Hello from CNN, I'm Afomadigay with the five things you need to know for Monday, December 4th.

Israeli forces are now operating in southern Gaza, according to a video geolocated by CNN. This comes as the military... in today, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, described the level of the human suffering as, quote, intolerable, and reiterated his appeal to protect civilians.

Meanwhile, multiple U.S. senior administration officials say there's little prospect that talks to release hostages Hamas is holding will resume anytime soon.

Here's CNN's Natasha Bertrand.

What appears to have happened, of course, is that Hamas was refusing according to

our sources to release the women that it was holding and the Israelis wanted a

list of course of all of the women and children hostages that Hamas was prepared to release and Hamas was simply not willing to provide that.

As the Israel-H Hamas war continues, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Etn Yahoo's corruption trial resumed today after a two-month pause.

He's been on trial since January 2020 and faces charges in three separate cases.

The father of the six-year-old Palestinian-American boy who was stabbed to death in October near Chicago has filed a wrongful death lawsuit.

Officials say the child Wadia al-Fayumi was killed by his family's landlord, Joseph Chuba, for being Muslim.

The complaint shows Al-Fayumi's father is suing Chuba for wrongful death battery,

plus his wife Mary and the property management company for wrongful death negligence, claiming they

failed to prevent harm to Wadia.

The lawsuit claims before the attack, Mary Chuba texted Alfa Yumi's mother Hanan

Shaheen, who was also stabbed about quote Joseph M. Chuba's hatred of Muslims and current

conflict in the Middle East and that he told Mary he thought Shaheen's Palestinian

friends were going to harm them.

CNN has reached out to an attorney for Mary Chuba.

Joseph Chuba has been charged with first-degree murder and has pleaded not guilty.

A former U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia is accused of spying for Cuba.

That's according to unsealed court documents.

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