rafa today is full of people, there are about 1.6 million people raffa today. can you imagine if you want to do the calculations our numbers over the space of rafa, there would be some six centimeters for each person raffa, and this is what you really see. those who came this place from south do not have places, there are no places for them at all, we do not know where we are heading. what is next? we are living in the unknown and we do not know where we are heading. shared her thoughts about israely crimes against the palestinians and the regime's ongoing genocide in gaza. into 100 days into this genocide, the world is witnessing israel is rogue state that has no respect for international law, that has no respect for the rules, ethical war, rules of war, that they are targeting women and children, hospitals and schools. so they are targeting refugeees sleeping intense, that they are pretending to provide disguising their weapons and bombs and missiles as food for when the children come and get it that it explodes and it kills them. it is more than fair for the entire world and all t

i'm traveling to egypt, i will go to the border of gaza and raffa. i go because of you. you have never been in a plane. you have never left gaza, you know only the densely packed streets and alleys, the concrete hovels, you know only the security barriers and fences patrolled by soldiers that surround gaza. planes for you are terrifying, fighter jets, attack helicopters, drones, they circle above you. they drop missiles and bombs, deafining explosions, the ground shakes, buildings fall, the dead, the screams, the muffled calls for help from beneath the rubble, it does not stop, night and day, trapped under the piles of smashed concrete, your playmates, your schoolmates, your neighbors gone in seconds, you see the chalky faces and limp bodies when they are dug out. i am a reporter, it is my job to see this. you are a child. you should never see this. the stench of death, rotting corpses under the broken concrete. you hold your breath, you cover your mouth with a cloth, you walk faster, your neighborhood has become a graveyard, all that was familiar is gone, you stare in a

they're now moving to the small southern most of raffa, which the israely military told them would be safe. raffa is a small city in a border with egypt and is hosting around 1.5 million displays palestinian." now the city is facing severe shortage of resources and israel is launching strikes on civilians there, the d situation is testament to the un report that there is no safe haven in gaza for the displaced, the genocide of wall on the gaza's trip is putting in immense pressure on the territory's health system, many hospitals are out of service and the rest are only partially operational, doctor at nasa hospital, khan unis. describes the situation, we have major shortage of medical staff, we have less than 10% of hospital staff that are... working throughout the war. the majority of injured people coming to the hospital are those displaced in schools and residential areas. medical equipment in the hospital is almost nonexistent, of course. the simplest things in the hospital such as painkillers and anesthesia tools are not available. we are trying our best to deal with patients tha

of the population that is been displaced, many of them have been displaced multiple times, here in raffa, where i am, there is shelters, spontaneous shelters, everywhere, people are sleeping under tarpulins, under makeshift tents, in very crowded shelters, and at the same time we're seeing this humanitarian catastrophe unfold before our eyes, we're seeing the health system collapse in a very rapid pace. casey also voiced concern about possible collapse of hospital provisions in southern and central gaza. he's a patients were risking their lives to get two hospitals in the southern city of hanjunis because of ongoing fighting. and press tv has spoken to people in kuwait about the israeli regime's ongoing genocide in the besieg. gaza strip. um, and "the situation in palestine is disastrous in all forms. i stopped watching the news because i am traumatized by what i am seeing. this is genocide, and i feel the international community is not doing anything. there should be more pressure on israel to stop this genocide of people. they are deleting and erasing gaza one block a time, destroying

the latest attacks targeted the city of raffa and the maggazi refugee camp in southern gaza. at least seven people were killed in the city of hanus. nearly 23,500 palestinians have been killed and around 60,00 wounded since october the 7th. most of the casualties are women and children. more than three months of relentless israeli air strikes and shelling have displaced almost the entire population of the besieg gaza. trap: the displaced palestinians are struggling with the lack of basic supplies. let's take a listen to some of those people who have described the terrible conditions in a refugee camp in raffa. "we lost hope, we've been listening to the news for 98 days, hoping that the war will end, but due to this difficult situation, we see no hope, especially that we don't have water nor electricity. due to the lack of water, we shower just once per month, psychologically we are suffering and the diseases have spread everywhere. it's not 100 days, it felt like 100." we weren't living during these 100 days, some are living on the streets, some are in the north and others in

