we believe we re closer than we ve ever been so we re hopeful, but there is still work to be done and nothing is done until it s all done, so we re going to keep working on this. our security correspondent frank gardner has more details on the process of reaching an agreement. is a deal to release the hostages getting close? well, it certainly sounds like it but we have been here before. and this is incredibly tough for the families, the relatives, who been marched up this hill before and marched down again with enormous disappointment, so it s not done until it s done. but i have managed to speak to some of the parties involved in this negotiation, indirectly, and they are more optimistic than they have been before, that in the coming days there could well be a release of dozens of israeli hostages in a single batch followed by further batches and in return there would be pauses in the fighting of a few hours for each day for a number of days, 3 4, five days, something like
of in depth care very soon. 5,500 women will give birth in the next month. 15% of them will need a caesarean section. 25% of their children will be born preterm. that s thousands of babies. that s not 31, 29 or 38. that s literally thousands of babies will be born. separately, the who s chief said he is appalled by an attack on gaza s indonesian hospital. the hamas run health ministry says 12 people were killed. israel says its troops came under fire from within the hospital and that it directly targeted enemy fire, but did not fire shells towards the hospital. the director of gaza s indonesian hospital has told the bbc there is still intermittent shooting being heard at the site. our senior international correspondent orla guerin reports from jerusalem with more on the situation on the ground. alive, against the odds premature babies rescued from al shifa hospital. parents cluster around before they are transferred from gaza. this man seems to be identifying his son. nour