>> hello, and a very warm welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and -- as we continue our coverage of israel at war. i am paula newton. it is 28 here in atlanta, atm and gaza, while we are waiting to see if more foreign nationals are waiting to cross the border into egypt. for the first time since -- rafah border crossing opened wednesday to several hundred for nationals, including aid workers, who have been stuck at the border. the u.s. state department believes about 1000 americans and their families are still in gaza and trying to leave. here is u.s. president joe biden. >> we are in a situation we are safe passage for wounded palestinians and foreign nationals to exit gaza has started. american citizens are able to exit today as part of the first group of a little over 1000 who will see more of this process going on in the coming days. working nonstop to get americans out of gaza as soon as safely as possible. >> the agreement, brokered by qatar, also called for dozens of wounded palestinians to be evacuated to egypt for -- the deal did not include wounded hamas fighters. now, for the second time in as many days, israel hit the -- we have fiji camp in northern gaza with a devastating airstrike. local hospital officials say at least 80 people were killed. -- human rights office said the scale of devastation and high civilian casualties, quote, great amount to war crimes. the idf says a hamas command center was the target. cnn's clare sebastian is covering all of this for us from london. good to see you, clare sebastian. i want to turn to that situation at the border again. we are awaiting to see if, at this hour, we see people being able to cross into egypt. is there an that is the expectation for the u.s. has said it expects more people when it comes to foreign in u.s. leave in the next several days, we know from sources and cattle, the deal that was brokered encompasses everyone as we understand it, the holes of foreign prospered in gaza. and wants to leave so the expectation that they will vary solely be allowed out slowly, slow being the operative word. we know for the u.s. it can take the americans their families, our number around 1000. their nationals of 5000, instead of 361 who are allowed to leave on wednesday, is a small number of that. it is a fluid situation, case in point we weren't expecting an americans to get out, to leave on wednesday. a couple were a lot it is very cumbersome is very conversant a bureaucratic even before this conflict, to get through the border crossing on each side it could take weeks to get them and we know they are egypt's vetting everyone who goes through and back up to, the egyptian fear that they could end up being inundated by flood of palestinian refugees coming, in from the opinions, elect very tightly controlled process, except florida of course when the ongoing catheter, brokered to get more than 200 hostages, out of the gaza strip. we know now, very clearly, the u.s. and some of the others believe this process, is being complicated, by the accelerating israeli ground and air offensive. president biden at that fundraising that you showed irma, on wednesday was interrupted by protesters, asking her about history fire, she did say that he supported a pause, in gaza quote, to get those prisoners out. there is no sign at the moment, that any kind of pauses happening, quite the opposite, we're hearing more explosions, overnight over gaza city. >> clear sebastian thank you so much we appreciate. it the full scope of the devastation of the refugee camp is unclear after those two israeli airstrikes. cnn's nada bashir has more according from jerusalem >> chaos at refugee camp, wounded children rushed nearby ambulances the latest casualties of israel's relentless aerial them barred mint this densely populated >> elsie's chief just police,. a second in less than 24 hours. >> i lost my whole family holding a list of those killed my >> sister's house was struck with our children's of my brother's house to there is no one's left what they were innocent what did they do to deserve this >> hamas fighters said to be among those killed but jabalia is home to more than 100,000 civilians according to the u.n. and while the full extent of the civilian death toll remains unclear the stage gaza civil defense authority has described this latest disaster as a massacre with more casualties and more fatalities added to the list of hundreds said to have been killed or wounded in tuesdays airstrikes. >> the situation is beyond belief many have been killed bodies have been left burned and charred by the airstrikes there isn't a hospital in the world that can cope with this kind of situation. we're having to treat patients on the floor and in corridors. the scale of the description at jabalia is difficult to we grasp. many residents are still buried beneath the black and horrible. rescue workers and civilians dig side by side, desperate to find survivors. this has had 15 people in it, but we still haven't been able to find any of them, this man says. we have no equipment. we are digging alone with our hands. northern gaza continues to come under everyone parchment, its residents ordered by israel to evacuate southwards. but airstrikes continue to rain down across both central and southern gaza, to. and for the more 2 million palestinians living under an israeli blockade, the fear is that there is nowhere safe to turn. nada bashir, cnn, jerusalem. in the meantime israeli forces are defending the strikes, as key to the war against hamas. but also claiming ground effects, one idf commanders use raley military is quote, at the gates of gaza city. an idf spokesperson, says the military has breached hamas's defensive frontline and northern gaza, and expanding its fighting. israeli forces boy troops, and tanks are now advancing toward gaza city, from several directions, just days after launching the ground