Today on Velshi, NBC chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel on the ground right now amid a dramatically escalating conflict in the Middle East.

He'll join us with the very laced in just a moment. Plus, powerful new pushback against the CDC's decision to green light going maskless.

We're going to tell you who says the new guidance is not based on science, not protecting public health,

and threatening people's lives. Then the man of the hour is here to answer our questions,

Congressman Benny Thompson, the House Homeland Security Chairman who struck a deal with his

Republican counterpart for a commission to investigate the Capitol riot. It's a major breakthrough,

but how bipartisan, fair, and honest will it be

as the GOP continues to push the big lie? Also, my personal conversation with a group of Asian-American

community leaders amid a terrifying spike in anti-Asian violence in this country, you want to hear

what they have to say. Velshi starts now.

Good morning. It is Sunday, May 16th. I'm Ali Valshi, the worst and deadliest violence in years in the

Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues this morning. Over night, the Israeli defense forces

released this footage of a new strike conducted on the residence of a Hamas leader in Gaza,

in addition to strikes on Hamas tunnel systems in Gaza as well. The IDF also says that air

strikes hit Hamas intelligence headquarters, which they say was located adjacent to a kindergarten.

The Gaza Ministry of Health reports that at least 33 people were killed and multiple buildings

destroyed in new airstrikes today. Doctors Without Borders also reports that an Israeli strike

caused damage to one of its clinics in Gaza, although the organization says no one inside the clinic

was injured. We're learning more about that Israeli air strike yesterday on a Gaza high rise,

this one you're looking at, which housed international media outlets, including the Associated

Press and Al Jazeera, as well as some apartments. The president and CEO of the Associated Press says he

was, quote, shocked and horrified by the strike, which he says is, quote, an incredibly

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