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viewsers joining us. it is thursday, november 2. 10:00 a.m. in gaza where israeli airstrikes again lit up the skies overnight. israel's military says its forces have now reached the outskirts of gaza city. the idf say 17 of its sold engineers have been killed since the ground incursion began. in northern gaza, israeli airstrikes struck the refugee camp for the second time. at least 80 people were killed, most were women and children. unicef says more than 400 children have died each day in gaza since the war started. meanwhile we're waiting to see if more foreign nationals are able to cross the border into egypt today. people have been gathering there in hopes of getting through for the first time since the war began. the rafah border crossing opened wednesday to several hundred foreign nationals including aid workers who had been stuck at the border for days. clare sebastian is covering all

of these angles for us. what are we hearing about what could happen today? >> the expectation is that more will be allowed through. the u.s. expects to see more in the coming days. we're hearing from the egyptian foreign ministry saying it is working to evacuate about 7,000 from around 60 countries from gaza. so it seems that the efforts are still ongoing. we did understand that it did cover anyone with a foreign passport that wanted to get out. which we saw wednesday, which was the first time that anyone bar the handful of hostages have exited, it is cumbersome, slow, egypt wants to vet everyone coming in, but of course concerns about sort of a broader influx of palestinian refugees and because of the demand that was part of the negotiations from hamas that the injured palestinians that were evacuated and the ambulances that you saw on wednesday should include some

of its fighters. that of course rejected. but tensions are high, it is very fluid. we have not expected to see any americans leave on wednesday, but a couple did. so things are up in the air. we're monitoring it closely, but the moment we're seeing people gathering there, but no movement as of yet. >> we're also reporting a further strike on the refugee camp. what is the international reaction? >> significant. there was already international alarm about what was going on in gaza, but israel certainly in the wake of the hamas attacks in southern israel, and now another surge in the wake of the two strikes. jordan recording an ambassador to israel, we have the u.n. humanitarian office saying that they believe that these attacks could be -- they are concerned that this could be disp

disproportionate and it could be war crimes. and we don't know exactly how many were killed certainly in that first strike, but this is very seriously impacting the health systems. we're hearing that the gaza indonesian hospital which is the closest to the jabalia refugee camp that their main generator has stopped working. it has taken out several key systems and operating rooms, refrigerators. so this can have a serious impact on the immensely strained health system. >> clare, thank you. the full scope of the devas devastation at the refugee camp remains unclear after the two airstrikes. it comes as the israeli military reports advances in its ground operation. jeremy diamond reports. >> this is all that remains. for the second day in a row, israeli jets striking the

densely populated jabalia refugee camp. hundreds were wounded and at least 80 killed according to the director of the nearby indonesian hospital. idf says they struck a hamas command complex killing hamas militants. but civilians also clearly among the casualties including children rushed out of the rubble. tonight the united nations human rights office raising serious concerns that these are disproportionate attacks that could amount to war crimes. israel blaming hamas for using civilians as human shields as it continues its offensive. top israeli commander now says his forces are closing in on gaza city, hamas' stronghold in the gaza strip. >> we will deepen the strip at the gate of gaza city. in the last five days, we have dismantled a lot of the

abilities, we have attacked strategic positions, all the explosive abilities and other systems. >> reporter: five days after israel launched its ground offensive in gaza, israeli forces are advancing from three different directions. in the north, israeli armor and infantry have been spotted advancing from both ends. israeli tanks also appear to be closing in from the south. cnn geolocated this tank at the main road into gaza city. israel is also moving closer to gaza. up recently, this field was israeli positions. you can see the mounds where guns and artillery were dig in. as they move closer, the artillery positions are also moving closer to support the troops on the ground. now all that remains are these, boxes of munitions, artillery

fuses used by the forces that were here. the question now is how deep israeli forces will move into gaza. >> only way to get to what hamas has built over a decade inside the gaza strip, only way is through a ground operation. >> reporter: jeremy diamond, cnn, israel. with us is malcolm davis, senior analyst with the you australian senior policy institute. thanks for joining us tonight. >> it is my pleasure. >> clearly hamas shocked the world with the sophistication of its attack on october 7. and perhaps displayed that its capabilities were far greater than what the israeli intelligence services or the world had imagined. what else have we learned about their capabilities and arsenal in the last three weeks? >> look, i think that that

