Good evening. I'm John Yang. In the Middle East tonight, efforts are underway to resolve a dispute between Israel and Hamas over a female hostage.

Hamas said they'd released yesterday, but didn't. That led Israel to prevent tens of thousands of Palestinians from returning to northern Gaza.

Now, according to reports, Hamas and Islamic jihad said the hostage could be released

this week. This, as President Trump suggested, that Egypt and Jordan take in more Palestinians

in order to clean out Gaza. That's an idea Jordan rejected, and Egypt is very unlikely to

accept. For now, the delicate ceasefire is allowing food and supplies to flow into Gaza.

But after 15 months of war, the need is great, and the situation remains dire for Gazans,

not the least of which, for children.

Rosalia Bolin of UNICEF spoke to Ali Rogan from inside Gaza, where her organization

has been helping families since the war began.

Rosalia, thank you so much for joining us. What is life like in Gaza these days?

The bombings, the explosions, violence has stops. But the deep deprivation that family face here does continue.

Children and their families are in need of about everything, really. The moment I step out of the compound, the UNICEF compound here in Almohancy,

I see makeshift tents as far as the eye stretches, tents made of cloth, plastic sheeting, improvised. The deprivation is not just limited to

the shelter situation. There's garbage littered all over Gaza. There's raw sewage floating through

areas where people have set up their tents. Diseases are rampant. I see plenty of children with skin rash,

children coughing.

Parents tell me they're kids of diarrhea.

So there's lots of suffering there too.

It's obviously a very dangerous environment

because of the rubble, all sorts of sharp objects,

because of the garbage and the open sewage. Kids are roaming around in that

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