Locate to al mawasi, and expanded safe said, east of khan younis. A rtefa cts artefa cts as artefacts as the deal has been revised and accepted. Outside al aqsa hospital in gaza there were celebrations at the news. But israel did not react warmly to the deal. Prime and the netanyahu said it did not meet israels demands and they will continue in rafah in southern gaza. Moments ago the un secretary general Antonio Guterres his call against a ground invasion. He said it would be intolerable. Heres the latest from our security correspondent, Frank Gardner. They have at least agreed to do with they did not do it the weekend which is to send a delegation of mediators, experts to try to thrash out a deal. It set the terms that hamas have agreed to are very far from what meets their needs but not ruling it out and i think theres a degree of optimism here at the same time as i mentioned, theyre continuing to push them against the wishes of the americans in rafa and that is controversial because
live to our middle east correspondent tom bateman who is in jerusalem. tom, thank you for joining. what is the latest on the hostages that have been released? what we know is that they have been transferred, as you say into the hands of the red cross, taken to the raffle border crossing between gaza and egypt. they have crossed it it rafah crossing. received by it israeli officials. very significant delay as you said, we re expecting this to happen all at four o clock local time. that is eight hours ago. the delay was because it seems by a dispute about what was in the agreement relating to humanitarian aid passing from the south of the gaza strip to the north of the gaza strip. the armed wing of hamas accused the israelis of effectively not allowing enough aid to pass into the north. the israeli military category denied that and said they co ordinate about that, it s the responsibility of the united nations. it was resolved with the immediate mediation of qatar and egypt.