Hello and welcome to cnn newsroom, im john vause at the cnn center in atlanta with our ongoing coverage of israels war with hamas. Two more women being held by hamas and gaza have been released, but Militant Group is Still Holding more than 200 hostages, all of whom kidnapped 16 days ago during that that layer must act on israel. The two women or released to the red cross at the Rafah Crossing on the border with egypt, both are israelis. Have now been reunited with families at a Medical Center in israel. Not long after, the woman or, released the daughter and grandson have spoke to cnn. It is impossible to describe. My mom i think she has a smile. I dont know. I am so glad, my heart is with this is a small ray of light in a big story that is my father is there. There are so many other people. We are waiting for good news about everyone. I have seen pictures of her in a hospital bed, she is waving her hand i know that she is well enough to speak. And she is well enough to walk. I think she walked across the border. So my mom story is an amazing story, my heart is with my father and the other 280 people also that are still held hostage. This is a great sign that other things can happen. I was thinking that i would never see her again and see her here, it is just amazing. She is a hero. She has so much courage. She is so strong. She is sick and she suffered, tunnels and so many things. She is, i dont know. I dont know where this woman has this power from. Seeing her, which i know she is so strong, i can imagine another one and im telling you, we have to be fast. Seeing my grandmother like that, and from one side so happy, but from the other side i see her eyes what she has been through, and i know that the timeline, the clock is ticking. Qatar and egypt helped negotiate the release, which hamas officials said was humanitarian, and health reasons. It comes just days after hamas had agreed to american women. Was this number of years to dozens being held by hamas in gaza remains unclear. After the weekend, ten americans are now unaccounted for. The Biden Administration is urging israel to delay any Ground Offensive or hostage negotiations continue with a mass. The white house is insisting, it has no interest in dictating israels military operations. These really Defense Forces need to decide for themselves how they will conduct operations, we are not in the business of Dictating Terms for them, certainly not and getting the business here in the white house of previewing any future operations one way or the other. Israels Defense Minister is giving every indication a Ground Nickerson could have been at any moment, seeing the military has been multilateral operation against boston the air ground and sea. For more than two, weeks troops have been amassing on the border with gaza and cnns Nick Robertson reports more than 300,000 soldiers are now waiting for the order to begin the next phase of the soil, and the order could come at any moment. Just outside gaza, Farmers Fields Turn with a controlled fury of a nation ready for an incursion to strike hamas. Battle ready troops with everything they need, except an order to attack. In part, sources tell cnn, because america wants more hostages released first. We want to get the rest of them out, and, that you have to have the ability to continue to negotiate, and to try to work towards that outcome. Israeli officials deny the white house is leaning on them to ease off on attacks. And allow in humanitarian aid. We believe the best way to get the hostages out is to keep the pressure on. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahus calculus of when to stand in Ground Troops has never been so fraught. He is vulnerable to white house pressure, because israel needs u. S. Weapons and he is under increasing international pressure, over civilian losses in gaza, so much, so it seems to be running down the clock on his plans to smash hamas for its brutal october 7th attacks. I think both in washington, and in jerusalem, they understand that the legitimacy shun window is closing quickly he is also under pressure homeless well, military and others hawkish and eager to begin a decisive ground attack. We are finishing preparing the ground for us, because we have changed plans. We are going to heavy maneuver. Less than a week ago, these fields were teeming with tanks, troops making lastminute repairs, today there are just tracks in the sand. There is a soldiers jacket, here bread, and a back on the table. The question is, where have all the tanks gone . Forward for an incursion . Or back to base for a pause . Close to the front line and gaza these, days more question than answers. International diplomacy it seems, pushing Military Plans off track. The pressure from washington is real. It is real, and it is strong, and the Prime Minister says many times to his ministers listen, we are getting from the United States more than the idf however, Refuting Reports in israeli media of a growing rift between netanyahu, and his military commanders. Nic robertson, cnn, israel. Joining, us Elliott Gotkine is with us now live from london for an update on all of this. Elliott, from a Military Point of, you there is a limit on how long 300,000 troops can remain bodily for major offensive. As alluded to in his report some not the only consideration right now from the Israeli Government . It is, not john. I suppose there are a multitude of reasons as to why is was knock on him, yet and as they were saying, it has been 17 days since the mass