backs israel. >> we will make sure israel has what needs to take care of its citizens and to defend itself to respond in this attack. >> it is sprintering the republican field. >> israel is not ready. >> we need to have israel a back. >> how would a republican, nikki haley is here exclusively ahead. and house of cards? as the u.s. promises israel more support, they are still at odds with choice of speaker. with congress paralyzed will they be able to deliver aid? ♪ ♪ hello. i'm jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is rather terrified with this brutal war between israel and hamas that's about to get much bigger and much worse. more desperation in the middle east this morning. this was the scene after an israeli strike in gaza. now after eight days of a brutal air campaign it is preparing significant ground operation, a reminder that hamas embeds itself within the palestinian population. in response to the terrorist attacks in which 1,000 israelis were slaughtered, the deadliest day for the jewish people since the holocaust and that was accompanieded by the kidnapping of more than 100 innocent people from israel. this hour israel is warning hezbollah which the u.s. considers to be a are troist group about any further escalations from the north as the two sides exchanged fire. tens of thousand of innocent civilians in gaza 2.3 million are trying to flee. there are reports that hamas that uses human shields has set up stops to stop its own people from escaping. jake sullivan told me that hamas is blocking civilians including americans from using the only viable exit from gaza. the rafah crossing into egypt's sinai desert. water service has been restored by israel to southern gaza earlier this week. israel cut off supplies of electricity, food, water and medicine to gaza until hamas frees including some americans. joining me now in tel aviv is cnn's rafael rommo. what is the move on the ground as israel prepares for this next stage of the war? >> well, jake, let me tell you the last few minutes we saw four flashes right above us followed by very loud booms. it was rockets launched by hamas in our direction that we are, thankfully, intercepted by israel's iron dome, the air defense system that has been working so, so good here and that gives you an idea about what's happening here, and as you can imagine, jake, there is a lot concern and uncertainty especially given the fact that the israel defense forces may be on the verge of starting a ground incursion into gaza on saturday. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu visited with the troops that had been deployed to the border with gaza. he told soldiers that the next stage is coming. israel's military says its forces are increasing operation alreadiness for the next stages of the war. in a statement it middle idf forces are preparing to implement the plan which is can include combined and coordinated strikes from the air, sea and land. jake, the air strikes on gaza haven't stopped either. israel claims its military killeded a hamas commander who played a key role in last saturday's attack. there are new signs that this conflict is being followed very closely beyond israel's borders. on social media, the iranian mission to the united nations warned the far-reaching consequences if israel does not stop its attacks on gaza. add to the mix, the fact that the pentagon has ordered a second carrier strike group to the eastern mediterranean sea. those two u.s. war ships are not intended to join the fighting in gaza or take part in israel's operation, but the message, jake, for iran and iranian proxies in the region such as hezbollah in lebanon is very clear. do not get involved. jake? >> rafael romo in tel aviv, thank you very much. joining me in studio is the israeli ambassador to the united states michael herzog. before i start, of course, i want to offer my deepest condolences to the israeli people about what happened eight days ago. just a horrific, horrific i think i speak for all of my viewers and everybody at cnn when i say our hearts are just broken by what happened. >> thank you very much. i highly appreciate that. >> this ground incursion that we expect in the next -- do we -- can you give me any sort of sense of timing next week? i know you have 300,000 reservists on the border and is it an operation to rid hamas of its military capabilities and its terrorist capabilities or is it in operation to destroy hamas completely? >> so, as you noted, israel was attacked and hamas waged war in israel and and we have no choice to strike back and we will destroy the regime so they cannot threaten us again, and we don't want to be where they laurin war against us or provoke us. that's over and we are determined to destroy the and we are preparing the operation with details and timetables and all of that, but we are at war and we are going to fight at war. what is the plan for after you accomplish the objective? what is the end state after the operation? will israel re-occupy the gaza strip? will any palestinians who fled gaza be allowed back in? >> so we have no desire to occupy or re-occupy gaza over 2 