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israel across the border. i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. israeli defense forces expanding their ground operation in gaza overnight. an idf spokesman says the forces are in the field and continue the fighting with infinity and armored vehicles backed by massive strikes from the air and the sea, including the bombing of hamas tunnels. the bombardment also knocking out communications in gaza, creating a near information blackout. and largely cutting off the territory s more than 2 million people from the outside world. until now, israel s military had been conducting targeted raids with forces withdrawing after a few hours. it comes as an israeli ground offensive aimed at seizing and holding significant amounts of territory has been widely expected but does not appear that such a significant operation is under way yet. joining me from israel is cnn correspondent jeremy diamond. jeremy, still not the ground incursion that we had anticipated. reporter: well, at least no

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