We are live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington. Good evening. We begin with Breaking News for the First Time Since that barbaric Terror Attack in israel. The president of the Palestinian Authority is condemning the killing saying, quote, the actions of hamas do not represent the Palestinian People. In the meantime, the death toll has now risen to over 1,400, including 30 americans. Sources now tell cnn that israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who has invited President Biden to visit, even as Israeli Forces prepare for a massive ground offensive. At this hour, troops continue their suffocatiing blockade of the gaza strip. Israeli Defense Forces say they have killed one hamas defender today amid a barrage of some 250 strikes across gaza. You can see much of the rubble there. We are hunting hamas comm commanders everybody from the butcher, the political leader, and everybody down from him, are dead men walking. Weve been able to kill quite a few hamas commanders, som
Civilians are not warned about impending air strikes. Theres been International Condemnation of the taking of civilian hostages. Israel says some 100 civilians and soldiers have been kidnapped. But both israel and hamas have denied reports of a possible prisoner exchange. So far in this conflict, at least 900 people have been killed in israel, and almost 700 people have been killed in gaza following Israeli Military action. Right now lets look at some pictures of gaza city. You can see it is rather dark. That is where a barrage of rocket fire has been exchanged in the past hours. Meanwhile, israels army is calling up 300,000 reservists and moving tanks close to the gaza strip in preparation for a land incursion. In a televised address on monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on israels Opposition Parties to form a National Unity government and said quote air strikes in gaza are only the beginning. Translation hamas have made a mistake of historic proportions. We will exact a
Troops into israel, but pledged support for it as it fights back against hamas, the us releasing a statement along with four other nations condemning the attacks and calling for peace in the middle east. In other developments, the armed wing of hamas has threatened to kill israeli hostages if Palestinian Civilians are not warned about impending air strikes. Theres been International Condemnation of the taking of civilian hostages. Israel says some 100 civilians and soldiers have been kidnapped. But both israel and hamas have denied reports of a possible prisoner exchange. So far in this conflict, at least 900 people have been killed in israel, and almost 700 people have been killed in gaza following Israeli Military action. Right now were looking at a live pictures of gaza city, where weve seen flashes of explosions in the past hour or so. Israels allies, including the us, germany, italy, france and the uk have released a joint statement criticising the weekends surprise strikes by ham
Horrible day, on holiday in israel for the jewish people. We see from this morning at 6 30am a combined offensive this morning at 6 30am a combined offensive from hamas, from land, air, and offensive from hamas, from land, air, and See Offensive from hamas, from land, air, and see. There is currently, as we speak, air, and see. There is currently, as we speak, two things going on. First of all. We speak, two things going on. First of all, fighting in these moments, in multiple of all, fighting in these moments, in multiple hot links hot points surrounding in multiple hot links hot points surrounding the gaza strip. There has been surrounding the gaza strip. There has been massive deployments approved by the ministry of defence, and thousands of reservists have been and thousands of reservists have been called for duty, because israel has declared a state of war, and we are in has declared a state of war, and we are in a has declared a state of war, and we are in a war has declared a st
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