Hello and welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im Linda Kincaid with cnn breaking coverage with Israel At War. Tens of thousands of palestinians from Northern Gaza the past 24 hourses in response to an ultimatum from the Israeli Military. Many people in gaza are refusing to leave. Saying they have no safe place to go. Israeli military claims hamas is actively trying to keep people from evacuating. Only place to actually leave gaza is into egypt. Egypt said they havent closed it on their side but the status is unclear due to israeli air strikes on the gaza side. These Israeli Military said it carried out a limited raid into gaza friday. Primarily to seek out intelligence on the estimated 150 hostages now believed to be held captive in gaza. Its widely expected israel will launch a massive incursion into gaza in the coming days. After Hamas Terrorists killed over 1300 people last weekend. Cnn is covering all the developments for us in london and joins us live
voters polled signaling new concerns over president biden s age good evening i m jon scott and this is a special two-hour edition of the fox report. jon: those stories in a moment but first the latest from the war front in israel. idf portions advancing further into gaza today trading fire with terrorists overnight as aerial bombardments continue here at home calls grow for a cease-fire and more protests. as the war enters its fourth week, we have team coverage steve harrigan as well as defense troops storm gaza mark meredith with attacks in the middle east and alexandria huff is tracking the biden administration s response after pro-palestinian demonstrators vandalize white house but we begin with alex hogan live on the ground in southern israel. alex. hi onidf has taken out nearly 2500 hamas targets. this is things like infrastructure, ammunitions warehouses and, of course, those tunnels but here tonight along border we have rocket attacks by israel by the direction
done. where does this sort of rank when you look at these pictures of people rushing towards the fence line, we ve talked a lot about the first and second. does this rate up there from what you ve sort of seen? yeah, i mean, this is something we ve never seen before in gaza. when you think of who s organizing this, this has a grass roots element to it. it started on social media. political factions are not encouraged to lead it. we know from our own reporting on the ground there that the factions flags, the palestinian factions flags are not being flown there and the large scale aspect of this, 150,000 palestinians expected to try to get to that border it s posed a new security challenge that i think has caught them a little bit by surprise. a lot of criticism how the israelis are responding to this with live ammunition and even some journal u.s.s being caught up and killed in these attacks. yeah, listen, i appreciate it. be safe and matt bradley, be
yeah, well, you know, as you mentioned, the situation in gaza is very dire for the past six weeks. we have had sit-in protests but it s compounded by the humanitarian crisis. we actually want to now cross over to gaza, bring in our correspondent who is reporting there. we know the situation today has been violent. we know the protests continue. what can you tell us about what is unfolding today there in the context of what we are seeing in terms of the protests and the sit-in marches? well, we re now right at the border between the gaza strip and israel. we re seeing quite a lot of almost festival like atmosphere. women and children coming here waving flags, i don t know if you can hear some of that music in the background that s playing, but this has been a
current support from the palestinians for hamas at this current time. how are people feeling about the hamas leadership in gaza right now? well, you know, there oo s two parts to that. there s been obviously growing disappointment over the past several years. palestinians have been divided between the rival political factions. not really a lot of official polling but certainly the popularity has waned because of the way they ve governed the gaza strip. i spent a lot of time there. they make a distinction between how hamas runs the gaza strip and how hamas operates as a resistance movement toward israeli occupation. and there s a separation how it s being governed by hamas. ? the pa has international relations. people can travel freely. the economic conditions in the west bank, very different than the situation in gaza.