Oh, and all on the most reliable 5g Mobile Network nationwide. Wireless that works for you. Its not just possible. Its happening. Good evening. Im jake tapper and this is special coverage of israel at war. Americas closest ally in the middle east and its only democracy is under attack as we speak in a highly coordinated staged Terrorist Attack by hamas, an attack on israeli civilians unlike anything that israel has ever seen, according to the Prime Minister of israel. Netanyahu, Prime Minister netanyahu, is vowing to take, quote, mighty vengeance. Thousands of rockets lighting up the skies over gaza city. The death toll has risen tonight to at least 300 israelis killed. More than 1,500 injured after Hamas Terrorists invaded several israeli towns earlier today, by air, land, and sea at daybreak. A surprise attack, shooting at civilians, kidnapping many along with Israeli Soldiers. The Israeli Defense forces said the number of civilians captured by hamas is, quote, a significant number,
said that it was expanding its ground operations there. 0ur middle east correpondent tom bateman, who is in jerusalem, has more. well, there has been intensive aerial bombardment by the israelis over a prolonged period of time, the heaviest that we ve seen at night time during the course of this conflict. and we heard from daniel hagari, the israeli military spokesman, in a live televised address to israelis, that he said that they were widening their ground operations. he talked about this being what he called a very significant attack against underground networks of hamas, he said, and also terrorist infrastructure, as he described it. now, one of the first signs that something significant was taking place here was that all communications for ordinary palestinians in gaza went dark. there was a complete blackout. and remember, this is on top of more than two weeks of a complete cut of the electricity grid in gaza. now, i mean, i had tried for hours to reach people in gaza.
In israel the ballots are being counted after todays election the 2nd election this year from minister Benjamin Netanyahu with his main rival big guns they have one thing in common tonight they both want a result that delivers a clear winner will it be netanyahu guns or dead walk again tonight in israel its another election is it more of the saying im bored golf in berlin this is the day. F. B. I. Election places all the celebration of the motorists its about this one person and whether we want him to continue as israels Prime Minister would always be to stand yes it think so but i think its the women i intend to serve you and our country as Prime Minister for many more years i mean we dont believe the spend
certainly has a good chance but its a very you know its a 5050 election that we want to hug me for today for change we will bring hope we will bring change its going to be close and we close election you have to for the kids to read in the system. Also coming up in a global awakeni
talk amongst itself in terms of how these parties are communicate and it s not the only democracy you know that has that problem we talk about that many times right here on this program. i want to ask you we ve got a little bit of time the attacks in saudi arabia over the weekend there were reports that there was talk in israel of postponing the election in case of full fledged military conflict had broken alex. do you think that had an impact on voter turnout today. well i mean this is always in the back of minds of people there was also talk about a possible intervention or a conflict with gaza last week i mean there were these pictures when benyamin netanyahu was complaining in the south and there was a rocket siren an alert and he had to be taken off stage wasn t taken very well