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BEN HUNTE, CNN ANCHOR: Hello wherever you are in the world. You are now in the CNN Newsroom. I'm Ben Hunte in Atlanta and it is so good to have you with me.

Coming up on the show, Israel's government green lights the Gaza ceasefire plan will tell you when the remaining hostages could be released and plans for Israeli troops to pull back. Plus, we're tracking tsunami warnings in the Philippines following a large earthquake. And CNN speaks to an American citizen who says he was violently detained by ICE. He believes he was targeted because of his race.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Live from Atlanta, this is CNN Newsroom with Ben Hunt.

HUNTE: Welcome. Let's begin in Gaza where there have been fresh Israeli strikes in Khan Yunis and Gaza City and been a push for a ceasefire with Hamas. This all comes just hours after Israel's government approved the U.S. brokered plan. Israeli sources say that approval means a cease fire is in effect after more than two years of war. The agreement includes the release of all hostages held in Gaza in the days ahead.

However, it's not clear if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has given the cease fire order to the country's military. The agreement is a fragile one with uncertainty around a number of key issues. Senior U.S. officials acknowledged that the plan could still fall apart amid mutual mistrust between Hamas and Israel.

U.S. President Donald Trump's son in law, Jared Kushner and special envoy Steve Witkoff praised the Israeli prime minister for his handling of the cease fire negotiations. Benjamin Netanyahu touted the agreement's terms securing the release of hostages still held in Gaza.

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BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER: We are at a momentous development in the last two years. We fought during these two years to achieve our war aims. And the central one of these war aims is to return the hostages, all of the hostages, the living and the dead. And we're about to achieve that goal.

We couldn't have achieved it without the extraordinary help of President Trump and his team, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. They worked tirelessly with Ron and his team, our team, and that -- that and the courage of our soldiers who entered Gaza and the combined military and diplomatic pressure that isolated Hamas, I think has brought us to this point.

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HUNTE: Now that the cease fire agreement is in place, the big question is what happens next. The White House says the U.S. will send about 200 troops to monitor the agreement from Israel. A source is telling CNN that they'll be part of a new coordination center, but they won't go into Gaza. As Clarissa Ward reports, there's a lot of uncertainty about the next steps and.

CLARISSA WARD, CNN CHIEF INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: There's a lot of moving parts here. What we know so far is now that the Israeli government has approved this plan, that cease fire should effectively now be in effect. We don't yet know if the IDF has been ordered to cease fire, but according to the agreement, the cease fire should now be in effect. The next phase is for the IDF to begin to withdraw its troops to this agreed upon perimeter, which would leave roughly 53 percent of Gaza under the control of the IDF. And then within 72 hours, we're talking about by Monday evening, all 48 of the hostages are to be released.

As you know, 20 of the hostages are still alive. Two of those 20 are believed to be in poor health and 28 of the hostages are in fact deceased. We have heard that the ICRC, the International Red Cross, has been tasked to work with elements of Hamas to go about trying to find all of the deceased hostages because that's something that entails quite a bit of effort, as you can probably imagine. Now, another part of the puzzle here, or one of the four points that was agreed upon, is trying to get that aid into Gaza, 170,000 tons of it waiting here and in surrounding countries to be administered to get in on the ground. But there are some questions as to what that would look like.

Obviously who would facilitate the security given that the IDF is putting pulling back? And then of course you have as well the other part of this, which is the release of some 250 Palestinian prisoners who are serving life sentences and some 1,700 Palestinians who have been detained since October 7th. So a lot of different moving parts, but the sense now that within 72 hours, we should see all of those hostages released.

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We're just starting to get our arms around what this task force looks like, this International Stabilization Force, 200 U.S. CENTCOM troops arriving in the region who will be working alongside the UAE, Egypt, Qatar and a number -- and Turkey as well, in order to try to basically do whatever they can to help facilitate the implementation of this plan. One defense official telling me that a big part of that will be trying to create the security environment necessary to get that aid in. But this defense official also said that they're sort of building the plane and flying it at the same time. A lot of things that they're trying to organize as phase one goes into effect and phase two starts being prepared for.

