hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world as we continue our coverage of israel at war. i m paula newton. and we begin with despair, outrage and arguments over a deadly airstrike on a densely packed refugee camp in gaza. and now a huge cloud of smoke can be seen from across the border in israel. israeli military has claimed responsibility for the attack saying that it was aiming for a top hamas commander and infect succeeded in killing him with gleams. the critics are asking at what cost? the scope of the devastation and the camp is not yet clear. the civilian casualty count appears to be significant. the impact of the explosion left huge craters in piles of debris that are being scoured for signs of life. one of them told cnn, quote, there were 78 huge hold in the ground full of killed people. body parts all over the place. it felt like the end of the world. and now earlier i spoke with the spokesman of the israeli defense
israel confirms its jets attacked a refugee camp in the north of gaza, saying it killed a senior hamas commander responsible for the murder and kidnapping of israelis on october 7th. a doctor has told the bbc that 120 people were killed and hundreds have been injured. three weeks into this war, yet more anguish for the civilians of gaza. the israeli military says the strike destroyed a network of tunnels it claims hamas built under the jabalia camp and says hamas is using civilians as human shields. we ll talk live to action aid, who say one of their team s mother, father, brother and sisters were all killed in the strike. and we ll ask a former us general whether washington s support for israel is open ended and unconditional. also tonight: unfit to respond to the challenges of the pandemic, completely unable to make decisions borisjohnson s top advisers during covid say their old boss was chaotic and dithering. are their claims of the scale of such incompetence worse th
today on inside politics, israeli ground troops push deeper in gaza as air strikes kill a hamas director. we re learning gripping new details how israeli forces rescued an idf soldier. plus, the fbi director issued a stark warning that the war in the middle east may inspire extremists in the u.s. to carry out more attacks against americans. we have a brand new cnn poll out revealing the state of the race in a crucial primary state, south carolina. donald trump may be the front frontrunner, but how dedicated are his supporters and which candidate has surged into second place? i m dana bash, let s go inside politics. we start with israeli forces on the hunt for hamas terrorists and closing in on gaza city itself. the idf says their troops are facing anti-tank missiles and machine gunfire as the ground assault intensifies. air strikes are not letting up, continuing to attack hundreds of hamas targets, hitting more than 300 overnight. jeremy diamond is in southern isr
all right. thanks for joining us. the news continues here on cnn happening now and escalating campaign battle over immigration. that s president biden orders new protections for some undocumented spouses and children of us citizens and slams donald trump for fueling fears of immigrants standby to here are trump is hitting back tonight. also this hour, an extraordinary seen in north korea as kim jong-un embraces letter putin and gives him the red carpet treatment. the us watching wearily as these adversaries of the west are cozying up and increasing their military cooperation at a moment of reckoning, that s what one senator is calling a tense hearing about growing worries over the safety of boeing jets. we re going to tell you how the testimony of bowman ceo played with lawmakers and with relatives of crash victims who were there in the room welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world i m wolf blitzer, a you re in the situation room we begin with presid
Happenstance . Yes, absolutely. The irony of roger stone rejecting a conspiracy theory. And so today, april 13th, 2017, was the day that america woke up to the sudden knowledge that bombs have mothers. That all of the conventional nonnuclear bombs in the American Military arsenal have one big beautiful mother. And there she is. The bombs official name for Bookkeeping Purposes in the military is the gbu43. The letters on the side of the bomb describe its function, what you can expect from it. Massive ordnance air blast. But the military doesnt want us to call it the gbu43, or the moab. Names are important to the military. They name their bases after war heroes, after general, including
generals who have committed treason by fighting in the Confederate Army against the United States of america. The biggest u. S. Military base in the world, the one with the biggest Military Population is in fort hood in texas, named after Treasonous Confederate General john bell hood. But the militarys mo