-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com i'm kaitlan collins live in tel aviv, israel. this is a special edition of "the source" tonight because in just three hours from now, we expect to see the most significant break in the intense fighting that has been happening between israel and hamas in 47 days. a temporary pause is slated to begin at midnight eastern, 7:00 a.m. local here, following weeks of pain staking negotiations that have happened behind the scenes and a final burst of bombs flying across the border tonight. this carefully brokered deal that is happening, this agreement between israel and hamas is supposed to mean that at least 50 hostages, women and children, we are told, will be able to go home for the first time since the october 7th attacks. israel, in exchange has promised to free 150 palestinian prisoners, women and minors, who have been imprisoned in jails here in israel. there's another critical piece of this deal as well. that is humanitarian aid for gaza. we're told that some 200 trucks carrying relief supplies and four fuel trucks are lining up at the rafah crossing, preparing to go into gaza, where they are so desperately needed. in the hours leading up to this very temporary truce, we are told, we are still watching signs this war is very hot, as israel defense forces have claimed they have taken a senior hamas commander off the battlefield. they say there's been about 100 of those in total they have killed, after what they say is a targeted strike that has happened in gaza tonight. more on what is happening and what the next few hours could look like, as we closely monitor this. matthew chance is here live with me in tel aviv. and what we know, as the broad outlines of this deal -- and really we'll see what happens once it starts to play out -- is this technically starts at midnight eastern. we're not going to see hostages coming across right then. >> that's not going to happen until at least 4:00 local time, so some hours afterward, israelis believe or expect the first hostages to start coming out. and that's because it's logistically very complicated. and of course hamas and the other palestinian militant groups may be holding israelis and other hostages inside gaza, got to assemble them in the right place. they're going to be transferred across the border from gaza into egypt through rafah border crossing, checked by the international red cross, and handed over into israeli hands. there's all sorts of steps, moving parts in that operation, that could be delayed and even derail this thing as well. one point we want to make is that the israelis say they won't release any palestinian prisoners from israeli jails until they've got the 13 israeli citizens in their hands. they're not going to start releasing palestinian prisoners until they know those israelis are safe. i think that's an indication of how little trust the israelis have at the moment that this is going to go without any problems. >> and just recently they finally found out what those 13 names were going to look like. we've talked about hamas and how they can use this 96-hour period of no fighting in gaza to rebuild. we heard from the idf spokesperson saying their troops will be moving around as well. how could israel use this period to prepare and replenish what's happening what they're doing in gaza? >> israel have been very reluctant to undertake this pause. they've described it as painful because they are concerned hamas will use it as an opportunity to regroup, to put itself in a more defensive position. i expect there are all sorts of ways that the israeli military, which is very technologically capable -- it's got powerful allies like united states as well, with very powerful observation capabilities from satellites and things like that. perhaps they will use this as an opportunity to try and gather more intelligence on where the hostages may be held. even at the end of this process, if 50 -- we're talking about at least 50 people probably coming out, women and children. that's the terms of the deal at the moment. it could be more than that. but even if 50 come out, there are still going to be 190 left there. and israelis have made it quite clear they want everybody out. if they can't do it through negotiation, they're going to try to do it through other means. >> matthew chance, thank you. of course we're watching all this closely, there's still so much we don't know. this is an unprecedented deal we are about to see play out. for more perspective on what it could look like, i want to speak to the former israeli ambassador to the united states, michael oren, who is also the ambassador in residence at the atlantic council. of course great perspective here. ambassador, when you look at this and what we are about to see in these next few hours, what are you watching for? >> i'm -- good evening, kaitlan. good to be with you. i'm watching for whether hamas will again move the football. hamas is a terrorist organization. it does not negotiate in good faith. and hamas not only engaging in physical terror, it engages in emotional terror. even releasing these hostages in this traunch, this group of 50, is going to drive deep emotional wedges in israeli society, which is what hamas wants to do. beside the fact the external strategic ramifications of this -- and it's been mentioned by several of your commentators already -- that restarting the war after the hiatus of five days will not be simple for the state of israel. it will be difficult. and it's going to increase the pressure of all these other families whose loved ones weren't released. so, hamas is very much playing a interesting and moving the football type of strategy, which we've known for many times before, hamas has broken every ceasefire it's ever agreed to, including the ceasefire that existed on october 7th. there was a ceasefire too right before that. so, we have to keep that