>> live from berlin, israel says no cease-fire with hamas. the prime minister calls the conflict a battle between civilization and barbarism and he says even the most just wars have unintended civilian casualties. also coming up israel steps up its ground operations, thanks put into gaza city as it has killed dozens more hamas

fighters. airstrikes are heading closer to hospitals, sheltering thousands of palestinians. we visited a dead sea resort where the is really survivors of the hamas massacre are trying to heal their trauma. -- the israelite survivors of the hamas massacre are trying to heal their trauma. to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world, it is great to have you with us. israeli prime minister says he will not agree to a cease-fire with hamas. speaking earlier he said that would represent a surrender to hamas. he called the conflict a battle between civilization and barbarism. he added that even the most just wars have unintended civilian casualties. he said he hoped civilized

nations would act israel's fight. >> i want to make clear our position towards the cease-fire. 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 or not agree to a succession of hostilities with hamas after the horrific attacks of october 7. calls for a cease-fire are calls for israel to surrender to hamas. to surrender to terrorism. 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. this day we draw a line between the forces of civilization and the forces of barbarism. is a time for everyone to decide where they stand. >> our correspondent is in jerusalem and he told us

more about what netanyahu said. >> this plea to countries to support israel and seek moral clarity according to his words. netanyahu said the future of civilization is at stake. he went on to explain that it is not israel indiscriminately bombing civilians, it is hamas and hamas which are using the gazan civilians, millions of them displaced at the moment and seeking refuge as human shields in this war. >> netanyahu took the stage shortly after it became known that an israeli to soldier had been freed, how was that received? >> this has been more than a glimmer of hope. the first good news in days,

this war has entered the fourth week and it is just bloodshed from the terrorist attacks on october 7 in which 1400 israelis are said to have died, the airstrikes which hamas says in the gaza strip has killed over 80,000 people. -- 8,000 1000 people, and verified numbers. only four have been released, prisoners, because of medical conditions and elderly person included. a number of people killed in retaliatory airstrikes according to hamas. this is really the first rescue by the sounds of it. israel clarifying an earlier statement saying that a private had been released during the ground offensive by hamas.

>> the latest from jerusalem, thank you for that. form or we can now bring in lieutenant colonel jonathan, a spokesperson for the israel defense forces. good to see you. the prime minister categorically rejects calls for a cease-fire equating it with calling for israel's defeat in the war. what about the humanitarian pause to help innocent civilians's get paid and get out of harm's way -- civilians get safaid and get out of harms way? >> it is in our interest to make the best possible situation for civilians and we are not trying to target them. in order to do so we are facilitating together with the egyptians and the u.s. and the u.n. the import of humanitarian aid. more than a 108 trucks of humanitarian aid have been provided to gaza. there is a humanitarian zone

declared and officially established humanitarian zone it the southern gaza strip. all in order to provide exactly as you say, some kind of support for the palestinians, the noncombatants, we have to be clear, any cessation in fighting will be used by hamas for their purposes and that is not on the table. we are focused on is dismantling -- what we are focused on is dismantling hamas and bringing back our hostages. >> to clarify the humanitarian aid that is trickling into -- 100 trucks since october 7 been brought to johnson's, that is usually what comes in throughout a day if i'm not mistaken? i want to get to something else because israel describes a hospital as a command center.

hundreds of people are stuck there and cannot be moved. there is an evacuation order that has been issued. is there a scenario in which the idea of what considerate refraining from bombing what it considers valuable military targets on humanitarian grounds? >>. . yes. we are respectful of protected sites and we fight according to the laws of our conflict. we are attacking the combatants,. . while we recognize that hamas uses civilian infrastructure for the military purposes, it is in direct contradiction to humanitarian law, it is a crime. they should not be able to do that and the unfortunate situation is even though two weeks have passed, almost two weeks have passed since we asked palestinians to evacuate the city, they have had lots of time to evacuate. the hospital, if they have

been for the, if they have not evacuated and there is combat ongoing, that is regrettable and i think that everybody in gaza, the aid organizations and hamas, the u.n. and everybody else should be busy evacuating people and to strip hamas of the human shield which is the hospital. >> the u.n. says there are people on ventilators and incubators that cannot be moved and that moving them would amount to putting them in harm's way and would also suppose a death sentence. i want to move on because your military managed to free a hostage overnight. can you give us any details about that operation? >> yes, just to finish the last point, what is putting them at risk is the fact that hamas is using it for the military purposes. otherwise we would not be talking about the hospital.

it is a protected facility and we would not have any issues with it. regarding the happy news of the release of private, she is with her family and she is well mentally and physically. she has been debriefed and she will be debriefed in the future. she was released by israeli forces on the ground operation due to the sensitivity of the matter i cannot elaborate how or how many people or how it was done and where she was held. all of the other interesting details. what i can say is that we are committed to getting all of our people back. not only hurt, but all of the hostages that are being held in gaza by hamas. >> a spokesperson for the israel defense forces, thank you. >> thank you for having me. >> earlier israel confirmed the death of one of the hostages being held by hamas.

