Next week hi everyone, thanks for joining me. Im omar jimenez in for fredricka whitfield. We got a lot to get to today. Were going to start with Breaking News. The us has begun airdropping desperately needed humanitarian aid into gaza gaza three c130 hercules cargo planes dropped a total of 66 bundles today, they included mainly food, but no water or medical supplies President Biden pledged the aid friday at the white house paid flowing to gaza is nowhere nearly enough. Now its nowhere nearly enough and its allies are on the line and childrens lives are on the line, and we wont stand by and but until we get more aid in, i wont stand why we wont let up and were not going to pull out pull out every stop we can get more assistance cnns Priscilla Alvarez is in washington and Paula Hancocks is in abu dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, which has also been airdropping aid into gaza. But i wanna start with you, priscilla, what more are we learning about this . A drop in how it came together .
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From its ally, sian cnn, senior white house kevin Top White House officials are now doubling down on the president s ultimatum. We heard from them continue to hear the white house and Administration Officials warning against the Ground Invasion of rafah and theyre really channeling President Bidens view that us weapons should not be used to support a mission that in their estimation is illadvised and very, very bloody. Those concerns were conveyed earlier today in a phone call between the Us National Security adviser, jake sullivan, and his counterpart in israel. And i think this phone call is significant. Its the first time that weve seen a call like this announced between the white house and the government of israel since President Biden delivered that ultimatum and cnn that he would not provide certain Weapons Systems to israel if a Ground Invasion moves forward, the white house says, in that Call Sullivan and his counterpart discussed alternatives to a Ground Invasion of rafah. The
Numbers though that do not distinguish between fighters and civilians. These latest numbers coming as the Israeli Military launches new attacks ahead of a major Ground Offensive. In the city of rafah. Israeli troops are moving in on the eastern part of that city, as well as central and northern gaza, where the Idf Claims Hamas is trying to rebuild more than 300,000 civilians have fled rafah since monday. Thats according to the uat un calling it a quote force and inhumane displacement of palate justinians back here in the Top White House officials continue to send israel stark warnings against the launch of a widescale invasion we believe two things. One, you have to have a clear, credible plan to protect civilians, which we havent seen second, we also need to see a plan for what happens after this conflict in gaza open is over and we still havent seen that we are tracking all the latest developments here at home and overseas. We start with cnns Paula Hancocks and abu dhabi and paul, a