you re watching cnn news central. i m boris sanchez in washington. wolf blitzer is in israel where they re ten hours away from an expected truce. after a one-day delay, the hostage trade will be releasing some women and children who have been held captive. the israeli government has a list of hostages and says they ve notified their families. it s unclear if americans are included. president biden is saying his fingers are crossed one of them is a 3-year-old american toddler. reporter: as part of the deal, israel will release 150 palestinian prisoners and allow humanitarian aid into gaza. the fighting now continues. the israeli defense minister said he expected it to last another two months at least, but the qatar government says it s hopeful hostilities will stop with this deal. listen. we are hopeful. i don t know if i should say confident, but we re very hopeful. the commitment we ve seen from both sides leads us to be very positive to deal with this positivity
group of hostages being held by hamas is expected to be released. wolf? 13 women and children are set to be freed in that first group. the israeli government says it has the list of names and has notified the families. but in advance of all of this, israel says it has conducted hundreds of strikes in gaza. cnn s jeremy diamond is a few miles from gaza right now. he s joining us from sterot and he just heard a bombardment last hour. we also have oren leiberman here with me in tel aviv. oren, let me go to you first. walk us through what we ll see on the ground. wolf, a few moving parts here and it all requires meticulous planning which is why we might have seen that delay last night. we ll see hundreds of aid trucks begin to enter gaza for that desperately needed humanitarian assistance there, then nine hours after that pause in fighting begins we ll begin to see the release of those 13 women and children, the first group of hostages. they ll go to the red cross from hamas,
major cities there. reporter: hey, good evening to you, mike. things are getting a little chaotic and very busy here at the train station. we just had another train drop off more and more refugees, and you can look around and see a lot of women, a lot of children and the elderly. you know what? when they get off these trains, mike, this might be the first time they actually feel safe. and in some cases just getting out of the country can be deadly. a humanitarian corridor for evacuations and supply deliveries was opened up this weekend after days of indiscriminate attacks on eastern ukrainian cities. translator: in my childhood i hid in the corridor. we took shelter in old buildings, and it is the same now. once shelling begins, when air raid sirens on, we go to the corridor. we don t know if it will protect
those supply deliveries have already begun. he was one of the speakers friday and he took up a tone that we ve heard from many that have spoken before him this week, he talked about and was critical of the united states without naming it per se but critical of its isolationism, calling it parochial and self-serving. he also went on to criticize the united states and britain and france for their strikes in syria following up on bashar al assad s use of chemical weapons back in april this year. and he criticized the united states for pulling out of the iran nuclear deal. this is what he said. translator: the u.s. unilateral withdraw from the gcpoa in violation of the u.n. security council resolution 2231, this despite the fact that iran is fully complying with its obligation, we will do everything possible to preserve the deal approved by the u.n.