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
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