Good evening. Thanks for watching cnns special coverage of israel at war. Im Anderson Cooper live in tel aviv at this hour. My colleague, john berman is in new york. We will have the perspective from the ground in israel and israel announces a war is coming. The Ground Operation as troops gather near the border with gaza. Israel power pounded the gaza strip from the air. A hamas commander who played a part in last saturdays attack was killed and the u. S. Officials are warning more than a Million People leaving would lead to disaster. Tonight, were learning more u. S. Military power is heading to the middle east. The second Carrier Strike group led by the uss Aircraft Carrier in sending a message to iran and its proxies. The state Department Said the number of u. S. Citizens killed is gone up and 59 americans are still unaccounted for. Anderson. We go to the strike group. We have the latest. These are two of the navys most powerful warships. Whats the plan . Anderson, this is broadly s
Thank you for joining us. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. As the six hour window Safe Passage Out of Northern Gaza expired last hour, israeli troops were seen amassing near the gaza border. We want to show you video taken in the last hour showing heavy weaponry arriving in southern israel. Inside gaza, Tens Of Thousands of people have left but israel has urged 1. 1 civilians in gaza to relocate. Idf claims hamas is stopping people from leaving. Hospitals have said they cannot and will not leave because if they were to leave, a Death Sentence would then be on their patients and now the u. N. Is warning that many people who are pregnant, are elderly or have a disability also will not be able to leave. This is a humanitarian crisis in gaza. The u. N. Is warning that the situation in gaza is a Matter Of Life And Death and not just for those who are evacuating but also for the 2 Million People who risk running out of clean water. The u. N. Says they need aid sent to gaza now are people will
Victims and the gaza war are civilians. Thousands of palestinians have been killed or injured. The numbers keep rising. Israel is intensifying its bombing of gaza after Mass Shootings and abductions of israelis by hamas fighters. One of the most densely Populated Areas on earth is now under complete siege, depriving 2. 5 Million People of food, medicine, and water supplies. Hamas has fired barrage after barrage of rockets into israeli towns and cities. Protection of civilians is a fundamental principle of International Law governing conflict. What role is it playing here . We will beats be discussing this with our guests. First, this report. A humanitarian crisis is unfolding in gaza. Israels Bombing Campaign has killed hundreds of palestinians and forced tens of thousands from their homes. Gaza is under complete siege. No food, water, fuel is getting into the enclave. The u. N. Human Rights Office regards this as a violation of International Law. Sieges that endanger the lives of civi
Again this cant be allowed to be repeated. With regard to the second we have been very focused, we had been since day one and we want to make sure no other country or entity is being taken advantage of in this situation. The president is very clear about that. He said very strongly that any state not considering that should not. Do not do it. And has back that up in a number of ways including as mentioned the other day, deploying our largest Aircraft Batter Group to battle group. So that is clearlyr anyone contemplating to get engaged to make sure they dont do it. Beyond that, Big Parts Of My Own conversations throughout this trip including today is working with other countries and making sure that they are using their own context and their own influence to make that case that no one else should be taking this moment to create more trouble. Especially in some other place. I should mention as well that earlier today i had a very good conversation with the president of authority and they