Inside Israel's divided war cabinet
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Family members of hostages held by Hamas are furious. They’ve stormed the Israeli parliament, calling for a deal to get the remaining hostages released. But Israel’s war cabinet is split on a path forward. Dahlia Scheindlin and David Makovsky join Meghna Chakrabarti.
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| 0:00.0 | This is on point, a Magnachachrabardi. |
| 0:03.0 | Dahlia Kushner's two brothers-in-law have been held hostage by Hamas since October 7th. |
| 0:09.0 | Their names are Aetan and Yayir. |
| 0:11.0 | They're 37 and 45 years old. |
| 0:14.4 | Dahlia and her family had to wait more than a month |
| 0:16.9 | after Hamas's attack before they found out |
| 0:19.3 | that her brothers-in-law were still alive. |
| 0:22.0 | The first time we got to know something was on November 25, they |
| 0:26.7 | started liberating women and children, and one of the women, actually two of them said that they |
| 0:32.1 | saw them. I think it was the first time |
| 0:35.3 | that we could actually for the first time breathe and we knew that they're not |
| 0:40.3 | injured at least physically and that both of them are alive they're not |
| 0:44.8 | being kept at the same place but both of them are alive. We also heard about all |
| 0:50.1 | the tortures and starvation and I think on one hand it brought us a lot of hope and on the other |
| 0:56.7 | hand each and every second that they are there is so dangerous. |
| 1:02.3 | Aetan and Yayir were kidnapped from Kibbutz near. there is so dangerous. |
| 1:02.6 | Eton and Yayir were kidnapped from Kibbutz near Oz, |
| 1:05.6 | near the southern border between Gaza and Israel. |
| 1:09.0 | Yayir's house is at the entrance of the community so it may be that they were among the first |
| 1:17.8 | one we tried calling all the other friends we have at the same community and I remember one of them in the middle of the day |
| 1:26.9 | answered stop asking me I have terrorists inside my house and holding the door so they won't open and take my kid. |
| 1:35.0 | Dahlia's brothers-in-law are two of the estimated 136 people still being held hostage by Hamas. |
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