what he says is ahead for them. plus, the images that we ve seen out of the west bank as crowds gather to welcome home palestinian prisoners who have just been freed, all while aid trucks continue to move into gaza. our nbc team is covering all angles of this story, and i want to begin with nbc s chief international correspondent, keir simmons, who s in qatar where a lot of work was done to get the truce extended. what more can you tell us about this new deal? reporter: well, chris, we re waiting right now for the last tranche, if you like, of the last deal, which is, we understand, likely to be 11 hostages released, 33 palestinian prisoners released from israeli jails. that is set to happen in the coming hours. and if it does, in just these coming hours, it s now 10:00 at night here. that would be a little bit earlier than saturday night, when there were some real challenges. didn t happen until midnight. but later than on other occasions, there have been some issues tod
breaking news. and welcome back to our coverage of the israel-hamas war. i m wolf blitzer in tel aviv. we re learning that the third group of hostages has been released to the red cross. today 17 hostages are being delivered to freedom. the idf said the most recent group of hostages includes both israelis and foreigners. we have heard from american officials that they have hoped that one american would be among the latest transfer of those held in hamas captivity in gaza. we re watching all of these dramatic developments unfold. i want to start with oren liebermann here in tel aviv. i know we re being briefed. give us the latest. right now we re expecting the release of a total of 17, 14 israeli citizens and that includes ann israeli russian citizen and three foreign nationals. if we look at the first part of the agreement that we hope will be continued, it was for 50 israeli hostages. that means as of right now, we have 13, 13 and 14. so that is a total of 40 at this poi
the breaking news at this hour, 24 hostages have been released by hamas terrorists. 13 israelis, 10 thai citizens, 1 filipino citizen. they were moved from inside gaza over the rafah crossing into egypt. a short time ago, we got our first look at some of these hos hostages. we have video. it includes pictures of a little girl in a yellow shirt. 1 of the 13 israeli hostages release d. we have other video to show you as well. different vantage points where you can see some of the people, including that girl, who was released and then a number of people boarding a bus from a holding facility inside rafah. a number of these people now on a bus on the move, presumably, back into israel. this is the first part of this pause in fight fighting agreed to by israel, by hamas, to aa low for the release of some 50 hostages over the next several days in exchange for the release of 150 palestinian prisoners in a pause in the fight ing, and breaking moments ago, the identity of two hostage
A sea of humanity clutching Israeli flags gathered in Central Park Sunday to demand the safe return of all remaining hostages being held by the terrorist
Karen told the crowd she and five other women were held inside a room in a hospital with Hamas next to them. After two weeks, five children joined them after each being held somewhere alone.