Likely a prelude to a new stage of conflict with incredibly high stakes for israel, the palestinians and for the United States and the world. Air strikes in gaza have intensified today ahead of a possible Ground Invasion intended to crush hamas. Nbcs ellison barber captured this video of a steady stream of tanks about two miles from the border with gaza. U. S. Secretary of state Antony Blinken was in israel today reiterating the yaunts decades long and steadfast commitment to israel. Here is what he had to say about the conflict ahead. On the humanitarian situation in gaza, i think its first important to remember fundamental issue that makes this complicated. Hamas continues to use civilians as Human Shields, something thats not new, something that theyve always done, intentionally putting civilians in harms way to try to protect themselves or protect their infrastructure or protect their weapons. So thats one of the basic facts that israel has to deal with. Of course, civilians should
moments ago. as a result of these efforts an initial group of foreign nationals including u.s. citizens departed gaza through rafah today. and we expect exits of u.s. citizens and foreign nationals to continue over the next several days. we want to make sure we can get u.s. citizens and their family members out as safely as possible. a total of about 400 americans and their families are among the roughly 7,000 foreign nationals seeking to leave. some injured palestinians are also making it through to hospitals in egypt. you see there a long line of ambulances lined up near the rafah crossing. but as these evacuations ramp up, deadly israeli airstrikes continue. one in northern gaza yesterday hit the crowded refugee camp of jabalya. israel says the attack targeted a hamas commander who was behind the october 7th terrorist attacks. and today a second explosion rocking that camp. the idf just confirming it was another israeli strike. we have global coverage for you. we beg
from now, you will see ig report that identifies false statements or some unlawful leaks or both and they ll be a referral and some prosecutor will have that on his lap. eric: all right, more to come, bob, thanks so much as always. thanks for having me, sean. arthel: thank you, sir, several thousand people in gaza staging a fourth round of weekly protests on the border with israel, now a new voice entering the fray as the tensions continue to rise, what the european union is now telling the jewish state, plus central american migrants continuing their trek through méxico towards the u.s. border as president trump pushes to increase border security, the fight over illegal immigration is ahead.
is to blame for the boy s death, he said hamas, designated by terror group in the u.s., has been using civilians to act as human shields in gaza and hours before the demonstration took place as you mentioned, the israeli military dropped in gaza warning people not to take part in the demonstrations and saying that hamas was endangering their lives. israeli officials are saying that they are investigating the boy s death. eric: david, as you said, key spokesperson to get own citizens in gaza killed, what are demonstrators protesting specifically now? yesterday s demonstrations marks it fourth week in a row that the protests have taken place, the palestinians say that they are demonstrating because they want what they call the
death of this teenager? eric, authorities have identified this boy as mohamed, they say he s either 14 or 15 year s old. he was one of several thousand demonstrators taking part in this protest near the israeli-gaza border. now three other palestinians were also killed and more than 200 were wounded. the un s meeting envoy accused israel of killing children. palestinians are calling human council, they also attached devices to kites and never to cause fires across the border, israeli forces responded with tear gas and live ammunition. the boy s father says his son did not have a weapon and killed in cold blood, 150 yards from the border when he was hit by gunfire. hamas which has control of gaza