>> hello everyone, i'm john, velocity are watching cnn newsroom and we begin on the border with gusts that where the clock is ticking down tunis really ground offensive. negotiations continue to try and free more than 200 hostages being held by hamas, and other militant groups and as the. sources say these negotiations a priest to reach -- with the minds of herschel, israel says that is a nonstarter. at the same, time israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu seems to reassure troops who are on standby for more than two weeks the ground offensive is still on track with just one goal to smash hamas retaliation for the militant group of the attack were seven and 1400 civilians in israel dead. even before any ground incursion unrelenting is really a strike that had a devastating impact on gaza and more than 2 million palestinians who live there and now facing a dire humanitarian crisis. on tuesday, on the eighth of an expected 20 hr expressed over from egypt. as the civilian battle and got a times higher, the even think new general antonio guterres called for any media humanitarian cease-fire being angry backlash to israeli diplomats. guterres said the opening acts did not justify the punishment of the palestinian people, and it delivered to classified as not match of the enormous need. >> relief is finally getting into gaza. but it is a drop of aid in an ocean of need. in addition, how are you and supplies in gaza will run out in a matter of days. that would be another disaster. without fuel, aid cannot be delivered, hospitals will not have power, and drinking water cannot be purified or even pumped. >> joining us this elliott gotkine live from london with more on this. elliott, people -- it seems like they are reaching some tight of crunch line if you, like if operations in a variety of places, just stop. >> that is, right john. six hospitals have already closed. the united nations relief and works agency for palestinian refugees, they are saying they will have to see operations as of this evening if they do not get fuel into the gaza strip. israel's argument is simply, if they do allow fuel into the gaza strip, it will simply be pinched, it will be, stolen taken by hamas militants, and used for their war machine. israel does not want to do that. so we are at a bit of an impasse right now but pressure is clearly building on israel to allow fuel into the gaza strip, in addition to the other humanitarian supplies that have already begun to trickle in. but as the u.s. secretary general saying, more aid is needed and there are reports of palestinians in the gaza strip having to drink salty and dirty water, needing to further concerns of illness and disease spreading in the gaza strip as well. and all the while, we have now also got calls from new york secretary general for this response from israel's foreign minister shame on him after not just a call for the cease-fire, but for saying that the hamas attacks of october the 7th did not have been in a vacuum, that they have been after 56 years of in his words, suffocating occupation by the israelis. that could it not go down well in israel which still is saying that this ground offensive is going to take place. pressure is building, not just in a humanitarian supplies to the gaza strip, but also on israel before it's really even gotten going. we knew that the response i'm israel was going to be bigger than we have seen in the past after those savage attacks of hamas on october the 7th, and the gloves were off this time. we also knew predictably that as that air campaign began, that so many casualties were going to rise for even if israel is just targeting hamas militants and their infrastructure and the like. so this is the problem, you have the israeli defense minister saying yesterday, the war is just starting. pressure is building on israel, it has not even achieved any of its main objectives. it hasn't got 200, 20 just -- hamas is still holding, that it objected on october the 7th. he hasn't asserted hamas's infrastructure, it has destroyed some of, it it has not taken out -- rockets are still being fired from the gaza strip toward israel. so israel will be very reluctant to engage in any kind of cease-fire right, now and it hasn't even achieved any of its main objectives, the main one is, has to destroy hamas, prevented from ever being able to carry out an attack on that scale again. to prevent it from governing the gaza strip, and of course to get those hostages home. it is hard to see israel heeding these calls for a cease-fire before it is achieved any of those objectives, john. >> elliott gotkine live for us. these really mastered to the u.n. has -- not let up until all hostages are released. in recent days, hamas that free for, women to, american into israeli. we are learning more details from hostage about her ordeal in gaza, where she says mass gunman took her underground to a vast network of tunnels, she says was like a spider web. cnn's matthew chance has our report, and a, warning his report contains graphic content. >> this is the extraordinary moment that an 85-year-old israeli grandmother was released by hamas. >> in video recorded by the -- you can see her shaking the hand of a masked gunman, she longed for piece she says as she is lead away. >> back in israel, -- is speaking about her hostage ordeal. >> >> i went through how they went on a rampage in our kibbutz. they kidnapped me, lay me over motorcycle on the side and -- through the fields. they stormed our houses and beat people. some of them like me kidnapped. they did not distinguish between old and young. >> the hamas attack on a kibbutz of -- in southern israel earlier this month after a quarter of its residents killed or kidnapped, including many children according to israeli officials. -- described as she was forcibly driven