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Which they fire -- which they use to fire on us in civilian areas. >> wolf, what is israel now saying about the strike on the hospital earlier? >> they say they try to avoid civilian casualties. given the proximity of civilian locations and the midst of where hamas fires rockets or bugdz underground tunnels, obviously there are a lot of civilian casualties and there are a huge number of them over the last several days, especially since israel moved ground forces in. they say they tried to avoid it. sometimes it happens. the prime minister and other israeli officials say they do the best they c...

Civilian locations in the midst of where they say hamas fires rockets at israel or builds underground tunnels that go from gaza, obviously, there are a lot of civilian casualties that have been a huge number of civilian casualties over the course of the last several days, especially since israel moved ground forces in. they try to avoid it. but sometimes it happens. the prime minister and other israeli officials say they do the best they can. this is a war. and they realize there are going to be civilian casualties. >> what options do civilians have to try to xaeb escape attacks that are aimed...

Casualties without context serves a hamas media strategy. and that strategy is to depict israel as the a discriminate killer as callous and ultimately to an rouse public opinion throughout the world, put pressure on governments to go to the u.n. and anget israel condemned for war crimes so ta israel can't defend itself while hamas fires rockets at israel. it's a strategy that hamas has used again and again and again. if you go back and look at those hundreds of hours, you'd have to look very, very carefully, brooke, to see if they've ever mentioned that israel has taken extraordinary efforts t...

>> it's obviously much harder on the palestinian side where israel continues its air strikes and commando raids as well. we know of one, but we're also told others are in the works right now. they dropped the leaflets over the one north gaza town, bet la hee yeah. israelis are warning everyone to get out. a lot of people did get out but a lot of people are staying there. everyone along the border is bracing for israeli attacks on this area where they say so many of the rocketing coming in to israel are launched. still an extremely tense situation, kate. >> you were talking to officials through...

Between a nation's self-defense and the loss of civilian life? that is a big question this morning surrounding what's happening in israel. israel says it has to launch targeted air strikes against populated areas of gaza because that's where hamas is hiding its missiles. this morning hundreds of civilian there is are heeding israeli warnings to abandon their homes ahead of a fresh round of strikes. >> still the death toll in gaza is climbing, now more than 1070 people killed. still hundreds of rockets being fired towards israel. joining us from near the israeli-gaza border is wolf blitzer, the...