thanks for joining us on cnn newsroom i m michael holmes with our continuing coverage of the israel-hamas war. in a few hours from now the israeli military is expected to open a road corridor so people in gaza city can flee south, that s the plan. the idf is offering what it calls safe passage during the four hour window beginning at 10 am local time. but, it is unclear if people in gaza will even get the message, given the widespread power and communications outages throughout the war. or whether hamas will perhaps try to prevent them from leaving. meanwhile this was the scene overnight as fireballs light of northern gaza. as seen by cnn crews just across the board in israel. israel has not yet commented on the strikes. even as israeli forces say they are encircling the city hamas rockets continue to fire into israel, the idf says it intercepted six rockets near tel aviv so far no casualties reported. the idf also released video of the chief of staff just inside gaza on sa