it says that the government of israel is obligated to return home all hostages. tonight the government has approved the outline of the first stage of achieving this goal according to which at least 50 hostages, women and children, will be released over four days during which a pause in the fighting will be held. a release of every additional ten hostages will result in one additional day of pause. we will continue the war in order to return home all of the hostages, complete the elimination of hamas and ensure that there will be no new threat to the state of israel from gaza. and right now looking at live pictures from gaza. it is the middle of the night but this news has come in. we can see the images there. it is quiet at the moment but this huge news that an agreement has been approved by benjamin netanyahu and his cabinet. we will work on getting that statement up on the screen for you but again underlined the fact that at least 50 hostages, women and children, will be re
abigail. and the other two would be women. three children, sorry, three americans to be included in this initial phase are 50 hostages. there are ten americans who are unaccounted for at the moment, presumed to be hostages, so three of ten, it seems, will be involved in this first phase. one more question, it is important to note that for the biden administration they have also emphasised that a pause in fighting here must also be used to get humanitarian aid in to the gaza strip. the gaza strip. that is right and again the gaza strip. that is right and again senior the gaza strip. that is right - and again senior administration official said it was expected that once a deal would be made that once a deal would be made that there would be a surgeon humanitarian supplies so the administration has pushed the humanitarians because to allow not only to facilitate the release of hostages but also to get more aid into gaza to that border crossing with egypt. they worked hard t
officials, the head of the cia, mr biden himself making calls to the leaders of both qatar and israel, and so they are heavily involved in these negotiations. and now we have that statement from the israeli government, quite a space statement i would say, basically giving the outline of the deal that these 50 hostages being released overfour the deal that these 50 hostages being released over four days with potential for more overtime. and still waiting to find out exactly when that might start, because there needs to be supreme court approval in israel before it goes through, because of the palestinian prisoners that would potentially be released. we are seeing reporting tonight that the secretary of state may again be heading to israel next week but we have not received confirmation of that or received a statement from the white house. at this point, do we know anything about how many americans may be part of this agreement of hostages being released? we agreement of hostag