christiane amanpour in london. thank you for watching and i ll see you again next week. this is cnn breaking news hello, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i m for greek a whitfield if breaking news from the middle east right now, the idf says eight israeli soldiers were killed during what they re calling an incident in rafah it marks one of the deadliest single incidents for israeli forces since october 7. cnn s paula hancocks is live for us in tel aviv. paula, what more can you tell us? well, fread, we understand this happened in the western area of refer. it s an area where there has been fighting over but recent days. now the idf saying eight soldiers have been killed in this particular incidents that they are looking into it, investigating, finding it the cause of what happened, as you say, it is one of the deadliest days from the israeli military side since october 7. now, what we re hearing is a statement as well. from hamas. they say that they carried o
infrastructure in a neighborhood in northwest rafah. it s a stunning incident for israel and one of the deadliest days for the idf since teuber seventh, the short time ago, people gathered for a moment of silence to pay their respects for the eighth lives lost. cnn s oren liebermann is joining us now, live from a haifa israel or and what are you learning fredricka as you point out, this is one of the single deadliest incidents we ve seen against israeli soldiers in gaza since the beginning of the war, a total of eight soldiers were killed. one of those has been identified to this point, a captain who was with those eight soldiers who are part of a combat engineering brigade, the idf says this is still under investigation, but according to what they know, now, there was an explosion from what they call a sidebar them near their armored personnel carriers. so an armored vehicle. now they don t explain what a sidebar is, whether it was something affixed to the vehicle itself o