Government, all huge questions looming over the biden House Republican conference, as they struggle with a way forward. Thanks very much. Ac 360 with Anderson Cooper live from israel starts right live from israel starts right now. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com it is 3 00 a. M. In gaza, and you may not be able to pick it up from the microphone im wearing, but you can hear the steady booms of shells being fired into gaza by israeli forces. Weve also throughout the day seen rocket fire coming to ashkelon to our south, hamas saying they have fired 120 rockets into the two cities today. Israeli war planes have been pounding numerous locations in the territory, hitting targets the israeli officials describe as strategic to hamas. The cause also appears to be widespread destruction in densely populated neighborhoods. Israels Defense Minister ordered the military to put gaza under what he called complete siege. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to his people tonight, warning that wha
As you say rosemary, hundreds more are strikes by israel. Militant targets inside the gaza strip, including command post. Inside of mosques. On top of that, as you mentioned, there is a total block eight, a total siege of the gaza strip announced by the Defense Minister yesterday. No food, no fuel, no water, no electricity going from israel into the gaza strip and, i suppose the idea there is to get the civilian population to put pressure on to the militants of hamas to try to release the hostages. Now, a couple of things on that note, of, course if hamas is able to get weaponry, smuggle weapons, bulldozers, and other equipment into the gaza strip, one can only assume that they will be able to get fuel and other supplies in their. The, clearly not offset the kind of supplies that they usually get and it also seems unlikely, certainly at this stage, that there is going to be anything to sway hamas from its current position and it is holding on to as youve been speaking, weve watched the