in mind. we watch for that. i think there's one point, though, that hasn't been made strongly enough. let me stress it. that is that this hostage exchange is happening because of the pressure israel put on hamas. it would not have been possible before that without the israeli ground incursion into gaza, in the sense that hamas is under a very very difficult situation. the way hamas is now going to exploit those six hours when israel won't have drone eyes on the ground, hamas will probably move fighters from the north into the south and prepare for the next stage of the battle. >> what do you think it says about hamas' current state of operations, that they did agree to this deal? obviously having the hostages is what has given them leverage here. >> the leverage cuts two ways. israel's ground forces also has the leverage on hamas. keep in mind, these fighters aren't really coming out of their tunnels. they come out occasionally, fire an rpg or fire an antitank rocket, then they go away. it's not easy to be underground six weeks. and they want to use this time to rearm, to reorganize, to reposition many of their fighters. and let's be clear about this. this hostage exchange, we are going to gain the lives of these hostages, but it's going to cost us in terms of the live of our soldiers. we'll have to go into a battlefield at the end of five days, which has far more booby traps in it and will eventually have to go into the south, which is complicated because of the great number of palestinians that have been moved to the south. i stress there's going to be international pressure and domestic pressure to extend the ceasefire, which from israel's perspective means close to death because it means hamas gets away with mass murder and it means that israel can't restore its internal security. we have 250,000 internal refugees, sbrees who moved away from the border, who won't be able to go back to the border if hamas does what it pledges to do, which is rearm and launch strikes against israel. it's an extremely delicate situation, and i would expect hamas to continue to negotiate in bad faith and be prepared for that. >> obviously the families here are grateful regardless of what's happening that their loved ones will be coming home. they know it's not all of them, but at least 50 of them have hopes tonight that it could be their loved ones. that's at the center of this. the way you're talking about this tactically speaking on the battl battlefield, who benefits from this deal more? hamas or israel? >> i don't think the word "benefit" really fits here. israel has to counterbalance two fundamental interest. one is restoring the security of the state. and the other is keeping its promise to the people of israel, that no matter where they are, if they fall prisoner, god forbid, israel will do anything to get them back. remember the raid in 1976, israel was willing to do anything, go more than the last mile to rescue hostages. so, trying to counterbalance these two from israeli perspectives sacred objectives of the state. so, we want to get the hostages back, but we also need to restore security, including deterrence power, because the impression could be given to our enemies in the region, typically iranians, that you can strike with impunity. when israel goes to defend itself, there will be a ceasefire slapped on israel and tie its hands. that's extreme strategic danger. i would go so far as to say it's an existential danger. let's be very clear about this. israel cannot negotiate the end of all the hostages. as precious as these hostages are coming home to their families, hamas will hold onto them because if hamas gives up the last hostage, israel can flood the tunnel system with seawater, and it would eliminate hamas. chances are maybe they'll hold on to a few hostages as a get out of gaza free card and maybe exchange their retreat from gaza on some boat, such as the plo did from beirut in 1982, in exchange for the last hostages. it would be a good youtcome. that would be beneficial. >> they've obviously completely used them as leverage. ambassador, before i let you go, i just want to ask you on a different but still related note, it's thanksgiving in the united states. a lot of people have been spending the day with their families. they may be sitting around a table right now listening to this conversation. you recently wrote an op-ed talking about how anti-semitism is coming up and what that conversation looks like this year and how you say it's changed a lot but not really that much when you look at the conversation. i wonder what you think those conversations should look like at thanksgiving tables tonight. >> excellent question. just before i came on the show, i learned the house of my good friend, mike, in los angeles, was attacked by hamas supporters. he and his wife were inside the house. and i'm waiting for word on their condition. so, this is not just a matter of discomfort. it's a matter of physical fear of being attacked. and that was the conversation around thanksgiving tables. now, if you want to go back a few years ago and there would be a conversation about anti-semitism, there would be a big division among americans, how do you define anti-semitism? not criticizing israel, but saying israel should be wiped off the map, from the river to the sea, palestine should be free. that debate is over. everyone understands that. when pro-hamas demonstrators say, gas the jews, or bring back auschwitz, it's not a question that anti-zionism is a form of anti-semitism. in the past there was a big question about how to defend the jewish community, whether you could sit down and talk. for people chanting to throw the jews back to auschwitz or gas them, i don't think you're going to have much of an educational moment with them. they have to be resisted. any names you can, surely peaceful names, but that the american jewish community has to defend itself, spend