Antony blinken wrapping up a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman within the last hour. The meeting comes just days after the saudi arabia, saudi arabia put a us backed plan to normalize ties with israel on ice. This is the war between israel and hamas escalates. Right now, israeli fighters are preparing to invade gaza after hamas militants launched a deadly attack on israel last week. Thousands of israelis and palestinians have been killed since the attacks and the war began in that includes 29 americans, 15 others remain unaccounted for, potentially being held hostage by Hamas Terrorists. For more on todays meeting between blinken and saudis crown prince, lets go now to molly line in new york. Molly. Hi, marianne. When asked by reporters about how his meeting with the crown prince of this very key us ally went. Us Secretary Of State Antony Blinken said a quick two words, quote, very productive. Blinken has been crisscrossing the middle east since the historic and horri
[background noises] text this is a fox news alert. Rocket strikes ramping up as israel prepares for a massive Ground Offensive on Hamas Terrorists in gaza. Civilians in Northern Gaza scrambling right now to evacuate. Good evening to you. With the special coverage of the attack against israel. It is 11 00 p. M. Here in new york city. 6 00 a. M. And israel and the war now claiming more than 3200 lives since hamas launched its initial attack on israel just one week ago. State department spokespersons conference to Fox 29 Americans have now been killed in israel. And 15 u. S. Citizens are unaccounted for board president bryden vowing to bring those american hostages home. To those Holding American hostages in gaza, you say what . I say we are going to do everything in our power to find them. Everything in our power. I am not going to go into the detail of that. But we are working on it. Those 15 part of a larger group. Hamas has taken over one or 50 total hostages. Israeli def Defense Forc
Good morning. Welcome to cnn this morning. Et im victor blackwell. And im amara walker. Were in the final window of the Safe Passage Window for people to evacuate to the south. Gazas Health Care Facilities in the north say they will not be evacuating, saying this warning is a Death Sentence for patients. The Israel Defense forces is accusing hamas of actively trying to stop people from leaving so that they can use them as, quote, human shields, but hamas says that israel is still carrying out air strikes. Now, cnn has verified videos from the scene of a large explosion along an Evacuation Route south of gaza city. We want to warn you this video is disturbing. Yeah. This was recorded friday before the Safe Passage Window was set up. Look closely here. Youll see the plumes of smoke, the cars burping. Hamas says 70 people were killed in this strike, 200 others were wounded. Cnn has reached out to the idf for comment on any air strikes in that area. Now, the sudden surge of people into Sou