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partners for a coalition government. welcome to world news america. a temporary truce in gaza is hours away said to take effect at midnight eastern 7:00 a.m. local time. the first group of hosges will be released from gaza a few hours later under terms announced by qatar on thursday and our israeli officials tell us they are in touch with those individuals. look at the timeline of the deal. the four-day pause will begin across the whole of the gaza strip and at 4:00 13 hostages will be freed from gaza and handed to the red cross, all expected to be women and children. the idf will receive the hostages and transfer them to hospitals for medical assessment. the qataris say an unknown

number of palestinian prisoners will be released. according to hamas, four fuel trucks and other trucks will be allowed to enter gaza on each day of the cease-fire. the pause will bring a temporary respite for civians in gaza with the hamas run health ministry sing nearly 15,000 people killed. israel says the cease-fire could be extended if talks lead to more hostages being released but has been clear that its war against, we will continue. as the death toll mounts and families await news of loved ones, our correspondent sent us this report. correspondent: their faces haunt israel, 239 hostages who were taken to gaza. it was hoped a first group would come home today, but the hostage deal was delayed last night at the 11th hour. relatives heard the news on tv,

not from the government. his cousi is a hostage. she is 39 and loves to travel. her sister-in-law is also being held. her three-year-old daughter is waiting at home. s there a lot that shocked last night? >> yeah, there was, there was a lot of shocked and what we are afraid is that this delay is not the last delay and that it might mean that there is a problem with the deal, a bigger problem than we thought before. either way we try to stay optimistic. ♪ correspondent: and tonight, welcome news for the families. a dozen or so women and children are now expected to be freed tomorrow afternoon. in gaza, one more day of death

and wrenching loss. this is rafa in the far south where israeli airstrikes flattened the neighborhood. this boy says they brought the building down on top of us. he is asked if he was at home. yes, he says. i put my hands over my head and fell to the floor. if hamas was the target here, civilians seem to have paid. israel says it is striking hamas wherever it is hiding. this was an intelligence headquarters the army says. many palestinians are hoping that at least for the coming four days that israel's crushing

assault will the on pause. bbc news, tel aviv. anchor: let's go to israel where our correspondent is standing by for us. good to see you. i want to start with the hostage release. tell us what will unfold over the next several hours. correspondent: well, we have a detailed explanation actually from the foreign minister of qatar in doha who went through this in a lengthy briefing to the press today so what we expect friday morning 7:00 a.m. local time the cease-fire should begin, then it will be later in the afternoon 4:00 local time that the agreement says that the release of the first group of hostages should take place. these will be 13 civilian women and children whose names have been passe in ad qatar to the israelis and within two hours of that there should be a release

by israel of 39 palestinian prisoners held in its custody. there are a mix of people from the occupied west bank and also from occupied east jerusalem. and then we are supposed to get a further three days. you have had the first day there. a further three days of phased hostage releases amid the planned cease-fire to allow the many many dozens up to 200 more trucks that aid -- that aid to come into the gaza strip and crucially that would include fuel. anchor: i am told that the temporary pause in fighting begins but fighting is still continuing and we seem hospital director at the hospital say they are und heavy fire. what can you tell us about that? correspondent: well we have known for sometime the israelis have been moving in on the hospital right in the north of the gaza strip and they alledge the hospital was built to

conceal hamas infrastructure underneath the hospital. that has been categorically denied by the foreign ministry of indonesia, which funded this hospital in the gaza strip. nevertheless it has been the focus of this intense military activity. what we heard from the medical director of the hospital today was he said they have come under heavy fire in the third floor of the hospital was truckee said and the staff were lucky not to have been killed in that particular attack. he said that there had been a request for the evacuation of staff, but after they heard the director of the hour she for hospital had been arrested -- the other hospital had been arrested by the israelis early on in the day, they decided they would not evacuate he said in protest, but presumably because there was concerned that maybe he was taken into israeli custody, so we have seen increasingly now this convergence of israeli military

