conflict. ♪ >> welcome to the program. it is past 1 a.m. in gaza where civilians are reeling after an israeli airstrike on a hospital left over most 500 people dead. it's the single worst attack and it sparked rage across the region. israel blamed islamic jihad for the attack, an accusation they deny. it happened before the u.s. president happened in israel in a show of support. joe biden says he has received information that backs up israel's claims it was not behind the strike but joe biden

provided no evidence to support his statement. he says israel is allowing aid into gaza as soon as possible but at the same time the u.s. vetoed a draft resolution at the un security council which was calling for a humanitarian pause in gaza and condemning attacks by hamas on israel. russia and the u.k. abstained while 12 other nations including china and france voted in favor. heading back to washington, the u.s. president has worked out a deal with egypt to open the crossing with gaza. biden says damage caused by is really needs to be fixed which means aid might only be able to enter by friday at the earliest. >> he agreed that what he would do is open the gate to do two things. one, let up to 20 trucks through and with satterfield, my ambassador found down there in

cairo now, they are going to coordinate this. and do what is needed to get it done. they are going to patch the road, fill in the potholes to get the trucks through and that will expect about eight hours tomorrow. so there may be nothing rolling through until -- what is today? wednesday. probably not until friday. >> let's bring in rosalynn jordan from washington dc. hello. break it down for us, how significant is this development? >> this is a significant development because the narrative had started to pick up in washington and in other world capitals that joe biden's trip to tel aviv on wednesday was not going to yield much of anything and probably would not prevent the state of israel from continuing its war on gaza.

the president told reporters on his way back to washington on wednesday evening that one of his goals was to get humanitarian aid into gaza because of the very real suffering he says the palestinians who live there are undergoing. he noted that he has been working on trying to get u.s. citizens inside gaza out although he did not want to go into details about how that would come about. so far people have not been able to leave gaza for their home countries but that said, joe biden made the point that it was important for him to speak face-to-face with benjamin netanyahu, is really prime minister, as well as to speak with the jordanian king, the president of the palestinian authority and egyptian president about trying to keep the situation from worsening. >> how is the trip playing out

politically on the ground in the u.s.? >> there has not been any official reaction in the news only came out in the past hour but the administration has been signaling it will be asking congress for money to provide military assistance not just to israel but to the state of ukraine and joe biden is expected to address the nation on thursday evening about these priorities. however, this is something that will be difficult to pull off because there is no speaker in the house of representatives and until that happens any legislation not to mention appropriations cannot be considered and voted on and unless you have both chambers of the u.s. congress operational, the president wish to send more aid to israel in ukraine is not going anywhere. >> thank you for breaking that

down, rosalynn jordan in washington dc. and as mentioned, president joe biden met with the is prime minister in tel aviv. he has supported israel's denial of involvement on an attack in gaza but provided no evidence to back up the claim. we report from tel aviv. >> it was a trip meant to de-escalate the crisis in gaza but it began to unravel before joe biden touched down in tel aviv. tough questions said the white house, particularly on humanitarian issues. but then there was the massacre at a gaza hospital overshadowing everything. americans have ordered an inquiry into what happened in joe biden endorses israel. >> i'm saddened and outraged by the explosion at the hospital in gaza yesterday. based on what i've seen it appears as though it was not

done by you. >> joe biden promised israel what it means to carry out its offensive in gaza, support welcomed by the prime minister with eyes on the american audience. >> on october 7 hamas murdered 1400 is released, maybe more in a country of fewer than 10 million people. this would be equivalent to over 50,000 americans murdered in a single day. that is 29 elevens. october 7 will live in infamy. >> joe biden was meant to meet with leaders in jordan but he canceled angry that the president was prepared to call for a cease-fire. he did not want concessions aware of the growing anger at the dead and humanitarian crisis. in a final speech after this

extraordinary visit joe biden revealed he had secured israeli cooperation for aid to be allowed into gaza. >> working with the governor, united nations and agencies in the region to get trucks moving across the border as soon as possible. >> his unwavering support winning many admirers but in the wider region there is concern that the u.s. is using its influence -- isn't using its influence to stop the number of dead from rising. al jazeera, tel aviv. >> let's return to gaza where 500 people were killed after an israeli airstrike at a. thousands of civilians were found to have been inside at the time of the attack. we have the details. >> carnage, bodies and body parts strewn across the ground, the result of an israeli airstrike at a hospital in gaza.

