gowdy. israeli defense forces continue to pound hamas encircling gaza strip and rejecting calls from president biden and others for a so-called humanitarian pause. israel says if you want to pause, release the hostages, otherwise israel is reluctant to pause and allow hamas to regroup and the world should be reluctant to take the word of a terrorist group that beheads children. alex hogan is live in southern israel and joins us now. alex. we ve started to hear artillery pick up, loudest blasts in the entire time here in israel, where you can feel the pressure and hear that echo ripple off into the distance. there is gunfire tonight, what appears to be machine gunfire in the distance in the direction of gaza strip. there were soldiers earlier tonight who asked us to cross the street to be closer to armed police officers. day 31, entering the early hours of the morning, idf spokesperson says what remains the main focus is rescuing those hostages. hamas terrorist organization
Than 22,000 people most of them women and children have been killed in gaza since the war. on friday, the un called gaza uninhabitable . nearly half of the territory s population is now displaced and faces food, water and medical shortages. meanwhile, on saturday, us secretary of state antony blinken met turkish president recep tayyip erdogan at the start of a week long regional tour aimed at stopping the conflict from widening. we have an intense focus on preventing this conflict from spreading and a big part of the conversations we ll be having over the coming days with all of our allies and partners is looking at the steps that they can take, using the influence and ties that they have, to do just that to make sure that this conflict doesn t spread. second, we ll be looking at what we can do to maximise the protection of civilians, maximise humanitarian assistance getting into them, and also to get hostages out of gaza.
There. the israeli military says it has completed the dismantling of what it calls hamas s military framework in northern gaza after three months of fighting. an israel defence forces spokesman said that about 8,000 militants have been killed and tens of thousands of weapons seized. he said that israel was now focused on dismantling hamas in the centre and south of gaza. the hamas run health authorities say more than 22,000 people, most of them women and children, have been killed in gaza since the war began. on friday, the united nations called gaza uninhabitable . nearly half of the territory s population is now displaced and faces food, water and medical shortages. meanwhile, on saturday, us secretary of state antony blinken met turkish president recep tayyip erdogan in istanbul at the start of a week long regional tour aimed at stopping the conflict from widening. we have an intense focus on preventing this conflict from spreading and a big part of the conversations we ll be hav
Talk to prrs. a prosecutors. and they got to talk to giuliani himself, the guy at the top of the trump legal network in 2020. so if there is a case coming soon, a lot of signs point to that, but there is a lot there that prosecutors are doing and then finally of course we re almost in the window from when the georgia grand jury in fulton county is going to be able to look at whether they will be bringing an indictment. july 11th i believe is that beginning of the period of time. the state department says americans should reconsider traveling to china due to the risk of being wrongfully detained. this comes amid heightened tensions between washington and beijing. last month secretary of state antony blinken met with president xi jinping to try to cool those tensions. during their visit blinken said he brought up the cases of three americans china has wrongfully detained.
reporter: and donald trump has denied involvement in any payments to stormy daniels and denied ever having an affair with her. a spokesperson declined to comment on the new acceleration of the daniels case and an attorney for david pecker also would not comment. brian todd, cnn, washington. now to the latest in the show of support for palestinians. secretary of state antony blinken met with mahmoud abbas on tuesday calling for an end to the recent violence. he also reaffirmed u.s. support for a two state solution to the israeli/palestinian conflict. and benjamin netanyahu says that he plans to prioritize peace with israel s arab neighbors before pursuing talks with the palestinians. he spoke with cnn s jake tapper. and we also asked will imabout t him about the war this ukraine. i wanted to ask you that an