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restraining us here at the united states and all around the world as we continue our coverage of israel at war. i'm paula newton, as israel steps up its ground offensive in gaza with the israeli prime minister says there will be no end to the war and no cease-fire until hamas is resigned, quote, to the dustbin of history. >> calls for a cease-fire are calls for israel to surrender to hamas, to surrender to terrorism. to surrender to barbarism. that will not happen. ladies and gentlemen the bible says that there is a time for peace and a time for war. this is a time for war. a war for our common future. >> benjamin netanyahu there rejected criticism over civilian casualties, insisting

hamas with preventing people from moving into the safe zone in southern gaza. the israeli military says dozens of hamas fighters have been killed during the recent advance. meantime, hamas claims israel's attempts to enter gaza have not been successful. quote, except in some limited areas, but the fighting is clearly taking a tremendous toll. these chaotic scenes from inside gaza's largest hospital where shared by the head of surgery with cnn. it said staff cannot cope with the thousands of patients that are treating and the injured people are lining both sides of the hospital corridors. israel's ministry of foreign affairs confirmed, meantime, the death of a 23 year old woman on monday after she was kidnapped by hamas fighters. -- was at the nova music festival on october 7th, she was last seen in videos of that attack seemingly unconscious in the back of a truck with hamas militants. the ministry says she was tortured and experienced

unfathomable horrors. meantime, the idf announced the rescue of a hamas hostage on monday during ground operations in gaza. the israeli soldier was abducted during the october 7th attacks and she has now been reunited with her family. cnn's nick robertson as our update. >> the moment they fear might never come. private -- private ori megidish, hugs her mother reunited with her family. rescued by the idf after three weeks of being held hostage by hamas. a moment of hope to, for families of other hostages. >> in some way they are listening to us right now. please, please stay strong. >> but even as ori megidish met her family. there are three hostages, the hamas video that cnn has decided not to, air show the women under apparent duress. blaming the prime minister for not calling a cease-fire to help them get released. netanyahu, unrelenting in

refusing hamas's pressure. >> just as the united states would not agree to a cease fire after the bombing of pearl harbor, or after the terrorist attack of 9/11, israel will never agree to a station of hostilities with hamas. >> inside gaza israeli forces reinforcing that message, extending their incursion deeper into the on cleaves densely populated neighborhoods. ground troops, according to the idf calling in airstrikes on hamas strongholds. aircraft also dropping flyers, warning civilians that their neighborhoods are now a battlefield, and to evacuate south. this civilian looking vehicle, did not managed to escape

taking a direct hit from a tank. the idf say, impossible to know if it contains civilians or terrorists. the mounting civilian death toll, and deteriorating humanitarian conditions fuel and international pressure on israel, to call a cease-fire. netanyahu insisting that his is a just war. >> it means making a moral distinction between the deliberate murder of the innocent, and the unintentional casualties that accompany every legitimate war. >> as night falling, more and more of gaza's residence on the move. many in make shift camps, all of them just hoping they will see the sun rise. nic robertson, cnn's turret israel. >> for more on all this i want to bring in cnn's clare sebastian in london. i, mean clare, look at things have been escalating and

obviously the suffering in gaza continues. >> yeah, absolutely, paula we know that israel is ramping up this so-called second stage of the war. we heard this morning from the idf, they say they are moving up slowly and meticulously, but moving slowly does not mean slowing down. of course, the bombardment continues to ground operations are ramping up. he said the focus is in the northern part of gaza, gaza city we know is experiencing heavy bombardment but eastside that even though civilians have been asked to evacuate, 800,000 of them have done so. there will be strikes not just in the northern part, but anywhere the idf sees there are hamas operatives or infrastructure. that continues to be their primary goal. as for the bombardment of the continuing we see hospitals in the firing line. again, the palestinian red crescent society saying overnight that the l coutts hospital, the neighborhood where that hospital is in the southern part of gaza city was

