Hello welcome to our viewers joining us here in the United States, and all around the world. We continue our breaking News Coverage from israel at war. This is what i am here on the east coast. Im john false. The death toll in israel continues to surge. More than 1200, mostly civilians now killed, with close to 1000 palestinians. Mostly civilians now dead in gaza according to the Palestinian Health ministry. Israeli airstrikes on gaza have been unrelenting, with more than 2000 hamas targets destroyed according to the idf. With no timeline at this point on the airstrikes will and, hamas fired another barrage of rockets and the Southern Israeli city of ashdod on tuesday, with three hamas militants also died and exchanging gunfire with israeli troops. More than 300,000 israeli reserves have now been called, up and civilians are towns and villages have been evacuated to safety. On tuesday, israels Defense Minister toured Southern Israel maintains that troops have been amassing for days, hu
Hamas Firing A Barrage of rockets. This is video of people scrambling in the wreckage as sirens blared in the israeli city of ash ka lon. Come to us. Come to us. Tell me where i go. You can see streaks in the sky. We have seen the iron dome here three miles from the gaza border. A lot of there is one over there coming in. You are going to hear it right up there. Got it. See if we can watch that one. And you can see those Iron Dome Interceptions right above us. This is video of the destruction in gaza this morning. The government warning that all electricity will completely stop and fuel runs out for Hospital Generators today. Right now we dont know the fate of all the hostages who are kidnapped from israel taken to gaza. President biden confirmed americans are among the captives and at least 20 u. S. Citizens are currently unaccounted for. The death toll in israel from hamas assault continues to rise. 1,200 people now confirmed dead as the scale and savagery of hamas massacre of civili
Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com outfront next, live from israel. Breaking news, a major show of force from israel tonight signaling a Ground Invasion could come any time. 300,000 troops are now standing by. I will also show you what our own crew encountered in the city of ashkelon live on the air. Plus, an american killed by hamas. Ill speak to the father of a 25yearold woman from california killed at the Music Festival, along with her boyfriend, losing her life while trying to escape the brutal attack. And a story that we have been following here on this program. You now know yoni his wife and two young daughters taken hostage, their kidnapping posted on the internet. Im going to speak to the brave man whos looking for any sign of life, any sign of hope for his family. Lets go outfront. And, good evening, welcome to a Special Edition of outfront. I am erin burnett tonight live in tel aviv. This hour the Breaking News and the massive show of force along the Israeli Border with gaza.
Whats happening between gaza and israel and what could happen here. So there is a lot of fear about that right now. Brings it home for so many. Wolf blitzer, thank you so much for being with us for this perspective for your reporting. We will see you tonight on the situation room. Thanks for joining us. We will see you back here tomorrow morning. Cnn news central continues our coverage. We begin with Breaking News for you this hour. The u. S. Is now in talks with israel and egypt to help Get Americans and other civilians out of gaza, but as thats happening there is fighting right now on two fronts. Israel is responding to air and ground attacks from its north and its south. Right now the idf says 300,000 israeli reservists have been called up to fight and are, quote, ready to execute the mission. This is as new rounds of israeli air strikes have been hitting critical hamas targets in gaza, but to the north israel is intensifying shelling inside lebanon, while at the same time preparing