Israel and egypt agreeing to a cease fire in southern gaza. This allows anyone wanting to leave the war ravaged territory to do so now is happening as the Rafah Crossing Connecting Egypt and gaza reopens this all happening just moments ago. The crossing is the last remaining exit for palestinians wanting to leave gaza for the crossing. The crossings reopening will also allow much needed humanitarian aid into the territory through the Rafah Crossing was shut down while israel conducted airstrikes in the region earlier this week. Its military was responding to the brutal and deadly attack by hamas militants in israel just over a week ago. The closing of the border has stranded thousands of people trying to escape before israels potential major Ground Operation in gaza. That number includes 5 to 600 palestine americans as the reopening coming just hours after Secretary Of State Antony Blinken met with egypts president with regard to rafah. I had a very good conversation with president els
Shannon i am a Shannon Brame countdown to the Ground Invasion tens of thousands of israeli troops under Northern Gaza with the stated goal of eradicating the Group Responsible for the worst massacre since the holocaust. As Hundreds Of Thousands of palestinian try to flee the area ahead of the offensive food and water running out fueling fears of a humanitarian disaster. Separatist state en antony blinn meets with saudi crown bridge in an effort to meet with the unrest from spreading throughout the southeast. Works as is an unrelenting agy not knowing the fate of their loved ones. Death toll rise americans unaccounted for a more held hostage as the world watches the catastrophic scenes pour in from the israeli hamas war. Pressure is on the white house to bring the nation own back home. We are working aroundtheclock to secure the release regrets we sit down with National Security Council Communications coordinator jon kirby on the administrations plan to save those stranded in the middle
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