now, rear admiral daniel hagari, spokesman for the idf, he made very clear that he says the idf never on the aid convoy. hamas-run palestinian health ministry says over 100 civilians were killed. israel says the casualties were caused by the stampede and the trucks that ran people over. idf says ten people were killed by soldiers. president biden acknowledged that this incident jeopardizes the ceasefire talks underway in doha, qatar, and israeli media reports the delegation has left. john. >> john: the idf is saying the people who were fired upon were approaching the israelis who were at a checkpoint and in a tank, in a manner that the idf thought was threatening. is that what you are hearing there? >> exactly, almost word for word the way the idf put it. they felt they were threatened and they opened fire. really the difference is where were -- where was the concentration of the casualties. were the concentration of the casualties the people who were part of the mob or is the concentration of the casualties the people who had approached that idf point that you just mentioned where th

thank ou ve nothing to do with the idf. thank you very much — nothing to do with the idf.to do with the idf. thank you very much for coming on - nothing to do with the idf. thank you very much for coming on the | you very much for coming on the programme. the government is being urged to take an active role in discussions about assisted dying, because the practice is likely to be legalised onjersey or the isle of man. mps on the health committee have called for ministers to consider the implications for the uk if the crown dependencies lift their ban. 0pponents to a law change fear it could leave older and vulnerable people feeling under pressure to end their lives. the commons' committee's review looked at places where assisted dying for the terminally ill is allowed, including parts of the us, as well as australia, switzerland and new zealand. with more on this, i'm joined by our health correspondent nick triggle. the health committee looked at it for over a year, and they called it the most complex issue they had ever faced. , ., ., ~' the most complex issue they had ev

from from his family foundations who also fund as we saw in the film there illegal settlements the idf sometimes jewish supremacist groups so mean this is an organization which is set up to push islamophobia and to push the government in particular to go further and further with islamophobic policies like for example the government's terrorism policy prevent uh to target especially uh muslims and not to to look anywhere else for extremism, especially not in the british jewish community in relation to to their support or sections of support for zionism, there's a number of members of parliament as well isn't the involved, oh yes this is an elite organization, it's not it's not on the streets english defense league pushing islamophobia, it's in the corridors of power, it has mps, members of the house of lords its advisory board. labor in peace of course, and it's supposed to operate at an elite level to push government in more and more as lamophobic ways directions and that's been very successful, yes indeed. well jason, mean what do you think of douglas murray's relationship then with w

that that when they join the idf that 25% of the the guys so join the idf can go off to yashivas for for year may be in new york or or somewhere one of the other worldwide uh offices whereas some of the other his groups are still sufficiently antisignist. they refuse to allow their children when they reach 18 to serve in the idf, but never, so there's an ongoing process there, where the where the idf are trying to enc encourage them to join, and they have throughout the west bank and the illegal settlements, they have these uh what what are known as idf yeshivas where they're allowed to go and do taura study and then they also have to go and kill few palestinians on the weekend, so is that kind of arrangement and that's that's how it works and that's that's what's compromised almost all the historic sec now there's only one that... which is quite a large one, which remains formally anticionist, but it's been a process from really in the 1930s to today of of compromising that anti-zionism and and bringing the the kind of ultrazionism of the hystic sects into the service of the zionist

that uh that when they join the idf that 25% of the the guys who join the idf can go off to the shivas for for year may be in new york or or someone one of the other worldwide office. whereas some of the other uh his groups are still sufficiently antisinous that they refuse to allow their children when they reach 18 to serve in the idf but never so there's an ongoing process there where the where the idf are trying to enc encourage them to join and they have throughout the west bank and the illegal settlements they have these uh what what are known as idf yeshivas where they're allowed to go and do taura study and then they also have to go and kill few palestinians on the weekend so is that kind of arrangement and and that's that's how it works. and that's that's what's compromised almost all the historic sects now there's only one the satmar which is quite a large one which remains formally anti-sionist but it's been a process from really in the 1930s to today of of compromising that anti-sianism and and bringing the the kind of ultrazionism of the hystic sects into the service of the

the idf is coordinating with the international players, with governments. there are access points from rafah and from kerem shalom were hundreds of truckloads of supplies are coming in every single day they need to be distributed. they need to reach the people that are in dire need. and i would add were also coordinating airdrops from the sky, whether it's from different governments. and i also heard that this morning i saw that the us and canada are also considering that i'm sure that we can facilitate more access there is no limit on the amounts of humanitarian aid and supplies that get can get into gaza. we are facilitating that and coordinating that. we have been almost for five months. we need to get the aid to the people that actually need it. >> this really horrible incident today comes as the palestinian health ministry now says more than 30,000 people have been killed in gaza the majority of whom are women and children so here's the question. why is israel not doing more to limit these casualties >> so let's correct ourselves just one second there.

