Latest on the explosion at the hospital, palestinian officials blaming israel. Israel categorically denies that and says Islamic Jihad is responsible while protests break out in the middle east. Were joined by a spokesperson for the islamic Defense Force when we come back. A bit more than two hours until the sun comes up here in tel aviv. Its country both at war and still in shock from the initial atrocities that caused this war, the Terror Attacks that took place here last saturday. Now it appears that the face of what already was a dire potentially widening crisis has been transformed potentially by a fresh human tragedy. Today explanations at the Baptist Hospital in gaza city full of patients and also reportedly hundreds of people from the very old to the very youngest who had sought refuge there over the last week or so. Hundreds are believed dead. We neither know the precise number nor who is responsible for the blast. Hamas blames israeli air strikes. Israels military says theres evidence it was a rocket from Islamic Jihad that went astray. Cnn has learned israel has provided washington with intelligence connected to the explosion. There had been some talk by the idf of potentially releasing that information or some of it publicly. Were waiting to hear it and see if they choose to do that. The only thing clear right now the enormous human toll and the chaotic scenes of overworked medics trying to address it. This is new video from Al Shifa Hospital where many of the mort tale wounded, the gravely injured were sent from the other hospital. Many of them were very young, young people arriving there. Beyond the raw images which speak for themselveserize the accounts from people at this hospital describing the sheer number of dead and wounded with very little space to treat the injured and dwindling space to hold the dead. This is what people are waking up to. It has already derailed the summit which was planned for later today with President Biden in jordan. It has ignited fresh protests there, and in a number of other countries in the region in the days just beginning. Cnns sarah snider is here with me. What we do know are the images of children, and women and men being taken to other hospitals. Yeah, theyre overwhelmed and the families have already been going through the fact theres not enough water to drink, theres not enough food. And then you have this attack. We dont know who was responsible for it at this point in time. Theres no evidence that has been shown to anyone of the evidence except for israel saying they have shared some intelligence with the United States. We were expecting the idea to share some of that video as they said they would within the next hour. They said they were in the process of declassifying and not sure if it was going to be publicly released or not. Exactly. But also had said initially they put out some video but then it was taken off of twitter. So were all waiting to see what happened here. Regardless of what happened, what we saw happened is that there are so many people who have been injured and killed at a hospital, a place where people expect to be safe. And so watching these images is just its galling. Its horrible to see what happened there. But in this sort of fog of war youve got both hamas, the Ministry Of Health saying this has been an attack by israel. Youve got israel saying, no, no, no, this was an attack by the Islamic Jihad, which is another Terrorist Group that exists within gaza. It fell shorter and misfire which happens with some regularity according to military experts. We spoke to David Petraeus about it. There are protesters. Weve seen protests in beirut in baghdad. This is potentially extraordinarily damaging. It is. And it is part of the sort of existential threat that israelis and the Israel Military always worries about, that theres going to be a conflagration and this is going to blow up and that they will be surrounded by countries who decide that they are going to attack israel. Particularly they are worried about lebanon. They are worried about hezbollah. Hezbollah by way is a big supporter of Islamic Jihad. Both of them sort of influenced by iran and funded by iran. So theres a lot of worry this is going to ratchet up the tensions instead of we are what in the eighth or ninth day of war from israel after the surprise hamas attack that killed so many people. And youve got the hostages also inside of gaza. But this happened in gaza city. This is a place where the Ministry Of Health, which is run by hamas, people were evacuated to this hospital also because theres such dire straits going on in that part. Because thats the part of gaza the idf told people to leave. But a hospital is a hospital and theyre trying to treat people. It is a complete and utter mess. It is a horrible, horrible situation because hospitals are considered Sacred Places where people are supposed to be able to heal, and now you have this. And who knows what this is going to mean for the conflict going forward. Im joined by Kayla Toaushe TThe White House. Whats the latest on the president. I know hes en route to the region. Reporter the president was briefed by his National Security team earlier this afternoon, a last minute gathering of his team to talk about what intelligence they had and what intelligence they lacked and to try to draw any conclusions before the president took off for tel aviv. Im told that the u. S. Has not yet drawn any conclusions about who is behind this attack and that some officials believe they may not be able to amid the fog of war, to borrow a phrase that one official used with me and that sarah just used just a few moments ago. Even so President Biden releasing a statement from aboard Air Force One saying hes saddened and outraged by the attack and that hes directed his National