hello and welcome, everyone. i'm michael holmes, continuing our coverage of israel at war. and we begin this hour with the latest on the war between israel and hamas. diplomatic efforts now under way to try to contain the humanitarian crisis intensifying by the hour in gaza. aid workers say the situation there has descended into what they describe as complete chaos. tens of thousands fleeing after israel told residents to leave northern gaza, where more than a million people leave, as it gears up for its next stage of its war with hamas. and palestinian officials say the death toll has surpasses 2,600. that includes 700 children. we do want to warn you the next video you're about to see might

be disturbing. handout videos like this showing small children on ventilators in a hospital in northern gaza as the u.n. is calling for urgent humanitarian access into the strip. meanwhile, america's top diplomat has been meeting regional leaders including those from egypt where he once again called on israel to protect civilians in gaza. >> as i said in tel aviv, as president biden has said, the way that israel does this matters. needs to do it in a way that affirms the shared values that we have for human life and human dignity. taking every possible precaution to avoid harming civilians. >> and for the first time since the conflict began, palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas denounced hamas's attacks on israel, saying the militant group's actions do not represent the palestinian people. u.s. president joe biden,

meanwhile, has a warning for israel. in an interview with "60 minutes." calling for restraint, saying it would be a big mistake for israel to occupy gaza. here's part of that interview. >> i think it would be a big mistake. look, what happened in gaza in my view is hamas and the extreme elements of hamas don't represent all the palestinian people. and i think that it would be a mistake for israel to occupy gaza again, but going in and taking out the extremists, hezbollah is up north but hamas down south is a necessary requirement. >> do you believe that hamas must be eliminated entirely? >> yes, i do. but there needs to be a palestinian authority. there needs to be a path to a

palestinian state. >> meanwhile, aid groups are preparing for the worst as the humanitarian crisis in the region intensifies with each day of the conflict. those still trapped in the region, and they have no way to leave, continue to search for survivors of airstrikes as their own supplies dwindle. and the director general of the palestinian red crescent says hospitals face imminent shutdown since there's very little fuel left to run generators. food, medicine, water also in short supply. water from israel is being cut off in the gaza strip. people lining up for hours hoping to refill bottles and canisters from what supplies remain. >> translator: i've come to get water. we don't have any water. we've reached a disastrous situation. below zero. the situation is catastrophic by all standards, with a crisis in food, water, and electricity. i mean, people can't do anything

in the current conditions. if you go to the homes and film inside, you will see extremely dire situations. >> and joining me now to talk more about the conditions in gaza and the urgent humanitarian appeals is hani al malhoun. he is director of philanthropy for the united nations relief and works agencies. i want to get to the humanitarian situation first, but i do want to say you have family in gaza. more than a dozen have died, as i understand it. i can't imagine that loss and how worried you are about other family members. how are they? >> not very good. first thank you for having me and giving me an opportunity to share my concerns about the well-being of my family. i'm here obviously in personal capacity because of somebody who has family and a family man in gaza. right now as we speak they're not doing very well and i'm happy to elaborate as you ask. >> medicine sans frontieres put

out a statement and i want to quote from it. it says this. "hospitals are overwhelmed. there are no more painkillers now. our staff tells us about the wounded screaming in pain, the injured, the sick who cannot get to the hospital." i mean, it's so hard to comprehend that situation. no painkillers in a place that is full of wounded people. what is your understanding of the situation for civilians in gaza or even those who've headed south? >> it is called like judgment day. this is the end of days in gaza right now. if people can't find water, if they can't find fuel -- you know, my family is not -- is in northern gaza. they're not able to evacuate to where the israelis say will be a safer zone, even though that safe zone was bombed last night. so there's a lot of confusion. there's a lot of really tension in the community because people can't find bread, fighting over a loaf of bread, fighting over

