Israel has confirmed that two american hostages have been released by hamas. Judith and Natalie Raanan, who are mother and daughter, were taken after the hamas attack on israel earlier this month. The groups Telegram Channel says qatar had helped mediate their release, which was done for which was done for humanitarian reasons. President biden says he is overjoyed. Just a few lines to bring you from president macron, whos been speaking in the last few minutes about this. He says he hopes the release of fridays hostages leads to similar operations in the coming days, including for french citizens. He also says the French Military Intelligence Directorate has concluded that the gaza hospital blast, which we report on tuesday, was not due to an israeli strike but probably a misfiring palestinian rocket. That would tend to echo what Us Intelligence is saying. Hes also saying they are going to be supplying more humanitarian aid to the Rafah Crossing to support the aid coming across. Some li
Where the death toll from israels two week bombardment has topped 4100. As President Biden seeks 74 billion for israel and ukraine, well speak to palestinian analyst tareq baconi, author of hamas contained the rise pacification of Palestinian Resistance. Then we continue our conversation with the legendary israeli journalist amira hass, who has reported from the occupied west bank and gaza for over 30 years. The israeli right ring and the settler right wing has been pushing for wars because in order to achieve the grand plan of repeating and completing 1948 the nakba. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Palestinian Health Officials in the gaza strip say the death toll from two weeks of unrelenting israeli attacks has topped 4100, with over 13,000 wounded. More than 1000 gaza residents remain missing, many of them under the rubble of collapsed homes. In one overnight incident, the Saint Porphyrius Gree
Of hello and welcome everybody, its 2 30 p. M. Here in the iranian capital tehran youre watching press tvs world news our top story for this half hour, more palestinians have fallen victim to israels attacks on the gaza strip as the Regime Presses ahead with its depmy onslot against the be sieged territory. Dozens of people have been killed at after israeli warplanes pounded more palestinian houses across the ghaza strip, over 20 people have lost their lives in the city of hanunes so far on thursday. Dozens more have been injured, as a result of the regimes raids that after an israeli air strike on gazas alahli Arab Hospital killed close to 500 people on tuesday. Thats the highest single day death toll in the territory since israel launched its war on october the 7th. The hospital was packed with people who had fled from northern gaza. After israel forced them to leave their homes, the regime has falsely blamed the carnage a misfired rocket launched by Palestinian Islamic jahad. The Re
Are doing absolutely everything we can to get them home. Nine britons are now known to have died in the hamas attacks earlier this month with seven still missing. Meanwhile israel continues to strike what it calls hamas targets in gaza. Calls hamas targets in gaza. Palestinian Authorities Say more than 3700 people have died in the enclave and some 12,000 people have been injured. People have been injured. Israels defence minister has told troops theyll soon see gaza from the inside ahead of the expected ground offensive. The expected ground offensive. The International Charity action against hunger says the lack of food and water in gaza is leading to a Health Crisis on the brink of explosion. However the brink of explosion. However egypts state media is reporting that the rafah crossing is set to open for a few hours tomorrow to open for a few hours tomorrow to allow aid into gaza. The us president joe biden, announced yesterday hed secured a deal with egypt to allow in 20 lorries car
People still remain under the rubble of the alyakhli hospital, in general, how many of them will be there in the end, no one does not understand. Our country and the United Arab Emirates have initiated an urgent meeting of the un Security Council, it will be held today, it will begin at 17 00 moscow time, that is, an hour after we finish our work on air, that is, we will not yet know, what decision the Security Council will make, it would be a great shame if there is no decision, in fact, literally our resolution has just already been scrapped, as you remember, yes, having found fault with some missing, and supposedly details, there were supposedly no condemnation of hamas, now there is a lot of condemnation of hamas, a lot of condemnation of Islamic Jihad, which is banned in our country by a terrorist organization, because the israelis say that they hit the hospital, quite a lot of condemnation of israel, because well, somehow the fact that in general. In television reports does not s