. well, hello welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the worm. i m live from a doha. a four-day truce between israel and hamas seems to be taking place with plans for the hostages to be released later on today. a cnn crew near the border with gaza reports what sounded like israeli artillery fire in the early minutes of the truce but that subsided quickly. the first 13 hostages from israel are expected to be released at or around 4 p.m. israel has agreed to free palestinians over the coming days if hamas keeps freeing the hostages it holds. well, the first aid shipments under this agreement hundreds of trucks with food medical supplies and fuel are scheduled to begin crossing into gaza as part of that deal. let s bring in our correspondent in cairo. we knew there was an enormous convoy including fuel trucks on the egypt side. do we know whether that convoy has begun crossing into gaza at this point? this is what we have. seven fuel trucks have crossed into
will see children is and women freed today. at 9:00 a.m. eastern tomb, that s when hamas is set to start releasing the hostages. the military is ready and prepared to receive those hostages. among the details we re learning, we re told each helicopter with the hostages will have a medical team on board and the hostages will also be given notice-canceling headphones for a more peaceful ride on that flight. it s been roughly seven hours since fighting was passed in gaza. it does appear this truce is holding. a column of tanks and armored vehicles was seen head wag from the gaza strip. drone video shows families walking in the streets in southern gaza this morning after this truce officially began. you can see the destruction from the the airstrikes around them. now part of this hostage deal is allowing desperately needed humanitarian aid into gaza. that is also underway. this morning our teams have seen lines of trucks crossing in from egypt. an official says some 200 tru
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
this is cnn breaking news. welcome to cnn news central. we re tracking the release of 24 hostages now safe in israel. right now 13 israelis, ten thai citizens and one filipino citizen are free after 48 days as hostages of hamas and other groups in gaza. this video, you see the bus that was carrying them entering israel. this video taken moments ago. israeli officials say the freed hostages are en route to receive further medical care and to be reunited with their families. the 39 palestinian prisoners being released by israel in exchange today as part of this agreement are also as we understand it on the move. wolf? and we now have the names and ages of the 13 israelis who were released today. this is from the israeli government. let me read the names of those released and their ages. hannah, 76. adina, 72. karen, 54. daniel, 45. doron, 34. emilia, 5. raz, h4. aviv and channa. we have coverage of the developments unfolding. let s begin with clarissa ward at the children
shop and watch football on the same feed. good luck. thanks for joining me. i m max foster. cnn this morning starts right now. good morning, everyone. we re glad you re with us. we begin with breaking news out of israel. right now, a temporary truce is underway between israel and hamas. hours from now, the first round of hostages will be released. at 9:00 a.m. the eastern time, hamas is expected to start freeing 13 hostages abducted during the october 7th terror attacks. it s six hours since fighting was paused in gaza. the truce appears to be holding. a column of tanks and armored vehicles was seen heading away from the gaza strip. drone video shows families walking the streets in southern gaza this morning after the truce began. you can see the destruction from the airstrikes. part of the hostage deal was allowing desperately needed humanitarian aid into gaza. we have been seeing those lines of trucks crossing in from egypt. an egyptian official says 200 trucks fu