Cnn newsroom. Hi, everyone. Im jessica dean in need work and we have breaking news out of Northern Gaza tonight where israel is preparing to reopen the erez Border Crossing and agreed to use its Port Of Ashdod to get humanitarian aid into gaza. This as the un humanitarian aid chief calling that situation in gaza, quote, of betrayal of humanity. It is now just hours before the israelhamas war reaches its six month mark with more than 33,000 People Killed this week. A deadly israeli strike killed seven humanitarian aid workers from World Central Kitchen, cnns Nic Robertson is in jerusalem and nic israel is letting these aid trucks in what its going to be hard for them to actually get to civilians, walk us through all of this so what we know about the Border Crossing is that the israeli, israeli officials are saying they are expecting trucks, aid trucks have yet to cross over and arrows. Its not clear how many trucks is not clear what therell be carrying. In fact, very few details at the moment now that about that possible aid mission into Northern Gaza, it would be very significant if it does happen, the commitment from the Israeli Government to open areas is a significant commitment. The white house has said that theyre watch very closely. The difficult is that will exist, the roads that link that northern crossing into some of the northern pounds there have been heavily damaged in the fighting. Some of them some of the road there are completely blown out. The tarmac gone. So thatll make heavy aid trucks navigating those roads, particularly difficult. We were there today we could hear a lot of Heavy Machine Gunfire in the area of the arrows ball for the crossing. And we could also here the detonation of heavier explosions, not too far away. Again, this will present a problem for any humanitarian convoys are going to move in that typically and in other areas in gaza, there, there are organized safe routes and safe times but often these are problematic. They divert particularly to the ground military realities. And if its not safe for the convoy to go into a certain area, then it wont be able to get that all of these details have been difficult for other convoys coming into the southern part of the gaza strip to get him. We know that the humanitarian need in the north is big. Its difficult. The un says that many people there are close to starvation. Theyre estimated 300,000 thousand people in the north. But of course, getting aid trucks directly into the north rather than the south where they get to now would be a very big change. But its it is there are still many hurdles to actually getting these convoys in Nic Robertson lifeforce in jerusalem tonight. Thanks so much for that reporting. And also tonight new threats of retaliation from iran is a highest ranking commander after israeli war, planes bombed Irans Embassy and syria this week the remarks came at the funeral for seven military officers, members of irans revolutionary guard killed in that strike. And now america is on high alert for a quote, significant attack by iran in The Middle East that could target israelis or americans cnn, White House CorrespondentPriscilla Alvarez joining us now, live from washington, dc and priscilla, us Officials Say the Biden Administration was not involved in the strike and had no notice of it. Thats right. And that is also what theyve conveyed to iran and theyve also warned iran that they should not use this airstrike as quote, a pretext to attack us personnel and facilities. As you said, theyre the us and Israeli Governments are on high alert for a Potential Retaliation by ran for that is really airstrike. Now, they are also in close contact for what they described as an inevitable attack. Now, its unclear exactly when this would happen or what it would look like. It could happen in multiple different ways. But the expectation from us officials is that it could be as soon as next week now to be clear here, these could be a ran could hear be targeting us, or is really assets in The Middle East. So this is specific to that region. Now, this has also been a major topic of discussion between President Biden and israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu during their call. Earlier this week week and the big concern here for the United States, these that if there is a direct strike by a ran on israel, it could spark a broader regional conflict. Of course, just this is something that the us has been very concerned about. The white house in particular, trying to avoid this conflict, getting any wider bringing in any anymore countries in the region. So that is where the focus is right now, is trying to keep tabs on what is happening, what could happen, positioning to be prepared for that. And also making sure that this remains a contained conflict, not one that would spread more in the region that has been a priority for them. White house correspondent Priscilla Alvarez from washington. Thanks so much for that update. And for more on this. Lets turn to our first guest. Now, democratic congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi of illinois. Hes also a member of the house intelligence committee, congressman. Great to have you with us on this saturday afternoon. Thanks for making time. Have you received any briefings on this looming threat from iran no, not in the last week or so since weve been out of washington, look forward to receiving that when we go back early next week, the Biden White House is priscilla just laid out there has worked to avoid this war from spreading in the region. Do you think its possible to continue down that path or does a wider conflict seem inevitable at this point . Now its not inevitable. I think that the iranians dont necessarily want a full, full allout war at this point. At the same time i think that at any can, at any point in this conflict, you can have a conflagration that kind of gets out of control, especially if hezbollah starts to unleash its hundred 50,000 missiles on israel, for instance, from the north of israel of course, the who ties have continued there attacks on shipping and on other interests. So you have a very volatile situation and thats why its so important that the katara is and others who have influenced with a different actors, put pressure on hamas us and others to come to the table and have an immediate