Just hours from now, we expect a pause in the fighting between Israel and Hamas, the first step toward an expected hostage release on Friday. Earlier today, officials in Qatar, which helped broker this deal, said the first group of 13 women and children would be released to the Red Cross and taken to safety. We don't yet know the names of who will be in that group, though the Israeli government says it is contacting those families. And it goes without saying it has been an agonizing wait for their loved ones. If the agreement holds, 50 hostages could eventually be freed over the coming days in exchange for Israel's release of Palestinian prisoners. That is a fraction of the 240 hostages that may be captive in Gaza, according to the office of Israel's Prime Minister. And in the hours remaining before the pause in fighting is due, strikes on Gaza continue. And many residents inside Gaza say they worry what will happen after the four day pause ends. We have two reports tonight, beginning with RAF Sanchez on the ground in Tel Aviv.

Tonight, after a day of nerve wracking delays and intense fighting in Gaza, the long awaited hostage deal is set to move ahead.

We have just finished with all the communication with all parties.

Qatari negotiators say the four day ceasefire will start at 07:00, a.m. Local time tomorrow, midnight tonight, eastern and 9 hours later, the first group of hostages, 13 women and children, due to be released.

Those hostages who are from the same families, will be put together within the same patch.

President Biden saying he hopes American toddler Abigail Moore Idan, who turns four tomorrow, will be among those freedom. Israeli troops have been instructed not to tell her that her parents were murdered by Hamas.

The blood runs out of my body.

Iyal Moore's cousin, nine year old Ohad, is being held along with his mother and grandparents, their family jolted by the.

Delay, to know that it is postponed. And you don't know Friday, maybe tomorrow, maybe later. It is horrifying, really. Nightmare.

In return for the hostages, israel agreeing to release 150 Palestinian women and teenagers from prison and allow hundreds of aid trucks into Gaza. But Israel's military says it will keep fighting and may even intensify its strikes right up until the start of the ceasefire, and that its war against Hamas will continue after the truce. The pause will come too late for more than 5000 Palestinian children killed in Gaza, according to the Red Crescent. Among them, seven year old Noor, dug out from the wreckage of her bedroom. Her mother, Shama, returning to what's left of their home to look for winter clothes for her surviving children, but also hoping to find Noor's notebook. The girl was painting and her brother was sleeping. She says the notebook is nowhere to be found, a small reminder of her daughter's short life lost beneath the rubble.

And Raph is with me now. Raph, we mentioned earlier. This deal for hostages will still leave most of the 240 hostages inside Gaza. What becomes of them?

Well, Kate, the deal could be extended more days of ceasefire in return for more hostages. Israel's Prime Minister is also saying the Red Cross will now get access to those remaining hostages, but the Red Cross tells us they're not aware of any agreement.

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