hello and welcome to our viewers, here in the united states and all around the world i'm paula newton with our coverage of israel's war on hamas. israel is rejecting calls for a cease-fire. as its troops and tanks go ever deeper into gaza. more than three weeks after the deadly rampage by hamas, the israeli ground operation is expanding and believed israeli forces are at least several kilometers or a little bit more than a couple of miles inside the enclave. the prime minister is making it clear that he will leave no troops. preparing his government stance to that of the, u.s. after his attacks on pearl harbor and

9/11. >> this is a time for the war for a common used to. between the forces of civilization and the forces it is a time for everyone to decide israel will stand against the forces -- >> the time israeli strike has hit gaza's top cancer hospital, and supporting it signals the damage to oxygen and water supplies. and new details are emerging about how a female israeli soldier was rescued from hamas. the israel defense forces say private -- was saved during a special operation in getting her out with boots on the ground. the idf added that she has been medically checked out. she's doing well. and, thankfully, met with her family. and she has been able to share information about her captivity with israeli intelligence.

a closer look now at the israeli military is ramped up offensive in gaza. as well as the fighting on a second friend. cnn's jim sciutto has our report. >> [speaking in a non-english language] >> an israeli tank, inside gaza apparently fired on a passenger vehicle. a sniper takes that position in the window of an abandoned building. the israeli infantry advancing on the ground. and in a brief moment of apparent trialed, israeli soldiers raise the israeli flag over a gaza hotel. >> the outside world vision into the extent and size of the israeli ground offensive, so far, is limited. the idf said those ground forces have struck some of their first target. >> dozens of terrorist were eliminated last night. who had barricaded themselves and buildings and attempted to attack the forces that were moving in their direction. >> one measure of their forward progress, cnn geolocated the video where the soldier raised

the flag on the hotel. more than two miles inside gaza. one geographical marker in a ground campaign, playing out mostly. what were available for israeli strikes on gaza, and rockets fired from gaza into israel. despite weeks of israeli bombardment, a masochistic e pick up its rocket campaign. the israeli prime minister said that the war cabinet is refusing calls for humanitarian cease-fire. >> calls for a cease-fire are calls for israel to surrender to hamas. to surrender to terrorism. the surrender to barbers and that will not happen. this is a time for war. on israel's northern border with lebanon, clashes on a second front. israeli forces trading artillery, and small arms fire with hezbollah and other militant. the idf said this is an israeli strike on hezbollah military

infrastructure in lebanon. >> our team found ourselves in the crossfire sunday. as shells fired from lebanon, rain down on the israeli town of or -- you can hear mortar and artillery fire going. out that is from israel towards lebanon. we also heard artillery fire coming from lebanon and the concern is the soldiers telling us that there are possible infiltrations across the border from lebanon by, presumably hezbollah fighters. and that is why the level of concern is so great. >> the near constant, exchange of fire stretches all along the northern frontier. with communities marked here in black, under mandatory evacuation. [sirens] with constant sirens and threat of rocket attacks driving many israeli residents south away from the border. closer to safety. jim sciutto, cnn, northern israel.

>> we want to go straight to our clear sebastian who is following developments from london. and unfortunately, claire, definitely from what we have seen in the last few days this conflict is escalating. >> yes, absolutely paula and i think that what we can say right now is that the 238 hostages that the idf says are still in hamas captivity continue to be a major factor as you noted we saw the rescue, not release, but rescue of a female israeli soldier from captivity on monday. and this is the first of its kind really. because what we have seen hamas release four hostages so far they say on humanitarian grounds that this was different. listen to how the israeli defense forces spokesperson explained how this happened to cnn's anderson cooper. >> she was in fact rescued actively. wreck -- this was a joint idf and i say ready security agency operation. with boots on the ground,

thanks to the operations, the ground operations that we are conducting in northern gaza. and special forces were able to come in. based on intelligence together. so we're hearing this emphasized by israeli officials in the prime minister himself -- and get these hostages out an important for them to emphasize that it's important to relate fears that they couldn't do those two things at the same time and of course major questions remain. given the 230 hostages are still hamas captivity. it's impossible that israel should restore the reputation of the idf itself. and the idf intelligence services after the failing of october 7th. that it was -- how must also showed it, and when it comes to these hostages on monday. we saw the second hostage video

