Unprecedented Surprise Attack on israel, the likes of which this country is never seen since the Yom Kippur War that happened more than 50 years ago almost to the day, also happening on the jewish holiday. It is shabbat as well but since 6 30 this morning, sirens have been blaring across israel including here in jerusalem we had our fair share of Air Raid Sirens going off alerting us of incoming rockets. We heard several explosions ourselves overhead of either intersections or rockets making impact. Did you know there were some impacts made a Run Jerusalem . Sirens going off as far as tel aviv. Its been quieter in the last few hours, but just to give you a sense of scaled numbers we hear from the Israeli Military at least 3000 rockets have been fired so far today. This is where we are approaching our tent in this conflict with that. 21 war that lasted 11 days between israel and hamas militants. There are some 4300 rockets fired just in those 11 days. So we are approaching that number j
Soil. At least 40 people, israelis, are dead, and more than 770 are wounded, were told, the official numbers coming in from the government of israel. The attack catching israel clearly by surprise. At sun rise earlier today the palestinian mill tachbt Group Launched that iroffensive by air, sea and land. Hamas fighters have now infiltrated various israeli towns were told and thousands of rockets have rained down from the sky above over civilian Populated Areas of israel. Israel is clearly already striking back, sending its own rockets into gaza. And we just have gotten new numbers from palestinian officials there. They say at least 198 palestinians already have been killed in gaza, and more than 1600 people in gaza are injured. This once again, according to the Palestinian Health ministry there. This is quickly developing, this situation, we want to go back to cnn in jerusalem for us. Update our viewers on the very latest. Reporter well, the very latest is weve just gone in from the Is