Nick Beek
Appearances
Global News Podcast
US air crash: 64 feared dead
There were really, really chaotic scenes and they were witnessed by people here in Hostages Square in Tel Aviv on the big screen. They could watch it and I think people looked on with anger and real despair because what happened was there was an initial first hostage release in Jabalia in the north of the Gaza Strip which went pretty much according to plan but then...
Global News Podcast
US air crash: 64 feared dead
With the freeing of Abel Yehud, a 29-year-old civilian, it was absolute pandemonium because she was paraded around. There was a crowd surrounded by hundreds of masked and armed men. And there's been really a chorus of condemnation, starting with the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, saying this is completely unacceptable.
Global News Podcast
US air crash: 64 feared dead
You've got government ministers as well as far-right politicians saying that this shows why Hamas must be destroyed forever. So it really did change a public mood, certainly in this spot, and it might well have done for a lot of people across the country.
Global News Podcast
US air crash: 64 feared dead
And what we're hearing is, yes, the delay of the Palestinian prisoners, some 110 of them today, has now been delayed as a consequence, according to the Israeli government.
Global News Podcast
US air crash: 64 feared dead
Yes, I think you're right, and I think this could well be a key explanation for the chaos that ensued. It was the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group that was holding Abel Yehud, and also Gadi Moses, an 80-year-old who was also released today. And so you had, as we were watching these scenes, almost moments of disagreement between men in the green of Hamas and
Global News Podcast
US air crash: 64 feared dead
the islamic jihad fighters in yellow and black there didn't seem to be any coordination we've heard for the past 15 months how a breakdown in communication or uneasy communication between the militant groups has really led to a vacuum of information about the fate of some of the hostages and today i think you could suggest that this led to what we saw it was a complete contrast from
Global News Podcast
US air crash: 64 feared dead
The choreography of Saturday, when the four female soldiers who were released were taken up onto a stage, they were waving, they were smiling. Of course, we don't know what they were really thinking, but it was very carefully choreographed. Today, it was not. It was the opposite of that. Huge crowds, and it looked like there could have been a crush at one moment.
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Putin 'ready' to discuss Ukraine war with Trump
They're all young women who were working at the Nahal Oz military base on October 7th. And that is a military facility just across the fence from Gaza. And they were part of a team of young women who worked as military observers. And they, it transpired, had been warning that there were clear signs that this sort of attack was imminent. And it seems that those warnings weren't acted upon.
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Putin 'ready' to discuss Ukraine war with Trump
So among the women is Nama Levy. She was 19 at the time. She was just in the second day on the job. and her mum spoke to the BBC last year and was saying how much she was hoping to have her back, that all her family were desperate for her to return. She is said to be one of the four to be released, with her colleagues Karina Ariev, Daniela Gilboa and Liri Albagh.
Global News Podcast
Putin 'ready' to discuss Ukraine war with Trump
So obviously a degree of relief being expressed, but also trepidation, because for 15 months the families are saying that they've been going through this anguish and now the end is in sight, just one more night before they're reunited. But we saw last weekend, broadly, the choreography went to plan.
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Putin 'ready' to discuss Ukraine war with Trump
There was an initial delay of a few hours, but the families are saying that they're delighted that their loved ones will be back. At the same time, though, of course, many other hostage families are waiting for their loved ones and actually waiting for news of their condition.