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Strong hold for a long time now. and in a separate operation, security forces killed five other taliban fighters on the outskirts of peshawar, where the school massacre happened earlier this week. since then pakistani security forces have been hitting taliban targets with air strikes and of course as mentioned, ground assaults as well. so far pakistani officials say 200 pakistan militants have been killed and the number could be growing. >> john, maybe they are making gains against isis, thank you so much. >> the state department issuing a warning to americans traveling abroad. listen up, the ...

Sides for six hours. finished a meeting now. we can do it. we can still do it. so that's why we're urging all sides to give the egyptian effort a chance. if they want to continue the area bomb boardment and ground assaults, well this will only kill the initiative and add to the complexities. i don't think we can reach a solution through this military means. this requires deescalation by putting the egyptian initiative into a timed ceasefire, give it five days instead of six hours. all of the details in order to reach the ceasefire and then to begin a process that will end this situation.

Underground bunkers, these tunnels that supposedly housed a lot of these missiles, these rockets. and they want to go in there. you can't just do it with air power. so there may be some israeli ground action. i don't 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, that's at this point just dead? >> well, you know, there are some efforts behind the scenes to revive it. the egyptians haven't given up completely. the pa...

>> happening now the israeli military is warning northern gaza residents of more airstrikes today. ordering civilians to evacuate their homes as hamas leaders are targeted. live to the ground there. wolf blitzer is in jerusalem. diana joins us from a border crossing. so glad to have you both with us. wolf, i want to start with you. israel's raid was -- people i think are looking thinking is this a one-time event or is this the start of something bigger? any indication either way for you? >> reporter: there is no formal public announcement or anything bigger but everyone suspects that wasn't ju...

Enemy, american or nonamerican, and then summarily execute that person? right now, none of these questions is getting serious attention, while the cia's drone activities have expanded dramatically. by some accounts more than a third of the u.s. air force fleet is now unmand. we're training more pilots than regular pilots in the defense department and there are reports we are building a drone base in north america. american drones have reportedly killed an upward estimate of 4,700 people in the last decade. these numbers look like they'll keep rising. now there's no doubt that drone strikes hav...