is scheduled to end at midnight tonight, with a senior arab official tells nbc news, there are hopes for another two-day extension. >> we would like to see the pause extended. its continuation by definition means more hostages would be coming home, more assistance would be getting in. >> potentially devastating news for one israeli family. the hamas military wing saying that members of the bibas family, they have all died, claiming without providing any evidence, it was an israeli air strike. joining me this hour is dick durbin on his proposal to reopen gaza hospitals. in georgia, rosalynn carter will be laid to rest after a private funeral service. ♪♪ good day, everyone. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. today could be the last day for a group of ten hostages to be released, unless the temporary truce between israel and hamas is extended. signs ar hopeful for another two-day extension, according to a senior arab diplomat who spoke to nbc news. hamas says three hostages, the bibas family, have died while being held hostage. israel and the bibas family trying to determine whether that claim is true, the condition of their father who was taken to go saturday is not know. tuesday, ten more hostages were released. none are believed to be nine american hostages, two of whom are women, who had been expected to be released. nearly 158 people are believed to still be in captivity. >> reporter: we spoke to the bibas family yesterday. as you remember, they held a rally here in tel aviv to try and raise their profile, to try and tell the world, don't forget about them. they have become a symbol of this hostage crisis with the husband and mother -- the mother and father taken along with their two young children, a 4-year-old and a 10-month-old. hamas has been under a lot of pressure to release more women and children in order to keep this deal going, in order to extend this cease-fire deal for another two days. in this context, as hamas is under this pressure and hamas wants the cease-fire to be extended, and there's a lot of questions, what about this family, what about these two children, what about this 10-month-old baby, the youngest of all of the hostages, where are they? if you want to extend the truce, produce these people. hamas just a few hours ago now put out on telegram a statement saying they had previously been killed. they just learned this. they were killed by an earlier israeli air strike. the israeli military said that it's aware of the reports but can't confirm them. the bibas family put out a statement. i can read it for you. it ss -- they are with the -- the family is with the israeli military and issued this statement effectively saying, we are waiting for confirmation and hopefully confirmation that they are still alive. >> richard, from all of your reporting, what are the chances of that truce being extended? >> so far, this truce is working. it's very fraught. there was violence -- more violence today in the west bank. a young teenage boy was killed. there's accusations yesterday of violations of the cease-fire. generally speaking, it's working. every day hamas has been releasing around a dozen hostages in exchange the israeli government is releasing three times as many palestinian prisoners. roughly 30 or so palestinian prisoners each day. it has been progressing. now hamas is running low on women and children. but it's trying to collect them. it seems hamas has spread out some of the hostages in other parts of the gaza strip, giving them to other militant groups for safe keeping, to hold them. that is what hamas said happened with the bibas family, they were being held by another faction and that now it learned that during the course of the israeli air campaign, the bibas family were killed. that information still to be confirmed. the israelis and bibas family saying they hope it's not true and they are looking into it. globally speaking, since this deal is producing results, it does seem encouraging and a top arab negotiator directly involved in the talks told me that they are making some progress and they hope to have a two-day plus extension. there are five more hours left. we do have a little bit more time. it doesn't seem like they would have an announcement until the latest batch of hostages is actually in israeli territory. according to numerous reports, that process is in place. that now as we are speaking, the latest batch of hostages is sort of starting the early process to head their way to israel. it's not a quick process. hamas has to gather them. they have to move them. they have to hand them over to the red cross. the red cross then takes them, hands them over to the israelis. the israelis do their medical checks and then make the announcement. it takes several hours. once that process is completed, it's possible we could hear from the two sides talking about a truce extension, or not. the latest information i was getting is that they are cautiously optimistic. >> i know that bill burns, the cia director, the head of the mossad and qatari intelligence officials are trying to negotiate more. burns wanting it to extend to men, including men who are in the idf, men and women. whether or not that happens, that was the hope -- the american hope. what about the americans? there are two women and probly seven men. some of the men could be idf. we don't know. i don't know, i mean. do you have any idea