To all of yoU watching Us here in the United states, canada, and AroUnd The World. Im kim brUnhUber. YoU have the latest now on the breaking news from gaza the Israeli Cabinet is schedUled to meet at this hoUr one day after U. S Israeli Military says it recovered the bodies of six hostages from an UndergroUnd tUnnel in the Rafah Area the idf has now identified all six, seeing their families have been notified. They are already done, yoU know, carmel got Hersh Goldberg Polin eden yerUshalmi, almog, sUrrogacy, and Alex Lobanov Israels Defense Minister, says the six were killed jUst before troops coUld reach them according to the initial assessment at oUr disposal, they were brUtally mUrdered by hamas terrorists a short while before we reach them. They were abdUcted alive on the morning of October 7 by the Hamas Terror Organization chaUvin book doorbell. The news has led to new protests in israel on SUnday And New Calls for israeli prime Minister Benjamin NetanyahU to agree to a Ceasefire
For the next debate. State of the union live tomorrow morning at nih you re in the cnn newsroom. I m jessica dean in new york and this how are we are still following breaking news out of gaza, israeli forces saying they quote, located a number of bodies during combat in the gaza strip cnn international diplomatic editor, nic robertson is joining us live from jerusalem. Nic, we re still learning more details and expect more details. What do you know right now yeah, that statement by the idf is unusual. They would not normally talk about finding bodies and being in the process of a combat operation. They wouldn t comment on those details. Normal normally, i think the expectation here is for the people of israel when they hear this and for the families of the hostages, and we should be very clear here, the idf is only talking about discovering bodies, but obviously for the families of the hostages, when the idf says something like that, they re going to listen to this still stands to be p