A look inside Qatar's operation room mediating the truce between Israel and Hamas

The operations room in Doha monitors the truce and the release of hostages and has direct and real-time lines of communication with Israel, the Hamas political office in Doha and the International Committee of the Red Cross.

The first pause in the seven-week-old war is meant to be accompanied by the release of 50 women and children hostages captured by militants who raided Israel on Oct. 7, in exchange for 150 Palestinian detainees from Israeli jails.

Qatar, Egypt and the United States are pressing for the truce to be extended beyond Monday but it is not clear whether that will happen.