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‘Netanyahu was an impediment’ to getting uncle released sooner, niece of hostage says

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

On Saturday, American Keith Siegel was brought on stage in Gaza City and paraded in front of a crowd and quickly escorted away. He had been held hostage by Hamas for 484 days. Siegel and his wife were kidnapped from their home during the Oct. 7 attacks. Aviva Siegel was released in November of 2023 during a week-long ceasefire. Amna Nawaz discussed the release with Keith Siegel’s niece, Hanna. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu met for talks today that focused on hammering

0:05.8

out a second phase of the ceasefire and hostage agreement between Israel and Hamas.

0:10.6

Netanyahu is the first foreign leader to visit the White House since Trump's second term

0:15.1

began.

0:16.1

The two leaders also discussed the future of Gaza, which Trump has said might need to be emptied of its population,

0:22.1

a potential war crime, since Israel's campaign to destroy Hamas has also destroyed much of the enclave.

0:28.6

President Trump spoke in the Oval Office.

0:30.6

You can't live in Gaza right now, and I think we need another location.

0:35.6

If we can build them through massive amounts of money supplied by other people, very rich nations, one of the countries,

0:43.3

and it could be Jordan and it could be Egypt, it could be other countries, and you could build four or five or six areas.

0:49.3

I mean, we're talking about probably a million seven people, million seven, maybe a million eight.

0:55.1

But I think all of them, I think they'll be resettled.

0:58.3

Under the terms of the current ceasefire, Hamas is supposed to release 33 hostages

1:03.2

in exchange for Israel releasing around 1900 Palestinians.

1:07.1

Let's turn now to the story of one of the American hostages who was released.

1:11.5

This past Saturday, Keith Siegel was brought on stage in Gaza City and paraded in front of a crowd.

1:18.6

He held two small bags, waved to the crowd, and was quickly escorted away.

1:22.6

He had been held hostage by Hamas for 484 days.

1:31.3

Keith was reunited with his family, including his wife Aviva,

1:36.8

both of whom had been kidnapped from their home in Kibbutz Kifar Azah during the October 7th, 2023 Hamas attack.

1:39.1

Aviva was released in November of 2023 during a week-long ceasefire.

1:47.4

I spoke a short time ago with Keith Siegel's niece, Hannah.

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