Thousands of people have gathered in Tel Aviv to celebrate the return of the four women and to call for the release of the remaining hostages held by Hamas. Viki Cohen's son, Nimrod, is still being held in Gaza after being captured on October 7. She spoke to ABC Middle East Correspondent Matthew Doran.
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00:00It's a long time since the last time I saw him, I heard his voice.
00:08It's difficult for me to see his empty room every day and I miss him so much.
00:15I want to hug him, I want him to come back, we miss him very much.
00:21You mentioned that he's not part of this initial group that is slated for release or has already
00:26started being released.
00:28That's something that will happen down the track.
00:31How confident are you feeling that this deal will continue and you will get to a stage
00:36where he is released?
00:39First of all, I'm very disappointed that they have stages in the deal and not all of the
00:48hostages are coming back together.
00:51I think this was needed to do, but our government thinks otherwise.
01:00We heard that the idea of stages is the idea of our government, of our prime minister,
01:07not Hamas.
01:10But even though there are stages, we hope that it will continue after the first stage.
01:18The second one won't take long until it will start and won't take long until Nimrod will
01:27come back.
01:28This is what we hope.