Idf has now identified all six saying their families have been notified Israels Defense Minister says the six were killed just before troops could reach them according to the initial assessment at our disposal, they were brutally murdered by hamas terrorists a short while before we reach them. They were abducted alive on the morning of October 7 by the Hamas Terror Organization Chauvin Book Togo Israeli Cabinet is scheduled to meet one hour from now. Meanwhile, the White House put out a statement that reads in part, it is as tragic as it is, reprehensible. Make no mistake. Hamas leaders will pay for these crimes and we will keep working around the clock but for a deal to secure the release of the remaining hostages the news had led to protests in israel and new calls for israeli prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to agree to a Ceasefire And Hostage deal. The group missing Families Forum is calling for more public protests on sunday for mr. Netanyahu to address the nation. Bola hancocks
Vaccinating some babies against polio, a day before a mass immunisation programme is due to begin. Palestinian health workers carried out the vaccinations in nasser hospital in khan younis. Unicef says the vaccinations will take place for six and a half hours every day until wednesday. Israel and hamas have agreed to three localised pauses in fighting to enable the vaccination of more than 600,000 palestinian children. With more from jerusalem here s our correspondent, jon donnison. The official polio vaccination campaign doesn t start until sunday morning. It is being coordinated by the united nations but we do understand that the first babies have been vaccinated today in khan younis in the south of gaza. What it s going to involve and get under way as a series of three day, area specific pauses in fighting that both israel and hamas have agreed to. The key words there are area specific, so we re not talking about the formal ceasefire that diplomats have been pushing for weeks and
In gaza have started vaccinating some babies against polio, a day before a mass immunisation programme is due to begin. Palestinian health workers carried out the vaccinations in nasser hospital in khan younis. Unicef says the vaccinations will take place for six and a half hours every day until wednesday. Israel and hamas have agreed to three localised pauses in fighting to enable the vaccination of more than 600,000 palestinian children. Our middle east correspondent yolande knell sent this new report from jerusalem. Just two drops as the un begins vaccinating against polio in gaza. A dose is easy to give, but carrying out a mass immunisation campaign in a combat zone is a huge challenge. Parents of the first vaccinated children are relieved. Translation: i was worried and afraid because this is scary. The polio disease. This disease makes the children unable to move. Baby abdulrahman was crawling early, but now his mum worries he ll never be able to walk. He was the first child foun
Several u. S. Soldiers injured, including some with traumatic brain injuries in an operation that killed 15 isis militants. Welcome to fox news live, i m griff jenkins. Hey, molly. Hello, griff. I m molly line. This as vicepresident harris is lying low following her highly anticipated intervow along with her running mate tim walz. Walz is expected to campaign with harris in pennsylvania on monday. And we go to the white house for more. Lucas to you. Let s start with the daring operation in western iraq early thursday morning, the details of which we did not learn until late last night. We re hearing from officials that this was carried out by the u. S. Army s elite rangers in the 75th ranger regimen, part of the jsop, the tip of the spear, if you will, molly. The source assaulted an isis compound armed with numerous weapons, grenades and suicide vests according to central command. The american commandos launched the iran with iraqi counterparts, and seven were injuries, and five were t
They have got a lot of young children to vaccinate. 6a0,000. And with the polio vaccination it comes in two rounds, so more thani million it comes in two rounds, so more than 1 million vaccinations are already in gaza, the first round of vaccinations will start tomorrow as part of this campaign, and then in three weeks those children will have to have another vaccination. So, a lot of the logistics around this have actually been about keeping the vaccination is cool because obviously it is very hot in gaza at the moment and they have got to be refrigerated, and for the most part it is local doctors who would be administering it, but with so many people to be vaccinated it is obviously going to be challenging. Let s turn our attention to israel s military operation in the west bank, what is the latest on that? well, this intensified israeli military operation has now been going on for several days, and it has continued today, as you say specifically in jenin. My today, as you say speci