wheer any of the americans might be in today's group? >> there's a report that today's group does include one american. i have been very cautious about going with these lists, with the names of who is going to be released until they are actually released, until they are in israeli territory or at least in the hands of the red cross. until we know for sure. these lists have been known to change in the last minute. it's possible that we could have an american coming out, a dual national israeli american coming out with this latest group. yes, as you mentioned before, the qataris are at the center of it. the negotiations with bill burns, the head of the mossad, qatari intelligence officials are crucial. they want to expand this truce program which has been only now limited to women and children in exchange for female palestinian prisoners and minors. they want to expand it to men. they want to potentially expand it to military age men and women. if they can -- the hope is if they can start tackling the more complex issues, start tackling the -- getting more to the heart of the matter, that this could parlay into a larger peace deal. the israelis say they are not looking for a peace deal with hamas. they might be open to a larger hostage for prisoner swap. they are interested in that, depend on what the terms might be. israel as this point is still talking about maintaining its core goal of destroying hamas, but it first wants to get as many hostages out as possible, of all kinds of hostages, including men and women. >> it's important context. thank you so much, richard engel. one of the reasons bill burns is so effective is that before he was a russia expert and our ambassador to moscow and a fluent russian speaker, he was in the middle east and he is fluent in arab as well as are you, richard. another reason why you are such a great reporter. thank you. splinter groups. a closer look at the various groups holding the hostages in gaza and the efforts to find them before the israeli military assault continues. e israeli itar assault continues. the subway series is getting an upgrade. the new #33. the teriyaki blitz. with double cheese and teriyaki-marinated meat. it's like a perfect steak spiral in the double cheese coverage. if you say so, peyton. who knew the subway series could get even better? white house says the u.s. cannot assume that hamas has ready access to all of the hostages, including dozens who are reportedly no longer in hamas control but were traded or handed off to other terror groups. netanyahu's advisor told me, israel is holding hamas responsible for the safety of all israelis held in gaza. >> we're not going to let hamas subcontract out responsibility. they are responsible for all the hostages. >> joining me now is a former cia chief of operations in europe. he spent a lot of time in the middle east. good to see you. we had disturbing news,f it's confirmed, the bibas family, among 40 hostages not in hamas hands who are -- they say they have no control over them. there's questions whether they turned them over to groups like the palestinian islamic jihad. give us a primer on who the other groups are and why would hamas hand hostages off to them since they are key bargaining chips, presumably? >> andrea, it's a chaotic situation. tragically, israeli hostages were taken and brought back into the gaza strip, some by hamas, some by another group called the palestine islamic jihad, a terrorist organization more aligne with iran. then there was stories that even individual gaza residents kept -- are keeping israelis hostage. i think that thesraeli government is correct to say to hamas, it's your responsibility to gather these up in terms of the future negotiations. obviously, it is taking some time. ultimately, hamas is responsible. hamas is the entity we must deal with. >> let me go through a list of some of the groups. we are told that according to the state department at least that there's hamas, palestinian islac jihad. the popular front for liberation of palestine, low actors and criminal gangs among those who might be holding people. who would you considerate all reachable if there were to be sidebar negotiations? >> when it comes to things like criminal gangs, we are talking about the intricacies of dynamics inside the gaza strip. this is getting more complicated. hamas is the governing power there. they are ultimately responsible for this. the palestine islamic jihad answers to the iranians. if you see prisoners -- we have seen hostages released who were in their custody. that suggests the iranians almost okayed that deal as well. ultimately, i think while these are the intricacies of what's happening inside gaza, hamas is responsible for this. they are going to have to deliver. if this is to go forward, the hostages traded for security prisoners, hamas is going to have to bring forth additional members. israel has limited patience. we will see more than likely the pause continue. ultimately, israel wants their hostages back. if someone is taken, they will do everything possible. but their patience is limited. there was a poll taken friday by the israeli democracy institute. 90% of israelis want the hostages back, but they also want to see hamas dismantled. there's pressure inside israel for the offensive to continue. we can't forget that. >> thank you very much for your insight. appreciate it. a stunning surge. a new study revealing the spike in anti-semitism on college campuses since the october 7th attacks that left 1,400 israelis dead. you are watching "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. a mitchell reports" only on msnbc. 