Its a pitch. Get way more into what youre into when you stream on the xfinity 10g network. Hello and welcome to our viewers here in the United States and All Around The World im john vause at the cnn center in atlanta with our ongoing coverage of israels war with hamas. We begin in gaza where two more women being held hostage have now been released, but the militant group hamas is Still Holding more than 200 civilians, all of them kidnapped 16 days ago during that deadly hamas attack on israel. The hostages have been identified as israeli as nurit cooper and sharone lifschitz. They were both released at the Rafah Crossing with egypt, where officials took him away by ambulance to be reunited by family at a Medical Center later in israel. Qatar and egypt to help negotiate their freedom. Hamas Officials Say the women were released for humanitarian and health reasons. It comes just two days after hamas agreed to american women as well. Now the precise number of citizens held by hamas in ga
Hello, im Brianna Keilar In Washington. Jake tapper is in tel aviv, and israel is widening its offensive against hamas. Launching a series of overnight strikes at the gaza strip. Taking aim at hezbollah in lebanon. In gaza alone, the idf hit 320 Terror Targets overnight including tunnels and dozens of hamas command centers. A spokesperson said hundreds were killed. A warning now that the video youre about to see is graphic. You see there, one of the smallest victims, a toddler, pulled from the rubble in rafah, in southern gaza. We do not know the condition of that little boy. Also sources telling cnn the Biden Administration has Presseds Ream to delay its imminent Ground Invasion of gaza to allow for the release of more hostages and to get more aid into gaza. Jake. Just a trickle of these critical supplies have come through. 30 some trucks so far. Cnn has calculated that gaza is 7200 truckloads short of supplies. Receiving half of the 1 of the aid it normally received before the hamas
Health ministry, 436 people were killed in the strikes overnight including nearly 200 children. Anderson. This all comes as were learning the u. S. Is pushing israel to delay its Ground Invasion of gaza in hopes of getting hostages out and letting humanitarian aid into the south. Although a israeli official has denied this. Carrying supplies into gaza, Relief Groups are warning much more is needed as the crisis deepens for many palestinians running out of food and water. Cnns chief International Correspondent Alex Marquardt is live in washington. Cnns Jeremy Diamond is in ashkelon, israel, lolgalong the border. Jeremy, what are you hearing, seeing, about possible incursion on the ground in gaza . Reporter well, anderson, it really is about the combination between what were seeing on the ground what were hearing from officials and also, frankly, hearing this evening, as we listen to the gaza strip behind us, we have been hearing the steady thud of israeli artillery and air strikes all t