truce with hamas, whilst 39 palestinian women and children were released from israeli prisons as a part of the hostage deal between israel and hamas. today s releases brings the total number of hostages released during the window to sa and the number of prisoners freed to 117. let s take a closer look at some of the hostages released by hamas today. among the group are sisters, dafna and ela elyakim. they were attacked at their home in kibbutz nir oz. the girls were part of a family group whose capture was live streamed by the hamas attackers themselves. also for the first time, an american israeli citizen was released earlier today. abigail idan was just three at the time she was taken hostage she spent her fourth birthday in captivity. her parents were killed by hamas gunmen during the october 7th attacks. her great aunt and cousin said they hoped and prayed today would come, and expressed graititude to president biden, the qatari government and other parties involved in
see some of those former prisoners, the palestinians on board that bus. making their way back into gaza and onwards. we re going to have more on this story across the program. first were going to take a closer look at some of the hostages that were released by hamas today. amongst the group were sisters, they were attacked at their home. the girls were part of a family group whose capture was live streamed by the attackers themselves. also for the first time today a us citizen was released. abigail idan was just three at the time that she was taken hostage. she spent her fourth birthday in captivity. her parents were attacked and killed by hamas gunmen during the october seventh attacks. i m joined now by anna foster who s in tel aviv. you ve been following events throughout the day in the last few days. just take us through events taking place in the last few hours. let me talk you through what we seen today because the day actually began with more of a sense of anxiety that
he was visiting idf troops in gaza. as we ve been hearing, the hostages are being freed in exchange for a group of palestinian prisoners from israeli jails also all women and children. 39 of them, we are told, being released today. 39 of them, we are told, being released today. here they are being welcomed back in the west bank on saturday. our correspondent hugo bachega has this report. translation:, our translation: , our brave translation:, our brave combatants are doing everything possible to bring our people home, and ultimately we will bring them home. we have three main objectives, to eradicate hamas, bring back the hostages and ensure the gaza strip will no longer be a threat to the state of israel. i will no longer be a threat to the state of israel. state of israel. i am here with these combatants state of israel. i am here with these combatants who - state of israel. i am here with these combatants who have l state of israel. i am here with i these combatants
washington. israel now has the list of hostages who are supposed to be released tomorrow, and we are just hours away from day two of this expected four-day truce. i should note, we are getting new reporting in now. we are told there are several children who are on that list for tomorrow. of course the final group remains to be seen. that is something that we will learn as it happens in real time, as we did today, with this first group of hamas-held hostages being back on israeli soil. what we know is happening right now is they are getting medical treatment across multiple different locations here in tel aviv, where they have been reunited with their families. they are also including, at this children s hospital that is right outside of where i m standing right now, 24 hostages in total, which are 13 israelis, ten thai citizens, one filipino, all evacuated from gaza today and released by hamas after being held there for several weeks. there was not a dry eye in the room when
of the hostages. a u.s. official tells cnn that they are not, not expecting americans to be in this first group of 13 women and children set to be released. it has been eight hours since the fighting was paused in gaza and thetismar temporary truce a be holding a column of tanks heading away from the gaza strip this morning. the israeli military says it is ready and prepared to receive the hostages. we are told that each helicopter for those hostages will have a medical team onboard and the released hostages will also be given noise-canceling headphones for that flight to provide a little bit of peace and quiet on that helicopter ride. meantime, southern gaza drone video shows families walking the streets of khan yunis after that. you can see that destruction from the airstrikes. part of the hostage deal was allowing desperately needed humanitarian aid into gaza. this morning we have seen lines of trucks crossing into the region from egypt. and egyptian official says 200