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the port city of gaza in flames after israeli strikes, as hamas fires hundreds of rockets at the southern city of ashkelon president biden before the cameras today, saying the u.s. stands with israel and condemning the, quote, sheer evil of hamas. the white house revealing 20 or more americans are unaccounted for after the terror attacks, as hamas threatens to kill hostages. and the families we've met here desperate for any word of their missing loved ones the israeli death toll now over a thousand. in gaza, some 900 dead harrowing new images from inside the israeli community where some of the worst violence occurred men, women and children slaughtered, and the bodies of hamas terrorists still lying in the streets the danger here constant the moment we heard the air raid siren, leaving our van to take shelter in a bunker and a desperate need at a hospital we visited. the long lines to donate blood >>> and just in, the u.s. carrier group arriving in the region, and the warning to iran, did it have a role in the attacks? >>> also back home, the breaking news. the new charges just announced

hamas and israel have been exchanging rocket fire. this has been happening throughout the morning. s saying they have launched rockets beyond the area just surrounding gaza. also toward jerusalem and at tel aviv. becky anderson joins us now again live. you're live in tel aviv what can you tell us? >> we have been on the sharp end of those hamas rockets this morning. to the extent we can hear a continuous low level boom likely. the iron dome intercepting those missiles. hamas confirming that they fired a series of rockets this morning. none of those landed, you know, in an impactful way. but we are hearing this continuous boom. we had sirens going off here in tel aviv where i am. we're about 28 minutes from the airport here. our engineer who is coming in through the airport this morning had to hit the deck and videoed what you are seeing here, plumes of smoke it seems very choes to the airport. so this is the intensity of this conflict is significantly ratcheting up, beyond no illusion, the idf telling me yesterday and speaking to the opposition leaders again, this is early days to a

now, this was rather a hamas rocket that fellshort.is was rather a hamas rocket that fell short. now, i want to explain this. from past conflicts with the terrorists in gaza, we know that, on average, about 33% of the rockets that they shoot at us fall short and land in gaza. that's a fact. that's documented. numbertwo, we that's a fact. that's documented. number two, we know that at the time of this tragedy in gaza, there was a barrage, a huge barrage, against targets in central israel. i urge you to be cautious. there are indications, very, very serious that not us. hamas wants to have a propaganda victory, saying israel has killed innocent civilians. there is no evidence to support that claim and let's just wait and see how this develops. look, israel does not target hospitals,.. we don't do it. the bbc also spoke with mustafa barghouti, a palestinian legislator and leader of the palestinian national initiative. he pointed the finger squarely at israel, saying the strike was years in the making. it isn't unacceptable, deliberate war

they depicted the failure of the iron dome in intercepting hamas rockets . they filmed the merkava tanks being targeted. for the first time, they manage not only to take prisoners directly, but also to hold more than 200 prisoners, who are mostly soldiers. a war a new combination was designed and implemented by the palestinians in three land, sea and air areas. they practiced this design for months without the zionists being informed. it provided the necessary equipment , while the espionage organizations were unaware of it, and now netanyahu's chief adviser admits that the zionist regime has suffered an irreparable failure. it is clear that there is an intelligence failure, it is clear that we were caught by surprise and we have paid a terrible price for it. amen sadat zabipur, radio and television news agency. hello again , at 45 minutes in the morning, i am still with mrs. hajipour and mr. farkhandepour in the studio of khabar network we are with you, ms. hajipour, we have some important news. first of all, some news about mr. hashemgan has been added on

the idf and hamas exchanging fire today launching missiles at one another with a number of rockets penetratingl's iron dome and hitting cities. and of course the hospital in gaza that was blown up today, hamas claims israel was behind it but the idf says it was the terrorists' own munitions and they showed proof. john roberts is in israel on the ground with the latest. john. >> reporter: jesse, good to see you. as the president makes his way over to jerusalem aboard air force one john kirby spoke to the press back in the cabin in the rear of the pain in which he said the u.s. really does want to get to the bottom of what happened earlier this evening in that hospital in gaza. and that president biden is going to have some tough questions for benjamin netanyahu when he meets with him later on today. now, the idf, the israeli defense forces are countering the narrative put out by hamas that this was an israeli air strike that hit this hospital. the idf saying that this has proof that this was an islamic jihad rocket that malfunctioned mid flight. they put out some footage earlier that was taken

