a dire warning from the u.s. and european officials as funding for ukraine remains stalled in congress. one senior u.s. military official warning that with a crucial aid, ukraine is, quote, certain to fail without us. plus, any moment we could get a verdict on damages in rudy giuliani's defamation trial. jury deliberations are happening now as they weigh potential 48 million dollar decision. >> the cdc sounding the alarm. why the agency is begging americans to get vaccinated. the troubling data behind this new push.

we are following these major developing stories and many more on this friday, all coming in here to cnn news central. we begin with a dire new warning in the face of russian aggression. officials say if more military aid is not green light for ukraine, it will doom kyiv's prospects of winning the war. the white house wants to send another 61 billion dollars. a logjam in congress is holding it up, likely through the holidays. allies say that if that aid is not approved, it could mean defeat for ukraine. one senior u.s. military official tells cnn, quote, there is no guarantee of success with us. they are certain to fail without us. cnn's jim shooter broke the story. he joins us now live. jim, what is the most immediate area of concern for ukraine? >> reporter: what is interesting here is the u.s. and european officials share

the same assessment here. without u.s. leadership, without u.s. aid, it doesn't only threaten the counteroffensive that we have been focused on here in the east and their progress there, but it threatens, really, ukraine's defense of its entire country. if they do not continue to get this aid, it doesn't just mean less or no forward progress. it means the russians can and vance on a very short timeline. >> to that question, a very short timeline, how much time does kyiv have than? >> listen, worst-case scenario when i am speaking to officials on the side of the atlantic, and on the other side, within months, perhaps as soon as the summer. part of this concern is, if the u.s. fails to lead on this, they worry that european allies will follow and not send the aid. i spoke to u.s. congressman, mike quigley, co-chair of the ukraine caucus, he put it in those terms or a directly. if the u.s. fails here, our allies will follow. we got an indication of that

overnight, just over the last 24 hours. eu partners failed to vote to extend their own a. they will have another chance next month, much like the u.n. congress will have another chance next month. the trouble is, of those delays matter. it is not clear it is going to come through. as the cranium forces are waiting for these weapons, they are already rationing munitions here. artillery shells. it is in this order, that i am told, they are most likely to run out of key munitions. long-range missiles, air defense missiles. so key and knocking down a russian cruise missiles and drones, other try to target ukrainian cities. >> that point, you can see how this leads to what you talked about in the beginning. a progression of russia entering ukraine. when it comes to a ukrainian defeat, what does it mean for the west? what would it mean for the world? >> listen, you talk to u.s. officials, european officials, particularly european officials on the eastern flank of nato, they have had experience of russia, very recently, several of the baltic states were part

of the soviet union. they know what it is like to live under russian control. they are also closer to the threat. they fear that if ukraine loses they will be the next targets. putin will take a signal from that that they can go after not only non-nato countries, like ukraine and georgia, as we have seen in recent years, but also nato countries. they speak about this very stark terms. it is not an outlier position. that is a fairly standard fear when you go to europe when you talk to leaders there. >> with article five you are talking about an enormous conflict. >> you might. although, the question becomes depending on who the u.s. president is, as you know trump, if he were to be reelected, he has often expressed doubts as to whether the united states would honor the article five commitments. >> fair point. jim shooter, thanks very much for your knowledge. >> pam? of georgia will announce a verdict in the defamation trial against rudy giuliani. two former defense attorneys spreading lives -- seeking $48 million in damages.

the jury able to decide how much giuliani will ultimately pay. cnn senior justice reporter, is live outside of the courtroom with the very latest. caitlin, jury deliberations have been going on for several hours now. what are you hearing? >> reporter: pam, it is really hard to predict when a jury may return a verdict. this jury began yesterday. they talk amongst themselves, deliberating for around three and a half hours. they had a question about the exact numbers that have been presented in court about how much sheamus and ruby freeman, those two election workers, one really dual ended pay them to repair their reputation. each of them asking for about $24 million just for the defamation, reputational damages. that jury has other things they have to determine, as well. they have been talking, deliberating behind closed doors. we have heard nothing from them for about four additional hours

