Were killed in an israeli airstrike ill speak to the director of the World Food Program ambassador cindy mccain would discuss that and more. Thats just ahead. Meantime, regional tensions are on the brink of unrest traveling even further after an iranian Consulate Building In Damascus was hit. And later, Florida Supreme Court opens a door for a sixweek abortion ban to take effect, but gives voters the final word on Abortion Rights for women in november. Well explain hello, im wolf blitzer in one washington and urine, the cnn newsroom we begin with two major developing stories out of the middle at least in gaza outrage after seven aid workers from the world Central Kitchen were killed in an israeli airstrike, israel taking responsibility for the attack. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying it was not intentional. And just a short time ago, Secretary Of StateAntony Blinken spoke about the incident. Watch and as we have throughout this conflict, weve impressed upon the israelis the absolute imperative of doing more to protect innocent civilian lives be they palestinian children, women and men were b, they aid workers as well as to get more humanitarian assistance to more people more effectively there was also an airstrike in damascus, syria, iran says seven if its officials were killed, including some top members of the revolutionary guard force. Iran is blaming israel for the attack. We have full coverage with cnns melissa bell, whos joining us from jerusalem, Fred Pleitgen knows the story well, hes joining us from berlin. Melissa, what else does israel, first of all, saying about this incident in gaza . Well, what were hearing is that theyre planning not just to review at the top level, wolf, the one thats going to be overseen by the idfs top general carroll that hes going to be getting an eye on all the information coming to them from the ground and theyre taking this of course, all the more seriously the bear in mind that israel, israeli officials and the idf in particular have been claiming over the course of the last few months to be working very closely with Aid Organizations to try and get some of that much needed relief to the more than 2 million gazans that are currently according to the un in need of aid and a danger of hunger. Now, this is what Benjamin Netanyahu had to say a short while ago. Lets have no unfortunately, in the last day, there was a tragic incident where our forces unintentionally struck innocent people in the gaza strip. It happens in war, and we are thoroughly investigating amazon. We are in contact with the governments and will do everything to prevent such occurrences in the future. Now those who tragically died in the strike wolf came from a wide variety of backgrounds. There was an american canadian involved, a British Citizen 30 citizen, australian citizen, as well. And so youve been hearing the outrage notches from the countrys that they came from. But all too many United NationsRelief Agencies that have been trying so desperately to get aid in an urging that more is done by israel to get aid through land. Because remember that the reason that world Central Kitchen was able to to make such a difference in phase, such a crucial role until it announced the suspension of its activities. As a result of the strike. Was that its been able to get around the blockade by opening up that maritime im with shipments of aid coming from cyprus to that makeshift chetty. Thats been made off the coast of Northern Gaza will melissa bell in jerusalem with the later this from their melissa, thank you very much. Were going to continue to monitor the fallout from this horrible, horrible attack later this hour i speak live with the Executive Director of the United NationsWorld Food Programme ambassador cindy mccain. In the meantime, lets bring in seeing that spread plate and fred, i know youve been to that building that Consular Building In Damascus that was targeted, first of all, what can you tell us about that either wolff . Well, it certainly is very large compound that the iranians have there. What we have to keep in mind in all of this is that the Iranian Embassy in damascus is one of the most important ones that the iranians have simply because they have such large scale operations still inside syria that dates back to the syrian civil war, where of course the irgc did a lot of things on the ground there. Youll recall some of the militias that were put up by general Qassem Soleimani was later assassinated by the United States. Now, i was in the Main Building of that embassy back then, and the Main Building, if we look at some of the footage, doesnt seem to be touched almost to buy those airstrikes. But an Annex Building next to it. Absolutely flattened. So it certainly seems as though these strikes were pretty precise and use some pretty heavy munitions. Again, the iranians right now saying that seven of their, what they call military advisers were killed in that strike, including at least two top generals from the iranian, from the Islamic Revolutionary guardcore quds force, which is of course, the foreign operations wing. Unclear what exactly they were doing their again, they say that this was part of their diplomatic compound. The israelis of course, are saying that they consider this to be a Military Facility used by the irgc wolf. And as you know, fred, iran has publicly vowing to retaliate. I know you were recently there in iran covering the elections that were going on. Is there an appetite within iran for a larger scale conflict that potentially could come out of all of this i think for larger scale conflict, it would be it would be pretty difficult to, but certainly the iranians definitely have the means at their disposal for some sort of response that could be quite painful, not just for the israelis about possibly for the us as well. Youre absolutely right. The Supreme Leader has come out and spoken about retaliation. The Foreign Minister has said that the iranians also hold the United States accountable as well. Of course, we know what you, of course, very well from traveling so much in that region what the iranians have is militias on the ground. One of the things that the revolutionary guard has actually said to me is they say, look, the United States need to understand that next to every American Military base in the region, there is a militia that is loyal to iran on the around there. Of course, we know that one of the things that the israelis have said is on the very morning before that strike took place they say that the iranians launched a drone to attack and Israeli Military base in the port town of a lot on the red sea. So for a limited response, the iranians certainly have means at their disposal, whether or not they would be up at this point in time for some sort of major larger response for a wider conflict that certainly would be a lot more difficult, especially since weve seen some of the instability inside iran as well with some of the protests that have been taking place over the past two years, wolf Fred Pleitgen reporting for us, excellent reporting. Thank you, fred. Very much. Lets get some analysis on these very important, a very worrisome developments. Im