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Deadly Blast At Al-Maghazi Refugee Camp in Central Gaza; CNN Reports on IDF Operations from Inside Gaza; Thousands in Northern Gaza Seek Refuge in Hospital; Blinken Stands Firm on Opposition to Ceasefire; West Bank Tensions Between Palestinians, Jewish Settlers; Woman Describes Family's Ordeal During Hamas Attack; More Rain, Wind on The Way For Europe After Ciaran. Aired 5-6 am ET

Aired November 05, 2023 - 05:00   ET

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RICHARD QUEST, CNN ANCHOR: Very good day to you wherever you're watching us, in the United States and around the world. I'm Richard Quest. It's 10 o'clock in the morning here in London, noon in Gaza, and their heavy explosions have been reported over the last hour nearly all goods Hospital in central Gaza.

The Palestinian Red Crescent says the area has been struck by violent artillery explosions and airstrikes. And it's believed there are deaths. CNN has reached out to the Israeli Defense Forces for comment and information.

One of the refugee camps south of the line that Palestinians have been told to go was hit by another deadly explosion seven hours ago. Palestinian hospital official tells us, more than 30 people were killed and 100 at least wounded. Israeli military has not commented whether it targeted the area.

At the same time, the IDF is now saying a safe route from Gaza City southwards is open for civilians, as Israeli forces fight their way into the city, the IDF says the author of safe passage to civilians is only good until two o'clock local time. That's roughly two hours from now.

Ivan Watson is with me from Hong Kong. This explosion at the al-Quds Hospital, which actually is south of the so-called Safe Line, if you will, and what more can we know?

IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Right. We're still piecing that together. But if it has, in fact, taken place, it would be part of a larger pattern, where we've heard from the Palestinian Health Ministry based in Ramallah in the West Bank, that hospital workers, hospitals have come under frequent target -- an attack at least 150 healthcare workers killed since the beginning of this uptick in hostilities on October 7, after the Hamas attack into Israel, with more than a dozen hospitals required has shut down, 16 actually, and some 32 Primary Health Care Centers are also taken out of service.

That is on top of other reports of recent massive explosions such as the blast at the al-Maghazi refugee camp that took place Saturday night as survivors have put it as they were asleep. A massive explosion, which according to the Director of Nursing at a nearby hospital resulted in the deaths of at least 33 people with more than 100 wounded. The hospital there nearby described as not having enough hospital beds for even half of the influx of the wounded people coming in there. Let's listen to one of the survivors of that blast.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): I saw a red light, then we were shaking on the sofa. I saw all my sisters screaming. Then I saw my father. When I found myself alive, I look to see who is still alive. We turned on the torch and my siblings were alive. But I did not find my father. I finally found him next to me. I moved him. I moved his hands and moved his face. He did not respond.

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WATSON: The woman went on to say that her father was killed in that blast. The Israeli military has not yet commented on what happened in the al-Maghazi refugee camp, which has a population of about 33,000 people living in an area of about 0.6 square kilometers. The Israeli military has said that it has carried out some 2500 strikes in Gaza, an area a bit larger than the island of Manhattan over the course of its week-long ground offensive into Gaza.

QUEST: Ivan, the -- the complexity is almost beyond comprehension. But the reality, of course, is really quite simple. And we see this with this this safe corridor where supposedly the 400,000 civilians remaining can head down there or however many there are remaining, can remain on it. But that's by no means a straightforward as it sounds either.

WATSON: Yeah, and I -- hazard to use the expression safe because from the pattern of violence that we've seen in Gaza over four weeks, nothing appears safe in this enclave which is surrounded by high fences and thus nobody who lives in it can get out really except for one border crossing to Egypt and a couple of 100 people have been allowed to leave there, out of the 2 million people that live in Gaza.

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What the Israeli military announced was, as of four-hour window underway now to move from the north of the Gaza Strip to the south on Salah al-Din Street. This was announced over social media but what happens if as many people in Gaza, you have no electricity or no access to the internet because of the immense amount of damage.