initial attack was shocking in its method of execution in a sense of the introduction of forces of the air using those pair gliders and the fact it managed to catch them by surprise. when you look at hamas' actual military capabilities, they are pretty much as we anticipated in the sense that there is about 20,000 to 40,000 troops there that are largely equipped with small arms, in other words rifles, machine gunses assault weapons, that sort of thing as well as rocket propelled grenades. they also have obviously large numbers of battlefield missiles and rockets that they can fire at israel. and i think probably the most concerning thing for the israeli defense forces going into gaza would be things like ieds and

mines and the ability of hamas to use the dense urban environment defensively with snipers and rocket propelled grenades and anti-tank guided weapons to catch the israelis in narrow streets. so i don't think that we've underestimated hamas dramatically in terms of what they can do, but it is the operational environment, the technical situation that the israelis are finding themselves in that i think is quite challenging. >> what is it about the organizational strubt or communications that we understand that enable them to yi roe v. wade detect of this plan by israeli authorities? because going forward obviously intelligence will be key as israeli continue their ground incursion. >> you've got this vast tunnel network where hamas can essentially use everything from hardwired communications, in other words, they are not transmitting on radio, they are

making connections using cables which are virtually impossible to detect and interrupt and eaves drop on. or even something as low tech as runners. gaza is not a large area, so you could have groups of individuals that can run messages between fighting courses and commanders. actual command and control of hamas is incredibly low tech. it is not sophisticated using advanced communications technology. it is using low tech systems which makes it more difficult ironically for the israelis to defetect and attack. >> the tunnel complex is understood to be roughly 500 kilometers or thereabouts, reinforced concrete, communication with the electricity. how much more difficult does it

make it for the israelis particularly because hostages might be stored down there too. methods of attacking the tunnels like flooding and blowing them up, makes it far more difficult. >> exactly. israelis can't go in and essentially flood the tunnels with some sort of substance to flush the hamas forces out because they could then place hostages at risk. they can obviously collapse tunnels where they know for sure there are no hostages and they have done that with airstrikes and artillery strikes. but in cases they will actually have to go into the tunnels and that is certainly more likely to happen the deeper they get in to gaza itself, gaza city in particular. they that i actually have to go in and fight tunnel to tunnel to force the hamas terrorists out. or to kill them. and i think that that will be really challenging because the nature of the tunnels and we've

seen them on tv, it is such that they would be ideal for booby traps and ieds and mines. and so a dangerous environment for the idf. >> and in your view, was taking hostages part of the hamas calculus to try to make attacking the tunnels and that key sort of communication and nerve sensor for hamas far more difficult, is that one of the main reasons that they wanted to take those people to make it harder for israelis? >> absolutely. by taking those hostages and a significant number of them and spreading them over a large area rather than concentrating in one area where they can be rescued in a style similar to the raid in the '70s, by spreading them across the tunnel network, it makes it much more difficult for the israelis to use force dec decisively. if the hostages weren't there,

if they had been rescued or simply hasn'tdn't been taken, i think that they would be mooring more rapidly. but they have to think about the hostages.mooringmore rapidly. but they have to think about the hostages. >> and hamas can trite into the tunnel, stockpile in the tunnels, enernlmerge from behin forces. malcolm, thank you very much. and iran issued new threats against israel and the u.s. on wednesday. the defense minister says that the u.s. will certainly suffer a blow if the fighting continues. he also warned european countries to, quote, be careful not to insure the wrath of the muslim world. they warn if the war continues, resistance groups will make a decision on another, quote, surprise action.

