Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer in washington with cnns breaking News Coverage of Israel At War. One week after the hamas Terror Attack that triggered this horrible conflict, the israeli Prime Minister netanyahu just posted video of his visit with troops positioned near the gaza border telling them and im quoting him now, the next stage is coming. Theres growing anticipation of a potential ground war as Israeli Forces keep Pounding Targets Inside Gaza from the air. This comes amid new setbacks for efforts to try to evacuate civilians including americans. Egyptian authorities reportedly are not allowing u. S. And other foreign nationals to enter the country from gaza. The United States has expressed hope the crossing might be open to americans today. Tens of thousands of gazans have fled their home after israel urged more than a million civilians in the northern part of gaza to move south. A new window given by israelis for safe passage
Murdered my people. We appreciate your personal story and sharing it. Thanks so much for your time. Thanks to all of you for being with us today. We continue to follow the Breaking News all day here on n. News central is next. Hello, everyone. Im kate bolduan. Here with john berman and sara sidner. Thank you for being with us. We are following more Breaking News out of israel. And the build up to the next stage as the idf describes it. Youre looking, were showing you pictures from moments ago as israel continues large scale strikes in gaza today. U. S. Secretary of state Antony Blinken is on the ground in israel right now and bringing with him a powerful message of totally support for israel. Saying hamas brings to mind the worst of isis. Blinken confirmed also theres at least 25 americans that have been killed. He said the Biden Administration is working closely with israel to locate and rescue the more than 100 hostages taken by hamas. On that front, secretary blinken met with israel
Number of americans murdered risen to at least 25. Many Airlines Canceling Flights to israel and several countries including the uk mounting Emergency Flights to evacuate the own citizens and the u. S. Is not one yet one of them. Now were hearing from syrian State Media Air Strikes earlier and aleppo and damaged runways and service and using airports to smuggle weapons to hezbollah and eventually make their way into lebanon. Dana Bob Gates Quarterback joining us in a moment. Bill first on the ground, trey yingst. If you want and feel comfortable, where are you and where are you going . Reporter ill tell you more about that location later today. It is certainly sensitive as it lies in the area where there is activity going on. This entire part of Southern Israel is bracing for days and days of fighting to come. Just to give you a sense of what its like here this morning, we saw earlier as a rocket came off the gaza strip. One rocket was intercepted by israels Missile Defense system, the
voters polled signaling new concerns over president biden s age good evening i m jon scott and this is a special two-hour edition of the fox report. jon: those stories in a moment but first the latest from the war front in israel. idf portions advancing further into gaza today trading fire with terrorists overnight as aerial bombardments continue here at home calls grow for a cease-fire and more protests. as the war enters its fourth week, we have team coverage steve harrigan as well as defense troops storm gaza mark meredith with attacks in the middle east and alexandria huff is tracking the biden administration s response after pro-palestinian demonstrators vandalize white house but we begin with alex hogan live on the ground in southern israel. alex. hi onidf has taken out nearly 2500 hamas targets. this is things like infrastructure, ammunitions warehouses and, of course, those tunnels but here tonight along border we have rocket attacks by israel by the direction
Out of all IDF Brigades in operation, it's fair to say Golani was the one that was on the receiving end of Hamas' onslaught the most that day; Four Golani officers sit down and discuss the losses, the shock and the process of overcoming waves of terrorists is defense of a nation