some water, and my brother was telling me today in gaza he hasn't showered in a week, he has not -- he's afraid to eat because he would need water. there is very little resources. and you know, my mom was telling me the kids yesterday, the best they can get for them is dried fruits and dates. this is not humanity. america's better than this. you know, we're the leaders of the free world. and in the first few days the president was -- there's a, you know, drumming the war drums trying to -- in a way vilifying the palestinians here. and we're being vilified in america and also in palestine where there's a lot of civilians. you're talking about gaza where 50% of the population is under the age of 19. they have not had the choice to make a decision good or bad. they are still children. and this is where we are right now. >> yeah. there's a lot of talk about hamas being elected. that was 2007. there hasn't been an election since. and in that election they were throwing their opponents off rooftops and half the population

wasn't even born. so that's an important side. 400,000 people in unrwa schools and buildings right now, which is unimaginable. there's word that aid could be coming through the rafah crossing from egypt soon but we don't know when exactly. how urgent is that situation? how desperate for those gazans who are waiting for -- i can't imagine what those facilities -- we're looking at an unrwa school right now, actually, and packed to the gills with people. it's not meant for this. >> absolutely. this is tragic. and i don't know how killing -- i don't know how targeting ambulances and firefighters just like 20 minutes ago in gaza helps take on hamas. this is a tragedy that could be prevented. civilians should really be saved from this. you know, i have a family. my family's hiding somewhere up north. they cannot find a way out.

and i hope my mother, my kids, my nephews and nieces are safe. if anybody has an idea how to get them out of there, please get in touch with me. >> i can't imagine the stress. now, this is important too. the hamas -- the terror attack on israeli civilians is undeniably horrific, inexcusable. but do you worry that palestinians in gaza are all being treated as guilty even when they don't perhaps support hamas or what it did? many in the world blame all palestinians for what happened. >> yeah, absolutely. i mean, there is people who came in this network, made genocidal statements. some other networks as well. and nobody pushed back. it feels like our life have less value. and right now we're begging the administration to get americans out of gaza. american citizens out of gaza. and this is, you know, why they're working hard behind the scenes. there's a loss of tension. people feel like we're not valued as much. i'm sure you hear about the kid in chicago who was killed in a

hate crime today because their neighbor was oh my gosh, the palestinians are coming. so there's a lot -- we need to cool it a bit. palestinians are not all muslims. there's christian palestinians. i was at a rally at the white house yesterday hand in hand with jewish, christians, and muslims. this is not about muslims against jews. as you understand, yes, the attacks against israel are horrific, sure. but we don't have to have a parade for that and just ignore the palestinians. how many dead palestinians do you need? you have 500 kids that are dead or more by the end of the day. i'm not sure. this is horrific. and i'm going to talk about it as much as you ask. yes. >> and to that point, i've covered a lot of wars, i have to say, including in gaza. it strikes me that one of the risks is that people become numbers. are you concerned that the humanity is lost? and in fact it's over 700 children who've been killed. do you worry that that's just a number and not 700 separate young lives cut short in the

minds of too many people? >> you are absolutely correct. i'm talking to you now and i've lost 16 family members. 14 who are related and two who were v are like from the extended family. and those are just numbers. because the body count is rising we have not had a moment to reflect on all the tragedies. and that's the horrific. you know, my friend was saying the best hope they have is they turned into a facebook meme because nobody has time to bury, nobody has time to grieve. they're not even allowed to gather. they're not safe at the hospital. i lived next to the hospital. there's bombing around it because people want them to evacuate the hospital. you're talking about people in open heart surgeries, dialysis machines. how is that acceptable? you mentioned my unrwa usa affiliation at the beginning. schools. at least 19 facilities have been damaged in this conflict. the staff don't feel safe. they're moving from one town to a town. they're trying to help the

refugees with children. and you mentioned the number 400,000 palestinian refugees. it is a school. it is not supposed to have shower and -- there is a lot of complications that are not taken into consideration. water. this is sort of like a crime. if russia did it everybody would be writing on facebook and all these ngos would be speaking about it. now they're beginning to speak about the atrocities happening in gaza. but to be honest with you, it doesn't feel like -- there's a mismatch between the attitude of america and the west and their behavior. what we see in gaza is horrific. >> hani alihamdoun, i appreciate your time. and our thoughts are with your family. >> we appreciate it. thanks for having me. >> thank you. we're going to take a quick break on the program. when we come back, israel learns more about how hamas fighters infiltrated the country for their deadly attack. what an idf spokesperson says it means for their war on the group. we'll be right back.

