People have been killed in israel, in addition to 3500 wounded. In gaza, weldon and 9200 injured. And according to the state department, 29 americans have also been killed while 15 remain with missing. Now, israel promises a new phase of the war is coming. Hours ago, Prime Minister netanyahu met with his Emergency Cabinet and vowed to demolish hamas. The Israeli Defense forces said yesterday it is preparing to strike from air, sea, and land. Israeli troops and tanks have been amassing on the border with gaza for days. More than 360,000 Military Reservists have been mobilized, which for context, is more than the total number of u. S. Forces in the reserves. The big question, or one of the big questions, is when. Is it hours, or days, or longer before the Ground Offensive begins . We learned more about the strategy overnight, with three senior Israeli Military officials telling the New York Times that Tens Of Thousands of soldiers have been ordered to capture of gaza city, and destroy th
Maybe more than dozens of rockets fired at this city as hamas said would happen. So far it seems the israeli Missile Defense systems have been able to contain this attack, at least as far as we can report from what we are seeing. Richard engel on the front lines. This as the u. S. Officials describe the Terrorist Groups tactics against israelis and american citizens as i. S. I. S. Level savagery. She was terrified. She was saying, mommy, we are trying to get out of here, but im bleeding. We were shot. Everybody here was shot. She said, mommy, im afraid i will die. I said, no, you are not going to die. Then i heard shooting all around very close to the car and started Hearing Voices in arabic talking to each other, shouts at each other. I was so afraid. We are waiting for sagi to come home. We do not know what fate he met along as i said with dozens of other people. So you understand, these arent all 35yearold men. These are children. These are aged people and everything in between. Isr
Speaker, theyre wrong. It is going to be a republican speaker and he was not suggesting that. Some of my some of my democratic colleagues have been pushing for, you know, four or five of us to vote for hakeem jefferies. Thats not happening. I understand that. Congressman mike lawler of new york. Thank you so much for joining me. Thank you. This is cnn Breaking News. It is the top of the hour. Im dana bash in washington where the State Of The Union is holding its collective breath. You are watching a special live hour of cnn Breaking News coverage. Israel at war. A top israeli official just told me more than 600 people are dead and more than 2,000 are injured after Hamas Terrorists swept into israel. Several americans are reportedly dead and an israeli official says dozens of americans are among of the hostages brought back to gaza. We are talking about hostages who are largely civilians. Mothers, father, children, grandmother, sisters, brothers. Now 36 hours later israel has formally d
Im katie tur. Sunday, october 8th. Right now, its eight a. M. In gaza, eight a. M. In new york, three pm in gaza and israel, where airstrikes continue, following the surprise or scale attack by hamas earlier yesterday morning. Overnight, gaza residents reported a stream of rockets hitting multiple sites, plumes of smoke could be seen over Gaza City Skyline earlier. And in israel, more Rocket Attacks and the Border City Of and now, new attacks and the north. Hezbollah Firing Rockets on a long contested area and the golan heights. The fighting has shocked much of the world. The death toll is already high and it is still rising. The Palestinian Health ministry in gaza says 313 palestinians have been killed, and 1990 others injured. Israel reports at least 200 israelis are dead and more than 1800 are injured, making this the deadliest conflict at least for israel in decades. While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus vow to gaza in the rubble, pulling back wont be easy as hamas could nap a n
conditions for a durable, sustainable peace. durable, sustainable security for israelis and palestinians alike. we re focused on the day of. we also need to be focused on the day avenue. so in conversations we ll be having through the course of this weekend i expect you ll see a focus there and particularly how we can get over time to two states for two peoples which in our judgment remains the best guarantor and maybe the only guarantor of a secure jewish and democratic israel and palestinians with the state they re entitled to. so these will be the things that we re focused on. these are challenging times. these are intensely difficult issues. but i m convinced that american diplomacy can make a difference in moving everyone to a better place. that s what we re working to do. i ll take questions. thank you, mr. secretary. do you assess that israel has shown restraint up to this point in their offensive in gaza, and what are the concrete steps you ll be pushing them on? an