Wont get in the way of food, water and medicine getting to civilians, as long as the assistance does not reach hamas. Mr biden says they are a few more things that need to happen before the aid can come in. This has been a very blunt negotiation i have had, so we want to get as many of the trucks out as possible. There are a 150 or so there. Not all will go. The first tranche, if there is a second tranche, see how it goes. Lets look at some of the other top headlines from the war at this hour. Protests across the middle east erupted over the explosion at the Al Ahli Hospital in gaza tuesday that left at least a71 people dead. Arab states and the main palestinian militant group, hamas, have continued to blame israel for the explosion, even as mr biden backed israels claim that it had nothing to do with it. And the United States vetoed a Un Security Council vote calling for humanitarian pauses in gaza, a move that was condemned by other members including russia, china and the uae. Our In
released any time now. a total of 50 are set to be released over the next four days. israel confirmed they were given a list of those names and started to contact the families. as far as we know, families who may have hostages returned in the next few days have not yet had word of whether or not their loved ones names are on the list. in return for that hostage release israel will itself release 39 palestinian prisoners today, that is made up of 2a women, and 15 teenage boys, and that group is the first of 150 palestinian prisoners held in israeli jails who are due to be released as part of this. in the last few hours we have seen trucks rolling through the rafah crossing, in larger number than we have seen at any point during this war so far, taking that desperately needed aid into gaza, you can see there, pictures of the trucks that started to move through, a lot them carrying very basic things, like food and water, also medical supplies as well, but crucially fuel. egypt s