war between israel and hamas. and the world is watching. america's top diplomat, u.s. secretary of state antony

blinken, says israel has the right to defend itself but it should take, quote, every possible precaution to avoid harming civilians. >> we came here with four key objectives -- to make clear that the united states stands with israel, to prevent the conflict from spreading to other places, to work on securing the release of hostages including american citizens, and to address the humanitarian crisis that exists in gaza. >> blinken is promising the rafah crossing between gaza and egypt will be opened. it is seen as the only feasible route to get aid in and people out including americans. all right. now i'm joined by jonathan kavrikas. he's an international spokesperson for the israeli defense forces. he joins me from tel aviv. lieutenant colonel, good to see you again. there has been i think the same number of bombs or more dropped

on gaza in a week or so as during the entire 50 days of the 2014 gaza-israel conflict. what is your assessment of the effectiveness of those strikes in a military sense of what's been achieved including who you've taken out of the hamas leadership? >> yes, that is a process at work. we are actively targeting the leadership. we are degrading their military capabilities. we are trying to suppress rocket fire toward israeli cities and civilians. and we are actively stopping or limiting their ability to launch attacks against israel, mostly on the ground and from the perimeter close to the border. we have been able to strike and kill a few hamas key officials. many more are on the list from yehi asenwar, the butcher of khan younis and all the way down

to the lowest levels of military commanders. they're all on the list, and we are hard at work finding them in their hiding places using the best intelligence tools that we have at our disposal including with the i.s.a., the israeli security agency. and at this stage i could say that we're in the early stages. we're operating against an enemy that is cowardly and hides behind civilians. but we are making good progress and we are very determined to continue and to make sure that we dismantle hamas. >> you mentioned intelligence. i mean, we've spoken about the idf's small penetrating missions, if you like, probing missions into gaza. and there's more information that came out today on what was collected in an intelligence sense, operational plans, encrypted phones and things like that. what can you tell us about what was found and how that intel might be useful in a ground incursion? >> yeah, i think that what you're referring to is intelligence that was collected based on the terrorists that

infiltrated into israel, and what we've collected from what they carried with them. in terms of communication devices, maps, various encryption methods and other very useful types of -- or sources of information that we are now compiling, analyzing, cataloging and making sense of, both for future near-term operations and also for long-term goals. so it's been useful. and that's usually normal in military affairs that as the dust settles you're able to collect intelligence and start making sense of what your enemy did. >> how is the idf working to find and rescue those hostages? and also how can you be certain -- i suppose you can't -- that the hostages are not being held in places that you're bombing or places that you will attack in a ground operation? it must be incredibly difficult. >> yes. this whole situation, frankly, is unprecedented. never before have we faced such a situation.

and i don't think that any western country has faced a similar situation. so it's uncharted territory. but we are very focused on getting every piece of intelligence that we can, formulating a plan. and of course eventually getting all of these people home back to israel. i'll say this at the outset. it is undeniably true that hamas hides among the civilian population. it's a fact. intimidates the population. is indifferent to palestinian civilian deaths and suffering. that's a given. but it was interesting because there was a poll by the washington institute just in july of this year that said 62% of gazans supported hamas maintaining a ceasefire with israel. 50% of gazans agreed that, quote, hamas should stop calling for israel's destruction and instead accept a permanent two-state solution based on 1967 borders. which was a fascinating poll.