million palestinians and certainly want people to go back to their homes. we are talking about innocent civilians and we are doing everything we can to keep them out of harm's way where hamas is doing everything they can to keep them in harm's way. that's the situation we are in. i think talking about the day after is a bit premature because crushing the hamas war machine will require time. the questions you raise are valid and i think we will have to enter discussions with our partners, with the international community about the day after. >> the editorial said this week, said israel's most urgent task is to bring back israelis held by hamas in the gaza strip. your finance minister reported lead argued in a cabinet meeting to, quote, strike hamas brutally and not take issue of the captives into account too much and what they're arguing is why not? why aren't the captives or the kidnapping victims the number one priority? >> certainly, the issue of the kidnapped israelis and others is very much -- it's high on our agenda. we are well aware of that. we are in the process of understanding how many people are there, what is their condition, what is their identity and certainly, this is a consideration and i don't want to comment about the statements by this or that politician, and all we say is hamas perpetrated a war crime against humanity in taking hostages and that we hold them accountable to any harm that comes to any of the hostages. >> hamas is claiming that israeli air strikes have killed 13 of the hostages in gaza. do you have any idea if that's true? >> i don't know, i would be very careful about what they say. there's a lot of misinformation, propaganda there, and so i would be very careful -- i would take what they say with a grain of salt. >> you said a week ago it's premature to discuss any dealing for exchanging hostages. has that changed? was there any discussion about prisoner swaps? hostage swaps? >> we are not at that phase, and as i said, we are in the middle of war and we still have to know how many hostages there are and what is their condition. >> so you, obviously, distinguish hamas and the 2.3 million palestinians many of whom are prisoners of hamas in gaza. israel has warned the 1.1 million in northern gaza to evacuate. and the u.s. officials and the u.s. has said that's a tall order. the unsaid it's impossible to get them all out. what's the latest on these humanitarian corridors and letting the innocent victims of hamas, in many ways, get out? >> so i'm glad you asked the question. our enemy is hamas. it's not the palestinian people. it's not the innocent civilians. >> many of them are dying because of israeli bombardment. >> they are used by hamas as human shields. that's why we call on them to leave their homes because as we intensify the war against hamas we don't want to harm any civilians and we asked them to move to the south of gaza. hamas, in contrast is asking them to stay, is forcing them to stay. >> they're setting up a blockade, confiscating and so on, and we see all that and they want to use them as human shields. already 700,000 people left their homes and we are in the process of establishing a humanitarian zone, a big humanitarian zone in the southern part of gaza with the u.n. we are working very closely with u.n. agencies so that they will go there and get all of the essential provisions like water, medicine, food and things like that. we are in that process. >> are the egyptians -- first, we heard hamas wouldn't let americans trapped in gaza out. >> that's true. that's true. >> we are in the process of facilitating their exit. they are already in the crossing and hamas preventing them from leaving gaza. >> and those are the americans. and we know that al sisi has been reluctant to let the palestinians out of the rafah gate because he doesn't want a refugee camp and he doesn't want them going into egypt. >> as i explained the humanitarian zone, we work very closely with the humanitarian agencies and it is inside gaza in the southern part of gaza to be able to host hundreds of thousands of people and they get their food, provisions and essentials. that's where we are. >> you want aid to be able to get into gaza and not just people getting out of gaza. you want aid getting in. >> yes. we are talking about aid getting into a humanitarian zone. i want to emphasize, we are doing everything we can to get innocent civilians out of harm's way. hamas is doing everything they can to keep them in harm's way. >> know you want to punish hamas by cutting off supplies, electricity, water, et cetera, but that is hurting civilians. >> well, let me explain. we are not punishing hamas, they waged war on us. >> i understand. when you cut off all of the other things it hurts the people. >> we did not cut off the electricity, we destroyed the hamas rockets. we are not punishing anybody. it's a war zone. they destroyed the electricity lines and they destroyed the water line from israel to gaza. that's the situation. we are operating under the national law and any essentials that the palestinian population needs, we'll facilitate. that's why we are