Israel. This is very close to gaza city. Israel is continuing to ram up up its strikes this evening in gaza. Its 10 00 p. M. In southern israel. The country extends its Ground Operations this evening. What a possible Ground Invasion might looks like. At this point its unclear. It has felt imminent the last 48 to 72 hours, really. Israeli officials today telling us that the world should expect to hunker down for a long war. They have two missions. The first is to eliminate forever the threat that hamas can present to the country of israel. So that they can never be threatened or hurt again. They say that too many of their children live in fear, go to sleep in fear at night. They want to erase the threat of hamas and the threat of what they watched unfold on october 7th. Now, secondly, and not particularly in this order because these two things obviously are very interwoven in terms of what they face right now. 229 hostages. You can see some of their faces here. We will take a look at th
A lot across the border at the u. S. Embassy in beirut, lebanon. Public in the mideast upset by the blast of the hospital in gaza. Hamas claims israel. Israel claims the palestinians. They go after the blood Thirsty Hamas militants. It is what they used to call a phony war. Intermittent strikes but not a full blown invasion. Hezbollah using antitank missiles who hit a kibbutz. They used rockets and mortars and small arms. Israel huge Military Presence here. They responded overnight with artillery and air strikes, tanks, drones, you name it. So far in the past day since weve been here five israeli shoulders have been killed. 18 hezbollah and other militants have died as well and there has been civilian casualties. Remember, the powerful lebanonbased hezbollah claims 100,000 fighters, claims 150,000 rockets. They are playing a waiting game. A lot of threats from the group and benefactor iran. Remember, hezbollah and hamas depend on iran as well. Theyre clear if israel pushes further in t
two hours around the elementary school and adjusted the perimeter to exclude both schools. we ve done this in an effort to minimize the impact on the students and families while we continue with our search efforts. the district attorney and i have an ongoing dialogue and committed to providing them the most up-to-date information so they can make informed decisions about school operations. we re utilizing hundreds of state, local and federal enforcement officers, k-9s and various technology in an effort to keep the community safe. i d like to provide the media some insight of the scope in place. as a reminder, we re asking the public s help by familiarizing themselves with photograph and description of cavalcante, to check security cameras and call us immediately if they believe they may have seen him. again, we ask residents to secure homes, outbuildings and vehicles. cavalcante has clearly obtained some clothing and other unknown supplies. we want to minimize any opportunit
welcome, i m michael holmes, appreciate your company. we begin this hour in israel, 13 israeli citizens and 11 foreign nationals are out of gaza and back in israel after 49 days as hostages of hamas. the four-day pause in the fighting that made their release possible is entering day two and appears to be holding. a live look at gaza, where it s 8:00 a.m. israel says it has received a list of israeli hostages who should be released sometime on saturday and has notified their families. according to the israeli source, several children are on the list. friday, 13 were israelis and 5 were foreign nationals. among the non-israelis, ten thai and one filipino citizens. they re getting checked out in tel aviv. a spokesperson lauded the release but cautioned the process is far from over. translator: the sight of those who have safely crossed the border into israel evokes a profound sense of relief, yet our hearts remain with the hostages still held in gaza. tonight we embrace the fa
it is guilty party number 1 for all the massacres today and in the past. it is the united states directing the war in gaza. it must pay the price for its occupation and crimes in iraq, syria an palestine. neil: that doesn t sound promising. the leader of hezbollah lashing out. warning that americans will pay the price he says. former defense secretary mark esper here on how the u.s. should respond. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. we ll be hearing from the president of the united states. he s in lewiston, maine to recognize those that lost their lives in that mass shooting. let s go to steve harrigan where hezbollah has all of that strong firepower and from which the leader of hezbollah is making these inflammatory remarks. steve? hezbollah fighters are two miles away and firing daily. there s a lot of fear here about what nazrallah might say today. would he try to launch a second all-out front against israel using hezbollah s powerful long range guided missiles. that