today. we are past the lunch hour they are still at work. the other thing they are determining if not just reputational damage but the amount to fine rudy giuliani for the emotional distress that he caused these two women. on top of that there are the question of how much should he be punished? we know the lawyers of ruby freeman and shaye moss want that number to be significant. it is a punitive damage number. so, punishment. they are also asking the jury, quite bluntly, to send a message to powerful people who choose to do and say things like rudy giuliani what he was saying after the 2020 election spreading lies. they are asking to send a message. there is also a question in this case, can rudy giuliani even pay what the jury finds here if it is into the millions or tens of millions of dollars? he said in court that he is broke. there is a discussion this morning in court that is still unresolved about if the jury

brings back a verdict as soon as today, is the judge going to say, okay, now is the time. or will he have a little bit of leeway? a little bit of extra time to start thinking through things and potentially begin his appeal? a lot of questions up in the air this afternoon over here at the federal courthouse. >> certainly. i know you are staying on top of every development. thank you so much. boris? a federal appeals court appeared skeptical today. former donna trump white house chief of staff, mark meadows, and his attempt to move his election really -- interference case out of state court into federal court. arguing he should be protected because the charges against him stemmed from his official job duties while working for former president trump. meadows, along with trump and 17 others of course were charged with attempting to overturn the 2020 election result in fulton county, georgia. cnn's echoing is live for us outside of that courthouse in atlanta. zak, walk us through what it was like in today's hearing. >> reporter: morris, the lawyer for mark meadows was really

grilled by this panel of three judges. once again trying to argue that mark meadows's case in the georgia election case state level charges should be moved to federal court. everything that is alleged in the indictment here in georgia, those actions took place while he was chief of staff. the panel of three judges was really skeptical about that argument. really wanted mark meadows's attorney to draw a distinction. just because you are chief of staff doesn't mean that what you're doing falls under your official duties. take a listen to this one exchange between meadows's lawyer and one of the judges on the panel. actually pushing him on this point. >> what the prosecution here is for, by the record in this case, and by the over acts lifted in the indictment, are acts taken in the west wing of the white house by the highest appointed white house official -- >> according to him it seems like everything was within his official duties. that just, cannot be right.

a we heard more of the same from the other two judges on the panel. the panel was not without concern, either, or about moving this case, or keeping this case in the georgia state court. they said that it could cause a chilling effect for future federal officials who maybe want to join or who want to run for office but may be deterred for doing so because of the potential for getting charged with state crimes. we are waiting to see what the decision is. we do not expect on today, per se. it could be coming down at any point going forward. obviously both sides will have the chance to appeal all the way to the supreme court, which could choose whether not to take up the case if it gets to that stage. boris? >> that, kyle's want to get an update from you on to former co descendants in this case. sydney powell and kenneth chesebro. both pleaded guilty to the charges against them. part of that deal they agreed to write apology letters to the people of georgia for their crimes. tell us about that. >> reporter: for us, reading

these apology letter is not a ton of remorse comes through, to say the least. we need that, for example, the letter written by sydney powell, one of trump's former attorneys, really pushing to get access to get voting systems here in georgia in fulton county. we knew it would be a pretty short letter. reading it and sing it with their own eyes impressed with how short it was. it was one sentence-long, handwritten. it simply says, i'm sorry for what i did in fulton county, referring to the county in georgia. trying to get access to voting systems in. kenneth chesebro, similarly, had a very short handwritten letter. at the end of the day i think this does raise questions about why the district attorney here in atlanta, fulton county, demanded that these letters be part of the plea agreements that they reached with these two defendants and two others, as well. going forward, we will also have to wait and see if that remains a condition of any other plea agreements. we do expect more of the 15 defendants who remain in this case to try to get some sort of a plea deal with prosecutors to

avoid a trial. we will have to wait and see. again, not very much remorse in these letters. in some cases, just one sentence-long. >> not a whole lot of emotion in those letters. we should note, kenneth chesebro now cooperating with fake elector schemes and other states where folks may soon be facing charges. that cohen from atlanta, thank you so much. coming up, a disturbing story also out of georgia. a middle school teacher facing charges for, allegedly, threatening to behead a student. what witnesses say prompted the teacher to make that stunning threat. a great day for truth. that is how prince harry is describing the verdict in his case against british tabloids. we have details on that. later, national security adviser, jake sullivan, says israel is moving towards, what he calls, a new phase of the war. what does that mean for israel's war against hamas? and the innocence millions caught in the middle? you are watching cnn news central, we are back in just a few moments.