Also that road has reportedly come under direct attack in the course of the past couple of weeks where people have tried to evacuate south and have been hit. And finally, the refugee camp, al-Maghazi that was hit, which a hospital worker claims was an Israeli airstrike, it is south of the Wadi Gaza, that blue line on the map there, which is -- is a like a stream that bisects a Gaza. So the Israeli military is telling civilians, go south for safety through this corridor, but they're also bombing targets and civilians south of that very same line.

QUEST: Ivan, I'm grateful. Thank you for watching events. When there's more to report please come back to us.

CNN was part of the first group of foreign media that was granted access to Israeli forces inside Gaza. Journalists are embedded with the Israeli Defense Forces, the IDF in Gaza operate under the observation of Israeli commanders in the field. They are not permitted to move and accompanied within the strip. And as a condition to enter Gaza under IDF escort, outlets had to submit all materials and footage to the Israeli military for review prior to publication.

We agreed to these terms so that we could provide a limited window into Israel's operations in Gaza. CNN's Jeremy Diamond was embedded with the IDF.

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JEREMY DIAMOND, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): At this Israeli military posts on the outskirts of Gaza City, the fighting is fierce.

LT. COL. GILAD PASTERNAK, 828TH BRIGADE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: The center of the Gaza Strip, the IDF soldiers are fighting against the military that are using all the houses that they -- that they can in order to harm and to get to the IDF soldiers.

DIAMOND: One week into its ground defensive, Israel's military says it has encircled Gaza City from posts like this.

(On camera): We're right now at an Israeli military post inside the Gaza Strip about one kilometer inside of Gaza. Gaza City is just this way. And as you can hear behind me, there is a lot of ongoing fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas militants. What they are trying to do right now is to flank the Hamas positions. That's what the battalion commander just told me. And all of this intended to try and cut off Gaza City from the southern part of the strip as Israeli forces also move in from the north.

(Voice-over): CNN was part of a small group of reporters given access to Israeli forces inside Gaza for the first time since the outbreak of the war. Entering Gaza using the same roads Hamas militants used to carry out their brutal attack on October 7.

LT. COL. RAN CNAAN, 828TH BRIGADE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: And today we are going into the exact same roads, to the same neighborhoods, to their assemblies area, to their trucks, in order to go there and be able to get them paid the price and to eliminate the Hamas organization that held this attack on the state of Israel.

DIAMOND: The Israeli military is taking us into Gaza. We are inside an armor personnel carrier right now. We're off into Gaza, near in southern point of Gaza City.

(Voice-over): But still Israeli forces face the danger of ambush from underground tunnels.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And over there -- over there and inside the neighborhood, also.

DIAMOND: So in just this area, there are at least three tunnels?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I believe -- I believe -- I believe at least, yeah.

DIAMOND: Israel says many of those tunnels lie below residential buildings. And for weeks it has relentlessly bombed those targets, killing and injuring thousands of civilians in the process. The forces here say they are now working to secure a humanitarian corridor to help civilians flee the heaviest fighting.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is a huge objective for the -- for the brigade of the battalion right here. The population will be able to go from the north to the south, shortly enough clearly in order to get the IDF do what it needs to do in order to demolish Hamas.

DIAMOND: For the soldiers achieving that goal may see them deploy deep into Gaza City, where the prospect of deadly urban combat awaits.

PASTERNAK: Well, IDF will be here as long as it takes weeks, months, years until it makes sure that Israel is safe and secured for the long -- for the long time period. It'd be need to -- to get inside Gaza house by house. This is exactly what's going to happen.

DIAMOND: Jeremy Diamond, CNN with Israeli forces in Gaza.

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QUEST: Pro-Palestinian protesters have been on the streets in major cities across Europe calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. In London, this is what it looked like in Trafalgar Square on Saturday. There were tens of thousands of people who gathered to show solidarity with Gaza, at least say they're -- they're arrested 29 people for various public order offenses.

In Paris, demonstrators called for an end to the violence as they marched through the streets holding Palestinian flags, on the first big gatherings in support of Palestinians to be legally allowed in Paris. And to see similar scenes in Germany, thousands of people on the streets. Police say more than 6000 people attended this rally.