establishing this safe zone. >> ambassador herzog, thank you very much for being with us, and i am praying for peace. >> so are we. thank you very much. >> thank you so much. for more, i'm going to talk to the vice chair of the senate intelligence xhuty, senator marco rubio of florida about what he is learning. he will join us live next. welcome back to "state of the union." as we enter day eight of this war in what appears to be an imminent ground invasion of gaza by israeli forces there remain so many outstanding questions about what role the united states should play in not only aiding a key ally, israel, but rescuing the americans currently being held hostage by hamas. joining us now is republican senator marco rubio of florida. he is the vice chair of the senate intelligence committee. senator, thanks so much for joining us. so you've seen the top intelligence. what should we as americans be prepared to see when a ground invasion happens which we are all preparing ourselves to witness? >> well, i think, never commenting on intelligence specifically, but i think much of the commentary that you've seen out there and what people are saying, to try to root out hamas. the israelis have the ability to do it especially with our resupply role we'll play. it won't be an easy task. no doubt hamas has booby trapped the place and they're hiding behind civilians. we've seen the reporting just today open source media about how they're preventing civilians from moving and getting people out of the way and it's part of the tactics and related to that is what is hezbollah and behind them iran planning to do as a result of this as this moves forward and as this goes on and wars are painful, difficult things. they're not pleasant. they're not the kinds of things anyone should be cheering on, but sometimes on human affairs they become necessary to get rid of the terrorist group. what is the reaction going to be in hezbollah? will they launch a second front because this changes the dynamic substantially and this is a delicate moment, and a necessary moment unfortunately and it's also one we shouldn't take lightly. it's deeply troubling at the same time what israel has to do here. >> how long should israel and the world be prepared for this war to last and what do you think is the end goal? you heard the ambassador say that israel does not want to re-occupy gaza but if they get rid of hamas, what happens? who takes control of gaza? >> well, that's a difficult question, right? the egyptians certainly don't want any part in assuming any of the responsibility here. understand hamas is a descendant and an off-shoot of the muslim brotherhood and they don't want that in their country either which complicates this further. i can't speak to israeli tactics and what their plans are after the fact and as far as the timeframe is involved i'm pretty certain that the israelis say this is not the 72-hour or two or three-week deals here. this will take some time. hamas is deeply embedded. they hide in tunnels and it's not just hamas and it's islamic jihad and other groups involved, as well. this is a complicated process and israel with our support has the ability to carry out the job, but it will be painful and costly all around. they know that. they've messaged that, and i think this is a months' type situation and not a days or weeks type situation from everything i've seen. i hope i'm wrong and it's quicker than that, but that's the direction everyone seems to think this will go. >> it -- governor and former u.n. ambassador nikki haley was on the show earlier talking about how the leaders of arab nations, saudi arabia, jordan, egypt, qatar, et cetera, et cetera, could be doing so much more and don't. obviously, talk a lot about the palestinians at other times, but really pony up very little when it comes to actual, fort. what could they be doing not only in getting hamas to release the hostages, but in terms of helping the palestinian people have a thriving democracy on the banks of the mediterranean if they wanted to and if there was some sort of arab league security force that could help with that effort? >> well, and i think one of the things we are learning and we're reminded of is i don't care what country you are. no country in the world wants mass migrations of people from other places. i mean, it was a mass mieggrati of refugees that changed the dynamic of lebanon completely and plunged the country into a long, civil war and has brought it to the point it is today. egypt doesn't want that. jordan doesn't want that. none of these countries want that and none of them are ponying up and saying send them to us and they could accommodate people coming there and providing that. the other is the role they play in some cases, some of these countries in being supporters of hamas in the past. the qataris are a strategic ally and someone we've worked on on many issues and a supporter of hamas. this should be a lesson to all these nations and governments that if you are trying to play an outsize role in the region with these groups and it will end up backfiring on you especially with a group like this, which