The exact number of hostages who are still alive cannot be determined at the moment, former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East Mick Mulroy says.
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00:00I mean, what do we know about the 60 remaining, presumed to be living, hostages?
00:05Are there any examples, any evidence that they're still alive?
00:10So that's been one of the biggest ticket points in these negotiations.
00:14Even in negotiations to recover one hostage, there's usually what's called a proof of life
00:20that starts the whole negotiations, because you don't know what you're negotiating for
00:25if the individual is in fact dead.
00:28That hasn't happened in this case, and that's one of the reasons why Israel keeps hemming
00:33when it comes to going into the first phase of this ceasefire agreement, because they
00:39don't know how many are actually alive.
00:41Hamas has been saying they don't know because they would have to be able to freely move
00:46around Gaza to go to these locations to provide this proof of life, and they can't do that
00:52when the fighting's still continuing.