a classroom conflict gone too far. a teacher in georgia is facing charges after, allegedly, threatening to behead a student. multiple witnesses told authorities that benjamin reese threatened a 13-year-old muslim student who said she was offended by an israeli flag hanging in his classroom. cnn's dianne gallagher joins us now. what more are you learning about the story, diane? >> reporter: pam, this is just a sample of the violent and profane threats that faculty and staff say that they, as well as children in their classrooms, heard a teacher hero at three young students in the hallway of their middle school. some examples that are sanitized here, quote, she is a stupid mother [bleep] i will drag her by the back of my car and cut her [bleep] head off for disrespecting my jewish

flag. there are also examples from witnesses saying that she would flip her throat and kick her [bleep]. 51-year-old benjamin reese, a social studies teacher was arrested last week. charged with making terroristic threats evolve cruelty to children in the third degree. he has since bonded out of jail. we have not been able to locate an attorney for him to speak on his behalf at this point. according to a very detailed incident report, one of the three girls being threatened, according to this report, is a 13-year-old muslim student. according to the council of an american islamic relations georgia chapter she is half palestinian. that student told the deputy that she asked about the flag hanging in reese's the classroom. he said it was hanging because he was jewish and he had family living in israel. she told him she was offended by the five because of, quote, israelis killing palestinians. that is when the teacher became angry, shouting at her and calling her antisemitic.

asking her if you will have the right to exist? following through the hallway, according to the deputy. they have that on camera, following students. there is no audio there. >> there are a lot of witnesses, as you pointed out, who say they heard exactly what he said. how is the school responding to this? >> reporter: according to that report, upwards of 20 witnesses who heard this. the school district, the house and county school district that issued a statement that that, in part, while we are not abletl matters, we can share that mr. reese has not been on the campus of warner robins middle school since december 7th, 2023. the safety and well-being of our students and staff is our number one priority. care georgia says they have been in contact with the family of that 13 year old middle school student who was the person who was being threatened, they say. they have been speaking with her family, trying to provide comfort during this time. >> diane gallagher, thank you

so much for bringing the latest there. boris? prince harry has won his phone hacking case against the publishers of the tabloid, daily mirror. britain's high court ruled that 15 stories published by prince harry used on lawful methods, like phone hacking. awarding him just under $180,000. the prince is describing the verdict as a great day for truth. let's bring in cnn's richard quest. richard, walk us through what happened today. >> reporter: it is a long case. harry has been suing various newspapers. the result that he got today is exactly what he wanted. let me read you something of what justice frank or was saying in court today. he basically agreed that, out of the 33 specimen articles that were put before the judge, 15 of them from harry showed evidence that the information had come from phone hacking.

it was wide spread, said the judge. he said -- he cend s of the newspaper new moving about a border directors knew about it. this, for harry, boris, this is vindication. this is him basically saying, i told you so. now the judge has agreed. >> richard, after the verdict prince harry called on authorities to look into bringing charges against the daily member publishing group. is that likely? is that the next step? >> reporter: look, the newspapers, we put murdaugh's news of the world through all of the. there have been previous cases. i think that the metropolitan police have said they are looking into it. the math says they will have a look into whether not there should be prosecutions. interestingly in the last couple of hours one of the editors of the daily mirror, pierce morgan, many of you may

be familiar with, has denied that he knew about the hacking. the judge said morgan knew, the editor knew. morgan today said he didn't. he went on to insult prince harry by saying prince harry wouldn't knew the truth if it slapped his california tan. >> really colorful morgan -- richard quest, thank you so much for the latest on that case. still plenty more news to come on cnn new central, including national security adviser, jake sullivan, in the middle east today. a rift between prime minister benjamin netanyahu and president biden goes public. details, straight ahead. in europe, authorities say they are searching for four more suspects connected to a foiled terror process. the very latest from the continent when we come back.

