Announcer this is cnn Breaking News. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Im standing on a roof torp looking out over tel aviv. It is just after 11 00 p. M. Here and were covering three major stories right now. The war here. The end to the Chaotic Speakership Saga Back in washington, d. C. And former President Donald Trump in a stunning appearance on the stand today in his new york Civil Fraud Trial. Well start with Breaking News from israel. It is been 18 days since the attacks by hamas caught this country and most of the world by surprise. Just over an hour ago, from this rooftop, we heard explosions presumably from israels iron dome Defense System intercepting several rocks fired on tel aviv from gaza and minutes ago they confirmed that four people were injured with something possibly shrapnel hitting this town. A reminder that hamas continues to try to kill as many israeli civilians as they can with their rockets. Theyre just not able to do so because of the iron dome Defense Syste
Meadows will have some kind of terms with the d. A. In georgia. All right, thank you very much, evan perez and thanks very much to all after you for being with us tonight. Ac 360 starts right now. Its 3 00 a. M. Here in tel aviv the news right now and the day unfolding on three fronts. The momentum towards sending troops into gaza, the effort to bring out more hostages. And the pressure on israel to allow humanitarian aid into gaza. Most notably fuel to Power Generators at the hospital. There are governments in three areas. Reporting on it throughout this hour. First, though, two new items. The idf a thwarted Amphibious Raid on tuesday, the other was a phone call played by the Foreign Minister for the u. N. Security council. Cnn has independently translated it, we cant confirm when it was recorded. The Foreign Minister said it was made by a hamas gunman on a phone from a woman he just kil killed. Proud murderer bragging to his proud parents. Cnns jim sciutto is with me. In a war full o
Breaking news situations unfolding. On capitol hill the House Republican conference is meeting right now and we are told this meeting could last all day with the intense pressure on them to elect a speaker of the house after Kevin Mccarthy lost the speakership in a recent vote. And without that top member of the u. S. House of representatives in place, Congress Remains at a stand still and is unable to act on a brutal war that weve been Covering Thousands of miles away. Were watching the latest developments from israel as they hit the embodiment of evil. Hamas terrorists. Thats where well start. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. Five days of horror. Israel families missing, tortured, killed. The closer they were to the border with palestinianian territory on gaza, the closer that they were to hamas Serial Killers killing them. Loved ones taken hostage are now begging for help. Secretary of state Antony Blinken is set to be in israel today. This was near continuous r
but the question remains. why did hamas strike now likely knowing the devastation that it would provoke in gaza? hamas spokesman name checked events at the mosque earlier this year as motivation for their attack. hamas has called this operation the storm of in reference of course to the mosque compound known as temple mount a place so holy to both jews and muslims here in jerusalem. earlier this year police raided the third holiest site in islam during the month of adan and pass over just as police step inside the mosque is considered incredibly provocative and aggressive . but many experts say the timing of hamas attack has to do with mecca, the holiest place of all of islam, saudi arabia. hamamas was c concerned aboue saudi moves to build ties with israel and the u.s. one concern was that saudi money would then bolster the palestininian authorority in th west banank. hamasas looks at this worord an ememerging alliliance betwee moderate arabs and israel and de
i m anderson cooper in tel aviv. only the whole story, i m as we ve seen this weekend, israel s war against hamas anderson cooper in tel aviv. hamas entered a new phase, what that means for the 200 people held hostage in gaza is unclear. most of those hostages were taken on october 7th from israeli communities or kibbutz seen close to the gaza border. in a kibbutz, were either killed or captured. around 6:30, they recorded this video showing in the distance rockets firing from gaza. a red alert was called immediately. the couple sent this video to a group chat at 6:42 am. they haven t been heard from since. hadas kalderon: i could hear the red colors, it means that we have to go to the safe room, to the shelter. i m all alone in my own house. my children with the father in the other house. anderson cooper: hadas kalderon s youngest kids, sahar and erez, were with their father offer in his house nearby. hadas 19-year-old son rotem was in his own house. and hadas mother