Diplomats Race The Clock To Free Hostages Before Ground Invasion
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🗓️ 24 October 2023
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Summary
So far, Hamas has released just four hostages.
The families of the remaining hostages fear that time may be running out to save their loved ones. Israeli airstrikes continue and a ground invasion into Gaza seems imminent.
Experts say that would put the hostages in danger.
NPR's Michele Kelemen speaks to host Juana Summers about the diplomatic efforts to free the remaining hostages.
And host Mary Louise Kelly talks to Bader Al-Saif, a professor of history at Kuwait University, on the Gulf nation of Qatar's role in negotiating for the hostages' release.
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| 0:00.0 | The world is changing every hour and catching up once or twice a day might not be enough. |
| 0:04.8 | For quick updates throughout your day, there's the NPR News Now podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | Every hour on the hour, we bring you up to speed on the latest news from around the world in five minutes. |
| 0:16.7 | Listen now to the NPR News Now podcast from NPR. Ben Renon was bracing for a day like the one he'd been reliving for nearly two weeks. |
| 0:33.6 | Another day of very sad interviews, exhausting interviews, |
| 0:39.4 | trying to get Natalie and Judith |
| 0:41.8 | Ty Renon and her daughter Natalie Shoshona Ranaan from suburban Chicago were taken hostage by Hamas during |
| 0:50.0 | its invasion of Israel earlier this month. Ben Renon is Natalie's older brother. |
| 0:55.1 | Instead on Friday the family got the news they had been desperate for. |
| 1:00.0 | Natalie and Judith were being released. |
| 1:03.0 | When this news hit, it was like all the emotions that we had been holding while we were fighting for them just erupted. |
| 1:11.0 | You know, it's 13 days, but it feels like 13 years trying to keep composure because |
| 1:18.0 | you know that getting emotional isn't going to solve anything and it seems surreal that suddenly I won't even say it's over. |
| 1:29.7 | We're on to the next journey of what this is, which is their recovery. |
| 1:35.0 | So far, Hamas has released just four of more than 200 hostages |
| 1:40.0 | it captured during its attack on October 7th. |
| 1:43.0 | As relieved as Ben Renon is, he knows that many other families are still living a nightmare. |
| 1:50.0 | In this moment of elation, we're grieving for all the families that are still being kept hostage |
| 1:57.0 | Many of those families feel like they're in a race against the clock Israel has signaled that it is preparing a major ground |
| 2:04.7 | invasion of the Gaza Strip. Experts say that would put the hostages in danger and |
| 2:09.9 | Israel has continued its campaign of airstrikes. |
| 2:13.6 | Air strikes Hamas claims have already killed several hostages, |
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