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jim jimenez. sara and john are off. the israeli war cabinet is announcing that they will be gathering this morning, and voting on a deal to get the israeli hostages released by hamas in exchange for palestinian prisoners in israel. an announcement could come as soon as today about the culmination of this. and the number of hostages could be significant. a u.s. official says this is the closest they have been to a deal since the terror group kidnapped the innocent civilians in the october 7th attack. two israeli sources tell cnn is the names of who would be released, but regardless, it does appear that it will be a significant number, and potentially 50 women and children currently held in gaza in exchange, three palestinian prisoners could be released for every one hostage set free. on top of that, the swaps would be coming in a four to five-day pause in fighting. that is just some of the details of what this potential deal is starting to look like. we will get over to the