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striking back against hezbollah militants along their northern border in lebanon as idf expect to prepare on the ground in gaza. this comes as two american hostages has been released and some humanitarian aid was allowed in today. i'm griff jenkins. gillian: hi, griff, good to be with you, i'm gillian turner. asking for 105 extra billion dollars for funding for israel, ukraine as well as the southern border. griff, i understand you've got breaking news coming into the news room. griff: our focus is the events focused on unfolding in israel. custom and border released the migrant encounters ending fiscal year 2023, the highest ever on record, more than 269,000, bringing fiscal year 2023 to the highest year ever on record, 2,475,000 plus

migrant encounters, and it shatters last year's record which was at the time the highest on record by nearly 100,000. and it really speaks to the concern i've just come from the last 10 days on the border. we've had a record number of special interest aliens, while i was just in eagle pass. we had six iranians, some three syrians and lebanese migrants coming from countries that we have to look deeper into to vet them to see if they have any potential connections to terror. more on that as we get it, gillian. gillian: thank you for that reporting, griff. we've got fox team coverage on this, and greg palkot is on the ground at the lebanese border. we begin with trey yinst we found in southern israel this afternoon, hi, trey. >> gillian, good afternoon, we have some breaking news, fox news obtained and reviewed an israeli interrogation video of

a hamas militant who participated in the october 7th massacre. i need to warn our viewers what i'm about to describe is incredibly graphic, gives new details what took place two weeks ago. in the video you see a hamas militant. he's in a white cloth jump suit sitting across from an israeli interrogator. asking him questions. and he was captured outside of a small community, a kibbutz that sits on the border with gaza. in the video he describes the preparation and coordination for this assault on southern israel. he talks about a telegram group that the hamas fight,had and they were communicating as the massacre took place, sending videos as they got them, as they were killing civilians in their homes. and this interrogator asks him about islam, he acknowledging. in the religion you're not to kill women, children, elderly people, but he describes what the hamas commanders told them to do. commanders said they could do whatever they felt like doing and that this was a suicide

mission, telling them they should not plan on coming back. new details about what exactly was going through the mind of these militants as they entered and slaughtered so many innocent people. he says commanders told them to step on the heads of civilians to behead them and do whenever they felt like and went on to talk about how hamas and isis are being compared, the interrogator asked him about this comparison and he agreed, he said we burned, we slaughter and beheaded people and went on to ask more questions. and this interrogator was pushing this hamas fighter and this militant to get more information from him and he said, we became animals. things that humans do not do. and when the interrogator asked him, what type of things did you do to these civilians after you killed them. he described them and we can't describe them to you because they are too graphic to explain on television. but it gives you a sense of what exactly took place more

than 1400 israelis slaughtered at the hands of hamas militants who entered southern israel on october 7th, starting this conflict that's erupted behind us and we do know by this video that we obtained and reviewed, they were given coordinated, specific plans to come into israel and put all beliefs aside with one goal in mind, to inflict as much terror on the civilians population here as possible. gillian. gillian: trey, important reporting this morning for us. t thank you very much. griff: a harrowing report from trey. tensions along the israel-lebanon border, as concerns grow between hezbollah and israeli forces. greg palkot is at the israel-lebanon border. >> it official, the iranian-backed hezbollah group is in the fight or at the

least, israel's defense minister yoav gallant says that. he made a visit to the troops not far from where we are now, confirmed what we've been seeing and talking about the past week that it's getting pretty nasty here, take a listen. >> hezbollah has decide today participate in the fighting and is paying the price for it. we must be vigilant and prepare for every possible scenario. great challenges await us. >> hezbollah and related shooting from the nearby border, rockets, anti-tank missiles, mortars, infiltrating with small arms fire. israel responding with artillery, tanks, anti-defense missiles, drones, an idf s f spokesman says the past two weeks in this sector 45 members of hezbollah killed along with civilian casualties. six israeli soldiers killed, and one was israeli, omer

