People from thailand, people from children missing. People from around the world. This is a humanitarian crisis and the world needs to get involved. It very much is a humanitarian tragedy on a global scale, as you just rightly pointed out. Isaac thomas, thank you for joining us, thank you for sharing your story with us. And thank you for watching, Laura Coates Live starts right now. Thank you abby, a very tough evening. Good evening everyone, this is Laura Coates Live. It is 6 00 in the morning in israel. Israelis are waking up not knowing what today is going to bring, but here is what at least we know so far. The Israeli Military is going on the offense against tomas with the Prime Minister benjamin yet neowho vows, will be, like never before. After a devastating Surprise Attack that left at least 900 people dead in israel. We have begun, and i emphasize, we only begun to strike at hamas. The images of the devastation and destruction from the hamas stronghold in gaza are just the begi
And up to 4 hours of battery backup to keep you online. Only from xfinity. Home of the xfinity 10g network. Hello, welcome to our viewers joining us here in the United States and all around the world, im rosemary church. We are continuing coverage of Breaking News out of The Middle East where fighting is ongoing between israel and hamas two days after the militant large scale Surprise Attack, the Israeli Military says its severely degraded the capability of hamas that keeps up strikes and on the Ground Troops are battling hamas militants inside israel, hamas claim to go have launched a Missile Attack on a Southern Israeli City, militants say a hundred rockets were fired in response to Israeli Defense forces targeting safe houses, Israeli Police say the rockets attack made a direct hit on Apartment Building as hamas claims to now be holding more than a hundred hostages in Gaza Including High Ranking israeli officers. Insides early the death toll from the attack has climbed past 700. At
As the idea continues to fight Hamas Inside Israel and they are still crossing into the country from gaza, but the idf says it is going door to door in towns near the Gaza Border Helping Survivors to safety. Our Rosemary Church spoke last hour with the Idf Spokesperson who gave us an update on the situation now. We know that Hamas Terrorists are still fighting Israeli Soldiers in a handful of civilian communities in israel along the gaza border and, of course, this is to be a long operation and were really in the early stages of beginning to mourn the horrific massacre we experienced two days ago, what is the biggest massacre of israelis since the establishment of the country. So it is a very tense and certainly dynamic time right now. The fighting continues here within israel as we speak. Israel doesnt have control of the border areas, but when might that happen, do you think . Of course, its a top priority for us. We know there are civilians there and civilians still held hostage by
Reserve duty because of the number of reservists who are going to be called up. Now, a Ground Invasion, a Ground Incursion into gaza will be very difficult to do because this is one of the most densely populated places on the planet. The hamas network has multiple tunnels that go underneath most of the gaza strip. They often hold their weapons and senior officials in sensitive places like mosques and schools and hospitals. When theyre striking locations there, theyre not only going to have to be careful for civilians which unfortunately get caught up in the krcross fire. Theyre going to have to be incredibly aware of their own hostages. Hamas has distributed hostages across locations, essentially using them as Human Shields. And we know u. S. Officials believe americans are also part of the group of hostages. Thank you for that update. More from here next as our special coverage is continuing of israel now formally at war tonight. The power goes out and we still have wifi to do our hom
diplomatic talks unfolding in the middle east for days secretary of state anthony blinken macon to unannounced visits today and the israeli occupied west bank and in iraq. in a meeting with secretary blinken reaffirmed americas commitment to address the humanitarian crisis unfolding in gaza. the state department says blinken also discussed efforts to restore stability to the west bank. over the past few weeks, tensions have spilled over there as israeli and a surprise visit to back that, secretary blinken met with iraq s prime minister to talk about the importance of preventing the war from spreading into a wider regional conflict. lincoln over under is humanitarian pause in fighting aid for civilians into the gaza strip. this is a process. israel s race raised important questions about how humanitarian policies would work. we have to answer those questions. second, it is important that the pause advance a number of things, one of them as hostages. we are intens