the, the, this is the, the news coming to live from berlin, the israel, him, us truce takes effect. what's hope to be a 4 day re pre begins after 7 weeks of war. it's part of a deal that includes the release of some hostages, this afternoon. the so is the w news. i'm terry martin. welcome to the program. a highly anticipated

israel hum us, the temporary cease fire has been in effect now for an hour. these are live images from southern israel, looking towards the northern gaza strip, or had been reports of the is really of the is really military sounding sirens and village villages near guys. a warning, a possible rocket attacks from the strip, but the temporary truce between him us and israel seems to be holding it comes after some of the deadliest fighting in the history of the israel palestinian conflict. more than 1200 people in israel were killed by the october 7th terrorist attacks by home us. the hum us run health ministry and gaza says israel's response has killed nearly 15000 colors to enhance as well as cross over to our correspond it been to zoom in who's following the story for us and tell of a been the cease fire came into effect an hour ago has the fighting stall.

terry, it's a delicate truce and is there be no reports of it strikes? so grunted attacks. what we have heard though, is the app warnings that one of the residents of incoming run good fire from gaza into positive southern israel. uh, 2 of those uh, warning sirens going off and the warning up being unloaded um, just before the ceasefire came into effect and just stopped. but we con, confirm whether or not they were actually rockets that were fired. sometimes these warnings on a full salons that had been faced funding going up until the ceasefire. overnights including attacks on the indonesia rate will be in the region hospital in a central, in northern cause around in central gaza and attacked on a refugee camp. so far it's really touching go as people here in tel aviv

wait to hear a news of whether or not these hostages are going to be released. that is a 100 percent dependent on whether or not this 1st hold. so you can see this table behind me an empty banquet table for the 240 hostages. the aim today is to get 13 people at that. say that table, right? exactly. the, the 1st hostages are to be released this afternoon. that's according to the plan. does everything appear to be on track for that? been so far everything's on tracks. hospitals as said to have been warned and are ready to take on these hostages. the way talking about women and children and, and psychologist say that these children who being held in captive any of the captives have been through a very traumatic time,

but especially the children. they said to be fidgety expected to be fidgety expect it to be angry, very disturb to either what they've experienced, what they've seen, someone said to have seen their relatives mode right in front of their eyes. so it's got to be a very difficult time. we're going to be trying to reach out to the families of these hostages into these hostages. but 1st and foremost will be uh, they release their secure uh, security of them and also the treatment of them in hospitals. terry degree, they've been also calls for israel to release a number of palestinian detaining these. what can you tell us about that of the uh, the agreement was basically every hostage, 3 palestinian prisoners, again withholding of women and children. i was uh,

talking to one palestinian, who uh knows the family waiting for that daughter who's been in prison for just the past 3 full months. uh, she said to be on the 13. uh, when not sure of the circumstances of why she was arrested and taken from her school, but uh, she said to be on that list and hopefully will be released at some, some time today that we have very few details about exactly who and when and where because there's a lot of intense interest in the humanitarian situation inside of gaza. we're again, we're looking at live pictures there that we were just seeing, the smoke billowing on the horizon that so those are pictures looking into northern guys or from israel. we can't really account for that. smoke billowing there, but we're hearing that the seas bar is holding. for the most part. we're also seeing a number of trucks lined up at the border. what about plans to get a convoys into a gaza during the ceasefire band?

that's part of the deal. are those convoys only being allowed in through egypt in the south? or is israel also opening up access points in the north? until well, that's the information. we also have terri, that only this around 5 crossing from egypt into the gaza strip. in southern gaza is the only one that's allowing in age uh these uh, very uh, very strict measures uh at the moment uh and israel had already been living in a trickle of age. the trucks have to be thoroughly checked. there also has to be star checks as to who the aid is delivered to their concerns that us with that i would get to how i find his including fuel gas, food, water, of course, it's the people in the south, the 1700000 guidance being displaced we desperately need that aid,

and we're talking are the 200 trucks possibly. today, before the war, we were talking between 40500 trucks of humanitarian aid to the people, 18 percent of the population, dependent on that aid from abroad. and just minor viewers were looking at live pictures of the border there, the roof of crossing those trucks, presumably lined up, ready to go in. that was the w correspondent. ben doesn't live in jerusalem. thank you so much. no in telling me. thanks a lot. then. thank you very well for the families of the hostages. hell buy from us. in garza, the past few weeks have been written with despair and trauma as they wait for their loved ones to come home. after weeks of waiting, the families of hostages hope their loved ones. we've come home soon. i want to hope, i hope, hope, hope that it's going to happen. we've been on such

a roller coaster for the past. certainly the past a week, but since october 7th, between despair and trial mind hold. i just wanna see the children come back. now, master group has agreed to release 50 civilian women and children of which 13 ought to be released in the 1st batch on friday. and exchange is really set to release $150.00 palestinian prisoners, mostly females and teenage males over the course of the truce. the deal mediated by god are also includes affordable and fighting in both the north and south of the gaza strip, as well as increase to monetary and aid. even though the agreement is considered a break to both sides have remained cautious about saying 2 months before it materializes, based on certain circumstances, with his thoughts and his truth. well, main hope is that this humanitarian choose will give us all the opportunity to look into the bigger task which used to implements of permanent truths by for you. but