, but never so there's an ongoing process there where the where the idf are trying to encourage them to join, and they have throughout the west bank and the illegal settlements they have these what are known as idf yeshivas where they're allowed to go and do tour study and then they also have to go and kill few palestinians on the weekend, is that kind of arrangement? that and that's that's how it works and that's that's what's compromised almost all the historic sec now there's only one the satmar which is quite a large one which remains formally anti-sianist but it's been a process from really in the 1930s to today of of compromising that anti-sianism and and bringing the the kind of ultrazionism of the hystic sects into the service of the zionist entity how more the chief of mentioned in the report there about the so-called price tag attacks which are associated with this group on just what is about that william? well, these price tag attacks are essentially revenge attacks against palestinians who are involved or perceived to have been involved in a resistance against the zionist

the idf is using wonderful work —— doing wonderful work.anks have given it, which is relinquishing hamas releasing the hostages and making sure gaza is for israel any more, the final victory is our goal. this was the decision i brought to the government at the beginning of the war and we will not take, we will not be satisfied with less. i rememberwhen take, we will not be satisfied with less. i remember when i was a commander of the commander unit. i heard a statement saying we do not come back until we finish our mission. and nowi come back until we finish our mission. and now i heard from our hero soldiers, we're not coming back until we went. and now this is completely contrary to what we are told for months and months by all these former experts and people who think they are experts, and i have to tell you that this is also completely contrary to what many people in the international community told us before we started the ground campaign. they told us that the ground manoeuvre will not succeed and it would be a mistake to get into the

the habad appeal read vital equipment needed by the idf. funds raise will go direct to equipment needed by aron doff. reserve unit up in the north of israel and support units. aron dfrin is of course the son of the rabbi serving actively in the genocidal occupation forces. habad luvovic is an ultra orthodox hasidic sect which also happens to be a genocidal cult. it originates in luubavici in russia near the border with belarus. it's a global movement with more than 5,00 offices in over 100 countries and in all 50 states of the us. it even has offices in seemingly unlikely places like china, belarus, tunisia, morocco and venezuela. it has prominent supporters in many places, the new argentinian president is a khabbad devotee. donald trump even donated to khabad, though not as much as his son-in-law, jared kushna, who has played a pivotal role in the normalization of the zinist entity. obviously khabad has been highly organized in ukraine and khabad followers were amongst those recruited in. the nazi asof battalion, which we should remember,

the idf video also shows military equipment in other locations, that we can't verify how it came. to be there, and what we see in this idf video doesn't equate to israel's description of our shifa as an operational command center for hamas. the us is using a different phrase, saying al-shifa was used as a command and control node. that implies much smaller facility. israel is adamant, this hospital was a command center, but for now, at least, it's either not found supporting evidence or it's not sharing it. well, it is. is it seems laughable, has not been a genocide for, it does seem laughable how they are working with uh basically just gadgets around them to create this full appearance that it is headquarters for the resistance, what do you think about that? uh, it's definitely a genocide, their targeting hospitals to make gaza inhabitable, uninhabitable for palestinians. this video specifically is extremely problematic so much that even the bbc has to verify it, and we know that the bbc has always been very biased in favor. israel uh, it's another classic case of uh israel's ridicu

with is us former idf spokesperson jonathan at the defense for democracy. good to see you in the united states the last few months. i think the last few months viewers became familiar with you in israel as the spokesperson but now we are talking about what really amounts to an escalation offshoot of this conflict in gaza. three american soldiers killed and retaliatory strikes from the u.s. is the message the administration is sending tonight going to be enough to deter iran? >> good evening. thank you for having me. i'm not sure that it is an offshoot. i would rather look at the situation in the middle east as one country that supports and exports terror in the region, iran, which has proxies around israel, hamas being one of them and you're engaged in war the last 3 months against hamas and soon israel will defeat hamas but on the other happen iran has other proxies in the region and they unfortunately were able to kill three u.s. servicemen and the u.s. is retaliating. the common odometer is the enemy but it's not necessary threw same conflicts and i'm no

