gaza border, huge protests turned decidedly and suddenly deadly. 56 palestinians were killed. before we talk about it, let s get a late report from nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel in jerusalem. reporter: outrage boiled over in the gaza strip today while just 60 miles north, that seemed like a world away, ovations for president trump in jerusalem. [ applause ] daughter ivanka helping do the honors, unveiling the new embassy seal. we welcome you officially and for the first time to the embassy of the united states here in jerusalem, the capital of israel. thank you. [ applause ] reporter: also there, her husband and middle east adviser jared kushner. we ve shown that the united states of america will do what s right, and so we have. reporter: president trump appeared in a recorded message, saying the embassy move from tel aviv keeps a campaign promise.
but as the elaborate dedication ceremony took place with high-profile guests like ivanka trump and jared kushner on hand, less than 60 miles away at the gaza border, huge protests turned decidedly and suddenly deadly. 56 palestinians were killed. before we talk about it, let s get a late report from nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel in jerusalem. reporter: outrage boiled over in the gaza strip today while just 60 miles north, that seemed like a world away, ovations for president trump in jerusalem. [ applause ] daughter ivanka helping do the honors, unveiling the new embassy seal. we welcome you officially and for the first time to the embassy of the united states here in jerusalem, the capital of israel. thank you. [ applause ] reporter: also there, her husband and middle east adviser jared kushner.
jerusalem. but as the elaborate dedication ceremony took place with high-profile guests like ivanka trump and jared kushner on hand, less than 60 miles away at the gaza border, huge protests turned decidedly and suddenly deadly. 56 palestinians were killed. before we talk about it, let s get a late report from nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel in jerusalem. reporter: outrage boiled over in the gaza strip today while just 60 miles north, that seemed like a world away, ovations for president trump in jerusalem. [ applause ] daughter ivanka helping do the honors, unveiling the new embassy seal. we welcome you officially and for the first time to the embassy of the united states here in jerusalem, the capital of israel. thank you. [ applause ] reporter: also there, her husband and middle east adviser jared kushner. we ve shown that the united
they have had a promise kept by trump in jerusalem, that has pageantry and all this stuff people would say what is that? they make among other things cell phones and modems and they re a chinese company and they actually what is amazing and this is what came up in the briefing over and over, as trump has taken on china when it comes to what the the white house said are unfair trade practices, intellectual property violations, also p.s., this is a company that took some of the products that were made with the u.s. parts and, they sold them to iran and north korea. not okay, right. so they get dinged for a long period of time. they re a huge company in china. but then it turns out the president is directing the commerce secretary to try to find a way around this. it seems as a bit of a favor to xi jinping the chinese leader.
are still coming out and it really is not clear, even for people who were inside the concert as to whether or not this was an actual explosion as in some sort of bomb blast or some other sort of incident. there have also been reports that people really did sort of panic inside that arena once the sound was heard and there was a rush to get out. let me tell you injures could be next to that. there was an explosion at the manchester arena, which we know, ariana grande was performing, there were deaths and injuries. still trying to determine if terrorism. no claims of responsibility. that s being told right now. no claims of responsibility and a senior white house official traveling with president trump in jerusalem had not heard of the incident 6:50 p.m. eastern standard time. this news is just developing. but we, at this point, we don t