And water, that line of trucks has been waiting at the Rafah Crossing on the egyptian side of the gaza border because of israels blockade, the trucks have been unable to cross into gaza where more than 2 Million People have been without many of those basic necessities for 11 days, until now. After arriving in israel today President Biden announced that the u. S. Had convinced israel to let humanitarian aid into gaza via egypt. The deal is strict, and it is fragile. All of the aid must be inspected before entering gaza and it must go to civilians. If hamas steals or diverts any of that aid, the deal will end. After repairs to the Border Crossing are completed, this aid should start moving on friday at the earliest. And it is needless to say, but it has been a very long and very difficult week already. Today, President Biden announced his fifth speech fifth about this war, is it for eight pm eastern in the u. S. , tomorrow, which is coming on the heels of his Diplomatic Mission to israel
The white house was dealing with as his plane was preparing to take off from right Outside Washington yesterday and its something that hes been asked about essentially in every stop of hiss visit that was cut shorter, and he will come behind me and make remarks and that will be the culmination of President Bidens time here in tel aviv. It started out in that oneonone with Prime Minister netanyahu earlier this morning and that is where he embraced those denials by israel saying that they were not responsible for that explosion in the hospital in gaza city, and instead just a few moments ago President Biden said that it was analysis and data from his own pentagon that he was using and that it was part of his assertion that he did not believe that israel was behind it. Israel has forcefully denied that. Authorities, palestinian authorities have said that they do believe the idf is behind it. They said it was not them. It was not the only factor in this entire trip and one big question tha
The possibility of himself serving in that position before he has indicated he is opposed to that and this shows a desperate moment that republicans are in, jake and there are other possible candidates who can yet emerge and try to run for the Spook Speakership and they will run into the same problem, and nationally with Kevin Mccarthy who was pushed out of The Speakership that they would have a difficult, if not impossible time of getting to the 217 votes needed to be elected speaker given the significant divisions that are still within this badly divided republican conference traying tra tra traying to figure on the a way forward and jim jordan could lose the vote by potentially a worse margin than yesterday. It is unprecedented and frankly, embarrassing. Well get back to the vote that well see happen soon, but now lets go to israel and the american president and President Biden and the Anger Rippling across arab capitals specifically about that incident at the hospital. Cnns Kaitlan
Hospital in gaza city. This hospital is vital to the northern part of gaza. The explosion in gaza was caused by an Islamic Jihad rocket that was misfired. These images are having a huge impact across the region. These protests are only going to get larger. All of that made the president s planned summit in amman, jordan, effectively untenable. President biden is meeting with netanyahu at length. It appears as though it were done by the other team, not you. Good morning, everyone. Very significant day on the world stage. Im poply harlow with phil mattingly. Clarissa ward and Kaitlan Collins on the ground in israel and President Biden is at a volatile moment in the war between hamas and israel after an explosion at a hospital killed hundreds of innocent civilians. Officials there claim it was an israeli air strike but israel insists it was a misfired rocket that was launched by Palestinian Militants, Islamic Jihad near the hospital. President biden appeared to take israels side. Listen.
Invasion could begin at any t time. Senior Foreign Affairs correspondent is live israel Lebanon Border with the very latest. Greg. Tracy we are just very close to that border. We have been seeing a lot of classes recently and that new front in this turmoil could be developing. We will get to the details of that in a moment. First as Breaking News that President Biden will be coming here on wednesday to meet with officials. He will talk to them about thei plans for what we looks to be a looming land, sea and air invasion of the gaza strip allowing the hamas Military Massacre and hostage taking. There are reports this could expect the president will also address americans killed and captured by the militants. This as an antiamerican crisis into the gaza strip grows to hundreds of thousands of civilians seeking shelter. Essential services, food, Water Medicine or running out. Data and image are mounting. That and injured are mounting. The urging secretary linking to get into people that c