Story for so long. I cannot imagine what her mom, her family has been thinking no. They suspected for a very long time. It is just unbelievable, abby. Thank you. Closure for them. What kind of closure. Unbelievable. We will see you here tomorrow. Well there is new video of the moment before the deadly explosion at a hospital in gaza. President biden is about to make a significant oval office address. What is next . Tonight im laura coates live. President biden spent about seven hours in the Israeli Voice on, today and tomorrow he will formally address the nation from the oval office. Now we have no idea right now what he will say, but it is hollow ground for what we call it the leader of the free world. President s give speeches all the time, of course you see 1000 of them. But they dont often from the oval office. In fact, it is increasingly rare. Actually here from the oval office, here is the gravitas involved. The decision to send troops to little rock to enforce school desegregation, the cuban missile crisis, the Space Shuttle challenger disaster, the 9 11 attacks, the iraq war, the coronavirus outbreak. Now we expect it to be about two simultaneous wars. The u. S. Response to hamass attack against israel, and russias war in ukraine. As for the latest devastation on the ground and gaza, the blast at the hospital, will President Biden did not wait until he returned to the oval office to address that. No, he spoke to the press, and on camera no less, from on Board Air Force one. I dont things like not, unless faith in the source in which i have gotten from people at the Defense Department who i respect the Intelligence Community that i respect. It is highly improbable that israel and there is new Video Tonight that shows a rocket fired from gaza exploding inflight above gaza city. Now the Israeli Defense forces point to the video as evidence that israel was not responsible for the explosion of the hospital. Im not going to pretend to be an expert in analyzing rockets, or what happened to them, but i have experts here to unpack all of it in just a moment. There are many people that have already shown their conclusions about this entire war, and all that has followed, and perhaps will come. You have protests that are spreading, and only here in this country, but Around The World. In fact, Capitol Police today arrested some 300 protesters from jewish for peace at the camp. As protesters flooded the streets in american cities, and across the middle east. Now the history of america, certainly understands the value of peaceful protest. Of course, speaking truth to power. What i have to emphasize the word truth. In fact, not misinformation, not propaganda. Of course the fog of war makes that very difficult at times to be discerning. I cant do it with a soundbite, nor will i try to do so. We have to have real conversations with depth and context. We will go there tonight, even when especially because it is uncomfortable. I will be joined by a rabbi and a mom sitting here together for the honest discussion we need. That is coming up later this hour. Here with me tonight, two experts who can help us answer some of these very many questions. Cnns jerusalem Correspondent Hadas gold, and colonel Cedric Leighton who spent 26 years as an Intelligence Officer in the u. S. Air force. I want to get right away to what we are learning, still learning about the explosion at the hospital in gaza. Cnn chief National Security correspondent Alex Marquardt has been analyzing the video. Alex, tell us all about it. Laura, the explosion at the hospital rocked northern gaza. It lit up the night sky. You can see it in this video. Cnn has geolocated that blast site to the hospital. Then we also have this other angle from al jazeera appearing to show, according to an analysis by cnn, a rocket fired from inside gaza. It then explodes in the air and seconds later another blast is seen at the baptist hospital. Now we have not determined definitively that the rocket is the cause of that explosion. But in tel aviv today, the president , he said u. S. Intelligence matches israels version of what happened. Take a listen. I was outraged and saddened by the in the hospital in gaza. Based on the information we have seen today it appears the result of an errant rocket fired by a Terrorist Group in gaza. Now the u. S. Has not named the group, but israel says it is Palestinian Islamic jihad which is allied with hamas, and also linked with iran. This american assessment which look him listen 24 hours after the Deadly Strike was based on what the white house now says is quote, intelligence missile activity, and open source video and images of the incident. The statement goes on to say that, some Palestinian Militants in gaza themselves believe that this strike was in fact carried out by islamic jihad. Mora . Alex marquardt, a lot to unpack, thank you so much. We want to bring in Israeli Government spokesman he is here now. Thank you for being here today. We are going through a lot of this. The u. S. Review is finding that israel is not responsible for that deadly hospital blast. That is not coming down the, region is it . You have neighboring countries who dont believe it. Theres largescale protests. So where does that leave israel now Going Forward . You are right, many people are not buying the overwhelming evidence that shows it is a Palestinian Islamic jihad missile