away you -- who helped -- the scribe the way her mom and several other israeli hostages were held underground in gaza. >> there are huge networks of tunnels underneath. it looks like a spider web. >> now october 7th attacks -- many of them recorded by hamas gunmen themselves, as they rampaged through israeli communities. they took an unprecedented toll. leaving at least 1400 israelis dead, and more than 200 like -- kidnapped and taken to gaza. >> the lack of knowledge in the army harm death very much. we were warned three weeks ahead of it. they showed us, mass is reaching the, road they sent fire -- to burn our, fields in the army somehow did not take it seriously. >> a catastrophic lapse in security, that left so many israelis exposed. matthew chance, cnn, tel aviv. >> and joining us now is christopher, senior vice president with -- the advisers both governments, and the -- about global security. there's also the u.s. government's former director of hostage rescue and recovery. christopher, thank you for being with us. >> good to be here. >> so hostage negotiations between hamas and israel are taking place via qatar and egypt and cnn reports as part of the negotiations, must once more fuel allowed into the enclave according to the person familiar with the group's demands. the israeli officials have made the puck quickly that is not negotiable. -- senior aide to the israeli prime minister explaining why. >> the government decision as fuel does not go on because it will lead to supplement by hamas, and be used by them to power rockets fired into israel to kill our people. >> so right now are the odds pretty slim about any kind of breakthrough? here and is the >> so yes, they were doomed either way. they have to continue negotiations, hamas is being very calculated about everything they are doing the release of the hostages to the point has been calculated and many believe releasing americans first to show some discord and build a little friction between the united states and israel. not releasing two elderly israeli citizens, also creating some doubt within israel for the hostage families, as things to be delayed, so this other opportunities, but the negotiations have to continue, but for israel it is an opportunity to get some small victories, but also gather information intelligence about where the other hostages, are also identifying all of them. not all hostages are potential hostages are fully identified. so negotiations are an opportunity to gather information as well. >> there are you touched on it these hostages are from a number of different countries, and still need to be identified, and not all of them are being held by hamas -- like in she had and a number as well, scattered across gaza. so how much more complicated us all of this make the negotiations? >> it makes them quite a bit more complicated. first off, palestinian -- jihad is more islamist and radical then hamas is, other hamas probably changed the calculus a little bit with october 7th and their activities, but palestinian islamic jihad is an extension was born out of egyptian islamic, which if you peel that back a, bit some -- al-qaeda came from -- and they are, you know, very islamist and traditionally hamas has been a little more nationalistic and you know, with islamist leanings other that has been said in recent weeks. but trying to negotiate with hamas, does not have control of all the hostages, makes it a much more challenging negotiation to try to get all of the hostages out at some point. >> and right now more than 300,000 troops amassed at the border with gaza, the idf says they are ready for ground fence if. that level of readiness comes with a time limit. so how much more time to these negotiations have from a military point of view, and once that defensive began, what are the chances of rescuing the hostages, any kind of operation to get them out of gaza? >> going into gaza is going to be extremely difficult and complex, having spent time in places like -- and -- gaza is much denser because they had limited geography in gaza, they built buildings up whereas if you look across the middle east, most middle cities have, you know, buildings that are on average two or three stories of open rooftops, and -- harder months you know, gaza is much more complex making any kind of hostage rescue very difficult. it is a three 60-degree threat picture, and also has been widely reported potentially hundreds of miles of reinforced tunnels, which is likely where all the hostages are being held. >> christopher, thank you for being, with us we appreciate your time and insights as well. >> good to be here. >> the little humanitarian assistance allowed into russia's being allowed -- news headlight images appeared to show the egyptians are stealing the crossing point with amounts labs in between aid convoys. constant is really airstrikes have left behind a level of destruction like never before. meaning some eight grams of humanitarian catastrophe are going later. cnn's salma abdelaziz has more on the civilians calling -- and warning this story contains graphic images. >> >> moments after an overnight strike in gaza, stunned survivors stumble out. people nearby rush to help. there is no ambulance, we have to get people out, a man shouts. men dig with bare hands. it is dark, dusty. the screams are jarring. look at the children, look at the children, he says. it is sheer chaos and carnage. this is the aftermath of just one of the hundreds of bombings the day that battered the gaza strip, the scene captured by a journalist. israel, says it is targeting hamas, and aims to wipe out the group, but palestinians and aid agencies say it is civilians that are dying by the hundreds. drone footage shows entire neighborhoods already leveled by the near constant bombardment, nothing is spared. schools, mosques, shelters, medical, centers