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Counterterrorism operations in the west bank city overnight. and palestinian officials say at least ten people have been killed. israel says it has detained 120 palestinians, this is the country's largest military operation in the occupied west bank in more than 20 years. about 100 people have been injured in the incursion into the refugee camp which the israeli military call as hornet's nest for terrorism activity. elliott gotkine is live for us in jerusalem. where do things stand now? >> reporter: this operation is still ongoing. just about an hour shy of it having started 36 hours ago. it b...

I think the senate intelligence committee, should he be nominated, let's remember he hasn't been nominated yet and we've seen other cabinet nominees be announced by the president and fall apart. if he is nominated and they go through their due diligence process, they're going to have to integrity these claims. i think it's clear the white house didn't vet this nominee. they might've asked him to take this inaccurate claim off his website where it is as of still minutes before we came on air because i think it raises two concerns about him, one is his qualifications and two his honesty. that di...

>> this is a joint operation going on since august of 2018, the surveillance. and undercover officers were making contact with him and befriending him in some ways and his name is ashiqul alam and living in queens and through the conversations with the undercover officers according to authorities, he expressed a high interest in wanting to take a terrorism activity, either in washington, d.c. against a senior government law official or wanted to do it in new york city. he talked about wanting to buy grenades or suicide vest. he even went to times square and deciding that might be a good target...

Fleeing. a million to colombia, 290,000 came to the united states, ecuador 220,000. you can see the rest of the countries on the list. but from a national security perspective, should americans be concerned about terrorism activity in the region, who these people are, who's fleeing and bad actors taking advantage of a crisis situation? >> absolutely. we want to know who these people are. we have to be able to vet them. but then it's a greater problem beyond that. we want people to come to the united states who can assimilate and integrate and be part of the american life. it's a numbers game. ...

Attack in spain? >> i believe it would. certainly the mass casualty attack that we have not seen any mass casualty attacks in spain related back to isis. so this would be a very significant and worrying moment for spanish authorities. but it comes, really, as no surprise. they've been preparing for this. they've known there's a threat out there. they've been stepping out in kind of terrorism activity, been around a couple hundred arrests of suspected islamic extreme s in the last few years since isis emerged in syria and iraq. so no surprises here. they knew this day might come, but what quite...