Here in the United States and Around The World. Im wolf blitzer. This is a Special Edition of the Situation Room, israel at war. We begin this hour with the Breaking News out of israel. Hamas militants pouring across the gaza border in a Surprise Attack. Listen to one israeli womans terrifying firsthand account of the raid. Translator suddenly out of nowhere shots are coming in. They started shooting in every direction and i took the car keys and just drove and started moving forward to get out of the shots. Out of the shots. And at some point, they overtook us. We were overtaken by the shooters. They started shooting at our vehicles. We got out of the vehicles. I didnt keep driving. We took cover. Nic robertson is on the ground for us right near the gaza border in israel. So far, what have you seen tonight . Reporter this is the point where that area of israel that the Defense Forces are still going through confronting the hamas militants is taking place. We can hear it. We can see it
Guilt of an athletes. Has nothing to do with the case for the innocence. Of broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow the seas arent International Thomas glad to have you with us. Germanys social Democratic Party leader Martin Childs has announced his resignation with immediate effect his decision comes after he lost out in the german election to chancellor Angela Merkel and then faced criticism over agreeing to a grand Coalition Government for a second time he said his decision will allow the party to refresh itself and come back stronger. Appears to be. This big you need to compute the renewal of Police Organization including its personnel and this is the urgent wish of the Party Members with my resignation and also the relinquishment of my federal government membership i want to help bring an end to this debate and allow members to really focus on coalition agreement. And with the background to this decision here is our to show the debate. We know that resignations is some
Well, spontaneous and led the applause here in st annes square in manchester, and you mightjust have been able to tell, there was a man towards the back of the crowd in this very bright Manchester Sun here, who said well done, manchester. And then the applause broke out again. And absolutely baking hot day in st annes square, and hundreds of hundreds of people, i cant even calculate, perhaps at least a thousand people have come here to the square for that moment of silence that is marked across the country to remember those who lost their lives. Here, at the Manchester Arena, less than a mile away, people have continued to lay flowers there. Really lovely to meet you. I know you work fairly near here. Explain why you wanted to come here for this moment of silence . We live and work in the city. You dont really know what to do in this situation. If you can doa what to do in this situation. If you can do a small act by being here, it makes you feel like you can contribute. Applause just
Men with large caliber weapons opened fire on a group of people and they shot for 30 seconds straight. Reloaded, and fired again. At this point, 14 innocent folks are dead. 17 others wounded. Police shot one of the perpetrators hours later as somebody fled in an suv. We still dont know how many people were in there. We should get updated information momentarily. Now, a hunt is on for at least one other suspect, but, again, we dont know much about that. The dramatic events were broadcast live to the nation on cable tv outlets as once again america is shaken by senseless violence. We are awaiting a press conference from San Bernadino county and when that begins we will go to it but, first, adam housley has been covering the story all day and has an eyewitness with him, i understand. Adam, set it up for us, please. Yeah. I will set it up first and eyewitness is going to come over here in a second. I can tell you this is basically not far from where the barricade is taking place, the sever
In fact, just 60kilometers away now. Think now fighting for control of another town. Just to the north of baghdad, where fighters occupied overnight. They also control a large area of northern iraq, across its western border into syria. Covering this one for us, from baghdad, we are joining him now, tell me about this. Well, what we rah hearing is in the early hours oof this morning there was an incident at the local prison, where armed gunman went in and killed 63 people. Now in the early hours we did hear that it was Shiite Militia men. Those bodies were then taken to the general hospital, and were identified as being sunni. How, the government in the last couple of hours has release add statement saying that they blame the Islamic State of iraq for the killings and say that 53 people died. So clearly, theres an information war going on here as well as that battle. And as you say, clashes are still going on, they have taken over a number of neighborhoods within that city, and they ar