Everyone needs to come home' - Israeli families react to hostages deal

Reports back up 10am Thursday pause in fighting Reports in the Middle East also suggest the pause in fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas will come into effect from 10am local time tomorrow (that's 08:00 GMT).

The deputy head of Hamas's political bureau, Moussa Abu Marzouk, told pan-Arab TV news channel al-Jazeera that was when they expected the pause to begin ahead of the first hostages being released.

An Egyptian security source told Reuters that mediators wanted the truce to start at 10am on Thursday, and Hamas wanted "a few hours" after it was under way to begin freeing hostages.

A spokesperson for Israel’s Defence Ministry told Reuters the truce would likely come into effect "some time tomorrow". The news agency also quoted Foreign Minister Eli Cohen as saying that he expected Israel to receive the first hostages on Thursday - though he declined to confirm the timing.

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We're turning our attention briefly now to Rome, where the relatives of hostages have held a news conference after meeting Pope Francis this morning.

The sister of 19-year-old Karina Ariev, Alexandra, was among those who spoke. Karina was serving at an Israeli army base near Gaza when she was kidnapped.

Alexandra says that "every minute, every hour, is critical" for the hostages, adding: "Every one of them needs to come home. Not in coffins. They should come home to tell their stories, to tell the stories of the the people who were murdered - so they can be our future."

Next comes the father of Nimrod Cohen, 19. He says of Hamas's deadly incursion into Israel on 7 October: "Our lives from that day changed. We don't have day and night - we just focus on his return and others to Israel."

Rachel, the mother of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, from California, says her son hid in a roadside bomb shelter near the Supernova music festival - along with his friends and other attendees - which came under attack from Hamas militants.

"Most were dead, but some of the lucky ones were trapped under the dead bodies and told us what happened", including that Hersh's left arm had been blown off from the elbow down, Rachel says.

"That was 47 days ago that my heart was buried in Gaza," she adds.

Last came a resident from Kibbutz Be'eri, whose sister Raaya Rotem, 45, and niece, Hila Rotem Shoshani, 13, were taken into Gaza.

He last heard from Raaya at 12:05 on 7 October, adding that he has had no information since.