i'm just curious from a military standpoint are you worried that the level of civilian casualties so far will actually reverse that, perhaps increase public support for terror groups like hamas? >> i don't think so. first of all, we will try to keep that number as low as possible throughout this war. we've said that they're not our enemy. i don't think that it will because i think the gazans understand that all of this destruction and the casualties that are now happening in gaza is because of hamas actions. i think even people that were out chanting on the streets and supporting deep down inside they understand that what hamas did was so basically fundamentally perverted and they understand that they unleashed violence and significant suffering on themselves. so at the end what i hope is we

will dismantle hamas and then in the future i can't put a time frame on that but in the future the situation in gaza will be better. first and foremost for us that's what i care about. for israeli civilians living in communities nearby. but also for palestinians because a gaza without hamas is a much better gaza. >> i wanted to get this talk of the rafah crossing being open for aid to come in. does the israeli military have any objection to that that you know about? and also a double barrel question. is there any chance of a ceasefire before your operation is complete? >> yeah, i've heard reports about separate initiatives, direct bilateral, or between egypt and hamas regarding goods to be provided. i don't have anything to say about it. i know that we tried to

facilitate the safe exit of americans and a few other internationals from gaza. that was thwarted by hamas. they simply didn't open the gates, and the whole thing failed. and i am aware of various reports of entering aid, et cetera. at this stage i cannot confirm anything. i know that many are involved in it and it's at the, you know, high priority. but at this stage i cannot confirm exactly what's going on and what has been decided upon. >> it's always good to get a situation report from you, lieutenant colonel jonathan conricus in tel aviv. thanks so much. >> thank you. thank you for having me. now, israeli troops continue to mass near gaza ahead of an expected ground offensive against hamas militants. the last time the idf went into gaza to target hamas leaders directly was 2014. nic robertson looks back at the operation then and what israel is planning now. >> reporter: close to gaza

preparations under way for a much-anticipated ground offensive. troops from different units training together. there is an urgency here. they have to be ready fast. >> right now this is a rehearsal if and when there's an incursion. these troops could be at the front of it. tanks ce model ones right now, followed by infantry and combat engineers. a combined force spearheading an incursion. >> if they do, major ofek will be near the front. >> translator: we expect to go to war. we expect to destroy the terrorist organization hamas, kill its government and kill every last terrorist. that's what we plan to do, and that's how it will be. >> reporter: the last time the idf went into gaza targeting hamas's leaders was 2014. ariel bernstein was 21. in the special forces.

one of the first to cross the border. >> we're just afraid that there is something waiting for you at every corner. >> reporter: but his experiences then have left him questioning the tactics today. back then, he says, the idf warned civilians to leave and hamas told them to stay, just as is happening now. but some had stayed. his orders, he says, assume the civilians had left. >> whoever you see is basically engaged in fighting or is involved in fighting. and therefore, we call it engaging with fire with any home you enter, with any kind of shape of a person you see from afar. >> in many ways israel's actions are playing out just as they have in the past. 2021 gun positions freshly dug back in use. and in gaza the civilian death

toll according to palestinian health officials already higher than in 2014. and like then israel is already facing huge international pressure to avoid more civilian casualties. >> what we are doing is saying privately what we've said publicly, which is that all military operations should be conducted consistent with the law of war, that civilians should be protected. >> the problem, the idf says it faces, just like 2014. hamas will be hiding among civilians. >> the whole situation we're talking about with gazan civilians forcibly embedded is another element of hamas. hamas has to be fully defeated. >> so the responsibility is on them and not you? >> the responsibility is on hamas for their own civilians. our responsibility is to eliminate hamas's capabilities completely. >> major ofek pausing during training in a mocked-up palestinian town, says they

don't hurt innocents, only terrorists, but admits if he is sent into gaza avoiding civilian deaths won't be easy. >> do you think it's possible to fight hamas without civilians getting injured? >> translator: we're concerned with overthrowing the hamas regime and killing the terrorists who are currently in gaza. if it will be difficult, it will be difficult. not easy. >> reporter: outside the camp gates as israel's military ponder their next move, troops are saying their fond farewells. nic robertson, cnn, southern israel. china is getting into middle east diplomacy, but it also has increasingly harsh words about israel. after the break we'll take you to beijing for the latest.

