and again, the country's defense minister, yoav gallant, declaring a special security situation for the next 48 hours. guys, back to you and your conversations. trey before we move forward, especially with yoav, can you give me a sense of how wide ranging this might go? i mean, i know that predicting circumstances like these is a fool's errand, but at the same time, i think you have to be prepared for the absolute worst. in particular, when the iranians are basically funding and arming hezbollah. absolutely. kevin, it's a great question. and when we go back to july 30th, when this current heightened state of escalation erupted following the israeli strike in southern beirut that killed this top hezbollah commander within hours of that strike taking place, ismail haniyeh, the leader of hamas, was killed in an explosion in the iranian capital of tehran, and the iranians said there would be an immediate response against israel. those threats dragged on and ultimately israel focused their attention toward the north, because the intelligence pointed to the fact that hezbollah may actually be

israel's defence minister, yoav gallant, thanked us officials for helping israel maintain "its qualitativerity. there's been some criticism of the us supplying israel with weapons, while the war on the ground in gaza continues.

this comes as yoav gallant says overnight he talked with u.s. taken care of the fence lloyd austin. nicole -- requesting russian air defense systems as tehran promises that they will be an attack. this is also has been a very violent they allow israel's northern border with lebanon, big crossfire between the idf and has bullocks. has blessed it launched a wave of missiles and drones one of which was -- in the debris from that falling down and wounding several civilians. on the other side of the border israeli airstrikes killed at least five people in southern lebanon and what the idf said was a strike on the hezbollah weapons storage facility depot. further north in lebanon in beirut today, crowds gathered to listen to hezbollah leader -- vowing to take a strong impact for retaliation against israel running on other arab states to take a stance as well although he said it has below would act with its regional allies or it would act alone. tonight we're hearing a lot of new reports come out, we've had some new crossfire coming out of the southern strip of gaza as well as muscat notic

secretary of defense lloyd austin just spoke over the phone with israel's defense minister yoav gallant, following the israeli strikes that took place against the iran backed group hezbollah in southern lebanon. john. all right. trey yingst reporting live from israel. trey. thank you. joining us now, the director of national security law and policy program at george mason university and former chief counsel and senior advisor for the senate foreign relations committee, jameel jaffer jameel from the sounds of what trey is describing, would you suspect that much of the, you know, the fireworks, if you will, of hezbollah's attack have been blunted that that the israelis managed to, get some of these rockets before they got off the ground? well, it's hard to know. you know, hezbollah has such a huge rocket force there in the northern part, aimed at the northern part of israel and the southern part of lebanon. and so it's hard to know how much we do know that what admiral hagari has indicated was they hit about 70 targets inside of lebanon, killing about 20 fighters, hezbollah fighters in th

after speaking with yoav gallant, analysts noted that it was rare for the pentagon to publicly announcene. axius, new israely intelligence suggests iran prepares to. attack israel within these sources, the israeli intelligence community's updated assessment is that iran is pois to attack israel directly in retaliation for the assassination of hamasa's political leader in tehran and is likely to do it within days to sources with direct knowledge of the issue told axius. over the last week, israely intelligence thought iran hadn't yet decided on the timing and nature of its response and that international pressure and internal debates could push. irans leader ayatollah ali khamenei towards postponing, restraining or minimizing the retaliation against israel, and thank you for joining us in this section, please do stay tuned for the main narrative. as the countdown begins and the spector of an inevitable confrontation between tel aviv and tehran draws near, one pressing question emerges: what will be the repercussions for both sides, the region and the world at large, and will the regime e

i think the key individual that former prime minister is really directing this toward is yoav gallantfense, former chief of the idf. i think it is getting close for time for him to step away. the point is well taken. won't that simply play into the hands of the right wing? i don't think so. we won't know, katy, until the knesset comes back from its break, probably toward the end of september. so we've got a month to continue to watch this bubble. >> all right. thank you very much. i really appreciate it. we'll watch and see what happens next. >>> coming up, how the high costs of everyday living may impact voters' choices, especially in critical swing states like wisconsin. you're watching msnbc. sconsin. you're watching msnbc. (aaron) i own a lot of businesses... so my tech and my network need to keep up. thank you, verizon business. (kevin) now our businesses get fast and reliable internet from the same network that powers our phones. (aaron) so whatever's next... we're cooking with fire. (vo) switch to the partner businesses rely on. [introspective music] recipes. recipes that are m