seen intense bombardment. they say the building was a trembling and that there was a lot of fear and panic in that hospital. separately we heard late on monday from the director of the leading cancer hospital in gaza, in the northeastern part of the on clay of that that hospital had been hit. no injuries, but to some damage there. israel, of course, has been heavily criticized over the damage, not only the damage to hospital but the calls to evacuate them, which the world health organization has described as basically impossible. obviously the rescue, and this is rescue not released, that was really soldier from hamas right captivity, a positive sign for israel in all this. as released officials continue to emphasize that this shows, they say, that they can continue their ground offensive and that it serves the purpose of getting those hostages out. obviously there are major fears that the ground offensive might endanger the lives of those hostages, but, of course, the idea of saying that 238 of those still remain and hamas

did release a second video showing three women hostages, also on monday showing that they are continuing to use this as a tool, an information tool in their operation. paula. >> clare sebastian for us in london, thank you so, much we appreciate the update. cnn global affairs analyst kim dozier joins me now from washington. kim, i really appreciate you getting your insights on this, especially as we see developments on the ground in the past few hours. now, netanyahu was resolute israeli troops press on in the meantime. the prime minister now claims that the rescue of the idf soldier is proof that military pressure on hamas will, in equal, measure both safe hostages and destroy hamas. is that even possible? >> well, the families of the hostages certainly fear it is not. they think that if some of the hostages are saved it will be by luck and some skill, but

they are really worried about collateral damage as the israeli defense forces push forward in circling gaza city. it looks like that is what they are doing and laying the siege for what looks like a long, urban warfare campaign. that is the kind of thing where you go block by block. the hostages are likely hidden in an underground tunnel network in different groups, so, perhaps they can get to some pockets of them in time, but every single tunnel that they go down will likely be booby trapped, mind, and there is also the possibility that hamas will follow through with its earlier threats to execute hostages if israel approaches. >> absolutely chilling, but clearly something that does terrify the families of those hostages. now, it seems though, in the meantime, israeli troops are in gaza and they may be there now in gaza to stay for weeks if not months. i want you to hear what one

well sourced journalist said to cnn earlier. >> the israelis are doing right now is they are in circling gaza city. they are still in the outskirts of the dense urban areas, but i think that in the next few days we will start seeing this much more dramatic incursion into gaza city. >> now, in terms of what he is saying that you can anticipate certainly, the ground incursion in perhaps days if not weeks, what does that look like on the ground? especially if israel intends to stay on the ground for quite a bit of time? >> well, it seems that israeli defense forces either own press releases have established a beach head in northern gaza and, from there, they will prosecute this operation. in terms of, we are probably going to see many more troops

coming in there, but that 300,000 reservist call up was not just to invade gaza it was also to strengthen and shore up the north and strengthen security across the country because the security services after what happened had to look at every previous plan that they had and try to double up. so we are likely going to see more troops, but, urban warfare is different than the other kinds of campaigns that we have seen the israelis pursue. >> in the meantime, kim, you point out world opinion seems to be turning against the israeli military campaign and crucially against the u.s. support of it. you say hamas may be winning the public relations war. why? >> well, you hear in arab social media, in arabic media reports this overwhelming surge of anti israel and

anti-american opinion. they are seeing the images every day of palestinian civilians, mothers embracing dead children and screaming lines and blinds of aid trucks not able to get into gaza, whereas there is a disinformation campaign of, to say that much of what the israelis claim happened on october 7th did not happen. i even had goals officials raised questions about, oh, the israelis showed you that awful video that they claim came from october 7th, but did you get it independently verified? that kind of saying, questioning their account and what happened to them. and so the u.s. allying itself with israel means that, whatever israel does, it is being blamed for across the arab world and, largely, across, well, just look at the vote at

the u.n.. there was a vote in favor of a cease-fire in israel. a humanitarian cease-fire, but canada had an amendment that the u.s.-backed to condemn hamas for its attack and release all of the hostages. that didn't pass. >> again, encapsulated there, as you said, as the debates that continued at the u.n.. kim dozier for us, thank you so much, we appreciate it. >> thanks. >> forensic experts in israel are working to identify victims of the october 7th attack. coming up we'll look at what disinterring their efforts to give answers to grieving families, plus an update on our cnn colleague abraham -- who fled northern gaza with his family, but says they still do nonot feel safafe.