is a fundamentalist islamic palestinian state that stretches from the mediterranean to jordan. this is a lesson that groups like this should not be coddled and encouraged and the hope is to find responsible actors that you can partner with and can engage in. that has not existed which is what makes this part of the world so difficult and that's why we need to take this one step at a time and step one is to eliminate hamas as a military threat. they simply can't be a military threat after what they've done. there are complicated questions and anyone who materiels you they have something in their jacket to have a simple plan in the long term, there are 25s and turns and decisions to be made and hamas has to be eliminated as a military threat. >> you said any civilian casualties in gaza are 100% the fault of hamas because hamas launched the attack eight days ago and is currently using the civilians as human shields embedding within the populous, et cetera, preventing palestinians from fleeing. still, it is an ugly reality, and an ugly fact that 700 palestinian kids have reportedly been killed in the last eight days. do you think that israel has done enough to avoid palestinian casualties in gaza? is there anything israel could be doing in anything more egypt could be doing or the u.s. could be doing? >> you've seen israel, for example, has been doing it from the very beginning telling people to get out of there, to move and you've seen some efforts to move. you've seen efforts from hamas to prevent that from happening. ultimately, the other thing to remember is wars are terrible, ugly things and unfortunately in human affairs they are necessary sometimes because nations have the right to self-defense and hamas cannot be allowed to continue to exist and they follow the same pattern over and over again. they kill israelis and they hide and run in their tunnels and civilians get killed and the world israel screams, and that pattern cannot continue. ask as many people as possible to move to the south and there are reports and the israelis say they turned on the water again and hopefully some of the power to that part where that could be a safe haven and it's important to remember here, israel is not saying we are going to attack civilians for the purpose of inflicting terror. they are trying to target hamas strong holds. that's what they're targeting. if civilians are in the strong holds and it's because hamas has placed themselves, there unfortunately, sadly, tragically, but what choice does israel have? they cannot coist peacefully as we saw a week ago saturday. >> house is on day 12 without a speaker which hinders all of congress' ability to do anything. it is unclear if any of the current candidates will get 217 votes. this means that the house can't even pass a resolution condemning hamas let alone support for israel let alone all of congress being able to pass any new aid packages for israel or for ukraine. at what point does this chaos within the house republican conference start to jeopardize national security or american leadership in the world and what is your message to your house republican colleagues? >> well, i don't vote in the house. i'm not a house member. i don't think they listen or care what senators think about their affairs and i can't control what happens there, and they have to figure it out and i hope they do, honestly. with israel, much of our aid and support to israel is codified. we codified it along with my bill along with senator coons two years ago. the reason why we codified that support is because i always suspected and feared that a crisis involving israel would move much faster than the ability of congress to respond. at some point here soon we will need a speaker and a functioning house including fund the government in less than 35 days or keep it open and all of that will have to happen and i'll watch and hope like everybody else that the house will be able to work through that process. i'm not going to try to steer it or influence it. i don't think i have any influence over what the house does and we'll be in a situation soon where that won't be a factor. the good news is the administration has ample authorities to do what they are doing and that is position not just the equipment that's already accessible and resupply should israel need it here over the next couple of weeks. >> i'm not going to put words in your mouth, but you anticipated some of this clownishness. so you are commended, my word, not yours. >> thank you so much, senator rubio. >> thank you. appreciate your time today. >> coming up, she was u.n. ambassador, now she wants to be president. how would president nikki haley handle the major challenges facing the u.s. right now both at home and abroad. she joins me next. welcome back to "state of the union." i'm jake tapper. as the israeli government warns against a new phase, brand-new polling shows how americans are feeling about this war, the u.s. broadly feels israel's military response to the hamas terrorist attack is fully justified, but the difference by age, is quite stark. 