News you were in the cnn newsroom. Im wolf blitzer in washington at this hour, were following major Breaking News out of gaza. Hundreds of civilians caught in the chaos of the israelhamas war morning to our viewers, the videos youre about to see are graphic and very disturbing. The palestinian red crescent, as well as several eyewitnesses now say hungry civilians were simply waiting in line for food in Western Gaza City when israeli tanks and drones open fire on the crowd Gazas Health Ministry says more than 100 people were killed in nearly 800 injured. Cnn is unable to independently confirm these numbers. A local journalists on the scene says most of the deaths came from the chaos that erupted when aid trucks try to escape the gunfire, the idf says the incident is under have the un a chief saying moments ago, and im quoting now, life is draining out of gaza at terrifying speed. Last hour, President Biden told reporters that he knows this violence will complicate any negotiations for a
Hour. Details of the incident are under review and they say dozens of gazans were crushed and trampled, the israeli troops say they open fire because they were under threat. Here are palestinians arriving at the hospital in the Northern Gaza strip, we are trying to piece together the timeline. The Hamas Run Health Ministry says more than 30,000 palestinians have now been killed since israel began its Military Offensive in october. It says the majority of those killed were women and children. That number equates to about 1. 3 of the 2. 3 million population of the territory. With the latest from jerusalem heres our middle east correspondent, yolande knell. Chaos in Northern Gazas hospitals. 0verwhelmed by hundreds of casualties. Many men had just set out to bring home sacks of flour for their hungry families and were shot, witnesses say, by the israeli army. They started firing, says this man, whose friend tamer was killed. The flour trucks ran over all the bodies. 0vernight, huge crowds
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hamas and widening violence in the region. also back home, as senate border talks approach the finish line, house republicans unveil articles of impeachment against president biden s homeland security secretary. hello. thank you for joining us. i m ryan nobles in washington in for andrea mitchell but she ll be joining us shortly with an interview with the qatari prime minister and foreign minister, but first, ths. service members have been killed and nearly three dozen others injured in a drone attack in jordan. u.s. central command says the attack happened at a remote base on the border with syria and iraq called tower 22. the white house is blaming an iran-backed militia with president biden vowing the u.s. will respond. these are the first american service member fatalities from hostile fire since the war broke out between israel and hamas on october 7th. courtney joins me now. so, have you, you actually have been to this base. what else can you tell us about the attac