroz on October 7.
01:28 We didn't hear anything about him until last night when the movie was published, and it
01:33 was the first sign of life that we got for the two and a half months.
01:38 Yair Moses saw his 79-year-old father in a video released by Hamas' armed wing this week.
01:44 We're happy to see it, but from the other end, we are very worried.
01:48 He looks very thin, very exhausted, five or ten years older than what he was three months
01:53 ago, and we're very worried about his condition and his well-being.
01:58 As mediators in Egypt and Qatar shuttle between Israel and Hamas, there remains a huge gulf
02:03 between the two sides' publicly stated positions on any halt to fighting.
02:08 We affirm our position of categorically rejecting to hold any form of negotiations over prisoners'
02:16 exchange.
02:17 A Hamas spokesperson earlier this week said the group rejects any further temporary pause
02:22 and says it will discuss only a permanent ceasefire.
02:25 We continue the war until the end.
02:29 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday said there could be no permanent
02:33 truce with Palestinian militants, saying Hamas members had two choices, surrender or die.
02:42 Israeli air and ground forces have launched a devastating operation in the densely populated
02:46 Palestinian enclave, one that has displaced an estimated 90 percent of Gaza's 2.3 million
02:52 residents.
02:56 According to Palestinian health officials, almost 20,000 people have been killed so far
03:01 in Israel's campaign to eliminate Hamas in Gaza.
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