the idf saying it mistakenly killed three israeli hostages in gaza. >> an idf spokesman says the victimsmissed 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 identified these three israeli hostages as a threat and shot and killed them during combaera. very heavy fighting between israel and hamas over the course of the last week. two of the three hostages have been identified. one of the families of the one of the deceased hostages asked their name not be broadcast, but the two that we can tell you are your time high and the summer is summer -- who was kidnapped from kibbutz near -- also on october 7th. israeli military effectively recovered the bodies in gaza, moved them to israel where they were taken to a forensic center, and then subsequently positively identified as the bodies of three hostages who have been kidnapped by hamas on october 7th. we should note a

hamas and the idf.will never know for sure. it sounds like the three hostages, the three gentlemen who were unfortunately killed, tragically killed were caught in the crossfire. they were identified as a potential threat to the idf as well. what i don't know is what time of day this occurred, if it was evening or dusk, which would have made identification even more challenging. but it sounds like they were mistakenly engaged by idf ground forces during the conduct of combat operations against hamas. caitriona: the u.s. has asked israel to move from high intensity military operations into low intensity military operations, which would include more of these ground force operations. what does that movie look like to you? -- what does that move look like to you? >> i believe that is what is being asked of the idf and prime minister netanyahu. it would be a higher risk in terms of the risk to idf ground forces, but a much lower risk to the protection of innocent palestinian civilians. that really is the fund

we will be right back with a spokesman from the idf. >> breaking news, tonight the idf says the israel hamas just has, expired and military operations have now resumed in the gaza strip. joining me now idf spokesperson -- in tel aviv. thank you so much for being here, today although this news is quite startling for the will to, hear what happened, how would this truce fall apart? >> thank you for having me, laura, sleeping as release once again woke up to the sound of the red siren of hamas rockets falling out once again and gaza. just like october 7th, it is the same hamas that attacked on october 7th with rockets, this morning once again a rockets at israeli population. >> and our weekly, or are you clear as to who is doing this? and why? >> the, why again, we can go back to october, seventh why did hamas firework it's at the israeli population, why did they cross over the border in massacre is really civilians. is that right there in the charter, they exist in order to destroy -- and the jewish people. that is why they did this on october 7th. why else were they launch rockets out o

fire exchange between hamas and the idf and we will never know for sure, and the idf and we will never know for sure, but it sounds like that the three hostages, the gentlemen that were tragically killed, were caught in the crossfire and identified as a potential threat to the idf as well. what i do not know is what time of day this occurred, whether evening or even dust which would have made identification even more challenging, but it sounds like they were mistakenly engaged by idf ground forces during the conduct of combat operations against hamas. the us has asked israel to move from high intensity military operations into low intensity military operations which would include more of these ground forces operations and less of those widescale rocket attacks. what does that movie look like to you? i attacks. what does that movie look like to you?— like to you? i believe that that is what is being _ like to you? i believe that that is what is being asked _ like to you? i believe that that is what is being asked of _ like to you? i believe that that is what is being asked of the - like

hamas and the idf.will never know for sure. it sounds like the three hostages, the three gentlemen who were unfortunately killed, tragically killed were caught in the crossfire. they were identified as a potential threat to the idf as well. what i don't know is what time of day this occurred, if it was evening or dusk, which would have made identification even more challenging. but it sounds like they were mistakenly engaged by idf ground forces during the conduct of combat operations against hamas. caitriona: the u.s. has asked israel to move from high intensity military operations into low intensity military operations, which would include more of these ground force operations. what does that movie look like to you? -- what does thatove look like to you? >> i believe that is what is being asked of the idf and prime minister netanyahu. it would be a higher risk in terms of the risk to idf ground forces, but a much lower risk to the protection of innocent palestinian civilians. that really is the fundam

and we are learning more about this idf accident that did kill three abductees, the idf put out a statementot and killed the three abductees when they were misidentified during fighting in gaza. it's not clear if hamas had released those hostages or had escaped or they were abandoned. but the idf says they misidentified them as a threat and as a result, the troops fired towards them and they were killed. reading deeper into this statement, it's quite a lengthy statement about all of this. the idf says they have begun reviewing this incident immediately, emphasizing it's an active combat zone, ongoing fighting over the last few days has occurred. immediate lessons from the event have been learned passed on to all idf troops in the field and all three hostages have been identified per this idf statement. >> john: the whole area is on a hair trigger, particularly after the incident that morgan cited a couple days ago, nine -- well, originally four idf soldiers were caught in explosion, other soldiers rushed in to try to rescue them, after they lost contact and they were killed as well. so, it'

