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>> a strike inside gaza kills a hamas commander, but turn scores of civilians into collateral. that's tonight, on news night. ♪ ♪ ♪ and good evening, i am abby phillip in washington. tonight, a fight for the narrative, and to explain what these pictures really mean. you are looking here at a crater. this is the aftermath of what israel calls a wide scale attack. but it is also a gaza refugee camp, jabalya, where the idf claims a senior hamas commander was using civilians as shields. now, israel says that the strike erased the target from the battlefield. but as you can see ther...

Impediments. he knew where to enter. he entered somewhere below tribecca in lower manhattan where a used to work by the federal building and he entered there and was able to run 16 blocks in one mile and kill eight people. the important thing here is to determine this for motive. was he isis directed, which means it was definitely a conspiracy. isis inspired, which means he looked at things online. >> the video as miguel is reporting. >> or an aspirant. somebody that just saw something sand hey i think i'm going to go kill people and say it's in the name offal la. >> tim on page eight of this ...

I would say, las romblas is the most iconic place in all of spain. it's a very high profile target and that again testifies to the planning that has gone into thi this. >> sandra: want to continue to get more perspective, i want to let you know as well that the nypd counterterrorism unit has spoken out on this saying we are closely monitoring the developments of the incident in barcelona. buck saxton joins us, he is a former cia counterterrorism analyst. obviously, when we see a situation like this overseas, we tend to tighten up security here at home. what do you make of what you're seeing an...

They're talking. it's a pedestrian thoroughfare. so, we've seen it and so it's beyond this incident. it's -- the first thought is where else. first, do i know anybody there. second, where else is this going to happen. it's only the middle of august. and that's the intent. and so, that's the first thought. >> beyond that. >> beyond that, you really have to wonder about, look, spain has very strong anti-terrorism laws. they've had them since before 9/11, since before islamic terrorism, when they had their own terrorist problems with e.t.a. and the basque separatists. they have tight police restr...

Attack, the kind of things we've seen here in the united states. this was clearly isis directed. they knew who it was, they knew when it was going to happen. they had announcements taking place notice all languages on social media within an hour or two. so they are more organized than we're often led to believe by some of the successes that are going on in syria and iraq in terms of disrupting the center of isis, they're still planning these things. it wasn't a large bun with you nevertheless it was an attack on law enforcement, which is very scary, because they're supposed to be the people th...