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Killed in the air strikes and other attacks that have been happening throughout the course of the early morning. very intense fighting taking place. the ground fighting has been mostly focus order the eastern part of gaza where the israeli military says it is trying to destroy troubles and rocket sites. but what were hearing and seeing. were seeing entire neighborhoods being destroyed and homes being leafletted. -- levelled. a lot of people trying to flee the front lines. thank you for being wit...

>> i hope not. my only words to the israeli government and people is, clear it out. close the tunnels. shut down the rocket sites. stay as long as you need to stay. over 1,500 rockets have been fired. the only reason there have been a few israeli casualties, because of iron dome. if its left up to hamas, thousands of israelis would be dead. i hope the international community will not find a moral equivalence here to the israeli government do whatever is necessary to protect your people. stay as ...

The sound of warning sirens going off in israel as the iron dome missile system with rockets over tel aviv. the military started the invasion two days ago looking for rocket sites and tunnels. prime minister benjamin netanyahu is warning he could expand the incursion. hamas says israel will pay for the offensive. our wolf blitzer joins me from israel. without the threat of rocket fire, what is the difference this time? >> reporter: they might not completely eliminate this time. they are making p...

Admirable. bill: he went on to say because there havent been more israeli casualties, hamas has not tried? >> theyre good at it. the cycle where palestinians provoke, israel respond. palestinians lob rockets into israel. israel destroys the rocket sites. everybody breath. happens a few years later when the palestinians decide to provoke it. palestinians get resupplied. who are they resupplied from? iran? iran has a much bigger footprint than in anybody -- bill: theyre getting supplies from syria...

Theyre trying to take areas that they believe are being used as rocket sites, launching sites for these rockets that are going into israel. >> do you think that people are taking the israeli warning seriously? are they, in fact, leaving their homes? >> reporter: absolutely. today we saw thousands of palestinians and according to the u.n. as well at least 10,000 or so have already taken refuge at schools, makeshift schools that have been converted into shelters. there is no doubt there is growing...

Showing your support for me and my family. stay strong. >> cassidy survived a gunshot wound to the head after her aunts ex-husband went on a shooting rampage at her familys home on wednesday. today, israel is closer than ever to a ground invasion as the crisis reaches its sixth day. israeli military has now dropped leeftlets warning residents to leave the area while air strikes pounded gaza overnigh. a small group entered the territory on rocket sites. benjamin netanyahu addressed the crisis i...

Continues to been an end to that rocket fire. so all of israels attacks are serving that end. they say targeting mostly the rocket sites and the launches of those rockets. now, just a few minutes ago for the first time, the israeli army gave an idea of how successful they have been. a figure of 2,000 rockets. the israele army said they destroyed 2,000 of those palestinian rockets so far in gaza. the question is how many are there? the answer is we dont know. at one point israel said there were 1...

Purposely operate in areas with a high civilian population, essentially using these people as human shields. >> shep: david lee, the mentioned the israelis targeting these rocket sites, but clearly theyve not been able to get them all. >> no, they havent. over my shoulder there is the iron dome missile defense system. just seconds before we went on the air, there was a rocket attack. the iron dome battery behind me fired at least two of these interceptors. in total today, there have been at leas...

Been saying that the terrorists in gaza have been committing a double war crime as he calls it. they are firing at israeli civilians and they are hiding behind palestinian civilians, which means they are putting rocket sites next to children. is that right? >> well, thats always been the accusation. and that is that the israelis say they try to do everything they can-to-a void civilian casualties. they have flown 6 or 700 large becomings of targets in gaza. only killed about 40 people. a number ...

support him. hes followed by ron paul at 22%. rick santorum is now third with 16%. newt gingrich is at 14%. michele bachmann is on the campaign trail in des moines right now, a day after one of her high profile advisers defected. bachmann is likely to face questions about the decision by state senator ken sorenson to jump ship and throw his support behind ron paul. were keying an eye on bachmanns media event and well take you there live for some of the q and a session. he may be th...