the idf say in this operation, there was just one slight injury to an idf soldier during the operation>> a happy ending there for those two hostages and their families. thank you for that, nic. let's go to elliott in london. what more are you learning about israel's deadly strikes on rafah and its planned ground offensive for that city? >> reporter: rosemary, these would appear to be the most intense strikes israel has carried out on rafah since the start of this war on october the 7th with the hamas-led terrorist attacks. let's not forthis isn't the first time war has come to rafah. it's been a part of this war since day one with israel carrying out strikes every now and then. i suppose the countries and the leaders around the world who have been expressing grave concern about the possibility of an israeli ground operation in rafah will perhaps feel even more concerned after this operation, to see more than 100 fatalities, albeit with a successful rescue of two israeli hostages. i suppose the big questions which everyone is still asking is, how exactly does israel propose to evacuate

and what the idf says now is that they have they. conduct in this precise focused operation because they say that they have from sources and from a hostages who've been released, information that says hostages were held at the hospital and that their bodies may be buried there. and this isn't the first time where we've seen the idf go into hospitals dig up compounds where bodies have been buried by hospital staff because they can't get out. it's not safe to get out to go to cemeteries. and the idf will then take those bodies and check them to see if there are hostages among them. that's what we've seen before. but what we saw this morning in video, that was recorded by journalists inside the hospital is smoke and dust and debris and doctors trying to treat patients in what appears to be a partially collapsed room. this is the orthopedic room. we're told at the hospital there's a hissing sound. we're told we'll get that is the sound of the oxygen supply. they're being ruptured according to palestinian health officials, one person was

a watch, visible in that video suggests it was filmed. few hours before the bbc arrived, and this idf video was posted, then deleted, then reposted, this time without section referring to an israeli soldier who'd been held hostage. i don't know when this was used the last time, also in the video, we see room with an mri machine, and if you zoom in and we get some light over here, what you will be able to see are is military equipment, the bbc was shown the same room, and what we see in the two videos, doesn't precisely match, for example, there's one gun in the idf video, two by the time of the bbc footage, israel has told bbc verify, this is because more weaponry and terrorist assets were discovered throughout the day, and as always and47, israel also says its video is a single shot with no edit, but this appears to be an edit, we don't know the reasons for that edit nor how significant it is, the idfope says suggestions it's manipulating the media are incorrect. the idf video also shows military equipment in other locations, though we can't verify how it came to be there. "and what

the idf is listening to them.rts are to create two realities, one that will bring every last one of those hostages back through negotiations, through diplomacy, but if not to create the operational conditions to bring them home as we did this morning. 50 bring them home as we did this mornint. ., , . ., morning. so do i understand from that that the _ morning. so do i understand from that that the diplomacy _ morning. so do i understand from that that the diplomacy is - morning. so do i understand from that that the diplomacy is not - morning. so do i understand from that that the diplomacy is not an l that that the diplomacy is not an option from your side or from the other side?— other side? no, our role, the idf role is not _ other side? no, our role, the idf role is not to _ other side? no, our role, the idf role is not to manage _ other side? no, our role, the idf role is not to manage the - other side? no, our role, the idf - role is not to manage the diplomacy, but to create the conditions, meaning increasi

it's only the state of israel and the idf.ll act wherever and at any time that is necessary so that the terror will not be visible once again. they will -- no one will be able to continue financing terror and teaching their children such hatred. yes, we will have to exchange honor and bring our people in their place. i spoke to the secretary of state about that. we are standing at a historic turning point. either we could go towards light or towards the dark. we will not let those dismal forces of iran win. eliminate the terrorists in tehran is a condition that we must preserve for the state of our security, our future and our home. >> prime minister netanyahu speaking to his domestic audience, saying that they have to eliminate hamas, saying that -- to the hostage families, they are in their hearts always, but saying they have to eliminate hamas. that that is the goal and they can't change that goal. senator jeanne shaheen from armed services and foreign relations, i think you are with us listening to the prime minister throu

