Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states, and All Around The World as we continue our coverage in israel. Im linda kincade. Right now it is 90 am in israel where the countrys Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is telling troops at the next stage of the war, the Ground Offensive is coming with just one mission to smash hamas. His comments come amid pictures of a humanitarian crisis in gaza where the death toll is still rising. At the u. N. Security council tuesday, Secretary General and Tony Guterres drew backlash from israeli diplomats when he appealed for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire. I have condemned unequivocally the qualifying and unprecedented acts of terror by hamas and israel. Nothing can justify the deliberate, killing, injury and kidnapping of civilians, with a launching of rockets against civilian targets. It is important to also recognize that the attacks by hamas, did not happen in a vacuum. The Palestinian People have been subjected to 56
Military said no fuel will be allowed to enter the gaza strip because of concerns it will be stolen by hamas. Which controls the gaza strip. And that lack of fuel is already having serious consequences. The World Health Organization said that six hospitals have shut down due to a lack of power. The Israeli Military spokesperson was responding to a question about whether israel would consider allowing Fuel Deliveries in exchange for hostages. Out of approximately 222 people kidnapped by hamas, that day only four have been released and tonight one of those four is accusing the Israeli Defense forces and Israeli Intelligence service of failing failing at their jobs. Translator the lack of awareness by idf and shin bet did great damage to us. We were the scapegoat. We warned us. People came into the road and burnt our fields and they send iron balloons an the idf did not treat it seriously. That is 85yearold Yocheved Lipshitz, she was held captive for two weeks before being released last n
Israeli troops preparing for the next phase of this campaign. Some of these troops are living inside the homes of those who lost loved ones. And these troops massed around in this town and around it all preparing to invade gaza. Wolf . J Jeremy Diamond reporting thank you, jeremy. Erin Burnett Outfront starts right now. Outfront next, breaking news. Quote, its coming. That is the message tonight from the israeli Prime Minister about an assault on gaza. As were hearing from the grandson of a hostage who was just released what, his grandmother is telling about her time as a hostage in hamas captivity. U. S. Intelligence officials revealed what caused that deadly explosion at a hospital in gaza. We have a new Exclusive Dispatch from our producer inside gaza tonight. His report one of the most disturbing yet about the situation he is living on the ground there. Also breaking tonight, trumps former Chief Of Staff mark meadows reportedly offering up damning testimony in exchange for immunity
we believe we re closer than we ve ever been so we re hopeful, but there is still work to be done and nothing is done until it s all done, so we re going to keep working on this. our security correspondent frank gardner has more details on the process of reaching an agreement. is a deal to release the hostages getting close? well, it certainly sounds like it but we have been here before. and this is incredibly tough for the families, the relatives, who been marched up this hill before and marched down again with enormous disappointment, so it s not done until it s done. but i have managed to speak to some of the parties involved in this negotiation, indirectly, and they are more optimistic than they have been before, that in the coming days there could well be a release of dozens of israeli hostages in a single batch followed by further batches and in return there would be pauses in the fighting of a few hours for each day for a number of days, 3 4, five days, something like