nowhere is off limits, nowhere is sacred. some of the images are too graphic to broadcast, images of dead children, bodies ripped apart, faces mutilated by the israeli strike. this father is carrying his children's body parts in bags. >> my wife told me my son died. he was sitting with us and then he disappeared. >> hundreds of families have sought refuge in the grounds of the hospital. >> we were told the red cross as the hospital to let civilians in which it did and rockets and missiles started falling on all those civilians there including women and children who had their bodies dismembered. no one was spared. >> it has been described as a massacre, the highest death toll from a single attack in decades. hospitals are ■supposed to be protected under the governing rules of war.

it states medical facilities cannot be attacked under any circumstances. >> if they strike the hospital that means they have no limitations, they've given the green light to execute palestinians and they can shoot us here as well. a news conference by gaza's health ministry said dead children are being held by authorities and authorities want to show the world what is taking place in the gaza strip. volunteers go through the grounds looking for belongings and body parts. this attack may be a turning point in the war against gaza. it is the palestinians who must live through the strike with money and gaza say nothing will be the same again. al jazeera. >> let's bring in tark on the ground in gaza. there's been strikes including one close by to you. what impact has that had? >> one airstrike really were

carried out in western areas of the district causing severe damage to a four-story building that was leveled to the ground by the strikes. i'm told that the current moment palestinians were attacked and dozens were wounded. another attack took place at a refugee camp and casualties have been reported. the gaza strip terrifies civilians and causes massive destructions to the public sectors. on growing strikes have catastrophic consequences. palestinians are not really feeling safe by the airstrikes. like every single area inside had been hit by is really air forces. >> there are hopes that aid will make its way through the border between egypt and gaza as we have been reporting. albeit it will only be 20

tracks. how do you expect this will be distributed across the region or gaza rather. >> these humanitarian aid from the first moment that it will enter, these will be supervised by the united nations inside the strip during the previous wars. these humanitarian aid to this current moment are taking more than 20 trucks and only these trucks will be for the southern areas of the strip. given other areas, citizens will not be useful for these kinds of aids. there are hundreds of trucks in the egyptian side waiting for further permission to have entry to the besieged enclave. so as much as humanitarian aid might enter the gaza strip the humanitarian situation will be gradually mitigated. >> thank you for that update

from the ground in gaza for us. let's take a closer look now at the border crossing which is the crossing between egypt and the southern end of the strip. it is gaza's only lifeline to the outside world and only for small vehicles and the movement of people. the other crossing is the south located where the borders of egypt, gaza and israel meet. it is the sole passage for trucks carrying fuel and aid. hundreds of tons from several countries have been held up in egypt for a deal for the evacuation through the border crossing. earlier i spoke with richard, he is the regional emergency director for the eastern mediterranean region of the world health organization. he said they hope to start moving humanitarian aid through the crossing as soon as possible. >> we are encouraged, that's the

best news we've heard in the last 11 or 12 days, that we will be able to move humanitarian aid across the border at rafah. of course it is more sobering to know that there will not be humanitarian -- even the context in humanitarian settings, we can do what is called de-confliction. both sides of a conflict where the aid is going, the trust then that they will not target that particular area and allow safe passage of supplies. i think it is very important to note that it is not just getting supplies across rafah. the supplies that have to be distributed throughout all of gaza at the hospitals, vulnerable communities, that is

why we needed this de-confliction process so that both sides will respect the neutrality. >> if the crossing between israel and gaza is used, is it even sufficient given the scale of the need across gaza at the moment? >> what we understand, negotiations are still ongoing and not all the details have yet been shared but we understand we are able to start rather small, probably 20 trucks hopefully tomorrow and then building up to ideally up to we have heard as many as 100 trucks per day. so i'm not sure of the full calculations of the needs at this stage in this will certainly require analysis. we have really tried to kick the door open to get a few trucks of across but as you are indicating