>> israeli doctors and forensic and experts are working to identify victims killed in the hamas attack, but the work, of course, as you can imagine, has been challenging given how badly some of those bodies have been mutilated. cnn's sara sidner has details in this report, which we want to warn you, contains disturbing images. >> these are hamas militants, arriving at kibbutz on october 7th, terrorizing residents. [speaking in a non-english language]

[speaking in a non-english language] [speaking in a non-english language] >> the last conversation between a mother and son i n kibbutz barry. the daughter shared with us, her last memory of her mother, as hamas descended on her parents home. >> i know after half an hour she was writing, help, help. then, it was. quiet >> next time she saw her parents, they were in coffins. some families have yet to say goodbye outside tel aviv. at the military base, inside these containers there are hundreds of unidentified bodies, many mutilated and in

fragments. >> this place is indeed pure. it's wholly. it's a paradise. but, it's also. >> forensic experts, dentist, rabbis, are working day and night to identify the victims of october 7th. >> the smell is completely overwhelming. i mean, completely overwhelming, even with this on. it's refrigerated, but some of the bodies are just in pieces. it does not take much to be really badly affected by just looking at the horror of that. >> even those whose job disses or struggling. >> the lack of humanity. pure cruelty. during our identification process, we heard the screams, and we heard the cries of the families that came and said

their last goodbyes. >> the brutality of the hamas attack is forcing a change to burial rights, usually very strict in judaism. [speaking in a non-english language] according to jewish law, we bury the dead when they're in the ground. and this case, we bury them in their coffins, because we want to respect them, but also because there is not much of them. >> -- and her colleagues say this is the worst thing they've ever seen, because of the evidence of torture. >> i started crying, and the other people hugged and we have these breaking moments, because this is atrocious crimes. these are crimes against humanity. this is not regular murder or terror attack or bus explosions. we see all of this in israel. but, never anything like this. >> what she does know for sure, is this is more death and torture than she has ever seen

in her career. cemeteries like this one are popping up across the country. this is just a temporary grave site that's being dug for the victims of the october 7th hamas attack. when you look at these graves, you can see the remnants of some of the things they loved in live. but, there are gruesome details. one of these graves, for example, has two bodies from a family buried together. families are insisting that these temporary resting places are just that, temporary. >> we don't want them to be buried in another place. they are people of there. this is their home, their community, they cannot be anywhere else. >> that is because, so far, kibbutz be'eri is still under control of israeli army. it's too dangerous to go back, and she realizes her family is just one of potentially 1400 having to make this awful decision. three weeks in, she says they

have no idea when they can go home again. and, when they can finally bury her parents and the final resting place. >> our thanks to sarah snyder for that report. still to come, a cnn journalist trying to keep his family safe in gaza shows us what it's like on the ground as israeli forces ramp up their fight against hamas. and donald trump's words on election night claiming he won the vote could come back to haunt him in a colorado courtroom. details next on cnn.

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benjamin netanyahu, says that there will be no cease-fire with hamas militants saying, quote, this is a time for war. israeli troops are advancing meantime further into gaza, that's according to a cnn analysis and israeli military officials say they have sent more ground forces into the enclave. israeli prime minister is pushing back on the notion that israel is inflicting collective punishment on the palestinian people, but the humanitarian situation on the ground is, of course, grave. the aid organization say the lack of cold water, fuel, and other supplies are putting civilians in danger as our, of course, israeli airstrikes. the palestinian red crescent society says it has now received fresh food and medical supplies from about 26 trucks that entered gaza monday, but aid groups say that was not nearly enough to meet the dire

need. meantime, israel is warning people in northern gaza to evacuate with increasing urgency. aid worker -- lives there. he sent this message to cnn's erin burnett, describing a sudden attack that hit just 65 feet from his home. listen. >> one -- that hit a neighbor's home without warning. and totally destroyed that neighbor's home. around seven homes around. my neighborhood is filled with a color gray. i hate the color grayed out. everything is covered. >> and now to our colleague, ibrahim diamond who's in southern gaza with his family where he's actually teaching his young children how to survive in case something happens to him and his wife.

