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where israeli troops are still fighting it's a mess on the ground inside of israel. two days after the large-scale attacks. >> israeli military keeping strikes on gaza and has completely upgrades the fatalities in hamas. >> hamas is claiming to have launched a major missile attack on the southern israeli city of ashkelon with israel saying an apartment building was hit, this comes as the militant group claims to now be holding 100. >> the death toll has claimed past 700 inside of israel. aleast 260 were killed at a music festival near the israel-gaza border. we're following the developments and elliott is joining us now. elliott, this is so much to stay on top of. but there has been discussion about the hostages.

we've been hearing the harrowing stories from family members on our air. how much will that impact israel's retaliation? >> it certainly complicates things. if they weren't hostages we've probably already seen incursion by the israelis to demonstrate in the gaza strip. because of the hostages, presumably because they're spread out across the strip, how do you deal with that, do you go in all guns blazing? never mind the fact there's the booby-trapped roads and other devices. further, israeli soldiers being taken captive in addition to the soldiers and civilians already being held by hamas. or do you stay back. and of course there is also, i suppose, a demand for response, a strong response from the israeli public which is completely shocked. this came out completely out of the blue. and just to put this into context. we're talk about a death toll

now, what, of 700 so far. and that could climb further. and this is already around about the number of fatalities that israel suffered during the six-day war in 19 except. it's about a quarter of the deaths that israel suffered in the yom kippur war 50 years almost to the day. everyone is completely shocked. they don't understand how this could have happened. also the element of deterrence. israel's armed forces were thought to be infallible, but certainly, if not the strongest in the region. and for something on this scale to have happened would be incredibly troubling. there are a huge number of questions to be answered. for now, though, israel very much focused on clearing up what's happening inside of israel with the attacks still ongoing and gun fights still ongoing and going more on the offensive within the gaza strip. >> and it's intelligence reasons, also, hasn't there?

and beyond that massive failure there, is it suggested that the intelligence know where is to go to help the hostages? >> i think israeli services they're not infallible. clearly, whether they took their eye all the ball or didn't have the intelligence. >> down read the intelligence? >> or they were duped. and reuters publishing a report, citing a hamas source, talking about how this was planned out for over the long term to try to dupe the israelis into thinking that economic benefits, more work permits, for example, for gazans to go work inside of israel, that would keep the peace. clearly, that was not the case. and that's not a mistake that israel will make in the future. but for now, they're just trying to deal with the unprecedented attack with the fallout. to try to get rid of militants, the ones inside of israel and gun fights still ongoing in a number of places, as i say.

and then really to go on the offensive then so, inside the gaza strip. but as we've been discussing that is annic credibly difficult undertaking in the best of tiles. and the fact that there are israeli hostages being held by militants inside the gaza strip just makes this even more complicated. >> and the population that hamas knows so well. elliott, thank you so much for joining us. one of the first attacks by gaza militants on saturday was a music festival in israel. a mass of gunman stormed the area, and some taken by point blank range. it's hard to watch, isn't it? dash cam video recovered from a car at a festival. shows this man pointing a machine gun at a person before leading them away. cnn's geo location confirms its identity. and this shows gunmen looting off the body of a person behind

a car. the militants shooting that person while still on the ground. we're obviously not airing that portion. >> cnn's clarissa ward visited the site and filed this report. and we caution you again, the aftermath of the images we're about to show you are, of course, graphic. >> reporter: what happened just off this quiet border road was a massacre. the bodies of the perpetrators still remain, while the fate of many victims is unknown. organizers of supernova music festival say that thousands of young revelers gathered to celebrate the end of the holidays. just after 6:00 a.m., hamas militants launched a bloody attack. so, we're just now on the approach to the area where the dance party was taking place. you can see there's vehicles all around here, that have been shot

up. we see the bodies of at least one, two hamas fighters. i think there are more down this way. many many of the victims spent hours in hiding, waiting to be rescued and calling their loved ones. many of them are still missing. many of them are dead. it's been very difficult to try to get a precise number. now, a volunteer group that handles human remains says at least 260 bodies have been found at the festival site. the government here took a bold step, releasing an imgage of scores of body bags in a tent where investigators were tasked with identifying them. so, you can see over here, the body of at least one other person, i don't think you want to get too close there. it's pretty graphic. active fighting continued along this stretch of the border throughout the day, israeli military forces poured in. so we're seeing a bunch of tanks being brought down this way.

