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Hello and welcome to News Hour, live from the BBC World Service in London.

I'm Rebecca Kesbby.

Phase one of President Trump's peace plan for Gaza is underway following the Israeli government approving the proposal

and the Israeli military withdrawing to the agreed areas. The clock is now ticking for Hamas

to release all the remaining hostages, both dead and alive. Under the agreement they have until

noon local time on Monday. Already thousands of Palestinians are on the move. Again,

many heading back north where most of their houses and businesses are now not much more than dust.

But this time, as they make that long trek, there is a ceasefire that they hope will hold

and a promise of an imminent surge in aid arriving soon.

In Israel, there's growing hope and some anticipation that finally the last hostages will be released.

Twenty of them are thought to still be alive.

News hours Tim Franks arrived in Jerusalem earlier today at the end of a historic week with that grim two-year

anniversary at the start and now a ceasefire. There must be mixed emotions there.

I think mixed emotions is bang on the money, Rebecca, because I think although, you know,

we all saw and heard the initial reaction in some places like

Hostages Square when the news of this deal came through of people dancing and chanting and

screaming and whooping, I think as far as the country is concerned, if we can generalize about

these things, I think, you know, the last two years for Israel,

and this is, of course, not to talk about, you know,

the ordeal that the Palestinians have been going through,

but for Israel there has been a sense of a very dark cloud

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