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"ac 360" begins now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good evening. we begin with breaking news from israel. israel defense forces announced it rescued a hostage. a rescue of a hostage would be the first since the war began. her name is ori megidish. that's a photo of her reunited with her family. she's been medically checked and met with her family for some time. also today hamas released a short video showing these three women believed to be captives held by hamas since the attack on october 7th. cnn is not showing the hostage video. israel has sent more troops into gaza, an army spokesman saying operations expecting to intensify. in a news conference today, prime minister netanyahu continued to dismiss calls for a ceasefire. >> i want to make clear israel's position regarding the ceasefire. just as the united states would not agree tie ceasefire after the bombing of pearl harbor or the terrorist attack of 9/11, israel will not agree to a cessation of hostility with hamas after the horrific attack of october 7th. calls for a ceasefire are calls for israel to surrender to hamas, to surrender to terrorism, to surrender to barbarism. that will not happen. ladies and gentlemen, the bible says that there is a time for peace and a time for war. this is a time for war. >> netanyahu also blamed hamas for any civilian casualties in gaza saying, quote, not a single civilian has to die. israel today also dropped more leaflets on gaza urging civilians to evacuate what the leaflets call a battlefield. more aid did arrive through gaza's border with egypt, though it's still a trickle of what would normally cross that border. facilities are now at four times capacity and the head of unicef said the lack of clean water is becoming a catastrophe. we start with the breaking news on the hostage rescue. i'm joined by the jeremy diamond in ashkelon, israel. what more have you learned about this israeli soldier who was rescued? >> reporter: she is the fifth person to make it out of gaza alive after being kidnapped by hamas earlier this month. but she is the first person to have been rescued during an idf ground operation in gaza. private ori megidish, she was posted in one of the israeli communities near the border with gaza, when she was captured by those hamas fighters on october 7th. the idf is declining to provide many additional details about how exactly she was rescued inside the gaza strip. but one key factor here is the fact that this was a joint operation with the shin bait, which is israel's internal security service. the israeli prime minister says this rescue is evidence that this ground operation serves the goal of getting more hostages released, whether that is by additional ground operations that could potentially rescue additional hostages or for the simple fact that, as he said, it increases the pressure on hamas at a time when these negotiations are still ongoing. >> what do you know about this new hostage video, which shows three women -- we aren't showing the actual video that hamas put out? >> well, anderson, this is the second hostage video released by hamas. and like with any video of hostages, particularly those released by an organization like hamas, which is considered a terrorist organization by the united states and other countries, you have to look at it through the lens of potential propaganda. and in this video, you see three female hostages. they are jelena troupe november, daniel aloneny, and kirsch. she addresses the israeli prime minister, meeting netanyahu directly. she addresses him quite angrily in this video. she blamed him for not doing enough to get them released. at one point she says, you promised to release us all, and she raised her voice saying free us all, now, now, now. we don't know under what conditions she was making these statements, and it's certainly possible that she was making these statements under duress, which is part of the reason why we are not showing this video. but one of the things to keep in mind here is that for those families of these hostages, one of the key things that they are taking away from this is proof of life. and the reason for that is because she references a speech that the israeli prime minister gave on saturday night, and she says, yesterday, you said -- indicated that this video was filmed on sunday. , families at least giving them some hope that their family member, who they haven't seen since october 7th, are still alive. >> jeremy diamond, thanks very much. for more on the rescue of the israeli soldier and efforts to secure other hostages, i'm joined by jonathan conricus, the international spokesman for the israeli force. colonel, what more do you know about the return of this hostage? initially the idf said she was released instead of rescued. >> yes. translation is sometimes detail oriented. and in this case, it wasn't translated well. she was, in fact, rescued, actively rescued, by israeli security forces. this was a joint idf and isa, israeli security operation, operation with boots on the ground. thanks to the operations, the ground operations that we are conducting in northern gaza, special forces were able to come in and, based on intelligence, get her out. >> so, is it fair to say you knew her whereabouts before you actually found her? it was actually an operation to get her out? >> it indeed was a special operation that was targeted in specifically getting her out. this wasn't special forces loitering around. they were in there for a job, and i'm very happy to say, and as you can see on the picture, private ori megidish is home with her family. she is well both mentally and physically. she has spoken with our chief of staff and with senior officers and with intelligence officers to relieve her of lots of details about her captivity and things that could be useful for the future. >> i assume you're not going to be able to answer this, but i should ask it anyway. are there others you know about in the same kind of way that you hope to be able to get out? >> i'll answer the second part. we definitely hope and intend to get all of them out, and i can't elaborate about other locations. we're careful not to share what we know with the enemy. but i can say that we are definitely committed to get all of our 238 hostages currently held by hamas in gaza, all of them, to get them home. >> how has the ground operation impacted efforts to free large numbers of hostages at once? an adviser to the qatari prime minister told cnn over the weekend that israel's military escalation has made any