The threat of terrorists and weapons in the area and locate hostages. This is not the all out Ground Invasion. Theyve also tweeted moments ago they are striking hezbollah targets in the north inside lebanon Secretary Blinken earlier in doha qatar asking about the larger Military Offensive expected in the coming days. The way israel does this matters. The way any democracy has to deal with such a situation matters, and to that end, we discussed with the israelis, urged the israelis to use every possible precaution to avoid armed civilians. Joining me now, ben rhodes, former Obama National security adviser to president obama. Ben, what Secretary Blinken was saying today and yesterday was that israel has a right to defend itself, that the u. S. Is firmly behind israels military decisions and helping with them, but he was very pointed in, again, today especially in qatar, that theyve urged israel to try to limit the damage to civilians. How do you do that with a Ground Invasion in that urb
the hamas stronghold from the north and south. hamas is designated a terrorist organisation by the uk. us presidentjoe biden says he has asked israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu for a pause in the fighting in gaza. our middle east correspondent yolande knell reports. flares hanging in gaza s night sky are ominous warnings of incoming israeli fire. but, increasingly, the israeli prime minister s being pressed for a pause in fighting. i did ask him for a pause yesterday. this is a key moment. israeli troops are now said to be in the heart of gaza city, closing in on the stronghold of hamas, ministers say. but the destruction in gaza is already immense, with entire neighbourhoods flattened. the civilian death toll is rapidly mounting. the world health organisation says an average of 160 children are killed here every day. nothing justifies the horror being endured by the civilians in gaza. people in gaza are dying in their thousands and those alive are suffering from trau
israel and egypt tightened their blockade of the territory. the un still considers gaza to be occupied by israel. there have been several full scale conflicts between israel and palestinian groups based in gaza since then including limited israeli ground invasions injanuary 2009, and in 2014. shaimaa khalil is in west bank and gave us this analysis of how the palestinians are likely to respond. one of the most problematic parts of the plan is that israel plans to maintain general security in gaza, which means an israeli presence in gaza. that was floated by benjamin netanyahu early on, when speaking to an american network, and that was met by a great deal of concern from his allies, the united states and the uk, and i remember speaking to the uk foreign secretary at the time, but also from arab negotiators, specifically egypt and qatar. this will make any diplomatic
urgent calls to evacuation americans and not offer them help. i wish our administration was warning russian not to touch the hair on a single american. the primary of american safety should be foremost. sandra: you can see the map on the screen right now. we heard from the white house. they do believe if the attack happens, it will be with aerial bombing and missile attacks. that could kill civilians without regard to their nationality said jake sullivan. you believe as general kellogg just detailed this initial attack would not involved the cities and notes that sylvan said subsequent ground invasions would involve the onslaught of a massive force? with respect to general kellogg, the honest answer is i
belgorod where i am right now is one of the main hubs that the russians are using to launch these attacks. on the other hand, it s boum clear throughout the night that this is an extremely widespread attack. you were talking about it. there was that cctv video of troops crossing the border, on a border crossing between ukraine and belarus. that was one of the things that had always been hanging in the air, whether or not russian forces would also invade belarus. i was actually at exercises last week in belarus with the russian and belarusian militaries where i asked belarusian strongman alexander lukashenko about the possibility of that happening, and he laughed it off. he said, do you really believe that we re going to invade ukraine from belarus? well, now it certainly appears as though that does seem to be happening. as far as some of those other possible ground invasions, we don t have confirmation yet about where russian forces may have also crossed the border. but one thing i can