biden to address active duty military families gathered at the white house for a holiday barbecue ahead of tonight s fourth of july celebrations here in the nation s capital. be we ll go there live. a pair of mass shootings interrupting the festivities in two major u.s. cities. a gunman in philadelphia accused of killing five and injuring two children, one of the victims just 2 years old. just hours later in texas, three people were shot and killed in a fort worth parking lot. we ll get the latest on the investigations. plus, in israel, eight people are injured after a man rammed a pickup truck into a crowd of people gathered near a tel aviv shopping center. police say the man then jumped out of his vehicle and began stabbing people before being killed by an armed civilian. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. wolf blitzer s off today i m alex marquardt, and this is a situation room special report. we are standing by to hear from
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operation is still ongoing. this was a massive two-day military operation, nearly 1,000 if not more than 1,000 israeli forces on the ground. we saw multiple drone air strikes, we saw bulldozers on the streets tearing up these roads. they say to remove ieds. the israeli military saying the whole point of this operation was to dismantle jenin as a safe haven for militants. we ve heard from palestinian officials that 12 have been killed. so far the israeli military is claiming that no noncombatants have been killed. but they are acknowledging that amongst the more than 100 injure thursday are civilians. you injured there are civilians. you can understand how there could be civilians injured. overnight we saw thousands of palestinians fleeing the refugee camp to try and not too to avoid getting hurt. even if this does wind down, even if people are able to return home today or tomorrow
they re tearing up the streets in order to remove ieds. of course, we have those drone air strikes. and then we ve also seen actually israeli tanks outside of the city limits, but it s hard to overemphasize the size of tanks and what that brings to mind. the israeli military are saying that of those eight that were killed, they believe that all of them were militants, were c combatants. but benjamin netanyahu saying that this operation will continue. take a listen. in recent months, jeanine has become a safe haven for terrorists. from that safe haven, terrorists perpetrated savage attacks, murdering israeli civilians, men, women and children. as many children as they could find. as i speak, our troops are
us. what s the latest? reporter: we re in hour 20 of this major israeli military operation, the largest of which we have seen since 2002, since the days, and we re hearing right now that women and children are leaving the refugee camp likely in fear of what will happen overnight. the israeli military saying that they undertook this operation starting overnight with what they called very targeted drone air strikes. there have been seven to ten of these air strikes. but these are in intensity that we have not seen in quite some time. i was in jeanine yesterday to speak with residents there because it has been already a very volatile situation there. jeanine has seen several israeli military raids but today residents are saying they ve never seen anything like this. hundreds upon hundreds of israeli forces have been coming into camp.