In the United States, there were protesters who marched to the White House demanding a ceasefire in Gaza, carried Palestinian flags and signs that red stop the massacre, let Gaza live. They were also calling out U.S. President Joe Biden.

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AAMINA ALIZAI, PROTESTER: My message to President Biden is I voted for you and regret it.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Will you vote for him in 2024?

ALIZAI: Absolutely not.

RIBHI, PROTESTER: How I'm going to vote for him? I'm not going to vote for him. Because he supporting Israel. He asked him for a $13 billion to do more killing of the Palestinian people.

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QUEST: The IDF has repeatedly called on civilians to evacuate Gaza City and northern Gaza and move south as we've been telling you this morning. Thousands of people are on the move. They're seeking shelter anywhere they can find it. We've now obtained exclusive footage of one such makeshift shelter at the outskirts Hospital in northern Gaza. And there are thousands of displaced people are camped out. CNN's Salma Abdelaziz reports on their plight. And I must warn you, the images in this report are graphic.

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SALMA ADELAZIZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Where do you go when the bombs won't stop? Where do you shelter your family when the shelters are full? For many Gazans, the answer is a hospital. The head doctor shows us around. All that separates these families and the ICU is this door. He explains, these are not proper sterile conditions. Some 12,000 displaced people are camped out in Al-Quds Hospital in northern Gaza. And every single person you see here has been told by Israel's army to leave and move south, an evacuation order the U.N. previously called inhumane.

This is not a place for children to play. This is a disaster, the doctor says. Look, these are sick people. How can a man on a walker be evacuated? Hospitals are protected under international law. But Israel claims Hamas uses medical facilities as command centers. Aid groups and Palestinian officials deny these allegations. Either way, this is still not a safe place. Step outside the doors and this is what you face.

Non-stop Israeli artillery and airstrikes. Everyone here fears the explosions will only get closer. But there's nowhere else to run. Across the street, desperate people steal basic supplies. The war and a suffocating siege is causing civil order to break down, the U.N. says. Families cannot be expected to flee into this chaos, this father says.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is a war against our children. See how scared he is from the bombs? Now we are alive, but tomorrow we could be dead. Please save us, he pleads.

ADELAZIZ (voice-over): Less than a quarter mile away from the hospital, this is the aftermath of one of those strikes. Residents pull people out of the rubble of their homes. They can depend only on each other. Comms are down. No one can call an ambulance.

Just try and carry him out on your shoulder, someone shouts. Are my mom and dad alive? The wounded man asks. The sound of war never ceases. You could die trying to help the living. This is one neighborhood during one hour in Gaza. A tiny glimpse into the horror. The humanity and dignity of more than two million people that live here. The casualty of a war so many did not choose. Salma Abdelaziz,, CNN, London.

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QUEST: It's after 12 o'clock in Gaza, we're following reports of heavy explosions near the al-Quds hospital. The Palestinian Red Crescent says artillery and airstrikes destroyed a building close by causing numerous casualties. We've reached out to the IDF about the claim. It follows hospital officials in central Gaza saying at least 33 people have been killed and 100 injured in a blast in a densely populated refugee camp. Israel's military has not commented as to whether it was targeting the area.

Civilians in Gaza City and the north of the strip of less than two hours to take advantage of what the IDF is safe passage to the south. The IDF temporarily opened the main road for people to evacuate the area only until two o'clock local time.

The U.S. Secretary of State met with Arab Foreign Ministers in Jordan on Saturday. They say that didn't apparently go well. Becky Anderson now reports America's opposition to a Gaza ceasefire is not what those ministers wanted to hear.

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BECKY ANDERSON, CNN HOST: When U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with key Arab allies in Amman on Saturday, the message from Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the UAE, Qatar and Egypt clear and consistent.

AYMAN SAFADI, JORDANIAN MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND EXPATRIATES (through translator): And the Arab countries, we demand an immediate ceasefire.

ANDERSON: The response from America's top diplomat also consistent.

