Israel sets pauses in Gaza fighting amid international pressure

We Begin our report with a brief
reprieve in Gaza the White House says
Israel will pause its military
operations for four hours daily in
Northern Gaza this will allow civilians
to move South towards food and
humanitarian aid but Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says a
ceasefire won't happen until Hamas
releases all hostages CBS News Deborah
PO is in Jerusalem with the latest and
we want to warn you some of the images
you are about to see may be disturbing
tonight the first glimpse of hostages
since the ground Invasion
started in this video their captors
claim to be ready to release both
77-year-old Hannah katsir and
12-year-old yahil yaku kidnapped from
the near Oz Kuts they are just two of
the roughly 240 hostages still in
captivity we will not run the video or
what appears to be scripted recorded
messages praising their
captors on the ground in Gaza heavy
battles
raged this Israeli military footage
shows soldiers walking into a building
they say is a Hamas weapons
manufacturing
sight and from the air Israel's fiery
bombardment blazed across the night sky
striking right next to this Hospital
fleeing the embattled North a torrent of
people tens of thousands attempting the
perilous Journey along an evacuation
Corridor but Refuge is hard to find this
was supposed to be a safe
Zone our CBS News producer Maran Alou
raced to the scene of the

destruction arriving to find battered
bodies and blooded faces T of of people
were killed here and the people are
trying now by their pair hands to pull
out the budes and injures people but
survival means not only escaping death
but finding enough to eat and drink
bread no longer a necessity but a
dwindling
luxury and clean water so difficult to
find children have turned to the sea I
sugar to the salty water so I can drink
it said this little boy as they run back
into the sea childhood play Twisted into
a grim new
reality and Deborah joins us now from
Jerusalem Deborah what ultimately led to
Israel's decision to allow these daily
pauses in Northern
Gaza well John prime minister Benjamin
Netanyahu has been under intense
pressure now for quite a while to allow
some kind of humanitarian PS not least
of all from the United States now
remember at the beginning of this war
just after that brutal Hamas attack on
October 7th President Biden um came out
immediately in support of Israel he
visited the country he was seen with
Netanyahu saying that Israel had the
right to defend itself but as the war
enters its second month and that
civilian death toll just gets high and H
it's a staggering figure not least of
all the fact that nearly half of those
civilians are in fact children and the
images that we're seeing are horrific
the world is outraged and that is
putting mounting pressure on Netanyahu
to let some kind of ceasefire happen
we've seen Secretary of State Anthony
blinkon he's been in the region he's had
all his shuttle diplomacy visiting
various leaders in the Middle East he
was met with open hostility in Turkey he
there were protests in the West Bank
over the weekend when he visited there
um with people saying that blinken had
blood on his hands so they're weighing a
very different kind of challenge right
now on the one hand wanting to support
Israel but also having to deal with this
outrage over the civilian death trol
we've seen the United Nations join in
also saying enough is enough it's human
rights experts calling it um close to
calling it genocide saying that time is
running out to PR event one and I think
all these factors have come to Bear but
of course key to all of this is the
release of hostages as well and that has
been something that the United States
has also been working around saying that
if you allow a humanitarian pause it
could maybe allow hostages to be
released as well and so finally we've
seen Israel agree to forour humanitarian
pauses and more importantly They will

announce them ahead of time so that
hopefully people who want to flee the
bombardment in the north can actually
move when possibly it is a little safer
to do so and Deborah I'll combine two
questions the first is picking up on the
point you just made which is is this
enough time uh for people to get out of
Gaza and then secondarily is there any
update on the hostage
situation well if you consider John that
around 80,000 people fed that
bombardment in the north today that's a
lot of people on what is really just one
Escape Route One humanitarian Corridor
for hours doesn't really seem like a lot
of time most people are on foot some get
onto donkey carts we've seen people even
been wheed in wheelchairs and bear in
mind that there is a desperate shortage
of food and water so people are probably
quite weak as well as they search for
refuge and it's not always safer along
the Route we've seen that there's been
bombings and explosions
in the South so searching for Refuge is
quite elusive at the moment it's a 25m
walk from the north to the South and 4
hours when they're thousands and
thousands trying to flee doesn't feel
like a lot of time in terms of those
negotiations for the hostages well there
are talks under the way um in Qatar the
CIA director William Burns is there with
his mad counterpart and they're trying
to negotiate a release of about 15
hostages which would include women which
would include children which would
include foreigners and that would be in
exchange for a two or 3 Day humanitarian
pors which would also allow Aid into
Gaza Deborah p in Jerusalem thank you so
much
Deborah