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on israel's roared on hamas. israel defending its strike on it densely populated refugee camp in northern gaza. it's too soon to know the casually can, or the two. a doctor to gaza hospital said they received hundreds of dead or wounded people from that attack there are multiple craters in the ground and huge piles of rubble >> israel's defense forces says it was targeting the top two mass candor involved in the october 7th rampage. >> they succeeded they claimed in taking. about dozens of hamas combatants were killed when underground tunnels beneath account collapsed. >> but innocent lives were also lost. israeli military says it's working to determine the number of civilian deaths. hamas folks person accused israel trying to justify what he got, a heinous crime.

against civilians women and children. he denied that the leader claim to kill was even at the camp at the time of the strike. meantime the white house says that despite the blast there are quote indications israel is trying to protect civilians. national security council called the deaths tragedies, and said the u.s. would keep working with the israelis to limit civilian casualties. >> unlike russia and ukraine, and unlike what hamas did on the 7th of october. the killing of civilians is not a war aim of israel. i'm not denying that it is happening. of course it is. and it is tragic. but it is not the goal of israeli forces to go out and deliberately take innocent civilian life. they have tried to make efforts to minimize that. >> a reminder here, the refugee camp is the largest in gaza.

courting to the u.n. agency for pet palestinians, registered more than 160,000 people at last count. witnesses to the strike are describing horrendous scenes of children, and i imagine this. children carrying other injured children. we want to warn you, our report will be difficult to watch. here since -- >> horrifying scenes of utter despair. where is she this man pleads but everything here is gone. >> hop part of the refugee camp among the largest and densely populated in gaza now turned to rubble the latest targets of israel's relentless air campaign >> the idf has claimed responsibility for the air strike.

the target they say, a senior hamas commander killed at last. >> we were focused again on our target. a senior commander. >> this attack, as doctors in gaza are describing. it has hit civilians hardest. >> i'm urgency response teams, worked desperately in the hope of finding more survivors. but outside gaza's overwhelms hospital corpses lined the streets. the number of those killed and injured, according to the hospital director. already in the hundreds. >> they were just in their homes, children, women, the elderly. we have no idea what to do. the injured are everywhere. >> inside the hospital, mothers with their children, wounded and traumatized. but outside, survivors continue to dig through the debris, of what was their homes. desperate to find loved ones,

buried beneath. but all fearing the very worst. some of the videos which have emerged from the aftermath of the airstrike, are simply too graphic to show. doctors, for cnn. their bodies were found charred and dismembered. this nightmare comes after residence in northern gaza were warned by israel to evacuate southwards. many simply cannot leave, and while israel denies carrying out collective punishment against the palestinian people. scenes like this reflected acroross the gaza strip, show that it is civilians that arare paying the price. >> cnn jerusalem. >> lieutenant colonel johnson, is the spokesperson for the israeli defense forces, he's with us now live from tel aviv. i appreciate you coming back to us here, as we try to learn more about this horrific air strike. you have been on cnn saying the

look this was targeting hamas. this was in fact a strike to hit those tunnels underground. but of the last few hours have you heard anything more. clearly devastation that we see there, in that report means this has been incredibly catastrophic for innocence on the ground. >> yes. the population in gaza continues to pay the price for the atrocities of hamas. again, i want to emphasize this is a war that we did not start, and we did not want. we are now responding to hamas aggression. the person that we killed, a senior hamas commander. was vital in planning the attack. that is why we struck him. i emphasize, this is been an intelligence has been shared with the u.s. and other countries. we do not target civilians. it is always sad, and i couldn't see the footage but i

can hear it, yesterday it is always sad when civilians are caught in the middle. that is why we have been asking them for two weeks to vacate this area. i'm sure that many will would have vacated, had a not been for hamas that is actively been stopping the evacuation. in places where we can war in advance, and do all kinds of things to mitigate the effect on civilians. we have done so including in this war against hamas, in this specific attack. we were targeting and military commander, there could be no warning before. we struck the target, we have information that dozens of hamas operatives were killed. and confirmed that he is dead. >> so we have one other point there that you say there could not have been forewarning, you are trying to hit this target. on the other hand, i've been in gaza when the idf has performed

surgical strikes. the idf is more than capable of this. this is not that why not? >> i don't think i really agree with what you said. the pro season here is to hit a target deep and buried underground. a tunneled complex, which is where they were hiding. trying to use civilians as a human shield. which is the common practice of hamas. which is a war crime. it's also a war crime not to allow civilians to a evacuate from combat, area hamas is doing both. what we did here was to strike with the acquired, or required amount of firepower to get to where he was hiding. in order to achieve a military achievement that supports the overall aim of the war. that is why this was struck. it is both legitimate and important military strike to do. i understand the pictures are

