Opening a second front in the war. Joey this comes after the idf hit several iranian backed terror hubs in lebanon overnight. At least 15 communities across israels northern border are under evacuation orders. Rachel to the you south, a second round of aid may make its way into gaza, a convoy of 17 trucks is currently on the egyptian side of the rafah crossing, awaiting permission to cross. Pete overnight, idf says it has taken out a senior hamas commander. Joey the israelis are ramping up you attacks with troops and armor on stand by for a looming Ground Invasion. Rachel lets go to mike tobin who spoke to a parent of one of the hostages being held by the terror group. Mike, good morning. Reporter good morning, rachel, good morning, joey and pete. Lets first start out talking about what we see here on the ground close to the gaza strip. The number one question we get all the time and we turn it to the idf is when will the Ground Invasion start. The spokesperson said theyll start the Gr
Tonight, President Biden, two wars and one Primetime Address to the nation. We will see the president this evening from the Oval Office Making a direct appeal to the American People to essentially stand tough this as he says hes going to ask congress for tens of billions of tdollars to help support ukraine and israel. In gaza, new air strikes and explosions seen this morning. In Southern Gaza where civilians, as you know, have been told to flee for safety, this was the scene we saw over and over again this morning outside a hospital in khan youris. This was a few hours ago, a stream of people rushed in many for aid. Right now this is unclear what caused the explosion, the idf said they are looking into it. So to give you a sense of where some of these locations are. Khan youris is right there. The Raffa Crossing is right here. This is where President Biden said he has brokered a deal to allow some aid from egypt to cross. Were waiting to see if and when that will happen. This the line
hamas has released 14 more israeli hostages today, the third day of the ceasefire, and no word on the american hostages that the white house had believed could be included today. since bibi netanyahu s war cabinet accepted the deal, hamas has now released 40 israeli hostages and the release of 150 palestinian prisoners. of course, we re very happy for those released and their anguished families. net an ya hue stressed the war will continue. and assure that the day after hamas, there will be no threat to israel. i don t trust hamas to do anything right now. i only trust hamas to respond to pressure. howard: let s stop right there. the media should not fall into the hamas propaganda trap the that a this is some grand humanitarian the gesture blessed by god. they kidnapped the israelis as a bargaining chip, seizing 240 hostages, most of them civilian families including elderly people and infants. think about how barbaric that is. look at that, a 2-year-old, an 85-year-old re
washington. israel now has the list of hostages who are supposed to be released tomorrow, and we are just hours away from day two of this expected four-day truce. i should note, we are getting new reporting in now. we are told there are several children who are on that list for tomorrow. of course the final group remains to be seen. that is something that we will learn as it happens in real time, as we did today, with this first group of hamas-held hostages being back on israeli soil. what we know is happening right now is they are getting medical treatment across multiple different locations here in tel aviv, where they have been reunited with their families. they are also including, at this children s hospital that is right outside of where i m standing right now, 24 hostages in total, which are 13 israelis, ten thai citizens, one filipino, all evacuated from gaza today and released by hamas after being held there for several weeks. there was not a dry eye in the room when
the israeli army sets they have completely enclosed gaza city. they said 130 hamas fighters have been killed in the latest battles. at least 18 israeli soldiers have been killed since the start of the ground offensive. israel s military says it s targeting hamas infrastructure, including tunnels and rocket launchers, and minimising civilian deaths. it follows another night of israeli air strikes all in retaliation for hamas s raids into southern israel on 7th october, in which israel says more than 1,400 people were killed, with 240 others kidnapped. israel s intense bombardment of gaza has also continued. the hamas run gaza health ministry says 27 people have been killed in an israeli strike near a un school, the third deadly strike in as many days on the densely populated jabalia refugee camp. it says more than 9,000 people have now been killed in gaza since 7th october. there are also reports of dozens killed in al burej, just south of the line which israel told palestinia