Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. And we start today of course with our world lead. And a new warning about the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian crisis in gaza. Today u. S. Secretary of state Antony Blinken returned to israel after meeting with multiple allies throughout the middle east. Trying to get a humanitarian corridor open for innocents to evacuate from gaza before israel ramps up attacks on hamas. Right now israel is pointing the civilians toward the Southern Gate into egypt, known as the Rafah Crossing which is still clowes. Video shows dozens families including babies waiting next to locked gates. A u. S. Government memo showed more than 250 u. S. Citizens in Southern Gaza waiting for the crossing to open. And earlier reports suggested that it was the Egyptian Government to open the gate when i pressed Jake Sullivan on this issue yesterday, he blamed the closure on on altogether different group. The egyptians have in fact agreed to allow americans to depart to get safe p
Hello and welcome to our viewers. Im Michael Holmes with cnns breaking News Coverage of israel at war. It has been a day now since israel issued an ultimatum to evacuate Northern Gaza immediately, warning that increased Israeli Military activity against hamas would be imminent. Tens of thousands of palestinians were scene leaving their homes in gaza city throughout friday, carrying what they could, but many are deciding not to evacuate or simply dont have the means to do so. Most say they have no safe place to go and on top of that, hamas told them to stay in their homes. With so many people suddenly streaming into southern gaza, the only place to actually leave the strip is the rafa Border Crossing into egypt and that isnt open. Egypt says theyve not closed their side, but the status is unclear due to israeli air strikes on the gaza side. The Israeli Military says it carried out a limited raid in gaza primarily to seek out intelligence on the estimated 150 hostages. An unknown number
while there are candidates trading barbs right now, the former president is dredging up his lies about the 2020 election, handing out these signs. you can see it there. accusing his chief political rival, president biden, of subverting democracy. we have opponents. a lot of opponents. we ve been waging an all-out war in american democracy. you look at what they ve been doing and becoming more and more extreme and repressive. they have just waged an all-out war with each passing day. those accusations come after trump told supporters today, he wants to prosecute the results of the 2020 election and encouraged them, encourage his supporters to go into ballot counting facilities in 2024 to, quote, guard the votes. national correspondent kristin holmes is in cedar rapids. we have to keep pointing out, while they re handing out these signs that says biden attacks democracy, it was trump who tried to overturn the 2020 election results. there is no erasing that fact. reporter:
i will now share concrete evidence for hostages. one from the pole one from inaudible. after ruthlessly massacring and taking people hostage, the terrorists fled to al shifa hospital, they went to the hospital to hide. here you can see hamas terrorists drove back from the massacre. this is an israeli militaryjeep they brought into the hospital. i want to repeatjust brought into the hospital. i want to repeat just to brought into the hospital. i want to repeatjust to make everybody understand. they are bringing an israeli jeep, a militaryjeep, into the hospital compound. a place terrorists should not enter. they are entering with the militaryjeep. anotherjeep, another israeli military vehicle entering into the al shifa hospital, using the al shifa hospital, using the al shifa hospital, using the al shifa hospital is a human shield shelter, bringing military equipment to the vicinity of the hospital. click. this is 7th of october, 10:55am. the evidence i will share was sent by
of the hospital s rooms. they also say noa marciano, the i9 year old israeli soldier said to have been found dead at al shifa, was murdered by hamas inside the hospital. here is the idf spokesman, daniel hagari, briefing journalists. i9 19 years old idf corporal noa marciano was taken hostage by hamas terrorists during the massacre of october the 7th. he was taken into gaza alive. taken hostage in gaza city next to the hospital. during ongoing combat in the vicinity of where she was held captive, noa marciano was injured. i repeat, she was injured. an independent pathological report has determined that her injuries were not life threatening, i repeat, her injuries were not life threatening. what happens to noa marciano? the world should know. hamas terrorists took noa marciano into the hospital where she was murdered quickly hamas murdered noa marciano inside the al shifa hospital. our thoughts are with noa marciano alistair macrow family. we send our heartfelt condolences to