dig up old tapes of those artists 20 or 30 years from now. we'll see where the technology is at that point. >> if someone cares about it. that's the thing. all this stuff that we're hearing in 50 or 100 years, the only thing left is going to be those four guys. >> absolutely. well said. great to talk to you. thank you, everybody, for joining me this evening. don't forget to turn those clocks back an hour and maybe play some beatles later on tonight. i'll see you again tomorrow night at 5:00. "full story" is next. welcome to the whole story. i'm anderson cooper in tel aviv. the attack by hamas left at least 1,400 people dead, month are than 200 people held hostage according to israeli officials and many more people are still unaccounted for. in response, israel began a bombing campaign in gaza according to the hamas- controlled health ministry, more than 4,000 people dying there so far. the story of hamas is complex. itits roots date back to the formation of israel in 1948. it has many factions, including the so-called military wing which perpetrated the terror attack. over the next hour we bring you the whole story of hamas. we want to warn you, some of the images you'll see in this hour may be disturbing. >> pure unadulterated evil. >> i can't even try to comprehend these monsters. >> terrorists. >> this is not islam. >> they should be spit out. >> we cannot expect that israel will continue to blockade gaza, deprive them of their freedom and assume at some point they will not resist. at some point it's going to boil over. >> october 7th was different. october 7th changed everything. is. >> what happened on october 7th is unprecedented. what mass has targeted israeli civilians before. that's not new. what is new is simply the scale and just the ruthlessness. >> how do you define hamas? who and what is hamas? >> hamas is a social political movement. >> there are plenty of palestinians who cannot stand hamas, but they recognize some of their neighbors, some of their family members, are hamas supporters. hamas has several aspects to it. it certainly does have a military wing, but it also has a political wing. it has social services. it calls itself the islamic resistance movement and the movement is a comprehensive one. >> hamas is a nationalist movement that's committed to the notion of arms struggle for the liberation of palestine. out of all the different palestinian factions that exist, hamas is the only party that has an organized military and a very well resourced military force. so what that means is that for many palestinians hamas is the only party that can actually defend palestinian civilians against israeli aggression. >> that's the reality. that is how many palestinians view and consider them, a line of defense. >> since 2007 hamas has governs the gaza strip with more than 2 million people largely cut off by the israeli blockade, an area humanitarian rights group have called an open air prison. but the rise of hamas and what led up to its massacre of more than 1,000 men, women, and children in israel is a story that begins long before hamas ever existed. >> this did not start on october 7th. >> the british had a mandate to govern palestine after world war i and the mandate said you should prepare this territory for independence, but you should also facilitate a jewish national home. >> the british tried various mechanisms to make them agree on some kind of settlement. >> the british found they couldn't do both. so they gave up. they just left after world war ii and they handed the problem over to the u.n. and said, "we can't deal with it." >> the palestine problem moves into another stage of discussion. >> the u.n. sets up a commission that comes to the conclusion that the best solution here is to take this land and to divide it, roughly speaking, half to the palestinians, half to the israelis. the jews accept that deal. the arabs do not. >> so war broke out. >> arabs and jewish nationals fought each other bitterly and relentlessly. >> as a result of that war, the state of israel declared itself and took control not simply of the territory that the u.n. had allotted to it, but some other territory as well, a lot of which had significant palestinian population. >> the new jewish state, israel, was born in a bath of blood. >> the birth of the state of israel for palestinians is called a word which means the catastrophe because in order to pave the way to establish israa jewish state, there needed to be a mass ethnic cleansing of palestinians. more than 700,000 palestinians fled our side of the land of palestine and palestine was essentially decimated. >> captives are held for evacuation. women flee with what belongings they can carry. >> israel said essentially we're not allowing them to return. so you may have thought you were leaving for a week, but you're never coming back. >> by the end of 1948 a newly formed israel had claimed 78% of the land of historic palestine. the palestinians, who hadn't fled to neighboring countries, settled in the remaining 22% of land that israel had yet to conquer. >> what is left is the west bank in gaza. so the egyptians control gaza. the jordanians control the west bank and that's how it was until the 1967 war when arab armies amassed on israel's border. >> on the frontier of the gaza strip, just a mere kilometer away. >> 19ticket 7 1967 is one of the biggest historic moments in the middle east. >> israeli forces have routed the armed might of their arab