ground and the sky, prime minister benjamin netanyahu calling this second stage of the war, the idf claiming it s hit hundreds of key targets in the past 24 hours including hamas command centers. gaza s health ministry says 8,000 people have died in the territory, most of them women and children. welcome to a special hour of fox news live, i m mike emmanuel. aishah: mike, good to see you again. i m aishah hasnie. power is now being restored for many in gaza after israeli strikes put the region in a communications blackout saturday. the idf hitting areas near one of gaza s largest hospitals saying hamas uses that hospital as a base. meanwhile, thousands of palestinians today broke into aid warehouses searching for basic survival items, searching for food. the u.n. calling it a sign of growing desperation and decaying civil order in the strip. mike: we have fox news team coverage with alex hogan and trey yingst both live in southern israel. let s go first to trey. hello, trey
Then as you go further into that eastern donbas south in the areas that colonel davis was talking about trying to capture the russian advances, according to the pentagon, are, quote, plodding along. they re having very limited success in taking areas because of the ukrainian resistance which is bolsteredded, first and foremost, by those western weapons that are getting to the front line, the heavy artillery, the howitzers and the like. that is making a very big difference here. joey: that s right, griff, and the biden administration is under fire now for defending the department of homeland security for the new disinformation governance board and its controversial pick to lead it. alexandria hoff is live from the white house for us. a lot of reaction on this story. reporter: yeah, a lot of reaction, and on the timing of this too. it comes just days after elon musk s twitter acquisition, the