difficult, i understand that our human feelings when seeing suffering, we relate to that. but if we are able to look from a higher position, this war is against a brutal terrorist enemy, that is waiting for exactly these things to happen. and for exactly this type of coverage. they are building and really hoping for, the scenes to become international pressure. so they can get a cease-fire, and they can live to see the light of another day. and continue to plan to tack israeli civilians, as they did october the 7th. we are not going to let them do that. >> to take up another point here, this isn't just video. no member who uses it for propaganda, their entire families annihilated, we have heard on the ground there are many children. i ask you, are you as expert who wasn't charge of trying to get high value targets in the iraq war. it says that israel does have

options. that are more surgical and precision strikes they are possible. why not i ask you again in this case? >> i will explain again. when a terrorist is in a tunnel complex, underneath, buildings and in between buildings. you have to use significant firepower, in order to get to the tunnels. the other terrorist hiding and running operations from that tunnel, are the target. they are religion. >> but at a certain town you don't have to decide that preserving civilian life is more important than hitting that target? >> many times. we have done so in this time war many times. we have averted strikes because we saw the situation on the ground, the balance between civilians and the military aim, didn't justify such a strike. we have averted many strikes. as i said before, we have also

warned civilians to vacate premises. because we saw that we could achieve the military goal. without having collateral damage. >> i do want to get to a few other issues of developing stories here. i have to ask you, do you expect this to happen in northern gaza again? you will have to hit with that kind of firepower? because there is a high value target that you must take out? >> what i expect, are two important things. one, is that the remainder of the civilian population in northern gaza should heed our warnings and evacuate to the south. and the second thing is, maybe hamas should stop hiding behind their civilians come out and fight. instead of hiding behind civilians like cowards. >> we also have word right now, that again gaza is in a blackout. all internet services, phone services, they are not working at the moment. is that something the idf put in place in the last few hours? >> not as far as i'm aware. i've seen reports, we are looking to understand what

exactly. not as far as i know i'm aware. >> i am really glad to speak to you again, i want to speak specifically about this issue of evacuating northern gaza, only to go to southern gaza, where again we verified airstrikes. why are there still airstrikes in places? when people who go there to great risk to themselves, are told it is safe and it is not safe? >> let's be specific. we never ever said, never ever do we promised during these two weeks, that we have been calling on civilians in northern gaza to evacuate to the south. never ever you said in any language, arabic english hebrew or whatever that we will not going to strike hamas military targets in the south. we have said continuously, we will continue to strike hamas military targets, all over, wherever we see commanders, wherever we see value or targets we will start them. but the northern part of gaza, is going to be the area of

significant military operations. therefore, they should vacate northern gaza. it will be safer, to be in the south. we have never promised safety, i don't think any military in a war soda can ever say, listen this area is totally safe. we are a war against an enemy. they use civilians as their shield, uses schools, hospitals, mosques and u.n. facilities to fire from. nothing is holy to hamas. we are doing our best to have civilians out of the fight. >> and so with that, we will take you at your word there, there is no safe place in gaza understood. colonel thank you for your time appreciate. >> not exactly what i said but. >> we're gonna go live to scott mclain, who's been falling all the developments from london. >> a little bit more explanation that, in the sense they are saying they didn't have time for warning. he was very clear on what the goals where there.

but, what has been some of the reaction to what went on at the refugee camp? >> first off i, thought is quite fascinating your question about the weather this was worth it? his answer saying they have decided not to go ahead with some strikes, there would be too many civilian casualties. and not enough payout. the implication, is that israel does believe that despite the civilian casualties in this case, the payoff was worth it. in terms of the reaction look, you mentioned, for the united states has come out and said, that look. it believes that israel is actually trying to minimize civilian casualties, that is in stark contrast to many of the reactions we are hearing from across the middle east. obviously, the palestinians have one reaction. the international criminal court should be putting out arrest warrants for those responsible for the strike.

