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and welcome to cnn news room s continuing coverage of israel at war, i m michael holmes. it s 1 a.m. in atlanta, 8 a.m. in gaza where estimated one million more than that have been displaced by the war between israel and hamas but there s been a major news break regarding hostages. american woman and daughter undergoing medical evaluation in israel after being released by hamas on friday. judith and her daughter were visiting family at a kibbutz when they were taken hostage by hamas two weeks ago. lambs is believed to have holding 200 hostages. idf spokesperson had there to say after the women were released. these are the first two and what we see and what we know is that hamas is trying to paint itself as a human rights organization now by having given back two of the hostages. rockets are raining down on israel as i m speaking and let s get back all the hostages and then we can speak with them. cnn katie joins me live from london with more on what was a surprisi ....
hello, everyone. i m judge jeanine pirro, along with jessica tarlov jesse watters, katie pavelich and greg gutfeld. it s 5:00 in new york city. and this is the five fox news alert. a brand new photo, the two american hostages who were released by the hamas terrorist . judith ronan and her 18-year-old daughter, natalie who were from outside chicago are now with israeli forces and undergoing medical care. mike tobin is in southern israel with more. mike? well, natalie and judith raanan, judge from evanston, illinois, released from hamas captivity. they re out of the gaza strip. they are there at an israeli base in southern israel now are headed in that direction where they re scheduled to be reunited with family. some of the family members have already been on special report expressing their hopes to get their loved ones released. the hamas terrorists had brought them into one of the families house. they stayed there. they gathered. hamas gathered them with another ....
are needed every day to cover gaza s essential needs and that it s negotiating for a second aid convoy of 20 to 30 trucks to be allowed into gaza on sunday. speaking at a special summit in cairo to discuss the israel gaza war, the un secretary general, antonio guterres, said much more needed to be done for the people of gaza than the aid that was currently supplied. those trucks need to move as quickly as possible in a massive sustained and safe way from egypt into gaza. a 20 truck convoy of the egyptian red crescent is moving today and i want to express my deep gratitude to egypt for the essential role that egypt is playing in this regards. is playing in this regard. but the people of gaza need a commitment for much, much more. it continues delivery of aid to gaza to the scale that is needed and we are working nonstop with all parties that are relevant to make it happen. here in the us, president biden says his administration remains committed to ensuring that civilian ....
meanwhile, the united nations says more than 800,000 people have now fled rafah, in southern gaza. many have been forced to head northwards, to areas which the united nations says have little clean drinking water or sanitation, as the israeli offensive continues. 0ur diplomatic correspondent paul adams sent this report. street battles injabalia. israeli forces have been fighting here for days. gunfire hamas, they say, is back, and needs to be dealt with. this is dangerous urban warfare, at close quarters. the israelis were here months ago and moved on. these, some warn, early signs of an insurgency that could last for months. israel has been attacking from the air too. scenes today reminiscent of the war s terrifying early stages. buildings flattened, bodies trapped under the rubble. gunfire more street battles this time, in the south. the israeli army still advancing on rafah, the only city yet to experience a full scale assault. but 800,000 palestinians have already ....
supplies are finally making their way into war torn gaza through egypt s rafah crossing. you re taking a live look at the border which just opened within the last hour for the rafah border crossing is the only route for aid to enter gaza directly from outside israel. and it s also gaza s only gateway to the rest of the world. that is not directly controlled by gaza or israel. that is more than 2 million palestinians are facing shortages of food, water and medicine, which prompted president biden to strike a deal with israel and egypt to open the rafah border crossing. but after the white house announced the deal to allow 20 trucks of aid into gaza, there have been negotiations. israel voiced concerns about the aid getting into the hands of hamas . that s the gaza based militant group whose deadly surprise attack on israel earlier this month killed more than 1400 people, some 200 people are also held hostage at this hour. two of them an american mother and her teenage da ....