it does appear emily demar suffered some kind of wound to her hand. a photograph posted on social media by her family. it looks like she may have been missing some fingers from injuries suffered on october 7th. just that scene you're seeing on your screen right now, alex, that moment when hamas released the hostages into the red cross's custody, you can see they are surrounded by an enormous crowd masked, heavily armed hamas gunmen. i've spoken to hostages who came out during the first deal, and they have told me that after october 7th itself, this was the most terrifying moment of their entire time in captivity. being surrounded by these absolutely enormous crowds, you have people banging on the windows, you have the vehicles rocking back and forth just with the weight of humanity all around it. people said this was a terrifying, terrifying moment. the hostages came out of gaza. they were reunited with their mothers in israeli territory. we've seen a couple of pictures of them smiling. i will say, alex, these images that you are seeing are important

they're reporting romy gonin, doron steinbrecher and emily demar are in good condition. >> 470 days of captivity for these hostages, three of them for them, it's now over. and of course, 470 days of suffering for the palestinians in gaza, nearly relentless bombing, the cease fire agreement allows for a dramatic increase in humanitarian aid allowed to enter gaza, with the first un aid convoys crossing into the area. shortly after the deal took effect. there is enormous need there, president biden referenced the news as he talked about a long awaited cease fire that, frankly, he tried for months to get across the finish line and is now happening on his last day in office. >> hundreds of trucks are entering gaza as i speak. they're carrying assistance for civilians who have suffered enormously from the war that hamas started on october 7th, 2023, nearly 15 months ago. today alone, we anticipate several hundred trucks will enter the gaza strip, as i'm probably as i'm speaking, and after so much pain, destruction and loss of life today, the guns in gaza have gone silent. >> and that was pre

katie, we had a chance to catch up with a friend of emily demar. about the moment that he first saw her in hospital. take a listen. >> the first thing that you do is to smile and then, like all the emotional, all the stress, all the like, the bad, like and all the bad thing that you want to think about it, like disappear. yeah, fade away. and we only hug her. >> and so the hope here is that there may be many, many more of those emotional reunions still to come. katie. >> raf sanchez, raf, thank you very much. and before we go, we want to leave you with a little bit of sound. this one from aoc talking to the daily show, talking to jon stewart about what she thinks she and other democrats civilians should be focused on as the trump administration gets underway. >> the thing is, is that when we allow ourselves to constantly be distracted by these culture wars around trans people, around like it's a it's a new thing every day. but i think the answer doesn't isn't that we just let those people be attacked. it's that we say, what are you doing, man? like

that's romy gonin, emily demar, also in this first group. she's 28 years old. she was taken from kfar aza in the south. she's british, israeli. her mother has said she as well was shot in the hand as well as had shrapnel injuries in her leg. blindfolded, bundled in the back of her own car as she was taken. so many in addition to the undeniable psychological wounds that they have suffered during captivity, also have physical wounds which doctors will be treating once they're released. and the third, doron steinbrecher, 31 years old. she's a veterinary nurse. she was taken from her apartment in the kibbutz kfar aza as well, and there was video showing her, alongside two others who were released from hamas, released by hamas in january 2024. that was a proof of life at the time. so three families, three israeli families are going to be able to see their loved ones again today. but of course, so many other families close to 100 who will not also happening during those early hours of this agreement is that 95 palestinians, 95 palestinian prisoners will be released a

separate hospital here in the greater tel aviv area, a group of friends of one of the three women, emily demarer friends before it went on to that hospital. that was sheba hospital, where at beilinson. schneider now, and we are hearing more cheering we're seeing we can see just through the smallest crack in those screens that there is movement on the other side. we can see people are, oh, and there's a wave. there's a wave. ali, i couldn't tell you who that is, but somebody stuck their hand out of that black van and waved at the waiting crowd here on the side of that helipad. whoever is in that van will certainly be able to hear the cheers. they will able to see this small sea of israeli flags. and we think. >> we are seeing, we are. >> seeing. >> we are seeing women boarding that van. now, as you said, there's just a small crack between the screen and the door of the van. but we now have seen multiple people boarding the van, a number of whom we can identify from this distance with that camera as being women. this is the fourth person i'm seeing, but we don't know. there could be other women