Hello and a warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the United States and all around the world. Im max foster, joining you live from london with the continuing coverage of israel at war. 9 00 a. M. Here in london. According to the idf, tunnels and Operational Command centers for hamas sand Islamic Jihad were impacted. Israeli sources they they also targeted sites for forces preparing for potential ground operation. These air strikes come ahead for what israel calls the next stage for the war on hamas. The Biden Administration is presses to delay any incursion into gaza, to allow for the release of more hostages and the flow of the enclave. A warning some images were about to show you may be disturbing. Patients overwhelming the Hospital System in gaza which is having to scale back on treatments in some locations. Fuel is so scarce, and doctors say infants on ventilators remain at risk without a dependable source of electricity. Elliott gotkine joins me here. Bring we up to date with
you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m alex marquardt in washington alongside kaitlan collins in tel aviv. jim acosta is off tonight. thank you for being with us. we are continue with our breaking news coverage of the war between israel and hamas. a nightmare that began seven weeks ago has finally ended for several israeli families. today a third group of hostages was finally released from the gaza strip. in just the past few hours, we ve watched as they arrived at hospitals in israel to be reunited finally with their loved ones. and for the first time tonight, we re also seeing some of those emotional moments. families inside hospitals finally embracing after weeks of heartbreak and uncertainty. these are 13 of the 14 israeli hostages released today, women and children. 13 of them ranging in age from 4 to 84 years old. there was a 14th israeli who was also a russian national, and then three more foreign nationals also freed today, bringing the total to 17. today we saw the