Smoke rising above Northern Gaza after more israeli airstrikes, israel vowing to escalate attacks ahe of a highly anticipate awe ahead of a highly anticipated Ground Offensive. Meanwhile, Prime Minister netanyahu issues a harsh warning to iranbacked terror group hezbollah. Welcome to fox news live, im gillian turn turner. Mike and im mike emmanuel. Tony blinken declaring this morning that the United States is ready if iran gets involved. These are live pictures of the night sky over gaza. We have Fox Team Coverage with greg palkot and trey yingst in Southern Israel. First if, lets go to trey with the latest developments. Hello, or trey. Reporter mike, good with afternoon. I want to start with some Breaking News here. We brought you reporting yesterday from the kibbutz, the Small Community along the israelgaza border. Today hamas militants attacked just here to there, targeting Israeli Soldiers. The idf says at least four soldiers were injured in what appears to be an Antitank Guided Missile attack, the first time this a number of days this kind of weaponry has targeted this community, one of the places where the October 7th Massacre took place. Israeli forces say they arrested one hamas operative today, 16 days after the initial attack, and the israelis continue to ramp up airstrikes on the gaza a strip ahead of an expected Ground Offensive that could come in a matter of hours and days. In the distance, we can hear the buzz of israeli drones, a number of airstrikes toward the north tonight, and it just gives you a sense of what the Southern Front looks like as the entire country is bracing for days of fighting to come. I do want to touch on the west bank, because overnight the israelis can conducted a rare airstrike in the refugee camp of janine, and there were hamas fighters according to the military that were hiding underneath a mosque. Israelis will rarely strike these types of positions, but they have ramped up efforts to arrest people in the west bank and also conduct strikes in an effort to try and insure a third front doesnt open up there. Mike . Mike trey yingst live in Southern Israel, doing a phenomenal job. Trey, many thanks. Gillian . Gillian troops are on high alert as iranbacked hezbollah is threatening to join hamas in fighting a ground war should the idf invade gaza as planned. Hezbollah has already launched a stream of rockets across border. Greg palkot is on the ground there. Hi, greg. Reporter hi, gillian. Yeah, we are right up against the israellebanon border. Weve been watching the last several days clashes between the Israeli Military and the iranianbacked hezbollah militants. A good with reason why, with a huge Ground Incursion looming in gaza against hamas down south, Prime Minister netanyahu found the time to come up north to be with the troops and to deliver a clear message to hezbollah dont attack or you will be devastated, he said. The fighting is going on. Antitank missiles, mortars, Small Arms Fire from hezbollah, tank, artillery and drone blasts from israel. 19 hezbollah fighters have been killed just in the 2 weeks, 6 Israeli Soldiers plus civilian casualties. Take a look at what we saw and heard a short time ago. Up to here in northern israel, seems like almost every neighborhood is reinforced in one way or another. At this turning of the road, more than a dozen tanks and a whole lot of Troop Doctors ready for anything. Three divisions of israeli troops are in the north along with heavy around a more guarding against possible infiltration and airborne attacks by hezbollah militants. Most of the villages have been evacuated in case of another war. The situation isnt easy. Were here, were guarding the country. We are getting ready and were ready whatever we need. But were all family members. We came to watch our family. Reporter watch your family. Make sure that what happened in the south wont happen up north. Reporter make sure it doesnt happen up north, gillian. Those are strong words. One more point, israel in the last 24 hours has bombarded two the airports in nearby syria. Syria is a pathway for weapons and ammunitions coming from iran, going to its proxies, both hezbollah and hamas. Interrelated terror. Back to you. Gillian greg palkot, thank you. Mike . Mike President Biden spending the weekend in rehoboth beach, delaware, after requesting a 105 billion aid package that includes funding for israel, ukraine and our southern border. Fox Business CorrespondentEdward Lawrence is live outside the white house with more. Hey, edward. Reporter hey, mike. And i can tell you that even Democratic Senators are saying it could be several weeks to write the language for a joint aid package. You have senators divided over ukraine funding as well as republicans criticizing the the way President Biden wants to spend money on on the southern border within that aid package. And we have a house without a speaker. So regardless, the Department Of Defense is increasing its aid, serving longrange and shortrange, Patriot MissileDefense Systems to israel. Additionally, u. S. Soldiers received prepare to deploy orders, more of them now. In a statement, the Defense Secretary says he consulted with President Biden who decided to increase the Defense Posture because proxies in the iran attack u. S. Bases in syria and iraq in recent days. The president also asked about the Ground Invasion. Listen. Reporter are you encouraging the israelis to delay invasion . [inaudible] reporter have you had any word on any additional hostage releases, sir . Reporter the White House Communications director quickly backtracked saying the president could not hear the question, adding that he was responding, yes, that he wantses to see more hostages freed, and he was not commenting on a delay in any invasion. Now, President Biden also spoke with the two americans who were field by hamas over the weekend freed by hamas. The terror group says medical reasons is the reason those two were released, there are ten more missing americans right now. What we dont know for sure is whether some of the unaccounted for are dead and have similar simply not simply not been uncovered yet, but we have a pretty strong idea that some number of the ten at least are being held in gaza by hamas. Reporter in all, according to the Israelis Hamas has more than 200 hostages somewhere many that gaza area. Back to you, mike. Mike Edward Lawrence live on the north lawn, thanks very much. Gillian for more reaction from capitol hill now as a republicans scramble to find a new speak, were joined by republican congressman darrell issa of