of the middle east. today, a third group of hostages was released as part of a four-day temporary truce between israel and hamas. we learned one of those hostages is american toddler abigail mor edan. who turned just four years old on friday while in captivity. now she is free. as the deal stands right now, 50 total hostages are promised to be released in exchange for 150 palestinian prisoners. this is the first truce after weeks and weeks of fighting. and a rare moment of positive news since the start of the war. tomorrow is day four of this four-day pause, the question is, what happens on day five, day six, the seven? the israeli military has urged civilians who fled to southern gaza not to return home, and has warned them that the idf is still preparing for the next phase of the war once this pause ends. already in gaza. according to health officials there. this is allowed hostages to leave gaza and much needed aid to be brought in. but a trucks of entered gaza under the
to increase the assistance getting into the gaza civilians who need help, and to facilitate release of hostages. who we know that innocent children in gaza are suffering greatly as well. because this war that hamas has unleashed is such with consequences. thousands have been killed, and from the earliest days of this crisis, i ve worked closely with president sisi of egypt. israeli government, killing duel of jordan, and others that the region to expand the delivery of humanitarian assistance, to help innocent palestinians in need, who are not part of hamas. under this deal, in gaza, it has now been paused for three days. over that time, 58 hostages have been released, including the tie, filipino, and russian nationals. dozens of families have been reunited. they worked urgently, urgently to take advantage of the pause, to surge aid into gaza, we moved approximately 200 aid trucks into gaza each day. loaded with food, water, medicine, fuel, and cooking gas. more is needed,
to join us today. of course we re hoping for the best for these three college students and their families. thank you. i appreciate that. we ll keep you posted and let s just, you know, hope we don t see this again and there s no room for hate as everybody has been saying throughout this process and as the victims have been saying and the families. let s hope the suspect is apprehended and our students in this country aren t subject to such attacks in the future. all right. thank you so much. all right. hello, again, everyone. thank you so much for joining us. i m frederica whitfield alongside wolf blitzer in tel aviv. and we have this breaking news, just moments ago, some of the israeli hostages released by hamas today arrived at the schneider children s medical center. this was the moment a helicopter carrying them touched down. we re also learning all 17 hostages released today have now been transferred to hospitals. it marks a dramatic end to the 50-day ordeal that
breaking news. and welcome back to our coverage of the israel-hamas war. i m wolf blitzer in tel aviv. we re learning that the third group of hostages has been released to the red cross. today 17 hostages are being delivered to freedom. the idf said the most recent group of hostages includes both israelis and foreigners. we have heard from american officials that they have hoped that one american would be among the latest transfer of those held in hamas captivity in gaza. we re watching all of these dramatic developments unfold. i want to start with oren liebermann here in tel aviv. i know we re being briefed. give us the latest. right now we re expecting the release of a total of 17, 14 israeli citizens and that includes ann israeli russian citizen and three foreign nationals. if we look at the first part of the agreement that we hope will be continued, it was for 50 israeli hostages. that means as of right now, we have 13, 13 and 14. so that is a total of 40 at this poi
no power? no problem. introducing storm-ready wifi. now you can stay reliably connected through power outages with unlimited cellular data and up to 4 hours of battery back-up to keep you online. only from xfinity. home of the xfinity 10g network. hello again everyone. thank you for joining us. i m fredicka whitfield alongside my colleague wolf blitzer in tel aviv. following an agonizing 50 days held by hamas, today jubilation in the streets of israel as another 17 hostages are now returned and safe. it s the third exchange of hostages as part of a four-day truce in hostiles between hamas and israel. right now the 13 israelis released as part of today s deal are being treated in hospitals. among them, 4 combrrd american abigail edan. she was the youngest american captured by hamas on october 7th. an additional four foreign nationals including three thai nationals and a russian-israeli dual citizen. let s send it over to wolf. fred, thank you very much. we have a team of our