neighbors. >> the israelis conquer the west bank in gaza and this is a moment of great exhilaration in israel because they feel as though they have defeated the arab arms in an extraordinary military success. they have not figured out what they're going to do with the millions of palestinians on that land. >> after the six-day war the millions who fled to gaza and the west bank in 1948 are officially under israeli occupation. >> which left all these people in gaza in the west bank citizens of nowhere. they weren't citizens of the israeli state, so they were just stuck. >> palestinians begin to say we need to liberate ourselves. >> throughout the '70s and '80s bursts of violence between palestinians and israelis were commonplace. the palestinian liberation organization, which is formerly recognized by the world, was led by yassir arafat who was operating in exile outside the palestinian territories, but inside israeli-occupied gaza a new resistance movement was underway. >> the biggest civil society and actors against the military occupation and the idea was they would disrupt the occupation apparatus. so they refused to open shops. they blocked highways. they refused to a period of si agitation. >> around the same time islamists within gaza and the west bank were shifting focus to a more aggressive approach towards their israeli occupiers and a new armed resistance group would emerge officially known as hamas. >> a spiritual leader in the gaza strip and one of the earliest founders and leaders of the muslim brotherhood chapters in palestine and when hamas was established in 1987, he emerged as leader of the movement and in some ways the spiritual guide of the movement. >> unlike the secular palestinian resistance known as fattah, the newly established hamas was not interested in liberating gaza and the west bank alone. instead, it set out to eliminate the state of israel altogether as outlined in its 1988 charter, a goal that made hamas an outsider to any peace negotiations, including the oslo accords. >> the oslo accords really set off earthquakes in both palestinian and israeli society. >> as our wars have been long, so must our healing be swift. >> but the oslo accords ultimately resulted in that the plo recognized the state of israel and so conceded 78% of the land of historic palestine and in return the israeli government recognized the plo as the sole legitimate representative of the palestinian people. there was jubilation globally and many palestinians despite this historic concession believed that this might pave the way to the establishment of a state on 22% of their land, but this was by no means nonhad controversial noncontroversial or unchallenges and for hamas specifically, this was something they were fundamentally opposed to. >> one of the deadliest attacks to derail peace came in february 1994, just months after the signing and historic white house photo op. >> a jewish settler entered the mosque while muslims were worshiping there. the dozens of dead and scores of injured were rushed to hospitals in nearby towns. >> that was a turning point because hamas then decided to begin employing suicide bombing as a form of resistance. >> 41 days after the mosque attack hamas responded detonating its first lethal suicide attack, killing seven israelis at a bus stop. >> the big reason oslo failed was violence. the perception of both sides is that their adversary is not serious. israelis say arafat is not completely stopping terrorism. palestinians say the israelis are dragging their feet on a pullout. they're increasing settlement building even as they're promising to leave. >> the fundamental reason hamas has gained strength is that the palestinian authority, which is their competition, has been seen as corrupt and unable to deliver on its core promise, which was a palestinian state. >> but to the west hamas was not a negotiating partner. instead it became a threat. in 1997 the u.s. officially designated hamas a foreign terrorist organization. >> if you protest nonviolently and so on, you are shot at. you are imprisoned. so they left only one avenue actually, which is armed resistance. >> hamas has decided that it is going to use violence. it is going to use violence against civilians. it is going to be brutal. >> the next decade hamas continued its violence and i it would d meet m more violenence rereturn. will they go home with a deal? the latest from camp david. >> this wooded maryland retreat of u.s. presidents, camp david, was the site of a possibly historic summit in the summer of 2000. >> you had yassir arafat, the legendary leader of the palestinian liberation organization, who had a lot of credibility with palestinians, barack, a distinguished israeli mililitary officicer. >> if they cannot make p progre now, t there wilill be more hostility and more bitterness. >> if seemed as though they had kind of come to an agreement and then arafat pulls out the last minute, best we can tell, because he believed that if he didid this, hamas would gain power. >> so the israeli story on camp david is that the israeli prime minister offered significant concessions and the palestinians said no. the palestinian view was that they were set up at camp d davi ththat israel and the united states made offers they knew that yassir arafat could not accept and as a result, they were made to look bad. >> just two months after those talks failed to get an agreement a former israeli defense minister who many