this is jabalia.nesses. and of course the optimism is there that this period of 42 days will bring some peace. one gazan telling the bbc they have slept soundly for the first time since the war began 15 months ago. there are no bombardments, no drones. it is peaceful today, said the director of the refugee agency. meanwhile thousands of aid drugs are still waiting to get into gaza with much—needed supplies of tents and blankets. if people do choose to stay in places like jabalia, a tent will probably be home for some time because there is still a reconstruction plan still to be put in place. you can also take a lot at our live page on the bbc news website, where the headline is all about emily damari. she says that she has come back to life. she was one of the hostages freed yesterday, the british israeli woman who her mother says is the happiest girl in the world and doing better than she expected. emily is among other... two other women released by hamas yesterday amongst those extraordinary scenes

jabalia. bombed now into an age of stone.ength of gaza and into every life in one way or another. hana, aged 15, was born with a severe brain disability. but before the war, there were working hospitals and days and nights without terror. translation: she was the flower of our neighbourhood. _ she used to walk, play, and was just like any other child. three months into the war, hana became ill with cancer of the eye. now in constant agony, she can no longer see. with the ceasefire, her mother hopes israel will allow hana's evacuation from gaza. translation: | feel - like i am losing my mind. i am so worried about her and ifeel so bad for her. i want to do whatever i can to help her and i don't want to be helpless. ourjournalists have recorded the stories of gaza on the ground since the war began. like the two sisters reunited in an emergency ward after their home was hit in an israeli airstrike. "my sister, my beloved," said juri, aged five. "this is my sister," she tells the nurses. her sister is 18 months old. there was new

they lived here before the war, jabalia. bombed now into an age of stone. the consequences of the war stretch the length of gaza and into every life in one way or another. noara al—najjar and her children, just after the israeli strike that took her husband. their father abdel rahman, one of more than 70 people killed in an operation to rescue two hostages. his daughter malak lost an eye in the attack. "pain," she says. "i lost my father. enough." noara was pregnant at the time and now has the couple's baby, rahma. the ceasefire is welcome, but it's not the end of suffering. translation: after the i ceasefire, i want to give my children the best life. i want them to get over the fear we lived. my children are really scared. the terror has settled in their hearts. the scale of rebuilding ahead is immense. of a lost world of broken lives. fergal keane, bbc news, amman. we will bring you the latest developments on the ceasefire as and when we get them. here in the uk, the economy returned to growth in novemberfor the first time in three months but onlyjust. br

jabalia. bombed now into an age of stone.tretch the length of gaza and into every life in one way or another. hana, aged 15, was born with a severe brain disability. but before the war, there were working hospitals and days and nights without terror. translation: she was the flower of our neighbourhood. _ she used to walk, play, and was just like any other child. three months into the war, hana became ill with cancer of the eye. now in constant agony, she can no longer see. with the ceasefire, her mother hopes israel will allow hana's evacuation from gaza. translation: | feel - like i am losing my mind. i am so worried about her and ifeel so bad for her. i want to do whatever i can to help her and i don't want to be helpless. ourjournalists have recorded the stories of gaza on the ground since the war began. like the two sisters reunited in an emergency ward after their home was hit in an israeli airstrike. "my sister, my beloved," said juri, aged five. "this is my sister," she tells the nurses. her sister is 18 months old. t

israel can very quickly push back into those pockets in northern gaza, where they're pulling out of jabalia all the other little pockets that they're going to start pulling out from and be able to go right back into their pockets. so i don't think, again, asking, does bibi have does bibi have bad intention here? i don't believe so. and i think he's doing his best. and it's a very heightened emotional time. and i think the naysayers are going to change their tune when they see naama levy's face. if she's alive, jonathan. because i know she'll be dead inside. but when they see her face, i think it'll i think it'll calm everyone down just a little bit to give her some perspective. >> got to wrap it up there for this part of our coverage. aaron cohen, rabbi haim mintz, great to have you both with us. we will continue our coverage of what is potentially a momentous day in the middle east with this ceasefire between israel and hamas due to go into effect in exactly 15 minutes. we will be back at the bottom of the hour and see if bottom of the hour and see if it makes my skin feel so smooth and mo

kamal adwan hospital is right next to jabalia refugee camp, where you see that there is a lot of militarylly look back at doctor hassan's media statements, he's written two op eds in the new york times, october 2023, and then most recently in december, because he was very concerned about this hospital being shut down. it's a pediatric hospital in the north that he personally helped build up. and you mentioned all of the sacrifices that he's had to make. in october, when ibrahim, his oldest son, was killed, i messaged him and i was offering him condolences because i saw how much he was struggling with it, and he responded with videos of where that strike happened on the hospital compound, and then videos of kids recovering in the icu up there asking me and asking everybody else to share it with the entire world what was going down. keep in mind, doctor hassan is a dual citizen. he's had multiple opportunities to flee to safety, to take himself and his family to safety, and he's lost his son in the process. and you mentioned him getting injured. and the entire time he's only been advocating

i was inside gaza in the area of jabalia last week with israeli forces and they were fighting hamas militants in the northern part of the strip, more than 15 months into the war. hyou heard secretary of state antony blinken saying they believe hamas recruited as many fighters as they lost and we're talking anywhere from 17 to 20,000 since the beginning of this conflict. and so the war will take a pause, it's not over. and the israelis have not reached that critical objective that they laid out at the very beginning of this conflict -- to completely dismantle and destroy hamas inside the gaza strip. there are massive questions about what the day after looks like inside gaza. and while the focus for the israeli people right now is just ensuring that these hostages come home, they do look at the death toll among their soldiers and they point to that as often times something that will stick with the israeli psyche for decades co to come. more than 400 israeli soldiers killed fighting hamas since the ground operation began in late october and they don't even know if this ceasefire deal will hold.

i mean, the amount of destruction in the north of gaza especially jabalia of destruction in the north of gaza especiallyjabalia refugee gaza especially jabalia refugee camp, gaza especiallyjabalia refugee camp, is something that gaza has never seen before, almost 90% of all buildings were destroyed. so the people are shocked by the scenes of destruction in the area. most important, the hamas run civil defence and ministry of health, they started to search for bodies under the rubble, they want to give them dignity and bury them in dignity. a very painful message that i received from a friend in gaza, he lost his brother and his family, and they are buried in the south. he said, even if i am allowed to go to the north, how can i leave behind the body of my brother and his family under the rubble in the south? so very sad stories, people feeling a lot ofjoy in the morning when they announced the ceasefire, about two hours ago, but now they realise that there is a lot of pain to be, you know, lived in gaza, those who lost their houses, people who are having their loved ones under the rub

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this is jabalia, the area that you are looking at here, people returning there.ou can just see there, you get a real idea of the devastation. and also how little people have left. these are people returning to their homes with bags, you know, those are the possessions that they still have. particularly those who have. particularly those who have been displaced multiple times. 0verthe have been displaced multiple times. over the last a70 days or so. this is what people in rafah had to say about the ceasefire earlier today. translation: it is an - indescribable feeling for rafah and the entire nation. at first, in rafah, we see the destruction, destruction we have not seen before. we were talking about a genocide, but it is more than genocide. may god be with our people and grant them patience and have mercy on our martyrs and heal our wounded. we hope that this truce continues and this is the end of the bloodshed, the torrent of blood, which our people paid a heavy price for. our people gave a lot. translation: i entered this area nearly 20 - to 25 days before the