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Put at 100 by the Israeli Embassy to the us, though some have been freed. In northern israel, hezbollah rockets targeted three military positions, with israel responding with barrages of artillery into southern lebanon. The Un Security Council will meet later on sunday President Biden has vowed Rock Solid Support for israel and warned against other countries taking advantage of the situation. Lets show you the scene live in gaza now. Israeli airstrikes are ongoing in response to hamas s attack including some in the last few hours. Palestinian Health Officials say 20 children are among the more than 300 killed there. They say nearly 1,800 people have been wounded. Lets get the latest from simonjones ....
hostages which included five elderly women and three families that were released, four young children under the age of ten. then we saw the release of 39 palestinian prisoners who had been held in israeli jails. 24 who had been held in israeli jails. 2a women and 15 teenage boys who are also returned to their families as well. that was day one of the deal. the expectation was that they do about the same. just a few hours ago egypt state news service was reporting that in fact what was going on behind the scenes was positive moves in terms of actually extending the deal beyond four days. there were always provisions put in place for this deal to go out longer than four days, for additional hostages to be released with top egypt reporting a few hours ago that it was looking positive in that direction. then things moved into the other end of the scale and hamas, the military brigades released a statement on their telegram channels saying they did not believe that egypt were adhe ....
we ll continue to watch the developments about this group of hostages released today. thank you so much for joining us, i m fredricka whitfield. wolf blitzer was in tel aviv. you ll see him again at the top of the hour. our breaking news coverage continues righ t now. you are watching special live coverage, i m alex marquardt and wolf blitzer. after hours of uncertainty, a second group of hostages are on their way home to israel. you can see several red cross vehicles leaving the gaza strip and making their way into egypt, and moments later, several hostages are seen exiting the ambulances and entering a building on the egyptian side of the border crossing. they will now be making their way into israel soon. qatari officials say among the hostages released today are 13 israelis who are being released. eight children, five women, four foreign nationals are believed to be in the second group released today. cnn s wolf blitzer is live in tel aviv. and brings us the lates ....
gaza skyline, you see continuing plumes of black smoke on the horizon because the fighting inside gaza continued until the very last moment this morning stop seven to help local time and before that and the minutes afterwards we were still hearing the sound of explosions of mortar fire and small arms fire but things here now are a lot more peaceful and quiet and they have been for several weeks since this war began so let s talk more about the deal that s been broken and are greeted by qatar and what we expect to see in the next few hours today. the first group of israeli hostages, this is 13 from a group of 50 who were due to be released. there will be returned to israel and handed over, we believe, to the red cross at around four o clock local time here. that is two o clock gmt. israel has confirmed it has a list of names and has been contacting the families. it immediately got into contact with families. imagine the families yesterday who knew the fan stomach deal had been ....