Good evening. Im bret baier. Breaking tonight two elderly israeli women have been released by their hamas kidnappers and senior u. S. Officials confirm the u. S. Is, in fact, privately urging israel to wait on its expected Ground Incursion to allow for more time to arrange the release of additional hostages. Mike tobin starts us off tonight live from southern israel. Good evening, mike. Reporter good evening, bret. Two israeli women are free from hamas captivity. A slow drip of Hostage Releases as Israeli Military leaders say theyre ready to begin the Ground Invasion. Im not gonna sit here and assume theres going to be some sort of Ground Invasion. Reporter yet for days israels Defense Minister has told forces to be ready. Today speaking to the countrys navy. Translator we are preparing thoroughly for The Next Step Multilateral Operation in the air, ground and sea. Reporter the number of confirmed hostages has risen almost every day. Today israel said 222. The white house says that includes a handful of americans. We still have about ten unaccounted for americans. Its not exactly clear where those ten people are. Reporter reports today signaled on going negotiations between israel and hamas to release dozens of dual citizen hostages. The implementation of the deal is facing challenges. The Israeli Defense forces say they are working to release all of the hostages. Translator we are now looking at who holds what kind of power. Without race, religion or anything else, just to bring everyone home. Reporter hamas is reportedly willing to negotiate the release of all those held captive except for Israeli Soldiers. For now, israels ramping up air strikes on gaza where the death toll is rising rapidly. And many are still in desperate need of aid. Convoys have delivered a small percentage of food, medicine and water that is needed. Israel still preventing any fuel deliveries. Amid rising fear that the war could spread beyond gaza and israel, Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu repeated the message, hamas is isis. I have been through wars. I have seen horrible things. I have never seen things this horrible. This is a battle of our constitution. Reporter why is it important . It wasnt sporadic freedom fighters. What you saw here today is brutal ruthless attacks. Thats even worse. Reporter the israeli Prime Ministers office notes the freed women were kidnapped with their husbands on october 7th. Their husbands are still hostages in gaza. Bret . Mike tobin live in southern israel. The border near lebanon as sporadic fighting along that boundary continues. Concern is on the rise for a possible second front in this war. An effort funded intensely by iran. Senior Foreign Affairs correspondent greg palcott is at the border. Good evening, greg. Reporter bret, we are right up against that border where we have been tracking into this evening clashes between the Israeli Military and the next door iranian backed hezbollah militants. Israeli Defense Force claims it has struck ten hezbollah terror cells just in the past 24 hours. The casualties, 20 hezbollah fighters killed, 7 Israeli Soldiers plus civilians killed and injured. This leading to evacuations on both sides of the border. Residents in 43 towns and villages in israel have been told to leave. That means as many as 100,000 civilians have fled. Some are still here though and that is a risk. Take a look. This is where a hezbollah missile hit, just on the other side of the border from lebanon here in northern israel. Damage done to this private house. Police military in place. Its believed to have been an antitank missile which is small in size but when fired from a short distance away, it can pack a real punch along with the destruction of the house, two children huddling to shelter inside were hurt from flying glass. The busy mayor at the scene again. Its not good. We are okay. We are strong. Reporter we are strong, he says. Hezbollah is tying up Tens Of Thousands of Israeli Soldiers in this area as the Ground Incursion against hamas and the Hostage Drama both move down south. Probably what iran, the benefactor of hamas has in mind. Greg, thanks. President Biden Cutting short a speech today on bidenomics to be briefed on the latest on israels response to hamas attacks. He told reporters any talk of a cease fire is premature. The priority, the president saying, is getting hostages out. White house correspondent Jaqui Heinrich has the story. Reporter the president s only event did not focus on any of the big issues that hes facing, like getting hostages out of gaza, keeping this war from widening, or getting a huge aid package through congress for israel and ukraine. Behind the scenes much more activity than theyre willing to speak to, prompting biden to cut his speech short. I apologize. I have to go to the situation room. Theres another issue i have to deal with. Reporter the white house never divulged what drew him away from his bidenomics event but showed a picture. Biden only briefly addressing israel today, speaking to, but not confirming rumblings that the u. S. Is in talks about a temporary cease fire in exchange for Hostage Releases. Are you talking about a cease fire deal . Reporter officials have been reluctant to share exactly what theyre advising including over the timing of a possible Israeli Ground invasion, but they are disclosing some questions theyre asking israel to think over. Have you thought through the branches, through the Unintended Consequences . We are in active conversation about that. Reporter while also pressing congress for funding. Are you concerned about not being clear with folks about what the u. S. Is advising israel to do will hamper support in congress for this aid . I think weve been very clear and consistent throughout. Weve got enough appropriations available for awhile longer. How long is that while is gonna depend on the Expenditure Rate and the kinds of operations that theyre conducting. Reporter mean time swiss backlash over this response when asked if the administration is asked about the rise in antisemitism. We have not seen any credible threats. I know there have been questions about credible threats. And so just want to make sure thats out there. But look, muslim and those perceived to be muslim have endured a number of hate filled attacks. Reporter tweeting in part, to be clear, the president and our team are very concerned about a rise in antisemitism after the horrific attack in israel. She went on to say this concern prompted