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
Government, all huge questions looming over the biden House Republican conference, as they struggle with a way forward. Thanks very much. Ac 360 with Anderson Cooper live from israel starts right live from israel starts right now. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com it is 3 00 a. M. In gaza, and you may not be able to pick it up from the microphone im wearing, but you can hear the steady booms of shells being fired into gaza by israeli forces. Weve also throughout the day seen rocket fire coming to ashkelon to our south, hamas saying they have fired 120 rockets into the two cities today. Israeli war planes have been pounding numerous locations in the territory, hitting targets the israeli officials describe as strategic to hamas. The cause also appears to be widespread destruction in densely populated neighborhoods. Israels Defense Minister ordered the military to put gaza under what he called complete siege. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to his people tonight, warning that wha
As you say rosemary, hundreds more are strikes by israel. Militant targets inside the gaza strip, including command post. Inside of mosques. On top of that, as you mentioned, there is a total block eight, a total siege of the gaza strip announced by the Defense Minister yesterday. No food, no fuel, no water, no electricity going from israel into the gaza strip and, i suppose the idea there is to get the civilian population to put pressure on to the militants of hamas to try to release the hostages. Now, a couple of things on that note, of, course if hamas is able to get weaponry, smuggle weapons, bulldozers, and other equipment into the gaza strip, one can only assume that they will be able to get fuel and other supplies in their. The, clearly not offset the kind of supplies that they usually get and it also seems unlikely, certainly at this stage, that there is going to be anything to sway hamas from its current position and it is holding on to as youve been speaking, weve watched the
Ground there as they heard the sirens go off. Israel is now striking back. Its launched its own air strikes into gaza, where palestinians say hundreds have been killed and many, many more injured. New video from cnn shows this Tower Collapsing in gaza city following an air strike. Israel also is mobilizing troops and calling up tens of thousands of reservists. Sam kiley has the latest. Reporter Palestinian Militants celebrate the destruction of an israeli tank, dragging what appears to be a body of a crewman from the vehicle. Dozens of Gazabased Palestinian fighters have infiltrated israel under the cover of a massive rocket bombardment. In what could be the biggest Israeli Intelligence failure since arab nations attacked israel 250 years ago. Hamas brought war to the streets. Its bullets tearing into civilian vehicles. Locals on rooftops and shooting. Here the aftermath of a gun battle. Israeli civilians lie dead on the street. Close by are what are reported to be Palestinian Militant
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