>> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> lynda: welcome in the united states and all around the world. i am lynda kinkade with breaking news coverage of israel at war. there are growing indications that an israeli military ground operation into gaza could get underway at any moment. the u.s. is now sending a second carrier strike group to the eastern mediterranean as well as additional fighter jets. the move is intended to deter iran, hezbollah, and others from entering the conflict. some 300,000 israeli troops began amassing on the gaza border soon after last week and's terror attacks. israel declared that it is ready to open a new phase in the war with significant ground operations. prime minister benjamin netanyahu met soldiers on the front lines marking those offering words of support and telling them to be prepared. palestinian authority's in gaza city to show from the israeli airstrikes is now more than 2200. including more than 700 children, according to the health ministry, 300 of those deaths happen in the past 24 hours. the majority were women and children. allie coghan is covering all the development and joints as. going to have you with as. israel has been striking jazz a. it has already carried out some raids. what can you tell us about this next stage of this war? >> reporter: since hamas launched that devastating and brutal terrorist attack that killed more than 1300 people in israel, it has been a question of when rather then if israel goes in on the ground as you say it has had already cowed -- carried out a couple of raids, to carry out reconnaissance missions. this ground invasion is expected now to be imminent and that of course is one reason why it was telling gazans in the northern part of the gaza strip specifically in gaza city to evacuate towards the south to get out of harm's way in order to minimize civilian loss of life. hamas of course which runs the gaza strip has been telling gazans to ignore these is really warnings but most of them have been erring on the site of believing in the israelis and moving towards the south. we have of course seen those reports of strikes hitting us and more civilians losing their lives as they have tried to move south but the situation right now is that israel is continuing to carry strikes. just in the last few minutes, we have been hearing more reports of strikes and it has been targeting command-and-control centers, and he tout -- antitank missile launchers and also command centers palagi to islamic jihad and specific militants. among its targets which it succeeded in hitting overnight was the target of one of the commanders of the hamas commando unit that it holds as principal responsible for that attack a week ago, just over a week ago. linda? >> lynda: and israel has told residents in the north to evacuate and head south in gaza. some people using that so-called safe passage announced by israel around this time yesterday were killed. we know the death toll in gaza is rising. just described' as the humanitarian disaster that is unfolding right now. >> reporter: it is unfolding and it is getting worse and probably with this expected ground invasion, the humanitarian situation and also the civilian loss of life, but also rise will just because hamas is also embedded in the civilian population. we know that there are eight? at the egyptian border crossing with the gaza strip that are unable to get in just yet. and that is also preventing the alleviation of the humanitarian situation, the world health organization for example saying that asking, you know, residents or people evacuating gaza hospitals is equivalent to a death sentence. so there is a growing concern not just from international aid organizations but also from the international community about the unraveling of the humanitarian situation there, lynda. robin he lead colton, thanks very much. thousands of palestinians have fled to southern gaza since israel into the evacuation order early friday. but it is not known how many have stayed behind. one thing is about in clear, whether people in gaza city choose to stay or go, no place is truly safe. get more now from some analyses and a warning her report contains graphic and disturbing images. >> reporter: this is what running for your life looks like in gaza. [ screaming ] an ambulance with a young girl and wounded women rocked by explosions as they attempt to flee. it is unclear what happened to the pair, but they are among the tens of thousands of people on the move after israel's military called on nearly half of gaza's population, 1.1 million people, to get south in a matter of hours. but along the safe passages, specified by the idf, or horror. you are looking at the carnage and chaos on the street. one of the designated evacuation routes. the aftermath of explosions, families killed amid their belongings. cnn has geo-located this video and four other clips from the horrifying scene. the u.n. calls israel parties evacuation advisory impossible and a violation of the rules of war and palestinian officials accused the idea of bombing civilians even as they fled. thousands of evacuees were killed or wounded by israeli airstrikes according to hamas. cnn has reached out to israeli military for comment. [ sirens ] the victims are flooding into gaza's overwhelmed hospitals and it is the youngest caught in the crossfire, or nearly half of gaza's population. >> translator: what did the surgeon do to deserve this? >> reporter: this woman says. >> translator: my niece and her whole family is that. >> reporter: the only survivor is a two-year-old girl. the healthcare system is on the brink. the complete siege making it possible to get it into the enclave and there's a shortage of everything, even space in the morgue. we are keeping the data in ice cream