different areas. right. this was the one area that people thought was going to be impossible and now it looks like aviation can also be fixed. a major moment, one of many you have had in your career. sir richard branson, congratulations, thank you for joining us. thank you. we re watching closely this morning as the final hours of the truce between israel and hamas are ticking away. negotiators in the white house racing to extend it. thanks for being with us today. we will follow all of that. cnn news central starts right now. it is 9:00 in the morning in new york, 4:00 p.m. in israel and gaza and it s a race against the clock on what could be the sixth and potentially final day of the extended truce between israel and hamas. more hostages are set to be released today by hamas with dozens of hostages still being held captive in gaza. negotiators in qatar are pushing to extend the pause in fighting so more people can be freed and more aid can get into gaza. sou
this just coming in to the situation room. israel says one of its soldiers was killed in janine in the west bank. that was tonight during the second straight day of military operations in that occupied west bank city a day after israeli incursions there killed at least 12 palestinians and wounded over 100 others. cnn s what cause gold is in jerusalem. what more are you learning? reporter: the israeli military says it s winding down this operation in jenin, that their forces are starting to leave the refuse caitlyn jenner, but it s not over yet. we are seeing military vehicles leaving, although we are also seeing reports of clashes continuing. we are now hearing in the last hour or so from the idf that one of its soldiers was killed by gunfire today in jenin.
be? what kind of help would they need to rebuild? what has this operation achieved? even if they ve managed to disrupt militant activity in jenin, there are other militants across the occupied west bank. this may have just only further spurred them on into further action. will we see more idf operations elsewhere in the west bank? will we see more attacks like what we saw in tel aviv today? major questions. what cause gold in jerusalem, thank you. joining me, the head of the palestinian mission to the united kingdom, ambassador hue sawn zamlot. prime minister benjamin netanyahu has said that this operation in jenin is not that he called a one-off. do you fear more israeli action in the west bank? i don t only fear, it s actually happening. this is not the first of such an aggression. nablis has seen the same fate, jewell. gaza, this is constant. netanyahu and his far-right
city of kharkiv say more than 40 people have been wounded in an attack there. meanwhile in russia, defense officials are claiming that they intercepted five ukrainian drones near the capital, moscow. cnn s ben wedeman has the details from ear ukraine. reporter: a tiny plume of smoke rises above moscow as blood seeps into ukrainian soil near an apartment block. two people were killed by russian shelling in the southern city of kherson tuesday. dozens of civilians also injured in an attack in the kharkiv region with medics wrapping bandages around the heads of those wounded. i was lying on the sofa, there was an explosion, the balcony was blown off, everything was blown apart. the relentless targeting of ukrainian civilian structures by russia comes as the kremlin says it intercepted five drones near civilian buildings in moscow.
medics. i mean, crimes against humanity right in front of the cnn and the rest of the world. it is extremely, extremely regrettable. we have been emphasizing the extraordinary level of that military operation by israel. in the wake of that, we ve heard hamas call on cells in the west bank to rise up. they today called the car ramming attack in tel aviv a heroic operation. are you expecting more palestinian violence in the wake of this operation in jenin? i really reject the term palestinian violence, alex. let s establish the following undisputed fact. the first, israel is the occupying part for 56 years now. and since 1948, a power that was established on the skulls of the palestinian nation, the ethnic cleansing of refugee camps such as in jenin. such israeli war crimes, like the settlement expansion,