81% of americans feel the response by the israeli government is fully justified, but just 27% of americans 18 to 34 feel that way. the humanitarian crisis is also top of mind for many americans and 71% of americans feel a lot of sympathy for the people of israel. 41% feel a lot of sympathy for the palestinian people. former u.n. ambassador and 2024 republican presidential candidate nikki haley joins us now. ambassador haley, thanks so much for joining us. if you were president right now, would you consider using the u.s. special operations to rescue american hostages being held in gaza? you just heard jake sullivan say that one of the complications with that is we don't know exactly where the hostages are and but i'm wondering if you would consider such a thing? >> thanks for having me, jake. i think it's important. you have to tell hard truths to americans and when you talk about this and you showed the percentages about what they think we should do, you have to be honest with them. this is messy, right? we desperately want to get those american hostages out, but if you saw those kids in the hands of those terrorists like with a mom heart it made me sick to my stomach for all those parents having to see those children in those terrorist hands, so of course, we want them out and why is it so easy that we can do that? it's because we don't know where they are. i have been in those tunnels that are massive, that are sophisticated and that hamas uses to hide equipment and ammunition and to do their dirty work and maybe to have those hostages, but where are those tunnels? they are underneath hospitals. they're underneath schools and in hard-to-find places and this is incredibly tough. i feel for the israeli families. i feel for the american families, and i feel for any other families who have lost a loved one who has someone in a hostage situation because it's really bleak right now and it's hard for anyone to feel good about this. >> we just showed images when you visited and they took you to the kibbutz. it's going to get bad and it's already pretty bad and there are 2.3 million palestinians in gaza and more than half are concern. do you think the u.s., israel, egypt needs to be doing more to help these innocent palestinian civilians get out of harm's way although you just heard jake sullivan say one of the problems is hamas is keeping the civilians in gaza. they don't want them to leave. >> there are a couple of things at play here. hamas is going to do everything they can to not have them leave because, guess what? they want them all to die. one, they want to use them as human shields and they want to blame israel and show images of dead children and say look at what israel did, but don't ever forget what hamas did. don't ever forget those girls running for their life and those babies killed in cribs and don't ever forget the people they were dragging through the streets and they were saying death to israel, death to america. i dealt with this at the united nations. you will hear all of those arab countries vilify israel for what's about to happen. you're going to hear all of them say how dare you not do more for the palestinian people? you know what? we should care about the palestinian citizens especially the innocent ones because they didn't ask for this, but where are the arab countries? where is qatar? where is lebanon? where is jordan? where is egypt? do you know we give egypt over $1 billion a year in why aren't they opening the gates and take the palestinians? they know they can't vet them and want hamas in their neighborhood? so let's be honest with what's going on. the arab countries aren't doing anything to help the palestinians because they don't trust who is right, who is good, who is evil and they don't want it in their country. so they're going to come and blame america. they're going to come and blame israel and don't fall for it because they have the ability to fix all of this if they wanted to. they have the ability to go in and tell hamas right now to stop what they're doing. they have the ability to tell hamas to let those people out, but you know what? qatar is going to continue to work with hamas and their leadership. iran will continue to fund all of this and not saying any, and who is silent? every one of those arab countries will be silent, but expect for the finger to point to israel and the finger will point to america. >> i want you to take a listen to this statement that governor ron desantis made about all on i guess he's talking about all of the 2.3 million palestinians, he said this on the campaign trail in iowa yesterday. >> if you look at how they behave, not all of them are hamas, but they are all anti-semitic, none of them believe in israel's right to exist. >> now just for our viewers' edification, according to recent polling earlier this year from the washington institute which is a pro-israel group, using the polling of a palestinian center for public opinion, 62% of gazans want the cease-fire with israel to stay in place. 