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to be handed back to israeli officials. we know that 13 is really hostages are due to be released and would also be released is separate to that deal. 39 palestinian prisoners who are being held in israeli jails also being exchanged for those hostages. now as we continue to watch those live pictures, joining us now on the line, our correspondent lucy williamson. and the occupied west bank. lucy, we sawjubilant scenes and the occupied west bank. lucy, we saw jubilant scenes there yesterday as prisoners were released by this time yesterday. we ve had these delays, what is happening where you are now? right, this sounds like we are have communication problems here. we can t make contact with lucy at the moment. so we ll keep trying, lucy williamson our correspondent in the west bank. let s head tojerusalem with our correspondent tom bateman. it seems that the problems have been ironed out now, do we know what stage the release process is at? while we know it is due to take ....
the hostages will be transferred tonight to the international committee of the red cross. 13 israeli hostages and seven foreign nationals will be released and 39 palestinian prisoners will be released. in the last hour we ve heard an update from the israel defense forces, their spokesman daniel hug ari was commenting on those delays with the release on those hostages. translation: translation: there is significant - ro . ress translation: there is significant progress and translation: there is significant progress and we translation: there is significant progress and we will translation: there is significant progress and we will update - translation: there is significant progress and we will update the i progress and we will update the public the moment something happens. we are working on the outline with the mediators, but with a very cruel enemy. but until something happens we cannot actually update you. the whole time, we are working with qatar and egypt. dea ....
live to our middle east correspondent tom bateman who is in jerusalem. tom, thank you for joining. what is the latest on the hostages that have been released? what we know is that they have been transferred, as you say into the hands of the red cross, taken to the raffle border crossing between gaza and egypt. they have crossed it it rafah crossing. received by it israeli officials. very significant delay as you said, we re expecting this to happen all at four o clock local time. that is eight hours ago. the delay was because it seems by a dispute about what was in the agreement relating to humanitarian aid passing from the south of the gaza strip to the north of the gaza strip. the armed wing of hamas accused the israelis of effectively not allowing enough aid to pass into the north. the israeli military category denied that and said they co ordinate about that, it s the responsibility of the united nations. it was resolved with the immediate mediation of qatar and ....