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In israel near the gaza bothered, and you've seen a lot of activity over your head in the last several hours. >> reporter: hi. well, john, that's true. we've seen intercepts in the sky when rockets have come over from gaza. the iron dome missile defense battery system behind me is one of the mobile units that they use to make these interceptions and there have been interceptions from long range missiles out of gaza late yesterday evening. towards tel aviv and beyond over jerusalem. that is, of course, the big fear when hamas starts aiming towards those cities. israel says that it is going to g...

You'll hear directly from bob menendez coming up next. and we're following breaking news out of israel. you hear them? these air raid sirens, they're now going off. a cnn team is hearing explosions near jerusalem. we're keeping a close eye on this story. stay with me. you're watching cnn. if you have moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis, like me, and you're talking to your rheumatologist about a biologic... this is humira. this is humira helping to relieve my pain. this is humira helping me lay the groundwork. this is humira helping to protect my joints from further damage. doctors have b...

Seeing and hearing where you are. >> hi, brooke. it's pretty tense. there were just some flairs and every turned around and took a look, which is why i was looking that way, too. about an hour ago, we had a barrage of rockets going over our head to the north of israel towards cities like tel aviv. presumably, those were the same air raid warnings as you were showing. we know two rockets were intercepted. one south of tel aviv. one above tel aviv by israel's iron dome missile defense system. we also know some were intercepted over jerusalem. this is a significant up-tick in hamas's operations, ...

And diana, you're there on the israeli side of the conflict. you have these rockets from gaza hitting nearby. you have the israeli cabinet approving this troop call-up. does it feel like war right now? >> this feels like a very serious escalation. frankly, 15 minutes ago, brooke, the air raid sirens here sounded. we had a barrage of rockets go over our head, 15 or more. israeli media, there's a huge screen just behind me which was here for the world cup, but no one is watching the world cup now, showing casualties, injured people in a town. they're saying it was 30 rockets fired towards jerusa...