day of the truce? as we enter the final hours of the six-day truce agreement between israel and hamas, there is new hope that new optimism is coming just this morning from a qatari official. the spokesman for the foreign ministry which has been key in brokering these deals between israel and hamas tells cnn that they are hopeful that they could announce another extension in just the next couple of hours. if not, israel has made clear that they will resume military operations against hamas in gaza. we are expecting another group of hostages to be released today even before this any talk of an extension. their families have been notified and with that, we have learned that the bevis family is not among the hostages and kfir is not among the hostages. they do not know where the bibas family. the israeli hostages have been freed since friday. with ten new releases as you just heard late last night, but still many, many more are being held in gaza. israel believes there is 161 h
kidnapped by hamas was just released. the lead starts right now. after more than 50 days held captive by hamas, 11 more hostages are freed tonight after israel and hamas agree to pause fighting for a few more days, leading to more hostage releases to come. and the only israeli man released by hamas so far has a dual russian/israeli citizenship. why him, and how did he spend four days on the run? was his release a hamas favor to vladimir putin. plus, the palestinian prisoners who israel is letting go, and the two-tiered justice system for many of them that led to so many of them being held without trial in the first place. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. also this hour we re going to get to the major arrest of the man police say shot three college students in vermont. the suspect was in court today. the college students were speaking english and arabic at the time of saturday s shooting wearing the traditional palestinian keffiyeh scarves. a spokesman for the
announcer: this is cnn breaking news. thank you so much for joining us. i m boris sanchez alongside jim sciutto in washington. we have wolf blitzer live for us in tel aviv, israel, where we are monitoring remarkable moments in the middle east. it s freedom after 48 hellish days in the hands of hamas and other groups in gaza. today the first 24 hostages were taken into egypt, and you can see them in this footage just moments after their release at the rafa border crossing. this is just the start of their journey back after they were ripped from their homes on october 7th. the israeli defense forces shared this video of the moment a bus carrying the hostages entered israel. most of the people released today are women and children. we are told they include 13 israelis. you see their pictures here. as well as ten thai citizens and a filipino citizen who were also taken on october 7th. over next three days we do expect to see at least 37 more hostages released. that was a fi
When asked if he feels concerned that operations of this kind might harm the chances of reaching a deal, hostage Omer Wenkert's father Shai Wenkert replied that he sees it as additional leverage.
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