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over 1,400 people. around 200 others are missing or taken hostage. hundreds of armored vehicles along with thousands of israeli troops are now poised to strike at hamas at a moment's notice. here's what an idf spokesperson told cnn earlier. >> the timeline, you know, that changes according to many variables on the ground, in the air, and across the sea. the important thing is that the idf will conduct significant military operations in order to defeat hamas, in order to bring our hostages home, and in order to fundamentally change the security situation that we have in southern israel and frankly all of israel. >> with iranian-backed militants putting pressure on israel's northern border and threatening a wider conflict, the u.s. defense secretary announced the u.s. will boost its defense posture in the middle east. the directive calls for more advanced missile defense systems to be deployed across the region

as well as placing more u.s. troops under "prepare to deploy" orders. the immediate goal is to provide greater protection to the american ships, planes, and troops already in the region and prepare for any potential threats. elliot got kine joins us from london with developments. the israeli defense morse indicating it's going to increase its strikes on gaza, wanting citizens in the north to head south to avoid significant combat. the u.s. is stepping up its deterrence in the region. >> reporter: quite a number of developments. what we're seeing, as far as the potential for a ground invasion is concerned, we've been talking about it being a question of when rather than if ever since october the 7th when hamas launched that terrorist attack. and it does seem like that that timing is now imminent. we had the chief of the general staff telling troops, you will be going in.

telling them to keep in mind the images of those people being killed, men, women, children, elderly, babies being killed, kidnapped by hamas to kind of inspire them to complete this mission, which was just outlined by the spokesman there, ready to just try to destroy hamas' military capability and prevent it from ever being able to launch such an attack again. we talked about ramping up air strikes. we've seen dozens of strikes, according to idf, being carried out overnight on everything from tower blocks to command and control centers operating out of mosques to weapons storm facilities and the like. really trying to pave the way for this ground invasion, to minimize the threat to their troops. because this will, even in the best of times, a ground invasion of the gaza strip is complicated and fraught with danger, both to the lives of troops and also, of course, to the lives of civilians in the gaza strip caught in the middle. israel will be aware of those. they know hamas is expecting them to go in, so we're really

just waiting to see when ask how the idf goes in and exactly what it plans to do. because of course, also on their minds will be the presence of more than 200 hostages that hamas took. they don't want to cause any harm to them. they want to try to rescue them, but that is not going to be a very easy circle to square, if you like, when they are trying to destroy hamas at the same time. >> of course, elliot, israel doesn't just have its focus on gaza and the west bank. it's also looking towards its northern border. hezbollah intensifying its attacks there. israel responding with strikes. and now evacuation orders? >> reporter: that's right. in terms of strikes, the idf saying in the last few hours that it took out a terrorist cell, it says, belonging to hezbollah. it was about to fire anti-tank missiles up there on the border. there have been exchanges of fire. israel saying that every single time they are hit or rockets are fired from southern lebanon

towards israel, that they will retaliate. and this kind of back and forth, tit for tat, has been building steadily over the last couple of weeks. we saw evacuation orders for the town of kiryat shimon, about 20,000 people live there. 14 communities have been added to that. this is a voluntary evacuation order. they are not being obliged to leave, they are being put up in state-subsidized guesthouses. this morning idf saying they are adding 14 more communities, not just to protect them but also to give idf itself more operational room for maneuver when it comes to attacking hezbollah and other militant groups that may seek to fire towards israel. >> all right, elliot got kine, good to have you with us from london, thank you. we have some video that illustrates how lives have been disrupted even for those in gaza who have survived the death and destruction so far. a tent city offering refuge to

thousands of gaza residents who are fleeing south. the hamas-run government in gaza said in a statement over 1 million people have been displaced. they are desperate for basic at the time necessities that most of us take for granted. the world food program says shortages of food, clean drinking water, power, and medicine are pushing gaza to the edge of catastrophe. francesca albanese spoke with michael holmes earlier, describing how the situation in gaza is disastrous. >> 1.4 million gazans. that's more than half the population displaced. what is the human impact of those numbers? what are you hearing from staff and civilians inside about that impact? >> i hope that these numbers do not come across as -- 1.4

million displaced. it's more than half the gaza population without a roof on their head. and half of the population of gaza is made of children. 4,300 people have already been killed. 1,400 of them are children. of course we are talking about a population who is extremely, extremely distressed and traumatized also, because they come from six years of unlawful blockade and five wars. someone who's 16 years old in gaza has already gone through six major wars. the situation is disastrous. and i do not think that by any means, a security response was what the situation between israelis and palestinians needed. and surely this is not going to bring more peace to this tormented land.