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aid in gaza. according to officials, u.s. president joe biden discussed the matter in a call with israeli prime minister netanyahu on sunday. he also stressed the importance of protecting civilian lives. the u.s. national security council spokesman told reporters on monday both biden and netanyahu recognize that it is important to abide by the law of war and to minimize civilian casualties. >> i think that they certainly are making that effort. it doesn't mean that there haven't been civilian casualties. tragically there have been many, thousands of them. but, unlike putin in ukraine, and i'm like what hamas did on october 7th, kylian civilians is not a war aim of the israeli defense forces. their war aim is to go after hamas terrorists. >> donald trump's words in the hours before the capital insurrection could keep him of the presidential ballot in its

least one state. details on a push to disqualify him. that is next on cnn.

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>> a group challenging domes eligibility for the ballot in colorado used the former presidents own words against him as the case went to trial on monday. suggestions for responsibility and ethics in washington is looking to use a civil war era provision of the u.s. constitution that barr's people who have engaged in, quote, insurrection or rebellion, from holding federal office. the group played clips from trump's infamous election night speech where he falsely claimed victory and when he urged supporters to, quote, fight like heck at the u.s. capitol on january 6th. the lawyer for trump denied the former president had incited supporters to violence and said

it would set a dangerous precedent to disqualify him. meantime, donald trump's daughter ivanka is scheduled to testify soon in another legal case involving her father. a new york judge denied emotion by ivanka trump's lawyers that would have gotten her out of testifying. but, he is giving her time to appeal's ruling. ivanka trump was urgently listed as a co defendant in the 250 million dollar lawsuit filed against the former president. her brothers and several trump organization executives. it claims they were involved in a massive ears along fraud scheme to enrich themselves. now, despite the rash of legal troubles he is facing, donald trump is keeping the support of many of his followers. new pog from the des moines register, nbc ne a media com finds that the former president has the ppt of 43% of likely caucus goers in the statofowa. that is more than double that of his closestiv, ron desantis and nikki haley and the figure, you know, it hasn't

changed much since august. joining me now to talk about all of this is ron brownstein, cnn senior political analyst and a senior editor for the atlantic magazine and one of the nicest gentleman in the world to join us here to discuss this because this really didn't surprise anyone. ron, i mean, let's take this poll into parts. firstly, what does it tell us about the iowa caucuses as they come up and, secondly, does it tell us anything about the gop race in general? >> yeah. look, it actually tells us something about -- obviously trump is in a commanding position in the rogan race. very few candidates have ever had the lead in national polling that he has had and he remains ahead in the first two states, iowa and new hampshire. going all the way back to 1980, the history of the republican primary is that one candidate has won iowa, a different as one new hampshire, one of the two is south dakota and --

at the moment trump is in position to potentially win iowa and new hampshire, which would almost certainly end of the race. but there is an interesting wrinkle in this poll, which i guess goes to the next question. if you look at what is happening below donald trump you see nikki haley moving up to tehran to scientists and that could be an interesting development. >> a move of ten points is extraordinary. does that really go to the point that so many people thought that gop debate was without trump would mean anything, and yet the debates of mattered. right? >> they have mattered for her. what is interesting about nikki haley moving up in iowa is that i believe the evidence and history suggests that a second place finish for her would be more valuable in iowa than it would be for ron desantis. if donald trump beats ron desantis by 25 or 30 points in iowa this story is donald trump won by 25 or 30 points in iowa. if nikki haley leapfrogged ron desantis to come in second i think at least part of the

story is a her eclipsing him as potentially the chief rival to trump. and haley is clearly better positioned than desantis to convert momentum in iowa into a stronger showing in new hampshire. i mean, desantis is running the iowa strategy that allowed mike huckabee, rick santorum, and ted cruz to win the state in a republican caucus in 08, 12, and 16, by mobilizing evangelical christian voters above all. all three of those candidates, though, immediately cratered in new hampshire, which is a much more secular electorate. haley, if she finishes second, i think in iowa, would have a more natural constituency in new hampshire, which is college educated, more moderate, and certainly more secular. and she is already pulling their better than desantis. so, if she wins, she might be able to challenge trump in new hampshire -- sorry, if she finishes second, she might be able to finish challenge trump in new hampshire more than desantis is able to. do >> you sketched out a really interesting offensive play there for nikki haley.

