368 the fight benjamin netanyahu once again refusing calls for a cease-fire as his troops pushed deeper into gaza american military base further attacks by iranian proxies for good evening i am jon scott and this is the fox report. ♪ the biden administration is responding to the attacks with air strikeairstrikes targeting k facilities in syria. the administration insists the strikes are working to deter a wider conflict in the middle east. we have team coverage lucas tomlinson is live in wilmington, delaware president biden to spend the rest of veterans day weekends. he was met by hundreds of pro- palestinian protesters. but first jeff paul is live on the ground in southern israel. ask jon, the fighting is going a late into the night israeli forces continue to hit areas of northern gaza. a little while ago was on the floor's been shot up into the sky and a few moments after that you could hear the loud booms of the outgoing artillery as well as possible airstrikes. idf's focus on tightening that circle around gaza city parade they are targeting some of the main medical centers in that region. israel is adamant hamas is using these medical centers as strongholds for their operations for the ongoing bombardment is reportedly leading to power outages in hospitals causing patients to go untreated and more civilians to flee israel estimates 200,000 people have left northern gaza for the south over the past three days alone. it's a major concern for other regional leaders in saudi arabia hosted an emergency summit involving leaders from the palestinian authority, syria, iran, and qatar which are all calling for the end of israel's military operations. however israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu said that cannot happen until hamas is dealt with. >> if you want peace you have to destroy hamas. if you want security you have to destroy hamas. if you want to assure the future of israel, you have to destroy hamas. this is what israel is required to do and this is what israel will do. >> today marks the five weeks since more than 200 people were taken from their homes here in israel. and held hostage in gaza. thousands of people tonight got together in tel aviv hoping to bring their stories to life and hoping that will somehow bring them back home. >> some of israel's neighbors could certainly accept a refugees from gaza if they wanted to but there does not seem to be an awful lot of open doors to make that happen. >> wanted the main questions lingering out there from other world leaders is who else could come in and for the people who call gaza home there is a concern that if they do leave they will not have a home to come back to you. it is a storyline we are watching for you to see the leaders of those nations i just mentioned a short time ago all coming together those are headlines you need to be watching. jon: jeff paul in southern israel thank you. now fox news alert at u.s. european command confirms u.s. military aircraft crashed overnight in the eastern mediterranean sea. it happened during a training operation. authorities are investigating what caused the aircraft to go down. we will bring you any more details as we get them. president biden is observing veterans day in delaware today after replaying earlier at arlington national cemetery meantime attacks on american forces in the middle east ramp up as a pro- palestinian demonstrators gather outside the president's home. lucas tomlinson is live in wilmington, delaware with the latest. >> and jon, on this veterans day good time to remember the tens of thousands of american troops deployed to the middle east some 2502 iraq. some 900 to neighboring syria about 60 of those troops have been injured and recent rocket and drone attacks by eye rotting iranianbacked proxy forces. all have returned to duty we are told. president biden speak in arlington national cemetery today at the tomb of the unknown soldier reminding people to troops deployed in harm's way. >> suite must remember only 1%, 1% of our society today protects 99% of us. in 1%. we owe them, we owe you. >> president biden marking veterans day at arlington national cemetery link this wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier he appeared a bit confused after biden executing an about-face after initially walking back to join the official delegation he was s and directed by his army escort sgt first class spoke to the assembled crowd and the nation. they have been 48 attacks on u.s. forces in the middle east since october 17. six of the those attacks have taken place since winds at use of strike eagle to a warehouse storing weapons used by ironic and its proxy forces in eastern syria the pentagon said it held rockets and drone drones used to attack u.s. troops. jon, uss eisenhower is selling south of yemen into a location where the proxy forces shot down a 32 million-dollar american report drone earlier this week a ballistic missile was launched at israel and shot down the outer space. the first time in combat has taken place in space the arrow three similar to the u.s. anti- ballistic missile system and the super horns you see here aboard the flight deck of the eisenhower could be used to strike the missile sites and yemen possibly this weekend. north saudi arabia hosted a large arab summit in the middle eastern leaders demanding an end to the war in hamas accused israel of war crimes. many believe it saudi arabia warming relations with israel that sparked the october 7 massacre. today it appears the saudi and iran getting closer. iran's president visit saudi arabia for the first time in 11 years. the de facto ruler as the two countries restored diplomatic relations and march. president biden also hosts china can help mediate an end to the israeli hamas war in gaza. vice president and ship present invited me too sheeting paying in san francisco on wednesday. jon: it is not been lost on a lot of observers the iranian proxy forces are launching attacks on american personnel. america has responded by going after weapons warehouses and that kind of thing. >> that is right spreads the first step in the escalation ladder it is notable it has been six attacks at u.s. forces in the