hamas terrorists keep spreading across the country. they are getting louder and more heated. we are keeping an eye on cities from hartford, connecticut to chicago as the thousands of pro- palestinian demonstrators are expected to hit the streets again this afternoon. hello everyone welcome to "fox news live" i'm arthel neville. before i have eric sean thank you for joining us. today's rallies after busy transit hubs new york city and washington d.c. yesterday. they demanded immediate cease-fire in gaza. they basically mean israel paired what about hamas stopping its attacks against the jewish state? protesters disrupted several rail service during last night's evening rush hour for it elsewhere hundreds at the university michigan and arbor bush passed cap in campus security entered administrative building they are. they want the university to stop investing in companies that they say front israel's military operations against hamas and gaza. a cb cotton following all of the demonstrations what they are calling for and what they don't call for. flex hi eric. here in new york city where monitoring is people start to for another large rally being held today called flood brooklyn for gaza. people watch and wait for israel's ground offensive to move into some southern parts of gaza they are taking to the city streets across the country calling for a cease-fire. this morning on fox israel's opposition leader was called for prime minister benjamin netanyahu to be replaced saying this about the protester erupted across the country listen. >> all of those people marching and sank free palestine and the suggestion for them is an old when it is not mine. if they would lay it down their weapons and stop killing jews they would have a state. if we would lay down our weapons we would be killed until the last one of us. this is why we are protecting. >> over in d.c. hundreds a gathering of blocking the entrance to union station amtrak telling writers to allow for extra time and at one point metro trains temporarily skipping the station but fox affiliate reporting at least three people were arrested and a wall near the station was left covered in black and red handprints with the free palestine written across the wall people at this rally accusingly by administration of committing genocide and gaza. >> every single day this in government and this institution spent millions of dollars to the apartheid states. shame, shame, shame it. >> to new york city traffic was gridlocked as hundreds rallied outside the new york pop public library. similar demonstrations on college campuses as you mentioned hundreds of pro- palestinian students barging their way into an administrative welding on campus at the university of michigan people demanding to speak to the school's president calling on the school to divest in companies that they believe help fund military operations in israel. now as these demonstrations continued we have seen some pro- palestinian groups call and their supporters to specifically boycott our picket specific businesses are news organizations. we saw this yesterday here in new york city. eric: all right thank you. arthel: israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu holding a press conference at this hour while there are protests taking place in israel. people are marching to jerusalem and tel aviv. a big crowds they are. alex hogan is live with more in northern israel. >> hi arthel the defense minister just started speaking a few moments ago we heard from prime minister agyeman netanyahu saying he stands in solidarity with the families of the hostages especially as major protest is taking place right now. that is a very stark contrast compared to what we've been hearing at that protest. a lot of anger from the family to see the government has not done enough to bring their families home. meanwhile earlier today, this was the scene of the major marks that took place over the last several days. thousands of people walking all the way from tel aviv to jerusalem trying to raise awareness about the hostages and the goal to bring them home and put that pressure on the government. among the families emerging there it was the family of one of the hostages was a body was found just several days ago. that family said it was important for them to be there in solidarity helping these other families would be luckier than they were put here in northern israel it is a very active situations. every date we have seen crossfire between the idf and hezbollah. they fired rockets the idf struck back at targets and at lebanon you see the big plume of smoke as the idf said it struck military compounds and hezbollah at military posts. in recent days the air force has been doing this with fire jets and helicopters to put these specific targets meanwhile take a look at the south in gaza today israeli soldiers are expanding their ground operations for their still searching for the intricate systems of tunnels underground for the idf said it struck him off launch oppose weapons, warehouses and a command center in gaza by fighter jet and helicopter. now after the request of u.s. officials, israel has agreed to now allow some fuel into gaza. it is just a drop compared to what was delivered before the war. before october 7 gaza received about 600 or 265,000 gallons a day now that is dropped about 16000 gallons per day. conditions are worsening for the people who are there in gaza at the civilians have been forced to flee about 800,000 people are saying and you and shelters alone with humanitarian aid organization saying there simply is not enough food and water at this point. arthel: alrig all right alex ho, thank you. eric: israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has come under criticism and pressure for the october 7 massacre happening on his watch. officials say there will be time for accountability after the war. he knows firsthand the devastating pain of terrorism for his brother was killed leading the rain -- a grade. that to free israeli house that just taken by palestinian terrorists. as of the prime minister's office in 2016 and he reflected on what he tells israelis who have also lost loved ones to the terrace. >> when i talked to the bereaved families and bereaved parents of israeli soldiers who have fallen while defending this country, i tell them about this. i don't speak to them as a prime minister i speak to them as part of that same larger bereaved family. eric: now the families are demanding action. what does this mean for prime minister netanyahu joining us mitchell, former aide to the prime minister former speechwriter to former prime minister. mitchell, welcome. the prime minister as you know has dedicated his life to fighting terrorism to threats against a j the jewish state. his focus now is on defeating hamas destroying hamas. the personal distress that he must be going through must be devastating. can you give us some insight on what you think his thoughts are? >> there's definitely personal distress because this has been a failure of his administration. but i think part of it he talks about communicating with the bereaved families and he does have an important perspective as having lost his brother in a tremendous act of heroism. but he is not communicating with the people. he has not reached out to the people. the press conference we just saw is a sterilized press conference, no questions he has been on foxnews three times he has been on cnn he has been on a bc he has yet to have it interviewed with the israeli media in hebrew. he does not believe he has to communicate with the israeli people. we are in a terrible crisis. we are in dire need of leadership. we want to know what is going on. the families of the hostages have walked from tel aviv in the last three days and no one speaks to them directly. they have had it sanitized at meetings. not all have met with the prime minister or with the director who is supposed to take care of the hostages. there