trucks so the parties don't rot, this doctor says. gaza is in crisis. gaza needs help. for those still able to move south, this is one of the neighborhoods families are expected to flee towards. where israeli airstrikes have wreaked havoc. this is a general side, not a war, this man says and it is an attempt to force all palestinians out of the gaza strip. finding refuge is proving dangerous and deadly and for the many families desperate for shelter, the fear is there may be no safe places left. cnn kevin rendon. >> lynda: with us now, is schendelaar, communications adviser at the newly those norwegian refugee council. thanks for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> lynda: i understand you have a team in gaza, many of whom have had to flee from the north to south. what are they telling you? how are they doing it? >> i mean, life is a struggle for all palestinians in gaza, just moments before i got on this call, was speaking to my colleague in those who had relocated to the south of gaza after playing with his family. he said there's a complete shortage of bread, bread lines are two hours long and now he is looking for alternatives to feed his children. finding other basic needs like water is proven to be incredibly difficult. he also told me that last night, despite him being relocated in the south, that there were airstrikes near him and just to prove that, you know, there is no safe place in gaza, the israeli authorities have told palestinians in gaza that they need to flee to the south for their safety. but as was indicated in the report just before i started speaking, some people were killed while trying to make that journey to the south and others are still facing bombardments even once they are relocated to the south. >> lynda: yeah, it seems nowhere safe right now. but for those in your team, how many are going south? how many are staying behind and for those staying behind, what are their reasons? >> i'm not sure entirely the breakdown between those that fled and those that stayed behind. i do know that we have a handful of staff that at least that have stayed behind. some because they have nowhere to go in the south. they are worried because there's a lack of facilities, able to accommodate mass influx of people. others are having trouble even finding transportation because the size of their families is so large. i have heard about colleagues who have been forced to flee on foot. other colleagues who have not been able to leave because of sick relatives and needing to try to get them treatment at hospitals in the north. there's a of reasons people are not moving and on able to leave. >> lynda: of course, even before this work gaza was facing a humanitarian crisis. the poverty rate over 50%. one-third of the residents living in extreme poverty. described the work that your team have been doing on the ground now and what will happen in the coming days. >> prior to this last week, our team was focused on providing cash support to families in need, helping to repair substandard housing for -- and bring it up to standards. helping to work with children to help them improve academically and overcome trauma that they face due to conflict or displacement. for the last week, we have been unable to do any of that work. it is just simply not safe for our colleagues to be out in the field working with people, providing aid to those in need. that is why we desperately need at least at the very least a humanitarian laws, and humanitarian orders to be established so that we can go back out and do the work that we do, providing assistance to vulnerable palestinians and now i think we just see how much greater our workload will be once it is fairly safe for us to be able to go and serve palestinians in gaza. >> lynda: we know israel supplies are basic necessities but after the hamas terror attack, it stopped the flow of food, water, fuel, electricity. do you have any indication of the reserves in gaza in terms of food and clean drinking water? >> i mean, we have seen that there's already worries about waterborne illness from people being forced to drink brackish water in agricultural wells. are with us morning to you has announced that basically with the fuel that remains inside of gaza, 48 hours or so, at hospitals will know longer be able to operate. it is a crisis with us even our own just bringing it to a personal level with our staff, the lack of electricity and people's reliance on generators, which are quickly running out of fuel and solar means that head counts which used to take 50 minutes to check in with our staff are now taking four hours because of the difficulties with people having their phones charged, being able to connect to mobile networks. i mean, life in gaza was challenging was only about 12 hours or 14 hours of electricity per day for those in good -- in so-called, terms. now we are facing a complete blackout and the inability to those for people to get basic necessities but i think food, from what i understand, the stocks on the shelves are quickly being depleted and there needs to be an influx of food and water and electricity and fuel in order for this civilian population of 2.3 million people to survive. >> lynda: you are an american in east jerusalem it. give us a sense of the feeling, what are you hearing? how is life there change in the past week? >> oh, i mean, the situation in my neighborhood, my neighborhood is a bustling, bustling neighborhood. it is very busy. i have a school at the end of the street. for the last week, it has just been eerily quiet. early in the week, it was punctuated by sounds of the iron dome intercepting rockets. now what i hear besides the eerily quiet and this is often just the sound of war planes going overhead, heading towards gaza or surveilling the area. life