spokesperson about the battle plan going forward and whether there is any new effort to protect palestinian civilians as the u.s. has been pushing for. also tonight, donald trump s lawyers in court and on camera. at the first hearing in the georgia election subversion case and the defense arguing if president trump is re-elected president he could not be tried until after leaving office. and we re following the drama up on capitol hill. now that republican george santos has been expelled from congress, santos storming out after the historic vote as he leaves his divided party with an even slimmer majority in the house. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. tonight, the skies over gaza have been lighting up again. israel and hamas back in combat mode after a week long pause in the fighting and the releases of dozens of the home hostages. matthew, what is the latest on these renewed attacks
unfortunately the cease-fire is over. izal is launching new strikes in gaza accusing hamas of violating its deal to hand over more hostages. the fighting resumed just hours after a report in the new york times that israeli leaders dismissed warnings of a pending hamas attack. let s start with cnn s jeremy diamond near the israel-gaza border. and jeremy, we ve seen explosions over gaza all day. what is the israel government, what is the idf saying about the renewed military operations? reporter: well, jake, not only has the israeli military renewed its military operation in gaza, it is also expanding it, moving combat operations, ground combat operations into the southern part of the gaza strip and also taking aim at key cities there including rafa as well as han eunice and hamas has been responding in kind. in the last couple of hours we ve seen dozens of rockets being fired from just behind me in a part of the gaza strip. i want to show you some of those rockets. and you