debate in america begins june 20, seven-fifths, seven this is cnn breaking news hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me on fredricka whitfield and we begin with this breaking news. the israeli military says an incident in rafah killed eight idf soldiers marking one of the deadliest incidents involving is really troops since the october 7 attacks, the militant wing of hamas claimed it carried out at complex ambush. the incident happened as the rafah civil defense says, israel launched which new airstrikes in the enclave. cnn s paula hancocks is in tel aviv for us, paula are officials giving you any more detail about what happened well for details, the idf of giving a limited at this point, but they do say that there has been that incident in western rafah this saturday, eight soldiers having been killed in that incident, they say that they are investigating this point in trying to ascertain the cause of what happened. now we have heard from hamas, they as