headquarters in new york city. we re awaiting for the update on the war effort from israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu while an extraordinary and rare piece of good news for israel and its military just came to us. the idf now saying they managed to rescue a female israeli soldier who had been held hostage by hamas for more than three weeks. what it tells us about the ground operations and the new phase of the war in gaza coming up. the white house jumping into action after a rise in anti-semitism on u.s. campuses. donald trump once again pushing the envelope of a gag order, put back in place just yesterday to keep him from going after people involved in his d.c. case. this morning he called the judge who ordered it, quote, a trump hater who is incapable of giving him a fair trial. so now what? we start in israel where a rapidly escalating crisis is threatening prime minister benjamin netanyahu s leadership at a critical time, just as israel s war effort shifts into
you re watching cnn news central. i m boris sanchez with brianna keilar in washington and wolf blitzer is live in tel aviv. in a few minutes prime minister netanyahu will speak to reporters as israel enters what they re describing as the second stage of their war on hamas. israeli defense forces as you can see on your screen intensifying air strikes and expanding operations on the ground in gaza where the idf says dozens of militants were killed over the weekend. today the terror group hamas released a short video that shows three women, it s believed, taken hostage on october 7th when hamas murdered more than 1,400 people. cnn is not showing this footage, but in it one of the captives who obviously may have been under duress speaks to netanyahu, pleading for freedom. wolf? in gaza civil order is beginning to collapse right now in the southern and central region according to u.n. officials. they say and i m quoting now thousands of people broke into warehouses and distr