yifat zeiler: yeah. anderson cooper: nearly two weeks later, yifat learned her aunt and uncle, shiri's parents, were dead. she still waiting for word on the rest of her family. yifat zeiler: we need a sign of life. i have a seven months old myself, and when i hold him i think about her and i think about kfir, her son, i think about ariel. i want to know that they are being fed, if their diaper was changed, if he's still got his formula, his bottle, something to eat. this is the only thing that i can do. this is the only thing that helps me be sane right now, is sitting here with you and talking to reporters and showing their faces and telling their story. i want my family back. i want my family back. [crying] i'm trying to be strong and stoic and speak clearly, but i'm devas-- i'm devastated. i'm devastated. i don't know what else to do. we need institutions from the world. we need someone to take care of those captive people, civilians. every hour every day it's getting worse. i want my family. by any c

yifat posted this 24 hours after the deal was announced.must muster strength we have to avoid falling apart, never before has anyone felt so close and yet so far away from something at the same time. everyone thinks we are excited, we are not, we are on edge and will until we hold our family in our arms. we are horrified at the thought of being disappointed. >> harris: kayleigh, where you started is where we need to put our focus. admiral kirby, where ambassador danny danone, told me is focus. this child is not with hamas, this child is with islamic terrorists, maybe gangs of people, which is how he put it. that is unsettling and hamas will be held accountable for any harm. we don't know as much now. not a straight information line to this child and others we have taken and we don't know their end game. gangs of people, that means money involved, we don't know. i just know according to his aunt, he was born on january 18th. we look hanukkah comes early, starts on the 8th. january 18th cannot come without that baby being home. we know there

like every hostage family shiri's cousin yifat zailer-paz gets a call each night from the idf telling whether those babies are on the list. >> and he calls me a few times a day, and i can't breathe. even just to update on other things and i can't breathe. >> reporter: no one's seen or heard from them, but yifat still hopeful for her release. do you know what you're going to tell her? >> how much i love her. i think it's going to be hard to let go for a minute there. i'm going to tell you that i'm sorry it took so long to get her out. >> david: let's bring back in matt gutman, live in tel aviv again tonight. we know there are talks under way tonight to extend this cease-fire, to try to allow for the release of more hostages. a lot of questions still remain tonight about where the american hostages are and who is holding them. the fbi still believes there are nine u.s. citizens being held? >> reporter: david, and those talks, you mentioned, in doha, around the clock. cia director burns is there. secretary of state blinken is headed to the region. and they are working to try to extend th

and like every hostage family, every night, shiri's cousin yifat zailer-paz gets a call from the idf, telling whether those babies are on the list. >> and he calls me a few times a day, and i can't breathe. even just to update on other things and i can't breathe. >> reporter: no one's seen or heard from them, but yifat still hopeful for her release. in the west bank tonight, a jubilant homecoming for those newly released palestinians. >> you can see people here running to meet that bus down there, carrying the new group of palestinian prisoners. this clearly feels like a giant celebration. >> reporter: these teen brothers, who served 17 months in an israeli prison, released sunday, accused of supporting terrorism, which they both deny. we sat down with them. qassam saying he was only given 30 minutes notice before his release and remained in shock until the moment he arrived home. >> david: let's bring back in matt gutman, live in tel aviv again tonight. matt, we know there are active talks under way tonight to extend this cease-fire, to try to allow for the release of more hostages.

entire communities may i say deleted completely. >> lawrence: yifat, you tell the story so well. yet, in our country and you look on tv internationally. there are people protesting in the middle of the street saying it did not happen. there are people that are taking signs down of your loved ones in new york city and major cities. if you had the opportunity to talk to all these college students. all these people that are protesting. what would you tell them? >> [sigh] i was raised to believe in humanity, to believe in peace to know that two people tell story and it will sound completely different and you should always check and i was born and raised in israel on one side of this conflict and i always educate myself and i learn but at the end of the day, even if there were mistakes during history, i would never raise my children to say that someone is deserve to i die. someone is not deserving his rights to exist. i will never, never stand behind a group that kidnap children. and i don't know it's early morning and probably the children watching the screen so i don't want to discu

yifat zeiler: we are in a nightmare. anderson cooper: i first began to focus on what happened at nir oz when i saw a woman named yifat zeiler on cnn >>> we are in a nightmare. >> reporter: i first began to focus what happened in nir oz when i saw a woman on cnn two days after the attack. >> when we meet, everyone's hurt. >> reporter: she was speaking about her cousin who has two children, a 4-year-old boy named ariel and a 9-month-old boy kafir whose kidnapping from nir oz was recorded and posted online. >> we need everyone to help us, please. >> reporter: her children were so young and her cousin's pain was so raw. the day after this interview aired, i met with her in tel aviv. what do you want people to know about your conference? >> she's a peaceful girl, woman. she's amazing. she's beloved by everyone. she's an incredible mother. >> reporter: shari's parents were also missing, as was her husband. >> he was texting his family while the terrorists entered their home. >> reporter: yardin told his sister, "it feels like