i this was rather a hamas rocket that fell short. explain this, from past conflicts with the terrorists in gaza we know that on average about 33% of the rockets that they shoot at us for short and land in gaza. —— fall. that they shoot at us for short and land in gaza. -- fall.— land in gaza. -- fall. pictures on social media _ land in gaza. -- fall. pictures on social media showed _ land in gaza. -- fall. pictures on social media showed many - land in gaza. -- fall. pictures on i social media showed many children are among the casualties in gaza. so many people needed treatment that the corridors of shifa hospital were packed. it's also causing even more anxiety among the hundreds of thousands of palestinians who fled to gaza's southern border with egypt after israel told them to leave their homes. 8000 people here at night and it is usually loud, kids are running around, but tonight there is silence, absolute silence. you can't hear a thing. people are just silence, absolute silence. you can't hear a thing. people arejust in absolu

helicopters, drones are in the air, and as you saw in the report we heard the sound of hamas militants firing mortars, we saw rockets the iron dome, this air defense system in operation and of course there's still hamas militants inside israel. linsey. >> linsey: ian pannell jmpblts hamas militants are targeting civilians. one mother describes the phone call from her 22-year-old daughter when gunmen attacked that music festival. she hasn't heard from her since. abc's james longman also in israel tonight. >> reporter: israel faces two crises tonight -- an unprecedented attack, and a hostage situation like no other. the government says militants kidnapped more than a hundred people. many of them now in gaza. among them, 25-year-old noa argamani taken away by gunmen on a motorcycle as she begs "don't kill me" and reaches out to her boyfriend as he's led away. video shows palestinian militants taking entire families captive, young children and the elderly. >> this is a massive terrorist attack that is gunning down israeli civilians in their towns, in their homes and as we've seen so graphically, literally dragging peopl

each one of those puffs is an intercept of an iron dome defensive missile system, and taking down hamas rockets, and you can see over my shoulder there, some of the traces of the rockets themselves that are fired through the sky. it looks as though some of the iron domes were stopping the rockets going to the two big israeli towns along the coast there, ashkelon and ashdot further up the coast there. you can see the missiles coming out from the iron dome and intercepting with the rockets in the sky. so literally in less than one hour from here, there has been missile attacks, hamas missile attacks on this town, sderot, and missile attacks on tel aviv, and we saw those rockets going out, and there have been these rocket missile attacks on ashkelon and ashdot. so hamas is saying that they have power left and the longer range weapons that is difficult for them to produce, and it can reach central israel and the shorter range ones to come in here, and the mid-range ones to reach the coast, and so hamas is showing that despite the strikes on it so far it has the capability and the reserves of rocket

israel's prime minister says some hamas fighters remain active inside israel and it includes its barrage of rocketsowards alabi. all tensions are also rising on israel's northern border with libya. -- with lebanon. ♪ nastasya: it is now 2200 gmt, 1:00 a.m. in gaza edges where the israeli army says it is carrying out its largest ever bombardment on the aenclave. hamas warns it will begin executing civilians. they will not negotiate the issue of prisoners while gaza is under fire. a warning to our viewers that the pictures you are about to see from gaza are disturbing. let's show you the scenes from the jabaliya neighborhood in northern gaza. 687 palestinians including 140 children have been killed and 900 as release have been killed in of the most serious escalation of violence in decades. israel has declared a total blockade of gaza strip cutting off, fuel, water and the electricity. jabaliya is the largest of the refugee camps. not too far away is a u.n. run elementary school which was not impacted by monday's airstrike. it is still not clear how many people died in that incident in jabaliya. we t

>> hamas rockets were intercepted. there were a number of injuries. that landed in an open field. most recently, they have not been intercepted from lebanon. those rockets are ongoing it will continue to put up a fight and every time it does that, it said the reason why it's doing that is in retaliation. >> there have been more raids on wednesday since october have ramped up grades. >> the latest we can tell you is her father was taken yesterday. this comes after a statement was given by the israeli commander. a general was speaking to settlers and said we have taken the gloves off. that's referring to in a few days ago, a number of arrests made in to put it in context, 1000 range of 50 arrests since those arrests in the occupied west bank, 104 people killed. that wording from the chief commander in charge inside the territories does not bode well around this time that we have seen these raids beginning to happen. ♪♪ (indistinct man speaking over radio) ...uh, that's the appropriate direction, 45 degrees from zenith, towards the port.

