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>> hello and welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada, and all around the world. everyone's dreaming assumption anand max as welell. i'm kim brunhuber. -- our soldiers have been operating in gaza city for the past few days surrounding it from several directionss deepening the operation. our forces are in very significant areas of gaza city. the israeli military chief of staff there are, describing expended idf ground operations in gaza to keep up pressure on hamas. players overnight lit up north and gaza, and one of the most intense periods of his really bombardment since the e war began. the idf says 23 of its soldiers hahave died in t the gaza strip. primary objective now is located in and the tunnel network and locating explosives and other obstacles.

the biden administration is increasingly concerned about the civilian death toll in gaza, and warns that could undermine international support for israel. secretary of state anthony blinken is due back in the region on friday to discuss u.s. concerns directly with israeli officials. cnn's scott mclain is covering all of this was from london. so scott, first, of all what is the latest in the war between israel and hamas? >> hey, cam, the civilian death toll continues to, rice and so does american fears are well founded. the palestinian red crescent says, when it comes to children alone, more than 3700 have died in gaza since this conflict began. there are still more than 1000 who have been reported missing under the rubble. just to put that into perspective, 500, or more than 500 children have been officially killed in ukraine since that conflict began a year and a half ago. so now you have anthony blinken

going into israel today, trying to make this delicate dance continue to maintain some more for israel, but also seeming to apply some pressure wherever he can on the israelis to try to really limit the number of civilians who have been killed. yesterday the political leader of hamas came out with a statement proposing his vision to end the war which would involve an immediate cease fire with the israelis, look they have said this war will and when hamas is completely destroyed. that seems like a non starter in terms of the war and where we are at so far as we mention kim israelis say they have surrounded gaza city also showed a video earlier for could bring an up of the flares in northern gaza. this is just inside the border, a community called -- not far from gaza city. in that video, you could see what looks like a smokescreen on the ground. that perhaps could suggest the movement of israeli troops in that area.

obviously the idf is saying precious little for obvious reasons about the precise location of their troops. we have at least one marker one reference point to go up by on the ground. that is the hospital which is located on the outskirts of gaza city it is the second largest in gaza. the red crescent reports that it has seen it has been fired upon or at least the vicinity of the hospital has been fired upon recently by the israelis. it says the troops that figures were stationed about a kilometer away, fired at the hospital, wounded a charter in young men or standing outside. the pierced the walls of the sixth floor as well. this is the same hospital that received threats from israel earlier this week to evacuate otherwise the red crescent in their telling of the story would be responsible for any civilian deaths there. implying it could be bombed. now the israelis haven't

responded to the specific latest accusations of the firing, but they had previously said that the hospitals had been sheltering hamas, that is something the hospital very strongly denies though. but look, that hospital also says it cannot evacuate, because there are so many wounded civilians there including babies and incubators and thousands of civilians taking shelter there as well. so wherever we go with this ground invasion, kim, those hospitals are likely to be another place where civilians continue to cling figuring they are likely one of the safest places remaining and gaza. >> yes, absolutely, scott mclain in london, thank you so much for that. now we want to go to cnn's salma abdelaziz who reports on the third straight day of airstrikes on the battered refugee camp. we just want to warn you, some of the images in this report are graphic. >> the victims --

victimized yet again. some of the survivors of israel's moon barred meant shelter here, a you and school. only to be cut down. desperate moments after an israeli strike nearby shown on social media. this is one of four schools in gaza are impacted by strikes in a 24-hour period, the u.n. said. in total, housing some 20,000 displaced people. many of them are frightened young children. what did we do this bore cries. we did nothing wrong. th are unbearable. but families come here for safety. that also is gone. >> bring me my son, bring me my son this father screams. it is unclear if his child is dead or alive. three straight days of airstrikes have brought horror and bloodshed.

cnn has reached out to the idea for comment on the latest attacks. israel says, it is targeting hamas infrastructure in this deadly densely populated and area. it says it killed a senior hamas commander with a strike on tuesday. but with scores of civilians killed, the u.n. human rights council warns what you see here are disproportionate attacks that could amount to a war crime. gazans do not understand why the world can stop this. >> we keep pulling out bodies, small children, women, it is a catastrophe. this man says, if ththe countris of the w world had any shame, we would not be in the situation. >> and more suffering is a all bubut certain. israeleli troops are inching closer andnd as ground forceces backeded by near constant air raids move towards central g ga, the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians hang in the balance.