the german israeli national was among those kidnapped at a music festival on october 7 when hamas militants stormed into israel killing more than 1400 people. israeli tanks have pushed into the outskirts of gaza city as the military expands its ground operations. fierce clashes are reported in northern gaza and israel says it has killed dozens more hamas fighters. united nations is warning the israel's airstrikes could hit hospitals where thousands of palestinians are sheltering. the hamas run health authority claims more than 80,000 people have been killed so far. -- 8,000 people have been killed so far. >> moments after an israeli rocket attack in central gaza. the palestinians say that bombardments are coming closer to the hospital and the humanitarian group is telling us

that there are thousands of people sheltering here and they are avoiding orders to evacuate. >> we do not have the means to evacuate the hospital, we have over 400 patients who are inside of the hospital, many of them are in the intensive care unit, evacuating them means killing them. that is why we are refusing the evacuation order. we call on the international community to intervene immediately to stop humanitarian catastrophes that are unfolding! >> israel accuses hamas militants of using hospitals as command centers. they ensure no sign of pausing their pounding of the territory as its troops advanced deeper into gaza. israel has vowed to dismantle hamas after its unprecedented terror attacks on israel weeks ago. >> in coordinated attacks by

ground and air forces, fighters killed dozens of militants in gaza who had barricaded themselves in sside buildings and attack our forces as they were moving. >> the humanitarian situation in gaza remains desperate as israel enters what it calls the second stage of the work with hamas. thousands included an aid warehouse, assigned united nations festival order is breaking down. israel has rejected appeals for a humanitarian cause, the international criminal court has warned that impeding aid may constitute a crime. >> going to underline nearly to israel, that there must be discernible efforts without further delay to make sure that civilians receive basic food, medicine, and in aesthetics,

morphine. we hear reports of operations taking place, targeting basic mag medicines as if we were in the middle ages. >> little is changing for gazans who are deciding to stay put, leaving their lives to fate. >> recently from save the children and others say the aid organizations like his are helping children caught up in the conflict. >> the situation is dire. we have two .3 one million people in gaza, half of them are children which are impacted. the casualties, deaths, injuries that children are facing is unprecedented. one child is killed every 10 minutes. we are trying to prioritize to reach the most vulnerable families but it is impossible.

1.4 one million people, 50% of the population have fled of the homes, they are homeless, they shall bring in hospitals, schools, wherever it is safe. there is no food, water, there is a lack of bathroom facilities, no medical care available. save the children like many other aid agencies are trying to bring food and water to impacted communities in the shelters and schools and in the household. especially when there are many children like children with disabilities who cannot get to shelters or move from their homes. >> who have called on all parties to the conflict to take immediate steps to protect the lives of children. with the cease-fire off of the table, what could those steps be? >> it is imperative that if there is not a cease fire, humanitarian pause.

gaza, there isthat is safe in gaza, all along the north and the south, bombardments, airstrikes, this has led to the tremendous numbers of children that have been killed. also children that are injured and need humanitarian goods in gaza. food, water, medicines, fuel so that hospitals can function. the desalination plants can function, they are warning out of water. we are allowed in because we need to find the children. we need to do the assessments and deliver the systems. all of this can only be possible if the fighting stops. civilians cannot reach safety. they cannot reach distribution points. humanitarians cannot deliver when there are shillings that are continuing. >> children make up half of gaza's population and that gives organizations like your own a lot to do.

why are there so many children? why is the young population so big? >> because it is a densely populated city, it is one of the most densely populated in the world. 1.1 million children living in the area, again, there is nowhere that is safe for them. to additionally we have seen family sizes are large particularly in conflict because there is a fear that the next generation will not survive. the rights of children and child mortality rates are astronomically high. the rights of women giving -- dying in childbirth or high. this is why it is critical that we must protect the children. the long-term mental health outcomes for the children are subject to the cycles of endless violence is astronomical. all of our research shows that increasing levels of depression, anxiety, of children feeling withdrawn and hopeless, not having any hope. they do not believe that there

is a future, they do not have a hope for the future. it is imperative that we protect the lives of all children and we give them the assistance that they need. we protect the hope and belief that there is a future for them. >> do you fear that the children that survived the horrors of this conflict will be prone to indoctrination? radicalization? eventually a perpetuation of this cycle of violence? >> children are resilient and they can recover up in order for them to recover, the triggers of what is happening has to be removed. the commerce have to be removed. -- the, must be removed. we have to give them what they need. every single conflict, the fighting must stop, there must be a durable and lasting peace and justice for all children and they must get the support and treatment that they need. this is how children rebuild their lives and fulfill their