you're also hearing a steady stream of booms, apparently rockets, landing in the distance in that direction. and certainly, a feeling that people are on high alert. we tried to push farther down that way. we were told in no uncertain terms we needed to turn around. clarissa ward, cnn, israel. >> joining us, the director of the international institute for counterterrorism at wrightman university. he's also a colonel in the israeli reserves. thank you so much, indeed, for joining us today. we are talking about the intelligence failures today. i realize the authorities are saying this isn't the right time to focus on that it's something to consider down the line but there are obviously people within israel who will we've been speaking to very concerned about how the country was completely caught off guard by this. what's your analysis of what happened and what we can draw from what was clearly a big failure? >> the issue at stake in that sense, me as an

israeli, not just sitting in tel aviv, i'm also israeli, i'm a mother, i have three children serving. my husband is serving. so we're in the middle of it, that's one of the reasons we find it very difficult to address what's going on. as somebody who comes as a professional and from the institute and as we look at it what we're talking about is a colossal failure but it's overwhelming a failure on two different levels of our own understanding of where hamas was going. i was listening to before what an another expert was talking about, we actually thought and we made an enormous mistake that hamas was becoming more -- oh, my god, i can't believe i even think of it -- humane among its own people as we've seen in the last 48 hours has jerked us out of our dream stage. that's what we believe, when people are humane, when you're going forward that it changes

where they're going to, most definitely, we were wrong. the second aspect in that sense was an overall one of deterrence, where you're think you're deterring a force and you're not. it's a combined strategic type of failure. one of the reasons that we're not willing to talk about it as of yet is we're still in it. we will still deter hamas. and we now have hezbollah breathing down our neck on the northern border. and we're still within an arena where hezbollah is telling everybody that they'll choose the time to join in. and that's not where we are, we're the state of israel, and our capabilities are there. one of the biggest challenges when you do this response right now in this overall horrific surprise attack it isn't over immediately. we're 48 hours in. it's going to take 72 hours, we will prevail. but in that time period, there are other forces here in the middle east, certainly, hezbollah, all of the other

backing beyond that may act and talk about the intelligence failure that will be food for them that we're not willing to give right now. >> the idf are necessarily being circumspect when it comes to a possible plans for a ground incursion, what do you think are and should be the priorities today and over the next few days? >> well, the idf first and foremost has to stabilize the situation inside israel. words i never thought i'd be saying on air to cnn. even if it existed we saw moors coming from the north, we need to stabilize. the next stage is some type of incursion into the ground into the gaza strip. as we understand, there are dozens, hundreds, nobody knows the exact number, of israeli citizens, children, 6-month-old baby, a 3-year-old. 85-year-old grandmother, soldiers of all sorts being held both by hamas and palestinian

islamic jihad, not that they've really put out any real pictures about how they're doing. what they're trying to do is taunt us in the most barbaric manner. and the barbaric actions of just killing endless families, not just at the party that you showed before. but in dozens of israeli communities inside israel, people waking. so in an incursion, it's going in, and both conquering and trying to eliminate as much of the terrorist group hamas that we can. you cannot do that just from the air. it means going in, going in is the worst time of military operation there. it's both 2.2 million people, and i acknowledge, there are people there, and within them are tens of thousands of murderous terrorists. who some of them came into israel over the last 48 hours, not all of them.

and in that sense, it's to go in, it's to clean them out, it's to try to get to the hostages, to do so in a way that we can continue tomorrow morning as -- as an idea, not tomorrow, figurative, as an exact sense. >> we appreciate that. thank you. >> thank you. israeli festivalgoers, soldiers and even children were captured on the attack. just ahead, we'll speak to a woman dense pretty looking for her daughter.