do you think the idf now has a matter of weeks? this i idf now has a matter of weeks?i said. i think — idf now has a matter of weeks? as i said, i think so, _ idf now has a matter of weeks? as i said, ithink so, i— idf now has a matter of weeks? " i said, i think so, i cannot argue with the white house, i guess they're foundation is based on their intelligence. what i want to see which environment is very important, is that we have to make it clear that i hope the israeli government will do it that we're not going to stay gaza at the end of a military operation, we will pull out. we do not want to occupy gaza, it is not in our interest or our capacity to remain there for much longer. so he will take over _ remain there for much longer. so he will take over security _ remain there for much longer. so he will take over security at _ remain there for much longer. so he will take over security at the - remain there for much longer. so he will take over security at the end - will take over security at the end of this process?— will take over security at the end of this proc

the idf.~ ., , past are released to us by by the idf. ., , , idf.what you can see there is them striking what — idf. what you can see there is them striking what they _ idf. what you can see there is them striking what they describe - idf. what you can see there is them striking what they describe as i striking what they describe as hezbollah infra structure in lebanon. israel says they hit a number of targets including launch sites and a military compound. more on this four spun injerusalem. are we seeing an increase from these kind of strikes in the tax on the border between israel and lebanon? i think as the expansion goes on, we are now seeing the tension that has already been heightened since october the 7th continued to heighten on israel's northern border with lebanon, and these launches from hezbollah. in the past are we have heard from the idf saying that they have identified a number of launches in the direction of israel, some of them actually crossing into israeli territory, and the idf also said that they struck at a hezbollah cell resp

we will get a response from the idf spokesman who will join us live.an exclusive interview with poland's new foreign minister. what does he make of hungary's decision to veto you funding for ukraine -- e.u. funding for ukraine? good evening. i have been told slaying dragons will get you burned, the words prince harry read in a statement by his lawyer after the high court ruled he was a victim of hacking by the mirror group. the judge said the phone hacking was widespread and habitual and the former editor of the mirror, piers morgan, new about the practice. today, mr. morgan came out fighting saying he never hacked a phone or asked anyone to do so. the company which now owns the papers has apologized unreservedly. prince harry's legal victory and damages could late it open to further legal action. today's case is one of three he is taking againsnewspaper groups for unlawful information gathering. >> a significant victory. in 15 articles about prince harry in all three mirror titles, the newspaper group has been found to have intercepted private voicema

translation: the idf mistakenly identified three kidnapped israelis as a threat. force fired at them and they were killed. after the shooting, an immediate suspicion arose about the identity of the dead and their bodies were quickly transferred for examination in israel and there the hostages were identified. at a vigil to mark the end of hanukkah yesterday, alon�*s mother said she still had hope. translation: we yearn fora miracle, hoping that the hostages would be back for hanukkah. but unfortunately it didn't happen. even so, we remain in hopeful anticipation and optimism that it will happen soon. the torment expressed by the families of hostages has cut deeper tonight. already angry with israel's prime minister for not negotiating the release of more hostages, they also have his promise ringing in their ears that israel's military campaign in gaza would help bring their relatives home. we've also learned that aljazeera journalist samer abu daqqa, was killed in khan younis, in the southern gaza strip by an israeli missile fired from a drone. one of his colleagu

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we have also heard the idf saying that in the future of the idf saying that in the future of the idfs. so we know that residents of khan younis have already said that yesterday they experienced the heaviest bombardment since the start of the more and it looks like that very heavy bombardment came just ahead of what is now a ground operation, ground forces in the area of khan younis. we will bring you more on that as and when we get it here on bbc news. let's take a although to venezuelan now. venezeulans are voting in a referendum that will help determine whether the country should create its own state within neighbouring guyana. the region is disputed. it's a move denounced by guyana as a step towards annexation, raising concerns in the region of a possible military conflict. people will vote on whether they agree with creating a new state in thejungled region, and providing its population with venezeuelan citizenship. the region itself has long been the subject of a terriorital claim by venezuela — but the leftist government under nicolas maduro has taken heightened interest in it

the idf says it killed a hamas commander in an air strike sunday.sraeli officials say he was responsible for carrying out some of the deadly raids inside israel in october. meantime, the official palestinian news agency says strikes hit the jabalya refugee camp for a second day. we have more on all of this. good morning, elliott. what is the latest on israel's expanding ground operation across all of gaza? >> reporter: rosemary, israel has yet to finish the job of the gaza strip. it's expanding its operations to the southern part of the strip. according to a spokesman for the idf, israel is expanding operations to all of the gaza strip. and any hopes that israel may go in a little more lightly, as no less than u.s. secretary of state antony blinken was calling for the other day, may have been dashed by the comments we heard from israel's chief of the general staff saying that israel's operations in the southern part of the gaza strip, well in his words be, no less powerful than those operations in the north. already, we've seen rising civilian casua

