Israeli Government Finalizes Ceasefire Deal, First Hostages To Be Released Starting Sunday

We are finally in our home. There is no home left, just rubble, but it's our home,

said Rana Mohsen, 43

We're trying to reach a million people within the shortest possible time,

said its deputy executive director, Carl Skau

All the prisoners being released today feel like family to us. They are part of us, even if they're not blood relatives,

Amanda Abu Sharkh, 23, told AFP

Mirjana Spoljaric EggeriCRC President

More families are waiting anxiously for their loved ones to come home,

said International Committee of the Red Cross president Mirjana Spoljaric, calling on all sides to "adhere to their commitments to ensure the next operations can take place safely".

António Guterresgeneral

It is imperative that this ceasefire removes the significant security and political obstacles to delivering aid,

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said

The vast majority of shelters are overcrowded and many are simply living out in the open or in makeshift structures,

said Juliette Touma, communications director for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa

Hostages starting to come out today! Three wonderful young women will be first,

he wrote

By God, the feelings are mixed,

said Helen Jabri, 41, in a phone interview from a shelter in Khan Younis in southern Gaza

It scares me to hope,

Yarden's cousin Eylon Keshet said, on Saturday night, on what would be Kfir's second birthday

I just want to go to the city and smell its air,

she said

Our hearts are aching for the people we have lost,

she said

We are getting closer to the day when we might see my grandfather,

he said

It is only because these were my people I was able to keep going,

he said

This is the deal for hope, this is the deal for the future, this is a deal for all of us collectively,

he said

I'm not letting myself truly imagine it, because when I start to imagine it I feel like my stomach turning,

he said

As coordinated by the parties to the agreement and the mediators, the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Sunday,

Qatar's foreign ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari said

After 471 days Emily is finally home, ... for too many other families the impossible wait continues."

said her mother Mandy Damari,

Without a fundamental settlement of the two sides' historical disputes and the implementation of the two-state solution, any cease-fire could be a pause in the next conflict,

Ma said

Some of them will arrive on gurneys and wheelchairs. Others will arrive in coffins. Some will arrive wounded and injured, in dire emotional condition that will prevent some of the footage from being broadcast,

she wrote

In Emily's own words, she is the happiest girl in the world; she has her life back,

Damari's mother Mandy said on Monday,