balva, he was called up and he was killed on a mountain nearby. it's a bit quiet here, griff. the military ordered this and other towns to be evaluated, but as the major ground invasion expected to happen looms down south with israel going after hamas in gaza. and expectations are that things will heat up here as well. griff: indeed. greg. a quick follow-up. we saw a new york times article today and some other places reporting about possible efforts on behalf of the biden administration to dissuade israel in that their potential actions with hezbollah on the northern border. do you know anything about that? >> the new york times had a pretty well-sourced article saying that israel pretty much at the beginning of this wanted a one-punch against hamas in the south and hezbollah in the north, but white house officials, including secretary

blanken and president biden and others tried to calm israel down not to lurch ahead in the north and however, the acknowledgment is, a mistake, a bigger strike by hezbollah or a reaction to that invasion down south could turn this thing into another caldron as well. back to you. griff: greg palkot. great reporting as always. stay safe. >> president biden talked yesterday to the two released by hamas, a mother and daughter, and is in delaware planning to spend the remainder of the weekend at home. and peter doocy with what's going on over there to try to rescue the remaining honistages. >> just to build on, the president and his team are supportive of israel however they want to hit back at hamas, but, he appeared late last night to confirm some of these

reports that behind the scenes, he is pressuring the israelis and netanyahu to kind of slow down. >> a ground invasion in the south-- (inaudible). no, the president was far away and he didn't hear the full question. the question sounded like would you like to see more hostages released? he wasn't commenting on anything else. just before that, president biden gave credence to theories that hamas attacked in response to talks that israel was having to improve relations with saudi arabia. president biden said in a fundraiser in northwest d.c., i think one of the reasons they acted like they did, why the folks moved on the hamas-- hamas moved on israel like they have, they knew i was about to sit down with the saudis who are not my-- i wouldn't call them the

greatest democracy in the world. his team is trying to get aid to palestine-- rather, into gaza, but they're saying that they're going to stop if it is intercepted by hamas. >> it's important for people to remember what hamas is. this is a terrorist organization. it's not a state, it's not a government, though they believe that they are, you know, in terms of governance of gaza, they're a terrorist organization. they don't abide by the laws of war like israel does or the united states does, two democracies. >> we know this is a top priority for president biden, but we don't know exactly what he is doing while he's decamped to the rehoboth beach house for the weekend. gillian: all right, peter doocy at the white house with us. griff: for more reaction from capitol hill as the house continues its search for a new speaker. we're joined now by republican congressman from new jersey and the house foreign affairs committee, chris smith, also on

the bipartisan task force for combatting anti-semitism. and congressman, thank you for joining us. i want to start with your reaction to the latest of what we're seeing out of israel, the release of two hostages and now, of course, tensions simmering, not only in the south of gaza, but baby as you heard from our report-- maybes as you heard, in the north with hezbollah. >> israel is israel, and facing an existential threat for their existence. and every moment of congress, to read the hamas charter in 1988 when we doubled down. it called for destroying every jew you can find. if they're hiding behind a rock, they claim in that horrible document, it's a -- it's again, it's their blueprint for the eye n anilelation of israel. there will be no israel, they want it to be driven into the

sea, but the anti-semitic hatred that is increased by the work that u n.r.a. does. our president has given a billion dollars to the work relief agencies. i've heard hearings in the past and scheduled one for the second week of november. u unra is an incubator of hate, overflowing with anti-semitic hate and passing it on from one generation to the next. griff: you mentioned members of congress. let's focus specifically on your colleague rasheeda tlaib. and immediately after the bombing, shown that it came from a downed islamic jihad missile, not an israeli one. but tlaib put up a message that israel bombed the hospital and then she took to the

microphones and had this to say, listen here. >> people think it's okay to bomb a hospital. president biden, -- you need to understand that, we're literally watching people commit genocide and killing a mass majority like this and we still stand by and say nothing. griff: congressman, has she lost, in your opinion, moral clarity on what is happening and should there be some consequences for her? >> i would add creditability to clarity. and endorsed by president biden who has looked at it and the intel community over here in the united states, it was the rockets that are emanating out of gaza that crashed into or right next to that hospital. here we go again. the big lie repeated often enough, tlaib owes an apology

