the, the, this is the w use lie from burden the israel, how most truce is now underway. a pause and fighting brings people to the streets in gaza, with an exchange of hostages and prisoners expected in just a few hours the public police, thanks for joining us. the highly anticipated truce between israel and thomas is now under way. this is the scene live looking over guys from israel,

a 4 day temporary cease fire appears to be holding ahead of an anticipated hostage prisoner swap. later today, it follows weeks of the most intense lighting in the is riley han last conflict. after such a major disruption on the strip, it's hardly a return to normality for the people of gaza. but this pause in hostilities is allowing some now to move about with relative freedom of to week send them bod. meant people are back on the streets across the guys, the st. like here in con eunice in the south. the forward a truce may be fragile, but even a short break and fighting is welcome. definitely. we look at the truth as a way to breathe after $45.00 or $48.00 days of suffering for us. god's sense i'm from god's the city and i was displaced the rough. i hope the truth is taking

effect and all of god's us true in order to see my demolished house and what's left of it. the lower left hand, just like her led, many palestinians who fled southwards, had been hoping to use the allowing fighting to return to their homes in the north . but as rarely planes have dropped the leaflets warning against that about the fire a little. i don't think we can go back to god's the city of this moment because of that announcement from the israeli army and the for what they are for bidding the displace living in the south from heading north. and what was your belief in general at village? remember that those at the rough across thing on the age of guys a border, a tracts have been entering the territory. states was a key component of the truth and they'll be bringing much needed fuel and food supplies for as long as the seeds far less mobile. we had

a lot of loss. just say this will let people read, move, eat, and drink. because the situation is difficult and all resident from the north are in rough, without food on the water. and i hope it's a chance for people to live and move around and we wish it's an introduction for a permanent truth. the trend is really alma, the vehicles have been filmed heading away from the territory. but israel's male tree has warned that its troops going nowhere. and that the war against come us is not over. as a temporary pause in fighting came into effect a few hours ago. and i asked our special correspondence, abraham, if the 2 sides are adhering to it, we are in the very early hours of what is very, very delicate, temporary cease fire. and while there have not been any major bombings, rocket,

fire, or artillery strikes both sides of accuse each other of a minor sporadic violations. but so far the cease fire, the temporary cease fire seems to be holding. but the situation is very, a vala tile. it's unclear if how much has control over all of its fighters in the gaza strip. and there of course not the only armed militant group in the strip. and so for days of a temporary cease fire, a lot could go wrong and a lot could happen. there's also the question of what if these really military, within these 4 days identifies a high value target? it will then be confronted with the difficult choice of going after that target or continuing with the cease fire. the situation on the ground for civilians also very vala tile fears from the is really side that civilians in the south will want to be

will want to start heading to the north as we touched on in that report. and there warning them with leaflets, not to do that, not to go back to the north as these really, the army says that is still a very dangerous part of the guys a strip for civilians. i don't use special correspondent abraham in jerusalem there. well, earlier i spoke to, i'm known around he is a professor of international politics of the middle east at city university of london. you told me how much of an accomplishment this temporary cease fire is from a political perspective. what i think goes to the definition i think is a temporary pause rather than a ceasefire. i think from a political point of view, it is a significant achievement, primarily on the one have entered united states. um, on the other hand, they have been able to spring is rather from us to agree to this deal. assuming of

course that the 1st group of hostages it does is indeed reset for pro is really fine. so just to reach that agreement and the point of view of those 2 states, i think it is a significant political achievement. now, there are 19 calls internationally for a longer loss and you called or pause there. it's a temporary pause, but a longer lasting sees far we'll say, how would that impact is rails a of fighting hom us? this is why i really, there is a divergence. these really government has repeatedly insisted that what we're seeing today for the next 4 days at this point is opposed rather than c 5. simply because it is concerned that a, c 5 was effectively constrained and perhaps even prevented from achieving its

state. the goal is mainly to eliminate, come off is minutes already capability and its ability to govern over the gaza strip those other 2 games that these really government have set for itself. the assessment in his role is that the cease fire will effectively prevent the men from achieving those goals. okay? but if they're saying that what, well, then how, what other alternatives are there? what i think at the moment, these re government and these really military find to use this period to regroup, to refresh the military operational plans. we've seen these really on spokesman to declare the northern gaza strip is still a military zone. and that's really the background for these really at the moment preventing or trying to prevent some guidance to return to their homes. but i think at the same time the situation is very fluid. at the moment intersect festival,