went on that murderous rampage on october the 7th. And ever since then, is what we have been expecting, these really military to go. In may has gone in the past for far less. Yet it has not happened yet. We know negotiations to get more hostages released is potentially one reason, israel is also gathering intelligence from hamas militants that it has taken prisoner who entered israel before as well. At the same time, it is giving more time for the air campaign to target inside of the gaza strip, and we are talking yesterday about it being the heaviest bombardment since october the 7th, with more than 370 targets hit, well overnight we have heard from the idf, they say more than 400 targets, things that commandoes, Underground Tunnels Rocket and also Rocket Launches and who like as well. So israel trying to hit more targets to make it as easy as possible for ground ships are going. You know they are carrying a, exercises we know the Chief Of The General Staff has told troops they are going in. We know that the Defense Minister has talked about this is going to be an air, land, and see operation. Yeah it has not happened just yet. I suppose the other big consideration of course, when israel does go, in that hezbollah on the northern border, and already been back and forth with antitank missiles being fired by hezbollah towards, israel is retaliating that has been for the last week or two. Israel doesnt want a Northern Front opened. I had to, this new kind of caution the Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu tends to exercise with major decisions, and all adds up to a delay. Of course at the same time, we had that humanitarian crisis in the gaza strip, we heard from a british Palestinian Surge and saying, the hospital hes working and will turn into a mass grave if electricity runs out. Theyre even had hummus, which of course is launching that Terrorist Attack on october the 7th, runs the gaza strip, it is saying that a power outage in the indonesian hospital is a crime against humanity. I suppose as a tragic irony, there it is a must which of course started this war that is the organization accusing israel of war crimes. But that is the situation right now. Theyre trying to get more aid in. Israel saying the fuel cannot get, in because hummus was pull for it. Indeed senior pfizer to the government was asked if hamas were to release all the remaining 218 or so hostages that it is holding inside the gaza strip, would israel allow fuel to go, in and he said no, it would not. John . Elliott, thank you. Elliott gotkine live for us. According to posting officials, israeli airstrikes in gaza have intensified and lasted for hours, even in the south or at least 28 people were killed. Dozens injured in the city of Rough Agreement hamas accusing officials. Last week israel told millions of people in Northern Gaza to relocate to the south for their own Safety Edwards or warning of the chaos and destruction from unrelenting as early as two x is taking a horrendous toll on because children. One Palestinian Human Rights Group says so far, more than 2000 children have been killed in just over two weeks. A number of which remains almost impossible to verify. But for hospitals in gaza, each day it seems misery, and in level of desperation. Cnns Clarissa Ward reports now, and a warning, the story contains graphic and disturbing images. You are entering the hospital in gaza city. This is just one minute and one day. But doctors tell us, it could be any minute of the last 16 days. It is a scene from many of the patients are young children. The reception area now a triage center. Everywhere you turn, another casualty. Every one of these people has been ordered by israels military to evacuate the hospital, including the staff, already outnumbered and overwhelmed. As the punishing bombardment continues, the wounded keep flooding in. Doctors say, there is nowhere else for them to go. No safe way to transport them out. The mass casualties, once or twice the, day now we have every half an hour, casualties. So it is overloaded. Our emergency department, and our departments overloaded with patients. Doctor warns that the situation is about to get dramatically worse. The hospital he, says is just two days away from running out of fuel needed to power the generators, and keeping the hospital and its patients alive. If you do run out of fuel in two days, what will you do . What can you do . I think the International Community will process of killing our if they dont to allow to get this fuel into gaza, what to do for the people who are in icu and need ventilator . What about . There is a small babies. We have more than 130 an our icu units. What to do with them . Okay it is i think we are allowing them to die. We dont have fuel and in the hospital. Just a trickle of aid has been allowed to cross into gaza, none of it fuel. Blocked by israel, it says over concerns it will be taken by hamas. Hundreds of trucks are waiting along the egyptian side of the border. But diplomatic efforts to establish a continuous humanitarian corridor have failed. There is no more time for debate. Two gaza city now we are joined by doctor british Palestinian Surgeon working at shiva hospital, the biggest medical facility in gaza. Doctor, thank you for speaking with, us we appreciate your time. Thank you. The most urgent need for now and gaza is what is not coming, and that is fuel. The hospital runs on two very big generators, if no fuel arrives, if there are no more supplies coming, in when do