Good morning, everybody. It is thursday, october 12, 2023. 1 00 in the afternoon in gaza and israel and we start with a fox news alert. Right now Israeli Forces carrying out relentless strikes in gaza at the idf ramps up counter attacks against hamas. This is day six of the war, more than 1200 israelis are dead, 22 americans have been murdered. The terrorists are holding at least 150 people hostage and idf says theyll not let up if Siege Of Gaza till all of them are freed. Secretary of state Antony Blinken is on the ground in israel. You see him there meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and set to speak in about 20 minutes and of course well bring you that live. Theyve set up the podiums and were ready for the shot. First were returning to trey yingst near the ground on the Israeli Gaza Boarder and who knows when the encouragement officially begins. Trey. Reporter hey, guys, good morning. Rocket fire from the gaza strip continues this morning. Overnight there was a lull in t
Jesse jesse welcomed walking to the weak. Chaos continues to rip throughout the middle east. 17 Americans Still unaccounted for. The soon they are captive. The death count is over 1200. 1,089 of them are israeli soldiers. Its only going to get worse from here. These Search Retribution like their flaky israels Northern Borders with missile strikes. As the hezbollah hezbollah Artillery Pummels northward, hamas continues Thei Shelling of israeli civilians i the south. [screaming] is really is living a nightmare and is not ending soon. 36 hours in a bomb shelter as radicalized Jihadists Marsh on the Neighborhood Butchering anyone insight. You cant imagine the terrorist in your city, the terrace we are seeing, pictures of people they killed just in m neighborhood, my friends told m that terrorists are outside of their home trying to get away and we dont know how many of them are outside. You just hear the gunshots. And we know every gunshot kills someone. It as a person killed, murdered but
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
You, bret. Bret thank you. Thank you very much. Have a good night good evening welcome to washington im bret baier. Breaking tonight rapidly changing developments in the israeli war with hamas, a warning here. Many of the images coming out of the region are graphic and disturbing. The u. S. Death toll has risen to 27. 14 americans are unaccounted for. The u. S. Government will begin evacuation flights for americans in israel very soon. Some 20,000 of them, its believed. Preparations are continuing for an expected massive Ground Invasion by the israelis into gaza. The Israeli Defense force is pounding what it calls hamas infrastructure inside gaza. At least 2700 people have died on both sides. Terrorists are believed to be holding about 150 hostages. U. S. Secretary of state Antony Blinken met with israeli leaders in tel aviv today. He will visit with palestinian president tomorrow. Senior correspondent mike tow bib is in israel right now with the latest. Good evening, mike. Good evenin
Martha good afternoon. Im Martha Maccallum in new york. Theres 22 americans who have been killed so far. We hope that number will not go higher at this point. We also now know that there are 17 confirmed missing americans and the white house now confirms that a number of them are hostages which raises a number of questions about the back and forth and the understanding that those individuals are indeed being held by hamas. So hamas is using at least 100 people as Human Shields or leverage for their cause inside of gaza city. These are the terrified Family Members of those that are kidnapped and those who are defined as missing. Watch this. Theyre not part of this war. Citizens and civilians should not be taken. The number 1 message were trying to convey is that time is critical. She was shouting, mommy, they shout at us. Were all wounded. Theyre taking children, women, back to gaza to use as Human Shields. Its appalling. The world be has to step up and get these hostages out. Martha th