or terms. our support to israel s right to defend itself is ironclad as you ve heard me say a number of times, and that s not going to change. it s critical, as i said earlier, that hamas not be able to threaten israel from gaza or even threaten gaza anymore. you know, that s an interest that we all share. that s a common interest with all of us, and so today we had great discussions about the status of the campaign, about goals and objectives, and about how to reduce harm to civilians in the battle space, and to and the need to ensure a sustained flow of humanitarian assistance into gaza. you know, we can offer some insight based upon our own experience in fighting terrorist groups and certainly that enabled us to have great discussions and we also have some great thoughts about how to transition from high intensity operations to lower intensity and more surgical operations, so we had great discussions on all of those issues. on lebanon, we ve been clear that we don t want
in a sign of the growing hunger and desperation in gaza, crowds of people have looted aid trucks entering the besieged strip through the rafah crossing. for the first time since the war began, israel has also opened one of its crossings into gaza to aid. it s hoped the opening of the kerem shalom crossing will double the amount of food and medicine reaching gazans. until now, aid has only been able to reach the territory through the rafah crossing from egypt. israel has kept up its bombardment of gaza, killing dozens more people. gaza s hamas run health ministry says 90 people were killed injust the jabalia area of gaza city. in a change of tone, the uk and germany havejoined calls for a sustainable ceasefire . prime minister benjamin netanyahu insists israel will fight to the end, but the reuters news agency is quoting egyptian security sources as saying israel and hamas are both open to a ceasefire, but still disagree over details. our correspondent lucy williamson has mor
is the dramatic ousting of two state lawmakers in tennessee? just the beginning? and what does this really mean for the fight over gun reform? these stories and more right here on cnn news, central. a major retaliatory strike in the middle east israeli forces launching airstrikes overnight, which they say hit palestinian militant targets in lebanon and gaza. these strikes are in response to the dozens of rockets launched from southern lebanon into israel yesterday. it is the most intense violence at the israeli lebanese border since 2006 and we re learning more about the two israeli women who were killed in a shooting on the west bank road this morning. the two young women were sisters. they were just 16 years old and 20 years old. their mother was also in the car with them. she is in critical condition. at this hour , cnn s had asked. gold is near the israel lebanon border, and cnn s fred pleitgen is near. the israel border with gaza had as i want to start with you has there
lot of new information in the middle of all of that. yeah, that s exactly right, john. so from the very beginning, the marion county sheriff kept alluding to this idea that detectives were looking into whether or not at least one of these three teenagers that were killed were involved in some type of gang activity. i interviewed the sheriff earlier this week and i asked him look, is this one? is this going to be a case where possibly ah, some of the folks that were in the car. some of the teams that died may not have known that one of their friends was involved in a gang. he said. they were looking at that possibility. however we now know this morning that at least according to the sheriff, as well as the detectives in marion county, it is now clear that all three teenagers that died were involved in some type of gang in marion county, the one thing that was asked a couple of times throughout the news conference was exactly why these three suspects the three people that are b
the lead starts right now. tensions continue to escalate in the middle east, new details and images just coming in as cnn learns of a new terrorist attack and tell aviv as israel strikes after a barrage of rockets hit along its borders, plus supreme court justice clarence thomas tries to explain after a bombshell report revealed his many family trips on a god in a private jet, all paid for by a billionaire republican mega donor. and thomas never disclosed almost any of it, plus vice president kamala harris dispatched to tennessee one day after state house republicans expelled two democrats. two black men who were protesting on the floor, but they did not expel the other democrat on the floor with them white woman. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we have some breaking tragic news from israel. you re looking at live pictures from tele viv after one person was killed and six wounded from a quote terror attack in a popular thoroughfare. in the city. israel says all of the v