. welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada and all around the world. i m kim brunhuber. i want to get to our continuing coverage of the israel-hamas war. it s 4:00 a.m. in atlanta, 11:00 a.m. in gaza, the second day of a four-day truce between israel and hamas that appears to be holding. now, in the coming hours israel is expecting hamas to release another group of israeli hostages just as it did the day before. israel says it has a list of today s names, and has notified the families according to an israeli source several children are on it. now, day one of the truce saw hamas release 13 israelis and 11 foreign nationals who were quickly taken to tel aviv area hospitals for medical evaluations. doctors describe all 13 israelis as good and stable. ten thai nationals and one filipino, 20 of its citizens are still being held hostage by hamas. as part of the deal on friday 39 palestinian women and minors were released from three israeli prisons and r
towards new england. steve, we will keep you up to date, my friend, back to you. steve: all right, j.d., thank you very much. 6:34 in the east. now, turning to a fox news alert. police in the united kingdom have arrested two teenagers tied to the investigation into the hostage attack at that texas synagogue. the arrests come as we learn more about the suspect. a 44-year-old british citizen who traveled to the u.s. earlier this month. joining us right now with reaction dr. zuhdi jasser, the president of the american islamic forum for democracy. good morning to you. good morning, steve. good to see you. steve: now the fbi says it was a terrorism-related matter: initially they said that the people in the synagogue were not being targeted. now they have amended that what do you make of what we have been able to piece together so far? yeah, there is no doubt that he is a terrorist and was a terrorist and thankfully he was
harris: after receiving harsh criticism for saying that people of the jewish faith were not a specific target in the hostage attack at a texas synagogue on saturday, the f.b.i. now says it is investigating the situation as an act of terrorism. but now a huge question about how the biden administration allowed the perpetrator into america in the first place. the cover of the new york post asks that very question. the hostage taker s brother told sky news he is known to police and has a criminal record. that s a quote. he says his brother was suffering from mental health illness and reports say he was on the radar of u.k. intelligence services and they checked him out and cleared him to fly. but still big red flags over
all right. robyn kriel is reporting from nairo nairobi, and thank you, robyn, we will stay in touch with you. i want to bring in a senator on the armed forces committee, and what can you tell us, senator, about the hostage attack on the radisson blue hotel in mali? well, wolf, we are watching it very closely. we don t have enough details to draw the conclusions, and we, al qaeda s claiming credit, and no confirmation whether isil had any support here, and the fact is that we need global unity to fight the terrorist, and be prepared wherever they may attack. it is showing the vulnerability, and now we know the attacks that have happened before and we know the terrorist threats in the
in a way, that s almost more frightening that there s not a trail. absolutely. no trail that they ve picked up on so far. at least. right. but there have been a string of cases, terror plots, terror attacks in the west in recent months where there has been this combination between mental health issues on the one hand and radicalizations. we saw that in the hostage attack in sydney, australia where the hostage taker was seeing two psychologists. he was paranoid delusional we saw that in ottawa with the shooting outside the parliament and the hatchet attack in new york city where there were mental health issues in all that s cases and a mix between that and radicalization. one doesn t rule out the other. one doesn t rule out the other. and when people have these mental health issues, people can can move more easily from