fox & friends weekend on saturday, february 3rd, and we start this hour with a fox news alert. the u.s. launches retaliatory airstrikes in sir ya and iraq while president biden says it is just the beginning. rachel: biden continuing to take heat over the crisis at our southern border, and the numbers don t lie. a new poll showing that, get this, 70% of americans disapprove of the president s handling of immigration. big numbers. pete: they say hips don t lie either. plus, mark cuban s dei push getting shot done by the equal employment commissioner herself. that commissioner joins us coming up. if the final hour of fox & friends weekend starts right now. will: fox news alert, u.s. forces hitting dozens of iranian-linked terror targets, iraqi and syrian with officials claim more than 30 people were killed. pete: who those people are though, we don t know. the first round are of retaliatory strike thes coming just hours after the remains of three u.s. soldiers killed in
in a statement, a spokesperson said the goal of the operation was to, completely destroy the governing and military capabilities of hamas. it comes a week after hamas which is listed as a a terrorist group by many western governments, including the us and uk killed more than 1300 people in israel and took dozens of hostage. we can show you these live pictures of gaza city right now, where it sjust gone 7:00 in the morning. the israeli military said on saturday that it has killed a hamas commander who led part of the assault on israel in a drone strike. ali qadhi is the second hamas chief to have been killed in a day. meanwhile, on the ground in gaza, thousands of civilians are on the move after israel warned more thani million living in the north to move south beyond the wadi gaza river here. the world health organization has described that order as a death sentence for those needing hospital treatment. the authorities in gaza say more than 2,200 people have been kille
the death toll is rising the israeli military says they have now recovered at least 1,200 people killed in israel this past weekend. and in the five day bombardment of gaza, already more than 1,000 palestinians have died. today the un called on all sides to respect civilians, and requested that a humanitarian corridor be set up in gaza to get food in and to evacuate the most seriously injured. we ll hear from our correspondents across the region. from lucy williamson who has been to the town of 0fakim, where they have been burying their dead. from gaza, our correspondent rushdi abu alouf. and anna foster is on israel s northern border with lebanon, where israel has been exchanging fire today with hezbollah militants. good evening. there are 300,000 israeli troops now massed on israel s southern border. there s a new unity government in tel aviv and a war cabinet to direct israel s response. explosions. for the fifth day running, and from the direction of sderot, in the sout
region and many of you may be learning in realtime, since hamas is unprecedented attack. and you re trying to understand the complexities and nuances, all of course while trying to process the horror of war. you are not alone and trying to poland s win to lean in and when to look away. the stories of brutality and cruelty and manifestation are truly shocking. that death toll is still rising. at least 1200 people have been killed in israel since sunday, according to israel s public broadcaster. not hundred people dead in gaza, according to the palestinian ministry of health. mothers, fathers, children, brothers, sisters, neighbors, friends slaughtered in the middle of their daily lives. israel is hammering gaza with airstrikes hitting hundreds of targets and detergent neighborhoods to rubble. this new and unthinkable atrocities being uncovered in its territory after the devastating attack by hamas militants. that bloody hands of the terrorist organization hamas, a group wh
direct next steps. connected with benjamin netanyahu to discuss coordination to support israel, deter hostile actors and protect innocent people. we will in the minutes ahead we hope get more of a level of detail what s going to happen. sandra: we are about an hour behind and also anticipating jake sullivan to appear at the white house press briefing with karine jean-pierre, that too has been pushed back because we have not heard the president s address yet. as soon as he begins speaking we will get to that. middle east region is quieter today than in two decades. sandra: and there he is, that was national security adviser jake sullivan speaking last week touting the biden administration middle east policy, days later, an attack for the deadliest day since the holocaust. john: a lot of signals were missed, i m john roberts in washington. we are still waiting for president biden to address the nation. speech scheduled to start one hour and one minute ago. also schedule