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more than 1 million people under siege. some seeking refuge at this hospital. new efforts tonight to evacuate americans, as time runs out. >> i'm charlie d'agata in tel aviv. the prime minister vows to demolish hamas. israeli military says they're ready. hamas hostage blackmail. desperate families still in the dark. >> i'm holly williams in tel aviv. videos of those taken captive have horrified israel. diplomatic dash. secretary of state antony blinken heads back to israel after a six-nation sweep, trying to contain the conflict. also tonight, norah o'donnell speaks to a member of israel's war council. >> is an attack against iran under consideration? >> iran is a country that works every single day for israel's destruction. plus -- ♪ you made me love you ♪ >> remembering suzanne somers.

we have all the day's news, including teen summit. a brother climbs kilimanjaro, helping his sister with her own uphill fight. >> i'm really inspired by him. >> announcer: this is the "cbs weekend news" from new york with jericka duncan. good evening. and thanks for joining us tonight. i'm jericka duncan. israel is mobilized for war, as the country prepares to launch a ground invasion into hamas-controlled gaza. border clashes are intensifying. aerial bombardments of the territory devastating. you can see there hundreds of thousands of palestinians with nowhere to go. tonight secretary of state antony blinken is in jordan. wrapping meeting with arab leaders in six nations. he returns to israel in just a few hours. today the nfl held a moment of silence at stadiums in solidarity with, quote, innocent civilians in the middle east.

in london, where the titans and ravens played, free palestine chants could be heard. cbs' charlie d'agata is in tel aviv tonight and leads us off. charlie, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, jericka. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu convened an emergency cabinet for the first time today, vowing to demolish hamas. while the israeli military said they're ready and waiting for the order to launch an invasion. under bombardment and under siege, ahead of a looming ground offensive, gaza is already edging ever-closer to a humanitarian catastrophe. authorities say more than 2,400 people have been killed, a quarter of them children, nearly 10,000 wounded. a situation so grim, they're using ice cream trucks as makeshift morgues. hundreds of thousands of residents fleeing south, as the israeli military orders them to

evacuate from the north. the world health organization called the forced evacuation of 22 hospitals tantamount to a death sentence for babies on incubators and those in intensive care. israel announcing today it was resuming water supplies to southern gaza, after shutting down water to the entire territory earlier this week. fighting has broken out in the north too. israeli forces shelling southern lebanon after the militant group, hezbollah, fired rockets into israel. near to gaza, israeli armor has been massing. while we've been here, we've seen tons of heavy military equipment like this setting up in staging areas ahead of that anticipated israeli offensive. along what has now become a militarized zone lies this kibbutz, the site of a massacre against israeli civilians.

the sheer destruction and bodies of hamas gunmen tell the horrors that unfolded when the terrorist group descended on this small farming community. this, we're told is the wreckage from a paraglider that one of the militants used to cross the border and launch their assault here. this colonel told us they found bodies everywhere, 66 residents found dead on this street alone. if people locked themselves inside safe rooms, militants set their houses on fire. >> your entire career as a professional soldier, have you seen anything like this before? >> no. this was cruel. and i saw the signals of the intention to humiliate. >> humiliate? >> humiliate. >> reporter: that quiet farming community has now become a front line, jericka. this ground invasion has not even begun yet, but israeli defense forces say they've

already lost nearly 280 soldiers. >> charlie d'agata tonight in tel aviv, thank you. today the israeli military confirmed 155 people are being held as hostages by hamas. cbs interviewed the political spokesman for hamas for answers. >> there are over 100 people who are being held captive inside gaza right now. why abduct people? why hold people hostage inside gaza? >> first of our desire is to stop now the daily killing. we have to stop this. after that, we can talk about other situation. now we are not ready to talk about this issue. >> explain that. the world is trying to understand hamas. they're trying to understand its motivations. and all it has seen is the devastating violence that was inflicted on people in their homes, at a music festival, children being abducted, elderly

people being abducted. i'm still waiting for justification. >> and palestinians. you know how people are killed just in five days? you know about 30,000 homes were destroyed. you know that about 50 entire -- 50 entire -- families are deleted from the civil court. the whole -- the father, the mother, their sons, daughters, everything was deleted. how can you justify this? >> why don't you just release the people who were abducted? >> look. okay. we want first of all to stop this daily death in gaza, daily killing in gaza. it is our priority now. your priority should be how to stop killing. and this is genocide in gaza. it is really genocide in gaza. and you heard even international red cross, all the international organizations, all say the situation in gaza is

catastrophe, is big disaster. we have to stop this. we cannot talk about anything. for relatives of hostages held by hamas, these are desperate hours, as the militants have threatened to execute their captives. cbs' holly williams, also in tel aviv, has more. holly? >> reporter: good evening, jericka. tonight israel's military says it has confirmed at least 155 hostages are being held by hamas in gaza. hamas claims that 27 of the hostages have been killed in israeli air strikes and others wounded, though we cannot verify that. >> reporter: the images of hamas kidnapping hostages have horrified israel. many of them are civilians, some are children, and amongst them are americans. the militants are now playing a deadly game of blackmail,