blinken is also expected to speak with defense minister yoav gallant later today, netanyahu says, israel will not give in to demands to end the war in gaza. as a condition for a deal, and hamas claims netanyahu is obstructing a possible agreement. cnn international diplomatic editor, nic robertson joins us live now from tel aviv. good to see you. >> nic we're hearing accusations now, both from prime minister netanyahu and from hamas. each side accusing each other of trying to of creating obstacles for a deal. but we're also hearing from reports that senior members of the israeli defense establishment are also accusing netanyahu of throwing up obstacles to a peace deal. what is your reporting saying about that? >> yeah and we've also heard from the prime minister netanyahu sort of key negotiating officials there had of mossad, the head of shin bet the head of the intelligence around the whereabouts of the hostages they also have told prime minister netanyahu that now is the time to go for a deal but the prime minister is resistant and most people here analyze that being because that is wh

he opposes the deal, and he blamed the army of the israeli defense minister, yoav gallant for what happened. according to bengvir, the army is too soft on the palestinian arabs and the settlers have to take justice into their own hands, although he condemned the extremism of the pogromists. sergey pashkov, alexander ivanyuk, anastasia demyanets, news israel. new strikes hit the city of al-zawaida, which is located in the central part of the palestinian enclave, as a result of the air strike of the sahal air force, 18 people were killed here. a well-known businessman in the area lived in this house, after the outbreak of hostilities he helped people as much as he could, handing out food for free. almost fifty refugees found shelter in his house, and many of them died today. in the south of the gaza strip , the israeli army continues to conduct a ground operation. near the eastern neighborhoods of hanyounis, where a week ago there was the humanitarian zone designated by the israelis themselves is now a war zone again , and tens of thousands of refugees need to find a safe place again. first w

well, look, the um judge that issued the request for arrest warrants for yoav gallant, the israeli defense secretary. and for benjamin netanyahu, the prime minister, uh, he talked about this, yeah, karim khan, casey, talked about extermination, he talked about rape, he talked about torture, um, and this is gives you an idea of the seriousness of these crimes, i mean, i'd be quite frank with you, i'm quite pleased to see, i think there's been a bit of a change of direction from britain pushing back against this with the previous conservative risy sunak, the man from goldman sacks as prime minister, we seem to have a bit of a change with the new foreign secretary, of course david cameron was never elected when he was foreign secretary and he was very supportive of the israelies, but we seem to have a bit of pushback now, thank goodness, so the action that's being taken in london by these ngos is actually very, it's taken a while to gather the evidence slowly. bit surely, but it's quite clear uh that the extermination and genocide is going on and these arrest warrants make things very difficu

benny gance and yoav gallant three months ago said they do not, they want in fact uh benny gant said he's going to resign from the war cabinet and he did on i think it was june 7th or 6th, he said if in a day the uh netanyahu and his cabinet do not give a comprehensive post war plan on how they're going to get out of gaza, he's going to resign, they didn't give him a plan to leave, he resigns, there are people within the cabinet that do not not the cabinet. in uh the uh the apparatus, the government there in in tel aviv that do not want to stay in gaza, why does this cabinet want to stay in gaza? well, eventually the war is going to end and the way to end the war is very important to netanyahu and his government. if he ended today with this deal and agreed to cease fire, it means it means that he's admitting the victory for the palestinian resistance and his - you know defeat and this this will be the second defeat after the first one on the 7th of october and now this the end of this war after 10 months without achieving any of his goals in this war to end the palestinian resistance

now the bus stop, when the when this came to a vote was with his defense minister, yoav gallant, who said, look, you just don't need to push this issue. if you push this issue right now than hamas is not going to go with it after six weeks of a truce to get the hostages out, then you could just put the troops back in. there is essentially what he was saying and his comments really showed the gap between him and the prime minister. he said this is being essentially micromanaged by the prime minister. it's the prime minister who put forward and has forced on everyone his map of where the troops should be along that border. he is dictating the terms of how they negotiate she so should go. i'm one of his top negotiators, david barnea, the head of mossad, head of israel's intelligence, who's doing the actual negotiating here? even he said he didn't see the point in having a vote at the cabinet over this on thursday night. so those tensions within the government and they're the signals from society the protests that you're seeing on the streets in tel aviv that want netanyahu right now to