there is still mounting pressure and is to increase the number of hostages that we return from being in captivity with some us to do that. how much time for a long period of oppose at this point, and you can find from slates uh the existing pulls into a ceasefire. so that's one set of pressures that these really government is, is facing. and the other one, of course, is the humanitarian co that has been accepted on because the strip, especially in the context of the wants of these really government at the moment, is really we'll have to strike a balance between on the one hand achieving the strategic goals that it set for itself mainly eliminating how much is military capability and extend the ability to govern the gaza strip. but on the other hand, resisting the pressure that were mount to try and secure the release of the stages, which would mean prolonging the fools is perhaps even reaching the ceasefire. which seems to be something that will stand in the way of achieving those strategic goals

from the perspective of how much, what does this pause mean for them and how is it impacting them? it was almost a pause is, is a, is a very positive development on 2 front festival. it allows us to regroup and potentially also to replenish some of this emission, assuming that it has some smiling roots, still available to it. but i think on the strategic level of the main bed of how much to actually amazing and power is just fine with stime these really so assuming that his role now continue into the central and southern parts of the, of the gaza strip, eventually bring these rays to how to reverse sci fi and a that point, how much still being, if you like, standing on his feet, although perhaps severely damaged, as almost how much is able to remain if you like,

standing on its feet politically. and militarily, if a ceasefire is declared, it will be in a good position from his point of view to restore, to go over the gaza strip. and it will also be able to claim that is on has not been able to defeat it. not withstanding the boss amounts of fire power that it is used since the beginning of the war. so for how much actually extending the pauses into eventually a permanency fire. and then of course, by increasing depression by minute vice video, going back to the gaza strip will put these readings in a very different position. and on our, on a professor of international politics for ron, thank you. you're welcome. thank you for having me. for the families of those hostages held by hamas and guys of the past few weeks have been ribbon with the spare and trauma. now the truce could see some of them safely returned. at last of

2 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 want to see the children come back. now, master group has agreed to release 50 civilian women and children of which 13 ought to be released and the 1st batch on friday. and exchange is really set to release 150 palestinian prisoners mostly females and teenager. 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 to break through both sides have remained cautious about saying 2 months before it

materializes uh, based on certain circumstances, with his thoughts. and his truth. main hope is that this humanitarian truth will give us all the opportunity to look into the bigger task we choose to implement of permanent truce. i see that the chief long lasting piece and at that event we'd like to fix that um in, in efforts are being made to extend the tools beyond the full day period, which is well insist it will resume its military operation in gaza until it has eradicated home us to let's cross over to israel now and speak with our correspondent band physician ben. right to see you. so you're in downtown tel aviv wattsey atmosphere like there know that this pool is in hostilities is under way the problem i've been told there never been so many people here in the past. 50 days of war, people are out and about in cross celebrating on the one hand,

relieved about the ceasefire and the deal that the hostages coming back. uh there's a, a lot of hope, but also some skepticism. you have to say, i've been talking to some of the people, let's have a listening to what they've had to say. i don't think there is a home that this of this hasn't thoughts and hasn't been spoken and it hasn't been very painful memory for every one of us. for asi riley people, every person is a whole world and every person that we lost we, we even like for did actually we gave a 1000 and something a prisoner, every person for us and the whole world. and we're just trying to get everyone back in one piece and just say, look, i think everyone's here waiting with the holding their breath. we're expecting the hostages to be released in the, in the coming moments. unfortunately, it's not only 50 and not all the $23240.00 of them. so i don't

believe that this is going to be over today. we still got a long way to go and you know, some us terrace holding our loved ones against their well, that's what we see here is a very strong united front. and so we have these constantly rolling up their sleeves, helping each other families, the families of loved ones, displays people, and it's a residence of the spirit of this country. well, i'm hopeful that it will, you know, start to day and then we'll be able to see some faces coming back today. and hopefully it will go on. so we can get all of them back. i just really hope it can last so we can, you know, see all of them return. but still, you know, after that we will want to eventually, you know, destroy and hopefully have come, us does not return here ever again. so we are sorry about every life that is lost

and we just want it to end as soon as possible. at the end, there are reports that the families of those hostages to, to be released today have not been informed. what more do we know of 5 to release of the hostages? kidnapped by how much we know that this is a very delicate, a very tricky military operation. uh, that's why so many people have been coming down here today. lighting candles uh, looking at pictures of the hostages and reading the messages and being written to them. what's going to happen is over the next hour is, is that how most, uh find is, will take the hostages out of that hiding spots, hand them over to red cross workers who escort them over the board of the process for crossing into egypt id. if the is where the military will take it from there.