all struck according to the united nations. gaza is all too familiar with war, but has never seen it on this scale. and for survivors, there is little life left here. this baby is now an orphan, but he is far too young to understand that. what did this little boy do, an airstrike hit his house what he was sleeping, his uncle says. his whole family was killed. he is the only survivor. stop this. stop this suffering. >> there are calls for israel to pause eyelids, but the idf is only ramping up its attacks, and preparing for it was this expected to be a full on ground invasion of the enclave. but gazans say they can endure no more. -- says nearly 50 members of his extended family were killed after they followed israel's evacuation instructions. we were hosting our family from the north, 50 to 70 people because it was supposed to be safe, he says. but at dawn, our home was bombed. we do not know what to do. we have lost our minds. gaza is praying for relief. but the cries of anguish here are so far unheard. the bloodshed won't stop. some abdelaziz, cnn, london. >> when we come back here on cnn -- come on down. u.s. republicans them in other potential has, bigger but will he to fall victim of infighting. >> three weeks after kevin mccarthy with us today as u.s. house, speaker representative mike johnston is now the -- curse of candidates after winning their nomination in the -- now face the vote on the house floor wednesday. that is where it gets, dicey just a small number of republican non-makers able to de-real the election. cnn's manu raju asked the latest not reporting in from capitol hill. >> house republicans say they are ready to and weeks of bickering, internal feuding, and the first ever listing of a sitting speaker last left the chamber paralyzed for the last three weeks. they say they are ready to put that to him and in the aftermath of congressman mike johnston republican who is nominated as speaker designated, somebody who needs the votes of the full house to hundred 17 votes in order to be elected on wednesday at noon. he plans to take it to the floor than. this coming after three other nominees saw their bids collapse, including one congressman -- just earlier in the afternoon a couple hours after he, won his party's nomination faced fierce backlash on the right and then decided it was time for him to go out because he had no -- mike johnson then won the nomination himself, a fourth time nominee has come forward in the aftermath of kevin mccarthy's ousting. there was some concern in the room. there were roughly 44 members who voted for other candidates, someone who is not my child sent or any of the other declared candidate ultimately though he came to us said when it came to the final vote to decide whether or not he would back him on the floor. it were 22 members missing from that, out and also three members who voted president. mike johnson on the floor on wednesday could only afford to lose four republican votes, he has work to, go but still the's confidence in the ranks that after all of this infighting even though the members who finally opposed pushing up kevin mccarthy even they say it is time to put this to an end and that might show them to speakership. >> remarkably is messy sometimes, but it is our system. this gone, france and at his house republican majority is united. >> but even if mike johnson wins this vote on wednesday, there are such huge issues confronting the next speaker, and not just put the pieces back, together but start to put together a strategy that essentially in shambles. a legislative strategy and agenda it has been completely derailed by this infighting. some of the key issues on the table? how to deal with israel, had to deal with a two, ukraine the white house and senate republican leaders wanted to tie that issue together. how will they deal with it in the house when there has been resistance to the idea of contracting ukraine into israel aid. also avoiding a government shutdown by mid november, something that could cost a huge fight within the ranks as well so so many questions or congressman johnson. if he does win the speakership, major issues away tim, and could run into the same problems kevin mccarthy did, and and it his speakership that is also a huge question for his future as the house tries to move past this ugly period. money raju, cnn, capitol hill. >> this is just an extraordinary spectacle we are watching. there are big reasons for this. obviously it is a reflection in some ways of the fissures within the party that have been widened in the trump era. the trump wing is clearly the dominant wing of the party you saw how decisively and quickly the intervention do they ever candidacy. there is also a breakdown in the fundamental party discipline that we are watching. you know there have been a lot of commentators and academics, myself, included who have failed over the past three or four decades, our congress has become more like a parliamentary institution that is common abroad in australia or the uk where there is elevated levels of party discipline. here we are watching each side, each wing in the party repeatedly veto the plural or majority choice of the caucus overall, because they don't like it. that could go on forever, unless at some 0.1 wing -- >> well, as you say, jumped up mostly because of opposition from donald trump and his supporters, among them marjorie taylor greene from georgia. here she is. >> he did not object to joe biden's electoral college votes, he voted with the democrats to overturn president trump's ban on transgender in the military. if he has a voting record i couldn't support, most republicans conservative republicans do not support. i think we need a speaker of the house that reflects the views of republican voters, and republican voters largely support