While some Israeli hostages have been freed, many others remain in captivity, former Israeli Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Intelligence Dan Meridor says.
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00:00And the problem is, on one side, we are very happy,
00:04really very happy that they are home,
00:07but still we have 87 people that are still there.
00:11And we need them to come home.
00:13And it may take some months, and until everybody is back home,
00:17alive and some dead, we don't exactly know who and who.
00:20The majority is alive, we presume,
00:23and some are dead, and the bodies should be returned to burial.
00:27So the whole thing is quite heavy and tragic,
00:29but there are points of joy and people rejoice
00:33in the scenes that you see on television.