Since the beginning of the ceasefire over in the Gaza Strip, Israel has gotten 18 hostages back from

Hamas in exchange for 656 prisoners that they were holding on to.

Holy crap, is that a bad deal?

Hello, and welcome on over to another episode of the Speak the Truth podcast.

I'm your host, Matt Tarrio.

Today's episode is being sponsored by Back.

And today we're going to be going over the hostage exchange deal and moving into phase two,

which is scheduled to start tomorrow with an additional exchange of three more hostas going back

to Israel. Now, in exchange for those three hostes, Israel is supposed to be releasing

183 prisoners that they're currently holding on to.

Additionally, we got the three names of the hostages that are going to be released tomorrow.

Eli Shrabi, he's 52. He got abducted from Kabutsburi on October 7th.

Then we have Oad Ben Ami, probably pronouncing it wrong. You have to excuse me. He is a German Israeli that was

taking on about the same date and time. He is 56 years old and or Levy. He is 34 and he was kidnapped

from the Nova Music Festival. Now, Hamas has accused Israel already of violating the ceasefire

agreement. As you guys can see up here on your screen

in this article by Reuters, Hamas names hostages to be freed after accusing Israel of breaching

the ceasefire. When you scroll down and you get the meat and potatoes of it, Hamas main complaint

is saying that they have held up humanitarian aid trucks from entering in Gaza, mainly

tents and supplies that they need.

Kogat categorically denies this accusation, saying that they are doing their best and

everything has been delivered as promised. And when we start getting into it, for the love of

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