Happening now, breaking news, huge explosions in Qatar, what we're learning about an Israeli attack

against Hamas leadership. Plus, trove of records, we're getting some new Epstein documents,

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Welcome to our viewers here in the

United States and around the world I'm Wolf Blitzer with Pamela Brown and

you're in the situation room this is CNN breaking news and we begin with the breaking news, major breaking news.

Israel is now carrying out an attack against Hamas, the Hamas leadership in Qatar.

We're getting video right now in from Doha, Qatar, showing billowing smoke above buildings there.

Hamas leaders have used that city as a headquarters outside of Gaza for years.

This attack warns the first time Israel has launched and operation in Qatar will continue.

Qatar is calling all of this a criminal assault.

Let's go live right now to CNN correspondent Paula Hancock, who's joining us from nearby

in Abu Dhabi and CNN correspondent Jeremy Diamond in Jerusalem. So Jeremy, first of all,

what is Israel saying about all of this? Well, Wolf, the Israeli military coming right out

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