here does not feel normal. it feels that people are anticipating the worst. when i go to the supermarket, all of the shelves are stocked. there's the patients of all of kind of the basic pantry items, rice, grains, beans, those shelves are empty. and i think as soon as they fill them up, they are being depleted again because people are anticipating that this could go on for a long time and want to make sure that they have enough food to take care of their families, even here in jerusalem. >> lynda: wow. shaina low we appreciate your time and your perspective and the work that your team are doing in the region. thanks so much. >> thank-you. >> lynda: well, for so many of you watching, you may feel compelled to help the humanitarian relief efforts in gaza and israel. cnn is compiling resources. you can head to seen and.com/impact. you will find a list of vetted organizations responding on the ground. cnn.com/impact. with the u.s. ordering a second carrier strike group to the mediterranean sea. uthe uss eisenhower is on the way. it will join the uss ford which was deployed after the hamas attacks last weekend. and arrived off the coast of israel tuesday. their presence is intended to send a message to iran and its proxies in the region not to get involved in the conflict between israel and hamas. that u.s. president joe biden is continuing his talks with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu since that hamas attack. another phone call this weekend. mr. barton also caught the attention to a humanitarian crisis in gaza as a human rights event saturday night. as the israel/hamas war enters the second week. cnn's priscilla alvarez has more. >> reporter: president biden spoke with prime minister benjamin netanyahu for the first time two leaders have talked since the attacks on israel last saturday. in that discussion, the two talked about u.s. military support as well as protecting innocent civilians as this conflict unfolds. and a second call, the president also spoke with palestinian authority president abbas. they talked about humanitarian supplies reaching gaza which is facing water shortages and food shortages. the person also spoke in the human rights campaign dinner in his remarks he, too, talked about the terror attacks in israel as well as the humanitarian crisis in gaza. take a listen. >> president biden: a week ago, we saw hate manifested in the worst massacre on the jewish people since the holocaust. innocent lives lost in israel including at least 27 americans. children, grandparents alike kidnapped. held hostage by hamas. the humanitarian crisis -- crisis in gaza, innocent palestinian families and the vast majority have nothing to do with hamas. [ applause ] they are being used as human shields. >> reporter: the focus continues to be that this conflict not widen in the region but they are sending a message of deterrence in the region as well. and focusing their efforts to on bringing those americans who are held hostage by hamas home. priscilla alvarez, cnn, the white house. >> lynda: when in weeks ago, powerful earthquake hit the region of afghanistan and now it has happened again. we will have details on the new creek that has hit the area and how people are coping with the devastation after the first one. ♪ >> lynda: we are following some big news out of get afghanistan where an earthquake has struck. the quake was hundred northwest of the city and came one week after another quake the exact same magnitude hit the same a area. no word yet on casualties. we will bring you that information when we get it. the government officials there say more than 2,000 people across the province were killed when the earthquake struck on october 7th. the situation is quite grim. and a corm has the details. >> reporter: underneath crystal blue skies in western afghanistan, the sound of vanished hope fills the air. under mounds of earth lie countless parties. there are no survivors here. only evidence of mother nature's wrath and fury unleashing further misery on a traumatized country. last saturday, around 11:00 a.m., a 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck the district of synergy completely flattening 11 villages. you can see the state of my home. it is now in ruins, there is no need for words. the hair was not home when the earth violently shook for only a few seconds. but when he returned, he found 13 family members christ to death including those crushed to death including his children and multiple grandchildren. [ crying ] simple mud brick structures supported by wooden poles on these dusty planes, all reduced to rubble. aid cy tends are their new homes. this 32-year-old lost two daughters when her house collapsed. she was standing under the door frame. my children were buried under the wall, she explains. everything is gone. nothing remains for us. the taliban government and international organizations estimate more than 2,000 people were killed across the region during saturday's earthquake. and according to unicef, more than 90% of the victims were women and children. u.s. charity too young to sweat part of the humanitarian relief effort on the ground since there is a region for the staggering statistic. women and girls are forced to stay home, denied their basic rights, and from education and being part of society. >> they have been systematically stripped of their rights over the last two years so instead of being at school and at work on a saturday, they, which is when they have their schooling and their work week, they were home confined to their homes, imprisoned in their homes. it is a country where half the population is under house ar arrest. >> reporter: in this hospital makeshift wards have been directed to cater for all the injured. long on a bed, 35 wrote fatima who was knocked unconscious