Have seen, we are told the first delivery is scheduled to be 20 or so trucks of that aid. But that is just a small drop in the bucket compared to the 100 trucks a day that the United Nations says gazans need. I want to thank you so much for joining us tonight and every night this week for this coverage here in tel aviv. Oftentimes it is difficult to watch, but it is so important. Thank you for watching. I want to turn it over to Cnn Newsnight with abby phillip right now. New signs that israel may be pushing pause on its Ground Invasion of gaza as the clock ticks on the fate of dozens of hostages and millions of civilians there. Thats tonight on newsnight. Good evening. Im abby phillip. As tanks, troops, and firepower line up at the border, israels impending Ground Invasion of gaza looks to be on hold after hamas freed two american hostages, a mother and daughter from chicago. Heres her father speaking just moments ago. Ive been waiting for this moment for a long time, two weeks. Ive no
Good afternoon. Youre watching cnn news central. Im Boris Sanchez alongside Brianna Keilar In Washington With Destruction on full display in the house of raptives as President Biden is preparing for a wartime visit to israel. His trip, partly a show of support, part deterrence for israels enemies and part diplomatic push to get roughly 200 hostages, many of them american, out of gaza as they also attempt to get humanitarian relief in. Right now gaza is very much at a breaking point. A Palestinian Health official says hospitals there are in actual collapse and that was before the latest devastation. These are images that are disturbing that youre seeing right here. A hospital that was hit in gaza a short time ago. The Palestinian Health Ministry Says at least 200 people were killed by an israeli air strike. Israel is not confirming that this was a strike by its military. It says that it is looking into this. Lets get you on the ground now. Cnns Clarissa Ward who is in ashkelon, israel,
conditions for a durable, sustainable peace. durable, sustainable security for israelis and palestinians alike. we re focused on the day of. we also need to be focused on the day avenue. so in conversations we ll be having through the course of this weekend i expect you ll see a focus there and particularly how we can get over time to two states for two peoples which in our judgment remains the best guarantor and maybe the only guarantor of a secure jewish and democratic israel and palestinians with the state they re entitled to. so these will be the things that we re focused on. these are challenging times. these are intensely difficult issues. but i m convinced that american diplomacy can make a difference in moving everyone to a better place. that s what we re working to do. i ll take questions. thank you, mr. secretary. do you assess that israel has shown restraint up to this point in their offensive in gaza, and what are the concrete steps you ll be pushing them on? an
hi, everyone. i m jessica dean alongside boris sanchez here in washington, d.c. and for the first time since the hamas terror attack on israel a small number of civilians are being allowed to leave gaza and escape the several hundred strikes a day by israel on hamas targets. egyptian state affiliate media reports the first group of foreign passport holders has arrived into egypt through the rafah border crossing. and sources are telling cnn the opening is the result of a deal mediated by qatar among israel, hamas and egypt. a senior u.s. official says this deal could ultimately lead to about 7,000 people allowed to cross. stressing that total, though, is far from exact. and just minutes ago president biden posted on social media that some american citizens are going to be among those departing gaza as soon as today. he hailed u.s. leadership and efforts to help some gazans and foreign nationals leave amid what is obviously an escalating ground offensive in the north of gaza
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