it says that the government of israel is obligated to return home all hostages. tonight the government has approved the outline of the first stage of achieving this goal according to which at least 50 hostages, women and children, will be released over four days during which a pause in the fighting will be held. a release of every additional ten hostages will result in one additional day of pause. we will continue the war in order to return home all of the hostages, complete the elimination of hamas and ensure that there will be no new threat to the state of israel from gaza. and right now looking at live pictures from gaza. it is the middle of the night but this news has come in. we can see the images there. it is quiet at the moment but this huge news that an agreement has been approved by benjamin netanyahu and his cabinet. we will work on getting that statement up on the screen for you but again underlined the fact that at least 50 hostages, women and children, will be re