many innocent palestinians and israel must do more to protect them, why is the u.s. not doing more to ensure that? how much pressure should the u.s. apply to save innocent lives? a law make opposed to putting conditions on aid is with us. plus, candidates running for senate complain their campaigns were offered millions to challenge the only palestinian american in congress. one of them act torthill harp is here. and we brought you the story, now a second family in jackson, mississippi, says that their loved one was killed and buried and local police did not tell them. i m victor blackwell. let s start the show. the truce is over. the fighting between israel and hamas is back. and so is the nightmare for innocent civilians. israel says it s using qr codes now and maps to tell them where to go. national security spokesperson john kirby was asked about the number of civilian who is have already died since bombing resumed. he would not say if the biden administration has s
unfortunately the cease-fire is over. izal is launching new strikes in gaza accusing hamas of violating its deal to hand over more hostages. the fighting resumed just hours after a report in the new york times that israeli leaders dismissed warnings of a pending hamas attack. let s start with cnn s jeremy diamond near the israel-gaza border. and jeremy, we ve seen explosions over gaza all day. what is the israel government, what is the idf saying about the renewed military operations? reporter: well, jake, not only has the israeli military renewed its military operation in gaza, it is also expanding it, moving combat operations, ground combat operations into the southern part of the gaza strip and also taking aim at key cities there including rafa as well as han eunice and hamas has been responding in kind. in the last couple of hours we ve seen dozens of rockets being fired from just behind me in a part of the gaza strip. i want to show you some of those rockets. and you
choices, too. hamas could immediately release all of the hostages it holds. it could stop using civilians as human shields and stop using civilian infrastructure to stage hamas attack. hamas could lay down its arms, surrender the leaders responsible for the slaughter, the torture, the rapes of october 7th. hamas could renounce its stated goal of eliminating israel, killing jews, and repeating the atrocities of october 7th again and again and again. meanwhile, everyone around the world who cares about protecting innocent civilians, innocent lives should be calling on hamas, indeed demanding hamas that it immediately stop its murderous acts of terror and deplorable use of innocent, men, women and children as human shields. in our meetings with israeli leaders here and in jerusalem and palestinian leaders in ramallah, we discussed our continued focus from preventing the conflict from spreading whether to the west bank, to israel s northern border, or to the broader region. i rai
choices, too. hamas could immediately release all of the hostages it holds. it could stop using civilians as human shields and stop using civilian infrastructure to stage and launch terrorist attacks. hamas could lay down its arms. surrender the leaders that are responsible for the slaughter, the torture, the rapes of october 7th. hamas could renounce its stated goal of eliminating israel, killing jews and repeating the atrocities of october 7th again and again and again. meanwhile, every one around the world that cares about protecting innocent civilians, innocent lives should be calling on hamas indeed demanding of hamas that it immediately stop its murderous acts of terror and deplorable innocent use of men and women as shields. in our meetings with israeli leaders here and jerusalem and palestinian leaders in ramallah, we discussed our continued focus on preventing the conflict from spreading whether to the west bank, to israel s northern barreder or to the broader region
spokesman john kirby with an uptate on the number of american hostages still being held by hamas following the release of a 4-year-old girl. the humanitarian pause in gaza remains in effect this morning. we ll have the latest on when more hostages could be freed. also ahead, an update on the college students of palestinian descent who were shot in burlington, vermont. we ll hear from the mother of one of the victims. plus, as if a rematch of 2020 wasn t bad enough, donald trump is bringing back a top issue from his 2016 campaign. it s a pledge on which he never delivered. we ll explain what that is. i mean, it s unpopular, too. why would we deliver on that? he is once again going to promise something that s extremely unpopular with people. we re talking about, you know, the wall street journal lead, talking about israel and hamas extend the truce two days. the new york times lead the same, talking about how israel and hamas agreed to extend pause and swap. mika,