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CBS I on the world with John Bachelor.

Here's John Bachelor.

That is McCatter, my colleague and co-host of American Greatness, and we're delighted to welcome back Malcolm Holmline from Israel.

He's been in study hall for three or four weeks and we've missed his

reporting. We begin immediately then with the story of the hostages. Now under

negotiation right now about his ceasefire and hostages.

However, there are no good numbers.

Malcolm, a very good evening to you

in conversation with our colleagues most recently Seth

Franzman. I learned there are no good numbers. The number 100 plus for

hostages not accounted for less than that living but nothing stands up. What can you tell us about the

negotiations? Good evening, Malcolm. Good evening to both of you. It's great to be

back and I had the opportunity to meet the hostages families multiple times.

This is something which encompasses the whole country and people around the world of goodwill that you have these people who are already 150 days being held in the most horrendous conditions.

There are some cages that have been found where people were being held and nobody knows how many

have been killed in the interim we know that they're subsisting on half of

Pita a day and information that has come out from those who were released earlier indicates

the inhumane conditions and the, so you know, the brutality to which people were subjected,

especially women.

So the negotiations are right now on stop because Hamas will not give a list as requested by Israel of those who are still alive and the dead. They claim

that well they're dispersed, they're being held by different people, they know full

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