some time on american campuses. i'm with columbia students. they're living in fear. i couldn't have imagined a moment like this. but they have to fight back. they understand that. and the sense of really sort of being besieged. it's frightening, i must tell you honestly. >> and it's a lot of conversation, students returning back after the break will be having. ambassador michael oren, as always, thank you for your time. >> have a good holiday. thank you. up next, we'll also speak live with a former fbi agent who specialized on working on these kinds of hostage cases overseas. his view, why he believes the risk of the mistake here is incredibly high. also an adviser to the 2020 abraham accords will join me. why he believes peace on all sides is not as farfetched as you might think. this is cnn's special live coverage. in just a few hours from now, the first hostages being held by hamas could be on their way home. so, what will that transfer process actually look like? obviously it's going to be quite complicated. but where do these women and children who are expected to be the first ones out of gaza, out of hamas' captivity, where do they go? joining me now is the former fbi agent, robert demeco, who has worked on hostage cases overseas in his career. rob, let's just start with how much of a test do you think that the first day here is going to be for future swaps? >> oh, it's huge. as this -- i call this a moment of trust. you don't have to have trust on either side of it. but during the actual exchange, you have to trust each other quite a bit. it's complex. there's so many things that could go wrong. even without any ill effect on either side, if you have a faction not wanting to happen. we tried to do hostage exchanges and even couldn't find them with the helicopter and trying to narrow it down before weather came in. but this one's going to take a lot of trust to move that many people through an area that's, you know, a part of war. hamas isn't going to want them to be tracked where they came from. i'm sure they'll come to a central point where they've gathered them and move them to a point agreed on. same thing with the israeli prisoners that are going to be coming out. it is a tremendous task, and the first one is going to be extremely difficult. a lot of heightened tension on either side. it will go down a bit with each one. but even as small as air between them can have that spin out of control as far as losing trust. >> how much does it hurt it that it's not a direct line of communication between israel and hamas? i mean, this is all being mediated through the qataris. >> so, i've done a couple of these. one actually, i ended up having -- i was going through a senior qatari that we were moving military folks to recover a prisoner held by the taliban. and it got so complicated that the qatari had to flip his cell phone so i was talking straight to the commander because we couldn't find him. we had to lower the predator to look for them, and they thought we were going to shoot them. they had machine guns, so they goodness we had some communication to talk each other down. the second one, almost four years ago today, november 2019, we exchanged professor king and weeks, two professors kidnapped in kabul for the -- three. that was a bit different. we had to give our side up, t their three first, before they released theirs. we had to pull them back at the last second because something fell through. it didn't hurt. we did it the next day, but it was still a complex scenario. there's so many people involved to get word back and forth. but that was through the qataris too. so, again, the trust factor, qataris talking to hamas, us talking to qataris, since we've done it with them before, i think that helps a bit. >> so, what is -- if you're a hostage and you are one of the first ones who's being released, what does that reintegration period look like? obviously they're going to need medical exams. they want to be reunited with their families. these are people who have been deeply traumatized for 47 days now. what does that look like? >> so, it's -- the reintegration, we call it bringing them back in. the first thing is medical. i'm sure with this many at this one time that they're going to have something set up where they come in and there's going to be a medical team for each person. i think the first are going to be 13 people. don't know who, don't know ages and stuff. but there's going to be a medical team probably for each pe person. along with that medical team is going to be hopefully a psychologist. the fbi has a psychologist under the victims assistance folks that usually comes forward at least to a middle ground. weld usually move them to germany, where there's a whole team set up at the military base there, in order to reintegrate them. and the psychologist starts actually dictating what's allowed. we'd even have agents who are intel folks talking to them without the psychologist there because of all the stress that they're going through. we want to get information from them to help with other hostages and other things, but their physical and mental health is more important. and that psychologist that's assigned to them is the one really dictating. i've seen some prisoners -- i debriefed -- he was actually pakistani. and he had been held five years by the taliban. i debriefed him for about five hours before we sent him back, and he had me laughing. i couldn't believe how much sense of humor he remained after five years. he had a great outlook. >> wow. >> he was making jokes and really coming around. that was incredible. >> that is remarkable. i mean, your insight on this is so fascinating. and obviously we're thinking of all of these who are going to be released. robert d'amico, thank you for joining us. happy thanksgiving. >> thank you. happy thanksgiving to you too. we're learning new details not just about when the hostages