that tunnel, which the idf says was secured a few weeks ago, was made public on sunday.israeli military spokesperson describes what the idf says it found. >> translator: so far, we have uncovered more than four kilometers of the tunnels' webs. this is a flagship project of hamas. it reaches a depth of 50 meters below the surface of the earth. inside the tunnels, we found many weapons. this is no ordinary tunnel. it as city of terror underground that hamas dug and built instead of investing money in the residents of gaza. >> meanwhile, the idf is claiming to have what it calls operational control over parts of khan younis in southern gaza and claims to have struck what it says was terrorist infrastructure there. cnn could not independently verify either of those claims. some of the images coming out of gaza continue to be graphic, and that includes our next video, which is difficult to watch. it comes from jabaliya in northern gaza where a senior official in the hamas-controlled health ministry says at least 24 people were killed, dozens more wounded, in what is thought t

christian: are those women civilians or with they be classed as idf soldiers?think some of them are women in their 20's, and so they are civilians, they are after their army service. hamas says anyone of military age is still a soldier. christian: right. the secretary of state's been very clear that this phase has to be carried out different to the war that was waged in the north, and their -- there we see talk of the mother of all thumpings coming for hamas. 170 killed in just 12 hours. is that the sort of restraint promised to secretary blake and yesterday? >> it's important, our spokesman said very strongly this is against hamas. we will hit hamas and we will hit hamas hard, will endlessly. but we also as the spokesperson said will differentiate between civilians, who are not the target of our operation, and hamas terrorists. that is why if we talk about the operation in the south, we have leafletted and sent messages in other ways to particular neighborhoods -- not the entire city -- but where we do know there will be israeli combat, will there will the ope

the idf previously denied similar reports. can you confirm whether the idf targeted them with phosphorous? >> boris, this is something that comes up over and over again. not just in this war but in crisis before. and the idf consistently says we do not use white phosphorous. there's a lot of psychological warfare out there and misinformation going around. the idf is very targeted, surgical army. we're going after the terrorists in gaza. our focus is gaza. we hope to deter with the help of the american administration to deter hezbollah. we returned fire to the place of fire. and also, unfortunately we lost one of our civilians to a missile. missiles continue to rain down on israel. as the war goes on, missiles are raining down on israel. just the other day i had to run for shelter myself in tel-aviv. >> i want to be precise. the idf says it uses white phosphorous in certain circumstances. i'm wondering if you can confirm that white phosphorous was used in the most recent attack on the town near the border with lebanon. >> i can

>> yeah, i trust the idf. i know that the army and the government are doing the exact -- the right thing they're supposed to do, and they are doing it smartly. this is how fights work and how war works. there's not another option, because we see that hamas is not letting the hostages go back home. so we need to operate in different ways. i just trust the idf. >> and then, amir, noa was abducted along with her boyfriend from the music festival on october 7th. have you been told anything, even perhaps from the released hostages who were able to offer some information, have you heard anything about whether the two are being held together, if they've been seen individually, anything? >> well, unfortunately, we didn't hear anything from any hostages. we only saw the two videos of noa being kidnapped, and after that there was another video of her drinking water and that's it. we don't know. we're just hoping and praying they're good and still safe and sound. >> and how is the family of carmel feeling, what do you sa

the idf saying it mistakenly killed three israeli hostages in gaza. >> an idf spokesman says the victimsmissed 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

we talked to lieutenant colonel peter learner from the idf. they have released a map, a numbered map people can evacuate to if they are warranted that hostilities are coming. that doesn't sound like the scale of what u.s. officials think is enough. is more coming? do we have a sense of what the safe zones would look like, where they may be? >> i think when it comes to the safe zones in gaza, i'm not sure that that's exactly what the u.s. wants because i think that the assessment of the biden administration is that those safe zones are not necessarily safe on the one hand. on the other happened,nd, there cooperation by international organization or u.n. or palestinians themselves for going into those areas in order to avoid getting hit. therefore, i think that, you know, this map that the idf has put out is more in line of what the u.s. wanted, meaning you are not giving the civilians there just one area and telling them, okay, everybody go there, but parse the gaza strip into small pieces and you tell them every time, okay, whoever lives in th