>> the idf has warned all residents north of the strip to leave in porter deemed inhumane and impossible by the united nations. so many remain in the crossfire. >> where is the world this woman screams. our children are being torn up before our eyes. and with the death toll mounting pressure is growing on the u.s. and israel to stem the violence. some abdelaziz, cnn, london. >> i want to bring in retired major general -- of the australian army who joins us from bressmann australia. thank you so much for being here with us again. so on to talk about gaza city, before stage of the attack is to isolate and surround the city. so what comes next? >> well, hello, kim. the israeli defense forces in the last 24 hours, they have cut access to the coast, and have isolated the northern part of gaza. what comes next is slowly squeezing hamas on the ground,

and in these tunnels. and -- preventing any reinforcements from northern gaza city for hamas. >> i wonder how they do, that letting civilians leave without letting hamas escape? >> yes, it is a pretty difficult problem. hamas is always hidden amongst the civilians in gaza. and, there will be a fairly strict i think criteria when the israelis are checking people going south. at the end of the day, i think there is a humanitarian -- as quickly as possible. >> how long do you think that will take? >> well, this is perceived as a -- israelis are able to stay west of the ocean very quickly -- through urban areas. i think we will see a slowdown in operations now, israelis moving towards the heart of gaza city, that is where the toughest fighting will be, that

is where hamas -- weapons and fighters and leadership on supplies. it could take a matter of weeks. >> yes, some, i think it is 30,000 buildings have already been damaged in northern gaza. so based on what we have seen from previous battles in places like -- and -- what could we see much more or most of the city entirely destroyed? >> i think we are going to see a large proportion of it destroyed unfortunately. destroyed buildings might very affective defensive positions, and hamas will be using em as well as -- to move between fighting locations using drones and >> everything at its disposal to slow these down into the -- >> you touch on the civilian casualties as those casualties mount as we have talked about the patience of the allies will be tested with president biden and civilian suffering and gaza

will cause israel to lose public support for the work we have seen a number of democratic lawmakers raising concerns as well how do you think that will affect israel's timetable and their longer term aid here? >> well there is no can finance -- now in 2021 had 11 days for president biden told netanyahu that they had a runway and may have more time this time but at the end of the day the clock is ticking on this operation and the support for israel is among his closest supporters there's only so many civilian casualties people can tolerate. >> in the meantime we have seen president biden calling for a pause, what with the military consequences before that do you think? >> well it would depend where the pause occurs, it could add curd just in the south and fighting continues in the north if it occurred in the north that would really tighten the

pressure of hamas which is why the idf and government of israel is not going to at this point in time. >> we will leave it there, thank you so much as always for your insights in brisbane australia thank you so much, thanks, kim. >> for a second day of hundreds of foreign nationals were finally able to leave gaza and egyptian war official says more than 340 foreigners arrived on thursday by the rafah crossing as part of the deal brokered by -- according to the white house, 74 americans were among them. listen to this. >> unfortunately i am not excited to be here in gaza because you have so many people that we love and care about and who we love and care about so right now i am between i think ice and fire i don't know if i will ever be able to see the family a left behind or the friends i left behind. people are dying, everybody is dying, nobody is safe. >> families are desperate for