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this is cnn breaking news. >> we have some breaking news just into cnn. we want to bring you straight to sderot, israel, where cnn's jeremy diamond has new reporting on the status of several israeli hostages. apparently, jeremy, accidentally killed by the idf. what are you learning? >> reporter: boris, some very sad news to report. we have now learned, according to the you and, three hostages killed inside of gaza by israeli forces.

the israeli military saying they were mistakenly identified as a threat and that troops fired towards them and that they were killed. we know the names of two of the three hostages. one of the hostages families asked that her name not be shared. the two hostages we do know of, yo tom hyena, kidnapped from coutts for us on october 7th. the other satin or tie lack of, kidnapped from a kibbutz near alm on october 7th. our understanding is this took place earlier this morning according to daniel hagari, the spokesman for the israeli military in the shejaiya neighborhood in gaza, which has been the sight of very intense fighting between the israeli military in a mosque. the israeli military says this is one of the last remaining hamas strongholds in northern gaza. apparently also the location where hamas was holding some of these captives. in this tragic incident, it appears the israeli military miss identify those three

israeli hostages as a potential threat. potentially as militants, fired at them, and killed them. they are bodies, we understand, were taken into israel and transferred for examination. according to the israeli military. it was at that stage that it was confirmed that there were three israelis taken hostage by hamas. their families, of course, have since been notified. boris? >> jeremy, in a statement the idf has emphasized that this is, obviously, an active combat zone there has been ongoing fighting over the last several days they specify the idf began reviewing the incident immediately. do we know anything about the steps being taken now by the idf to try to prevent something like this from happening again? >> reporter: they say they have reviewed the incident. they are taking, quote, immediate lessons from the event. they are transmitting those two soldiers in the field. they also say, quote, the idf

expressed deep remorse over the tragic incident and sends the families it's heartft condolences. our national mission is to locate the missing and return of the hostages home. of course, one of the things that velocity like that, i suspect, is the rules of engagement that israeli forces have as they are fighting in gaza. we know, as the war was beginning, those rules of engagement were indeed loosened. we know that as israeli forces are preparing to move into northern gaza, one of the ways in which the israeli military officials have talked to me about how they plan to move in was, effectively, to view any people they saw in northern gaza as a threat. even as they insisted that they would try to distinguish between civilians and militants. in this case, these loosened rules of engagement may have been partly to blame for what we are seeing here we do not know that for certain. we do not know exactly what has happened. we do know the israeli military has been operating in very intense combat.

several israeli soldiers have been killed. now, apparently, boris, tragically three israeli hostages also among the dozen. >> a tragic update from our jeremy diamond instill wrote. three hostages being held by hamas mistakenly identified as threats by the idf and subsequently killed. jeremy diamond, please keep us up to date with what you're learning with exactly what happened here. we are going to continue monitoring story and bring you the latest update. pamela? let's discuss with democratic senator, chris been holman, from maryland. senator, i want to start with your reaction to this news that the idf mistakenly killed three israeli hostages. >> pamela, it is an incredible tragedy, as you just reported. my heart goes out to those families. it is essential that all of the hostages be released. as you know, it has also been

an ongoing debate in israel about whether or not the release of the hostages should be a priority. president biden, rightly in my view, really needs to focus on the release of the hostages. there are many part of the right wing netanyahu government in israel that have the prioritized the release of the hostages. i am sure that this will open up that debate, again. >> right now on capitol hill, as you well know, there is an ongoing debate about the u.s. providing more aid to israel, as well as ukraine. of course, republicans want the aid to ukraine tied with more restrictions on the border, right? integration, comprehensive immigration. where do things stand after this morning's meeting with secretary mayorkas? what is the timeline, as you understand a? >> two things, pamela. first of all, it is essential that we provide additional military assistance to the

people of ukraine. they are in the fight of their lives. they are spilling blood. people are losing their lives in defense of their freedom. it would be a huge discredit to the united states if we walked away from them at this point. we need to get that done. republicans in the congress have linked that to border security talks. those are ongoing. i should point out that president biden's proposal that is before the congress right now already includes lots of resources for addition or border security, including new machines to screen fentanyl and catch and identify and stop fentanyl from coming into the united states. those talks are ongoing right now. it is imperative that we provide the people of ukraine with the military assistance they need to fight off putin. >> on that note, cnn is reporting that western officials think ukraine is certain to fail as kyiv does not get more aid from the u.s.. you heard democratic

congressman, mike quigley, saying that there will be a domino effect of the u.s. decreases aid to ukraine. the concern is that other allies would pull out. is that how you see it? >> i think that there is a real concern. one thing for sure is the ukrainians will fight on. presidents and lewinsky was clear when he met with us in the senate recently, they will keep fighting. their ability to fight off putin will be dramatically diminished. so, it is a big risk. if the united states does not continue to provide support that others will also step back. that will not only be a loss for the people of ukraine, it will be a huge loss to u.s. leadership around the world and to u.s. credibility around the world. our allies won't believe us anymore when we say we will stand with them. not only just our allies in europe but around the world, including in east asia.