we've got to keep an eye on this. go ahead. >> real quick, the historical precedent. in 1984 walter mondale won the democratic caucus in iowa by about 35 point, but gary hart surprised everyone by finishing second instead of john glenn, the astronaut senator hero. heart then got significant momentum that allowed him to a new hampshire. mondo ultimately won the race, but hard to come all the way to the last of the primaries. i'm not saying haley could do that, but she has the potential to essentially replicate that kind of model if she can come in second in iowa. >> okay, game on. and then we moved this other issue of colorado, right? ron, what do you think? is this significant? we said this group of voters is trying to disqualify vote, but does any of this really matter? can you see it making a difference? >> well, look. at the end of the line, for all of these legal challenges, is the u.s. supreme court with six republican appointed justices and three concluding by judge

trump. i don't know how the state judges going to rule, there are going to be cases coming up like this in other states including minnesota and, i believe, new hampshire, but again, at the end of the line you have to ask is that republican majority supreme court going to take the position that trump is ineligible to be on the ballot and so directly put themselves in collision with republican primary voters? beverley done that in their decisions, so i have a hard time seeing that. on the other hand, like the trials that are unfolding around us in georgia and in washington, this is going to provide a forum to air and remind people of what happened on january 6th. everything that trump did after the election in 2020. you know, right now the focus of the public is on the dissatisfaction with biden. trump has been one step out of the spotlight. when he moves back in they will probably be reminded that they're not wild about him, either. and anything that surfaces,

those doubts probably benefits biden in the long run. but i can't imagine this u.s. supreme court ultimately removing him from the ballot. >> in terms of dissatisfaction with the base, you don't even need a poll for that. you just ask here republican neighbor, your democratic neighbor, elderly are the same thing. ron brownstein, thank you so much, really appreciate it. >> thank you for having. me >> still to come for us the conflict between israel and hamas is creating tensions on some u.s. college campuses across the globe. we will have more on thihis troublining --

>> israel has issued its highest travel warning for dagestan and others areas of southern russia after an antisemitic mob stormed an

airport over the weekend. for some president vladimir putin has called for firm actions following sundays violence. they also pointed blame at western intelligence agencies and ukraine, suggesting they used social medias to stir up the unrest. kyiv has denied the kremlin's accusations with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy calling the incident a signal that moscow's hold on power is slipping. >> translator: for the second time this year, russia is losing control. we see the munir's are heading to moscow and no one is stopping them. we see that the power of article in geauga stan is evaporating, leading to a real upheaval. >> as cnn's brian todd reports, the chaos that erupted in dog's dan is a rise in sudden antisemitic violence and threats worldwide. >> an antisemitic riot at an airport in the southern russian

republic of dagestan, a violent mob stormed the terminal after a tight flight from tel aviv landed there on sunday. some rioters chanted allahu akbar, waved a palestinian flag. once inside the terminal rushed through checkpoints, seemingly looking for people. a vehicle is violently shaken. a state department spokesman lichens this to the organized, violent attacks on in russia in the late 19th and early 20th century's. >> it looked like a pogrom to me. we call on russian authorities to publicly condemn these violent protests. >> political and religious leaders in dagestan did condemn the violence and the founder of the free speech platform d telegram accounts that incited the violence and dagestan will be blunt from the platform. but the threat is hardly isolated. at cornell university in upstate new york, police are investigating a series of antisemitic threats made recently from the school's jewish community. it wasn't just graffiti on campus saying, quote, israel is

