U.S. Senator Cory Booker was in Israel when Hamas militants launched their attack.

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00:00I am in Israel.

00:02About this time yesterday I was jogging behind me in the Old City

00:07when I got an urgent call from my chief of staff telling me to get back to the hotel as quickly as I could

00:14that Israel was under attack.

00:20There were thousands of rockets being launched.

00:23When I got back to the hotel I joined others in the bomb shelter or the stairwells of the hotel.

00:28Frightened faces, there were children and elderly, families, many Americans.

00:34There was a sense of fear and worry and a knowledge to many of us

00:41that there were horrific things going on around the country at that time.

00:45Hundreds of people have been killed.

00:48Thousands of people have been wounded.

00:52In a level of attacks at a scale that is staggering

00:57and really has not been seen in this country for over 50 years.

01:01We who believe in peace and freedom and human rights

01:06for Palestinians, for Israelis, for all humankind

01:10must reject those who use terror as their weapon.