From just outside of the gaza border. Dozens of israeli tanks, armored personnel carriers, and bulldozers are gathered in this area, and several other groupings are nearby. Israeli troops are waiting to storm into gaza after days of agonizing delays, humanitarian aid house rolled into gaza for the First Time Since the war began two weeks ago. The Border Crossing between egypt and gaza is closed again, we should note, after the 20 truck convoy made its way through. Police agencies say that many more shipments of water, fuel, and food are urgently needed. And that gazis Hospital System is teetering on collapse. Also to tell you about this afternoon, American Mother and daughter are one step closer to the u. S. Soil, one day after being freed by hamas. Judith raanan and her 17yearold daughter, natalie, are uniting today at an Israeli Military base. Her father says that theyre expecting her home by tuesday for her 18th birthday. Ive been waiting for this moment for a long time, two weeks.
good morning, everyone. glad you re with us. ooip poppy harlow in new york. there s a lot of news to get to this morning. here are five things to know for this thursday. at moment, hundreds of americans could cross the border out of gaza and into egypt one day after the rafah crossing opening. israel striking the largest refugee camp for the second day in a row. president biden now saying we need a pause in order to get the prisoners out of the war zone. overnight republicans going after one of their own taking to the senate flor and slamming senator tommy tuberville as he continues to hold up the m military appointments. donald trump jr. rirning to the stand today followed by his brother as the $250 million civil fraud trial continues. a much-needed win for a community in mourning. the high school football team from lewiston, maine, beating their rivals with a roster of celebrities cheering them on. cnn this morning starts right now. this is a live look at the ra
hamas came to power in gaza, president mubarak treated it like a criminal organization. now you had 13 arab foreign ministers coming to gaza visiting the hamas leader. and the hamas leader has often had to run around the world as if he was a terrorist. now he s receiving all these dignitaries. the hamas position is that there should be a cease fire immediately and that along with that cease fire, there should be an open or the siege on gaza because i m glad you showed that map. gaza doesn t have any external border. it s surrounded by egypt or israel. according to various agreements, any goods that come in or out of
ground war. i don t think israel wants a ground war. i don t think hamas would mind a ground war. a much more bloody would get involved. not the egyptian government, the egyptian people would start streaming in here. the arab media that was so influential in bringing down a arab dictatorships here would go into a state of that would benefit hamas. so i think it really depends on how much influence hillary clinton can have over morsi and how much influence morsi can have because even though this area here is being pounded militarily and there was the heaviest air strikes tonight that we have seen thus far, hamas feels richard engel, live from gaza. thank you. thank you for staying up in the middle of the night. stay safe. thinking about the leverage
home of the pro-democracy advocate. 4:14 p.m. yesterday she was boarding air force one with the president headed to cambodia. midnight today, she was with the president at the east asia summit. but then hillary clinton suddenly and unexpected peeled off leaving cambodia at 2:51 eastern time this afternoon flying first to israel to make a middle of the night meeting with the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. this took place at 11:08 p.m. in jerusalem when hillary clinton sat down with benjamin netanyahu. and from there after her meating with the israeli prime minister, she went to go talk to the palestinians. but not those in gaza where the fighting was happening, because the u.s. doesn t talk to their governing body, so she ll go to a different territory not contiguous with where the fighting is. as long as we re talking about