you have the iranians, in the saudis to countries which are bidders rivals that generally don't agree on very much, now very much united in their response to what is happening in gaza. in this particular strike. both of them condemning what happened, the iranians calling it barbaric, saudi saying the crime escalation cannot be justified out all. you also have the uae, which has been growing its ties with israel over the last couple of years, also condemning this. saying that look, indiscriminate attacks will have irreparable ramifications in the region. egypt, also called the strike inhuman and quote, egypt considered this as a new flagrant violation by this really against the provisions of international humanitarian law, one of the most outspoken leaders on the region and all of this in recent weeks. the turkish president erdogan, he called israel's entire war

effort, a massacre in his words. this israeli administration backed by the unconditional spoke of europe and america's been committing crimes against humanity in front of the eyes of the whole world for 25 days. we believe that israel, which seems to have completely lost its data, mine asked like an organization must be stopped as soon as possible. even with in israel, there is a debate taking place there. there are people who have a range of opinions, there are many who are also condemning israel's approach. one of the human rights group, -- who said quote this criminal harm to civilians is intolerable, and needs to be stated again and again. not everything is allowed in world, including warren hamas. targeting civilians is always prohibited, israel must stop these attacks now. you're even seeing reaction from outside of the region, far outside the reason, columbia and chilly, both announced they were recalling their ambassadors following the

strike. colombian sing that cannot be present in israel while a massacre of palestinians is taking place. chileans saying that violations of international law, as it believes that israel is doing, are not acceptable. you are not seeing the same level of condemnation from the west. there have been outliers, the prime minister said he believes a line has been cross by israel when it comes to international law, by and large. the reaction from the west has been a boiler plate statement which is something along the lines of, look, israel has the right defend itself. it must do so within the bounds of international law. >> what does also interesting, the reaction we see publicly, behind the scenes also. u.s. officials, and many others are having discussions with israeli government about what their military strategy is. scott mclain in london thank you falling all that. we appreciate it. >> a spokesperson said the gleam will release foreign

nationals held hostage in the coming days. hamas says request came from their respective countries, through mediators. hamas hasn't clarified how many hostages will be released, or which countries they come from. on monday the militant group released a video showing three women believed to be hostage, the women demanded israel continue negotiations to free of hostage. it is unclear if her comments remain under duress. it is clear -- >> what we saw in the video, is her in a very big distress. my sister is a calm person. seeing her like that, hearing her means that she is not well. the fact that she is speaking, does not mean she is well. the fact that people are now saying, they look good. that is exactly what they want

us to. think everyone is okay. there are three hostages that we saw. there are more than 230 there. i think that this is again we don't know the situation. my other sister in the family, we don't have the, red cross is not allowed there. >> why? >> why can't we understand with the situation is. >> what a tormenting situation, meantime the streets around jerusalem city hall been filled with empty beds, and cribs, each representing one of the more than 210 people taken hostage on october 7th. >> coming up for us, iran-backed houthi militants in yemen launched an attack on israel, now they're getting vault in israeael's war.

u.s. republican lawmakers are battling over how and when to provide aid, the majority leader mitch mcconnell wants israel tie israel funding, to more help for ukraine. the newly minted house speaker mike johnson is posting for a stand-alone bill for israel. that would be funded in part by cutting spending for the

internal revenue service. yes the agency that collects taxes. on the same floor tuesday, the leaders of both parties criticized. >> >> the new speaker knows perfectly well that if you want to help israel, you can't put those legislation that is full of poison pills. this house gop proposal is clearly designed to divide congress, on a partisan basis. >> so at the risk of repeating myself, and the threats facing america and our allies are serious in they're intertwined. if we ignore that fact we do so at our own peril. >> lawmakers, secretary of state antony blinken told the u.s. it is vital to plow replied aid at once. so it won't see washington as quote playing, whack-a-mole. in the response to global crises >> israel has frosted

threats using the air defense system, to intercept a surface to surface. middle the middleton group in yemen said it launched the attack in the world is now watching to see how iran may desert force and itsts proxieses against t sworn enemy israel. >> fred blananket >> has m more iranian-backed houthi fighters in yemen with a shot. force >> while only hitting u.s., the houthi say they launched a massive launch distance attack on israel, using ballistic and cruise missiles, as well is drones. >> the yemeni armed forces affirm this, is the third in support of our oppressed brothers in palestine. the spokesman says.. >> israeael confirmed d the attk saying it's defense forces manage the thwarted, using modern air defense system. but >> both u.s. and isrsrael hs

long been accused of iran providing the houthis with l log rangnge weapons. wewe got a r rare chancece to fm some of the drone and missile arsenal, and the militarary fair in 2019 the iranians are now flexing their own military, a recent large-scale exercise just to o show tehran's defense capabilities, one of the commanding -- making clear these lawmakers of public schooool is t to destroy israel. >> regarding the message to thte zionisist t regime we announced destruction n of this regime an, god willing we will witness it soon. >> iran's militaryry, is not nearly as modernrn as the u.s. r israel, many of its weapons are u.s. made from before these law make revolution in 1979. like these vietnam w war area cobra a attack helicoptersrs.

