[sirens] dana: barrage of rockets fired deep into central israel setting off sirens in tel aviv and surrounding areas. hamas targeting that area for the first time in three days. shrapnel from the rockets injured two people in tel aviv. showing why exactly israel is fighting hamas. i m dana perino. bill: a long week, huh? dana: but a good one. bill: good one, long one. nice to see you. i m bill hemmer, good morning. the latest rocket firing coming as israeli ground forces are reportedly pushing closer to gaza city s shifa hospital closing in on believed to be the heart of hamas operations and leadership. thousands of palestinian civilians fleeing south as there are short pauses to fighting to do that. dana: trey yengst on the ground in southern israel for us. good morning. good morning. i will quickly step out of the frame so you can see what s happening as we speak. you will see some lights there, trails of smoke. those are cluster munitions the israelis are firi
The Netherlands, Germany and Poland have signed a declaration on the creation of a military corridor for the movement of military equipment, Dutch Defense Minister Kajsa Ollong said on Wednesday.
20 civilians being evacuated. of course we know there are a thousand or so inside a steel plant. do you know whether there will be further attempts to evacuate the rest today? i m very, very pessimistic about the location from mariupol mariupol is the golden nugget in russian propaganda. they ve said mariupol is a nazi nest, and they have decided to destroy this nazi nest. and all the time they said we re opening military corridor, we re opening green corridors. all this time is lie. and after of course the general secretary of united nation came to russia and then came to ukraine and the main reason was in mariupol, and the situation
it s not clear what the different numbers may represent. but either way, it s just a tiny fraction of the thousands still stuck in that city. earlier, my colleague, isa suarez spoke with a ukrainian lawmaker and asked what s in store next for those still inside that battered city. i m very, very pessimistic. you know, mariupol is the golden ballot in russian propaganda. 80 years they decide mariupol is a nazi nest. and they decided to destroy this nazi nest. and all the time they said we are opening military corridor, all this time is lie.
the only thing we were concerned with at the time was leaving this ring of fire. we didn t have a choice. reporter: they made it to a school in mariupol where russian backed soldiers were evacuating people east to the village. then a week later, so-called filtration in sertana. they were fingerprinted and searched by russian soldiers before crossing the border into russia to a city, like i to the shelter shown here. translator: it was the first time we took a shower in over 50 days, right? 41 or 40? reporter: with the help of ordinary russians, they made it to st. petersburg. then to on estonia. their story is part of a large he trend. most of the 200 to 300 ukrainian refugees arriving in estonia every day are entering through russia. translator: most of them are coming from mariupol after having passed the military