blinken will meet separately with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and defense minister yoav gallant. >> later today netanyahu says, israel will not give into demands to end the war in gaza as a condition for a deal and hamas claims netanyahu is obstructing a possible agreement in gaza. hospital officials say an israeli strike on sunday killed six children and their mother and injured their father. since the start of the war last october, more than 40,000 palestinians have been killed. and much gaza has been reduced to rubble journalist elliott gotkine joins us live now from london with more on the ceasefire talks and blinken's mission. good morning to elliott. so us officials remain optimistic. a deal can be reached, but say this may be the last chance obstacles remain. of course, where do these negotiations stand right now? and what are the main sticking points rosemary, right now, the negotiations stand where they have stood for the past nine months of on and off talks ever since the last one and only ceasefire collapsed at the end of november. >> but certainly the pressure on bot

israel's defense minister yoav gallant thanked us officials for "critical force buildup initiatives thatt israel "in developing and maintaining its qualitative military edge "in the region." adding, "as we fight to defend israel on seven different "fronts, your message of support and commitment "to israel's security, are clear." there's been some criticism of the us supplying israel with weapons, including from members of congress from mr blinken�*s own democratic party meanwhile, world leaders are scrambling to de—escalate tensions between israel and iran. tehran are vowing revenge for recent israeli assassinations of iran—back militant leaders, and officials have told the reuters news agency only a ceasefire in gaza will make it back down. more on those peace efforts in a moment. but as they continue, so does the war in gaza. israel claims to have killed around 100 hamas fighters in recent days, while palestinian medics say 19 people were killed in israeli air strikes tuesday. four—day—old twins, their mother and grandmother are reported to be among those killed. 0ur middle east corres

statement on a call between the us defence secretary lloyd austin and his israeli counterpart, yoav gallant, described the rocket fire as an "iran—aligned militia attack on us forces", marking what the two defined "a dangerous escalation". joining me is mark cancian, senior adviser with the center for strategic and international studies. always very good to see you, mark, thank you for taking the time to join us here. we will talk a little bit more about that meeting and that call, i should say, with the us defence secretary and his israeli counterpart, but firstly i wanted to get your reaction to the news of yahya sinwar becoming the full leader, politicaland yahya sinwar becoming the full leader, political and military, yahya sinwar becoming the full leader, politicaland military, of hamas. and what you think this means for the war. do you think itjust became more dangerous? i for the war. do you think it “ust became more dangerous? i think it did. he is became more dangerous? i think it did- he is a — became more dangerous? i think it did- he is a very — became more dangerous? i think it

israeli government in terms of, you have these disagreements within the team at the top, we've had yoav gallantertain things about criticising this aim of total victory as being nonsense, as benjamin netanyahu saying that that is what he is after, total victory. it is so complicated, isn't it, in terms of that side of things, the political situation at the top in israel. ., , , israel. nothing quite focuses the mind like a _ israel. nothing quite focuses the mind like a gun _ israel. nothing quite focuses the mind like a gun at _ israel. nothing quite focuses the mind like a gun at your- israel. nothing quite focuses the mind like a gun at your head, . israel. nothing quite focuses the | mind like a gun at your head, and there was a gun at the head of netting out right now. the only way that iran, the western nations have said to them stand down, in terms of retaliation for those twin assassinations, they can only save face if they say that the have forced neto put�*s can't and does know a ceasefire. i have confidence, what gives me hope is the people of the region, israel is a democracy cleare

israel's defence minister, yoav gallant, thanked us officials for helping israel maintain "its qualitativeitary edge in the region" and the us commitment to israel's security. there's been some criticism of the us supplying israel with weapons, while the war on the ground in gaza continues. meanwhile, hamas has fired two rockets at israel's largest city, tel aviv. hamas released footage of what it says shows the rockets being launched towards the city. explosions were heard there but there were no casualties reported. it comes as world leaders scramble to de—escalate tensions, iran and hezbollah — are vowing to avenge last month's killings of the hamas political leader, ismail haniyeh, and a top hezbollah commander. more on those peace efforts in a moment. but as they continue, so does the war in gaza. israel claims to have killed around 100 hamas fighters in rafah in southern gaza in recent days, and palestinian medics saying 19 people where killed in israeli air strikes on tuesday, with four—day—old twins, their mother and grandmother reported to be among the dead. lucy williamson has mo