soldier was released by the idf, freed by the idf in a military operation. but this one, this operation in the half of rafah, covertly done, will be for the military at least a huge momentous moment. there's been massive pressure on them to release hostages here, michael. >> on the military and also benjamin netanyahu. is the rescue likely to in any way temper the huge criticism netanyahu has faced over his handling of the hostage situation or not put much of a dent in that at all? what do you think? >> reporter: as the idf is noting, there are still 132 hostages to go. so this will be a moment for prime minister netanyahu where he can feel that his approach is the right one. he continues to say it's important to go into rafah to go into the last of the hamas battalions there. he continues to say it's military pressure on hamas that will bring the hostages home. this is a narrative that's been wearing thin with the families. they absolutely don't feel that the hostages have been prioritized. so this is likely to give the prime minister a little bump, but it'

that came up this morning. 1:49 is the precise time the idf spokesman said the special forces were able to covertly get into the building where the two hostages were held. they described the idf describes the intense firefight where some of the special forces threw themselves on the hostages to make sure they were protected in this firefight but this was intense hi fast because the idf spokesman said one minute later 1:50 the israeli air force came into play and started laying down cover strikes in that area to prevent hamas from getting to that building and allow the hostages to be taken out of the building safely, taken outletly under fire taken to a safe place. that time 1:50 a.m. is when the palestinian red crescent began indicating they were receiving casualties from israeli air force strikes in the area, that they're now saying as many as 100 people were killed many injured women and children among them. it's not clear if these two incidents are exactly the same but they come from the same location in rafah and they had happened at the same time. now the idf says when it got the t

hamas, about the discovered weapons depots, here is the idf report on the current day of fighting inlave. idf troops continue to operate in gaza and have discovered where numerous factories for the production of weapons, missile launchers, operational centers and systems used by hamas to fight the troops have destroyed several. terrorists inside the tunnel shaft and destroyed the mine itself, detained a number of terrorists who were trying to escape under the cover of the civilian population. for the entire duration of the war, for the past 144 days. on november 7 , the israeli defense forces lost 580 soldiers, and 240 soldiers were killed directly in the battles in the gaza strip, just today a message came about the death of a sergeant of the nakhl brigade, this brigade is engaged not only in fighting militants, the zadim elkosam brigade, but first of all, by the destruction of tunnels and underground communications of the islamists, who... operations in a large gaza settlement in the city of rafah, which is located directly on the border between the palestinian enclave and egypt, i

the idf is looking to see whether they are responsible for that.have any update you can provide? >> i know we are looking into the incident. tragedy of civilians and medical staff. of course, it needs to be investigated and we are looking into the circumstances of that. unfortunately, i don't have anything to report at this time. >> peter lerner, thank you for joining us. we'll be right back. >>> a massive storm system on the east coast. the second round is bringing severe weather to the gulf coast and southeast. >> it's expected to leave a blanket of snow in the region with central pennsylvania and eastern maine. cnn meteorologist has a look at this week's forecast. >> reporter: our storm is on the move. that severe risk is sliding east as we go into monday from alabama, georgia, the carolinas. you're looking at the threat for the 70 mile per hour wind gusts, large hail, few tornadoes, heavy rain. the line continues to push east and move north into the carolinas as we go into monday. late monday into tuesday, it starts to clash into cold air up in

simultaneously with the airstrikes, the idf military carried out an operation in the same area to...emains the last major settlement in the enclave where idf ground forces have not yet entered. in addition, this city is the main center through which humanitarian aid enters the sector. the situation around rafah may have much more serious consequences for regional stability as a whole, as the associated press agency, citing its sources, reports that cairo may suspend the campweid agreements due to tel aviv action in rafah. camp david accords. adopted in 1979, thanks to them egypt received back the sinai peninsula, previously occupied by israel , and diplomatic relations were established between the countries, and in many ways it is these agreements that now ensure that egypt does not intervene in the conflict, but in which syria may already become a participant. ending the israeli occupation of the syrian, arab, dutch heights is among our sacred goals that the syrian arab strives to achieve people. it's illegal. in his quest to wipe hamas off the map. israel does not recognize any bor

