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as joe biden ways making the trip himself -- weighs making the trip himself. hello. welcome to world news america. palestinians continue to float the southern gaza is israel prepares for a major offensive into the territory looking for members of hamas. the un's is there has not been progress on talks to open a border crossing between gaza and egypt as the humanitarian situation deteriorates. earlier monday, and airstrike hit the border with egypt. he accepted the damages damage is unclear, but there are no reported casualties read on the egyptian side of the crossing, a convoy of humanitarian aid weights. the siege of gaza is causing a deepening humanitarian crisis with hospitalist close to me --

complete collapse. sirens triggered in jerusalem and tel aviv. the number of people they believe being held hostage in gaza is up to hundred 99, but hamas claims the number is higher. the bbc has not been able to independently verify these that includes americans. at least 2750 palestinians killed. thousands more wounded in gaza. more than 1400 people killed in israel since this war broke out. jeremy bowen has more from southern israel. >> another war of words has started over who is responsible for the suffering palestinian civilians in gaza. israel is dropping the bomb. >> i cannot hear the program. >> -- for killing and kidnapping and, since israel, hiding behind

civilians. gazans crowded into you in schools after israel told them to move south toward the egyptian border. they are supposed to be protected by the laws of war. america has felt it necessary to deliver repeated reminders of that to israel, along with military aid. this grandmother blames israel, then speaks of tragedy, hunger, death, here, or, and destruction. -- four -- horror and destruction. houston is with foreign passports are hoping to get out. reports of another airstrike in the area tonight. >> you cannot ask people to move out of harm's way without assisting them to do it to go to places of their choice where

they want to be safe and where the humanitarian aid that they need to make that journey safely. right now, the movement that has happened has not had those provisions. >> antony blinken returned to israel after a rapid tumor of america's -- tour of america's terror of allies. the u.s. is giving israel military aid but is trying to stop the war from spreading. as for benjamin netanyahu, and parliament today, he is under great pressure. = some of his many political enemies say he was so preoccupied with staying prime minister neglected israel's security. the prime minister when israel went to war with lebanon in 2006 was scathing about mr. netanyahu's performance.

>> he holds the ultimate responsibility for the weakening of our resolve in dealing with hamas. there was a military failure. a military -- and ended failure of the highest order. >> in tel aviv, tech companies are working with intelligence agencies to track to locate hostages in gaza, some who served in the cyber unit do not want to be identified. it builds and algorithm that searches postings from gaza for faces and places. >> we upload photos for missing persons that we get mostly from families but other sources as well. we have huge lists of people we have identified. we try to understand from day one what happened have they been injured? kidnapped?

we can see here jesus is the same people in a different position. we tried to find more data to understand if they are alive or dead. >> they believe they hostage and that image is alive. their intro goes to families and to the army. -- their information goes to families and to the army. in israel, the argument is about why the mask could breakthrough israel's defense and help to -- how to deliver israelis and palestinians from another generation of collection. >> joining us now is the acting consul general of israel's new york consulate. unit the humanitarian crisis -- given the humanitarian crisis in gaza, will israel feed calls to allow -- heed calls to allow

humanitarian aid into gaza. >> we are doing everything we can in order to prevent criminal damage and harming civilians, innocent civilians, but i think these questions should be directed to hamas. hamas is blockading and doing whatever it can for us and citizens to stay in places will be asked to evacuate. we preemptively warned civilians to evacuate these areas. we provided specific instructions, gave windows of time to do that. i do not know any other western democracy that would be the same as we did, especially not after this brutal attack that we suffered. maybe these questions should be directed to hamas.

you mentioned that they use their own pipelines and turn them into rockets. maybe they will be able to provide a better answer. >> nevertheless, israel is closed two crossings. and the third one for supplies coming into gaza would need to be achane. that -- really to be oked. got permission has not been rented. is israel in breach of international law? >> i can assure you that we work porting to international law and with the international community to make sure there is not a humanitarian crisis, but our mission is to make sure that we eradicate hamas's abilities and will to commit such atrocities again.

