northern gaza as israel players for a ground assault. a desperate crisis turning more dire with thousands waiting at this critical border crossing attempting to escape in into egypt. america es also ahead, a new interview with president biden e pressing solidarity with israel but also giving this warning. would you support israeli occupation of gaza at this point? i think it would be a big mistake. good morning and thank you for joining us. it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting alongside my colleague jose diaz-balart. half a million palestinians are trying to flee northern gaza. israeli forces vowing an expanded assault by air, sea and land as it continues to pummel gaza with air strikes. huge crowds are gathering at the rafah border crossing. international negotiations are under way to get this crossing open to allow refugees and other americans and other nationals in and out along with critical aid. let s get the latest on the ground. nbc news forei
that s the story. we ll see you tomorrow. they videoed it all. we have loads and loads of body cams showing who they are. we know who they are. we know where they re coming from and i would say we re coming for them. when they do enter on the ground, the israelis will be immediately engaged by hamas and islamic jihad fighters in urban street-to-street battle. there will be roadside bombs, ieds and other obstacles for the israelis to overcome. sandra: that is fox s trey yingst reporting as israel prepares for a ground invasion in gaza. we re watching developments at this hour. hezbollah fighters on the lebanese border claim they have targeted five israeli posts and destroyed surveillance capabilities. the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu warning militants in the north, do not test us. coming up, we will speak to former u.s. centcom commander, frank mckenzie. i m sandra smith in for neil cavuto. this is your world. first to mike tobin on the ground in southe
and i would argue it s the deadliest day for jews since the holocaust, the deadliest day since the holocaust. one of the worst chapters in human history that remind us all from that expression i learned from my dad early on, silence is complicity. that s president biden with more emotional remarks on the deadly attacks in israel, delivering that speech yesterday while hosting jewish leaders at the white house. we ll have the latest on the war and the biden administration s efforts to find missing americans in just a moment. plus, we ll go through new reporting on the massacre by hamas as it appears that iran, the terror group s main backer may have been left in the dark. and also ahead, an update from capitol hill on the ongoing speaker s race. republicans have a nominee, but it s not clear if he has the votes to get the gavel. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, october 12th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. and we ll
6:00 a.m. in gaza and this is our continuing breaking news coverage of the war in israel, fox news at night. and this is now a live look at gaza city, 40 minutes before sunrise. over the past few days these last minutes of darkness have been used by isreali forces to unleash a barrage of air strikes, rocket fire that has crippled gaza. 300,000 isreali troops are now on the border with gaza waiting for word to begin what appears to be a major ground assault. the death toll is also rising with each side losing upwards of a thousand people, 22 americans are also confirmed dead. and 17 more remain unaccounted for. as the biden administration scrambles to rescue u.s. citizens being held hostage by hamas. we begin tonight with the senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot. greg, we are hearing loud noises and seeing flashes, any indication from where you are that this ground war has started or just air strikes? trace, yeah, we have no indications of ground action yet altho
. we have breaking news in from the israeli defense forces who who has just posted online, quoting now, that they are now launching an extensive attack on many centers of the terrorist organization hamas in the gaza strip. they say there are more details to come. of course, a note of caution from our reporters on the ground. this is not the expected ground incursion that people have been anticipating could potentially happen. that is something they are anticipating because you have seen hundreds of thousands of israeli reservists amassing on the gaza border. this is something everyone is watching closely. you heard us discussing whether or not there will be a humanitarian corridor for the civilians. the millions of gazaans still there. the interior ones. we will follow all the latest developments here. thank you some for joining us here on t source. cnn news night with abby philip is up next. we are at a perilous moment in the war between israel and hamas. appears israe