the latest attacks targeted the cities of raffa,

a listen to some of the palestinians narrating horrowing living conditions in the southern city of raffa. i swear there is no safe place, there's no safe place. we were in derral balah, they told us to go to derral. we left and it's scary how it all was destroyed. we are scared for. our children, we drowned in rain water yesterday, we didn't sleep all night with rain and bombing on going above us, here we are in rafa, may this war end well and we go back to our houses, as you can see there are no places, set up the tent using nylon, we drowned all night from the rain and it was very cold, this is the hardest period of winter, i have no idea about the location of my family, i don't know anything about rafa, this is the first time i come here, i don't know where to go, i have no place to stay, i looked but did not find, the situation is very harsh, you see the weather is also rainy and cold, we can't find a place to stay, we currently have low temperatures these days in rafa, so how many families are there in rafa? rafa today is full of people, there are about 1.6 million people rafa today

them kids have been killed in an artillery strike on a residential building in the southern city of raffa. israely war planes also bombarded the vicinity of hospital in the central city of delabala. regime's bomb. campaign against gaza since october the 7th has claimed the lives of over 23,800 people so far. majority of those killed are women and children. the deathtul is in addition to tens of thousands of injured people as well as those who are still missing under the rubble of bombed out buildings. the palestinians are flocking to alanassular hospital in the city of hanyunis, southern gaza strip. they get their children vaccinated and made reports of surge and infectious diseases triggered by overcrowding and lack of proper hygiene. for the past three days, my son has been coughing with flam. i suffer whenever i see him sick, and i don't know what i can do for him. i wanted to take him to the hospital last night, but i was afraid. it is god who cures the sick. i cannot do anything. most of the classrooms of the shelter school are filthy. it is rare to see a clean classroom, the place s

rafa today is full of people, there are about 1.6 million people raffa today, can you imagine if you want to do the calculations our numbers over the space of rafa, there will be some six centimeters for each person raf, and this is what you really see, those who came this place from south. do not have places, there are no places for them at all, we do not know where we are heading. what is next? we are living in yown, and we do not know where we are heading. the un agency for palestinian refugees has slammed as utterly unacceptable, the relentless is attacks on civilian sites in conjunis. it has also urged the regime to cease its deadly war campaign immediately. persistent attacks on civilian sides in hanyunus are utterly unacceptable and must stop immediately, people are being killed and injured as fighting intensified around hospitals and shelters hosting the displaced, people are trapped inside and life saving operations are impeded. the situation in hanyunus underscores a consistent failure to uphold the fundamental principles of international humanitarian law, distinction, prop

allie raffa has the latest >> reporter: tonight, a u.s. official confirms to nbc news that the pentagon did not inform senior officials in the white house's national security council for three days that defense secretary lloyd austin had been hospitalized at walter reed medical center on new year's day the news not shared with the american public until friday, when the pentagon announced that austin was hospitalized for complications following a recent elective medical procedure and nbc news has learned the 70-year-old austin not just hospitalized, but also in the intensive care unit for at least four days, according to two senior administration officials. asked why his stay wasn't disclosed sooner, a pentagon spokesperson items nbc news, "this has been an evolving situation in which we had to consider a number of factors," adding secretary austin has been recovering well and he resumed his full duties. the pentagon declining to say what the procedure was and what complications occurred the lack of information strongly criticized >> when p

the regime has shifted his focus from gaza's devastated north to the southern cities of raffa and khan unis lately. the total deaththoll is nearing 24,500, mostly women and children. communications and internet services are completely cut off in wide areas of the gaza streb. the un agency for palestinian refugees warns a bleek post-w future for palestinians in the gaza strip. the honor chief philippe lazarini gave the warning following his fourth visit to the palestinian territories since the outbreak of the war on october 7. he said the majority of the 2.5 million residents of the besieed strip have been displaced and 60% of the buildings completely destroyed. ye added hundreds of palestinians in gaza are now living in the streets and may shift tents. the honorable chief also expressed concerns over. what he called the brutal living conditions of palestinian children. lazerini said there is a growing fears over the emergence of a generation of lost kids in gaza were deeply traumatized by war. qatar says israel and the palestinian resistance movement hamas have reached a deal to allow

