nations capitol and calling for the u.s. to cut off aid to israel. demanding a cease-fire in gaza. organizers expected to be one of the largest in a series of pro- palestinian rallies across the country. solidsolidarity march is also happening from new york to san francisco. welcome to a brand-new hour of "fox news live" i'm arthel neville. before i am eric shawn thank you for joining us. in the middle east the state department telling americans to leave lebanon and now as it has a lot there is targeting israel and the northward israel military tightening and circle around the main combat zone on the gaza strip and today only three hour window for civilians to escape before they launch more airstrikes on the regent secretary saint antony blinken's tis third trip to the regions of the war began, urging israel to protect civilians in gaza but also says the jewish state has a right to defend itself. >> at israel conduct its campaign, israel must take every possible measure to prevent sibling casualties. my meetings with israeli officials yesterday, i conveyed additional steps that can and should take to do just that. i see my own children and their faces. and as human beings, how can any of us not feel the same way? looks israel said is doing just that. it is hamas killing the civilians. team a fox coverage for you alex hogan in tel aviv. let's begin with trey yingst there. >> good afternoon. to give you an updated situation on the ground the entire country is bracing for what comes next receive the images from southern lebanon. the israelis have responded on the northern border striking has below targets. on the southern front i continues on the gaza strip targeting a major cities across israel clean the southern city that sits on the red sea. the israelis continue their strikes against gaza's ground forces keep pushing in the parade there are thousands of israeli troops currently inside the strip. they are operating and trying to clear a path not only to create a new humanitarian corridor and they tell us to get civilians who stayed behind in the northern part of gaza to the south. also to ensure their forces are not ambushed by fighters. we understand as a days go on the battles will get more difficult but israeli forces will push into gaza city. they will trying to find as many hamas militants as possible per their aiming for the leadership of hamas that juggled the factor more than 240 hostages being held inside the strip. earlier today we had exclusive access with a small group of journalist to gaza for the first time in 29 days since his were began. here's a preview of our reporting from inside the strip. >> you can hear the gunfire in the distance for the israelis are trying to engage anyone who tries to ambush their forces. the battle is street by street it is urban guerrilla warfare as hamas is ambushing israeli troops. right now we are embedded with the israeli military inside the gaza strip for these forces have been ambushed, shot at it lost more than two dozen of their own soldiers. still they bite block by block and body urban a battle their enemy fighters popping out of tunnels and try to kill as many as t he israelis as they can. the goal here is to target hamas leadership. that is part of the reason they are surrounding gaza city the idf tells us they believe the majority of hamas fighters are an gaza log the majority of the hostages. eric: that is remarkable footage you had going into gaza with the idf. tell me about the spirit and the sense of omission the israeli soldiers who were with, what do they have as they face the hams terrorists? >> a timethe time inside gaza wy tense for it if we were entering their surreal understanding about the threats of antitank guided missiles producing the missiles of tanks and apcs getting blown up by hamas. we took at apc in with the military but we did get their tour of the soldiers are stationed inside gaza their spirits are high where they're r eating candidate tuna and corn and a can. basically try to get by the necessities that they need to survive while they are operating inside gaza. but their spirits are high and they say they think back to october 7 that is giving them the energy they need to take the battle to hamas. eric: trait terrific reporting as always thank you for bring it to us. arthel. >> thank you and further north in israel with more on the war let's go to alex hogan she is live in it tel aviv. x hi arthel the country's defense minister says the idf's striking targets with full force he visited some troops further north by the border of 11 on this new video from today shows what they are trying to protect their country against more attacks from lebanon on israeli territory of the israeli military responded to that by sending fighter jets to strike has a bullet infrastructure and military compounds there. yoav gallant the defense minister gave this warning today to the leader of hezbollah. >> is made a mistake and. but they make a mistake he will determine lebanon's fate. >> idf pressing forward in northern gaza as u.s. secretary of state antony blinken is expanding his trip into the middle east he met with minister saying as many as 100 aid trucks are now getting into gaza to help the humanitarian efforts for civilians in these areas who have not yet fled. more than a 1000 people have been able to leave gaza. the scope and try to get out through the strip since wednesday. with the incursion advancing qatar arguing the attacks on gaza only complicate efforts to hostages they believe in the humanitarian apostate and continuing to call for that saying that it's a good idea in order to retrieve