arabs called the butcher of beirut for israel's 1982 invasion of lebanon made a provocative heavily guarded visit to the temple mount. a holy site in christianity, judaism and islam, also a flash important of contention over who should control it, israelis or arabs. >> the violence that observers believe to be inevitable erupted. >> just the first sparks of what became the second violent and deadly conflict between israelis and palestinians over israeli occupation of the west bank in gaza. the second conflict would last nearly five years, a half decade fight in which hamas became known for their routine use e of both terror andnd destruruction. >> over time more and more of israel came to range as hamas' missiles got better and better. >> israeli forces demolished over 4,000 palestinian homes and arrested thousands. israel shut down and bombed ministries and infrastructure trying to coerce palestinian leaders to end the violence. between 2000 and 2005 there were over 4,300 registered fatalities with a palestinian to israeli ratio of just over 3- 1. finally in february 2005 came this announcement from the palestinian authority and israel. >> we have agreed with the prime minister to cease all acts of violence. >> later that year israeli unilaterally began implementing its so-called disengagement plan to evacuate israel's settlements and military posts from gaza and a section of the west bank. thouousands of settltlement reresidents lolost their h home > it was both a phyhysical, also a p psychologicical disesengagement t on behalf of israelis from gaza. it was no longer their problem. >> there was a very, very difficult, painful step for israel to take, to pull settlers out and howow d did palelestinians r respond? by shooting rockets s and there is some trtruth to thahat. it's's also true, thoughgh, whe israel pulled out of gaza, it continued to envelope it in a blockade. >> a blockade to isolate hamas and attempt to prevent smuggling of weapons, but it also severely limited the transport of b basic necesessit for papalestinian n citizens i gaza. >> t the blockckade was quite hohorrific. there was s an immediaiate coll in thehe q quality of lilife in medicicines, food d items, w wa alall of the items of a normal life were immemediately suspend and ththe immedidiate impapact significicant increaease in pov and destititution. >> the yeaears leaeading up to palestinian election in 2006 saw an unprecedented wave of violence. i remember being in the city where i was raising my young son and feeling unsafe to simply go out about my daily life in the streets. >> and from gaza hamas cocontinued toto terrorizeze is >> so o israrael was operaratin ununder the assumption despite millllion paleststinians beiein imprisoneded it t could still expect c calm. whwhat h hamas w was doing was this period shattetering that t illusionon. so evevery few months s and if years, it would fire rockets in order to force israel to reconsider. >> in 2006, nearly a year after the announcement of the ceasefire, elections for the palestinian legislative council were held in gaza. cnn chief correspondent christy chriristiane amamanpour wawas t >> the group of amamericans who belilieved that t the iraqaq wa 2003 w would briring demococrac the wider r mimiddle east,t, t a very flawed assumption and the americans insisted on this election even though the isisraelis andnd the palesestin authority y warned thehe united states notot to lelet thisis el go ahead because they feared the hamas would prevail and that is exactly what happened. >> the hamas victory was resounding, winning 76 of 132 seats in the legislature, shocking results for the u.s. and israeli officials, bringing to power a group the united states had designated as a terrorist organization, but a group that had been making a difference in the lives of everyday palestinians. >> for many palestinians hamas is a lifeline. for two decades they've built a grassroots network of affordable social services l li thisis medical c clinic that chcharges $2 a visisit. >> they y providided educatitio theyey were veryry well entrenc with the citizens and civilians. so that is o one of ththe reaso why hamas s wowon in gaza in 20 >> s so after the e 202006 elec and hahamas vivictory, there ar ququestions on the scope of hamas' power. is it still under palestinian authority or independent and there are questions about who runs particular parts of gaza. hamas is worried there will with be a coup. as a result, it effectively does a coup. >> the coup in 2007 known as the battle of gaza was relatively brief, bloody and left no doubt hamas was not part of the palestinian authority which governed the west bank. hamas was a much m more extreme and violenent group now solely charge of gaza. >> it ceases power in gaza in 2007 and it violently goes after the individuals associated with the palestinian authority. some were thrown from windows, many arrested, tortured. >> but one thing is clear. hamas managed to do what fattah was unable to do prioror to 200 which isis to secure the street in gaza, to put an end to the rampant lawlessness ththat we wewere seeing.g. >> havaving hamas in c charge o gazaza meaeant the blockade wou continue. >> so the cutoff of goods going in and out of gaza have a big impact on hamas. they know make it hard for hamas to provide any degree of prosperity to ordinary gazans. >> i visited gaza in 2012. you might have power a couple hohours a day y and thesese conditioions were