any news about their loved ones still being held hostage by hamas. lynda spoke with three israelis who had more than a dozen family members abducted, the youngest is a three year old girl listen to this, of all the family members that have been taken hostage by hamas, the youngest is just three years old. what are your hopes for the coming days and weeks in terms of getting news from your loved one? >> when you see the innocence of someone who has literally her whole life ahead of her, and then you try to imagine where she is now under a tunnel at gunpoint she is three years old we are at a point that any news is good news. >> and we will have that full

interview for you in the next hour here on cnn newsroom nearly two months into the weather white house says it has helped get its first group of americans out of guys that we have details coming on let's gearing up for a clash in the u.s. senate after 14 billion dollar aid bill from israel, why democrats are posted legislslation, thahat is head, y with us.

>> white house spokesperson says the u.s. help 74 americans leave gaza thursday. this comes as israel stepping up its assault on hamas. the white house is calling for his temporary humanitary pause to allow aid into the devastated area. mj lee has more from the white house. >> president biden personally confirming that the first group of american citizens had left gaza and are now in egypt. he said the process of getting americans and other foreign nationals and wounded palestinians out of gaza and into egypt would take place in stages over the course of multiple days the state department has previously said there are some 400 american citizens in gaza that are wanting to leave that is in addition to some 5000 foreign

nationals that are also believed to be in gaza the president saying i don't event in minnesota that the administration has been working nonstop to reach this arrangement this is what he said. >> we are in a situation where safe passage for palestinians and foreign nationals in gaza has started. american citizens today as part of the first group of probably over 1000 we will see more of this process going on in the coming days we are working nonstop to get americans out of gaza as soon and safely as possible. >> and 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 admin 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. that is something u.s. officials had been discussing with their egyptian counterparts for days. egyptian authorities also wanted to make sure 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 and the president saying, quote, every innocent life is a tragedy. this is of course noteworthy given the airstrikes that have struck refugee camp in northern gaza. this has complicated the biden white house political standing, and how it has been talking about the ongoing conflict of course we know that 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. adam jay lee, cnn, the white house. >> -- the u.s. passed a 14 billion dollar israeli aid bill it now goes to the senate where it is currently dead on arrival. well blitzer spoke to democratic voters a representative jim hines about president biden's messaging to israel and why he poses the aid bill. >> as you know, president biden says he believes it is time for what he calls a pause, not a cease-fire, by a pause in this war between israel and hamas. do you agree? >> i do. in fact, connecticut senator chris murphy made at this point i think for five days ago, that the israelis should be open and allow for positives that would allow for the movement of innocent people that would allow for negotiations for

hostages. remember the hostages are there and subject to the violence that is going on in gaza. it would allow the inflow of water, medicine, and all those things the civilians of gaza need. without a pause. look a pass could mean geographic, it could go long or short, but without those positives to set up safe areas. save convoys safe transit of civilians. the outcome will be far from what we would hope it would be. >> you just voted against what is called the stand-alone 14.3 billion dollar aid package for israel, like almost all the other democrats in the house of representatives. tell us why? >> there is a bunch of reasons for the no vote. first of all i have always voted in support of aid for israel. it for israel has always not had conditions on it. now this bill, i will come back to, this this is the first time we have seen in a long time an emergency bill with ways this

is an emergency that comes with a pay for. in this case it is a democratic policy priority. so people need to step back and think, wait a, minute emergency legislation is now in the congress of the united states going to be subject to yes we will fund israel's effort here, but we also want to achieve this policy win against the opposite party. that is a very dangerous place to go down. the bill did not contain humanitarian aid which we spend last formulas talking about in terms of its importance. of course splitting israel from ukraine reflects the fact that they are pandering being the republicans to the roughly 50% of us republicans who don't want to help ukraine in its fight against russia. none of those things are good, wolf, in my, opinion that is why i voted against this bill. >> all right, stilill to come, a address from the l leader of hezbollah whwho has s been unusually quite since the start of a new war even though his forces have been exchanging fire in israel.