president trump. >> what was interesting, listening, there seems to be -- and conservative republicans teams to go to your point. is this a lot about whether the gop is -- >> look, marjorie taylor greene put forward there was a merger of -- there are 18 house republicans and districts that biden won, there are another 15 in districts that trump only narrowly won. my definition you cannot have someone who is fully acceptable to the voters in margie taylor greene's district, and someone who is fully acceptable to the voters in the district of say the republicans in new york, where -- seats that biting carry. it is an impossibility because any districts are so different. that is why the history has been, you can vote against your party on individual issues, on occasion, u.s. will stand with your party on the organization of the chamber self, and the breakdown of that just shows the kind of corrosive rot that has settled in to the republican house in terms of its commitment to governing. >> on tuesday i guess it win for capitol hill, but two big blows with legal problems abc news is reporting former chief of staff humming entered immunity in election interference case, mark meadows already tongue the special prosecutor had actually warned trump about making missiles claims that the election was rigged, at the same time -- low on the trump campaign dealing with prosecutors in georgia the guilty plea in return for no jail time so right now there are two people who are very close to donald trump indifferent capacities, who flipped and are now testifying to prosecutors in his legal trouble. politically at the same, time trump still has enough influence to decide who will be or will not be the next speaker of the house of representatives. >> attempting to subvert the 2020 election result is not viewed by republican voters or elected officials as a disqualifying action, as something that makes renders trump or others who participate and fit for leadership in the party. the question is whether the full electorate is going to agree and in that question, critical to that i think, is what happens if any of these cases involving trump decided before the election. we know in polling that in the vast majority of republicans say, they want him to be president, again even if he is convicted of a crime. 65% of independents say they do not want him to be president again. it does not mean biden is really going to win 65% of independents in a race against trump, is a lot of those are dissatisfied with him as well. but the issue of how the electorate responds, beyond this universe of republicans who have been talking about, whether primary or in the house, if trump is in fact convicted of a very serious 91 criminal charges he is facing, that i think remains a very open question and one in which the outcome could be quite different from what we are seeing -- from republican voters and leaders alike to all of this gathering evidence against him. >> run, we will leave, it they're good to have you with us. good to see you. >> thanks for having me. >> when we come back the terrifying moments militants paraglided into israel, and murdered at least 20 people in a nearby town. you're probably not easily persuaded to switch mobile providers for your business. but what if we told you it's possible that comcast business mobile can 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went ten noticed by israeli intelligence. new details have emerged about hamas was able to do just that, including new intelligence this mauve of hamas operatives working in a vast network of tunnels beneath gaza, may have used hardware phones to secretly communicate with one another. they made a point of avoiding stuff, and computers. sources familiar with intelligence houston and plans for the attack were not shared beyond this one small cell until a few days before october 7th, and other hamas fighters were briefed. one source tells cnn while the israelis were aware of some hamas training exercise, they did not rate again because there appeared to be nothing out of the ordinary. now not far from the border with, got a whistle many were killed by hamas militants, many are asking how could the massage have not been aware of the growing threat. jeremy diamond visited a community where they arrived on paradise and warning, some of the video in his report is graphic. >> on that day, monolithic death on paragliders. i've seen in this exclusive video obtained by cnn, hamas militants landed here in -- killing 20 people in this community of just 800. >> that used to be an american style wooden house. >> now this is all that remains. >> they were at home that fateful saturday morning, when hamas terrorist burned their house to the ground, firing a rocket propelled grenade, or a shoulder fire missile here. the remains were found charred inside. all they found or her teeth. -- has called -- home since she was a child within a few hundred feet of gaza. now we can see here there is smoke from gaza. >> got us very close to us. >> now after surviving the october 7th attacks, she wants the world to know what happened here. >> it is a small community. everybody knows each other. we know every person that lost their life here. there are 20 of them. we went to, 34, five funerals a day. eventually they -- married. >> this is her first time inside the home since the attacks. her first time seeing where her friend was killed. >> it is too difficult for me. >> this is where -- lift her final moments. she died after hamas terrorist attacked this house from the outside. and as she was sitting there and dying, her, daughters three daughters and her husband, they went into this room,. we are told they left this door slightly ajar hoping that the terrorists wouldn't think anyone was in here because the door was not closed. the hid here in this