50% of gazans want hamas to stop calling for israel's destruction, want hamas to accept a permanent two-state solution based on the 1967 borders and 70% of gazans wanted the palestinian authority from the west bank to take over gaza. so i'm not certain that governor desantis has a real read on the difference between hamas and the people of gaza. what was your response when you heard what governor desantis said? >> you know, i dealt with this every day for two years, and what i can tell you is you have to realize that whether we're talking about gazans and palestinians, you know, all of them don't -- you've got half of them at the time that i was there, didn't want to be under hamas' rule. they didn't want to have terrorists overseeing them. they knew that they were living a terrible life because of hamas. you have the other half that supported hamas and wanted to be a part of that. we see that with iran, too. the iranian people don't want to be under that iranian regime. we saw what happened to mahsa amini and sawy how they treat them. they want to be free from all of that and america's ulz been sympathetic to the fact that you can separate civilians from terrorists and that's what we have to do, but right now we can never take air eyes off of the terrorists. what hamas did was beyond thuggish, brutal and sick. what that the iranian regime is doing to help them is terrible, but let's look back at what did biden do? biden turned around and fell all over himself to get into the iran deal. obama did it before that. you gave all of this money and what did you do? you empowered iran to go and strengthen hamas, strengthen hezbollah and strengthen the houthis to strengthen the terrorist activity. we went and strengthened the sanctions and decimated iran's economy. what has happened? biden has loosened the sanctions and he gave $6 billion in hostage money and now you've frozen it, but now you have these american hostages and guess what they'll want. if you gave them 6 billion for five people and released hostages, guess what they'll be asking for these others that they have and you've given the iranian regime too much power and too much pull to be able to do this. we've got to be trong and we have to have israel's back and remember, as awful as these images are and we have the back of israel because they've been hit terribly, we have to have the back of them when they hit back, as well. >> so speaking of having israel's back, i want you to take a listen to what donald trump had to say about israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu a few days ago. >> he has been hurt very badly because of what's happened here. he was not prepared. he was not prepared. israel was not prepared and under trump they wouldn't have had to be prepared. >> he went on to call hezbollah which the u.s. classifies as a terrorist group, very smart. he called the defense minister a jerk and he went on and on. this was, i think, wednesday so four days after the deadliest day for the jewish people since the holocaust. what was your response when you heard that? >> it's why i continue to say it is time for a new generational leader. we have to get past the headlines of the past. i mean, look, he congratulated the chinese communist party not too long ago. he's saying hezbollah is smart. i can tell you at the unite nations when i was there, and i dealt with them every day, you don't go and compliment any of them because what that does is that makes america look weak. it doesn't make america look strong. it doesn't make america have friends with them. you show strength. you let them know what we expect of them. compliments hezbollah and c complimenting the chinese communist party or criticizing a leader who has just watched so many of his citizens brutally murdered. it's the wrong place at the wrong time. this isn't about trump. it's not about him. it's not about what happened in the past. we've got to look forward. this is going to be tough days ahead for everyone involved. this is not the time to sit there and bash a leader. this is a time to sit there and give him the support he needs and give the israeli people the support they need and to help us get through this in the best way possible. >> before you go, the house still doesn't have a speaker for the first time in american history for the first time after kevin mccarthy was stripped of his leadership. it's starting to look like there is not one house republican who can get 217 votes. republican austin scott said the chaos, quote, makes us look like a bunch of idiots, unquote. is he right? >> well, i'll tell you what's right is under the biden administration we've seen chaos with -- >> you can't blame that on biden. you can't blame this on biden. >> no, you have to let me finish. >> okay. >> we have seen chaos with inflation. we've seen chaos with the lack of transparency and education. we've seen chaos on the border and we've seen chaos with crime on streets and now chaos around the world. you can't fix democrat chaos with republican chaos. they need to get it together and they need to get in a room and figure out who this is going to be and come out unified. that's what republicans have to do. this is not a good look and not good for our country. we saw what happened to israel when they were