we were displayed from the al shati camp and relocated to the al salam neighborhood in raffa, we took shelter in a store, we were 17 people there. suddenly frequent air strikes began, my nephew was killed and my sister and her other son were wounded and got stitches. dr. bus, um, when this genocide on gaza was unleashed, we saw lot of um voices of support if you will um on twitter, social media platforms in general, on television. um by lot of indians, how do we explain that? why why is it that there has been so much support uh despite the fact that much of the world has been speaking against um this ongoing genocide against the palestinians? well, you know, india is a country with multicultural, multi religions, you know we are, we have facing our issues internally, however when the palestine issue came out in the news, we had our government tweeting in the favor of israel, well you of people were restricted to hold protests on the ground, but there was no social media restriction, there were millions and thousands of people who came out in support irrespective of what religion they

return of something like 80 to 100 corpses to uh the gaza strip to a cemetery in the southern city of raffa. these were corpses of people whose bodies had been. stolen by the israeli military from, many of them have been stolen from the shifa hospital in the gaza, in gaza city, from other cemeteries, ostensibly because the israelis were looking for their own hostages, but we have this history of israeli organ theft, of the theft of body parts, which is well documented and admitted by for example dr. yahooda his an really state pathologist at the abu kabir institute in israel, um... "there is, there are reports even by cnn about this, dating back decades, israel is an international center of the illegal organ trade. israelis have been prosecuted in israeli courts for this, and the gaza ministry of health and euromed human rights monitor have alleged that these corpses, when they were returned to israel to be buried in a mass grave because there's no room left in the cemetaries, had body parts missing. i know personally..." judge uh from knowing the family of rachel corey who was killed by an

same level of egyptian complicity that you have today, including the genocidal blockade of ghazza at raffa crossing, without kissinger's work to subvert the powerful arab state. as secretary of state under richard nixon, kissinjo was intimately involved in saving israel in the 1973 war of attrition. fought by syria, egypt and libya against the settler entity. when the zionists suffered consecutive losses, kissinger and nixon organized for the emergency supply of weapons to the entity in a move known as operation nickel grass. the operation consisted of the us air force military airlift command delivering 22,325 tons of tanks, ammunition and military equipment over 32 days directly to. battlefield, following the war, egyptian leader anwar sadat sent a secret message to zines prime minister gold mer. when i threatened war, i meant it. when i talk of peace now, i mean it. we have never had contact before. we now have the services of dr. kissinger. let us use him and talk each other through him, asserted saddat. it was kissinger who took sadat under his wing and convinced him of the benefit of

same slogan from the river to the sea that we say from rush, grotos. is the border with lebanon to raffah, which is the southern border. this is palestine, but well saying from the river to the sea is beautiful, is not enough. this is the historical land of palestine, which is against the two state solution, so-called solution, which means the harm this nation. the united nations voted on the partition resolution of palestine, resolution 181, in which the opinion of the original. original nation of palestine was never sort and more than half of the land of palestine was granted to foreign population. at the time in 1947, the number of the israelis did not even reach 30% of the palestinian population, and after that we had the madrid conference and the oslo agreements which still emphasized the division of palestine and the creation of two states. we firmly announce that the existence of two. important that you say that the issue is not a religious issue, the issue is not the issue of the jews, because the bias press and the hegemonic media usually describe the struggle against zionism. a