when her home collapsed on top of her. by -- while being rescued, she worked to discover her seven children aged four months to 14 years, all that. i have experience a great deal of pain and sorrow, she says. we have lost everything in our life. nothing remains. with the world firmly focused on they are in israel, aid organizations are pleading for the international community not to forget the earthquake victims in afghanistan. >> the people of afghanistan deserve equally as all children in the world. it does not mean we abandon t them. >> reporter: andy cordan cnn. chairman families being held hostage by hamas are demanding r their relatives. stay with us. you're watching cnn. ♪ you're probably not easily persuaded to switch mobile providers for your business. but what if we told you it's possible that comcast business mobile can save you up to 75% a year on your wireless bill versus the big three carriers? it's true. plus, when you buy your first line of mobile, you get a second line free. there are no term contracts or line activation fees. and you can bring your own device. oh, and all on the most reliable 5g mobile network nationwide. wireless that works for you. it's not just possible. it's happening. is it possible my network could take my business to the next level? it is with comcast business. powering all your devices with gig-speed wifi. and you get fast downloads and uploads. pick it up! pick it up! oh we got this! because it's powered by the next generation 10g network. more speed for your business? it's not just possible. it's happening. get started for $59.99 a month for 12 months. plus, ask how to get an $800 prepaid card with a qualifying internet bundle. comcast business, powering possibilities. >> lynda: welcome back. i'm lynda kinkade and this is "cnn newsroom." i want to bring you up to speed. israel has indicated that it will begin a significant ground operation in gaza. it is unclear exactly when. iran is threatening far-reaching consequences if israel does not stop its attacks on gaza. the u.s. is sending a second aircraft carrier to the eastern mediterranean as a deterrent for iran and its proxies. palestinians is about 300 people have been killed in israeli aerial strikes over the past 24 hours. 800 others were wounded. the majority of the casualties are children. that would bring the death toll in gaza since the crisis began to more than 2300 people. humanitarian aid for gaza is piling up in egypt right now because supplies can't get through the main border cro crossing. israeli families are demanding urgent help for their loved ones being held captive by hamas in gaza. on saturday, the hostages and missing families formed demanded that the red cross help them to get medicine to their loved ones. israel association of public health physicians says there are 150 characters with various medical conditions who need help immediately. one of the members and says her relatives are missing. >> my cousin was abducted from her home with her two babies, three and nine months old. another is four years old. along with her husband and my aunt and uncle, both in their late 60s. you have all seen her photos, holding her two redhead babies. help. nine months old baby being held captive underground somewhere. i don't know if he got his food, his formula. he needs his bottle. my cousin and i gave birth two months apart. i have a seven months old at home. i put him to bed every night. [indistinct] my aunt has parkinson's disease. every day without her meditation -- medication is torture. we don't know how long it is going to take. this could take a long time. those are innocent civilians. those are innocent civilians. they have rights. this is hamas. it is a terror organization. you need to put pressure on the right people, on all organizations, on turkey, on egypt, please, they need to help the red cross enter. those people's lives are so important to us. we need to bring them back home alive. they were kidnapped alive and they will be back alive. i will do everything i can, and we need your help. >> lynda: flights in and out of israel have been hard to come by as mangy -- major airlines have canceled many of them. it has led to the creation of a charity formed after the hamas attacks. the group is helping to fund a private flight with israeli and american citizens who want to help israel during the war. cnn's stephanie elam. >> reporter: 150 people met up at los angeles international airport in the wee hours of the morning to board a charter flight to get back to israel. this all come together in just a matter of days we are told by a nonprofit humanitarian organization called israel's friends. they are looking to get people who need to get back into israel, a lot of carriers are not flying into israel right now and they also want to get tons of humanitarian aid to the country as well and the word went out and this charter flight gathered these people together. these people come together early in the morning and we have seen some of them who were there alone. some of them there with loved ones. sadikin devastated, but also respecting the choice of the loved ones to go back to israel and some of the people going as one man that we spoke to who is born and raised here in los angeles to israeli parents, he said that he felt that he had to go back and that looking at everything that he has seen, he was numb, it all and knew he had to go. take a listen to him. >> i'm american israeli. i'm an american is really. it is very simple. my home is here. my home is there. so i feel obligated and almost a desire and more so a need to go right now. so -- >> reporter: you don't feel like you can just stay? >> it is not an option. >> reporter: many of these people were coming from many places outside the los angeles area. some live in