ANTONY BLINKEN, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE: A ceasefire now would simply leave Hamas in place, able to regroup and repeat what it did on October 7.

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ANDERSON: Sharing stage with Blinken, the Jordanian and Egyptian foreign ministers said Israel has gone beyond a justified response.

SAMEH SHOUKRY, EGYPTIAN FOREIGN MINISTER: Israel targeting innocent civilians and facilities, medical facilities, paramedics, in addition to trying to force immigration for Palestinians to leave their lands. This cannot be legitimate self-defense at all. ANDERSON (on camera): While he was in Amman, Antony Blinken made a point of stressing that the U.S. and its Arab partners share the, quote, "same fundamental interest and objective to end this war." But as he arrived in Amman, hoping to share plans and build consensus for a post war future for Gaza. He like the left disappointed.

SAFADI: What happens next? How can we even entertain what will happen in Gaza and when we do not know what kind of -- as it will be left after this worst talks.

ANDERSON: The message from Arab leaders, no talk about what happens the day after this conflict ends until all parties agree on what happens today. Becky Anderson, CNN, Doha.

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QUEST: And now we bring you some breaking news, the Secretary of State who you're just hearing about Antony Blinken has made an unannounced trip to the West Bank. And there he met the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, according to the Palestinian Authority, which Abbas leads, its latest stop through the Middle East that began in Israel where Blinken tried unsuccessfully to make the case to the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a pause in the fighting, followed, then by meetings with Arab leaders, which Becky Anderson was telling you about. And there he rebuffed a calls to push for a ceasefire.

Sultan Baghdad is the Director of the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies at the Doha Institute with me from Doha. So we now know that Secretary Blinken went to or has been in in Ramallah, with Mahmoud Abbas. But it would have been the same message that you'd heard in all the other places, you've got to push for us that you've got to push Israel to a ceasefire, and so far, he -- he's with -- stood against that?

SULTAN BARAKAT, DIRECTOR, CENTER FOR CONFLICT & HUMANITARIAN STUDIES, DOHA INSTITUTE: Of course, I think the Arab Street in particular, would like to see an immediate ceasefire. We must do everything to stop the killing.

Now, Lincoln has said maybe the most objective view so far, in the sense that he's looking to try and introduce pauses based on humanitarian needs and so on. But he doesn't seem to have any leverage over Israel. He is making all those promises. He's suggesting all these relatively constructive ideas. And at the same time, Israel continues bombing. They've just bombed the schools, hospitals, ambulances, et cetera.

So either he has no leverage whatsoever, or the fact that the United States has overwhelmingly already approved the funding for this or the $14 billion. The -- that is coming with -- on its way to the Israelis, has really made his job irrelevant. I mean, the idea that the U.S. is now coming to the Middle East, trying to introduce a ceasefire, without showing clearly that the Israelis are listening to him is not of any value.

QUEST: OK, so let's assume that Blinken, I mean the U.S. want a minimum of civilian casualties for the purpose of this question. What -- what then -- what then, is the purpose do you think? If Israel is not listening to the -- or is not seeming to pay heed to the U.S.? What purpose can the U.S. have?

BARAKAT: Well, the U.S. now has boxed their self in a very difficult position. The way it came out on day one in full support of Israel, regardless of the context, regardless of what went on, the way they tried to extend the time for Netanyahu to achieve his achievable objectives of finishing off Hamas. And the number of casualties now -- now we're talking about more than 9500 casualties. This is even greater than the civilian numbers killed in Ukraine in almost two years of war. This has happened in a month and it's happening in real time in front of all of us in our -- in our living rooms. We are watching this massacre taking place on daily basis.

So it's very difficult to see what the U.S. can do because everyone understand that this could not happen, had the U.S. not supported from the word go. And now to add insult to injury to resupply Israeli with weapons with the latest technology to be able to kill more Palestinians makes, it very, very difficult to imagine any role for the Americans that is remotely impartial.