and we're not showing it because the women in it seemed to be under duress. and of, course it used for propaganda purposes. but in, a three women are seen. only one of them speaks. and she, is essentially screaming had benjamin netanyahu, the prime minister accusing him of having promise to get them out, demanding that he freed the hostages now. significant, because we know that there were talks going on last week. brokered by egypt and qatar to try to potentially free it significant number of hostages. israel displayed many progress in those talks. and then proceeded to launch this ground offensive. so it is very clear, paula, that even as we see israeli operations ramping up. hamas still sees a purpose in holding these hostages. potentially, to try to slow down that ground offensive by israel. >> yes certainly a difficult time for the families of both hostages again as these videos were released. clare sebastian for, us appreciate it. >> now the unicef chief is issuing a stark warning. saying that the lack of clean

water in gaza is on the verge of becoming a catastrophe. he said more than 2 million people are in dire need of clean water in the enclave. and with that, it they will suffer from dehydration and water borne illnesses. melissa bell shows us the gravity of the situation. >> in gaza, the fight for survival grows more desperate by the. our civil order is breaking down with you an aid warehouses swarmed. many of these people who have been displaced and are now in a desperate search of the bases. the water sorted so bad that some are now turning to the city for the supplies they so desperately need. >> the services are not set up for. this the shelter which, as we call it shelter now is supposed to be a school so in a classroom that's supposed to have, what, 20 kids or 30 kids attending school every day you have more than 100 7200 people

sleeping, eating, drinking and those are the people that we know. these are the people that we used to talk all the time, left all the time. >> all eyes are not on the rafah crossing. a last lifeline in and out of gaza. >> before the war, some 400 trucks a day went into the enclave according to the world food programme of flow, now reduced to a trickle. with fewer than 200 getting through roughest since the war began. >> a crossing that is now as crucial as it is uncertain. >> we'll keep going until the. and until they get all their humanitarian needs. god be with them. we are there egyptian martyrs. our hands are in their hands. we have been here for 15 days already. and we will stay for us long as it takes.

>> it is at the nearby irish airport that aid from all over the world arrives before being loaded on to egyptian red crescent trucks on the way to rafah. the convoy, is also good for inspection by israeli officials by the crossing before the aid can be delivered to those who did -- >> since we got here 20 days ago, we only got two coupons worth of aid. each of which is only sufficient for a small child. >> a stranglehold, that aid agencies warn is unlikely to be fixed without a cease-fire. >> there is definitely going to be dehydration, there's definitely gonna be starvation. there's definitely going to be a health crisis. malnutrition is going to be an issue. we're talking about people that are reducing food to avoid going to the toilet. it's as simple as that. >> meaning that for, now those who are inside of gaza, that

there's little hope that more aide will get in. and even less that they will get out. melissa bell, cnn, cairo. >> still to come for us, the conflict between israel and hamas is also creating tensions on some u.s. college campuses and communities right across the globe. we will have more on this troubling trend after the break.

so the start of the israel hamas conflict community in the

united states and right across the globe, we are seeing a rise in antisemitic threats and acts. cnn nick watt has more. >> he's scuffle at -- after pro palestinian demonstrators tried to burn an israeli flag. a cornell, dudes were threatened with death and called pigs in an online forum saturday according to the cornell daily son. >> no one should be afraid to walk from their dorm. or their dining hall to a classroom. >> but that is the reality. another post-thread is gonna shoot up west, that's the address of a college center for jewish living. and the kosher dining hall. >> we will not tolerate antisemitism on this campus. >> there is no hate for people in america, and we don't condemn antisemitic threats in the strongest term. for the students at cornell,

and on campuses across the country we are tracking these threats closely. >> at george washington university, glory to our mortars along the messages projected on a library wall. >> celebrating the individuals who murder and massacre israeli civilians. >> and it's not just college campuses, slurs painting on a building in beverly hills where holocaust survivor and her -- live >> anytime someone he too, it hurts. florida >> congressman posted saturday, the temple i belong to was targeted by five people wearing ski mask and shouting kill the. as congregants left. >> this has gone into a horrible place that reminds the jewish community, quite frankly of the reason why israel was created in the first place. >> antisemitic incidents are up nearly 400% since the hamas terror attacks of october 7th. according to preliminary data just released from the atl. >> let's keep in mind that

prior to october 7th we had already seen the highest number of anti jewish acts in america that the apl had upper tract in the last 45 years. >> quite frankly, there are very few corners of the world right now in which you won't see that sort of craziness. different levels, of course, but it's everywhere. >> today in paris, four jewish educational institutes received bomb threats from china normallyly strict state senators appeared to be allowing extremists antisemitic posts online. >> and in southern russia, a mob, some carrying antisemitic signs, broke into an airport sunday apparently to meet a flight from tel aviv. >> that was an angry mob that broke through security at an airport, looking for and i'm pretty sure that they were not looking to have a robust foreign policy competition. >> at least ten people were