we went through statements and press releases from the idf. we spoke to several forensic embolus stick experts who went through the footage that we had gotten from this cameraman who works with us in gaza. and this really allowed us to piece together the events of that bloody night in which a number of civilians, as we mentioned, were killed, including at least four children. we did start boris by asking the it df about this incident. we provided them with photos of the aftermath of the bodies we provide them with coordinates of the location and what they told us happened was that they say their troops had come under fire and they responded with what they described as a precise strike and they couldn't confirm if those bodies in our footage, we're linked to that. strike or not. now, our key findings from our investigation, boris is that the idf almost certainly dropped what our experts that we've spoken to who have examined images of the craters, satellite images of the crater, who looked at it, dropped a massive 2000 pound bomb on that locati

>> no, i mean, the idf has nothing to do with it.ven if i didn't serve in the idf, they would have replaced me. the theme of this conference is inclusion, diversity, safe space for women. of course, if you are jewish, the question is they are disinviting me, what about other jewish women, are they excluded? if i was a palestinian woman, would i be removed? as a jewish woman, i wouldn't feel offended listening to a palestinian woman talk about her life experience temperature is simply because i'm jewish and idf is just an excuse. >> todd: that is chilling, that is not right. thank you for joining us, you are a good speaker. over to you. >> thank you. >> carley: always welcome to speak on "fox and friends first." we have a fox news alert. cellular network users reporting outages with at&t, verizon and boost mobile across the u.s. and some are back online, the outages sparked panic with sos messages and not being able to make 911 calls from their cell phones. we'll monitor why this happened and bring you updates as we get them. scary st

as you say, the idf are saying both are in good medical condition. the idf said this operation had been some time in the planning, that they were waiting for the conditions to be right. that it began at about 1:00 a.m. in the morning in rafah. it was a covert military operation that involved distraction maneuver as the idf calls it, attacking, they say, hamas battalion in that area of rafah. we know from the red crescent that right about that time there were reports of aircraft rocket and bomb strikes. helicopter, gunship strikes in that area. and the local hospital in rafah is reporting 60 people dead and killed, including children in this attack that took place around about the same time as this rescue operation was under way. it's not clear if these two events are directly connected. but it does appear at this time, at least, that there's a lot of correlation between these two different events. the idf saying only one of their soldiers was injured in this operation which required putting troops into the second floor of a building. now this is only

the idf has been conducting _ people there? absolutely.the idf has been conducting operations in | has been conducting operations in khan younis in the west specifically over the last two weeks. in the last few days, we've been appealing to the people that have taken refuge in the people that have taken refuge in the hospital premises to evacuate the hospital premises to evacuate the area. this morning, we announced that we have arrested several suspects and this evening, we announced the names of three terrorists. they have participated actually in the attack on the 7th of october. absolutely, hamas are continuing their actions, the way they have conducted themselves throughout this war, of holding up inside hospitals, utilising hospitals to conduct a task, to hide, conceal hostages and they're all doing it at the desk term and of gaza —— at the detriment to. i suppose the question many watchable feel is windows the tolerable actions become intolerable —— when do the tolerable actions. do you think the achievements he said were a result o

the scale of the attacks suggests that the idf is preparing to use the same tactics in rafah that itfore in gaza itself and in other palestinian cities. enclave: first level city blocks with air strikes to the ground, and then lead troops and carry out cleansing. netanyahu's appetite is growing with more killings, expansionism and war crimes. it's all him continues to do so with impunity. rafah remains the last major settlement in the enclave where idf ground forces have not yet entered. in addition, this city is the main center through which humanitarian aid enters the sector. the situation around rafah may have. much more serious consequences for regional stability as a whole, the agency , citing its sources, reports that cairo may suspend the camp david agreements due to tel aviv’s actions in rafah. the camp david accords were adopted in 1979. thanks to them, egypt received back the sinai peninsula, previously occupied by israel , and diplomatic relations were established between the countries, and in many ways it is these agreements that now ensure that egypt does not interfere i

