Okay. This is video from moments ago. Wow. You can see the rockets being fired from gaza. Our reporter Nic Robertson is just over the border from gaza in israel in sderot, and nic, tell us what you are seeing. Yeah, we are seeing a massive barrage of Iron Dome Intercepts in the sky. Here you can make out the tiny puffs of white smoke in the sky, and each one of those puffs is an intercept of an iron dome defensive missile system, and taking down hamas rockets, and you can see over my shoulder there, some of the traces of the rockets themselves that are fired through the sky. It looks as though some of the iron domes were stopping the rockets going to the two big israeli towns along the coast there, ashkelon and ashdot further up the coast there. You can see the missiles coming out from the iron dome and intercepting with the rockets in the sky. So literally in less than one hour from here, there has been Missile Attacks, hamas Missile Attacks on this town, sderot, and Missile Attacks on tel aviv, and we saw those rockets going out, and there have been these Rocket Missile attacks on ashkelon and ashdot. So hamas is saying that they have power left and the longer range weapons that is difficult for them to produce, and it can reach Central Israel and the shorter range ones to come in here, and the midrange ones to reach the coast, and so hamas is showing that despite the strikes on it so far it has the capability and the reserves of rockets to continue firing out. Nic robertson, standby, if you can and it is safe, because i want to give the people the sense of where you are. In red is gaza, and put nic back up there, and this is sderot where nic is just over the border of gaza, and he could hear the iron dome, and that is the Israeli Air Defense missiles shot up into the sky to intercept the rockets fired from gaza, and as nic explained, targets of the Missile Attacks are ashkelon and ashdot here on the mediterranean coast. So, back to you, nic. How constant is this . Do you feel like you are hearing more outgoing, and can you distinguish between the outgoing, and the intercepts from israel . Yes. The outgoing from gaza, you will see, because there is the white trails behind the rockets. So you will see them, and particular think the longer range ones, and might you see them outgoing, because of the Orange Burner Trail of the back of the rocket, and the intercepts start out as i can well, i have a rough idea of the Firing Positions is now, because you can see them come up, and you will see a Little Red Dot flying through the sky and then it will Exploet De Int white smoke puff and you will hear the percussion from it, and so you will see how it works and we have a very good Vantage Point here. Thank you, Nic Robertson in sd sderot, and we go to Clarissa Ward who is over in ashkelon. Yes, we have heard that there is some sort of threat to be here by 5 00 p. M. , and we got here at five minutes until 5 00, and then the sirens started going off, and we were immediately dragged into the bunker by another person here, and massive amount of missile just slamming in all around. We heard hi, fred. There are other journalists here as well, and we have heard the Iron Dome Intercepting some of them, and you can also smell the explosives coming in from the balconies coming out there, and unclear at the moment how many of these rockets may have made impact or what the damage may be, and what the Casualty Rate may be, but certainly a lot of rockets were fired. The hotel was, you know, relatively secure location. Okay. We are hearing more sirens coming again, and so i want to move away from the window. Okay. The shelter is over there, and do we want to go toward the shelter . The bunker is this way. Move, guys. Please. Reporter just moving into the bunker here, and this is where we were when the last barrage came in as well. And every floor of hotel has a bunker like this. You can hear some activity out there, and like the previous round and i dont know if you are picking up on that, and this is sounding like maybe interception, and it is difficult to know, but that is what it sounds like. But it is a bit quieter now. We are trying, also, to send in some video that we captured from inside of the bunker when the first round of rockets went off. But, yeah. Just waiting to see and get some clairety, kate. Clarissa, what we are showing, and i wanted to give the viewers some point of reference here. You are in ashkelon, and you have incoming, and you are in the bunker, and stay with me there, and on the other side of the screen, you can see sderot where there is incoming as well. Nic is there. And john is over to the wall where he can show you in relation to where these two areas are, and clarissa, staying with me, and nic, you are seeing the incoming as well, and talk us through it. Reporter the Vantage Point here, we can see the rockets here, and then the intercepts, and this is when the bunkers were getting the sirens where clarissa is, and she is over closer to the three Power Chimneys that you can see there on the horizon. That is where she s. And i supposely duck down here so that john can get a better view. So, you can see the rockets come up where john is pointing camera now out of gaza. And then they are flying up into the sky and being picked up by the iron dome as flying toward ashkelon where clarissa, and then the iron dome kicks off and starts to intercept them, and that is the white puff ps of smoke. So where clarissa, we have a position to see the missiles is going out, and then being intercepted to where she is. And then just before the missiles took off, there were fighter jets in the air as well, and couple of explosions from gaza, so it is the impression