Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the United States around the world and streaming us on cnn max, im Rosemary Church, just ahead. Ramadan begins under the shadow of war in gaza, where people are preparing to mark the muslim holy month amid fears of Food Shortages and artillery strikes, more Controversy Swirling for the Princess Of Wales after Kensington Palace released the first photo of her in weeks, why it was then swiftly retracted by News Agencies. And oppenheimer dominates during hollywoods biggest night but it was qin who stole the show live from atlanta. This is cnn hes room with Rosemarie Church it is asia in the morning across gaza where palestinians are marking the start of the holy muslim month of ramadan as the threat of an expanded Israeli Offensive looms, israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he plans to push ahead with a Military Ground Incursion into rafah, the Southern Gaza city where more than 1 Million People are sheltering. These comes jus
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Ingraham angle from washington tonight. [sirens] laura several hundred believed to be dead in an airstrike against a hospital in gaza. Now hamas is blaming israel. But israel says it had nothing to do with it. Anything said by hamas should be taken with extreme caution and skepticism, the intelligence that we have from multiple sources is it indicates that the Islamic Jihad another terrorist organization in gaza is responsible for a failed Rocket Launch that struck the hospital in gaza. Laura now the situation is obviously a powder keg and when the media and then lawmakers like Rashida Tlaib Just Mindlessly repeat the hamas propaganda it creates volatility Around The World. Hezbollah right now is calling for a day of unprecedented anger. I guess that different from a day of rage against israel and bidens visit and violent protests tonight are breaking out near israeli embassies in the middle east and we are getting reports now that there are fires outside the u. S. Embassy in lebanon.
you don t i m saying all right. i m fredricka whitfield. thank you so much for being with me today. cnn newsroom continues with omar jimenez, right now. welcome everyone. you re in the cnn newsroom. i m omar jimenez in washington. we begin tonight with breaking news. the israeli military says they are investigating what they re calling an incident in southern gaza that killed eight idf soldiers, making it one of the single deadliest incident involving israeli troops since the october 7 attacks. now, earlier, the militant wing of hamas says, it, quote, carried out a complex ambush against enemy vehicles meanwhile, rafah s civil defense says there has been new airstrikes and artillery shelling by israeli forces in the areas it s done. cnn s oren liebermann is in haifa for us now, or in the idf just released some preliminary findings from their investigation. what are they saying happened here? so this again is preliminary as you point at the investigation itself is ongoing