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>> it's pretty bad. >> reporter: this woman is jewish. she says she's been avoiding pub lech spaces. >> by virtue of being a jew or an arab or muslim or israeli, there's a feeling that you are so hated by so many people no matter what you do or say. >> reporter: this woman was arrested during a pro-palestinian sit-in earlier this month. >> it's not jews against arabs. >> reporter: the university dropped all charges. >> those of white house have been organizing really see this as the culmination of the university and the american government's refusal to stand up for palestine and for palestinian and arab members of our community. is there anything that givs you hope? >> it feels like people are listening. it's a tragedy that it took a university student getting shot. >> reporter: hope despite tense. >> shaq brewster joins us live. shaq, what's the latest on the investigation and on the students' recovery? >> reporter: the investigation continues. we got a warning earlier this week that this will be an extensive investigation. authorities are not calling it a hate crime at this point. they say that it was clearly an act of hate. they want to do more investigating before making that designation, if one is to come. you talk about the recovery. he is in the hospital right now. his parents are saying that he might not be able to walk again. there is some good news. one of his classmates, one of the other three students who was shot -- he wasn't a classmate, his friend who was shot, he was released from the hospital just yesterday. his parents saying that he was scared to leave the hospital. that's just a sign that while you may have these students having that physical recovery and improving in a physical condition, there's still a lot of trauma and there's work until they are back to being 100%. >> shaq brewster, a great report. thank you so much. joining us now is jonathan greenblatt. thank you. 46% of jewish students feel safe on campuses around the country. i know you are concerned about all ethnic groups. you expressed that often enough. with this study zeroing in on the anti-semitism and jewish students, is enough being done to protect the kids? >> i want to talk about that. i would be remiss if i didn't note the tragedy of the young men getting shot in vermont. there is no excuse for people being shot because they are speaking arabic or showing up at a rally in support of palestinians, just like there's no excuse for jewish -- an elderly men to get bludgeoned over the head because he was jewish. none of this is normal. no one should think had is okay. the truth is, to your question, no, the colleges are not doing enough to protect their jewish students. when three out of four jewish students tell us that they have either seen or experienced themselves an anti-semitic incidence, when i hear students tell me from ivey league universities that they are being harassed on campus, that they are hiding in their dorm rooms or that they are considering leaving campus all together, something is profoundly wrong. i gotta ask, why are these university presidents so weak? they seem to lack a kind of moral center that they have had for so many other incidents, and appropriately so. why when jewish students, why when israeli students are being targeted and victimized is their response an acquiescence or silence? >> there's the faculty responsibility. on many of the campuses, presidents are administrators, but the faculty have an enormous amount of power over whatpendin university. >> look at cornell or columbia or so many places where faculty, who are protected by the system of employment, somehow literally the students there are supposed to be responsible for in teaching, instead they terrorize and they taunt. we saw it at stanford. we saw it at cornell. let me say something. although there's tenure, these presidents do have the authority to remove people from committees, to prevent them from getting promotions. there are ways you can tell a professor that you don't want him or her to teach all together. i do think that these presidents have hid behind the tenure system. they are the onesho are responsible and need to be accountable to their children, to their students and to the parents like me who send our kidso these places. >> another part of your study found that after october 7, only 39% of jewish students felt comfortable with others knowing that they are jewish. we are talking about basic facts of their identity. are these students hiding that they are jewish to avoid any discrimination or repercussions? >> they are. i heard directly from students at elite institutions who are not wearing their jewish stars, who are again wearing hats over their heads. we are talking about ivy league institutions. we are going to start acting. we launched a call-in line to make it eay for students. next week, as you probably know, a number of the university presidents are being subpoenaed by the house. it's time to hold them accountable once and for all. >> i know there's a house hearing that's going to be held on tuesday with several of the presidents. jonathan greenblatt, let me talk a