and engage the idf, then the idf is going to continue to apply pressure. he wants to be able to see those results. >> when the national security adviser, jake sullivan, was there, he briefed reporters and said it's not goings to be the position of the u.s. to tell israel what to do, but we will offer ideas and advice. with defense secretary lloyd now in a similar situation meeting face-to-face with leaders, might it be his position to offer advice in this continued military operation? how do you see him leveraging his expertise in military strategy to assist israel? >> great question. clearly what secretary austin, former general lloyd austin brings to the table is immense credibility. he's a soldier's soldier. he knows what it's all about, he's conducted urban warfare. he knows the complications of that. it would be very presumptuous for him to walk in and say, okay, dudes, this is how we ought to lay it out. he's night going to do that. there will be an expectation that there will be a give and take. he's got that credibility. israel understands that imm

what is the purpose of the idf sectioning off gaza at this point? >> reporter: basically it's divided gaza into what looked like hundreds of little blocks that are numbered. there's a iqr code on this publication so you can check and see where you are as opposed to where there's a threat. in theory this is a changing, constantly updated map people can look to the find out if they are safe or not. the problem is that many people don't have electricity, because israel cut that off. they don't have necessarily very good internet connectivity, because that has been spotty at best for a long period of time. the result is that more people are getting killed. this morning the arabic spokesman for the israeli military put out a tweet, if we can still call it that, telling the inhabitants to the east of gaza city and the northeast and north to leave immediately up to the 4:00 in the afternoon local time. what has happened in jabalia, there was a massive air strike on a six or seven-story building with more than 100 people in it. most of them had fled other a

thanks. >>> still to come, the hostages in gaza accidentally killed by the idf. we'll explain what the hostages were doing before they were fired upon. >>> breaking news ju cnn. the israeli defense forces say the israeli hostages who were mistakenly killed were waving a white flag when they were first spotted by soldiers. >>> let's bring in melissa bell and cnn analyst colonel cedric leighton. melissa, what do we know? >> reporter: these three hostages had been seen coming out of a building just a dozen meters from idf soldiers were standing. they were shirtless, carrying white flags, and yet the shooting began. one soldier felt threatened, opened fire. two of them are believed to have died immediately. the third was wounded, headed back inside, despite a shout in hebrew, and the commander giving the order of a cease-fire. another burst of fire happened. it's unclear which killed the men. all three now dead, and those deaths are subject of an investigation by the idf, but some very damning details to ee allergic from that official who specified this was clearly i

and, just moments ago, we just got word from the idf, the idf has announced the death of a fifth hostage-year-old man from kibbutz nir oz. let's bring in mark regev, senior adviser to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and former ambassador to the u.k. and welcome to you, sorry to lead in to you with the horrific news. first, your reaction to that. >> so it's clear that hamas is brutal and that we are extremely worried about how they are treating the hostages that have remained behind. we are thankful that we got 81 israelis out, 81 israelis who were in hamas's dungeons, they are out. unfortunately, as you said just now, there's more than 130 still left behind, and that's a problem. we have been hearing stories from the medical teams that have been dealing with the hostages come out and they are saying that the hostages went through a very difficult time. the ones that are now out and can talk, abuse after abuse after abuse. children suffered abuse at hamas's hands. but maybe we shouldn't be surprised. we saw the way hamas behaved when they invaded israel on october 7th, when they

the idf says it killed in a tunnel. cnn reached out to hamas for a comment. israel claims to have killed other senior mid-level leaders and commanders which is a fraction of what the idf estimates is 30,000 fighters. >> i think there are -- there have been some successes, but my point is there's still going to be a lot more ground combat to come and i think you'll see over the coming weeks more precision targeting going after hamas leaders as they show themselves. >> reporter: in the next month or so u.s. officials say israel is expected to lower the intensity of the operations which have killed thousands of civilians, so many of them children, and displaced more than 80% of gaza's population. israel hears the international pressure and global calls for a cease-fire but insists there's so much more to root out before the diplomacy starts. >> we're getting to a tipping point where the major question will no longer be how many people we killed, it will be what happens in gaza so that the situation there becomes different

i did recently speak to idf spokes person. i asked him about a report that said senior israeli military officials said they were basically killing two civilians for every hamas member. he called that a, quote, tremendously positive ratio. fit was two civilians for every one hamas that, is tremendously positive. how do you see it? >> it depends what you compare israel to. if you compare israe perfectionf course. nobody is perfect. we don't want to see any civilian casualty. no other western military, no other military has done this before. to safeguard the civilian population in an enemy war zone and i think that israel is really defining the gold standard here of urban warfare. if you compare the campaigns in iraq and afghanistan, the civilian to casualty ratio that israel once the dust settles, you see israel compares favorably. >> i understand that. i understand that academically if the numbers are put out there, you talk about the gold standard. yet, what we're con fronted with every day is a horrific loss of palestinian li

