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Good morning. Welcome to cnn this morning. It is saturday, october 14th. Im victor blackwell. And im amara walker. Thanks for being with us as we continue to follow the news breaking news. A Mass Evacuation in gaza. The military in israel have ordered the people in gaza to move south. They have given them a safe sixhour pathway. The idf is accusing hamas of actively trying to stop people from leaving so they can use them as, quote, human shields. But hamas says israel is still carrying out air strikes, killing 70 people after warning them to move out. They posted dramatic video showing an ambulance rocked by an explosion during those evacuations. In israel, the city of surrat is under a red alert after israel fired rockets into the city. Cnn on the ground heard israels iron dome intercepting the rockets anned the sirens going off around the city. The u. S. Says its supporting israel, and its support is ironclad. Two officials made trips there earlier this week. Secretary lloyd austin d
ongoing coverage of the israel gaza war. waves of intensity extracts over gaza, much heavier than in previous notes. the army says it is increasing the number of abstracts in the territory and expanding its ground force operations. in gaza, sirens are warning of malt rocket fire to come and communications, including phone and internet have been cut off, making it nearly impossible for residents to reach anyone. amid the darkness, explosions are intensifying. gaza city residents have been want to move south for their safety. hamas says it is clashing with israeli forces in northern gaza and take it into israeli cities with intense missile pariahs. an overwhelming majority of the un general assembly voted in favour of any media trees in gaza, adopting a resolution that condemns all acts of violence against palestinian and israeli civilians. it calls for unhindered eight and the protection of civilians and we will bring a model later in the programme. it is happening at the huma
southeastern town on the black sea, a city i should say on the black sea that has been besieged, that the russians have been starving out. 450,000 people inside. well, overnight the first civilians that we have heard about in the last ten days came out of the city in private vehicles, about 150 private vehicles, hundreds of people. we don t know the exact number. that is very, very good news. that was not on an official humanitarian convoy, that was not on buses e we have been tracking though this humanitarian convoy, this cargo, 100 tons of aid, water, life saving medicine, food for people trapped inside. it has been moving towards mariupol for the last 72 hours. last night it was blocked again by russians. the information we have this morning is that it is heading in again this morning. they also say, and this is the governor of donetsk, they re going to let private transport come out again today, but there are buses waiting for the all clear, waiting for the confirmation there will