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thanks for joining us on cnn newsroom. i m michael holmes with our continuing coverage of the israel/hamas war. it is day three of the fragile four-day truce between hamas and israel and the israeli government now has the names of the hostages who will be freed on sunday. that s after day two came to a rocky but successful conclusion late on saturday with the release of 13 israelis and four thai nationals who had been kidnapped by militants on october 7. after preliminary medical check, all the former hostages were taken to israeli hospitals for care and to be reunited with families. israel s health ministry said one woman, 21-year-old maya regev, was treated for a moderate injury and is in stable condition. also among the second group is 9-year-old emily hand, whose father had initially been told she died in the october 7 terror attack. the israeli government wants to know why 13-year-old hilla rotham s mother raya wasn t released with her daughter. an israeli of ....
. i m kaitlan collins live tonight from israel. this is a special edition of the source because hours from now, a deal, if israel and hamas can keep it. weeks of negotiations have led both sides to this point where we are right now. if everything falls, what has been a very delicately choreographed script, some families will finally be able to breathe a sigh of relief. but failure will spell heartbreak for many of them. what we know now is that 13 israeli hostages who have spent weeks in hamas captivity are now scheduled to have freedom. dozens of palestinian prisoners are also slated for release in exchange for the release of those hostages. all of that is happening in addition to what is expected to be a complete pause in the fighting in gaza as we have seen aid trucks already lining up at the rafah crossing to go into gaza, desperately needed aid as you just heard. we ve already watched one delay to this deal followed by an intense burst of fighting happening on ....
hello there, welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. i am becky anderson, live from doha, in qatar, frio. a four-day truce between israel and hamas does appear to be taking effect. with plans of the first hostages to be released later on today. a cnn crew in the border with gaza reports what sounded like artillery fire in the early moments of this truce. that hasn t subsided. and so the idf reports air raid sirens in southern israel warning of potential rocket attacks. it is not clear if there were any impacts or interceptions. these are lemon images from that border. looking across the border from gaza. meanwhile, in qatar, where they helped to broker the deal, said 13 hostages are set to be released, that is at four pm local time. about eight hours from now. and israel has agreed to free 39 palestinians held in israeli jails today, dozens more over the next four days. the first aid shipment in the agreement. let s start that again, hundreds of truck ....
long-awaited hostage release could be just a few hours away. the expected truce with hamas appears to be on track at this hour, setting the stage for 13 captives to return from gaza on the first day of the temporary pause in the hostilities. oren liebermann has all of the late-breaking developments for us. reporter: after nearly seven weeks of war, it is the storm before the calm. final hours of fighting in gaza ticking down until a pause in the conflict set for early friday morning. 13 hostages, women and children, will then be freed by hamas on friday afternoon, transferred to the red cross and back to israel. we are waiting on a day-by-day base for a phone call to see if our loved ones are coming back. reporter: the pause is set to last four days. the spokesperson for qatar s foreign ministry hope that the deal would be the basis for a longer pause. we are hoping that this will work as a proof of concept for de-escalation measures including extending this hum ....
this is cnn breaking news. hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world as we continue our breaking news coverage of the israel/hamas war. i m rosemary church. qatar s foreign ministry says it will announce in the next few hours when the truce between israel and hamas will begin. a diplomatic source says it s likely to start friday, midnight local time at the earliest. the news comes after israel said on wednesday that the expected release of hostages and a pause in fighting with hamas 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, though palestinians say areas further south were also hit. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu expressed confidence the deal would soon go into effect and made clear the war against hamas is far from over. trans ....