the idf on a mission to locate and destroy dozens of routes. hamas made the claim of building more than 300 miles of tunnels under gaza, tunnels for smuggling goods, launching attacks, storing rockets and ammunition. and israel says hamas command centers hidden beneath homes. >> a tunnel that was used for terror. >> reporter: for three israeli men held hostage in gaza, a sign of dep per ration to the end. a white sheet and a plea for help with leftover food. it reads, help, three hostages. a message either missed or ignored by israeli soldiers who shot them down from a distance. all three shirtless waving a white cloth. the men holed up in a building in gaza city. it's not clear if the hostages were abandoned or managed to escape before the fatal confrontation. the idf admits the killings broke their rule of engagement adding pressure on israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to secure the release of around 129 remaining hostages amid growing international calls for a cease-fire, a truce israel says would only strengthen hamas. as every day

she hid for hours until she was rescued by the idf. she said even after coming out of hiding, it was seeing the blood, the bodies, the destruction. she describes it as the smell of war and said that it is something that she's never going to forget. it's obviously a traumatic experience for her and her family. days later, she found out that her father had been killed by hamas. so going through that grieving process, while also learning that her cousin had been kidnapped. she described just how difficult it was to go through this period of time and then eventually finding out that her cousin was released as part of the truce. she said, obviously, it was a joyful moment, but then there's also the fact that many others are still suffering. they're still kidnapped. among those is believed to be the father of a 27-year-old man who we also heard from who told me how difficult it is to see other families or other family members being released while also knowing that he doesn't know where his family is. this is what he told me. >> we know nothi

, this was a violation of the rules of the idf.as in uniform for many, many years. it does not represent the rules and the values of the idf. it was a tragic mistake, a tragic mistake that we will mourn, but that is not representative of the rules of the idf and its general conduct. people are -- you have young soldiers endangering their lives fighting terrorists. these are very complicated situations, and i think we should not judge from far away. at the same time this was a tragic mistake which is being investigated, and i say again and again, it does not represent the rules of the idf. >> ambassador herzog, i appreciate your time tonight. thank you. >> thank you very much. >>> next, we have live pictures from the u.s.-mexico border. mieg migrants there are holed up in a border crossing. what is behind the incredible surge of humanity that we are seeing right now. our rosa flooreres is there. lava, toxic gas now spewing into the air and our fred p pleitgens at that t volcano lilive. . >>> tonight, immigration showdown. texas gove

>> senator ernst was saying we can't dictate how the idf prosecutes this war. we could influence it. that's better than direct coordination with idf, worked closely with the israelis, but wouldn't do it through the legislative process. difficult to prosecute a war through legislation. it's important to get the supplemental bill done. both for ukraine and israel as well as i was listening to senator ernst, worried about asia as well but to get the appropriate funding for taiwan and that as well. let's get this done. aishah: there are some that would say the administration is meddling too much, influencing israel too much and there is a divide among democrats in and across the country. i wonder if you saw the poll on the president's handling of the war, 34% of americans approve, 56% disapprove of how the president is handling this war and the administration, there is dissent among younger employees at the state department inside the white house, there was a divide between muslim staffers, folks concerned about the communitarian crisis in gaza and other staffers t

>> reporter: quite stunning images that the idf released.t says this is the biggest tunnel it has discovered to date. it stopped 400 meters short of the erez crossing with israel. all of these actual shafts we've been talking about have been akin to veins in the human body, imagine this as being one of the big arteries. this is big enough to drive a car through. it's been described almost like a pedestrian underpass or like a subway that you would use to go under the street. of course, we know these tunnels are used by hamas to launch attacks, to shelter from attacks, and also to hide hostages. but this particular tunnel seems to be on another level. it's got ventilation systems. it's got electricity. as i say, you can drive a car through it. it would have been -- it would have needed mechanized equipment to have been built. and according to israel, it goes four kilometers under beit hanun in the northern part of gaza strip and has offshoots into hospitals, mosques, and schools as well. israel says it discovered this several weeks ago. it's

it is unacceptable. _ highest level by the idf. it is unacceptable. an _ highest level by the idf.e. an initial report by israel's military says these deaths went against israel's rules of engagement. what of those rules of engagement? 50. engagement. what of those rules of engagement?— engagement. what of those rules of enauaement? ., ., engagement? so, some of them we have to keep confidential _ engagement? so, some of them we have to keep confidential because _ engagement? so, some of them we have to keep confidential because hamas - to keep confidential because hamas is listening to our conversation. we want to keep some things from the enemy. it is clear we don't want to kill innocents, we don't want to kill innocents, we don't want to kill our hostages. if we find them, it is clear this was a charger, tragic error by our forces. we have to do our own check—in to make sure it doesn't re—occur. one of the problems we face is hamas don't wear uniforms, they were sibling clothes. they are terrorists. there have been incidents in the past were supposedly surrendering and then they

