good afternoon, everybody. i m martha maccallum. we re getting new indications of movement of 11 hostages. this is a huge moment for these people and their families. they re in the hands of the red cross, a huge relief for these people who have been held for more than 50 days. they re finally headed guard freedom. we understand no americans are included in this group. we have followed very closely the one child, abigail adan, that was released. she s an american citizen. she was released during this pause period that we ve been in for several days now. this child went through absolute hell. her smile is testimony to the resilience of children. but somewhere in her conscious is a horrific experience she watched. the terrorists killed her parents in front of her. her father had used himself as a shield to protect his little girl. he was killed. she then had to crawl out, according to this story that has been told, from under his body. she then ran to a neighbor s and then hamas
with fighters from hamas. the israeli military says its troops have now completely encircled gaza city, in the north of the territory, almost four weeks since the start of this war. the us secretary of state, antony blinken, is back in tel aviv, as washington increases the pressure for a humanitarian pause. antony blinken talked about isreal s right to defend itself, but also the need for concrete steps to minimise harm to civilians in gaza. meanwhile, the leader of hezbollah like hamas, a proscribed terror organisation has been speaking in lebanon. hassan nasrallah praised the hamas attacks and said, the possibility of total war is realistic . one other important line to update you on more foreign nationals have been getting out of gaza at the rafah crossing point into egypt. 124 british nationals are on the list of people who are being allowed to leave. the hamas run health ministry in gaza says more than 9,000 people have been killed in the strip since october the
infrastructure in a neighborhood in northwest rafah. it s a stunning incident for israel and one of the deadliest days for the idf since teuber seventh, the short time ago, people gathered for a moment of silence to pay their respects for the eighth lives lost. cnn s oren liebermann is joining us now, live from a haifa israel or and what are you learning fredricka as you point out, this is one of the single deadliest incidents we ve seen against israeli soldiers in gaza since the beginning of the war, a total of eight soldiers were killed. one of those has been identified to this point, a captain who was with those eight soldiers who are part of a combat engineering brigade, the idf says this is still under investigation, but according to what they know, now, there was an explosion from what they call a sidebar them near their armored personnel carriers. so an armored vehicle. now they don t explain what a sidebar is, whether it was something affixed to the vehicle itself o
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The European Union. Our Political Correspondent ben wright reports. May day means a bite and barrows festival in this lancashire village. And people seem keen to peddle their politics. But the election was not the main concern here this morning. A different sort of contest was. Ready to shoot. The tories are targeting many marginal seats like this in lancashire. And their message that wrecks that negotiations are going to be tough and that theresa may is best placed to handle them sits at the heart of their election campaign. But this tough . A german newspaper has published an account by unnamed eu officials of a dinner held last week at number ten between theresa may and the eu negotiating team. It describes deep disagreements between the two sites. According to the paper, the Prime Minister and the Eu Commission president , Jean Claude Juncker, seen here before the dinner, clashed over the exit bill britain must pay, the structure of the talks, and the prospects of a quick trade dea