viewers from all around the world. i m paula newton with the very latest on the israel-hamas war. israel is defending its deadly strike on a deadly populated refugee camp in move in gaza. now it is too soon to know the casualty count, or the true scope of the devastation. but a doctor at a gaza hospital says, it has received hundreds of dead or wounded people after the attack. now as you see from the pictures, there are multiple craters in the ground, and huge piles of rubble. the israel defense forces said, it was targeting a top hamas commander involved in the october 7th rampage, and succeeded, they, claim and taking him out. now we are told dozens of hamas combatants were also killed when the underground tunnels beneath the camp collapsed. innocent lives were also lost. the israeli military said, it is working to determine the number of civilian deaths. now i m not saying that there are no civilian casualties, what i am saying is that we struck an important military o
two critical senate hearings are happening now on capitol hill. first up mayokas and f.b.i. director christopher wray are testifying on the threats to america that are now growing. open border will do that. they are pointing to an explosion of anti-semitism we re seeing as well since hamas terrorists tortured, raped, killed, israeli citizens on october 7th. the second hearing defense secretary austin and secretary of state antony blinken also facing questions today for their part on america s response so far to the 25 attacks on u.s. military men and women serving in the middle east. and testimony was just getting underway at that hearing when police had to remove disruptive protestors from the gallery. first it was a woman, just one, and then it was a crowd. stop funding this brutal massacre. israel s genocide is a terrible thing. pray for the children of gaza. cease-fire now. harris: they held up their hands covered in what we assume is fake blood, paint, somethin
gaza, unleashing an enormous blast that one witness described as feeling, quote, like the end of the world. an idf spokesman tells me israeli forces were targeting a senior hamas commander who was, quote, hiding behind civilians. as the israel/hamas war escalates and it s escalating dramatically, u.s. officials are sounding the alarm that the threat of a terror attack against americans is at a whole other level. acts against jewish, muslim, american victims on the rise, including a historic surge of smichl. anti-semitism. the u.s. congress is on a the brink of a showdown over wartime funding as house republicans reject any link between aid to israel and ukraine. that and more with the top democrat in the house, the minority leader, hakeem jeffries. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer in tel aviv, israel, and you re in the situation room. we re live here in tel aviv following all the breaking news on israel s war against hamas
From russia, china, north korea and iran. The fbi that i see is tens of t thousands of brave men and women who are working as hard as they can to keep people they will never know safe from harm. The fbi that i see is reflected in folks like n the committee will reconvene. We were in the questioning period with the director of the fbi and the chair recognizes the gentle woman from georgia. Thank you, mr. Chairman and director wray. Thank you so much for being here. It is wonderful to see you. I would just like to say that given your distinguished and exs exem peculiary record of service, i am on the optimistic side that under your leadership we really will see a heightened degree of integrity Going Forward in the agency. I look forward to that. I wanted to ask a couple of questions around terrorism and isis. You mentioned in your opening testimony that the agency has some 1,000 active terrorism related investigations. How is that volume of terrorism investigative cases continuing or not
The committee will reconvene. When we recessed we were in the questioning period with the director of the fbi and the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from georgia for five minutes. Thank you so much for being here. It is wonderful to seal. I would like to say that given your distinguished and exemplary record of service, i am frankly on the extraordinarily up the mystic side that under your leadership we will see a heightened degree of integrity Going Forward in the agency. I look forward to that. I wanted to ask a couple of questions around terrorism and isis. You mentioned in your opening the agency had some 1000 active terrorist investigations. To is that volume continuing strain the agency in terms of your resources . Dir. Wray it is a good question. Thousandsn to those of isis related investigations, we have a similar number two we would classify as homegrown violent extremists. And we would call those isis inspired. Lone wolfs who see loan wolves. We have a fair number of al qae