we've also heard from the idf's spokesperson. whether all of itaty's _ from the idf's spokesperson.t last push of intensified military action to scale _ of intensified military action to scale it— of intensified military action to scale it down, many think this is going _ scale it down, many think this is going in— scale it down, many think this is going in that direction, in line with— going in that direction, in line with what— going in that direction, in line with what the white house has been asking _ with what the white house has been asking i_ with what the white house has been asking. i also think if you combine, you been— asking. i also think if you combine, you been speaking about the un resolution, observers say if you speak— resolution, observers say if you speak to — resolution, observers say if you speak to the families in israel, they— speak to the families in israel, they aren't following the resolution, what happens in the un. if resolution, what happens in the un. if you _ resolution, what happens in the un. if you combine the shocking news of the three _ if you com

let's start with the airstrikes by the idf today. we're looking at rafah in this and also both are in southern gaza, which is where israel told palestinians to evacuate down from the north to when the conflict began. you had the military dropping these leaflets. here's one designating it a fighting zone now warning tpeope to evacuate to the rafah area. what does israel's focus here on southern gaza signal to you and what are the complications this brings about? >> it's certainly an expansion of the fight. the pause is a result of the hostage release. we totally understand that. i think we should all expect there will be on the part of hamas a desire to have some additional pauses. this is an opportunity for them to reply, refit, improve their positions. what this means is that the fighting is going to continue. gaza city now is a location where the idf has established a footprint, is doing so now in depth. would say pursuits of leadership, both military and political leadership of hamas in the gaza city area. they will expand their o

the hostages and that's exactly what the idf is doing now.avid: but you have no idea how long that will take to reach that goal? >> right, so we don't have a stop watch on this. it could take a week, it could take a month, it could take a year, but what we have to do is to win this thing and to destroy hamas. that's our only alternative and that's the goal and that's exactly what the idf is doing right now, destroying hamas, go ahead. david: i'm just asking, what would happen after that? let's assume that you succeed in your mission and we hope you do, but what happens after that? who will control the area of gaza? >> right. so the prime minister actually laid down a very clear plan on that. one, we have to destroy hamas, after we destroy hamas they can't stand as a threat to anyone on earth, there will be no threat to israel from gaza and three, we have to deradicalize. we have to deradicalize gaza and the palestinian society so that children will no longer be taught to cherish death, but to rather love life. they will no longer be taught to

the idf continues to fight in the city.day before, the israeli military blew up the supposed one. an ammunition factory, it was located inside civilian houses in the gas sector, there were victims, including children, our special correspondent stanislav bernwalt will continue the topic. the pace of israel's ground operation in the gaza strip has noticeably slowed in recent days, but the idf has become more active in shelling the enclave's territory from the air using artillery . as a result, the number of civilian deaths increased significantly. in the southern part of the gaza strip, in the city of rafah, on the border with egypt, where israel is forcing palestinians to move, there was another tragedy, as a result of an israeli airstrike there was information and an active one. people dumped boxes of humanitarian aid on road, hundreds of people were trapped inside a catholic church in the central part of the gaza strip, including relatives of british mp layla moran in the parish. the lib dem spokeswoman on the foreign affa

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the idf investigates why its troops accidentally killed three israeli hostages in gaza. >>> america's mayor gets hit with a staggering judgment in a defamation lawsuit. we'll find out how much the jury says rudy giuliani should pay. >>> and ukraine's bid for the eu membership moves forward, but no agreement on aid. how this delay could prove costly for ukrainian troops as well as morale. ♪ >>> but first this morning we begin with grief as well as outrage in israel after the israeli military says it mistakenly shot and killed three israeli hostages in gaza after misidentifying them as a threat. several dozen protesters gathered on the streets of tel aviv on friday. let's have a look at this. they're chanting everyone now, demanding the government take immediate action to bring the remaining hostages home safely. the idf has identified the three israeli citizens it killed in northern gaza, you're seeing them on your screen there, all three were kidnapped by hamas during the october the 7th terrorist attacks. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu on friday described their deaths as,

israel didn't have the idf to protect it and didn't exist. we have to do what we have to do and cease-fire is not an option now. the hostages and troops are there to make sure hamas is eradicated. if we're successful the palestinians will have a much better life. no one wants to live under a terrorist regime. >> dana: you think how expensive it was to make tunnels like that and that money could have been being invested in the people there and it wasn't. that is an outrage. >> bill: they had years to do that, too, by the way. >> dana: friday night there was news about the idf this tragedy of three of the hostages being shot by the idf who mistook them for terrorists. our hearts broke for all of you that that happened. can you just maybe speak to that a little bit to explain what it's like from your perspective a member of the idf? >> it was a heartbreaking incident. it could have been the happiest weekend since the beginning of this war. it is a two-parter if i may. one part the soldiers that killed them went against the rules of engagement of

