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hello and welcome to all our viewers in the united states, canada and around the world. i'm rosemary church with cnn's continuing coverage of the israeli/hamas war. cnn is just now getting israeli reaction to a deadly blast at the refugee camp in gaza. more than 24 hours after we first reported it. in a moment we will speak with a person of the israel defense forces. nada bashyr gives us details of what happened by those that lived through it. a warning, her reporting contains graphic images. >> reporter: at this hospital in central gaza, another day of seemingly unending horror. bod...

state antony blinken made two unannounced stops in the middle east. he met with palestinian president mahmoud abbas in the west bank and traveled to bagdad for high-stakes talk with iraq's prime minister. blinken has held a series of top-level talks with arab leaders as israel intensifies its attacks against hamas. cnn's jim sciutto is in northern israel. you have new reporting that secretary blinken is not the only u.s. official visiting that region. >> reporter: that's right, cia director bill burns is traveling to the mid east as well. a u.s. officials tells me the following, that...

to keep you online. only from xfinity. home of the xfinity 10g network. >> wherever you are around the world, at this hour, you are watching cnn newsroom. ongoing coverage of his most war with hamas. i'm john vause, just past midnight here in atlanta, and 60 am and gaza. it is now divided into by israeli ground forces battling militants in the north. president have been forced to evacuate to safety in the south, as dawn breaks, the israeli military says gaza city is completely surrounded. in the past two hours, cnn crews report flares and explosions lighting up the night sky over nor...

erin? >> jeff, thank you very much.. and thananks to all l of you fo. good evening with the israeli military saying troops have now surrounded gaza city, we have been watching for most of the evening now some especially heavy air strikes on gaza, intense enough that cnn military analyst cedric layton said earlier tonight it reminded him of what he called the shock and awe air campaign against iraq. here is some of what it looked like and sounded like from sderot, across the border from gaza. with flares overhead for much of the time, israeli warplanes launched wave after wave of ai...

♪ hello, you're watching "cnn news central." i'm boris sanchez alongside jessica dean in washington. we're following the latest developments in the middle east. today a split-screen moment, on one side a show of strength among allies as secretary of state antony blinken was back in israel, again, forcefully backing israel's campaign to eliminate hamas, even as he bluntly addressed the need to do more to alleviate the civilian suffering that campaign has unleashed inside gaza. >> we need to do more to protect palestinian civilians. there will be no partners for peace if they are c...