you re watching cnn news central. i m boris sanchez with brianna keilar in washington and wolf blitzer is live in tel aviv. in a few minutes prime minister netanyahu will speak to reporters as israel enters what they re describing as the second stage of their war on hamas. israeli defense forces as you can see on your screen intensifying air strikes and expanding operations on the ground in gaza where the idf says dozens of militants were killed over the weekend. today the terror group hamas released a short video that shows three women, it s believed, taken hostage on october 7th when hamas murdered more than 1,400 people. cnn is not showing this footage, but in it one of the captives who obviously may have been under duress speaks to netanyahu, pleading for freedom. wolf? in gaza civil order is beginning to collapse right now in the southern and central region according to u.n. officials. they say and i m quoting now thousands of people broke into warehouses and distr
it s really hard, like the 7th of october is still going on for us. it s it had been 24 days, but it s one long day for us all. john: breaking moments ago as harris just mentioned, israeli soldier released from hamas captivity after she was kidnapped in the initial raid of october 7th. according to the idf, released during a ground operation and appears to be in good condition. israeli media saying this photo was taken with her family after the joyous release. sandra: a big development. we are waiting a pair of briefings here at home and overseas. state department expected to provide an update, and tel aviv, benjamin netanyahu will update reporters as israel forces move deeper into gaza at this hour. it s all developing. welcome, hello, everybody. i m sandra smith. i m john roberts in washington. good to be with you. this is america reports . sandra: pentagon officials telling fox they have been attacked 23 times, and they say the strikes have iran fingerprints o
around the city. qantas says that their flights are arriving on time but they are avoiding this place right now. a remainder to our viewers, this scene right now with the tactical police, the men with the guns, these are not live images. these are recorded images but so essentially this standoff continues and is happening directly across from a television station, our affiliate, channel 7 australia. their building, in fact, has been evacuated. they are reporting from their melbourne studios. again, these pictures are not live. they were taken moments ago. here s what we know what happened. it all started around 9:44 a.m. local time there in sydney. this is according to 7 network australia. it was a woman who saw somebody looking very suspicious, a man with apparently a blue sports bag. she believed that she had some kind of weapon inside that bag