at the same time the idf is saying this is a very kchaotic tense situation. and the three israeli hostages emerged from a building near the soldier's position. they had no shirts on, they were trying to show that they didn't have explosives, they were waving a white flag. and in firing on the hostages with a white flag, that is when the troops violated the rules of engagement. two of the hostages were immediately killed, a third killed later after he had run into a nearby building and shout shouting in hebrew. now this raises all kinds of questions about whether the idf is being careful enough about their rules of engagement. there have also been a number of friendly fire deaths among the is israeli trooped killed. and the global outcry which has led the united states to put a lot of pressure on israel to tell them to be a lot more surgical and more precise generally. alex marquardt, cnn, tel aviv. >> earlier i spoke with senior adviser to israeli prime minister netanyahu, and i asked him about the deaths of those hostages in gaza and whether the idf will cha

so i believe that there are -- the idf are taking steps.s very challenging just given the population density. the other notes i think is the fact that there's still humanitarian assistance coming in. not to the degree there was in the pause but also within the work council today in israel with the israeli government, they were talking about increasing the amount of humanitarian aid coming into gaza as the offensive continues. >> as you just said, the south, as we have been mentioning, is a part of gaza where civilians have been fleeing too. the idf says all of gaza is now part of the operation. what should the u.s. be doing to speak to israel about the concerns about these civilians? mark: i believe they have been very strongly -- certainly the secretary of defense, austin, was very strong in his remarks over the weekend about the importance of not sacrificing strategic, you know, success through the targeting, like they did during the first phase of the ground offensive. so i believe that the continued pressure by the united states and the

as someone who has been with the idf in the past as well, i - with the idf in the past as well, i wantedlling of these three hostages. there is an investigation now, but we have heard from the idf that it broke israel's rules of engagement. since the investigation is not done yet i don't exactly know what happened. there are all kinds of rumours that the force that killed them was far away, that they didn't obey the rules of engagement and that the hostages were shouting at them in hebrew. i don't know exactly what happened, but one should take into account, in this condensed area, with very challenging fighting issues, this is almost impossible that people from our side will not be killed. i'm talking about soldiers, and sometimes hostages, because we don't have a full picture of what is going on and we don't know exactly what can happen. this is some risk that one should take when we are operating in this kind of area. ., ., , , of area. retired general who spent more than 30 _ of area. retired general who spent more than 30 years _ of area. retired general who spent more than 30 years

the idf says the incident is still under investigation. within gaza, abu dakka is one of the more 60 journalists killed since the conflict began, according to figures from the committee to protect journalists, making this the deadliest war for reporters since tracking began in 1992. now while dakdu, who buried his family weeks ago, is grieving again. once again saying good-bye as the light of gaza's journalism shines a little bit fainter. >>> up next, ukraine. new violence, enduring challenges, and why kyiv is still waiting on support from its western allies. >>> a former vatican chief of staff has become the first cardinal ever to be tried and convicted of financial crimes by a vatican court after a historic fraud trial. 75-year-old cardinal giovanni angelo betchu was sentenced to 5 1/2 years behind bars for his role in various financial crimes. part of the case centered around a multimillion-dollar london property deal that went wrong. betchu has always denied the charges against him. this case has been called the vatican trial of the ce

the idf is continuing to target hamas. ben wedeman has more on how the hospitals are struggling to help those in need and how residents are responding to the attacks. a warning, his report contains disturbing images. >> reporter: look around. this is gaza city's hospital. where the wounded are treated in the open on wooden pallets. the emergency ward is already jammed. the courtyard is full of body bags. dozens were killed in a series of israeli strikes saturday. many more still under the rubble. israel claims one of the strikes killed a senior hamas commander who helped plan the october 7th attacks. he was, perhaps, one dead, manage many, many others. this woman lost her daughter and grandchildren and names them all. may god judge those watching us die, she cries. it's a similar scene in central gaza. more wounded. many of them children. more dead. many of them children. they bombed an entire street, says sad. they pulled him from the rubble. his brother was dead. he said, let me say good-bye to him. my father has been ki

