Throughout the region, we have addressed that through additional sanctions, we have address it had through additional military force posture. Were obviously going to do what we have to do to protect ourselves and our troops. Nobody is at all turning away from that threat or their historic and sustained support for these terrorist groups. John, just a followup to what peter asked earlier, two questions, but one to drill down, i assume when the president said aid isnt getting fast enough to gaza that hes not critiquing our efforts to get it there. And without Hanging A Hook On who is responsible, is he saying that more can be done from our end . Is there more that can be done to get the aid to them . I think he was referring to actors in the region. And then the second question is many years youre going to meet with the Australian Government and they have supported the release of Julian Assange. Now, we havent done so saying there were National Security reasons, but for the reasons that he has been charged are basically the same efforts that many reporters use. So is there any Change Of Heart in this administrations efforts to free Julian Assange . I wont be able to talk about expedition matters, brian. I didnt ask. Fair question, but this is something the Justice Department is handling and i think its better if you go to them on that. So were going to continue to listen to the White House Press briefing, if news is made, we will let you know, but we also want to get you caught up on whats going on in the region. 2 01 here on the east coast. Right now in Gaza Health Officials say they are officially seeing the complete collapse of the health system. Just look at this scene, this is one hospital in gaza city, so crowded injured patients are being treated on the ground. Its only going to get worse, especially as hospitals along the strip run out of fuel. One doctor with a stark assessment to reuters, quote, if a hospital is not provided with the necessary fuel for the generators, we are issuing a death sentence, not a natural death. The execution is in the hands of the free world. Human rights organizations and the United Nations. Everyone is guilty. You are signing a Death Warrant for the Northern Gaza Strip and the patients of gaza. The Death Toll Skyrocketing in the last 24 hours according to the gaza Health Ministry. They say 704 people have died just since last night, the largest number since the start of the war. This morning relatives checking body bags at the morgue to see if they can just recognize any of the faces of the dead. Its a massacre. I really dont know what to say. Im speechless. Im completely speechless. I have lost all of my family, my entire family. We have lost them. Now, here at Home Secretary Of StateAntony Blinken is at a critical u. N. Security Council Meeting on the situation in the middle east, as fears grow this war could escalate even more. A spokesman for the Israeli Military says tells reuters that they are ready as the fate of more than 200 hostages hangs in the balance. I want to begin with nbc news chief Foreign CorrespondentRichard Engel who is on the ground for us in jerusalem. Richard, were hearing for the first time from one of the hostages released by hamas about what it was like being held captive in gaza. We just lirchd to the press briefing, they acknowledged they dont know where the hostages are, they dont even know if the ten missing americans are all being held as hostages. What can you tell us on the ground, richard . Reporter so there are, as you just talked about, there are two stories here, there is the collapse of the humanitarian system in gaza, which was already weak before, and we have according to the Health Ministry there which is run by gaza more than 700 People Killed in the past 24 hours and israel saying that the that hamas brought this upon gaza, brought this upon the civilians by launching a Terrorist Attack on in this country, killing 1,400 people and taking so many hostages. Israel says they are now about 220 hostages. We heard from one of them this morning, yocheved lifshitz, she was freed last night right around this time, 24 hours ago, and then just several hours after being freed she spoke to the world, she gave a press conference. So its just extraordinary. She was held for two weeks underground in a hamas tunnel. She is visited by doctors and then with the help of our daughter addresses what her situation was like. And we have a small piece of our interview lined up right now. My mom is saying that she was taken on the back of a motorbike with her body with her legs on one side and her head on another side. That she was taken through the plowed fields with the men in front on one side and a man behind her. While she was being taken she was hit by sticks, by by shabaab people. Until they reached the tunnels there, they walked for a few kilometers on the wet ground. There are huge huge network of tunnels underneath, it looks like a spider web. Reporter so its just incredible to hear her story and just the context. She had just gotten freed, she had just gone through this ordeal and now she is telling the world what happened to her, that she was taken from her home, along with members of her family, her husband still held by hamas, thrown on the back of a motorcycle, hit, taken inside this network, this