>> i wanted to ask you, we know the blockade by israel. no food, no fuel, no water, no medicine. do you know if people who have died as a direct result of the blocking of water, food, fuel, so on, as distinct from the bomb wardments? i'm curious whether you know the closing off of literally everything has cost lives yet, as opposed to the potential to do so? >> michael, i understand this question, but it's impossible to give an answer amidst chaos. you asked me about my contact with the people in gaza. my first entry points are humanitarian actors, human rights actors, and even the houses of the directors of the most renowned human rights organizations, an icon of human rights engagement. he's been taken out of the

rubble. i'm glad to know that he's alive. but this is the kind of challenges that the people in gaza are facing. it's very difficult to have information in the first place because they do not have electricity to communicate. and the situation is to volatile to be able to provide those indicators. >> what do you know about the capabilities of u.n. facilities inside gaza, schools, other facilities, most of which are being used for shelter by many thousands of gazan civilians? how overrun are they? are they under threat? >> they are critically under threat. because for example, there are 500,000 people sheltered eed i unrwa schools. many of them have been hit.

mosques, hospitals, schools all targeted. there was a hospital bombed a few days ago. now there is another hospital, al kuds hospital, hosting 1,200 patients and 12,000 idps, internally displaced people. it has received an evacuation order. so it's likely to be bombed as well. i mean, this is the fear. the situation is disastrous. israeli air strikes have pounded several targets in the west bank over the weekend. the united nations says at least 13 palestinians, including five children, were killed after an israeli security forces operation lasted for 28 hours in a refugee camp in the area. israeli forces also launched an air strike early sunday morning on a mosque in the west bank, what they called an imminent terror attack thwarted. israeli forces said they had new

intelligence that suggested there was a joint hamas squad under a mosque. arab leaders had gathered in egypt to try to thwart a growing escalation of the situation in gaza and try and protect its civilians. in his opening remarks, jordan's king abdullah rallied against israel's bombing campaign, calling it a war crime. >> all civilian lives matter. my friends, i am outraged and grieved by those acts of violence waged against innocent civilians in the gaza strip, in the west bank, and israel. the relentless bombing campaign under way in gaza strip as we speak is cruel and unconscionable on every level. it is collective punishment of a

besieged and helpless people. it is a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law. it is a war crime. >> israeli and senior u.s. officials were not at that summit. israel's foreign affairs minister said it was unfortunate some of those attending "had difficulty condemning terrorism." then there is the question of aid. humanitarian and military aid. billions of dollars from the u.s. in limbo. cnn's priscilla alvarez reports the white house is facing an uphill battle to get the aid package through congress any time soon. >> reporter: the white house asking for $105 billion to include funding for ukraine and israel. breaking down numbers, $61 billion for ukraine, $14 billion for israel, over $9 billion for humanitarian aid. in addition to funding for the u.s./mexico border and the indo-pacific region. a white house official tells me

over the course of the weekend, the white house legislative affairs team is in talks with members of congress, both sides of the aisle, to shore up support for this funding package. the white house says they anticipate there will be bipartisan support but they also face an uphill battle as there is still no speaker of the house of representatives. now, house republicans ended the week still scrambling to find a speaker after pushing republican representative jim jordan out of the race. over the last 24 hours, new hopefuls have already begun to emerge, but there is no conclusion in sight, putting this funding package still in limbo. president biden is also trying to shore up support with americans. in a prime tile address he played a direct appeal to americans, trying to make clear these aren't just ongoing conflicts happening abroad but they affect u.s. national security and it is important for the united states to remain involved and provide critical aid. today the president also received a briefing from his national security team as all of

this continues to unfold and his team seeks to shore up support among americans, but also members of congress. still to come, the fear of violence spreading beyond gaza with israeli tanks on the border. we'll talk with a middle east expert about the prospect of this conflict escalating into the wider region.

