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A humanitarian crisis is underway in Gaza as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians flee from the territory’s north to the south, heeding the Israeli military’s warnings to evacuate before an anticipated ground invasion.
Twenty-nine Americans have been killed, the State Department said Saturday. Fifteen U.S. citizens are unaccounted-for, as well as one lawful permanent resident. Israel called up more than 300,000 reservists after Hamas’ unprecedented terror attack on the country, which killed more than 1,300 people in Israel. Israel’s military said it is preparing for a ground offensive into Gaza.
Her brother-in-law Ohad Harel now says her family believes she is among the Israeli hostages and they are desperately pleading for her return.Joshua Davidson, a senior rabbi at Temple Emanu-el in New York City, today described Israel’s attacks on the Gaza Strip as a “necessary act of self defense.” In prepared remarks to the 2023 International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference in San Diego, Wray said the Hamas attacks and the subsequent war may be inspiring threats and hatred."In this heightened environment, there’s no question we’re seeing an increase in reported threats, and we have to be on the lookout, especially for lone actors who may take inspiration from recent events to commit violence of their own," the FBI director said in the prepared version of his words.
The video shows the family seated and scared as men armed with semi-automatic weapons walk around their house and ask the adults for their IDs while speaking in English. The U.S. assessments, based partly on Israeli intelligence, included information that Hamas appeared ready to ratchet up its rocket attacks on Israel and a broader threat of more violence by the Palestinian militants, the sources said.
At an event at Georgetown University in February, CIA Director William Burns expressed concern about the climate in the Middle East and the potential for an eruption of violence between Israel and Palestinian militants.that “in the conversations I had with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, ... it left me quite concerned about the prospects for even greater fragility and even greater violence between Israelis and Palestinians, as well.
The spokesperson said the department was also aware of 15 U.S. citizens who are unaccounted for, as well as one lawful permanent resident. “I immediately knew something horrible was in the process of happening or about to happen,” she said. In Houston, there were well over 1,000 protesters about an hour into a demonstration this afternoon. Some held posters saying “Stand With Gaza,” “Occupation is a Crime” and “Free Palestine.”
The organization said health facilities in northern Gaza are receiving an influx of patients and"are struggling to operate beyond maximum capacity." Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin visited Israel this week and reaffirmed U.S. support for its right to defend itself.
At an encampment in northern Israel, NBC News met troops born in Florida, New York and Pennsylvania who had joined the Israel Defense Forces. “We have a lot of rockets above us and no place is safe in Gaza right now,” he said, adding, “There is a lot of people still here like us because there is no safe ground. They kill a lot of people.”
"They quickly rushed to the border to be there on time and were turned away because the agents at the border never received the OK to open it," Shamiss said. There is notably increased activity in this region compared to yesterday, including more checkpoints on the roads. Many roads are now blocked off.
“The level and magnitude of the ongoing bombardment is unprecedented. Whole blocks were wiped out,” he said. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is visiting Arab nations in an effort to prevent the Israel-Hamas war from expanding. "The Israeli occupation forces daily threaten to evacuate hospitals in the Gaza Strip, which is a clear threat to the lives of hundreds of sick and wounded people, including Al-Durrah Hospital for Children, which was evacuated yesterday after being bombed with internationally banned white phosphorus bombs, and before that, Beit Hanoun Hospital, which also stopped working as a result of the Israeli bombing," Al-Kaila said.
“It will take months before we can say how this will happen, but Hamas will not rule Gaza,” Tzachi Hanegbi said. While dead bodies are not as valuable to Hamas as live hostages, the group has been known to use dead Israelis as bargaining chips. Before Saturday's attack, Hamas was holding the bodies of two Israeli soldiers killed in 2014.Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud told U.S.
"Wang reiterated that China opposes all acts that harm civilians and condemns all practices that violate international law," Chinese Embassy Spokesperson Liu Pengyu posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, adding that"safeguarding one’s security cannot be realized at the expense of harming innocent civilians."NEAR ISRAEL-LEBANON BORDER — The Israeli military is preparing for a potential second front in the war on the Israel-Lebanon border — this one with Hezbollah.
