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you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. welcome to our continuing breaking news coverage of israel at war. prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying the second stage of its war, the ground war, has begun. the goal, to destroy the military and government, he says, of hamas. translator: our heroic fighters have one goal, to destroy this enemy and to make sure the existence in our country. never again, never again is now. at this hour, the conflict is escalating. this is new cnn video from a cnn producer in gaza capturing rockets being fired into israel. [ sirens ] and cnn s sara sidner and her team captured this video of rocket barrage over tel aviv earlier today. israel s iron dome defense system intercepted those incoming rockets. civilianness northern gaza say they endured the heaviest last night. cnn s nic robertson joins us live from sderot, israel. what are you seeing right now? reporter: relentless, jim. absolutely relentless barrage ....
we also feel the pain and the expectations of the citizens of israel. i personally with the families of the kidnapped at any moment where i can. i promise you there is no means we will not use to bring them all back home. we should not forget we have it in him an enemy who uses it babies and women to save itself. they are fighting psychological warfare. they are lying to the world. they are cruel to the families and they will fail. we will see to it, sooner or later, that all pay the price for this murderers and kidnappers, dead men walking. i think the u.s. for these supports. at the same time the world should know it is important this war, there is no time limit. it is a human effort to do what we can and for as long as it takes. we will do what is right for us. and the whole world should focus on the enemies who haven t kidnapped children, the elderly, babies. who are willing to sacrifice their own citizens and residents of gaza. we should represent. the picture is c ....
israel. this is very close to gaza city. israel is continuing to ram up up its strikes this evening in gaza. it s 10:00 p.m. in southern israel. the country extends its ground operations this evening. what a possible ground invasion might looks like. at this point it s unclear. it has felt imminent the last 48 to 72 hours, really. israeli officials today telling us that the world should expect to hunker down for a long war. they have two missions. the first is to eliminate forever the threat that hamas can present to the country of israel. so that they can never be threatened or hurt again. they say that too many of their children live in fear, go to sleep in fear at night. they want to erase the threat of hamas and the threat of what they watched unfold on october 7th. now, secondly, and not particularly in this order because these two things obviously are very interwoven in terms of what they face right now. 229 hostages. you can see some of their faces here. we will ....
through the brexit campaign, borisjohnson s friend, but at times his greatest foe, michael gove wasn t afraid to make enemies, pushing through education reforms and serving under four prime ministers over nearly 20 years in parliament. but he says he has now concluded, there comes a moment when you know it s time to leave, that a new generation should lead. rishi has the plan our country needs, he added. i will do everything i can to support him. but as rishi sunak toured the titanic quarter in belfast, the list of mps jumping ship continued to grow. among more than 100 other mps standing down, the former prime minister theresa may, the former leader of the house of commons, andrea leadsom, and former defence secretary ben wallace. while the conservatives are now seeing more mps walk away than in 1997, labour s losses are less substantial. keir starmer took his campaign to glasgow, hoping scotland will pave his way to a win. after mps lined up to mark the close of parli ....
crossing operation critical and urgent need. without electricity this hospital will be a mass grave. we desperately need a humanitarian cease fire. the troops are ready. they re ready to go. well, good morning, everyone. i m phil mattingly with poppy harlow in new york. erin burnett is live in tell aveef. we heard from one of the hostages released by hamas yesterday. the grandmother described her abduction in captivity. her daughter was by her side translating. hordes of hamas fighters storm herd kibbutz and kidnapped her and beat her with sticks once in gaza. she was held under ground with five other hostages. she said they were treated well by guards, a doctor and paramedic who made sure they had the medicine they needed. she says hamas had a stockpile of shampoo and other toiletries ready for them. there are a huge, huge network of tunnels underneath. it looks like a spider web. when she first arrived, they told them that they are muslims and they re no ....