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Anderson Cooper 360

Israel begins a “complete siege” of Gaza in response to Hamas attacks

Anderson Cooper 360

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3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Israel has hammered Gaza with airstrikes and is withholding essential supplies, cutting off food, electricity, fuel and water in response Hamas’ brutal terror attacks that killed more than 1,200 people. In Gaza, the Palestinian health ministry says at least 1,537 people have died. Yousef Hammah lives in Gaza and works for the Norwegian Refugee Council. He gives Anderson Cooper an update on the situation in Gaza and says they’re living “second-by-second.” Plus, Israel Defense Force spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Conricus joins AC360 to discuss if he thinks an agreement to bring supplies like food and medicine to Gaza can be reached.  For daily information on the Israel-Gaza conflict, check out CNN’s podcast ‘Tug of War: Attack on Israel’ here: https://link.chtbl.com/-lB8n-bJ  To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

And good evening, 3 a.m. here in Israel, tonight we are in Tel Aviv. Earlier today we were

0:06.9

close to the border with Gaza, the site of the single biggest massacre that took place

0:11.1

on Saturday. We got an up close look at the site of the music festival, where gun and

0:15.5

RPG-toting terrorists murdered 260 people Saturday morning, mostly young people, and what

0:21.6

was supposed to be a celebration of peace. Their possessions are still strewn about their

0:26.9

blood, still visible, soaked on car seats, where they were shot, smeared on the walls of

0:31.9

bomb shelters that became death traps. I spent time today with an IDF rear admiral named

0:37.3

Daniel Hagari, and you'll hear from him tonight, and you'll hear his shock and his anger,

0:42.8

and his determination to win the fight that is coming. We heard that same determination

0:48.1

in all the soldiers that we met today, as they make their way south, as they make their

0:52.4

way down the same road that we took and take up positions close to that site, close

0:56.9

to the Kibbutzim that also became killing grounds, close to the border, they may soon get

1:02.0

orders to cross. Some spent the day pouring how it's their fire into Gaza, and in a moment

1:07.8

we'll speak to Sinan Snick Robertson, who is with an IDF artillery unit, which has seen

1:12.0

heavy action so far. Large-scale air strikes continued for six days today, targeting Hamas,

1:17.9

but also causing widespread destruction. Palestinian officials now putting the number

1:22.2

killed in Gaza since Hamas launched its attack at more than 1500, not clear if that number

1:28.0

includes the hundreds of Hamas gunmen who invaded Israel on Saturday. Israel's energy minister

1:33.4

says today that food, water, and power, much of which Israel controls will remain cut

1:38.0

off to the territory as long or until hostages being held by Hamas and others are returned

1:43.6

home. Just a short time ago, Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Amman, the capital

1:48.2

of Jordan, his next stop after meeting here today with Israeli leaders, including Prime

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