>> but iran influences, or control scorores of mililitias arouound the entirire middle ea. which tehran says it can mobilize to not only attack israel, but u.s. assets throughout the region. >> in an interview in i'll just see the iran's president threatening escalation. >> the event senior gaza were red lines that are being breached by the zionist anantony the killing of women and children the killing of more than 3000 children is not something any human bebeing can reasonably o or by conscience accept. >> israel mamaintains, it t does not tatarget civilians and its campaign against hamas in gaza. the u.s. hasas s sent two carrrr strike groupup and additioional surface to air middle missile batteries to the region the biden administration warning iran t to back off. >> we take our national security we will protect and

defend our troops, and that time and matter of our choosing. >> fred pleitgen, cnn. >> coming up for us, dozens of a trucks entered gaza through the rafah border causing tuesday, but more awaiting in egypt to get through. latest on the humanitarian crisis in gaza.

aid workers in gaza city the stories coming out of that refugee camp, are simply horrific. this really defense forces targeted that heavy populated camp, with airstrikes tuesday. saying they killed a hot top hamas commanders. the strike killed an unknown number of civilians, and laid waste as you can see there, to parts of the camp.

doctors without borders say young children came to the hospital with deep wounds, and severe burns. one man, just 100 meters from the camps that he saw children carrying other injured children. bodies hanging in the rubble, and hysterical dazed civilians. cnn's wolf blitzer, as the idf spokesperson why the camp was targeted? >> do you know there are a lot of refugees, is innocent civilians in the refugee camp as well? >> this is the tragedy of war wolf, as you know we've been seeing for days -- >> as israel does ramp out air strikes and gaza, the u.s. defense secretary had words of warning, searing before senate lawmakers on tuesday. lloyd austin recounted one of the important lessons u.s. learned encounter tenderest operations, when you are careless about civilian casualties, those casualties

can become fuel for terrorist groups. listen -- >> the things that you do that on the battlefield, our viewer not thoughtful about them, they could create a resistant your effort that last for generations. the >> rafah border crossing from egypt to gaza set to open wednesday, an egyptian borden officials said 81 seriously wounded palestinians will be allowed through that gate to be treated in hospital and egypt. now >> on tuesday dozens of trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered gaza through the rafah causing, israel said trucks carried only water food and medical equipment but not fuel u.s. says, it's a start but it's only a fraction of the eight people in gaza desperately need. melissa bell has that report. >> on the road, but at a standstill. >> trucks carrying much needed help for gaza some stuck here

said the for more than two weeks. >> the people across the border, have nothing. if you saw the way they are living unit to carry the aid themselves, and going on foot. >> yet the bottlenecks say egyptians have been caused by the complex israeli inspection process, which requires each to be checked. >> even before the war, the rafah crossing was a crucial artery in and out of gaza the world food programme recognizes even before this conflict began a few weeks ago 80%, of gaza's population was reliant on humanitarian aid. and, a big proportion of that came from here, the trouble is. how little is actually now getting through. >> even as aid workers, warn of hunger and dehydration. unicef says, the territory only has 5%, of the water it needs. >> it's an imminent public health catastrophe, that looms with the overcrowding, the

damage to water infrastructure. authorities in egypt saying they are doing all they can. >> all state agencies, that are moving to solve this unprecedented and manager in crisis, which the innocent residents of the gaza strip are exposed to today. >> here at the rafah crossing, there is the only road in an out of gaza, that is not lead to israel. is controlled by egypt, that is why some of that aid's been able to get in. >> the issue for the palestinians inside civilians inside, is that egypt does not want refugees and it does not want the palestinian people, to be forced to be removed from their land. >> for those inside, so many displaced because of the intensification of israel's bombardment. every truck counts. >> and for those lining up here, that is enough to make them -- . >> implementing international

monetary fund, law opening the rafah crossing all the way, and bringing in more trucks, because what enters the gaza strip, is lot of drop in the ocean of what children. >> and for now so much of that, remain stuck here rafah. the >> last laughlin in and out of gaza, that so far this war has seen precious little crossing. >> melissa bell, cnn at the rafah crossing in egypt. >> the european union top diplomat is speaking out against attacks on palestinians in the west bank by israeli settlers. foreign policy chief, -- condemned the violence tuesday, between senior artificials in the middle east, comes with the idf to demolish the house belonging to a he senior hamas leader, in a village not tuesday. >> join now alex leader, with the israel policy foreman, we are glad to have your voice on

