Hello, and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the United States and All Around The World as we continue our breaking News Coverage of israel at war. Im rosemary church. U. S. President joe biden is on his way to israel this hour as a scene of chaos and devastation is unfolding in gaza. The videos we are about to show you may be upsetting. Palestinian officials report hundreds of people have been killed in an israeli airstrike on a hospital in gaza. Israel insists the hospital was hit by an errant rocket fired by the Palestinian Islamic jihad. Sources tell cnn the u. S. Is analyzing intelligence provided by israel. The World Health Organization says in addition to caring for patients, the hospital has been sheltering thousands of people displaced from their homes. The Hospital Blast has brought condemnation from around the globe. The human rights chief calls it horrific and unacceptable. President biden says hes outraged and deeply saddened. And here is the Palestinian Ambassador
Hello and welcome to our viewers here in the red states and around the world. Im john vause at the Cnn Center Lantern where its just on midnight, and at this hour u. S. President joe biden is on his way to israel, a high stakes visit which became even more complicated as scenes of chaos and devastation unfold in the aftermath of the explosion at a hospital in gaza. And a warning, the images youre about to see are hard to watch. According to palestinian officials hundred people at the hospital were killed in an israeli airstrike. The Israel Defense forces, though, denies that, insisting the explosion was caused by a rocket that was fired by the Palestinian Islamic jihad movement. Sources tell cnn sources are analyzing intelligence provided by israel. The World Health Organization says the hospital has been treating hundreds of Wounded Palestinians, has also been a place shelter for people forced to leave their homes. Global come condemnation is. Swift the Global Human Rights chief says
This is cnn breaking news. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. The hour, the chaos on capitol hill. The Republican House dysfunction continues as the fight for a new speaker of the house continues to sputter after republican representative jim jordan failed to get enough votes. The house has recessed, at least for the time being. Leading right now, another tragic turn in the war in israel and gaza. Hundreds of people have been killed by an explosion at a hospital in gaza, according to the Palestinian Health ministry, these images youre seeing show fires raging with an Ambulance Feed away inside the hospital we see images of devastation with this blurred image of a dead body in a hallway. Its the Al Ahli Baptist hospital in the center of gaza city which reportedly was Housing Hundreds of those already injured by airstrikes. Perhaps many more seeking shelter from the strikes. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the west bank declared three days of mourning for the victims.
hello and welcome to all our viewers in the united states, canada and around the world. i m rosemary church with cnn s continuing coverage of the israeli/hamas war. cnn is just now getting israeli reaction to a deadly blast at the refugee camp in gaza. more than 24 hours after we first reported it. in a moment we will speak with a person of the israel defense forces. nada bashyr gives us details of what happened by those that lived through it. a warning, her reporting contains graphic images. reporter: at this hospital in central gaza, another day of seemingly unending horror. bodies, some tiny, arriving in the dozens. no one is spared the devastation of this war. this journalist, seen here at the gaza hospital, not to report on the attack, but to identify the children amongst the dead. translator: i saw my son. my daughter and my sons. i saw my three siblings killed. friends at my house, all killed. reporter: hospital officials tell cnn this latest disaster was caused
state antony blinken made two unannounced stops in the middle east. he met with palestinian president mahmoud abbas in the west bank and traveled to bagdad for high-stakes talk with iraq s prime minister. blinken has held a series of top-level talks with arab leaders as israel intensifies its attacks against hamas. cnn s jim sciutto is in northern israel. you have new reporting that secretary blinken is not the only u.s. official visiting that region. reporter: that s right, cia director bill burns is traveling to the mid east as well. a u.s. officials tells me the following, that burns is traveling to several countries in the middle east where he s meeting with multiple intelligence counterparts and country leaders. the u.s. official said they ll discuss support for hostages negotiations and u.s. commitment to continuing to deter state and non-state actors from widening the conflict. that particular message has been a consistent one from when president biden first commente