Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. The great Rachel Maddo is obviously not here right now.

She is healing up after a round of COVID and we hope she will be back here at her usual time next Monday because we all need you Rachel.

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Now tonight we start in Gaza where the Israeli military is deep into what it is calling the second stage of its war with

Hamas. Israeli soldiers and tanks are slowly advancing deeper into Gaza. The

New York Times and the Washington Post are reporting this evening

the Israeli military has now reached the outskirts of Gaza City. It remains

unclear if these movements are the much anticipated ground invasion or a preview of that

invasion or whether Israel may yet decide against a full-scale invasion.

The Biden administration for its part is reportedly urging

Israel not to invade an Occupy Gaza. But in a rare news conference earlier, Prime Minister

Netanyahu made clear that his

country's operations and military operations will continue, casting the fight

against Hamas as a battle between good and evil.

NBC News, chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel, is on the Israeli-Gazah border, and he

filed this report tonight.i Prime Minister Netanyahu, under fire for not taking responsibility for being unprepared for

for Hamas's surprise attack, says there will be no ceasefire, that Israel must retaliate for the 1400

Israelis killed. Just as the United States would not agree to a ceasefire after

the bombing of Pearl Harbor or after the terrorist attack of 9-11, Israel

will not agree to a cessation of hostilities with Hamas after the horrific attacks of

October 7th. This is a time for war.

In Gaza more than 2 million civilians are suffering

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