HEADLINE: IDF Launches Gaza Ground Offensive; Hamas, Qatar, and UN Dynamics GUEST NAME: David Daoud SUMMARY: David Daoud analyzes the IDF's ground offensive in Gaza City targeting Hamas, noting urban warfare challenges and international implications. He
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HEADLINE: IDF Launches Gaza Ground Offensive; Hamas, Qatar, and UN Dynamics
GUEST NAME: David Daoud
SUMMARY: David Daoud analyzes the IDF's ground offensive in Gaza City targeting Hamas, noting urban warfare challenges and international implications. He discusses Gazans' reluctance to evacuate and a failed Israeli strike on Hamas leadership in Doha. Daoud also expresses concern about al-Sharaa, an Al-Qaeda figure, addressing the UN General Assembly, highlighting the international community's willingness to "turn a blind eye" for political expediency.
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| 0:30.1 | This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:35.8 | Pleasure to welcome David Diuda, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. |
| 0:37.5 | We go right to Gaza. Right now, the headline from the Defense of Democracies. We go right to Gaza. |
| 0:41.5 | Right now, the headline from the Middle East. |
| 0:46.0 | IDF begins major Gaza's city ground offensive targeting Hamas. |
| 0:49.2 | Dozens of Gazans said killed subhead. |
| 0:52.4 | Thousands flee amid intensive airstrikes. |
| 0:57.2 | Army uses explosive-laden remote-controlled APCs to hit infrastructure. |
| 1:04.8 | The Secretary of State, traveling, comments, very short window of time for hostage ceasefire deal. |
| 1:07.3 | David, a very good evening to you. For some weeks now, the IDF has signaled that it would begin the final offensive |
| 1:12.1 | against Gaza City that remained largely untouched through the war. |
| 1:17.1 | And they're now underway as promised. |
| 1:20.0 | They are taking down big buildings that can be used as observation points. |
| 1:24.5 | They're after the last of the Hamas fighters, so-called killers, and they're after |
| 1:32.2 | rescuing or at least retrieving what they can of the hostages. At the same time, there's |
| 1:39.2 | doubts whether it can be done. This is urban fighting. It drags out the advantage to the defender. |
| 1:44.7 | What is your measure of this offensive? Is it meant to bluff Hamas or is it meant to fight to the last man? |
| 1:51.1 | Good evening to you. Good evening, John. Well, I mean, it's difficult to assess because, as we've discussed on a show multiple times in the past, you have two mutually exclusive positions on what the outcome of this war should be. |
| 2:07.0 | The Israelis are saying Hamas can't exist, can't have military power, can't have governance. |
| 2:14.4 | And Hamas wants a pathway back to power in Gaza. And those positions haven't fundamentally |
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