the chief long lasting piece of it that you met with, you'd like to fix them in, in efforts are being made to extend the tools beyond the full day period, which is well insists. it will resume its military operation and garza until it has eradicated. hum us with more i have our middle east. analysts shiny result is with me here in the studio. sean, it is real. it was very much unified in the fight against from us. but is it just as unified when it comes now to implementing a safe spot? well, it's not really, there is, we've seen when the cabinet was discussing that there were voices in right that are against us. there's a, they're saying that it's immoral to leave some of the hostages out while others are, are going to be released. and there's also the big fear in israel that this will be actually the, they're losing momentum. and we, you know, starting again the site is not going to be really possible and is the fact to the end of the war where there's still a lot of, as we see how much

a strong for mazda is functioning, how much is the gross eating when israel, it's not really anywhere near where israel wanted to be. let's talk about the families of the hostages because they are an important part of this whole arrangement. they've been putting a lot of pressure on these really government or the families, the hostages. are they satisfied that the is really the government's priorities or in the right place here? well, in a way, it's a relief because there was a lot of fear in the last, almost 50 days that they're not being taken seriously enough. that israel is too occupied with the military offensive. but this is not a happy day. and israel, 1st of all, the only be 13, and even in the end of these phase we're talking about 50 may be more if this is far as extended into 70 or 80, that still lives how much with over 150 people in custody. i mean, and, and hostages, and these people, many of them a wounded, they're also tearing apart families. we will see mothers and their children,

but they are whole families that were taking cost as the font as the men are left behind homeless. the is part of part of the hardships and the discussion about the deal was how much sees a soldier as any men who ever serve and these are any in the military, doesn't matter who is now 60 and he's been discharged already 40 years ago and they're for is the bringing these people out is going to be very hard. and this is actually the biggest milestone ahead for israel and 4 of these really leadership. cuz these hostages, it's actually been a sort of reliability on home, off the children and the mothers and talking about the man, the soldiers that's going to be harder. there is a lot of international pressure on israel to come up with some sort of ceasefire humanitarian pause in the fighting. we're now here what is supposed to be monetary and pauses very early hours. we don't know how this is going to unfold. uh, it's a very delicate, uh, seatbar. how much of a role did the international pressure play in israel's decision to ultimately go

ahead, majors because israel feels that it doesn't have too many leverages. it doesn't have too many cards to play. you know, it's, the attack happened on october 7th. oh, around 240 people were taken hostage. and then israel was, was left with, you know, come mazda setting the conditions on the ground. i mean, is real, feels like it doesn't really have much. it gets from us because it still wants to maintain this in the end and secure the livelihood of those 240 people. and they felt this is why they felt the pressure a hum us through the offensive on the ground. and through the siege will be the only way to create some leverage to create some cards that they can use in order to, to get some gains in this terrible tragic situation. it's still probably not going to be enough. the world would like to see more humanitarian aid coming. we have to remember it's more than human in terms of basic needs. and we're talking about of 2000000 people because the whole northern gaza, most of it is empty, that we'll over 1000000 people who had the fleet north in gauze,

into the south. and there's also a big question of what's happening now in the north, because they're estimated around 80000 pallets and you still there, they're not allowed to get any access to this humanitarian at 8 come in, and they're not allowed to cost. this is the biggest challenge for israel. how much has been calling people to across from the south, up to the northeast during the ceasefire. israel is trying to fight that and to stop the population from re emigrating back to the north. what can you tell us about the negotiations in contrast, that led up to this, but because i'm hearing that there were weeks of negotiations going on in the background, they must have been very intense, of course, or secretive. but what happens or how do we get here? well, we know that this deal, it's general scheme was actually offered already last week. it took some time for these really leadership to be willing to say yes to that. they felt like they need more time for the military operation to run its course. there was always the hope also in israel. it may be they'll be finding enough leads, you know,

that soldiers on the ground going into the tunnels going into gaza will find enough leads to bring it home, some hostages without the need for a deal with homos that failed. and eventually these relays have decided that they need to save as many as they can, as long as they can. the control has been running on and for the americans have put a lot of pressure. and we've seen yesterday a bit of a stall and caught our there, felt like it's putting its own reputation on the line and it was pushing very strong for him, us to knock back off. and it's still a very gentle, very delicate situation. everybody is, you know, watching the other side very carefully and everything can still many think of single go wrong. and i wouldn't count on this to only last 4 days. it's probably and is really saying that israel is calculating how much will try to stall. we're trying to say, wait, we need more time and so on. but as you say, this is a delicate ceasefire. we're just in the 1st hour of it. currently we'd have to wait for it to really fully take effect and see if there's anyone who's going to spoil

it. because they're there been a lot of warnings about that as well. seem to be in a rare moment when they're both tomas and his real. it seem to feel that they can benefit from some time off israel before initiating it's operation on the southern part of the strip and, and how much of course, where they need to recover, recoup and, and so on. and also again, there's a, some sort of an estimation that having those families, those young kids, elderly women in custody hostages and gaza was actually a liability for homeless. okay, we'll have to leave it there shortly. thank you very much. that was the middle east, the analyst shiny resolve this, or you are watching dw nose course. we're covering the, the, the beginning of what is supposed to be a for a cease fire in israel international in casa international humanitarian aid trucks, in egypt, on now waiting for the green light to head through the roof, or crossing into a gauze. and in addition to essentials like food and water tankers will also be

bringing fuel these live images.