the flipside is that authoritarian leaders, like president xi's-ing paying, of china, will be emboldened. this is a really important historical moment in a big moment for american leadership. >> be emboldened as it pertains to taiwan, i am assuming you are trying to say. the big question for some americans who are sitting at home wondering, why is the u.s. continuing to fund this war that has been going on for so long? what is your message to them? what does it look like if ukraine fails? >> it would be a complete collapse of those forces that are fighting back against the tyranny and against putin's aggression. what it would mean is folks around the world would see putin and authoritarianism on the rise. democracy and the rule of law on the decline.

that would, clearly, be a huge loss for the people of the united states. that is really what is at stake here. what really worries me is that you've got many members of congress here who seem not to recognize this moment. in moscow, you have vladimir putin and his allies actually applauding republican members of congress for blocking aid to ukraine. whether they recognize it or not, they are aiding and abetting putin's attack on freedom and democracy in ukraine. and, in fact, by extension, the attack on democracy around the world. trump has also been front exeter in that effort to undermine democracy here at home and around the world. >> when you talk to republicans, what do they say if you talk to them about? do you think your glossing of the consequences?

do you think some republicans, like mitch mcconnell, need to do a better job explaining to the everyday american about why they should care about this? why they should still care and why this is so important for the united states, and democracy, at large. >> i think that we all have an obligation to do a better job, pamela, i'm explaining what is at stake in this moment. there have been other very important times in world history. we, of course, had the munich moment. when hitler was emboldened. we need to recognize that this is a moment where if we do not collectively stand up against putin, he will be further emboldened throughout the region. as we were saying earlier, so we'll autocrats around the world. yes, i was referring to president xi unless one eye on taiwan as he has the other eye

on the united states and its allies remaining true to the people of ukraine. look, the people of ukraine are asking for weapons. they are the ones putting their lives on the line. they are spilling blood. in my view, it is the very least they can do both for them and to stand up for democracy. to provide them with the assistance that they need. waving the white flag right now would be lost for ukraine, a loss for america, and a loss for democracy across the world. >> before we go, you pointed out on the defense bill that just passed it bars any president from unilaterally pulling out of nato. this is a bipartisan measure we should note spearheaded by senators cain and rubio. tell us more about the motivation behind this provision. >> we know, when he was president, donald trump attacked nato. he weakened nato. he called into question the purpose of nato. we just want to make sure that

any president in the future cannot unilaterally decide to withdraw from nato. but congressional consent would be required before any president, republican or democrat, could decide to just unilaterally abandon neda. this is an important alliance. its importance has been reinforced by putin's attack on ukraine. >> senator chris van hollen, thank you so much. we appreciate your time today. just updating our breaking news. the idf saying israeli forces mistakenly shot and killed three hostages today in northern gaza. we will have much more on this at thehe top of ththe hour. stay with,h, us we wilill be rit backck.

a search is underway right now for four more terrorism suspects connected to arrests made yesterday in denmark. danish authorities have not yet outlined details of the charges, but israeli security services claim that terror suspects were arrested in denmark for acting on behalf of hamas. it all coincides with what officials say is a separate case in which for alleged hamas members were arrested in germany and the netherlands. they are accused of plotting terror attacks on jewish institutions in europe. cnn's fred pleitgen joins us now from berlin. fred, what's the latest details that we are learning about the suspects and the plot in germany? >> reporter: hi, boris. this is all moving forward in germany pretty quickly. these suspects were today in front of a judge here in germany from the federal prosecutors office. all of them were formerly arrested. three that were detained here

in germany and also the one who was detained in the netherlands as well. all in front of the federal prosecutor, brought to a judge, and then formally arrested. that obviously means the authorities believe there is a pretty hard case that they were up to something that could have been very dangerous especially to jewish institutions are in the country. of course, we have to point out that the germans have been very open about the fact that they say that at least three members of this group were in very close contact with hamas. in fact, they were hamas members for a long period of time and had very good contacts also to the military leadership of hamas. to bring our viewers up to date, what the germans are saying is that apparently hamas had been stockpiling weapons here in germany in what the germans say was a weapons depot. these people were then apparently tasked with finding these weapons, bringing them to berlin for possible use in attacks in europe. looking at the debate we have been seeing around germany over the past day or day and a half,

