Gaza. Will and smoke is now filling the air in gaza as the the Idf Is Reporting Attacksen on their northern border. Officials saying the shooting is coming from lebanon. That is a new development. You see the images on your with screen throughout the morning of explosions other gaza over gaza. If there are now and youve heard sporadic reports of firing on the northern border with hezbollah and lebanon, but we are crossing new bridges there on the escalation there in the north. That is certainly a notable development. Pete that is exactly right, will. Lets go to trey yingst who might have more for us. Hes lye on the ground in southern live on the ground in Southern Israel. The banner on our screen just read theres renewed fighting in the north. Would you expect that an offensive triggering in the south could mean more violation in the violence in the north too . Reporter yeah, guys, its the a great question. I do have some new information from the north. We can confirm this is an exchan
Again this cant be allowed to be repeated. With regard to the second we have been very focused, we had been since day one and we want to make sure no other country or entity is being taken advantage of in this situation. The president is very clear about that. He said very strongly that any state not considering that should not. Do not do it. And has back that up in a number of ways including as mentioned the other day, deploying our largest Aircraft Batter Group to battle group. So that is clearlyr anyone contemplating to get engaged to make sure they dont do it. Beyond that, Big Parts Of My Own conversations throughout this trip including today is working with other countries and making sure that they are using their own context and their own influence to make that case that no one else should be taking this moment to create more trouble. Especially in some other place. I should mention as well that earlier today i had a very good conversation with the president of authority and they
Neil protests in New York City and Around The World Today as israel prepares for a massive Ground Invasion in to the gaza strip. Were on top of all of these faster moving developments. Well talk to senator marco rubio and why he says israel has no choice but to wipe out hamas. Welcome. Im neil cavuto. To mike tobin in israel. Were learning about raids on a hamas targets in the last 24 hours with more to come. Mike . Certainly will be. A lot of tension at the northern border, a deputy to hezbollah leader says they wont listen to out Seed Pressure to not start another fight in northern border. Meantime, u. S. Defense secretary lloyd austin is in the area. He had a warning for hezbollah. Any country, any group, anyone thinking about trying to take advantage of this atrocity, to try to widen the conflict or bestow more blood, we have just one word. Dont. Israel had a warning for the civilians in the city of gaza that the time to get out for your own safety is now. Clear indicator that the
Saying death to israel. Death to america. Putting a sharp focus on the risk of a wider regional conflict as israel gets ready for an expected ground invasion. Trey yengst live in ashkelon, israel, north of the gaza strip. We begin a new hour. Weve got some new bill, good morning, weve got new information for you from the northern part of israel along the border with lebanon. An area called hanita. There has been an incident, explosion. Something happened and they are looking into it. It comes as we get new reporting from the gaza strip, a diplomatic source telling fox news today that hamas is preventing civilians inside homes. You heard that explosion in the distance. They are continuing air strikes at this hour in gaza. But this source telling fox news that hamas is preventing civilians from leaving their homes after they announced there will be an air strike there. The israelis have a way of informing civilians telling them to leave and destroying homes linked to hamas or relevant ta
The threat of terrorists and weapons in the area and locate hostages. This is not the all out Ground Invasion. Theyve also tweeted moments ago they are striking hezbollah targets in the north inside lebanon Secretary Blinken earlier in doha qatar asking about the larger Military Offensive expected in the coming days. The way israel does this matters. The way any democracy has to deal with such a situation matters, and to that end, we discussed with the israelis, urged the israelis to use every possible precaution to avoid armed civilians. Joining me now, ben rhodes, former Obama National security adviser to president obama. Ben, what Secretary Blinken was saying today and yesterday was that israel has a right to defend itself, that the u. S. Is firmly behind israels military decisions and helping with them, but he was very pointed in, again, today especially in qatar, that theyve urged israel to try to limit the damage to civilians. How do you do that with a Ground Invasion in that urb