the skis, cnn, breaking news hello, everyone. thank you so much for joining me this saturday. i m proud rica whitfield, and we re tracking two major breaking news stories this afternoon, next hour, president biden is set to attend a state dinner in france. i will bring that to you live as it happens, you the is there in paris with the first aid dr. jill biden, plus the french president and first lady. and dramatic new developments in the middle east for israeli hostages rescued from gaza the israeli military launching that daring rescue mission in broad daylight, the government media office in gaza says the operation left more than 200 people dead in central gaza with hundreds more injured. the mission ultimately freeing four hostages from the clutches of hamas, all of them were abducted from the nova music festival on october 7, all right, now, back in israel for the first time in eight months making emotional reunions with family members who never gave up hope. president
comes at a critical time. i m here at home. it s president biden has been preserving democracy, a key theme of his campaign. recently told donors at fundraisers that world leaders have expressed concern to president biden over his republican rival, former president donald trump, taking a second term. now president biden, while abroad will also meet with the french president. two are expected to discuss a range of issues including that proposal that was recently laid out by president biden to reach a ceasefire agreement in gaza. now the french president recently said that he supports that agreement and also noted that the war in gaza must end. this chu expected to be a topic of discussion between the two liters for scylla alvarez, cnn washington ukraine s president is continuing his asia-pacific trip with a visit to the philippines and a meeting with the country s president, volodymyr zelenskyy is making personal appeals to leaders in
course there s a lot lot of work ahead and the president made very clear that this is not easy. the hope however, is that all parties can reach an agreement, work through the details so that there may be a ceasefire in gaza for scylla alvarez, cnn, washington and joining us now is journalist elliott gohlke can live in tel aviv. so eliot, the reverberations from biden s announcement of this peace proposal still reverberating strongly in israel. what is the latest? kim the latest is that as we just heard, pressed the biden put out the statement on friday relating to israel s proposal for a ceasefire deal. and we had something not get out of the ordinary on saturday, prime minister benjamin netanyahu putting out a statement on the jewish sabbath on the saturday i suppose some people are seeing it as contradicting what biden was saying, but i think it s more to do with clarifying what he sees as being inside this ceasefire
world stage in its support for israel as the there continue to beat, continues to be devastation in gaza. so this will be an opportunity for him to shore up our allies and partners in backing this deal in hopes of trying to reach an agreement. although of course, as the president noted on friday, this is a difficult endeavor, one that officials are working on around the clock behind the scenes. but certainly in a decisive moment as the president said, and trying to reach this ceasefire agreement in gaza for scylla alvarez. thank you very much for all the reporting well, strong words from israel s defense minister today who says that any peace deal that allows hamas to rule over gaza will not be accepted. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu also pushed back on this he s fire plan unveiled by president biden on friday. journalists elliott got ken has more from tel aviv alice enough to president biden shed the israeli ceasefire proposal with the world on friday and followed up with
guilty on all 34 felony counts now only be given the opportunity as he should to appeal that decision, just like everyone else has that opportunity. that s how the american system of justice works and it s reckless. is dangerous, it s ever responsible for anyone to say this was rigged. just because they don t like the verdict sian white house correspondent for scylla alvarez is joining us now, priscilla how is the biden campaign viewing this moment while they re trying to strike a pretty delicate balance. and the way that they respond to this, they were very fiery and their statement shortly after the verdict was reached. but they re also trying to be quite somber. two and making the point to voters that this is going to be decided at the ballot box, not in the courtroom and trying to push toward that message. now, of course, that it also tried to fund raise on it, noting that this verdict would fire up former president donald trump s supporters and trying