from the far right, from within the government, within the coalition, even even one minister from likudd yesterday to resign in cases israel leave the philadelphia corridor, but also from hamas — they are not going to make it any easy to reach an agreement because this is going to entail the release of the rest of the hostages that, from their point of view, as cruel as it is, they see it as their insurance policy. to negotiate, from the same reason that you see opposition in israel, from the far right, from within the government, within the coalition, even even one minister from likud threatened yesterday to resign in cases israel leave the philadelphia corridor, but also from hamas — they are not going to make it any easy to reach an agreement because this is going to entail the release of the rest of the hostages that, from their point of view, as cruel as it is, they see it as their insurance policy. linked to election violence — but it's been repeatedly delayed and her parents now wonder if they'll ever get justice in kenyan courts. anne soy reports from kisumu. a beautiful but pai

even one ministerfrom likud threatened yesterday to resign if they leave the philadelphi corridor.hamas are not going to make it easy to have any agreement because from their point of view as cruel as it is, they see hostages as an insurance policy.— is, they see hostages as an insurance policy. is, they see hostages as an insurance oli . ., ., , insurance policy. how important is donald trump _ insurance policy. how important is donald trump in _ insurance policy. how important is donald trump in all _ insurance policy. how important is donald trump in all of _ insurance policy. how important is donald trump in all of this? - donald trump in all of this? probably at this point he is the most crucial element in these negotiations. we know are very similar agreement, almost identical, was on the table back in may of 2023, and it was rejected, coming with all sorts of pretexts and new conditions by both sides, mainly by netanyahu. now i think, when trump enters into the fray, this has changed, because he has a very different agenda. and i think the sides are worried on his response i

benjamin netanyahu, a letter opposing the ceasefire deal some of them are members of the pm's own likudaelis held hostage by hamas confronted the country's far right finance minister, bezalel smotrich, at a knesset commitee hearing on monday for his opposition to the deal. but the former defence minister, benny gantz, said his party would give its full backing to an agreement, and that failing to free the hostages would be a "catastrophe." 0pposition leader yair lapid also said he'd back a deal. hamas is sending positive signals in a statement on monday, the group said it is quote �*keen�* on reaching a deal. joining me live is hussein ibish, senior resident scholar at the arab gulf states institute. lovely to have you with us. is there really a breakthrough coming? if you look we have been at this point of an eminent deal a few times before. , ~ ., before. -- it feels like. now we are basically _ before. -- it feels like. now we are basically there. - before. -- it feels like. now we are basically there. it - before. -- it feels like. now| we are basically there. it has been coming for

in 1976—77, when i was a member of the parliament of likud and menachem begin was elected prime ministersaid he is the terrorist that was responsible for terror in israel prior to �*a8. the guy will never make peace. and a year after, he agreed with sadat to pull out completely from sinai, which was a dramatic change in every posture that was ascribed to him. when ariel sharon was prime minister and i was privileged to be his senior deputy, we decided to pull out completely from gaza and dismantle all the settlements that sharon himself built. that someone told you a year before that he will do it, you would've said that he is out of touch with reality. so... yeah, you make some interesting points and maybe, you know, israel could find a leader who might make some dramatic change in policy. but i would put it to you, and i'm not such a young guy. i'm an old guy. i've been around following israel for many, many years. and the truth is that israel has changed profoundly in recent years, and you know it, because you talk now consistently about the dangers within israel, of an israel that is

benjamin netanyahu, a letter opposing the ceasefire deal — some of them are members of the pm's own likudgry relatives of israelis held hostage by hamas confronted the country's far—right finance minister, bezalel smotrich, at a knesset commitee hearing on monday, for his opposition to an agreement. but the former defence minister, benny gantz, said his party would give its full backing to a deal, and that failing to free the hostages would be a "catastrophe." 0pposition leader yair lapid also said he supports an agreement. hamas is sending positive signals. 0na on a statement on monday, it said it was keen to reach a deal. i have been speaking to a former adviser to president biden. we heard those words from president biden, and national security adviserjake sullivan saying there is a distinct possibility that a deal could be done this week. it feels like we have been here this week. do you think it's something different now? yes, i think there _ something different now? yes, i think there are _ something different now? yes, i think there are several- something different now? yes, i thin