the program. >> i know you follow this for very long time, obviously it means a lot more in the last few weeks. israel, of course as unspeakable atrocities. they are fighting back at this hour. you argue, that this saddle or violence in the west buying, it threatens the is targeting of israel's democracy and security why? >> thanks for so much paula for having me. what we have seen over the course of the past, more than three weeks now. since the hamas massacre that occurred on october 7th. is a concerning rise, of attacks carried out by extremist settlers in the west bank targeting palestinian civilians, this is taking several forms including, damaging property, vandalize asian, burning of houses, and destruction of agricultural fields. as well a threats directed at palestinians, particularly palestinian herder communities, shepherd communities in the west bank.

encouraging them, or driving them to flee their homes under the threat of violence. there've been seven palestinians who have been killed as a result of settler violence since the massacre carried out hamas on october 7th. it's important to emphasize, that when that this settler violence is not happening in a vacuum, right now israel has a far-right government. that includes many figures who, that support this type of actions, and not in rhetoric but in a more tacit ways as well. over 70% of standing idf soldiers at the outlook of this conflict, where based in the west bank because of the rise in both palestinian and jewish terrorism, we saw over the coast of the past year. under this far-right government. and that is sparked a lot of, conserve about the impact this has on this israeli security.

>> in your words, it says it's time for a reckoning about this unnecessary, and avoidable security burden. posed by the settler movement. what do you mean by? >> i think that it's part of a larger conversation about the fact that, most itv f soldiers, who are located in the west bank, they are not there to protect israelis within the country sovereign borders, they're there to protect settlers who are too are located, far away from the green line, faraway from the the line that defines israel's sovereign border. this is a minority of seiler, they are deep in the west bank, settlers or more ideologically extreme, many of them living in illegal outposts. it poses is significant burden on israel security, to have to defend these isolated sentiment about, deep in palestinian territory. >> again, you point to the the problem within israeli politics,

as you put it, it is incredibly polarized, it was before this happened. understand obviously, the country's unify now. unified as the sense of defense. the judicial reform, everything that went previously, do you believe that could still again, endanger israeli unity, especially given what is going on? the complex situation in places like the west bank? >> in the short term, what we have seen is of course, one of the parties in israel opposition, national unity party, joined with a netanyahu government to manage the war have, or they've temporarily set aside as a condition, they set aside the traditional overhaul. , that aren't directly reelected to the whatever, but the extremists would within the government, remain. this remains, a longer term threat to israeli democracy,

assuming that emerges from this war. you know, not sure what his political future is especially given, widespread discontent, and distrust. given how he's manage the war effort. i think it's, certainly a concern that going forward, this is going to continue to be an issue on the agenda of the far-right parties. >> we will continue, to follow these developments as you said, there are significant developments on the west bank as well. thank you so much alex leader, man. >> coming up for us, stark warnings from senior u.s. officials who say acts of hate and terror, threaten on the u.s. are rising dramatically, as a result of the israel-hamas war. as we go to break, we live you with a view of the gaza skyline, as seen from israel at this hour.

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but the ongoing war in the middle east has raised the threat to fit the tack against americans in the united states to a whole another level. >> in the days and weeks since, we have responded to an increase in threats against jewish, muslim, an arab muslim communities, and institutions across our country. >> that was u.s. homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas, and fbi director christopher wray who testified before u.s. senate committee tuesday. the war in the middle east had led to a spike in antisemitism, and islamophobic incidents in the u.s.. now, muslims, and arab americans are facing threats and violent extremists inspired by foreign groups, as well as so-called lone wolf stand homegrown extremists. the council on islamic relations in the meantime says complaints of incidents targeting muslims in the west have been about three times higher since the october 7th hamas attacks on israel compared to an equivalent period last year.

