Expected to raise while here, which is the humanitarian aspect of this, the fact that no humanitarian aid has been able to get into gaza, that has been something that Secretary Blinken and his Marathon Trips that hes been making here in The Middle East over the last several days and now i should note theyre just next door to where i am speaking to you meeting with that entire wartime cabinet and next he will hear from first responders, from victims families, from the families and relatives of hostages but there are going to be key questions between what he and the Prime Minister have discussed, humanitarian aid, poppy, is right at the top of that so well see if there are any announcements when the president comes and speaks in this room behind me. Thats whats next on his agenda but the white house said President Biden was walking into this with key questions not just about humanitarian aid, but also what israels goal is here. If they do go into gaza, with that expected Ground Incursion, what are their objectives . What can that going to look like and those are critical questions, of course, that the u. S. Has amplified by what has happened and the fact that those inperson meetings in jordan have now been canceled and now turned into phone calls, which, of course, is not the same, certainly not for President Biden who values facetoface meetings as actually going in person as he initially planned to do. Yeah, its such a critical point. Dave sanger, i want to bring you in here. We saw, there was a smaller facetoface meeting between the president and mr. Netanyahu. In is a larger more expanded group with that war cabinet unity coming together that happened in the days after the october 7th attacks. To kaitlans point, you heard the president talk about civilians, about the people of gaza which is a critical piece of this for the u. S. Side of things. What are the expectations in this meeting thats happening right now . Well, i think there are probably two or three things, phil. The first is what you heard about the effort to try to get the israelis to open up more humanitarian corridors, carve off areas where there would not be attacks, it would be areas of safe passage and so forth but i think the second thing you saw that really fascinated me as we watch this is the dynamic now that you see Prime Minister netanyahu dealing with a unity cabinet, so directly across from Secretary Of State blinken and the National Security adviser, jake sullivan, you saw benny gantz who used to be the military chief of staff, Ran Against Netanyahu in 2019, was Defense Minister at some point, has had a lot of experience in gaza and is considered a more moderate figure. I think what youre seeing the administration do is try to Scene American Officials in israel constantly, thats why youve seen Secretary Blinken go back twice, you saw lloyd austin there, now you see the president and theyre just trying to slow the israelis down and say, lets think about what it is youre trying to accomplish, how you can minimize the civilian casualties, i think the Hospital Event even if the israelis are right and it was an iran rocket from hamas side, i think that event will probably underscore for them the need to keep these casualties as low as they can and my guess is that the administration is trying to move them to more targeted work against specific hamas leaders rather than a fullscale ground invasion. The issue with that is how hamas uses the Palestinian Civilians, david, in shields and brings them to where they know they will be targeted. Christiane, back to you. I apologize. You had called this as we were speaking before an unmitigated disaster essentially for the president. How does President Biden leave israel . Poppy, poppy, in my memory, a president has not been canceled by arab leaders. This is an unprecedented situation and it is coming at a massive, massive, massive importance to talk to those arab leaders in order to be shown to be actually trying to figure out how to deescalate. Deescalation does not look very likely right now, and the most the president can hope to come away with according to certain arab leaders and those who are looking at the humanitarian suggestion here is to get an agreement from israel to allow humanitarian aid in. Cnn reported and its been shown on our air that they continue to be air strikes in the south including around rafah. I spoke to the egyptian Foreign Minister yesterday with all eyes on egypt because that is where as he told me dozens, if not hundreds of trucks, convoys are waiting with fuel and water and food to come in for the people there. And it hasnt been able to happen because there have been strikes around rafah, as well, complicating so much of this. And i was about to tell you that the israeli Minister Of Defense told his troops and if you like ill read it to you, i have released all the restraints that we that we put on the idf and i think this is, you know, a very, very important comment, this, of course, was last week but the idea of the United States trying to ensure that as the israelis call this a fullscale war, ensure that International Law and the respect of civilians are paramount, its very key right now and you can see it playing out all over on the streets and that in the end is what matters. The pressure it puts on people like the hezbollah or iran or whoever to take matters into their own hands. Christiane, just to follow up on that, what i was also going to ask is how likely do you believe it is that President Biden leaves israel without achieving the humanitarian objectives they went to the region with and leaving with a more angered arab world after this