feeding realtime information to the houthis as iranian-backed group target ships in the red sea in an attempt to disrupt shipping and military traffic. i m jacqui heinrich. griff: i m griff jenkins. hour two here we go as the war wages in northern gaza despite calls for humanitarian pause. greg palcokk in tel aviv. down south in gaza some very rough battles as we will continue to pound various hamas targets today saying it has killed a top weapon smuggler for the group. they are zeroing in on the headquarters in the south and trying to finish off strongholds in the north where miltants have been holding on. despite widespread devastation, israel not altering its approach after yesterday s resolution in the un security council calling for humanitarian pause. that was toned down a bit after the u.s. go along with abstention, critics say it s not strong enough to get sufficient aid to gaza as houthi fighters continue attacks on international shipping in the red sea, we just go
you know, we always talk about this migrant surge at the border. i want to give you a perspective that may show it better than anything else. back on november 28th, a relatively small number of those being processed, for example, in eagle pass, this is the key border point, check point, if you will. by december 12th the numbers had grown exponentially, that s the next phase of this, by eagle pass. this past week when we had the record numbers and better than 12,000 in one 24-hour period, on and on we go. bell mbill melugin has been following this not just at that border point, but in arizona. bill. well, neil, so far for the month of december, every day averaged at least 10,000 migrant encounters at our southern border. it s not slowing down. take a look in arizona, a mass of 700 came through the border wall and ultimately marched into a processing area and they were from around the world, a lot of men from africa, guys from ecuador. we had a chance to talk to some of the
American and German Christian leaders slammed Hamas and the Palestinian Authority for failing to allow Christmas to be properly celebrated in Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus.