Launch the lead with me back in 2013. Alexis, were so sorry. We love you and Thinking Of You and your family. Our coverage continues now with wolf blitzer in the situation room. Happening now, Breaking News. Israel says its now unleashing a large scale strike on hamas. Hamas targets in gaza, intensifying its air war while it builds up its Ground Forces while on the border in gaza. The crisis in gaza is deepening tonight amid daetz and deepening destruction. Israel threatening to cut them off with hostages underground. Secretary of state Antony Blinken is showing solidarity with israel and liking the terror to the worst of isis. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and Around The World. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. This is cnn Breaking News. Our breaking News Coverage begins this hour in the war zone as the israel Hamas Conflict grows increasingly deadly. And theyre holding very critical talks. Cnn at the front lines and other key locations getting new informatio
Days of intense violence. Inside gaza, it looks every bit as if palestinians are feeling the full force of Israeli Military power. Israel says hamas is responsible for the suffering of gazas civilians. And its retaliation for the hamas attack is only just begun. Hamas has threatened to start killing its israeli hostages. The air strikes rolled on, hour after hour. Palestinian armed groups, undeterred, kept up their own barrage of israel. 0ur bbc team was in ashkelon in southern israel, not far from the gaza border when a salvo came in. Ashkelon is so close to gaza that there is no more than a ten second warning. Israel is moving in more fire power. The next stage of the offensive against hamas looks certain to be a Ground Offensive, much bigger than other incursions since hamas took over in gaza in 2007. Lines of cars outside a Military Base on the road to gaza were parked by reservists as they reported for duty, getting ready, saying their goodbyes. Parents came to the base for a few
Street and cars riddled with bodies. They found every man, woman and child and killing them in their place. This coldblooded massacre is something i never thought i would see in my lifetime. It is pearl harbor and 9 11 wrapped in one. Ainsley you have our prayers. Thank you for being part of the search and rescue. The third hour of Fox And Friends starts now. Steve it is 3 00 in Reagan Library in israel. Day four of the war in the holy land. We are now learning idf is in the southern part will israel. Brian and folks we just saw another battery of rockets come from hamas from the gaza strip two miles from where we are over this town of sderot and the iron dome, boom, boom, boom, boom, knocked down about five of them. Israeli jet fighters all day pounding positions in gaza. Rockets going another way and seeing dozens of tanks lining up and getting ready for a possible incursion. This is day four and we are in the town of sderot and it has taken four days for israel to say this town and
Thats just a deal breaker for them. They just wont do it. I saw a report, i think on your network, someone said it was a republican, he said it didnt matter, he would do biden. Thats just a reality that republicans have to face up to if we want to win and we saw these losses in the most recent elections, lets give them a fresh america a chance for a fresh start and i think that the results will be very positive for us. All right. 2024 president ial candidate and Florida Governor ron desantis, thanks so much. Hope youll come back and we can talk about all the other issues we didnt talk about today. Thanks for coming on. That does it for us. Will do it yep. We appreciate that. That does it for us this morning. Jose diazbalart picks up the coverage right now. Ahead this hour, our special coverage of israel at war. Air strikes is, bombarding gaza with israels Prime Minister vowing devastation and destruction on hamas strongholds. The Death Toll Climbing as intense fighting continues. Plus,
This is the aftermath in the city of ashkalon, not far from the gaza border. This all comes some 48 hours after hamas militants launched an unprecedented attack by land, by sea, and by air, killing civilians and taking hostages overnight. Israeli air strikes pummeled hundreds of targets in the gaza strip. Israels Defense Minister has this morning ordered a, quote, complete siege, saying electricity, food, and fuel will all be cut off. The videos show the horror on the ground at a Music Festival in israel are 260 people have been found dead. This is a drone video of burned out cars at the site. A dash camera video shows a hamas Fighter Shooting his rifle and taking a hostage. This morning, a spokesman for the Israeli Military say that hamas have brought dozen of hostages and there could be terrorists hiding in israel now. They came in in hundreds. There still could be terrorists. Were slowly scanning each of the communities and were evacuating the israeli population from these locations