The world. Im wolf blitzer in jerusalem. Youre in the situation room. And were following the breaking news. Intense fighting going on between israel and hamas on this day, reaching deadly new levels. Ten people including eight children were killed in a strike in gaza for which israel and hamas trade blame. And a deadly day for israeli, as well reporting four more Israeli Soldiers killed near the gaza border and another israeli soldier killed inside gaza. Well get more from our reportersen ots ground in southern israel as well as in gaza in just a moment. But first, earlier today, cnn was the only u. S. Television network to get a look inside one of the tunnels used by hamas to infiltrate israel. This is an exclusive report. No other American Television network can bring it to you. This is priority number one for the Israeli Defense forces. Finding and destroying dozens of hamas tunnels. Underground escape hatchs from gaza used to infiltrate israel and launch attacks. I went to the fron
The world. Im wolf blitzer in jerusalem. Youre in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. Lets get right to the breaking news. Dramatic new developments in the fighting between israel and hamas including a strike on the United Nations school in gaza where thousands of palestinians are seeking shelter. Palestinian Health Officials say at least 20 people were killed in a predawn strike thats drawing sharp criticism from both the United Nations and the u. S. Recovering all angles of the breaking news this hour of our guests, and our correspondents in the middle east and around the world. Cnns john voss is in gaza city. John, whats the latest . What are you seeing now . Reporter well, wolf, it has been a pretty quiet night here especially compared to the last few nighs a s anights and thaty we havent heard the continual pounding from the southern part of israel. Most of those areas have, in fact, been evacuated. We also have heard a number of targets being hit by israeli air strikes
Elise, theres plenty of time for people to sort through what happened, what didnt happen. I dont know all of the facts. Sounds like youre not sure you served with honor and distinction. Thats not what im saying. What im saying is there is plenty of time for people to sort through that. What i know today is what the president of the United States knows, that it would have been offensive and incomprehensible to consciously leave an american behind, no matter what, to leave an american behind in the hands of people who had tortured him, cut off his head, do any. Of things and we would consciously decide to do that . Thats the other side of this thing. I dont think anybody would think thats the appropriate thing to do. And it seems to me, we have an ability, we know we have the ability to be able to deal with people who want to threaten americans of the United States and thats what they go back on the word to do and if the qataris dont force what they have done, we have any number of avenu
Lets begin though with the breaking news in the middle east conflict. Wolf blitzer joining us live from jerusalem this morning. Wolf, whats the latest from the ground . There seems to have been a lull thursday and things got bad thursday night. Potentially could be getting a whole loss worse in the coming hours. Any hope of a ceasefire seems to be dashed, at least for now, after a very serious escalation of this conflict. Right now israel is launching powerful air strikes on gaza city and other targets inside gaza. Overnight 70 sites were targeted. Among them, home of a senior hamas leader, a Radio Station run by militant group and gazas ministry of finance. Israel is now warning of a prolonged ground war in gaza as the death toll on both sides continues to climb. Martin savidge is with me here in jerusalem. Hes been working all these latest developments. I think youll agree it could get a whole lot worse, as bad as it is right now. Absolutely. And i think the negotiate here of israel
Outfront tonight, thousands attacked in gaza, the United States condemning the strike, but stopping short of placing blame on israel. The woes press secretary saying israel needs to live up to its own standards d. The United States went further, saying israeli artillery was responsible for the deaths in the shelter. The Palestinian Health mince tremendous says 20 were killed in the attack. Our karl penhaul went to the school to see what happened. What did you see . Reporter erin, 3,000 people rub crammed into the school. It was before dawn. It was still dark, most of these people with sleeping. One shell cam through the roof, and another spashd through the latrines. One man who had been sleeping outside along with the other men said that when he woke up to the sound of is the explosion he looked around and saw el elderly men cut to shreds by the shrapnel. Another lady said there was smoke everywhere. She poured water in her eyes just to get the bearing and she felt the shrapnel raining