and tonight, secretary of defence lloyd austin spoke with his israeli counterpart yoav gallant to reiteraterrespondent in tel aviv, jenny hill, has more. israel remains in a state of high alert. but political and military leaders continuing to insist that this country is ready for any eventuality, trying to reassure citizens that that is the case. benjamin netanyahu is warning that anyone who attacks his country will pay a heavy price. in the meantime, international diplomatic efforts to defuse the situation are continuing. you can roughly divide them into three. the first — attempts to get at iran to temper its planned attack. it's widely assumed that iran is planning a coordinated attack on israel along with some, if not all of its regional proxies. the second prong is to try to mitigate the damage done by such an attack, and that is why you are seeing the us send in extra warships, extra fighter jets to the region. and the third effort is to try to persuade israel to mitigate, to temper its own response to whatever form that attack takes. all of this is happening as analysts look on and

hearing from israeli military chiefs, they are saying it in public, even the defence minister, yoav gallantittee last week that the idea of total military victory espoused by prime minister netanyahu, although he did not make that clear, is nonsense. also, there are conflicting goals, gordon, as security correspondent you can square the circle. if on the one hand you are committed to completely destroying your partner, your negotiating partner, sorry, wrong word, negotiating rival, at the same time as going into a negotiation, those are completely conflicting goals and both hamas and israel have vowed to destroy the other. exactly and so, if you have got that | problem that neither side will trustj the other because each side will think that, actually, - a deal might be just a pause before they resume attacks, _ if you are israel, you think, if we don't destroy hamas,| they willjust launch another 7th of october. _ and if you are hamas, you think, well israel is committed - to destroying us, a deal is quite dangerous for us. _ but the realities of pressure can sometimes still overcome that

israel's defense minister yoav gallant thanked us officials for "critical force buildup initiatives that commitment "to israel's security, are clear." there's been some criticism of the us supplying israel

he opposes the deal, and he blamed the army, israel's defense minister yoav gallant, for what happenedta. according to bengvir, the army is too... as palestinian arabs and settlers have to take justice into their own hands, although he condemned the extremism of the pogromists. sergei pashkov, alexander ivanyuk, anastasia demyanets, vesti israel. in the south of the gaza strip, renewed violence continues early this week, the active phase of the israeli army's ground military operation. because of this, the humanitarian zone east of hanyounis, the largest city in the southern palestinian enclave, was significantly reduced, and a thousand. the solution for our salvation, a peaceful resolution of the conflict in the gaza strip was once again attempted at the talks in qatar, the hamas delegation refused to participate in this meeting, but it took place anyway. in addition to israel , representatives from the united states, egypt and qatar took part in it. following the two-day consultations a joint statement of the parties was released to the press, which contained only abstract formulatio

statement on a call between the us defence secretary lloyd austin and his israeli counterpart, yoav gallant we will talk a little bit more about that meeting and that call, i should say, with the us defence secretary and his israeli counterpart, but firstly i wanted to get your reaction to the news of yahya sinwar becoming the full leader, politicaland

and by the way, yoav gallant is not on the left in israeli politics.ld around netanyahu. i am hopeful of that. and your point, joe, that all of this will put pressure, that hopefully can help us at the negotiating table is crucial. hey, final thought back to ukraine for one second. something you said. i just want to draw a line under it. yes, team biden has handled this well. you know who else has? the europeans, our allies. they have put more money into than we have. they are more faithful to this. and they led the way on taking the shackles off the ukrainians, letting them use long-range uk missiles, french missiles. so above all, for me, as a former nato commander, i look at what's happening in ukraine through the prism of allied operations. pretty good. and frankly, that ought to worry us when we talk about team trump coming in here, who is so skeptical of our alliance systems. >> exactly. finally, i want to turn your attention to -- and i'm sure you saw this, a piece by ambassador rahm emanuel, and i'll quote the headline, the navy is breaking dow