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QUEST: No, but except though the -- all the countries involved, still need -- want desire to keep excellent, if you will, relations with the U.S. And if only for commercial purposes, business and trade, they all still prefer to play in the U.S. capitalist environment, if you will, to put it in crude terms. So -- so to that extent, the U.S. is in a position to say we are doing what we're doing. And you're just going to have to let us get on with it in our own way.

BARAKAT: Well, in our own way, has proven not to work. I mean, this is what the U.S. I think needs to get really, really clear -- clearly in their policy. They have been trying their own way in the Middle East for the last three, four decades. And it's led from one disaster to the next, to the next, often guided by hand, by the Israelis. And they have really achieved very little in terms of direct interest to the American public. The American public, the taxpayers are now paying for this war. And they have on their hands, the blood of the Palestinians.

Well, no interest of the U.S. have been served in this. And they don't seem to place it in the global context where you have -- you're really spreading -- the U.S. spreading itself too thin across the world. Now they have a front in Ukraine against Russia. They've just been led by the Israelis blindly into the Middle East with a real possibility of confronting Iran and having another global conflict.

QUEST: Right.

BARAKAT: And they're also threatened by China around Taiwan. Where will they focus their attention? And can they actually maintain all these fronts at the same time? I don't -- I don't think so. At the same time, the outer world is really getting less and less dependent on the United States than it used to be a few decades ago. Even those countries like Egypt that was heavily dependent on aid from the -- now they take much less aid from the U.S. on an annual basis. And China is trying to fill in the space and trying to offer a system the region.

QUEST: Grateful sir, Sultan Barakat, fascinating insight. Thank you for joining us in Doha. As you and I continue, the war with ages between Israel and Hamas and the violence is surging against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, in a moment, report.

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QUEST: Wherever you're watching, a very good day to you. I'm Richard Quest. You're watching CNN Newsroom. And let me update you with the latest from the release. The U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has made an unannounced trip to the West Bank. There, he met the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. It's the latest stopping Blinken swing through the Middle East. These are the pictures we have moments ago coming into us.

Mahmoud Abbas, of course, leads the Palestinian Authority from Ramallah in the West Bank. We only got notification obviously of this and we're able to report it after. You see the two men. Antony Blinken is now on his way back, we believe, to Tel Aviv. He -- he was there, where he'll continue to make the case unsuccessfully so far to the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a pause in the fighting for humanitarian goods to be allowed through.

This is following his meetings not only with Abbas, but with other Arab leaders, including in Jordan in Amman where he rebuffed calls from Arab countries like Egypt to push for a ceasefire.

Also, this morning allowed me to bring details, heavy explosions near the al-Quds Hospital in Gaza. The Palestinian Red Crescent says artillery and airstrikes have destroyed a building close by causing numerous casualties. CNN has reached out to the ATF on this claim.

And hospital officials in central Gaza say at least 33 people were killed and 100 injured in a blast in a densely populated refugee camp. Israel's military has not commented as to whether it was targeting the area.

The head of the World Food Program has told us she's seen a great deal of movement within the Egyptian government that would allow more aid into Gaza. She spoke to our colleague Kim Brunhuber previous hours.

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CINDY MCCAIN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME: We need to be able to get in there and -- and have access so that we -- safe access, so that we can do our job and feeding people. But we also need a logistics center to be able to -- to -- to palletize. And do this in an organized way. So we can support the Egyptian Red Crescent and get more trucks in, by doing that.

The whole point is that we need to be able to get in there. There needs to be a sustainable way that we can do that. More importantly, this is about saving lives. This is about saving children, women who are always the brunt of these situations. And so that's -- that's what -- what we do and why we're here. And I want to -- I want to remind everybody, the teams that do these things here in this country or any country that's in conflict like this, they're amazing. Our WFP team and all the other U.N. teams are just simply amazing at doing this job.

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QUEST: Violences erupted and escalated in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem since Israel declared war. The Palestinian Ministry of Health says dozens of people have been killed and at least 150 people injured in the past few weeks. CNN's Nada Bashir now reports some Palestinians also say they're being forced off their land by the Jewish settlers.

