Happening now, breaking news, hamas launches a shocking raid on Israel Killit 200 people and wounding more than 1,000. The Surprise Attack from air, land, and sea catching Israels Defense Forces totally offguard as fighters stormed across the gaza border and rockets poured into major cities in israel including tel aviv and jerusalem. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is vowing the Terrorist Group will pay what he calls a huge price for this deadly incursion. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer, and this is a Special Edition of the Situation Room israel at war. Lets get straight to the breaking news. The stunning deadly hamas raid on israel. Cnns Nic Robertson arrived in the country just a little while ago and was immediately forced to take cover even as soon as he got off the plane at the international airport. Watch this. Reporter just got off the plane here at the airport. The sirens have gone off. People are taking cover. We got off
thanks for joining me today. i ll see you back here next saturday at 8:00 a.m. eastern. smerconish starts now. terrorists turned tiktok influencer. i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. against the backdrop of anti-semitism running rampant online and off, osama bin laden was trending this week. dozens of young americans have posted videos on tiktok expressing sympathy with bin laden, the terrorist who orchestrated the september 11th attacks after they discovered a two decades old letter he wrote critiquing the united states, including its support of israel. among many heinous quotes, your law is law of the rich and wealthy people who hold sway in their political parties and fund their election campaigns with their gifts. behind them stand the jews, who control your policy, media and economy. there s a lot more to it. it s about 4,000 words, but you get the gist. it began to recirculate this week on tiktok, where videos on the topic garnered 14 million views by thursday. n
[laughter] bret: good evening. i m bret baier, breaking tonight, a new attack on u.s. forces in the middle east. senior defense officials say five rocket landed near the al asod air base in iraq. no injuries or damage reported in this, the 24th attack on american forces in the region since october 17th. all to be at the hands of iranian proxy grout. hamas enter second stage troops prepare for what he calls a long and difficult battle. the prime minister calling it a battle between situation and barbarism. american tanks and personnel moving deeper into gaza and today a female israeli soldiers was rescued from captivity. senior correspondent mike tobin is in southern israel tonight with the very latest, good evening, mike. mike: good evening, bret. daniel agarry says the freed israeli soldier has excellent memory. providing valuable information that will be used going forward she has been reunited with her family after being taken hostage october 7th. freed by the elite is
trained somewhat differently in terms of city police as to the campus environment, the fact that they have very young people there, some of whom do really stupid things sometimes on campus. and so they don t necessarily respond, but the same as a city officer, but i have to tell you, if it s true that this person fired a round, he is armed and dangerous. and they will have to treat him like that. they ll beware of their surroundings, of course, as any officer would be, with regard to innocent people around, but the other thing is they go about trying to get to locations, even an apartment on or off campus, housing a vehicle, they ve got to have in the forefront of their minds, the possibility of bobby traps. has this person set something up. is it likely? maybe not. but you can t just go crashing into a door or breaking a window on a car because you ve got to sense whether there s a problem or threat with that. they ll likely use a bomb dog at
underway to take a look at bobby traps, tripwires, landmines after the russian retreat several weeks ago. i want to show you the second kindergarten we visited in as many days that has been bombed out. thankfully all of the students had been evacuated before the shelling happened, but right now those residents in the western part of kyiv are picking up the pieces. take a listen to what the principal said earlier today. how hard is it to see like this? this is the oldest in the district, 53 years old. it happened on the 7th of march. somebody called me and said it was destroyed. i couldn t believe my ears. then i came here and it was so difficult. i couldn t sleep for two nights after that. when i called my staff, my