All right. The break news over just the last several minutes. New israeli air strikes in Northern Gaza, and you can see the smoke rising over that part of the region, and now if you are looking at gaza, this is where the air strikes have been taking place, but here, down to The Rafah Crossing in the extreme southern border of gaza and egypt, our cameraman has been seeing the critical aid crossing from egypt into gaza. Six u. N. Fuel trucks entering at that border, and that is a major development. Southern gaza is also where israel has told more than 1 million palestinians to move from Northern Gaza into Southern Gaza, and this is where israel says they will be safer, kate. It is happening as the u. S. Secretary of state tony blinken is back in israel today. He has been in the region traveling all throughout the region for days now, and we are standing by to see if blinken is going to speak to reporters now, and the critical update given the news that we are giving, and this and the sob
To talk to him, its a pleasure. I mean, its unbelievable. Look at his smile. Its not something that you can imagine that somebody would want to harm. This innocence. Absolutely senseless. Fraud and mark, i hope ohad and etan come home soon. Thank you so much for joining us. We are asking that today thats the main point, that there will brought home Safe And Sound and really ask the World Leaders have a lot of leverage to bring this about and we are asking this should be the main purpose. Yep. Especially the leaders in qatar which have close relationship with hamas but also in turkey and egypt and jordan and the uae and saudi arabia, anyone who has pull, anyone who can do anything and appeal to hamas to release these innocent sevcivilians hel hostage in gaza, please, please do what you can. Thank you so much, we appreciate it. Welcome to the lead kwit. Im jake tapper. Were following two major breaking story, first on capitol hill. House republicans mired in chaos, struggling mightily to
6 00 a. M. In gaza and this is our continuing breaking News Coverage of the war in israel, fox news at night. And this is now a live look at gaza city, 40 minutes before sunrise. Over the past few days these last minutes of darkness have been used by isreali forces to unleash a barrage of air strikes, rocket fire that has crippled gaza. 300,000 isreali troops are now on the border with gaza waiting for word to begin what appears to be a major ground assault. The death toll is also rising with each side losing upwards of a thousand people, 22 americans are also confirmed dead. And 17 more remain unaccounted for. As the Biden Administration scrambles to rescue u. S. Citizens being held hostage by hamas. We begin tonight with the Senior Foreign Affairs correspondent greg palkot. Greg, we are hearing loud noises and seeing flashes, any indication from where you are that this ground war has started or just air strikes . Trace, yeah, we have no indications of ground action yet although we se
Heather heyers death and in the end justice was served. The hbo documentary film no accident streaming now on max. Kristi jacobson, karen dunn and robbie kaplan, thank you for being with us this morning ana cabrera and jose diazbalart pick up the coverage right now. Right now in our special coverage of the israelhamas war, israel continuing to pound gaza with air strikes this morning vowing those strikes wont let up until its hostages are freed by hamas. This while a wall of troops and tanks are building along the gaza border, what we know about israels strategy and whether a Ground Invasion is imminent. Plus, americas Secretary Of State meeting with israels Prime Minister declaring the steadfast support of the united states. Its impossible for me to look at the photos of families killed such as the mother, father, and three small children murdered as they sheltered in their home and kibbutz and not think of my own children. Good morning, and thank you so much for joining us. Im Ana Ca
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 chuting. He said he was trying to hold back the door to the shelter so the terrorists could not get in, and that was end of of it. They lost connection. So his brother tried calling them back. He also tried that thing where you try to locate somebodys fun to figure out where they were located directly. He was not able to find them that way. Later in the afternoon he was able to get in contact with the boys mother. Again, shed been with the two sons. She said shed been contacted by Two Kid Nappers who made the 16yearold boy get on the phone and tell his mom that hed been kidnapped, then he hung up. Then the long and short of this is that all four of these people, he and his two sons and his girlfriend, theyve now all been reported missing by his brother. And yanef says the whole family has been missing since midday on saturday. Hes not heard from them