between hamas and israel. hamas delayed the release of this group for hours today, claiming israel violated terms of the agreement. they arrived in israel a short while ago. the alleged violations include continued attacks on civilians in gaza by israeli forces, and limitations in aid for northern gaza. the white house has been working with qatar, egypt, and israel on implementation of the deal. a cease-fire is set to last for a four-day period, during which hamas has agreed to release 50 hostages in exchange for 150 palestinian prisoners being held in israel. the truth started yesterday, and prompted hamas to release 24 of those hostages, and israel to release 39 palestinians. after the four-day period, israel plans to resume ground attacks on gaza for at least the next two months. health ministry in gaza says israel has already killed an estimated 14,000 and 500 civilians. 5000 of which were children. nbc s erin mclaughlin and ralph sanchez are in tel aviv. ralph, tell us h
in the attack on kibbutz be eri. this is the moment she was reunited with herfather, tom. emily was at a sleepover at a friend s house in the kibbutz when she was abducted, without any family with her. other children freed include hila rotem, aged 12. she was taken captive with her mother, raya rotem, who was not released with her daughter, and remains a hostage in gaza. this is accountant, shiri weiss, aged 53, a hostage released to israel along with her 18 year old daughter, noga weiss. 21 year old maya regev was also freed. also among the women and children released on saturday was shoshan haran, 67, was taken from her home in kibbutz be eri on october 7. shoshan haran s daughter, adi shoham, 38, her children, eight year old son, nave and her three year old daughter gani yahel shoham, were also released on saturday. the hostages were freed in exchange for a group of palestinian prisoners from israeli jails also all women and children. here they are being welcomed back in
live to our middle east correspondent tom bateman who is in jerusalem. tom, thank you for joining. what is the latest on the hostages that have been released? what we know is that they have been transferred, as you say into the hands of the red cross, taken to the raffle border crossing between gaza and egypt. they have crossed it it rafah crossing. received by it israeli officials. very significant delay as you said, we re expecting this to happen all at four o clock local time. that is eight hours ago. the delay was because it seems by a dispute about what was in the agreement relating to humanitarian aid passing from the south of the gaza strip to the north of the gaza strip. the armed wing of hamas accused the israelis of effectively not allowing enough aid to pass into the north. the israeli military category denied that and said they co ordinate about that, it s the responsibility of the united nations. it was resolved with the immediate mediation of qatar and egypt.
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On Sunday, dozens of people gathered at North Carolina's State Capitol building in downtown Raleigh as part of a worldwide protest organized by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, to call for the release of Israeli hostages. The group coordinated similar rallies in cities all over the world.