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Has said if they want to really root out what we call terrorists, this is not a weeks or one-month operation. this is a many, many, many month operation. so everybody has to understand what this in fact does mean. >> i want to check in with our wolf politics blitzerer, a major escalation. >> reporter: a major statement, anderson, saying the israelis have died decided to go in on the ground. let me read a couple sentences. following ten days of hamas attacks by air are land and sea and offers to ...

Meant to units, maybe not close to the border but where regulatory personnel could move. and are now be sbribt deliberately on ground. a huge development unfolding between hamas and gaza. >> and wolf, as you know, we have all spent time in gaza city. it operating on ground is going to be very difficult and dangerous. >> of course. there is going to be a lot of casualties, palestinian casualties, theyll go after hamas targets and there will be inevitably be civilians, women and children and elder...

Eastern ukraine were in touch with russian agents as the plane was shot down. the head of the ukrainian secret service a short time ago release aid transcript of what he said were intercepted telephone conversations between pro-russian militants and russian agent where they discussed a plane was shot down, that it was a passenger plane, that there were lots of passengers bodies on the ground. so at least that contact was there. now, its also u.s. officials contention and it has been for several ...

Diplomatic negotiations can end this current round of violence because its awful, i must say, on both side. >> absolutely right, wolf. well see. its happening as we speak on the ground right there. wolf, thank you so much. youll see wolf. hell be reporting there on the ground in israel 1:00 p.m. eastern and, of course, from "the situation room" 5:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. so heres a question for you. if you were in congress would you go on vacation while thousands of kids were stuck i...

With free shipping! plus, med-care takes private policies, medicaid, even my medicare! now we have the time to do the things we love. med-care. we deliver a better life. bottom of the hour, youre watching cnn, im brooke baldwin. explosives fired by israel have fallen on a beach in gaza, killing four children, just reportedly out playing soccer. you can see video. were just going to show the aftermath of the scene. it is awful, awful stuff to look at. you see these gurneys, these four small bod...

Underground bunkers, these tunnels that supposedly housed a lot of these missiles, these rockets. and they want to go in there. you cant just do it with air power. so there may be some israeli ground action. i dont anticipate a full-scale israeli military invasion to try to reoccupy all of gaza or anything like that. but some limited kinds of ground assaults clearly seem to be in the works. >> and wolf, in terms of the ceasefire proposal, thats at this point just dead? >> well, you know, there a...

>> all right. we lost wolf. he did speak to a member of hamas, a hamas leader who said that he was open to negotiations. he was open to a cease-fire. just not the one that was negotiated by the egyptians. well have much more on israel later on in the newsroom. ill be right back. my social circle includes captains of industry, former secretaries of state, oil tycoons, and ambassadors of countries known for their fine cheeses. yes i am rich. thats why i drink the champagne of beers. were changing ...

Just about a half an hour ago on the home of mahmood hazar. and in addition to that what were hearing of course is that the israelis have sent out these automatic prerecorded phone calls to hundreds of residents of the neighborhood northeast of here telling them to leave as soon as possible by the latest wednesday morning. and to go to gaza city. the anticipation, of course, is that there may well be ground operation in that area, which is really quite close to gaza city. anderson? >> and wolf, ...

Strikes has reached 208 now. in the meantime in israel eases are taking cover bracing for more rocket cover out of gaza. wolf blitzer was right in the middle of it. wolf is in israel this morning in a city near the border. he joins me by phone. wolf, whats the situation there now? >> reporter: its still pretty tense obviously. theres no let up, carol, in the hamas rockets coming into israel. seen a couple of them myself just a few minutes ago. and obviously the israeli air strikes continue to po...

Action on the part of the israels. the israel cabinet in emergency session, just wrapped up a meeting in tel aviv. now the prime minister is back, i hear, in jerusalem. and they seem to be gearing up for some limited ground operations, going after certain tunnels, underground bunkers in northern gaza. theyve distributed leaflets and told palestinians in northern gaza and elsewhere in gaza, as well, get ready and move out of these areas. i do anticipate, there will be some heightened military act...