Every single one of them should be released. Since the earliest hours of this crisis, the president has made clear he will do Everything Possible to secure the release of every hostage. During my own recent troubles in the region i am beside him urgency and importance of this to the United States and pressed partners to do everything they can to help us secure the release. Since that time we work relentlessly with partners to do just that. I cant speak publicly about the details of these efforts, i know you understand that, but the urgent work to free every single american, to free all of the hostages continues. As does our work to secure the Safe Passage Out Of Gaza for the american strap there. In this particular instance, i want to thank the government of qatarfor the important i want to thank the government of qatar for the important assistance. When i was in israel last week i met with the families of us citizens that hamas have taken hostage. President biden had the opportunity t
Thank you for joining us. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. As the six hour window Safe Passage Out of Northern Gaza expired last hour, israeli troops were seen amassing near the gaza border. We want to show you video taken in the last hour showing heavy weaponry arriving in southern israel. Inside gaza, Tens Of Thousands of people have left but israel has urged 1. 1 civilians in gaza to relocate. Idf claims hamas is stopping people from leaving. Hospitals have said they cannot and will not leave because if they were to leave, a Death Sentence would then be on their patients and now the u. N. Is warning that many people who are pregnant, are elderly or have a disability also will not be able to leave. This is a humanitarian crisis in gaza. The u. N. Is warning that the situation in gaza is a Matter Of Life And Death and not just for those who are evacuating but also for the 2 Million People who risk running out of clean water. The u. N. Says they need aid sent to gaza now are people will
This is the aftermath in the city of ashkalon, not far from the gaza border. This all comes some 48 hours after hamas militants launched an unprecedented attack by land, by sea, and by air, killing civilians and taking hostages overnight. Israeli air strikes pummeled hundreds of targets in the gaza strip. Israels Defense Minister has this morning ordered a, quote, complete siege, saying electricity, food, and fuel will all be cut off. The videos show the horror on the ground at a Music Festival in israel are 260 people have been found dead. This is a drone video of burned out cars at the site. A dash camera video shows a hamas Fighter Shooting his rifle and taking a hostage. This morning, a spokesman for the Israeli Military say that hamas have brought dozen of hostages and there could be terrorists hiding in israel now. They came in in hundreds. There still could be terrorists. Were slowly scanning each of the communities and were evacuating the israeli population from these locations
I welcome you both. Ali, to you first. U. S. Officials, confirming americans are among the dead. But, what do we know of any specifics, around those statistics, this hour . Yeah alex, this is something that we heard, first mention by Secretary Of State Antony Blinken this morning, when he said that u. S. Officials were working overtime, to confirm reports that americans were among those killed. Since these attacks began yesterday, as well as reports that americans, were among those taken hostage, into gaza, by hamas militants. And tonight, we have a new quote from a National Security council spokesperson. Confirming that the deaths of several u. S. Citizens since this attack began, but also on these reports of americans being taken hostage. They would only confirm that there are americans, quote, Unaccounted For. They say in a statement, quote, we are aware of reports of unaccounted american u. S. Citizens, and we are working to confirm, we are closely monitoring information of hostage
Ties with israel. And in fact, israel has stayed largely neutral, in the war in ukraine or, in what is perceived to be partially because it is trying to maintain its relationship with moscow. And, so russia clearly has some allegiances, on various sides of this conflict, and it remains to be seen how, and whether it is going to try to insert itself, diplomatically, to play either a productive, or a counterproductive, role in bringing an end to this. Violence yet, not to mention it still has relationships with iran, and that also complicates everything even more. Iran, be accused of being the backer of hamas, and being a proxy to both hezbollah and hamas, and other militant groups in the region. And, obviously because of what is happening in ukraine, israel, sorry what has happened between russia, it has relied heavily on iran for some support, on that front with ukraine. Dan, do we have a sense of what intelligence capabilities the United States is prepared to share with israel, Going