in exchange, 33 palestnianian prisoners were released israel. the bbc s senior international correspondent orla guerin is in tel aviv with more. inseparable and coming home tonight. emma and yuli, twin girls just three years old, released with their mother sharon. their father is still being held in gaza. they ll be picked up by military helicopter. like these boys, freed last night. the government here has been sharing footage of every release. israelis very invested in this and the prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, needs a victory even a partial one. already savouring her freedom, margalit moses, who is 78. she tells hospital staff in tel aviv they are amazing. so is she. freed from gaza on friday after almost 50 days in captivity. already a survivor of cancer, and now of hamas. some homecomings are overshadowed by sorrow. hila has been reunited with her uncle, yair rotem. but her mother, raya, yair s sister, was not freed by hamas, though israel says mothers and chil
with hamas agreeing to release a total of 50 hostages, and israel 150 detainees. that should happen over the next three days, during that negotiated pause in the fighting. there is also scope for that pause to be extended, if the two sides can agree a further exchange of prisoners and hostages. however, israel has not withdrawn its military from gaza, and has made clear that it intends to continue its operation against hamas. meanwhile, more aid is being allowed into gaza, on friday around 150 trucks carrying medical supplies, fuel and food entered the strip through the rafah crossing. returning to the 2a hostages released from gaza on friday, they have spent the night in hospitals in israel. some of the released israeli hostages have been receiving medical care at the schneider children s medical center. there s been this update on their condition. yesterday, four boys and girls, one mother and one grandmother and one grandmother arrived at schneider children s medical and w
meanwile the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, has insisted that his country will press on with its fight against hamas. translation: i want to be clear, the war is ongoing, l it is continuing. we will continue it until we achieve all our objectives. we will eliminate hamas and we ensure that the day after hamas, there will be no factor who will continue educating their children to hate and to eradicate israel, so we will continue eliminating in hamas, in the north, by the way, and in the south, we will continue that effort. the bbc s us partner, cbs news spoke to one family awaiting the news of whether their loved was one of the 50 released hostages. 3 year old abigail mor edan is the youngest known american hostage. herfamily members, liz hirsh naftali and noa naftali spoke to cbs morning to share abigail s story as they await her potential release. we are hoping and praying that she is in one of the first groups but we can only know, thatis groups but we can only
tel aviv and is a place where people have come, gathered in the hours after the news that a deal to reveal some of the hostages being held in gaza has been agreed. it s something that has been talked about for many weeks now and has been a difficult and delicate negotiation but we have finally heard that after a vote here in israel that by the government and warn security cabinets that that deal had been approved and we expect to see the first significant release of hostages in the next few days. all of them women and children and this would be the first major development in terms of hostage release and in a statement, benjamin netanyahu talked about this last night and said that at least 50 hostages, women and children, would be released over a period of four days. and during which a pause in the fighting will be held. he went on to say that the release of every additional ten hostages by hamas would result in one additional day in that pause. earlier, israel published a lis
hamas. they are waiting desperately for any news of any kind of deal. we have no confirmation of any deal at all but senior israeli officials have been talking to the bbc saying at least 50 hostages could potentially be released in any deal. 12 every day. we re also hearing in the last couple of hours the security bodies in israel are in favour of this deal, a pause in the fighting. as for the politics of this benjamin netanyahu had previously said before in meetings there had been progress on a potential we ve been working on this intensively for weeks. as you all know. i ve spoken recently about it to benjamin netanyahu and amir qatar. my team down in the region shuffling between cabinets. we re now very close, very close. we could bring some of these hostages home very soon. but i don t want to get into any details of things because nothing is done until it s done. in when we have more to say, we will. but things are looking good at the moment. to get more on this, i spoke