injured, say local officials. the airport had to close, flights from israel are now being diverted. we want to thank nick watt for that report. and for more now on this disturbing trend i'm joined by the founder for the study of hate and extremism. i'm glad to have you with us this evening on what happened. an absolutely chilling scene from so many corners of the globe. you know advocacy groups, like, yours have been warning for years. they have been on the rise. i mean, how do you characterize what is happening now given the horrific events for the last two weeks? >> thank you so much for this question and you know we have decades of data and what we found that during the 1990s, when there was a bloody episode of on the west bank with the terror tack against hamas and the united states, he crimes

hit decade highs. similarly in october 2000 during the second intifada, that was a decade high for antisemitic hate crimes. and most recently, and the latest data that we have from around the world whether it's london, antisemitic hate crimes up more than 15 times, and in new york city which had a record last year. we are seeing more hate crimes in october than the previous three or four months combined. los angeles antisemitic hate crimes tripled. so we're seeing this all over the world. and toronto. more than double. so we're seeing that just in the last few weeks. so unfortunately, we are repeating a terrible pattern that we have seen before when conflicts of the holy land get violin. >> and when we look at some of the events, the ones that nick watt aligned at cornell university for an example a lot

of what happened there was nurtured online. and in some cases, this is protected by free speech, at least in the united states. but what is the risk of this kind of free speech protection? what is the risk of that then leading people to carry out violent crimes? >> where the great question. and thank you so much. by the way let's look at cornell as a micro cause. the professor talked about the hamas attack earlier this month as being energized and exhilarating at a rally on campus. and then, just a short time later this kind of hate got normalized. first of, all threats are always criminally prosecutable in the eyes of the united states. and the fbi is looking into this. but what we have seen, time and time again is that when leaders speak of tolerance and has an effect, so six days after 9/11, when president bush spoke about

muslims, hate crimes dropped the next day and into the next year. similarly though when candidate trump talked about a muslim ban proposal five days after the terror tack, he crimes against muslims went up another 20% above the spike that we saw from the terror attack. so bottom line is, civic leaders, including campus leaders have to set a tone where, certainly people can rally under the first amendment. the threats, those are legal. more ever, for a community we have to say that antisemitic stereotypes are glorifying the weapons that we use and tear attacks. that should be communally off limits and we should make a safe space for everybody on campus so that people can discuss these things as posted buttons each other. >> as you, know there is that dividing line between what people assume is free speech to

speech that is in fact huge speech. but for in, fact those are columbia university i am sure you've seen this defending the opinions and others in the school protesting israel's action saying, and i want to quote them here, and argue that the student statement aims to contextualize october 7th, 2023 pointing out that military operations and state violence did not begin that day. but rather represented a military response. a military response, they're saying. by a people who had endured crushing an unrelenting state violence from an occupying power over many years. i want to get the opinion from. you because you know how contentious that statement is at this hour. and whether or not you think that kind of free speech should be protected. >> well free speech must be protected. but i'm talking about as a community for people to call terror attacks where people

were in the video, or where people were mutilated 1400. and here's the problem. the legitimate aspirations of palestinians, and i've been working on an inter faith in middle east peace for many years is silly by those who say decolonization is a license for antisemitism, and bigotry. so that's a, thing i've been looking for this along time and within these protests. and many of them are peaceful. many of them are not antisemitic. but those, when we see slots echoes people laughing and did, bodies well holding these pictures up, aaron -- to intimidate populations. and, what happened on october

7th whether people like it or not was in fact terrorism. and now the response certainly is something that is not above criticism as well. but we have to on campuses is to make sure to contextualize things, we don't use that as a license for antisemitism or other types of religious bigotry or discrimination against people because of their national origin. that is protected by law and people should have a safe place in the education environment to discuss these issues. and that is where the educational -- has been feeling, we're not going towards dialogue, we're going towards the most aggressive, and violent type of speech and then trying to justify it as decolonization. >> i do want to get to this point, i mean you talk about context, here and frankly so much of the discussion has been reductive us to be dehumanizing. and i want to know, this six-year-old boy, right, this little boy who was savagely

murdered, his mother injured. is alleged attacker, now charged with murder and he claims. i mean you and i both know this is a fight against hate of all kinds. he did that is depraved. -- let's look at what makes america distinct, and that is free speech, and protecting it but also having them say when you clarify it with discount violence for some groups and an other, that is something that we shouldn't shy way from -- and that's part of the environment, and we're not serving that well. one on the one hand, we can have protests. but, there's a certain type of

hatred, not by everybody. i want to be clear here. but, and islamic phobia, that comes out during times like this, thank you paula, we have to denounce each islamophobia later this month and antisemitism root and branch and saved -- ryan we have to leave it there. but i'm a very important discussion. brian, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> and we will be right back.