, hamas against hamas rockets, hamas rockets. the last 2—2 decades. and i think 34 israelis have been killed by those rockets. now again, again , you rockets. now again, again, you know better you know better than the threat from hamas rockets is does not legitimise the complete destruction of gaza, which is taking place now. and the loss of thousands of children's lives. the intention of each and every one of those rockets is to kill civilians. >> and yes, israel has indeed invested in the iron dome. hamas has in tunnels for has invested in tunnels for decades. it's leaders having a lovely time in doha at the moment. have billions of pounds. there is there? there is no need for the palestinian people, for the people of gaza to be in the situation they're in. the reason they're in that situation is because of hamas. >> i mean, no, it isn't the reason the people of gaza reason why the people of gaza are in the situation they're in is because they have been dispossessed and denied by an occupying power for decades . occupying power

i'll be honest, because the israelis have responded to hamas rocket attacks and everything with grossly disproportionate force. i mean, literally killing you know, 30, 40 times as many civilians as the israelis had. sorry, the palestinian the hamas had in the rocket attacks. and given the proportion of this this terror attack, are they going to be even? are they going to be tens of thousands of civilian dead? how do you rescue 100 people held hostage somewhere in this giant ghetto, in effect? and do you go house to house fighting? i mean, i see a lot of israeli soldiers getting killed, a lot of hamas fighters obviously getting killed. but unfortunately, large numbers of palestinian civilians being killed. and then it raises the question, you know, how does it all end? is israel stooped to hamas level? if they end up killing large numbers of civilians? yeah. stephen zunes, we have to leave it there, but we appreciate your insight and your expertise as we continue to follow this in what seems to be a long road ahead. thank you so much. thank you. a good samaritan shot after trying to stop

, you could see when you were in gaza city, you could see hamas rockets being fired from civilian areas, from regular streets, from residential areas, from buildings all around. so the launchpads for hamas rockets move around and are also amidst residential buildings. >> reporter: yes. and hamas will have dug themselves tunnels and bunkers to store those weapons in so the missiles, the rockets, they're right there close to that launch location. you know, just a few meters away. so what they do is they minimize their time on the ground. they'll keep those rocket systems in bunkers under houses. they'll come out into the orchard behind the houses and then set them off and then go back underground in tunnels and into those deep bunkers where they know they can get some safety from the shells that are likely to follow in. and we've just heard a round of explosions coming from gaza. so it would seem that there was return fire. it sounded like to me, sounded like artillery being fired back in. but yes, hamas hide among the population. and again, to your point,

and all day today, hamas launching rockets into israel. you can see there, the sirens sounding, people racing to shelters. matt gutman and our team right there as it played out. in a moment here tonight, my interview with a lieutenant colonel from the israeli military. we ask, will there be a ground incursion? and what about the hostages? is there anything being done right now to bring them home? how he answered in a moment. but we begin tonight what we saw late today in southern israel. the horrors are unspeakable. today, we went to find the place many here are calling israel's ground zero. one of the bloodiest scenes from the hamas terror attack. as we get closer, we see the massive troop presence. it was here a brutal and chilling scene played out saturday morning. tonight, the haunting surveillance images posted online showing the beginning of the horror, just after sunrise in be'eri, israel, a kibbutz not far from the gaza border. two heavily armed hamas militants right outside the gate. crouching down, one on his stomach, peering und

number of impacts an intercepts but it does appear from the earliest reports that at least one of hamas's rocketsas got through, has impacted in the town and hamas tries to fire a lot of missiles and we're hearing a lot of explosions just now. because as soon as the barrages of missiles went out, we are heard fighter jets and helicopters in the air. there was an impact there. probably in gaza, it's right behind me where the impacts seem to come from. so israel is responding. you typically try to fire back at the launch sites of those missiles. so there is a real temper, a real rhythm of war with this. wolf, we've seen this uptempo with the outgoing rockets ant the iron dome intercept them and we're hearing the helicopter gun ship come above here and of course heard the fighter jets and then the explosions inside of gaza. so there is a lot of moving pieces in terms of those rockets. on top of that, the security forces in sderot, as they are in other places are also still, and we had information in the past hour, still in this town trying to hunt down a suspected two or three hamas militants still