gettining wor and d woworse and worsrse. insiside the gaza ststrip haham nonot a popular movement. there's no elections, no way to get rid of them or anything like that. so people in the gaza strip just lived with them. >> and the conflict between israel and hamas would not abate, hamas attacking israel -- >> that was the explosion. we just heard one explosion going off. i think it came from that direction over there. >> -- israel firing on gaza. you look to your left, destruction. i reported from both gaza and israel telling stories of destruction and dismay. around 3:30 this morning here in gaza city a massive explosion. we know there have been at least four bombardments. and it would only escalate in 2014 after the israel security agency identified ha masses members as responsible for the kidnapping and killing of three israeli teenagers from a jewish settlement in the west bank. and weeks later the abduction and murder of a palestinian teen whose body was found in jerusalem. outrage and anger on both sides would not be contained, erupting in the 2014 gaza war. > israel l puput together an operation which consisted of about 50 days with 70,000 israeli callups for the defense forces. they went into gaza a anand on three e different t axises in n north, i in the center andnd th south. it resulteted in 66 israeli deaths of soldiers, six israeli citizens. u.n. estimates 2,100 palestinian and hamas deaths duringng that sameme operationo it wasas after that that the israeli government really started taking a different look at hamas and what they were doing in thehe gaza stririp. is it possible my network could take my business to the next level? it is with comcast business. powering all your devices with gig-speed wifi. and you get fast downloads and uploads. pick it up! pick it up! oh we got this! because it's powered by the next generation 10g network. more speed for your business? it's not just possible. it's happening. get started for $59.99 a month for 12 months. plus, ask how to get an $800 prepaid card with a qualifying internet bundle. comcast business, powering possibilities. more than 2,100 palestinians were killed. more than 60 israeli soldiers were killed. >> going in in 2014 into gaza after that sustained bombing, you just had this huge sense of the utter scale of the destruction. it was really hard, near impossible to find anyone who genuinely supported what hamas had done. >> i hope god won't let anyone taste our sufferering, t this w in g gaza said. . >> in the west bank where a majority of palestinians lived, the year 2021 was a very bloody year. >> a flash point has definitely been the possible eviction of some palestinian families, some of which had been living there for generations. >> according to the u.n., since prime minister benjamin netanyahu's reelection in 2009, there were over 14,000 instances where palestinians were forcibly removed from their land by israeli settlers. this includes east jerusalem. >> there are sirens going off all around jerusalem now. this usually means there is the popotential of rocockets coming > in 202021 w was the first thatat thehe palestininians mob as a a single people demanding single thing, which is to dismantle israel's regime of apartheid and for hamas it becomes the military power that is protecting the mobilization of palestinians. >>s israel once again fires back. >> 11 days of bloodshed that killed almost 250 palestinians in gaza according to the hamas- run palestinian healalth mininistry, and d 12 israelis. >> conditions in gaza since 2021 in particular have been hellish. >> if there is a hell on earth, it is the lives of children in gaza. >> children make up nearly half of gaza's population, in part because palestinians there simply don't get a chance to grow old. the unemployment rate for adults there is s well over 40% >> the israeli blockckade is ve tight and it makes it very hard for people in gaza to have normal lives of any kind and it is also true that when the israelis have allowed things in, those materials are often used by hamas to turn into weapons. >> july 19th, 2023, less than three months before hamas' surprise attack on israel, gaza is stronger. its army is mightier. its weapons are more advanced said the spokesperson for the brigade, the military wing of hamas. >> there's a lot of evidence that shows that they are going into educational institutions to look for people who would be willing to die for the cause, but there's also evidence that they look for people with engineering aptitude and ability to design different types of explosive devices. >> hamas has had no shortage of military recruits. back in 2013 i visited a military training class at a gaza high school, a visit facilitated by hamas' education ministry. one of the things these high school students don't need to be taught is what it feels like to be in war. they have also experienced it and they all believe the fight between gaza and israel will never end. i've lost three people dear to me in the war, said this one teenager. therefore, the seed of martyrdom ruined us for the next round. what's also grown is the labyrinth of tunnels underneath gagaza. >> o over the lastst ten y year hamas has actually expxpanded t tunnnnels. atat one point it was probably 100 miles or so. now it's exponentially greater. >> we work around the clock inside the tunnels said a spokesperson for one of hamas' armed allies. >> the tunnels are vital because they allow them to get to