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announcer: this is cnn breaking news. thank you so much for joining us. i m boris sanchez alongside jim sciutto in washington. we have wolf blitzer live for us in tel aviv, israel, where we are monitoring remarkable moments in the middle east. it s freedom after 48 hellish days in the hands of hamas and other groups in gaza. today the first 24 hostages were taken into egypt, and you can see them in this footage just moments after their release at the rafa border crossing. this is just the start of their journey back after they were ripped from their homes on october 7th. the israeli defense forces shared this video of the moment a bus carrying the hostages entered israel. most of the people released today are women and children. we are told they include 13 israelis. you see their pictures here. as well as ten thai citizens and a filipino citizen who were also taken on october 7th. over next three days we do expect to see at least 37 more hostages released. that wa ....
you re watching cnn news central. i m boris sanchez in washington. wolf blitzer is in israel where they re ten hours away from an expected truce. after a one-day delay, the hostage trade will be releasing some women and children who have been held captive. the israeli government has a list of hostages and says they ve notified their families. it s unclear if americans are included. president biden is saying his fingers are crossed one of them is a 3-year-old american toddler. reporter: as part of the deal, israel will release 150 palestinian prisoners and allow humanitarian aid into gaza. the fighting now continues. the israeli defense minister said he expected it to last another two months at least, but the qatar government says it s hopeful hostilities will stop with this deal. listen. we are hopeful. i don t know if i should say confident, but we re very hopeful. the commitment we ve seen from both sides leads us to be very positive to deal with this posi ....
this is cnn breaking news. we do continue to follow the breaking news this morning. this time tomorrow morning 13 women and children who are held hostage inside of gaza should be free. qatari officials held a press conference and laid out the details. the truce begins at midnight tonight. and then the first group of hostages will be released. the list of the names of those women and children to be releasrelease ed in this first group is now in the hands of the israeli officials. the prime minister s office says with that list in hand, they are contacting the families of the remaining hostages, and last hour, one family received word while live on air with us that their loved ones are not part of the group. and qatar says that once the truce begins, desperately-needed aid will move into gaza, and the trucks are waiting right now at the rafah crossing. kaitlan collins with us now. and a lot of moving parts in the last couple of hours. what are you hearing there? ....
on the hostage situation would be struck. com plete complete elimination of hamas and ensure a new threat to the state of israel from gaza, and again we heard from the israeli prime minister earlier. translation: prime minister earlier. tuna/mom- prime minister earlier. translation: ., ., ., ., translation: we are at war and we will continue translation: we are at war and we will continue the translation: we are at war and we will continue the war. - translation: we are at war and we will continue the war. we will continue the war until we have achieved all of our goals, to destroy hamas, to bring back the hostages and the missing and to ensure that gaza poses no threat to israel. our senior international correspondent orla guerin has more on the hostages who may be released and their families who hope the deal means their return. after six long weeks, there is hope. here are some of those who could soon be coming home. oriya is four and loves football and ice cream ....
hi, everyone. i m alicia menendez in for nicolle wallace. it is 4:00 in new york. 11:00 p.m. in israel and gaza, where we may be on the verge of a breakthrough in the unprecedented hostage situation on the ground there. sources tell nbc news that a tentative deal has been reached for release of some of the hostages held by hamas. a spokesperson for the israeli military cautioning in the last few hours that there is no final deal yet, but that there is, quote, some progress. the israeli cabinet meeting to discuss the issue at this hour. here are the terms as it stands right now. this is according to a senior u.s. official. 50 women and children would be traded for 150 palestinian prisoners in israeli custody. there would also be a pause in the fighting for four days to allow for more rounds of hostages exchanges and for more humanitarian aid to enter gaza. up to 300 to 400 trucks per day. overall, the deal adds up to what u.s. officials are calling the most significant d ....