are released but also on the battlefield. what is that going to look like? plus why the pope says this conflict, in his view, has gone beyond war. he is now calling it terrorism. more on thosose commentsts just ahead.d. as we lead up to this deadline of when this temporary truce is set to begin, israel has been heavily bombarding sites throughout gaza today in these hours before that. they are expected to have a full stop in the fighting once we hit that midnight eastern deadline. that is 7:00 a.m. here local. cnn's jeremy diamond has more. jeremy? >> reporter: kaitlan, hours before that pause in fighting is set to go into effect, the israeli military is continuing to pummel the gaza strip. we have been watching over the last several hours, as there have been significant explosions, bomb bombardments of key areas of northern gaza. this is the area where we watched several large explosions. we've also heard outgoing artillery fire from near our position and also machine gunfire, indicating potentially active battles between israeli forces and hamas militants. the israeli military has made very clear they intended to continue carrying out their military operations up until the time when that truce goes into effect. an israeli defense forces spokesman in fact saying it is business as usual in the hours until that expected pause in fighting goes into effect. but if everything goes according to plan, at 7:00 a.m. local time, we will see that pause in fighting. and several hours later, around 4:00 p.m. in the afternoon, is when we are expecting to see the first israeli hostages cross into israeli from the gaza strip. 13 hostages expected to be released in that first day. we don't yet know their identities. but the process effectively, they are set to be handed over to the red cross by hamas initially and then from there will be handed over to israeli forces. some of those hostages will be met by their families near the gaza border. others will meet them at the hospitals, where they're expected to undergo medical evaluations and then also be able to be reunited with their families. of course qatari officials have said that they hope that this process effectively over these next four days of a pause in fighting in exchange for the release of 50 israeli hostages, as many as 150 palestinian prisoners in that same period of time, qatari officials hope this will be just the beginning of that process, that more hostages could be released down the line. and they also hope that it could be potentially a vector for a broader pause in the fighting, although israeli officials have made clear once this pause is done, they intend to continue this war to continue their objective to destroy hamas and remove it from power. >> joining me now with perspective on the latest diplomatic efforts we're seeing here, jeffrey -- adviser to the a abraham accords. jeff, i'm so glad to have you here tonight. i want to get your take on something that is causing quite a stir that people have been looking at. that is after pope francis met with israeli families and palestinian families separately. israeli families, i should note, whose loved ones are being held hostage by hamas. this is what he said following those meetings. >> translator: this morning i received two delegations, one of israelis who have relatives held hostage in the gaza strip, and another who are palestinians who have relatives imprisoned in israel. they suffer so much. i heard how both sides are suffering. this is what wars do. but here we have gone beyond wars. this is not war. this is terrorism. >> jeff, what did you make of him saying, this is terrorism? >> well, i don't know who he was pointing the finger at, if he's pointing it at all sides. i'm not one who wants to violate a doctrine of infallibility for papal, but i'm not one to be following a pope's decrees to start with. i think he's a brilliant person and inspiring world leader of faith. however, another man of faith, reverend andrew young, reminded us at one of our sessions, of course a former congressman, u.n. ambassador, and mayor of atlanta, that you never call a person with an alcohol problem a drunk. going around pointing fingers and using slogans and insults is not going to resolve a problem. the plight of the aspirations of the palestinians has gone back generations, has to be addressed. and the sense of security for the existential survival of israel has bto be addressed. i don't know that we had the voice of the church so clear in world war ii, a more clear battle with good and evil. i don't think that his pointing fingers right now and using this terminology is bringing people together. so, perhaps on more reflection, he could expound on this further. but, yeah, i would move past that language and talk about how to actually bring people -- something we did hear at yale without any papal authority, we managed to bring the first top arab official and first top israeli official last week together here on campus with hundreds of students, 80 scholars, theologians, clergy, to talk about common problems to recognize you don't have to agree with everything to have mutual respect and understanding with so many of the ivy league schools and other schools caught up in anger and finger pointing. instead, we figured out we could talk to one another and take a look at some mutual areas of interest and some problem solving. >> well, jeff, you called that event -- i believe you described it as a leap of faith. what stood out to you about that leap of faith, as you described it? >> well, thanks. we did have every faith, every major faith, represented there, 20 different theologians. many universities seemed to be missing the moment. they were afraid of saying the wrong thing. if the university official says the wrong thing, they can learn and correct it and show that they too are capable of learning along with their students. so, they shouldn't be afraid to be