[sound of gunfire] [sirens] [chanting] [sound of gunfire] the Big Weekend Show begins with a Fox News Alert hello everyone im julie alongside Griff Jenkins katy and joey jones. Tonight a new message from israel. Ahead of its eminent growctd assault on hamas, the Israeli Military saying it will increase attacks on the gaza strip beginning right now to prepare for the next stage of the war. Tens of thousands of idf troops mounting near gaza strip as 210 hostages held by the terrorists. And israeli strikes well theyre striking back. After an Israeli American Reservist is killed by a hezbollah missile fired from lebanon take you to lebanon live and first to Lucas Tomlinson joins us live from telaviv. Lucas. Julie top general very blunt he says his forces will soon be entering gaza and ordered his men to prepare for ground combats. Were going to go into the gaza strip, we will embark on a professional Operational Mission to destroy hamas operatives and hamas infrastructure. We will have in
Good to be with you, im katy tur. We just got our first hopeful news out of israel in two weeks. Nbc news can now report hamas has released two american hostages, judith renan, and Natalie Ranan of evanston, illinois. Who are in israel and on their way to see their family. Joining us is nbc news Foreign Correspondent raf sanchez. What else did we learn . Reporter we have received official confirmation from the Israeli Government that judith and natalie are in israeli hands, they were released at the gaza border and they are now in the custody of the Israeli Military. They were released to a former israeli general, his name is brigadier galhersh, he is in charge of the Hostage Recovery Effort on behalf of the Israeli Government. The Israeli Government says that the hostages were released at the gaza border. They were received at the border and at the moment, they are on their way to a Meeting Point at a Military Base in the center of the country where their Family Members are waiting fo
Are the supplies that you are lacking . What we are planning and this is the most important thing is to build a new shelter for ventilated patient. This is what we need now. There were rockets in the area of jerusalem. We treated already in the last day some casualties from injuries from iran, jerusalem, and this is the most important thing that we need to do now large shelter we can treat patients over there. We need equipment for this place. We need ventilators. We need a lot of equipment for this specific place. We have shortterm we can put ventilated. New Intensive Care in the shelter. Ainsley there is the website. We are putting it up on the bottom of our screen if you want to donate. Brian im sure everyone does. Stay safe. The second hour of fox friends starts right now. This is a fox news alert. Since we hit the air an hour ago we have seen a lot of smoke along the border as fighting continues. New information from the idf as they report they have arrested more than 60 Money Ope
Live pictures right now in tel aviv where any moment we expect to see the president. Indeed, the president and also the Secretary Of State tony blinken who has been with the president on this trip. Hes actually been crisscrossing the middle east for days now. The president is expected to speak any minute now. When he does, we will bring those words to you. He just met with israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this morning. He has been meeting with even the war cabinet there in israel as well as First Responders and Family Members of victims of that horrific attack on october 7th, and those Family Members also wondering whats happening with members who are still missing. The president is now literally in a war zone thrown into fresh turmoil by the deadly blast at a gaza hospital. Hundreds reportedly killed. Hamas blames israel, israel blames another militant group, Islamic Jihad. Protests erupting across the middle east, a large crowd of Palestinian Protesters gathering this mornin