welcome back. aid groups say conditions in gaza are deteriorating rapidly. the enclave has been cut off from water, food and electricity for days now as israeli airstrikes continue to pound towns and cities. tens of thousands of palestinians have already fled from northern gaza to the south to escape an expected israeli ground incursion. israel's ambassador to the u.s. tells cnn that israel is working with the united nations to establish a humanitarian zone in southern gaza, though it's unclear what that would look like and how it would be set up. and u.s. secretary of state antony blinken told reporters earlier that he believes the rafah border crossing between gaza and egypt in his words will be opened. the rafah checkpoint is

currently the only viable way in or out of gaza after israel declared a complete siege on the territory. and in an interview with cnn's wolf blitzer israeli president isaac herzog said his country is trying to relocate civilians in gaza to keep them safe. let's listen. >> we are never, never indifferent to the pain of t the -- of our palestinian neighbors. and we always try to operate according to the basic guidelines of international law. we are trying to move these citizens away from the war zone in order so that we can go in and uproot that infrastructure of terrorist. incidentally, perhaps give hope also that the palestinians out there so that they can run their life independently in an honorable way, live and let live. but right now they're under the suppression of hamas. and what we are trying to do is to move them to another safe

zone so that they won't be hurt. but hamas is threatening them, stopping them. hamas has all the fuel, by the way. it's using the fuel to fight us and shoot at us. hamas has all the water that they need. they're stopping it. hamas has clear instructions that they have given to their soldiers to basically torture the people in gaza. that's what we are seeing. and let me tell you another interesting fact. hamas is the one that with their missiles broke all the electricity wires supplied to gaza. we are not responsible for their electricity in gaza. they are. but since they're sending out fake news and libels and stories full of lies, our answer is very clear. we will do whatever it takes that civilians will not be hurt. we are working very closely with the united nations and other agencies. we are talking to them. we are cooperating with them on the ground. and we are taking our time therefore so that civilians will not be hurt.

china, meanwhile, weighing in on the war between israel and hamas. the country's top diplomat says israel has now gone beyond self-defense with its actions since the hamas attack in israel. cnn's beijing bureau chief steven jiang joins me now from the chinese capital. tell us more about china's response to this conflict. >> yeah, michael, that line from chinese foreign minister wang yi has gotten quite a bitf attention because some perceive it as beijing's hardened stance toward israel as the gaza humanitarian crisis worsens. but of course in these official statements sometimes what's not being said is equally important if not more important than what's being said. the one word that's been missing in all of china's statements so far, of course, is the word hamas. even in the initial response to the heinous acts launched by hamas on october 7th the chinese statement barely mentioned the israeli casualties. and the same thing in the coverage in the tightly controlled state media on day

one, the state broadcaster cctv's flagship newscast barely mentioned any israeli suffering, instead focused on palestinian suffering after the israelis' counterattack. all of that of course did not go unnoticed by israel and its allies. chuck schumer, the u.s. senate majority leader, was actually visiting china last week when all of this happened with a bipartisan delegation. he told us he made a point of raising this issue, expressing strong disappointment with chinese leader xi jinping when they met in person. that of course has prompted a statement from the foreign ministry later expressing condolences to all civilian victims and condemning violence against all civilians. but despite china's claim of impartiality and their in insistence that china has no self-interest in this, in all the calls you saw wang yi do with regional powers, not just the palestinians but also iran, turkey and saudi arabia, they're very much highlighting the palestinian cause.

of course something they have championed for decades. and this really is something that's increasingly noticeable as well. now, all of this of course going back to decades when china was trying to be this champion of oppressed people. and also long portraying israel as a puppet state of the united states. all of that indoctrination, if you would, the messaging has also caused public sentiment to be very much pro palestinian as well. that may when one israeli embassy employee was brutally stabbed in broad daylight on the streets of beijing last friday, the day when hamas called for global jihad there, was at least little support for him and israel in chinese social media. >> steven jiang in beijing for us. we'll take a quick break. when we come back, people across the world showing their support for the civilian victims of the israel-hamas war. we'll show you some of the rallies worldwide.

