aid trucks are goings in from egypt. more are hoping to escape the war zone. five of the americans inside gaza strip crossed the border so far. carley: israel continue to inch toward gaza city in attempt to squeeze hamas fighters in the center. todd: you re watching fox and friends, i m todd piro. carley: i m carley shimkus. trey yingst is on the ground in israel, what is the latest? trey: good morning, battles rage inside the gaza strip. israeli fighter jets overhead and days after this ground operation began, israelis are taking heavy losses inside gaza. the death toll is at 17 soldiers killed in battles with hamas militants. i will show you destruction on northern part of the gaza strip. israelis say they targeted number of cells in northern gaza. cells were using explosive devices and throwing grenades at idf troops and soeldiers engage them with artillery fire and tanks, according to a statement released this morning. we are learning from daniel hagari, 242 hos
now. egypt is allowing a limited number of nationals out. we re not on the list, it seems. civilians have to get have a chance to go through the rafah crossing now. we just got to get americans through. ainsley: meanwhile, fighting rages inside gaza. the idf says dozens of hamas terrorists were killed overnight and the number of israeli troops killed in combat rising now to 17. steve: meanwhile, here at home, vice president kamala harris has announced a national strategy to fight islamophobia. this while anti-semitism is surging all across the country, including at places like. lawrence: we are from the iconic second half deli. it was vandalized with a swastika about two weeks ago. first, we re going to check in with trey yingst live on the southern border of israel. trey? trey: yeah, hey, guys. good morning. battles rage on behind me inside the gaza strip days after the israelis pushed forward with a partial ground operation into gaza. we do know the death toll amo
the former president himself is set to testify on monday of next week followed for now by ivanka trump next wednesday. she appealed the judge s decision requiring her to testify. see if that schedule holds. bill: we ll see where it leads today. thank you. dana: house republicans are about to hold a news briefing one week after electing mike johnson as the new house speaker. right now they re ready to vote on a stand alone emergency aid package for israel and then they plan to hold a vote on a bill that pairs u.s. border security with fresh aid for ukraine. we ll monitor what they have to say and bring you the news as it happens. biden administration is under intense pressure to confront hamas one day after f.b.i. director christopher wray warned about mounting terror threats on u.s. soil. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom. i m dana perino. bill: nice to be back with you. good morning. i m bill hemmer. good morning at home. the justice department considering
i don t know what i won t speak to what impressions moscow might be getting but we have not lost focus in any sense on our need to support ukraine. it s why you have seen the president give an oval office address about our support for ukraine and we will stay focused on it. we think we have the ability to work on more than one thing. you hear the secretary often say we have to walk and chew gum at the same time. that is true with the issues. who is compiling the list of evacuees at rafah gate and which is the criteria to determine what injuries are eligible. because of the sensitive nature of this i m not able to get into all of this has been as i said extremely difficult process when you think of the parties involved and i find the not productive to speak to the underlying details here. israel and egypt expressed security concerns and no third party is doing we have worked with the government of egypt and israel to attempt to ensure an orderly flow through th
moving in and out of the strip since the war began. you are watching fox and friends first on wednesday morning, i m carley shimkus. todd: i m todd piro. 400 americans are in gaza. jonathan hunt has the latest with all of it. jonathan. jonathan: todd piro and carley, good morning to you. this is an agreement broken by the qataris along with egypt, israel, u.s. and hamas. it will allow, we are told, all foreign nationals, passport holders, to leave gaza via southern border crossing with rafah. you look at live picture of that border crossing. we understand that some of the foreign nationals have already gone through the crossing and have been processed. we do not know at this point whether that includes americans, but we are told that americans are obviously among those who will be allowed to leave gaza today, after three weeks stuck there in the most terrifying of circumstances. meantime, u.s. officials are doing nothing to hide their concern over the potential for a re