Carley President Biden just landing in israel where he will meet with Prime Minister netanyahu as violence and unrest rock the region. You are watching Fox And Friends, im carley shimkus. Todd im todd piro. An explosion kills hundreds at a gaza hospital. Israeli forces say they have proof it was a botched launch. Carley State Department Telling Americans not to professional to lebanon and offering to get americans out of the country. Hundreds of protesters gathering outside, sparking fires. The president planned this trip during a tense time, war had broken out in israel. He took off at 6 p. M. And just landed. Todd there is the president now walking down the steps of Air Force One. Netanyahu on the tarmac ready to meet the president. The handshake taking place right there. This is extremely historic meeting, because right now israel is in war. There are concerns this could become part of a larger global conflict. Think back to the History Books you read when you were a child in school
Difficult mission that the president was embarking on became even more complicated just yesterday afternoon amid the blast at that hospital in gaza. The second portion of the president s trip ultimately was canceled. He was set to travel to jordan to talk about establishing humanitarian aid, establishing a corridor to get aid into gaza. But that trip was up ended in the aftermath of the blast. White house officials have down played the expectations of concrete deliverables. Of course the president is hoping to press both Benjamin Netanyahu as well as others on trying to alleviate some of the humanitarian concerns. But it is unclear what specific announcements the president might leave israel with. But part of his agenda while he is on the ground there today is to try to ascertain what exactly the israelis need as they continue to try to root out hamas. The u. S. Of course has said israel has the right to defend itself, but we have also seen the white house in recent days really trying
Husam zomlot, welcome to hardtalk. Husam, i want to start with something personal. You yourfamily is from the south of gaza. When you heard of the murderous attack that hamas had launched on israel on october 7, did you immediately realise that this was going to put your family and so many others in gaza in extraordinary danger . Yes, absolutely. Not only my family, but all people in gaza and my entire nation, because i knew israel will instrumentalise this in the most horrible way possible. And this is exactly what happened, trying to link hamas to the Palestinian People, and then link hamas to isis, then linking the Palestinian People to isis, in preparation for this horror we are witnessing right this moment. Surely, the message israel was making and was bound to make was between hamas and unbelievable levels of barbarity and violence . And what they had to do was commit to destroy hamas. We have to listen to what the israeli officials and politicians and fanatics have been saying f
Hamas yesterday it was just a big hamas pr stunt. They have felt as weve seen them say publicly embolden by these protests on College Campus in the violence on College Campuses where people are screaming and support of hamas, right . We are hamas. A lot of these kids are screaming out in support of these terrorists. And i think we need to make sure we level set here and make it clear that in total hamas freeze the hostile judges, including the americans, right, stops Firing Missiles as they did just again, this morning at the crossing where humanitarian aid is coming over in gaza until they actually stopped doing that and back down on Attacking Americans and other proxies, Attacking Americans until that happens, its very hard to see this moving forward. Im hopeful and optimistic lets tick that this will be different today, but the bottom line is hamas keeps walking away from the Negotiating Table and thats incredibly frustrating congressman josh god homer, thank you for coming in today
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