labyrinth of tunnels inside gaza until she was freed. She was also critical, however, of the israeli government. She said that the military had underestimated the threat that was posed from gaza. She said that militants in gaza had burned the fields around her home before and that the military was not fully aware, was not prepared for the danger that was in gaza. Then on the other side were seeing just this escalating humanitarian crisis in gaza city. The people are under attack by israeli air strikes. According to the latest numbers from gaza, about 400 israeli strikes just in the past last 24 hours or so. And they are all over the gaza strip. There is this impression that the Northern Gaza is under attack, but the south and the central gaza are safe. It is not. There have been strikes throughout the region, more concentrated in the north, but the areas around kwan yunis and central gaza are being attacked regularly. I just saw a video were trying to turn it around right now of an Apartment Building that was hit and people are clamoring, screaming as theyre trying digging with her hands to rescue survivors out of the rubble and they do manage to pull a very young girl, she looked about 9 or 10 years old from the rubble, shes covered in dust and theres cheers and celebration for the fact that shes alive. This is happening all the time in gaza now and were efforting more information about that story. There are just tragedies on tragedies happening on both sides of this story, which is not does not seem to be quieting down despite some diplomatic efforts and some diplomatic movement. It seems to be getting worse, emotions are hardening on this side of the border with people demanding that israel do something, that they eliminate hamas because they cannot live with this kind of threat of kidnappers who are releasing hostages a few at a time and the people in gaza who now are on the brink of i think you could call it a total humanitarian collapse. Richard engel, thank you for that. The gaza Health Ministry director does say that the aid coming into gaza from the rafah border, quote, throws dust in the eyes of palestinians and falls short of the needs of more than 2 Million People living in the strip. Nbcs Meagan Fitzgerald is in cairo for us. The u. N. Relief and works agency say they will be forced to end their aid operations tomorrow night if they dont get the fuel, they just cant operate. What do we know . We just heard in the White House Briefing that no trucks got through today, at least as far as the u. S. Is reporting. What else do we know about aid . Reporter well, we know from folks on the ground that it is a slowmoving process of those trucks that did manage to make its way into gaza. Right now theres this desperate cry for fuel. As you mentioned, were seeing humanitarian aid groups like the u. N. On the ground saying theyre going to have to stop their operation in the next 24 hours because they dont have fuel. We know that hospitals that are still functioning are also on a ticking time bomb before they run out of fuel as well. One doctor speaking to reuters and saying what that looks like for his medical facility is that 55 babies could die in a matter of minutes because they are in incubators and incubators cant operate without electricity. So this is most certainly a dire situation. Theres food, theres water, theres medical supplies that are making their way into the enclave, but its not enough. Aid workers say when you compare that to what was seen just, you know, weeks ago before this war started, there was 450 trucks that made its way into gaza and right now we are looking at about 20 that are going in a day. I want you to listen to a little bit of what the deputy head of the World Food Program had to say about the fuel situation. Take a listen. Were hearing people are living off of 1 liter of water a day in some cases or theyre having to boil sea water in order to survive. Thats only going to get worse. We know that the situations in many of these collective centers are really desperate. We had heard a figure the other day of one toilet for 10,000 people. Its just unacceptable that people are being put into this situation. So any evolution in the crisis or any worsening of the crisis is only going to create even more of a disaster for what we see for civilians that are affected. Reporter now, ambassador satterfield did say on msnbc on sunday that what we will see starting yesterday, monday, is this ramp up of aid on to the enclave, but at this point it doesnt appear as though that is happening. It does seem like it is a slow trickle of aid that is slowly getting to the territory where more than 2 Million People are in desperate need. Chris . Meagan fitzgerald, thank you for that. Here with me in studio now the Executive Director of Doctors Without Borders. Avril benoit. Thank you for being with us. It is hard to speak of 55 babies in incubators who might die within minutes because those incubators will stop operating. Meagan says doctors are telling her its a ticking time bomb. What are you hearing from your folks . I know whom have been operating at Al Shifa Hospital which has been incredibly overwhelmed. Youre absolutely right and we are ourselves overwhelmed when we hear from the stories from the ground. We have over 300 staff. One of the surgeons reported