hamas fired rockets. the rockets generally were stopped. two years ago there was a another exchange like this, and hamas fired thousands of rockets into israel and two years ago, the israeli iron dome system stopped almost all of them. that's why i think hamas changed tactics this time, they trained, they prepared, they put out training videos, and decided that the rockets are not that effective because the israeli missile defense systems are so precise and so plentiful, so they changed strategies and breached the fence and carried out boots on the ground murderous assaults. >> yeah. >> we're hearing it again. stay with us. there is one. there is a rocket. you can see it streaking in the sky right now. turning. there is another. this is being launched from a different site. so now you'll start to see the iron dome system taking them off. again, many rockets, many interceptions. not much damage. no damage. >> richard, this is, you know, i don't even know how to describe what we're witnessing in real time and, again, i just keep thinking about

they claim that this rocket fired from hamas mistakenly hit that hospital, which is a completely fake news. if hamas rockets or rockets the explosion was so powerful that in these days it was targeting the positions of the terrorist army of the zionist regime. we should have at least seen these missiles. look at the amount of damage that users posted on social networks today. this reason cannot be explained by the zionist regime in that the groups it can't be right to resist the mistake of that hospital or that rocket that was diverted towards the hospital. you can see the amount of damage to the rocket. of course, there were other points, for example, when hamas rockets hit a part, now it doesn't have that whistle sound . this is one of the last points that i want to point out here and summarize. look at the discussion. this is an account in persian language. one of the mercenaries of the zionist regime who speaks persian a lot now he is active. look here, he published this post and later deleted it. i just wanted to show the world that i don't know what these people really are. they

or something to do with hamas and iraq being fired out in a rocket which we've seen in the past week. we cannot say for sure what exactly has caused this but according to officials, hamas officials, palestinian health officials on the ground, 200 to 300 people believed to be dead at this stage. we're just learning about this. we'll gather more information and bring it to you when we can, jake. >> thanks, anderson cooper, appreciate it. in tel aviv, and we'll do more reporting on the ground in gaza and israel and report back to you when we know more. >>> in the meantime, let us turn back to the big story here in washington, d.c., the race for speaker, as you can recall. jim jordan challenged his fellow republicans to vote, and he came up short. getting only 200 votes when he needed 217. let's go back to manu raju on capitol hill who has the latest. manu, my understanding is that congressman jordan is going to push for a second ballot. and is pressuring people who voted against him to vote for him. what's the latest. >> reporter: yeah, i'm told by multiple republicans that jim jordan is

as hamas rockets streaked over tel aviv tonight, warning sirens briefly interrupted delicate high-level talks to dial back the israel-hamas war. and there is late word that president biden may travel to israel as early as this week. secretary of state antony blinken already on the ground here tonight leading the push for a diplomatic resolution to the crisis. meeting with prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his war cabinet, the group forced to take shelter twice after rocket alerts sounded. the u.s. tonight also pushing for the opening of egypt's border crossing with gaza to allow americans and others to leave gaza and allow vital supplies into the territory. with israel postured to wage a full-scale ground assault at any time in gaza, hamas has posted video of an israeli woman it claims is one of the hostages it holds and says it is prepared to release non-israeli hostages if conditions allow. in a moment part of my conversation with the man who successfully negotiated a prisoner release with hamas years ago. it's where we start tonight. tonight the first video of a hostage held insi

second, the hamas rockets that have reigned down on israel disrupted and destroyed part of the electricity grid that actually supplies gaza. so is the international community or is there a request that we rebuild what they have destroyed in their rockets so they can shoot more rockets at us? is that a logical request of israel? >> can you explain what this means to the civilians in gaza, the 2 million people half of which are children, who won't be getting food and clean water into that region? when will that resume? >> i cannot say at this stage. i can only say that we don't see, yes, we don't want to see the civilian population of gaza caught up in the cross fire. having said that, i know and you know that there hasn't been a war in recent history where there hasn't been humanitarian suffering as a result of conflicts where innocent civilians haven't been caught up in the crossfire. it's not possible. but what we do as a democracy, if they deliberately target innocent civilians with their brutal violence, we make every effort to be as surgical as is humanly possible. we target the terror

