on whatsapp about decisions, that were made, the environment in which they were taken, and why the government was slow to respond. mrjohnson made the point that former prime ministers would not have survived this level scrutiny if whatsapp had been around at the time of the falklands or the iraq war. he played down the psychodrama that evolved in number ten, which was charactised in some of the earlier sessions, and the contents of some of the whatsapp messages. but i would make a distinction between the type of language used, and the decision making processes of the government, and what we got done. and i would submit that any powerful and effective government has, and i think of the thatcher government or the blair government, has a lot of challenging and competing characters whose views about each other might not be fit to print. but you get an awful lot done. most of the early session focused on the decisions taken at the beginning of the pandemic. in his evidence the for
inside, killing a number of the people who were in the bomb shelter, blew half of herch s lower arm off, so like one of the other israeli hostages, mia shem, who had serious injuries, he was taken captive and brought into gaza with very, very serious injury, and his mother rachel has no idea if he survived that ordeal. if he received appropriate medical treatment, where he is, what his status is. so it has to be awfully difficult seeing these hostages come home known her son, herch, is still in custody somewhere in gaza. sandra: ophelia brightman, 77 years old, also one of the hostages just released, she came to israel from argentina holding argentine citizenship. she s the wife of hector, mother of three children, grandmother of nine children. she had sent her last message to her family asking for help, stating that the terrorists were in her house and since that moment of her that she was taken, john, her contact had been severed and you can only imagine what is happeni
we are back with another hour of our special coverage of the hamas hostages being released today. i m chris jansing in new york. it was a long-awaited moment. just last hour we saw this convoy of vehicles with israeli hostages crossing into israel. just moments after they were handed over to the red cross ahead of their medical evaluations and reunions with loved ones. these are the faces of the 13 hostages, women and children who were in captivity for 49 days as young as 2 years old, as old as 85. israel is releasing palestinian prisoners in the exchange, women and teenage boys. that is part of this deal, and with aid trucks arriving today through the gaza-egypt border, the palestinian red crescent is warning of a dire situation inside gaza saying the needs of the palestinians are increasing. a u.n. spokesman in geneva weighing in as well. we hope it allows grieving families to honor their dead and bury them with dignity. and we hope that this humanitarian pause leads to a
hello, this is special edition of outnumbered, i m molly line. tammy bruce, dr. nicole saphier, kara frederick and retired nypd inspector paul mauro. harris: thank you for joining us today, overseas in israel, the government reached an agreement with hamas that could reunite roughly 240 hostages held captive in gaza with their families. prime minister netanyahu and other key ministers will hold a news conference about two hours from now. the hostage swap is part of a four-day ceasefire deal between the two sides. hamas will release 50 kidnapped women and children. of the group, three of them are americans. in exchange, israel says it will release 150 palestinian prisoners. both sides made it clear the war is not over and ceasefire is only temporary. jeff paul is live in tel aviv with more. jeff. yeah, molly, this is the first time we hear from prime minister netanyahu and other government officials after they spent six hours working into the early morning hours of tod
within the terms of the agreement, the leader of hamas in gaza, yayha sinwar, has demanded that the air space above gaza is free of israeli and american drones for at least six hours a day. that was initially resisted by the israeli cabinet. we will see whether it forms part of the agreement. hamas is also demanding fuel, crucial to the disperal of aid, but also to their military operations. it helps with the ventilation of the tunnels underground. the un s director of operations isjorge moreira da silva. we see that infrastructure is collapsing. it s collapsing on health, on water, on sanitation, on education. and we know that one key element to recover is the access to fuel. for several years, since 2018, unops has been the agency that has brought the fuel from israel to gaza. so every day we were bringing, procuring and delivering 500,000 litres of fuel. that was fundamental to increase the access to electricity from five hours a day to 12 hours a day. if you check the fig