mohammad shtayyeh, welcome to hardtalk, and thank you forjoining us from ramallah. now, the terrible scenes in rafah are just the latest mass casualty event of this war. as we stand nearly eight months into this phase of the conflict, how do you envisage the current war in gaza coming to an end? well, first of all, i hope there will be an immediate ceasefire and an immediate end to these atrocities that israel is committing against our people. as you rightly said, what is happening in rafah is simply a repetition of what has been happening since october 7th, a very terrible situation, genocide, massive killing and also use of aid and food and water and electricity as a tool for killing good people. there are people who have been killed because of bombing, and there are people who have been dying because of hunger, been dying because of lack of medical treatment. so the situation, really, is very catastrophic. and there isn t anything called refuge. there isn t anything that s
but i rainian-backed malitia groups. these attacks must stop. it can announce the decision to deploy an additional 300 troops to the u.s. central command region from home stations in the continental united states. these additional troops will provide communications and other support enablers for forces already in the region. neil: under fire, but not israeli troops. try american ones. iranian backed proxies targeting u.s. forces in the middle east. in a moment, republican presidential candidate ron desantis on what the u.s. should do. former vice presidential candidate joe lieberman on what the u.s. and the world should do. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. first to rich edson at the pentagon with more on these latest attacks and how we re responding. rich? good afternoon, neil. the pentagon says they re putting more munitions, more people, more troops in to the region. the 300 you just heard announced there is on top of the 900 the pentagon announced were heading th
smith. john: i m john roberts. the story with martha starts rights now. martha: good afternoon. i m martha maccallum. right now breaking on the story, israel s prime minister saying the fight in gaza is the second war of end. he calls it an existential battle. any calls for a cease fire, he says, would be a surrender as idf expands their ground operation and rescues an israeli soldier who was kidnapped october 7th. a huge development this afternoon. they have vowed to carry out more raids and put pressure on hamas to release the 229 or maybe north of that number remaining hostages that are believed to be in gaza including ten, is the estimate, we think is the right number of americans now being held hostage by hamas. the biden administration has teed up big meetings that could be central to what happens next. senior members of biden s cabinet will sit down with top saudi officials over the next few days. saudi arabia could be very pivotal in the future of the middle eas
gaza, i m looking out over tel aviv. it s been 22 days since the terrorist attacks by hamas caught this country, israel, and frankly much of the world, by surprise. tonight a new phase of the war against hamas rages. listen to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu earlier this evening. translator: the war inside gaza is going to be long. this is our second independence war. we ve got to save our country. we re going fight in the air, ground, and sea. i m pamela brown in washington. we are also following breaking news back in the united states. this hour, we bring you the harrowing personal stories of war. a mounting death toll and increasingly unsurvivable conditions in gaza and what we know about does s military plans include israel s matter plans including reporting on which hamas leaders israel says have already been eliminated. first we re going to start with the massive ground operation in gaza. cnn s nic robertson is live for us in sderot, israel. you ve witne
ground and the sky, prime minister benjamin netanyahu calling this second stage of the war, the idf claiming it s hit hundreds of key targets in the past 24 hours including hamas command centers. gaza s health ministry says 8,000 people have died in the territory, most of them women and children. welcome to a special hour of fox news live, i m mike emmanuel. aishah: mike, good to see you again. i m aishah hasnie. power is now being restored for many in gaza after israeli strikes put the region in a communications blackout saturday. the idf hitting areas near one of gaza s largest hospitals saying hamas uses that hospital as a base. meanwhile, thousands of palestinians today broke into aid warehouses searching for basic survival items, searching for food. the u.n. calling it a sign of growing desperation and decaying civil order in the strip. mike: we have fox news team coverage with alex hogan and trey yingst both live in southern israel. let s go first to trey. hello, trey