HUNTE: Palestinians in Gaza are celebrating the news of a ceasefire with Israel and a possible end to the war.

Young children danced and cheered in Deir al Balah in central Gaza. One man, a father of four, says he cried for the first time in his life. Under the deal, fighting will end and Israel will partially withdraw to an agreed upon point. Have a listen to how one Palestinian woman described her emotions about the ceasefire.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translation): The ceasefire announcement made us very happy because our children have been without schooling for two years, without education. The children in Gaza became ignorant. They should go back to their education, their simplest rights, including having a family atmosphere, which they have missed. Access to healthcare, which we are missing here. We need everything.

They should go back to their studies. They should get medical treatment, good hygiene, attention. We need our simplest rights.

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HUNTE: And yet, just hours before the Israeli cabinet approved a ceasefire, Israeli tanks were seen opening fire in at least one part of the enclave along the coast. Palestinian health officials say Israeli forces has killed at least 30 people in Gaza since a deal was announced on Wednesday before it went into effect.

Let's talk about it. Political analyst, Diana Buttu, is a human rights attorney and a former legal adviser for the Palestine Liberation Organization. She is in Ramallah.

Diana, thanks so much for being with me. How are you doing today?

DIANA BUTTU, POLITICAL ANALYST: I'm very well, thank you. Thanks for asking.

HUNTE: Thank you for being here. It's good to see you. This potential ceasefire has clearly been a very long time coming, but it's also so fresh, and it's truly fresh news for all of us. How are you feeling about all of this right now?

BUTTU: Look, I'm feeling both happy and very worried. Happy because we're happy that the Israeli bombs may finally stop, the Israelis broke the ceasefire this morning, but very worried because one, Palestinians have had to negotiate an end to genocide, something that's never been done in history. And also we've had to negotiate an end to famine with the very country that has been trying to starve us. But more importantly, there aren't any guarantees that Israel isn't going to continue. I don't think that President Trump is going to have the stamina to continue to follow this through.

And more importantly, what I've seen with my experience, is that when this becomes bilateral, when it just becomes an issue between Israelis and Palestinians, the world looks away and it becomes very normal to see Palestinian bodies be counting and counted and counted again and again and again. And so I'm very worried that this isn't something that is going to hold. And so instead, I'm really hoping that the international community this time doesn't look away as they did many, many, many times in the past, and instead really holds Israel to account for this two-year long genocide.

HUNTE: I have to say I feel like your take is almost the one that I've been missing in a lot of coverage I've been seeing. And I do hate to throw negativity into the situation, but there are a lot of people who do think that the potential ceasefire just won't hold. And all of this celebration is great, but potentially for nothing. What are people that you're speaking to saying?

BUTTU: The same. The people are very happy because they can finally breathe. Look, my friends in Gaza have been -- every one of them has had their home destroyed. They've been displaced, some of them, many times over. Every single Palestinian I know has had family members killed.

Every single Palestinian I know has had family members injured. These are by Israeli bombs. The health care system has been decimated. The education system has been decimated. Every single hospital has been targeted by Israeli bombs.

This is illegal under international law. And so people are happy that these bombs have stopped, but they're wondering why it was that these bombs were allowed to be dropped in the first place when we know what international law forbids and doesn't allow. So it feels very precarious that all of these rights, all these laws that the world has been talking about, somehow don't seem to apply when it comes to Palestinians. And that's why people are happy, but at the same time very worried.

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HUNTE: If the ceasefire is put in place, there's then the question of what life looks like for people in Gaza going forward. They've been trapped for months, and now they could be trapped in potentially even smaller spaces, right? What's the reality going to be on the ground?

BUTTU: The reality is terrifying. It's not just a question of being trapped. Look, Gaza was already the most densely populated place on Earth before October of 2023 with. And now we see that 80 percent of the population is confined to 18 percent of the Gaza Strip. So you can imagine how densely populated it is now.

Even if the Israelis pull back, they're still going to hold on to more than half of the Gaza Strip. But beyond that, Israel's still going to control whether food gets in, what food gets in, and also what construction supplies, if any, are allowed to get in. And so that chokehold is still going to remain. Israel bombed 98 percent of Gaza's farmland, which means that Palestinians are now entirely dependent on Israel to be able to bring in food supplies. So the future is looking very bleak for Palestinians.

