in their ground operation in gaza, but pressure mounting on president biden as the humanitarian crisis worsens in gaza worsens. 400 foreign nationals have crossed into egypt today, but another 6000 trapped and waiting to get on a list. we will hearfrom one man who is desperately trying to extract his parents. 0ur panel this evening security consultant justin crump from sybiline and the washington post s live anchor leigh anne caldwell. we will dip into the ongoing row in congress over israel and ukraine aid. and we will bring you the news from that hour long sit down rishi sunak had tonight with billionaire elon musk. good evening. the israeli prime minister says his country will not agree to a ceasefire with hamas. the calls for a pause in fighting, he said, are calls for a surrender. instead, the idf will be intensifying its military operations. bbc verify have been looking at the satellite pictures for us. this image is from november the ist. the israeli military appear
today the desperate escape from a war zone. hundreds of americans are waiting at the rafah crossing hoping to get out of gaza as soon as today. this as israeli forces are fighting face to face battles with hamas and pushing into gaza city. all in response to the unimaginably brutal hamas massacre of some 1400 israeli citizens. plus president biden is calling for a pause to get hostages out and aid in. that new public posture comes as political pressure increases on the president from within his own party. and republicans call out one of their own. gop senators slam tommy tuberville for hours on the senate floor for continuing to hold up hundreds of military promotions. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. we re going to start with t urgent effort to get americans out of gaza. hundreds of foreign nationals and dozens of injured civilians are expected to leave the crossing today. melissa bell is covering all of this from cairo. what are we seeing
to leave for their safety. images show craters and levelled buildings. the bbc can t verify most battlefield claims immediately but the idf say the target was ibrahim biari, a senior hamas battalion commander that the idf describes as pivotal to the planning of the october 7th attacks. jeremy bowen s report contains scenes you may find appalling. the israeli army says the strike killed a senior hamas commander. and some of his men. it said hamas was using these civilians as human shields in a cruel and brutal manner and that the air strikes caused the collapse of underground hamas bunkers. israel ordered civilians to leave this area. many did. many others did not. the un said some people even returned to their homes because conditions further south were so desperate. an unknown number of people are buried under the rubble. they were pulling out children. he says, oh, god, my three children are gone. three kids. i hope i can find one of them alive. i didn t bid them farewe
moving in and out of the strip since the war began. you are watching fox and friends first on wednesday morning, i m carley shimkus. todd: i m todd piro. 400 americans are in gaza. jonathan hunt has the latest with all of it. jonathan. jonathan: todd piro and carley, good morning to you. this is an agreement broken by the qataris along with egypt, israel, u.s. and hamas. it will allow, we are told, all foreign nationals, passport holders, to leave gaza via southern border crossing with rafah. you look at live picture of that border crossing. we understand that some of the foreign nationals have already gone through the crossing and have been processed. we do not know at this point whether that includes americans, but we are told that americans are obviously among those who will be allowed to leave gaza today, after three weeks stuck there in the most terrifying of circumstances. meantime, u.s. officials are doing nothing to hide their concern over the potential for a re
area the israeli government told people to leave for their safety. images show creators and levelled buildings. the bbc can t verify most battlefield claims immediately but be idf say the target was a senior hamas battalion commander that the idf describes as pivotal to the idf describes as pivotal to the planning of the october the seven attacks. more now from our international editorjeremy bowen and a warning, his report contains images some may find distressing. israel says the destruction came from air strikes that killed a senior hamas commander and some of his men. it said hamas was using these civilians as human shields in a cruel and brutal manner, and that the air strikes caused the collapse of underground hamas bunkers. israel ordered civilians to leave this area. many did. many others did not. the un said some people even returned to their homes because conditions further south were so desperate. an unknown number of people are buried under the rubble. they were