you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with breaking news. we just learned from the white house that one of the americans being held hftostage by hamas ia 3-year-old child, i repeat, a 3-year-old child. the child s parents were killed in the october 7th attacks and more on that in just a moment and meanwhile in gaza the health crisis is spiralling out of control at the hospital there and officials there say al shifa, gaza s biggest hospital is, and it has staff trapped inside and am wrablabses unable check the wounded and doctors say they expect to lose more infants each day as they face the risk of infections. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu claims the hospital is being used as a xhancommand cen for hamas which officials deny and they re working to create safe corridors and our dana bash asked netanyahu for a days long pause for humanitarian aid and this is how the prime minister responded. that s not a pause. if you re
newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. good evening. we start this hour with the breaking news. the white house says a toddler, a 3-year-old toddler is among one of the nine americans and 200 others currently being held hostage by hamas following that deadly attack more than a month ago in israel. let s go straight to cnn senior white house reporter kevin liptak in delaware. this is just a heartbreaking development. what more can you tell us? reporter: yeah. this news coming from the white house in a readout of a phone call that president biden held with the amir of qatar. qatar has been acting as a broker in these talks to get these hostages released. the president conveyed his unequivocal condemnation of the holding of hostages in gaza, including this 3-year-old american toddler, whose parents were killed in the hamas attacks in israel on october 7th. so we don t know many details about this child, but he is one of potentially as many as 10 americans who are being held
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