we must be able to take a look at the eyes of israeli citizens that are under ongoing marriages of rockets -- marriages of rockets from hamas covering 80% of the country and to tell them that we have done everything we can to make sure that war crimes committed against our people are not repeated. and also we are doing everything we can to bring safe on the hostages, among them many non-israelis. >> those atrocities have been condemned by the international community as well, there is an in it -- a humanitarian crisis in gaza has been singled out by the u.n. and others. it is currently the gift of israel to stop or alleviate that crisis. >> main goal is to make sure

that hamas will never do such things again and to bring home safely the hostages. this is what we are focusing on. yes, we would like to avoid a humanitarian crisis. it is in our interest. yes, we are doing everything possible -- courtesies not given to the 1400 israelis butchered last saturday. we are doing everything we can, but our goal is one. i sent it again and again. -- said it again and again. we have to look into the eyes of israeli citizens and do everything we can to make sure that the abilities of hamas are eradicated. they are using their own people as human shields.

they are using their own international aid and turning it into weapons, armament, and military reinforcement instead of directing it to their own citizens. this is a question to ask them, not needed. >> let's look at what netanyahu has been saying. he has said that the armed forces of israeli to demolish hamas. would you like to see joe biden visit israel before any grand offenses begins? >> i think the support that president bynum -- biden has expressed is important. it is crystal clear he may be coming to israel. i still do not know for sure. i think that he sends a clear

message and his statements and also by this visit if he comes. the most important thing is sweet is not only supporting israel with ashes that he is not only supporting israel with words but concrete actions. >> if we look into the situation along the border with lebanon, we have seen fire exchanged. you have issued some evacuation orders there. are you expecting the concept right further? >> this shows how this brutal attack is orchestrated by iran. when we see on the fronts and the danger merge, we see the classic axis of evil that the iranians have built in the region and the gaza strip with proxies in lebanon and syria.

i hope we will not be in a full-scale war with lebanon and syria, but if things escalate, there is a great risk for that, but i hope we will not be there. let's not forget who is behind this. iran is behind this. we are fighting not only our own battles the much bigger battle and combat of the west. >> we are under can. we will leave it there, acting consul general of israel in new york. thanks for joining us. the u.n. warning more help is needed to support the palestinians who have moved from the north of gaza to the south but some are refusing to leave, saying there is support and aid if they move.

our correspondent john donnison looks now at that. >> this is gibalia, once one of the world's most densely populated neighborhoods and where those who survived are planning on. not far away, one of them is trying to squeeze the last drops out of the city's water system, cut off for days. we will not leave, he says. where will we go with a family of five or six? multiple families now packed into apartments after their homes were destroyed. they say it is not safe to move south. the bombing is happening without warning, says this person. even if i leave, where will we get food and water? this is where people are being told to go amid the instruction

in southern gaza, homeless and the hungry who fled the north and hundreds of thousands of tried to survive. we have nothing that we need to live, since this man who fled south. we are living in a dump. if we move, we will die. with too few toilets, many are fearful about the spread of disease. there is food but not enough. all this will feed less than 2000 people, says amia, just a fraction of those in need. there are long lines to get bread but it is being rationed. we have been waiting here since 6:00 in the morning, he tells us. just to get food to feed the kids. we will run out of flour come the maker says, in two days

maximum. clean water is also in short supply. and all the while, the hospitals are overwhelmed with patients, from the old to the very young. born amid the chaos less than a week ago, what kind of life lies ahead of her? john donnison, bbc news. >> currently, i spoke with the executive director of the yuan population fund about the effect this crisis is having on some of the most vulnerable among pregnant women indian babies. thanks for joining -- pregnant women and young babies. thanks for joining us. we are seeing babies making out of gaza. hospitals are under evacuation orders, almost out of fuel and supplies credit what is the

situation on the ground as you are aware of it? >> terrible catastrophe. the big concern, especially for those who work with pregnant women, is opening the humanitarian access corridors and ensuring that people who may be in hospital are protected, safe and that they do not have to move. >> what is a situation like for pregnant women in gaza? >> working in gaza, we know that there are over 50,000 were pregnant. about 5500 of them are expected to deliver in the next days to a month. about 160 deliveries a day. at this point, uncertainty around where to deliver is what women are reporting. we have had some gripping understandings about the rate