boris, one of the things that we have to point out is that hamas is an organization that was not banned in germany until after the october 7th attacks. they were operating quite openly here in germany trying to get funding and organizing here also. one of the things that the authorities fear, the cars these people after the ban then tried to get to that weapons depot, is that hamas might be moving into a more active phase than it was here in germany before it was banned. it's a big concern here in germany. it's obviously a big concern in europe as well around jewish institutions. the security has certainly increased a great deal. boris? >> fred, are you getting any new details on the terrorism cases in denmark. >> reporter: yeah. i mean they seem to be bigger than even the size we saw yesterday. of course, yesterday the danish authorities announced that they had country wide rates that took place. you noted they had arrested three people in denmark. one person was also arrested in

the netherlands in what the danes also called an anti-terror operation. it was the israelis who came forward who said it was ordered by hamas. essentially a hamas plot that was foiled. the danes are essentially saying there are other suspects out there. they have already formally issued arrest warrants for those suspects, but they don't have the suspects in custody. they call this detention in absentia. so clearly a manhunt is going on right now in denmark. the danish authorities still believe there seems to be members of the cell out there that could be quite dangerous, flores. >> fred pleitgen live from berlin. thanks so much. so if you thought that it was like everyone you know is sick, it's not just you. the rates of flu and other illnesses are soaring. the cdc is now out with a warning telling us that we may urgently need to go get vaccinated. more on that straight ahead.

the cdc is sounding the alarm, saying there is an urgent need to get more people vaccinated against covid, flu and rsv. health officials warn these respiratory diseases are on the rise. cnn's chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta joins us. so how bad are these vaccination rates right now? >> reporter: we are sort of sleepwalking our way into this season.

when you look at the overall numbers, they are concerning. i will show you these, but i preface this by saying we have never been great in this country about vaccination rates, even before the pandemic. flu vaccination was typically below 50%, but it's even lower now. compare last year to this year, for example, for kids and adults the numbers are nowhere. they are too low. if you look at covid, i sort of made this graph for you, pamela, to take a look at since the beginning of vaccines, where we have been and where we are now. you can see on the graphic, that red line there, those are the first shots that came out. a lot of people got those first shots. the blue line are some of the second shots. that is still pretty high. the bottom right of the screen, if you can even see it there, pamela, that's right now. that is the most updated covid shots. fewer than 20% of people in the country have gotten that. and then our is the, we did not even have a vaccine for this up until recently. people over the age of 60 are recommended to get it, but only

around 16% of people have received it so far. one thing i will say is that it's not too late still. so people may think the time window has passed. it has not. and the numbers are still increasing. so go out and get it if you can still get one. >> i was just going to ask you about that. so there's a lot of viruses going around right now, which typically happens around this time of year. >> yeah. >> how have these low in -- vaccination rates impacted how sick people have been getting this season? >> reporter: yeah, i mean that is the question. what is the price we are paying for these low rates of vaccination? we know they can do a great job in terms of protecting people against getting severely ill, hospitalization and death. that is what they are good for. if you look at these numbers compared to last month, so just over the last month, look at the flu. 200% increase in hospitalizations. covid 50% and rsv 60%. so as you point out, this is

the season. we know this is respiratory virus season, but the numbers have been going up pretty significantly just over this last month. as we go into the holidays more and more people are gathering at getting together. so the expectation sadly is that the numbers will go even more, but i think that is part of the reason, pamela, that the cdc is sounding this alarm right now. >> all right, doctor sanjay gupta, thank you so much. good to see you. we are following breaking news out of israel. the idf saying it mistakenly shot and killed three israeli hostages in northern gaza. we are live from israel after a quick break. we will be right back. stay with us.

♪ ♪ ♪ we start this hour at cnn news center with breaking news on israel's war on hamas. the idf saying it mistakenly killed three israeli hostages in gaza. >> an idf spokesman says the victims were missed identified as a threat and shot dead. cnn's jeremy diamond is in sderot, israel with more on this tragic development. jeremy, what more is the idf saying about this? >> reporter: yeah, it's very sad news. the israeli military is admitting that soldiers effectively mistakenly

identifiedse