some the hostages again 242 hostages taken by hamas. but blinken did not say a cease-fire would be necessary saying that really would only allow hamas militants to regroup. arthel: alex hogan live in tel aviv thank you. >> what are the israeli ground forces facing right now from the hamas at terrorists crescent former army information officer strategic operation command christopher alexander joins us now he followed in the middle east on the global war and terror for a few know this where you would just heard from trey yingst he went into gaza with israeli troops it is very tense. you're going to see urban warfare but they are prepared. walk us through what you think they will face and how will they be able to wipe out the terrorists of hamas? >> is very, very difficult when you are fighting and urban it it up terrain. that's going to be the first to challenge particular if there fighting and tunnels that magnifies the volume of everything. the effects that happen. it is a brutal brutal fighting. the only thing akin to it is it perhaps for americans was fighting in and around in iraq with the marines had to clear out fighters that were in these cemeteries with shrapnel and services everywhere. in terms of training you go through drills after drills after drills every thing is muscle memory first for the individual soldier in for fire teams on and on to clear rooms. even the more hastily called up reservist have been going to their training they are going to be confident in connecting operations. it is a tough tough. >> it appears israel has for years been preparing for this they would have a strategic outline they've been able to deal with the titles they know where a lot of the tunnels are they been taking 2000-pound bombs dropping them down on top of the tunnels. they go through 10 or 20 feet of concrete. what is a huge reassurance i'm sure for infantry on the ground who are fighting are the weeks of preparatory bombardment that has occurred its artillery airstrikes. they been degrading hamas' ability to resupply to communicate effectively there trying to isolate various sectors or cells units they have identified and at the end ultimately have dissent in infantry two that up. i think in general if you are an israeli soldier it's a tough environment all of the preparation that could be done has been done at this point is there going in. >> what does it mean to the individual hamas terrorist fighter who is like in a tunnel now, has no communication with any leadership at dozen or more of the top leaders in gaza have been taken out we are told. what is in their mind they suddenly may not have new supplies? they do not know what to do they are not getting any direction there's no more combat control? >> traditionally this is when you start seeing surrenders misses when the warfare followed it's actually why we went to such lengths to treat prisoners humanely to the extent we could. and as a result they have an incentive to give up i do not think hamas fighters have incentive to give up one they have been propagandized their entire life. two they typically hamas has a strong form of islam. they are absolutely going to be absolved of anything they do wrong in heaven. they're going to get there because of what they are doing. they are fanatical fighters. given how effective hamas was in this initial terror attack they launched they certainly expected to break down into smaller and smaller units and as we used too say die in place. i think they are fully prepared to do that and they have in a way this spiritual incentive to do so. eric: that's what makes it so formidable one by one what you make of the calls for the cease-fire there's a huge rally in washington. where is the call for a cease-fire from hamas? where is it being put on the terrors of hamas to stop or to surrender or to give up to stop their attacking israel? >> cease-fire and by the way i think humanitarian pause you is cease firing during a humanitarian pause i guess some face-saving came from washington. any cessation of hostilities let's put it this way since he terms are thrown around in strange ways is beneficial to hamas. and without question. so the israelis have said give us back the hostages you took and we will negotiate a cease-fire and of course hamas could care less about what happens to it israelis or to palestinians they use them as human shields. they want prisoners out of jails to continue the fight. they have no real interest in a cease-fire because hamas has no interest in humanitarian aid to the palestinians if they cared they would not have spent a staggering amount of money to build tunnels and military operations to attack israel in the first place. eric: the way to stop it is for hamas to surrender. christopher alexander thank you for your insight today. >> thank you. arthel: meanwhile thousands of pro- palestinian supporters are gathering in our nation's capitol today for what may be the largest protest of its kind in the u.s. since the hamas terror attack on israel last month. demonstrators are demanding a cease-fire in gaza and for the u.s. to end a military aid to israel. chief washington correspondent mike emmanuel is live from freedom plaza in d.c. where the protest is underway. >> arthel, good afternoon for there are protests all the time here in our nation's capitol but i have got to tell you this one is quite large palestinian american supporters as far as the eye can see. a few blocks here near the united states capitol and close to the white house. they're starting here in freedom plaza caught up with one woman from chicago palestinian american to his family in gaza