Security team to keep looking at new information as it comes in. But, anderson, this is one of the risks that was calculated by the president s team when they decided just 24 hours ago to go forward with this visit. It was a calculated risk, but it was important enough for President Biden to make that personal show of support to israel and to also seek to have his personal presence in the region to turn any rogue actors from opening up a second front in the war. Officials say if those are the deliverables from this trip, that will be enough. But also downplaying the expectation thered be any sort of near term deal for immediate delivery of aid for Refugee Passage or for hostage release. And of course with the cancellation of that summit between biden and arab leaders, that removes one possible forum for any of those deals to get reached. Now, President Biden is going to be meeting with Prime Minister netanyahu at length, and then with his war cabinet to try to glean what israel needs insofar as security aid goes right before The White House goes back to congress to ask for more financial assistance. So certainly there will be items on the agenda where the president will try to move the needle forward on some of these discussions, but they say this is really about personal diplomacy and that the president is willing for that to be the focus of the trip even if nothing else is secure, anderson. Thanks so much. Joining me now is Lieutenant Colonel jonathan can you talk about why the idf is so confident in its conclusion this hospital was hit by an Islamic Jihad rocket . Hi, thank you for having me again. We are confident because we have based our statement on a significant review. Analysis of visuals as well as other sources of intelligence, our own systems that monitor our own fire, and our systems that monitor enemy fire. So its not one source. Its multiple sources. And in order not only to tell but really to show were going to release in the near time ive seen the footage myself, and it will be released soon, very, very clear images that prove i think for anybody with an unbiased and clear opinion that this was not an idf strike. This was a rocket that fell and was misfired. And that whatever happened in that hospital and whatever many casualties that were were not caused in that explosion was not done by the idf. Can you talk anymore about i know youre going to be releasing about about how many images youll be releasing, what is the nature of these images . Yes, therell be images taken from above by an israeli uab that monitor the area, flew above it before and there will be comparisons of before and after. You will be able to see that the level of the destruction and the impact on the area surrounding where the explosion, the center of the explosion was is not consist at all with an aerial bomb dropped by the idf. Most of the buildings are intact, and there is very limited damage, which indicates that it wasnt a big idf bomb. And many other pieces of very clear and hard to refute proof that this was not an idf bombing. You had earlier talked about the possibility of intercepts, actually voice intercepts between im not sure who they were between. Is that something you also believe was evidence this was not idf . Are those going to be released . Yes, they will hopefully also be released soon. They are being processed and translated, and they will prove that the terrorists themselves became aware or were aware there was a misfire and one of the rockets landed in gaza. That myself i havent seen yet. I understand theyll be released soon. Was the idf conducting any air strikes or Artillery Fire in that area in gaza city around the time of the explosion . And were any rockets coming from gaza city . Rockets were coming from gaza city, and we released that to the media, basically a print screen of our rocket radar where theres a red dot where where the rockets were fired from. And we can see the red dot where it goes straight from where they were fired from, above the hospital and into israel. Many of the rockets continued intoidseral and were intercepted by the iron dome, and one of those rockets misfired, it exploded, and then landed close to the hospital in that area the parking area of the hospital. And so we have as i said many sources of information. We dont base our claims on one source, and as i said before this isnt just me thinking or saying. This has been approved by the highest levels of the idf. We will release the information so everybody can see for themselves. Im happy to be held to those standards, and i only wish the other side im not necessarily criticizing cnn, but i only wish other media would hold the other side, hamas, a party to a conflict to the same professional standards of scrutiny and not automatically say report that this was an israeli strike on a hospital. And it took a lot of time and a lot of hard work to get those headlines changed, and i think thats unfortunate because i think its misleading. And i think that what were seeing around in the area now reports of marches and demonstrations and riots and violence, much of that is because of how should we say hasty reporting and jumping to conclusions. If Islamic Jihad so just to be clear, youre saying this was an errant rocket. It was a misfire among other rockets fired by Islamic Jihad. You said it exploded and then landed in the parking area by the hospital. Was there an explosion on the ground or an explosion in the air . Do you know . I dont know. What i know about that is what i saw on the al jazeera footage and that isnt our source material, so i cant verify that information. What ive seen is footage of what it looked on the ground afterwards, a fire basically just as youre showing now on the screen. But we dont have footage of the moment of the explosion. We have