This is why I keep saying it's up to the international community to not look away. This is why it's so important for accountability to begin now and not for everybody to be patting themselves on the back and saying, we finally reached an agreement, it's time for a Nobel Prize. This is the time -- the time is now for all of these measures to begin and for the world to not look away from what's happening in Gaza.

HUNTE: I do also just want to talk about Palestinian leadership, because there were big questions around that. What are the next steps politically, or does their role effectively end once this deal is in place?

BUTTU: Well, Hamas a long time said that they didn't want to have anything to do with governance, and the next step should be that Palestinians are to decide their own leadership. Under this plan it's oddly that somebody else is deciding our leadership, and so I'm certainly hoping that that part of it is going to go away. It's really odd to me that we're living in a world where other people are deciding who Palestinian leaders are. So I'm certainly hoping that it's going to be the case that Palestinians get to choose their own leaders. And I'm certainly hoping that this is going to be our freedom, that we're going to finally have our freedom, rather than constantly living under a system in which Israel is deciding for us, the very country that committed genocide against us, or the United States is deciding, the country that fueled and funded this genocide.

It's time for Palestinians to finally be free. It's time -- it's time for us to finally be able to choose our own leaders and to live in that freedom, just in the same way that other people around the world live in freedom and get to choose their own leaders as well.

HUNTE: Well, there is a lot going on. I'm sure we're going to speak again very soon. But for now, Diana Buttu in Ramallah, thank you so much. Appreciate it.

BUTTU: My pleasure.

HUNTE: A 7.4 magnitude earthquake has hit the southeastern coast of the Philippines. It struck off the eastern side of Mindanao, 123 kilometers or 79 miles from the island's capital, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Local officials are warning that the quake could cause dangerous tsunami waves and they're advising people in coastal areas to evacuate. There were no immediate reports of damage. Let's have a look at some of webcam footage now showing how.

Oh yes, you can see that some of the shaking from the tremor. The Philippines sits along the Ring of Fire, a huge arc of seismic fault lines around the Pacific Ocean that experiences powerful quakes.

The Left bank of Ukraine's capital is without power after a massive Russian attack and utility workers are scrambling to contain the damage. Kyiv is also experiencing problems with its water supply. Russia has been striking Ukraine's energy infrastructure almost daily since last month, which follows its game plan from previous years when it targeted sources of heat ahead of winter. Ukrainian authorities say at least eight people in Kyiv were injured and a seven-year-old boy was killed in the southern Zaporizhzhia region.

Meanwhile, Russia is taking responsibility for shooting down an Azerbaijani passenger jet last December. President Vladimir Putin says his air defenses struck the jet while targeting a Ukrainian drone over southern Russia. Thirty-eight people were killed in Azerbaijani Airlines crash, which he later called a tragic incident. But the Russian president had stopped short of taking responsibility for it until now. His announcement came during a summit in Tajikistan, also attended by Azerbaijan's leader.

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President Trump's push to send National Guard troops into Chicago is now on hold. Why a judge says she sees no need to deploy soldiers there and what that ruling means. Plus, another of Trump's political foes faces criminal charges. How New York Attorney General Letitia James is responding. Next.

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HUNTE: Welcome back. The mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois are celebrating a district court ruling that will keep President Trump from deploying National Guard troops in their state for two weeks. But judge said she found no credible evidence. But there has been a rebellion in the state that would justify sending in soldiers. Omar Jimenez reports on that decision and what comes next.

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OMAR JIMENEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It is a big moment, this judge granting a temporary restraining order to block President Trump's deployment of National Guard troops here in Illinois for at least 14 days. Now, this came as part of what she described as a high level summary, sort of an oral ruling. But she was very detailed, the judge, April Perry, and how she described the -- her reasoning in getting to this particular place. And I want to take you through some of it now.

Now, one of the things that she talked about over the course of this is really about this definition of rebellion, since this is -- that is some of what the federal government had cited and the need to have the National Guard here, sort of this fear of getting to a place of open rebellion. She described rebellion as, quote, "deliberate organized resistance, openly opposing the government as a whole." And then said, "I have seen no credible evidence that there has been rebellion in the state of Illinois."

