This is cnn breaking news. Hello, welcome to our viewers joining us here in the United States and all around the world, as we continue our breaking News Coverage of israel at war. Im rosemary church. It is nine a. M. In israel, for the military now reports the death toll from the hamas Terror Attacks has jumped to more than 1200. Israel is stepping up its response, with punishing airstrikes on gaza. You are taking a look now at the aftermath of an explosion just moments ago. The idf says it hit more than 70 targets tuesday in one area, where a large number of attacks against israel are directed. Israel is getting ready for the next phase of retaliation. It has called up more than 300,000 reservists and evacuated civilians from near the gaza border. The Defense Minister says the offensive against hamas may have started from the air, but it will also come on the ground. Meanwhile, Israel Channel 12 has released new video showing the devastation at the site of a Music Festival, where at l
See a child in the hands of terrorists. The desperate race to save the abducted israel calling up 300,000 reservists is a Ground Offensive coming our Richard Engel near the gaza border taking cover under fire he joins us tonight. And President Biden huddling with advisers as the u. S. Moves a strike group closer to israel the growing questions, was there an Intelligence Failure before the attack and did iran play a role as security ramps up back home. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight live from israel. Good evening from israel, a nation beyond stunned tonight, vulnerable in ways it has never had to accept after a far weaker adversary, hamas, unleashed a ferocious attack over the weekend that seemed to come from everywhere, raining deadly rockets into residential streets and sending militant fighters across the gaza border, where they murdered and kidnapped israeli civilians. Israel says it has Retaken Control of areas hamas had seized tonight israeli
from there. good afternoon. i m martha maccallum here at fox news head quarters in new york. a stone s throw away from rockefeller center. a lot of news breaking at this hour. so two new released hostages. we ll have details in just a moment. we re waiting for more. this is the hour where we start to see the vehicles rolling and a whole new day for these individuals who are finally breaking out of a horrific captivity that began for them on the horrible day of october 7th. in new york, on the right-hand side of your screen, they are marking a day of solidarity with the palestinian people. there s been 700 protests since this all happened. we re going to show you what s going on live in the streets as a bigger crowd is gathering near the tree lighting. first, the idf is confirming that hamas has freed this mother and daughter today. a 73-year-old and 50-year-old. they re duel israeli russian citizens. that was a separate get dealt with by those two countries. so so far we have
nationals now in egypt after crossing true the rafah crossing earlier tonight. their release delayed this afternoon after hamas claimed israel was not letting enough aid into gaza. qatari and egyptian mediators god involve got involved and cleared that up. good evening. i m jon scott, and this is a special 2-hour edition of the fox report. jon: today s hostage release follows yesterday s first round which saw hamas free 13 israelis, 10 thai nationals and a filipino under two separate deals. lucas tomlinson is in nantucket, massachusetts, with the president, but let s begin with jeff paul. he is in southern israel right now. jeff. reporter: yeah, jon, a very tense day here in israel, but the second day of the hamas-israel temporary ceasefire appears to be holding. it did get off to a rocky start. severe delays in this second batch of hostages released, and that s in part because hamas accused israel of not holding up to their side of the agreement. they said that not
this is cnn breaking news. welcome to cnn news central. we re tracking the release of 24 hostages now safe in israel. right now 13 israelis, ten thai citizens and one filipino citizen are free after 48 days as hostages of hamas and other groups in gaza. this video, you see the bus that was carrying them entering israel. this video taken moments ago. israeli officials say the freed hostages are en route to receive further medical care and to be reunited with their families. the 39 palestinian prisoners being released by israel in exchange today as part of this agreement are also as we understand it on the move. wolf? and we now have the names and ages of the 13 israelis who were released today. this is from the israeli government. let me read the names of those released and their ages. hannah, 76. adina, 72. karen, 54. daniel, 45. doron, 34. emilia, 5. raz, h4. aviv and channa. we have coverage of the developments unfolding. let s begin with clarissa ward at the children