israel like david frankel who went to work started, he gathered his is -- up his wife and fled to her opponent so that he could leave them with family members here but he knew he was going to get called back and he also wanted to go. take a listen to him. >> i'm obviously nervous. i want to come home safely to my family. i want to see my boys grow up. but you have to put that aside and stop the madness that is happening. >> reporter: and frankel says that he kissed his two young boys go by while they were sleeping before headed to the airport. that is the difficult part for the people they are leaving behind. they don't know when they will see their loved ones again and for the people heading back to israel, they don't know how long it will be before things calm down enough that they could be with their families again. what we did see while we were in the airport terminal with them was a lot of camaraderie and even though people did not necessarily know anyone else in the terminal, they were making fast friends, consequences because they were unified in their goal to get back and defend israel. back to you. >> lynda: thanks to you stephanie elam there. still to come to the family says this grandmother was snatched out of her home and is being held hostage by hamas. her grandson shared some words with cnn. that is next. ♪ >> lynda: welcome back. a family in israel says their grandmother was taken from her home and is being held hostage by hamas. cnn's erin burnett spoke with the woman's grandson as they hope and wait for more information. >> we know and she cried for help. she yelled, help in hebrew. going outside this safe room, this house. there were so many, so we come back home to save himself. he saw her and he saw them take her out of her house. that is all we know. we got the video tuesday night. it is out there. and that is all we know. we did not see another photo of her in gaza, nothing. we don't have any more info. >> reporter: but i saturday and sunday, given what the news was, you could have been worried that she was that. when you find out that the defendant was posted on video that she could be alive, in essence, must've been an incredible sense of relief but an incredible fear of where she is. has the israeli government told you anything about what is being done in order to find her? >> not a single thing, nothing. they still talk to us -- don't talk to us at all. they did not have any information, don't say anything about negotiating, bringing them back, nothing. >> reporter: hamas claiming hostages were killed in an airstrike in gaza. we don't know if that is true. so we don't know why. it is possible that that happened. do you have any message to the idf about how they are handling the hostage situation? >> i just want my grandma and all the kidnapped people to come home safe. that is all we want. of course, we need to protect us. but we need to consider that 200 people or 150 people, israeli citizens, are now in gaza strip. i don't know what happened. i don't know if someone in the idf knows where they are, but all i, my grandma is there, and we strike them all the time, all the time. and she might die on our strike. >> lynda: one week since the conflict began, fixed bridges claiming to show the fighting have been going viral. with worrying results. the european union has sent google and its subsidiary youtube a warning over how they handled fake or graphic content linked to the israel/hamas war. it is not the first time the eu has sent -- stepped in with social media platform x already receiving a letter. cnn's sullivan has more. one video shows a rocket reportedly hired by hamas. another showing israeli jets bombing in gaza. this video is actually footage from a videogame called rmf three and this is actually video of soccer celebrations in algeria. it is part of a tidal wave of viral myths and disinformation circulating around the israel/hamas conflict. how decohen works an online intelligence service. he has been monitoring miss information like, a fake bbc news report. >> this is relatively -- has even the same kind of graphics that the bbc news would have. >> they think what happened the becomes very easy affordable to mimic those graphics visualizations. >> reporter: in response, the bbc told cnn, in a of increasing disinformation to we urge everyone to ensure they are getting news from a trusted source. just hours after the attack began on saturday, this began circulating on social media. a fake white house memo falsely claiming the u.s. was immediately sending billions of dollars in new aid to israel. >> this is more -- a fake white house document circulated pretty widely online. >> i do want to point out, though, it is an old-school tactic that we have seen for multiple years by now. but with the current tools, you can also create it very quickly and make it more believable. >> there's a new information every second, every minute, every hour, so there's a lot of room for error as things develop on the ground. >> reporter: he tracks disinformation with the atlantic council research lab. >> this conflict is hyper-connected. israel is a very connected country so we are seeing an enormous amount of misleading content coming out of this conflict as the world prophesies are watching. >> reporter: otwitter is a major source of misinformation due in part of elon musk laying off key employees. they are opening an investigation into disinformation on x. >> another component -- component is because several platforms have to scale back in moderation, it is much easier to spread rumors and of substantiation rumors, false information for a quick. >> reporter: this is not just an information war. it is a real war. >> that disinformation is extraordinary -- extraordinarily harmful. >> reporter: x says it is going to try