it s 1:30 in the morning on the east coast of the united states. this is cnn newsroom. the headlines we re tracking this hour. as the remains of the plane crash victims in eastern ukraine are being collected, world leaders are calling on vladimir putin to use his influence to get separatists to lay down their arms. intense flashes of light saturday night from explosions just outside gaza city. israel says two of its soldiers were killed. five others were wounded there. it is expandiconsidering expans ground troops to take on hamas.
i have seen hundreds of people, probably well into the thousands, coming individually and as families from the neighborhood. and you say there really is nowhere for them to go. they re sitting beside the road. a lot of them are just sitting wherever they can. lots of cars going by. people taking them away or people from the neighborhood leaving, but hundreds of people. the closer you get, the more people you see. okay, ben, we ll leave it there for the time being. we appreciate the update on the news. there does appear to be a major israeli operation in a neighborhood of gaza city. hundre hundreds, maybe a thousand people, have fled that neighborhood. orv the palestinians saying almost
of gaza city. this is an area which in the last couple of days the israeli forces dropped leaflets saying there would be intensive air strikes in this part of the gaza strip. they re going after the hamas rocket stockpile as well as their ability to fire those rockets as well. we also know there are israeli troops are on the ground. part of an operation the israelis say they will continue and plan to expand. more than 300 palestinians have been killed. five israelis have been killed. they re used to there being some kind of major strike on this neighborhood in eastern gaza city. these areas are very densely populated. there are refugee camps. the streets are narrow and winding. there are many people who live in this area.
prefers israeli air strikes to artillery because he has at least the air strikes are precise. such now is the situation in gaza. the ground troops have been there in gaza for a number of days now. bright flashes of explosives lit up the saturday night sky just outside of gaza city in what is being described as a major battle. 62 palestinians were killed saturday, the biggest daily death toll so far. hamas continues to fire rockets at israel, sometimes one every two minutes. israeli forces are also continuing air strikes. this video it says shows israeli pilots backing off on an air strike because children are present. but not all children have been spared in this conflict. gaza officials say at least 72 children have been killed, 1/5
israeli offensive begins. we saw until 1:00 in the morning the apartments in the neighborhood were ambulances are coming from the direction of the neighborhood towards central gaza city. it seems that israeli forces have really unleashed a lot of fire power on this very crowded neighborhood of gaza city. the israelis had previously warned the inhabitants to leave and many insisted they had nowhere to go. people in jean aren t going because they re already full. there are more than 60,000 in those schools. a lot of people are simply sitting by the side of the road and they don t know where to go. all the meanwhile, there is