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mickey bergman, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. now, let s go back to october the 7th and the days after, when your phone started ringing. tell us what happened. well, like the rest of the world, i woke up in the united states on october 7th to kind of get the news and start understanding what is happening. but very soon after, i started getting phone calls, initially from the mother of an israeli soldier who s been killed and kidnapped in gaza years ago, leah goldin, who i ve worked with over the years, to let me know that there s a lot of hostages families that are seeking help. she started organising and listing their names, and i started receiving a lot of phone calls from what ended up being about 67 different families asking us to help. now, just. we should be clear, you are not involved in the formal negotiations, either now or then. so what was it that you were doing? so that is correct. we are a not for profit, non government organisation. we work on behalf of ....
Within two days. and that was what the qataris and the egyptians needed. they needed to show hamas, hey, this is an american priority. don t mess with us here. we need you to resolve it. we need to get a proposalfrom you. ok, but what i m curious about is your involvement, because one can imagine the us president reacting in that way anyway. what difference are you making? are you able to get information about the hostages out and back to them? yes. so i m not able to get information about the hostages from hamas because hamas does not have, especially in the first days, they had no.no complete information themselves. and even if they do, they don t really. they re not eager to release that. however, sarah, the point is, and what is important to understand about our role, we re able to experiment and have conversations informally with the different parties that they cannot have directly between them, ....