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air strikes from israel decimate residential buildings and critical city infrastructure there. look at some of the photos coming in to us here, and video as well. israel says its missions are specific, such as this new video, which the israeli military says shows it focusing, or forcing, targeting forces, rather, targeting a racket being launched from a home inside gaza. in the meantime, the death toll inside gaza, though, is more than 300, and that includes 72 of which are children. karl penhaul is is in gaza city right now. let s go to karl s report filed just a few minutes ago. reporter: a soft plea. daddy, don t leave me. mahmoudsod is only 3 and never pick add fight in his life, so he can t understand why he s being punished.
take a look. ah in this video you can see israeli soldiers setting off explosives to close those tunnels. more than 350 people killed inside gaza and the israeli military says another israeli soldier sdied in the fighting. today wolf blitzer spoke to the military spokesman saying hamas is using animals to carry bombs. they have explosive donkeys they re using now. what does that mean? an explosive donkey. explain that. y take an animal, load explosives on it and send it into the forces hoping it will explode near the forces. that happened today? it was late last night. along the israeli-gaza border, what are you seeing right now today? reporter: well, what we re seeing, really, is a lot of movement of tank units. in fact, this is, you can see
behind me, the series 3 tanks. seeing a lot of them moving up and down really getting into wigs for more activity inside of gaza. this is up and down the gaza border. you mentioned the tunnels. in fact,error this morning there was an infiltration of several hamas militants into israel using just such a tunnel, uncorrespondented by apparently an israeli forces patrol and driven back. one of those militants were killed but carrying a number of weapons. a lot of concern whether or not they were going to attack communities in this area. but this is exactly what the idea is, says they are fighting against. we re waiting to see now if that operation is going to be expanded further into gaza. possibly tonight or tomorrow. well, indeed the idea of activities that commenced last night in ground mobilization are primarily to deal with the tunnels. as we go into the gaza strip, cross into the fence, clearly, the tunnels that are utilized to
infill trace israel and carry out devastating damage and death and carnage, they are primary targets. i would point out that over the last 11 days we ve had about 1,600 rockets launched from gaza. so those would be a secondary target as well. these are the type of threats we are up against. reporter: that was the spokesperson for israeli force, peter lerner. the focus so far has been on the tunnels. we understand from the idea they are now looking to have staging areas inside the, inside the gaza border area, possibly to expand operations so that they actually have urban combat inside the cities of gaza. that hasn t happened yet, but clearly they re mobilizing for action soon, fredricka. keep us posted. atika shubert, thank you so much. and learning more about