Hello welcome to our viewers joining us here in the United States, and all around the world. We continue our breaking News Coverage from israel at war. This is what i am here on the east coast. Im john false. The death toll in israel continues to surge. More than 1200, mostly civilians now killed, with close to 1000 palestinians. Mostly civilians now dead in gaza according to the Palestinian Health ministry. Israeli airstrikes on gaza have been unrelenting, with more than 2000 hamas targets destroyed according to the idf. With no timeline at this point on the airstrikes will and, hamas fired another barrage of rockets and the Southern Israeli city of ashdod on tuesday, with three hamas militants also died and exchanging gunfire with israeli troops. More than 300,000 israeli reserves have now been called, up and civilians are towns and villages have been evacuated to safety. On tuesday, israels Defense Minister toured Southern Israel maintains that troops have been amassing for days, hu
Agreed to a ceasefire proposal, put forward by egypt and qatar. The news sparked celebration in gaza, but it may be premature. The israelis are saying tonight the deal is not acceptable because they had agreed with The Americans as far back as february a deal that has now been softened. What we know about this proposal is that it sets out a three stage process each lasting 42 days. The first would lead to the release of 33 hostages, in return for Palestinian Prisoners, and a partial israeli withdrawal. The second would lead to the release of all other living hostages, there are thought to be 128 still alive. And the third phase would see a return of the bodies. The Israeli Defence minister said this morning that the decision to expand the assault on rafah had been taken because hamas had rejected their ceasefire terms. So this has come as a surprise to the government injerusalem. Lets cross straight to our security correspondent Frank Gardner whos injerusalem. Frank, bring us up to spe
Where does the white house stand this hour and is the Biden Administration going to push our closest middle east ally into brokering some kind of a deal . Lets bring in brent souther. He joins us with his thoughts on the current breaking news. You had a guest on earlier that is calling thats what it is. Its a ruse. Its a gamble by hamas right now to buy for more time into set up for political circumstance. No matter what happens, israel goes in or israel delays, they still make israel look like the aggressor in this case. Anything is further from the truth. It is only delaying the inevitable destruction of hamas. John we had senator John Cotton On and he looked back at the world war ii experience. There is Unconditional Surrender by germany. Unconditional surrender by japan. Why isnt President Biden calling for an Unconditional Surrender by hamas and a release of all the hostages . End of the war right then and Work Together with the arab nations on putting the pieces back together aga
Hello, im christian fraser. Youre watching the context on bbc news. The us is preparing for a cicada invasion. An insect that spends the vast majority of its life underground, but this year they will emerge in their biggest numbers in over 200 years. Its making me feel itchy already. Russia says President Putin has ordered Tactical Nuclear weapons drills near ukraine in response to what it called western threats to deploy troops there. The kremlin has also threatened strikes on uk Military Targets in ukraine and beyond. the Foreign Ministry in moscow today summoned both the french and british ambassadors. In ukraine front line troops have told the bbc there needs to be a re think on how ukrainian men are conscripted. Some of them say theyve been fighting without a break since russias full scale invasion more than two years ago. There have been concerns for some time that not enough troops are being recruited, to rotate people off the line who have been there too long. Our ukraine Cor
The supply of electricity, fuel, and goods to the gaza strip. Gaza is largely dependent on israel for its electricity supply. And in addition, an official says israel has sought help with israeli hostages, and egypts intelligence chief has contacted hamas, which says it will publicly declare the number of prisoners in the coming hours. Israeli media citing rescue Service Officials saying that at least 300 people have been killed so far, including 26 soldiers, while a Palestinian Health authority is saying at least 313 palestinians have been killed in the gaza strip. Nbc news Foreign Correspondent kelly joins me now via phone, live from jordan. Kelly, thank you so much for joining us in this hour. Whats the latest that you are hearing over there, regarding this ongoing conflict . Yeah, katie, good morning. Were actually on our way towards the jordanian israeli border, because its still very difficult to get into the country. Very limited flights at the airport in tel aviv, and many of t