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New reporting on how the white house is strategizing for dealing with the upcoming trial. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. The nation heads into the long memorial day weekend, cia director bill burns is traveling back to europe with an urgent push to revive ceasefire talks and get hostages out of gaza. The world court today ordering israel to immediately stop the rafah invasion, citing an immense risk to civilians there. Israel says it will not comply. Theres little the icj can do to enforce the order. The u. S. Is expected to veto any enforcement in the u. N. Security council if it comes to that. After an intense military operation, Israeli Forces brought home the bodies of three more hostages killed in the october 7 attacks. The remains were taken into gaza by hamas. More than 80 hostages are still being held hostage and 40 bodies are being held. Israel wants them back so the families can have a decent burial. Eight americans are among the missing, three acknowle
Southern israel. Celebrations broke out in gaza as news of a potential breakthrough reached palestinians. But early in the day civilians in Eastern Rafah had begun to flee after the Israeli Military dropped leaflets warning them to evacuate ahead what was caught aim limited ground operation against hamas. 100,000 refugees have been told to move to what israel is calling an expanded humanitarian zone near khan younis but gazans say the area is already overcrowded. Jordan pozner King Abdullah ii is in the us on a state visit in a meeting at the white house On Mondayjordanian Official said the king told President Joe Biden that a Ground Invasion into rafah would lead to what he called a new massacre and risk spilling over into the wider region. In new york are you on general Antonio Guterres told reporters that Israel Invading Rafah would be intolerable. Our security corresponded Frank Gardner has more from jerusalem. Things have moved with extraordinary speed here in this part of the mid
Assignment with potty cornish. Listen wherever you get your podcasts when welcome back to our Special Coverage of Donald Trumps criminal trial. We are of course, staying on top of all of todays major elements. But right now, we have some major Breaking News coming out of the Middle East Hamas has agreed to a Ceasefire Agreement for opposed by both egypt and khader. We know israel help craft this deal. But its not fully agreed to it, at least not yet. We have reached out to Prime Minister benjamin, a tiny house to office in jerusalem. We are awaiting official response from the Israeli Government. Will have a live report from jerusalem adjusted moment, but i want to make sure that as everyone appreciates whats going on, hamas has announced that is had dea the head of its political euro, has told both cutlery and egyptian mediators that hamas has agreed to their proposal for a Ceasefire Agreement much more in this coming up a very Significant Development for right now, there we want to tr
Proposal is that hamas would agree to the release of 33 hostages from the socalled humanitarian category. So that is women, it is children, it is the elderly, people with serious medical conditions. And in return, israel would agree to a 40day ceasefire and the release of potentially thousands of Palestinian Prisoners. We should stress at this point all we have is this statement from the political wing of hamas. We do not have the detail of what exactly it is that they have agreed to, and there has been pretty frenetic diplomacy over the weekend involving cia director bill burns who started in egypt, flying to qatar, coming here to israel. It is possible that the framework of that deal has changed over the weekend. It is also worth saying that these deals are often structured in terms of first an agreement on a broad framework and then hammering out of the details. As you know, chris, the devil is often in the detail, but there is positive indication for the First Time Since that last