For hostages. Earlier today the idf dropped flyers on gaza, you see that here. These flyers telling people in the northern part of the gaza strip to evacuate south within the next 24 hours. U. N. Saying evacuating more than 1 Million People in one day is impossible and cnn has learned that u. S. Intel warned the Biden Administration of the potential for a clash in the region days before the hamas attack on israel. Well have more on that new information here in just a moment. What is the latest on the ground . Soldiers and tanks were massing near the gaza border. We have been seeing that now for days, fighting along the northern border with lebanon has been there has been an uptick on that. It is conducting Drone Attacks on sites inside of lebanon. Were covering all angles with our reporters and analysts standing by there is a lot to get to in the hour ahead. First to Matthew Chance who is here with me in tel aviv. What more are israeli officials saying about the raids they have conduct
But it is just, you know, just an awful none of us have ever been in a position of reporting some of the things were seeing right now. And it is just a hard assignment. Colleagues are Bearing Witness for sure. Wolf, thank you so much. Well see you in the situation. Cnn news central starts right now. Were tracking major developments on day seven of fighting in the middle east. Im Brianna Keilar In Washington with Boris Sanchez. We have Anderson Cooper on scene in israel. We do have Breaking News. Israeli troops conducting raids inside gaza, they have done this, the Israel Defense forces saying they targeted terror cells and searched for hostages here in the past day. Hamas is believed to have up to 150 hostages inside of gaza, including some u. S. Citizens. Last hour President Biden spoke with the families of 14 americans who are still unaccounted for since the weekend attacks. Earlier today, the idf dropped flyers on gaza. Youre seeing them there on the screen. The flyers tell people i
Hamas Firing A Barrage of rockets. This is video of people scrambling in the wreckage as sirens blared in the israeli city of ash ka lon. Come to us. Come to us. Tell me where i go. You can see streaks in the sky. We have seen the iron dome here three miles from the gaza border. A lot of there is one over there coming in. You are going to hear it right up there. Got it. See if we can watch that one. And you can see those Iron Dome Interceptions right above us. This is video of the destruction in gaza this morning. The government warning that all electricity will completely stop and fuel runs out for Hospital Generators today. Right now we dont know the fate of all the hostages who are kidnapped from israel taken to gaza. President biden confirmed americans are among the captives and at least 20 u. S. Citizens are currently unaccounted for. The death toll in israel from hamas assault continues to rise. 1,200 people now confirmed dead as the scale and savagery of hamas massacre of civili
Well get the very latest on the escalating conflict with a live report from near the gaza border in just a moment. Meanwhile, some republican president ial candidates are already spreading misinformation about the attack, blaming a deal between the Biden Administration and iran. Plus, well bring you a look at how the chaos in the house with republicans scrambling to find a new speaker could impact military and Security Assistance for israel. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. Im Jonathan Lemire. Alongside u. S. Special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay. Were in for joe, mika and willie on this holiday monday. With us on this busy monday, we have president emeritus of the council on foreign relations, Richard Haass, and columnist and Associate Editor for the washington post, David Ignatius. Katty, an extraordinary weekend, a tragic weekend, now we deal with the unfolding story on this monday morning. Yes. Lucky we have richard and david with us this morning, john, to get us th
Announcer this is cnn Breaking News. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to cnn this morning im amara walker. Im victor blackwell. We begin with Breaking News out of israel. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared israel is at war after gaza mill about thes earlier this morning. Netanyahu said the enemy will pay an unprecedented price. He concluded with this, we are at war and we will win it. Right now Israel Security cabinet is meeting to discuss the full scale of its response. Already the Israeli Military has begun mobilizing and calling up thousands of Reserve Forces. And we just learned that at least 22 people have died since the attacks began six hours ago. Lets go now to cnn hadas gold from jerusalem. Bring us up to speed on whats happening on the ground now and the fact that these were Surprise Attacks. I mean, how did israel not see this coming . Reporter thats a great question. This was an unprecedented Surprise Attack. Israel essentially saying they are in a state of war,