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>> thank you for joining us on cnn newsroom, i'm leila ha rfergaq. haraq. after being held hostage by hamas for 49 days, the four day pause in the fighting that made their release possible is now into day 2 and appears to be holding. israel says it has received a list of israeli hostages who should be released sometime saturday and has notified their families. according to an israeli source, several children are also on the list. while the released were taken to israeli hospitals for medical evaluation, one talked to cnn about his family finally coming

home. >> we were fortunate enough to have those three dear loved ones come back to us today. initial upstairs that we got is that -- updates we got is that they're in good shape physically and mentally, according to turned 9 during his captivity. and so we all happy that they are okay. in that sense. >> well many mao among the nonisraelis who were released which are one thai citizens and one filipino. they are getting checked identity at the same medical center near tel aviv. scott, remind us again how the first day of the truce unfolded. >> reporter: good morning, leila, it was 7 a.m. local time in israel that the truce actually began. so we are now more than 24 hours

later. it was nine hours since the truce began before the hostages actually started to be released from gaza and the prisoners started to be released from the palestinian side or the israeli side as well. now the truce is holding. if you ask the egyptians they will tell you it is because in part the israelis have agreed to suspend their surveillance flights and there are 137 trucks of aid that managed to get into gaza in one single day, the most since the war began. it is expected to go on for four days, three more now. but it could go on longer than that. there would be ten hostages released, 30 palestinian prisoners released, for every four. the israelis made very clear that the war will continue when

this is done. all but one were from the mir oz kibe but. oz kibbutz. the oldest 85 years old, the youngest just two years old. they were taken to egypt and driven back into israel before boarding helicopters to be taken to hospitals for evaluation and in tel aviv where at least one of those hechts landed, people in the streets actually clapped and cheered upon seeing the ambulances carrying them drive by. obviously this is highly emotional. hamas used this opportunity to put out its own version of what happened in terms of the release, they release ed an edited video, there is no sound in the video, cnn had no control over the content of it and hamas is showing the world what it wants it to see. nine-year-old ohad munder into a

vehicle, another carries an elderly person in his arms and people cheered in those videos. and look hamas has plenty to cheer about in all of this because it has very few good cards to flay in this war but the hostages are certainly one of them. 39 palestinian prisoners being released and this is a chance for hamas to burn its credentials, where the palestinian authority is in control. on the palestinian side leila you saw two prisoners taken from prisons driven into the west bank to a third prison and from there the release of people took place. there were celebrations in the streets. people waving palestinian flags, hamas flags as well. of the 39 prisoners there were 22 women, two of them were girls and then there were 15 teenage boys ranging in age between 15 and 18.

in terms of who may be released from there those numbers leave only 11 women eligible for release out of the potential prisoners that could be released that israel has put out there in the public. the rest would be boys, teenage boys, again some as young as 14 up to 18 years old aas well. most on the list or many on the list are accused of relatively harmless crimes, convicted of more serious offenses as well. in the days ahead leila it is important to keep clear, this all seems quite dell can't. everything has to be done according to the plan that the red cross has put down. there are clashes that took place outside the aufair prison, where people gathered to watch this release. idf used tear gas to release.

12-year-old and a 16-year-old were actually shot and injured in those clashes. we have reached out to the idf for comments but you can bet there are a lot of people on both sides of this who are hoping that this fragile truce actually holds so that their loved ones can finally go back home. leila. >> scott mcclain reporting from istanbul, thank you so much, scott. and we'll now show you the moment when some of the hostages released by hamas are reunited with their families at hospitals in israel. [applause] >> people cheered as three of five elderly women were transported by ambulances from helicopter to the wolfson medical center near tel aviv. well eight other former hostages, four children, three mothers and a grandmother were

taken to a children's medical center near tel aviv. and officials say they are good in physical condition and will undergo a medical assessment. and ten thai citizens and one filipino national who were also freed by hamas were taken to a hospital southeast of tel aviv and are undergoing medical examinations. well joining us now from southern gaza is pascal onza, a crisis sponsor of the red cross, sir thank you so much for joining us. first of all describe the role of the icrc in the hostage release process and in gaffs ga. >> the good morning, leila. the role of the icrc in this process is quite simple. it is to implement the deal, the agreement, between the parties.