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concerns aboutut regionanal securirity. the speech will be closely watched for signals about the militant groups intentions. adding to the anxiety, skirmishes between hezbollah and the idf become more frequent along the border with lebanon. rocket fire from lebanon on thursday caused a fire in a nearby israeli town. no casualties were reported. cnn's ben wedeman has a closer look at what to expect in the speech from hezbollah's leader. >> the message on clip circulating on social media, i'm back u.s., but all menace. they are stoke and hence this patient for a televised speech by hezbollah leader scheduled for friday afternoon. daily since the 8th of october, hezbollah and israel have been exchanging fire across the border. it is not a full blown war, yet. >> this time i feel a sense of doom in lebanon. >> professor --

has lived through all his countries travails. >> some of them are afraid that we might be on the verge of the apocalypse. i have never seen this much tension in this country. >> tensions rising higher thursday afternoon and evening with the heaviest bombardment yet. both sides of the border. >> hezbollah's leader has been unusually quiet since the war broke out in gaza, but has allies in iran have made it clear, if israel crosses the red lines in those operations against hamas, new fronts could open. >> and what are those red lines? >> these red lines for hezbollah, hamas leadership, hamas remaining in -- and of course the palestinian people themselves, preventing another -- from hezbollah's red lines, they also iran redlines, hamas and islamic jihad, redlines

everyone's red lines in the -- >> knee -- is when a 1948, hundreds of thousands of palestinians fled or were expelled from their homes, what is now israel. as the fighting in gaza intensifies, and the civilian death toll source, the prospect of regional war looms. and that could spell disaster for lebanon, a country already in a state of economic collapse and political paralysis. >> war with israel would literally set the country back not to the stone ages, but pre-stone ages. unfortunately. it is not something that the country would take ages to recover from. >> on beirut -- 's 70-year-old retired bank employee -- waits for the fish to bite. >> nobody knows what is going to have been a tells me everyone is worried. the situation is not reassuring. >> the sea appears calm, but a

storm may be coming. ben wedeman, cnn, beirut. >> a senior adviser to the israeli prime minister is warning hezbollah not to get more involved in the conflict. cnn's wolf blitzer asked -- me if israel is sending a message to the militant group? >> i would send a message to hezbollah now, i would say to them, do not -- i think i'm repeating what president biden, said do not, do not escalate the situation on the north. we have no interest in a two front war. if you start one, if hezbollah forces us to respond, we will respond forcibly, and decisively. i hope cooler heads will prevail into ron, and in beirut. i don't think anyone has an interest in another war. if we are forced to fight, we will. let me make it clear, we prefer to avoid this. we want to concentrate on what

needs to be done in gaza. we fought to front wars in the past, in 1967, and 1973, we will prevail in a two front war. we prefer however to avoid it. we are watching very closely. we are mobilized and ready. i hope as i said a moment ago, the more rational minds prevail both in tehran, and in beirut. >> the past 27 days have been especially deadly for journalist in gaza. on thursday, a reporter with palestinian tv was killed as he returned home after filing a live report on the war. -- an 11 members of his family were all killed in an israeli airstrike according to the news organization. cnn has not been able to independently confirm the source of the explosion at the home, and there has been no comment from the idf. but his death sent shockwaves through his newsroom. here is how one colleague reported the story on air. >> no protection, no

international production at all. no immunity to anything. this protection gear does not protect us, not those helmets. these are just slogans we are wearing. it does not protect any journalist all. this protection gear does not protect us. we are only -- wearing slogans. we are victims here. live on air. we lose almost one after the other, without a price, we pass as martyrs. >> and the u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken has just landed in tel aviv, israel. you are looking at live pictures now as he just touched down. the top american diplomat will meet israeli much minute an yahoo and israeli leaders before coming to jordan, and later japan. south korea and india before leaving washington, blinken said he will be discussing, quote, concrete steps israel can and should take to minimize civilian casualties and his visit comes after israeli airstrikes hit the --

