Tonight, we are closely watching multiple developing stories that have the world on edge. And israel, thousands of troops and tanks remain on the border with gaza awaiting orders for unanticipated ground offensive. As gaza descends deeper into a humanitarian crisis. A United Nations agency says gaza is, quote, running out of life, with dwindling supplies of food, water, energy, and medicine. Up to 600 americans also remain stuck in gaza as the rafah Border Crossing into egypt is still closed. Just hours ago, we learned hamas is foreign hostages when the necessary conditions are available. But until that happens, and if that happens, the families of what we know to be at least 199 hostages await any word about their loved ones who are being held hostage by hamas. The tara group also released Video Footage of a hostage for the first time today. It shows a 21yearold woman speaking to the camera under duress. And it is unclear when it was actually recorded. Right now, its 3 am in israel, a
Tonight, we are closely watching multiple developing stories that have the world on edge. And israel, thousands of troops and tanks remain on the border with gaza awaiting orders for unanticipated ground offensive. As gaza descends deeper into a humanitarian crisis. A United Nations agency says gaza is, quote, running out of life, with dwindling supplies of food, water, energy, and medicine. Up to 600 americans also remain stuck in gaza as the rafah Border Crossing into egypt is still closed. Just hours ago, we learned hamas is foreign hostages when the necessary conditions are available. But until that happens, and if that happens, the families of what we know to be at least 199 hostages await any word about their loved ones who are being held hostage by hamas. The tara group also released Video Footage of a hostage for the first time today. It shows a 21yearold woman speaking to the camera under duress. And it is unclear when it was actually recorded. Right now, its 3 am in israel, a
Despite israel not fully cooperating with us efforts to get humanitarian aid into gaza in the initial months, it does not currently assess that israel is prohibiting or restricting the transport of aid supplies. It has been a difficult week for us israel relations. President joe biden said the us could suspend certain Arms Shipments to israel if it launches a full scale invasion into rafah, a densley populated area where over one million civilians are sheltering and in dire need of humanitarian assistance. Our state Department Correspondent tom bateman has this report. This report has been three months in the making. It was ordered by the white house back in february with President Biden under growing pressure from human rights organisations, from part of his democratic base, over the way that american weapons were being used by the israelis in gaza. And what we have so far are the key findings that the state department here have released, and there is a key line in this report and it
In some instances during the war in gaza. The document says however that the Us Government does not have complete information to verify its assessment. It also finds that, despite israel not fully cooperating with us efforts to get humanitarian aid into gaza in the initial months, it does not currently assess that israel is prohibiting or restricting the transport of aid supplies. Its been a difficult week for Us Israel Relations. President joe biden said the us could suspend certain Arms Shipments to israel if it launches a full scale invasion in to rafah a densely populated area where over one million civilians are sheltering and in dire need of humanitarian assistance. Our correspondent tom bateman has been at the Us State Department and sent this update. This report has been three months in the making with President Biden under growing pressure from human rights organisations, from the partys Democratic Base over the way that the weapons were being used by the israelis in gaza. Wha
Cooperating with us efforts to get humanitarian aid into gaza in the initial months, it does not currently assess that israel is prohibiting or restricting the transport of aid supplies. The report culminates a difficult week for us israel relations. President joe biden said the us could suspend certain Arms Shipments to israel if it launches a full scale invasion in to rafah a densley populated area where one million civilians are sheltering and in dire need of humanitarian assistance. Our correspondent tom bateman has been at the Us State Department and hejoined me earlier with more. What do you take away from this report . Trying to come down on two sides of the same issue, it is a very interesting report and i think the fact that this criticism of the Israeli Government is very significant in its own right but that is in couched in a whole series of caviar to put the key line is she read out is this that the report finds that it is reasonable to assess the weapons and supplied by T