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NADA BASHIR, CNN PRODUCER (voice-over): Armed and threatening, this is the face of Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank. It's these acts of aggression which are chasing Palestinian families out of their homes. Piece-by-piece, Palestinians in the village of Khirbet Zanuta pack their lives away, never to return.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): The settlers come at night while we're sleeping. They beat us and try to kill us. They tried to force us out of our homes. I can't sleep anymore. I'm too afraid.

BASHIR: Families in this village, once home to some 140 Palestinians tell us they have been left with no choice, but to flee their homes.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): What's happening now is another Nakba, a catastrophe. I'm 60 years old, I've lived here my entire life.

BASHIR: And despite the fact that settlements in the occupied West Bank are considered illegal by many in the international community, they continue to grow and expand with the backing of Israeli authorities.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): We inherited this land from our forefathers. We've lived here for generations. Now it's only getting worse. The war in Gaza has only encouraged the settlers.

BASHIR: According to Israeli rights group B'Tselem, at least 15 Palestinian farming communities have been forcibly displaced since October 7th.

YEHUDA SHAUL, ISRAELI HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST: The real thing that is influencing the life of Palestinians here is the outpost up there.

BASHIR: Yehuda Shaul, an Israeli human rights activist says encroachments on Palestinian land are rapidly advancing, and personal attacks in the occupied West Bank have only intensified. SHAUL: The next stage is not only attacking Palestinians when they're out in the field, going into the communities, enter their homes, burning houses, slashing water tanks, beating up people, threatening women and children, elderly, and the result of it is what you see in front of your eyes.

BASHIR (on camera): People leaving?

SHAUL: Entire communities packing up and leaving. Settlers are taking advantage that all eyes are on Gaza, to accelerate their violence as there's no protection from the Israeli army, there is no protection from the Israeli police, and many cases, the Israeli army is accompanying the settlers. And in many cases, the settlers are the army.

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BASHIR (voice-over): In the nearby village of Tuba, a remote Palestinian community, Israel's military keeps a watchful eye. IDF soldiers never too far away.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, you need to go. You need to go.

BASHIR (on camera): Why?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Because you're in a fighting field --

BASHIR: Sorry?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You need to go. You need to go.

BASHIR: What?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Right now --

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BASHIR (voice-over): This village knows the price of settler violence all too well. Palestinians here say their attacks are edging closer each night.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): They come and threaten us, saying we have to leave or they will be back to target us. They're all armed. They never come here without weapons.

BASHIR: In the last week alone, residents here say Israeli settlers have slashed this village's water tanks and cut through local power lines. An effort, NGO workers say, to pressure Palestinian families to leave the area.

ELAD ORIAN, COFOUNDER & GENERAL MANAGER, COMET-ME: What we're seeing now is under the cloak of the war that's happening now, the settler activity is -- settler violence has increased tremendously over the last few weeks.

BASHIR: This crisis is not new to the Palestinian people, but it's a crisis that is deepening. Israel's bombardment of the Gaza Strip said to be emboldening violent settlers. Across the southern Hebron Hills, There are now fears that smaller, more remote Palestinian villages could be next. But for Palestinians in Khirbet Zanuta, it is already too late. Nada Bashir, CNN in the occupied West Bank.

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QUEST: As our news continues, hundreds of families are calling for more action from the Israeli government to get their loved ones who are being held hostage released.

Also Israeli woman, she described the terrifying moments the Hamas militants killed her daughter, and kidnapped her husband.

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QUEST: In Tel Aviv, hundreds of family members of Israeli hostages taken by Hamas held rally at the military headquarters demanding greater action by the Israeli government. The Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said his government opposes any temporary ceasefire unless all the hostages are freed.

An Israeli describes the terrifying ordeal she and her family experienced when the militant group attacked on Kibbutz that day. Hamas killed her daughter, kidnapped her husband and live streamed their ordeal on Facebook. Here what she told Wolf Blitzer. And a warning, what you're about to hear and see is indeed disturbing.

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WOLF BLITZER, CNN MILITARY AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT: Your kids Yael and Shachar, they're OK?