fascist. the school newspaper says there were online posts threatening to shoot jewish students, to shoot up their kosher dining hall, and encouraged others to harm. some of the user names chosen by those making threats included to the word hamas. >> jewish students on campus right now are unbelievably terrified for their lives. i never would have expected this to happen on my own campus. to have been in my own home. >> governor kathy hochul says state police are ramping up security on the coronal campus. >> we will not tolerate threats or hatred or antisemitism or any kind of hatred that makes people feel vulnerable. >> at tulane university, recently, three students were assaulted during a rally. it is part of an alarming spike in antisemitic incidents throughout the u.s. tracked by the anti-defamation league since the october 7th hamas attack on israel and israel's response in gaza. >> already united states antisemitic incidents before

october the 7th were at the highest point the adl had ever tracked in 45 years of doing this work. and in the last three weeks, the numbers are up an additional 400%. >> one expert on extremism says that, during this war, many people on both sides are lumping their anger against the israeli government and hamas with unfounded anger towards the jewish and muslim communities, and much of that is sealed by inaccurate information online. >> social media like chat rooms and forums and gaming rooms are really a toxic mess of hate right now and there is so much misinformation being fueled about this war. >> president biden told reporters on monday that he is very concerned about the rise of antisemitism and the white house as announced new actions to staking to combat incidents on college campuses in the u.s.. the biden administration, recruiting officials from the department of homeland security, justice, and the department of education, to coordinate to the

response with law enforcement officials at the colleges. brian todd, cnn, washington. >> now earlier i spoke with brian levin, founding director for the center of the study of hate in extremism to get his insights on what has been an incredibly disturbing trend. i asked him about the events that cornell. >> let's look at cornell as a microcosm. i have a son over there. a professor named recovered talked about the hamas attacks earlier this month as being energizing 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 currently prosecutable in 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 it has an emilio to affect. so six days after 9/11 when president bush spoke of

tolerance towards muslim, hate crimes dropped the next day and into the next year. similarly though, when kennedy trump talked about a muslim proposal five days after the somber nature attack the hate crimes went up 20% above 20% -- civic leaders, including canvas leaders, have to set a tone where, certainly, people can rally under the first amendment, but threats, those are legal. moreover, for a community, we have to say that antisemitic stereotypes are glorifying the weapons that were used in terror 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 opposed to threaten each. other >> the u.s. military says its troops have been under attack for weeks in syria and iraq. pentagon officials tell cnn that iranian-backed militias

have attacked u.s. forces almost two dozen times since mid okta over. as oren liebermann reports, military planners are walking a fine line between wanting to retaliate and not wanting to set off a wider war. >> we have seen a continuation of the attacks on u.s. forces in the middle east since october 17th. that number now, according to the pentagon, stands at 23 attacks on u.s. forces in iraq and syria over the course of the last two weeks or so. the problem here is that the u.s. carried out strikes on facilities in eastern syria linked to iranian-backed groups that are accused of carrying out the attacks on u.s. forces. the purpose of those narrowly targeted strikes was to send a message that the u.s. would protect itself and tried also send a message of deterrence against iran and iranian proxies to tell them, look, the u.s. will protect its own interests there and carry out strikes if needed. but, since those strikes, we have seen about half a dozen more attacks on u.s. forces so that message is not getting across. the question will the u.s. act

again, will they carry out more airstrikes on the iranian-backed groups it uses of striking u.s. forces, or at least attempting to, with rockets or drones? the u.s. has left open that possibility, but it has no weight against the risk of as regulation which is very much something the u.s. is trying to avoid. from president joe biden on, down there trying to draw distinction between the conflict in gaza, between israel and hamas, and other efforts, other actors in the middle east. trying to point out that the u.s. presence in iraq and syria is about the ongoing defeat of i.s.i.s.. but, those are not distinctions that have been recognized by many actors, including these iranian-backed groups in the middle east and that has made it difficult for the u.s., even as it tries diplomatically, militarily, even, to keep these conflicts separate. oren liebermann, cnn, in the pentagon. >> that does it for us, i'm paula newton. stay with us, my friend and colleague e bianca n nobilo continueues after ththe break.