What will it take to free the hostages taken by Hamas?
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🗓️ 9 November 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:09.0 | Today, why is it taking so long to free the people held hostage in Gaza? Here at KFC we don't just believe in delicious chicken. We believe that every young person who wants a job should be able to get one. |
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| 1:06.0 | It's just like she appeared from the dog, the way she acted just showed me she was there. She was very much herself. It's really quite incredible, but at the same time it's incredibly fraught because |
| 1:12.0 | she has come back, no way it has come back so many people |
| 1:17.1 | have not come back our home is banned the war is raging it's is We last spoke to Sharon Liveschitz a few days after Hamas fighters had forced their way into the |
| 1:36.0 | kibbut where she grew up a few miles from the border of Gaza. |
| 1:41.0 | Her parents, Ychevid and Oded, were among those that Hamas took hostage. |
| 1:46.6 | They're both in their 80s and have spent decades advocating for peace. |
| 1:51.9 | For weeks, Sharon heard nothing. She didn't know if they were alive or dead. |
| 1:58.0 | Until the call came that Hamas was freeing her mom and another woman, Nurekupa. |
| 2:05.0 | Sharon took the first flight she could get from the UK to Tel Aviv. |
| 2:09.0 | She hugged J'heved, who was thinner after weeks of being held hostage. |
| 2:14.8 | And hours later, they were on a stage speaking to the world's media, and Ycheved told her story. It looks like a spider web. When they arrived, they arrived into a large hall. |
| 2:30.0 | Yechavid's return was bittersweet. She still has no idea what's happened to her husband. |
| 2:39.5 | Indeed, she's one of only five hostages to have come back in the month since Hamas launched its attack. |
| 2:46.7 | Around 240 other people are still missing. |
| 2:51.1 | The most important thing for her is that her heart is in Gaza with the rest of the people, with my father, with the children, with the babies, with the mothers, with the teenagers, with all these people that we know. |
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