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Coming to you live from London, I'm James Kamara Samy After 15 months of fighting and the deaths of tens of thousands of people, three hours may not seem like much, but this morning's delay to the cease fire in Gaza spoke volumes about the levels of distrust between Israel and Hamas.
That last minute hitch would have tied another knot in the stomach of hostage families and sown more doubts in the minds of civilians in Gaza hoping for some kind of return to a normal life.
While the ceasefire did finally come into effect nearly four hours ago, after Hamas released the names of the first three hostages they'll release, we don't know exactly when they or the larger number of Palestinian prisoners being freed by Israel will appear, but for the moment it seems the skies over Gaza are quiet and there is plenty of movement on the ground.
We've seen images of displaced Gazans heading back to their homes, and the UN says the first aid trucks have arrived in the territory.
In today's program, we'll hear from the hospitals waiting to receive those hostages, from Gaza itself and from the UN's Senior Humanitarian Coordinator in the region.
First, though, here's how the events unfolded in the hours leading up to the truce.
At 7:30am local time, an hour before the ceasefire had been due to come into effect, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed his army not to halt its operations in Gaza because Hamas had not provided the names of those first three hostages to be released.
Hamas blamed that on undisclosed technical reasons.
And so the bombing continued in Gaza.
But then just after 10am Israeli media reported that Hamas had supplied the hostage names, and minutes later, Israel's cabinet minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, resigned from the government together with other ministers from his far right Jewish strength party.
Then, at around 10:30, Hamas published the names of the three women they say will be Released Romy Gonin, Doron Steinbrecker and Emily Damari, a dual UK Israeli national.
Then, at 11, 1115, 470 days and nearly five hours since the killings and abductions that led to Israel's military response, the truce did come into force.
Well, Qatar has been the main mediator between the two sides.
And soon after the ceasefire began, the Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Majed Al Ansari spoke to the BBC.