Obtaining documents with detailed plans to target schools, and were now learning terrorists breached the border fence some 30 times, in some cases blasting holes with explosives, and the stories of survivors ive met did you feel you were in constant danger yes, we experienced missiles going over our heads. The chilling video she shared of her dash to safety as rockets streaked overhead. Back in the u. S. , cities on high alert after a former hamas leader called for protests on a worldwide day of rage. And chaos in congress the house gop picking a new candidate for speaker after the last nominee abruptly dropped out. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight live from israel. Good evening, everyone, from tel aviv where it is well after midnight, and an ominous deadline for over a million residents of Northern Gaza to evacuate the territory has expired against the objections of the u. N. , which warned the evacuation of so many people at one time would risk a
Potentially massive ground offensive. The new strikes and chaos inside Northern Gaza after israel ordered more than 1 Million People to evacuate to the south. Hamas saying an israeli air strike hit a convoy of fleeing civilians. 70 dead, mostly women and children. Leaflets dropped on the strip warning, get out now. Israeli troops on the border, and Special Forces already carrying out targeted raids inside gaza, looking for hostages. President biden speaking to the families of some american captives. His emotional message. Horrifying new details on how the attack unfolded. Nbc news exclusively obtaining documents with detailed plans to target schools, and were now learning terrorists reached the border fence some 30 times in some cases blasting holes with explosives and the stories of survivors i have met. Did you feel you were in constant danger . Yes, we experienced missiles going over our heads. The chilling video she shared of her dash to safety as rockets streaked overhead. Back in
to leave for their safety. images show craters and levelled buildings. the bbc can t verify most battlefield claims immediately but the idf say the target was ibrahim biari, a senior hamas battalion commander that the idf describes as pivotal to the planning of the october 7th attacks. jeremy bowen s report contains scenes you may find appalling. the israeli army says the strike killed a senior hamas commander. and some of his men. it said hamas was using these civilians as human shields in a cruel and brutal manner and that the air strikes caused the collapse of underground hamas bunkers. israel ordered civilians to leave this area. many did. many others did not. the un said some people even returned to their homes because conditions further south were so desperate. an unknown number of people are buried under the rubble. they were pulling out children. he says, oh, god, my three children are gone. three kids. i hope i can find one of them alive. i didn t bid them farewe
foreign minister abdallah bou habib in beirut, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. mr foreign minister, ijust wonder whether right now it feels to you like this conflict is spiralling out of control. you are watching it from beirut as the war rages in gaza between israel and hamas. but do you fear it is going to spread much wider? well, we are afraid that it may spread. but i can say that i am now less pessimistic than i was at the beginning. i think here there is a conviction, at least in lebanon, that we don t want war. we have a lot of problems, economic, political and social problems, and everyone in lebanon does not want war. but it all depends on israel. israel also threatened us many times, to have a pre emptive strike on lebanon, and what s happening in gaza. i mean, you cannot.you know, the people here are interrelated. we have half a million palestinians in lebanon. and, you know, there are a lot of people that are resistance minded. they re not only in lebanon. in syri
foreign minister abdallah bou habib in beirut, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. mr foreign minister, ijust wonder whether right now it feels to you like this conflict is spiralling out of control. you are watching it from beirut as the war rages in gaza between israel and hamas. but do you fear it is going to spread much wider? well, we are afraid that it may spread. but i can say that i am now less pessimistic than i was at the beginning. i think here there is a conviction, at least in lebanon, that we don t want war. we have a lot of problems, economic, political and social problems, and everyone in lebanon does not want war. but it all depends on israel. israel also threatened us many times, to have a pre emptive strike on lebanon, and what s happening in gaza. i mean, you cannot.you know, the people here are interrelated. we have half a million palestinians in lebanon. and, you know, there are a lot of people that are resistance minded. they re not only in lebanon. in syri