he is against the deal and he blamed the army of the israeli defense minister yoav gallant for what happenedaccording to the version. what is the fault of women? find a solution for our salvation. they tried to resolve the conflict in the gaza strip peacefully once again at the negotiations in katora. the hamas delegation refused to participate in this meeting, but it took place anyway. in addition to israel, it was attended by participation of representatives from the united states, egypt and qatar. following two days of consultations , a joint statement was issued for the press by the parties, which contained only abstract formulations that the negotiations were constructive and took place in a positive atmosphere. the us president hastened to declare that the signing of the gaza ceasefire agreement is closer than ever, while biden does not know the timing of the ceasefire. i am optimistic, this is far from the end, a couple more questions, and i think we have a chance. now you are more optimistic than in the past months. when will the ceasefire begin, if you manage to reach an agreement?

now we're seeing these divisions play out in realtime we just saw yoav gallant, this is in a closed session of the can i nece-- -- benjamin netani that was an anti-israel position we're seeing drama in officialdom as well. >>> in a presidential race too close to call, democrats are spending to convince americans living abroad to vote this election season. i want to bring in nbc news white house correspondent monica alba so how many voters are there potentially out there, outside the u.s. . >> well, there are more than 9 million americans living outside of the u.s. right now, chris, and so the democratic national committee is hoping to reach a percentage of them and ideally, a large one. right now, only 8% of those voters are actually registered to vote in this election and we're talking about people who might be living abroad because of their work, but who are u.s. citizens. we're talking about students who might be studying abroad or military members who are posted overseas as well so the dnc is making this new record investment a six-figure buy to reach those people, to up that registrati

these days and days of increased tension and here on the ground the country's defense minuter is, yoav gallantve conversation with allies specifically the united states. this is a look at at map of the current naval assets that the u.s. has in the middle east. this as gallant says overnight he talked with u.s. secretary of defense lloyd austin as the two countries discuss security. now it comes as iran according to state media there is requesting russian air defense systems as tehran promises that there will be an attack. now we've also seen a very violent day along israel's northern border with lebanon amid crossfire between the idf and hezbollah. so hezbollah says it launched a wave of missiles and drones, one of which was intersented by the iidf the debris fell down and wounding self civilians. on the other side of the border five people were killed was idf says was hezbollah storage facility depots. further north in beirut, crowds gathered to listen to hezbollah leader nasrallah, who vowed strong retaliation against israel. calling on neighboring arab states to take a stand, that they woul

also today, defense minister yoav gallant said returning israeli citizens to their homes along the lebanesere fighting with hezbollah continues just yesterday, rescued hostage qaid farhan alkadi returned to his village home near rahat. >> i feel 100 percent, and next to you another 200 percent do everything you can, if it's demonstrations, everything to bring the people home from this side to the other, and from the other side to bring them back as well. for me they are all human beings, no matter what. amna: his return is bittersweet. israel has said his bedouin arab village was built without permits and has plans to demolish 70 percent of homes there. alkadi's home has not received a demolition notice. for perspective on israel's operation in the west bank returned to stephen erlanger. he previously met with the islamic jihad leader israeli forces killed today. these forces have been trying to kill mohammed jabber for a long time. they thought they got done so back in april and emerged alive three days later to cult status among people there for surviving . who was mohammed jabber, and wh

defense minister yoav gallant in israel came to the u.s.pons package, saying it is going to help israel keep its military edge in the region, this is a roughly $20 billion package that would include f-18 fighter jets as well as military equipment, but this is not a short-term fix. the current tensions in the middle east are not yet going to go away because of this. the pentagon says the jets likely won't be delivered for several years. but today, u.s. officials and leaders from around the world are making last ditch efforts to ensure stops take place tomorrow in delhi. the goal is and that cease-fire it would deter iran from attacking israel and also bring an end to the war in gaza. the death toll near 40,000 people who have been killed. among the dead today, one man who said he left his newborn twin babies with his wife to pick up their birth certificates come only to return to find out the twins, his wife, and his mother-in-law all had been killed in an attack appeared the israeli air force says that in the last 40 -- in the last day, a t

