good morning, everyone, and welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday, november 5. i m amara walker. i m victor blackwell. thank you for joining us. new developments out of the middle east. secretary of state antony blinken just wrapped up an unannounced visit to ramallah as violence escalates in the west bank. details on his meeting with palestinian president mahmoud abbas and what we re learning about another explosion near a refugee camp. donald trump s feud with ron desantis takes center stage, literally, as the former president parades husband new supporters on stage at a republican gathering in florida. we ll tell you ron desantis response and why chris christie was booed on the stage. trump will spend monday in a new york courtroom. he is scheduled to several in the civil fraud trial against his company. what we heard from his kids on t the stand and the role they played in that company. in the west bank, secretary of state antony blinken has met with the p
hello and welcome. i m michael holmes live from atlanta with our continued coverage of israel at war. and we are getting horrific reports at this hour of an explosion at a crowded refugee camp in central gaza with dozens of people reportedly killed. the densely packed al magzi camp lies to the south of gaza city. a local official says at least 33 were killed, mostly women and children, and there are far too many wounded to treat. the idf has not commented on whether it was targeting the area. in a few hours the israeli military is expected to open a road corridor so people in gaza city can flee south. at least that s the plan. the idf is offering what it calls safe passage during a four-hour period beginning at 10:00 a.m. local time. but it is unclear if people in gaza will even get that message, given the widespread electricity and communications blackouts throughout the war or whether hamas will try to prevent them from leaving. idf also released video of its chief of
welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada, and all around the world. i m kim brunhuber with cnn s continuing coverage of the israel/hamas war. we re following reports of a deadly explosion at a crowded refugee camp in central gaza within the past couple of hours. the densely packed al may gauzei camp lies to the south and past the line the idf has repeatedly told palestinians to go. a local hospital official says at least 33 were killed, mostly women and children, and there are far too many wounded to treat. the cause of the blast is still unknown. the idf hasn t commented on whether it was targeting the area. the israeli military is expected to open the road corridor so people in gaza city can flee south. the idf is offering what it calls safe passage during a four-hour period beginning 10:00 a.m. local time. the idf released video of its chief of staff just inside gaza on saturday. more than a week into the ground operation. have a look. tran
conditions for a durable, sustainable peace. durable, sustainable security for israelis and palestinians alike. we re focused on the day of. we also need to be focused on the day avenue. so in conversations we ll be having through the course of this weekend i expect you ll see a focus there and particularly how we can get over time to two states for two peoples which in our judgment remains the best guarantor and maybe the only guarantor of a secure jewish and democratic israel and palestinians with the state they re entitled to. so these will be the things that we re focused on. these are challenging times. these are intensely difficult issues. but i m convinced that american diplomacy can make a difference in moving everyone to a better place. that s what we re working to do. i ll take questions. thank you, mr. secretary. do you assess that israel has shown restraint up to this point in their offensive in gaza, and what are the concrete steps you ll be pushing them on? an
Amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, a Palestinian family living in the United States has claimed that they've lost three generations of their family in a single day in Gaza.