hostage deal, quote, considerably more difficult. >> i wouldn't know, and i think that, you know, based on the events of the last few days, specifically the rescue of private megidish, i would argue that the reality on the ground dictates differently. and i think that, you know, the way that hamas has been behaving so far is that they're trying to leverage their hostages that they have, that they're holding, in order to alleviate their combat situation and the tactical situation on the ground. we've seen it in the past. at first they said, you know, a few weeks ago, if you don't stop bombing our troops and our locations, then we will execute and show it on video. they walked that back. since then, there's been two releases, two statements made, attributed to hamas, that there have been casualties of the hostages. and they of course made the two separate releases of israeli hostages for what they would cynically say were humanitarian reasons. we understand there's psychological warfare at play. we understand that they're trying to use hostages as leverage. and what we are saying is that we're not going to fall into the traps and the mind games of hamas. we are going to focus on getting them out by whatever way possible. >> can you say on the operation in general, what force -- what the idf forces on the ground are finding? is it as you expected? >> well, there's a lot to expect, and we expect fierce resistance. we expect tunnel warfare, booby traps, ieds, antitank mines, and snipers, and many other things. so far, combat progress is good. we are indeed engaging with the enemy, and we're able to meet every engagement and end it quite decisively. we understand that we have a long and difficult fight ahead of us in very complex terrain. but so far what we've been able to do is to use the various tools at our advantage, the combination of air, sea, and land warfare, and the use of special up-to-date intelligence in order to find and then target hamas operatives. we take considerable efforts now in the ground warfare to distinguish between combatants and non-combatants. and we're moving slowly and deliberately. >> colonel conricus, thank you. >> thank you. perspective now from rammy e gra, former chief of the -- rami, thanks for being with us. i wonder what you make of the rescue of this israeli soldier by the idf and domestic security. >> great importance, and i will explain. hamas' move today to release a video is intended to approach the israeli public. and israeli public right now is hurting over the massacre, over the brutality, and over the kidnapping. and there's a movement in the public for all for one, thinking that if we release all our prisoners, they will release all the hostages. really what hamas wants is not. what hamas wants, as the spokesman just spoke to you, hamas wants a ceasefire. meaning, if they do have a ceasefire, then we will, as netanyahu said, forget about what happened on the 7th and let them re-establish themselves, strengthened by 7,000 prisoners that we will release. the government and i too on your program said that the only way to release the hostages because the other thing is non-negotiable, is to release them by force whilst maneuvering in the gaza strip. and we have found out that this is possible and private megidish is a ray of light in the middle of all of this darkness. the israeli army has established a big unit that is there to gather information, track, and rescue -- not release, rescue -- israeli hostages. >> according to the idf, they had specific intelligence about this hostage. that's what colonel conricus was just saying. and it's the first time obviously we've heard of a rescue inside gaza by the idf. colonel conricus would not say whether they had specific intelligence around other hostages. but that's entirely possible. >> yeah. first of all, it's possible. second, you have to assume that, as the force maneuver in the gaza strip and as israel has invested a lot of gathering tools in the gaza strip in order to gather the information that would lead us to other hostages, at the end of the day, 239 or 238 hostages, some of them, if not most of them, are going to be tracked down. and the minute they're tracked down, the idf will do the utmost to release them. i worry about the qatari negotiation you mentioned before. today there's also been release the director of the assad went to qatar in order to negotiate. if you ask me, this is a non-existent possibility. the qatari and hamas are playing us. it's all psychological warfare. they want, at the end of the day, as i said before, as netanyahu has said, they want a ceasefire. and a ceasefire is not one of the possibilities in this situation. >> why is that? i mean, there are many people around the world who say there should be a ceasefire. you hear people protesting saying, ceasefire now. what's wrong with that? >> well, i've said this before on your program. i'll say it again. the hamas is a murderous, nazi, not only a terrorist group. it's much more than terror. it's an islamic fundamentalist, brutal movement that has one important goal in its manifest. and that is the destruction of israel. now, we have suffered a great tragedy on the 7th of october, and now they ask for -- they ask us to let them continue their endeavor. we are here to eradicate the hamas. hamas should not be existent on the border of israel. and a ceasefire means that we will, in a word, forget the 7th of october, we will forgive, and they will re-establish themselves with the extra 7,000 prisoners that we will release. this is not a possibility. and i said this before and i want to say it here again. hamas represents a threat not to israel. it represents a threat to civilization. what happened on the 7th of october is not only barbaric. it has not been seen on the face of this earth for unhundreds of years. so, not only we. all the west has to worry that this might grow in their backyard. and we all have to show them that this is not a possibility. >> appreciate your time tonight. thank you. israel expanding war effort in gaza. >> reporter: an israeli tank inside gaza apparently fires on a passenger vehicle. a sniper takes up position in had a window of an abandoned building. israeli infantry advancing on the ground. and in a brief moment of apparent triumph, israeli soldiers raised the israeli flag over a gaza hotel. the outside world's vision into the extent and size of the israeli ground offensive so far is limited. but today the idf said those ground forces have struck some of their first targets. >> translator: dozens of terrorists were eliminated last night