Humanitarian crisis worsens in Gaza as Israel-Hamas fighting continues

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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The United Nations’ top humanitarian relief coordinator says the situation in Gaza keeps getting “more apocalyptic” and “people are being ordered to move again, with little to survive on, forced to make one impossible choice after another.” According to a UN agency, more than 80% of Gaza’s total population have been displaced and the Hamas-controlled health ministry claims more than 15,800 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli strikes since October 7. CNN Senior International Correspondent Ben Wedeman joins AC360 to discuss the desperation the people of Gaza are feeling. Plus, U.S. officials tell CNN that the negotiations over the release of additional hostages from Gaza appears high unlikely to resume any time soon. Hamas is refusing to release a remaining group of young women hostages, like 23-year-old Romi Gonen who was kidnapped from the Israeli music festival. Romi’s mother, Meirav Leshem Gonen, tells Anderson Cooper she was sure that her daughter would have been released during the seven-day truce that ended last week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Tonight on the 360 in the air and on the ground Israel ramps up its war in
0:05.2	Hamas as the Biden administration weighs in on this dark question is Hamas not
0:09.0	freeing the remaining young women at holes so they won't talk about being
0:12.4	abused in captivity.
0:14.0	Also tonight the man who tried to overturn the election.
0:16.4	He lost is now warning that President Biden and not he is the real threat to democracy.
0:21.6	That is a former top Republican warns we are quote
0:23.8	sleepwalking into dictatorship if he wins a second term. Later Harvard's leading
0:28.7	expert on social media disinformation and how she says she was forced out for
0:32.3	making trouble for Facebook
0:33.6	founder and 500 million dollar donor Mark Zuckerberg.
0:37.0	Good evening. Thanks for joining us. We begin with a very full night of developments
0:40.8	in and around Israel's Warren, and a new focus today on
0:44.6	allegations that rape was a central part of the atrocities Hamas committed to
0:48.4	start the war. It's been a heavy day and night of Israeli airstrikes in Gaza,
0:52.2	about 200 targets hit according to military
0:54.8	officials.
0:55.8	Separately, new video surfaced today on social media of Israeli forces using explosives
1:00.6	to demolish the large building at Central Gaza, housing the Hamasron
1:03.8	justice ministry and courthouses. Elsewhere, on the ground, meantime, our first
1:09.3	evidence that the IDF is carrying out the plan it announced yesterday to launch operations in southern Gaza.
1:15.6	Video, geo-located by CNN, showing Israeli troops in at least one tank operating in the south.
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