corner. two of the dealers injured by a shrapnel and bullets, -- >> for 40 minutes they did not make a sound, waiting for the man who murdered their mother to leave their home. >> i feel responsible to tell the story, because i know today it has been two weeks today, after the death -- of our life turned into this. and i believe the world has forgotten already. >> today telling that story looks like this. >> so everywhere you go, you have to travel with security. >> everywhere. for the last two weeks, this is how it is. if you want to enter your home for one minute, you have to have somebody securing the house. >> and when you are this close to gaza, you have only secondst. but the sounds of war on all that feel the air in this frontline community. a mother's whales and a father -- 's for their 17-year-old son. every parent's worst nightmare come true. jeremy diamond, cnn, israel. >> when we come back here on cnn, we head to the west bank to speak with israelis and palestinians, about rising tensions in the region amid the ongoing war with hamas and gaza. nice footwork. man, you're lucky, watching live sports never used to be this easy. now you can stream all your games like it's nothing. yes! [ cheers ] yeah! woho! running up and down that field looks tough. it's a pitch. get way more into what you're into when you stream on the xfinity 10g network. >> a -- increase in violent clashes between palestinians and just settlers in the west bank many palestinians now fear of further escalation and violence, with the nearly 700,000 israelis who are in the region, cnn sarah sidner is in the west bank with our report. a warning, the report contains images which are disturbing. >> armed and on high alert. overseas 40 jewish settlement in the west bank since hamas's terror attack on israel he considers them not cease. we are standing against a not the enemy, as cruel as the cavemen from 3000 years to get that carried out a massacre on our brothers in the south. >> jewish settlers in the presence here has always been fraught, deemed illegal by international law. events of october 7th had to put the settlement on a war footing. >> cnn gained rare access to one of the hundreds of settlements that caught dotted throughout the palestinian territories. armed patrols are now every day occurrences in -- fortified primitives segregate jewish communities from palestinian. local husbands, fathers, and son volunteers keep the unwanted out at all times. -- he stopped going to work and called his local office in the days after the attack. >> we need to protect ourselves, because we are surrounded by people who don't necessarily like us. i did not feel like i have to go fight, but definitely defend my home. >> he has had enough. >> and the situation is no child's play. he says the world was turned upside down on october 7th. >> that day, october the 7th, was shot, at the end of shabbat we see a prayer and -- i'm sorry. some of it is. what is the player? >> asking god to help us, and to keep our children safe, and to keep our soldiers safe, and some of these words i just could not say them, because you know, we were not safe under toriseva. >> palestinians say they were not safe from settlers loan before october 7th, and it has only gotten more violence since. -- is a palestinian activist, and a former palestinian liberation organization official in the west bank. >> i'll tell you why are you committing war crimes? why are you living on palestinian land illegally? just because israel tells you you can, this is occupied territory. >> she says the palestinian territories are shrinking beyond recognition because of all of the illegal settlements. then, there is the growing settler palestinian violence, much of the violence has been caught on camera. here are jewish settlers threw rocks and fire guns as palestinian homes. in another incident -- jewish settler shoots at apparently unarmed palestinian in the stomach. we asked -- about this incident. how do you defend the palestinians who have been killed without luis? >> am i supposed to explain to cnn why terrorists who try to kill civilians or soldiers were shot by security forces, at the police, or the army? with all due respect, i do not really understand the question. >> but we clarified in english, and hebrew, showing him the video. >> what you are showing me now is an edited video of attempts of terrorists to hurt and kill that are protecting themselves. this happens a lot, and unfortunately there aren't -- >> the video you are seeing is not edited, but palestinian -- the sides are not equal. they are the overwhelming victims in this, they gave them weapons, and they encourage, them and give them support and protection by the israeli occupation army. >> -- referring to men cover, israel's hard-line national security minister, is after hamas's attack announced the purchase of 10,000 gowns to armed civilian security teams, he himself began passing them out. gun ownership used to be heavily restricted in israel, but those losses have changed and now settlers are getting a huge amount of weapons. back in settlement -- the -- takes us to the home where she raised her five children. she says here they have had a peaceful coexistence with the palestinian neighbors. >> i lived here for 24 years. i never feared. >> and it? now >> something is -- heavy mother in israel these days feels the same. something is not the same anymore. >> she says she moved heren part, because land was cheap, but most settlers come also because of religious resumes. juice consider the settlement part of their biblical homeland, and referred to them by they biblical names judea and -- bet international law says settlers are -- occupied palestinian land meant for a palestinian state one day. >> we are the people of, around we will see, here we are the indigenous people and