who had barricaded themselves in building, an attempt to attack forces that were moving in their direction. >> reporter: one measure of their forward progress, cnn geolocated the video where the soldier raised the flag on the hotel. more than two miles inside gaza. one geographical marker in a ground campaign playing out mostly out of sight. what remains visible are israeli strikes on gaza and rockets fired from gaza into israel. despite weeks of israeli bombardment, hamas is keeping up its rocket campaign. the israeli prime minister said his war cabinet is not calling for a ceasefire. >> calls for ceasefire are calls for israel to surrender to hamas, to surrender to terrorism, to surrender to barbarism. that will not happen. this is a time for war. >> reporter: on israel's northern border with lebanon, clashes on a second front. israeli forces trading artillery with small arms fire with hezbollah and other militants. this is an attack on hezbollah military infrastructure in lebanon. our team found ourselves in the crossfires sunday, as shells fired from lebanon rained down on the israeli town of arab al ram shah. you could hear mortar and artillery fire going out. that is from israel towards lebanon. we've heard artillery fire coming from lebanon. and the concern is soldiers telling us that there are possible infiltrations across the border from lebanon by presumably hezbollah fighters. and that's why the level of concern is so great. >> the near constant exchange of fire stretches all along the northern frontier, with communities marked here in black under mandatory evacuation. the constant sirens and threat of rocket attacks driving many israeli residents south, away from the border and closer to safety. >> what is the level of concern about this turning into a second front in the war? >> it's already a low grade -- conflict may be too strong a word. but there are fire fights multiple times a day across the border into israel, lebanon into israel. and also the northeast, israel into syria, syria into israel here. in fact, just in the last hour, the idf saying idf air force struck a target inside lebanon. and some of those attacks have been deadly. you're seeing artillery fire, rocket fire, ieds carried across the border on small parachutes, again by hezbollah militants. it is known that hezbollah has far greater forces in the south, both in terms of personnel but also rockets and missiles that, given the order, they can unleash. that order has not been given yet. i think you can characterize this fire so far as, sort of, shots across the bow, showing what they can do, not to mention the shots that have been taken at u.s. forces in iraq and syria. the concern has been, anderson, throughout, that when israel launches a significant ground offensive in gaza that that might be the trigger for something much larger. we haven't seen it. but i know that israeli forces in the north, they're taking it very seriously. and another sad fact of this anderson, is that many israeli residents of the north, many tens of thousands have fled their towns either under mandatory evacuations or just making the choice to do so because they're concerned about that danger. >> jim sciutto, thanks very much. the rise of anti-semitism. a mob of men rampaging through the airport searching for passengers getting off a plane from israel. fred pleitgen has more on the incident i israel's prpresident cocompared to o -- . as we mentioned earlier, israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu said, this is a time of war. a number of allies are working for a humanitarian pause. president biden spoke with netanyahu sunday for the first time since the expanded ground operation began. and according to the white house, the president spoke about the need to increase aid and meet the needs of civilians in gaza. ambassador, thanks for being with us. this idea of expanding humanitarian aid into southern gaza, assuming inspections of those vehicles is possible before they leave egypt, why wouldn't that be something that israel would encourage, both from obviously humanitarian standpoint but even a tactical standpoint. wouldn't it encourage more gazans to head south? >> good evening. good to be with you, anderson. this is one of the thorniest issues -- have to deal with both diplomatically and i think from a moral perspective. on one hand i visit almost every day with families of the hostages. and these people come from all different walks of life. they all agree that israel should not allow this human aid corridor to go through. we shouldn't agree to a pause to increase the amount of aid going into gaza. they say this is the only leverage israel has over hamas to secure the hostages. we don't even know how many hostages they have. we think they have about 242, but many families are unsure, uncertain, and they certainly don't know the physical medical state of their hostages. they say if you let this human aid corridor go through, there's no way we're going to have that type of leverage over hamas. on the other hand, you're right. the scene of palestinians in the south of lebanon -- south of gaza, excuse me -- lacking food, lacking basic necessities, increases diplomatic pressure on israel and will make constrained amount of time and space that the idf has to act in the northern part of the gaza strip, increases calls for a ceasefire, and creates a moral dilemma for the state of israel as well. as you said, itl lessens the attractiveness of further palestinians moving. we want the civilians out of the line of fire, high casualty levels, again, is not good for israel moral terms and tactical terms or diplomatic terms. it will constrain the time in space that the idf needs to act. >> what is the evidence that more humanitarian supplies -- what is the theory that, okay, not putting in more humanitarian supplies, then pressure builds on hamas. if hamas has all these tunnels and has all these supplies built up underground, what do they care about pressure of civilians in gaza? why would that encourage them or push them to negotiate on the hostages? >> because we know that large segments of that aid, even if it's inspected, it's somehow going to find its way into the hands of hamas. anderson, i was in charge of the hamas and gaza situation for the israeli government for about a year and a half. and during that year and a half, we had a crossing into gaza known ironically as the vineyard of peace crossing. that had a capacity of about 1,200 large flat bed trucks of every type of food, clothing, toys, medicine, anything you wanted. and hamas controlled that, t