meteorologist elisa raffa joining me now from the cnn weather center with the very latest. elisa, what are iowans, you know, facing likely in the next couple of days? >> we're talking about wind chills that are dangerous, that are life-threatening. officials urging people to stay home. because if you spend more than ten minutes outside, you can have frostbite. we're already finding these wind chills right now down to 22 degrees below zero in des moines with still a couple lingering snowshowers. we still have blizzard warnings in effect for a lot of northwest iowa, including des moines, up to spencer and sioux city. it is not really because we're getting that much more snow today. it is because we have all the snow on the ground. you might get another inch or two, but we still have gusts up to 45 miles per hour. it could create what we call a ground blizzard, where the blowing snow could drop visibility and make things dangerous, even if you're not seeing too much snowfall out of the sky. then we have the wind chill warning in effect through tuesday. we could find those wind

elisa raffa is joining me now. so it is tough everywhere you look. >> yeah. we were talking about a nor'easter this time last week. and three storms now. so a very active week. this is what is left of that current blizzard that we were tracking for you yesterday. it is pulling lake-effect snow across the great lakes. there are some showers left over in new england. the flood threat continues on those rivers and along the coast where those rivers are still swollen from all of the other storms that we had this week. it has been torrential downpour after downpour and you can see the coastal flood alerts where you still have some of the onshore flow. the orange is still a blizzard warning for iowa. not for additional snow, but the fresh snow on the ground will still blow around in 45-mile-per-hour gusts that we still have going on. and that could continue to drop visibility and cause dangerous driving conditions. a winter storm watch is in effect for parts of arkansas and into tennessee starting to change over to warnings as we could get a bunch of snow with all

let's go to elisa raffa in the cnn weather center. let's get started in iowa where temperatures are expected to be below freezing tomorrow for the caucuses. >> yeah, we're looking at temperatures even getting below zero, and those windchills will be 30 to 40 degrees below zero. this is a look at the current temperature and windchill right now. it is 8 degrees below zero in des moines, minus 8, with that windchill nearing minus 30. 10 degrees below zero in sioux city. again, windchills at 30 to 35 degrees below zero. that's why we have windchill warnings posted for most of the state, because this is dangerous cold. we're talking about frostbite in minutes if you spend any time outside. these are the temperatures, high temperatures for monday on caucus day. des moines looking at a high temperature of minus 4. we put also on here the departure from average to show you, yeah, iowans get cold, but this is 30 degrees colder than average for the time of year. so it is not normal to get temperatures like this, this time of year. tack on the w

elisa raffa, thank you so much. >>> all right. the u.s. has launched a second round of attacks on houthi rebels in yemen. is it enough to stop attacks in the red sea? we'll go live to the region next. >>> israeli forces continue to attack sites in gaza as its war on hamas enters its fourth month. smoke could be seen billowing from the gaza strip following the latest round of strikes. israeli forces say they attacked two sites in central gaza used by militants to fire rockets at israel. this latest attack comes as the ha hamas-run health ministry says 24,000 palestinians have been killed since the fighting began in october. the man in charge of the u.n. relief operations in gaza is describing scenes of utter horror in northern gaza. corpses left on streets and people starving. cnn's nic robertson is in tel-aviv for us. nic, these new numbers on the death toll in gaza comes as israel is denying accusations of genocide at the top u.n. court. >> reporter: yeah, and this report that you were just referencing there from martin griffith, the top

sign of abating as nearly 100 palestinians are killed on fresh air strikes in the southern city of raffa

sign of abating as nearly 100 palestinians are killed in fresh air strikes in the southern city of raffa

return of something like 80 to 100 corpses to uh the gaza strip to a cemetery in the southern city of raffaft of body parts, which is well documented and admitted by for example, dr. yahuda his, an really state pathologist at the abu kabir institute in israel, um, there is, there are reports even by cnn about this, dating back decades, israel is an international center of the illegal organ trade. israelis have been prosecuted in israeli courts for this, and the gaza ministry of health and euromed human rights monitor have alleged that the... corpses when they were returned to israel to be buried in a mass grave buse there's no room left in the cemeteries had body parts missing and i know personally judge uh from knowing the family of rachel corey who was killed by an israeli bulldozer uh while defending the home of a palestinian friend of hers in the gaza strip in i believe 2003 um they alleged that her uh parts of her body were taken by that very figure that notorious figure dr. yahooda hiss when she was her body was returned to her family so there's a history of this is very unsettling. i