all the countries, where are you? you must understand, it's crazy. we are in hell. >> we are in hell. >> and we want our lovers back home now. >> that's the mother of an israeli hostage pouring out her anguish at a demonstration in tel aviv saturday night. she was one of several family members of hostages who joined the rally along with hundreds of other israelis. they called on the government to bring all the hostages home immediately and waved signs calling for a cease-fire. israel's military says 210 people are currently being held

in gaza two weeks after the deadly hamas terror attack in israel. another family ripped apart by the october 7th terror attacks. >> tratr >> translator: for the past two years he's been fighting cancer, but now his fight is to do anything he can to return his entire family home that was kidnapped by hamas to gaza. >> a cancer survivor whose siblings and father are believed to be held hostage by hamas. if that's not enough, other family members have been killed. i want to speak to his mother, ha hadas, whose two young irchildren and dad are believed to be hostages. i'm so sorry for what you're going through. thank you for taking the time to speak with us.

i know five members of your family were kidnapped. i'm so sorry that two have been killed. your mother and your niece. it's hard to imagine what you're going through. how are you coping? >> you know, five members, as you said, five members of my family has been taken cruelly away. they've been taken from their bed, pajamas, to gaza. a few days ago, we got the message. my mom, my dear, dear, beautiful mom and my niece, my special niece, special needs, autism. my mom, she's american citizen. they've been murdered in gaza. i don't have the time even to stop to feel the pain and to grieve.

you understand? i don't have the time because i have to still make my fight for my children. so i didn't go to the ceremony. i didn't go -- i don't sit for seven days like in the jewish religion. i don't have the time for that. i don't have the time to grieve about my friends, 80 friends kidnapped. a lot of friends from childhood that have been killed, murdered. i don't have the time to grieve for my house, my nice house, beautiful house, that's been gone by massacre, by pogrom. you know, i don't stop and to process and what's happened. the traumatic 7 of october, the darkest, dark day. i don't have the time to process what's happened. i just work and work and run to

explain and to scream our pain and ask for saving my children's life and the other children. the only thing i can do is wear a black shirt. it's the only thing i can do for grieving, you understand? >> yeah, i mean, your focus right now is on your son and your daughter, their father, taken hostage by hamas. what do you know about what happened to them? >> we know they've been hostage, we don't know much. no information. no nothing. we don't know if they get -- if they're staying in good situation, if they get food, water, air, we don't know. they open human aid for gaza.

they didn't open the aid for the hostage. it's amazing. i think we've been abandoned, you know? twice. we've been abandoned in the first time, the 7 of october, for eight hours nobody come to help us. we've been alone in this massacre. they destroyed our kibbutz. this was first time. second time is now. which they don't put -- they don't think they have to -- the main goal is to take the children out. and it's not the main goal for the government. it's one of the other subjects but it's not the main goal. the whole world understand it already. the whole world, united states, france, they -- it's the main goal to take them out. it's not the war. after, you can make the war. and we've been abandoned twice.

210 civilians. babies. children. elderly. men, women. pregnant women. it's unbelievable. they're still there. and they keep the war. they're going to forget them, you know? they keep the war. talking about go inside gaza. they kill -- they murder one of hamas. well, how come? it's a critic time, every moment is huge danger. they must act now, immediately, and to save the children. the babies. send them home. >> hadas, can you describe your children for us? we've just seen images of your son and daughter. how do you describe them? >> my little son, el, is 12

years old. my angel. he loved to laugh. he have the humor. he loved to play football, ping-pong. he love to ride horses. he love to ride -- he love animals, you know? such good heart. he love to ride bike. salah, she's my daughter, 16, a teenager. she love to dress, to have nice clothes, to put makeup, dance, draw, she's artist. and she have such a good heart. and she helps everybody and has so many friends. and their father. the best father ever. he take them, teach them to be human and value, good value. he take them to the nature. he takes them to pick fish in the water, you know? to take them with a jeep in the

