Thanks. Bret colonel muster in the library with gregs sculptor very possible. I want one of those for my desk. Judge jeanine yes. Bret all right. We will see you. Thanks. Breaking tonight we are following two major stories at this hour. Another setback in the search for a knew new speaker of the house with the next vote now delayed until tomorrow. And the israeli war against hamas. President biden just left on a trip to the region. He will visit israeli leaders along with other middle eastern figures although fewer of them after some Late Afternoon high profile cancellations. Why . Because reports say hundreds of people have been killed in the bombing of a hospital inside gaza. Hamas blames israel. The israeli government, Israeli Defense forces say the explosion was caused by an errant Islamic Jihad rocket. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has canceled a scheduled meeting tomorrow with President Biden and other middle east leaders including the king of jordan in protest of the hospital
This is cnn Breaking News. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We start in the middle east with new stories of the horror, the terror that hamas inflicted on israel. Some of what i am about to describe to you will assuredly be disturbing. A spokesman for the israeli Prime Minister said today that hamas decapitated babies and toddlers. This was part of a brutal massacre that hamas carried out over the weekend. I should note that as of now, cnn has not been able to independently verify the claims. The Israeli Defense forces said hamas brutally butchered, in an isis way of action, women, children, toddlers, and the elderly. This comes as some israelis are also expressing a sense of frustration that their government is not doing enough. Here you can see individuals at hospitals yelling at israels environment minister, telling her that she is responsible, she should go home. Eventually, the crowd forced her to leave the building. As israel and the military continue to pound gaza with rocke
decision, how do you control so no one else that s not a human being can make those firing decisions. these are all things being developed as we speak. one consistent point, jessica, that age is already here. it is here now. and before we let you go, i also want to ask you about u.s. aid, both to israel and ukraine. but specifically the ukraine aid seems to be somewhat in limbo, both of them need to get over the finish line. what are you hearing on that front? yeah, the irony of this, and i hear this from lawmakers in both parties, is that large ma majorities in both parties, the senate and the house, want to pass both israel and ukraine aid. there is a small population, particularly among republicans in the house, who are standing in the way. the leadership won t bring this to the floor. so negotiations are under way to get over that. they ve been focused in the senate where you would have a combination of things. ukraine, israel, but also new measures for border securit
washington. israel now has the list of hostages who are supposed to be released tomorrow, and we are just hours away from day two of this expected four-day truce. i should note, we are getting new reporting in now. we are told there are several children who are on that list for tomorrow. of course the final group remains to be seen. that is something that we will learn as it happens in real time, as we did today, with this first group of hamas-held hostages being back on israeli soil. what we know is happening right now is they are getting medical treatment across multiple different locations here in tel aviv, where they have been reunited with their families. they are also including, at this children s hospital that is right outside of where i m standing right now, 24 hostages in total, which are 13 israelis, ten thai citizens, one filipino, all evacuated from gaza today and released by hamas after being held there for several weeks. there was not a dry eye in the room when
the israel-hamas cease-fire is in day two. are we about to see the second wave of hostage releases? 13 israeli hostages taken by hamas were set free along with 11 others. this group, but included no americans was a swap for 39 palestinian prisoners. alex hogan is in jerusalem with the latest. hi, david, we re hearing the initial reports that egypt is claiming that the israeli hostages are starting to be moved into the red cross trucks. that s what we saw yesterday when the israeli hostages were released and what we know about today, we re expecting to see 13 or potentially 14 israeli hostages released and these are some of the images of the hostages released about 24 hours ago. this photo here of those first hugs, initial embraces, as well as families getting onto the helicopters before they were taken to those bases to finally be able to join their family again. this, a mother and her two daughters finally released. this next photo is of little 9-year-old, he loves rubik