Laura coates live starts right now. A. Laura. Hey abby, thank you so much. A great show as always. Ill read that book, for sure. Ill see you again here tomorrow night, okay . Im sure you can. All my free time. There are two more hostages now freed, but what about those who are still being held . There are more than 200 of them and they are somewhere in gaza. Tonight on laura coates live. The news tonight is bittersweet. Seeing the footage of 79 year old cooper and 85yearold thing helped out is an image none of us will soon forget. The frailty, their age, all of us trying to imagine how they were treated the day they were taken, what happened in those moments, let alone what they must have endured in the interim. Well now both women are freed, theyve been released by hamas after more than two weeks in captivity. Medics say that two unaffiliated media outlet that theyre both in stable condition. They are in a tel aviv hospital tonight. But their husbands, who were kidnapped with them, ar
Border israel. That means its currently the only entry point for aid. Aid has been arriving in egypt from countries including qatar and india, but only a trickle can actually reach the people of gaza. Water, food, fuel and electricity are in desperately short supply with hospitals on the verge of collapse. Health Officials Say more than 4,600 people have been killed in gaza. Thats over the past two weeks since israel launched retaliatory air strikes, in the aftermath of hamass attack that killed more than moo people in israel. Now, the israeli army has warned civilians in gaza to keep moving south for their own safety, as it prepares to increase pressure on hamas. And tensions along the gaza border are running high. Gfx on sunday, the Israeli Military expressed regret on sunday, the Israeli Military expressed regret for the shelling of an egyptian position near the border with gaza, by one of its tanks. It said the incident not far from the rafah crossing, was a mistake and would be in
All right. The break news over just the last several minutes. New israeli air strikes in Northern Gaza, and you can see the smoke rising over that part of the region, and now if you are looking at gaza, this is where the air strikes have been taking place, but here, down to The Rafah Crossing in the extreme southern border of gaza and egypt, our cameraman has been seeing the critical aid crossing from egypt into gaza. Six u. N. Fuel trucks entering at that border, and that is a major development. Southern gaza is also where israel has told more than 1 million palestinians to move from Northern Gaza into Southern Gaza, and this is where israel says they will be safer, kate. It is happening as the u. S. Secretary of state tony blinken is back in israel today. He has been in the region traveling all throughout the region for days now, and we are standing by to see if blinken is going to speak to reporters now, and the critical update given the news that we are giving, and this and the sob
this is cnn breaking news. two major stories developing in israel at this moment. first, today is to be the fourth scheduled release of hostage by hamas terrorists. there was a holdup. it was over the mothers who were supposed to be on the list and they were not. as part of the agreement, the mothers are to be handed over with their children, and they were not on the list initially, but we told they are now. the handover is close to happening. that is critical in the moments and hours ahead. and also what is critical is what is happening after today, and if the handover goes as planned, is there to be a further extension of the truce. new reporting is suggesting yes. kaitlan collins is standing by in tel aviv for u and the next few hours are extremely delicate, kaitlan. yes, but, kate, they are looking more hopeful than the last time we spoke, because we are hearing from the sources, they are close to resolving the issue at play here, and it does appear that the fourth
israel says it is expecting 14 hostages to be released today, but a list provided to them by hamas only has 13 names on it. in exchange, israel is prepared to release up to 42 more prisoners. cnn has learned that no americans are expected to be released today. under the deal, israel is freeing three palestinians from jail for every israeli hostage allowed out of gaza. but palestinian officials are warning of what they call a possible crisis in the deal. they say israel is not following terms of the prisoner release deal as it relates to sin yourity. the truce also allows the flow of humanitarian aid into gaza. more than 70 aid trucks entered gaza today through the rafah crossing carrying food, water, fuel and medical supplies. cnn is covering the developments. we ll start with kaitlan collins. so, we have seen one day of a successful exchange, several more to go. what are we expecting over the next few hours? officials in israel are hopeful but not confident because they kn