refugee camp in gaza three times this week causing many palestinian casualties. president biden was reportedly disturbed by the deaths and injuries, and his administration want that israel risks losing support given the skill of the humanitarian crisis. biden has also called for pause to allow hostages to get out. asked by cnn if israel had shown restraint intense offensive in gaza, blinken reiterated that israel has the right to defend itself, and the responsibility to do everything possible to protect civilians. he said when he sees a palestinian child pull from the rubble of a collapsed building, it, quote hits me in the gut as much as being a child in israel or anywhere else. all right, i want to bring in scott mclain again from london. as we just saw, secretary of state anthony blinken landing in israel, his third visit since this has all begun. a difficult balancing act for blinken supporting israel's defense, while also protecting civilians which seems to be a

growing priority for the biden administration. >> yes, this was far easier in the earlier stages of war, kim, when you didn't have the civilian death toll in gaza which had ballooned this high. 3700, more than 3700 according to the palestinian red crescent children alone have been killed. there are some 1000 plus reported missing under the rubble. for comparison, sake more than 500 children have been reported killed in ukraine. that is a conflict that has been going on for about a year and a half. you have seen the pentagon spokesperson, white house officials, all try to sort of twist themselves into knots, figuring out how to defend israel and this rising civilian death toll. you mentioned it already, kim, blinken himself wouldn't say one way or another whether or not israel was showing restraint, even if you go back two weeks, ago he was asked whether or not israel by his --

my his view is following international law. he would not answer that question directly. you also have much of the arab world who is seeing the situation much differently than the americans. many of them see outrage amongst western nations when it comes to their brutal terror attack in israel, but they are not seeing the same level of outrage coming from the west when it comes to palestinian lives. obviously anthony blinken in his comments that you mentioned, kim, trying to set the record straight, saying america values the life of a palestinian as much as the life of an israeli. israel can and should take whatever steps that it can to limit civilian casualties. but it is going to be pretty difficult to get over the impression that has already been left. you have had ambassadors from jordan, bahrain, columbia, chile, all have been recalled. i'm sure there are more on that list as well.

even after this trip to tel aviv and israel, blinken has a challenge on his hand as he goes to jordan where they are going to tell him that this war needs to and quickly. >> yes, a huge challenge on his hands as you say. thank you so much, scott, appreciate it. so much more to come here on cnn cross border strikes between israel and hezbollah and lebanon continue amid intel suggesting syria may provide -- russian technology. we will have that story straight ahead. stay with us.

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together to challenge our leadership, and -- to pose a growing threat to our own security as well as to that of our allies and partners. they've been partners in a devastating war in syria, and now we have a runny impact these firing missiles from syria in northern israel. russia could stop this, but it doesn't. instead, to the contrary, its government is -- hosting for moscow talks to moscow, iran is sending you evs to attack ukrainian civilians. so we are seeing the profound connections here. >> now according to sources, the u.s. intel suggests that russian mercenary organization wagner group will help us blasted up the defense system which was originally provided to the syrian government. now it is not clear whether the system has been delivered, or how close it maybe two delivery. i'm kim brunhuber, world sport is next for our international viewers. for viewers here in the u.s., the news continues. stay with us.

>> donald trump told us that it will likely soon become the latest family member to testify in the civil fraud trial after a new york court denied her request to postpone her bans in court. ivanka trump's attorney argued, replied will suffer undue hardship forced to -- travel to new york to testify in the middle of a school week. trump lives in florida with her husband and three young children. the attorney for donald trump decried the entire legal proceeding anne. let's listen. >> president trump wanted to inflate his net worth on a statement of financial condition. is it bread alone could double, triple. it is basic. it is basic. this is a waste of time. >> ivanka trump's brother it took the stand on thursday, donald junior and eric trump placed the blame on others for financial statements at the center of the case that is putting in the families empire in peril. cnn -- 's has details. . >> former president donald