nature. to travel. he love to travel. he teach them how to ride bike, mountain bike. he's a carpenter. he makes things from wood. he loves wood. this is his life. he's a simple man. he loves wood. make tables and kitchen -- you know? that's what -- special hands. i hope they are together and keep safe each other, you know? that's what i pray for. >> they've now been held by hamas for two weeks. if you had a message for hamas, what would you say? what's your message to hamas, who's been holding them captive for two weeks? >> hamas. i think hamas had great

opportunity to show the world it's human. showing the face of them, you know? because here now what they did, it was a cruelness ever happen in the world. it's so -- they come and murder and butcher and murder and burn the houses, the cars, shoot even dogs. it's not good faith for them in the world. who's going to talk to them after that? and now they still had one opportunity to send all the hostage, to send the children and babies and hostages home. it's civilian, it's not the war. it's innocent people, you know, innocent. they have to send them home to show the world, here, we're

still human. we don't touch. we keep safe your children as they've been our children. you know? i think it's the best they can do for us and them. you know, i say to government, you must stop any arm acting. you must make -- make any arm acting. the main goal is to save children. you must take them out. let go the citizens out. and then you do whatever you want. you know? this is our enemy. we have to talk to them. not to the leaf or to the trees or to the stones. this is our enemy. we have to talk to our enemy. it's the only way. and i think -- i'm not political

man, i'm a simple woman. i'm not politic. but it's so obvious. we must take our prison, the terrorist prison, i think we have 4,000, put them on the bus and give them, take them. take them back and send our citizens, the children, back home. >> you want a prisoner exchange. from what we understand, we haven't heard any discussions of that just yet. >> sorry? >> we understand you want a prisoner exchange, you want your family back, you want your children back. and we just want to wish you all the very best. i'm so sorry for what you're going through. hadas calderon, thanks so much for sharing your story and we wish you the best. >> i talk as a mom and from the voice of the other moms.

we must make sure our children are safe. to take care of them from the bad people, you know? this is our -- goal. >> we really do hope you are reunites with your children. >> just in the night when i sleep, i don't even know about it, but my friends who keep going with me and help me to tell me in the night, 4:00, "cried like hell, you screamed." i said, "what?" i don't even remember. i don't know. i was sleeping. just when i sleep. without knowing, even. then i cry for my children. >> hadas, we wish you all the best. we really do hope you get reunite the with your children really soon, with your family. thank you so much. >> thank you, thank you. thank you for any help. thank you for any help. >> we'll be right back.

welcome back. the israel defense force say they are increasing and intensifying air strikes in gaza to, quote, minimize the risk to its troops in the next stages of the war. the israeli military has prepared an enormous fighting force poised on the border with gaza. cnn's jeremy diamond is in ashkelon with the very latest. >> reporter: in case there was any question that israel intends to go into gaza strip with troops, a ground invasion, the top general saying, "we will enter the gaza strip."

what he is also telling his troops is their mission to "do stroy hamas operatives and infrastructure." these comments add to others by the defense minister, the israeli prime minister, all making clear that a ground invasion is certainly approaching. on the ground, what we also see are the signs of a potentially imminent ground invasion as well. driving along the gaza strip today, within about eight kilometers or so of the gaza strip, what we found was not one, not two, but four different groupings of dozens of tanks, armored personnel carriers, as well as these d-9 bulldozers which the israeli military uses ahead of ground troops to try and dig dig up and set off any potential ieds as well as any other obstacles that may be in the way of those forces. put together, these four groupings that we saw in just about one square mile of an area represented hundreds of tanks

and armored personnel carriers as well as those bulldozers. there were also infantry troops positioned along the way. the only question appears to be exactly when the israeli military will move forward with this invasion. certainly hamas seems to continue to be dangling the possibility of additional hostages being released as one way to try and delay this ground invasion. but israel's military continues to insist it will move forward at a time and place of its choosing. and in line with that, israeli military officials now say that they are increasing their strikes, that they are intensifying those strikes in order to try and minimize the risk to their own troops when they move in on the ground. but the question of what the impact will be on gaza civilians who have already suffered so much in two weeks of bombardment by israeli forces, more than 1,600 children are believed to have died, according to the

