Welcome to the lead on Jake Tapper. I'm standing on a rooftop looking out over Tel Aviv.

It is just after 10 p.m. here and it has been 24 days since the horrific terrorist attacks

by Hamas caught this country and frankly much of the world by surprise. We start tonight

with breaking news. Israel says it is behind an enormous explosion at a refugee camp on

the Gaza Strip. This was the aftermath of the blast at the Jabalya camp which the United

Nation says is the largest refugee camp in Gaza. Israel's military says it killed a top

Hamas commander in its air strike. A man they say was one of the leaders of the October

7th attack and was hiding amongst civilians inside the refugee camp. Israel also claims

to have killed around 50 Hamas terrorists in that strike. It is not clear how many people

were killed or injured but the director of a hospital in the Hamas controlled area says

he has seen hundreds of dead bodies and wounded patients. He describes it as a quote,

seen no one can imagine. CNN's Wolf Blitzer pressed a spokesman for the IDF on why Israel

would carry out a strike with so many civilians in the area.

Do you know that there are a lot of refugees, a lot of innocent civilians, men, women and

children in that refugee camp as well, right? This is the tragedy of war, Wolf. I mean, we

as you know, we've been seeing for days move side. In a few minutes, we're going to hear

from the head of a UN agency in Gaza about what his colleagues on the ground in Gaza are

saying. And as all of this is unfolding in the Middle East, top US officials on Capitol

Hill are warning about the dangerous consequences of this war, both at home in the United States

and abroad, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken stressing

the importance of funding for both Israel and Ukraine's war efforts, saying that failing

to do so would embolden America's enemies. And FBI director Christopher Ray and Homeland

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