ceasefire in israel and gaza so that we can actually deal with the underlying issues and israels military has said the strike that killed the seven Food Aid Workers from World Central Kitchen was unintentional and quote, a Grave Mistake we also know that the idf has fired two of its officers but some western leaders and the World Central Kitchen still want an independent investigation at this point, the National Security council says theres no plans for the us to conduct a separate are independent investigation here. Whats whats your take on this . My take is i think that we have to look at all the results or the israeli investigation and determine whether its credible or not. But most importantly, we have to see further steps to a make sure that they minimize harm to civilians be that they might let a lot more humanitarian aid come into the gaza strip and then see, as i said before, we need to get an immediate halt in hostilities. This is crucial so that hostages can be released humanitarian aid can flow in then you create some political space for actual negotiations for a much more longer ceasefire, longer truce, a longerterm solution to actually occur ive been helping to lead calls in congress for this twostate solution, there has to be a light at the end of the tunnel otherwise, if you dont have it, youre going to have endless violence, but you cant have those types of negotiations or even a broader regional set of negotiations, unless you have this immediate halt to hostilities, not only on the israeli side, but on the hamas side, where the qataris, for instance, have tremendous leverage and while, you all have been on your recess, there have just been a lot of shifts happening and a lot of movement in the israeli relationship. We now know that more than 30 house democrats, which includes former House Speaker nancy pelosi, have written President Biden asking him to stop sending arms to israel until there is an independent probe on that attack. We were just talking about and stronger humanitarian protections for gazans. Senator Bernie Sanders is taking a similar stand. We can play what he said to jake tapper for this week bottom line is, we are looking at one of the worst humanitarian disasters that we have seen in a very, very long time were literally this moment, looking at Hundreds Of Thousands of children starving to death because israel is not allowing the humanitarian trucks into gaza to my mind, israel should not be getting another nickel in military aid until these policies are fundamentally changed. And congressman, just to remind everyone, there was an aid package for ukraine and israel and taiwan that passed out of the senate. It is stalled in the house, not been put up for a vote. What do you think all of this means for aid to israel . Well, i think that what it means is that for practical and other matters, speaker johnson needs to bring these components the floor. I think they will be probably split it up as separate bills and very importantly, which i dont think has been mentioned theres a 9 billion monetary and aid component to what the senate sent to the house. That also requires immediate, immediate passage as well. I think that if you put all four of those components on the floor, whether together or separately, that they will each receive requisite support to pass the house but it needs to happen right away because we havent gotten into this, but ukraine is in a desperate situation this point theyre getting outgun to maybe five or nine to one every time they fire one artillery shell, five to nine come back their way. And so if we are to have any hope of helping the ukrainians preserve their position, let alone gain, weve got to pass the ukraine bill asap along with those other component parts. And where do you stand on Pudding Conditions around aid to israel . There some say that you absolutely cant do that for an hour. Why the they deserve to have that money and use it as they need to others, like nancy are like other democrats have said that it needs to be conditioned around other factors. What do you think . There absolutely are conditions right now as the National Security memorandum, 20, which just got issued by the white house, reiterated the conditions exist with regard to any Arms Transfers to israel or other countries with regard to allowing for humanitarian aid to enter the conflict zone, especially us humanitarian aid. And secondly, that the weaponry that we provide is used in in compliance with international law. And so im looking forward to that what the white house assessment is underway that particular memorandum which is supposed to come out in the next several weeks. Thats going to be something that many of us in congress are looking at it very carefully before we let you go tomorrow will mark six months since that horrific, deadly attack by hamas on israel that started all of this we also know that tomorrow hamas representatives or do in cairo at the stalled Hostage Negotiations what do you think the cia director bill burns is also going to be there . What do you think the us can do to try and get those hostages home, stay home to their families, which include some american citizens still well i think. The us is going to have to put pressure on all sides of this point. I just dont think that mr. Netanyahu is understanding the level of concern that people have here with regard to bringing an immediate halt to hostilities to bear. I think that the other issue is that the qataris i think are giving too much room to hamas in the negotiations. So that they can kind of play around dither, and preserve the opportunity to regroup for another set of attacks. Remember . Remember, hamas has yet to say that they would actually not perpetrate another october 7. Theyve said that they will do it again and again and again so when you have this type of situation, the us must bring as much pressure to bear on the egyptians and the qatari is to leverage what they have with hamas to bring them to the table, even at the same time that were trying to get mr. Netanyahu and his government to get to a deal asap i congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, thanks so much for taking time. We appreciate it. Thank you so much so i had this afternoon a deadly shooting at a florida night club. 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