Over the last three days I found myself waking up and looking for these images. Pictures of people who've been released as part of the hostage deal Israel negotiated with Hamas.

The first pictures I saw were of people on buses, Red Cross vans filled with stunned passengers, heading out of a nightmare.

Then there were videos from inside hospitals. In one, a gangly nine-year-old boy in

glasses and sandals is steered around a corner. And then he sees his father and

brother and he breaks into a run.

Yes, yes, that I found an incredible movie.

I watched it with my family several times.

Journalist Peter Bynart has been looking at these images too.

I mean I think right any of us where parents can just immediately identify with that.

There are also images of Palestinian women and minors. Their families given just hours notice of

their imminent release from prison. A joyous celebration as 23-year-old

Malak Soleiman finally arrives home in East Jerusalem after six years in an Israeli

prison.

Each day since Friday, a few more hostages and detainees have emerged a handful at a time, and

the Israeli assault on Gaza has largely come to a stop.

How would you characterize the deal that led to the release of both Israeli hostages and Palestinian detainees?

If you had to use one word, what would you say?

I think it was necessary and so I'd use the word necessary, but I also think it's part of the ongoing tragedy.

And it's part of the ongoing tragedy, first of all, because of course most of the

hostages that Hamas holds have not been released, and they should all be released unconditionally.

Secondly, it's part of the ongoing tragedy

of the immense suffering of the people in Gaza.

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