but to the what the idf is saying that they have now rounded up 20 she suspects. they say who were involved in the october 7 attacks. they've released photographs of a few of them that we cannot independently ourselves verify were involved in the october 7 attacks, the idf described one of them as an ambulance driver again, something we can't verify the idf originally went into the hospital. they said because they had credible intelligence that there were possibly the bodies of hostages there. they had this intelligence they say from their sources and from other hostages. the idf point to the fact that hostages had been held in hospitals before an according to a hospital officials at the nasser hospital the idf were digging up bodies and some of the temporary graves that have been dug inside the hospital to check those bodies. but later in the day yesterday, thursday, the idf said that they were becoming aware that there could be a terror operatives hiding amongst the displaced people within the hospital and they began to filter out the displaced people for from t

how the idf operates in these situations. it tells us civilians to flee an area than it sets up a control point to that they can check the civilians and we know from the idf that they've now made a number of last but msf doctors without borders are reporting that one of their staff has been detained by the idf and msf is now calling for a complete ceasefire at that hospital immediately >> okay. nic robertson, please keep us posted. thank you >> well, this morning, national security adviser said to brief top lawmakers about a new nuclear threat from russia, multiple sources telling cnn, the us has new intelligence on russia's efforts to deploy a nuclear anti-satellite weapon in space some lawmakers say the intel is serious enough that it should be declassified and made public. experts say an anti-satellite weapon in space with threaten us nuclear command and control satellites. this story actually broke because of the house intelligence committee chairman who should issued a rather cryptic statement that the panel had quote, i

shot from the air at— the idf this morning shot from the air at night — the idf this morning shot fromlutely covered in people trying to retrieve aid. covered in people trying to retrieve aid with _ covered in people trying to retrieve aid. with thousands of people surrounding them. it seems a significant number of people were run over — let me show you a graph now that compares the war in gaza to the first year of the war in ukraine, and the first six weeks of the 2003 war in iraq. you can see the number of people killed per day, per size of population is far higher in gaza than it is in either of those. bbc verified's merlyn thomas has this analysis on the numbers of people killed. we've been covering this war from the very beginning, tracking the damage across gaza, from the israeli offensive following the hamas attacks on israel on the 7th of october. now, at the start of the war, the gaza strip was one of the most densely populated places on earth. it was home to over 2 million people. and today, the hamas—run health ministry has announced that since the start of the war, more tha

the idf are quite adamant that the orderfor people to the idf are quite adamant that the order for people applies to civilians who have gathered there for safety, and they are being very clear that they do not want to members of staff, doctors, nurses and patients to leave, but clearly from some of their video that has come out today, and extremely distressing time for people there. the hospital was crucial for gaza anyway and it has been for years but it is important now because it is one of the few functioning hospitals in the gaza strip. i say functioning but doctors there in recent days and weeks have talked about a real lack of medical equipment saying in some cases they are merely carrying out first aid rather than any sort of planned surgery or more sophisticated treatment towards patients. as you are saying, there was this announcement that came through on a speaker which was attached to a drone, so this message echoing through the air in this particular part of gaza, urging people to leave, but as we have seen before, over a few months, a lot of people have been quite concerned a

the scale of the strikes suggests that the idf is preparing to use the same tactics in rafah that itviously used in other cities of the palestinian enclave, first leveling city blocks with air strikes to the ground, and then leading troops. of course, we are all extremely scared of the massacre that may occur. if israeli forces entered the city, given the overcrowding, it would be a disaster. if they throw one pebble, people will get hurt. i'm not talking about a missile that can kill. its population did not exceed 2,000 people, but today 1,3000 palestinians have found shelter here; they came here from all over the gaza strip to escape the bombing, but these people simply have nowhere to run further, ahead is the egyptian border, on the other side of which such a number of refugees are not expected. along the dividing line, the authorities of the arab republic are now erecting multi-meter fences, just in case , they are tightening the borders with military equipment, and the palestinians themselves are not going to the sinai desert want. this is not a solution because egypt has no in

really only been tiny in terms of what has been destroyed by the idf.here is growing distrust of you personally, sir, you know this, in the u.s. congress and within the biden white house. when your closest ally is telling you things like this and telling you that you need to reconsider a strategy, isn't it worth considering? >> i think that the u.s. agrees with us on the goal of destroying hamas and the goal of releasing the hostages. the decisions of how to do that are left with us. and with me and the elected cabinet of israel. a lot of things that we were told by best of friends in additionally turned out not to be true. they said that you can't enter the ground war without having enormous complications. they said that you can't fight -- you can't enter gaza city. you can't go into the tunnels. it will be a terrible blood bath. all turned out to be not true. our soldiers are in the tunnel network. we don't have to take apart hundreds of kilometers. we have taking apart the missile production factories, command and roll headquarters, computers and mon