trump's two eldest sons in court with smiles and thumbs up for the cameras. eric and donald trump jr. testifying in new york in the civil fraud trial accused along with their father of falsely inflating the value of properties like trump's previously on hotel in washington, trump tower in chicago, and their miami resort by hundreds of millions of dollars. >> before even having a day in court, i'm apparently guilty of fraud for relying on my accountant to do, wait for it, accounting. >> the brothers executive vice president had the trump organization where they worked most of their adult lives, took over the company when donald trump was elected president in 2016. >> don and eric are going to be running the company. >> donald trump jr. testifying, he still believes at the financial statements submitted in the case were, quote, materially correct, and quote, the judge --

already ruled evaluations were false. both brother saying, they did not prepare the financial statement for bank loans. i never worked on the statement of financial condition, eric trump said. i did not know anything about, it really, until the case came into fruition. -- eric acknowledged emails from a decade ago, appeared to show he knew about those very financial statements. so you d did know about your fathers and your financial statement as of august 20 2013, didn't you, the prosecutor asked. it appears that, way yes, eric trump said. trump junior told the court, he relied on accounting and legal teams to assure him the documents were correct when he signed them. i am fine with the make relying on that information, he testified. i don't know that i intended for them to do anything. i am signing off on it. >> the banks in question made hundreds of millions of dollars. think about this, they are not claiming that they are victims. they are not saying that they were misled. >> trump junior said he did in

fact check the value of properties, including his father's apartment, which the attorney general alleges was described as more than three times larger in square feet than it actually is. the new york attorney general says, the fraudit caught the trumps better loan and insurance policy terms. >> the evidence is clear, that is that he inflated his statements of financial interest to enrich himself, and his family. >> it is a case former president trump called fake, and fully discredited. >> this trial is a disgrace. it should have never been brought. >> if the judge ruled against the trumps, they could be forced to pay back millions, and lose their business license in the state. >> another tense exchange at the end of -- between the judge and trump's defense lawyer christopher -- the judge saying he made a comment that was misogynists towards his court clerk. and threaten to extend a gag order that is against the former president to the defense team. he is defending himself, and reiterated the fact that he thinks this clerk is playing an

unfair role in this trial. now court picks back up on friday with eric trump back on the stand, and the former president under warthen monday with ivanka trump possibly also taking the stand sometime next week. cnn, new york. >> a jury has found former billionaire sam bankman-fried guilty for his role in the collapse of the crypto exchange ftx. make been freed was convicted on seven counts of fraud and conspiracy, including stealing -- the collapse of ftx field panic in the trillion dollar crypto industry, and left 1 million customers facing potential losses. sentencing is set for march 28th of next year. u.s. senator republicans are vowing to keep the pressure on tommy tuberville after the vented their anger over his military nominations. cnn manu raju reports. >> for the first time, we are seeing republican anger spill

out into public view, trying to pressure tommy tuberville to back down over his blockade that have not led to nearly 400 military nominees to be stalled, not able to get their promotions. tuberville tells me tonight, he is not backing down. >> tommy tuberville, defiant. >> has any of this caused you to change -- >> no. >> despite growing anger from within the gop, from alabama senators nine-month blockade denying nearly 400 military personnel there promotions, all over his demand that the pentagon scrap its policy, we embarrassing servicemembers to traveling out of state for reproductive services including abortions. >> this is doing great damage to our military. i do not say that lightly. >> we are going to look back at this episode and just be stunned. what a national security suicide mission this became. >> for the first time, gop senators taking their fury to the floor, trying to shame tuberville and force him to

allow key personnel to -- but tuberville singlehandedly brought 61 nominees from getting confirmed. >> i object. >> is there objection. >> the senator from alabama. >> i object. >> even as gop leaders are ready to move on. >> but i think senator tuberville's made his point. >> if you want to do this, go after the people making the policy, not the people who have nothing to do with it and are simply they're trying to do their jobs and keep our country safe. >> do you support? >> i want to get these people confirmed. >> many republicans raising alarms. >> it is a dangerous, time we need to fuel our national security, tim including this officers who deserve their promotions. >> i want to say repercussions for this are probably the next decade to come. >> yet some blaming their own leaders. >> much of the republican leaders do actually get a solution, what are they good, for what is mitch mcconnell

