thank you for being back with us for our second hour of chris jansing reports. we start with breaking news. a moment of much needed hope right now for the families of the hundreds of hostages being held captive by hamas. israel says it has freed a female soldier during a ground operation. the idf says it s doing everything it can to release the others. but for those living in gaza, the military is doubling down on its calls for the civilians in the north to move south saying that warning is now, quote, urgent. where is safe to go? one 14-year-old pulled from the rubble told nbc news she had fled south to they are aunt s house and that the home was bombed while they were baking bread. she heartbreakingly told our nbc news crew, quote, i wish we can live safely like all children of the world. israel continues to pound gaza as tensions are mounting on the ground. with the united nations agency there saying thousands of palestinians, quote, broke into several u.n. rwa warehouse
hello, i m matthew amroliwala, welcome to verified live, 36 straight to breaks new us from israel, the defence forces there have said an israeli soldier has been released from gaza, they said private 0ri megidish was released during id f ground operations, she was kidnapped by hamas on october 7th. she has had apparently medical checks, and is said to be doing well, and has met herfamily. we are expecting to hear from well, and has met herfamily. we are expecting to hearfrom israel s prime minister, binyamin netanyahu shortly, we will go to him just as soon as he starts talking, the family of the three hostages who appeared in that video released earlier by hamas are expected to be speaking publicly to, that has been delayed. we expected to start in the next couple of minutes but that has been pushed back but as soon as that started we will carry that here on bbc news. now the bbc does not normally broadcast hostage videos but through is a still from today s video that has be
headquarters in new york city. we re awaiting for the update on the war effort from israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu while an extraordinary and rare piece of good news for israel and its military just came to us. the idf now saying they managed to rescue a female israeli soldier who had been held hostage by hamas for more than three weeks. what it tells us about the ground operations and the new phase of the war in gaza coming up. the white house jumping into action after a rise in anti-semitism on u.s. campuses. donald trump once again pushing the envelope of a gag order, put back in place just yesterday to keep him from going after people involved in his d.c. case. this morning he called the judge who ordered it, quote, a trump hater who is incapable of giving him a fair trial. so now what? we start in israel where a rapidly escalating crisis is threatening prime minister benjamin netanyahu s leadership at a critical time, just as israel s war effort shifts into
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