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Tanks, artillery, combat engineers to destroy these tunnels. it's a somewhat limited ground operation on the surface of it. israel says it's not going to come here to the center of gaza city, which is a densely populated area, it will just do these incursions around the edges of gaza. the question is once you have troops on the ground, you don't really control anymore how things play out. it is an escalation and this is a very densely populated area whether you're just around the edges of gaza or in the city, and there could be many more casualties if this continues, casualties on the palestin...

Anyway. two hours into it, rockets from gaza were launched into israeli airspace. at the end of the day, supposedly cease fire day, hundreds of mortars had been launched back and forth between israel and hamas. more than 230 palestinians have died during the bombing by gaza so far. that's for ten days. up until today, these ten days of fighting have mostly been waged by air. tonight that changed. tonight it became a ground war. chief correspondent richard engel is on the ground in gaza city tonight. richard, i have to ask you, what is israel hoping to accomplish here? >> reporter: israel has m...

Richard, i have to ask you, what is israel hoping to accomplish here? >> reporter: israel has made it very clear what it hopes to do, which is to eliminate tunnels that hamas has dug and hamas has used to go under the border from gaza into israel to carry out attacks against israeli soldiers and israeli towns. israel says that is the goal. that is why it's sending in tanks, artillery, combat engineers to destroy these tunnels. it's a somewhat limited ground operation on surt fthe surface . israel says it's not going to come here to the center of gaza city, which is a densely populated area, it...

The israeli army put out a statement a few minutes ago saying a large israeli force is involved in this operation including tanks, artillery, combat engineers, it's backed up by the israeli air force, israeli navy. we can also hear but not see the israeli drones flying over the city. there's been illumination flares in gaza. they help the drones identify targets. the israeli military says the objective is specific. it is targeting tunnels that hamas in particular has been using to infiltrate from the gaza strip into israel. in fact, the israeli military said, quote, the terrorists are fighting...

>> to clear the roads of iraq and afghanistan of deadly ieds, the army relies on companies like this, the 235th combat engineers. drawn from the california national guard, these men are truly a band of brothers. and they do a job that is one of the most dangerous -- >> fire in the hole. >> -- and terrifying on the battlefield. this is one of the unit's vehicle commanders. >> we essentially go down these roads looking for these bombs, looking for indicators that bombs are there, that they've been placed there. so we try to find them and we use various equipment to locate it, detect it, dig it u...