focus on to hospitals, and we have seen on so many occasions now these desperate scenes inside the hospitals themselves. anchor: how likely is it that this temporary cease-fire could be extended and more hostages release? -- released? correspondent: well, the cease-fire as it stands, the agreement as it stands is scheduled to last for four days. and there isn't agreement a so-called option to extend and keep it rolling for up to a further five days that would take place if hamas releases around 10 hostages per day within the israelis said they are prepared for the cease-fire to last another 24 hours. the reason it goes up to five days -- that would be a total nine days of cease-fire -- is because there are said to be around 100 civilian women and children, so if they were released in batches of 10, 11,

12 a day it would mean that non--date period, a hundred would be release. israelis have\ said there is a list of hostages that would be freed up as other hostages are freed. anchor: thank you so much for that update. spoke to a spokesperson for the israeli prime minister bennett of netanyahu earlier for more on the hostage deal in the future of israel's military operation. we know that because the asians leading up to this hostage release have been fraught. what can you tell us about how the next 24 to 48 hours will proceed? >> thank you for having me today. i can confirm at thipoint we have received the list of hostages as part of the first batch who are supposed to be released tomorrow, hopefully. as you know there are no guarantees here and we are dealing with the brutal terrorist organization and the only reason they have agreedo release some sausages is because we have exerted heavy military

pressure and diplomatic pressure on them. we are not making this this public at this point and you can understand why being part of the media but we have notified these families as well as the families of all other hostages, 240 families, who have been going through a torture of mind and soul or 50 days worrying about the fate of their loved ones come and we are committed to them, in this with them and the pain and in this bittersweet moment we are a nation committed to leaving no one behind and will continue to work tirelessly towards this goal of thinking all our sons and daughters back home, back to israel and united with their families. anchor: so does that mean that israel would consider extending the trees for the release of more hostages? >> indeed. we said so first and foremost from the outset of this war we said the only scenario in which we will agree to cease-fire to a pause in the fighting is a scenario that involves a release of hostages and based on this

outline which we have agreed upon for every extra 10 hostages that hamas would agree to release, we will give them another day of pause in the fighting paid we hope that once we have this mechanism in place it brings the release of more hostages. anchor: i want to ask about what you said about the israeli government being with the families of the hostages. we at the bbc have spoken with family members who say they are really not happy with the complete lack of communition from the israeli government. why has it been that way? correspondent: well, it depends on who you are talking to. i can totally understand why some families and there are many people in israel would want to receive more answers right now after the october 7 massacre. there will be time for that. we are sure them and to you that right now we are committed and united in our resolve and very determined to achieve these two goals for the operation, the

dismantlement of hamas and to bring the hostages home. and i'm sure regarding this deal by the way if you talk to families you will hear various opinions right now as we have in the country but the deal that the israeli government has agreed upon we took a grave decision as you can imagine really reflect the public consensus in israel because we want to see our sons and daughters back home. anchor: i want to ask you that the times that israel has been reporting that it has been said that after a short truce there will be at least two more months of intense fighting. is that true? >> well, this is what he said. and we defined very clearly that the current pause in fighting for the release of hostages is only temporary. we are determined as i said to achieve the other goal of this operation as well which is the dismantlement of the hamas terrorist regime. we will know tolerate life next to a terrorist enclave.

