Brief: Gaza captive releases continue, Israel delays Lebanon withdrawal
The Take
Al Jazeera
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🗓️ 26 January 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
As Israel’s war on Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria continues, we're coming to you on Sundays with a weekly roundup. This week: A second exchange of captives and prisoners took place between Hamas and Israel. Israeli troops opened fire on Palestinians in Gaza. Israel said it would delay its scheduled withdrawal from south Lebanon. It is day 478 of the war in Gaza, where more than 47,107 Palestinians have been killed.
In this episode:
- Tareq Abu Azzoum, (@TareqAzzom) Al Jazeera Correspondent
- Zeina Khodr, (@ZeinakhodrAljaz) Al Jazeera Correspondent
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| 0:00.0 | I'm David Enders, and this is the take. |
| 0:03.0 | We're coming to you on Sundays with weekly roundups as Israel's war in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria continues. |
| 0:11.0 | A second exchange of captives and prisoners took place between Hamas and Israel. |
| 0:17.0 | Israeli troops opened fire on Palestinians in Gaza. Israel said it would delay its scheduled |
| 0:23.6 | withdrawal from South Lebanon. Today is Sunday, January 26. It is day 478 of the war in Gaza, |
| 0:32.6 | where more than 47,107 Palestinians have been killed. |
| 0:40.6 | On Saturday, Hamas released four Israeli soldiers who had been held captive in Gaza since |
| 0:46.0 | October 7, 2023, the second release since the ceasefire began a week ago. |
| 0:52.0 | Later in the day, Israel released 200 Palestinian prisoners. This is |
| 0:56.8 | Al Jazeera correspondent Tarek Abou Azum in Gaza. Members of the Qasan brigades are |
| 1:03.6 | out in full force to witness the handover, as were hundreds of Palestinians. The freed captives wave and smiled, |
| 1:14.7 | bringing tears of joy to friends and family |
| 1:17.1 | waiting anxiously in Tel Aviv. |
| 1:20.5 | The woman were taken for medical checks before, |
| 1:24.1 | finally being reunited with the family. |
| 1:38.3 | I love you. I love you all the citizens of the state of Israel who supported our families and embraced them and all the soldiers who did everything for us. Later buses carrying more than a hundred Palestinians released from Israeli prisons arrive in |
| 1:45.1 | Romola in the occupied West Bank. |
| 1:48.8 | Still wearing the prison uniforms, the former detainees are carried through duploid crowds |
| 1:54.7 | cheering and celebrating their freedom. |
| 1:58.8 | There are no words to describe our feelings. I've been jailed for 10 years and there are a lot of other people with me. |
| 2:04.6 | We thank the Palestinian resistance. |
| 2:06.6 | On Sunday, the Israeli military opened fire on displaced Palestinians |
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