It is 3am here in Tel Aviv with the news right now and for the day ahead unfolding really

on three fronts.

The momentum toward sending troops into Gaza, the effort to bring out more hostages and

and more than just the two pairs that we've seen so far.

And the pressure on Israel to allow more humanitarian aid into Gaza, most notably fuel to

power generators, especially at hospitals, six of which close today, according to the

World Health Organization, when the fuel ran out.

Now there are developments in all three of those areas, we're going to have reporting

on it throughout this hour.

First though, two new items, one on what the IDF says was a thwarted Hamas amphibious

raid on Tuesday.

The other is a phone call, which was played today by Israel's Foreign Minister for the

UN Security Council.

Now the recording was recovered by the IDF, CNN has independently translated it.

We can't confirm the veracity of the audio itself or when it was recorded or how it was

obtained by the IDF.

The Foreign Minister says it was made by Hamas gunmen.

On a phone, he took from a woman he had just killed.

The gunmen is speaking to his father in Gaza with his mother, listening in.

A proud murderer bragging to his proud parents, seen as Jim Shido is here with me.

What more do we know about this audio?

In a war that's already full of astonishing moments of the depravity of what was witnessed

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