to the israelis for doing that and her credibility is shot. griff: should she says consequences? >> there will be no consequences. never is, unfortunately. the media needs to call her out. i'm calling her out, it's outrageous to falsely accuse israel of something that they did not do and she did it after the information was clearly and unmistakenly shown. and israel goes out of its way for civilians. what does hamas do? hide their headquarters, missile launchers and implement of terror next know schools and other places almost begging the question, and begging the israelis to take it out and yet, with all of that, the israelis go out of their way, again, to lessen the impact on civilians. griff: congressman i have 20 seconds. are we any closer on the house

of representatives on the republican side to get any candidate to 217 votes it become speaker? >> why he, i think come tuesday when hopefully there will be a vote in our conference and quickly brought to the floor we will coalesce around one of our members. we've got a great bench, wonderful, wonderful members of congress who are running. i liked all three that ran before including jim jordan. and of course, scalise a tremendous leader as majority leader and kevin mccarthy, a magnificent job. griff: who are you looking at? >> they're all good friends, part of the problem. griff: thank you for your time as always. >> thank you so much. gillian: joining us now from the other side of the aisle, joining us from florida, sheila mccormick, on the veterans affairs committee, too. and let's pick up where your republican colleague chris smith just left off. there are some republicans running for speaker or plan to,

i believe we have a list we could put up on the screen. is all of this disarray on the republican side making it more complicating the administration's effort to project strength and power abroad during this disrupting middle east war? >> i think it does. right now we need to pass a supplemental and make sure we're showing our support for israel is unequivocal and iron clad, but we can't do that if we're not working as a congress and what we're seeing more and more, this republican civil war is hampering us being a good partner, and ally. >> you mentioned the supplemental president biden is now asking you and your colleagues for. take a listen to what j.d. vance has to say about the president's priorities and i want to get your response. >> i think what the president did is completely disgraceful. if he wants to sell the american people on $60 billion more to ukraine, he shouldn't use dead israeli children to do

it, it was disgusting. gillian: is coupling aid for ukraine with aid to the israelis and palestinians the right way for the president to be pursuing this package sm. >> absolutely, especially when we see the cr we didn't have a chance to pass a cr, a short-term one. we need to replenish our stock piles and make sure that we're taking advantage and everything we can to make sure that we're safe and secure. we have to be moving forward. i think that harsh language, extreme language is what led to this republican civil war that we're seeing right now and the stalemate that we're seeing in congress. we have to start focusing on a bipartisan way to move forward and that's going to include looking at our national security and prioritizing it not just for israel, but ukraine. >> if they're getting as much aid as the u.s. can afford as quickly as possible, isn't

attaching more aid on ukraine after trillions of dollars, just complicate the efforts? it seems to undercut the administration's own objectives. >> not exactly, because what we're looking at is the accumulate cumulative what we're in right now and ukraine and we have to help israel. part of our strength as a nation is we can chew gum and walk at the same time. we have to do the two things we need to do for the entire security mission that we have in place. what we're seeing in israel, there's definitely a need there to protect israel and to allow israel to defend itself and make sure we're finishing the work when it comes to such an evil group as hamas and terrorist organizations, but there's another evil we're looking also at which is also russia and ukraine and that's an evil that we have to deal with, also, and we can do to simultaneously. as leaders of the entire world, this is our responsibilities and we must take our responsibilities. >> i want to ask you this before i let you go. if you can respond to your colleague, congresswoman

rasheeda tlaib, she's contradicting the intense against assessment and the president's assessment that she claims that israel is behind the attack on a gaza hospital this week and the president says it was not the case, it was a misfired islamic jihad rocket. is anybody among your colleagues trying to sort of talk reason to her about this? explain how evidence from the intelligence community works? >> i'm not sure about the video when that was taken. i know in the beginning when the reports came out we weren't sure and slow to move, but i understand that rashida is in a tough place and she has family in palestine. >> is that an excuse to saying that israel is behind the attack. no excuse for promoting misinformation, when we look at

israel and entire world we have to understand where she is and everyone not in that situation we have a responsibility to make sure it's clear. as i mentioned i'm not sure when that video was taken and when she actually made the statements because i haven't seen her make the statements after once it became crystal clear. >> on wednesday after the president said publicly in israel that israel was not behind the attacks, she went out with other colleagues of yours, joined a protest, an anti-israel protest in front of the house steps and reiterated those comments. well, you know, those comments being made aren't true, but what we have to do is not put ourselves in a position where we're fighting each other in interrin inte internally, and focus on work. and israel has what it needs, and-- most of the conversation we need to be having at this moment. how do we get our congress to function and serve as allies. how do we get a speaker

