Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us from the United States and all around the world. Im laila harrak. Its now 8 00 a. M. In israel where that country is more than gore hours into the most serious threat to its security in modern memory. Perhaps ever. You are looking now at live pictures of ashkalon as the sun comes up. Its widely expected a massive Military Operation will soon engulf this palestinian enclave. Hamas video shows a group of militants storming the gaza border on saturday. One of the most fortified places on the border. Israel confirms a significant number of israelis, including at least one soldier, have been captured by hamas militants. The image youre about to see is deeply disturbing. It shows the motionless body of a Hostage Being paraded in gaza in the back of a vehicle. Persons whereabouts and condition are currently unknown. The Israeli Militarys warning Palestinian Civilians in gaza to leave their homes immediately because of the Military Reprisals to come.
This is cnn breaking news. Good morning. Welcome to cnn this morning. It is sunday, october 8th. Im victor blackwell. Im amara walker. Our colleague Becky Anderson is live in tel aviv as we continue to follow developments in israel. We will be checking in with her in just a moment. Fighting in israel and gaza is raging into a second day. At least 350 israelis are dead and more than 300 palestinians have been killed. And thousands of people on both sides of the border have been injured since the attack began 24 hours ago. Today hamas says it has fired at least 100 rockets into southern israel. Many of their fighters are still in the country after infiltrating the border yesterday. At this hour, Israeli Defense forces are still fighting to remove militants from eight different areas inside the country. In gaza, israel is striking back. Israeli forces are using drones to keep hamas militants from crossing the border to israel. Idf sent dozen of airstrikes into gaza. They say they have hit
Nearly 1600 were wounded after the retaliatory action into the gaza strip. Dozens of Israeli Soldiers and civilians are being held hostage, as part of an unprecedented attack by Palestinian Militants on israeli territory. Israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his country is at war. His government says the Palestinian Militant Group hamas launched more than 2,000 rockets into the country, killing at least 100 people, ani and wounding nearly a thousand. Officials in the gaza strip say at least 198 people have been killed there, in retaliatory israeli strikes. an12 in retaliatory israeli strikes. The barrage of rocket fire from gaza into israeli territory began just after dawn, with explosions heard on the streets of ashkelon. Sderot is one of the towns thought to have been infiltrated by militants. With the latest on this fast escalating conflict, heres our middle east correspondent Yolande Knell and a warning that you may find some of her report upsetting. Israeli partygoers f
Is what that area of southern israel looked like today. Just look at all that smoke coming from burning buildings. If we zoom in you can see the heat spots that weve enhanced so you can see them. Now, all these cross border infiltrations by Palestinian Militants taken together with the thousands of rockets fired at israel represent a massive Intelligence Failure from israel. It should have seen this coming because they had regular military patrols going along that border. This is footage taken some years earlier. But they had cameras, sensors, informants inside the militant groups. And yet hamas was able to charge through that border, crossing it with things like this bulldozer, paragliders, by land, sea and air, and all the while, hamas has been sending more missiles into places like this, tel aviv, this office and residential block here, hitting buildings while the israeli airforce hits gaza. However this ends, it will go down as one of the worst failures of Israeli Intelligence in 5
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