doing here? >> the former football coach insists that -- no impact on the military and says he is simply trying to kill policy says illegal. >> it is the only way i can get their attention, and i've told you all, i hate to have to do this, but somebody has to listen to us. okay. >> tuberville's getting new attention after the marine corps comment on eric smith was hospitalized he had been working 18 hour days and two jobs to fill a vacancy caused by the tuberville blockade. >> aren't you making it harder for them to do their job? >> there is 2000 people in work, so he is working 18 hours a day, who are a blaming for the heart attack? give me a break? this guy do not work it in 20 hours a day no matter what. that is what we do. i did that for years. >> now tuberville has that for months, the senate majority leader chuck schumer can simply schedule a vote on individual nominations, something he has not wanted to do given the time it takes to do so.

schumer is now trying to take matters into his own hands and change the senate rules in order to advance a whole swoop of nominees, doing it in one large look. there's one issue, he needs republican support to do so, meaning 60 votes in the united states senate, expect next week and this one to be a huge issue as republicans meet behind closed doors to debate their next task and schumer trying to pressure republicans to back this change. >> cornell university and upstate new york will resume classes on monday after a student was arrested in connection with antisemitic threats targeting in the schools jewish community. this is one of many college campuses across the u.s. who have become what better antisemitic and islamophobic hate incidents since the israel-hamas war began. cnn's brian todd has the latest. >> at cornell university, classes canceled friday in the wake of the arrest of a student for making disturbing antisemitic threats. while students say, they are breathing a sigh of relief.

>> we are so scared, we are glad he's in custody, but we are still in -- >> a 21 your junior at cornell, is in custody, and has not yet entered a plea. prosecutors say an online post, he threatened to kill jewish students at cornell, and her shoot up a mainly kosher dining hall on campus. one prominent jewish advocates says this about the cancellation of classes at the university. >> a day off is not the answer. i'm not saying that it is the wrong decision. there is a lot of stress at cornell. but the response that has to come is some moral clarity on campuses, and the recognition that what we are seeing now is related to hamas's attack. it is an unwillingness to simply call out that terror. >> cornell's president says the school is no -- combat antisemitism, but it is one of several universities in america struggling tonight to deal with an inundation of protest anger and fear prompted

by the israel-hamas war. those emotions are sometimes lead to threats, and outright violence. >> for the events in israel and gaza have always been a touch point for individuals in the u.s.. there is a lot of passion there. sometimes that translates into violence. >> at columbia university in new york, dozens of students staged a walkout on wednesday, over a class in which hillary clinton was lecturing. their protest over the fact that some columbia students were publicly labeled antisemites, after they had signed an anti israel statement. colombia's president has now announced a task force to combat antisemitism. a similar effort taken at the university of pennsylvania, whose president has been under pressure to resign over a palestinian literary conference at the school held before the war started. >> -- there were worried about the extent to o which they are losi, donors losing funding. >> capone forsman officials are also tracking a huge spike in islamophobia in the u.s. since the war started. harassment, threats, violence

against muslims and advocates for expressing solidarity with the palestinian people. >> the office has reported almost 800 and counting, why is incidents targeting, muslims and -- over the last three and a half weeks. >> one of the top muslim american advocacy groups is reporting a nearly 400% increase in islamophobic incidents since the october 7th hamas attacks. council on american islamic relations, says he has reported nearly 800 incidents targeting muslims, palestinians, and arabs across the u.s.. the white house announced wednesday the strategy to counter islamophobia in the u.s.. i'm kim brunhuber, we will have more coverage of the israel-hamas war after this break. stay with us.