joined by cnn Military Analysts retired Us Air Force Colonel cedric leighton, and Cnn National Security analysts, peter bergen. Peter, first of all, do you expect the iran will quickly retaliate for what happened in damascus . Well, if you think about what, how they reacted to the assassination of soleimani, who was that main Military Leader would, by the United States in early 2020. Theres a reason that Secretary Of State mike pompeo and also the former National Security adviser, john bolton both have 24 7 security details, secret service, so they turn they wanted to react to that how they react, they need to react in their own mind and so i think because these are the leaders of sort of a Praetorian Guard whove been killed. How they react to beat tbd might well involve hezbollah, because obviously hezbollah has the most capacity. So i expect they will, there will be some form of Retailing Palliation because they have a lot of proxy groups in the region, not just hizballah in southern lebanon, but the houthis in yemen. And hamas of course, ill, these groups have been supported by iranian funds and iranian leadership absolutely wealth and thats one of the key things that you mentioned the houthis, they are going to be a critical component to this. They can cut off a lot of the worlds commerce if the iranians try to use them for something, and we also of course have those malicious fred mentioned in various places within the areas that the United States has basis. So for the us, this is going to be a Force Protection Issue for the troops that are already in the middle least, what does israel achieve strategically by launching an airstrike against this building in damascus, where these Iranian Military leaders were based. Thats a great question because if you look, what are the us achieve and they killed qasem soleimani, the overall Military Commander their most important Military Commander, didnt really deter iran i dont think so. I mean, there are more than 170 attacks on us bases in syria and iran just since the october 7 war began. So i think taking out a couple of generals obviously israel thought that it was worth it, but i mean, ultimately i dont think it brings so huge strategic benefit. What do you think . Well, i think one of the possible scenarios here is that the israelis either thought or new through their intelligence of these iranian generals were Planning Something against israel or perhaps with has spoiler that might be a possibility. So preemptively, the israelis may have chosen to strike at this particular target in damascus but peter is absolutely right. This is these types of Decapitation Attacks dont always achieve their desired ends. And this is going to be a real problem for the israelis because once they eliminate one general, another when it takes that generals place. Israeli intelligence seems to have been pretty good knowing where these three top Iranian Military officers were, were holding out. I mean, im reminded them of the head of hezbollah, Imad Boutonniere was assassinated in damascus. He was very, very careful about his security and eventually the israelis were some cia help, found him. Now in this case, the us is saying they had no no preknowledge of this attack, and they did were not involved in any way. Theyve already said that to iran, but yes, israel obviously house very good intelligence just a pinpoint that particular building with those two particular generals, what israel normally coordinate or consult with the United States in advance of a strike like this, not always. There have been instances where the israelis have done so, but theyve also been a lot of it instances where the israelis have informed the us after the fact and that has created some problems in the israeli us relationship. And those difficulties manifest themselves again, not only because of what has happened in damascus, but of course what has happened in gaza as well. So you and i have covered these terrorists related incidents in the region for many, many years. Whats your anticipation right now . Is this going to explode . The even further the entire region . I mean, iran has a lot of reasons not to go to war with the United States, not lisa. They have massive Protest Movements that they put put down very violently. They have an economy, this in terrible shape. They do have oil, but they also have Lottery Sanctions they dont want to go to war with the United States. They want to kinda keep turning up the heat a little bit. I mean, whats difficult about all this wolf is no one really knows what the real red lines are right . I mean, there are at a certain point somebodys going across them, but right now everybody sort of creeping up to these red lines without actually knowing what might trigger something bigger yeah. I mean, i suspect the rand doesnt want to go to war with the United States or what about with israel well, thats perhaps a different story. I think most of us were looking at at this from an analytical point of view, are going to say that they dont want a direct confrontation with israel but theyre willing to do it either through proxy forces or through other means, asymmetric means such as Cyber Warfare or Something Like that. And of course, the iranians or smarting, because many of their Nuclear Scientists have been killed by the Israeli Intelligence services. Over the course of the last few years. So there are different aspects to this where at some point yes peter said theres going to be some area where we reach this Point Of No Return and whether were there or not, of course, is an open question. I dont think were there yet, but its certainly a possibility even as this is going on in the middle east. Lets not forget, theres a war still in ukraine. I want to ask you a kernel about this drone attack on a refinery. More than 700 miles deep in russian territory, what does this attack tell you . It tells us, i think wolf that the ukrainians have a major capability that allows them independently the weapons that theyre getting from the west to attack russian targets and the ukrainian plan to the ukrainian strategy seems to be to go after the Infrastructure Structure that russia has the most vulnerable infrastructure being their oil. I, all the while refineries, all the pipelines, all the things that are part of that russian structure for their oil business those are all legitimate targets in the ukrainian view and the ukrainians are basically trying to do to the russians the form of oil cut off the oil just like the russians tried to cut off the food exports from ukraine earlier in this war very important in developments were watching all of these developments some folder in there also worrisome indeed, our it guys. Thank you very much. Cedric leyton, peter bergen, appreciate it. Very, very much. Still ahead this our, a judge in new york just expanded a gag order against donald trump, just as the former president heads back hi, to the campaign trail plus the Supreme Court in florida is allowing a sixweek abortion ban to take effect next month. But the Biden Campaign he says it will turn florida blue in november by fighting for reproductive rights. 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