Welcome to the NewsHour. After 15 months of war, the guns over Gaza are scheduled to go silent in just over 24 hours.

That's after the Israeli government approved the ceasefire deal a short time ago.

According to that deal, the war will stop for at least six weeks, and Israeli hostages as well as Palestinian detainees will be released.

In a moment, Nick Schifrin

speaks with the UN coordinator for humanitarian relief who's just been appointed envoy for Middle East

peace. But he starts with this report on the tense hours before the fighting is expected to stop.

Tonight in Gaza, one of Israel's final strikes, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

and the Israeli cabinet approved the ceasefire to begin on Sunday, culture minister Mickey Zohar.

We hope that in the future we will be able to finish the job in Gaza. This is something

that we want to do, but now we want to bring our people back home.

Gossans who today are still grieving their dead.

Still desperate for food, know the war could resume after the six-week ceasefire.

But there is cautious hope these scenes.

This deprivation will soon be passed.

When they said there would be a truce, we were so happy we couldn't sleep all night and all day.

We're exhausted from our exhaustion.

Our youth is gone.

Our lives are gone.

Our world is gone. You can't take out 2, 10, 12, 1,500 people.

Last night on MSNBC, President Biden said he pushed Netanyahu to be restrained in Gaza.

I said, you can't be carpet bomb in these communities. And he said to me, well, you did it. You carper bomb, not his exact words,

but you carpal bomb Berlin, you dropped a nuclear weapon. You killed thousands of innocent people

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