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Thank you. It's Thursday, 20 February.

Welcome to the PDB afternoon bulletin.

I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage.

All right, let's get briefed.

First, Hamas provoked international outrage with a barbaric display as they returned the bodies of four deceased hostages on Thursday, including the two youngest captives taken during the 7 October

23 terror attacks, parading their coffins in front of a crowd of cheering spectators in Gaza who shouted anti-Israeli slogans.

Later in the show, the Trump administration moves to designate TDA, MS-13, and a number of Mexican

drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations in their latest crackdown on transnational crime. But first, today's afternoon

spotlight. We'll begin in Gaza, where Hamas turned the release of four deceased Israeli hostages,

including a mother and her two young children, into a bizarre and barbaric spectacle. As we've been

tracking on the PDB, Hamas announced earlier this

week that they would be returning the bodies of four hostages on Thursday, including the two

youngest captives taken during the 7 October attacks. Hamas decided to use the somber moment to stage

a propaganda ceremony, inviting local Gazans and militants to

spectate and broadcasting the scenes across Arab television channels. That's according to a report

from the Wall Street Journal. The Iranian-backed terror group built a stage where they displayed

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