the firing positition for th rockets. theyey allow t them to move e ammuninition. >> it is about half the size o the new w york subwaway systeme it's almlmost like thehey built underground city under there. >> look at the military leader, commander of hamas. he's been out of sight and as far as anybody knows, he's been living in these tutunnels the e last 20 0 years. >> the milititary leader of hamas, his name arabic for the guest. >> he's reputed never to have spent a night in the same place twice. >> yahya sinwar is the leader. >> in 2017 when sinwar took over, he had spent 20 plus years as a prisoner of the israelis. he speaks fluent hebrew. he's able to really understand the workings of the israeli defense forces. >> hamas' hardened leadership combined with renewed foreign support. >> there were meetings between sinwar and the head of egyptian intelligigence in gagaza itself he buiuilt up p ththe support t werere getting from m iran. . >> iran has prprovided tens of millions, probably more, to hamas. >> iran benefits. it allows it to portray itself as the protector and defender of the palestinian cause. >> qatar doesn't endorse hamas' military activitities, but it does prorovide a lotot of f humamanitarian s support whihic hamamas would d like to take cr for, giving the broad impression to the israelis hamas was much more focused on political activity. >> israel was focused on political activities of its own whwhen it comes to hamas. >> netetanyahu weirdly has prpreferred toto engage e witht ththan with ththe palestininian auththority. >> we now w have some e good reportining on the of israel th says netanyahu at various meetings said this is a way to insure there will never be a palestinian state because we keep the palestinians divided. we slowly take more and more of ththe west banank. >> i i asked a senior palestini who told me it is because of netanyahu and the increasing far right coalition in israel wantnt to dehumamanize the paleststinians, wawant to sesep them and want to insurure thata they h have a continuing narrative that is palestinians are not partrtners for p peace. lolook at hamas. >> it is p people like netanyah whose hard line policies have strengthened hamas and given them some credibility among palestinians. >> but just hohow do palalestin feel abobout hamasas? >> the ideolological comommitme toto hamas hasas to be sepepara bit t from the f fact ththat ha the ononly milititary power tht ablele to protect palestiniaian fromom israeli a aggression.n. so oftften for palalestinians w do notot support hamas idideologicalllly, they would s support t hamas's' resistancnce >> t the palesestinians aren't looking g at t the carnanage an deatath and deststruction ofof lives anand eveverything that t know andnd love e araround theh say hey, we're blalaming hamas. they're lolooking at all thihis seeieing this as part anand par of t the underlyining problem, which is israeael's control ove their lives, israel's denial of their freedoms, israel's longstanding occupation and theft of their land. >> nobody wants to see civilians killed. nobody does, but the question is why do people cry foul when it's israelis and yet for decades s israel has beeeen kil palestininian civililians. nonobody says s anything. . >> is it true that palestinians who live under israel's broad authority, do they live under seseparate lawaw? do thehey face many, m many mor constraints on their freedoms than israelis do? the answer is yes. palestinians are treated differently. >> before the october 7th attack according to the u.n., in 2023 alone 227 palestinians were killed by israeli settltle and the isisraeli mililitary. > the belieief was ifif the effectct of gaza was a fewew rockckets every y few montnths, could live with that and that assumption was fundamentally overturned on october 7th. >> when we return -- >> the israeli army weren't able to communicate. >> this is definitely a whole new level of terror. in a crisis caused by a terrorist massacre. warning civilians to clear out, while hamas forces them back. allowing in food and water, which hamas steals. hamas has been trying to wipe out israel and israelis for nearly three decades, but their october 7th attack at the gaza border, on israeli military bases, at a music festival and on more than 20 villages and towns arere unlike anything it's ever done before. >> this is definitely a whole new level of terror. the number dead. >> at least 1,400 people killed in israel. >> the number wounded. >> 3,400 so far. >> the number of those kidnapped, that's off the charts. >> around 200 hostages, possibly more, were taken on what was the deadliest day for the jewish people since the holocaust. >> to o put it in american term 1,400 israelis dead is about 40,000 americans dead. >> the scale of the attack was staggering. so was the level of preparation made clear by documents discovered on the bodies of slain terrorists and shared with cnn by israeli officials. this document advises attackers to kill anyone posing a threat or causing a distraction to, keep captives away from arms or means of suicide, and to use them as cannon fodder. hamas also knew the exact number of armed guards at a kibbutz. this document says there were at least 20 civilians and ten soldiers. >> they knew about the other three or four entrances to the kibbutz. they knew everything, where the generators are. they knew where the armory is. >> it was a similar story at kibbutz nahal oz, whwhich is