GALI IDAN, LOST DAUGHTER IN HAMAS ATTACK: They're fine, OK.

BLITZER: You tell me?

IDAN: It's like, sanity and insanity. It's -- it's one day is up and one day is down. They cry. They miss their dad.

BLITZER: They're 9 and 11 years old?

IDAN: Yes, they are. We buried Maayan a week and a half ago. They were there and it was I think they had to do it for the closure because I don't think you understand that, that age death. I don't think you understand that your sister is dead without seeing. And actually, I hope they didn't see.

The funeral was some kind of closure and they miss her. Shahop (ph) painted a picture that he could bury with -- with Maayan. Angel (ph) was really, really, you know, quiet and -- and -- and didn't want to come. They didn't want to see it. It was a closed casket, of course you can see them, they wanted to hug her. And they wanted to, you know -- just better hair. Her curls and hold her hand and they couldn't. BLITZER: Their older sister?

IDAN: Yes. And they admired her. She was a loving kind. She was a ray of light. She was pure, pure good. Seriously, she was so good. I don't understand how can you kill -- it's like killing a unicorn. You can never kill a unicorn. But now we're really united and focused about bringing Tzachi's -- Tzachi home alive and well.

BLITZER: What do you think, is it --

IDAN: Is it --

BLITZER: You're hopeful that he will come home?

IDAN: Yeah, he will come home. You will come home to us. Yes. It has to. Alive and well, yes. The way he got out.

BLITZER: I hope so.

IDAN: I know so, he will. I will do anything. Anything in my power or everybody's power. I will use everybody's power just to bring him and all of the hostages home but him, especially. Yes, he's my husband. He's my better half. He's my stronger half. I need him. He needs to mourn his daughter. He needs to hug his kids. He didn't do anything to deserve this, nothing. Peaceful man, he just, you know, lived in a kibbutz. He was Jewish and lived in the kibbutz. That's it. That's the reason -- that's the reason Maayan was murdered. Hateful, just pure hate. Pure hate, nothing, nothing more. She didn't do anything.

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What an 18-year-old playing volleyball in love with her -- with her boyfriend, can do. But did she do to them? Nothing. Just living in the kibbutz on the border of Gaza. That's the problem. That's -- that's her fault. That's why she was murdered. Yes. That was everybody was murdered. Because it was a slaughter. They killed women and children. They have a nine-month year old baby out there. How can you take -- what did he do to you? What? What did he do to you? Nothing. Is he a soldier? What did he do to you? They have grandmother's 85-year-old Alma which is my neighbor. She's sick. She needed medicine. They took 15-year-old Daphna (ph) and eight-year-old Ella (ph). They killed her father. And her -- her almost stepmother and step brother. They shot him in the back.

How do you do it? Why? And they did nothing. They weren't armed. They weren't -- they did nothing, nothing. Purely hate, that was that will happen. It's -- and we know that cannot be. We had it, a long time ago. We said never again and it did happen, it did. So I'm asking everybody, everybody, everybody in the world, in the U.S., everybody that can help stop this hatred, stop these crimes. Bring -- bring them home, bring the hostage home, please.

BLITZER: Your beautiful 18-year-old daughter, Maayan.

IDAN: That's Maayan.

BLITZER: As we say (foreign language) may her memory be a blessing.

IDAN: And this is Tzachi.

BLITZER: And Tzachi let's hope that Tzachi, 49-year-old dad, a father who has been kidnapped being held in Gaza by Hamas. Let's hope he comes home soon.

IDAN: Yes.

BLITZER: When they -- when he comes home, let me know. I'd like to come meet him.

IDAN: OK. I will. I will. Thank you. Thank you so much.

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QUEST: Let me bring you up-to-date with the other stories that's happening in the world. Police in Germany are asking travelers to stay away from Hamburg Airport. They're dealing there with a family hostage situation. All flights in and out of Hamburg at the airport, a main airport had been suspended indefinitely.

The shutdown came after a 35-year-old man reportedly smashed through security barriers and drove his car onto the tarmac and underneath the plane on Saturday evening. Last heard, the man was still inside his car along with his four-year-old daughter and officials say there are a substantial amount of special forces trying to resolve the situation.