nine days after hamas started its devastating assault on israel, israelis gathering for a vigil in tel aviv on sunday to remember those who were killed and kidnapped in the attacks. israel defense forces say at least 1,400 people were killed during the hamas rampage on october 7, and the idf now says hamas is holding 155 people hostage. around the world people are taking to the streets to show their support for both the israelis and palestinians. jewish communities in the u.s. have held rallies in solidarity with israel and several western nations have stepped up security at synagogues and jewish schools. at this gathering in sydney, australia there were calls for peace and justice and condemnation of israel's military action against gaza. in other countries like france pro-palestinian demonstrations have actually been banned.

let's go to melissa bell in paris. and just tell us about the level of protests around the world, melissa. >> reporter: well, it's been remarkable to see across the world those protests over the course of those last nine days. and again this sunday we saw protests in holland -- in amsterdam people took to the streets in solidarity with the palestinians. one arrest made, michael, of a man waving a hamas flag, with authorities there trying to make the distinction of the apology of terrorism, and people out there supporting the civilians of gaza but substantial numbers out on the streets there of the dutch capital. there were protests as well in morocco, in rabat. people took to the streets to show, again, their solidarity with palestinians and their opposition to what israel has been doing and is expected to continue doing, the expected incursion over the next few

days. in london it was and across other cities in the united kingdom tens of thousands took to the streets, again, in solidarity of the palestinian people as people have all over the world now for more than a week. >> palestine will be free! >> reporter: in sydney thousands turned out to express solidarity with palestinians and oppose israel's military action in gaza. the police out in full force as well, with organizers warning that anti-semitic behavior that had been seen at previous protests would not be welcome. no signs of that chaos here. but the crowd's message to the palestinian people was loud and clear. >> what's a protest going to do except spread awareness and support? we have no legitimized, legalized any enforceable power to do anything to protect them. shame on the government who do and don't do anything. >> reporter: pro-palestinian rallies have been held in cities around the world. in france and germany, where

they've been banned, demonstrators gathered regardless. some of the largest rallies for palestinians were held in the arab world. thousands attended a rally in turkey where crowds vented anger at both israel and the united states. similar scenes of solidarity in pakistan. >> we are seeing from all over the pakistan that palestinian are not alone. >> reporter: and in tunisia anger that more is not being done to protect palestinians. >> translator: my people are facing extermination and gaza is being devastated. where is the international community? where are the arabs? where is the arab conscience? >> reporter: in tokyo a smaller crowd but a similar plea. >> i can hear that we are united now, the muslims, they are very tired of war and everyone is

tired of conflict. everyone wants justice. >> reporter: this is a conflict, michael, as you know, that has always resonated widely. it has done for so much of the last more than half century. but it is of course the strength of the emotions and the violence of what's happened over the course of the last nine days that has really brought it back to the front of people's minds. we saw in those first few days tremendous outpourings of grief and solidarity for israel. with every day that passes, michael, and with all attention very much on the rafah crossing, whether it will open, the face of the civilians inside gaza, it is the anger of those supporting the palestinian people and, again, the civilians now trapped that are likely to grow louder and louder, michael. >> all right. terrific reporting. thank you, melissa. melissa bell there in paris for us. now a reminder of how the war started between israel and hamas and how it's upended so many lives.

one moment a young woman pictured here was enjoying the nova music festival with friends, and then hamas rockets rained down. she said she managed to survive by hiding. days later the 21-year-old is back with her idf unit. cnn's dana bash spoke with chen, whose full name we're withholding for her security. >> i've been in the nova festival, and with my friend. and we went there to celebrate life and happiness, and all we want to do is to dance. and during dancing on about 6:30 in the morning they shut down the music and we look up in the sky, we saw a rain of rockets. like literally rain of rockets. no one knew what to do. everyone start screaming and yelling and crying. and me and my friend decide we

