happening now, breaking news. 12 more hostages are now back here in israel and heading to israeli hospitals after spending 53 days in captivity. this is the first group released since the temporary pause was extended for two additional days. also tonight, a cnn exclusive. a chilling new account from an israeli father describing how his 9-year-old daughter survived for weeks as a hostage. the joy of being reunited after originally believing she didn t survive the october 7th terror attacks. plus another cnn exclusive. stunning new revelations from former republican congresswoman liz this is cnn breaking news. our cnn team is here live in the region covering all the latest developments. let s go straight to cnn s jeremy diamond who s in eshkelon, israel. walk us through the release of these hostages today. reporter: earlier tonight we witnessed 12 newly freed hostages, 10 israeli citizens, 2 thai nationals, being helicoptered out of the kerem shalom crossing towards h
will be here to honor his wife. poppy, phil. certainly quite a day ahead. and we will have eva, thank you very much, full live coverage of that, it begins at noon eastern right here on cnn. thank you so much for starting your day with us. we ll see you back here tomorrow. cnn news central is now. we are standing by this morning for ten more hostages to be released by hamas. now, the fifth day of the fragile truce between israel and hamas. one day more than the original agreement to get hostages out, and only one day now and only one day more before now fighting could resume. and with these two additional days more hostages will be released and more aid will get into gaza. 51 israeli citizens and 18 foreign nationals have been released by hamas since the pause began friday. just yesterday, among the hostages released was a mother and her 3-year-old twin daughters. you see pictures of them there. they re coming home without their father. he is still being held captive by
a newark tax on u.s. forces in the middle east 2 drones targeting al asad air base where u.s. troopers stationed no casualties. the group claiming responsibility for this latest incident is alined with iran. and israeli sailor strike leveled a populates camp in the northern gaza strip today the camp taken over by hamas and strike kill aid senior commander of the terrorist organization. palestinian officials claim 25 were kill in the the bailiff as limp get to alec hog an live in tel aviv. alex? hi. trace the israeli defense 2 solders were killed 2 severely wounded and the idf managed intercept and attack from the red sea hours earlier before that. we heard the country air defense system the rareo air defense stopped a missile from that same area. the idf took out 300 hamas targets in the left day. medical presses forward in northern gaza reported death toll is soaring from the israeli blast. the idf tried to target a central hamas strong hold and managed take out a commande
i m jonathan hunt, live in jerusalem. qatar has reportedly mediated an agreement between egypt, israel and the u.s. to allow foreign passport holders and some critically injured civilians out of gaza. this is significant since it would presumably allow some who ve been stuck inside gaza for weeks to leave. and it s been a deadly week for israeli troops as they battle hamas fighters inside gaza. the idf now says an additional nine soldiers have died. they were hit by an anti-tank missile while operating in the northern part of the strip. that s in addition to the deaths of two other soldiers reported earlier on tuesday. meantime, a barrage of israeli airstrikes targets in jabalia, just north of gaza city. israel claims the strikes destroyed a hamas command center set up civilian homes, as well as part of a network of underground tunnels. the idf says the strikes killed ibrahim bari, who commanded some of the attacks in israel on october 7th. it s not clear how many civilians w
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