John: Good evening, I'm John Yang.

President trump leaves Washington and the government shutdown behind to highlight a diplomatic deal-making accomplishment in the middle East, the anticipated release of the Israeli hostages held in gaza.

This afternoon, he left the white house headed to Israel.

>> This is the first time -- everyone is amazed in thrilled and it is an honor to be involved.

We are going to have an amazing time.

It'll be something that's never happened before.

John: Tomorrow, Mr.

Trump is to meet with hostage families and address the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem.

Then he'll fly to the Egyptian red sea resort city of sharm el-sheikh for a summit of Arab leaders who backed the agreement.

Side gaza, the Israeli military pulled back to a new defensive line as part of the ceasefire.

And desperate Palestinians swarmed aid trucks, not even waiting for them to stop before clamoring for supplies.

The next steps are unclear, as many details about the future of gaza have yet to be worked out.

Anshel Pfeffer is the Israel correspondent for the economist, who is in Jerusalem.

The release of the hostages is going to close a chapter, a two-year chapter that's been painful on both sides, in different ways.

What is the mood in Israel?

Is there any way to tell what gazans are feeling?

Anshel: There is concern that something could go wrong at the last moment and the vigils I went to were all hopeful this would be the last time we were standing here.

These are people with no personal relationship or acquaintance with the hostages.

Really so much representation.

I was in gaza a week and a half ago.

It is very clear that the situation there is the beginning of a very long road of reconstruction.

Entire neighborhoods have been flattened in this war, so many of those, hundreds of thousands are streaming back to gaza city.

They're going to discover their homes are not standing and they will have to camp out on the rubble where the home once stood.

It is going to be a very long process which is exacerbated by hamas fighters coming out from hiding places and trying to reassert themselves.

There seems to be a power vacuum in parts of gaza.

Ome of the clans wanted to take control in their areas.

Hopefully what will be on the agenda tomorrow in the conference in Egypt which Donald Trump is going to attend will be about how to try and maintain control of those areas in gaza.

John: Does this move us any closer to what gaza will look like after the war?

Will hamas lay down their arms, what will their arms, what will the role be?

Anshel: What we have seen in this unique type of diplomacy trump and his people have been executing the last few days, they are taking it stage by stage.

Last Wednesday night, they reach an agreement on the hostage release and the cease-fire and the Israeli withdrawal.

That is now being implemented over the next 24 hours.

The next stage which is the day after in gaza, which government will take care of civilians -- independent government without hamas involvement.

It is as of yet unnamed peacekeeping force.

The United States made it clear they will be very much involved but will not have any boots on the ground, so who's boots will be on the ground is important because the next most important stage is they disarmament -- disarmament of hamas.

They have not officially agreed to that yet.

We will wait and see which weapons they will hand over and to whom.

Will they hand it over to the Palestinian authority which also has a role which has yet to be clarified in all of this.

Some of these things may be fleshed out or need to be fleshed out but that is just the next stage, weeks and months and on the Israeli side, Israel has set some conditions and these are recognized in the trump plan.

Getting the idea to leave that area will also involve various milestones of stabilizing gaza and disarming hamas.

These are all issues that have yet to be dealt with any kind of detail or agreement achieved, regarding these issues.

John: Thank you very much.