middle east since the pair of f-15 strike eagle's launch the airstrike in eastern syria as you mentioned destroying a warehouse but not personnel that sent me an option for the present to start killing iranian soldiers and iranian revolution to guard forces and its proxy forces if it wanted to step up the strikes certainly u.s. forces know where they live it. >> lucas tomlinson a navy veteran your self we thank you for your service and honor you on this veterans day as we do all veterans, thanks. for more on the latest developments in isr israel's wan hamas. retired joe frappuccino who served as the u.s. central command top spokesperson. it is very slow going for israel. it is generating a lot of criticism for that nation among the other nations of the world people are saying it's got to stop this thing but it does not appear they are anywhere close to achieving their goal of eliminating hamas and my right? which are absolutely right and i just want to say thank you for having me on for them to thank all of our veterans for their service and i know -- i wish all of our troops in harm's way a safe veterans day. i am not sure exactly how would fully eliminate hamas which is the goal of israel. if you think about since 2006 hamas has become ingrained in every aspect of life in gaza. the goal is to fully eliminate hamas. it is important to note that hamas is an arabic acronym that translates into islamic resistance movement. that is arm resistance to israel. with each one of these strikes, with each of these gruesome videos that are coming out with every civilian that's killed in gaza hamas gets exactly what it wants. this is an information war and information campaign as much as a military campaign and hamas has very plugged in. well developed information program but they can get videos out much faster. and so as you are eliminating hamas from the ground you are almost growing the resistance movements. jon: we saw them bring embedded journalists with them into israel the october 7 attacks, embedded journalists quote unquote who actually many of them were freelancing for major news outlets in this country ascnnand the "new york times." >> that is right. that is really what the idf it's part of what the idf is up against here. you mentioned it, it's been mentioned at the top the idf is resisting this pressure for a 72 hour cease-fire. and the position here is that hamas brokered, they broke the 2008 cease-fire that was established by egypt. they cannot allow a cease-fire. they cannot live with hamas on its border. one way to think about this it's odyssey a complex situation is that the state of israel is almost in some ways getting smaller. many israelis have moved out of the towns in the north because of hezbollah rockets. many are moving out of these towns that are near gaza. and so for israel they viewed this as an issue of statehood. as a second war for independence. i may be a final way of thinking about this is that one idf leader told me this is not about october 7. this is about ensuring october 7 never happens again. now if that is the case they have to be cognizant of this information and they have to have a plan for what comes next and hamas after gaza correction what comes next in gaza after hamas unfairly don't have a plan there. jon: the great criticism of israel has to do the number of civilian deaths first of all israel told civilians to leave northern gaza. hamas told them to stay. a great, great number of people who are dying we do not know what that number is we cannot accept hamas figures. those people were there because hamas told them to stay there but. >> the idf is allowing for our pauses shoot schrock in supplies and allow civilians to move south. so the idf is cognizant but the idf is resisting pressure to drive down that risk of civilian casualties by using smaller bombs and by allowing a 72 hour cease-fire. a lot of the complexity geopolitical complexity all around this issue i think it maandmaybe is not fully understd and hamas is really winning the information. jon: last question gazans essay the hospitals are coming under attack. israel said that is where hamas is hiding his underground bunkers and command centers and weapons storage depots right underneath the hospitals. will we ever get an answer to that question? >> i don't think that we ever will. hamas is first with the information and then once the information is out it almost does not matter. as we have seen with a couple of these strikes it almost does not matter the correction. the images, the videos coming out, obviously nobody wants to see that. nobody wants to see children injured. but those things in the long term i fear they are going to hurt israel's reputation and they are going to hurt israel in this war. jon: as you say it's an information war is much as anything on right now hamas appears to be winning. colonel joe thank you very much. reaction on the war against hamas for president donald trump held a rally in claremont, new hampshire earlier today. he delivered remarks on a range of topics including israel and ukraine. >> i kept israel safe. i kept ukraine's if you never would have gone and i did it through osmosis it was safe he was never going to go in. and i kept the whole world to save the attack on israel would never have happened would never have happened. again iran had no money they were broke. we would have left afghanistan with dignity and strength instead of our greatest embarrassment for. >> i will immediately restore and expand the trump travel ban on entry from terror countries which is a big thing. we had no terror during my administration f part i will implement strong and ideological screenings for all immigrants and if you hate america, if you want to abolish israel, if you sympathize with jihadists and people that hate our country because they are not getting in. then we will stop because you have to go for the other side. if you hate america i have to go for the other side. jon: as we noted several ceremonies held today to honor our veterans. more than 20000 people took part in new york city's annual veterans day parade it featured 25 floats more than 150 cars. 280 groups march along manhattan's