The leaked list of hostages is no proof of life for any of them except for those who were recently filmed in videos, former Israeli hostage negotiator Gershon Baskin says.
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00:00OK, and of course, there are, it's estimated, about 100 hostages left behind in Gaza.
00:08This leaked list contains the names of 34.
00:11I mean, what proof of life is there of any of them?
00:16There's no proof of life of anyone except those who have been filmed in videos recently,
00:21including a young woman and just a couple of nights ago.
00:24This list, by the way, was an Israeli list that was given to Hamas back in July.
00:29The Israelis published the list themselves in September.
00:32Somehow, someone said that this was a list that Hamas agreed to.
00:38I don't believe that's true.
00:39I don't believe that Hamas can agree to the list, because to the best of our knowledge,
00:44some of the names on the list are people who are already dead.
00:47And the Israelis were talking in the first stage of a deal about releasing only living
00:51hostages.