hospital explosion. Well, i mean, look, theres a very inflamed arab world, a very inflamed gaza. A very inflamed other palestinians in the occupied west bank, and i think that that is going to continue and play out for several days. We have witnessed this. Weve reported this for decades now. Ive been reporting this since the 90s, all through the 2000ers. This is much, much worse than it has been before both in the attacks on israel for sure and in the repercussions in gaza. And it is unchartered territory, poppy. They havent told us what the end game is in gaza beyond the eradication of hamas. This is an urban infrastructure and whether hamas takes people and holds then as Human Shields or just they live in this densely populated area, this is an almost Impossible Task and ive spoken to very key advisers to Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu, mark reggae who has been doing this for decades with Bibi Netanyahu and said, christiane, this is not the same as weve been through before. There will be civilian casualties and pointed to other wars that have taken place and try to maintain International Law, he said, but youve already seen whats going to happen throughout this kind of war. Its always like this. There are attacks in israel, terrible attacks. There is repercussion and it is exponentially worse on the other side and that then creates a constant tsunami of response and counterresponse and violence and nothing in the end gets permanently solved so the egyptians are saying they hope the president would be able to talk to the peace leaders, i. E. , jordan and egypt and Mahmoud Abbas, the head of the Palestinian Authority to not only talk about the humanitarian situation but to figure out the end of this, could they restart some kind of political process to essentially solve the bigger problem, which is the palestinian issue. Yeah, christiane, its interesting to point out that its not that israeli officials are not telling anyone what their end game here is, and youve had so many great interviews on this. I think they acknowledge they dont know and i think thats why the unprecedented nature of this. I want to bring in erin burnett to give folks some idea, 7 08 in new york. I think its 2 08 in tel aviv where President Biden is currently meeting with Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu and his War Cab Threat after a oneonone meeting or smaller meeting between the two leaders as part of his agenda while in tel aviv. Whats not on the agenda anymore is that trip to amman to pete with arab leaders canceled in the wake of the explosion at a hospital alleged to have Killed Hundreds. Theres now back and forth on the responsibility. The idf presenting its views aligning with what President Biden has said at least in his initial meeting with Prime Minister netanyahu. Erin, what are you seeing on the ground right now . So, you know, phil, i think when you hear Prime Minister netanyahu talk about making sure the minimal requirements are met and christiane talking about the fact this is different, so many things fit into what is a familiar narrative for the world right now when there are strikes on gaza, counterstrikes, a hospital or a civilian infrastructure is hit. Then there are protests on the arab streets and people start to feel what feels like a familiar beat but as christiane said, this is unprecedented, and, phil, i think its worth saying, talking to people who witnessed things here, what happened is absolutely unbelievable. They describe it as an apocalypse in hell but the reason this is so different for israel and that they cannot simply say, okay, and simply try to deescalate, i mean, i heard last night from a man who was running for safety walked in a bathroom and there were babies hanging from a shower curtain rod. It was a Mother Holding a baby in each arm and those babies were shot right between the head execution style. Describing the rapes he saw. I mean, that is what confronts this country and these things are unimaginable, the horrors unimaginable but that is why theyre in the position theyre in, phil. There is no talking off a brink or talking off a precipice. Something must be done. That is the palpable feeling here that something must be done and, clarissa, it is that that is the feeling in every conversation here, and the reason this country is waiting that they do want whatever words you want to use, revenge or payback or retribution, they demand that. There is a strong appetite, erin, or some kind of vengeance. There is no two ways about it, and the voices that you do hear that are asking for an end to the cycle of violence, i interviewed the son of one of the women being held hostage, 74yearold peace activist, her son said, i dont believe that we can cure dead babies with more dead babies, but those voices are being drowned out by louder cries for war, and with the events at the hospital yesterday, there is now a huge amount of pressure on arab leaders from their constituents, from angry enraged anguished horrified people taking to the streets to do more. We heard the sorry, rather, the Jordanian Foreign minister saying in part the reason for canceling this summit with biden was theres no conversation to be had until the war stops, and thats a growing sense that until there is a ceasefire there cant be a proper situation on how to deal with it. You heard the u. N. Secretarygeneral say we need an immediate humanitarian ceasefire. So far its clear that that is not going to happen. We have been hearing strikes all morning throughout all of yesterday, strikes happening close to the southern part the southern border with egypt, the rafah