fifth avenue saluting our nation's heroes, the veterans. also in the big apple the intrepid museum hosting a commemorative wreath laying ceremony on the hudson river. a call ♪ ♪ in the nation's capitol a similar scene in the navy memorial holding a wreath laying ceremony to honor the service and sacrifice of u.s. sailors. coming up on the fox report, pressure is mounting on israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu to impose a cease-fire in gaza. some say that pressure is coming from some of israel strongest allies. former state 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(car engine revs) (engine accelerating) (texting clicks) (tires squeal) (glass shattering) (loose gravel clanking) free of free palestine. free free palestine. free free palestine. jon: crowd police estimated some 300,000 took to the streets of london today to show support for palestinians. protesters march through central london and t towards the u.s. ey demanding a cease-fire in the gaza strip. >> there are children and we want the war to stop. cease-fire we want a cease-fire it is terrible what is going on. there's no justification there cannot be justification. >> there'sthere is also a larget of counter protesters pretensions got a bit heated with police arresting at least 82 people there. thousands of anti- israel protesters rallied across manhattan on friday night. the demonstrators part of a they fled manhattan for gaza protest that began at columbus circle on 59th street in manhattan and made its way to the entrance of grand central terminal the mob could be seen banging and kicking a locked door that led to the tethe terminal two tempoy suspend train service which serves roughly half a million people a day. he protest escalated israeli flags were burned and fake blood was smeared at the entrance of the "new york times" building. police confirmed multiple people were taken into custody. international support for israel remains divided across the world. mass of a pro- palestinian protest in new york city friday night and london today appear to reflect a generational divide working against israel. amid all the rallies around the world global support for israel appears to hang in the balance. former state department official joins us now. christian are you surprised israel is taking the brunt of the so much anti- israel sentiment right now? >> i am surprised at the scale of it and how much of it has been occurring domestically here in the united states. it generates a problem for both political parties vertically for the democrats though. if this keeps going there are separate echoes of 1968 were a large antiwar contingent essentially disrupted the democratic party and ironically elevated richard nixon to the president who is much more hawkish. we don't see certain signs of that yet. some of these pro- hamas if you can call them that are anti- israel protesters can make an electoral difference like michigan might have an impact. around the world it's a little bit surprising how quickly this happened so soon after october 7 in a massacre. it also says something about how long it has been since 911 when the full world felt the impact of gruesome terrorist murder it's essentially not as shocked as they should be by what hamas is done. >> is taken by the johnson of the british accent that on the street interview hamas started this on october 7 and israel is responding that boggles the mind people are blaming israel on our citizens were attacked and kidnapped and murdered. politically in britain the labour party which has been out of power for some time is almost certain to win the next general election. the internal coalition the predecessor of the labour party wasn'twas seen as anti- somatics pushed out its current leader is trying to clean up that image. at the constituency is rooting pretty hard against israel turning to what's on the ground for israel i think the government they are, there is a saying you bought the ticket, enjoyed the ride. they've already incurred the downside it's not just people in the street you have a political gathering and saudi arabia where the iranians are welcome by the saudi's that is a real shocker. but clearly israel is determined seems to beat making progress at. sometimes enough ethical war this sounds harsh to say the most ethical way to end a war with the least amount of casualties is to end it as rapidly as possible which is what israel seems to be doing except for some of the humanitarian pauses. >> what does a postwar gaza look like? >> of prime minister netanyahu ruled out today allowing the palestinian authority to run gaza. that creates an additional hurdle. that's one possibility the army it goes in, clears out the greatest amount possible and impose some authoritarian government so hamas does not spring back to life contrary to public opinion or contrary to popular opinion there's a lot of support among palestinians. putting the palestinian authority in charge runs part of the west bank about controlled somehow by israeli money or israeli forces. netanyahu has ruled that out his government also may fall on see combat is over he is going to receive a lot of blame for the october 7 attack in the first place. but really it is very unclear and with no support from anyone aside from the united states it's hard to see how there will be a durable lasting solution where you have essentially israeli control and the façade of palestinian control. you may have to have a new israeli government come up with a different formula. >> it is a vaccine and frightening situation in many respects. thank you. >> think you jon. >> more mayhem to tell you about in the u.s. southern border from a dangerous and deadly high-speed car chase to more approaching caravans of migrants heading to america from mexico. bill is there for it all. >> jon high profile human smuggling crash in texas this week killed eight people including two innocent americans the smuggling is not slowing down coming up after the break new texas dps videos shows with their troopers are dealing with everyday on the roads out here. ♪ unnecessary action hero! ♪ -missing punches? 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