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Way Too Early with Ali Vitali

Breaking: All living Israeli hostages have been released

Way Too Early with Ali Vitali

MS NOW, Ali Vitali

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4.5539 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Breaking: All living Israeli hostages have been released

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0:00.0

Welcome back to our continuing coverage.

0:04.0

We are still watching what's happening in Israel on the ground in hostage square.

0:08.0

As we get that news into us, that all remaining living hostages are now back with the IDF and in Israel.

0:15.0

You see their names and faces on the screen there.

0:18.0

A bittersweet moment that marks at least the culmination of one small

0:22.2

part of this ongoing conflict, one that the White House, other diplomats, Israeli hostage families

0:28.7

and Israelis themselves have been pushing for for the better part of two years since the

0:33.4

October 7th attacked by Hamas. We are also still waiting to see the president of the United

0:38.7

States, as well as other top Israeli officials, address the Israeli parliament, the Knesset.

0:43.4

That was supposed to start almost an hour ago at this point, running behind schedule.

0:48.2

But of course, we will bring it to you live as soon as it happens.

0:52.0

It's here, though, that I think as we play this waiting game, David Rode, who is thankfully

0:57.0

still with us and able to bring us his expertise, that I want to ask you about the visual

1:01.0

of Trump giving this address to the Knesset just moments after we get the news in that the hostages,

1:09.0

at least the living hostages, are back reuniting or about to reunite with

1:13.6

their families. It does bring to a close one of the more heartbreaking parts of this ongoing

1:18.9

conflict of which there's been no shortage of heartbreak on all sides.

1:23.5

This is just an extraordinary moment. I wasn't sure this was going to happen. I thought Hamas could keep two or three of these captives as leverage.

1:31.3

And it's just such a credit to the families and the hostages themselves.

1:34.8

When you showed those still pictures earlier, the hostages released today, they're all very pale.

1:40.7

That suggests to me they've been, you know, they've been held in in tunnels, possibly for the

1:45.6

entire two years that they've been in captivity. And so just, I just can't, you know, praise the

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