menendez. we begin with heavy bombing underway right now as israel announces a new phase in its war against hamas. the past 24 hours, israeli forces have intensified ground attacks inside the gaza strip, and increased the already constant airstrikes. nbc news crew member in gaza says the situation is growing desperate for civilians, quote, no water, no food, no medicine, no fuel, no electricity, and the bombing does not stop. the palestinian health ministry reports more than 7500 people have died in gaza, 1400 have been killed in israel. protesters around the world today calling for a humanitarian cease-fire. it s real s prime minister, netanyahu, dismissing the criticism, and predicting a long war ahead. there are moments in which a nation faces two options. to exist or to seize. right now, this is the kind of test we are facing, i have no doubt how it will end. we will come out triumphant. we ve eradicated the infrastructure of terrorism, and it s only the beginning of th
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is too young to understand what s happening but knows enough to say the name and been told who is inton. about shar al assad. after overseeing a year-long campaign of repression followed by outright chaarnage, he promid to stop. he toured the streets of homes. two videos side by side, the dictator, the other the bombardment before he arrives in homs and almost every day since then. 57 people died. today in homs and across syria tanks rolled, shells exploded, snipers fired, and at least 145 people died. in other words, the slaughter goes on. more than 700 have been killed since assad announced a cease-fire on april 2nd. nearly 1,100 since he agreed to that u.n. proposal just two weeks ago. this is video claiming to show victims of a mass execution in homs. according to the opposition one neighborhood there has seen eight straight days of heavy bombardment. parts of the city still after all this time being blown to pieces, burned to the ground. in some neighborhoods, troops hav