brian: fox news alert, idf announcing death of hamas commander who directed major attacks on october 7. lawrence: the idf is pushing deeper into the enclave as we learn total of 240 people are being held hostage. ainsley: that number keeps going up and israeli forces are hunting hamas inside the tunnel network. steve: trey yingst is live in southern israel with the latest. trey, good morning to you, good afternoon there. day 25, what is the latest? trey: yeah, hi, guys, good morning. significant breaking news. israeli military says the arrow missile defense system intercepted one fired from yemen. the arrow defense system was used for the first time. likely ballistic missile fired by houthi rebels, backed by the iranian regime. fighter jets were scrambled to shoot them down. last hour initially thought to be drones were launched and traveled over the red sea may have been cruise missiles along with one ballistic missile. step out of the scene and show you the scene
awlaki before that, so we see encrypted communications coming up where people get the okay and say go ahead and do it. they talked about doing different types of attacks, but interestingly enough, they talked about executions and kidnappings. and hostage holding. so during this time of ramadan where isis is perverting the faith saying extra points in paradise, we have seen an increase in attacks, not only in england, but also in places like afghanistan, iraq. steve, this is an unfortunate benchmark for what a terror attack by definition is. we have ramadan, an election about to happen in days in the uk. the after effects, the ripple effects here fit in exactly with
so then the lawn goes off over the intercom? evacuate the building as quickly as posz. we get outside and there s siernss everywhere. as ever any hostage holding. it turns out not guilty to be true.
level guy who by the way there are less oil revenues because there has been air operations to disrupt the oil fields. so whether or not this guy was involved in an american hostage holding or killing, whether or not he had access or they believed there was a more senior level individual in or about that compound those are the things that the administration and the intelligence community aren t talking about. but you got to believe there is more than just this mid level guy there. yeah you got to believe that for a t president to authorize a risky mission like this. there has to be something else there. bob baer let s talk about the collapse of the iraqi military in ramadi, the capital of the anbar province. they fled. they left a lot of equipment behind. you think do you have confidence that the iraqi military can regroup and retake ramadi? no. there is no way, wolf that the military can do it. it s just not there. not been enough time for training equipping. it doesn t have the
clearly he was inspired, though, by isis. i think that s very clear from his postings. is there any indication anything we know about the timing, why this occurred, the hostage-holding, right now? well, i think it s important to note that after the air strikes began in iraq and syria, isis began a very impressive social media campaign calling for these types of attacks, these lone wolf attacks and they have obviously connections with australia, western europe and the united states. that s what makes u.s. officials most concerned is the idea of this type of thing happening also in the united states. so i think it s a direct result of the september order, if you will, from isis to have people that are more bent towards radicalization to start conducting attacks. that s what we saw unfortunately in sydney. this location in sydney, right in the heart of sydney, some are saying compared to new