now we've got access, sustained access. we need to really do the estimates of what is required with respect to the border. sanitation supplies, medical supplies, shelter and so on across all of those sectors. >> egypt's president says he will not allow refugees from gaza into his country adding it would make the sinai peninsula a target for israel. >> the whole concept of transferring palestinians from the gaza strip into cyanide is moving the fighting from the gaza strip which means it will become a base for military operations against israel. israel will try to defend itself and direct military operations against egypt. egypt is committed to establishing peace. we should remain dedicated to the peace process and come up with a viable solution. if there is a transfer or let it be to the desert in israel.

let them do what they wish to do in gaza before returning. >> all acts by israel cutting water and electricity is a means to forcibly transfer palestinians into the sinai peninsula which we reject. >> earlier my colleague miss tasha spoke to hussein, a former minister and he explained why egypt does not want palestinian refugees to be sent to egypt or jordan. >> the question from an egyptian point of view as explained by the president this morning, the transfer of palestinians either from gaza to cyanide or from the west bank to jordan. because we are the establishment of an independent assyrian state on the west bank and in gaza.

if the palestinians in both the u.s. bank and gaza would leave their guards it would never be a palestinian state. that is the reason why egypt is against the transfer of palestinians to either egypt or jordan of course in the same time the president pointed out that we want to send humanitarian aid into the gaza strip and the egyptian side of the crossing has always been open. the problem on the palestinian side that was bombarded on various occasions by the israeli air force. on the other hand, the president made clear that when egypt had signed a peace treaty with israel in 1979, it was betting on peace, not only between egypt and israel, but peace for the

palestinians and peace between israel and other arab countries, lebanon, syria and jordan. >> i have a number of questions about the international community in a moment but i want to pick up on what you're saying about humanitarian aid because we've heard there is some kind of agreement reached. if the u.s. president was saying so but they have scant details. we know that what israel and the u.s. was asking for, foreign nationals to leave, hostages to be released. do you know more about the framework of the deal? >> according to what president biden made clear before he left israel, he said he agreed with israeli leaders that humanitarian aid would enter the gaza strip and after that the israeli prime minister made a statement in which he said that

aid, humanitarian aid, would cross into gaza only from the rafah crossing. and president biden mentioned the entry would be subject to inspection, inspection is the first condition. the second condition will be that the aid or some parts will not go to hamas. we have no problem although the question races in its self some interrogation marks but anyhow, the most important, the most urgent task right now is humanitarian aid entering gaza as soon as possible. >> joining us live is omar, a

middle east political analyst. thank you for being on news hour. how would you assess joe biden's visit to israel? was it a success? >> i think the visit is a complete and utter failure, however it is predictable in the sense that all that has come out of it is a reinforcement of the fact that the biden administration stands in support of whatever israel does in gaza even though it is creating the very humanitarian crisis that the u.s. is trying to relieved by pushing aid in and even though israel is engaged in war crimes throughout the gaza strip, the framing of this being about defeating terrorism, it is difficult to understand how that even make sense when the biden administration is endorsing israel and the mass campaign of terrorism from indiscriminate bombings to the fact that water

and medicine and food is being restricted to huge parts of the gaza strip. so in a sense between him not being able to meet with other leaders and the fact that he has kept us on a tract that is going to lead to bloodshed and violence, it's difficult to see how anyone can paint that as a success. >> on the latest developments on his way back to washington joe biden revealed there was a deal with egypt worked out to open the rafah crossing with gaza where 20 trucks will be allowed through. this comes while the u.s. vetoed the security council resolution calling for a humanitarian pause in the conflict, so how should we assess that juxtaposition? >> there is a fundamental contradiction in american policy and it started even before the latest crisis.

