Whats happening between gaza and israel and what could happen here. So there is a lot of fear about that right now. Brings it home for so many. Wolf blitzer, thank you so much for being with us for this perspective for your reporting. We will see you tonight on the situation room. Thanks for joining us. We will see you back here tomorrow morning. Cnn news central continues our coverage. We begin with Breaking News for you this hour. The u. S. Is now in talks with israel and egypt to help Get Americans and other civilians out of gaza, but as thats happening there is fighting right now on two fronts. Israel is responding to air and ground attacks from its north and its south. Right now the idf says 300,000 israeli reservists have been called up to fight and are, quote, ready to execute the mission. This is as new rounds of israeli air strikes have been hitting critical hamas targets in gaza, but to the north israel is intensifying shelling inside lebanon, while at the same time preparing
the story starts right now. martha: thanks, john and sandra. good afternoon. i m martha maccallum. there s a lot at stake and going on behind chosed doors at this hour. we have high level meetings among members of the israeli government, possibly deciding if there is a deal that they can pass in their government to free some of the faces and the people behind them that you re seeing right now on your screen. about 50 hostages, women and children, in this first group is what is being considered right now. would be an exchange for a multiday pause in fighting and also for the release of about 150 palestinian prisoners to include women and some under 18 as well. so president biden made a comment on this not that long ago saying we re now very close. you can see these loved ones of hostages gathering in tel aviv. looking at their pictures, lighting candles, bring alma back says that poster. all of these families distraught for over a month now. the president was asked about t
i don t know. let me just say, we i don t want to lose the point. we have you are saying that you guys are responsible entirely for getting aid into gaza, which you admit is not enough. let me 150 trucks in the last three weeks. let me make clear. pledged $100 million for it, not nothing, but not 14.3 billion. what i meant by the comments, not the united states providing all of the food, water, medical assistance on those trucks. hold on. you just said that united states of america you said let me explain. united states of america there is no shortage of countries in the region and international humanitarian networks and organizations who want to provide humanitarian assistance in they have stepped up and the united states have as well. they have. but what the united states was able to do is secure agreement with the israel and the government of egypt. that has been the breakthrough we have been able to achieve. not the only question of the
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