the israeli army sets they have completely enclosed gaza city. they said 130 hamas fighters have been killed in the latest battles. at least 18 israeli soldiers have been killed since the start of the ground offensive. israel s military says it s targeting hamas infrastructure, including tunnels and rocket launchers, and minimising civilian deaths. it follows another night of israeli air strikes all in retaliation for hamas s raids into southern israel on 7th october, in which israel says more than 1,400 people were killed, with 240 others kidnapped. israel s intense bombardment of gaza has also continued. the hamas run gaza health ministry says 27 people have been killed in an israeli strike near a un school, the third deadly strike in as many days on the densely populated jabalia refugee camp. it says more than 9,000 people have now been killed in gaza since 7th october. there are also reports of dozens killed in al burej, just south of the line which israel told palestinia
hello. i m brianna keilar with boris sanchez, wolf blitzer is in tel aviv and we re tracking multiple developments in israel s war in hamas. rescue efforts under way following an israeli air strike, a strir strike the idf say was ordered to take out a hamas leader. reports are still coming in, dozens confirmed dead, many more injured. those numbers are expected to rise. officials in hamas controlled gaza say 0 h20 homes were destrd there. just moments ago, i spoke with an idf spokesperson who confirmed that israel was involved in the blast. listen to this. we ll be coming out in the next hour hopefully with more data. i can give you there was a senior hamas commander in that area. sadly he was hiding, again as they do, behind innocent civilians. that s all i can say. we ll be coming out with more and what happened there. can you confirm it was an israeli attack that destroyed a big chunk of the jabalia refugee camp? yes, i can. we were focused again on a target, a s
developing new technologies. they re trying to strengthen their electronic warfare, jam the drones. they re drams the himars system now so it s not as effective at striking precision targets deep. we haven t given the ukrainians really the ability to go deeply enough to go after russian helicopters and other assets that are inside ukraine and striking the ukrainians to try to move forward. and as general zelenskyy said, he said, you nato countries, you never do a big attack like this without air power and trying to get air superiority. that s one thing, of course, that ukraine doesn t have here. so, i think if we want to see ukraine really advance effectively on the battlefield, they do need more outside support, including more modern western systems and electronic warfare, the long-range missiles, but especially electronic warfare. and because that s so highly
russia s war in ukraine. we re learning iran is preparing to send 1,000 new weapons to vladimir putin including surface-to-surface short-range ballistic missiles and more attack drones. u.s. intelligence agencies monitoring this closely. straight to cnn s reporter live at the state department for us this morning. good morning. the first time iran is sending assistance guidance missiles to russia. how significant is that? reporter: right. the first time these advanced weapons would be going from iran to russia and significant because of how advanced these weapons are. first of all, hard to detect and able to hit at precision targets. they re not just the drones what we ve already seen iran send to russia in recent weeks that have been used to deadly effect on the battlefield. these are much more advanced weaponry. we know the biden administration has been watching for iran to sent potentially nor weaponry to russia with the secretary of state saying just lack week the