threatening to kill one hostage every time israel bombs palestinian civilians without warning. tonight israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, met with the family members of some of the hostages. [ crowd chanting ] bring them home! >> reporter: but many here in israel blame their own government for the apparent security failures that allowed hamas to go on a killing spree and take people captive. there was a demonstration yesterday outside israel's defense ministry. >> we don't sleep, we don't eat. all the day we are thinking, what is going on? >> reporter: this woman's 18-year-old daughter, liri, is believed to be amongst the hostages. >> what do you want your government to do to get her home? >> i don't care what they do. but i want -- i don't know what they -- i'm not a political woman. i'm a mother, and i want my daughter home now. i want my daughter to sleep in her bed now. >> reporter: but some here who have a history of dealing with

hamas are not optimistic. >> here, we deal with terror that is actually holding my son as a bargaining chip. >> reporter: leia golden's son was a soldier in 2014, when he was captured and killed by hamas. nearly ten years later, the militants still refuse to return his body. >> given your experience with hamas, what do you think that they're doing right now with the hostages that they've taken? >> no one knows. no one knows. no one knows. the worst thing can be done. no one knows. >> reporter: israel faces an excruciating conundrum. on the one hand, it wants to punish hamas militarily. on the other, it wants to bring the hostages home alive. and jericka, doing both those things at once will be extremely difficult. >> absolutely. holly williams for us tonight, thank you. the state department confirms the death of 30 americans following the hamas assault.

13 remain unaccounted for. and today the fbi warned about lone wolf attacks in this country, noting the best way to stop that is by tips from the public. cbs' skyler henry is at the white house tonight with more own that. skyler? >> reporter: hey, jericka. good to be with you. the biden administration has, since this all began, expressed to the public to be on the look out for said attacks, while also putting an emphasis on certain things that the public can be doing. meanwhile, happening abroad, top u.s. officials say israel has every right to defend itself against the hamas attacks but should also take every possible precaution to avoid harming innocent civilians. >> reporter: secretary of state antony blinken met with egypt's president sunday, the latest in a series of high-stakes talks with the leaders of several middle eastern countries, keeping an eye on the israel-hamas war. >> what i've heard from virtually every partner was a determination, a shared view that we have to do everything possible to make sure this doesn't spread to other places.

>> reporter: the u.s. is beefing up military presence in the region, blinken says to deter the conflict. there's also the deepening humanitarian crisis, as palestinians in gaza, under siege from israeli air strikes, struggle to find water, food, and safety. the biden administration announced former ambassador david satterfield will serve as special envoy, to address those issues, including life-saving assistance to the most vulnerable people. >> as i said, we're determined to do everything we can to address the needs of people in gaza. civilians should not have to suffer for hamas' atrocities. >> reporter: blinken also said a gate between gaza and egypt would be open to humanitarian aid. >> and skyler, senate majority leader chuck schumer, who is in israel, says he plans to lead the effort to get more funding for the country. how does that work without a house speaker? >> reporter: he's hoping a

comprehensive bipartisan measure passed in the senate could be enough to force the house to act. the lower chamber has been somewhat paralyzed since ousting the speaker, kevin mccarthy, nearly two weeks ago. house lawmakers now have scheduled a full vote for speaker this tuesday. jericka? >> skyler henry at the white house tonight. since israel declared war against hamas eight days ago, top leaders of the jewish state have given very few interviews until now. ron dermer, israel's minister of strategic affairs and member of its new war council spoke to norah o'donnell in tel aviv about who he thinks was really behind the deadliest attack in israel's 75-year history. >> when israel loses 1,300 -- when 1,300 people are murdered, that's like 50,000 americans being murdered on a single day. today, with the numbers we see, it's 20 9/11s. we're not dealing with a terrorist organization thousands of miles away. like you did after 9/11.

we're dealing with a terrorist organization in our backyard, literally meters away from people's homes. >> you've talked about the comparisons to 9/11. we knew that osama bin laden was the mastermind. do you know who the mastermind is? >> sure. they are two people in gaza. they are the ones responsible specifically for this attack. they are backed, again, by iran. they are backed financially, they are backed with weapons, with training, with logistics, with communication, with political support. iran is the source of so many of the problems of the middle east. >> the u.s. says it has no evidence that iran was behind this specific attack. does the israeli government know that iran was behind this attack? >> there's a question of whether iran knew about the timing of this specific attack. but iran is behind hamas. hamas, 93% of their military

budget is iran. they have meetings all the time, iran and hamas. so, whether they knew the attack was going to happen on this day or three days later or a week later or two weeks later, that's a separate question. without iran, this attack cannot happen. that, i can assure you. >> is an attack against iran under consideration? >> iran is a country that works every single day for israel's destruction. and trying to develop the means, nuclear weapons, to achieve that goal. so, we will do whatever we have to do to defend ourselves, to prevent such a regime who denies a first holocaust and would like to perpetrate a second one, to deny such a regime from developing nuclear weapons. >> when asked about the safety of gaza's 2 million residents, minister dermer blamed hamas for any civilian casualties. today officials in gaza say more than 2,400 people have been killed, more than 600 of them children, since israel's assault began.

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