palestinian ministry of health. that question of civilian casualties still remains going forward. israel's military has directed civilians to move out of the northern part of the gaza strip and move south. when i spoke with a special forces commander just the other day, this commander said that civilians have been directed out of those areas, and he said, quote, anyone who has chosen to stay there has chosen a side. indicating to his troops that any person who remains in that area could potentially be an enemy and could potentially be a target. at the same time, that commander said his troops will still try and avoid civilian casualties, but those comments and the broader specter of this war and how it has already impacted civilians inside of gaza raises the possibility of a very bloody time, bloody days, bloody weeks ahead. jeremy diamond, cnn, ashkelon. the entire region is close

to a boiling point. some experts believe that the longer it goes on, the chance of it spilling over into a much bigger deal increases. joining me from london is daniel levy, the president of the u.s. middle east project. thanks for being with us. >> thank you for having me. >> so you were a former member of the israeli delegation to the israeli/palestinian peace talks. despite all those efforts, those years of discussions, it seems that peace is more elusive than ever. what is your take on what we are seeing right now? >> well, i really appreciate your reminding me and your audience that there is such a thing of peace talks, or at least there was. we've just seen that report. we've seen the images coming out of gaza. we've seen what happened to israelis on october 7th. and you had a very moving interview with an israeli woman

who was saying, take all the children out of this conflict, release children being held prisoner by israel and those being held in gaza. i think it's just important to do that, to step back, take off our -- okay, the military are going to do this, what are they going to do next? just remember that war is horrific. everything should be done to stop this now. i know that america, and it's been reported, is claiming some credit that the ground invasion hasn't happened yet, this hasn't spread into a broader regional escalation yet. but neither of those things are guaranteed to continue. in fact, they're almost guaranteed to get worse. and you're right to say that if we have a ground invasion, and what's happening without a ground invasion is horrific enough. 1,600 dead palestinian children in gaza, more than the entire child death toll, as horrible as that phrase is, in ukraine in the first year.

but there is that ground invasion, it gets worse. there was an israeli attack in the west bank in jenin last night. the likelihood of a spillover, a conflagration increases. you have to say wait a minute, there's the humanitarian need. we had a trickle, a touch of something yesterday. there was the release of the two americans. maybe we can get a dynamic where the prisoner release comes more to the forefront. we need to get into a de-escalation and an immediate cease-fire. and i know people might say, that's not realistic. i'll tell you what's not realistic. what's not realistic is to think, after years and decades, that if you militarily crush the palestinians and keep them without rights, without hope, stateless, every day, even before october 7, subjected to a horrific occupation and dispossession, that somehow that will bring security to israelis and palestinians. so my plea is, step back from

the brink. now we can talk policy. but it's so important to remember those things. >> you make so many great points there. i've spoken with israeli defense forces spokespeople, asked them and challenged them on that notion of their objective to destroy hamas, to take out that entire terror network. and the risk that in trying to do that, there's some other -- the radical terrorist emerges, some other group emerges. what sort of objective should there be on all sides right now to minimize the risk of escalation? >> well, those spokespeople are doing their job. they're giving their talking points. the talking points are what they are. the political and military leadership i think is -- i think

it's looking for revenge. it thinks perhaps that if you target this and target that and target the other -- and i get, by the way, it's their job to provide security to israelis. i think they conspicuously failed to do that. not only in the immediate leadup to october 7 but in the years and decades in which they avoided doing politics. the military can give respite to politicians, to pursue other means. that's what the military will almost always tell you. if you want to do counterinsurgency, if you want to try and isolate militants, you don't turn the whole population against you. so by keeping palestinians in these conditions, whether it's in gaza under a siege for 16, 17 years, already a population of refugees kicked out during what the palestinians call the night of catastrophe. if it's in the west bank. wherever it is, what you're

doing is you're encouraging rather than diluting militancy amongst the population. so they are now set, i would argue, with an impossible of task of win this militarily. i think it's the job -- because israel is feeling pain, i get that. after october 7th. it was a horrendous thing. but the job i think of the outside -- and this is why, yes, the u.s. administration has been in there. i hope that they keep working those channels more intently. it's the job of the outside to walk them back. they're doing some of that, i don't think they're doing enough of that. maybe the supply of weapons they think gives them more purchase on the israeli decision-making, but it doesn't feel that way. i think to the rest of the world, this looks like warmongering and it looks like a double standard. the king of jordan spoke at a peace summit in cairo yesterday, and he's an american ally. kind of dependent on america.