distracted. america looks so distracted right now. when america is distracted the world is less safe. we can't sit there and act like this is september 10th and we have to get it together and remember what it felt like on september 12th because we have threats around us and chaos around us and we need stability and a new generational lead er o right this ship. >> ambassador nikki haley, thanks so much for joining us. we appreciate it. up next, their lives were changed by the brutality of hamas and they have a message for all of us that you might want to hear. a warning of some graphic video here as we take stock of this really, really awful week. eight days ago terrorists from hamas invaded israel and slaughtered hundreds of innocent people, hundreds. seniors at a bus stop, babies in their cribs, little kids at home, young people at a music festival. it was the deadliest day for the jewish people since the holocaust, and none of this was about liberating the innocent people of gaza from the oppression of the israeli and egyptian blockade of gaza. that block cade after hamas too control of gaza in 2007 and refused to disavow violence and refused to recognize israel. the people of gaza, indeed, deserve to live without a blockade. they deserve to live in freedom and with democracy and human rights and without fear of a government which hamas denies them. if any of this were about freedom and rights, why would hamas have slaughtered, for example, danielle walton? danielle was 24. she was at the music festival. do you know who her dad is? her dead is eyal walton, an israeli tech ceo who had employees in the west bank and gaza to improve relations. here's eyal talking to my friend and colleague erin burnett literally hours after he found out his beloved danielle had been killed. >> i want to talk about peace. i was one of the first persons that have employed palestinian employees. we have treated our palestinian employees the same as the israeli employees hoping for peace, even today our hand is reaching out for peace. we want to learn to live together, not to continue killing each other. >> and this is eyal's instagram feed. please post this on your social feeds, he writes. every day this man, netanyahu, sits in his chair as prime minister will cause suffering to all sides, he writes. if any of this were about freedom and human rights why would hamas have killed katzman, a peace activist who opposed the netanyahu government for being too oppressive of palestinians. i spoke with his sibling noi katsman? >> the most important for me, and i think also for my brother was that his death won't be used to kill innocent people. sadly, my government -- our government -- my government is using cynically people to just kill, it promised it was going to bring us, like, security, but of course, it's not security because they would kill enough palestinians and so it's going to be better for us, but of course, it never bring us peace and it never bring us better lives. it just brings more and more terror and more and more people killed like my brother. >> one of the most disturbing parts of watching this disaster unfold from the united states is watching students on college campuses here embrace the symbol of the hamas terrorist paragliders who attacked israel that day, slaughtering innocent civilians and babies and women and the elderly. this symbol as if it's some sort of rebellious icon. here's one from the university of washington in seattle, that they've popped up all over college campuses. >> i'm wondering what you see when you see your fellow americans and again, protesting for palestinian rights, great. do it. those people deserve human rights, but when you -- when you see people embracing the symbol of the hamas murderers who murdered your cousin, what do you think? >> first off, it's extremely shocking to see, and i don't know if these people are mislead or if they actually believe what they're supporting is helping the palestinians. it's simply not. it's -- they're supporting their own cause. the fight that hamas is trying to fight isn't going to get the palestinians anywhere. they're just causing more and more suffering in the region. their goal is to annihilate the state of israel. they say it. they openly say it and they're proud of it and that's not something that's going to help bring dignity to the palestinians. i think it's in everyone's best interest to get hamas out of there and you know, hopefully build a better future for everyone in the middle east. >> it's very difficult to see that better future now, but we can all pray that the humanity of those three we just heard from will ultimately rule the day, not the brutality and barbarism that we saw from hamas eight days ago and not the death of innocents that we continue to see in israel and in gaza. i wish you shalom, salam a alakykum. may peace be upon all of us -- all of us. >> thank you so much for joining us today. stay with cnn all day for the latest developments out of israel and gaza. my colleagues dana bash and sara sidner will pick up our coverage next. ♪ ♪

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