Sometimes great challenge is right under your nose i hanako montgomery in tokyo, and this is cnn you are in the cnn and newsroom. I m jessica dean in new york and we begin with breaking news from the middle east where the israeli defense forces say they have located, quote, a number of bodies during combat in the gaza strip, seen an international diplomatic editor, nic robertson is joining us now, live from jerusalem with the latest on this, nic reminding everyone details now very scant. But what are you learning yeah, i have to say as well, this is unusual for the idf to put out this sort of statement to say that they ve located bodies during a combat operation. They don t normally sort of comment on things as actually happening and unfolding and that s what they so as precisely happening at the moment. They re saying that they are working to extract an identify the bodies in this ongoing operation and that asking for people to refrain from speculation, which appears to perhaps indica
israeli military now says an additional nine soldiers have been killed inside gaza. they were hit by an atm while operating in the northern part of the strip. for the very latest, chief fox news correspondent jonathan hunt joins us live from jerusalem. jonathan, lauren, good morning from jerusalem. we just got this word from the israeli defense forces that nine soldiers were killed yesterday, today morning, as they were part of the ground operations in inside the gaza strip on the northern end of the strip. now, those soldiers were apparently hit by what is called an anti tank guided missile as they moved forward as part of the ongoing operations there in northern gaza. now, we should point out that these nine soldiers that we have now been told about who were killed are in addition to the two we have previously reported. so what we public we know is that 11 an idf soldiers have been killed inside gaza since the ground operation on got underway in earnest. and the anti-tank g