elected. how do we make sure we have someone in speakership to help us move forward in a bipartisan manner, that needs to be our focus not targeting our colleagues who are suffering right now and that's what we have been working on. how do we live up to our reputation as americans, being good allies and not a part of this evil and let's focus on the evil. hamas is a terrorist organization. we saw 14 days ago what they did to children, we saw to people at a, just at an event they're doing as a family. and that's what we have to focus on and how to we respond to this threat. gillian: congresswoman, that's the time that we have. griff: palestine protests erupting on college campuses across the nation this weekend. we've got more on that next. >> woman: why did we choose safelite? we were loading our suv when... crack! safelite came right to us, and we could see exactly when they'd arrive

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gillian. >> organizers are saying an end to u.s. sponsor in gaza. we've got a crowd gathering in brooklyn. like other pro-palestine rallies, it could be thousands. even though the mayor says there are no threats in the area. another one, a thousand people turning out to one organized by the group new york city democratic socialists of america, according to n.y.p.d. the crowd marching to the park to kirsten gillibrand's office where more than a hundred people sat down in the middle of the street to chant for sews fire. nearly 150 people taken into custody and issued some msummons according to n.y.p.d. from harvard to portland, at

times pro-palestine and pro-israel groups clashing. and one told that she's scared. >> i'm honestly scared to share that on campus and that's really, really upsetting, especially at a school like nyu, he talk about inclusion, they talk about sharing your identity, but that stops at jewish and that stops at israeli. >> now, as these protests continue. deep pocketed alumni are saying that they're not doing enough to fight anti-semitism. and a former ceo is severing ties. gillian: griff. griff: a 28-year-old new yorker is now safely back in the u.s. after she survived the israeli music festival that came under attack by hamas two weeks ago.

matt finn is live with more of her story. hey, matt. >> hey, griff. we spoke with natalie, and she's an american citizen with an israeli-born mother and two weeks ago today, she was at that tribe of nova music festival when hamas terrorists invaded and started slaughtering people. and at first she tried to get away by car, but began running on foot. >> we began running and truly every decision we made would have either saved our lives or got us killed. i remember after we had gotten to safety, one of my friends i was with, while we were running, we passed by a ditch and there were a bunch of kids hiding in this ditch, and they were telling us to come hide with them. and last minute, my friend said, we shouldn't do this. this isn't a good idea.

if we hide in this ditch and the terrorists come and they're above us, there's no where for us to hide, there's no where for us to run. they're going to shoot us. so we decided to continue running and not hide in the ditch. i later found out those that stayed in the ditch to hide were shot and killed. >> natalie says she ran for four hours and found safety in a town and found a good samaritan that let her hide in the trunk of his car to get to the border out of israel and now she's trying to spread the word she was one of many innocent people at this music festival when those armed hamas terrorists invaded and started killing people, griff. griff: what harrowing story. matt finn, thank you. >> thank you, griff. as we await the idf's how highly anticipated ground invasion inside gaza. we'll take you live to southern israel with a report from there. stick with us.

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>> welcome back. israeli defense forces now continue to hammer gaza with air strikes as they prepare troops for a ground invasion. mike tobin looks at details on the emerging plans, hi, mike. >> here we are, gillian. 14th night since the october 7th massacre. we're waiting for rocket fire at that usually comes just about every night out of the gaza strip and wait and see when israel will roll the tanks. the big development today, aid trucks finally made it to the gaza strip coming from the egyptian side from the rafah crossing, only 20 trucks came through. to try to put that into perspective usually 450 trucks crossing the border a day. 20 trucks is a drop in the bucket. and food and water, no fuel. does that mean foreign nationals can get out? no one holding a foreign