Rescuers are scrambling to get food tents and other supplies to a remote region of Nepal after a powerful earthquake struck while people slept on Friday night. Some villagers have always been leveled, and officials say 157 people have been killed. That number is very likely to go up. CNN's Michael Holmes reports.

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MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over): Devastation all around in this village in northwestern Nepal, not a single structure in sight is still standing. Survivors say a nighttime earthquake magnitude 5.6 shook them awake.

KAMALA OLI, SURVIVOR (through translator): We were sleeping. The earthquake came when we were sleeping. The house was shaking, but we escaped and survived. There are three of us in the house, one got killed and only two survived.

HOLMES (voice-over): Rescue operations are underway to try to find survivors trapped in the massive piles of bricks and wood that were once homes. Security forces have been deployed to assist in those efforts. Nepali police say it's estimated that 90% of houses in some villages were destroyed. But, the rocky terrain and remote location of the quake zone, some 500 kilometers west of Kathmandu, is slowing down some search and rescue teams. Officials say they can't contact some of the hardest hit areas where about 190,000 people live in villages in the hills of the Himalayan Mountains.

It's still unknown how badly some of those places were affected, though injured people are packing local hospitals. Others are sleeping outdoors in the cold without tents or gathering at shelters, some too frightened to go back to their homes, many without a home to return to. The country's Prime Minister visited the quake zone on Saturday to offer his condolences and support, both of which the country could need more of if the death toll rises, as officials have warned. The quake is already the deadliest in Nepal since 2015 when at least 9,000 people were killed when two earthquakes struck the country. Michael Holmes, CNN.

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QUEST: The funeral service for the Actor Matthew Perry was a true gathering of friends if you will. People Magazine is reporting his -- his farewell took place on Friday in Los Angeles, all five of his co- stars from the show Friends attended. On the sitcom, Perry played a beloved character, the witty Chandler Bing, the 54-year-old was found unconscious in a jacuzzi at his home Saturday and officials are still investigating the cause of his death.

A wet weather weekend in Europe. I'm afraid to tell you it isn't quite finished yet. Storm Ciaran has moved through but more rain and wind is on the way. Allison Chinchar brings us up-to-date.

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ALLISON CHINCHAR, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Many people are still cleaning up after Storm Ciaran brought record breaking winds and very heavy rainfall to portions of France, also the British Isles and Spain just to name a few. But even though this system has moved out, we've got another system on the heels of it. And again, when you take a look at some of these rainfall totals, you're looking at over 200 millimeters in portions of Italy, but also Spain and the U.K., looking at some pretty impressive rainfall totals. Wind speeds also record breaking in a few locations.

Look at this 170, 180 kilometers per hour across numerous locations in France, but even the jersey airport in the U.K. topping out at 150 kilometers per hour for conversion, that's about 95 miles per hour here in the state. So again, you take a look, the next storm already starting to impact. It moved through on Saturday across portions of the British Isles. And France now starting to focus more on Central Europe as we finish out the rest of the day on Sunday.

Now, another focus for this storm is also going to be very strong winds, but also some very heavy rainfall. The thing is it's going to come in waves. So you're going to have one section of the rain coming after another. So for a city like Paris, for example, it's going to be rainy, not just the rest of Sunday, but really for the next seven days, you're going to have those really decent rainfall chances. It's also going to keep the temperatures a little bit below average for the remainder of the upcoming week. And those winds we talked about looking at this Paris, even down through portions of northern Spain, you're going to be looking at those winds up around that 50 to even 60 kilometer per hour range.

Now, once we slide through the rest of Sunday and get into Monday, we'll start to see those numbers coming back down and eventually by the time we get to Tuesday, most locations looking at just about 20 to 30 kilometer per hour winds at best.

QUEST: That's our report for this hour. I'm Richard Quest. If you're watching us in North America, CNN This Morning weekend follows and the rest of you, it's Connecting Africa. Because the news never stops, neither do we. This is CNN.

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