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israel has sealed its borders with gaza imposing a total siege on the strip 12 days ago. the rafah crossing between egypt and gaza is the only way right now to allow vital supplies in. one big question is whether foreign passport holders and dual nationals at least 600 of whom are american according to the us state department will be allowed out. for more on this, i spoke to our reporter at the rafah crossing, rushdi abualouf. the palestinian employees who are supposed to coordinate, they were informed, to move to rafah crossing as quickly as possible to start, facilitate and run the process of taking the goods from the egyptian trucks into the palestinian trucks, and then they will start transferring them. i saw cars around, red cross cars around. also some truck was carrying quite heavy machine to fix the road. we understand from the local source inside the crossing that the system, the computers and the systems are not working. and they need to be able to put a ....
are needed every day to cover gaza s essential needs and that it s negotiating for a second aid convoy of 20 to 30 trucks to be allowed into gaza on sunday. speaking at a special summit in cairo to discuss the israel gaza war, the un secretary general, antonio guterres, said much more needed to be done for the people of gaza than the aid that was currently supplied. those trucks need to move as quickly as possible in a massive sustained and safe way from egypt into gaza. a 20 truck convoy of the egyptian red crescent is moving today and i want to express my deep gratitude to egypt for the essential role that egypt is playing in this regards. is playing in this regard. but the people of gaza need a commitment for much, much more. it continues delivery of aid to gaza to the scale that is needed and we are working nonstop with all parties that are relevant to make it happen. here in the us, president biden says his administration remains committed to ensuring that civilian ....
you ve live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. my colleague erin burnett is live in tel aviv, israel. and we have major developments that we re following right now. a short time ago, israel s military announced it is increasing air strikes beginning today and says it will launch a ground incursion when conditions are right. this is new cnn video from just outside the gaza border. dozens of israeli tanks, armored personnel carriers, even bulldozers are gathered in this area and other groupings are nearby. some of the video you re seeing right there, after days of agonizing delays, humanitarian aid has rolled into gaza for the first time since the war began two weeks ago. the rafah border crossing between egypt and gaza is closed again, after the 20-truck convoy made its way through. relief agencies say many more massive shipments of water, fuel, and food are needed in the area and the gaza hospital system is teetering on the verge of collapse. an ame ....
wow! tonight the world is on the brink and the white house is n the brink and the white house is panicking because joe biden s president, the united states, now sponsoring a double proxy war against the iranians and the russians. china is eyeing taiwan and north korean weapons were just discovered in gaza. the state department has just issued a worldwide travel warning to all countries. when is the last time that s happened? americans aren t even safe in france. our enemies are being mobbed by angry muslims. our military bases are under attack in iraq, and we just had to shoot down two iranian made missiles. how was your week? well, this right now breaks putin is in china meeting with xi, where they re coordinating mideast policy. two american carrier strike groups are in the mediterranean in. and biden just tested one of our new nuclear weapons, detonating a massive bomb in nevada. and we keep catching middle easterners, sneaking across the secure sout ....
. hello and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m isa soares 0. it s 11:00 in gaza. last hour. the rafah border crossing into egypt opened the first time into weeks. and closed, in fact, minutes later. these were live pictures you re seeing it. just enough time for 20 trucks to make that crossing much needed, of course, humanitarian aid to cross from egypt into gaza. 20 trucks we re told we re hereing from officials that before this conflict. something like 500 or so trucks were making that journey daily. so hamas is telling cnn that the trucks were loaded with medicines, medical supplies and a limited quantity of canned food. let s get more perspective on all of this. our reporter is monitoring this for us. katie talk to us. there was so much desperation, so much waiting for this to happen. crossing now opened. but it was very short opening. how long was that open for? i mean, really, a matter of minutes. we re monitoring here in lon ....