before and after, and thats what were going to release. Do you know what time youre going to release it . Believe me, i dont think that anybody in the world wants me wants it released faster than i do. And it is at work being translated and prepared. As soon as it will be ready, it will be released for the world to see. Colonel, i appreciate your time. Thank you. More now on conditions inside gaza. He lives in gaza. Hes a spokesman with the norwegian refugee council. I spoke to him prior to the hospital tragedy. Can you explain where you are and what youve been seeing today . Im from the northern part where i live to the southern part of gaza strip. It was a horrible journey taking all that risk moving all my Family Members who are almost 20 including my sisters and their children. And we are all hosted in one of my relatives house, and we are lucky because we have relatives there, otherwise i know people who dont have that option and theyre staying ipschools or seeking safety in a hospital or in the streets, which is something new for gaza. We never saw Homeless People in gaza, but its easy to. You see people on sidewalks are staying, sitting, trying to find safety. And people from the north in gaza city had to do that option because they want to just save their own lives. The situation here is unlivable. And in terms of has any aid from u. N. Organizations been able to get from the south . I know i talked to somebody from the w. H. O. Earlier. They are hoping to get supplies to the south. Are there any tents that are setup to accommodate people . Are there any supplies that you know of coming in . Unfortunately, nothing from before have been delivered to people displaced in the streets. People who could manage to get access but there is not enough space for anyone. I think the main concern for anyone who work in the humanitarian sector is safety, where its not safe to move around. And i dont think we have also in our storages here in gaza what could be enough to deliver for all this amount of people who were forcefully displaced. I dont know if you have children, but in this situation for children it must be incredibly scary. How are the children around you doing . I have two children with me, 5 years old and 2 years old. And i have my sisters who have children also. Especially for the children theyre always panicking and everyone is stressed. Even us as adults, unfortunately, its not easy for us the situation. Honestly even my children are traumatized, and having this feeling, you cant compare it to i dont think there is something worse than this feeling to sit in front of your children being useless, completely useless and cannot do anything for them. And even sometimes having the feeling you cannot provide them safety. I made the decision to have children in gaza, and im really sorry to say i regret that. I regret to have two children living all this chaos here. That says a lot that you have that feeling of regret. Thats a terrible thing to feel. What made me have this feeling is being a useless father. I cannot provide safety for my children. At this age what they need for me are safety and food. Im doing my role of providing them food on a daily basis, going early in the morning in front of the bakery trying to find anything they need. But i cannot provide safety. That is out of my hand. Thats why i feel useless and i feel guilty. Im so sorry for what you and your family and so many are going through. Thank you for talking to us. Thank you. Thank you so much. A father made to feel useless and regretting having children. More on how this all could play out in the hours and days ahead as the images from today sink in, as the region potentially gets more inflamed and President Biden arrives. Cnns Fareed Zakaria joins us. And the threat hezbollah poses to northern israel. Protesters tonight. Footage taken within the last several hours of protesters on the streets in jordan and baghdad and the west bank part of a wake of explosions of the hospital in gaza city. This of course the early reaction. To help us see where it all might go were joined by the host of Fareed Zakaria gps. Weve seen the protests across the middle east tonight and the overnight hours. Israel says it has shared proof with the u. S. That shows the hospital was or the blast was inspired by Islamic Jihad. They said noir going to release that information publicly. Do you think any public release of information will do anything to quell the protests . Unfortunately, i dont, anderson. This is happening at a time when you know as well as i do that the nature of media and the way in which news travels through social Media Channels means that people are going to get the information, the news they want. Theyre going to get the interpretation of it they want. And each side, you know, whichever side you dont like, youre likely to blame for this, obviously i have no idea whether there is a way to objectively figure out what actually happened. But what is most likely each side will interpret it as an israeli strike on the one hand and an Islamic Jihad on the other. It brings up the larger issue, anderson, which is why so many people in the United States and my understanding is the Biden Administration have been urging israel to exercise caution, to be strategic about where it hits. Is that this is what happens in war, this is the fog of war. And the danger here, and this is after all why hamas planned these Terror Attacks was to provoke israeli action, which then has the effect of producing these kinds of images. And they cannot exploit them, and arpgab countries will feel more reticent to deal with israel, more reticent to normalize relations. Its important to remember what was hamas goal here. Hamas goal was to get the israelis dragged into gaza. And thats why it seems to me just exercis