the israeli army is conducting localised raids in northern gaza, wherei million palestinians were told today to relocate ahead of a much bigger ground operation that is expected. in a day of rage ordered by hamas, there were protests across the middle east, and more rockets fired from gaza towards tel aviv. with me on the panel tonight sunday columnist and deputy political editor at the mail on sunday, anna mikhailova. also here from atlanta, the attorney and democratic strategist, chris bruce. in the next few minutes we will get the thoughts of the former israeli prime minister, ehud olmert. and we will bring you up to speed with the chaos in the us house of representatives where republicans are still struggling to appoint a speaker. good evening. the israel s military has ordered the evacuation of more than 1 million palestinians from the northern section of the gaza strip, a move the united nations has described as calamitous . the 24 hour deadline provoked a desperate
forced to wait in a tent. i feel helpless, he says. the world is powerless to open the border. the hospitals here can no longer help me. just when rafah s need is greatest, its main hospital lies silent and abandoned, hastily evacuated in the face of israel s sudden advance, now dangerously close to the front line. israel insists its operation is limited. but new images of tanks massing on the border earlier this week have raised fears that rafah s densely populated centre could soon be attacked in defiance of washington. translation: if we have to stand alone, we will stand alone. i have already said that, if necessary, we will fight with our nails. last night, a rare warning from president biden an all out assault will have consequences. they go into rafah, i m not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with rafah, to deal with the cities, to deal with that problem. for one former israeli prime minister, this is a significant moment the curr
colleague and friend ana ca grar cabrera. right now, the unrelenting pounding of gaza city continues in response to the hamas terror attack. you re looking at live pictures where it is just 6:00 p.m. inside gaza. just outside that city israeli troops and tanks are continuing to mass at the board leading to a belief that a ground invasion is imminent. plus, secretary of state antony blinken is in tel aviv, affirming the united states s unwavering commitment to israel while standing along side israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. the message that i bring to israel is this, you may be strong enough on your own to defend yourself, but as long as america exists, you will never, ever have to. we will always be there by your side. we begin this hour with our reporters there on the ground, in israel. let s get to nbc s ali velshi. tell us where you are and the latest. reporter: we re heading back to the border. we normally spend our afternoons and evenings into the ni
you have been watching israel s military assault in gaza from afar. has it unfolded in the way you expected? yes, it has unfolded in the way i expected but not in the way that i thought it should be. there is a huge tension between the way that i see this war and the way that the government define it, and the problem is, and i have said it from the very beginning, that this war is a war without any political goal. and what happens to this type of war, that the war becomes the end and not the means in order to achieve a better political goal. so the answer is yes and no. isn t the strategic sort of aim to destroy hamas as a fighting force and to completely eliminate it as a governing force in gaza, isn t that a clear political strategic ambition? no, absolutely not. it is a military goal, it is not a political goal. we have to understand that when we discuss the whole concept of war, the idea is to create a better political reality. the battlefield or the military forces are j
some time ago. you have been watching israel s military assault in gaza from afar. has it unfolded in the way you expected? yes, it has unfolded in the way i expected but not in the way that i thought it should be. there is a huge tension between the way that i see this war and the way that the government define it, and the problem is, and i have said it from the very beginning, that this war is a war without any political goal. and what happens to this type of war, that the war becomes the end and not the means in order to achieve a better political goal. so the answer is yes and no. isn t the strategic sort of aim to destroy hamas as a fighting force and to completely eliminate it as a governing force in gaza, isn t that a clear political strategic ambition? no, absolutely not. it is a military goal, it is not a political goal. we have to understand that when we discuss the whole concept of war, the idea is to create a better political reality. the battlefield or the milita