he's someone taken seriously in israel as well. he made that plea. he said when a country is doing the kind of things israel is doing somewhere else -- he was referring to the russia/ukraine situation -- they were held accountable. he was saying the rest of the world is looking at this, seeing that you hold people of a certain race, religion, in a certain part of the world differently. their lives are worth less. i think there's a cost to america not only in what's directly happening but also in the broader image in vetoing a very modest call for humanitarian pause at the united nations. i think there are so many reasons why america should help israel step back from an unrealizable goal that its soldiers will pursue with determination, but it can't succeed because there is no military execution. and the hell that the people of gaza, the palestinian 2.2 million month who live there are going through -- and 20 duck

trucks doesn't even begin to shift that hell -- needs to be brought to an end. it does not bring a better tomorrow. >> exactly. those 20 trucks carrying aid represent just 3% of what they normally get every single day. daniel levy, we'll have to leave it there. really good to have you on the program, thanks so much. we're going to take a quick break, we'll be right back.

welcome back. an israeli ground incursion into gaza will eventually have to deal with what the idf is calling the gaza metro, a vest network of tunnels beneath gaza. clearing them out poses an especially thorny tactical problem, the israeli troops. cnn's tom foreman explains. >> reporter: as much as we hear about the tunnels under gaza, there really aren't many photos or eyewitness accounts as to exactly what they are compared to the importance of them. generally, many of them seem to

be dug by hand, relatively small, and reinforced with concrete so they can't easily be collapsed. how big is this network? think about this. gaza is only about 25 by six miles. yet the indication is there may be more than 300 miles of tunnels underneath that. the depth, unknown. maybe a few meters, maybe more, and many appear fairly cramped. possible uses? hiding command centers, weapons caches, rocketry, and yes, maybe even hostages. secret movement of key hamas figures. they might be in this area, go to this part of the area, and be undetected because they can't be spied with satellites or drones or anything else. and they would represent a safe place in this small area. relatively safe, in that a lot of conventional weapons would not easily penetrate this, but you might have to bring in bunker-buster bombs if somebody really wanted to go through the reinforcement and all of that

earth to get underneath. that's why this is a focus, not only for hamas, but for the israelis too. still to come, countries are working to get their citizens out of israel and back home to safety. we'll have more on those efforts after a quick break.

since israel's war on hamas began, countries have been working to bring their citizens home to get them out of danger. michael holmes reports. >> reporter: out of harm's way. countries around the world are flying their citizens out of israel on repatriation flights filled with foreign nationals fleeing is israel/hamas war. many of the people leaving israel were there to earn a living better than they could in their homelands. officials in thailand say at least 30 of their citizens have been killed since hamas launched its attack on israel two weeks ago. eight bodies have been returned. many of the dead worked on israeli farms. the thai government says it's working to return the other bodies and also repatriate thousands of thai citizens who

want to leave israel. >> translator: the number of thai citizens who wish to return home keeps increasing. we're trying to get thai people back as soon as possible. >> reporter: emotional reunions in manila as a flight carrying filipinos who were working in israel returned home. many of the evacuees were employed as care givers in israel when the attacked happened, and some say they still can't shake what they saw. >> translator: apart from the gunfights, explosions were heard along with the sirens. i felt nervous. i was shaking from fear. >> reporter: more than 200 agricultural students from a work study program in israel flew back to nepal last week. ten of their group were killed in the attacks. on saturday, the bodies of four students were flown back to kathmandu. grief-stricken families say it's hard to believe they are gone. >> translator: we used to say he

would return home, build a concrete house, and bring all of us together. now even his body is not here. >> reporter: the families say the students were full of hope when they left. a chance to earn money, as much as $15,000, and learn new skills in israel's high-tech agriculture sector. this father says his son was going to use his savings to start a farming business back in nepal. >> translator: if i had known about this danger, i would have stopped him. i thought he was going there on a study visa and it would be good for him and his bright future. >> reporter: a future cut short, like so many others caught in the middle of a conflict far from their home. thanks so much for joining us this hour. i'm lynda kinkade. my good friend anna coren has more of our coverage of the israel/hamas war after a quick break.