welcome to all of you watching. i m kim brunhuber. ahead on cnn newsroom a barrage of explosions over gaza as troops surround hospitals that are already on the brink of collapse. we re live in tel aviv with the. plus cell phones seized, the fbi ratcheting up a new plan. what the mayor has to say. and president biden deploys kamala harris to south carolina as he tries to rewild his coalition. we ll look at what this says about the 2024 presidential campaign. it s now new in gaza and a warning from the hospital that it s almost out of fuel for its generators. in a statement the palestine red crescent said 500 patients are at risk of losing vital medical care and people in the icu will likely die. it s appealing for immediate aid, especially fuel. crews witnessed heavy strikes overnight in northern gaza. israel announced on friday that the death toll from the october 7th terrorist attack had been revised downward to 1,200. no explanation for the revision was offered. accor
walk a fine line. gaza is a crowded, urban area. i hold hamas just as responsible, if not more than the idf for civilian casualties in gaza because hamas puts their command and control centers underneath refugee camps, underneath hospitals. hamas told palestinian civilians to disobey the order to evacuate that territory. so it s a difficult road to walk, but israel must destroy and degrade hamas. that s their mission. i m sure they are determined to go about the mission, put they do walk a fine line. secretary johnson, your perspective is invaluable this morning. cnn this morning continues now. a deal has been reached to release all foreign nationals being held in gaza along with critically injured civilians. explosions in refugee camps flattening apartment buildings and leaving behind a giant crater. they are able to kill the commander of the battalion. doctors without borders have condemned this airstrike. children wounded. one man saw the strike said it felt
what needs to be done to allow displaced pal sestinians to mov back home. he med clear the israeli government must move toward a two-state solution if it wants the help of arab partners to enep sure lasting security. paula hancocks is following developments for us. the meetings in israel, talks with palestinian authority, even though there s control outside gaza. that s right. the secretary of state will be speaking to the palestinian authority leader, and what we are hearing from blinken himself and u.s. officials is that one of the topics of conversation will be governance reform. so pushing the palestinian authority to change the way it operates potentially change those at the top.
international community led by the united states supported by european partners, regional partners, sort of heads up or is the focus for humanitarian reconstruction efforts within gaza. but it fell short of laying out what a palestinian political leadership might look like in that context. that was criticized by right wing members of the government, who said that doesn t go far enough. your day after looks like the day before. we want to consider voluntary migration of pal sestinians fro gaza. and other issues, which the united states is criticized. so these are the divisions that are coming to the surface. we have a statement from the palestinian side, which reads the future of the gaza strip is determined by the palestinian people, not israel. it s further kcriticism of the fact we saw the two senior israeli ministers laying out a plan for the future of gaza, which would mean palestinians