In gaza. He s asked for forgiveness, but ruled out new concessions to hamas to secure the release of those still being held. His comments came as intense street protests over his handling of negotiations entered a second night in israel, including these demonstrations outside his office injerusalem. Lucy williamson has more from jerusalem. Israel s protesters and their prime minister are old acquaintances. Calls for a hostage deal have brought long established opponents onto the streets, but the shooting of six hostages in a gaza tunnel last week has broadened this movement, they say. And the mass demonstrations in tel aviv last night were a turning point. I think the news of the six hostages, the fact that they were alive and murdered right before they could have been saved, that broke it. After last night s mass protest, people are back on the streets again. There are growing public and political demands on israel s prime minister to make a deal, but benjamin netanyahu, protected by
President trump. But she is not expected to endorse trump today. Her folks who are familiar with what shes going to say, say she is going to go ahead and say that trump needs to earn the support of those voters. She has repeatedly said throughout the entire course of her campaign that the Republican Party needs to be a party of addition, and she doesnt believe that trump has been approaching his campaign. That way. She has talked about the fact that she wants to give her for voters an option thats why she stayed on the ballot through Super Tuesday. But this was a decision that she made last night as her campaign was monitoring the results that were coming in. Jeff zeleny spoke with a source, an aide on the campaign, who said that it was when they were monitoring those results that they determined that she wasnt going to hit the benchmarks that they had said that she wasnt going to do well enough to keep her Campaign Alive. Now, we should note that nikki haley did win two states, dc and
Israeli tanks advanced into the fringes of Gaza City on Monday, witnesses said, as it ramped up its war on Hamas saying it had killed dozens of operatives in hundreds of strikes.
The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) geared up for a ground attack on the Hamas-held Gaza Strip today, in retaliation for the unprecedented land-sea-air assault on its territories that left over 1,300 Israelis dead.