It is early monday morning here in tel aviv. Israel is at war with hamas. What we have seen over the last 45 hours or so since hamas launched a Surprise Attack on israel across multiple fronts on gaza, its been nothing short of extraordinary and sickening. Civilians have been taken hostage. People have been slaughtered where they stood. By a wave of attacks that took place early saturday morning. Take a look at this video from just a few hours ago of rockets being intercepted by the countrys iron dome system. This is video from just a few hours ago. Some of those rockets did make it through and landed in a town. Weve also seen a barrage of rockets here in tel aviv. Cnn crews have been hearing loud explosions in the suburbs and theyre claiming theyre targeting the airport just outside the city, which remained open when we thflew in. Israel forces have been striking back, the beginning of what Benjamin Netanyahu warned today would be a long and difficult war. One of at least ten highrise
Where israeli troops are still fighting its a mess on the ground inside of israel. Two days after the largescale attacks. Israeli Military Keeping strikes on gaza and has completely upgrades the fatalities in hamas. Hamas is claiming to have launched a major Missile Attack on the Southern Israeli City Of Ashkelon with israel saying an Apartment Building was hit, this comes as the militant group claims to now be holding 100. The death toll has claimed past 700 inside of israel. Aleast 260 were killed at a Music Festival near the israelgaza border. Were following the developments and elliott is joining us now. Elliott, this is so much to stay on top of. But there has been discussion about the hostages. Weve been hearing the harrowing stories from Family Members on our air. How much will that impact israels retaliation . It certainly complicates things. If they werent hostages weve probably already seen incursion by the israelis to demonstrate in the gaza strip. Because of the hostages, p
We continue to follow the developments coming in this hour. We are getting more of the firsthand look at the dangerous situation still unfolding on the ground throughout israel and gaza. And now three days after the massive Terrorist Attack by hamas on israeli civilians. This is new, a number of suspects who infiltrated from israel into lebanon were killed and the idf soldiers are raining down missiles on gaza as well as airstrikes pounding, pounding the city of gaza this morning. Our teams have seen the israeli troops and armor moving towards gaza border. Cnns Clarissa Ward and the team were near that border, and they had to take cover in a ditch as the rockets flew overhead. I will tell you have to take shelter. Ok okay. Go yeah. Yeah. Okay. Get down. Close, close, close. Youre fine. Youre fine. Youre fine. Youre fine. You are okay. You are all right. You are all right. Okay. You are okay. All right. Yeah. Guys . Are you seeing our situation, guys . Yes. Okay. Can you hear our situat
We continue with the Breaking News this morning. Nine u. S. Citizens are among those who have been killed during this unprecedented attack on israel. As of this hour Israeli Military says it has retaken control of all communities around gaza and is calling for a complete siege of gaza. No food, no water, no fuel, no electricity. Cnn spotted israeli troops and heavy Armored Vehicles heading towards the border. At the same time hamas continues sending a barrage of rockets into israel, were showing you new video there of rockets being launched from gaza city this morning. More than 700 people have been killed in israel, thousands more are injured. The death toll in gaza we are told is up to 560. This morning rockets hit what looks to be a residential street in israel. Were also seeing horrifying video of the moments the Hamas Terrorists ambushed and kidnapped israeli civilians, some do you know what, were going to take a break from this video right now and go right to clarissa ward. Clari
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