“They [the hostages] appear to be in good enough health for women who were held for 15 months in unknown conditions of captivity,” said Noga Tarnopolsky, FRANCE 24’s correspondent in Tel Aviv. “Not every day of hostage-for-prisoner exchange is going to go like this. What we have been told to expect is that of the 33 hostages on the list of those to be in this first 42-day-phase of a ceasefire agreement, that at least a third will return home dead.”