that the fighters had gone off, and they had gone up to try to target the hamas firing those rockets off. I hear another fighter jet in the sky right now. I cant see it. But typically when hamas comes out the fire the rockets, typically the jets come on station here, and well look for the targets, and look for those hamas militants with the rocket, and the Firing Positions to take them out. This is a very, this view from here is going to give you a strong understanding of the dynamic of this battle. If i can show you where Nic Robertson is on this map. He is seeing the rockets fired from gaza and where the israeli intercepts are, and clarissa is there in ashkelon, and back to you, clarissa. We saw this hamas spokesman issuing a warning to the residents of ashkelon to leave by 5 00 p. M. , and it is 5 11 here, and in a way, hamas said that this is going to happen. Reporter they did. That why we came here, and we got here at five minutes to 5 00, and unfortunately, absurdly our room key was not working just as the barrage of rockets hit, and so someone from the hotel grabbed us and moved us into the shelter where you just saw. It was sustained, and the difficulty of obviously from this Vantage Point, it is hard to know how many of the rockets were intercepted and how many had made landfall, and then things were quiet and then as we talked again, another round of warning, a warnings, and again, we were moved to the shelter, and it was not as intense of a barrage, and it is appearing to be quieter now, and we are just trying to get more clarity on what damage has been done. It was like clockwork. They had sent a notice just after 3 00 that people needed to leave by 5 00, and then at 5 00 on the dot, those rockets started slamming in. We want to ask you how unusual it is that hamas has sent a warning, because often they come with no warning, and the only warning that people get is from the sirens that are going off and running as you did i into where you are. The sirens are going off again fyi. Sirens again. Another hit. Reporter clarissa, are you in a safe area . Sorry. One second. Step over there away from the window. Yes, i am stepping away from the window, and yeah, we are speaking to one journalist who said that ak chaully, it is quite common for them to broadcast with these types of attacks what time they might carry them out. He said they happen often at 8 00 p. M. Because that is when the israeli news is on. You can probably hear those, so that is quite heavy. What do you mean, you are coming to me, and are you not on with me . Guys, are you on with me . Oh, so you are with me. And i heard someone in my ear. So i can hear you. So you can hear those rockets . Is everybody okay . Is everyone where you are okay . Because it sounded like something hit. Everybody is fine. Yeah. Yes. Theres definitely been another volley of rockets. We are going to be quiet here for a second to listen. Reporter i cant hear anything, because it may be over. And if will give me a couple of minutes i will work out how to get into this room and come back to you to give you more information if that is okay, guys . Yes, clarissa, get safe. And we go over to Nic Robertson in sderot, and the closest point is about 27,700 feet to the border, and it is that close, nic. Yes, john is framing up the black smoke that has appeared since the last barrage of the rockets that was targeting the location that clarissa is in, ashkelon, and one of the rockets appears to have gotten through, and that is why we are seeing the black smoke drifting up, and that is a good indication or a bad indication rather that one has made it through the intercepts. Clarissa was hearing rockets going out, and we could literally see them taking off from the Firing Positions in the distance there, and intercepting with the bright flash in the sky, and what you can see now, the intercepts what you can see are the small puffs of smoke there in the sky. But again, the dynamic, and that huge percussion, that explosion that clarissa is hearing, and in the distance, we are seeing the rockets fired out, and the Iron Dome Intercepting, and we are seeing the explosions from here. Nic, can you describe for us, because you have been on the ground since to getgo, and able to get into sderot, and you were down on the ground where the Music Festival was, and where that massacre occurred and then moving slowly through. This seems to be a massive barrage of rockets to be coming in, and really since we, since, you know, journalists were able to get on the ground and get a handle on what a horrific Terror Attack we are talking about, and give us perspective on this. Reporter hamas does things for attention. You know, the terror it creates, it has a plan. That big volley of attacks that it put on Saturday Morning, 2,200, they have not matched it since, but it was cover for the Ground Assault they did with more than 1,000 or so hamas militants who came across the border and ripped down the fences and tore into the army bases and tore into the civilian kibbutzes and kill sod many people at the peaceful Music Festival. That volley on Saturday Morning has not been match and maybe sunday 150 missiles fired in a salvo towards tel aviv on sunday. I must say that the days are blurring into each other, but what is significantly noticeable is that Monday Morning though there had been a dropoff in the number of hamas Rocket Attacks on sunday, Monday Morning, it noticeably picked up, because they know it is a new news cycle and they wanted the attention, and they wanted to show Israeli Forces that they had the ability to fire out, and we are looking at the Iron Dome Intercepts again where clarissa is, and i imagine that she is hearing right