we're not part of the negotiation, and, you know, we're not aware of the details and how and what is exactly in the content of this agreement. that as neutral intermediary, to facilitate the release and the transfer of either the hostages, or the palestinian detainees. we are in contact with the parties and as usual we are really here to facilitate the implementation on the ground. >> all right and pascal do please share with us and i'm very sorry i wasn't able to hear your response, i'm having technical issues with my sound. do share with us what happened after the handover of the hostages, what did the liberated captives tell you what were their reactions, their first words, describe that moment for

us. >> an extremely emotional moment. as you can imagine. they were held captive for quite a while. and i think just by seeing the red cross we could see in the eyes that, you know, finally there was hope for them. so we took them, we reassured them and we were together with them throughout the journey down to the rafah crossing border at the egyptian border. >> and pascal, how would you describe your exchange with the hostages? what did you tell them? were you able to reassure them what was going on, how did they strike you? and did they share any of their experiences from being held captive for so long and did they tell you how they have been treated? >> now we did everything to reassure them. there was a medical doctor with our team. there was eight delegates and

four cars as you may have seen on tv. and i think what was the most important at that time is the proximity and the human touch that we could provide. in order to reassure them and to say everything was okay, they were together with the red cross and they were going back home. i think we did focus on that, you know, we didn't have time to debrief them, to discuss on how were the conditions before, and i think this is that, you know, professionals are taking care of that, that in this moment of extreme tension and crisis, i think it's important that as human being we can show some empathy, we can reassure them just to ensure that the journey is back. it takes a moment to go back to normal life. and i think we should not speed up the process and we do it step by step and our presence discussing with them, i think,

bring them some insu assurancesy felt much better during the transport. this is basically what happened during the journey, when we took them until we hand them over at the egyptian border. >> and can i ask you pascal, does the icrc still have contact with the remaining hostages flaming gaza? >> we believe it is the utmost importance, the truth is fragile and at the same time there are massive needs for more humanitarian aid to come. so i think we are mindful of the fact that this part of the agreement is of critical importance, not only for the hostages and the palestinian detainees but for the entire population in gaza.

when it comes to visiting the hostages or visiting the palestinian detainees in israel this is part of our bilateral deal that we have with the fathers and it will understand that i cannot disclose any details there because i don't want to jeopardize any outcome of this discussion we are currently having with the relative parties. >> absolutely pascal and we wouldn't want to put you in that position either. the icrc plays such a crucial role also in gaza. have you been able to access gaza? have your teams been able to reach civilians there, you have been able to access medical care during this four day truce? >> yes, not only during the truce, bu but before. since the beginning of the conflict, we have increased our

presence, hour report here, we have a surgical team in one of the hospital here. we do support various hospitals in the south and in the north. we do provide, you know, for example shelters where displaced people are there so they can have light, they can, you know, we also have them with water, so yes, indeed, we have increased our operation and we keep increasing them. i will take this opportunity maybe to share with you what we see here. just to give you the scope of the disaster. we are present in the european gaza hospital together with local doctors, and this hospital did play a critical role in the recent day to receive patient coming from the north of the gaza strip to the south. and medical triage was set up

there with this report of the icrc. but just to give you the magnitude of the problem, yesterday during the day, more than 800 patients came spontaneously from the north in order to receive medical care in the south. 800 patients, you know, in my whole entire career with the icrc almost 30 years i never saw such an influx. yesterday afternoon, 107 ambulances in a bus with 50 patients came from the north to the south, and you can imagine how overwhelmed the hospitals are here, the entire health system is about to collapse. so we are trying to do our best not only to be actively involved in facilitating the transfer and the release of those hostages and of the palestinian detainees but also to provide critical

support to the health system alongside with the united nations and humanitarian actors. that is why it is so important that the truce is holding because basically, we have almost 2 million people, you know, depending and their future depending on this truce, and if this is not holding, the extremely dire situation that we see every day that we could not even describe with our own words will get even worse. >> so much at stake as you there eloquently shared with us. pascal, thank you very much and thank you for your very important work. >> thank you very much. >> and so at this hour, and still ahead at this hour another group of israeli hostages set to be released in the coming hours. what we're expecting as the second day of the temporary truce between israel and hamas appears to be holding.

