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
This is gps, the Global Public square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world. Im Fareed Zakaria coming to you live from new york. Today on the program, the Israeli Security cabinet has just officially declared a state of war. After yesterday mornings stunning Surprise Attack by hamas. More than 500 israelis have died in the assault with thousands wounded. The death toll on the palestinian side has surpassed 300 as Isreal Retaliates against gaza. The idf said its goal is to control all of the gaza strip and kill all of the terrorists in our territory, unquote. Ill talk to former Israeli Foreign minister zippy liveny and mustafa and Naftali Bennett about what has happened so far and what comes next. Also, tom freedman, one time jerusalem times bureau chief will help us look at the big picture of todays middle east. Lets go straight so Cnn International diplomatic editor Nic Robertson who is on Theize Raely Side of the border with gaza near the Northeast Corner o
as well in the last six weeks of a degree in 2a hours or so as they wait for news on the first significant hostage release. this is something we were expecting to happen this morning but we heard late last night that the pause in the fighting and release of hostages from gaza and palestinian prisoners from gaza and palestinian prisoners from israeli jails has now been delayed we were told late yesterday evening and won t happen before friday. let s take a look at some of the details of that agreement that has been arranged. hamas would exchange 50 israeli hostages taken during the attack on the 7th of october for £150 any women and children held in israeli jails. israel says it still expects that to happen but not before friday and there will be a similar delay to the temporary halt in hostilities. hamas says there are still details to be finalised regarding the list of people to be exchanged. for now, the fighting continues there was a series of explosions in gaza thr
watching us here in the united states, canada and all around the world, i m kim bruhuber with the very latest empty israeli role. it s been ratcheting up its pressure on hamas with expanded explosions in gaza. explosions can be heard reverberating all around gaza, said to be the most intensive strikes since the israeli war started. appear to be down, israeli government official says this conflict won t end like the others. israel has decided we can no lodger live with this jihadi enclave. not going to end with a cease fire, this is a war that hamas declared on us on october 7th. the days ahead are going to be long and difficult, because we are going to go after the terrorism, inside the gaza strip. this war will end with no more hamas in the gaza strip. we re going to go after every tunnel, every rocket launcher, every hamas commander every hamas foot soldier so they can no longer hurt our civilians. led the u.n. general assembly vote for an immediate cease fire on friday
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