themselves who talk about war crimes are moshe yaalon, the former defense secretary for netanyahu, likud, not a bleeding heart, liberal ethnic cleansing and war crimes are taking part. and he's doubled down on that. are you prepared to say that war crimes have been committed by israel? >> i can't speak to individual instances. i can say, obviously we've had concerns more than concerns about the way israel has conducted itself. understanding, first of all, that this is a unique environment, one we haven't really seen before, one where you have a population that's trapped inside of gaza and virtually every other situation in the world, people are able to get out of harm's way. they become refugees in a neighboring country. that's not a good thing, but it's better than being caught in the middle of this kind of maelstrom. second, uniquely, you have an enemy that intentionally embeds itself within the civilian population in and under apartments, in and under schools, mosques, hospitals. that does not in any way absolve israel of the responsibility, the obligation to conduct itself according

and we're now getting word that a likud party member, a member of netanyahu's party, is threatening to resign over a detail in phase one. a key detail. cnn's bianna golodryga is live now from tel aviv for us. bianna, in the middle of all of this uncertainty are, of course, the hostages and their families. what are you hearing? >> yeah, the hostage families who i continue to speak with, say, sunday cannot come soon enough. we've been in a place before where a deal seemed imminent. and then things fell apart. this is the closest, obviously, we've been to a deal since that hostage cease fire deal agreed to last november, where we saw over 100 hostages released. but as you said, the cabinet here is expected to meet, which means they are likely to vote and approve the cease fire hostage deal. but it doesn't come without a lot of other turbulence. as you just mentioned there. there are threats of resignations, as you noted, and really loud voices of condemnation about this deal coming particularly from the far right elements of this government. this morning we heard finance minister bezalel

this and probably a few others, not just the other ministers from their parties, but i bet 1 or 2 likud ministers may not keep party discipline. i do think that netanyahu will manage to pass this by the cabinet. but there we enter a sort of internal israeli limbo, because listening again now to president biden's pretty clear declaration that phase two implies an absolute end to this war, declared end to this war, that israeli soldiers, he said, will withdraw from all populated areas of gaza. i'm not i don't think at this stage that a majority of the israeli cabinet that has been primed by prime minister netanyahu to believe that donald trump was going to come in and let them do whatever they wanted, annex whatever they wanted, establish a jewish theocracy in gaza. that's what they were ready for, many of them. and that's not the reality they're crashing into right now. so i do think that netanyahu is going to have to shore up his flanks and make more of a political effort if he doesn't want to incur donald trump's anger within the first month of his presidency. >> what is the role that

at the israeli political system and he said, know the old labor parties split in so many ways and likud in so many ways, and he, i think, attributed. it has to be noted that dr. who is, you know, his own politics are not islamist pro hamas politics, but he's a good analog. and he was trying to understand, you know why it has had this kind of stable this this long longevity. i think the other thing that really struck me was hearing doctor your own talk about critical terror ism studies and the way that fixing this label of terrorist to a resistance both in a sort of anti-colonial context or in an anti occupation context. it's a very common move by repressive powers that seek to use that label in order to justify an their own massive use of violence up to the level of genocide. and rami, what surprised or challenged you the most in this process? i think two points. one was the incessant attempts and insistence by hamas to be part of a national consensus, to forge that consensus when it didn't exist or to repair it when it was broken. they didn't want to rule palestine. they wanted to be p

. >> i call on my friends in likud and the religious zionist party. it is not too late. a government meeting is ahead of us. we can stop this deal. join me. we can stop it. >> this time, neither he nor finance minister bezalel smotrich, who also oppose the deal, were able to thwart it. the cease fire, now set to take effect on sunday, with scenes like this from 2023 of hostages being released from gaza expected as early as sunday afternoon. on the first day, hamas will release three female civilian hostages like other civilian hostages, each one will be freed in exchange for 30 palestinian prisoners from israeli jails. five female soldiers held by hamas are also set to be released during the six week ceasefire, in exchange for 50 palestinian prisoners each, including 30 who are serving life sentences. after 15 months of war, a ceasefire could not come soon enough for the people of gaza, who have stared down starvation and faced unending food insecurity. beyond a reprieve from israeli bombardment, the ceasefire is also expected to deliver a surge of aid 600 trucks per day

. >> i call on my friends in likud and the religious zionist party. it is not too late. a government meeting is ahead of us. we can stop this deal. join me. we can stop it. >> this time. neither he nor finance minister bezalel smotrich, who also opposed the deal, were able to thwart it. the cease fire, now set to take effect on sunday, with scenes like this from 2023 of hostages being released from gaza expected as early as sunday afternoon. on the first day, hamas will release three female civilian hostages like other civilian hostages, each one will be freed in exchange for 30 palestinian prisoners from israeli jails. five female soldiers held by hamas are also set to be released during the six week ceasefire, in exchange for 50 palestinian prisoners each, including 30 who are serving life sentences. after 15 months of war, a ceasefire could not come soon enough for the people of gaza, who have stared down starvation and faced unending food insecurity beyond a reprieve from israeli bombardment, the ceasefire is also expected to deliver a surge of aid 600 trucks per day

