Clock warning United Nations staff to evacuate gaza. Our coverage continues now in The 11th Hour with stephanie ruhle. Good evening, once again, im stephanie ruhle. Of congress today, where Steve Scalise has dropped out of the race for speaker after being nominated by his fellow republicans. Well have much more on the chaos in the house in just a moment. But first, lets begin our broadcast with israel. Who is continuing its she siege on got a. Launch more airstrikes six days after the hamas terror attacks. The bombing is intensifying, as israel is building up its military forces along the border with gaza for a potential Ground Invasion. At least 1300 people have been killed in israel, and at least 1500 have been killed in gaza. Today, Secretary Of State Antony Blinken was in israel meeting with both Prime Minister netanyahu and israelis who survived the terror attacks. We get more from my colleague, lester holt, in tel aviv. Tonight, israeli airstrikes relentlessly Bombarding Gaza wit
Carley fox news alert, 360,000 israeli troops are waiting for ordered to invade the gaza strip by foot and tank. The nations president says there is no mercy in terror and will make sure hamas cannot carry out an attack like this again. There is a lot of anger in this country pause people do not understand what were talking about. There is no excuse to murdering Innocent Civilianings in any way, any context and believe me, israel will operate and always operates according to International Rules and will do the same in this battle, too. Carley you are watching Fox And Friends, im carley shimkus. Todd im todd piro. On the ground in israel at this hour, blinken will meet with president herzog, who you just heard speak there and Prime Minister netanyahu today and head to jordan to meet with the jordanian king and president of palestine. Senior leader should from hamas, if you want to look up coward in the dictionary, it is their picture. There is no Senior Leadership in the tunnel or house
Jonathan capeheart. Hey, jenn, thank you very much and thank you for joining us. We start with a story that is very much still developing and unselfed to our first guest. This is nayir takov and live in kibbutz and his sons are 16 and 12 years old, and orr, the big brother is 16 and yagil, the younger son, hes 12. Saturday morning at 8 45 a. M. Local time and he and his sisterinlaw were in a cheryl inside the house and will try to ride out the bombings that started and his two sons, the 12yearold and 16yearold were not with them. They were in a different house in the kibbutz and the plan everybody would stay put until the bombings stopped and they would find each other and get back together and stay safe. Then, about a half hour later, it was another communication, it was his girlfriend, and she texted out an audio message, and it was terrifying. She said there were two terrorists inside the house, they had guns, they were shooting, and she said yayir was trying to hold back the door f
Hamas, in terms of this particular gruesome attack on october 7th, we dont currently have that information. We will continue to look for it and if we find it, we will share it with you. Thank you. Looking back at the last few days, how did israel miss this attack coming . Thats a question for you to ask the Israeli Government. Obviously, the Israeli Government has placed a high premium on its Intelligence Capacity as it relates to hamas, to the west bank, to hezbollah. And why it is that they did not have warning from this is not a question i can answer from this podium. What about u. S. Intelligence . Is there anything that crosses your desk that would indicate this . We did not see anything that suggested an attack of this type was going to unfold any more than the israelis did. And your meeting within the situation room today, at some point undoubtedly the president has seen the images of the dead israelis. What has been his reaction when shown those . Youve seen him now twice. Youv
Israeli according to the israeli military. Hamas took to the air, and infiltrated the Country Southern Border by both land and sea. These really military says that unknown number of civilians and soldiers have been taken hostage by the group. It is an assault the likes of which the country has not seen in decades. Following saturday mornings attack, Prime Minister management at a guy, vowed, quote, mighty vengeance, instead the country was now in a state of war. Israel has already responded by launching airstrikes of their own, including one that flattened a Multi Story Residential Building in the heart of gaza city. The strikes continue well into the night, with flashes lighting up the skies, explosions can be heard and seen across the city. Israeli officials say, at least 200 of their citizens have now been killed, with 900 injured in gaza. At least 230 people or did, and another 1600 are injured. That is according to. Just a few hours ago, President Biden delivered his first public