Killed what it calls nine palestinian terrorists. Israel has called its attacks a Counter Terrorism operation targeting what it described as a mixture of Terror Groups and terror cells. It claims iran, which backs hamas, is trying to open a new front against israel in the West Bank. The israeli raids took place in the cities ofjenin, nablus, tulkarm, believed to be the first time in some 20 years that several West Bank cities have been targeted at the same time. Lets take a closer look at the West Bank and what It Actually is. Its land on the West Bank of the riverjordan and bounded by israel and jordan. Its been occupied by israel since the 1967 Middle East war, but decades of talks between israel and the palestinians have left its final status unresolved. The international Court Ofjustice has lets cross live now tojerusalem where we can speak to our correspondent yolande knell. Just bring us up to date on this operation. Just bring us uptodate on this operation operation. This is a
americans do? here is our international editor. one of the presidents international editor. one of the presidents officials - international editor. one of the presidents officials as l the presidents officials as actions speak louder than words. we can only speculate at this point. what tends to happen is the us militarily gives the president a menu of options that he can choose. and the lowest level, if you like, might be to hit back at iranian proxies operating inside syria or iraq. that might not be enough for the americans, and especially not forjoe biden s critics back home. so they might do something a bit more. they might go for iranian targets in those countries or they could go for maybe iranian targets in the gulf. the most extreme option, and i think this is highly unlikely, would be to attack targets inside iran itself, inside the territory of iran. that s something that the americans have not done. so we get to a situation now where the american secretary of st
Joining us tonight. A news night with abby. Phillip starts now the gop is once again the dog that caught the car are the consequences . This could be farreaching for millions of women thats tonight on this side good evening. Im abby phillip in new york tonight. You might just get what you ask for. Republicans are relearning that lesson today. Arizona supreme court, a court made up of all republican appointees have ruled in a four to two decision that physicians are now on notice that all abortions, except those necessary to save a womans life are illegal. That decision and the timing is truly stranger than fiction. It happened just a day after donald trump said, leave it to the states to make up their minds on abortion now, the country has firsthand evidence of what exactly 50 State Patchwork Approach to abortion would actually look like. The gsp spent 50 years trying to eradicate roe versus wade. But now that they have the aftermath isnt pleasant and only now that the electoral conseq
38 political candidates have been killed during the campaign, making mexico s election one of the most violent in recent history. will grant, what s the latest you can tell us. you can probably hear behind me, the main square in mexico city, the festivities for claudia sheinbaum s supporters are picking up, they are pretty confident she has got this. there are not enough votes counted yet to say that with any degree of certainty, but certainly, i don t think they need convincing. she has always been quite far ahead in the polls before voting day, and they are convinced that has been transferred to the vote itself. that said, her nearest challenger galvez has already claimed victory too, so we are in one of those strange post electoral moments. it will be ironed out in the coming hours, but we aren t maybe a few hours away from mexico declaring who its next woman president, almost certainly, it is. $5 its next woman president, almost certainly, it is. as you sa , almost certai