Nick Schifrin:
So, part of the negotiation that has been happening is for safe passage for these hostages to go from Hamas control into Israel.
And in the past, a kind of pilot was done by the U.S., Israel, Hamas, Egypt, and Qatar that released two Americans. And that pilot allowed the ICRC to bring those two hostages from Hamas into Israel and hand them over to Israeli troops.
The idea this time is that they would be handed over to Israeli troops and, from there, go to about half-a-dozen hospitals that Israel has already been — has already identified. Many of them will need medical attention. The National Security Council staff today said they'd been held in abhorrent conditions.
Some, of course, have preexisting conditions that will need to be addressed. And then, depending on the nationalities, they would go, of course, and be repatriated. In total, we believe that, as many as about 30 children and 60 women are being held by Hamas. This deal only allows for 50 of them to be released. We're not sure which 50.
We're also not sure of which of the 10 Americans will be released, but we know that there are three Americans in this category, beginning with a 3-year-old, 3-year-old Abigail Mor Idan. You see her there. Her parents were both killed on the morning of October 7. And there are two American women being held.
Liat Beinin Atzili was a tour guide at Israel's Holocaust Museum, Yad Vashem. And Judih Haggai was kidnapped from the kibbutz Nir Oz in Southern Gaza. That's her right there. but, again, we don't have — do not have the confirmation of who exactly will be released.
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