israeli strikes overnight killed dozens of palestinian fighters, including the deputy chief of hamas rockets. israel has been carrying out intensive aerial bombing of gaza since the hamas attacks inside israel two weeks ago, in which 1,400 people were killed. the palestinian health ministry says about 4,700 gazans, mainly civilians, have been killed in the israeli air strikes. israel's military has warned civilians in gaza — to keep moving south for their own safety, as it prepares to increase pressure on hamas, which is designated a terrorist origanisation by the uk, us and other western governments. the israeli defence forces said one of its aircraft also targeted a mosque in the palestinian city ofjenin, in the occupied west bank. israel says the mosque was used by a hamas cell — as a base to plan and execute attacks against civilians. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has met soldiers at the israel—lebanon border. he reiterated his support for the troops in their fight against the iranian—backed hezbollah, a group that — like hamas — is considered a terrorist organisation by

hamas has fired a series of rockets towards _ the war. ern israel, - rockets towards southern israel, too. this escalation comes as the un general assembly voted to adopt a resolution, put forward by arab countries,

everyone knows it was a hamas rocket and yet a sitting democratic member of congress is still postingis israel's faults. this is still going on. a number of those members of congress, a number of those members of congress who cosponsored the legislation, who cosponsored the legislation to stand with israel just last week ended up not voting for the bill . not voting for the bill because of the pressures coming from the left. we see it on college campuses. next -- next week we will have a resolution on the floor to condemn the actions of antisemitism on college campuses across our country. if you cannot stand against terrorism today, when can you? something else that is critically important and this has been a major flaw of this administration's foreign policy for too long. when the biden administration shows week has it hurts our allies and emboldens our enemies around the world and iran is front and center. everyone knows that iran has been working with hamas. the wall street journal chronicled in detail that how for months if not over a year iran was plotting with hamas and other te

and overnight we have seen rockets being launched by hamas from within gaza into israel, many of them intercepted of course by israel's iron dome air defense system. but the air raid sirens have been almost nonstop in israel, and of course warning citizens to enter the bomb shelters. in gaza, we have seen into this morning continued air strikes. and as you mentioned there, the death toll both in israel and gaza continuing to rise. in israel, at least 1,200 israelis to have died. in gaza, that death toll is steadily rising and will continue to rise as the air strikes continue. at least 950 palestinians in gaza so far killed. some 5,000 wounded, according to the latest figures from the palestinian authorities. and of course there is real concern around the civilian toll here. we've heard from palestinian interior ministry which has said that the idf air strikes have been targeting civilian infrastructure, civilian homes, including schools and hospitals, medical infrastructure. and that is a huge concern. it is of course, important to underscore here that gaza is under an air, land, and

were murdered and in the hospital of my hometown in israel, they suffered a direct hit from the hamas rockets rockets at it for years, intentionally, yet not a single condemnation of this barbarity has been mentioned here. not here, not by the good counsel, not by the secretary—general and not by this absurd resolution. it seems that hospitals and medical teams only need to be protected as long as they are not israeli. the hypocrisy is beyond belief. the brutal monsters like isis have abducted over 220 hostages from israel and dozens of other countries including babies, children, persons with disabilities, the elderly holocaust survivors. there is one nine—month—old child, and he is being held right now in gaza as a hostage. nine months old. what by barrick terrorist can do such a thing, and together with him, 30 other children, 30 other children —— barbaric terrorist. we saw the hamas barbarity in israel. i can't begin to fathom what horrors the hostages are enduring right now as we speak here. 20 days have gone by and israel is still counting her dead. it took weeks to collect all the bodie

