western governments, and 39 palestinian prisoners who d been held in israeli prisons. more israeli hostages and palestinian prisoners are expected to be released today. our middle east correspondent yolande knell reports on a rare moment of hope in the conflict. on arrival to celebrate as this is really childrens hospital as some of the free hostages were flown in last night, much to the relief and happiness of a crowd of well wishers. the women and children were said to be physically well. altogether, 13 israelis were released after they spent almost seven weeks being held captive by hamas in gaza. along with 11 foreign workers. earliervideo hamas in gaza. along with 11 foreign workers. earlier video released by the military wing of hamas shows the moment they were taken to vehicles belonging to the international committee of the red cross. these are the youngest of the hostages, aviv, too, and her sister, for , shown in a family video. they were snatched by hamas gunmen
billion with a b. we ve got this honore got this. we don t force in america thursday, july 4 x 70s dirt on cnn hi, everyone. you re in the cnn newsroom. i m omar jimenez in washington. we are just five days away, people from the first presidential debate of 2024. and today, we re seeing a pretty stark difference between incumbent president joe biden and his republican challenger, former president donald trump, as the two men prepare for this high-stakes face off, while biden is holding intense, meaningful, a closed group of advisors at camp david trump is skipping the tradition no route for now and is instead hitting the campaign trail. here is just a few hours ago at an event and washington rallying his supporters for the big showdown with biden nobody is going to be watching the debate on thursday night, right nobody. will anybody be watching cnn s steve contorno, we ll be watching him in person soon live in philadelphia where trump is expected to hold a campaign rally
debate in america begins june 20, seven-fifths, seven this is cnn breaking news hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me on fredricka whitfield and we begin with this breaking news. the israeli military says an incident in rafah killed eight idf soldiers marking one of the deadliest incidents involving is really troops since the october 7 attacks, the militant wing of hamas claimed it carried out at complex ambush. the incident happened as the rafah civil defense says, israel launched which new airstrikes in the enclave. cnn s paula hancocks is in tel aviv for us, paula are officials giving you any more detail about what happened well for details, the idf of giving a limited at this point, but they do say that there has been that incident in western rafah this saturday, eight soldiers having been killed in that incident, they say that they are investigating this point in trying to ascertain the cause of what happened. now we have heard from hamas, they as
area of the strip. hostages noa argamani, almog meirjan, shlomi ziv and andrey kozlov were freed during what the israeli defence forces have described as a high risk and complex operation from two separate buildings. this is the moment noa argamani was reunited with her father after eight months being held hostage she also spoke on the phone to prime minister benjamin netanyahu. you may remember seeing footage of noa being carried into gaza on the back of a motorbike, shouting don t kill me , after being kidnapped with her boyfriend from the music festival. her boyfriend avinatan or is thought to remain captive in gaza. all four of the relaesed hostages are being treated at a hosptial in tel aviv they re said to be in good medical condition. this was shlomi ziv and his wife speaking for the first time in eight months. the relatives have just been holding a news conference. a news conference. thank you for brinuain a news conference. thank you for bringing my a news