strikes against iran-backed targets in iraq and syria in retaliation for a drone attack that killed three american soldiers. here s the first video we re seeing from the region, an iraqi security official said a u.s. air strike targeted a weapons warehouse and three houses belonging to hezbollah in anbar province. it happens the same day that president biden attending the arrival of troops from jordan. forces conducted the air strikes against iran s islamic revolutionary guard force and afitiated militia groups. they struck more than 85 targets with numerous aircraft to include long-range bombers flown from the united states. president biden released a statement saying in part, quote, our response began today. it will continue at times in places of our choosing. the united states does not seek conflict in the middle east or anywhere else in the world. but let all those who might seek to do us harm know this. if you harm an american, we will respond. let me bring in nbc news c
platform. you have blood on your hands. you have a product that is killing people. your platforms really suck at policing themselves. does your user agreement still suck? i m not sure how to answer that, senator. if they re in a situation, we re talking someone that may be inappropriate so they can record it to us, block that user. if that were working, we wouldn t be here today, mr. citron. would you like to apologize to the victims that have been harmed by your products? show them the pictures. neil: high tech ceos under fire. jeff zuckerburg makes an unprecedented apology to the parents that were in the audience that lost children online. first, this. now we know, not when and where we respond to last week s deadly attack on u.s. soldiers, but who we re responding to. it s a group the white house identifies as the islamic resistance in iraq. it s an umbrella organization known to have ties to iran which might explain iran now threatening us if its attacked
red sea as the risk to u.s. troops grows by the day. the u.s. navy helicopters destroy three iranian-backed houthi boats after they attacked yet another shipping vessel sunday. this marks the latest of roughly two dozen houthi attacks on international shipping since november. the u.s. navy because the ongoing assaults reckless, but says there are no signs of them slowing down. happy new year, and welcome to a special edition of fox news live. i m rich edson in new york. and i m anita vogel in los angeles. happy new year to you. the white house says the u.s. was acting in self-defense when it fired upon those houthi-operated boats. they say it s an all out effort aimed at preventing a wider war, that critics warn it is not the time to be on defense. this idea that we are just going to play defense, waste all our missiles, which is the benefit of the chinese and iranians, let the houthis fire at will not stop without any consequence, that s got to and now. anita: retire
From them. The army is now getting in touch with families, i know, and, you know, im keeping my hopes up that theyre alive and well. I know their father and his spouse were taken, also, because weve seen one of the videos. Videos that hamas put on, so we know theyre alive. Im hoping that theyre with them. An israeli mother sharing the story of her sons who were taken hostage by hamas. The Terrorist Group is now threatening to execute dozens of people they have captured, quote, Without Warning. Meaning israeli israel is promising a complete Siege Of Gaza, launching more air strikes overnight while cutting off the area from basic necessities. Were going to get a live report for the latest on all of that straight ahead, right here on morning joe. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is tuesday, october 11th. According to israeli authorities, more than 900 israelis have been killed since the fighting began on saturday. The Health Ministry in gaza says 700 palestinians are dead. 11 a
happening at the same time, whether one is a diversionary one or other plans to happen simultaneously. so, whether this was an errant explosion, and the explosions were heading elsewhere, we don t know what the intended targets may have been, if this was not the target they selected. gillian: bill, obviously when you look at a situation like this, it s way too early in the process to talk about motivations, but do you have any sense based on just the geography, the very bare phones facts we have here, the fact this was likely a car bomb, that they were going from the u.s. or trying to go from the u.s. to canada. does that speak to you and your background expertise about what types of terror organizations might be interested in conducting something like this? yeah, it s very difficulty point to kind of come to any of those assumptions. certainly we know that the fbi director wray just over the past few days has reiterated concerns about potential terrorist activities, eman