>> translator: based on the information received from the resi resistance, it must be said that if the genocide and war crimes are not stopped immediately, we are close to where a significant decision will be made. coming up, an american doctor is able to leave gaza through the rafah crossing after a 26 day ordeal. we'll hear from her husband. and an exclusive dispatch from cnn journalist in gaza, an inside look at one refugee camp crowded with 20,000 people living off canned food and without suitable drinking water.

at rafah. crowds are in hopes of getting through to egypt. at least 361 foreign nationals have entered through the border crossing.

and a group from doctors without borders also crossed on wednesday. sources familiar with the negotiations for the deal allowing foreign nationals to leave gaza tell skrncnn say it after weeks of intensive efforts, believed to be a critical first step in getting thousands out of gaza. mj lee has more from the white house. >> reporter: president biden personally confirming that the first group of american citizens has left gaza and now in egypt. he said the process of getting americans and other foreign nationals and wounded palestinians ouf gas out of gaz into egypt would take place in the course of multiple days. the state department has previously said there are some 400 wanting to leave. that is in addition to some 5,000 foreign nationals believed to be in gaza. the president saying at an event

in minnesota that the administration has been working nonstop to reach this arrangement. >> we're in a situation where safe passage for wounded palestinians and foreign nationals to exit gaza has started. american citizens are able to exit today as part of the first group of probably over 1,000 will see more of this process going on in the coming days. working nonstop to get americans out of gaza as soon as safely possible. >> reporter: to give you a sense of some of those diplomatic conversations that have been taking place over the course of weeks, what cnn is told is that hamas had been pushing for wounded palestinians to be able to leave gaza, but that notably one thing that they had demanded was for some of their own fighters to be a part of that mix and that that was a demand that was denied. we are also told that egyptian authorities had expressed a lot of concern about the idea of

palestinians coming into their country and settling down there permanently and that that is something that u.s. officials had been discussing with their egyptian counterparts for days and that authorities also wanted to make sure that they were able to vet and look into every single person that was crossing over into their country. the president also saying in minnesota that he believed that israel continued to have a right to defend itself but that it needed to do so in a way that adheres to international laws. the president saying, quote, every innocent life is a tragedy, this is of course noteworthy given the airstrikes that have struck a refugee camp in northern gaza, this has complicated the biden white house's political standing and how it has been talking about the ongoing conflict. of course we know that the biden white house officials are very concerned about the continuing

growing civilian death toll in the region even as they continue to say that israel has a right to defend itself. mj lee, skcnn, the white house. an american pediatrician was among those able to leave through the rafah crossing after 26 days. she was on a relief mission to treat children when she became stranded after the war broke out. erin burnett spoke to her husband. >> she was put on a list, my sister-in-law who is palestinian read on the rafah facebook page that my wife and ramona was 15th and 16th on the ngo list to be evacuated. so they got up early and went to the border. they said that it was -- indirectly again, they say it was fairly orderly, people calling out people's names and they would come up. there was some fighting. i'm not sure what they were fighting about. she said that she saw only two

fist fights. but then once she got to the palestinian border crossing, she was there for like four or five hours in passport control. and that is when i was starting to get discouraged because she texted me that and i was like what is going to happen now. but i think conjecture is that they were removing the injured and maybe letting the ambulances through. so once she started to go through the system, then she took a shuttle through the egyptian part of the border and then she got into a car arranged by pcrf. i think there were like six people in this car. but they did arrange a police escort for her to getting across to see you. >> last time we spoke she had to flee because of fights over food. at owone point she had gotten close and people literally

fighting outside a u.n. compound for food. for food. what are the conditions as you understand it now? i know you are describing it as she was leaving only two fist fights, but what were the conditions that she was living under and others around her were living under? >> well, she is very fortunate. she was living in a clinic attached to a school. so sleeping inside, which is different than what was going on before. they actually had a stove that had gas so that they could have hot food before they used the campfire when they were in the compound. i think that she was saying that it was so bad she kind of got used to it. just bad like all the time. the one good thing about where she was, the bombing was not as

close. and so that made her feel more secure. as israel continues its bombard himself of gaza, there are count countless unable to evacuate. including our cnn colleague and his wife and their two young sons. he brings us this report from a refugee camp in kahn yunis where he says there are more than 20,000 people crammed together, hungry, afraid and sleeping on the ground. [ speaking in a non-english language ]

still to come forensic scientists reveal the two horrors of the hamas attacks as they work to identify victims with just pieces of their remains. also ahead, skrn cnn visits sev american campuses where there are serious divisions among students and faculty.