She said that the evidence, as she moves through her oral ruling today, "The evidence demonstrates that the deployment of the National Guard may lead to," quote, "civil unrest." She also said, Judge Perry said that she finds the deploying -- that deploying the National Guard will, quote, "only add fuel to the fire that the defendants have started" in her characterization. And really, a lot of what she talked about said -- she said came to this one particular aspect, and that was that the court was left with having to make a, quote, "credibility determination." And she found that the Department of Homeland Security, the assessments made by them were, quote, "unreliable." She even mentioned Broadview, which is where we are just outside Chicago, and some of the protests that we've seen here over recent weeks, she said -- she described how at one recent protest, there were 200 protesters and there were a hundred state and local law enforcement officers on site, and that state and local law enforcement were able to maintain control.

So these were some of the details that, again, she was taking those in the courtroom through one after the other as she issued this oral ruling or sort of this high level summary as she described. We're expecting the details of her written decision to come over the course of Friday. But we do know that this was a motion that was granted in part. So we are also waiting to see what the other parts are here. But nonetheless, a significant moment.

If passed, holds true, the Trump administration will push for an appeal, most likely here, and pursue that effort aggressively. But again, for right now, at least the next 14 days, President Trump has been blocked from deploying National Guard troops on the same day that we first saw Texas National Guard troops take their steps here in the Chicago area.

Omar Jimenez, CNN, Broadview, Illinois.

HUNTE: Well, after months of pressure from President Trump, the U.S. Justice Department indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James on bank fraud and false statement charges in Virginia. The indictment comes as Mr. Trump continues to call for his political opponents to be prosecuted.

James' charges stem from a mortgage she took out in Virginia in 2023. Prosecutors say she falsely claimed on paperwork that the Virginia home would be her primary residence, securing her favorable loan terms. Last month, CNN reported that Justice Department officials did not believe they had enough evidence to build a case against the New York Democrat.

Meanwhile, James says the president is weaponizing the legal system.

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LETITIA JAMES, NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL: These charges are baseless, and the president's own public statements make clear that his only goal is political retribution at any cost.

I'm a proud woman of faith, and I know that faith and fear cannot share the same space. And so today, I'm not fearful. I'm fearless. And as my faith teaches me, no weapon formed against me shall prosper.

HUNTE: James is, of course, the second person to be indicted as the president pressures the Justice Department to go after his political enemies. The first was former FBI Director James Comey, who is being prosecuted for lying to Congress, and he has pleaded not guilty. North Korea is set to mark the 80th anniversary of its ruling Workers Party on Friday, and these celebrations usually involve major military parades. Analysts say the north may showcase its newest intercontinental and hypersonic missiles. The South Korean military says the parade may happen at night and could involve tens of thousands of people. Pyongyang has already released images of leader Kim Jong Un with some top Russian and Chinese politicians.

The French president is expected to name a new prime minister in the day ahead, and that's going to be his sixth in less than two years. Outgoing Premier Sebastian Lecornu resigned on Monday after failing to form a majority in parliament. His replacement will be tasked with getting a deadlock parliament to pass a budget and finding an exit ramp from the country's debt crisis.

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President Emmanuel Macron is also facing calls to resign or call a snap election.

OK. Palestinians and Israelis are celebrating, hoping the war in Gaza is coming to an end. The latest developments in the Middle East when we return.

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NASSER AL NAJJAR, GAZA RESIDENT (through translator): It is a good feeling. Praise be to God. We are very happy about the announcement of the ceasefire and the end of the genocide, killing, displacement and destruction.

But something is still missing. We have lost so many victims, the dead and the wounded, and we paid a heavy price. We hope for a better future and that peace will prevail for everyone.

MARIAM AL GHOULA, GAZA RESIDENT (through translator): I am both happy and sad. Happy because there is a ceasefire and we may be able to return to our homes.

But sad for those we lost, our sons who remain buried under the rubble.

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BEN HUNTE, CNN ANCHOR: New images from Gaza appear to show the aftermath of strikes just this morning. Witnesses in Khan Younis and Gaza City report there have been air strikes and artillery shelling.