against death when you are asked to move in heavily pregnant. you are not sure if irving will be a complication. for women who are already hospitalized and whose newborns may need an incubator, it is a minute to minute guess as to whether the fuel holds out, the energy that allows the incubator to be available will be there. a c-section at this hour how dire the circumstances are. >> also the situation regarding the lack of clean water, how will that be impacting women and children? >> this is why the u.n. secretary general has been so clear about rescinding this movement and evacuation order. the point being that for health and hygiene, food, water, the

ability to have a reliable supply of medication, nothing is as precarious as a woman carrying her child, walking and in fear, not understanding what will happen to her next. one of the important provisions of international humanitarian law is that health facilities be spared. for us, our midwives are trying their best, even using hotlines to communicate with moms, trying to give guidance by remote. when you reach the hospital or health facility, that has to be a safe haven. unfortunately, some 10 days out, supplies in these hospitals are exhausted. humanitarian arms including the red cross have kits at the ready at the border with egypt.

we hope that the good offices of all concerned will result in an opening of that corridor so that supplies can come in. add people who are trapped in the north. women with disabilities, women who have had a highbred pressure -- high blood pressure complications, they need medication by drip. they will not be able to move. we insist that health facilities you protected. >> is it surprising that it has taken so long and still no humanitarian aid or darkness from established? -- no humanitarian aid cord or been established? >> what i hope is that the dialogue process, the peace process, which is the fervent wish of everyone caught in this

situation right now, be respected. i am surprised, as a physician and as the leader of a reproductive health group, the unfpa, we know that pregnancy is a sacred time for the mother and the unborn child. i really do expect that all options will be taken to protect people for minute by minute trying to breathe, trying to get precrisis. i will also say -- get through a crisis. i will also say that from the perspective of movement of people, there are times and circumstances where the sacrosanct quality of a woman in labor must be respected. this is one of those times. >> thank you for joining us.

the israeli army says it is evacuating 28 towns and villages within a mile of its border with lebanon because of threats of rocket fire with hezbollah. overnight, israel carried out more strikes on southern lebanon, targeting infrastructure belonging to hezbollah. this report is from the israel-lebanon border area -- border. >> a family says goodbye to their fallen soldier, murdered by hamas. her grief over her nephew's death is still wrong. -- raw. now she is packing to leave. it is not safe. >> the bangs are serious. it is scary. i have regarded my suitcases. i am ready. >> clearly 30 israeli villages

along the lebanese border are being evacuated. even the government does not know what lies ahead. >> do you think there will be a war with hezbollah? >> i hope not, but we do all the preparations needed. >> plastic could not wait for the order to leave. as the fire intensified, they fled. >> you can see how empty it is. communities on the border look like this. from west to east, people are being told they are not safe and are leaving in big numbers. >> guy is one of the few that is left. >> normally at this hour should be packed. >> there was nobody here at all. >> 80% or 90% of us have left.

it is a shame, heartbreaking to see my place like this. >> even as tens of thousands of people have moved away, there's exchanges of fire continued -- here's exchanges-- fierce exchanges of our and you. -- continue. >> king funeral service was held for boy scout to death in illinois over the weekend. the community southwest of chicago is known as the palestine. the boys mother also stabbed but expected to survive. reports say she is in serious condition. the family's landlord has been charged with murder. president biden said he was second by the attack just weeks after the white's -- the boy's sixth birthday. the boy's uncle spoke about his

death and the conflict abroad. >> i want to tell the whole world that we live in a country called the usa. we are not at work. -- not at war. >> i am caitriona perry in washington, d.c. thank you for watching world news america. take care. narrator: funding for this presentation of this program is provided by... narrator: financial services firm, raymond james. narrator: funding was also provided by, the freeman foundation. and by judy and peter blum kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. ♪ ♪

♪ geoff: good evening. i'm geoff bennett. amna: and i'm amna nawaz. on "the newshour" tonight -- over a million people are displaced and hospitals face a critical lack of supplies as gaza prepares for an israeli invasion aimed at destroying hamas. geoff: house republican infighting stymies efforts to