Your people back into their homes, you dont escalate to deescalate. And obviously now, with the iranian retaliation, israelis are in their shelters as they go into the new years holiday weekend. Ben . Yeah. I think, you know, since October 7th, the Biden Administration has had a number of goals, one was to provide support to israel as it aims to go after hamas, but then also one of the principle goals of u. S. Diplomacy since October 7th had been avoiding deescalation into lebanon, precisely because i think there was an understanding that lebanon could be kind of the Trip Wire to this broader regional war that essentially, you know, it is one thing if there is a conflict In Gaza, that alone is destabilizing enough and is obviously brought a tremendous Human Toll and has grinded on for a full year. But the concern has always been that if israel launched a Ground Operation and significantly escalated things in lebanon that could draw iran into a conflict in a direct way as were seeing to
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hello and welcome to bbc news. the palestinian group islamichhad says it s fired over 100 rockets at israel. these images show the rockets being intercepted by israel s iron dome air defence system. it comes only hours after an israeli airstrike in the gaza strip, which killed a commander of the islamichhad group. the palestinian health ministry says at least ten people were killed, including a five year old child. this footage was released by the israeli army, which they say shows the moment the strike hit gaza. israel s prime minister yair lapid spoke about the airstrike in a television address earlier, where he promised to do whatever it takes to defend the israeli people. israel carried out a precise counterterror operation against an immediate threat. 0ur fight is not with the people of gaza. islamichhad is an iranian proxy that wants to destroy the state of israel and kill innocent israelis. the head of islamichhad is in tehran as we speak. we will do whatever it takes
6 00 a. M. In gaza and this is breaking News Coverage of the war in israel on americas late news, fox news at night. We are now 47 minutes from sunrise in israel, day 13 of the war, where tempers are flaring and protests are increasing at home and abroad following the Gaza Hospital Explosion that President Biden says, based on Pentagon Assessment is the fault of the militant Group Islamic jihad which, along with hamas, is also based in gaza but it appears the arab world is skeptical anything the u. S. Or israel has to say and in an ominous message the Iranian Foreign minister says quoting here time is up. The statement is from brad new attacks from israel, gaza and hezbollah in lebanon. The Senior Foreign Affairs correspondent greg palkot is live in israels border with lebanon. Greg. Reporter hey, trace, yeah. Unrest is raging through the region after that blast at that hospital in gaza. There was a mass protest outside of the u. S. Embassy in vertebrae Route Lebanon just across the bo
We dont have a sovereign nation without a secure border. We must secure our border. We must know who is coming over here. Just the last piece of video i wanted to show you, Border Patrol agents, texas dps officers rescuing a honduran man that was drowning, saved his life. Thats part of the Unsung Heroes job, they do it every day, it gets little attention but that is part of the crisis that we have going here, sandra, back to you. Sandra Griff Jenkins on that, latest developments from the border. Thank you. Just as the civilized world united to defeat the nazis, and united to defeat isis, the civilized world must unite to defeat hamas. For those living in limbo waiting desperately to learn the fate of a loved one, especially to families of the hostages, you are not alone. As the american president , there is no higher priority than release and safe return of all these hostages. Sandra that was earlier, President Biden is now wheels up from israel after an eighthour visit but he did not