This all comes as Israeli sources say the first phase of a Gaza ceasefire deal is underway. The Israeli government approved a U.S.- brokered plan to end the war in Gaza late on Thursday evening.

Israel is expected to withdraw its troops to an agreed upon perimeter within the first 24 hours.

Israel is also planning to release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. And U.S. President Donald Trump says all hostages held in Gaza should be released by Tuesday.

CNN's Jeremy Diamond reports for us from Tel Aviv.

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JEREMY DIAMOND, CNN JERUSALEM CORRESPONDENT: From celebratory dancing in the streets of Gaza to tears of joy in Tel Aviv's Hostage Square. Israelis and Palestinians have waited two agonizing years for this moment.

A ceasefire agreement has been struck. All of the hostages will be released, and the war in Gaza is coming to an end.

Amid celebrations, the Israeli cabinet formally approved the deal, triggering an immediate ceasefire. Israeli troops will begin withdrawing from parts of Gaza while holding on to 53 percent of the strip, according to an Israeli official. Within 72 hours, humanitarian aid will surge into Gaza and the hostages will go free.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: President Trump, you have the best crowd in the world. What do you guys have to say to President Trump?

CROWD: Thank you.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thank you. You did it.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You did it.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Thank you.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is amazing.

DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The hostages will come back. They're coming -- all coming back on Monday.

DIAMOND: Amid a full court press from the United States, a deal brokered in Egypt quickly rippled through the region.

Whoever doesn't have Internet and is not aware, "the war is over", this journalist shouted in the streets of northern Gaza. "A ceasefire has been agreed".

By daybreak, the news was everywhere.

"This feeling is the most beautiful feeling I have ever felt," this man says. "Today, after two years of suffering, hunger and humiliation, we feel reborn. Today is a day of victory."

Israel has yet to declare it, but mediators from Egypt and Qatar say this deal will lead to an end of the war. Hamas says the U.S. also provided those assurances. "We have received guarantees from the mediating brothers and from the

American administration, all confirming that the war has ended permanently."

In Israel, a festive atmosphere awaits the hostages.

For two years, Hostage Square has been filled with the sound of protests. But tonight, as you can hear behind me, it is nothing but celebration.

Michel Illouz is among those celebrating.

MICHEL ILLOUZ, FATHER OF DECEASED HOSTAGE: Are you familiar with all these kids by poster. And now I will be able to meet them physically and I'm so excited for them.

DIAMOND: But for Illouz it's bittersweet. His son Guy is among 28 deceased hostages in Gaza.

ILLOUZ: I will get him by DNA, by bones. How can I recognize him? How can I be able to bury him without -- to recognize him?

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ILLOUZ: And I'm so afraid from this moment because it's kind of -- it's kind of starting of recovering. I hope so.

DIAMOND: Adding to the uncertainty, Hamas doesn't know the location of all hostage bodies, and Illouz doesn't know if he'll ever get closure.

Jeremy Diamond, CNN -- Tel Aviv.

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HUNTE: Let's go live now to Jerusalem. And Yaakov Katz, a senior columnist for "The Jerusalem Post". He's also senior fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute and the author of the book, "While Israel Slept", about the October 7th attack.

Yaakov, thanks so much for being with me. How are you doing?

YAAKOV KATZ, SENIOR COLUMNIST, "THE JERUSALEM POST": Thank you, Ben. It's good to be with you this morning.

HUNTE: It's good to see you.

This ceasefire deal marks what's described as the first phase of President Trump's 20-point peace plan. Can you just talk us through how you believe that this agreement actually came together? And how much of the credit really belongs to Washington?

KATZ: Well, I think Donald Trump deserves a lot of credit. It wouldn't have happened had Donald Trump not pushed hard for this deal and got -- and used all the leverage and the power of his office to get people to essentially agree to this deal. And to use that leverage of his office on the Qataris and on the Turks and the Israelis, and, of course, on the Egyptians and everybody to get them to agree and put pressure on Hamas.

So there's no question that a lot of the credit belongs to Donald Trump. But I think that also Israel, in agreeing to a deal that to some extent is very tenuous and very fragile.

