people. where can we go? reporter: you can see right here, a lot of military activity. tanks being moved in and around here. we re very close to the border. border highways, tanks rumble into position, poised for the order to go even further into gaza. amid the threat of more infiltratio infiltrations, israeli is considering expanding engaging in street battles to dismantle not only the tunnels but militant group hamas. maybe one day we can live happily every after. i remember in my youth before 73, back in 68, 69, we used to get a bicycle and go to gaza.
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ben is once again with us on the line. tell us exactly what s been happening. how long has this strike on this area been going on for and what are the people there telling you? ben, it s john in atlanta. can you hear me? unfortunately, we have lost him again. communication, a difficulty right now as you can tell with gaza, whether the israelis are blocking the cell phones or if that s the case, we don t know. or whether the cell phone infrastructure has been damaged as part of the strikes, that s another possibility. we re trying to get ahold of ben since this began inside of gaza. thousands of people have been fleeing this one particular neighborhood in gaza city. they have been telling him that the area apparently has been walloped by israeli artillery
gaza officials say 62 palestinians were killed saturday, the biggest daily death toll so far. hamas rockets continue to be fired at israel, sometimes one every two minutes. this video shows israeli pilots backing off an air strike because children are present. not all children have been spared in this conflict. at least 72 children have been killed, 1/5 of all palestinian casualties. we are in gaza. we see why children there are so vulnerable. some viewers will find images in this report upsetting. reporter: they were killed in the morning, buried in the afternoon. two brothers 18 and 10 were killed in an israeli air strike saturday morning, northern gaza.
than they did in the initial stages. they want those bodies brought home. and they want it now. what the rebels are doing by preventing that is only causing further outrage around the world. malaysia is saying, we re real victims in this tragedy here. when we come back, we ll go to gaza and the terrible toll the israel-hamas conflict is taking on palestinian children. we ll show you why they are especially vulnerable in this conflict. this war is being fought on the ground and in the air and even underground. israel is targeting militant tunnels that have been dug under the border.