california, he serves on the House Foreign Affairs committee. Sir, want to ask you about President Bidens new 105 billion aid package. It seems that your republican colleagues are at a odds over how the president decidedded to structure this in terms of pairing ukraine aid with aid for israel. Take a listen to congressman mcif kaul this morning. Mccaul. Im in favor of the concept of linking the big threats to the free world, and that is, you know, since the fall of Afghanistan Putin invaded, you know, ukraine. Thats a threat to europe. Chairman xi is threatening taiwan in the pacific, and now we have a war in the middle east. So it links all that including the southwest border that i think is also a threat. Gillian now, over on the senate side j. D. Vance on friday said, absolutely no, this is the wrong approach. Take a listen to him real quick. I think what the president did is completely disgraceful. If he wants to sell the American People on 60 billion more to ukraine, he shouldnt use dead israeli children to do it. It was disgusting. Gillian what do you think . Whats the right approach . Well, the good news is, hes no longer a senator. This isnt his decision. The the house will decide appropriate aid to each of the areas, and when we talk about israel specifically, lets remember the president right now is, in his words, every single time balancing support for israel and endlessly talking about the innocents in gaza. And the fact is that, you know, we see an awful lot of people who wont leave the area, people when who continue to deliberately be part of the, quote, human shields. So the fact is that his well look at his request, but itll undoubtedly be divided. Its also be undoubtedly modified because at least for republicans in the house, our goal is to support israel is and its legitimate rights. Remember, youre talking about people that are protesters that the president s listening to constantly that are talking about the palestinians. There was no occupied land according to International Law when they struck the israel. Gaza has been completely occupy iedfree since ariel sharon 17 years ago. The fact is this was an unprovoked war against israel, and our funding will reflect that. Gillian and do you think the appropriate mechanisms are in place whether congress has oversight or the president himself has oversight to insure that any aid that is ultimately funneled into gaza does not fall into the hands of hamas . Our appropriators are going to have to make sure that a there are very tight handcuffs on this because weve been fooled in the past by this administration, and we wont be fooled again. That includes on any of the linking of border walls and other areas that may get into the bill. But the process is the the appropriators will propose something. Our leadership, the whip and the majority leader, its their job to fashion and bring it to the floor. So i know the question today is when are we going to have a speaker. The fact is nub of this process none of this process requires a Speaker Other than it has to be brought to the floor after we elect a speaker. So well be doing that in the days and weeks to come leading up to having a speaker. Gillian now, an hour ago, Noon Eastern Time was the deadline for republicans in the house to throw their hat into the ring to become speaker of the house. And theres a lot of hats in the ring. Gillian theres a lot of cooks in the kitchen, some people might say. The total number at the edge of the day is nine according to elise stefanik. She tweeted out the final list. Whos going to make it to the top . Well, look, at this point anyone who handicaps probably just guessing. But what i will say is do our candidate, the candidate who had 96 of the vote on the day he lost office was Kevin Mccarthy. And right now, nothing against any of these nine, but i have no reason to believe any of these nine can get more votes than Kevin Mccarthy. So the House Republicans are going to have to look at two things. Theyre going to have to look at the slate of to candidates. Theyre also going to have to look at changing the rules when we go back to the floor is so that we dont have this happen again. Having, you know, i wasnt the best student in college, but if i got 96, i expected to get an a, not to get an f. And so were going to have to change the sensible rules. Thats part of the debate were going to have on monday and tuesday, is to bring stability back to the house as we bring a speaker back to the house. Gillian and if its no one on this list, whats The Next Step . Republicans will choose a speaker, we will get to 217. How we get there is, quite frankly, new ground because we havent been there before. But gillian and when you get there. But the reason we havent been there before is we havent had the set of rules that allowed for the removal of a speaker with just eight votes. Some of those eight today, i think, deeply regret what they did because it hasnt worked out the way they planned. They thought they were going to get, you know, some tough, emerging leader, and the reality is every member of congress has a few people who wont vote for them in their own party, and that shouldnt be the criteria. So were going to fix the the system in the coming days, were going to put a speaker back in, and is were going to get back on an an agenda that i think republicans were working very hard and successfully toward including sensible appropriation. Gillian all right, sir. Well, we wish you the best of luck with that. Thanks for joining me. Thank you. Ijill mike . On Fox News Sunday today, Shannon Bream has Senate Minority leader mitch mcconnell. Take a listen. The overall effort by the chinese, the russians, the iranians to go after the free world, and the israelis are feeling the pinch at the moment more than anyone else. And we need to stick with them. Because whats going to happen here very quickly by the way, the chinese made no reference to israeli problems. They just talked about the hamas. We know which side theyre on, and we need to view this as a worldwide problem. Gillian a lot more of that interview is going to be coming up next hour, 2 p. M. Eastern right here on fox news or set your dvr are. Mike well have more on the u. S. Involvement in israel as Secretary Blinken announces the deployment of more forces to the middle east to bolster deterrence. Thats next. s m. Makeup smearing drops user. I want another option thats not another drop. Tyrvaya. Its not another drop. Its the first and only nasal spray for dry eye. 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