Military aircraft closer to israel amid concerns of a larger regional conflict breaking out. Was iran involved in hamas planning and new attacks from the north . Americans among the dead. The state Department Says at least nine americans have been killed. More than 1200 people, soldiers, civilians and children are death on both sides. Those numbers are expected to climb even higher. Im Andrea Mitchell with our continuing coverage of the war in israel. A constant barrage of israeli air strikes lighting up the sky. 300,000 israeli troops have been called up after this weekend marked the most extensive invasion of israeli territory in decades. These tanks are at the border area between israel and gaza. Any Ground Invasion will be complicated of the desperate hostage situation. A heartbreaking dilemma of one israeli mother who was brave enough to come on and talk to me about it at this hour. I could hear people speaking in arabic outside their door, and they broke in. The last thing i hear
Hello and welcome. Joining us here in the United States and All Around The World as we continue at breaking News Coverage of israel at war. Im melissa church. Keeping up on strikes on gaza saying it severely degraded hamas. Coming two days after they launched a large scale attempt. They do acknowledge israelis are not yet in full control of their territory along the border with a gaza. Overnight hamas also claiming to have launched a Missile Attack on the Southern Israeli city. The militants say 100 rockets were fired and in response to Israeli Sanctuary had thenesses. And this all comes as hamas now claims to be holding more than 100 hostages in gaza including five ranking israeli officials. Well inside israel, the death toll from hamas multipronged attack has now climbed past 700. At least 260 were killed at the Music Festival. Showing the bodies of some of the victims from that festival near the israel gaza border. That site is one of many targeted i sunt. She joined us live. Benjam
Netanyahu is about to address his nation. Were going to go there live once he begins. The situation in israel is changing by the hour. Here is a look at the gaza skyline right now. You can see smoke even though its very dark, and flames out there in the distance, from near continuous israeli strikes. The idf says thousands of targets have already been hit. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised that this is only the start with more than 700 israelis dead, he says what is coming next will be painful. But what exactly can come next . There are those within the Israeli Government, including the former Defense Minister who told the bbc that the only choice is to eliminate hamas period, and there are others who say the only way to do that is to flatten gaza. But how do you do that without incurring major civilian losses. There are roughly 2 million civilians trapped in gaza, blockaded by both israel and egypt. The Israeli Government has told them to get out. Where exactly can they g
the israelis had promised to act if syria moved weapons or used weapons and it looks like they have acted. yeah, the israeli government is becoming increasingly worried about the flow of weapons. or the potential flow from the chaos of syria over to israel s northern border. so much so that they recently moved some of their batteries of the iron dome intercepter missile system to the north of the country now it appears that they decided that defense is not enough. they have gone on the attack. hitting this done i have which we believe to have been between u.s. officials somewhere between 3 and 6 trucks about to cross the border from syria into lebanon. apparently carrying surface-to-air missiles. we do not have confirmation on what would be a second strike because the syrian state tv reported on this military facility in the damascus suburbs, just a few miles from the presidential palace. what would are dealing with