>> eliasa raffa, thank you so much. jeff zeleny joins us from des moines right now. jeff, i mean obviously this is all going to come down to turnout and which candidate is doing the best job of that at this point. but you know, the weather -- i wonder if it's a wild card. you covered so many of these. what do you think? >> reporter: it is definitely a wild card. i mean, for all of the advertising, for all of the messages, the campaign stops, they're all so strategic, this is something that the campaigns have zero control over. that is not where presidential candidates like to be, so it is absolutely the biggest wild card. i've been talking to advisers in all of the campaigns, and to a person that's what they say. there is just an unknown -- this is just an unknown factor. some of the supporters of these candidates are older, and that is a challenge perhaps to get them to the polls, to the caucus sites monday night. some of them have to drive long distances, that is a challenge to get them to the caucuses on monday night. so for all the spinning going on about, oh, it

failed you, this is the awful guilt we carry, tried, but we did not try hard enough, it will go to raffa, many of us, reporters, we will stand outside the border with gaza and protest, we will write and film, this is what we do, it is not much, but it is something, he will tell your story again, maybe it will be enough, earn the right to ask for your forgiveness. thank you. france must leave mari. france is here to steal the resources of mari. france is here to colonize mali. in our tradition, if there is a broom, it means we don't want anymore, that's why we put a stop to france. the world must understand that africa's misfortune is france, the authorities, because the french are citizens like us, so we can't hate them, but we hate their authorities because they've done too much harm to our country, and really enough is enough. we have uranium, we have diamonds, we have gold, we have oil and we live like slaves, why should we until when we can't accept it, the french base in niger must leave. some 20 million, that's the estimated number of followers of the islamic movements in nigeria.

some of the latest israri attacks hit residential buildings and khan unis and deer albela as well as raffa. israel's been bombing hospital, school, supply vehicles and even un run facilities indiscriminately. according to the gaza health ministry, israely drones bombed alaxsa marters hospital on sunday and attack that targeted, as they put it, anything that moved. and some 59,00 palestinians have also been injured. since start of the israeli onslot. this place palestinians in the besieg enclave are facing hunger, thirst, disease, and more israeli bombing wherever they go. there are nearly 33 people under the rubble, including women, children, and the elderly. at 12 a.m. suddenly, as we were sleeping, rocket hit us. as you can see, no... has gotten out, they were all killed, children and women, they are under the rubble and we keep digging to get them out in front of your eyes, have look, here are their shoes, they are children, they are children, look, here are the diapers, they're all peaceful children, they're all children and here are their belongings, enough of the pain, enough of the

the city of der albala in central gaza. the israely military also carried out a missile strike on raffa in the south and shelled the jabalya refugee camp in the north. the regime has intensified its attacks in and around the refugee camps, including nasarat, al-amagazi and al-buraj. nearly 22, palestinians have been killed since the us israelity genocide began early october. 22 unfigures 90% of the... population has been displaced, despite global demands for sease fire, the israely military says the onslaught is expected to continue throughout the year. in the meantime, at least 15 israel soldiers are killed as alkassan brigades launches a retaliatory attack in gaza city. fierce fighting also continues between the al-qassan fighters and the regime forces in other parts of the gaza strip. a corresponding gaza, muti abusaba explains: "the palestinian resistance actually ramed up its operations and attacks against the israeli occupation forces on the ground, we can see that these moments and over the last couple of hours that all battle zones in gaza are witnessing uh fear's fight back aga