those generator stop working . So over the last few days we have been getting increasing the frequent and longer Electricity Cuts and the real question is, is there anything such anything left of the hospital when there is no electricity . My answer is, no, the effectively the hospital will become a mass grave. If it runs out of electricity we have who are ventilating, because of the critical nature of their we cannot run the Anesthetic Machines. Effectively, in the hospital which now has around 1700 wounded patients, three times its capacity will cease to exist as a hospital. So right now the the only Power Station in gaza is out of fuel. So when you say that you have had intermittent power supplies, are you essentially load sharing or going through blackouts or Rolling Blackouts with your own power supply from those generators to try to make it last longer . Yes, i think what is happening is that they are trying to cut down on usage because they have been dependent on the generators for 24 hours. Since the war started. So my feeling is as time passes and fuel supply is less, there are going to be longer and longer outages. Not only do have a lot of people there in the icu and on ventilators because of them being wounded during this conflict with israel, but you also have an unusually high number of pre born children who are basically being incubated right now. How many and what is their status and what happens when the power stops . I mean, the same situation applies to the prenatal units. Schiff has the largest maternity in gaza. I think over 15 incubators will cease to function once electricity is out. So this is essentially, without electricity, there is a countdown to these children dying . Absolutely. Absolutely. Not just the children, the wounded, and the ventilating machines and anyone wounded who needs an Anesthetic Machine for their surgery. Medical supplies of the parts of the three shipments in recent days. No fuel. How would you describe what u. S. Received in those shipments compared to what you actually need . Miniscule. Sending 14 or 15 trucks to two and a quarter million people, to 14,000 wounded, it will not be sufficient to make any tangible difference to the outcome of the treatment. What we need is a continuous humanitarian corridor and the cessation of the bombing, so that we can evacuate to a safe place, so that medical teams from outside can come in and help, and so supplies can be replenished. Otherwise these quantities are just there as a gimmick. I want to ask you something that the Israeli Military told me last week, and that is a mosque, the Militant Group that is running gaza right now and responsible for the conflict with israel, they essentially seized supplies of fuel from a u. N. Compound and the fuel, according to the israelis at least, to run gaza for a week. With that in mind have you received, as your hospital received any extra Fuel Supplies from hamas at any point . If i am not aware that the hospital has been receiving any extra Fuel Supplies, but i understand from the administration that it is what we have is what was in the supplies. But this is also extends to understand now that the gas stations are only giving ambulances access to petrol. And so even the ambulances are saying that, unless they have access to patrol, they will not be able to bring in the wounded. Doctor, thank you so much for being with us. We wish you The Very Best look, clearly this is very difficult time for you and all the staff there at the shifa hospital. Thank you for being with us. Thank you. Still to come here on cnn, the trauma of going home for the first time. When home is where Hamas Terrorists murdered your family. Israel military says multiple hezbollah posts in Southern Lebanon were targeted monday night. Cnn crews in lebanon heard the airstrikes as they happened. The idf says a Military Compound and observation outpost and more were hit in response to rocket and anti tank missiles launched from the area earlier on monday. Hezbollah media reported the strikes occurring in open areas. They also claimed four hezbollah fighters died on monday before the most recent attack. Is a Tiny Community about as close to the border of gaza as it gets, home to 300 people, mostly farmers living in a collective. It was also among the israeli communities attacked by Hamas Terrorists on october 7th. There, Cnns Kaitlan Collins met with one man returning to his childhood home for the First Time Since most of his family were murdered. For many viewers, a warning, this report has disturbing details and graphic images. Kibbutz its less than three miles away from the gaza border. A Quiet Community where president s grow avocados and raise poultry with their families. As the sun rose on saturday, october 7th, the kibbutz that around 300 people called home became the site of a mask or as hamas militants stormed inside and murdered 14 people, kidnapping for others. Major markets chef, a reservist in the israel Defense Forces, watched from home as the brutal attack unfolded that day. Now he is leading a small group of 14 press into the kibbutz for the first time, wanting the world bear witness to the atrocities firsthand. Weve seen the damage and yet it is still hard to absorb. The stench of death is thick in the air as you walk around the tree lined streets, but if you didnt look too closely, youd never guess that a slaughter took place here. Then you noticed the bullet hole in her door. The 90yearold grandmother who loved gardening was in her bathroom w