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hamas as part of this deal. congresswoman alissa slotkin, we appreciate you joining us this afternoon. our coverage of today's hostage our coverage of today's hostage release continues. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. welcome to "the lead." i'm pamela brown in for jake tapper. we are following the major breaking news today. after more than 49 days in captivity, the first group of hostages held by hamas are now back in israel. and moments ago, we just saw some of those hostages met by cheers, as they arrive by helicopter at a children's...

team here, who have been working out of an operation center today, alongside members of the international committee of the red cross. another key stakeholders in this. and they certainly feel like this mostly went to plan. you are right to point out this is a humanitarian pause, and the implementation of that had a number of key obligations. the pause had to stop at 7:00 local time. the hostilities had to stop on the ground from both parties. that allowed for the potential for the release of these hostages, these 13 in the first instance israeli women and children, who had been held ...