viewers from all around the world. i m paula newton with the very latest on the israel-hamas war. israel is defending its deadly strike on a deadly populated refugee camp in move in gaza. now it is too soon to know the casualty count, or the true scope of the devastation. but a doctor at a gaza hospital says, it has received hundreds of dead or wounded people after the attack. now as you see from the pictures, there are multiple craters in the ground, and huge piles of rubble. the israel defense forces said, it was targeting a top hamas commander involved in the october 7th rampage, and succeeded, they, claim and taking him out. now we are told dozens of hamas combatants were also killed when the underground tunnels beneath the camp collapsed. innocent lives were also lost. the israeli military said, it is working to determine the number of civilian deaths. now i m not saying that there are no civilian casualties, what i am saying is that we struck an important military o
breaking news. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. i m standing on a rooftop looking out over tel aviv. it is just after 10:00 p.m. here and it is been 24 days since the horrific terrorist attacks by hamas caught this country and frankly much of the world by surprise. we start with breaking news. israel said it is behind an enormous explosion at a refugee camp on the gaza strip. this was the aftermath of the blast at the camp which the united nations said is the largest refugee camp in gaza. israel s military said it killed a top hamas commander in its air strike. a man they say was one of the leaders of the october 7th attack. and was hiding amongst civilians inside of the refugee camp. israel also claims to have killed around 50 hamas terrorists in that strike. it is not clear how many people were killed or injured. but the director of a hospital in the homeas controlled area said he has seen hundreds of dead bodies and wounded patients. he described it as a, quote, s