>> the united nations says 137 trucks fimentd with humanitarian goods were offloaded in gaza on friday. the first day of the truce. well, it's the largest aid could be invoice into gaza since the

october 7th attack into israel. 129,000 29,000 liters of fume dd into gaza. food medical supplies and other essential items will help hundreds of thousands of people in gaza who desperately need them. american force he in iraq and syria were attacked four separate times on thanksgiving. cnn's alex marquard has the details. >> the number of attacks on u.s. and coalition forces in iraq and syria have now passed 70 in the past few weeks. according to the pending. rockets and drones were used to try to strike two bases in iraq an two sites in syria. there was no damage reported nor were there cac casualties accorg to the pentagon but the growing

attacks highlight a wider concern that the u.s. has retaliated and tried to send a message of deterrence the pthepentagon says, following an earlier attack by the group with close range ballistic missiles. in all the u.s. has now carried out four sets of air strikes, for these dozens of strikes against the u.s. and coalition forces. the u.s. strikes included three in syria against facilities tied to iran's revolutionary guard and iran backed proxy groups. iran argued that the deterrence is working because the conflict has not spread more widely in the middle east. alex marquard, cnn washington. >> we're getting word in an unprecedented wave of russian drone attacks on ukraine.

russia released a record number of drones most of them targeting the capital kyiv. at least two people were wounded and there are multiple fires in the city. joining us now live from ci fro. >> this is the largest drones, alaunched at ukraine. 71 of them were thought down but the primary target was the capital. we heard loud explosions very early this morning. this all began just after 2:30 a.m. as the air defense systems really worked overtime. we could also hear the buzz of drones in the air. our producer dasha she heard a drone fly past her home. now, there has been damage throughout the city.

a residential building as well as a kindergarten we understand this is from debris of the drones that have been shot down. two people as you mention were injured. president zelenskyy have spoken saying that this is a deliberate act of terror. now i think what is also interesting is that this has come from multiple angles towards the capital. and it certainly was, you know, very intense and as we've since discovered from authorities, the biggest attack launched on kyiv. now for two months, almost two months leila there was nothing and then in the last couple of weeks, the attacks towards the capital have stepped up. but overnight, this is without doubt, the most that the capital has been attacked with.

now, ukrainians have been expecting this leila. the russians have been stockpiling their weapons, their drones, their mixes. and the whole -- the missiles. the whole aim is to target ukraine's energy infrastructure. this is now winter. it has been snowing the past couple of days. it might be blue skies now but these are freezing temperatures. russia's aim is to hit ukraine's energy infrastructure just like they did last year. >> anna korin, thank you so much for your continued coverage on these developments. and next in a trilateral call u.s. secretary of state antony blinken and his counterparts in south korea and japan condemned these attacks. earlier this week, south korea calls it a clear violation of a u.n. resolution that prohibits the north from using ballistic missile technology.

but north korea promises more attacks are coming to strengthen its african change makers is next. if you are watching us in the u.s. and canada, another half hour of news is coming up after the break. see you soon.

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>> welcome back to our views in the united states and canada. i'm leila haraq and you are watching cnn newsroom. as we await more word on the israeli hostages being released, the first hostages as they were about to be released on friday. the video is taken by hamas and without sound. cnn has no control over the

content and as we show you now matthew chance shows what it is. >> reporter: now hamas is showing its gunmen releasing its hostages in gaza. for many these are disturbing scenes. nine-year-old ohad munder being released, an old woman being carried by a masked man as palestinians cheer. 49 days of captivity, aid workers from hamas drive them through border region in egypt and freedom. then the hostages including the ten thais, a filipino and the 13 israeli women and children, disembarking for checks. israeli military posted this grainy video of the moment they finally reentered the country.

a step says the israeli prime minister to bringing all hostages home. >> we have just completed the return of the first of our hostages. children, their mothers and additional women. each one of them is a whole world. but i emphasize to those, the citizens of israel, we are committed to returning all our hostages. >> reporter: most of the hostages released in this first group under the temporary truce were taken from mir oz one of the small israeli communities near gaza ravaged by haz-mat on october the seventh. at least 38 people there were killed and more than 70 abducted. people like danielle alone and her five-year-old daughter both freed in this release, but the relatives they were visiting remain unaccounted as hostages.

