The day's other headlines start in the Middle East and the ratcheting up of hostilities between Israel and Hamas.

For the first time since the resumption of fighting this week, Hamas fired rockets at Israel today, causing little damage.

Israel, meanwhile, restarted its blockade on northern Gaza and ordered evacuations in several areas.

Hospital officials in Gaza say at least 85 Palestinians were killed by Israeli air strikes

overnight and into today.

In southern Gaza, crews rescued a one-month-old baby girl from a pile of rubble following

an airstrike that killed her parents.

When we asked people, they said she's a month old and she's been under the rubble. Since dawn, she's been screaming and falling silent from time to time,

until we were able to get her out a short while ago.

Thank God she is safe.

Meantime in Israel, police clashed with demonstrators near Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's

Jerusalem home as they protested his handling of the hostage crisis.

An American detained by the Taliban for more than two years has been freed.

George Glezman is en route from Afghanistan to the United States via Qatar, which helped

to mediate his release.

Officials say the U.S. did not swap anyone in return for his freedom.

The airline mechanic from Atlanta was traveling through Afghanistan as a tourist when he was

abducted in 2022.

He is the third American freed by the Taliban since January. A U.S. official says that seven Americans remain in Taliban custody.

Turning now to the war in Ukraine, officials from across Europe are moving to form an international

peacekeeping force as Russia and Ukraine work out the details of a

partial ceasefire. The tentative deal was agreed to in principle yesterday. While in Brussels today,

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