accountable. but ellie weasel, the great holocaust survivor and philosopher said silence is complicity. in bringing them together, we frankly followed the leadership of our own students. there's a middle eastern, north african group, and jewish student association that came together. you had a report earlier in the evening on cnn that showed a difficulty in cornell because of the ways the polarization has gone there. they couldn't bring student groups together. we fortunately had student groups here who showed us the path to follow. and that's what we did. we had the united arab emirates ambassador together with ambassador from israel. and that was a -- who was michael herzog, whose father is sixth president, brother is current president. they didn't agree on everything. but we did find we could talk on common ground with palestinian students and students from kuwait and dubai and israel. we had jewish students from israel but we also had arabs from israel asking questions as part of this dialogue. and nobody had to be throwing food or chairs at one another to have this comfortable dialogue to find out where is there some possible common ground? -- complained all universities teach living languages as if they're dead and dead languages as if they're alive. we thought we should talk about lively issues and not leave everything into the dust bowls of libraries, talk about these critical issues. i think that perhaps the pope is going to open up a dialogue like this. but it was very helpful having the uplift with the theologians. we had a common inline come in -- i'm sorry. >> what we have seen jeff is that is obviously not a given these days. thank you so much for your time tonight. >> thank you. up next, who are the 150 palestinian prisoners that are set to be released from israeli jails? their identities are now being revealed. we'll take a closer look. the truce between israel and hamas, that temporary one, is expected to begin friday, 7:00 a.m. local, midnight eastern. we are told 13 civilian hostages are expected to be released by hamas after that, in that time period. what we're hearing from israeli officials is that 39 palestinian prisoners will be released as part of that exchange. joining me now to discuss what that could look like, what we're learning about this, cnn global affairs analyst, kim dozier. we've had a lot of talk about these 13 israeli hostages. but these 39 palestinian prisoners. we're told they are made up of women and male teenagers who are up to the age of 18. what else do we know about them? >> well, we know that none of them were convicted of the crime of murder and that they're more likely convicted, out of the 150 that could be chosen, offenses like throwing rocks at israeli soldiers, quote, unquote, inciting violence against israeli, the kind of things israelis were less likely to object to because of course there was a 24-hour period after the israeli cabinet approved this pressure that the families, israelis in general, had to appeal the decision of hostage releases and none of prisoner releases. and there were no appeals, to my knowledge, to stop this process. so, should everything go according to this very complicated plan, the exchanges should start friday local time. i guess that's going to be 9:00 a.m. east coast time back here in washington, d.c. and we'll see if, you know, with every day if they get to the full four days and possibly beyond that. >> well, what matthew chance was saying is that israel's not going to release any of those 39 palestinian prisoners until they know those 13 hostages have been handed over. to dig in deeper on the 8,000 plus palestinian prisoners that we know are being held, more than 3,000 are being held on what israel says -- what they call administrative detention. that means they're being held without -- the charges against them without an ongoing legal process. can you just explain for people who aren't very familiar with if this is the standard, if this is normal, why they're in israeli custody? >> they can be held in israeli military -- sorry, in israeli prisons for everything from, well, breaking the incitement laws, which could be tweeting something in support of hamas, everything all the way up to throwing a rock at a soldier at a checkpoint, or worse, throwing a molotov cocktail at a soldier, which is considered escalating to violence because a molotov cocktail can kill. this idea of freedom of expression getting cracked down on is even worse now post-october 7th. palestinians and israelis on the left have been complaining that they feel like anything they say could get them thrown into jail. the other thing that could happen is the palestinians say that the israeli legal system frequently rules against them. for instance, if their house is in a location that israeli settlers have decided to claim and they win in israeli court, the palestinian tries to stop the takeover, they end up getting jailed. >> a lot of questions and insight into that as we're watching what is expected to be the release of 150, potentially 300. kim dozier, thank you very much. >> thanks. up next, we'll go inside the bombardment in gaza that is still happening up until that deadline. one woman shares her video diary showing how palestinian civilians are desperately hoping the nightmare they're living through is coming to an end. turning now to the humanitarian crisis in gaza, civilians have been begging the world to pay attention to their plight. cnn's jomana karacha has our report. some of the images you'll see are disturbing. >> reporter: life before the wars felt like a distant memory for this blogger. they were the days when she'd smile in her videos, taking her followers behind the scenes of her work in gaza. for weeks now, her posts have been about life at a time of war. >> translator: we now wake up at 5:00 a.m. to bread. we walk more than six kilometers to fill up a gallon or salty or fresh