Hello and welcome to all of you watching us Around The World here in the United States, canada, and everyone as we continue our breaking News Coverage of israel at war. Im kim brunhuber. Its 4 00 a. M. Here in atlanta and 11 00 a. M. In gaza city, where an incursion by Israeli Ground forces now appears imminent. Israel on saturday declared its ready to open a new phase in its war against hamas, with the focus on significant ground operations. The idf says it struck more than 100 hamas targets in gaza overnight. Earlier, israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met soldiers on the front lines offering words of support and telling them to be prepared. The u. S. Is now sending a second Carrier Strike group to the Eastern Mediterranean, as well as additional fighter jets. The move is intended to deter iran, hezbollah, and others from entering the conflict. Palestinian authorities in gaza say the death toll from israeli air strikes is now more than 2,300 people, including 300 in the past 2
Youre watching cnn news central. Im Boris Sanchez with brianna keilar. We want to go straight to anderson cooper, where sirens are going on. Whats going on . Sirens have not occurred here for really today, certainly over the last several days. Theyre quite extensive sirens. You hear them all over tel aviv. It started maybe 30 seconds ago. It remains to be seen. If rockets do come, they generally come from that direction that sounded like an Iron Dome Interception. That was a rather large explosion. That is something we have nod heard very much here in tel aviv. No, i think were fine in this location. Matthew, what do you think, was that an Iron Dome Interception . I Vice President hearty anything like that dinse sorb. And interesting that the sirens stop as soon as that hit. Im assuming that was an interception by iron dome, but theres cloud cover here, we didnt actually see the rocket, but theres quite a large explosion, and it is sirens had now stopped the there was an araid maybe a
Have the very latest on what has been happening overseas as the siege in gaza and in israel continues at this hour. I want to share just a bit of the news that weve been able to get israel pounding gaza city this morning. The barrage of airstrikes coming as Hundreds Of Thousands of israeli troops amass at the border for the Israeli Military says they havent exactly decided on a Ground Incursion into gaza yet. However, they are preparing for it. Meantime the Us Government maintaining it will stand with israel as it strikes back against hamas, who infiltrated israel over the weekend. And more than 1200 israelis are confirmed dead at this hour. 22 american citizens also confirmed dead and 17 others remain missing. The us has sent munitions to israel as well as moved ships from the navys uss Gerald R Ford Carrier Strike group to the Eastern Mediterranean sea. President biden and congress grappling now with how best to help israel as the conflict in the middle east grows. Meantime, a Bipart
Continue preparations for a possible Ground Assault into gaza. Also on the programme. Interrupted by a protester, but The Labour Leader sir keir starmer stays on course as he urges his party to seek a decade of National Renewal at the next election. And coming home, again euro 2028 will be jointly hosted by the uk and ireland. And coming up on bbc news england are back on track at the cricket world cup. Reece topley among the wickets, as the defending champions celebrate a comfortable victory over bangladesh. Good evening from jerusalem, where new details are just emerging as weve come on air of the ferocity of the attack by hamas gunmen on Southern Israel last saturday. The Israeli Defence forces have today been recovering the bodies of civilians, including babies, from a rural community, just a mile from the border with gaza. Whole families are reported to have been killed. Israeli soldiers on the ground have described what theyve seen as a massacre. Tonight well hear from our corres
Theres been International Condemnation of the taking of civilian hostages. Israel says some 100 civilians and soldiers have been kidnapped, but both israel and hamas have denied reports of a possible prisoner exchange. So far in this conflict, at least 900 people have been killed in israel, and almost 700 people have been killed in gaza following Israeli Military action. Right now were looking at a live pictures of gaza city, where weve seen many flashes of explosions in the past hour or so. Israels allies, including the us, germany, italy, france and the uk have released a joint statement criticising the weekends surprise strikes by hamas, saying lets get the latest from the ground now. 0ur international editor, jeremy bowen, is in the southern israeli city of ashkelon, just 13km or about eight miles north of the gaza strip, and has this report. Inside gaza, it looks every bit as if palestinians are feeling the full force of Israeli Military power. Israel says hamas is responsible for