Story. The october 7th attack by hamas which the u. S. Labels a Terrorist Organization left at least 1400 people dead. More than 200 people are being 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 have died there so far. The story of hamas is complex. Its roots date back to the formation of israel in 1948. It has many factions including the socalled Military Wing which perpetrated the terror attack. Over the next hour, cnns sara sidner brings us The Whole Story on hamas from how they were formed, what their ideology is, and how they have evolved over the decades. We want to warn you some of the images youll see in this hour may be disturbing. Pure, unadulterated evil. I cant even try to comprehend these monsters. Terrorists. This is not islam. They should be spit out. We cannot expect that israel will continue to bl
welcome to the whole story. i m anderson cooper in tel aviv. the october 7th attack by hamas, which the u.s. labels a terrorist organization, left at least 1,400 people dead. more than 200 people are being 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 have died there so far. the story of hamas is complex. its roots date back to the formation of israel in 1948. itit has many factions includin the so-called military wing, which perpetrated the terror attack. over the next hour, cnn s sara sidner brings us the whole story on hamas from how they were formed, what their ideology is, and how they have evolved over the decades. 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 no
welcome to the whole story. i m anderson cooper in tel aviv. the october 7th attack by hamas, left at least 1,400 people dead, 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 health ministry, 4,000 have died so far. the story of hamas is complex. its roots date back to thehe formatioion of israel in 1948. it has many factions, including the so-called military wing that perpetrated the terror attack. sara sidner brings us the whole story on hamas, how they were warmed, what the ideology is and how they evolved over the decades. some of the images you 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 they will not resis
attack. over the next hour, cnn s sara sidner brings us the whole story on hamas, from how they were formed, what their ideology is, and how they ve evolved over the decades. 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 that at some point they will not resist. at some point, it s going to boil over. october 7th was different. october 7th changed everything. what happened on october 7th was absolutely unprecedented. hamas has certainly 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 primarily is a social, religious, political movement. hamas is seen by most palestinians as a
month of ramadan and the jewish passover. it s considered incredibly provocative and aggressive. but many middle east experts say the timing of hamas attack had more to do with the country that is home to mecca, the holiest of places in all of islam, saudi arabia. > h hamas was really concern about the saudi moves to build ties with israel and the u.s. one concern was that saudi money would then bolsterer the palestininian authorority, its revival inin thehe west bank. > hamas looooks at this worl an emerging alliance between the modern arabs and israel and decides we re gogoing to blow this wholele thing up. if ththe scale e of civilian casusualties in n gaza is s hih if thehere is protractcted conflict, there will be strong pressure within hezbollah and within iran to say we ve got to wiwiden the coconflict. we veve alreadydy seen hehez firing rocockets. wewe ve seen uprisingsgs in tht west banank. t the p possibilityty of escalalation is vevery real. i f fea