fired. Unfortunate because much of the International Media was very quick why headlines, seeing 500 People Killed in hospital in israeli airstrike, palestinian officials say, before there was any evidence. Now when those reports ran, the only evidence was the claim that hamas genocidal Terror Organization, that perpetrated the October 7th Massacre without a shred of evidence. Now it took the israeli army a few hours to conduct its original investigation, that is exactly what you would expect from a professional army of a democratic state. As i discussed with your correspondents, now the overwhelming evidence now points in that direction. It isnt shut case now, that it was rockets fired from inside the gaza strip. Palestinian islamic jihad. The fire we are seeing there from the propellant, the supposed fuel rocket all the way into israel, in Fact Exploding in the hospital bombing. In fact, we are going to go there and unpack greater and greater. It is important to do so. Many of the reasons you have just said. People have john conclusions, and because of the really impact of all of that has taken place, the weight of it. In addition to, this President Biden was telling reporters that israel will allow aid into gaza. He was blonde with israeli leaders on the need to help refugees. Can you confirm that israels on board with what President Biden is saying . Indeed. Israel has no objection to humanitarian aid between the people of gaza and egypt rafah border crossing. We have just one condition, that humanitarian aid not reach hamas, the Terror Organization that perpetrated the atrocities of the October 7th Massacre, that is our right under International Law to insist that humanitarian aid donated by the International Community not reach the Military Regime that is currently conducting War Of Aggression against us, just as hamas a few days ago from the United Nations, the u. N. In fact admitting in a tweet, hamas had come and taken medicine and fuel away from stocks, enough fuel to power causes Desalination Plants for six days. That was stolen by hamas from United Nations stockpiles. Now as for the Border Crossings with israel, our position is clear. We will not allow our Border Crossings, the Symporter Crossings that have been attacked by people but should under fired from rockets to be used to deliver trade and aid into the gaza strip as long as there were 200 hostages are inside the gaza strip. We have 200 people from babies to elderly people who are being held brutally hostage by Palestinian Islamic jihad, and hamas without basic conditions, without access to the red cross, the immediate and unconditional, return and we hope that hamas will do the basic humanitarian, they will atrocities of october 7th, when they beheaded people antichildren up, and they have no expectation of basically military conditions from hamas. That is they release the hostages, in the meanwhile humanitarian aid can come from egypt. Certainly your concerns are clear and evident as the justification for what you have just stated. How do you intend to enforce and ensure that what you are seeing comes with humanitarian aid will be heated . Will you not allow people to go through until you have certain conditions that are tangibly really to you . Or is there something short of that . You ask excellent questions about how the International Community is supposed to ensure that its taxpayer dollars not reach the bloodthirsty terrorist who perpetrated the October 7th Massacre. I remember after the 2014 War Operation there was a mechanism stepped up by the United Nations over the gaza reconstruction mechanism. I was involved in working on it as a young soldier myself, that was supposed to make sure that aid reached people of gaza to rebuild, not reach hamas. What we are seeing now is the result of many years in which concrete supposed to peoples homes have diverted away to building hamas bunkers in shelters and pipeline supposed to be laid down what it ended up being taken and converted into rockets and what comes next . We are going to expect the International Community to insist on a very strict safeguards to make sure the aid that is being donated move people Around The World for humanitarian agencies through foreign governments not reach the Military Terror Machine there on the 7th Of October murdered 1400 of our people, injured 4000, and took 200 of them hostage in the basic humanitarian conditions in the gaza strip. Thank you so much for joining us. We will unpack this further. Thank you. Here with me now, cnns hadas gold and colonel Cedric Leighton. In hearing what he had to say about the conditions of being in compliance or going along with President Biden has said, the conditions about hostages being released, the idea of how to ensure that the aid is not going to be essentially taken and siphoned off by hamas. Is it realistic to think that could actually be a condition that could be met before it gets there . Well i think it is possible, but there is no peacekeeping mechanism, there are no troops on the ground to keep anybody away from these stores. Any mechanism to prevent hamas from going after these things. So it is a bit touchy and i think because there are no mechanisms of enforcement, i think it will be a bit of a problem, laura. You mentioned the International Community, obviously he seem to be vigilant somerset as well as, well if their collective way to