That most of those who died were run over as the aid convoy moved away. In the last hour, the Un Security Council has been meeting Behind Closed Doors to discuss the situation. It comes on the day that the hamas government says more than 30,000 people have been killed in the territory since this conflict began in october. Our special correspondent fergal keane reports from Jerusalem The Hunger created by war made this tragedy. That is a fundamental fact of what happened today. The dead and wounded were starving people, simply hoping to feed their families. Translation | am| one of the wounded. I was on al rashid street. We were there all day in order to get food for our children, but we paid for that aid with our blood. Thousands had gathered in the predawn darkness. Theyd heard trucks were coming with aid. There were farmers, mechanics, our bbc cameraman, teachers, a doctor from a local hospital. An israeli drone filmed people crowding the aid trucks. It is a striking depiction of hum
3, 4, 9, 8, 7, 1 8, 8, 8, 5, 2, 3, 4 9, 8, 7. Im Katie Bo Lillis in washington. And this is cnn welcome everyone. Thanks for joining. Im omar jimenez in today for fredricka whitfield. We begin this hour with some Breaking News as the us begins, humanitarian airdrops today over gaza, were now learning that Vice President Kamala Harris will meet with israel war cabinet minister benny gantz on monday in washington. And it also comes as a senior us official tells cnn that has six weeks ceasefire has basically been accepted by israel theyre now waiting on a response from hamas. Now, earlier today, three c130 hercules cargo planes dropped a total of 66 bundles of aid in gaza. They included mainly food, but no water or medical supplies. Cnns Priscilla Alvarez is in washington now, priscilla, President Biden weighed in on the airdrops its a short time ago. What is he saying . He did and he echoed his remarks from this week, which is that this is still not enough aid. Let me read the tweets you
Adams has the latest. American planes are the guys are delivering aid from the air for the first time. This is not how an effective humanitarian operation should be run. It is costly and inefficient. The situation at below it seems has given washington no choice. It will keep some people alive for a while, but after everything they have been through there is not much gratitude. Translation there is not much gratitude. Translation ,. , translation america is trying to bu our translation america is trying to buy our silence. Translation america is trying to buy our silence. It translation america is trying to buy our silence. It is translation america is trying to buy our silence. It is better translation america is trying to buy our silence. It is better for translation america is trying to buy our silence. It is better for us i buy our silence. It is betterfor us to live in more than get aid from them. In to live in more than get aid from them. , to live in more than get aid from them
From the source tonight, 24 hours after the Supreme Court hit the brakes on Donald Trumps federal election case, jack smith hitting the gas on another just proposed a Surprising New de, for the maralago Classified Documents case for trump, his campaign and his likely republican convention. It could be but explosive. Also a splitscreen playing out on the southern border, dueling visits by the current president and his predecessor, supposed to biden is looking to turn around and erin area where voters say hes the weakest as trump is really looking to sabotage getting anything done in washington so we can use it to her biden of november. Also, a cnn exclusive our conversation with senator Bernie Sanders, who had some scathing criticism of Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu and called for an immediate end to the war in gaza. And a lot more shell want to see. Im kaitlan collins, and this is the source tonight we start as we are witnessing the aftershocks really of that Supreme Court decision tha