on one hand supporting israel's destruction in palestine beyond the gaza strip but also in gaza while wanting to support and supply humanitarian aid and reconstruction in what have you is devastating. it seems like it would save money to stop funding destruction so you don't have to give more money and aided to restore damage. and yet, the idea of calling for a pause or cease fire would require the biden administration to stand in contrast with israeli counterparts, something joe biden is unwilling to do. he lacks the political courage for domestic reasons and genuine emotional ties to israel and netanyahu that have basically eliminated his backbone in this dynamic where from this to the story about the hospital to the claims that biden made of the

likely fabricated claims of decapitated babies and what have you, he seems to be extremely deferential. it seems like netanyahu is calling the shots and biden is simply obliging and working in the confines of netanyahu's wishes instead of doing what needs to be done which virtually everyone understands is immediate cease file because the genocide unleashed, there is no way to justify it by any stretch of the imagination and he seems to be lacking the moral courage to take that step. >> what did you make of biden's choice of language in tel aviv, particularly what stood out was when they were talking about hospital bombing and he was saying he understands it was the other team. do those words minimize the

seriousness of the situation? >> they do. the lack of seriousness with which she is treating the situation is deeply troubling, talking about first and foremost emphasizing significantly sympathy with israeli victims and then a passing thought for palestinian victims. what happened at the hospital is terrible but i understand it is the other team. what israel did with the hospital fits into a long pattern for what israel does whenever they engage in a bombing campaign. human rights organizations have reported instances in which israel has engaged in bombing of civilian infrastructure including schools and hospitals. there is nothing unique about this hospital bombing apart from the scale of death that we have seen in that massacre but otherwise it fits into a pattern of the way israel behaves and we

have a very long history of israel lying to deflect responsibility for its own crimes. we see it as recently as last year with the killing of american citizen serena where the israeli reaction instantaneously was to say palestinian gunmen are responsible for the killing eve and that turned out not to be true. and when that was discovered to be a lie israel shifted to the next excuse saying it was caught in a crossfire and that was proven to be a lie and israel tried to deflect on that situation entirely. the same can go back to many bombings of civilian areas, bombings of amulets is going back as far as 2006. in lebanon where israel claims the have nothing to do with it and that is not their responsibility. human rights organizations or independent media find israel is responsible. so between this being perfectly normal behavior for israel in this context and the history to

deflect responsibility it simply makes no sense for biden to be deferential and simply just take israel's word for what actually happened and then to withdrawal. that is not what leadership looks like and we have a real absence of american leadership on this particular issue but unfortunately it does fit into a pattern of the u.s. constantly treating other countries as above the law. one that does not have to account for how u.s. military funding is used, where the u.s. intervenes at the u.n. to veto resolutions trying to hold israel accountable. that pattern i think is a deep problem and shows a high level of hypocrisy compared to how the state treats many other countries that violate human rights. >> finally, how much do you think domestic politics and next year's election are playing into biden's public response? >> i think that is definitely a significant factor.

one, we know republicans are trying to portray democrats as anti-israel. as a talking point, a partisan one. democrats instead of having a backbone and basically coming out and saying yes, we are not going to endorse an apartheid government, were not going to endorse were crimes but what democrats do is fall over themselves to prove that they are not anti-israel in the way that we've seen president biden behave in this particular crisis. and there is this lack of understanding of how much public opinion has shifted on the liberal end of the spectrum. and you seem with the latest polls that have come out showing there is a clear generational divide were younger americans are not supportive of israel, recognizing it is an atrocity, recognizing palestinians are being denied human rights and

that this is the fundamental driving force of violence. and yet, the political class has not caught on yet and even though there would be wide support for the united states holding israel accountable it seems that the entire political class is stuck in an outdated mindset where they do think israel will never be challenge but i think there are many reasons to vote lead that this is the wrong political calculus. it's just a bit of some political dinosaurs stuck in an old way of thinking and not catching up to the times and necessity with which young people in the united states are to manning a change of policy and why a genuinely fair and equitable foreign policy that allows palestinians to live in freedom and dignity in the same way israel's enjoy these things. >> omar, a middle east political

analyst in washington dc, thank you so much. picking up on what omar said in washington dc protesters from antiwar group jewish voice for peace have staged a sit in inside congressional office building. demonstrators calling