We don't know exactly what this means about the disarmament of Hamas. Will it, in the end, disappear? Will it remain somehow inside Gaza?

We have to wait to see what all these clauses look like. But there's no question that definitely Trump deserves a lot of credit here.

HUNTE: I've seen you write that this moment proves America is still a superpower with unmatched leverage over Israel and Qatar and Egypt and Turkey.

How is that leverage being felt on the ground right now in Jerusalem? What are people saying?

KATZ: Well, I mean, I think you saw a perfect example, Ben, late last night at the cabinet meeting that Prime Minister Netanyahu convened with his ministers. He brings into the meeting of his cabinet Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, the president's son-in-law and the president's special envoy for Middle East issues.

You know, they're sitting next to him at that table of the government and of the cabinet as they're about to vote on whether to accept this deal or not to accept it.

So, I mean, if there's any indication of just how involved and how integral the United States is for Israel's security and for the future of what happens in the Middle East, there was the perfect example of Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner sitting right next to the prime minister, him flanked on both sides by senior American officials.

Look, at the end of the day, there's no replacing America and the role that it plays here in the Middle East. And I think that if there's anything that all of these different countries share, whether it's Turkey, whether it's Egypt, whether it's Israel, whether it's the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Jordan, it's that they want to see an America engaged. They want to see an America involved.

And the fact that Donald Trump is really using his personal political capital to try to achieve some of these objectives is something that is very important for the different players in this region.

HUNTE: For many Israelis, this deal is mainly about one thing above everything else, the return of hostages held for so long.

How is that potential moment being received this morning?

KATZ: I mean, you know, to some extent then you had yesterday morning on Thursday, as the news came in in the middle of the night, bottles of champagne popping open at what became known as Hostage Square in Tel Aviv, where the families and of course, their supporters have been gathering for the last two years. To call on the government to do everything it can to release those hostages.

You know, we're in the middle here in Israel of a holiday that's known as Sukkot. And it's known in Jewish tradition as the Holiday of Joy, the Holiday of Celebration. And the thought that the hostages might be coming back in the middle of this holiday is something that just adds to that measure of celebration and joy that every Israeli wants to feel during this holiday has been difficult because of the hostages not being here.

So it's a very tense moment. Everyone is obviously aware that a lot can go wrong still, and Hamas is a cynical, barbaric, murderous terrorist organization and they could be playing all of us.

But hopefully this will happen. And when it happens, there will not be a dry eye in this country.

HUNTE: Now, I don't want to be a dark cloud over a very positive time, but what happens if this ceasefire still doesn't happen or if it doesn't hold?

KATZ: Well, I mean, that's really the big question. I mean, if something does go wrong or goes sideways and the hostages suddenly aren't found or Hamas doesn't release all the hostages or something happens on the ground.

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KATZ: I mean, we just received news early this morning of an Israeli soldier who was killed late yesterday by sniper fire. And of course, there were also Palestinians and Israeli strikes that continued.

So, I mean, it just goes to show, right, some successful attack by Hamas against Israeli troops who are now in defensive positions in Gaza or vice versa. Everything could blow up.

What happens in the next phases of this, Ben, right. So we now know at least that the 20 hostages come back and at least some of the bodies that Hamas can find and identify are coming back.

But what about the bodies that remain? What about the issues of Hamas' disarmament? What about one of the other points in the 20-point plan by Trump is the establishment of a new technocratic government in Gaza that does not include Hamas.

We need a lot of patience, and we need to have real ability to stand and have patience, but tolerance, because there's going to be problems that are going to come up.

All sides will be required to make a lot of compromises, but hopefully everyone understands that this is what it is in everyone's interest. It's in the interest of Israel to end the war, bring the hostages home, bring the soldiers home, heal as a nation after two years of war. And give the Palestinians in Gaza the opportunity to rebuild, reconstruct, to heal also, after two years of war that this terrorist group that has now been hopefully removed and decimated, brought upon the civilian population. HUNTE: Yes, indeed. Yaakov Katz, for now in Jerusalem. Thank you.

Let's see what happens next.

KATZ: Thank you.

