city today going street by street. carley: gaza strip is split between north and south where they are rejecting calls for a pause. todd: you are watching fox and friends first, i m todd piro. carley: i m carley shimkus. the fighting continues and command says snuk lar powered submarine is now in the middle east. todd: the military almost never announces their location. trey yingst has the latest. trey. trey: good morning, fighting rages on inside the gaza strip, israelis say they surrounded gaza city. the neighborhood behind me is northern part of gaza. israelis are using artillery unit and air force to strike different positions inside. we are talking about thousands of soldiers supporting efforts to go after hamas and look for hostages inside gaza. i want to show you what it was like last night. israeli using heavy bombless to target the strip. take a look. trey: israelis are using bunker busting bombs against hamas tunnel network under gaza city. the focus is
good morning, everyone, and welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday, november 5. i m amara walker. i m victor blackwell. thank you for joining us. new developments out of the middle east. secretary of state antony blinken just wrapped up an unannounced visit to ramallah as violence escalates in the west bank. details on his meeting with palestinian president mahmoud abbas and what we re learning about another explosion near a refugee camp. donald trump s feud with ron desantis takes center stage, literally, as the former president parades husband new supporters on stage at a republican gathering in florida. we ll tell you ron desantis response and why chris christie was booed on the stage. trump will spend monday in a new york courtroom. he is scheduled to several in the civil fraud trial against his company. what we heard from his kids on t the stand and the role they played in that company. in the west bank, secretary of state antony blinken has met with the p
will: benjamin netanyahu rejecting the biden administration s call for a humanitarian pause and gaza as they push deeper into the gaza strip as the leader of hezbollah threatens further escalation with israel and warns the us involvement in the conflict will not scare us. i am griffin jenkins. alicia: i am alicia acuna. there s a much calling for cease-fire and end to us aid to israel. we have coverage with steve harrigan on israel/lebanon border, trey yingst in southern is reliant mike emanuel in washington. we start with you for the latest on the pro-palestinian march. reporter: good afternoon. the crowd to build steadily, people coming from all over, some pro-palestinian, others antiwar, the bottom line is they are calling on president biden to defund support to israel and calling for end to military action in the middle east region. you can see freedom plaza is inside of the capit0l building. the streets have been closed off. all kinds of signage and us aid to israel, l
risk sweltz the crossing itself. finally that happened and still there was intense diplomacy across the region. president biden s envoy to the middle east, david satterfield was key among the players along with qatar and egypt to try to really get a deal in which all parties involved would be willing to let these civilians go. and so finally after days and days of everyone holding their breath and hoping it would work out, it did work out finally on wednesday. it s just a small fraction of the 7,000 as you said civilians who could qualify to leave egypt. we re just beginning at this point. let s talk about the strikes on the refugee camp. israel knows they d widely criticized and made the calculation it was worth it to get a hamas leader or two. give us a sense as to the reaction from the region, and is there a fear, perhaps, that s really going to inflame what s happening there and could widen the conflict? absolutely, john. a lot of outrage across the region, and ac
we also need to be focused on the day after, and so in conversations that we ll be having through the course of this weekend, i expect you ll see a focus there and particularly how we can get over time to two states for two peoples, which in our judgment remains the best guarantor and maybe the only guarantor of a secure jewish and democratic israel and palestinians with the state that they re entitled to. so these will be the things that we re focused on. these are challenging times. these are intensely difficult issues, but i am convinced that american diplomacy can make a difference in moving everyone to a better place. that s what we ll be working to do. thank you, mr. secretary. do you assess that israel has shown restraint up to this point, and what are the concrete steps you ll be pushing them on? and are you confident you ll actually be able to get them to make any movement on this given the maximalist positions we ve seen? as has been said and it s important, isr