today that the situation is so dire with the Operating Rooms that are just running around the clock, around the clock, completely full, injured people are coming in, mostly bringing in children and there was a 9yearold boy with a semisevered foot. There was no space in the operating room. The surgeon had to take care of it and do the amputation right there on the floor in the hallway with members of the family watching and no anesthesia. Were talking mild sedative is all thats left. For a little boy. For a 9yearold boy with a sister who is going next sitting there watching. So the situation for the fuel for sure for incubators and all the other medical equipment that keeps people alive. We also know that the medical supplies, the stocks of pharmaceutical supplies is completely running short and in the midst of all of this we have colleagues that are trying to do their best, working wherever they can to try to alleviate suffering under absolutely dire and desperate conditions. Speaking of dire and desperate, i want to talk about thousands of pregnant women who are facing imminent births right now in gaza. This is what the New York Times reports, that these women are being given selfdelivery kits, quote. The kits are spartan, each Resealable Plaag holds one bar of soap, a plastic sheet measuring 40 inches by 40 inches, a pair of scissors for cutting the umbilical cord, three pieces oftape, two cotton clot for cleaning and covering the mother and child, a pair of Latex Exam Gloves and an Instruction Pamphlet to guide women through their deliveries. The idea of birthing a baby in the middle of an active war zone with a pamphlet and some gloves is unimaginable, but is this going to increasingly be the reality because what few Health Facilities there are, what few hospitals there are, wont even be operating anymore . The trickle of aid also coming in, those trucks, is not nearly enough. So you talk about the desperation, imagine having to deliver in those conditions, also without clean water. Lets not forget that that is also an aspect. People are also experiencing other health issues, even we heard another story of a 6yearold who had a severe burns to a good portion of his body because people are trying to burn water on little stoves, little fires and we always ran a burn center, we have a lot of experience with all the Infection Prevention control, its really, really difficult. What were concerned about especially is that people are going to die from things other than bombardment and the direct impacts of violence. Theyre going to die in childbirth, theyre going to die from a lack of infection control, of antibiotics, theyre going to die from even the Chronic Diseases that they have. Theyve been separated from their medications if they had to flee their homes. These medications that kept them alive. Thats one of the reasons that Doctors Without Borders were calling as all the other humanitarian organizations to really ramp up the transfer of the supplies through that Crossing Zone at rafah. We need more trucks. It has to be a lot more than the small little trickle that were seeing now. There are the immediate medical needs clearly, there are also Psychological Needs now and in the future. I want to show you this video we have of a doctor blowing up a balloon as he tries to comfort a 6yearold girl. Shes scared, wounded, in the middle of a chaotic hospital. What are the children facing right now, again, what are you hearing from the hundreds of people you have heroically working under these conditions . Its always going to be a component of any work in a humanitarian crisis, but especially a Conflict Zone to look after the whole needs of people, not just their physical, medical needs, but the emotional, Psychological Needs. I cant imagine the long term scars that just about everyone is going to be having to face and is already facing with the anxiety of constant bombardment and that sense that nowhere is safe. So how do you reassure a child who is injured and who is well aware that nowhere is safe that their home, their haven is gone, is destroyed. So for us theres no question that there will be longterm repercussions on the Mental Health burden of these people. The work that Doctors Without Borders does is and under the best of circumstances, for example, in third world countries is extraordinary. The work that these doctors and all of you are doing now is Above And Beyond the hippocratic oath. I know everyone out there watching wishes there is more that they can do. Avril ben way, thank you for coming. Its important for people to hear firsthand or through your doctors whats going on. Thank you for being here. Its the other massive story thats playing out here at home. Now that republicans have chosen tom emmer do they have the votes to make him the new House Speaker . The news coming out of multiple rounds of secret ballots. Weve got it in 60 sikds. F secrs weve got it in 60 sikds new emergenc crystals pop and fizz when you throw them back. And who doesneconds a go . [sfx video game] emergenc crystals. Liberty mutual customized my Car Insurance and i saved hundreds. With the money i saved, i started a dog walking business. Oh. [dog barks] no its just a bunny only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. 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