kaitlan collins is in tel aviv bringing us the minute by minute coverage of the second day of this truce agreement. reporter: yeah, you really see what those red cross vehicles mean to the hostages. i spoke to the family of one grandmother who was released yesterday who said, she had been underground for so long that she didn t know when she did see sunlight if she was taken to being released or executed until she saw the red cross vehicles yesterday. you just see how powerful that moment is. in this next phase of the deal between israel and hamas comes after hours of a delay in the deal where you are seeing the two sides try to work something out. there were hours of uncertainty when a dispute with hamas was unfolding over the amount of aid that was going into gaza which is a major component of this deal. and then with just hours to spare, qatari officials are involved. they were able to get the deal on track after some phone calls including one with president biden. now i
this is cnn breaking news. well, good morning to you, and welcome to our continuing coverage of the truce between israel and hamas, and the expected release of more hostaged today, i m pamela brown. my colleague kaitlan collins is live in tel aviv. we re waiting and watching in the tense situation in gaza and israel where a second group of hostages held by hamas is expected to be released. it s day two of a fragile four-day pause in fighting, and we re now hearing the timing is delayed in part by the slowness of aid trucks entering gaza. as families wait anxiously for word sources tell cnn that today s list provided by hamas has 13 names. cnn has learned that no americans are expected to be released today. under terms of the complicated deal israel three palestinians for every israeli hostages as buses wait outside a prison in the occupied west bank one palestinian official says israel is not following the terms of the prisoner release deal. on friday this video was relea
. i m kaitlan collins live tonight from israel. this is a special edition of the source because hours from now, a deal, if israel and hamas can keep it. weeks of negotiations have led both sides to this point where we are right now. if everything falls, what has been a very delicately choreographed script, some families will finally be able to breathe a sigh of relief. but failure will spell heartbreak for many of them. what we know now is that 13 israeli hostages who have spent weeks in hamas captivity are now scheduled to have freedom. dozens of palestinian prisoners are also slated for release in exchange for the release of those hostages. all of that is happening in addition to what is expected to be a complete pause in the fighting in gaza as we have seen aid trucks already lining up at the rafah crossing to go into gaza, desperately needed aid as you just heard. we ve already watched one delay to this deal followed by an intense burst of fighting happening on the g
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
palestinian prisoners, according to qatari officials. hamas will hand over these hostages to red cross workers somewhere inside gaza. they will then enter israel through one of two places, either directly from gaza, right here, or further south from egypt down here. once in israel, they will be taken directly to hospitals by helicopter. now, the larger agreement calls for a pause in fighting for four days, a total of 50 hostages of the estimated 236 being held will be freed. americans are not expected to be released today, but some are part of the four-day agreement that includes abigail adan, whose fourth birthday is today. she turns 4 today. she was kidnapped on october 7th by hamas terrorists, who murdered her parents. this morning, we have seen some aid trucks crossing through from egypt, through the rafah crossing. here are some images of that. this is part of the agreement. we have teams of reporters standing by at all the crossings and across the region. let s get righ