put they fired rockets at that same time. number three. hamase sending a long rage rocket towards haifa at this time, the rocket never reached haifa where did it go, where did it land? it is clear that hamas always says israel atrocity. if you speak to people who come to speak to the bbc, they are living in gaza, the previous correspondent said he was a present of the hospital or something, it has no civil society. all senior officials have to be vetted by hamas, so of course it's going to give the party line, it's going to give the party line, it's going to give the party line, it's going to say israel, israel, israel. but i urge you to be cautious. there are indications, very very serious indications that it's not us, hamas wants to have a propaganda victory saying israel has killed innocent civilians. there is no evidence to support that claim, let's just wait and see how this develops. you'll be aware of the — and see how this develops. you'll be aware of the scenes _ and see how this develops. you'll be aware of the scenes that _ and see ho

battery able to launch dozens of missiles that can destroy an enemy rocket launched from up to 43 miles away. >> the last about ten days hamas has launched over 6,500 rockets. >> 6,500 >> over 6,500 rockets in 10 days we would have thousands of casualties, unbelievable destruction, injuries, and we would be living in a very different reality. >> reporter: hamas can't match israel's firepower, but training videos published online show they are stocked with rockets, and in 2020 this video shows them digging up pipes to convert them into projectiles. israel says the iron dome is 90% effective, but during the attacks on october 7th, hamas overwhelmed the system most of the time the iron dome works, but there are rare occasions when rockets fired from gaza are so many, that a few get through like here in ashkelon where a rocket hit this building with people inside this couple was home when the rocket hit. what has the rocket barrage been like? they say the missiles come like rain, and they wouldn't be here without the iron dome. tom llamas, nbc news, tel aviv >> those intercepts a common sight around here. >>> coming up, children

we also know that hamas has fired upwards of 4500 rockets out of gaza into israel. this number is absolutely remarkable. that's more rockets in, what, 48, 50 hours, than were fired in the last conflict over 10, 12 days. i mean, this is -- this is really remarkable stuff. just last night, into the wee hours of this morning, we were working through in 5:00 in the morning. and we saw the flashes in the sky here. and we're in tel aviv, of incoming fire and the iron dome interceptors. i'm just listening to the hotel now, which is giving us an announcement, that i think they are asking to us evacuate to the shelters in the hotel. >> you should stay safe. >> go ahead, thank you. >> reporter: we'll come back as soon as we're safe. >> thank you very much for that reporting, becky anderson is taking shelter right now which i think underscores everything we have been reporting right now. this is very much a live situation. local media reporting that the israeli military says that they now have control in all communities on the israeli side of the gaza border. but there may sti

we should show a video that showed hamas might have fired a rocket. we saw it fall short in to gaza. that took all of the oxygen out of the hamas balloon. we have to wait to so, once again, this just happened and we're still investigating. except to say that the idf does not deliberately target places like hospitals, which is obvious. we have to wait and see. >> martha: what is the impact of this on israel's plans in terms of your ground offensive, which a lot of people that have observed this situation expected that to have begun already, sir. >> so we have been hitting hamas and hitting them hard. our goal remains the same. we will destroy hamas's military machine. we'll break up, dismantle its political structure as well. we want a future without hamas. we've had this neighbor, this terrorist neighbor on our southern border for too long. it's brought a living hell to the people of southern israel. as we saw in the massacre of october 7, the reality of having hamas as a neighbor is unsustainable. we will change that. we don't target the civilian popu

the alarm sounds as hamas rockets fire dozens of rockets this afternoon kosams in the central citiesrael. residents of tel aviv and jerusalem reshonlizona rushed to shelter as usual. temporarily stopped flights from bengurion airport; the militants obviously wanted to paralyze the work of the country's main air gates. in the port city of ashkilon, a shell hit a residential area, injuring three people. with this salvo, hamas seemed to be responding to reports from the israeli military about the complete cleansing of all settlements bordering gaza from armed saboteurs from liberated kibbutts who had penetrated there, the bodies of the dead were taken out, the hospital parking lot is overcrowded, finding free minutes, people go to the nearest clinics and stand in a long line. there is a queue of hundreds of israelis near the emergency room of the largest telyavi clinic shshiba, people come to donate blood, blood is now the most necessary medical product. 2250 victims of gunshot wounds, shrapnel wounds , burns, fractures are in hospitals today, the list of wounded and killed continues to

