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Recuperate and prepare for future operations. A good significant bourse will still remain in other areas of the strip. This move marking a new face, and the war as israel faces rising pressure from the us to dial down operations in gaza. But israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says hes not backing down, and that pressure from the us will not stop his plans to invade the Southern City of rafah the Prime Minister also facing significant trouble at home with thousands of protesters coming out in force this weekend to demand his resignation. And abroad as israels military says, its preparing to move from quoque defense to attack and its border with lebanon after the countries that it hit multiple hezbollah targets overnight cnns Nic Robertson is joining us now nick, this is the six month mark of this war, and we are seeing major developments today. Give us the latest yeah the idf is characterizing this pooled pullback, withdrawal of the 98th Division from khan yunis as a Mark Step Change in its operations, changing the groundwater in gaza in its current form. They say, the troops coming out and we saw them today in a field about a mile from the border dozens the tanks, dozens of armored fighting vehicles, a lot of the troops whod already gone off to begin their recuperation and preparation for the next phase. Preparation was going on on the tanks are lower than need repair intensive work. Theyd been in battle for months in khan yunis. A lot of tunnels, their spin, a difficult fight, a lot of soldiers lost four soldiers killed last night just as they were withdrawing and pulling out but for the idf, theyre saying they can still go after and get the other commanders from hamas if they get the intelligence, theyre keeping a strong presence in the north of gaza. The, uh, hundred and 62nd Division there and theyre indicating that if they need to adapt and they can send these forces back in to refer that Southern Gazan city where about 1. 5 million palestinians currently living and neck, were also learning, israel has now delayed. Its plan reopening of the erez Border Crossing i believe you were there yesterday for some time. What are you learning about that yeah. The government has said it would operate today. It seemed like a fast turnaround because thats normally a foot passenger Crossing Workers coming out of gaza work for the de of week in israel . Cross back by foot. And this is what officials are saying cogat, the government body that handled sir, transfer of humanitarian aid says theres some logistical work required before the trucks can crossover. We noticed the explosions in the area yesterday, heard them again today gunfire at the border, a lot highways connecting the border to the towns where the aid would need to go. Those have been blown up by the intensive fighting and the that government body cogat, actually did make a point of saying, despite not getting errors open and have not set a date for it yet, they say they got the most number of aid trucks into gaza of any day in the past six months, 322 trucks, 70 of them, they say had food on 200 trucks of food. They say, when ten, this is something that un hasnt spoken about yet. If they got that number where they are what happened to them. But this is what the israel is the they actually despite not getting errors open, which was important because its the north, they did get a lot of trucks into the south and then lastly, before we let you go, i want to ask you to about these negotiations for a ceasefire and hostage release deal. We know that officials from israel and hamas are in hi, are along with the cia director and others these, these talks have been pretty stalled. A stalemate. Is there any indication that this could be different . So a lot of pressure from the United States on israel to make movement on this. Weve seen that play out, i think today in part because of the troop withdrawal, the pressure to open the erez Border Crossing a commitment. It hasnt happened. So i think this does change the Dynamic A Little Bit at the talks table and a center, the troops in combat need a break so it changes what there is available to negotiate with and what hamas is being presented with. The details then not that we dont know if this is really going to make a difference. But there could be. And i think expectations at the moment or this is a moment where they could be progress. It could take several more days maybe more than that. But this is a moment that could be different to what weve seen over the past few months and weeks then the gaps though in the negotiations, they may not sound too big like the number of palestinians to be freed for the number of hostages released. And if its a permanent ceasefire or pausing ceasefire, and how quickly you get a permanent but these are the really tough details. But by pulling all these troops out thats a signal that israel is making. That the dynamic is slightly shifting. Now i think of the pressure will be on hamas for them to make some kind of Statement Like effect on the ground all right. Nic robertson forest in jerusalem. Thanks so much for that reporting. Were also learning more today about that pointed phone call between President Joe Biden and the israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thursday, cnns Priscilla Alvarez is falling all this for as priscilla, what did the president say . He wants to see . We had kind of heard broad explanations of this, but were learning new details now thats all right. Jessica, he placed pressure on israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to make Policy Changes or else the us could change their policy and some of those asks were really focused on ramping up humanitarian aid that includes opening that Land Crossingyo were just speaking to nick about, as well as opening up a pore to get humanitarian aid in and also just generally ramping up supplies into gaza. Of course, this was a critical moment. This call was put on the books last week after the deaths of those World Central Kitchen employees. And this sources tell tell cnn that when the president walks through and tick through these Policy Changes that he wanted