it is a decision the government took but as someone who speaks to many israelis it is a decision our nation has taken. anchor: ok. >> it is a situation we will know longer tolerate and hamas leaders say they will commit the massacre for a second third or fourth time if they could. anchor: how would that look another two months of fighting when we have seen such massive loss of life of civilian life in gaza and we have seen plenty of calls from international organizations like unicef, save the children and so on and so forthcoming for a cease-fire because of what civilians in gaza are facing? >> the pure evil called hamas must be eradicated. these are the terrorists who matured or raped, and mutilated their way through these communities and said they would do it again and we will no longer tolerate a situation in which more than 10,000 rockets are raining on our communities. you are correct in the sense that israel does not want to see in the kind of that tragedy and

the cost of on civilian lives. every loss of life in gaza is tragic for us and we do not want to see it. we do not want to see palestinian divisions caught in the crossfire. our fight is against anchor: hamas. so does that mean -- does that mean we could see more aid, more fuel coming and if this will be an extended conflict? unicef yesterday said a century 1000 is the most dangerous place in the world to be a child because so many children have died. >> well, i can assure you that the coming days will see hundreds more trucks entering the gaza strip from the rafa border crossing bringing water, food and medical supplies. we said we place no restrictions on the entrance of such a central provisions to the gaza strip. in fact my prime minister dissent in this morning in conversation i think with the spanish prime nister that he wants to see more effort on behalf of international

organizations and bodies and the united nations in establishing more tents. he said tens of thousands of tents for the palestinians in the safe zones the idf has designated because this is going to be as you set along fighting until we eradicate hamas. anchor: ok. our time has run out. thank you so much. it has been great to have you on our program toy. correspondent: thank you. anchor: earlier i spoke with eight secretary-general and cofounder of the palestinian national initiative to get his thoughts on the exchange and the four-day truce. do you see the possibility of this temporary truce being extended and more hostages being released? >> yes, absolutely. i think i would call it a cease-fire actually. it is true it is only for four days but can definitely be extendedor the purpose of releasing more prisoners. it is really good news that 50 israeli children and women will

be released and at at the same time 150 palestinian women and children will be released from israeli jails, some who have been in jails for years, some for months, but this exchange of prisoners is a good beginning. and i do believe that it breaks a lot of israeli government taboos of not having the exchange of prisoners. this was broken. the taboo there could be no cease-fire and that we have a cease-fire for four days. and this should be extended because this war is bringing a lot of atrocities to the palestinians in particular. anchor: just to jump in their, you know it well that the israelis have said this is not a cease-fire and lighting will continue after this temporary pause is over. >> they say so, but what for? they have already killed almost 15,000 palestinians including 6150 children, and if we camp a

number of children in the rubble they cannot reach because of israeli bombardment, the number is almost 9000 children killed. 32 israeli children were killed and 9000 palestinian children are killed. how many more thousands of children should die before this work comes to an end? we will not achieve anything even from a military perspective they are still failing. anchor: explain that to us. how do you think the israelis are fading from a military perspective because they said was the cease-fire is over this temporary pause they will continue in their goal to eradicate hamas. you are saying that is not working and that will not be possible? >> they say they want to eradicate hamas and they are negotiating with hamas. this agreement is not between them and any other party but hamas. they are concluding an agreement with hamas about the exchange of prisoners. from the very day of the first beginning of the beginning of this operation we said this talk

about uprooting hamas is totally unrealistic. we have to find a way in this war and having a complete cease-fire and a complete exchange of prisoners so that all israeli prisoners and all palestinian prisoners would be released, and may be that would open the door for a peaceful negotiations? anchor: ok. >> to enter the israeli occupation and to end this injustice. not to have more war and more people kille anchor: let me ask you this if there is to be a negotiation towards a permanent cease-fire who would rocher that? who would be seen as an honest broker right now who could negotiate between the israelis and hamas? >> unfortunately the united states lost that potential by citing completely with israel and being totally supportive of israel only. but still i think some kind of international forum would be helpful. i think the countries that have mediated achieving this

cease-fire, qatar and egypt, can play an important role in this case, but the most important thing is not just to have a peace process but a process that would lead to results, and that means agreeing right from the beginning that the goal would be ending this israeli long occupation which has lasted for 56 years and provoked so many wars so far, so if the goal is clear the process can be organized. anchor: so what is then the scenario for how this comes to an endiven what the israelis have said? how do you see this playing out after this temporary cease-fire concludes? >> well i think this active ethnic cleansing of the palestinian people from the north to the south should stop. the israelis are proceeding with that and are trying to force people out of their homes, out of their areas through artillery bombardment as they did tonight, killing 27 more people and