get this done . I think the only mechanism right now would be the United Nations who does have a presence there. It will be really difficult to do that in a time of war. I dont know how you can actually do these checks in the correct way. Now egypt could do on their, and but then there is a concern of where this aid will go to. Now in israels mind, they are doing this operation to completely eliminate hamas. So in a way, if they can go in and eliminate hamas the way they think they need to do so, then the aid was those centrally have nowhere to go to be administered by hamas if they no longer, exist if this is successful. I want to talk about this new video, theres been a lot of courses from the media about the headlines that initially came out about whether and who was responsible for the attack on the hospital. Whether it was an arab, rocket or is really a strike, you saw the Video Tonight colonel leighton. Cnn also analyzed saying the rocket was fired from gaza appearing to explode in the air moments before the hospital explosion. Now obviously cnn has not made its own independent assessment of this intelligence. But what is next in terms of how to look at this . And how you see it . Yes, laura. The key thing is, what kind of explosion happened . And where did it occur . So in the video we do see an explosion occurring over the hospital over the general area of the hospital and that explosion is consistent with a rocket exploding inflight, in midflight. That very fact lancelot of credence to the israeli position on this. Because there was not enough destruction to qualify for an above air force you think . That is part of, exactly. Another question that hasnt been answered yet, is where were israeli aircraft in that moment and time . So if you know, the flight path of israeli aircraft at that particular moment in time, was it possible for an israeli aircraft to have fired a missile at the hospital from the position that that aircraft was in . That specific moment in time . Nobody has answered that specific question yet to my knowledge. However, everything we see in the video, all of the other evidence including the fact that there is no huge crater anywhere near the hospital, that indicates it was not a munition that was fired from an aircraft. That is important, i want to President Biden is going to adjust that in his address tomorrow. Obviously the nuance you are talking about, details you dont often hear from the president of the United States about issues such as this. What do you expect to hear . I think he will have to adjust, it just because of what he, said what so much of the worlds are in those first few, hours those headlines. If youre just an average person scrolling through the headlines, you see that, you say okay, they are to blame. Then your hearing the president say that the America Needs to support israel in this war against hamas. So he needs to bridge that gap, explaining again, once again why meghan should care about something that is happening thousands of miles away. Also, we do expect him to make the case for a huge aid package. Now this aid package will not just be for israel, it will be for ukraine, for the war for other elements are the issues that america cares about. He is going to be making a big ask from the american people. I think theres a lot of concern also, from americans, that there will be americans involved. They know there is carrier ships of the coast, marines potentially in route, so we will potentially hear from him about whether americans should be concerned that once again they will be getting entangled into a foreign war that is not necessarily on their soil. We also think we will hear from him about the, aid and the humanitarian crisis that people are seeing on their screens more and more, and trying to explain what america is doing enough support of israel, and why it is so important in this moment. Also keep in mind for israel, need this aid, because not only are they fighting hamas, they have issues on the northern border with hezbollah, they need to get ready for that. Also, those iron domes, those are very expensive. Every time they are launched, that is tens of thousands of dollars for a single interrupt. Think about how many of those intercepts have now been launched. Thats incredible to think. To overwhelm the system. Because they know when they did that, they made it very clear. That their intent was to overwhelm the defenses and do it in a way. That would in essence bankrupt israel. And if they kept up with this activity. Have a lot of rockets. Probably a lot more than the intelligence has assessed in their possession. That is one of the things that these countries where these entities do. They try to overwhelm defenses that have been established over a long period of time. And that is going to be a key factor when you look at it from a fiscal legal standpoint and a military standpoint. Ten times more than what hamas. So there is a Preparation Element to this is. Well while, thinking of head over on the system. This obviously takes a great deal of thought, starting. Planning talking with that in another war in ukraine as well. And the aid. Hadas gold, always a pleasure. Cedric leighton, thank you both. There is federal and local Law Enforcement on alert tonight. Watching for potential threats right here in the United States and the wake of the israelhamas war. The former depu