stopping thousands of hamas rockets.get up close to the inner workings of the country's iron dome. >>> new concerns rise from the ashes of lahaina. reports suggest the air itself might not be safe. what parents are asking about the lurking danger. >>> a nerve-wracking wnba finals went down to the wire >>> let's go dad. the viral moment this dad was cheering on his daughter matching her squad's every step. "early today" starts right now. good morning, i'm phillip mena. >> glad you're with us, i'm frances rivera. there are increasing signs that a deadly blast near a gaza hospital was not caused by an israeli airstrike but a rocket from the group palestinian islamic jihad that misfired. palestinian officials say hundreds were killed tuesday and blamed israel. but while visiting tel aviv yesterday, president biden told the israeli prime minister that it appears it was done by the other team, not you. >> what evidence does the president have to lead him to that conclusion? >> reporter: good morning, guys. president biden is b

and i think if we compare and contrast hamas' military actions against israel before by rocket fire, the response of that has been a tough response. what has happened today is quantifiably different from what we've seen in the past. hamas breaking out, taking israeli civilians and military personnel they claim hostage, taking them back to gaza. so this is a dynamic and fluid situation for the government that has to weigh up its next move. but the prime minister saying it will be -- indicating it will be a very, very strong move. on our travels this evening, we haven't seen the movement of huge military hardware. in a scenario as the government is presented with right now, it will take them a little time to make the precise decisions on what they're going to do and how they're going to do it, and then bring the personnel and the equipment into position. so in terms of the timeline for whatever the government does in terms of a big response, obviously what we can hear are air strikes and seeing air strikes going on today in gaza. there has been that immediate response. but how that foll

this secondary explosion was caused. in houses, just look, shortly after that you can see hamas rocketsis is a densely populated area. free gaza from hamas. representatives of hamas , in turn, i will emphasize that this is important, we will always try and present both sides of the conflict on our air, so that you can make an independent opinion. so, hamas representatives promised to provide it. a general trial of evidence of the guilt of the israeli army in this very attack on the gas hospital, but for some reason they have not yet published exact data, so we will wait as soon as they appear, perhaps it will be today, we will immediately inform you, in general there is very good the formula of our modern world today, our realities, in general, for those who believe this, evidence is not needed, but for those who do not believe, evidence does not exist, vlad, i wonder, evidence? make any difference now, what difference can they make? actually speaking, they cannot change anything, because it is obvious that the old sad saying that in battles one does not accept the truth, usually, unfor

this is after a hamas rocket that has come over into ashkelon causing a huge amount of damage as you fire quite large. they are now having to deal with that as well. we know as lyse doucet was saying troops backed by helicopters and drones in ashkelon have been exchanging fire with militants in the area. the army, the israeli defence forcing three of those hamas fighters have been killed. just to remind you, around 1500 bodies of hamas fighters have been found in israel and around the gaza strip. these pictures just coming israel and around the gaza strip. these picturesjust coming into israel and around the gaza strip. these pictures just coming into us from ashkelon that show the aftermath of a hamas rocket we think that has been fired across. as lyse doucet was saying, still a huge sense of shock at the scale of loss, loss of life and the devastation there in that part of israel. let's bring you some other developments from around the region. 0ur correspondent nick beake has the latest developments. siren wails. the israeli city of ashkelon... explosion. ..has been hit by a stream

the barrage of hamas rockets into israel continues. hamas fired a slew of rockets. is re-anointed with her famil -- as she is reunited with her family, hundreds of other families are waiting. >> there is good news for one family at least. the private was rescued by the israeli army last night. she had been held in gaza since october 7. for the rest of the hostage families, the agony of waiting goes on. in the center of tel aviv, families of hostages have set up a vigil opposite the ministry of defense. these are the faces of many of those who are missing. there is a table set for a jewish sabbath dinner with empty aces for those held in gaza. and along with the concern, more anger at the actions of hamas which is powering israel's response. >> annihilate hamas. never again. you cannot butcher jews joyfully, send messages to your parents, "i killed israelis." >> after the video was released by hamas on social media, the israeli government said it was hugging the families of the hostages. but some of those families blame the prime minister and his government for not l

