of reunion and relief, with children in particular the focus of worldwide attention. for the families still waiting, now the question what are the chances that further negotiations can yield a breakthrough? so far, 110 israeli hostages held by hamas have been freed and 240 palestinians have been released from israeli prisons. these were mostly women, children and teenagers, and in this programme, we want to put the names, faces and stories to those numbers. in that spirt, on tuesday, 84 year old ditza heiman, one of the founders of kibbutz nir oz in israel was released. she is a former social worker and also the widow of a holocaust survivor who came to the uk on the kindertransport. sisters dafna and ela el yakim were freed on sunday after being taken from their father s home, also on kibbutz nir oz. their mother shared this photo of their reunion, writing, my precious daughters were returned to me yesterday, a moment etched forever in my memory. emily hand, who turned n
would be released have been put on hold. over the past week, israelis and palestinians had started to get a little more used to scenes like this of reunion and relief, with children in particular the focus of worldwide attention. for the families still waiting, now the question what are the chances that further negotiations can yield a breakthrough? so far, 110 israeli hostages held by hamas have been freed, and 240 palestinians have been released from israeli prisons. these were mostly women, children and teenagers. and in this programme, we want to put the names, faces and stories to those numbers. in that spirt, on tuesday, 84 year old ditza heiman, one of the founders of kibbutz nir oz in israel was released. she is a former social worker and also the widow of a holocaust survivor who came to the uk on the kindertransport. sisters dafna and ela elyakim were freed on sunday after being taken from their father s home, also on kibbutz nir oz. their mother shared this photo
singing. in tel aviv tonight, friends and campaigners coming together. there is hope here and there is caution. the first israeli hostages should be coming home tomorrow. 13 families should be reunited. but it s bittersweet. many hostages will remain in gaza. only 50 are due to be released during the ceasefire. sisters dafna and ella are not on the list for tomorrow, according to their mother, maayan. she tweeted tonight, it s incredibly difficult. i long for their return but i am relieved for the other families . gil dikman says all the families will share the joy when hostages come home. his cousin carmel is being held. she s 39 and loves to travel. her sister in law, yarden, is also trapped in gaza. even if our hostages won t be released in the next few days, the fact that there will be hostages released, pictures of children and mothers coming back, that s very, very strong and i think people are going to feel as if it s their own children. in gaza, one more day of dea
and four trucks of gas will be delivered daily to gaza once the truce begins, as well as 200 trucks of aid each day. 0ur middle east correspondent tom bateman is injerusalem with more details on the deal. all of this is so that the sides are verifying that their enemies, their adversaries in this, are doing what the deal says, so there s a lot of mechanics to get through but there is also, of course, a lot of scope for things still to go wrong and that is, i think, because we are in unprecedented territory here due to the number of captives being held by hamas, the ferocity and scale of the war itself and, of course, the way in which all of this began with the brutality of those attacks by hamas, and that is why i think there is very, very little trust between these two sides. there is none at all. what it s been replaced with is a kind of confidence and respect in the mediator, qatar, to hold all this together. those being held hostage include civilians, soldiers, people w
people have been trapped in gaza since israel tightened its siegejust over three weeks ago, after it was attacked by hamas, which is classed as a terrorist organisation by the uk and other governments. and in northern gaza, there s been another air strike onjabalia, a day after an israeli attack killed dozens of people at the refugee camp there. israel says its forces killed another hamas commander in the latest strike, but un human rights officials say it could be a war crime. our international editor jeremy bowen has our first report, which contains material you may find upsetting. at last, the gates of the rafah crossing were opened. some foreign citizens were allowed to leave gaza for egypt. for the first time, since israel imposed its siege. convoys of aid trucks are moving into gaza, though not nearly as many as the un and aid agencies say are necessary. ambulances went in for the seriously wounded. injabalia, at the opposite end of the gaza strip, more israeli raids. t