politicsnation. tonight s lead, more hostages released. right now, right now, after nearly two months of hostilities, israel and hamas are in the second day of a cease-fire, and with that, a series of prisoner exchanges that has included women, children, and the elderly at this hour, after long and dramatic day that saw a few delays and a personal intervention by president jill joe biden, 13 additional israeli hostages have been released by hamas. eight children and five women, along with four foreign thailand nationals. israel, saying that the red cross has confirmed the release. they are on their way to the rafah crossing in gaza. meanwhile, 39 palestinian prisoners have been released by israel. have promised to continue tomorrow with the third round. but in the interim, the white house is trying to figure out how to push this truce forward into a lasting peace, and how to get as much humanitarian aid into gaza as possible. democratic senator, chemo smith, joins me
of dublin, and began attacking buildings, and clashing with police. these pictures appear to show a store being looted. at least one bus was set on fire and other vehicles were burned and public transport services were damaged. riot police were deployed. speaking at a press conferrence this morning, police chief drew harris highlighted the unexpected nature of these riots which he blamed on a complete lunatic faction driven by far right ideology. we could not have anticipated that in response to a terrible crime, the stabbing of school children and their teacher, that this would be the response. in effect, those filled with hate and the hate directed towards members of an garda siochana, that they would attempt to storm through our cordon and disrupt the crime scene and then engage in violence, looting and disorder, including very significant criminal damage. nobody could have anticipated that when these events started at 1:30, these awful events, and obviously we were conc
hello. and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. i m paula newton. you are watching cnn s continuing coverage of israel at war. it is 3:00 a.m. here in atlanta. 9:00 a.m. in gaza. israeli air strikes, again, lit up the skies overnight. israel s military says its forces have reached the outskirts of gaza city, for the second time in as many days. israel hit the refugee camp in northern gaza with the devastating air strike on wednesday. local hospital officials say 80 people were killed. here s what an idf spokesperson told cnn earlier. you should have evacuated. you and your family, you shouldn t have been there. that doesn t mean that we wanted to kill anybody. it means that when we warn palestinians two weeks ago to evacuate that specific area, because there was going to be major combat operations, they should have heeded the warning and should have left. the sad reality that is unfolding now is that the civilians in gaza is