international legal bodies view the west bank as occupied palestinian territories, but netanyahu and his likudught to increase the number of illegal settlers there in an effort to conquer more palestinian land. and the two most radical members of netanyahu's government or his cabinet, both minister smotrich and ben-gvir. they actually live in west bank settlements themselves. they have violent histories. they are very open about their plans to remove all palestinians from the holy land with violence when necessary. ben-gvir just quit his cabinet post to protest the ceasefire deal in gaza this week. trump's nominee for ambassador to the united nations, congresswoman elise stefanik. well, she was asked whether her ideology aligns with those of the extremists. ben-gvir and smotrich. watch what she said. >> i'm rarely surprised by answers in my office. >> but i did ask you whether you subscribe to. >> the views of finance. minister smotrich. >> who i'm sorry. >> smotrich. >> this is. >> the israeli finance minister. >> smotrich. >> and the former national. security minister ben-gvir, who. >> belie

and we have ten likud who are threatening netanyahu as well, members of member of his his own political party. right. a lot going on. >> thank you for that insight. general marks. thank you as well. we are going to have to sneak in a very quick break, as we do want to show you live pictures from hostage square in tel aviv. families there celebrating, praying that their loved ones could be among those released as part of this deal. we've been talking about. don't go away. >> this part changed my life. >> superman. crazy. just that simple little thing over the horse. >> chris wanted to change the world. >> people are literally walking because of him. >> superman. the christopher reeve story. february 2nd on cnn. >> whoa! how'd you get your teeth so white? >> well, you got to use the right toothpaste. >> doctor. see? >> not all toothpaste whiten the same crest. >> 3-d white removes 100% more stains for a noticeably whiter smile. new personal best crest for the times when cooking just isn't in the cards. >> try brand new ready made meals from hellofresh. no prepping, no cooking. just heat u

i mean, the mainstream democratic right, like likud, for example, the likud bloc of benjamin netanyahum to be very worried about about this element. so it's back to your point. there are so many known unknowns. they're not unknown unknowns. they're not unknown unknowns. they're not unknown unknowns. they're known unknowns about this. and then we can go into the whole security picture, which is just simply dreadful. >> why is it then that when we have these and we've seen it over many years, and when israel release prisoners in return, in these sort of deals, there is always a huge number released. and then there's someone like marwan barghouti, as you say, who causes such concern. why would he even be on the list? >> well, he would be on the list because he has actually mainstream of a really rather typical stereotypical figure. because if you talk to the palestinians and by that i don't mean the hard jihadi palestinians, they see him as their nelson mandela. and he's one of these people, you know, like jomo kenyatta. i think of that, you know, who were banged up on very serious terror

voters who are among those who voted against this today were some likud ministers. to be a real challenge for him moving forward as he tries to move, i think, to the next stage of the deal. jacob, 'ust next stage of the deal. jacob, just explain — next stage of the deal. jacob, just explain to _ next stage of the deal. jacob, just explain to us _ next stage of the deal. jacob, just explain to us why - next stage of the deal. jacob, just explain to us why that - just explain to us why that second phase is more challenging for him, politically?- challenging for him, oliticall ? ., politically? so, netanyahu has ledaed politically? so, netanyahu has pledged throughout _ politically? so, netanyahu has pledged throughout this - politically? so, netanyahu has pledged throughout this war . politically? so, netanyahu has| pledged throughout this war to achieve a concept of total victory. and he really totally explained what it is. sometimes he says it is the dismanting of hamas's governing and mill capability, which is something that he has not yet achieved and honestly wil

he urged members of prime minister benjamin netanyahu's likud party tojoin him and stop the deal.s published a partial list of palestinian prisoners to be released in the first phase including 95 women and children. let's cross to tel aviv and my colleague mark lowen. telus more about where we are in terms of the sequencing here. . , , here. the full cabinet is meeting _ here. the full cabinet is meeting to _ here. the full cabinet is meeting to green - here. the full cabinet is meeting to green light i here. the full cabinet is i meeting to green light this cease—fire deal and we are expecting that to happen this evening and if approved, the cease—fire deal will taken place on sunday with the release of the first of 33 hostages will be released over a six—week period in the first phase of these cease—fire deals is a three stage cease—fire deal and that she say, it would be israeli hostages being released in palestinian prisoners being let out of israeli jails and on sunday, three hostages will be released and more will be let out in the following weeks and all of this, trying to