the nearest town north of them is under the one under the idf efforts to take out hamas there for thet two months. so, this is the last place they can go. the egyptian authorities are afraid that if the idf goes into rafah, this will cause people to panic and try to flee across the border into egypt. u.n. officials and ngos are talking about the potential for a bloodbath there. this is an environment where there's already a desperate hume need. the prime minister said, look, the idf has to tell me me and the cabinet how they're going to protect civilians, but terribling international political pressure and turning it over to the military to solve. and the military have solved this in essence already, the way they've been operating is try to move civilians out of the way. they group fliers, sent text messages, civilians are told if you live in these neighborhoods, take this route this time and go to the refugee camp next to the mediterranean sea. however, that hasn't proven to be safe. many civilians have still died. and of course, this is what's now on the mind of all of those civilia

it was uploaded onto youtube by an idf soldier.ped to their underwear in a sports stadium in northern gaza. some kneeling and blindfolded. one of the soldiers in the video is a lieutenant colonel, which we identified by the insignia on his uniform, suggesting he is aware that filming is taking place. he also uploaded another video where a soldier is seen interrogating a man stripped to his underwear and bleeding. he is then walked through the streets of gaza barefoot. the idf said the soldier who posted the video has been fired, and that the detainee has been released. we've shown this footage to human rights experts, who say the filming of detainees and publication of such videos may breach international law. warfare in the information age gives us unique access to the front line. but for some, this conflict is simply a backdrop for their social media content. we asked the israel defence force for its comment about each of these incidents, but it hasn't come back to us yet. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu remains adaman

how can be israeli, the idf carried forth in l israeli, the idf carried forth in operation at this pointknow there are tens of thousands of people sheltering there and there is not much international support either. president biden has said the israeli operation has gone over the top. what do you make of that? i top. what do you make of that? i think it is very interesting and i think it is very interesting and i think it is very interesting and i think it will be very interesting to discover when, think it will be very interesting to discoverwhen, not think it will be very interesting to discover when, not if, when israeli troops get to those tunnels underneath rafah, when they get the hands and see we have cameras there to show what the world what went on for many, many years, from egypt into gaza. it will be very interesting to see because i read, i see a lot of pressure, us egyptian, and also european into don't go to rafah. frankly, idon't and also european into don't go to rafah. frankly, i don't think... it rafah. frankly, idon't think... it is a question of what it takes to get t

because khan there riddle with tunnels, the idf expects to be tons and hostages and hamas leadershipneath rafah. so it seems to be a stretch. we've also seen the evacuation plans that have been put in place for civilians so far have not been effective to start the people on the road for evacuation in the evacuation-safe areas. i think there perhaps is some potential light in terms of the hostage negotiations and cease-fire, because we know bill burns, ahead of the cia, will meet with his egyptian and israeli counterparts, as well as representatives of qatar, in the coming days. early next week. that is perhaps a chink of light that all of the rhetoric about the military going into rafah could be just that, rhetoric and pressure, to get a deal, but we don't know that for sure. >> nic robertson there for us in tel aviv. thank you, nic. let's bring in cnn political and national security analyst david sanger. david, good morning to you. so, the state department says that the u.s. will not support this operation in rafah unless there is a serious plan for civilians, in their word. if the

that's where the idf told palestinians to flee for safety.e than 1 million people are now sheltering there. hamas is warning against attacks in rafah, which it says are aimed at displacing palestinian people. palestinian police say israeli air strikes killed at least five police officers. it's not clear if the incidents are related. >>> medical officials in the hamas-run enclave tell a palestinian news agency air strikes and shelling killed 25 people on saturday, many of them women and children. the idf says it takes what it says are feasible precautions to mitigate civilian harm. journalist elliott gotkine is live in london with more. let's start with those hamas tunnels the idf says it's discovered. what more can you reveal about this video footage and the details? >> reporter: for unra wa, this is the latest and perhaps most damning tunnel the idf says it has discovered underground in the gaza strip that would have taken years and vast sums of money to build. this particular tunnel, it entered a tunnel shaft near an unrwa school and went d

