Stay updated with breaking news from Asher ben natan. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
the asher family back together now in an israeli hospital. and palestinians are also celebrating the return of dozens of prisoners. desperately needed food and supplies arriving into gaza. but the israelis with a warning that the fighting will resume when the ceasefire ends. matt gutman reports from tel aviv. meanwhile, the anguish continues for the families of nearly 200 hostages still being held. president biden vows to keep up the pressure until all the hostages are free, including americans. three palestinian college students shot and wounded in vermont. the police chief there says the attack may have been motivated by hate. the shooter still on the loose. and in new york, a protest in solidarity with palestinians shuts down a busy bridge. holiday travel takes a deadly turn with a blast of winter weather. more than 100 crashes reported on one of the busiest travel weekends of the year. that system is heading east tonight. our weather team times it out. the for ....
good evening. you are watching a special edition of the source tonight. i m kaitlan collins live in tel aviv alongside pamela brown in washington. israel does have the list of hostages set to be released on saturday, the second day of the temporary agreement they have struck with hamas. sources tell me there are several children on that list. though of course what actually happens remains to be seen. we saw it happen today. it was a minute by minute basis. right now we are hours away from what is expected to be day two of that expected four-day truce. we know that the first group of hostages held by hamas are back in israel tonight. they re receiving medical treatment after a journey that took them through egypt, and eventually here back home. that includes this children s hospital near tel aviv, where eight hostages are being treated tonight, four children, their mothers, and one grandmother. doctors are telling us they are in good condition. they are getting thi ....
good morning. welcome to this special edition of cnn this morning. we are continuing our coverage of this temporary truce between israel and hamas and the expected release of more hostages today. my colleague, kaitlyn collins, is live in tel aviv and we ll have more from caitlyn in just a moment. this morning we are monitoring the situation in gaza and israel. this is day two of are this negotiated four-day truce and now we re watching for the release of the hostages being held by hamas. they re expected to free 14 israeli hostages, according to an israeli source. in exchange, israel is prepared to release up to 42 more prisoners today. cnn has learned no americans are to be freed today. they are freeing three palestinians for every israeli out of hostage situation. 13 israeli, 10 thai citizens, 1 filipino were in that first tranche of captives freed. this video was released by hamas. cnn, we should say, had no control over this content. four children were among those r ....
military pressure on hamas together with the option as we said of extending the humanitarian truce to get more people out, i think it is an effective strategy of facilitating the expeditious release of our people. can you suggest a better alternative. of our people. can you suggest a betteralternative. if of our people. can you suggest a better alternative. if you take the pressure off, i doubt they will release a single hostage. let me ask ou a release a single hostage. let me ask you a broader release a single hostage. let me ask you a broader question release a single hostage. let me ask you a broader question because - release a single hostage. let me ask you a broader question because of. you a broader question because of the hostages of course giving all of the hostages of course giving all of the focus today rightly so. and we also as part of the steel have got a four day pause on the fighting. in that pause already more aid has been going in and you have been allow ....
team here, who have been working out of an operation center today, alongside members of the international committee of the red cross. another key stakeholders in this. and they certainly feel like this mostly went to plan. you are right to point out this is a humanitarian pause, and the implementation of that had a number of key obligations. the pause had to stop at 7:00 local time. the hostilities had to stop on the ground from both parties. that allowed for the potential for the release of these hostages, these 13 in the first instance israeli women and children, who had been held by hamas around about 4:00 this afternoon. what happened was we saw 24 hostages ultimately released. the process took about two and a half hours to get those hostages out of hamas hands, into the hands of the icrc and out of gaza into israel via the rafah crossing, which is down on the the egyptian boarder. the surprise, and i have to say i think it was a surprise as well, possibly to those ....