ne- door to a mimilitary basase. >> they y kikilled i thinknk 40 soldiersrs, some of f ththem in sleeeep. thenen when they tooook full control of the military,y, they wentnt to start t butcheringng cicivilians ofof nahal oz.z. >> repeporter: ththey knew exe whwhat they y werere doioing, h > if yoyou lookok at the ord we have some of the written commands, they knew everything. >> and they had d knowledge abo military targets, , too. >> ten h hamas perpepetrators, momotorcycles,s, they come to o secret i intelligencnce babase. it's's not on ththe maps. not t just that, they y know where's s the backck gate e tha unmamanned. ththey explode thahat gate. ththey go in. . they're e lookoking for the sec bunkerer wherere the serervers ththey go leftft andnd r right don't t find i it. so t the commanderer said to hi asassistant, t the othther s so "give me t the map,"," andnd he him ththe mamap of the s secret inintelligencece base. >> reporter: whatat happens on they get t to where e they a ar ordedered to g go? >> t this isis t the bunkeker t protects s secret servrvice. ththe bunker is s heheavily fofortified, b but someone forg one ofof the d doors. soso they get in. . they thrhrow hand grgrenades. they kill some of the soldiers. then they found two soldiers hiding under the bed and they murdered them. >> being able to go into where their communication servers were caused a lot of chaos where people in the israeli army weren't able to communicate with each other for hours afafter the attackck happenened. >> i israel was s sick with the of vanitity and compmpletely underestimating g the enemy. >> repeporter: you say vavanit dodo you meaean lilike israel l being g humble enougugh to real the enemy of isrsrael is smartr capablble, and could do somethi this terrible? >> yeah. all of the above. >> once the attacks happened, details, brutal details, were spread across social media, a clear sign hamas has grown and evolved not just militarily, but also in how they invoke fear and spread terror. >> one of the mainin purposeses ththis operatition was t to cre ththe videos. . the special operation n unit of hamamas, t they were ordered n justst to o kikill civiliansns kidnap, but toto perform t the horrrrific acts s ththat a humu being asas much as you can cala somemeone like t this a human n can do to o another one,e, docu ththat and senend it over to centraral command d of hamas th in i its turn put thisis on n s media. those videdeos that were meant break the spirit, the morale of the israeli public. shortly after the attack happened, i entered there. >> an israeli kibbutz where some of the most horrific atrocities occurred. >> there was one terrorist body over there and we went and just right next to him was a body of this 14, 15-year-old, the head chopped off. i don't want t to get into the details of what they have done to people in the hours until they killed him. >> repororter: tortururing, it. >> m more ththan just torturing the evevil. you u read inscrcriptions. you cannot comprehehend how someone cacan do those things a then you come and insist things were so much worse. i think that what hamas did was to sentence this region to live on its swordrd for many,y, many generationons, if not t forever because e i don'n't knknow o of israelisis, evenen the mosost l left wing g that after this wou sign a peace accord with any palestinians. they would just not trust them because of the atrocities. >> ahead. >> there is no safe place in gagaza anymorere. israel's military dropped leaflets from the sky earlier today warning the 1.1 million civilians living in northehern gazaza to evacuate the area. >> there is no safe place in gaza anymore. >> mohammad gallinin, a british citizen, office a family visit to gaza city when he was forced to evacuate south. >> we were told to come here by the israeli army because it's supposedly safer, for our safety, but it doesn't feel safe. there's bombing all around us every day and truly i go to sleep. i don't know if i'll wake up. i go out, i don't know if i'i'l come bacack safefe. food is running g out in the shops anand we've not t had pow for more thahan a weekek. the water r supppply d depends popower. > for palestininians all thi movement out of their homes evokes memories of the 1948 expulsion. >> it's something that permeates the psyche of palestinians just like the holocaust permeates the psyche of israelis. people left their homes just like we did a week ago and they thought it will be over. we'll be back in ten days. everything will be fine and they've been dispossessed of their lands ever since. >> the humanitarian crisis in gaza seems to grow worse by the hour. >> the dead are piling up, all this only the beginning as those troops, hundreds of thousands of israeli troops, amassing on that border. >> as the world watches and waits, the death toll is already staggering. this cnn graphic detailing fatalities in the conflict over the past 15 years shows more palestinians have died each and every year and the latest violence moves in the same direction with profoundly more loss of the life on the palestinian side since the horrific hamas attack on israel october 7th. the question remains, why did hamas strike now, likely knowing the devastation it would provoke in gaza? hamas spokesman name checked events earlier this year as motivation for their attack. >> hamas called this motivation as the storm. >> earlier this year as israeli police raided the third holiest site in islam