The Israel-Hamas ceasefire is holding but is complex, and the full hostage release could take weeks, former Israeli Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Intelligence Dan Meridor says.
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00Yeah, this is the third hostage-prisoner exchange of this particular ceasefire in Gaza.
00:07And aside from that chaos that we saw on our screens,
00:11would you say that the 19th of January ceasefire deal is in fact holding up?
00:15More or less so, yes, but it's very touchy and very complicated.
00:19There are phases to come.
00:21Unfortunately, it was not a deal for all at once,
00:24which I would have advocated to end up the war
00:28and give all the hostages back.
00:31But for all sorts of reasons, they did not agree on that.
00:33And it's quite a gradual deal.
00:36It will take many more weeks.
00:38It's quite troubling.
00:41I hope it will go all right.
00:43But as you saw today, you can never tell.