Martha good afternoon. Im Martha Maccallum in new york. Theres 22 americans who have been killed so far. We hope that number will not go higher at this point. We also now know that there are 17 confirmed missing americans and the white house now confirms that a number of them are hostages which raises a number of questions about the back and forth and the understanding that those individuals are indeed being held by hamas. So hamas is using at least 100 people as Human Shields or leverage for their cause inside of gaza city. These are the terrified Family Members of those that are kidnapped and those who are defined as missing. Watch this. Theyre not part of this war. Citizens and civilians should not be taken. The number 1 message were trying to convey is that time is critical. She was shouting, mommy, they shout at us. Were all wounded. Theyre taking children, women, back to gaza to use as Human Shields. Its appalling. The world be has to step up and get these hostages out. Martha th
Im Boris Sanchez in washington, d. C. Alongside Anderson Cooper in tel aviv. We begin this afternoon with the Israeli Government confirming some of the most disturbing reports that have surfaced in the wake of the hamas terrorist attacks this weekend. The Prime Ministers Office says that babies and toddlers were found decapitated in the Small Community of kfar aza. Thats the kibbutz where Israeli Defense forces say that hamas butchered civilians, though hamas denies it attacked children. The unprecedented atrocities have put months of Bitter Division within the Israeli Government on pause. They have now formed an Emergency Unity government and war cabinet and in a few hours the u. S. Secretary of state will be in israel to meet with senior officials. Anderson . Boris, here in israel 300,000 reservists have amassed near the border with gaza, signaling a possible Ground Invasion could be imminent. Overnight the first shipment of u. S. Munitions arrived here in israel, that of course to b
Whats happening between gaza and israel and what could happen here. So there is a lot of fear about that right now. Brings it home for so many. Wolf blitzer, thank you so much for being with us for this perspective for your reporting. We will see you tonight on the situation room. Thanks for joining us. We will see you back here tomorrow morning. Cnn news central continues our coverage. We begin with Breaking News for you this hour. The u. S. Is now in talks with israel and egypt to help Get Americans and other civilians out of gaza, but as thats happening there is fighting right now on two fronts. Israel is responding to air and ground attacks from its north and its south. Right now the idf says 300,000 israeli reservists have been called up to fight and are, quote, ready to execute the mission. This is as new rounds of israeli air strikes have been hitting critical hamas targets in gaza, but to the north israel is intensifying shelling inside lebanon, while at the same time preparing
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evacuate several top democrats after violent struggles between police and protesters outside dnc headquarters. is now in control of gaza s harbor and questions remain about what the idf found inside al shifa hospital, saying they ll soon present more evidence that it was used as a base of operations by hamas. and new video of alec baldwin on the set of rust . i m kate bolduan with sara sidner and john berman. this is cnn news central. breaking overnight, one person was arrested, six officers injured after a protest turned violent in washington d.c. members of congress, including top house democrats, were evacuated as tensions erupted between police and protesters. demonstrators outside the democratic national committee were calling for a cease-fire in gaza. guanta gabe cohen is on the ground for us. what happened and where do things stand now? reporter: yeah, so john, if you look behind me, you can see the police barricades still set up outside the dnc headquarters