Tonight, Defense Forces have brought out the big guns. Conner powell live in gaza city not far from where that air strike hit last night. Conner . That was just one of many air strikes that my cameraman and i have seen in the past few days, they have gotten bigger and bigger the last few days. Particularly the last 36 hours or so. We had our cameras trained on that location near our facility, because we have seen rockets being launched from there, and israeli artillery pounding as the violence has grown in the last day and a half oar so, we thought that was a target for our cameras. It was hit, before you could hear the scream of the missile, you could feel it and then there was shrapnel everywhere, it was a gigantic explosion. Its what weve seen across the gaza strip the last day or so. Israel has ramped up its effort here in the gaza strip. Despite the description of precise targeting. When youre that close to an explosion, everything is felt and there is debris and shrapnel going ev
Couldnt be higher. The faa is extending a ban in a different part of the world to flights to tel aviv for the next 24 hours. Welcome to an hour of happening now. I am jenna lee. Nand i am jon scott, nearly a week after a plane was shot down. There is word that to military jets were taken down. Nisrael launching more air strikes today to deal with the onslaught of rockets fired from gaza. We have team fire coveraging and first we go to Conner Powell who is standing by in gaza city, conner . Reporter both sides talk about the others treat civilians. It supports the claims from the palestinians and israelis. The israelis claim that the hospital is used by hamas as a commanding place to control center and rockets and after days of warnings and telling doctors to remove all patients the Israeli Attack the hospital. We see the bombing where we are seeing reported fighting in the eastern part of the gaza strip. And now the attack on the hospital came and military saying that this was because
Quote, brought out the big ones conner . Reporter that air strike we have seen and as you said theyve gotten big and bigger, weve had our cameras trained near our facility. Weve seen rockets being launched from there and israeli artillery pounding it. We thought that may be a place that was targeted. Within minutes it was hit. Before you can hear the scream of the missile, you can feel it. It was what they would say a disturbance in the force, and there was shrapnel everywhere. Its what weve seen a cross the gaza strip for the last day and a half. Gigantic explosions israel ramped up efforts here. Despite the description of precise targeting of the locations like that, when youre that close to an explosion, everything is felt. There is debris and shrapnel going everywhere, megyn. Conner powell, thank you. Were seeing growing protests against the israelis some include ugly messages. Trace ghallager is tracking that from our west coast tonight. In israel, and many places, demonstrations
Prolonged campaign against hamas. For the latest on the ground we turn now to foxs own conner powell. Hes standing by tonight in gaza city, conner . Sean, we have seen this expansion of the military operation here by israel in the last 24 hours as you said, we have seen many more air strikes, they hit the Main Television, the hamas Main Television channel in addition to a home run by or owned by a senior hamas official. Also that power station. But were seeing strikes on other targets as well. And we understand that hamas is saying, until their demands are met, there will be no stopping them. Were hearing on the israeli side that many officials are saying, this is the chance to defeat hamas once and for all. It looks like we are set for a much bigger expansion of the fighting here, we continue to have rockets fired from gaza into israel. The death toll here is up over 1100 palestinians. A lot of children, 53 soldiers have been killed here. The Israeli Military continues to focus on tho
Good wednesday afternoon from the deck. Think the russians are backing down now after separatists are accused of killing 298 innocents on a passenger jet, youd better think again. Russianbacked rebels say they blew two ukrainian fighter jets right out of the sky today. And not far from where that doomed Malaysia Airlines jet went down. The separatist website claims they shot down ukrainian jets like this one. The rebels say one pilot died and that right now theyre hunting for another who ejected. The fighter jets went down about 20 miles south and east of where the boeing 777 crashed and killed everybody on board. The United States and ukraine accuses separatists of shooting down the jet with a missile. They deny the charge. But the evidence speaks volumes. U. S. Officials go even further and blame the russians for creating the conditions that led to that disaster. But they say they do not yet have any direct evidence that Russian Forces pulled the trigger. Now nearly a week after the