Report. And to our viewers thanks very much for watching. Erin Burnett Outfront live erin Burnett Outfront live from israel starts right now. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com outfront next, live from israel, President Biden now on his way here, stepping into a tinder box growing more volatile by the hour. Hundreds feared dead after an explosion at a hospital in gaza and protests already immediately overnight here tonight spilling out into the street across the region. Plus, The Brave Cnn journalist sending his daily updates to us. Well, he and his family have fled Northern Gaza and are now desperate for clean water. Youll see that. And hamas arsenal. Im going to show you firsthand the massive amounts of weapons that hamas used to pull off the deadly attack in israel. Youll see for yourself. Lets go outfront. And good evening. Welcome to a Special Edition of outfront. Im erin burnett live from tel aviv tonight. And we begin with the Breaking News. President biden right now is in the ai
This is cnn breaking news. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. The hour, the chaos on capitol hill. The Republican House dysfunction continues as the fight for a new speaker of the house continues to sputter after republican representative jim jordan failed to get enough votes. The house has recessed, at least for the time being. Leading right now, another tragic turn in the war in israel and gaza. Hundreds of people have been killed by an explosion at a hospital in gaza, according to the Palestinian Health ministry, these images youre seeing show fires raging with an Ambulance Feed away inside the hospital we see images of devastation with this blurred image of a dead body in a hallway. Its the Al Ahli Baptist hospital in the center of gaza city which reportedly was Housing Hundreds of those already injured by airstrikes. Perhaps many more seeking shelter from the strikes. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the west bank declared three days of mourning for the victims.
It includesamassing thousands upon thousands of troops. Nic robertson is in sderot where troops are training in that area. Give us a sense of what you are talking about training and that entails along the border, nic. Yes, what they want to do is to send in a combined force. They want to send in tanks, infantry and combat engineers, and this is a spearhead advance, and lot of the armies do this, but when you have reservists in the force, and regular troops, you have bring them together to do that, and so they have been training to do that and training as well for fighting in a Combat Environment in these mock palestinian towns, and there are mosques. There are stores. There are traffic circles. There are home. So the troops are going to training for the exact environment absent the people they will face when they go into gaza. Now they have not been given the order, and everything that we see, the tanks parked in the field, and the lastminute repairs to the train tracks, and the dozens
Okay. This is video from moments ago. Wow. You can see the rockets being fired from gaza. Our reporter Nic Robertson is just over the border from gaza in israel in sderot, and nic, tell us what you are seeing. Yeah, we are seeing a massive barrage of Iron Dome Intercepts in the sky. Here you can make out the tiny puffs of white smoke in the sky, and 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 o
All right. The breaking news. We just learned that more than 1,000 israelis have now been killed in the hamas terrorist attacks. This comes as were standing by to hear from four American Families who they they are missing loved ones who had Family Members taken hostage by hamas. This Press Conference is taking place in tel aviv, where our crews just have to take shelter because Air Raid Sirens just went off. Israeli parents this morning are being warned that they should receive social media from their childrens phones because hamas would release videos of executions. Israel claims its killed 1500 Hamas Terrorists executed over the weekend. In gaza, more than 200 targets of what they call terrorist hubs, even as hamas has threatened to kill some of the more 100 hostages that they hold. As israel continues to pound gaza to take out some of the infrastructure. These are some of the scenes what is left behind, widespread destruction in gaza. In israel, theres also new evidence coming to li