happening now, the anxious wait for the first major release of hostages from gaza after an agonizing delay. israel and hamas once again on the verge of a temporary truce, expected to begin just hours from now. if all goes according to plan, it would mark the first pause in the hostilities since the war began and could, potentially could set the stage for even more captives to come home. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer in tel aviv, israel. and this is the situation room special report. let s begin our coverage right now here in the middle east where we appear to be on the cusp of a critical moment in the war. 13 hostages now just hours away from returning home if the agreement between israel and hamas holds firm. cnn s oren liebermann has the latest. reporter: after nearly seven weeks of war it is the storm before the calm. final hours of fighting in gaza ticking down until a pause in the conflict set for early friday mo
a german-israeli woman kidnapped by hamas has been found dead. 23-year-old shani luke was at the music festival. her body was seen on video after the attack, seemingly unconscious in the back of a hamas truck, paraded around by the terrorists. we want to warn you, the video is graphic. we ll show you some of it with her body blurred out. shawni s mother gave cnn permission to show the video. a sort familiar with the confirmation says this is the way they did it. israelis found a fragment of a bone from the base of a skull. technically called the petros bone. it was a dna match from shawni s family. so experts that october 7th kidnapping left a team to concluding that she was in fact dead. today, any notion of a cease-fire has dispelled. benjamin netanyahu said, quote, this is a time for quarter, unquote. they re pushing at least two miles into the gaza strip. israel is claiming it s killed dozen of hamas fighters. new israeli leaf defend lets are warning people in the nor
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