Our middle east correspondent lucy williamson reports now on the growing pressures on israel s prime minister benjamin netanyahu. Hamas would protect them as assets, the argument went. These younger, fitter hostages were the ones who would survive. Instead, israel s army says they were shot by hamas in a tunnel under rafah as israeli forces battled above them. Almog seroussi, alexander lobanov, ori danino, eden yerushalmi, whose last words to her sister were, they ve caught me. And hersh goldberg polin, a 23 year old us israeli citizen, and carmel gat, a therapist who was described by other hostages as their guardian angel. Carmel s family said she and hersh were due to be released in a deal outlined in july. Her cousin today inconsolable. It s too late for us. It s too late for carmel. I will never hug her again. But 101 people can still hug theirfamilies. For them, make the deal. Save lives. As pressure on israel s prime minister builds, today, he blamed hamas for the failure to free
Welcome to welcome to primetime weekend. I m rachel maddow. Let s get right to the week s top stories. The past 24 hours have been a microcosm of the race. Kamala harris and tim walz doing the standard campaign work for a major party candidate. They kept an even keel at the sitdown interview last night that went through a lot of the republican charges against them. While they are doing that, trump is out there, honestly stumbling to put together english sentences. His campaign keeps stepping in masses of its own making including an enormous one tonight which we will get to. Both the candidate and his aides are, as usual, posting through it. The fallout continues from trumps a political photo op and campaign commercial on tiktok at arlington national cemetery at the beginning of the week where he gave the thumbs up over the graves of veterans, including many who did not consent to any of this. He cut a video blaming their deaths on democrats. Now, his campaign is openly doing battle wi
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As we can see here and tel aviv in an effort to put pressure on the israeli government to bring the remaining hostages home. The funerals for some of the hostages have been held. These pictures are from ra anana, just north of tel aviv, where a service has been held for almog sarusi. The israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, blamed hamas leaders for the killings, saying they showed hamas did not want a deal. The opposition leader yair lapid accused mr netanyahu of deciding not to save the hostages. Jon donnison reports from jerusalem on what we know about the israeli hostages. Six more dead israeli hostages in gaza. Carmel gat, who was a0. Alexander lobanov, 32. Almog sarusi, aged 27. Eden yerushalmi, 24. Ori danino, who was 25. And the youngest, hersh goldberg polin, just 23, who was also an american citizen. With broken hearts, the goldberg polin family is devastated to announce the death of their son and brother, hersh. They thank you all for your love and support and ask fo
Lucy williamson reports 00:01:01,320 4294966103:13:29,429 from jerusalem. Ra anana, just north a red flag at the protest today. A message to the prime minister. The last red line has been crossed. Hostages were dying, they said, as a direct result of the prime minister s failure to sign a deal. Outside mr netanyahu s office today they ve being shouting murderer. Many people here think he simply doesn t want a deal. And if the deal is no longer possible, than the hostages are no longer valuable to hamas. . Hostages cannot determine guns are shooting. In the time necessary to return hostages, when necessary to return hostages, when guns are shooting. The irony is the fighting did stop in central gaza today. The start of a nine day vaccine programme delivered by the un. The discovery of gaza s first case of polio in 25 years, the start of a nine day vaccine programme delivered by the un. The discovery of gaza s first case of polio in 25 years, the only thing that s paused the fighting s