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38: Hamas Delays Hostage Releases and Hezbollah-Iran Funding Guest: Sarit Zehavi Sarit Zehavi reports that Hamas is deliberately slowing hostage releases and breaking the ceasefire to regain control and avoid being dismantled, as promised by the agreement. Sh

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 31 October 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Hamas Delays Hostage Releases and Hezbollah-Iran Funding Guest: Sarit Zehavi Sarit Zehavi reports that Hamas is deliberately slowing hostage releases and breaking the ceasefire to regain control and avoid being dismantled, as promised by the agreement. She states that Hezbollah is primarily funded by Iran, while Hamas is largely funded by Qatar. Israel's new security strategy involves maintaining strategic buffer zones, including nine military positions in Syria and control of five hills in Lebanon, to physically protect Israeli civilians from hostile groups.
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Here's John Batchelor.

0:26.8

Malcolm Honeline Conference of Presidents, major American Jewish organizations,

0:30.7

joins me after many weeks overseas.

0:33.3

And we're very pleased to speak to Sarit Sahavi,

0:36.0

our good colleague in the north of Israel.

0:38.0

This is Amma, an intelligence gathering, Amma.org, especially of the north and the conflict unfinished there.

0:46.9

But we begin with the general question.

0:49.5

Sarita, good evening to you.

0:50.6

The Hamas are again and again said to be slow rolling, that's the term,

0:56.2

of the release of the hostages, who according to the Sharma al-Shaic agreement, were to be released

1:01.0

within 24, 48 hours of the signing of the agreement. What is the purpose of slow rolling

1:06.3

leaving people unsure when they're coming out and whether they're accurate, whether they're

1:11.8

confirmed a hostage or not. What do they gain from this? Good evening to you. Good evening.

1:17.3

There is a ceasefire now that Hamas already broke at least twice, twice that we know of when

1:22.5

soldiers were killed, not only avoiding from releasing hostages.

1:33.6

And both of these together actually creating a situation that Hamas can start the recovery,

1:39.4

start to regain its control, at least in areas where IDF is not presence,

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