the president to have his Homeland Security team keep an eye out for any threats to the jewish community, as well as muslims, arab and palestinianamerican communities, but she also drew criticism for refusing to condemn the antisemitic rhetoric we are hearing at some of these pro palestinian protests on campuses across the u. S. , citing the First Amendment and the right to peaceful protest, bret. Thank you. The Defense Department is sending more american weaponry to the middle east. Troops are also being told to prepare to deploy within 24 hours, if needed. And the Defense Secretary warns that a possible expansion of fighting throughout the region is a real threat. Senior National Correspondent rich edson reports from the pentagon. Reporter the Eisenhower Gulf Troop is heading to the persian gulf. That increases pressure on iran. Reporter the president assigned the eisenhower to the Eastern Mediterranean but plans changed as intensified drones and rocket and missile attacks against american forces. We know iran responds to posturing of u. S. Forces. Our capabilities now are, in fact, designed to deter them from attacking. Reporter the United States military still has a significant presence across the region, including 900 troops in syria and about 2,500 in iraq. U. S. Central command says overnight the military intercepted two oneway attack drones heading toward the base in Southwest Syria Housing American troops. Last week drone and rocket attacks aimed at alasad base in iraq and troops stationed closer to baghdad. Nine hours last week, 15 drones were downed and 3 cruise messles. It was in the red sea when it intercepted the missiles. Hutis fired them from yemen. We dont necessarily see iran has explicitly ordered them to take these kinds of attacks back to their supported by iran. We will ultimately hold iran responsible. Reporter secretary lloyd austin said the Defense Department is activating more Patriot MissileDefense Systems in the middle east and a thad battery. Were going to do whats necessary to ensure our troops are in a good position, theyre protected. Reporter iraqi army Spokes Person said iraq will go after the militants who fired on bases that house u. S. Troops. Defense Department SaidSecretary Austin thanked the iraqi Prime Minister today for reaffirming the commitment to the coalition forces. Bret . Rich thank you. Up next well take a closer look at whats happening in the middle east with new attacks on those u. S. Bases on this, The 40th Anniversary of the Marine Barracks in beirut conducted by hezbollah. We will be talked to retired general jack keane in a minute. 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The truck smashed through the doors of the Headquarters Building in which our marines were sleeping and instantly exploded. Now many of you are asking why should our young men be dying in lebanon . Why is lebanon important to us . The middle east is a powder keg. Four times in the last 30 years the arabs and israelis have gone to war. Each time the world has teetered near the edge of catastrophe. Bret good teetering now. President reagan 40 years ago reacting to the marine baraks bombing in killed 228 marines, 18 sailors, 3 soldiers, 58 french troops and 6 civilians. Lets bring in retired general jack keane. General, thanks for being here. Where were you back then 40 years ago . I was commanding an Infantry Battalion in fort lewis, washington. I think i was in my second or third year of command. Yeah. Bret the reaction to that and what happened after that, you know, obviously iran backed attack. Here we are again with u. S. Bases getting attacked today. Yeah. Thats very interesting what took place there. The Marine Barracks was bombed. It was iranian proxy that did it a forerunner of hezbollah something we referred to at the time as Islamic Jihad which we have a palestinian version of today. But the use of proxies like that by a nation state to do Something Like that i think took us by surprise. We had difficulty coming to grips with the nation state that had actually done it because there was no reaction, in terms of we did our best to pull the troops out. You could make a case whether the troops should have been there or should not have been there. I thought it was extraordinary that we didnt take action and hold someone accountable for killing so many of our troops. But this proxy that began then by iran to use proxies to deflect themselves from responsibility and accountability turned out to be a strategy that worked. They blew up our embassy in lebanon. They blew up our annex in lebanon. They blew up the kuwait u. S. Embassy also within a year. They blew up Khobar Towers the next decade in saudi arabia. And by and large, that strategy has worked for them, you know, through the years. We have been very reluctant to hold them accountable. Now certainly more recently we have. But even today, bret, look. They have attacked the u. S. Facilities in iraq and syria close to 90 times in the last three years. Bret let me put up the maps. The u. S. Has bases all over the middle east, obviously, in a number of different places. But you look at these strikes. These are just recent strikes on u. S. Bases, believed to be, as you mentioned, from iran backed proxies. Unfortunately there havent been massive fatalities and there havent been very few people injured, but they are getting attacked increasingly. Yeah. Im stunned by it, that were not doing anything about it. We are defending against some of it. If they shoot a missile, we shoot it down. If they send a drone, we shoot them down. We havent had fatalities. Thats not the issue. The issue is we have iran using proxies that are attacking u. S. Bases, whether there are u. S. Troops or bases that our hosts are running and we have our troops on those bases. The reason is to try to kill americans. What is the strategy here . The iranians have announced their strategy every year for 40 plus year, dominate and control the middle east, control the flow of oil out of the persian gulf. Two things they say have to be done to accomplish that mission. Drive the United States out of the mission by forcing our military to turn tail and leave, and destroy the state of israel. If we want to stop the iranians from attacking these bases, we have to do something about it. We should hammer them for it. Reporter theres a lot of people that listen to you and say we are on the brink of getting drawn into something, like a World War Iii something. If you look at the u. S. Forces just