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days will you wait to say, enough. our cnn colleague, abraham dahman is in gaza with this family where he is teaching his young children how to survive in case something happens to him and his wife. take a look. >> we [speaking in a non-english language]

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[speaking in a non-english language] joining me now is the director of philanthropy at the u.n. relief and work agency usa. and he joins me now from washington. i thank you for joining us on what must be continued to be difficult hours. if you can give us an update about the situation on the ground, given the ferocity of the military confrontation there, but also i have to ask you, i know this is so personal for you, how is your family they're doing? and have you heard from them? >> hi paula. no i have not heard from them in the last few days, unfortunately. i did receive a note from my mom, and she said that she was alive. and she asked me to -- but they continued to be struggling with security and

safety. and she said 71 years old, and she's trying to survive this, the situation is immensely worse. our colleagues, every day, we look at the numbers of palestine refugees in the facilities. and it really goes out to the latest, we have 670,000 refugees taking shelter inside 150 more facilities. that is overcrowding. there is more time. the capacities right now. and those 4000 people for food insecurity, and obviously you know their safety concerns on our staff. and for the last 36 hours on our team our colleagues have very little communication. so there was a lot of logistical change and support for people with food, water and so ideally it's not a very good

position to be in. we continue to call for the protection of civilians. but as you can see it's better challenge. to keep our stuff, save us we've lost the 63 stuff. it's a result of the violence, and their strikes from gaza. and we're trying to continue. and it's becoming harder, and harder. now >> of course, he must be so challenging again with the worry that everyone has about their loved ones and gaza itself. and also when you look at the challenges. it is a struggle to survive. which is why i ask, you what we do hear about aid getting into gaza. will they make a material difference you think? >> -- because of lack of communication, the services are down, and that is part of the israeli tactic invasion for

gaza and were happy to receive aid in a mitch match, that we're receiving for things that might be relevant right now. and for example, some hospitals received -- and that is just a very slow process. and, you know we're trying to get, medicine and medical supplies. we are not getting as much as we need. and obviously, without feel that is the most important thing. as we know hospitals are continuing to require. this and the deliveries, and ambulances and how will this be in the crumbling of civilization, as we know it in gaza right now. and we're concerned. and we're hoping that things will get better as the israelis promise to protect civilians, and we're not seeing that be respected at the moment. >> and there is a lot of pressure, and i add that the united nations, for the coordination of humanitarian

affairs has called for their duty. -- -- >> no longer they, believe that their loved ones will remain in captivity. how does the human balance those concerns? >> -- whether you want, support and they see that they're doing the work. and you are correct, obviously we want all civilians to be protected. including the hostages in gaza and obviously we want them to be safe. but, again we are focused in collecting and uplifting the experience of the palestine refugees. and i hope that, the crossing gets opened. right now, we know that it gets shipped 100 kilometers for

israelis detected. and what's the greenlight, it goes in that slows down the process, that we're asking. for 400 for 100 trucks a day. my -- we're getting 10 to 20 a, day i'm getting some promising things. and that's going to save lives, you know. we're not talking about anything sophisticated like computers, and were just telling people that we need water. this is a very basic humanitarian demand. and our colleagues are hoping to get as much as we can to get equal to the services that they need. so we're talking about protecting sylvia, ms. and somehow become -- at this time. >> it is not an exaggeration. as i, said every minute of every day is about surviving. and i really hope that you hear more from their families, that they stay safe, and that you continue to work and be granted strength, for the work that you do. thank you so much. >> thank you for having me. >> still ahead for, us it's been weeks since their family members disappeared. but they haven't given a.

pope cnn speaks to relatives of hamas hostages pushing for the release.

for more than three weeks, now

the families of hostages kidnapped by hamas have been living with anguish and uncertainty about the fate of their loved one. cnn's -- spoke with residents of an 85-year-old grandmother. and a 22-year-old musician. >> two horrific stories that have become familiar for hundreds of israeli families. >> she was pretty, you know, from the inside. the same as she was from the outside. >> this is the granddaughter of 85 year -- old >> she was, she had a all the body. but a very young spirit. and she liked good food, good wine and -- >> october 7th, bianca's family got a text message saying that hamas terrorists had entered the kibbutz where she lived alone. >> so she texted us that there are -- in the kibbutz, that they are shooting, and there are street battles. and they are entering into houses and bringing people. >> she texted him? >> yes.

