frfree palestine. free, free palestine. eric: thousands salute flooding the nation s capitol streets to voice their support for the people of gaza and the slam israel you hear them saying free palestine. but are they calling about freeing up palestine from hamas and calling on hamas to stop its attacks? this is a fighting is intensifying as gaza to israeli troops have encircled gaza city hamas leaders but israel said they continue to use civilian casualties for propaganda purposes as there are continuing calls for a cease-fire. this is fox fox news live i m eric shawn. arthel: five arthel neville israel again urging civilians in gaza to fleet areas of conflict and head south. the hamas terrorist are trying to take advantage of evacuations into egypt. a senior u.s. official telling fox news the terror group is trying to sneak out injured militants among civilians. meanwhile the israeli military s is advancing the offensive on gaza amid intense pressure for humanitarian paus
and backpacks. apparently i m 15 years old. everybody, have a great halloween. harry, thank you as always my friend. cnn news central starts right now. hamas. the targeted special operation overnight in northern gaza, and the moment the soldier was reunited with her family. a big moment on capitol hill. any minute now an official plea for new funds to support israel and ukraine. i m john berman can kate bolduan. sara is on assignment. this is cnn news central. israel s military push further into gaza. the idf says troops are con fronting hamas terrorist cells on the streets, and now facing what they describe as anti-tank missiles and machine gunfire as the fight continues. according to the idf, the number of hostages being held by hamas and gaza is also now going up again, now believed to be 240 hostages. the idf is calling what it details as the active rescue and an idf soldier. israeli officials say hamas was holding her inside a remote building. that s accordin
phase this weekend and intensifying both airstrikes and ground incursions into gaza. the israeli military now saying they struck hundreds of additional targets in gaza just in the past 24 hours. for the very latest, let s turn to fox news chief correspondent jonathan hunt in jerusalem. marianne it is 11 a.m. here in israel. and within the last hour, the israeli defense forces spokesman has told us that over the weekend they carried. out 450 airstrikes in gaza. those strikes targeting, we are told, hamas in infrastructure and hamas terrorist cells as they continue to press this war against hamas with the state and aim of destroying the organization. troops also, we are told, remain on the ground in gaza and they have been added to over the last 24 hours. but significantly, the idf spokesman said that those troops will be added to gradually, annually. now, that would seem to indicate that we are not going to see the shock and awe style mass invasion that many experts had predic
a warm welcome to this hour s coverage of israel at war. i m richard quest live from abu dhabi and you re most welcome if you re watching in the united states or indeed from wherever you re a watching around the world. it is 10:00 on sunday morning in gaza. and idf helicopters have already been seen flying along the israeli coastline in ashkelon earlier today. the city is only 20 kilometers from gaza, where the idf says hamas is holding 230 hostages. now, in gaza, we are waiting to see the latest images of damage from overnight, and of course, receive the reports on possible casualties. overnight, the reports of near total communications blackout, internet, telephone, mobile phones and the like, is believed to be, that has now eased up, but it was an extremely dangerous and busy night. israel says it s been targeting hamas tunnels and underground spaces. and again, warning people to go south. this is the israeli prime minister. our heroic fighters have one supreme goal, to