♪ hamas says it's holding more than 100 hostages in gaza, including high-ranking israeli officers. families of those captives say they're desperate and pleading for their safe return. becky anderson spoke with some of them. >> reporter: the unspeakable i wish of a father, describing the moment he saw a video posted on social media of his daughter pleading for her life. it was noa, frightened and threatened he says.

i'm so sorry. i'm so, so sorry. >> it's okay. >> reporter: i don't want to believe it, even though you can clearly see it's your daughter. he now wants this video to be seen widely. 25-year-old noa argamani on the back of a motorcycle being driven away. her boyfriend, seen by two men holding his hands behind his back. a dark plume of smoke are seen in the background. they'd been among the 1,000 people partying at an all-night music festival in southern israel at the gaza border. raided by hamas militants early saturday morning. her father says noa and abby were kidnapped, their whereabouts unknown, they're assumed to be held in gaza. i'm so sad at this moment. she's my only daughter.

and his pain mirrored by so many others. parents, family members, wives, husbands, filled with horror and despair to give the fate of their loved ones. this video that's been circulating widely online, a woman is seen in the back of a truck as a militant puts a scarf over her head. cnn has not been able to independently verify it. but a resident of the sharon region told cnn his wife and two daughters age 5 and 3 visiting their grandmother near the gaza border. he lost contact. and suspected they may have been abducted. later that day, his suspicions confirmed, when he saw the video. the woman was his wife. he told cnn he wants the video to be shown in the hopes of getting them home safely. >> it was no doubt in my mind, i

recognized them, surely, my wife, my two daughters, my two little daughters that were on this truck. so i know for sure they were taken. >> reporter: these famous forces told cnn it's taking pains establishing the exact number of hostages taken. emphasizing the complicated nature. so far, they estimate there are dozens, possibly more, in captivity. yakof has a message to whoever is holding his daughter. you have casualties just like we do. this san opportunity to connect between the two nations to reach an honest peace. for now, yakof sits at home and waits for news, taking comfort from his family and noa's friends. she's a very special kid. so loving, so giving. i miss her so much.

it's only been 2 1/2 days. i cannot believe she is gone, he says. she made this house so alive. i feel like this house is empty without her. becky anderson, cnn, tel aviv. >> joining us now live is a woman whose 21-year-old daughter was kidnapped by hamas militants on saturday. thank you so much for being with us. i honestly don't know what to say or how you're even functioning minute to minute here. have you heard anything else about your daughter and her well-being? >> not yet. not yet, haven't heard anything yet since last saturday at 7:40 a.m. she called me, she was in her car with her best friend that she went to this party with. and we -- since then, we

received so many messages and calls. and things that barely i heard what the previous interview, this father, there's no words that we can describe it. that i can describe what i feel right now. there are no words. because it's not human to do such things and to help with such things. i can tell you that whole settlements are vanished in the south. it's a suggestion which at least i think -- i think thousands of armed terrorists came in israel, came to the south to inside israel and started to massacre people unarmed people,

civilians. unarmed people, youth. children. babies. elderly, old people, sick people, they took almost 100 and 200 people. they took in captivity. i think i'm ashamed to be called human. i'm a mother who is looking for her daughter. she's missing. i think -- i believe she's hurt, she's bleeding somewhere. and like me, there are more hundreds, families, that are looking for her beloved. my daughter is 25 -- 21 years old. she's a great kid. a beautiful kid. she wasn't supposed -- i don't know what happened to her. i don't know whether she's alive, she's dead, if she's somewhere bleeding and no one can help her.

she's alone, you know, this is really something that i not just cry for me. i'm just in a mode and i'm trying to find my daughter and doing this because if she sees me or hears me, i want her to know she's not alone and we are all trying to find and rescue everyone that is still in the field. but it's still a battlefield. so, i cannot go there and look for her. okay? only this morning, two ter terrorists go into the house, the home of a family, and they murdered two parents and boys. i mean, is this human, is this human, to call me now, because they see my phone number all over, they're calling me like hamas, in arabic, and they tell me that my daughter is with

them. and i hear screams, screaming all over in the background. i don't know, i don't know which creeature can do this. i don't know who can get in civilian area where nobody armed. there are 3,000 kids, kids, youth, in this party. they surrounded them and they just -- they shot them like they were ducks. okay? i have nothing i can do. i have no words to describe what we see. >> of course. and i think the world, everyone watching, their hearts will be going out to you, it's unimaginable as bianca was saying. >> yeah. >> if your suspicions are right -- >> in 2023, this horror and this -- the mind cannot accept -- the human mind cannot accept this action. >> there might be a chance,

obviously. that, you know, if you're suspicions are right, and that she's been taken hostage, there might be a chance that people involved in that are watching this program. i mean, what would you say to them? >> i want you to know that i'm not a politician. i have no interest in nothing beside my daughter. and as a family, okay, there are many lessons that you should take from this day. it took us by surprise, completely surprised. maybe there are mistakes, probably mistakes on every level, okay. but i'm not -- i don't want to deal with this now. it's not mine to deal with. i'm a mother who is looking for her daughter.