an idf spokesperson will join us live. welcome. wolf blitzer is off day. i'm kaitlan collins, and you are in "the situation room." ♪ >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> we do begin with the breaking news this hour as there's new revelations on how far trump operatives went from the frantic final push to keep their boss in the white house and overturn president biden's legitimate 2020 election victory. cnn's marshall cohen is part of the team that broke this exclusive report. marshall, what are we hearing and learning in these recordings about how deep and clearly fracturic that scheme was? >> we've known bits and pieces, but now we're getting a full picture, coming from ken che chesebro, which was in many ways an architect of the plot. cnn has obtained recordings and hundreds of e-mail he turned over. they reveal the last-minute scramble. here's a clip of chesebro describing what happened when trump campaign officials realized the ballots from michigan and wisconsin were stuck in the mail. >> the campaign is freaked out that roman reported that th

the idf will do that. >> senator ernst was saying we can't dictate how the idf prosecutes this war.can certainly influence it. i think that's better done in direct coordination with the idf. >> this afternoon, jon, the u.s. military essential command responsible for the middle east releasing this photo showing an iranian drone flying in a quote unsafe and unprofessional matter near the uss dwight d. eisenhower aircraft carrier in the persian gulf. it was intercepted by a navy helicopter. intercepted does not mean shot down, although i'm sure a lot of our viewers are wondering why that drone was not shot down. certainly there's enough superhornets to make that happen. it looks like the port aspect from the helicopter are wondering why that drone was not taken down. >> jon: i'm sure they are. maybe we will get an explanation. lucas tomlinson with the president at the white house, thanks. >>> protesters in critical condition after setting themselves on fire friday outside the israeli consulate building in midtown atlanta. police say a security guard tried to intervene, but ended up inj

as i was shown by the idf clear a gaza hospital.ll hidden, which means the tunnels can be really hard to find. the idea of flooding the tunnels using the abundant seawater that's along the many miles of gaza's mediterranean shore is apparently a creative idea. not just to destroy hamas and quite literally flush them out, but also to reach the parts of tunnels that might never be discovered. from aboveground. now, it's not without its risks, there could be hostages in those tunnels. there are very few details about how precisely the water is getting into the tunnels. how much water, how fast it's going in. or what you do if you suddenly discover you're flooding hostages, other than the idf say they have begun carefully testing it. and that this method is being trialed on a limited, limited basis. >> this is a tunnel. >> reporter: some of the tunnels are thought to be five floors deep. some of the hostages who were freed have described them. this elderly hostage helped by her daughter. >> translator: walking inside the tunnels with th

the idf footage showed two rooms, toilets and a sink area.o electrical wiring visible. but the idf didn't explain how this constituted the command and control centre they had earlier alleged. we have been back to the idf to ask for further details and evidence of what they found at al—shifa since, and they haven't provided this. returning to our main focus here, the un security council, we are waiting for the vote. still no official confirmation but all the signs are suggesting the resolution will be voted on in the next little while. that's the latest we were hearing from our correspondent. we continue to watch and see final details on that vote. just to show you another shot of the corridors, all set up in terms of light freedom ready for comments. —— live feed. it looks like the backdrop is being prepared for a vote. unicef have just put out a statement reflecting on yesterday's report, warnings of potential famine. on yesterday's report, warnings of potentialfamine. they on yesterday's report, warnings of potential famine. they say the re

i was embedded with the idf in northern israel today where there are daily exchanges of fire. they say they are very much ready, if the command comes through to push forward into lebanon. linsey. >> britt, thank you. >>> tonight, jewish communities across the country are on high alert after a record number of swatting incidents in 30 states. officials in at least two states have arrested suspects in the last few days and the anti-defamation league is now investigating. the trend comes as anti-semitism is surging. here's abc's reena roy. >> reporter: tonight, authorities investigating a record number of at least 300 swatting incidents targeting jewish communities across the country this weekend. today alone, jewish facilities in at least 19 states and washington, d.c. received bomb threats via email, according to the secure community network. and at least 11 other states in the last week also experienced swatting, when someone reports a nonexistent serious crime like a bombing or a shooting. >> swatting is not a prank or a joke. it's intended to disrupt, harass, cause fear. and

the idf promises to investigate and learn how this happened. you mentioned there's confusion on a diplomatic level today. jake sullivan met with the presidents of israel and the palestinian authority. he continues to advocate for a united west bank. here's sullivan today. >> we do not believe that it makes sense for israel or is right for israel to occupy gaza, reoccupy gaza over the long-term. >> but israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu admits he has a different vision for gaza. netanyahu is calling for it to be demilitarized. israel believes gaza governed by the palestinian authority pose as security threat. to address the humanitarian crisis in gaza, israel opened the shalom crossing, which should help but will not solve the humanitarian crisis there. one final note, martha, hamas fired six rockets at jerusalem today. three of them were intercepted. three landed in open areas. back to you. >> martha: thanks, nate. so joining me now on set, former israel diplomat for the consulate here in new york. good to have you with us, sahar. it wou

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