Today forcing Secretary Of State blinken and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to shelter in a bunker during highstakes talks. And the moment today, our team taking cover from incoming fire in belgium the deadly shooting near a Soccer Stadium investigated as a Terror Attack. And now the urgent manhunt. And the horrific stabbing in illinois a 6yearold boy dead. His mother gravely injured. The suspect, their Landlord Police say he targeted them because of their muslim faith and the israelhamas war the hate crime charges he faces our Special Edition of nightly news begins now. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight live from israel. Good evening from israel as hamas Rockets Streaked over tel aviv tonight, Warning Sirens briefly interrupted delicate highlevel talks to dial back the israelhamas war and there is late word that President Biden may travel to israel as early as this week. Secretary of state Antony Blinken already on the ground here tonight leading
Hamas showing video of a 21yearold kidnapped at that Music Festival where 260 were killed. Her oncamera plea as israel confirms hamas took more hostages than we first knew. The conditions hamas is giving to release some of them. Also, the desperation at gazas border with egypt. Thousands including american citizens trying to flee, but the crossing still closed. Humanitarian aid blocked as diplomatic efforts to broker a ceasefire have so far failed. Plus, our new reporting. When will President Biden visit israel . The danger in the region. A Hamas Rocket Attack today forcing Secretary Of State blinken and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to shelter in a bunker during highstakes talks. And the moment today. Our team taking cover from incoming fire. In belgium the deadly shooting near a Soccer Stadium investigated as a Terror Attack. And now the urgent manhunt. And the horrific stabbing in illinois. A 6yearold boy dead. His mother gravely injured. The suspect, their landlord. Police say
Been accepted by hamas. From jerusalem, our middle east correspondent Yolande Knell reports you may find some of her report distressing. The panic and confusion as rescuers pull the wounded from the rubble after an overnight israeli airstrike in rafah. And today, another all too familiar scene in gaza, a mother struggling with unbearable loss. After israel seized control of the key crossing with egypt, it says its continuing a limited offensive in gazas southernmost city, battling hamas gunmen in the east of their last stronghold. But for hundreds of thousands of palestinians who fled to rafah to escape the fighting elsewhere, theres renewed fear. Translation last time i they told us to go to rafah, saying theres aid and its a safe place, and look, they came into rafah. For now, i wont go anywhere. Ill stay here. Its enough. Were tired of being displaced, and i dont know where i want to go. World powers have warned israel against a full assault here, saying it would be a humanitarian c
Ceasefire talks in cairo. The good news is that they are happening and that five nations, orfive parties, are at least all there in cairo. So thats hamas, israel, the us, qatar and egypt. The not so good news is that israel has only sent a fairly low level team theyre not there to negotiate, theyre there to study what hope there is of trying to bridge the gap between what is acceptable to israel and what is acceptable to hamas, and that gap is still pretty wide. The main Sticking Point, as my colleague yolande referred to there, is over how this ends. So the fundamentals of the deal are largely intact, theyre largely agreed. They can agree this that it will start with a 42 day period of calm, a truce essentially, during which hamas will give up 33 hostages. Theres a bit of dispute about whether they would be alive or dead, but 33 hostages. In return, a much larger number of Palestinians Prisoners would be released from israeli jails and palestinians who had been moved south into rafah