we will stay here, no matter what -- >> in this moment, in the decades long conflict, no one here can see how anyone will be able to live in peace anytime soon. our thanks to sarah statement for the report. still to come, and israeli human rights group is struggling with how to reconcile hamas terror attacks here from one other representatives about how the -- palestinian rights. >> that was -- the tough talking private eye and the united movie -- died tuesday after a short battle with pancreatic cancer according to a number of reports. he propelled -- into the cultural limelight and stage actor he went on to win more than 150 screen credits including roles in tv shows like routes, desperate housewives, and the fresh prince of bel air. he was 81. the mexican reports city of -- catastrophic hurricane at this hour. already a category five, though strengthening as it heads for the coach which means up 270 kilometers per hour, 165 miles, if it remains a category five it will be the first one ever to make landfall in the east pacific. mexico's president is urging residents to take shelter away from the coast. >> an israeli nonprofit human rights organization monitors alleged human rights abuses by israel against palestinians in the west bank and gaza. cnn's jake tapper spoke with one of the organizations representatives to find out how the attacks on october 7th, an israeli's response has shaken up -- >> activist vivian silver lift on kibbutz and was a former board member of -- a progressive group that monitors the israeli government's treatment of palestinians. its name means in the image, it is from a bible verse. it means in the image of god. all of us, all of humankind are in the image of god. wanting to be seventh, vivian silver disappeared. she thought to have been kidnapped by hamas. today i spoke with -- >> part of the shock and horror that we experience is the fact that a lot of our supporters you media circles and family members were killed, kidnapped, or affected in other ways in the what happened on saturday. >> it is an organization that works very hard to advocate for palestinians, for human rights, to provide over watch of the israeli government, to criticize the israeli government. this will happen on october 7th maker job tougher? >> certainly. first of all, we are still in the process of understanding what happened, because it is something on a strategic level that there is a change in the balance of power. in addition to that, because extremism and fundamentalism feeds extremism and fundamentalism on the other side, we are also going to have a much tougher job of getting to the hearts and minds of people in israel, and around the world. >> so what do you say to an israeli who comes to and says, this proves there cannot be any peace with hamas? this proves they just want to wipe out israel? they want to kill? there can be no peace with hamas. maybe there can be peace with the boston in people, but not with hamas running gaza? >> not all palestinians are, hamas but most well-known israelis are bibi netanyahu. not israelis are -- and other right-wing extremist we have in our governments now. and changes are possible, i have to believe that in order to stay here. i do believe that the only option is to find a way to live with palestinians as equals. i do believe that only if we provide people on the other side with full complete human rights, future equality then democratic norms, on it like that can we live together. >> you are still optimistic, because i have heard israelis say the reason that the palestinian authority in the west bank has had an election in whatever it has been, 17 years, i don't know the number. the reason they haven't had an election, is because if they had an election today, palestinian authority would be replaced by hamas. i must actually represents what the palestinian people want. and, yet you are optimistic about a peace deal still being possible. >> you have to be optimistic. because, we are not going to drive millions of palestinians away from the, earth they are going to be here forever. and i believe they are not going to have the power to drive us away from here. so we need to find a way which to build a better future for all of us, and that can be done only by not exchanging rockets, but exchanging words. >> and you are monitoring what is going on in gaza, right now what is your -- >> two of my colleagues feel -- lost family members, one of them is now living in a makeshift refugee camp in a tent. civilians are paying the price. that is never a good thing. i don't think we are creating different narratives in which hamas is the culpable and responsible for what is going on. i think we are more nature than anger towards -- >> what about the argument from the idf that hamas -- and populists the idf israel has the right to defend itself against terrorist attacks and if hamas hides among the palestinian people, this is hamas's fault what do you make of that argument? >> the person -- responsible for shooting civilians. they should do better. we should be better than hamas, and think they started it and they are doing and it is their responsibility. no. it is our responsibility to be better than him. >> i'm john vause, i will be back with more in our continued coverage of israel's war with a mastery after a short break. you are watching cnn. pers! time to win is running out in our prize packed kick off the savings monopoly game! hurry in to play for your chance at over $25 million in prizes and money saving offers like this, and this, or even this. plus, you still have a shot at up to $100,000 in guaranteed prize money. stop in while you can still win and shop your favorite brands sporting the kick off the savings monopoly tag for unlimited bonus game tickets at lucky! >> well irvine and john files what comes in the zoom, we