a direct conversation between secretary of defense lloyd austin and israel's defense minister yoav gallant. and it gives you a sense of the coordination that is currently taking place. and remember, there are so many american assets in the region, and they serve two purposes. one purpose is to send a message of deterrence to hezbollah. but it appears that message actually wasn't received because the group was preparing to launch a massive strike against israel. and the second message is that the united states will stand by israel if it is attacked by iran or its proxies, including hezbollah or other proxies across the region, whether it be in yemen with the iran backed houthis or from gaza and the west bank with iran backed groups there, or these iran backed iraqi and syrian shia militias. and so there are a variety of threats that israel is facing. and the american presence in the region will likely stay for the days and weeks ahead to continue to maintain this posture and deter any further action against israel. kevin. tray, stay with us. i want to welcome chanley painter into the conver

foreign policy analyst barak ravid reports that according to a source israeli defense minister yoav gallant told us defense secretary lloyd austin that iranian military preparations suggest iran is preparing for a large scale attack. austin has now ordered a guided missile submarine to the middle east with the announcement seen as a message of deterrence to iran and its proxies the u.s. is also accelerating the arrival of a carrier strike group as concerns over a wider conflict grow gaza ceasefire he talks are due to take place later this week. and cnn's paula hancocks is following developments for us. she joins me now live from london. good morning to you, paula. so what preparations are underway? the region for a potential retaliatory strike from iran and its allies on israel. and what is expected well, rosemary, we have been seeing some movements on the u.s. side is as you mentioned, there, some fairly significant movement. the fact that they have decided that threw the pentagon to move the uss georgia, which is a guided guided missile submarine to the middle east. now this is a nuclear-

foreign policy analyst barak ravid, reports that according to a source, israeli defense minister yoav gallant told austin that iran appears to be preparing for a large scale attack tensions were only heightened sunday night after israel says about 30 rockets were launched from lebanon the israel defense forces says some fell into open areas and no injuries were reported. all this comes ahead of gaza ceasefire talks due to take place. this week cnn's paula hancocks is following developments. she joins us now live from london. good morning to you, paula. so what preparations are underway in the region for a bit? potential retaliatory strike from iran and its proxies on israel. and what's expected well, rosemary, we've certainly been seeing some military preparations from the u.s. >> side, the pentagon announcing that it does have the uss georgia are guided missile submarine that is going to be deployed in the waters so of the middle east, this is an unusual announcement from the pentagon. this is a nuclear powered submarine which is armed with cruise missiles and the location of these kind of s

the secretary of defense, lloyd austin spoke a little bit ago with his israeli counterpart, yoav gallant, and he told him that the u.s. would be keeping its carrier strikes these two carrier groups in the region for some of this deterrence. now, earlier this month, they put a number of u.s. assets into the region for this show of force to try to deter any response from hezbollah, as well as iran to the killing of a hezbollah and hamas commander earlier this month they have put these forces in place to try to stop any sort of massive escalation. now, overnight we saw a little bit of that escalation and it is clear the u.s. is not prepared to back down and say that this is the extent of what we're going to be seeing now at the same time that this is taking place. there are also those high stakes talks happening in cairo to try to bring a ceasefire and hostage deal to the finish line in gaza. now the u.s had its delegation there. hamas also sent a delegation. so that is a bit of a promising sign, but we have not heard any sort of outcome in any sort of sense at this talk has actually made i

gaza strip to get a ceasefire agreements so that it can focus on the north as defense minister, yoav gallantdeed the cutting in recent days, of course, at the same time, yahya sinwar, the leader of hamas, the architects of the october the seventh terrorist attacks. may, according to some observers, have been playing a waiting game to see if hezbollah strikes on israel to say nothing of iran's plan retaliation for the assassination of a smile nia in tehran on july the 31st, may actually drag israel into a wider war. so in that respect, any escalation in the north or with iran could the reaction of israel and hamas are almost kind of misaligned. but if we focus back on the talks, as you say, kim still why differences between them? not just between israel and hamas, but also between israel and one of the key mediators, egypt and egyptian official telling israel that israel, after israel submitted a new proposal on thursday regarding the so-called philadelphia corridor, the 14 kilometer a strip of land that's effectively the border between gaza and egypt. egypt saying that decreased israeli pres

