This is cnn Breaking News. We are following Breaking News at this hour, israels military says its Ground Operation in gaza is expanding. Im Anderson Cooper in tel aviv. We are seeing live pictures out of gaza right now. Large explosions over the gaza strip, the idf says it is, quote, operating forcefully. Those are their words on all fronts and will continue striking gaza city and keep calling upon civilians to evacuate south. This comes as were learning more about Hostage Negotiations with hamas. U. S. Officials insisting Hostage Talks will continue even as the Israeli Military ramps up its air strikes and expanding its operation on the ground. Jeremy diamond is in ashelon for us. We have been hearing the ste steady thud of these intensified Bombardment Thes and Artillery Fire on the gaza strip. This has been the loudest and most intense, perhaps even the most sustained bombardment of the gaza strip that we have heard in three weeks of covering this war. All of this as the idf says it
command center. today the israeli military released this new video showing the inside of a tunnel on the hospital s grounds. we ve reached out to hospital officials about this footage but have not heard back. oren liebermann got a chance to enter with the israeli defense forces saturday and joins us now live from tel aviv with more. orin, what did you see? reporter: paula, we spent about six hours inside of gaza crossing the border fence at 9:00 in the evening and not coming back out until about 3:00 in the morning so the entire time we spent there was at night, and much of the time in gaza city itself which has been without power for days was in nearly complete darkness, but what we went to see was the newly exposed tunnel shaft, this had been revealed by the idf only a couple days earlier but haven t gotten to look inside. even though it was pretty much the middle of the night and had to use our headlamps to see it was clear there was something substantial there, take a l