need to go to our car. so we went to our car and 3,000 people trying to go out from a parking lot, it's not something easy. it's not something nice. and while we're in our car waiting to go out i saw -- i saw everyone left the cars and start running. and i didn't know what happened. so i opened my car window and i heard someone screaming "they're here. the terrorists are here." and then i realized that this is big. terrorists in israel? okay. so i left me and my friends start running through the field. and i start hearing the gunshot. come forward to us. and i lost my friend during the running. and i start running by myself. so i found a bush and i lay on

the ground in the bush and i put my hands on my head. and with my face down, and the gunshots still continuing. and people crying for help. and after that about one hour or two later of hiding i heard people not screaming but they were loud to go back to your cars. guys, go back to your cars. so because i was on my own i decided to raise my head a little bit up to see what's going on. and i decided i need to go back to my car. so i start running, and i saw my friend from home during the running. and i call him to come with me. and we get inside the car and we start driving because the road was blocked from both sides. and we saw the cops.

they were terrifying. the cops were terrifying also. they didn't know what happened. >> i'm sure. >> and they direct us to a road, to a farm road, and -- >> and you got out. >> we -- no, but in that road we saw a lot of dead bodies. dead bodies that didn't just murdered, they was slaughtered. okay? with cold blood. and we drove slowly because we didn't want to ran over the bodies. and this is how i escape. >> and chen, i'm so sorry, i just want to make sure that our viewers know that you're talking to us in the dark because you are just days later fighting in the idf. fighting in the war. >> yes. >> can you briefly tell us -- >> i decided to come back. >> -- as a survivor, that must be unimaginably difficult. >> yes, it is.

but after a couple days that i was sitting in my home and dealing with my mental health issue that happened after what i survived, really survived, i decided i need to go back to army because i'm a combat soldier. and when we reach 18 in israel and we join the army we take an oath and we swear to protect israel, to protect our country no matter when and no matter no matter what. i decided to go back to my unit because my unit were there. they start fighting.y duty, to t i swear on. because -- >> yeah. >> i don't have another home. and what happened, this massacre, this -- we're on 2023, and i was a witness to a massacre. and i don't have another home. i don't have another land. my family here.

i don't know anything else. so i decided i need to come back. i decided to put aside everything i've been through. >> now the u.s. president joe biden is condemning a stabbing attack that killed a palestinian muslim child in the city of chicago. police say 71-year-old joseph zuba fatally stabbed 6-year-old w wadia and seriously wounded his mother on what is said to be a hate crime. the mother sent text messages to the boy's father from the hospital saying zuba, who is the family's landlord had attacked her and her son with a knife elying "you muslims must die." we have not heard from zuba, it's unclear if he has an attorney from the president, this horrific act of hate has no

place in america and stands against our fundamental values. as americans, we must come together and reject islamophobia and all forms of bigotry and hatred. we'll be right back.

exit polls show poland's

populist ruling party is set to lose its parliamentary majority after sunday's hard-fought election. the opposition bloc led by former prime minister donald tusk appears on course to gain control if it strikes deals with smaller parties. the results of the election are expected to have major ramifications for poland. the balance of power in the european union and the future of the war in ukraine. center right candidate daniel is set to become ecuador's next president over concerns of rising violence in that latin american nation. neboa received 52% of the vote. his main rival, louisa gonzalez got almost 48%. almost 10 million people voted in sunday's election which comes after the assassination of another presidential candidate in august. now, when white house republicans gather behind closed doors in washington on monday

evening, they will be in their 13th day of operating without a leader. ohio congressman jim jordan is expected to force a floor vote on tuesday as he tries to become the next speaker of the house. but a number of republicans are reportedly in talks to keep the vote from happening. one senior house member who opposes a jordan speakership tells cnn he thinks there are roughly 40 votes against jordan, and at least 20 members who are willing to go to the floor on tuesday to block jordan's path if he tries to compel a role call vote. thanks for being with me this past hour. i'm michael holmes. i will have another hour of our coverage of the war between israel and gaza after the break.