and the anti-defamation league says there has been a 400% increase in antisemitic incidents in the u.s. since october 7th. now one of the more recent instances, a junior at cornell university was arrested and charged on tuesday in connection with a series of antisemitic threats made against the school's jewish community. in an interview with cnn, new york governor kathy hochul commented on the rise in these types of threats. and hate crimes and general piatt her to seventh. >> it was already escalating, i did some events over the summer, another one in september calling on people to be more vigilant, to tell them that there is an increase in antisemitic posts, certainly more so than others. but a rising all hate crimes. this is our top priority. so people can finally feel safe, again but i think you are, right i hate to say, this i did not think this is the and yet. we have a long way to go to start restoring the civility. the respect for different

peoples religions, and beliefs, that has never been perfect, but it's certainly in rapid decline since october 7th. >> now earlier, i spoke with cnn senior national security analyst -- and i asked her how much online extremist groups have amplified motivated the hate crimes. we see today. >> there is a difference between sort of that hate of the person out there spewing hate, and then of course the targeted violence. we don't know how the difference between those two, but we certainly know that the pool is different. the people who are spewing hate, most of them are not going to go to violence. we don't like those people, right, basically you are better off with that pool, just sort of doing the things they do online, then those who could focus on violence. that focusing on violence of course is often disclosed online, and that is writ long forsman can step in if

someone's increases, the threats, or specifically target someone. so we are seeing actually some of the, at least at cornell university, here someone who went online targeting the jewish community, is -- has now been arrested. that is appropriate, because you simply cannot do that in the united states under the guise of the first amendment, or political debate. so what we need to do is monitor online activity to the extent that is legally allowable. i have community members and family members come forward if they are worried about somebody who's becoming radicalized. >> the full interview with julia in the next hour. now the u.s. senate has confirmed former treasury secretary -- as the new u.s. ambassador to israel who lead the obama administration and also served as white house chief of staff. now tuesday's vote was 53 and 43 with the vacancy. he fist stiff opposition from

senate gop members over his involvement and obama's iran nuclear deal. senators lindsey graham and rand paul where the only republicans to vote to confirm him. still ahead for us, cnn has granted rare access to israel's newest lifesaving resource. we will take you inside what is believed to be the world only shielded underground blood bank, and get a glimpse at the extraordinary measures to protect it.

>> israel's blood supply has become a critical resource during this war. it is taking extraordinary measures to protect it. cnn's wolf blitzer visited is unique, shielded, underground blood bank, that processes the test the country's entire blood supply. they got an exclusive look at extensively purity measures. >> on the surface, it looks like an ordinary office building. but it is what lies beneath that makes this facility one-of-a-kind. >> you can't live without, blood and there is no artificial blood. >> just outside of tel aviv,

nearly 50 people of ground, lives to be what is believed to be the world's only showed it underground blood bank. >> it comes, here we process. it >> is recent hard lots by is processed and tested here at the marcus national blood services center operated by israel's -- >> the whole idea of this place, is that because we are in a shelter, so we are now in a shelter. >> the ponder ground? >> yes. >> because this presumably would be a major target for israel's enemies? >> absolutely. we were very concerned about the -- and blood of course. the blood inventory. so in a case of rocket attacked, we are protected. it is a shelter. >> the organization actually moved into the building on october 9th, just days after the hamas terror attacks. there's not more vital than ever in a country at war. >> we sent blood to other hospitals, and to the army. when we evacuated the patient -- need military ambulances, or

helicopters, they get blood on the way from the hospital provided by -- >> their or three levels underground. each level, more secure than the next, and all designed to operate even if there is a direct attack. on the first level, they sort, label and has the blood. >> so we are now in the testing laboratory, which we call -- the idea is that we put on the -- everything is automated. it is like hands off. >> so this is state-of-the-art technology? >> absolutely. >> then the results which answer to the main computer, system to the file of the unit, and -- here you can see they are waiting for their turn, once they can go on, they go in. >> the center handles more than blood, they also handle plasma. plasma is used to increase volume when someone has lost a lot of blood. it is stored frozen. >> minus 30 degrees. >> so cold. running all of this requires electricity, which is why the lowest level is key to the

operation. >> where are we going now? >> now we are going to the -- most protected place in the -- >> we will be deep underground? >> so if the enemy of israel or launching rockets or bombs, and hit at the top, people in this building would be safe? so the whole building is everything that we do a safe. >> the blood would not be destroyed? the power for the whole operation is protected by enormous blast doors that are some of the largest in israel. >> in an emergency, when you get an alert from the idf, we close the blast doors. >> they say this facility is so deep underground it can withstand a chemical attack, poison, or biological attack. protecting life saving blood and plasma for a country at war. >> mary de below the ground. it is very secure god forbid a bomb. >> absolutely. we talk about windows the outer window is a shelter window,

which we close. >> so to secure. >> this time we open it today light can come in. >> this is now -- >> absolutely. >> and we think wolf blitzer for that report. i want to thank you for watching cnn newsroom. i'm paula newton, i will be back with more news after a short break.