. >> lawrence: trey, yifat was on the program. i asked her you are aware that hamas is being able to regroup. so how do you balance wanting to get your loved ones back home and still wanting to disseminate hamas? on the ground in israel, what do you think the split is? is there pressure on the prime minister right now to get the hostages back or to return to the battlefield? >> there's a lot of pressure. before i get there, i do want to show you one of these tags that elon musk was given yesterday, it says bring them home now. and when you walk through the streets of tel aviv the way we have done the past few days, it's something that you see people wearing they are trying to ensure that the world doesn't forget what happened here these tags are actually tags that soldiers would normally wear. there is a perforation in the middle, because if you were killed in battle they would break these tags in halve of half and one half to the family and one to the family. they are familiar with here that served in the army. as for the future

shiri's cousin, yifat, is caught between hope and torment.w what kind of children will come back to us. the trauma, what they saw. and until i see them in my own eyes, i don't believe any lists of names and i don't believe any news coming today from...anywhere. i need to see them in my own eyes. i need to hold my cousin in my arms. sobbing. but for many in gaza, just the anguish of goodbye. hassan lost his niece, three brothers and his grandmother. relatives say they were killed by an israeli air strike on a residential building. gaza is teeming with grief and desperation. this was the struggle for a few bottles of water. the truce will clear a path for hundreds of trucks carrying food, fuel and medical supplies. for now, gaza keeps burying its dead, with more than 100 bodies in this mass grave. the next few days may bring quiet, but israel and hamas have said that after the truce the war will resume. 0rla guerin, bbc news, tel aviv. 0ur correspondent injerusalem, tom bateman, has more on the delay in the release of the hostages. well, the se

shiri's cousin, yifat, is caught between hope and torment. know what kind of children will come back to us. the trauma, what they saw. and until i see them in my own eyes, i don't believe any lists of names and i don't believe any news coming today from...anywhere. i need to see them in my own eyes. i need to hold my cousin in my arms. sobbing. but for many in gaza, just the anguish of goodbye. hassan lost his niece, three brothers and his grandmother. relatives say they were killed by an israeli air strike on a residential building. if the ceasefire starts tomorrow as planned, it is too late for this family. gaza is teeming with grief and desperation. this was the struggle for a few bottles of water. the truce will clear a path for hundreds of trucks carrying food, fuel and medical supplies. for now, gaza keeps burying its dead, with more than 100 bodies in this mass grave. the next few days may bring quiet, but israel and hamas have said that after the truce the war will resume. orla guerin, bbc news, tel aviv. there's been a flurry of dipl

shiri's cousin, yifat, is caught between hope and torment.hem in my own eyes, i don't believe any lists of names and i don't believe any news coming today from...anywhere. i need to see them in my own eyes. i need to hold my cousin in my arms. but for many in gaza, just the anguish of goodbye. hassan lost his niece, three brothers and his grandmother. relatives say they were killed by an israeli air strike on a residential building. gaza is teeming with grief and desperation. this was the struggle for a few bottles of water. the truce will clear a path for hundreds of trucks carrying food, fuel and medical supplies. for now, gaza keeps burying its dead with more than 100 bodies in this mass grave. the next few days may bring quiet, but israel and hamas have said that after the truce the war will resume. a short time ago we heard the hostages will not be released until friday at the earliest and no temporary ceasefire until then, orla? ~ . ., temporary ceasefire until then, orla? . ., temporary ceasefire until then, orla? ~ ., ., orla? what mo

>>yifat, first of all, how are you in the family holding up? >> it's very emotional and stressful days. the little hope that we have gives us the strength to carry on, and claiming, and asking for the freedom of our family. >> have you received any calls tonight indicating whether or not -- in the family are on the list of hostages to be released tomorrow? still >> not yet know,. it's almost 12:00 at night here in israel's, and the list hasn't arrived yet. >> as you know, the idf said that your family are not being held by hamas, that -- and the kids are not being held by hamas. do you know who is holding them? >> i think, in english we say the popular front, or the public front's. in hebrew we call them -- [speaking in a non-english language] it's a smaller organization, basically, they under the ruling of hamas. hamas led them in 2007, after they took over the strip. , israel left gaza. they allowed the people to let sort of recognize themselves with that group, to stay, with the agreement that they were sort of underneath the control of hama