Good afternoon. Youre watching cnn news central. Im Boris Sanchez alongside Brianna Keilar In Washington With Destruction on full display in the house of raptives as President Biden is preparing for a wartime visit to israel. His trip, partly a show of support, part deterrence for israels enemies and part diplomatic push to get roughly 200 hostages, many of them american, out of gaza as they also attempt to get humanitarian relief in. Right now gaza is very much at a breaking point. A Palestinian Health official says hospitals there are in actual collapse and that was before the latest devastation. These are images that are disturbing that youre seeing right here. A hospital that was hit in gaza a short time ago. The Palestinian Health Ministry Says at least 200 people were killed by an israeli air strike. Israel is not confirming that this was a strike by its military. It says that it is looking into this. Lets get you on the ground now. Cnns Clarissa Ward who is in ashkelon, israel,
This conflict alone, and in the last conflict in may 21, we had the same amount, roughly the same amount of rockets fired and rockets that landed short inside the gaza strip. I remember clearly an event that was reported live on fox where he was standing inside gaza and the reports that came out was of an israeli strike which is the Knee Jerk Response around the world and he reported that he saw with his own eyes a rocket that misfired and landed in northern gaza. I think it was jabalia and caused casualties and the death of a palestinian family. So this is not unprecedented. It has happened many times in the past and it is do youcument and for those willing to listen and not to automatically blame israel for it there is ample truth of the fact that this has happened many times before, granted, not a hospital and not so many casualties, but the fact of the matter is rockets misfire and land in gaza and they have been doing so for years. We have been careful about our reporting and cert
Hello, im sarah campbell, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. We start with the war in the middle east, the border has been closed all day but despite hopes from washington that it would be open for a few hours. Lets look for a moment at the geography of gaza. The opening of the Rafah Crossing would also allow some foreigners including us citizens to leave. At the same time, hamas and israel have denied reports that theyve these are the latest pictures from the Rafah Crossing, showing the crowds there. We understand that Un Fuel Trucks did make it across the border this morning. Americas top diplomat, antony blinken, is back in israel, from egypt, where he was trying to persuade officials to reopen the border point. Egypts Foreign Minister is reported as saying israel had not yet taken a stance that would allow the crossing to open. Over the weekend, mr blinken held talks in six arab states, with a view to alleviating gazas
Organisation by many western governments, killed more than 1300 people in israel and took dozens hostage. We can show you these live pictures of gaza city right now where it is shortly after 2am in the morning. Mac that is the situation right now. Very dark. The shortages of fuel in the gaza strip. We will continue to monitor throughout the programme. In a drone strike, the Israeli Military said on saturday that it has killed a hamas commander who led part of the assault on israel. Ali qadhi is the second hamas chief to have been killed in a day. Meanwhile, on the ground in gaza, thousands of civilians are on the move. Thats after israel warned over one million living in the north to move south beyond the Wadi Gaza River here an order the World Health Organization has said is a Death Sentence for those already sick and injured. The authorities in gaza say more than 2200 people have already died in retaliatory israeli bombing, including children while attempting to evacuate along a desi
Hello, im christian fraser. The Israeli Army Says the time is running out for people in the northern half of gaza to leave, as it builds up its operations across the territory. Thousands of troops are already massed on the southern border with gaza ahead of the expected Ground Incursion, which the Israeli Government says will be supported from the air and sea. Over a hundred military targets were hit overnight and the idf said they have killed a Senior Commander involved in the attacks in israel last week. Meanwhile, hamas is continuing to fire rockets into israel, towards tel aviv and other areas in the south. The World Health Organization has has again called on israel to rescind its evacuation order. The decision they said to forcing Hospital Patients to relocate would be a death sentence. President biden has spoken with the israeli Prime Minister, benjamin netanyahu, and urged him to provide a Human Corridor South for those civilians seeking to escape the bombardment. A diplomatic