Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Live on a rooftop overlooking tel aviv, israel. Its just after 11 00 p. M. Here. Its been 16 days since the horrific Terrorist Attacks by hamas caught this country and, frankly, much of the world by complete surprise. Well start with breaking news. Hamas has released two more of the hostages it kidnapped from israel during the october 7th terrorist attack. Thats according to multiple sources who say the hostages are nurit cooper and Yocheved Lifshitz. The lifshitz family said in a statement the women were handed over to the red cross and will shortly return to israel. We happened to be at the time with Israeli Defense spokesperson Jonathan Con Reek Cass when the news came in. This is part of his reaction. They are differentiating, distinguishing between only israelis and double citizens or perhaps only foreigners which rings familiar for me as a jew and Third Generation holocaust survivor, rings familiar from other types in our history. Israel belie
Are the supplies that you are lacking . What we are planning and this is the most important thing is to build a new shelter for ventilated patient. This is what we need now. There were rockets in the area of jerusalem. We treated already in the last day some casualties from injuries from iran, jerusalem, and this is the most important thing that we need to do now large shelter we can treat patients over there. We need equipment for this place. We need ventilators. We need a lot of equipment for this specific place. We have shortterm we can put ventilated. New Intensive Care in the shelter. Ainsley there is the website. We are putting it up on the bottom of our screen if you want to donate. Brian im sure everyone does. Stay safe. The second hour of fox friends starts right now. This is a fox news alert. Since we hit the air an hour ago we have seen a lot of smoke along the border as fighting continues. New information from the idf as they report they have arrested more than 60 Money Ope
This is a fox news alert. Im kevin corke in washington. President biden address the nation tonight in a prime time address on Foreign Policy. It follows his trip to tel aviv where he pledged support for israel but also promised humanitarian aid to gaza. The president s visit in a deal with israel and egypt to get humanitarian aid into gaza. He says egypt has agreed to open the gaza Border Crossing to allow 20 trucks to enter with humanitarian aid. Gaza city is absolutely desperate for food and medical following a deadly Hospital Blast that killed hundreds people on tuesday. Hamas and israel have traded blame for the explosion. But the president made clear he believes the militant Group Islamic is to blame for the deadly blast. Bidens comments, based on independent analysis by, the pentagon. Im not suggesting that hamas deliberately did it either. Instead, all three got to learn how to shoot straight. Its not the first time hamas has launched something functional. So i know all the deta
Good afternoon. Youre watching cnn news central. Im Boris Sanchez alongside Brianna Keilar In Washington With Destruction on full display in the house of raptives as President Biden is preparing for a wartime visit to israel. His trip, partly a show of support, part deterrence for israels enemies and part diplomatic push to get roughly 200 hostages, many of them american, out of gaza as they also attempt to get humanitarian relief in. Right now gaza is very much at a breaking point. A Palestinian Health official says hospitals there are in actual collapse and that was before the latest devastation. These are images that are disturbing that youre seeing right here. A hospital that was hit in gaza a short time ago. The Palestinian Health Ministry Says at least 200 people were killed by an israeli air strike. Israel is not confirming that this was a strike by its military. It says that it is looking into this. Lets get you on the ground now. Cnns Clarissa Ward who is in ashkelon, israel,
Plan had not yet come to fruition. Our first report is from our Political Correspondent, hannah miller. Applause. Labour won mayors, councils, and police and crime commissioners. Rishi sunak left clinging on to just one mayor in the tees valley. Even his majority diminished. This morning, the former home secretary, and one of the Prime Ministers biggest critics, warned of a total wipe out for the conservatives. I despair at these terrible results. Theres no spinning these results, theres no disguising the fact that these have been terrible Election Results for the conservatives and they suggest that we are heading to a labour government. Her prescription for the pm. He needs to actually lower taxes in a way that people will feel, not tweaking round the edges. If he is serious about migration, he needs to put a cap on illegal migration, he needs to take us out of the European Convention on human rights. In defeat, the now former conservative mayor of the West Midlands, andy street, said