i know that feeling. cats love, they just love differently. we have to go. the lead starts right now. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. a lot to get into ahead. for the very first time in american history, the daughter of a former president of the united states has been forced to testify as a witness in a case against her father, the former president. ivanka trump on the stand. testifying in the civil fraud trial against the trump family business. emails in court today show that ivanka once proposed that her father lower his net worth in order to get a loan. what might that mean for the case? that is coming up. and also ahead, a woman from new jersey who was trapped into gaza. she spent nearly a month trapped there with her three kids. the youngest just 2 months old. we ve been telling her story ins is the tuesday after that horrible october 7th attack by hamas. they arrived back in the u.s. just two days ago. he s back in jersey and giving the lead the first
breaking news. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. i m standing on a rooftop looking out over tel aviv. it is just after 10:00 p.m. here and it is been 24 days since the horrific terrorist attacks by hamas caught this country and frankly much of the world by surprise. we start with breaking news. israel said it is behind an enormous explosion at a refugee camp on the gaza strip. this was the aftermath of the blast at the camp which the united nations said is the largest refugee camp in gaza. israel s military said it killed a top hamas commander in its air strike. a man they say was one of the leaders of the october 7th attack. and was hiding amongst civilians inside of the refugee camp. israel also claims to have killed around 50 hamas terrorists in that strike. it is not clear how many people were killed or injured. but the director of a hospital in the homeas controlled area said he has seen hundreds of dead bodies and wounded patients. he described it as a, quote, s