hello and a warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and around the world. i m max foster in london. bianca is off. just ahead a nation celebrates once again as more israeli women and children feel freedom, fragile truce now extended by 48 hours. hamas is committed to releasing another 20 women and children over the next two days. gaza city, they collect the dead. hundreds perhaps thousands more remain trapped under the rubble. call to earth day, a day of action to protect the planet. and this year the theme is our shared home as they put the link between cities and the national world. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is tuesday, november 28, 9:00 a.m. in london, 11:00 a.m. in gaza where the truce between israel and hamas has been extended by two days. raising expectations that more hostages and palestinian prisoners will be released in the hours ahead. on monday 11 israeli hostages were released b
you are in the cnn newsroom. i m alex marquardt in washington alongside kaitlan collins in tel aviv. jim acosta is off tonight. thank you very much for joining us. israel moves towards a fourth and possibly final day of its temporary truce with hamas. so much will demand on how many more hostages get released after three successful days of hostage releases. hamas says it wants to extend the pause in the fighting. a source telling cnn that israel s war cabinet is also discussing that possibility. but today it was yet another emotional day for so many families in israel. a third group of 17 hostages held inside the gaza strip since early october, they were finally freed. here are some of the early images, or images we ve just again some of those families, finally imbembracing after weekf uncertainty. a total of 17 hostages today, including three thai nationals, and these pictures that you re looking at there, those are 14 of the israeli hostages who were released from captivi
the breaking news at this hour, 24 hostages have been released by hamas terrorists. 13 israelis, 10 thai citizens, 1 filipino citizen. they were moved from inside gaza over the rafah crossing into egypt. a short time ago, we got our first look at some of these hos hostages. we have video. it includes pictures of a little girl in a yellow shirt. 1 of the 13 israeli hostages release d. we have other video to show you as well. different vantage points where you can see some of the people, including that girl, who was released and then a number of people boarding a bus from a holding facility inside rafah. a number of these people now on a bus on the move, presumably, back into israel. this is the first part of this pause in fight fighting agreed to by israel, by hamas, to aa low for the release of some 50 hostages over the next several days in exchange for the release of 150 palestinian prisoners in a pause in the fight ing, and breaking moments ago, the identity of two hostage
last minute snag delaying a deal. the temporary cease-fire expected to begin in the coming hours. qatar s foreign minister will give details any moment now. thank you for joining us. i m griff jenkins. hay, julie. julie: i m julie banderas. happy thanksgiving to you, griff. the agonizing wait continues for israeli families. they have spent six weeks hoping against hope that their loved ones will return home safely. griff: jeff paul kicks things off for us in southern israel. the israeli security forces here saying the first batch of hostages likely won t be coming out until friday at the earliest. it speaks to the complicated and dell indicate nature of the ongoing negotiations. because no hostages are coming out. no pause in the war especially for soldiers like the ones at the military base in southern israel. under the original agreement, between israel and hamas, they were going to probably have the first batch of hostages come out as soon as today. that would have
russian, we are waiting to see who will come back home. it s crazy. we don t have names yet. only speculations that it s going to be mothers and their children. and it s tough, very tough. have you allowed yourself to think about what you might say to her the first time you see her? i don t think i will speak, i will just hold her and hug her and i won t ask questions, that s for sure. and i just want to hold her. that is the mother of a hostage who is being held by hamas right now. she may soon see her daughter following a significant diplomatic breakthrough in the middle east. there s a tentative deal to release dozens of people captured by the terrorist group more than six weeks ago. we re going to get a live report from tel aviv in just a moment. this all comes as the u.s. military is becoming more aggressive in its response to attacks against service members in the widen region. retired four-star navy admiral, james stavridis joins us with expert unless on that and