passport, in fact, no one got out of the gaza strip today. the air strikes continue to go into the gaza strip. israel says they're picking up the pace. and of those in the gaza strip 700,000 have evacuated south of wadi gaza, that translates to gaza valley. a dent in the landscape, a division between the north and south and people in the south are supposed to be safe from the israeli air strikes. also, in the gaza strip, the mother and daughter duo, natalie and judith raanan is now free of their hamas captors, out of the gaza strip, taken to an israeli base in the southern part of the country and reunited with family and they've maintained a low profile since then. i'm in the town just north of the gaza strip. this town has been the subject of 1154 rockets since october the 7th. 189 of those rockets have

gotten through the iron dome defense system. some of them made direct hits last night. no injuries. gillian: mike tobin for us, griff. griff: one of the missing israelis is 19-year-old idf soldier serving during the attack and we're joined by her uncle. thank you for taking time. have you received confirmation as to the whereabouts of ronnie? >> hi, thanks for having me? no, we haven't heard any new news and the status has remained for the last 14 days the same. last week we received a formal communication that she's missing and no news since then. so, we have no idea where is she. we have no idea how is she doing, is she hurt, nothing.

griff: and you're looking at pictures on your screen of ronnie. she's a 19-year-old idf soldier stationed at the kibbutz, one of the hard-hit areas where the hamas terrorists went in and unleashed unthinkable horror. you must have been quite startled when you got the news that she was missing from there? >> yes, but it was an ongoing event as you can imagine. saturday morning we started with the barrage of rockets on the entire country and later on, we started to see the hamas terrorists. and we last received-- we knew that she was there and we asked her mother if she's in communication with her, how is she doing, if she heard from her. the last communication with her was 9:30 in the morning and texted her mom and said, hi, mom, don't worry for me, i'm okay. her mom said, i love you.

she replied, i love you, too. don't worry, i'm okay and for an emoji of red hearts and that's the last communication. and after that, in the afternoon when we didn't hear from her, we start today look for any piece of information and we called people that we know. we called, you know, reporters, and i think by saturday night we understood that something is wrong and on sunday morning, the parent went through the entire country through all the hospitals and they gave the d in. a samples. we managed to speak with some people that were at that base and we've got a little bit of information, but nothing since then. so, you know, it was gradual, but still, it's a devastating state of mind to be. griff: elad, i can't imagine the anguish that you and your family are going through and families just like yours with missing israelis like ronnie. what would you like to say to

our american and worldwide audience? what do they need to hear about what's happening there? >> i think they need to hear first as you speak with the humanitarian and all of this stuff by hamas and what about the humanitarian for the kidnapped people, anything to eat or drink or taken medical care of. that's the humanitarian crisis. i think the other thing that people need to understand, this is not a normal war, this is not a military situation. this is the hamas terrorist came in to kill, slaughter, and murder as many jews as they can. you saw a few segments ago about the nova music festival. they rounded up and killed more than-- actually slaughtered more than 300 people there so i think that the people of the united states and the rest of the world in the civil world need to understand that these are not the same values that we're

talking about. these people are going, you know, if they're going to have an opportunity they're just going to eliminate us. we need to destroy them first and we cannot speak with hamas isis. griff: elad levy, the uncle of ronnie, a soldier now missing. elad, thank you for taking time and we'll keep ronnie in our thoughts and if you have any updates. >> thank you very much. griff: gillian. gillian: well, the biden administration continuing to show support for israel now with the deployment of warships to the region and putting 2000 troops on standby. we'll give you the details straight from the pentagon coming up next.

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>> the united states is moving another ship closer to israel. the u.s.s. mount whitney left italy on wednesday to join the

two carrier strike groups and vessels to provide support in the mediterranean. david spunt is there with the latest. >> the u.s.s. carney shot down 15 drones and four cruise missiles using ground to tear technology, the first time we've used that in combat since 2016, which is definitely something to note. the pentagon right now in a watch and wait posture, but at the same time, moving several naval vessels in the area shut any issues arrive regarding the hezbollah, lebanese hezbollah or any type of iranian proxy like the houthi missiles or rebels, rather. and u.s. intelligence forces they say this was, in fact, a palestinian rocket that hit that hospital and other sources, and president biden

