welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states. canada, and all around the world. this is cnn s continuing coverage of the israel hamas war. u.s. secretary of state antony blinken is back in israel at this hour with the warning of the growing number of civilian casualties in gaza could undermine international support for israel in its ongoing war against hamas. the secretary and israeli prime minister is expected to meet today. gaza city is now completed surrounded by its forces. this is one of the most intense instances of israeli bombardment since the war began. our soldiers have been operating in gaza city for several days. deepening the operation. our forces are in n significant areas of gaza city. the idf says 23 of its soldiers died in the gaza operationsns. the primarary objective e is locating a and d destroying the hamas tunnel network and eliminating explosives and other on scattered obstacles. reporter: the ground incursion with tanks and troops
. hello and welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. i m bianca nobilo. max foster has been on assignment. and we begin with the israel-hamas war. it is s friday, novembmber 3 3, a.m. in london, 10:00 a.m. in gaza where the israeaeli milita says it has gaza city cut off and surrounded. idf says the primary goal is to locate and destroy hamas tunnels and eliminate explosives and other objecstacles. 23 soldiers have died in the operation. secretary of state antony blinken returned to israel and is expected to meet this hour with benjamin netanyahu. the secretary says the u.s. is increasingly concerned by the rising civilian death toll in gaza which palestinian officials say is more than 9,000 people. more than a dozen u.s. democratic senators are now calling for a short term pause in the fighting in order to deliver more aid and to focus to getting hostages released. scott mclean is covering these angels for us. what is blinken hoping to accomplis
deal has been struck overnight to open the rafah border crossing to some critically injured palestinians as well as foreign passport holders. and this is significant since it might allow some american citizens stuck in gaza the opportunity to leave. chief fox news correspondent jonathan hunt joins us live from jerusalem with the very latest. jonathan, it has to be some very good news, good news indeed, lauren, as we hit the 10 a.m. hour here in israel and we understand from the reporting of the associated press that some of those foreign nationals have already now crossed from southern gaza into northern egypt via the rafah border crossing at the southern end of the gaza strip. we do not know at this point whether those who have crossed or will cross will include americans. but we assume that this involves all foreign nationals, all foreign passport holders. so we await to see when and if all of those americans who have been stuck inside gaza for more than three weeks now are
of tonight s angle. no other way to say it, it was a clown show on capitol hill today. the same people who have been wrong about pretty much every major foreign policy issue for the past 25 years are back at this again. today blinken and austin testified before congress, asking for another $106 billion for multiple urgent priorities. ukraine, israel, something in the far east. and humanitarian aid to gaza. they call it an emergency supplemental. but the real emergency is in biden s re-election campaign, which is taking on more water than biden is taking naps. stop reporting the genocide as [inaudible] the people of gaza. shame on you all. the world is. cease-fire now. cease-fire now. [screaming] cease-fire now. now, this by the way went on and on and on. so much for that unbreakable biden coalition. now, this is where most normal people though are asking how it makes any sense for the u.s. to go further into debt to pay for these emergencies when we already have $33 t
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