is no communication here. >> why do you think that is? what you think is going on? it seems very unlike him. >> he is not given a television interview since it may be because he does not believe he has to communicate with the israeli public. he does not believe he has to unify the israeli public. he does not feel he is accountable to the israeli public. he is running the war now and believes you criticize them during the war they should give him his full support until after the war but we don't know when this war's going to end but we know he has lost the confidence of the people because october 7 should not have happened. he has to bear responsibility r a he is not even in any interview to any of the foreign immediate said he is responsible in any way. and thand that is going to facee music. eric: wh would like to see them? >> politically is what i would call in political hospice right now he is not coming out of that political hospice. he is not going to remain prime minister. like most people in hospice rerealize the end is near and is time to prepare your family and your coworkers and everyone else for the day after. he could maybe preserve what little left of his legacy by trying to hand over the keys to this country in a dignified manner to the people who will be able to run the country who will be able to run the war. have a vision for what the country it looks like after words. he does not have a vision for that. he has not articulated a plan he does not communicate with the people that have elected him and that was after a year of splitting the country in half. >> a recent poll shows defense minister yoav gallant could defeat him 41% to 25%. you see him being replaced sooner or later? at what point do they take action what you think will occur? what's the good thing about israeli democracy is a robust democracy. all you need 61 members out of 122 say it's time to shift the government and shuffle the deck and we have a new prime minister. up until now he has not been calling for a replacement of netanyahu and that's change were 40 set something days into the war it is time for him to move on. that's the feeling here there's a lot of frustration and he is not meeting that he is also not been to any public outing or anything. it is a sanitized view. they make sure he meets only with soldiers who cannot yell at him or protest and he is not recognizing the anger of the people here. and the anger of putting him in the situation. this whole thing was planned by the thousand people who were released in the exchange in 2011. heat released the thousand terrace. this is like willie horton times 1000. dukakis lost the election. we have it let out all of these people. all of these terrorists that came back to kill hundreds and hundreds of israelis were let out on his watch in 2011. besides the fact in the last 10 years he has been in office he has not taken them seriously. we have not responded to 10 and 20000 rockets that have fired into israel. we let it blow by because the iron dome naxos out of the sky. we have let them armed themselves. with move troops from other places and now is the time. the greatest comeback that it's ever happened in any military is the israeli military at october 7 because we were. >> down hit it was a tremendous loss but within three days hundreds of thousands of people reported for reserve duty. everyone was motivate everyone is ready to fight the enemy every sickle person i know is in there and committed to this fight until the end. we just found out tonight one of my kids friends, 21-year-old friend was killed last week we went to the funeral of my sons a principal school principal was a 44 out with a 44 old father of five who is doing reserve duty and was killed in the line of a battle. everyone is motivated and we need a leadership at this point we are not getting any leadership at this point that is why the hostage families have march to jerusalem and that is why they are demanding to change the team at this point too. >> quickly and finally i am so sorry, our hearts go out to the loss of the soldier and a principal and any loss of israelis in this fight. finally what you see happening in the next six months in the next year or so? what type of government, who do you see taking over potentially what do you see is the immediate future for israel? >> the good news about israel it's a cabinet government it is a parliamentary system. si presidential system. we expect the leaders to get together, put together a cabinet of people who can make decisions. what is going to happen in the next few months is israel it's got to complete that routing out of hamas and gaza and we are going to have to deal with hezbollah who is trying to drag us into a complex. there's one of 50000 refugees in israel i can't with them saying the word is rarely refugees. one of 50000 people living in hotels, who cannot live in their homes in the area in the south. or in the north police department will go back to their homes once there is no up missiles and rocket fire. we cannot tolerate any rocket fire. that is going to have to be rooted out. the goodness as we have the backing of the united states is the prime minister just said. the people of united states, the job has to be finished. we need a plan with gaza has destroyed at this point it is unfortunate. they amount to have the hamas leadership traits before they did we cannot forget that when they say it's occupied, it is occupied by hamas. the destruction of the leadership in the job has to be finished. mitchell thank you for joining us and be your insight arthel for. >> president biden also taking some heat from his own administration over his response to the israel hamas war. hundreds of government officials from 48 departments and agencies signed an anonymous letter this week demanding the president push for a cease-fire in gaza. now a former trump administration official is blasting those who signed the dissent letter. lucas tomlinson is life at the white house. lucas, who is griping and what are they saying? >> officials from about 40 different agencies and in different parts of the government. as you noted they are all anonymous but let's face it president biden went to pivot to his agent much like the last two presidents before him. but not all the attention of u.s. military assets are back in the middle east where u.s. forces across the middle east have been attacked over 60 time for the past month. thhis only three u.s. airstrikes in response about one for every 20 attacks appeared former secretary of state mike pompeo right into our colleagues at fox news dig digital about the disst letter saying quote people who served our country at any government institution where the military or the state department squares allegiance to the united states and should commit to the mission of the president. elected by the people in his administration. they are unable or refused to do so they should resign or face termination. pro- palestinian protest continued here in the nation's capitol there is a mountain aftf government officials like you just said from 40 signed an anos letter demanding a cease-fire opposing the president's handling of the israeli hamas war. there is another letter circulating this one and not anonymous or that when her former members of the a bomb invite a ministration praising biden's moral clarity, courageous leadership and staunch support of israel. a new fox news poll shows a present approval still under water at a host of national security issues including national security, the israeli hamas war, guns, immigration inflation and here's president biden in san francisco earlier this week. >> a strength of our economy is driving growth and spurring investment throughout our region. >> president biden the oldest president in u.s. history turns 81 on monday. it is supposed to be rather low-key affair probably more attention will be on the annual 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