to see. The response by the Prime Minister wasnt going to get done, but the president went even further are saying that it needed to get done quickly. So hours later we did see these really Security Cabinet approved multiple of those measures. Now, up until this point, the white house has welcomed the moves since that phone call, acknowledging that there have been frustrations, but also that they are watching what happens moving forward. Thats something the National Security council spokesperson, john kirby talked about this morning. And of course, the us here is really going a step further by suggesting that there would be a Policy Change if they dont see changes by israel. The question is, what that looks like and what are the metrics here . One Senior Administration official said, thats something that the us could do is slow down weapons to israel. But there are all the point here for the us though, is that they are defending israel. They still believe israel has the right to defend itself what happens next though, still very unclear. All right. Priscilla alvarez forest in washington. Thanks so much for that reporting. And joining us now is seen in Military Analyst and retired Us Army Commanding general Mark Hertling great to have you on. Thanks so much for making time. We are marking the sixmonth anniversary and we as we just learned, the idf announcing, its withdrawing troops from that khan yunis in Southern Gaza, saying that the division has concluded its mission. What does this say to you from a Military Perspective . Im going to counter some of the things that were just said, jessica, if you dont mind, the 98th Division, the israeli division, thats been fighting for six months is really in tough condition right now, anytime you put a Combat Operation together like that for that long of a period of time, they have to rest and refit and i think israel is taking that advantage of time to pull them out, refit them, get them prepare for future missions that israel has also open the or is attempting open the Border Crossings, as you said, but id kinda counter a little bit of what the common thinking is that if youre on the hamas side of this fight, youre thinking israel has been pulled out of the fight at about the time they were getting ready to go into rafah Prime Minister netanyahu has said rightly or wrongly that this is the final battle against hamas, that there are four battalions and that could mean anywhere from two to 7,000 terrorist in that final area of rafah its like taking an operation to the end point and then stopping just short of completing the mission, hes getting a whole lot of pressure from the world and from the United States to stop the israeli operations. And perhaps thats right to do so right now and it will give israel a chance to refit, but its also giving hamas a chance to refit the Israeli Forces went into rapa excuse me, into khan yunis yesterday, and kept or not captured but saved the body of a hostage. There are still 130 hostages left, and there are a lot of terrorists left. So from a military standpoint, this is to truly an inflection point. And whats going on in the southern part of gaza. But id also say israel is preparing for a potential strikes by iran in different areas. And the potential for hezbollah to increase their activity on the northern border of israel as well and so what does this mean . In your opinion, for these followup missions that the idf was talking about, you just mentioned rafah, thats been a key area of focus for them for several weeks now, the president and the white and the Biden Ministration have been trying to talk with the Israeli Government about that. Do you think well see a Ground Incursion there . And how is that . All . And it yeah. Ive said from the very beginning, jessica, i think we will because that is the last stronghold of hamas. Hamas is dedicated itself to killing jews and destroying the israeli state. Theyre going to see this delay or this retrofit and the pulling out of the 98th Division as a semi victory in my view, thats how terrorists will react. They will publicize this and message this that yes, their strategy to bring the world and the United States to the fray of saying, israel, stop your actions. It has gotten too rough. They will see that as a victory i believe we will see an eventual operations inside of rafah. I dont know when that will be, but i think Prime Minister netanyahu is going to delay that because he is getting such political pressure from the United States and from the International Community i want to ask you about that because he is getting this increasing criticism and pressure from the us, from other nations over how israel is fighting this war. Do you think thats fair . I do. I absolutely i do. From a Military Perspective, i think the idf is conducting operations in a very focused way to defeat the terrorists. Unfortunately, in these kind of counterterrorism operations, you also have to have a political and diplomatic approach to this. And i dont i believe the netanyahu government has done that. They have not safe guarded the palestinian citizens inside of gaza. And thats creating more terrorists and its also bringing the diplomatic effort against israel so any kind of operation like this, jessica just cant consist of the military arm. It also has to include the diplomatic and the informational arm, as well as the safeguarding of innocent citizens. Israel has not done that, and that is what is called, thats come to their Detriment General Mark Hertling, were going to leave it there. Thanks so ch for your time on this sunday. We appreciate it thanks, jessi till aom House Intelligence Committee chair mike turner says, russian propaganda has infiltrated congress. Why he says this is impacting the Republican Party plus the us is in the grips of eclipse fever. Were going to take a look at how droves of totality. Flocking toreasf and the surge in interests more on whats ahead for some of its biggest stars during the cnn newsroom tonight new intern fuse with a return israeli hostages. What is the meaning of being hoste phrase no certainty, and the fight for the release of those still in captivity. 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