crossing. That was the place where gazans have been told they should run to for shelter for refuge that they should leave their homes in the north. So you have this essentially a complete paralysis with all sides dug in, with tempers and anger and emotions flaring to unprecedented levels, and the very real fear that this then spills out into a broader regional conflagration, which clearly nobody wants to see, but at this stage its not clear what the next steps are that would need to happen in order to prevent that, because hezbollah is coming under pressure from its followers, iran is coming under pressure from its followers, not to mention the jordanians, you know, the saudis, the emiratis who have essentially been the most vocal proponents of normalized relations with israel. The Abraham Accords are essentially out the window, so it is a moment where one would hope to hit the pause button, take stock for a moment, Take A Deep Breath and have some clearheaded thinking before making any major decisions going forward, but its just not clear that there is any real appetite for that because the situation is so inflamed, erin. And, i will say, obviously weve been talking about the blast on the hospital, and while, of course, there is the awareness that there are many in this region for whom this is an emotional issue more than a factual issue, there are going to be facts and the idf has denied and has laid out their evidence denying they had anything to do with it saying it was Islamic Jihad. I do want everyone to know here at cnn we ourselves have been working on this to come up with what the facts are and cnn has geolocated the video that shows the moment of the deadly Hospital Blast in gaza and were going to show it to you. The sky lights up as a large blast erupts and sends a huge cloud of smoke into the air and this is exactly what you are looking at. You are looking at the hospital explosion, but we cannot independently yet verify what caused the blast. Obviously well be careful as we reach that. Right now its the idfs detailed layout is all thats out is there but phil and poppy, we have geolocated this video and it is truly a stunning moment to watch because in that fire blast, of course, hundreds of innocent people in that instant died, phil and poppy. Erin, thank you very much and general hertling as we and our viewers look at what we have been able to identify in terms of the location theres a lot that needs to be independently verified, as well. Theres this audio that the israelis have now released that they say is hamas talking about the strike on the hospital. Lets let people listen to it. [ speaking nonenglish ] there are subtitles on the screen. As you listen to that and bring up the video again we were just showing, what do you take from both of those . First from the video, you see a very large blast and you say, well, thats not from a rocket but id suggest if that rocket failed in flight, it still has a lot of rocket fuel within it so have a combination of the explosion you would get when a Rocket Impacts plus the fuel of the rocket itself. Thats why when you look you combine that with the Parking Lot Photos and you see all the burned car, some cars burned. Some not tells me that that fuel, the rocket fuel spilled over a large area. You see the shrapnel against the side of the hospital as opposed to it striking the hospital itself. That tells me there was a blast radius, but there was no crater. So youre beginning to see a bunch of analysis that shows what exactly this was. You add that to the video. Now, of course, that could be artificial intelligence. Those could be someone submitting a video like that, but its an indicator that there was conversation online from various terror groups saying is it ours . No, its theirs. Where did it come from . What happened . Did they shoot down a missile . No, the missile failed. These are the kind of things you put all that intelligence together, not only with what we saw earlier from The Point Of Origin of a rocket that was flying over the hospital location, plus, the potential for other Signals Intelligence and whats called mazen intelligence, the ability to gather explosions from the ground or takeoffs of rockets from the ground and its beginning to form a picture. But as we said before, poppy, the arab street already has this. They want to believe Something Else and heard your interview with the palestinian leader. There is to saying that israel is telling the truth now. Its just too late for that. But it appears to me as kind of an analyst that this was a rocket and not an explosion from an israeli jet. Lieutenant hertling, thank you very much for your expert eye on all of that. Appreciate it. As weve noted there are massive protests that erupted in cities across The Middle East even as allegations go back and forth on responsibility. Gaza officials blame israel while the idf says it was the Islamic Jihad in terms of the rocket itself. We will be live in amanage, jordan, with reaction next. President biden is in israel this morning after a deadly blast in gaza hit a hospital killing hundreds. Now, this is according to palestinian officials. We dont know yet the final death toll. It will be unbearable and it is an awful event. These are heartbreaking images, injured children and families inside that hospital after the blast and those are the injured. Many of those children and families are dead and the blast also now sparking mass antiisrael protests across the region and those started the strike was around 7 00 local time. By 11 00, 12 00 a. M. , 1 00 a. M. , 2 00 a. M. , there were still people out on the streets across the mid the east