October, 14th. Im alicia mendes. Just hours ago, it was announced that it would allow safe passage for evacuees among two roads in gaza from 10 am to 4 am local time. It just passed four pm and gaza, and an expressive expected grounded nation by Israeli Forces could begin at any moment. It comes one week after hamas executed a series of horrific Terror Attacks inside israel, killing more than 1000 people, taking more than 100 hostages, making it the deadliest single day for jews since the holocaust. A u. S. Official familiar with Gaza Vaccination plans says that the u. S. , egyptians, and israelis have reached a tentative agreement to use the rafah border with egypt to allow safe passage for u. S. Citizens seeking to leave gaza. But the official stretches the situation on the ground remains fluid and that is unclear whether hamas will even allow people inside gaza to reach the Border Crossing. Nbc news has spoken to one american mothers on the ground with her three children, small chil
Obtaining documents with detailed plans to target schools, and were now learning terrorists breached the border fence some 30 times, in some cases blasting holes with explosives, and the stories of survivors ive met did you feel you were in constant danger yes, we experienced missiles going over our heads. The chilling video she shared of her dash to safety as rockets streaked overhead. Back in the u. S. , cities on high alert after a former hamas leader called for protests on a worldwide day of rage. And chaos in congress the house gop picking a new candidate for speaker after the last nominee abruptly dropped out. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight live from israel. Good evening, everyone, from tel aviv where it is well after midnight, and an ominous deadline for over a million residents of Northern Gaza to evacuate the territory has expired against the objections of the u. N. , which warned the evacuation of so many people at one time would risk a
The 150 hostages will be brutal and painful. One former Law Enforcement official saying, dont expect a john wayne ending. Our next hour starts right now. Arts right now hi everybody. If you are just joining us, welcome. If you are sticking with us, thank you for that. Im Yasmin Vossoughian coming to you from msnbc world headquarters. It is two pm in the east, nine pm in gaza. New this hour, the idf warning of an integrated coordinated attack on gaza from air, sea, inland. The u. S. State department advise a Non Emergency Government Officials to leave israel. Hamas claiming 22 hostages have been killed an israeli strike national during the next phase of israels war hamas will no longer rule gaza. The search for survivors continues along the gaza strip following another night of israeli strikes even as palestinians evacuated from Northern Gaza to the south. Long lines formed outside a bakeries that remained open in gaza today at the United Nations warned of a worsening humanitarian crisi
Time. Voiceover lise Indigenous People for the first time. Voiceover Indigenous People for the first time. Voiceover live from our studio in singapore, time. Voiceover live from our studio in singapore, this time. Voiceover live from our studio in singapore, this is studio in singapore, this is bbc news. Its newsday. Welcome to the programme. Starting with the latest from the Gaza Health Ministry which says more than 1,500 people have now been killed in israeli airstrikes since saturday. Meanwhile, israels top general has admitted that the armed forces failed to protect the state and its citizens when hamas launched its offensive. More than 1,300 israelis died during the attacks, most of them civilians. 0ur international editor, jeremy bowen, begins our coverage in southern israel. More of gaza has been flattened by israeli bombing. Israel insists its targets are all based on intelligence, to kill the men who massacred israelis and to continue the job of breaking hamas. But hundreds of
Secretary of state Antony Blinken we ask him about it. Was that an acknowledgement that iran might have been involved in this attack how he answered, and what he said about efforts to free americans held hostage by hamas and the faces of war. The Festival Goer marking her birthday as a captive of hamas. What her family is asking people around the world to do. Our Special Edition of nightly news begins now. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt, reporting tonight live from israel. Good evening and welcome, everyone. Well show you some of what we saw in ashkelon closer to gaza earlier, but we start here in tel aviv tonight, where for six days now, the world has watched and waited for the full might of the israeli response to the horrific at attacks inflicted upon it anticipated by many to be a massive invasion of the gaza strip, making good on its promise to destroy hamas, after last saturdays brutal terrorist rampage in southern israel. The toll keeps getting worse. In isr