and the west bank who explained to us why she made the trip here. boxer drove out here last night. kate met here to be the voice of the voiceless. it's been 75 years of struggling for a land that belong to us. we have been dying left and right. been killed in front of the world to see the government is not blink an eye. we are here to make our voices heard. >> there are plenty of voices being heard this afternoon. they want president biden to stop sending aid to israel where they are calling for a cease-fire in the middle east. they are calling for free palestinian territory a lot of folks think it's not about the last month or so and the conflict. this is the past 75 years they saw this as an opportunity to come to the nation's capitol to send a message to president biden in him to defund a funding for military operation led by the israelis. back to you. >> and mike emanuel we will take it back here thank you very much mike. >> now it's the beginning of november elections are ongoing in some parts of the country. republicans and one key middle atlantic state looking to turn everything in their state read it. we'll have a live report is a fox news that life continues on this saturday. a vital boost of nine times more hydration* to boost your skin's barrier for quenched, dewy skin that's full of life. neutrogena. hydro boost. with 30 grams of protein. those who tried me felt more energy in just two weeks. -ahh, -here, i'll take that. woo hoo! ensure max protein 30 grams protein, one gram sugar, 25 vitamins and minerals, and nutrients for immune health. 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>> eric, thank you for more on tuesday ski races let's bring in princeton university associate research scholar lorna good to see you as always. governor is not on the belt as we know but he is trying hard to color the results he has campaigned for the republican party to turn purple virginia into a red state with a focus of keeping the gop majority in the state an ann and he was to flipe state senate to a gop majority. the question is, can he do it? >> it is a pretty tricky con contest. certainly yunker and is a popular governor. it's a lot to put on him to pull along the state and local races what a lot of the swing state races come down to is our independent and swing voters angrier at democrats than they y are scared of her republicans. that is that balance between what voters perceive as awoken this issues in the public schools that propelled rather youngkin to office in the first place in the abortion issue republicans are not strong on and democrats are happily campaigning on. what is really interesting and vinvirginia particular the quesn is okay youngkin wants control of the state legislature. what is he going to do with that? one thing he has promised to do is impose a 15 week abortion ban that's very much in line with the republicans have proposed nationally. but again the energy and enthusiasm on this issue since the dobbs decision has been on the liberal side of the argument the pro-choice side of the argument. it's a very interesting test he is implementing there. arthel: in fact i want to read part of a fundraising e-mail ful that was sent from the democratic legislation committee hears a quote from president biden. governor glenn youngkin extreme republicans h of made it should clear the there trying to take r country back on issues like choice. so again is that a valid argument will it inflame democratic voters to turn out? >> the ballot this is a different question than the politics which is a little bit of what i'm better at commenting on. i understand why youngkin is dudoing this republicans are vey badly and the midterms on the special elections lately avoiding the abortion issue. one argument is come out for the 15 week a band with exceptions. polling doesn't show the majority of americans support some form of restriction on abortion especially in the second trimester state your position and defendant defendedt against democrats i understand that. but the question democrats are asking and swing voters might be a very attuned to it as if they are already we have an environment where 99% of abortions are curt 20 weeks or earlier. 93% occur in the first trimester already and the majority of those are medication induced abortions. so what are republicans putting this on the agenda for? the answer, democrats are filling the blank with they are extreme on this issue they cannot take a guess for an answer the supreme court already gave them the progress they wanted. arthel: going to go to kentucky now. his evan or andy beshear local popularity there, his bipartisan approach to governing his strong job approval rating and not for him to win a second term? or is the strategy of the republican opponent as you know the state ag daniel cameron to make this a proxy race between president joe biden and a former president trump? is this a winning strategy? what's my guess would be beshear's is in a good spot rit now. he did one a barely but he did win in 2019 and democrat in the very conservative states before abortion was even on the agenda. and so he is a popular. he has done commo common sense f things, infrastructure projects. he has not mention biden's name on the campaign trail parties trying to distance himself it might just be the case as you said earlier that he hasn't got structural factors behind him that might propel him anyway and it might not have very much to do with the biden or trump. >> we will see how that turns out because it seems like the ag is trying to make a proxy race between joe biden and donald trump but thank you as always we