The hamas fighters broke through the border fence from gaza at these points marked in green, and then reached these areas in red. Israel says 700 of its citizens have been killed, with many others taken hostage. Israel has compared it to the 9 11 attacks and in retaliation, its launched a wave of air strikes on gaza, where nearly 500 palestinians have died. Live now to my colleague anna foster, whos in ashkelon, close to the gaza border. We are only a few kilometres from the border and i can hear an israeli plane overhead and the regular sound of explosions, which have continued notjust of explosions, which have continued not just through the of explosions, which have continued notjust through the night but through the morning. We were in ashkelon this morning as people they are dived for cover, the Commander A Barrage of missiles that had been fired in from gaza. It is something the people here are used to, but sites like this feel very different. You can see Israeli Military vehicle