and then we couldn't reach or any more. >> the next time that they saw her was in this video. that is her grandmother, in a golf cart in gaza. surrounded by armed hamas terrorist. >> it is cruel really. doing something like this to an 85 year old woman that has done nothing wrong to anyone, you know. she is a grandmother. everyone has a grandmother. how can you be this detached? from human feelings? >> like her loved ones, whose families are holding on to hope. he is still alive after seeing video of him in gaza. 22 year old -- was kidnapped at the nova music festival in the israeli desert near the gaza border. >> as a musician, he plays the guitar and he sings. we like to sing together. >> he left for the festival, with four good friends after joining his family for shabbat dinner on friday night. his older brother remembers the last text message the family

received on the morning of october 7th. >> they said the party is over, running away, we're going to the cars. and that was. it and in about 7:43 a.m., they got it lost completely. >> two of the friends were murdered by, hamas by the music festival. it was not until the sister posted a picture of the brother, on instagram, with their phone number that the family found out that they survived the terror tack. >> we got two videos that, propaganda videos of hamas. and we saw him with his friend. >> with the guy. with one of those videos. and on the other one, he was by himself. >> for both the family, and the adore family, every hour goes by without their loved ones coming home seems to lessen the possibility that they are still alive. >> as you know, the israeli military, the idf is escalating its military operations in gaza right now. hoping to destroy hamas.

how is that impacting you and your family? knowing that your brothers being held hostage there? >> it's concerning. but we are full of hope. >> the grandmother has been without her medication for her heart and her kidneys for more than two weeks. >> so we don't know her condition yet? >> no we are trying to stay positive. but we are very scared and worried about our physical conditions. so everyone needs to help us. and pressure whoever needs to be pressured and demand hamas to bring all of the hostages back home. >> and i, hope when she comes home -- >> yes, i hope so. thank you. thank you very much. >> our thanks to wolf pulitzer for that report. a star football players parents are kidnapped and will have

details on this terrible development in the life of liverpool star, and fifa takes action against the disgraced former president up the spanish football. that's all coming up.

a star colombian soccer player has flown home to deal with the worrisome situation, the parents of the star player with the english club liverpool have been kidnapped at gunpoint in their hometown. their mother has been rescued. but the father remains missing. world sports don riddell has our details. >> this is just an awful situation for luis diaz and his family. and it's clearly very difficult for us to clinch teammates of liverpool to. columbia's national teammate said that dez's parents were kidnapped by our men's on motorcycles at a gas station in the town of barrancas, the director general of columbia's national police force so they're offering a reward of more than 40,000 dollars for information leading to the rescue of the assist father. and a considerable search team has been activated. 130 police officers are out, they're looking for it.

you can only imagine the anguish that luis diaz must be feeling right now. liverpool said that they returned to columbia and they will be away indefinitely. they have the teammate honored him by lifting up his dirt sea by scoring in the premier league on sunday and the urban club said the team did is hated the 3 no wind to him adding that he was really difficult for the players to even think about the match yesterday. >> how can you make a football game really important on a day like this? it's really difficult. i never schedule -- it was always my safe place. sometimes my hiding. but as a player, as a coach, you, know there are a lot during these 19 odd minutes to focus just on that. and it was impossible. absolutely impossible to do that. and, so it was clear we have to

give the game extra sense and it was fighting for lucio, and the boys pulled out and i was not 100% prepared for. that to be, giannis it was really touching. quite wonderful as well. >> you know just last year's cnn spoke with the assist father, who is also called luis about his humble beginnings. the region surrounding is one of the poorest in columbia. it is unclear where diaz will rejoin the team, of course, the only focus in the meantime is finding his dad and getting him safely home. meanwhile, football's world governing body has just announced that the former spanish football association president, luis rubiales has been banned from all football really did activities for 3 years. i'm sure you'll remember, the scandalous kiss that he had for the women's world cup, a few years ago. and the player denny hermoso said that he was not consensual. after intense criticism, rubiales resigned as president of the football federation last month. the team's manager was also

fired. fifa's disciplinary committee found that rubiales had acted in breach of article 13 of their disciplinary code. fifa said that the band covers all football related activities of national and international level. but that is subject to a possible yield before the fifa appeal committee. back to you. >> our thanks to don riddell. and i want to thank you for watching cnn newsroom. i'm paula newton. i'll be back with more news after a short break.

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