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hoping to make it through today. on wednesday, we saw a brief opening of the gate from gaza to the outside world letting some palestinians leave the enclave for the first time since israel declared war on hamas. egyptian officials say at least 361 people with foreign passports left gaza and ambulances carried dozens of wounded palestinians out so that they could receive treatment in egyptian hospitals. airstrikes hit in the vicinity of the hospital in gaza wednesday evening and have continued. the hospital director tells cnn the strikes intensified this morning and are getting closer to the hospital where 14,000 displaced people are taking refuge. meanwhile israel has now confirmed both airstrikes on the gent jabalia refugee camp. but full extent of the 2

devastation is unknown. tuesday israeli military says it targeted and killed one of the hamas commanders responsible for the october 7 attacks. the strikes have left behind catastrophic damage in the densely populated camp. more now from salma abdelaziz and a warning to you, her report contains graphic images and scenes that are hard to watch. >> reporter: dust and debris fill the air after the israeli airstrike. ambulance, ambulance! calls the man carrying a child. these are the moments after the military attack on the jabalia camp in gaza. everyone is disoriented and terrified. and this is the result. several city blocks leveled in an instant. the scene is apocalyptic. survivors desperately dig for loved ones with bare hands.

israel says it was targeting a hamas commander hiding in the densely populated area. idf says death of civilians is a tragedy of war. and that is tearing apart this community, no one knows yet how many still lie under the ruins. shortly after the bombs fell, one palestinian cameraman was among those able to post on social media. the anguish is heartwrenching. the victims small and afraid. moms and dads will bury their children. all three of my children are dead, this father screams. all three! entire families are wiped out. this man holds up the name of 15 relatives killed in the airstrike.

my whole family, innocent people are dead, he says. total destruction. our whole building is gone. 20 stories. this is a massacre. at a nearby hospital, the carnage is on display. the bodies keep piling up. with her dead children at her feet, this mother prays for strength. many in this forsaken enclave feel they have no one but god left. salma abdelaziz, cnn, london. the head of the indonesian hospital in northern gaza says its main generator is out of service. it is a dire situation for the hospital which is the closest health care facility to the jabalia refugee camp. the hospital's chief says a send dear generator is working in some areas but many vital systems, including the ventilation system in operating rooms, the hospital's only oxygen station, and refrigerators in the morgue are all without power.

utter cruelty of the hamas attacks on israel on october 7 being starkly revealed in israel's forensic laboratories, fragments of bone, flesh and other pieces of the terrorist victims are going under the microscope with the hope of identifying those who were killed. jake tapper visited the top forensic institute in tel aviv. a warning some of the images are of course graphic. >> reporter: we are approaching four weeks since hamas' deadly october 7 terrorist attack when more than 1400 mostly israeli individuals were killed. most of them civilians. but hundreds of bodies remain unidentified. i recently spoke with director of israel's national institute of forensic medicine who explained why it has been so difficult to identify these remaining bodies. a warning now, i'm going to show you some images that are graphic

and disturbing, we're showing them to you because they explain something about the abject cruelty of what hamas terrorists did to civilians on october 7 and also because it shows how difficult this process has been for families who want answers about what happened to their lost loved ones. again a warning of what i'm about to show you. the doctor says what looks to be a piece of burnt wood or coal here is actually flesh. upon further examination, with imaging, it reveals two sets of rib cages, one of them is smaller with a wire tying them together. and conclusion of the doctor and the team, these are the burned bodies of an adult and child tied together, may be embracing.

they found these charred remains, you will notice that these remains are white. he says that means that the temperature was above 700 d degde degrees centigrade which means they likely used some sort of chemical accelerant. ultimately his team concluded that they were actually the remains of two different people, though there was no dna to trace, no dmpna was left becaus of the high temperatures. so their identities will never be known. from a different body bag a cat scan revealed that there were bones in here, three left legs and two right legs in the bag. so that meant, the team concluded, three different people in this same body bag. and these five bones were the only traces left of these three people.

