. hello and welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. i m bianca nobilo. max foster has been on assignment. and we begin with the israel-hamas war. it is s friday, novembmber 3 3, a.m. in london, 10:00 a.m. in gaza where the israeaeli milita says it has gaza city cut off and surrounded. idf says the primary goal is to locate and destroy hamas tunnels and eliminate explosives and other objecstacles. 23 soldiers have died in the operation. secretary of state antony blinken returned to israel and is expected to meet this hour with benjamin netanyahu. the secretary says the u.s. is increasingly concerned by the rising civilian death toll in gaza which palestinian officials say is more than 9,000 people. more than a dozen u.s. democratic senators are now calling for a short term pause in the fighting in order to deliver more aid and to focus to getting hostages released. scott mclean is covering these angels for us. what is blinken hoping to accomplis