those talks thursday, i just want you to follow up on this news that israel's defense minister, yoav gallant, actually had a phone conversation with us defense secretary lloyd austin earlier today reporting israeli intelligence that they now believe that iran is planning a major military assault on where we are hearing israel within the next few days. >> and that would absolutely bring if it was a massive assault, it would absolutely bring response from israel and that would bring a whole new dynamic if that were to happen, no one will be talking about peace talks around gaza on thursday, the diplomatic efforts would be seen to have failed. then the question would be is just how quickly he would this spread and how bad would it be again, this is intelligence assessments you have to read them in the context that this is a very, very tense moment, but also there is some diplomacy still in play. >> see how they diplomacy works out. just a little while ago. another development, and this is raising a lot of concern as well. we learned that pro iranian militias in iraq, pro iranian militias in ira

more do you know it's no secret that prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his defense minister yoav gallant loathe each other. >> you may recall that netanyahu tried to sacked gallant when he calls for a pause in the judicial overhaul plans. several sorry, last year, and then unset him when they were protests about it. so there's no secret that they loathe each other. and i don't think it's it's really been a secret that they had different views on how to approach the situation of the hostages in terms of the defense establishment being more in favor of signing up to a ceasefire agreement. and prime minister benjamin netanyahu been more reticent. what rarely seems to be at the nub of this spat, which has been transcribed almost by cnn affiliate to israel channel 12 and others in the israeli media is over the so-called philadelphi corridor. this is the 14 kilometer or so border strip of land between the southern part of the gaza strip and egypt, prime minister netanyahu is insisting and he even brought it to a vote that israeli troops stay in that area come what may go on effectively saying

conflict more broadly in the region we heard yesterday from israel's defense defense minister, yoav gallant, addressing this potential retaliation by iran. he said that they are looking at preparing very strongly in defense on land and in the ad that they are ready to move quickly, we've also heard from the israeli military's chief spokesman, admiral daniel hagari. he said that they are preparing for any emerging threat, but of course, this is also a huge concern for members of the international community, namely at the united states. as you heard there from secretary state antony blinken, we know that by it didn't is preparing to meet with national security officials in the situation room later today in the afternoon before that, he will be speaking to the king of jordan, a key hello in the region, but also a key mediator over the course of the ongoing ceasefire talks. and of course, communications with the palestinian authority we've now yesterday that the jordanian foreign minister was also into ron meeting with officials there to discuss the regional situation. of course, the u.s. has b

he who plays with fire may expect destruction that was from yoav gallant, the israeli defense minister. so for now it's just the war of words. it's escalating. but certainly president macron, in a conversation with the new iranian president, was saying that look, retaliation needs to be taken off the table. we had kind of mixed words from the president saying that if the west wants to prevent a war, than it should focus on getting a ceasefire. but then you have the mission to the united nations from iran saying that punishment is coming and we've seen stuff from, for example, hezbollah leader nasrallah posting on twitter, you know, maybe tonight, maybe tomorrow, maybe in a weekend that making israel weight as part of the punishment. so still very much on edge, a retaliation is expected. what form that will take, how large it will be and what response from israel that will engender we really just don't know. >> elliott. thank you. we'll be watching for some we're also watching russian forces trying to repel ukraine's largest incursion so far in more than two years of war. now, russian o

honestly saying that prime minister netanyahu time and again has sabotaging thoughts and like i said yoav gallantncy that it is nonsense to think that we can have a complete military victory in gaza, and of course that provoked criticism from prime minister and that the thiago, accusing of being anti—is really, so the tensions are mounting on all fronts and president biden, the qataris said they would do everything possible to make sure my or is there because at the end of the day, ben, it is the long—suffering people of gaza, we are about to see the figure of dead reach of 40,000 any day now, and also for the families of hostages, long—suffering families of the hostages whose loved ones, the longer this goes on, the less chance that they will come home alive. every day things are happening that is a level of violence and pain and suffering, it is terrible to say, but it is almost become normalised, not one day goes by without more people dying in gaza.— people dying in gaza. sobering thou~ht, people dying in gaza. sobering thought. at — people dying in gaza. sobering thought, at or _ people dyin