injuring about 100, or through airstrikes. they are trying to enforce ethnic cleansing. and then they want it is clear that they want to after ethnically cleansing this part of gaza -- that should stop. the solution occupation is not more occupation. anchor: ok. >> what we need is a complete and total cease-fire and maybe an international presence while israel evacuate skulls and allow for a negotiation solving this problem. anchor: can i as quickly who would be part of that temporary international force? we know that in itself would be incredible difficult to organize. >> only the united nations presence, and temporary. i don't mean they would govern gaza. gaza cannot be separated from the west bank and should be part of the future palestinian state in the leadership of palestinians should be allowed

to be elected democratically, and that is the right way, so i meant by that some kind of temporary presence until israel removes all its forces from the gaza strip. anchor: we have to leave it there but thank you for joining us and sharing your views tonight. >> thank you. anchor: we move on to some other news now. in the netherlands far right leader geert wilders won a surprise victory and now must make compromise to form a coalition government. the bbc sent this report. correspondent: a radical far right populist propelled into the spotlight. geert wilders's win was unexpected and unprecedented. after last night's cheers, it was champagne and cake for breakfast inside the freedom party parliament tree headquarters where geert wilders made a toast to the 2.3 one million people who voted for him.

geert wilders has promised to close theorders and stop what he has called a tsunami of migration. this is a politician who has spent more than two decades on the fringes of dutch politics. now the voters have decided he can no longer be kept out in the cold. >> i think it is good, yeah. uh, the netherlands need to change. >> the people are focused on one particular problem, immigration, in this party has that is a theme for many many years. correspondent: he is one of europe's most recognizable far right leaders and convicted of insulting a racial group after calling for fewer moroccans in the netherlands. before the vote of the other parties ruled out playing a part in his government because of his far fright rhetoric. >> brussels wants to inundate us with third world immigrants.

correspondent: there are indications that could change as nationalist leaders around the continent have praised his achievement. >>, welcome this victory because geert wilders demonstrates that more and more countries within the european union are contesting its functioning, and rightfully so in hope, that we can once again control immigration. correspondent: the question is to what extent all sides will be prepared to compromise. the complicated process of forming a coalition is likely to go on for months. bbc news, the hague. anchor: in the u.s. there have been sexual assault allegations against high-profile figures. york city mayor eric adams was accused of an assault in court papers filed wednesday night. a spokesperson said mr. adams did not recall meeting his accuser and vigorously denies the claims. the vehicle action was filed

under state law that opened a year-long window for survivors of sexual misconduct to bring lawsuits before they are blocked under the statute of limitations. also falling within that when there are suits brought wednesday against u.s. actor jamie foxx and guns and roses front man axl rose. they were each accused of sexual assault in cases that date back to 2015 and 1989 respectively. let's turn now to some other headlines from around the world, protesters in dublin have clashed with poilce after a knife attack in the city center that left a five-year-old girl and woman in her 30's injured. poilce say a man in his 40's is a person of interest and do not believe it was terror-related. lynn has put up barriers at four border crossings with russia to stop an increase in the number of migrants. fenlon says that the russians are differently channeling migrants to their shared border in the kremlin has dismissed fenlon's claims as groundless.

before we go in the u.s., people packed the streets of new york for >> the annual macy's thanksgiving day parade with balloon votes and public characters lined the streets with bands mature leaders in the parade was temporarily disrupted after dozens of palestinian supporters glued themselves to the ground, with some being taken into custody. ♪ thank you so much for watching world news america. do stay with us. ♪ narrator: funding for this presentation of this program is provided by... narrator: financial services firm, raymond james. man: bdo. accountants and advisors. narrator: funding was also provided by, the freeman foundation. and by judy and peter blum kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. ♪ ♪

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