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
That theyre defended. And that, again, this cant be allowed to continue. With regard to the second point, yes, this is something that were very focused on. We want to make sure that no other country or entity tries to take advantage of the situation. The president s been very, very clear about that. He said very starkly that any state or nonstate actor considering that, dont do it. Hes backed that up in a number of ways, including, as i mentioned the other day, deploying our largest Aircraft Carrier battle group to the area. So, thats clearly designed to help ensure that anyone contemplating getting engaged doesnt do it. But beyond that, a big part of my own conversations here throughout this trip, including today, following up the next couple days, is working with other countries to make sure theyre using their own contacts, their own influence, their own relationship to make that case, that no one else would be taking this moment to create chaos in some other place. I should mention,
War between israel and hamas. Israeli forces getting ready for what will be a perilous Ground Invasion. The death toll is mounting too moving throughout the morning. And good morning from new york. Im bill herman, back with my partner here today,. Dana im dana perino and this is americas news room and its good to be with you on your knowledge of the region. 25 americans con if i wered dead in the attack by hamas and Israeli Death toll topping 1200 and palestinian at 1200 and the number wills ration of independence. Bill Antony Blinken was in tel aviv and introduced himself as jew and i shall talked about his jewish and talked about his grandparents in Concentration Camps in europe. Today, he condemned hamas in no uncertain terms. Babies slaughtered, bodies desecrated. Young people burned alive women raped, parents executed in frohn of their children and children in front of their parents. How are we to even understand that . The message i bring to israel is this you may be strong out o
This is cnn Breaking News. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We start in the middle east with new stories of the horror, the terror that hamas inflicted on israel. Some of what i am about to describe to you will assuredly be disturbing. A spokesman for the israeli Prime Minister said today that hamas decapitated babies and toddlers. This was part of a brutal massacre that hamas carried out over the weekend. I should note that as of now, cnn has not been able to independently verify the claims. The Israeli Defense forces said hamas brutally butchered, in an isis way of action, women, children, toddlers, and the elderly. This comes as some israelis are also expressing a sense of frustration that their government is not doing enough. Here you can see individuals at hospitals yelling at israels environment minister, telling her that she is responsible, she should go home. Eventually, the crowd forced her to leave the building. As israel and the military continue to pound gaza with rocke
good morning. welcome to this special edition of cnn this morning. we are continuing our coverage of this temporary truce between israel and hamas and the expected release of more hostages today. my colleague, kaitlyn collins, is live in tel aviv and we ll have more from caitlyn in just a moment. this morning we are monitoring the situation in gaza and israel. this is day two of are this negotiated four-day truce and now we re watching for the release of the hostages being held by hamas. they re expected to free 14 israeli hostages, according to an israeli source. in exchange, israel is prepared to release up to 42 more prisoners today. cnn has learned no americans are to be freed today. they are freeing three palestinians for every israeli out of hostage situation. 13 israeli, 10 thai citizens, 1 filipino were in that first tranche of captives freed. this video was released by hamas. cnn, we should say, had no control over this content. four children were among those release