water. we charge our phones on the streets using solar power. we crave our favorite foods but there's no power, gas or water, so we have to make do with canned foods. >> reporter: neighbors sharing the little they have to bake bread in clay ovens. at times about how close death felt as bombs rained down on gaza. >> translator: this might be my last video. they dropped leaflets asking people to evacuate the area. most people fled. people were running in the streets like crazy, not knowing where to go. the situation is terrifying. god have mercy on us. >> reporter: as the war intensified in the north, she didn't leave. the safety they were told to evacuate to in the south was an illusion. nowhere in gaza is safe, she said. >> translator: death and destruction is everywhere in gaza. the occupation has no mercy on anyone. not the elderly, not the children, not the women, no one. all civilians are under fire in gaza. where are the decisionmakers? where's the world? gaza is being annihilated. we are dying. someone do something. enough. >> reporter: but these desperate cries of so many like ayat -- haven't stopped the seemingly endless nightmare for the people of gaza, where burying their dead has become their everyday. where every moment feels like it may be their last. on monday, it was ayat's, killed along with other family members in a night of intense bombardment. her last video, the haunting words of a 27-year-old with a final message. >> translator: we're humans like everyone else. we had big dreams. now our dream is if we are killed, we are a body in one piece so we can be identified, buried in a grave, not body parts in a bag. when will this war end? who will remain to tell people what happened to us? what we lived through what we've witnessed? >> repo >> a devastating report from jomana, but report to hear. jomana karadsheh, thank you for that. for more on what's happening inside gaza, what could come with this aid on the way, rula gibril, international journalist. we're hearing what i think is kind of an undernoted aspect of this deal, which is a surge in humanitarian aid that's expected to go into gaza. can you just walk us through how desperately needed that is right now? >> it's not only desperate, at this point it's about survival. in the last 45 days, gazans, they were starving, no food, no water. the level of consumption of water, people were consuming water unfit for human consumption. children, babies just born were drinking dirty water that is contaminated. we're looking at the worst humanitarian catastrophe since the war in yemen, and that war was -- took place for years. here we're talking about 45 days. and strange and the most heartbreaking thing is in the last poll of gazans, 70% of gazans wanted a peaceful two-state solution and the overwhelming majority rejected hamas. today they are collectively punished because of the action of hamas. so you are seeing a civilian population, overwhelming majority of them children, dying at a rate we've never seen. those who are alive starving to death. >> hearing from that young woman who was saying, what we hope for is if we die, we die in one piece so our families can identify us. the heartbreaking reports that we're getting coming out of gaza. do you think the concerns that we're hearing now about diseases and this becoming more of a humanitarian catastrophe in that sense not only from the hostages, the idf soldiers who are going to be there, from the people who are living there and what that could turn into if there is not enough aid brought in? >> reporter: i think before the war they needed 500 trucks a day. the discussion now, they will basically allow a couple hundred of trucks a day, but you have a besieged population of 2 million people that are already starving. the aid is a drop in the bucket. it's nothing. i listened to the u.n., to the head of u.n. relief agency. and he covered the war in cambodia. and he said, gaza is even worse. worse than the killing fields in cambodia. he said, basically it's a carnage, it's a total, utter carnage. what we're looking at as people who observe wars and cover wars, not only the people who die but people who are injured and don't have access to medication or water to clean, but also the many bodies that are buried. and supposedly there are thousands. they stopped even counting. so you will have a situation where you will start hearing about serious diseases that they never had in that area because of the fact that they are not allowed to -- because of the bom bombardment, they are not capable of retrieving the bodies. today from the shifa hospital, hundreds of bodies were buried in mass graves. for the first time, we're looking at a small stretch of land where the human population, 50% of them are children, are the ones that will start dying. and you know, the sad fact that even if there will be a cease-fire five or six days or even eight days, the ultimate goal that israel said, they will continue resuming bombardment. and that means we will feed them for a couple of days, six, five, days. but ultimately, they will be bombarded again. and i think there should be international pressure to put on the table a solution that saves civilian populations. gaza is not safe. israel will not allow them to go to the occupied territories of the west bank. thus it's incumbent on the international community to do something to save the millions of civilians who did nothing on the 7th of october. hamas carried the war crime, hamas should be held accountable for it, not the civilian population. >> rula gibril, as always, thank you for your perspective tonight. >> reporter: thank you. up next, all speak live with the family of one hostage who is being held, a female hostage. there's hope potentially she could be in that group of 50. we are now hours away from the first group being released by hamas. we are folollowing it very closy in just a moment here on cnn.