a subtle message shift, but a strong message from secretary of state tony blinken saying that far too many palestinians have been killed. and senator joe manchin says he is not running for re-election and threatening the democrats chances of keeping control of the senate next year and stoking speculation of a third-party presidential run. and dispatching alerts across the country with letters sent to election offices in six states and workers finding fentanyl in one office. john and sara are off today. i m kate bolduan with omar jimenez. this is cnn news central. this morning, secretary of state tony blinken says that israel must do more to protect palestinian civilians and seen as one of the most direct condemnations so far of the civilian death toll of the hamas-israel war. and this as strikes hit a hospital in gaza. watch this. explosions were seen near two hospitals where israel says that hamas has placed some of the headquarters underneath in tunnels. just a few m
images of the civilians in gaza in the fallout of the military operation that israel has carried out there inside of gaza, and clearly the u.s. is trying to convey to israel that the images of this being broadcast around the world is having quite an impact on israel s reputation and exactly how people feel about the way that israel is acting in this operation as we speak. so they are trying to strike that balance, and secretary blin ken also talked about the painful images and videos he has seen of the gazan civilians suffering in the bombardments taking place there over the last several weeks. that is the fine line, the balancing act that the u.s. is trying to carry out here in trying to get israel to behave more constrained, but he also went on to say that there are legitimate questions of how any pause in this would take place, and clearly in the last several days, israeli military officials, and political leadership here, they have made no bones about it, that they are dr