Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 192
November Surprises
An Israeli security official confirmed to ABC News that the names of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Carmel Gat and Eden Yerushalmi appeared in a July draft of the cease-fire deal as being slated for release in the first phase of the proposed agreement.
All three were among the six bodies recovered by Israeli forces from a tunnel in southern Gaza on Saturday.
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