world. i m max foster in london, bianca is off today, just ahead on cnn newsroom. president zelenskyy s visit to washington on tuesday will come at a critical moment as lawmakers are working to come up with a package that would include new aid to ukraine. we need to bring america to a stop. that s what leadership should be doing. donald trump doubled down on comments he made during a town hall on fox news earlier in the week. you know why i wanted to be a dictator because i want a wall and i want to drill, drill, drill. it s clear from fierce fighting that israel is still battling to control much of northern gaza. there needs to be a premium put on protecting civilians and making humanitarian assistance can get to everyone who needs it. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. hello, it is monday, december 11th. 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington, ukraine s president will make his third trip to was
Though Israel is obviously justified in exercising its right to self-defense in response to the initial carnage by Hamas, Israeli forces must still abide by international humanitarian law while conducting their armed response, argues Hurst Hannum, Professor of International Law at Emeritus Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
hasn t unrest in israel continues to secretary of state antony blinken landed in egypt on sunday, today he is due to visit jerusalem tomorrow for talks on how to tackle the latest violence. his visit was preplanned but now the pressure is really odd separately blinken plans to be at both the israeli and palestinian leaders amid this ongoing tension, back to you arthel. arthel: okay kitty logan thank you very much, erica. eric: it s amazing, arthel kitty just a part of the palestinian authority s still has what they call pay for sleigh. if you are a terrorist to kill some israelis or americans they will actually pay the family bounties money for that but we saw that palestinians celebrating that. their moves in congress to get that to stop it s absolutely astounding. we are back at 4:00 p.m. eastern with more news. thank you.
being described as one of the deadliest attacks against israelis in several years now, so this is a major event and the area around the synagogue certainly is on lockdown, absolutely, and we will see if there is any further response from the israeli authorities, benjamin netanyahu is set to stage a crisis meeting of his cabinet tonight, one can expect from past history that there could be some follow-up from the israeli defense forces to this attack, even though it appears to be an individual involved in this, but yes, that is the concern, and as you note, yes, the secretary of state coming to the region, he s arriving in egypt on sunday and will go on to meet both israeli and palestinian officials after that in an attempt for the biden administration to try to tamp down on what could be a growing