Sandra and thanks to your team and crew. John im john roberts. Thank you. Im Trace Gallagher in for martha maccallum. John roberts will stay with us live from jerusalem. We await the state Department Briefing after hamas releases two american hostages for humanitarian reasons. We have greg palkot live on the Israel Lebanon Border where the israelis are evacuating a town. First we have breaking news coming. Lets go to mike tobin. We have mortar or rockets coming in. Mike . We have a flurry of rocket fire. Weve seen that really since just about every night fall we see them. Tonight it was more intense. If were in cover right now. I see more launches from the gaza area. Big flurry of activity. That looks like its coming down. I dont think its going to intercept. Very well we could get some strikes here. Theres quite a few theres one going across the screen there. So quite a few rockets, quite a few intercepters making the doing their job. Were hearing a great deal of impact. If i shut up,
Molly 100 israelis and 198 palestinians killed along with Hundreds Wounded and dozens taken hostage after the Surprise Attacks on israel this morning, bombarding the nation and erupting the border region into deadly conflict. Welcome to fox news live, im molly line. Griff and im griff jenkins. We were just looking live at trey yingst in the middle of rockets firing. Trey, what are you seeing there . Reporter yeah, griff, molly, right now Islamic Jihad and and hamas is have haunched a massive barrage into southern and central israel. In the distance i can see some interceptors coming off, my cameramans going to pan back with here, and and you can see this is israels Missile Defense system, the iron dome, in action. Theyve had to resupply these batteries as much as possible throughout the day, but what hamas is trying to do is overwhelm these systems, so theyre Firing Barrages at different angles and at different times to try and get past the Missile Defense in the southern part of israe
the violence from escalating once again, as well as ensuring that the that aid starts flowing into gaza so that gaza can rebuild. one of the things that the officials said is that they want to work with the u.n. which they say will lead the efforts to help rebuild gaza and they want to make sure through some sort of new framework to make sure that the money that goes into gaza will go to the people who need it to help people rebuild their lives, their homes, their livelihoods and not fall into the hands of militants who may use that money to build more tunnels or replenish their rocket supplies. the u.s. officials spoke about wanting to get the palestinian authority more involved in helping to distribute those funds which may be difficult because the palestinian authority does not have much influence in gaza which is run by hamas. in the terms of the ceasefire, we are not clear exactly won what may be discussed about how they will maintain the ceasefire. the ceasefire was described a
important role here. and i believe that egypt can play an important role in the future. other possible mediators, the turks, the qataris, the idea is to get an arrangement which if it doesn t restore the status quo can actually create a more stable environment at a cease-fire that will hold longer than the year and a half that this cease-fire has held. well, i ask you these questions because there are many within israel who want the bombardment of gaza to continue because supposedly hamas is weakened. many say now is the time to finish the job. can israel do that without sending in ground troops? well, it is a debate that is happening outside this studio, carol. happening just before i came in here. there are many israelis, and it doesn t matter if they re from the right or left part of the spectrum that think we re going to get into the same situation again, a cease-fire that will hold for a year, year and a half, hamas will build up rocket