dreams and have a future. >> that is jason lee from save the children. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> hamas militants massacred around a 10th of the population of one single group in southern israel, those who remain have been evacuated to a resort on the dead sea. around 1000 survivors are trying to deal with their trauma and the loss of loved ones as rebecca ritter's reports. >> portraying the dead, from a time before their world fell apart. one of the therapy is helping these people process their trauma at this upscale resort on the dead sea. it is a place of relative safety,. . in a country at war 1000 israelis who escaped the massacre were evacuated here. they will live here for at least

the next few months. trying to come to terms with what happened. >> we heard a lot of bombs and we woke up. >> she recalls the moment the ordeal began. her parents soon texted her from their home up the street. they were a hiding. hamas gunmen killed people that they and ella feared that her mother and father were among them. >> i saw a picture of them on telegram. it is not in israel. it is in gaza. >> two weeks later she found this video of her captured mother, filmed by hamas. looking for clues on where they might have been taken, she and her sister went back to their childhood home. >> why? >> i cannot even describe it, it was so hard. when i went there --

>> why? >> i could not step on the ground because on every piece of ground there is something. i could not think of walking on them. >> donations from across the country have been pouring in for people who escaped with only the clothes on their back. >> they have to tell us again and again. >> this is one of the psychotherapists stationed in the hotel to help them. she says the most important thing is to get people talking. >> how they could not breathe, how they had no food, how they were worried, how people are in danger, how they escaped, what did they see? they have to repeat it and over and over until the story has a narrative. that has a beginning, middle,

and an ending. >> this was an event unlike anything in recent memory. >> it is a collective grief, something we do not see usually in israel. we have the terror attack and a soldier is dead but here, because of the massive numbers, we have a collective grief. it is also a strong feeling of community that they go through it together. >> going through it together, but each alone in their pain. >> there is not a family that did not lose someone. there is not a family here. all of the families lost someone. even we are a big family together. even i lost friends, and neighbors. everyone lost someone. >> the seventh of october was traumatic for all israelis.

even as the people trying to heal, it is clear that their trauma will be felt for generations. >> let us take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world today. u.s. carmaker general motors has reached a tentative deal to end the strike, it includes a substantial pay increases, gm follows fellow automakers ford and stellantis in working with the union. a train crash has killed 14 people in india, a passenger train rammed into another, it stopped due to a technical problem. officials said the crash was likely due to human error. at least four people have been killed in election violence in the philippines. police officers and soldiers

have been sent in to secure a village polling station. there have been months of violence related to the vote. kenya is to scrap visa requirements for african visitors by the end of the year. the president says the current rules were bad for business, the shift would make kenya only the fourth african country to go visa free. a german chancellor has been holding energy talks in nigeria, the german government is looking for more sources of natural gas to replace russian energy imports. he also called for closer cooperation to manage migration. >> a german nigerian project in lagos, nigerians returning from germany received support to make a new start in their home country. the german chancellor visited the center for labor migration and integration, helping returnees find jobs >>. >>it is good for them to move

for a future, being able to have income, a job, and the chance for a family business. >> before the event at the german run center the chancellor met with women nigerian entrepreneurs, he addressed the immigration issue in his speech. >> more than ever before we are offering legal pathways to come to germany to work there. at the same time, those who cannot state should be able to return. >> the chancellor met with the president, the people had to leave germany is relatively high and not jerry does not accept substitute documents provided by germany. there is a promise to improve the situation. >> we are entering partnership to improve migration situations. people can go through the process as long as they are of

good behavior. >> germany is entering talks nigeria and establishing an acceptable quota for illegal immigrants but this requires a joint agreement which is likely to take time. >> in other news, 40 people were killed as hurricane otis and mexico. dozens of others are missing and residents have criticized government help is too slow. the damage is possibly a $15 billion -- at $15 billion. >> a beach on the pacific coast, leaving devastation that extends as far as the eye can see. days on, people are waiting for basic amenities. >> where is the government support? look at the line, the water will be delivered to it :00 a.m. and we have been here since early morning since 5:00 a.m. risking being mugged because there is mugging going on in the streets! >> not just in the streets,

entire stores have been looted. with little input from authorities, some neighborhoods, residents are cleaning up by themselves. their concerns go beyond just removing the debris. some have lost the roof over their heads. >> all we can think about is where we will get the money from to rebuild what we used to have. -- money from to rebuild what we used to have. >> locals aren't rebuilding their communities. -- are rebuilding their communities. rebuilding the tourist hotspot could take years to mend. >> who are watching tw news,

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>> welcome back, live from paris. let's take a look at our headlines. benjamin netanyahu says his country is engaged in a just war as israeli forces push further into gaza, troops give rise to speculation the plan is to surround the city. the rdf says it has rescued a female soldier in gaza who was taken hostage by hamas. hamas released a video of