now, and raid siren is going off. Because those intercepts are right above her now. And so now what hamas is saying is look at the space now, and we are going to launch more rockets, and we have not been forced out of action. And so as well, we are also hearing, were also hearing Howitzers Firing on the hamas positions, the israeli guns firing on the hamas positions. We are listening to where Nic Robertson is, and israeli sirens as the rockets are fired from gaza into ashkelon, and Clarissa Ward, what are you seeing . Guys, we are trying to get on the air for the last two minutes as it has been complete mayhem here with the rockets coming in, and the Iron Dome Intercepts there, and black smoke billowing and a couple of points of contact and potential direct hit, but we dont know, and the sirens are going, and the streets, you can see barely anything is moving, and people are obviously sheltering in place after what has been a pretty sustained now 20 minutes are we talking about since 5 00 or so while this has been going on. That last round, and i dont know if it is possible for us to try to rewind the tape and speak in Old School Parlance to get that video back to you, but you could see the rockets as they were being intercepted by the iron dome. Again, you can see the black smoke there and we dont know what was hit or what that is. But certainly a very tense situation here in ashkelon. And clarissa, we have had your shot up during this time, and thank you for explaining much more clearly what we have been seeing for the last several minute, and thank you to you and your crew for the courage to get out there outside so we can see the strike as it is happening in realtime. Hamas has claimed credit saying it has fired hundreds of rockets at ashkelon in what is displacement of palestinians in gaza. And so this is an attack from hamas, and make no mistake, because they said it would happen, and now, clarissa, that is closer to the port where we are seeing the black smoke rise up, that is on the waters edge . Yeah, it is not far from the waters edge. The water is just in that direction. So, not far from the waters edge. We are trying to get a location as to what is there. It is difficult to see from behind the buildings. We do know that there have been rockets pretty much every day in ashkelon, and correct me if you think it is wrong, but i have not heard anything quite that sustained, the barrage that we have heard over the last 20 minuteser, so and there have been some direct impacts and one a couple of days ago near the hotel at a building, and another one at a bus stop. But the question now of course is, you know, where did these rockets hit, the ones that were not intercepted and was anyone hurt . I will say that the system is incredibly effective and you dont have a huge amount of time from when you hear that siren, because yo have to move quickly, but it is going to give you a few moments to try to get to cover or safer space, and as i mentioned before, all of the hotels and buildings have, or most of them have shelters on every floor. All of the bus stops have shelters attached to them, because it has become part of life for people here, and this is something that they have become accustomed to, and certainly not anything on this level. And if you can come back to the map, and show you where clarissa s and this is just north of ashkelon, and this is the first major or bigger israeli city north of gaza on the mediterranean coast, and they are used to Rocket Attacks like this, and as you said, nothing like the quantity that you may have just seen over the last few minutes, correct . Correct. I mean, this is a place where the Rocket Attacks are frequent, and this is why you have these shelter, and we have been hearing them everyday and an uptick in the tempo since saturday, and what we have witnessed over the last 20 minutes is not like anything that we have seen since we have been here, and, you know, we could be in for a long time, and we will see. I lets hope not. And clarissa, you got there a few days ago and in comparison, we saw you in another barrage of fire coming from Gaza Yesterday or the day before, and how many people do you have some sense of how many people are still there . Are you seeing the civilians still there in ashkelon trying to live their lives and stay safe at the same time as this is happening, because there was a warning by hamas, but are you seeing the people who have stayed . Reporter you are definitely seeing the people who have stayed. A lot of them, those who have the mean, and a lot them have come to bigger hotels like the one where we are. When we first arrived we saw the civilians kind of flooding in and basically looking for somewhere that they could shelter in place, and feel confident or comfortable to have some degree of security. Obviously, a lot of people have left as well. Particularly families. Even when they dont cause casualties these rockets, the effect on the psyche, and the effect they have when they do make impact, and we visited a house yesterday that had been basically destroyed by a rocket. Again, they had a shelter. They heard the siren and they went down to the shelter, and they were okay, but the house is destroyed. Clearly, this is not a Sustainable Living situation for most ordinary people, and having said that, the iz lays are built of stronger stuff. So you do still see the people here. It is just sort of comes and goes depending upon the level of activity if you see them out on the street. Right now, you cant really see almost anybody on the street. I cant see anybody. I see one car moving around, but most people of course, they will be sheltering in place until they know it is safer to com