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Good morning. From CBS News headquarters in New York, this is Up to the Minute. I’m Meg Oliver. French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives in the Middle East today for a round of shuttle diplomacy to broker <타협점을> 모색하다, 중개하다 a cease-fire 정전, 휴전 in the war in Gaza. Israeli forces are dug in <자기 진지를 지키기 위해> 참호를 파다 around strategic locations. And Gaza City is completely surrounded as Israel steps up its artillery 포, 대포 and missile barrage 연발사격. CBS’s Richard Roth reports.
Wreathed 감다, 둘러싸다 in smoke and scorched 타다 by fire, Gaza City is cut off. With casualties rising, its population of almost half million people is being bombed from the air, shelled from the ground and now surrounded by advancing Israeli troops. And for both sides, it threatens to get worse.
Gaza will be Israel’s graveyard, Hamas warns. But Israel said it lost just one soldier in the first day of ground combat. “Israeli soldiers are currently in combat operations in Gaza and we know that we will take casualties. We didn’t enter this operation because we wanted to.” They did it because they had to, said Prime Minister Olmert at a cabinet meeting to stop the barrage of Hamas rockets raining ~이 비오듯 하다 on Israeli communities.
But the rockets haven’t stopped. Several dozen fell on Israel Sunday. The mayor of New York was among visitors on a government tour endorsing 뒷받침하다 Israel’s policy and sharing its pain. “The Israelis have no choice but to use their, all of the resources at their command to protect their citizens. We would do exactly the same thing in New York City.”
Outsiders can’t get into Gaza. Israel’s sealing the border. The medical center’s a scene of mayhem 손상, 파괴. The wounded are pouring into Shifa Hospital. Understaffed 인원부족의, overwhelmed ~을 압도하다, 난처하게 하다, ill-equipped and the best there is in the Gaza strip. But according to an Israeli intelligence official, it’s not only the injured who are seeking refuge there. The hospital’s also a hiding place for some leaders of Hamas.