up paul adams reveals the idf had actually been conducting humanitarian operations of this kind for theast four nights without any problem until early this morning. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu's office also said the idf have submitted a plan to provide humanitarian assistance to the gaza strip, and their words, humanitarian assistance to the gaza strip, and theirwords, in humanitarian assistance to the gaza strip, and their words, in a humanitarian assistance to the gaza strip, and theirwords, in a manner that will prevent the looting that has occurred in the northern strip and other areas, as we were reflecting earlier, the amount of aid that's actually been getting into gaza since the war has decreased by a huge amount and aid agencies have been warning about impending starvation there. we also talked there about that figure from the hamas run health and ministry, saying more than 30,000 postings have been killed since october 7th. bbc verify have been examining how many of those killed were members of hamas, which is designated a terrorist organisation by the uk and

. >> the idf says they were rescued from a building in the heart of rafah after a very intense gun battletheir capta captors. >> israeli air strikes pounded targets during the rescue operation. hamas claims the overnight strikes in rafah killed more than 100 people. the city is now home to more than half of gaza's population. >> hundreds of thousands of civilians have been seeking refuge there with nowhere else to go and there's mounting concern this morning that an israeli ground offensive could soon be coming. nic robertson is live at the hospital where those two hostages have been taken. let's just begin, nic, with how they're doing this morning? >> reporter: yeah. they're doing well. both men were brought here in the very early hours of the morning about 3:30 in the morning. their families were informed as well. and their families came here to see them. fernando, 60-year-old, and luis is 70 years old. the families say both men lost weight. the hospital says they're going to give them a full range of checkups. psychological welfare is the most important thing where they'll do blood tes

how the idf describes it. to have the operations completed by the 10th of march would seem to be a stretch because kahn yunis, a town that doesn't have that population, military operations there have been going on there for several months now. >> all right. nic robertson, we'll check back with you. thanks so much. >>> back in this country now, how to the fallout from a special counsel report into president biden's handling of classified documents that critics say went too far. while democrats are hailing the decision not to bring any charges against the president for willfully retaining classified documents, they are stunned that special counsel robert hur would characterize him as elderly and that his memory is quote/unquote poor. and to make the statements in the middle of an election year, they say politically motivated. biden and his allies are blasting hur's assertions. vice president kamala harris calling the assertions gratuitous, inaccurate and inappropriate. and priscilla alvarez is in washington for

the idf does not intend to stop, but in the event of a total cleansing of the region bordering egypt,ro and damascus are ready to retaliate. details from our correspondents from the zone conflict. frafahi is preparing to use the same tactics that he used before in gaza itself, in other cities of the palestinian enclave: first , level city blocks with air strikes , and then lead troops and carry out a cleanup. netanyahu's appetite is growing with more killings, expansionism and war crimes. he continues to do all this with impunity. rafah remains the last major population center in the enclave where idf ground forces have not yet entered. besides , it's this one. the city is the main one a center through which humanitarian aid reaches the sector. now there are about 1,300 people here, and these people simply have nowhere to run further. the situation around rafah may have much more serious consequences for regional stability as a whole, as the associated press agency, citing its sources , reports that cairo may suspend the camp dade agreements due to tel aviv’s actions in rafah. threat

the idf has not set a date for that yet. there's growing international opposition from that for that the secretary general of the united nations said there would be devastating consequences. the italian foreign minister raised concerns that german foreign minister raise concerns as well. and of course, president biden has said it shouldn't go ahead without proper planning to avoid civilian casualties. the idf in the meantime, however, has released video showing ya-ya sinwar, the political chief of hamas what this tells us about where sinwar is at the moment. really isn't clear, but it's indicative of the fact that the idf continues to gather information about whether leaders of hamas are. and we heard as well from the army chief of staff today saying that so far they believe they've killed 10,000 members of hamas, including commanders. but has he how levy, the the idf chief of staff said that he was expecting israel to hollywood florida and rob d'amico, former deputy operations chief for the fbi's hostage rescue team. but le