HEADLINE: Hamas, Hostages, and Middle East Turmoil: Challenges to the Trump Ceasefire Plan GUEST NAME:Jonathan Schanzer SUMMARY: Jonathan Schanzer discusses complications in the Trump ceasefire plan, including Hamas delaying the return of deceased hostage
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 16 October 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:24.0 | This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel. Gaza. I welcome Jonathan Shenzor, the executive |
| 0:30.5 | director of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. The moving stories are overwhelming. |
| 0:36.6 | We begin with headlines from the Times of Israel as up to date as |
| 0:40.2 | possible. The major story moving in London, I see, and also in Jerusalem. Hamas returns bodies |
| 0:46.8 | of hostages, Tamir, Nimravi, Uriel Baruch, Aiton Levy, and a fourth body of a Palestinian forensic examination confirms the fourth body transferred, |
| 0:58.1 | does not belong to any hostage return of Nimrodite's remains his first confirmation. |
| 1:03.2 | He was killed in captivity. |
| 1:05.6 | We have moving stories here that are going to continue to spill over these days, but it's consistent out of London |
| 1:12.2 | reporting and Jerusalem reporting that Hamas has returned to a body that is not an Israeli citizen, |
| 1:19.6 | and therefore what happens, Jonathan? Does that slow down the exchange of prisoners? Does that |
| 1:24.3 | slow down the exchange of values, and does that slow the food flowing into |
| 1:29.9 | the Gaza Strip? Good evening to you. Good evening, John. It certainly does complicate things and I think |
| 1:35.3 | what we're watching is perhaps a combination of challenges. One being that Hamas is not interested |
| 1:42.7 | in doing this quickly. |
| 1:45.6 | I think the group understands that keeping the bodies of deceased hostages is perhaps the last of its waning leverage in this ongoing conflict with Israel. |
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