Happening now, israel formally declares war on hamas and the Palestinian Terrorist groups strikes back. Breaking news. Hamas has just fired a new barrage of rockets at israel tonight. And were learning that there has been a direct strike on the city of ash. We welcome our viewers here in the United States and Around The World. And im wolf blitzer and this is a Special Edition of the situation room. Israel at war. Announcer this is cnn Breaking News. And were following all of the Breaking News, our correspondents are positioned in israel and indeed Around The World to bring you all of the latet developments in this escalating crisis right now. Raising enorm ow fears of a major war in the middle east. Lets begin with Nic Robertson, youre not far away from the border with gaza. What more do we know about the new round of attacks that is underway right now . Reporter weve been able to see a couple of things from this location, wolf. Were seeing rockets taking off that are not intercepted q
Ill be back at 6 00 p. M. Eastern for our special coverage for israel at war. Thank you for watching. Im wolf blitzer. Special breaking News Coverage continues right now with erin burnett outfront. Good evening. Welcome to a Special Edition of outfront. Israel at war. The breaking developments, the death toll rising as the sound of sirens and explosions can be heard across southern and Central Israel after a Surprise Attack by hamas. An israeli official said at least 300 israelis have been killed. The former Prime Minister of israel Neftali Bennett telling me the ultimate death toll will be much higher. And tonight there are reports that gun battles are still taking place nearly 24 hours after militants first entered israel by land and sea and air, firing 2,200 rockets, according to israel. And this new video, which im going to show you now, shows heavily armed hamas fighters moving through one neighborhood. You can hear the scream as militants try to force their way into homes. Theyre
military truce. u.s. diplomats are scrambling to extend that agreement since a number of hostages are still being held captive. also, the red cross that was supposed to gain access to them, has not had access. we know a key part of the ongoing talks is getting adult males released. it s been women and children so far almost entirely with a few exceptions. we know israeli troops are at the ready, prepared operat operationally, along the truce lines in gaza should this pause expire and military actions resume. let s start here with jeremy diamond. jeremy, you re in israel. we saw people in the street celebrating. they re hoping for the arrival of some more hostages coming from gaza. reporter: yeah, that s true. when we got here earlier this evening, there were just a few people, but word spread quickly that the group of hostages was set to come through here on their way to the air base in front of me. what we saw earlier in the last hour was these scenes of absolute jubilat
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