The group announced nine deaths today that occurred during the past 24 hours following Israeli airstrikes. Yesterday, 13 hostages were killed, mostly in Gaza, following airstrikes, according to the Qassam Brigades. This includes at least four foreigners.JERUSALEM- Jerusalem this afternoon seems quieter than usual. Few places are open. Even fewer people are walking the streets in the golden light. The mood is somber.
Up the road, a young woman is bathing in the fading light. She’s a USAID worker. She arrived here a month ago, but her work changed overnight. “I’m here to stay,” she says. She adds that the mood in Jerusalem has changed. The morale is low. The streets, she says, are empty. She only walks the 200 meters road up from the hotel every day to her sunny spot. More than that, doesn’t feel safe.
Israel’s military said that it was striking Lebanon after coming under fire from Hezbollah. Chebaa Farms was captured by Israel from Syria during the 1967 Mideast war, but Lebanon considers it and the nearby Kfar Chouba hills as Lebanese territories.
Lauren Freedman, 62, has lived in Israel for 31 years and said that both Israeli and Palestinians just want to live normal lives. "We have informed U.S. citizens in Gaza with whom we are in contact that if they assess it to be safe, they may wish to move closer to the Rafah border crossing," the spokesperson said, adding that"there may be very little notice if the crossing opens and it may only open for a limited time."The State Department has updated its travel advisory for Israel to authorize the departure of non-emergency U.S. government personnel working at the embassy in Jerusalem and U.S.
“I don’t normally come to protests, but I was moved by the horror unfolding in Gaza,” said Ben Stoll, 26, a doctoral student at London’s Royal Holloway University, who has family living in Israel.“The declaration of a total siege on Gaza is a war crime, and needs to be called out as such by our political leaders,” Stoll added.
“There’s no shelters. They cut off the water. All the bathrooms are closed," said Salma Shurrah, a 22-year-old dental student."They cut off the Internet. They bombed all the Internet places in Gaza. So the Internet connection is very poor and it’s very bad. That means the truth is not coming out as it should be here."
Born in a Gaza refugee camp in the early 1960s to parents displaced from their homes in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, he rose through the ranks of Hamas as an internal enforcer with a reputation for brutality. Okal, a mother of three who returned to Gaza for the first time in nine years to visit family, said that she was scared that officials would not let her newborn son, Elias, pass into Egypt as he does not yet have a passport. She delivered him unexpectedly early in Gaza due to a medical emergency and was in the process of booking passport appointments in Tel Aviv when the war broke out, she said.
Despite Israel’s heavy bombardment of Gaza, Hamas is still managing to launch rockets into Israeli territory — evidenced this morning, with a warning siren sounding in Sderot followed 15 seconds later by a barrage of rockets striking the city.TEL AVIV — President Joe Biden “was very emotional” in a Zoom call with American families of people taken hostage in Israel on Friday, one of the people who attended told NBC News.
The Israeli military has continued to warn those in the north to evacuate south. Hospital administrators at Al Awda Hospital in northern Gaza, have however insisted that it would be impossible to evacuate hundreds of sick and injured people there.Egyptian authorities have erected “temporary” blast walls on Egypt’s side of the Rafah crossing point with Gaza, two Egyptian officials say.
Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief journalists. Hamas’ surprise assault killed more than 1,300 people in Israel. The vast majority were Israeli Jews, but the dead also included Abu Asa and at least 14 other Bedouins, some of whom were killed in rocket attacks on their villages.Israeli troops are continuing to conduct small contained raids near the fence in Gaza, according to spokesperson Richard Hecht. Hecht also told journalists that he wasn’t aware of reports that bodies of hostages had been recovered from Gaza.
"We continue our plea to Israel to reconsider the decision to evacuate 1.1 million people. It will be a human tragedy," he added. The security alert comes as France hosts the Rugby World Cup and prepares to face South Africa on Saturday evening in their quarter-final.ASHDOD, Israel — “I’ve got a feeling we are all alone,” an Israeli officer who identifies himself as a “fighter in a special police unit,” said late Friday night. “A lot of people criticize us.”
"During the strike, IDF fighter jets killed Merad Abu Merad who was the head of the Hamas Aerial System in Gaza City, and was largely responsible for directing terrorists during the massacre on Saturday," the IDF said. NBC News was not immediately able to independently verify the developments.Explosions intermittently flashed in the darkness overnight in Gaza, with the booming sounds of shelling interrupting the silence.
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