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singing. in tel aviv tonight, friends and campaigners coming together. there is hope here and there is caution. the first israeli hostages should be coming home tomorrow. 13 families should be reunited. but it s bittersweet. many hostages will remain in gaza. only 50 are due to be released during the ceasefire. sisters dafna and ella are not on the list for tomorrow, according to their mother, maayan. she tweeted tonight, it s incredibly difficult. i long for their return but i am relieved for the other families . gil dikman says all the families will share the joy when hostages come home. his cousin carmel is being held. she s 39 and loves to travel. her sister in law, yarden, is also trapped in gaza. even if our hostages won t be released in the next few days, the fact that there will be hostages released, pictures of children and mothers coming back, that s very, very strong and i think people are going to feel as if it s their own children. in gaza, one more day ....
and four trucks of gas will be delivered daily to gaza once the truce begins, as well as 200 trucks of aid each day. 0ur middle east correspondent tom bateman is injerusalem with more details on the deal. all of this is so that the sides are verifying that their enemies, their adversaries in this, are doing what the deal says, so there s a lot of mechanics to get through but there is also, of course, a lot of scope for things still to go wrong and that is, i think, because we are in unprecedented territory here due to the number of captives being held by hamas, the ferocity and scale of the war itself and, of course, the way in which all of this began with the brutality of those attacks by hamas, and that is why i think there is very, very little trust between these two sides. there is none at all. what it s been replaced with is a kind of confidence and respect in the mediator, qatar, to hold all this together. those being held hostage include civilians, soldiers, pe ....
next couple hours, but, you know, when i think about on friday is abigail s fourth birthday and she should be home with her family and her sister and brother and she isn t right now, it s just it s like you get your emotion, you have to keep them in check. we have global cnn coverage to bring you, some amazing reporters with their reporting that they have been delivering for days, particularly, in the last few hours, on the latest of what they are hearing from their sources. i want to start, alex marquardt, with you here in washington. what specifics at this moment are you hearing about the parameters of this potential deal? well, dana, what we ve just learned in the past few moments sources have told our colleague kaitlan collins and myself the ball is in israel s court, it has to be approved by israel s government. there are several different groups within the israeli government, the war cabinet, security cabinet, broader cabinet, who have to vote on this deal t ....
update from the state department as america s strongest ally in the middle east faces growing calls worldwide to retreat from gaza s largest hospital. sandra: the idf saying troops are still going room by room at al-shifa hospital and have found extensive military equipment belonging to hamas, as well as computers that contain photos of the israeli hostages that could be beneath the hospital in an extensive tunnel network that we have been showing here on the program. we ll take you there live as the briefing begins in moments. the folks and democratic leadership have not been listening to the 80% of us from diverse communities to stop the ceasefire and stop the genocide. sandra: violent outside a dnc headquarters last night, israeli troops inch closer to attacking the tunnels under al-shifa hospitals. i don t know roberts in washington. here we go again, sandra, another busy afternoon. sandra: america reports . more than 150 protestors voicing deep frustration ....
the lead with jake tapper starts right now. announcer: this is cnn breaking news welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in washington, d.c. in for jake tapper. and i m wolf blitzer. after the attacks and the israeli military now surrounding an inside significant areas gaza city and the bombardments continues to take a devastating stake on those inside. they cannot keep up with the amount of injured and sick cases. at least 9,000 people killed in israeli attacks on gaza according to the hamas-controlled health ministry. right now u.s. secretary of state antony blinken is headed to israel. here where i am in tel aviv, making his second wartime visit saying he will discuss concrete steps to minimize civilian casualties. israel has not only the right but the obligation to defend itself, and also to take steps to try to make sure this never happens again. we ve also said clearly and repeatedly how israel does this matters. right now i go to breaking news. lo ....