‘Curious not furious’: How to negotiate with hostage takers
This Is Why
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4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode of the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson sits down with James Alvarez, a hostage negotiator who’s worked in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Gaza itself, to talk about what it takes to negotiate with hostage takers. Plus, we hear from our Middle East correspondent, Alistair Bunkall, about the events that led up to this temporary truce.
Producer: Sydney Pead
Interviews producer: Melissa Tutesigensi
Promotions producer: David Chipakupaku
Editor: Philly Beaumont
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| 1:01.5 | Call it a truce, call it a cessation of violence. |
| 1:04.6 | You can even call it a ceasefire. |
| 1:06.4 | But as of the moment of recording, the planned four days of detente in Gaza had not yet begun. |
| 1:12.9 | Instead, after a 24-hour delay, Qatar, which brokered the deal, says it will now start tomorrow at |
| 1:18.6 | 7am, with Hamas handing over an initial 13 Israeli hostages tomorrow afternoon, with more |
| 1:25.3 | to follow in the coming days. |
| 1:26.7 | Those civilians who will be freed as a result of the deal agreed upon by both parties, |
| 1:33.4 | the lists have been handed to both sides, and finally, in a communication just now, |
| 1:38.8 | the list has been handed to the Israeli intelligence service, the Musad, in order to facilitate the implementation of the deal. |
| 1:48.1 | In exchange, 150 Palestinians will be released from Israeli jails over the course of the pause in the conflict, |
| 1:54.0 | a break in the violence that will be welcomed, not least by the aid agencies whose trucks wait at Gaza's border. |
| 2:01.6 | I'm Neil Patterson, and in this edition of the Sky News Daily, |
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