failed you, this is the awful guilt we carry, we tried, but we did not try hard enough, and we'll go to raffa. many of us, reporters, we will stand outside the border with gaza and protest, we will write and film, this is what we do, it is not much, but it is something, you will tell your story again, maybe it will be enough earn the right to ask for your forgiveness. thank you. in this week's show we'll be looking at south africa's momentous application to the international court of justice. in his comprehensive 84 page submission, south africa sets out the legal basis for its contention that israel is perpetrating genocide in gaza. you you have this pattern of the the west uh, obviously not just germany, but you fully expect that the british government, the u.s. government of course is... and completely dismissive of what south africa has done uh that continue this uh imperialist posture and of course it was south africa at first and it was only there for quite a while and then all of sudden a trickle other countries joined bolivia amongst them and then of course laterally bangladesh joins

let's bring in msnbc news correspondent allie raffa who is joining us with the very latest.n you tell us more what the white house is thinking about possible response, and is it too early to ask whether or not there's any reaction to some of these calls coming from capitol hill and whether or not it might shape how the u.s. responds? >> yeah. we haven't heard white house officials or president biden react to these different individual calls from lawmakers on capitol hill. we did see the president return here to the white house a short time ago from south carolina, where we know he was briefed throughout the day on the details about this attack by top administration officials. those officials including the director of national intelligence, the cia director, secretary of state defense secretary, even the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. so those high-level officials speaking to how seriously this attack is being taken by the white house, and the president and those officials no doubt are mulling over how this attack could've happened. and, really what options are on the

from the river to the sea that we say, from rush and grottos, which is the border with lebanon to raffa al rarash, which is the southern border, this is palestine, but well saying from the river to the sea is beautiful, is not enough, this is the history." historical land of palestine, which is against the two-state solution, so-called solution, which means to harm this nation, the united nations voted on the partition resolution of palestine, resolution 181, in which the opinion of the original nation of palestine was never sought, and more than half of the land of palestine was granted to foreign population. at the time in 1947, the number of the israelis did not even reach. which still emphasize the division of palestine and the creation of two states. we firmly announce that the existence of two governments in this land is not practical. what we demand as palestinian men and women and all supporters of palestine is a free palestine from the river to the sea and what we mean by the slogan from the river. is very important that you say that the issue is not a religious issue, the issu

them kids, have been killed in an artillery strike on a residential building in the southern city of raffa. israely warplanes also bombarded the vicinity of alasa hospital in the central city of deral bala. the regime's bombing campaign against gaza since october the 7th has claimed the lives of over 23,800 people so far. majority of those killed are women and children. the death does in addition to the tens of thousands of injured people as well as those who are still missing under the rubble of bombed out buildings. at of the martin luther king jr. holiday on monday, the late american civil rights leader's daughter bernice king says that her father would have opposed the bombing of gaza. king evoked her father's opposition to the war in vietnam, drawing comparisons to the war in gaza today. while my father's. said would would would honor every human being's right to exist and to live in safe environments, he would challenge any kind of militaristic approach. i mean, he told us that, war, you know, is is not the answer, what's happening to the people, you know, over in gaza, the diminishi

in raffa, at least three civilians were killed, dozens also killed after air strikes targeted homes in central gaza. the air raids hit the vicinity of a junior high school in the alparage refugee camp, wounding dozens of displaced people, and a girls high school and a clinic, and almaghazi refugee camp were also bombed. more than 22,400 palestinian. have been killed in israel's genocidal campaign so far in gaza. the united nations's human rights chief expressed concerns over comments by israely officials calling for the immigration of gaza residence and reestablishment of israeli settlements in gaza. the far right israeli minister itamar bingubir said on monday gaza's residents should be encouraged to leave their hometown. earlier israel's. finance minister had also called for the return of israeli settlers to gaza after forcing territory's population of approximately 2.4 million palestinians to leave. the un human rights chief voker turk emphasized that international law prohibits the transfer of protected persons within or deportation from an occupied territory. the european union, f