maybe in other bags there were other pieces of these people the doctor told me. these are very difficult cases to deal with. and i'm about to show you an even more upsetting example. this is a blurred picture from the national center of forensic medicine. even brured it isdisturbing. is this a burned body of a girl. the experts say they don't know if the separation of the head happened before or after the girl was killed. still, this happened. and this is the level of cruelty that we are talking about here. jake tapper, cnn, tel aviv.

presidents of israel top institutes of higher learning

have written an open letter warning institutions against giving anti-semitism a foothold and avoid false equivalency. it says that it is ironic that the walls of enlightenment that are your campuses have adopted hamas while israel is demonized. that hamas shares no values with any western academic institution. and it comes at a time when university students in the u.s. and europe are protesting israel airstrikes on gooz. m gaza. many accuse israel of targeting civilians. israel says hamas is its target. universities are also reporting an uptick of economic threats. college campuses in the u.s. have a long history of being hives of political activism. cnn spoke to students at three

american universities at how they feel about on dc-campus protests. >> from the river to the sea palestine will be free. >> i'm palestinian. and this is an issue that has affected me my entire life. i'm calling them and there are bombs in the background. >> i have a lot of family and friends in israel just having so much hate thrown at and so much misinformation about what is going on shared on campus and on social media has been challenge i ing. >> reporter: there is tensions at hundreds of colleges. at harvard and colombia, a truck naming students that allegedly belonged to organization that released anti-israel statement. >> i'm shocked at the temperature on campus. there is a level of i don't want to say hatred, but anger and

fear. >> the jewish fraternity was hit with a graffiti attack of the jews are nanazis. >> reporter: cnn visited the university of pennsylvania in drexel where students were part of a nationwide walkout. and cornell which faced anti-semitic threats. >> i was on my way to the kosher dining hall when i looked down and saw the threats. this is terrifying. this is not anything that we thought we would ever have to deal with in the united states. >> reporter: the post on a greek life website threatened to shoot up the dining hall and kill students. they were signed hamas soldier. but wednesday patrick dai was arraigned on a federal charge to making online threats. >> i think that the quick response by the university really did quell a lot of students' fear. i know a lot of people are

choosing to do zoom options for their classes or asking for special accommodations because they don't want to put themselves at risk. >> what did you think when these anti-semitic threats were posted? >> i think they were very hateful things to say. it is very disturbing to see such hateful comments being made. it is very disrespect. anti-semitism is never accepted and hateful comments such as these have no place on our campus or anywhere really. >> reporter: and head of cornell students for justice in palestine, a group whose national chapter has drawn a ton of criticism for saying the hamas attack was a victory. but she says her group acts independently. >> we make statements based on what our students are feeling, what needs to be said. just having that equal treatment from the administration. >> reporter: some muslim students say they are frustrated

being asked to denounce hamas that it is a destruction from the message. >> there is a lot of concern that pro palestinian students are pro hamas and pro terrorist tactics. >> yeah. >> is that true? >> absolutely not true. my condemnation is inconse inconsequential. i think it is quite racist that where i'm allowed to have a view on genocide, i have to condemn a terrorist oerganization. >> is it hard to say i condemn hamas? >> but what does that do? why does the media think i support hamas. i can say i abhor killing of all civilians no matter they are. you don't go around and say you condemn kkk. why is the assumption that you assume t support the kkk in the first

place? >> reporter: this has become a lightning rod. >> free palestine is when palestinians can live with food, water, electricity, have equal rights that all humans deserve. >> you are ignoring the fact people chanting that have lost all their family members, have had neighborhoods wiped out. >> reporter: many see the chant as a threat. >> from the river to the sea, palestinian will be free, free of what, free from who, what will happen to the people who live there, that to me sounds like a call for genocide or ethnic cleansing and that really does terrify me honestly. >> chanting slogans from triver to the sea is never going to invite a conversation with jewish students of hey, look at me, i'm also experiencing suffering of the events in israel. >> it means that palestinians will live freely in that region away from settler violence.