it's not a, it's not a done deal we've had a tweet today from yoav gallant, the defense minister here saying, thank you to secretary of defense lloyd austin. thank you to segura state antony blinken for advancing this process saying that this will allow israel to develop its military going forward. and i think the line to me in his tweet the defense minister is ready, fence ministers tweet there was smoke significantly said this is a clear signal that the united states supports israel there's an element given the tensions has had with prime minister netanyahu this week, that that's also a message for his own prime minister that the united states is sending a clear signal of support some reciprocity tree could be in the offing, but look this is a long, long slow tortured process. don't expect anything fast. >> yeah, an important signal to israel and to iran at this delicate, very delicate moment right now all right, nick, thank you very much. mj lee. thanks to you at the white house as well. i want to get some more on all of this joining us now, the former state department middle east

foreign policy analyst barak ravid reports that according to a source, israeli defense minister yoav gallant told austin that iran appears to be preparing for a large-scale attack. and this will come days ahead of gaza ceasefire talks due to take place. this week in a joint statement, leaders of france, germany, and the uk are endorsing calls from mediators urging israel and hamas to accept a ceasefire and hostage deal. concern that a wider regional conflict could break out. cnn's paula hancocks is joining me here following developments and pull let's first talk about that missile submarine. it's quite unusual move for the pentagon to be so public in its arrival to the region. so what's the strategy here? >> absolutely. i mean, the very nature of these submarines is that they are below the water. you're not supposed to know where they are and they have the element of surprise. the fact that this has been announced so publicly shows that the main purpose of it being there is for a sign of deterrence to iran. the fact that this has been publicized that shows that it is a very clear message to

anecdote to answer your question yesterday, secretary blinken calls the israeli ministry of defense, yoav gallante things that blinken tells him, it doesn't look hizballah or iran or both. might attack you in the next few days it's important that you will not retaliate or respond in a way that will further escalate the situation and prevent us from getting to this hostage deal. so the u.s pressure is not only on iran kids balla to prevent them from retaliating, it's also on israel in case that if iran do retaliate that, israel will somehow maintained the most restraint possible in order not to harm those this summit on thursday so bottom line, number rock, do you think israel is about to enter a much wider scale war with both iran and hezbollah i think this is i think this is why this week is so dramatic and so sensitive and so dangerous because things can go either way we can see a scenario and we can definitely see a path that you can get to thursday and you get a major breakthrough in the hostages and ceasefire negotiations. >> but you can also we'll see a path where hezbollah or iran, are bot

. >> barak ravid is now reporting that israel's defense minister yoav gallant, spoke with us defense secretary lloyd austin earlier today, warning that iran is preparing to launch a large-scale attack against israel, citing a source familiar here with the call, cnn's diplomatic editor, nic robertson is joining me here in tel aviv right now. so what could this mean? i mean, obviously iran launches a full scale attack against israel. that's the beginning of a new war as the worst-case scenario. this is what all the diplomacy over the past week has been about to avoid. it had seemed until this point that iran was contemplating a lesser strike something calculated within the rules of international law not to hit civilians. to strike at military targets the same way they did, did an israel in april, that wouldn't trigger israel into a region hello response to that. but if there's buildup is as brak ravid is hearing from his sources, then that calls into question and perhaps his why the intelligence assessment that israel is having at the moment that there could be a strike by iran or hezb

israeli defense minister yoav gallant visited the area in southern gaza today and shared this message with troops. >> the most important thing, in my view and as a perception is to remember the goals of war are and to meet all the goals of war regarding. hamas as well as regarding the hostages and to now look to the north. >> we understand why the next round of talks is set to resume thursday in cairo, egypt. but at the moment there really aren't any signs of overt optimism coming from mediators that a cease fire deal will get done this week. >> tracy, jeff, paul, jeff, thank you. vice presidential nominee tim walz and the dnc spotlight tonight. also in the spotlight, his military service and record as governor. fox news tonight will dig into it with our minnesota voter panel. they are next. >> thank you for watching. >> someone with a wings. do you have subscriptions that are forgotten or even hidden? >> you know, you need to exercise now. experience shows you your subscriptions in one place, mostly accurate. >> then you could save money by easily canceling the ones you don't want. >