already knows how to make it, together with dressing, it’s eight working hours, this piece here is raffaause that each row is moved by hand, well, i’ll tell you that this is colossal work, it’s colossal. the amount of effort and, in general, internal resource needed to do what you do, i can’t even touch it at the level of understanding, not to mention physical interaction. with these threads with this process, so you are great for doing this, thank you very much for your experience that you tried to share with me, it was very interesting, fascinating, thank you, please, the biroginya festival has its own symbol, namely we will learn how to make it using threads. tamara ivanovna, you are a national master of belarus in making folk costumes, right? yes, everything is true, but it’s still parallel. to cut a thread somewhere, sew clothes somewhere, scissors are still needed, so cut it off, that's it, cut it off, now we take the same thread, yeah, tie it in the middle, in general, in every doll the soul of the master is put, the soul of the person who makes the doll, if it is a talisman, then

khan unis and der abal as well as locations in raffa.e launch attacks and response to israely onslot on gaza. yalkson brigades fired missiles and rockets at central and northern parts of occupied lands and israely soldier was also killed in attack in central gaz. bolivia says.

the visit yesterday in uh in karem shalom and in raffa itself was actually quite tragic. because you see yourself that uh we are struggling to catch up with the massive numbers there, we're struggling to basic services such as food, medical support, shelter and a warm sanitation system, and as a result of that and the people themselves are really struggling to get through this, and there's a the shock is actually starting to win now and people start to see themself a resignation that this is this is what we're going to have to face for some significant time. bruce katsa, co-president of palestinian and jewish unity, spoke to us earlier about the health situation in gaza, he says what israel is doing throughout the territory amounts to systemic and plan genocide. this is a systematic uh and planned uh genocide, and as matter of fact, i would go so far as to say that uh, it is nazilike. in the extent to which uh it is planned and it is systematic, it the bonming, the deprivation of uh drinking water, of food, this is a civilian population that is on the point of of famon, they've bombe

i want to bring in nbc's allie raffa, who's in wilmington, delaware. what are you hearing here about a secretary austin's condition, and when he is expected to be released from the hospital? >> yeah, yasmin, we still don't have the latest update on his condition, or when we could expect to see him released from the hospital with the defense secretary in a statement last night simply sane that he is glad to be on the mend, and he looks forward to returning to the pentagon soon. in that statement he also took full responsibility for the delay at this closure, of his hospital say. he said, quote, he could've done a better job ensuring the public was appropriately informed. he committed to doing better. yasmin, that is not tamping down the flood of criticism, and the fallout over this, with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, the media, the american public, wanting to know why this was kept a secret for so long. why it took, as you mentioned in the intro, three days before the pentagon told senior white house officials, as well as austin's own deputy def

allie raffa is following the latest for us. let's start with courtney kube, how significant is this attack on the houthi rebels here, and what does it mean for the war between israel and hamas? >> it's extremely significant, in fact, zinhle, we literally just learned moments ago there were many more locations of these targets than we originally heard, so, there were nearly 30 different locations, where the u.s. and british military struck last night, more than 60 total targets. and this really, the goal here was to degrade the houthis' ability to continue to carry out these attacks in the red sea. they've been launching drones, ballistic missiles, anti-ship cruise missiles at a pretty steady pace the past two months. the goal here, take out some of the munitions facilities, some of the launchers, thait they literally launch off these missiles and take out their ability to continue these attacks and now the more we hear about the battle damage assessment continuing, the more we hear about it we get the sense this was an enormous

in raffa, at least three civilians were killed.rikes target at homes in central gaza. the air raids hit the vicinity of a junior school in the alburage refugee camp, wounding dozens of displaced people. a girls high school and a clinic in the al-maghazi refugee camp were also bombed. more than 22,400 palestinians have been killed in israel's genocidal attacks in gaza. so far from dairal balah and gaz our correspondent muti a musabe joined us earlier for more on the latest actually attacks on gaza, the israeli attacks are still prevalent on all areas of gaza strip, however these attacks are still intensified in the central area of gaza strip uh where the latest attack uh targeted uh civil car uh claiming the lives of two palestinian civilians in addition to dozens of the palestinian injuries that attack actually was carried out by fighter drone, a couple of moments ago the israeli artillery resumed its shilling towards the palestinian residental areas here in the surrounding areas of gaza strip and actually this kind of the escalati