Studies. Welcome to our viewers online. My name is jacob kurtzer, im the acting director of the humanitarian agenda here, a project that we seek to leverage the expertise of our scholars and programs to offer policy solutions to humanitarian problems in the world today. I would like to direct everyones attention to our emergency exits, its part of our safety and security plan, and encourage you also to take this opportunity to turn your phones to mute. I want to acknowledge before we begin the partnership that our program has with the agency for International Development office of foreign Disaster Assistance, whose support allows us to put on event, such as todays discussion. We have a short time today so ill be brief. All of us here today are keenly aware of the immense human suffering taking place in idlib and across syria right now. Families and individuals have been forced into multiple displacements, with targeted attacks ongoing on innocent civilians and on hospitals and clinics
Our National Security advisor Jake Sullivan who has an update on the middle east region. Jake sullivan thank you. Thank youy. I have a few opening comments and that i can take your question. President biden spoke with the Prime Minister netanyahu, the two leaders discussed the latest development in israel and gaza and they spoke about the state of israels military operations. The president emphasized his commitment to ensuring the longterm security of israel and he affirmed that he israel has after the perpetrators of the worst massacre of the jewish people since the holocaust. Israel has made significant progress against hamas and broken a significant number of hamas battalions, killed thousands of hamas fighters including senior commanders, hamas number three was put in an operation last week. The top leaders are in hiding deep in the hamas tunnel network. Hem to and we hoping to ensure that. More innocent civilians have died in this conflict in this military operation than in all th
Guard. On the today show this morning, one student described coming face to face with that child shooter. I thought it was because he was aiming his gun right at my chest and i looked at the gun and my chest he was going to shoot me. He was telling him to stop and put the gun down. And then the kid yelled out no, yelling at him. Then he shot him. Nbcs joe fry ar is in sparks nevada with more. Joe . Reporter at the News Conference today, Police Revealed more details about what happened at Sparks Middle School yesterday. When the student arrived, he first shot one student in the shoulder then had a confrontation with math teacher mike landsberry, ended up shooting and killing him. After that he shot another student in the abdomen before shooting and killing himself. At this point police are not releasing the name of the shooter and its unclear if they are going to release the name of the shooter. They do say they are trying to investigate whether theres any connection between the shooter