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
is an ininvasion whihich may ma hamas s more populular. nothihing would b be a greae setback toto hamas thahan after this an israeli-saudi normalization. that is the strategic prize for israel. diplomatic and political progress in the middle east hahe often comeme in the afaftermath wars. when i was a young reporter it would have been very difficult to imagine that the spanish government and bask extremists could sit down together and work things out. that happened. it would have been very difficult to imagine n northern irelanand beining at peacece. and that h happened. i have thihis little rayay of h that it has happened elsewhere in the world. maybe somehow that can happen in gaza as well. in the days and weeks ahead there is so much at stake here and cnn will be here to cover it all. thanks for watching the whole story. i ll see you next sunday. [music playing] anderson cooper: welcome to the whole story. i m anderson cooper in tel aviv. one of the worst scenes