to address some of these issues. this is not a problem that is exclusive to x. it is happening on other platforms. right now, it is quite pronounced. on x, you can see false videos could misleading videos getting millions of views on the platform before anything is really done about them and the real tragedy is there is no need to post these fake videos and images. we have seen the tragic footage. the real footage from israel and gaza and of course, it is upsetting enough these fake videos and images just adding, the chaos and confusion and concern. donie o'sullivan, cnn, new york. >> lynda: still to come, the israeli military is gearing up for a significant ground offensive in gaza. we will speak to an israeli military official about that when we come back. stay with us. you're watching cnn. ♪ ♪ >> lynda: welcome back. israel's military says it is preparing for the next stages of the war against hamas. i want to bring in lieutenant colonel peter lerner, a spokesperson for the israel defense forces. he us from tel aviv. good to have you with us. >> thank you. >> lynda: there are raids by israel's special forces happening in gaza. what can you tell us about those operations right now? how many people involved and what is that mission about? >> good morning. we are in the ninth day now of our activities to the capa capability, the operations are extensive and increasing. i can inform you that over the night, we attacked and killed one of the commandos leaders from -- his name is [indistinct]. he was the leader that enacted the butcher and attack. and this goes to an example of that we have the intelligence in order to take out hamas' leadership from -- the mastermind of the massacre all the way down to the terrorists that penetrated and butchered our babies in their bedrooms. the operation is ongoing. indeed we are taking out hamas and we are determined to fulfill our mission to safeguard and secure the people of israel. >> lynda: i have seen numbers ranging from 20,000 to 40,000 hamas fighters. what is your understanding? how many hamas militants are there? and talk to us about the next stage of this operation, sea, land, ground incursion. >> there are some tens of thousands of hamas operatives, tears. but is not just the operatives. the idf is targeting the institutions of hamas because they have subordinated the entire government system to build support fund finance and instruct and execute their terrorist activities. so effectively what we're doing is dismantling the entire system to begin with. with regard to the second question, what are we doing now? how are we pairing for the next stage? we have recruited several hundreds of thousands of soldiers of reservist, some 300,000 corralling many of them in the area of southern israel on the border with gaza, in the anticipation, if the instructions from the government to mobilize into gaza does come and we need to be prepared for that. >> lynda: lieutenant colonel, israel has instructed residents in northern gaza to evacuate. they were told they would have a safe passage for 6 hours but we have witnessed people build on that very passage. half the population in gaza and children under the age of 18, is there anywhere safe for civilians in gaza? >> i'm glad you asked me that. there was a red where i wanted to raise that. after review, we found that the incident that you reported on intraday throughout the day was not a strike by the israeli air force. it appears and what we have found that low -- it falls exactly in line with what we have been telling you and your viewers throughout the day. you cannot trust one word hamas is saying to you. it appears that they have physically prevented people from moving from north to south and also, it appears that they have booby-trapped some of the roads in anticipation at what we have seen at what we understand is that the people that were killed yesterday in the convoy going down was not a result of an idf strike. so i would say first of all, our instructions to people is in our policy and to differentiate between the people, the hostages of hamas, the people of gaza, and to enable us to target hamas, the terrorist organization has used the gaza strip as a staging ground for this brutal massacre last saturday. >> lynda: lieutenant colonel, israel has employed a significant number of energy to the lebanon border. they have seen heavy artillery in southern lebanon. at least one journalist was killed there. and we have also heard threats from iran that there will be far-reaching consequences if israel does not stop its attacks on gaza. should we be worried that this war between israel and hamas will become a wider regional conflict? >> so i certainly hope not. of course, hope is not a method and we have to be prepared for every eventuality. we have indeed answered those 300,000 reservists -- called up to present some of those on the frontier with the border with hamas with hezbollah and lebanon. you know, there has been some skirmishes and exchanges and indeed, there has been mortar fire and rocket fire and antitank guided missile attacks against the forces operating on the border. i would caution hezbollah could look very closely at how we are dismantling hamas. they need to be very, very cautious. with regard to iran, i would say i would say, they have invested in this instance of the in the network of terrorism, proxies here on our reporter so of course, they are concerned. i would also caution them from getting involved. >> lynda: lieutenant colonel peter lerner to thank so much for joining us. >> thank you. good day. >> lynda: i am lynda kinkade. we will be back with more breaking news out of israel after a very short break. stay with us. you're watching cnn. ♪ >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> lynda: hello and welcome.