and on that note, i wish you a very good and safe night. good to be back with you. from all our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with me. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. today, in new york, don trump s eldest son, don jr., took the stand in a civil fraud case against the former president and his family and his business. down in d. c., and in florida, judges issuing orders in both of special counsel jack smith s criminal cases against donald trump, the d. c. case involving trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, and the florida case centered only former presidents unlawful retention of classified documents. so a flurry of legal action today from mr. trump. and i m gonna get some expert legal help breaking down all of that just a second. but perhaps the biggest legal news of today was this. the federal judge in charge of the mar-a-lago classified documents case, judge aileen cannon, who was of course appointed by presi
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to leave for their safety. images show craters and levelled buildings. the bbc can t verify most battlefield claims immediately but the idf say the target was ibrahim biari, a senior hamas battalion commander that the idf describes as pivotal to the planning of the october 7th attacks. jeremy bowen s report contains scenes you may find appalling. the israeli army says the strike killed a senior hamas commander. and some of his men. it said hamas was using these civilians as human shields in a cruel and brutal manner and that the air strikes caused the collapse of underground hamas bunkers. israel ordered civilians to leave this area. many did. many others did not. the un said some people even returned to their homes because conditions further south were so desperate. an unknown number of people are buried under the rubble. they were pulling out children. he says, oh, god, my three children are gone. three kids. i hope i can find one of them alive. i didn t bid them farewe
to israel, while condemning the latest toll of civilian casualties in gaza where 8,796 people have now been killed, according to the hamas controlled health ministry. there was another huge explosion today in the jabalia refugee camp, the second in as many days. the eu s foreign policy chief josep borell said he is appalled by the reports he s getting. is the steely determination to track down the hamas leaders, blinding israel to its responsibilities under international law? we will discuss that tonight with our panel, from boston the democratic strategist mary anne marsh and from london, the former education secretary justine greening. republicans have put forward an emergency funding bill that includes iii billion dollars for israel but does not include any funding at all for ukraine. we ll get reaction tonight from kyiv. and did a sexist, macho culture in downing street hamper the uk government s response to coronavirus? the rafah border crossing finally opened today to
joining us. erin will be back tomorrow. i ll be back here live tomorrow in tel aviv starting at 4:00 p.m. eastern. also for the situation room starting at 5:00 p.m. eastern tomorrow. ac 360 starts right now. good evening. this is the aftermath of an israeli strike today in the densely populated jabalia refugee camp. the u.n. says it s the largest such camp in gaza. one eyewitness described the scene to cnn as horrific and said, quote, children were carrying other injured children. we warn you, the next video is disturbing. many of the wounded and dead were taken here, the hospital closest to the camp. witnesses telling cnn they believe a large number were killed, but we can t independently verify the actual number. the idf confirmed the strike and said they were targeting and killed a top commander of hamas in gaza. hamas denies the commander was even there. we ll have more on that in a moment in a conversation with the representative from the idf. israel also said toda