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good evening. i m lindsay reiser, you are watching msnbc s continuing coverage of the israel hamas war. and breaking just within the last hour, we have learned a tentative agreement to allow americans safe passage through the rafah border crossing continues to face significant obstacles. nbc news reports that would be a key item on secretary blinken s agenda when he lands and cairo tomorrow. right now, up to 600 americans are still stranded in gaza after that s promised pathway to safety felt through earlier today. u.s. officials said they would negotiate temporary opening at the border between gaza and egypt, for american citizens seeking to flee. but evacuees made their way to the crossing say they found a closed. while there s still no guarantee that hamas, which controls the gaza side of the border, will allow safe passage, the state department continues to publicly urged americans and gaza to move south. cautioning, if that crossing opens that, window could be br ....
staff to evacuate gaza. our coverage continues now in the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle. good evening, once again, i m stephanie ruhle. there is a major news break out of congress today, where steve scalise has dropped out of the race for speaker after being nominated by his fellow republicans. we ll have much more on the chaos in the house in just a moment. but first, let s begin our broadcast with israel. who is continuing its she siege on got a. launch more airstrikes six days after the hamas terror attacks. the bombing is intensifying, as israel is building up its military forces along the border with gaza for a potential ground invasion. at least 1300 people have been killed in israel, and at least 1500 have been killed in gaza. today, secretary of state antony blinken was in israel meeting with both prime minister netanyahu and israelis who survived the terror attacks. we get more from my colleague, lester holt, in tel aviv. tonight, israeli airstrikes rele ....
clock warning united nations staff to evacuate gaza. our coverage continues now in the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle. good evening, once again, i m stephanie ruhle. of congress today, where steve scalise has dropped out of the race for speaker after being nominated by his fellow republicans. we ll have much more on the chaos in the house in just a moment. but first, let s begin our broadcast with israel. who is continuing its she siege on got a. launch more airstrikes six days after the hamas terror attacks. the bombing is intensifying, as israel is building up its military forces along the border with gaza for a potential ground invasion. at least 1300 people have been killed in israel, and at least 1500 have been killed in gaza. today, secretary of state antony blinken was in israel meeting with both prime minister netanyahu and israelis who survived the terror attacks. we get more from my colleague, lester holt, in tel aviv. tonight, israeli airstrikes relentl ....
secretary of state antony blinken we ask him about it. was that an acknowledgement that iran might have been involved in this attack how he answered, and what he said about efforts to free americans held hostage by hamas and the faces of war. the festival goer marking her birthday as a captive of hamas. what her family is asking people around the world to do. our special edition of nightly news begins now. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt, reporting tonight live from israel. good evening and welcome, everyone. we ll show you some of what we saw in ashkelon closer to gaza earlier, but we start here in tel aviv tonight, where for six days now, the world has watched and waited for the full might of the israeli response to the horrific at attacks inflicted upon it anticipated by many to be a massive invasion of the gaza strip, making good on its promise to destroy hamas, after last saturday s brutal terrorist rampage in southern israel. the tol ....
freeing hostages. inside gaza, new images of destruction. israel warning humanitarian aid will not be let in until all hostages are released. also, our team going into the music festival grounds where hamas killed 260 people. what they found. and as they re inside, this moment, a man allegedly armed with a knife somehow getting in. israeli troops detaining him. also, the u.s. moving to block $6 billion iran was set to receive in a prisoner swap in our one-on-one with secretary of state antony blinken. we ask him about it. was that acknowledgment that iran might have been involved in this attack? how he answered and what he said about efforts to free americans held hostage by hamas. and the faces of war. the festival goer marking her birthday as a captive of hamas. what her family is asking people around the world to do. our special edition of nightly news begins now. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt, reporting tonight live from israel. go ....