a qatari official earlier said that dohar was focused on further extending that cease-fire.ore, we go to our correspondent paul adams from jerusem. good evening to you, paul. the first question is what more do we know about tonight's releases? >> well, as far as the israeli citizens are concerned and the two additional thai foreign workers, they've all been released, handed over. we've seen video of them delivered into the hands of the red cross and then the vehicles arriving and passing into egypt. if they're not already in israeli territory, they will be very, very shortly. that has definitely already happened. just as i was coming out just now, i heard that the 30 palestinian detainees, prisoners, have also arrived in ramallah so it seems as though that side of the release has also gone ahead so it looks as though we have seen a fifth consecutive successful exchange of hos stages and prisoners. >> day five but that temporary cease-fire will soon expire. what are the odds as you see them at the moment of it being extended? >> i think they're pretty good. so informers the f

yeah, i mean, i think there are on going. negotiations in dohar, qatar right now with the head of the cia william burns and the head of musad to see if there is some way to get further um israeli hostages released and to further extend the so-called true although the zionist forces in the north i believe today have actually broken the seasfire and were responded to by the kassam brigades. it's also worth noting that the humanitarian. leaf that is kind of trickling into gaza is only one fifth of requirements, even under normal circumstances, not under the the the absolutely horrific, horrender circumstances that the gazan people are now living with, and with largely the withdraw of for example, the unrah um staff and officers from central and northern gaza to southern gaza, euromet monitor has made the... that effectively they're complicit with the israeli plans ethnically cleanse um gaza of palestinians and to force them into the sinai desert which has been the proclaimed plan by number of israeli government officials, so i'm less optimistic um that the war is not going to start again

. >>> officials in dohar are in agreement. >> ten more israelis, two thai citizens are back home. >>sident biden has achieved something very important. >> our work is not done until everyone is out of gaza. >> liz cheney's blasting members of her party for enabling trump. >> liz cheney knows all of

. >>> officials in dohar are in agreement. >> ten more israelis, two thai citizens are back home. >> president biden has achieved something very important. >> our work is not done until everyone is out of gaza. >> liz cheney's blasting members of her party for enabling trump. >> liz cheney knows all of these players. >> she calls them enablers and collaborators. >> surging nikki haley picks up a major endorsement. >> charles koch-backed group group backing nikki haley. >>> good wednesday morning. right now the final hours of the truce between israel and hamas are ticking away and as we speak negotiators in the white house are waiting to extend it. hamas released another round of hostages yesterday with more to come today. we just heard from secretary of state blinken at nato headquarters as he prepares to head into the war zone and travel once again to israel. >> we'd like to see the pause extended because what it has enabled first and foremost is hostages being released, it's also enabled us to surge humanitarian assistance to the people of gaza who so desperately need it. >> new th

at this point, there's an operations room up and running here in dohar with members of the mediation team. it was qatar at the heart of this really incredibly tough negotiation. they have basically got phones set up, they are monotorting this truce and the subsequent hostage releases every second of the way to ensure or try to ensure there's no slippage. i started this by saying this is incredibly fragile. no trust on either side of this. so it's clear that many things could go awry at this point, but there's an agreement. there is a process in place and at this point, the hope is for those families of hostages who are on the ground, who will now know who these 13 are today, there will be some sense that this tragedy, this trauma that they have been going through might at least get some closure at sol point in the next hours. become to you. >> it's such an important point how delicate every moment is. hopefully the first of many releases. thank you. >>> hundreds of families, as we have been talking about, anxiously awaiting not just the return, but word on their loved ones. we'll spe

parties, and questions are being asked how much communication and control hamas' political wing in dohar have in the military wing hiding underground in gaza right now. >> here is an aspect to it, but i think the lines of communication are there. i think what's, frankly, the most crucial aspect is as long as there's continued bombardment , a bombardment of gaza by israeli forces, then it becomes very difficult to imagine the ability of there to be constructive negotiations and mediation of this nature. again, this has been something that's been brought up many times within the context of the israeli press and elsewhere, but knitting yahoo and his government have made it very clear that their focus is really to pummel gaza into submission, particularly the north, and of course, there are other associated factors here in terms of forcing a displacement of, you know, most palestinians from the north if not all of them down to the sout h. on is really television, the indicated 1.7 out of 2.2 million palestinians cannot go to their homes because they are either displaced or their homes have b

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thor into leadership of hamassitting in dohar qatar and sending the authority to hamas. >> neil: i'dowing these palestinian sympathetic marchers in new york city, ambassador. a lot of them are taking and the provocation for israel and how it treated those in gaza. totally ignorant of the fact that israel has had no control, no role in that region for close to two decades now. it's been under hamas control. so there are problems with how people and palestinians are treated there, it's on hamas, not israel, this is something that plays out again and again and it seems like, you know, never comes through on any level with in people buying that worldwide, this is on you. this was all ceded by israel. how do you fight that? >> we are fighting it with the tools. two days ago, i talked to the prime minister from the u.k. and the prime minister from australia. i showed them what happened. i wish i could take all of those people that are demonstrating to show them what is happening. let's stick to the facts. the facts are that we left gaza in 2005 completely. the second fact that gaza is a bo

and keir simmons is joining us from dohar, qatar. many hostages are we expected -- expecting to be released today? >> ana, in that same statement the egyptian government is saying today's exchange will be 11 israeli hostages for 33 palestinian prisoners. those numbers not yet confirmed by either israel or hamas. it's a little bit lower than what we've seen over the last previous three days where it was 13 or 14 israelis in exchange for 39 palestinian prisoners. but if there is an exchange at all, that will be good news because just a couple hours ago, things were looking, once again, very uncertain. there have been a lot of ups and downs over the course of this cease-fire period. normally we expect, and according to the deal we should see the hamas beginning to hand over the israeli hostages around 4:00 p.m. local time. but it's 3:00 p.m. here, the prime minister's office here in israel putting out a statement saying they were still negotiating over the list of hostages who would be released today. that was causing a lot of anxiety a