Hi, everyone, it's 4 o'clock in New York, it's 11 p.m. in Israel and in Gaza, and today

in all hands on deck approach from the Biden administration and handling a crisis that

began 10 days ago, the heinous terror attack in Israel that killed more than 1,400 people.

A crisis that continues to threaten the innocent lives of hundreds of hostages and endangered

the entire civilian population of Gaza in a spiraling humanitarian calamity.

In the next hour, President Joe Biden will depart for Israel for what could be one of

the most important trips of his presidency.

His visit is, of course, a show of support for an ally grieving the murder of more Jewish

lives than at any time since the Holocaust.

But also bracing for a deadly and dangerous point in this conflict with Hamas.

It is also a high-wire diplomatic endeavor with nothing less than the possibility of a

major regional conflict breaking out, looming over every fraught development, and every

development on the ground in the last few hours has been that.

Fraught is also added fuel to a very volatile situation.

There are reports of a deadly strike on a hospital in Gaza, and the hospital was filled,

of course, with the wounded and with Palestinians seeking shelter.

Hundreds are believed to have been killed in the strike.

But a spokesman for the Israeli military denies targeting the hospital, and says the hospital

was not a target.

Moments ago, they said that they believe that a rocket from the militant group Islamic

Jihad is to blame.

Now, the ramifications of the strike on the hospital are already being felt.

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