hello and welcome to all our viewers in the united states, canada and around the world. i m rosemary church with cnn s continuing coverage of the israeli/hamas war. cnn is just now getting israeli reaction to a deadly blast at the refugee camp in gaza. more than 24 hours after we first reported it. in a moment we will speak with a person of the israel defense forces. nada bashyr gives us details of what happened by those that lived through it. a warning, her reporting contains graphic images. reporter: at this hospital in central gaza, another day of seemingly unending horror. bodies, some tiny, arriving in the dozens. no one is spared the devastation of this war. this journalist, seen here at the gaza hospital, not to report on the attack, but to identify the children amongst the dead. translator: i saw my son. my daughter and my sons. i saw my three siblings killed. friends at my house, all killed. reporter: hospital officials tell cnn this latest disaster was caused
state antony blinken made two unannounced stops in the middle east. he met with palestinian president mahmoud abbas in the west bank and traveled to bagdad for high-stakes talk with iraq s prime minister. blinken has held a series of top-level talks with arab leaders as israel intensifies its attacks against hamas. cnn s jim sciutto is in northern israel. you have new reporting that secretary blinken is not the only u.s. official visiting that region. reporter: that s right, cia director bill burns is traveling to the mid east as well. a u.s. officials tells me the following, that burns is traveling to several countries in the middle east where he s meeting with multiple intelligence counterparts and country leaders. the u.s. official said they ll discuss support for hostages negotiations and u.s. commitment to continuing to deter state and non-state actors from widening the conflict. that particular message has been a consistent one from when president biden first commente
[sound of gunfire] u.s. embassy in lebanon tells americans to evacuate as the fighting between hezbollah fighters and israeli forces ramps up on israel s northern border. good evening i m jon scott and this is a special two-hour edition of the fox report. jon: we have team coverage for you this evening alexandria huff following president biden s response in beach delaware steve hagan on the ground in northern israel and congressman andy biggs joins us on the latest developments in the ongoing conflict. but first alex hogan joins us from tel-aviv with the latest on israel s push into the gaza strip. alex. reporter: as israeli forces push forward in to northern gaza idf says in last several hours it managed to take out a hamas control center outpost as well as targeting some of those underground tunnels it s about a week since we saw a multibranch effort really ramp up today we saw the head of israel s general staff meeting with other demanders and he congratulated his
erin? jeff, thank you very much.. and thananks to all l of you fo. good evening with the israeli military saying troops have now surrounded gaza city, we have been watching for most of the evening now some especially heavy air strikes on gaza, intense enough that cnn military analyst cedric layton said earlier tonight it reminded him of what he called the shock and awe air campaign against iraq. here is some of what it looked like and sounded like from sderot, across the border from gaza. with flares overhead for much of the time, israeli warplanes launched wave after wave of air-to-ground guided munitions at targets in gaza. one ripple of tightly grouped ordnance after another could be seen streaking downward, while in the background outgoing artillery followed by thumps of warheaded and shells landing. shortly before this began, antony blinken left on a swing, including stops in israel and jordan. his message was twofold. well, as we said, and it s important, israel h
. this is cnn breaking news. good morning, everyone, and welcome, i m phil mattingly with erica hill in new york. poppy is off today. right now, secretary antony blinken back in the war zone in israel. we are expecting blinken to speak in just moments after meeting with prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his war cabinet. blinken s trip comes as one of the most intense nights. we watched rockets and missiles rain down live on cnn as flares list up the night sky. blinken, president biden and his top advisers are warning israel that the human suffering in gaza is eroding public support for the war and the outcry for a cease-fire could reach a tipping point. the israeli military says its troops are completely surrounded gaza city. the latest video in this morning from those ground operations, casualties are rising on both sides, the idf now says 23 israeli soldiers have been killed since that ground assault was launched in gaza. this morning the red crescent says israe