Together at the u. N. General assembly discussing plans to improve relations between israel and arab neighbors. Dana today israel is at war with hamas and the region is raging with anger and violence. Protest underway now near the u. S. Embassy in beirut. Demonstrators setting a guard house at the embassy on fire and the u. S. Military intercepting two drones targeting troops in iraq. Gillian while the ground President Biden making it very clear the u. S. Stands shoulder to shoulder with israel. President biden i want you to know you are not alone. You are not alone. As i emphasized earlier, we will continue to have israels back as you work to defend your people. Dana rich edson at the pentagon. Lets go to mike tobin live in Southern Israel. How are things where you are today, mike . Dana, despite all the rage in the region, the activity here at the gaza strip has been kind of light. The rocket fire coming out of gaza has been light relative to previous days. We saw an air strike go in
Mr. President , the road to victory will be long and hard but united in purpose and with a deep sense of justice and the unbreakable spirit of our soldiers and our people, israel will prevail. Im here to tell you that terrorists will not win. Freedom will win. Israel, you are not alone. United states stands with you. Sandra President Biden pledging americas unwavering support to israel in their war to defeat hamas, all against the backdrop of massive protests across the middle east after explosion at a hospital in gaza killed hundreds of people. Hello, welcome, everyone, as we begin a brandnew hour, sandra smith in new york. Great to see you there. John good to be with you, im john roberts in jerusalem. This is america reports. President wrapping up his historic wartime visit to the middle east without meeting with arab leaders who canceled their summit with him after claiming israel was behind yesterdays horrific explosion at a hospital in gaza. Sandra john, the president says the pen
Will Fox News Alert, at least 40 israelis have been killed and more than 700 hurt as hamas militants launch a Surprise Attack on the israeli territory. This comes as the Prime Minister declares war after more than 2,000 rockets were launched from the gaza end strip. Pete the u. S. Defense secretary, lloyd austin, saying the pentagon will work to assure israel that has what it needs to defend itself. Carley trey yingst has the very latest. Reporter Attack Helicopters are other the gaza strip firing on hamas positions and other areas where people are still the infiltrating into southern israel. There are multiple reports of Hostage Situations taking place in communities along the gaza border that are currently controlled by hamas militants, israeli territory. Rocket fire continues, it has subsided a bit, but we are seeing sirens sounding in some parts of the country and impacts across southern and central israel. Behind me here there is just black smoke rising from the horizon, just one
Im martha maccallum. On this friday, ill be joined by bret baier and Ari Fleischer about the battle for speaker of the house. Brand new developments in this. We will talk about it coming up shortly. Also, the big announcement that is coming from r. F. K. Jr. Joe rogan speaks out on the trump trial. Well get to all of that. First, chicagos democrat mayor also throwing his hat in the ring. He will head to the border as well to see whats going on. His citys parks and Ohare Airport turn in to shelters with the city holding the Democratic National Convention Next year. His people are starting to fight back. Watch. The reality is, we have to say no. Thats the simple solution. No. Coming in to the community of black people where we get the low scraps. You want to take the resources that we have and put us at the bottom of the barrel . [chanting]. Martha you work for us is the chant there. Very significant meeting this week. Lets go to Garrett Tenney reporting from Ohare Airport. High, garrett
Administration trying to save face . Were on top of stunning developments that has joseph biden doing a 180 from something he said on the campaign from no wall, no way, no how to now saying yeah. Maybe. Maybe we start pursuing just that. Jeff paul in eagle pass, texas with the latest. Jeff . Yeah, neil. When youre out here and you see these big groups like we did yesterday, a group of 300 people cross the rio grande and enter the United States, its overwhelming. You remind yourself, this is just a small snapshot of the thousands that do that same thing on a daily basis. That might be in part the reason why the Biden Administration is now going to waive 26 federal laws in order to essentially build border wall, restart it when they had previously already stopped it. This 20mile stretch of border wall will be going in in the Rio Grande Valley in south texas. Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas said theres an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers at this s