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Through -- or at least a thwarted attack on thursday it now seems clear, that the israelis stopped an attack from hamas operatives into israel through a tunnel. weve got video of that from thursday for you which i want to run now. which seems to have precipitated the decision to go ahead with this ground incursion. what we understand is that the decision to launch it was reportedly taken at a security cabinet meeting on tuesday. and that was after hamas rejected the egyptian cease-fire initiativ...

Short time ago, said these tunnels can not be destroyed by air power alone. thats why there has to be boots on the ground. additionally, as this ground incursion takes place, during the last self hours, we have seen more airstrikeses as well taking place, from one end of gaza to the other. this, as the militants continue their assault, firing rockets into israel at least 60 by last count. and since the incursion got underway the death toll now since the incursion, one israeli soldier and at leas...

Fox news alert. they are seven hours ahead of east coast time on the gaza strip and large explosions are rocking that part of the world. you can see the white smoke still very much in the air. targets apparently being hit by the israeli military. a ground incursion obviously still underway there. in fact, it has been expanded. this as israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu orders the military to significantly expand the effort to destroy the tunnels that the palestinians have dug to try to sm...

Heather: fox news alert. another huge story developing today. israel moving deeper into gaza with a ground offensive. troops are trying to destroy rockets and tunnels used by hamas. david lee miller has been covering the story all week from the front lines. he is live on the border with gaza. david lee, is this a full-scale invasion at this point? >> reporter: right now, heather, this is a limited ground incursion. there are israeli forces from one end of gaza to the other but for the most part ...

The russian border. they say separatists will allow national and international investigators safe access to the crash site but that hasnt happened yet. we are also following another breaking news story that is, of course the israeli military reporting that it has started a ground incursion into gaza and that one of its soldiers was killed. an extension of that campaign that the israeli military says is to stop a stream of rockets targeting israeli. officials say their immediate goal is to destro...

They say why this ground incursion began. this was a thwarted attack, they say from israeli -- from palestinian militants or hamas militants. so that is the story, the picture on the ground as we speak. our reporters on ground as we speak and on the border of ashkalon, and getting more information, the statistics really speak for themselves. and as i said when you actually step behind the statistics and you see the images, hala, of what is the reality of what is going on in gaza, it is terri ter...

That im going to show you now which is a tent rolling in to the gaza strip. the incursion as you rightly pointed out started last night. the decision to take that was actually we believe back on tuesday, the security cabinet in israel after the breakdown of the egyptian initiative, decided that they would start a ground incursion. it was just when the decision to start this ground incursion came on this thursday. and this is the evidence of that, the ground incursion, soldiers moving over the bo...

Illumination flares, possibly for the israeli troops to see, to begin to light up the night skies. after ordering in the troops benjamin netanyahu said he exhausted all options, short of a ground incursion and warned his people to and expect israeli losses. they are targeting tunnels beneath the tightly controlled border with egypt, through which hamas receives rockets and rocket parts. president obama says he supports israels actions, but calling for restraint to minimize the civilian casualtie...

Israel. in the tel aviv area were told one of those rockets landed in an unpopulated area. the other five rockets were intercepted successfully, but, despite the ground incursion, hamas and other militants continue to fire rockets. meanwhile there are now israeli troops on the ground in gaza from one end of the strip to the other. they are mainly in very close proximity to the border but were now getting reports that they are also on the outskirts of populated areas. this is not a major ground i...

Factions including hamas and jihad and she has one item on the agenda and that is the implementation of the immediate ceasefire, timed ceasefire and everything will be discussed an hour later. what is going on in gaza now the ground incursion of the israeli forces is comp mating matters and overloading the -- and adding to the complicities were facing. president abbas was on the phone with secretary john kerry. he was in touch with a phone call to the pope today. his holiness pope francis. hes g...