in hours in now a major primetime address. President biden delivering his message to the nation from the oval office, calling for additional aid to israel and also to ukraine. Im Brianna Keilar with Boris Sanchez here in washington. Kaitlan collins is live from tel aviv. The State Department is warning all americans overseas. This is a rare warning and says to, quote, exercise increased caution citing rising senses all over the world. It comes as the humanitarian crisis in gaza grows more dire. Egyptian Security Officials told a cnn journalist on site that the rafah crossing between inmate and the gaza strip will be open on friday to deliver critical aid. Workers were seen making preparations. Yeah. That would be critical aid. Today an israeli strike on a neighborhood about ten miles from where the crossing is killed a number of people and also injured dozens more. Thats according to the Interior Ministry in gaza. A spokesperson for the Israeli Defense forces said he did not have infor
be in the areas that sometimes have these casualties. but they definitely reject the label that they place civilians in harm s way as a result of using them as human shields. ayman mohyeldin in gaza, thank you so much. to get reaction to that, mark regev is the chief spokesman for prime minister netanyahu. good to see you. first of all, reaction to hamas denials that they are putting their own population in jeopardy. thanks for joining umark. i think their denials are frankly ludicrous. the facts are clear. in fact if you go to the hamas interior ministry in gaza you ll see they ve called upon the citizens of gaza to act as human shields. as my prime minister said yesterday, we ve got missiles to defend our people and in gauze athey ve got people to defend their missiles. that s what hamas does. there s no reason why they should put their command and control in the basement of a hospital or put missile stockpiles in schools.
from the israeli forces that they are dropping flyers, knocking roofs with shells to give them a warning that something is coming but there are also reports that the interior ministry in gaza is urging palestinians not to leave, that this is psychological warfare to ask the gazians to leave. that they should stay and fight for their homes. reporter: it s an awful situation. the doctor makes a significant points. the only way this is going to stop, unless one side unilaterally decides to stop, i don t see that happening, i don ts see hamas stopping firing rockets and missiles and i don t see the israelis stopping airstrikes and now their commando on the ground strikes into gaza. if the international community can come up with a cease-fire as they did the ends of 2012, and one that is honored by hamas and the israelis the fighting, the killing will stop at least for the timing as occurred then. and i know there s a lot of activity behind the scenes, the