Youre watching cnn news central. Im Boris Sanchez in washington. And we are tracking major developments on day 6 of fighting in the middle east. Israel has launched largescale strikes on hamas targets in gaza and reports that israeli missiles are hitting inside syria, taking out runways at two major airports. During this latest barrage u. S. Secretary of state Antony Blinken stood side by side with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, vowing that israel will never have to stand alone. Moments ago Secretary Blinken discussed the gruesome evidence hes been shown by the israeli government, showing purported hamas atrocities. Listen to this. Its beyond what anyone would ever want to imagine, much less actually see and god forbid experience. A baby, an infant, riddled with bullets. Soldiers beheaded. Young people burned alive in their cars or in their hideaway rooms. I could go on. But its simply depravity in the worst imaginable way. You cant help but imagine yourself, your family, your love
[ yelling ]. Hamas should be treated exactly the way isis was treated. They should be spit out from the community of nations. No view, you cant see anything. I never imagined Something Like this would have been ever in a Music Festival and the rockets started and gunshots everywhere. A loved one, a friend, a classmate, a neighborhood, a colleague killed, maimed, missing. Missing. Sandra that was just a few moments ago and now a live look, screen left at the White House Briefing room where a Press Briefing is set to begin any moment now. National Security Council Spokesman John Kirby will be joining press secretary Karine Jeanpierre at that podium and this will be the second straight day as the war between israel and hamas rages on the the question is how President Biden plans to rescue the american hostages being held by hamas as 25 u. S. Citizens are now confirmed dead and 17 others are still unaccounted for at this hour. Welcome to all of you as our coverage continues here on the fox
that. we will communicate directly to them personalized instructions on what they should do, when they should do it and how the united states government feels we are best positioned to help them do that. the other piece is over land efforts. we are operationally working on both airplanes so that depart and getting the airport up and operational and over land departures. now, they say 100 to 200 americans may still be in need of rescue. among them more than two dozen students from california of all ages from 19 different families trapped after visiting relatives over summer break. another concern is that the military is now supposedly out of the rescue game leaving it to diplomats. now can we really rely on diplomacy with the taliban to get everyone out, especially now there is no present threat from american force on the ground? so who s filling in the gap? once again it is the best of us,
civilian side of the airport had a lot of destruction to it and we need to make repairs and partnerships with them to get airplanes up and running. that will have a huge impact. the other piece is over land efforts. some of this is there are steps as we have seen the last few weeks where individual american citizens are able the depart without conveying that they have departed yet. so we re tracking and staying in contact with all of the american citizens we re aware of on what our plans are, what the progress is and what the as we have updates on the timeline to depart. is there a time frame where if there isn t an update from the state department there might be a course correction? i asked if they had updated numbers. nobody has got back to me. i understand the briefing is coming up. is there a time frame where you will readjust? a course correction in one
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