(20 Jan 2025)
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Ramat Gan, Israel – 20 January 2025
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1. Wide of Sheba Medical Center
2. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Uriel Menachem Buso, Israeli Health Minister:
"Altogether, from an external point of view, you saw their condition which is fine, but of course the more internal and more personal clinical tests today are done by the teams in a respectful and appropriate manner for the returnees of course, their families, the entire support that is needed, also on a social level, and we are prepared and ready for it."
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3. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Uriel Menachem Buso, Israeli Health Minister:
"We are only a few hours since they arrived here, and I don’t know what their psychological state is either. It is clear to everyone where they came from after a year and almost three months, what their personal situation is, but beyond that let’s give them their privacy and their confidentiality, we will study this issue."
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4. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Uriel Menachem Buso, Israeli Health Minister:
"As part of the learning both from the medical point of view and from a security point of view, we are learning, and the team will learn and listen so that we know how to evaluate for the next groups. This is the goal and therefore we will leave it (confidential). This too is part of the importance, that this issue remains confidential because we have to remember that we still have hostages who are there."
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5. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Uriel Menachem Buso, Israeli Health Minister:
"Dozens, dozens of doctors, we are talking about doctors, paramedical staff, social, psychological, psychiatric and other dozens of staff members and security personnel accompanying this event. We don’t skimp on anything – it’s nutritionists and people from all aspects of life. You have to remember it’s a bubble for the the returnees and their families, it is important to us that everyone feels how you say it, a good feeling, and that is the goal."
6. Wide of Sheba Medical Center press area
STORYLINE:
Israel’s Health Minister on Monday visited the hospital where the three returned hostages are being treated and said it was too early to know the psychological damage they have suffered.
"We are only a few hours since they arrived here, and I don’t know what their psychological state is," Uriel Menachem Buso told journalists.
"Altogether from an external point of view, you saw their condition which is fine, but of course the more internal and more personal clinical tests today are done by the teams respectfully and for the returnees," he added.
The three Israeli hostages were freed from Hamas captivity on Sunday and returned to Israel, and dozens of Palestinian prisoners walked free from Israeli jail, leaving both Israelis and Palestinians torn between celebration and trepidation as the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took hold.
In Israel, the joy of seeing freed hostages Emily Damari, Romi Gonen, and Doron Steinbrecher reunited with their families was tempered by major questions over the fate of the nearly 100 others abducted in Hamas’ October 7, 2023 attack, who are still in captivity in Gaza.
Damari, Gonen and Steinbrecher were the first among 33 Israeli hostages who are meant to be released in the coming six weeks in a deal that includes a pause in fighting, the release of nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and increased fuel and aid deliveries for Gaza.
AP video by Nicolae Dumitrache
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