Militants. The announcement about his visit was made by the us Secretary Of State Antony Blinken after late night talks in tel aviv. Antony blinken also said the us and israel had agreed on a plan to allow humanitarian aid into gaza. In gaza itself un agencies have warned of a deepening humanitarian crisis. More than 2800 people have been killed by israeli air strikes. Hamas, which is designated as a Terrorist Organisation by governments including in the uk and us, said it fired a barrage of rockets at jerusalem and tel aviv overnight with sirens sending lawmakers into bomb shelters. A Draft Resolution at the United Nations on israel and gaza failed to pass the security council. Western nations voted against it because it failed to condemn hamas. We can show you the scene in gaza, it is just after 11 oclock there. All eyes on the next stages of what happens next. We can talk now about that with our correspondent anna foster in northern israel. Bring us up to date with the night of deve
preparatory to the deal. peter brooks is a senior fellowi for national security affairs, the heritage foundation of washington and he joins us tonight, thanks for coming on. good to be with you. tucker: this piece is very long, dozens of people are interviewed and it and it sounds like they nailed it. the obama administration prevented the dea from basically doing anything about hezbollah smuggling guns and drugs because they wanted to keep the iran deal in place. do you buy that? it s possible. it fits thematically into the obama administration s generalen way of dealing with threats, and that is if we are nice to them they will be nice to us. even though we had iran in a terrible position with the sanctions, they let them off a number of ways on the nuclear deal, which is the same sort of thing. there were side deals. they remain a threshold nuclear state. we don t get answers on the nuclear program, no visits to their nuclear military sites. this kind of fits along the same li