every minute that passes by, the chance to find her alive, you know, are reducing. and there's nothing -- nothing that anyone can do. so, i'm asking you, if you have my daughter, okay, i'm asking you to remember what it's like to be human. er not animals. you can think, you can regret. you can fix what you did. you have to bring back everyone who's not armed, old people, sick people, children, babies and women. you are not going to accomplish what you wanted to accomplish by this way. violence will get you nowhere. nowhere. and what you're going to pose that on your side there will be so many mothers like me that will tell you the same thing. i'm a mother, i want to protect my kids. that's all i want to do.

and i'm sure that's all mothers on the other side, in gaza, in everywhere, that they are not me, are thinking the same thing, please, please, remember, we are human, we are people. we have the same dna. please, please, please, release those people. they did nothing to you. please. i'm asking you. if my daughter see this, if you see this, please remember that you're not alone. and everyone's trying to do everything to save you, and rescue. you are whatever remains from me, okay? this is what i want to say, please, politician, international countries, international relations, please, put all of this aside, we're human beings. everybody, all of us, we are

human beings. we are the same. we want the same. police, police, if you have them, if you capture them, please release them. please. >> ahuva mayzel, any information about my daughter, please, please. please don't send anyone to call me in arab to talk to me in arabic and to tell me that my daughter, they have my daughter. please, this is unhuman thing to do. don't do it, stop it now. stop killing i ing innocent peo you're not going to get anything from me. there are going to be only casualties, only mothers that dry about their children. don't do it, please don't do it. stop doing it. >> i hope that anyone who has the power to change the

situation has heard that. and i know that there's absolutely nothing at a consolation right now, thank you so much for your strength and your adherence to share that with everybody watching. and obviously, we'll all be thinking of you, thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. and i wish all the families to have peace, to have peace, just to get their loved ones, their kids. >> thank you. as if a reminder was even needed about the humanity of the people that are at the heart of this, despite the politician and ideology and the years of violent history. we'll be right back.

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♪ we're following breaking news out of the middle east were deadly fighting continues between israel and hamas. an israeli military official says israeli troops are stilling fights hamas inside the ground inside of israel. more than 700 people are dead in israel after hamas surprise attacked on saturday. prime minister benjamin netanyahu to declare outright war on hamas. israel's own attacks on gaza have killed more than 4 people, with the idf claiming to have, quote, severely degraded the capabilities of hamas. >> u.s. president joe biden has said in an conversation with benjamin netanyahu that additional sources are on its way. decision-guided bombs, more iron dome intercept evers and other items from the u.s.

>> and president biden has promised to ramp up support for israel in the coming days. u.s. officials say the purpose of this military deployments is to deter the expansion of fighting along israel's border. cnn's oren liebermann has more from washington. >> reporter: the u.s. is sending a carrier strike europe, "uss uss gerald ford" strike group to the sea, and israel promising to carry out a widespread campaign in gaza. the purpose of this carrier strike jet as well as the carrier itself with guided missiles and cruisers destroyers, is not to get involved in this fighting in any part any way with gaza, instead, it's a message to others in the region outside of israel. president joe biden said on saturday, warning other actors within the region, not specifically naming whom, but telling them not to get involved and exploit this opportunity. without naming them but was clearly a message to

iranian-backed hezbollah in syria, a message of deterrence to them. not only the carrier strike group heading from the western med to eastern med, but several fighter groups as a message to iran. those fighters go to israel, but other areas where u.s.-fighters are based, again, as a warning to iran, not to the carry out any aggression of the situation. israel that we learned from an israeli official has requested certain arms from the united states. in particular, precision-guided munitions as well as iron dome interceptors. and those are the two munitions that israel has used at this point. israel has carried out air strikes in gaza using precision-guided munitions, so it makes sense they're requesting more of that. then israel's iron dome has been incredibly busy accepting rocket barrages from gaza, pretty much from the moment this began with opening salvo of rocket fire. iron dome has played a critical

