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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 ....
all of this is so that the sides are verifying that their enemies, their adversaries in this, i doing what the deal says, so there is 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, ferocity and scale of the war itself and, of course, 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 and what it has been replaced with is a kind of confidence and respect in the media, qatar, to hold all this together. with the mediator. around 240 people were taken hostage from southern israel during the deadly attacks on october 7. among them, civilians, soldiers, people with disabilities, children and grandparents. 0rla guerin has this report a ....