Task of securing its borders and find any remaining hamas militants inside israel. Today is a different day and that the response that israel will deliver against hamas will be unlike anything that we have done in the past. For the very latest out of israel, lets turn right now to Foreign Correspondent trey yingst. Live live in ashdod. Treisman, covering this all day long. Youre up early for us now, trey. What can you tell us . What is the latest . Griff, good evening. Right now, israeli fighter jets are over the gaza strip and they are striking buildings and hamas targets. But we do not believe this is the full retaliation. This is just the beginning. As you noted, israel has called Up Hundreds Of Thousands of reserve troops. They are moving tanks to the border at this hour and they are moving military vehicles, putting them in place next to artillery. It appears the israelis are preparing for a ground operation into gaza in the coming hours and days. Will provide more clarity on that
Task of securing its borders and find any remaining hamas militants inside israel. Today is a different day and that the response that israel will deliver against hamas will be unlike anything that we have done in the past. For the very latest out of israel, lets turn right now to Foreign Correspondent trey yingst. Live live in ashdod. Treisman, covering this all day long. Youre up early for us now, trey. What can you tell us . What is the latest . Griff, good evening. Right now, israeli fighter jets are over the gaza strip and they are striking buildings and hamas targets. But we do not believe this is the full retaliation. This is just the beginning. As you noted, israel has called Up Hundreds Of Thousands of reserve troops. They are moving tanks to the border at this hour and they are moving military vehicles, putting them in place next to artillery. It appears the israelis are preparing for a ground operation into gaza in the coming hours and days. Will provide more clarity on that
[sound of gunfire] [inaudible conversations] [silence] hundred have been injured. Terrorist group hamas savagely taking hostages including the elderly and young children. Israeli kowpght strikes on the gaza strip so far killing about 200 people. President biden at the white house addressing the nation earlier this afternoon. He condemned the Terrorist Assault and says the u. S. Will stand with israel. Trey live in israel with the latest on the finding trey on the ground just after midnight. Trey. Reporter good Afternoon Fighting continues along gaza border. Israeli military source that Palestinian Militants are still engaging soldiers in a Community Just south of here. Near the gaza border inside israeli territory, as you noted dozens of hostages have been taken hamas Group Inside Of Gaza says that they have taken 164 people. Kick not independently confirm that number. But we know dozens of soldiers and civilians were kidnapped and are now being held as prisoners of war. I want to show
Listen, we have done some of this, too. the u.s. has done some of this. we live in a glass house. you saw that with cotton saying, listen, he thinks that donald trump will be tough or russia than hillary clinton would have been because of some of the statements that he made, but to have lindsey graham out there and this great theater, that s going to get a lot of coverage throughout the day. this idea that it could be republicans next time. it could be another country next time. how will donald trump handle that? at that point, would he believe these intelligence agencies that he has so far gone some ways into questioning and even discrediting? you heard lindsey graham there. that was a republican delivering a not so subtle message to the president-elect. let s listen to an even less subtle exchange. this is senator claire mccaskill, democrat of missouri. she was an obama supporter in 08 but friend of hillary clinton in the 2016 campaign. who was lindsey graham-plus.