HUNTE: Ok. Caught up in the crackdown -- U.S. citizens find themselves wrongfully detained by immigration agents.

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VERONICA MIRACLE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: What did they say that you did?

JAVIER RAMIREZ, U.S. CITIZEN ARRESTED THEN RELEASED BY ICE: They said I bit and spit federal agent. And that's totally false.

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HUNTE: Why a Supreme Court ruling has got Latino Americans fearing for their safety. That's next on CNN NEWSROOM.

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HUNTE: We have this just in to CNN.

In a late-night session, a Congress in Peru has voted to remove the president, Dina Boluarte. She was very unpopular and political parties called the session to vote for her removal.

She did not make an appearance in Congress, but she is currently giving a statement to the country.

We're obviously going to monitor that and update you as we can.

Since Donald Trump began executing his crackdown on immigration, U.S. citizens have been among those stopped by law enforcement officers who suspect they're in the country illegally.

Many of those detained have been Latino men who say they're growing increasingly fearful of running into ICE agents.

CNN's Veronica Miracle spoke with one American citizen detained while carrying his U.S. passport.

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MIRACLE: So where, exactly, were you arrested?

RAMIREZ: One of them pretty much points me out, like, hey, get him. He's Mexican. So that's when they threw me down to the ground on this side.

MIRACLE: Javier Ramirez says he was carrying his U.S. passport the moment federal agents entered his family tow yard in a suburb of Los Angeles.

Even then, Ramirez says agents violently arrested him.

RAMIREZ: If it wasn't for the cameras, something else would have happened, pretty much.

MIRACLE: What did they say that you did?

RAMIREZ: They said I bit and spit at a federal agent, and that's totally false because you can see clearly in the cameras that I'm not doing anything.

MIRACLE: Ramirez is a U.S. citizen born in San Bernardino, California and he was the only person from the tow yard taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He's an American citizen, bro. Come on.

MIRACLE: So they accuse you of doing something you didn't do. You're a U.S. citizen. How does it feel to have to go through this whole process?

RAMIREZ: It's scary. It's scary because you don't even know what's going on.

MIRACLE: Ramirez spent four days behind bars accused of assaulting, resisting, or impeding an officer. He was released and the charge was dropped.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The whole experience in general, was very traumatic.

MIRACLE: Ramirez's attorneys say he's one of five U.S. citizens in Los Angeles who filed tort claims against the federal government. All of them claim, in separate incidents, they were racially-profiled by ICE agents.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Show your face.

MIRACLE: Across California and the country, some U.S. citizens say they're living in fear, scared of being targeted by ICE because of the color of their skin. One top border official, Gregory Bovino, openly spoke about these tactics to a radio reporter in Chicago, saying, intelligence informs where they look for undocumented individuals and went on to say --

GREGORY BOVINO, CHIEF PATROL AGENT, EL CENTRO SECTOR: Then obviously, the particular characteristics of an individual, how they look. How do they look compared to, say, you. What's your name again?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Chip.

BOVINO: Chip. You or other folks, how do they appear in relation to what you or other people look like?

MIRACLE: In a recent ruling the Supreme Court says this practice can continue while the legal process unfolds in another case.

ICE agents can stop people, at least partially, based on their apparent race or whether they can speak English, as it contributes to reasonable suspicion when considered with other important factors. That's according to an opinion by conservative Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Governor JB Pritzker says these types of detentions are happening in Illinois.

GOV. JB PRITZKER (D) ILLINOIS: Bovino even admitted on the record that they are making arrests based on how you look. That's the baseline.

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PRITZKER: They're not targeting violent criminals or gang members. They're arresting tamale vendors.

MIRACLE: In a new interview with CNN, Bovino denies the use of racial profiling and says it's a combination of factors that can lead to an arrest.

BOVINO: Perhaps you look scared. Perhaps your demeanor changes. Perhaps you're gripping the steering wheel so tightly that I can see the whites of your knuckles. There's a myriad of factors.

MIRACLE: In Los Angeles, where immigration officials have been targeting scores of businesses since June, many U.S. citizens who aren't white tell me they're terrified. Like activist Francisco Moreno.

FRANCISCO MORENO, ACTIVIST: I carry my passport card. I am U.S. citizen. I am Mexican citizen. But now I don't feel, you know, comfortable without this on my wallet. We don't feel safe. America at this point is not the dream for the immigrants.

MIRACLE: We reached out to the DHS about Javier Ramirez and they said in a statement that they detained him for interference and released him when they determined that he was a U.S. citizen with no outstanding warrants.

Well, Ramirez says he still hasn't gotten his passport back from ICE and that now carries around two copies of his birth certificate in case he is ever questioned again.

Veronica Miracle, CNN -- Los Angeles.

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HUNTE: Ok. still to come as Congress remains deadlocked on passing a funding bill, some airports are experiencing shortages in air traffic controllers. How the shutdown is leading to flight delays, next.

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HUNTE: Welcome back. U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy issued a warning to air

traffic controllers on Thursday that they could be fired if they don't show up for work. They're among the ranks of essential employees who must work during the government shutdown, even though they're not getting paid. Some airports are experiencing flight delays due to controller shortages.

Delta Airlines says it is the exception, with the company completing nearly all of its scheduled flights in the first week of October.

But a shortage is causing issues for other airlines, including leading to nationwide delays.

CNN's aviation correspondent Pete Muntean has more.

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PETE MUNTEAN, CNN AVIATION CORRESPONDENT: There is no way to tell where flight delays caused by air traffic controller staffing shortages during this government shutdown will crop up next.

on Thursday, Newark was on the list of delays. Also, short staffing at places like the Boston Center air traffic control facility in Nashua, New Hampshire. Also, the control towers in Roanoke, Virginia, and at Bradley in Hartford, Connecticut.

On Wednesday, the air traffic control tower here at Reagan National Airport was so short staffed that the FAA had to delay flights in the name of safety for about six hours on Wednesday night. Led to about a quarter of all flights for the day being delayed here at Reagan National Airport.

The larger issue is the margins are razor-thin. There are so few controllers to begin with in the United States, a nationwide shortage, and just a few of them calling out sick in certain areas can lead to an outsized impact.

Remember, 11,000 air traffic controllers in the U.S. essentially working without pay right now. Their last paycheck comes next Tuesday.

The union of air traffic controllers insists there is not some sort of coordinated sick-out effort taking place right now.

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MUNTEAN: It has led Southwest Airlines to issue a memo to all of its workers, saying they should be ready for these air traffic control delays anywhere in the U.S.

Pete Muntean, CNN -- Reagan National Airport.

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HUNTE: Basketball superstar Lebron James will reportedly miss the Lakers opening night game set for the 21st. According to multiple reports, it's due to sciatica, pain that originates in the spine and spreads down the back of the leg.

The reports say James's condition will be reevaluated in three to four weeks. The basketball league's all-time leading scorer has not been participating fully in the Lakers team practice, and he missed the team's first two preseason games.

YouTube may be laying out the mat to some formerly banned users. On Thursday, the video site began reviewing the reasons for some bans and could give those that were previously kicked off the platform a chance to create new accounts.

This all comes after Republican lawmakers launched an investigation into allegations that the Biden administration pressured tech companies to remove certain types of content.

YouTube has already ended rules that banned repeated posts containing misinformation about COVID-19, or the outcome of the 2020 U.S. election.

This means once-banned videos could be reposted if they no longer violate any other rules.

A judge has thrown out Drake's lawsuit over Kendrick Lamar's disc track "Not Like Us". Drake brought the defamation lawsuit against his own record label, Universal Music Group, because a division of the company published and promoted the song.

Lamar's lyrics infamously called Drake a quote, "certified pedophile". The judge ruled Drake could not sue for defamation over the line because it was an expression of Lamar's opinion and not an assertion of facts.

There's no word on whether Drake will appeal. "Not Like Us" won multiple Grammys and was featured in Lamar's Super Bowl half time performance earlier this year.

That's all I've got for you. Thanks for joining me and the team for this hour. I am Ben Hunte in Atlanta. And I will see you at the same time tomorrow.

But don't you dare go anywhere. CNN NEWSROOM has more in just a moment. Kim, over to you.

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