we are back monitoring the fragile truce in gaza. you are watching cnn news central. i m briana keilar in washington with wolf blitzer in tel aviv. another hostage release is under way as we speak. the idf says the latest group of women and children freed by hamas is with the red cross, and it s en route to israel after which more palestinian prisoners and detainees will be released from israeli custody. this is the fourth day of these exch exchanges. and now israel and hamas have agreed to extend this arrangement for two more days. wolf? very critical developments. very important developments, indeed. it s a critical two days right now for the families of the remaining 198 hostages. and for the residents of gaza who have seen a surge of badly needed aid enter during this entire temporary pause. president biden just released a statement on the extension thanking the leaders of israel, qatar, and egypt for getting it all done. cnn s oren liebermann is with me in tel aviv,
home and no americans released in the latest round. the youngest, a 3-year-old, the oldest 51 as they make their way back to the israeli territory. nine americans still in captivity. we ll get an update from a israeli government spokesman and we ll get a chance to speak with one of the relatives of the hostages. your world starts now. welcome. i m charles payne in for neil cavuto. first to jeff paul with the very latest on the hostage situation. jeff? yeah, charles, i want to get to breaking news. we found out this latest group of hostages released by hamas made it back to israeli territory. a huge sigh of relief for this entire country. 11 people in total. nine kids, two mothers. as you mentioned, the two youngest just 3 years old. also, the other big story, this truce between israel, hamas now being extended two more days. they both agreed to continue exchanging israeli hostages for palestinian prisoners. the israeli government said nothing is guaranteed until it happen
as far as the hostages, nine of them are children. the youngest star for. two of those children are four years old. one of them is abigail dunn, four-year-old american girl who you mentioned, just ten four on friday, which was the first day of the cease-fire agreement. obviously, that announcement, massively important to american audiences. we heard president biden speak on it earlier. we know that prime minister benjamin netanyahu over spoke to president biden. we know there are more americans being held hostage in the gaza strip, two of whom are women, therefore potentially included in the framework of this cease-fire agreement. reverend? now, what can we anticipate fourth and final day of the truce coming tomorrow? what can we anticipate? given the way things have gone the last three days, reverend, we can anticipate to see more or less the same thing tomorrow. a group of israeli hostages reduced from the gaza strip hamas has been releasing outside of the framewo
good afternoon, everybody. i m martha maccallum. we re getting new indications of movement of 11 hostages. this is a huge moment for these people and their families. they re in the hands of the red cross, a huge relief for these people who have been held for more than 50 days. they re finally headed guard freedom. we understand no americans are included in this group. we have followed very closely the one child, abigail adan, that was released. she s an american citizen. she was released during this pause period that we ve been in for several days now. this child went through absolute hell. her smile is testimony to the resilience of children. but somewhere in her conscious is a horrific experience she watched. the terrorists killed her parents in front of her. her father had used himself as a shield to protect his little girl. he was killed. she then had to crawl out, according to this story that has been told, from under his body. she then ran to a neighbor s and then hamas
politicsnation. tonight s lead a hope for peace. right now, we re getting more details on the third group of hostages and prisoners exchanged by israel and hamas in what was the third day of the cease-fire. 14 new israeli hostages were released to the international red cross this afternoon. along with three foreign nationals. one of them a four year old american girl. president biden addressed the release earlier today. let me put it this way, i d like to see the pause go on as long as privileged kept coming up. meanwhile, israeli released 39 palestinian prisoners. all of them minors, according to officials from the neighboring country of qatar. we will keep you updated throughout the hour, as we learn more about the released in the look ahead to tomorrow. the final day of the pause. here in the united states, authorities are investigating whether the non fatal shootings of three palestinian college students in burlington, vermont, was a hate crime. tonight, our cal