Ill be back at 6 00 p. M. Eastern for our special coverage for israel at war. Thank you for watching. Im wolf blitzer. Special breaking News Coverage continues right now with erin burnett outfront. Good evening. Welcome to a Special Edition of outfront. Israel at war. The breaking developments, the death toll rising as the sound of sirens and explosions can be heard across southern and Central Israel after a Surprise Attack by hamas. An israeli official said at least 300 israelis have been killed. The former Prime Minister of israel Neftali Bennett telling me the ultimate death toll will be much higher. And tonight there are reports that gun battles are still taking place nearly 24 hours after militants first entered israel by land and sea and air, firing 2,200 rockets, according to israel. And this new video, which im going to show you now, shows heavily armed hamas fighters moving through one neighborhood. You can hear the scream as militants try to force their way into homes. Theyre
Increased traffic may be seen on highways 62, 503, 45, 60, 11 and 26 from Aug. 19 to 30 with the transporting of troops and vehicles for a major military training exercise.
sovereignty and continue to hold the line of defence for democracy. china insists the self ruled democratic island is in fact part of its territory. an increasing number of young taiwanese are learning basic gun skills. 0thers fear china may do as russia has done in ukraine. this is my home country, i want to live here, that is all. analysts say the risk of an imminent military conflict is low but point to significant military traffic around the taiwan strait, creating a risk of accident or miscalculation. explosion but despite china s less than subtle messaging in this military video, released ahead of the us speaker s visit, the biden administration wants to avoid this triggering a crisis. we said that we oppose any unilateral changes to the status
mean it is not going to happen. that s right, yes. i think the risk of a major military conflict is still very low but when you have this kind of atmosphere and the amount of military traffic in and around the taiwan strait that we have now, in this context, there s obviously much greater risk of accidents or miscalculations that are normal, even from even a quite high base because that risk and traffic at a been growing in the past year or two, so it is a very nasty situation it is one frankly people will have to get used to in the coming years because these kind of tensions are not going to go away. we have seen economic and political, diplomatic tensions rising for years but it is now getting into the security sphere and it is probably two decades or more