role there. and israel looking for more of the iron dome interceptor missiles. israel has its own stock in that and it uses those. but there's also thought that israel can tap into u.s. stocks some of which are in israel, in the event of emergency, certainly, this qualifies as one. defense secretary lloyd austin and israeli counterpart spoke for a second consecutive day on sunday. it seems they'll be keeping up a pretty steady cadence of communications just to make sure u.s. is giving israel what it has, what it wants and what it needs. president joe biden and many in the biden administration promising full support for israel. oren liebermann, cnn, washington. u.s. secretary cory booker was in israel when hamas attacked. the democrat posted this video on social media about his experience. >> i am in israel. about this time yesterday, i was jogging behind here in the old

city. when i got an urgent cal from my chief of staff telling me to get back to the hotel as quickly as i could, that israel was under attack. there are thousands of rockets being launched. when i got back to the hotel, i joined others in the bomb shelter. or the stairwells of the hotel, frightened faces, there were children and elderly families. many americans. there was a sense, a fear and worry, and a knowledge to many of us that there were horrific things going on around the country at that time. hundreds had people had been killed. thousands of people have been wounded. and a level of attacks at a scale that is staggering, and really has not been seen in this country for over 50 years. we who believe in peace and freedom and human rights, for palestinians, for israelis, for

all human kind must reject those who use terror as their weapon. >> cnn's nada bashir is following developments and joins us now here in london. nada, talk to us more about the regional response that we've been getting over the last day or so. what does it tell us about the potential for this conflict to be contained or spill over? >> well, there is certainly widespread concern across the region that this could indeed spill over. what we've seen from regional leaders and allies is a unified condemnation from the violence that we've seen on saturday. we saw from jordan, saudi arabia, egypt, the uae, all condemning the violence, echoing the responses that we've seen, of course, across europe and the u.s. we've heard from the turkish prerd, recip tayyip erdogan, turkey is doing whatever it takes to stop this violence escalating. they're offering to play a part in mediating some peaceful resolution to the conflict. we know according to president

erdogan, he's been in touch with allies trying to intensify diplomatic efforts on that front. that's certainly been echoed by others in the region. we have egypt, a crucial player in this conflict for decades now, has been in touch with allies, trying to find a t twide-escalate the tensions, the foreign minister there has spoken to international partners that he believes have influence in this conflict to try to bring about some sort of resolution. of course, there has also been expressions of solidarity with regional players, with the palestinian people. and of course, while this was a completely unprecedented attack on saturday, with devastating consequences, the saudi foreign ministry has issued a statement saying this was what inevitable. that they have been warning the israeli -- warning israel, this could be an eventuality of possible consequences and risks involved involving the occupation of certain palestinian territories, as well

as the people, with words of the saudi foreign ministry, that is interesting given the fact that saudi has been exploring potential normalization with israel. >> look, at this stage, no one really knows where they stand at this point. saudi could play a crucial part in mediating some sort of resolution, if indeed they're continuing to look to normalized ties. saudi has normalized ties with iran. and iran has expressed full support for hamz. >> so complex, thank you. still to come, many passengers stranded at tel aviv's airport. most airlines are in a wait and see mode before zooming flights in and out of a war zone. ♪

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gaza strip. this obviously comes after two days after the militant group launched a surprise attack that killed hundreds of israeli militants. and keeping up strikes on gaza saying it has severely degraded capabilities of hamas and palestinians since the israeli strikes began. overnight, hamas claims to have launched a missile attack on the southern israeli city of ashkelon. militants say hundreds of rockets were fired in response to israeli forces there targeting safe houses. but it does seem as though the fighting within israel is at least over. >> the fighting has impact on passenger air flights in airports. dozens of flights have been delayed or cancelled out of security concerns. american airlines says it has cancelled all flights to tel

aviv from jfk on monday. delta air lines cancelled flights to and from israel through the weekend. so, to talk about this, cnn's clare sebastian joins us, clare, we've his ris really around the world scrambling to get back home. >> we've had airlines cancel or suspend flights. united and canada saying they'll review it as it unfolds. in terms of flights still operating, british airways are adhering to the security situation. emirates, one of them, virgin, the major israeli carry continues with their israeli flights and only out of one terminal, and allowing passengers to cancel per voucher. and we saw with nic robertson,

