Welcome to cnn this morning. Im amara walker. And im victor blackwell. We continue our coverage of the war in israel. Thousands of israeli troops and hundreds of Armored Vehicles are at the gaza border ready to strike hamas. On saturday, the Israeli Military said its air strikes on hamas targets in gaza will become more relentless as they prepare for the Ground Incursion. Today the Palestinian Ministry of health in gaza said the number killed there is up to 4651. 266 died in the last 24 hours. A hospital in gaza Central District said its overwhelmed with bodies following overnight air strikes. Some of the images youre about to see are disturbing. These are videos obtained by cnn. They show dozens the dozens of bodies wrapped in shrouds on the ground surrounding the hospital because of the hospitals morgue, it is already at capacity. Families could be seen grieving, true iing to identify the bodies. As fighting increasing at Israelez Northern Border with lebanon, the u. S. Military is t
Demonstrations or violent actions against u. S. Citizens is and interests, the department of state advises u. S. Citizens overseas to exercise increased caution. The u. S. Finds itself in the cross hairs of an international blacklash against israels retaliation against hamas, despite the fact that hamas slaughtered more than 1400 people. This morning in london, thousands are participating in this propalestinian demonstration urged opt by hamas leaders. This follows similar demonstrations friday in which angry protesters took to the streets around the world burning flags and portraits of President Biden, even an effigy of Prime Minister benjamin netanyahu. They assembled outside many u. S. Embassies, including those in indonesia and mahmoud lay ya, also on the streets of cairo, paes aris and islamabad. Meanwhile, the Rafah Crossing Into Egypt was briefly opened this morning to allow the first convoy of aid trucks to enter the gaza strip. For the latest, im joined by cnns Clarissa Ward i
That does it. We are done . Thats it. Velshi is going to start right now. Ali velshi, take it away. It is nice to see you all. I am in chicago today. I love the city and i am going to be at the chicago humanities fest with jen psaki this afternoon, so that will be fun. A little field trip for us, but i am glad you are holding down the fort on that end. Have a great rest of the day and i will see you tomorrow. And thanks to you at home for joining us. Today on velshi, the story of a symbol of election deniers and capital rioters on display at the home of a Supreme Court justice keeps getting worst. The disturbing new context being offered by the justice himself. Plus, the tactic offered by socalled Real Republicans to convince them that their party is not dead. I have a lot of questions for two of the people behind the latest effort to salvage our twoparty system. Then who is behind the Group Spending tens of millions of dollars in democratic primaries to try to oust the most progressiv
Provisions to feed 11,000 people for one month. Washington is urging israel to do more to provide a sustained humanitarian access, and says it is deeply concerned about reports of imminent famine. Officials who called for the Rafah Crossing to be reopened as soon as possible. Egypt stopped allowing in supplies. The two countries have blamed each other for its continued closure. The us concern over the amount of aid getting into rafah has been echoed by the un. They are aid chief warmed that vernon is now an immediate threat and that un staff were struggling to help people displaced by the Israeli Offensive on the Israeli Offensive on rafah. We dont need to be a scientist to see the consequences of that lack of food. Forfamine there see the consequences of that lack of food. For famine there are a lot of medical care and nutritional care, which is the precursor to simon, kills for a disease, as well as hunger. Kills for a disease, as well as hunaer. , hunger. Our correspondent is in jer
Are still unaccounted for. The idf expressed condolences to the victims families. Our hearts go out to them, to the families, at this difficult time. We will leave no stone unturned. We will do everything in our power to find our hostages and bring them home. We will not rest until we do. Meanwhile, lawyers for israel have told the International Criminal court that south africa is making a mockery of genocide. It comes after south africa asked the uns top court to order israel to stop its incursion in rafah, citing the Genocide Convention. Now that both sides have presented arguments, its up to the icjs judges to decide whether it is necessary to issue a ruling. From the hague, heres the bbc s anna holligan. Israel describes south africa plasma case as an inversion of reality, divorced from facts, and accuse south africa of exploiting the Genocide Convention by presenting outlandish allegations. Such as accusing israel of creating extermination zones, using language reminiscent of the