it is not a call of extermination of jewish people. >> it works two ways. i don't hear people talking about israeli violence pre-october 7. i'm not hearing that. >> if the term makes you uncomfortable, ask why it makes you uncomfortable. >> reporter: students remain proud of who they are. >> in my lifetime, it may never change, but at the end of the day i feel like we're on the right side of history and i can go to events comfortably. >> i'm proud to be a jewish student on this campus seeing the unity of my community. tha it has strengthened me and i hope that continues for a very long time. >> there is an increase in anti-semitism in europe. a ceremonial hall and jewish cemeteryry was d defaced with swastikas and set on fire. police are investigating saying that a anti-semitism has no pla

in society and will be fought with all political and legal means. mayor of rome says two c commemorative stones have been damaged. he called for solidarity with the city's jewish community. still to come on "cnn newsroom," it was one for the ages for the texas rangers. details on that game coming up after the short break.

now to college basketball where bobby knight was one of the most successful head coaches of all-time. he was also one of the most brash and controversial. the hall of fame coach who led indiana to three national championships and an undefeated season that hasn't been matched since has passed away. bobby knight was 83 years old. andy scholes looks at the highlights and lee ow lights ofs remarkable career. >> reporter: robert montgomery knight. nicknamed the general. one of basketball's biggest and most polarizing personalities. strict no nonsense coach on the

court, he didn't mince words off the court either. >> i'll handle this the way i want to handle it now that i'm here. you [ bleep ] it up so sit there or leave. i don't care what you do. now, back to the game. >> reporter: after graduating from ohio state university, knight enlisted in the army to help lead their basketball program. he was the black knight's s hea coach fofor six seasasons befor accecepting a job to coachch at indiana in 1971.1. under the general's leadadershi hoosiers w won three natioional champipionships inincluding tht undefeated 1976 season which remains the last men's college basketball team to not lose a game all season. knight also led the usa to a gold medal coaching michael jordan and the rest of the team at the 1984 olympics in los angeles. after 29 years, his behavior on and off the court strained his relationship with the administration at indiana

university. he is placed on a zero tolerance policy after cnn aired video of a practice three years earlier where it appeared that he placed his hand on the neck of a player. months later he had an altercation with a freshman student on campus. >> he grabbed my arm and got in my face and just said a couple comments like -- i don't know, it was pretty wild. >> i would have to be an absolute moron, an absolute moron, with the things that have been laid down on me to grab a kid in public and curse at a kid in public. >> reporter: but that incident turned out to be the final straw for knight at indiana. >> i gave him the option of resigning as head basketball coach. he declined. and i notified him that he was being removed as basketball coach effective immediately. >> reporter: knight continued coaching at texas tech. >> this is without question the

most comfortable red sweater i've had on in six years. i can't tell you. >> reporter: after retirement, knight who had little patience for the media became a media member himself broadcasting college basketball games for espn. during the 2016 presidential campaign, knight tried his hand at politics stumping for donald trump. >> you folks are taking a look at the most prepared man in history to step in as president of the united states. that man right there. >> reporter: in february of 2020 after years of turning down invitations, knight finally made his return to assembly hall. knight attending hoosiers game for the first time in 20 years, he was surrounded by former players and received a huge ovation from the home crowd. brash, intimidating, unapologetic, mad genius. bob knight has been described a lot of ways and always true to form, those opinions never seem to matter much to the general.

>> when my time on earth is gone and my activities here are passed, i want them to bury me upside down and my critics can kiss my ass. >> an incredible pitching performance by the diamondbacks was not enough as the rangers punched out four runs in the final inning to win baseball's 2023 world series. and it was bedlam as texas relief pitcher threw a strike to seal the victory. there was a no hitter through six innings but a towering two run homer in the 90s was more than enough for the rangers. final score 5-0. texas' first world series championship in the club's 63 year history. i feel like i was speaking greek just then. that does it here. i'm bianca nobilo.

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