a poignant rie reminder of those left behind. brother-in-law killed, his sister cities hostage yet omry is still optimistic. >> the best in front of us is going to come. whatever happened we cannot change. the beautiful girl is not with us anymore. but -- >> there's still a chance, there's still a chance. >> yes yes yes. we have to bring what left, we have to bring what left from this family. it is a broken family. >> reporter: a broken family in a country of shattered lives. matthew chance cnn tel aviv. >> well friday's release included 11 foreign nationals, ten thai and one filipino citizen. they were freed as part of a separate agreement. israel says they are spending

their first morning of freedom at a hospital southeast of tel aviv undergoing medical evaluations. eminisha tank is in singapore with the details. good day. tell us about the thai and filipino hostages that were released and what has been the reaction, to the news of their release? >> reporter: leila i think as you can imagine the reaction here has been one of hope, one of relief, it's been very, very emotional. it was also a bit of a surprise to some of the families of hostages, from thailand, from the philippines to see their loved ones on screens walking into a bus and then realizing that actually they were now free. so let me tell you some of those stories. amongst those ten thai nationals who were released there was one

nitawari muncan. her mother actually reported how she cried with happiness when she realized by her hairstyle and the way she walks that it was indeed her daughter on the video that she could see. she has an eight-year-old daughter who would have been extremely anxious knowing where her mother was in identifying she was a hostage of hamas. the filipino, this is jimmy pacheco, he is a family man, he is a 33-year-old father of three, obviously great relief from his family but then a surprise to those who know him, he was amongst that batch of hostages to be released today. now you mentioned the hospital, do realize that many of these hostages have been through absolute trauma as a result of this whole experience they have witnessed atrocities and it would take great time to heal but it's interesting that it was reported that jimmy is

undergoing emotional tests as well in hospital. you know, this is going to be something that they will be dealing with for a long time, many of these migrants who have found themselves caught up in the horrors that we have seen in gaza over the last few weeks. leila. >> and menisha in closing we realize that there are other thai nationals still being held in gaza as we speak. >> that's right we understand from thai authorities there are still some 20 thai nationals being held hostages. also from the philippines, a filipina. there is hope they may come home soon, but great concern about where they are what will happen to them. the thai government today effectively making an appeal to hamas, that it hopes the remaining hostages will be treated humanely and also

released as soon as possible. just one last note. it is not well-known that there are tens of thousands of migrant workers from asia working in israel and of those groups, the thais are probably thailand sends probably the greatest number of migrant workers to israel. that is the reason we see such high numbers of them being caught up in this conflict. >> thank you very much. and live now to tel aviv and dr. dafna dolberg a clinical and developmental psychologist. joins us, doctor thank you so much for your time. among the hostages, that returned, the youngest just two years old. how challenging will the recovery especially for the children be? and what are your immediate concerns? >> well, what we think and we

know from previous data about war on children and natural disasters, there is no information about captivity of such young children. but what we know is that the younger children are actually most strategy i'll. and unlike what we would like to think, young children do remember traumatic events but because their language is not well developed and they are less quipped to process and -- equipped to process and communicate what they went through will show their distress through bodily reactions like maybe refusal to eat or sleep or becoming physically sick or they may show their distress by behavioral manifestations and developmental regressions and sometimes even developmental

arrest. we hope whatever arrest will be temporary but they may show it and they are definitely going to be very confused, very stirred and on guard and fearful for a long time despite being in a safe place. they may be very hypervigilant and the most devastating thing, it's their failure to trust the adults around them, even and maybe particularly their parents. because in their mild, in their childish mind the parent did not protect them. so i suspect we'll see many signs of ptsd posttrawx stress disorder and we will need -- trauma stress descrord and we will need a long time to establish a sense of safety and protection and trust in these young children. >> it's all incredibly

heartbreaking what you outline there. and it is difficult for anyone really to imagine what hostages have experience. so in terms of treatment how do you go about helping former hostages come to terms with the trauma of their captivity? >> thinking about the young children because this is my expertise, to recover from trauma, the child needs and particularly the young ones, they depend on the ability of their parents and the adults around them to support them, to talk, to listen to what happened to them, and to explain the events to them in honest, trustful yet protective and age-appropriate manner. and really, listen to what the child expresses through words or play, while the adult around can

comfort them. but the tragedy in this case is that the parents, most of them were either in captivity themselves, some were murdered, we know at least about one young child who will have to be told that she is an orphan. so the parents are not in the best shape. and even those who are here, who are safe, went through hell in the past few weeks. so the parents and children will need a very gentle sensitive long term support, and israel's ministry of welfare has been working in the past few weeks on sort of a multidisciplinary plan of support of the parents and their children and the main

