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aviv. happening now, breaking news. israel appears to unleash a massive new air assault on northern gaza. flares lighting up the sky while rockets fly and explosions boom. cnn of course is on the ground as this powerful new israeli offensive unfolds. also breaking an ominous new warning from hamas as the israeli military says it has gaza city completely surrounded. a hamas political leader saying dozens of hostages are subject to the same, quote, death and destruction as others in gaza. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer reporting live from israel, and you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. we re following the breaking news. we re live here in the middle east on a night of intense warfare in israel s battle against hamas in gaza. our cameras capturing truly extraordinary images in gaza as we follow this breaking story with our team of correspondents. first let s go right to nic robertso ....
recall. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer in tel aviv, israel, and you re in the israel, and you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com announcer: this is cnn breaking news. right now, we re keeping a very close eye in the skies over gaza after the truly extraordinary images of war we saw here on cnn just a little while ago with flares raining down for some 30 minutes as israel appeared to unleash an intense new assault in its battle against hamas. our correspondents are standing by here in the middle east as well as in the united states. first, i want to go to cnn s nic robertson. he had a direct view of the bombardment of gaza as it was under way from his position in israel not far from gaza. nic, tell our viewers more about what you saw and what s happening there now. reporter: yeah, wolf, we just had a very heavy detonation coming from the direction of where all those flares were drop ....