eric: at the intensive ferocious sounds of war the idf continues to encounter fierce fire fights with the terrorist fighters of hamas. new video appears to show israeli airstrike on a hamas command center in gaza bird that follows an announcement by the israeli military it will expand its campaign to wipe out the terror group completely. this is the idf announces five e soldiers who range in age from 19 23 years old have been killed bringing the total so far 256. this is a brand-new hour of fox news live i am eric shawn. arthel: i have arthel neville patients at gaza s largest hospital fleeing for their lives leaving behind people too sick to evacuate and the doctors who are caring for them. idf says it allowed humanitarian pauses and fighting today so residents could leave in the senior advisor to the israeli prime minister says that will continue but there is still no plan for a cease-fire. it is important to distinguish between humanitarian pauses which we have done
today. the cnn newsroom continues right now. you are in the cnn newsroom. we begin with breaking news. president biden has written an op-ed in the washington post where he rejected calls for a cease fire in gaza. priscilla alvarez is with the president in wilmington. what is the president s message tonight? this covers a few things related to both the israel conflict as well as ukraine. to start, the president does reject those calls for a cease fire. those have been mounting both domestically and abroad and he writes quote, as long as hamas clings to its ideology of destruction, a cease fire is not peace. to hamas members, every cease fire is time they exploit to rebuild their stockpile of rockets, reposition fighters, and restart the killing by attacking innocents again. this is in line with the administration s position, which is that there shouldn t be a cease fire. instead, they have been advocating for pauses in the fighting to get those hostages released as
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anita: doctors patientings and displaced gazan sheltering in the al-shifa hospital now evacuating as idf searches property for hamas forces and the suspected underground command center. welcome to fox news live everyone i m angt anita vogel great to be with you. griff. pushing further into the gaza strip and alex hogan is live with the latest. reporter: major protest growing tonight of the families and supporters of the hostages. thousands of people gathering putting a lot of pressure on the government not only to do more to bring those hostages home but also criticism that the government wasn t adequately prepared when we saw mass curse on october 7th all of this started with a march for several days take a look at the video. thousands people walked all the way from tel-aviv to jerusalem thousands of people these marches growing throughout the day and they slept in tents along sides of the street and one of the families joining this march today is actually the family members
welcome to all of you watching us in the united states, canada and around the world. i m kim brunhuber. ahead on cnn newsroom, supplies are run ning low in gaza creatig an even more desperate situation for residents. cnn crews have seen heavy idf activity in gaza overnight. plus a colorado judge calls donald trump an insur ex-ist. an entire town in iceland as a nearby volcano appears ready to erupt. it s 5:00 a.m. here in atlanta. noon in israel, exactly six weeks after the attacks of october 7th that launched the war against hamas. israeli media is reporting the death toll of the music festival in southern israel was far higher than anyone realized. citing ab israeli police report, the death toll now stands at 364, up from 270. we have also learned 17 of those killed were police officers, and 40 people at the have been were taken hostage. israeli authorities don t believe the terrorists knew about the festival beforehand. for civilians in gaza, the situation on the gro