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Welcome to the News Hour. The fragile Israel-Hamas ceasefire faces new tension tonight in part over the

missing remains of more than 20 Israeli hostages. All 20 living hostages were released yesterday,

but they were supposed to be accompanied by the bodies of 28 deceased hostages. All 20 living hostages were released yesterday, but they were supposed to be accompanied

by the bodies of 28 deceased hostages.

Only eight have been handed over as of this evening.

As Laila Malana Allen reports again tonight from Israel, caring for the living is now a priority,

while awaiting the delivery of the dead is excruciating.

A tidal wave of emotion on the day a nation had longed for, and then came the day after.

For many months, the focus was on getting the hostages home. Now it switched to helping them heal. The staff at Rabin Medical Center in Petatikva were ready, preparing for weeks, or some

might say, for two long years.

Five of yesterday's 20 released hostages landed here, and Head Nurse Mikhail Steinman was there

to greet them.

And I'm supposed to be very official.

I'm the head nurse and welcome to the hospital.

Doesn't work. I'm standing there.

And I'm feeling the river of emotions flows through them.

Really, and sometimes I'm feeling even all the nation sits at my shoulders

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