inseparable and coming home tonight. emma and yuli, twins, just three years old, released with their mother, sharon. theirfather is still being held in gaza. they will be picked up by military helicopter. like these boys, freed last night. the government here has been showing footage of every release. israelis are very invested in this. and the prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, needs a victory, even a partial one. cheering. already tapering her freedom, already savouring her freedom, margalit moses, who is 78. she tells hospital staff in tel aviv they are amazing. so is she, freed from gaza on friday, after almost 50 days in captivity. already a survivor of cancer, and now of hamas. some homecomings are overshadowed by sorrow. hila has been reunited with her uncle, yair rotem, but her mother, raya, yair s sister, was not freed by hamas, though israel says mothers and children were supposed to be released together. yair says his niece couldn t speak aloud for weeks. hila is
couple of hours. it seems to days releases and exchanges, that appears to be progressing. we know now an extension of the cease fire for the next couple of days. extension of the cease-fire for the next couple of days. next couple of days. that s right, everything next couple of days. that s right, everything things next couple of days. that s right, everything things come next couple of days. that s right, everything things come together| next couple of days. that s right, i everything things come together in the last hour. two different threads we re talking about today. first of all, the release of further hostages today, which was always planned under the fourth day of this four day deal as it originally was. there was a delay once again today, the israeli prime ministers office early in their day there was still in negotiations going on about the list of hostages which was due to be released. that in turn delayed the list of prisoners to be released from actually
a humanitarian pause in gaza that would advance several priorities including getting more aid in and getting hamas hostages out. following my conversations with the prime minister and with the israeli government, this is a process. israel s raised important questions about how humanitarian pauses would work. we ve got to answer those questions. we re working on exactly that. in fact, we agreed that our teams would get together and they re doing just that, including today, to work through the specifics of the practicalities of of these pauses. second, it s important that the pause advance a number of things. one of them is hostages. we are intensely focused the united states, israel, every other country that has one of its citizens being held hostage by hamas to bring them home. now, it s important that as we re engaged in pursuing humanitarian pause, this can be something that advances the prospect of getting the hostages back. it can also advance other things that we re