thing is really helping them very gradually return to a daily routine basic things like deciding what to eat and when to eat and what to wear and when to talk or not to talk will have to be paced according to each individual's ability. and with the help of whoever adult is around them, knows the children and can support the process. >> a long and difficult road to recovery. dr. dafna dolberg thank you so much for your time. thank you. >> thank you. >> and still ahead. israel's release of 39 palestinian prisoners prompted mixed emotions for some palestinians, joy for their freedom yet mourning the toll of the war.

the reaction from the west bank, next.

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>> 39 palestinians are flee now after they were released from israeli prisons on friday as part of the hostage agreement with hamas. they returned to their home towns and families with hugs and celebrations in the occupied west bank and jerusalem. yet, for some the joy is tempered by the suffering in gaza. cnn reports. >> reporter: ojoyous celebration as 23-year-old malak finally arrives home in east jerusalem after six years in an israeli prison. convictto ten years in prison at the age of 17 for attempted murder. police say they found a knife in her possession in the old city of jerusalem. it is a charge she and her family have long denied.

suleman is one of 39 prisoners all women and minors who have been released from israel on friday in exchange for the release of hostages who have been held by hamas in gaza. >> we saw many of those detainees friz centers being released rather being carried on people's shoulders where a number of of their system members, 15 minors vo who have been released have been carried on these shoulders, to cheering and fireworks being set off. we have also been spine to people including they don't want to see this. >> this celebration is not necessary. they need to be mindful of us in gaza. this celebration is wrong. i'm torn to pieces. have a little mercy on us. they can be joyful but the joy is in the heart because we are dying in gaza. have some respect for us a little. >> reporter: the release of

this first group of palestinian prisoners comes as israel and hamas begin a four day truce. a window of desperately needed respite for civilians in gaza. according to hamas run health shorts in gaza nearly 15,000 palestinians in the enclave have been killed over the last seven weeks alone. israel says it is targeting hamas in response to the terrorist attack of october 7th which killed more than 1200 l israeli citizens. but in gaza it is civilians that are paying the highest price. more than 8,000 palestinians remain in israeli jails including more than 3,000 according to the palestinian commission for detainees and ex prisoners affairs held under limited detention. meaning no fair charges and no clear legal process. but for those gathered in the

occupied west bank friday night this is a welcome long overdue justice. >> people want to be together and be together in this moment. and however folks internalize that in terms of their unemotional sort of reaction to it that's for them to speak to but i think people want to be here to be together to welcome home these prisoners and that's part of the spirit of being palestinian. >> reporter: with over 100 palestinian prisoners still set for release over the next few days scenes like this are expected to continue, though some say at too high of a price. navar bashir, cnn jerusalem. >> reporter: cnn team saw clashes of a west bank prison where some of the palestinian prisoners were released. before their release the israeli military used tear gas, to

disburse those throwing rocks. the palestinian red crescent set a 16-year-old and 12-year-old were shot and injured. cnn is reaching out to the idf for comments. we'll be right back.

>> a source tells cnn formatter police officer derrick chauvin was assaulted in federal prison. with various reports saying he was stabbed. he was convicted in the killing of george floyd in minneapolis in 2020 and is serving time at the federal correction institute in tucson, arizona. chauvin is in stable condition according to the source. his attorney told cnn they are working on get get getting conf. violence is barbaric and should never be cause for celebration. south african authorities have granted parole to oscar

pestorisa. he was convicted of murdering his girlfriend. she's worried for the safety of other women once he's released. and that's expected on january 5th. well pestorius was known as the blade runner for the carbon fiber prosthetic legs he wore as an olympic sprinter. scientists say the biggest iceberg is moving on the floor of antarctica. it is more than twice the size of london, england. more than 4,000 square kilometers large or 1500 square miles. the huge mass of ice broke away from an ice ch shelf in 1986 and fell to the floor of the sea almost immediately. the iceberg has probably shrunk enough in size to loosen its group from the sea floor and is

now started moving. with ocean currents the iceberg is estimated to move about 5 clokilometers or three miles a . we'll have more on the ongoing hostage negotiations in israel after this break.