confirmed via the defense depth rocket originated in palestine and following the rockets fired at the u.s. and coalition forces, in iraq. one hit an empty storage facility and two drones targeted the garrison in syria. u.s. coalition forces destroyed one of the drones while the other resulted in minor injuries to u.s. forces. now, at al-assad air force, western forces shot down two drones and damaging the second resulting in minor injuries to coalition forces. one american contractor died at a cardiac episode while seeking shelter for attack. the u.s. has 2500 troops in iraq and 900 in syria roughly reminding us the u.s. is still active in those regions, though the focus now is on israel and gaza. now, important to note that the pentagon is viewing what happened in iraq and syria as separate incidents from this hamas-israel conflict going on

right now in the middle east. nonetheless, they're still watching and waiting should any conflicts arise. griff. griff: david spunt, live david, thank you. >> thank you. gillian: well, two weeks into the israel-gaza war israeli intelligence is now in the spotlight. some experts are pointing to the surprise nature of the october 7th hamas terror attacks of an israeli intelligence short coming. join me now is u.s. army veteran and contributor. bret. what do you make of, i guess, criticism some from folks that the fact that hamas was able to execute this series of terror attacks on the same day as evidence that israeli intelligence somehow failed? and if that's true, is it not also evidence of major u.s. intelligence failures? >> well, look, i mean, it's tough to start placing blame right now. i think we really should let the israelis focus on the fight, but that being said,

there are a lot of questions mounting over the massive intelligence failure and when the dust settles someone at the top is going to have to answer for this and netanyahu. and he runs his platform against the terrorists group and regularly breaches about this as a reason for him being in power. this was an edges it failure at its core, gillian. i wonder how the best spy agency in the word missed this. mosad always had an aura of ins vinceability because of successes globally, but this looks at its reputation and raises doubt about the country's readiness to face what is really a much weaker organization. how is it they didn't see it or other western intelligence agencies. i think that people got complacent, overconfident that this wouldn't happen, but we did hear that there were some reports that even netanyahu was warned by neighboring governments and learned

recently they potentially ignored egypt's warning that gaza was planning something big and that netanyahu was personally warned approximately 10 days before the attack. and a lot of the resources were shipped to the west bank and not on gaza, as they should have been. when you look at hamas' preparation, it was extreme detail in the villages they went to, down to the number of security guards and civilians, detailed maps and battle plans. it was planned to detail, wonder how it was missed especially just in the month of this intelligence of information gathering you would have thought that maybe the hamas op operatives may have disclosed this. they will have to answer to. gillian: we've seen mass scale protests in world capitals over the course of the last week, some folks, you know, either

protesting the israeli government or the american government, some shades, some echoes of the benghazi terrorist attacks although so far no americans or anyone have lost their lives in protests. >> and bottom line, hamas needs to go put down not just a threat to israel, but to our way of life. hamas during the initial invasion had isis and documents let on them. we're also vulnerable. this is an evil that can't exist in our world today. look what hamas did in the few days that they were able to penetrate israel's defenses when people weren't looking at them. they murdered, raped, pillaged, methodically, it was cold. we need to help focus on israel helping to crush hamas. and destroying the operation

centers we need to fully eliminate that and not just contain them so it doesn't happen again, hamas is a danger to our way of life and israel has to do what it does to root out terrorism. they're holding american hostages, and that alone for people it rally around them. gillian: thanks for joining us for sharing your expertise. and good luck when you travel there next week. griff: gavin newsome, protesters gathered outside of his state capitol building. more on that next. makes every day a confident day... a never-hide-my-smile day... a life-of-the-party day... a take-on-the-world day... a believe-in-myself day... a flash-my-new-teeth day. because your clearchoice day is the day you get your confidence back for good.

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he visited israel yesterday meeting with patients in a medical center in tel aviv and he made the stop ahead of his visit to china for a trip focused on climate issues. in a statement, newsom pledged california's support in helping to provide medical aid to israel and gaza and after meeting with some of the patients in israel he said, what the israeli people have experienced is nothing short of barbaric terrorism. he went ahead and said that after meeting with these people, mentioning how one woman covered herself among dead people to survive. now, yesterday israel's president also shared a photo of newsom's visit on social media and wrote in part, we will never forget our friends who stood by israel in our most difficult times. medical supplies are badly needed in this region, as various aid groups collect donations worldwide to help innocent victims. tims. and they're warning people to

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