Will prevail. For our sake, for your sake, for peace and security in our region and in the world. Mr. President , for the people of israel, theres only one thing better than having a true friend like you standing with us, and that is having you standing in this room. Your visit here is the first visit of an american president in israel at a time of war. It is deeply, deeply moving. It speaks to the depth of your personal commitment to israel. It speaks to the depth of your personal commitment to the future of the jewish people and jewish state. So i know i speak for all the people of israel when i say, thank you, mr. President. Thank you for standing with israel today, tomorrow, and always. That happened in the past hour and a lot has happened in the past 24 hours. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showing appreciation for President Bidens visit amid the countrys war with hamas. That meeting happening just moments ago kicking off an extremely busy day for the president in Israe
i m anna foster. a convoy of humanitarian aid has crossed into gaza for the first time since thursday, after a week long truce collapsed. palestinian red crescent said it received the convoy. fighting restarted on friday morning as the two sides blamed each other for the collapse of the agreement. this is live looking across at northern gaza. you across at northern gaza. can probably hear in the background you can probably hear in the background the renewed sound of outgoing fire. a spokesman for the israeli military said they were now hitting hamas infrastructure all over the gaza strip. we ve had reports of heavy smoke hanging over the area. there have been israeli air strikes in north western gaza and khan younis in the south where hundreds of thousands of people fled earlier in the war to escape fighting. the hamas run health ministry said about 200 people have been killed and more than 600 people injured since fighting restarted in gaza yesterday. reports indicate khan
With. there is one thing that i think the prime minister of israel does not want to do is to convert the new president of egypt from an ally into adversary because of the outcry about israeli incurrings into gaza militarily. i think that in the end the americans will probably be consulting not only with our allies and not only with netanyahu, but also with the new president of egypt which has not been, by the way, a very good relationship with mr. kerry and the new egyptian president. the bilateral ties between egypt and the united states have been severely strained over the the last year since mr. morsi was overthrown. so it will require mr. kerry to get on a plane again and see what he can do to try to get the egyptians to exercise some constraints on israeli actions and by the way, most likely for mr. netanyahu to get a call from mr. kerry to basically find exactly what his mission is and get out as requesticly as possible. you can see the explosions