For hostages. Earlier today the idf dropped flyers on gaza, you see that here. These flyers telling people in the northern part of the gaza strip to evacuate south within the next 24 hours. U. N. Saying evacuating more than 1 Million People in one day is impossible and cnn has learned that u. S. Intel warned the Biden Administration of the potential for a clash in the region days before the hamas attack on israel. Well have more on that new information here in just a moment. What is the latest on the ground . Soldiers and tanks were massing near the gaza border. We have been seeing that now for days, fighting along the northern border with lebanon has been there has been an uptick on that. It is conducting Drone Attacks on sites inside of lebanon. Were covering all angles with our reporters and analysts standing by there is a lot to get to in the hour ahead. First to Matthew Chance who is here with me in tel aviv. What more are israeli officials saying about the raids they have conduct
But it is just, you know, just an awful none of us have ever been in a position of reporting some of the things were seeing right now. And it is just a hard assignment. Colleagues are Bearing Witness for sure. Wolf, thank you so much. Well see you in the situation. Cnn news central starts right now. Were tracking major developments on day seven of fighting in the middle east. Im Brianna Keilar In Washington with Boris Sanchez. We have Anderson Cooper on scene in israel. We do have Breaking News. Israeli troops conducting raids inside gaza, they have done this, the Israel Defense forces saying they targeted terror cells and searched for hostages here in the past day. Hamas is believed to have up to 150 hostages inside of gaza, including some u. S. Citizens. Last hour President Biden spoke with the families of 14 americans who are still unaccounted for since the weekend attacks. Earlier today, the idf dropped flyers on gaza. Youre seeing them there on the screen. The flyers tell people i
Youre watching cnn news central. Im Boris Sanchez with brianna keilar. We want to go straight to anderson cooper, where sirens are going on. Whats going on . Sirens have not occurred here for really today, certainly over the last several days. Theyre quite extensive sirens. You hear them all over tel aviv. It started maybe 30 seconds ago. It remains to be seen. If rockets do come, they generally come from that direction that sounded like an Iron Dome Interception. That was a rather large explosion. That is something we have nod heard very much here in tel aviv. No, i think were fine in this location. Matthew, what do you think, was that an Iron Dome Interception . I Vice President hearty anything like that dinse sorb. And interesting that the sirens stop as soon as that hit. Im assuming that was an interception by iron dome, but theres cloud cover here, we didnt actually see the rocket, but theres quite a large explosion, and it is sirens had now stopped the there was an araid maybe a
Yeah. The president making clear that United States would stop at nothing to gethose hostages back. Thats right. The lead with jake tapper starting right now. This is cnn Breaking News. Welcome to the lead. Were following two major breaking stories, first on capitol hill, where House Republicans are meeting behind closed doors, right now tallying the results of a Secret Ballot where they are trying to decide who their next speaker nominee will be. Our teams are stationed across capitol hill and assuming House Republicans are finally able to nominate a speaker after ten days without one, in the midst of two wars and a pending Government Shutdown we will bring you the results. That is an assumption. Not sure if thats going to happen but well bring you the results. Our other story, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowing this afternoon this is only the beginning of israels fight to destroy hamas. This time one week ago, one week ago today, right this moment, it was just after 11 00 p. M.
Lines from isreal starts right now. Up front next, the Breaking News Mass Panic and fear amid a 24hour deadline to evacuate gaza. A marine unit is now in the region poised to jump in as isreal warns its only the beginning. Israel. Hamas is Deadly Weapons arsenal. Cnn looks at dozen of videos of the attacks, the weapons, what are they, and where did they come from. Its a special cnn investigation, lets go out front. Good evening and welcome to a Special Edition of out front. Im live from tel aviv and tonight, the Breaking News 24hour deadline for one. One Million People to evacuate gaza. That comes from the United Nations that claims israel gave them the news thursday night. In tel aviv, the tension is palpable. Silence throughout the evening. This is new video out front the moment israels iron dome intercepted a rocket tonight. And ill show you the moment that we heard the blast. We were all here, Anderson Cooper was on the air when it happened. That sounded like iron dome intercepted.