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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 ....
hamas, the nightmare is finally over. 13 israeli women and children ranging in rage from 85 to just 2 years old as well as 11 other foreign nationals were freed and now safely are in israel. just in the last hour president biden addressed those releases. he said that the chances of the four-day israeli-hamas truce being extended are real. he added that details about tomorrow s group of hostages, the next group to be released, should be arrived soon. he even said, within the hour. he did note that they the u.s. is not aware of the condition, the health condition of the remains hostages. and he also pointed out that he hopes this works out and he said so far it is working out well. but there is still a lot more work to do. the two sides are now about 15 hours in that planned 96-hour pause in the hostility. the skies silent for the first time since october 7th. we have regional coverage of all of these critical moments. cnn s oren liebermann is outside of the hospita ....
this is cnn breaking news. welcome to cnn news central. we re tracking the release of 24 hostages now safe in israel. right now 13 israelis, ten thai citizens and one filipino citizen are free after 48 days as hostages of hamas and other groups in gaza. this video, you see the bus that was carrying them entering israel. this video taken moments ago. israeli officials say the freed hostages are en route to receive further medical care and to be reunited with their families. the 39 palestinian prisoners being released by israel in exchange today as part of this agreement are also as we understand it on the move. wolf? and we now have the names and ages of the 13 israelis who were released today. this is from the israeli government. let me read the names of those released and their ages. hannah, 76. adina, 72. karen, 54. daniel, 45. doron, 34. emilia, 5. raz, h4. aviv and channa. we have coverage of the developments unfolding. let s begin with clarissa ward at the ch ....
officials spent an hour at the al shifa hospital and reported evidence of shelling and gunfire, and the site of a mass grave. hundreds of people left the hospital yesterday but around 300 critically ill patients are still there. israel is seeking to eliminate hamas, which is designated a terror group by most western governments, after its fighters killed more than 1,200 israelis and took around 230 hostage on october 7th. 0ur correspondent mark lowen reports from jerusalem. the echoes of history are beating loud here. forthe the echoes of history are beating loud here. for the palestinians last played in such numbers 75 years ago, when israel was created. fled. and now, once again, hundreds of thousands are on the move, these crowds fleeing al shifa hospital, saying israeli troops ordered them out. israel insists the hospital asked for their evacuation. they take what they can, not knowing if they will be back. doctor ramez warns says the israelis want them to leave, wi ....
withjohn simpson. hello, and thank you for joining me for another edition of unspun world, where we find out from the bbc s unmatched team of correspondents and broadcasters what s really going on in the world. israeli forces are encircling gaza s hospitals, but what s their basic strategy? the israeli army can probably go in and patrol the shattered streets of the gaza strip for some indefinite period. but what then? who is actually going to rule gaza? the us and china. why are the chinese noticeably less antagonistic than they used to be? the united states is china s biggest threat, but it s also china s biggest customer, and they really need to do some good customer relations at the moment. and can spain s interim prime minister stave off catalan independence? he s doing this because it will reduce those tensions that catalonia has been seeing, really over the last decade. western support for israel s war against hamas in gaza has been tested as never before, by the ....