Infrastructure. New Drone Footage Shows what idf strikes have done so far, and for the roughly 2 million palestinians trapped in the enclave, half of whom are kids. Hunger is mounting. Israels complete resource blockade of the strip is now in day four. One woman sheltering with her husband and 2yearold told nbc news Over Whatsapp the only food that they have left are some chick peas, and that she says its not going to last more than a day. Officials in israel say the number of those kidnapped by hamas and are being held there in gaza is between 100 and 150. That does include american citizens. Here with Secretary Of State Antony Blinken in tel aviv a short time ago. The families of the missing, theres an unrelenting agony of not knowing the fate of their loved ones. Something that i dont think most of us can truly understand, truly contemplate if youre not in their shoes. No one should have to endure what theyre going through. Were doing everything we can to secure the release of the h
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we want to remind you of a major leader of isis, has been believed to have been killed in a raid. a source says special operations commandos carried out the raid. al baghdadi has been in hiding for the last five years. in 2014, he proclaimed an isis caliphate. u.s. president donald trump is expected to make an announcement in the coming hours. that s what we ve been told. the administration official said that the speech he will deliver will be foreign policy-related. he did say and tweeted out, that something really big has just happen e happened. ben wedeman, when you think of your experience in the spring.
video here shows the middle operation near the turkish border. a witness described to cnn hearing several helicopters and war planes and gunfire about an hour last night. cnn cannot confirm this is, in fact, from saturday s raid that is recorded. iraqi state tv says this is video of the aftermath of the raid. a defense official saying it appears baghdadi detonated a suicide vest as special operations commandos closed in. we want to tell you more about the impact baghdadi has had on not just the lives infant middle east but around the world. before isis existed he was detained in 2004 several months at a u.s.-run prison in southern iraq but he was later released. two years later, the islamic state of iraq was created and in 2010 he ascended to the leadership after his predeces r predecessors were killed in az
so i would expect that they ll be more of these accesses by iranian hard-liners to say that it s not things have not really changed. one other theory in addition to that, that they re arresting more americans potentially to hold as some sort of swap bea think want iranians held in american jails to be released. they want to do a prisoner swap if they think they can get more americans under their, in their prison system, maybe they can publicly spoken about some sort of swap like this. maybe one of their intentions as well. we ll see what happens on that. reporter: right. worrisome development. thanks, elise for that. more on all of this. joining us is the democratic congressman, john gare mendy of california, key member of the house armed services committee. thanks for joining us. good to be with you, wolf. very, very interesting day today. an important day and several significant changes unfolding. your sense of whats going on. first the decision to send up to 50 u.s.