operations, so many military operations which are promised to make your community free of the rockets, promised to stop hamasg the capability to send these rockets. he said the reason why all those operations failed is that after two weeks, the leaders of britain, the us call of the prime minister and say stop, you need to stop now. the last escalation in 2014 lasted 50 days. there was again untold destruction, deaths on both sides. but here we are only five daysin sides. but here we are only five days in and the numbers are higher in terms in the death count in israel and the palestinian side. the world has been saying, the western leaders have said israel has the right to defend themselves. i think antony blinken will be saying in private, you have to think about the condemnation israel may come under, will come under if it seemed to violate the laws of war. even president biden, had almost given israel, blanche and saying you do what you need to do, he urged them to adhere to the geneva conventions, which are clear that targeting civilians is a war crime. that includes the siege of gaza. we have been repo

hamas militants firing more rockets into israel. israel's iron dome fully activated. all of this ignited by the surprise attack by hamas by land, sea, and air. at least 1,000 hamas fighters crossing into israel. more than 900 dead here in israel. at least 11 americans among them. one of the first targets in israel, a music festival, where hamas militants opened fired on young people in the crowd. at least 260 bodies recovered from the scene. my interview tonight with a young man who ran for cover. he says several of his friends were shot and killed right in front of him. he was shot, too. he somehow survived. and tonight here, the young father whose wife and two little girls were kidnapped by hamas. the phone call with his wife when the call dropped out. the phone now pings in gaza. and then the video. he recognized his wife in video online showing militants beginning to cover her head. >>> also tonight, our ian pannell right there as convoys of israeli tanks now head toward gaza, preparing to launch a wide-scale assault. israel already cutting off power and water, ele

hamas rocket launchers traditionally announce the exact time in advance. stick to the schedule: at 4m shelling of israeli cities and trying to rumble in the sky over tel aviv, at 17 sirens howled in the port of ashkelon. i work as a nurse in a hospital, there are still wounded people coming in, but there are no gunshot wounds anymore, there are only shrapnel wounds from rockets. again and from dozens of rockets, so that the iron dome system could not track and neutralize all the shells fired at israel, and every day again the militants send missiles towards the bengurion international airport, hoping to cut off israel from the rest of the world. over the years of working in israel, we had to visit the international airport named after bengurion, probably hundreds of times, but for the first time we saw such a dense... large crowd of people in the zone, everyone, those who can try to leave israel. tourists are flying away, pilgrims are flying away, those visiting family and friends are flying away. those who are flying away are actually the israelis themselves, those who have not rece

hamas rockets continue to target towns in israel.s describe israel's continued bombardment of their territory as the most intense they have ever seen. israel's leaders and army have a lot to prove and there is growing pressure over the fate of more than 200 hostages in gaza, too. isreal�*s prime minister says this will help get the hostages out. many of the families need convincing. hamas demands for a prisoner swap with palestinians in israeli jails is difficult political territory, but the hostages are a powerful symbol of israel's failure to protect. tal shoham was taken hostage along with six other members of his family including his wife and two children. a neighbour in kibbutz be'eri close to the gaza border said he saw tal being put into the boot of a car by hamas gunmen, alive, fully clothed, his hands tied behind his back. the house where the family were staying, gutted but empty. no sign of their bodies. tal�*s father gilad says hope is a dangerous feeling. maybe they don't come back. maybe they come back dead. maybe one co

we have to say that today was relatively less fighting, less air strike and less hamas rockets into israelo official ceasefire. we try to ask hamas about it. they said, we are not aware of any ceasefire. but we notice after covering two weeks of this war that today today, less fighting, today, less fire. there have been repeated demands for a humanitarian ceasefire to get aid to civilians in gaza. lieutenant colonel peter lerner, a spokesperson for the israel defence forces, updated me. on the bombing campaign. they are paying for the failed leadership of hamas. they have failed the people of gaza. our responsibility primarily is to ensure and secure the people of israel once more. we can't live in a situation where we are afraid that somebody will come over into our bedrooms and butcher our babies. that is unacceptable and it won't happen. unfortunately, unfortunately, we need to try and be persistent that hamas can never have this, wield this sword of death against our heads. we know what will happen if we do not destroy and dismantle hamas. we're not willing to raise a white flag to ter