welcome to our viewers joining us from around the world. i m max foster in london. qatar s foreign ministry says it will announce in the next few hours when the truce will begin. a diplomatic source says it is likely to start friday now midnight local time at the earliest. news comes after israel said wednesday that it expected release of hostages and pause in fighting were delayed. both u.s. and israeli officials pointed to logistical details for that delay. ahead of the expected truce, israeli forces continued ground and air operations striking parts of northeastern and central gaza. palestinians say areas further south were also hit. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu expressed confidence that the deal would go into effect. here is what a top white house official told cnn. we re not going into this with uberous or arrogance. we re grateful that we were able to get the deal secured. but it all now comes down to execution. so nobody is doing any testing here. there
joining us. joining us. ac 360 starts now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com who and when? those are the two key questions at this moment, as we wait for the release of women and children taken hostage on october 7th. john berman in for anderson. first, the when, which we thought was just a few hours away, a temporary pause in fighting between israeli forces in hamas followed by the release of the first 50 hostages from gaza and 150 palestinians being held in israel. late today, however, israel s national security counscil will not start until friday. this includes the pause in fighting, also delayed until friday. as to the question of who, a source familiar with the matter tells us that the u.s. officials have a working list of ten hostages they believe are likely to be released on day one of the process. and though no one is publicly naming the ten, administration officials today did talk specifically about three americans being held. we anticipate that three amer
happening now. breaking news, the agonizing wait for the release of hostages from gaza just got a little bit longer. israel now says no captives will be returned before friday. the pause in hostilities with hamas also delayed. also breaking tonight, new york governor kathy hochul says there is no indication of terrorism after a vehicle explosion in a major u.s. border crossing with canada. we ll bring you all of the late-breaking developments and all of the details we re getting on the investigation. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer in tel aviv, israel, and you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. first up this hour, the breaking news here in the middle east where an israeli truce with hamas and a long-await hostage release have both just been delayed. i want to bring in cnn s jeremy dimon. here joining us from sderot, israel, not far from the border with gaza. what else can you tell us about this del