people taking cover, this is less than 50 miles from the gaza strip, this airport. we have potentially reservists coming home, called up, reservists, those people scrambling to get home. others doing the same. and things in emergency flights operated by airlines, korean air is going to operate tomorrow and united over the weekend to get workers and other citizens out. that's why you see some continuation of air traffic available, of course, heavily disrupted. >> a look at the oil price because that does play into anything that happens within the region. this is an oil-producing region even if israel isn't. the prices are up, you were making the point earlier, we need to talk about them coming down. >> in the past week, nothing to do with this particular situation, but concerns of global demand. to the fact they had risen 30%. some of this is knee jerk, anything in this region, despite the fact that israel itself is

not an oil-producing country. usually tends to spark price rises. and beyond the knee jerk, there are questions this would spill over and affect iran and the major backer of hamas. and the saudi relation which is has been thrown into doubt by this conflict, of course that might lessen the likelihood that saudi arabia could be willing to increase production to save the price. a lot of layers under this. i think, what's going on there, really shows the potential tentacles of this conflict. >> clare sebastian, thank you so much. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has declared war on hamas. we'll find out what that means for palestinians living in gaza as well. that story and so much more still to come. ♪

the israel defense forces say there's no longer any fighting going on between id f troops inside of israel. and idf has now taken control of all communities around the gaza strip. this comes two days after israel launched a surprise attack that killed hundreds. the israeli military is keeping up strikes on gaza saying it has

severely invaded the capabilities of hamas. >> iran has congratulated the palestinians after the attack by hamas. >> translator: it's a resistance standing up against the fake designenist regime. palestinian people, palestinian soldiers and all palestinian groups. and the islamic should be congratulated for this victory. >> many officials and analysts in the u.s. are deeply suspicious that iran played a role in the hamas incursion. in fact, the administration says it has evidence directly linking iran to the attack. >> inside israel, gaza has been launching on numerous sites and other militants. while the militant leaders are hiding out, gaza civilians are trapped in the strip's narrow confines with nowhere to run. cnn's salma abdelaziz takes us inside. >> reporter: these are the first moments of what prime minister netanyahu warned will be a long and difficult war.

air strikes in the densely populated gaza strip that the palestinian ministry said left hundreds dead and thousands more wounded. israel is targets headquarters belonging to hamas and islamic jihad and released this video. netanyahu vowing to avenge the hundreds of israeli lives lost with more ferocious fire power to come. >> translator: all the places which hamas has deployed hiding and operating in, that weakened city, we will turn it into an island of ruins. i'm telling gaza's people to leave those places now because we will take action everywhere. >> reporter: destroying or severely deterring hamas will prove extremely challenging for israel's army. a significant and unprecedented number of israeli citizens are captured by the militant, according to the israeli army. this disturbing social media video geo located by cnn, showed

one of those victims, hands appear bound and in captivity. and hamas claims the hostages are distributed across the strip. israel believed to have used human shields. still, israel's military is pressing on, with the air assaults already under way. the idf says it is preparing for a potential ground incursion and that all options are on the table. thousands of israeli reservists have been called up for the task. israel's army telling gazans to clear the way for operation, ordering families to leave their homes in providing locations for evacuations but with the conflict sure to engulf the whole of the strip, for most, there is no way out. gaza is largely isolated from the world. by israeli air, land and sea blockade in egypt's southern border. electricity which was mostly provided by israel was cut off

to the enclave, and internet disrupted. unclear how long services will be severed. and with hamas leadership reportedly going underground, the 2 million people living in a 140 square mile territory have nowhere to turn. fears that an unprecedented attack on israel could yield unprecedented bloodshed in gaza, salma abdelaziz, cnn, london. in new york, competing rallies by supporters of israelis and palestinians. the pro-palestinian rally got under way on sunday afternoon near times square. organizers described it as a way to stand with the people of palestine and their rights to, quote, resist apartheid, option and oppression. new york's governor condemned the event calling it repugnant. new york's mayor said people have the right to protest, even though he strongly disagreed with it, claiming it celebrated a horrific incident. meanwhile, counter protesters showed their support for israel and hundreds killed during

hamas' attack on country. >> thanks for joining us here on "cnn newsroom." i'm max foster. >> i'm bianca nobilo. "early start" is up next right here on cnn. ♪

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