offensive the idf has also released this video, you'll see there showing israeli neely, whistle boats awry day in the area on the, israeli military says it stopped in then rating drone missile tap in that area the iranian-backed houthi rebels in yemen have claimed responsibility for that attempt. >> alia shook had has served as aerials minister of interior, and minister of justice. she joins us now from tel aviv. really appreciate you get more insight into the ground operation. >> i want to ask you, what convinces you that this ground invasion, is something necessarily given not all the civilian casualties, but the price that will be paid by soldiers. idf soldiers killed and injured. >> they don't have detroit, hamas launched a barbaric genocidal of tack on israel, they murdered our babies, our children, they kidnapped small babies, little girls, women, and just realize they could -- we must eliminates them, in order to eliminates them. unfortunately we have to do a ground assault. >> in terms of an us and them, that kind of binary approach. some people are already seeing will not help in terms of what happened after the war, when israel wants peace. i want you to listen now israel's, isaac her sake said in a speech on wednesday listen. >> [speaking in a non-english language] the >> translator: mna me seeks to kendall hatred between us, between tuition arab citizens. we have to fight back against this again without compromise, singlemindedly we have to reject every urge toward hatred and racism, toward different groups among us. >> i ask you again given the spirit of what the president delivered that address, is this really about us than them? >> there is no other choice, once we realize the horrible atrocities, the murdered small babies, in their bed. they hacked off limbs, horrible things. they can't do it, people talk about the hamas population, but the population in gaza, support the hamas. they can push them to surrender, and then prevent the bloodshed, but as long as they are there, we can't give up. it's like we, tried for many years to live next to each other. but after horrible terror attack, we cannot do it anymore. our perspective, all the hamas leadership from the leaders to the last soldiers, they are all dead men walking. >> we spoke to people who have been doing survey just before the world, brocaded is not true that all palestinian support hamas. in fact the vast majority do not. but again, they are not going anywhere. >> just a second, it is not true i didn't say that all majority in gaza, support the homeless. >> they found exactly the opposite -- i >> don't want to get into that, i want to talk to you obviously the work you've been involved in the last few years. that is israeli politics. those internal divisions, given the proposed judicial reform, where arguably at their worst. when hamas so brutally carried out its tara tax. can israel afford, some would say, any needless division now going forward. we have already seen some division, in the last few days. wolf. >> all united we are united and understand that we need to eliminate the hamas. >> there are differences in the society in israel, but at war, we altogether it doesn't matter if you're left or, right seth color or orthodox. we fight together, unfortunately we die together. after this war israel will not be the same. it's a, it's something in the history of the jewish people, this black saturday. the day in which the most were murdered, since the holocaust. so it's definitely will change things in israel, and i hope that after the war we will be more united. >> all right, thank you for joining us appreciate. it >> still to come for us sounds are forced to endure unimaginable lost, as the mueller in the middle east rages on. speak for women who has lost dozens of relatives in the destruction of gaza. the news a hundreds of foreign nationals were allowed to leave gaza through the rafah crossing comes just a day after hamas cleans they would release some hostages or foreign nationals, 240 people believed to be kidnapped and taken into gaza. one of them is a 23-year-old israeli american, named hersh goldberg. he was attending the nova music festival, when hamas attacked on not over seventh he was last seen being loaded into the back of a pick up truck and is presumed to be in gaza. bespoke parents spoke with anderson coop, and how they've gotten through the past 26 days not knowing if their son's condition, or where he is. >> it's a different dimension it's a different type of time. >> it's an indescribable, the the dame see long, and when we look back and think of everything we've done in a day, cause we're constantly throwing darts in every direction trying every angle, or strategy that we can think of. and talking to everyone we can. and -- >> i want to add, i'm used to working with a plan. a daily plan. either we hit the, plans are we fall behind. or we get ahead, but there are milestones. we know how we are doing, part of the torture of these 26 days, is we work all day every day around the clock. and still when we lay our hands on the pillow, for a few hours. at night. i don't know if we've advanced the project, the project of bring home personal hostages. there's no way to know if we are pushing this ball forward towards the goal. it's one element of the frustration, and what makes the days blind together. >> when i talk to you, in jerusalem, you had made contact with several people who had been in that bomb shelter with harsh. where hamas was tossing grenades in. i think is many 17 or 18 people died in that shelter. a number survived, you had talked to a hitting three of them. have you been able to talk to anyone else? did anybody else have any interactions? >> it's interesting timing on that question, first of all, we visit regularly with our friends motion shira, parents of a mare, who's very close friend was killed. >> according to eyewitnesses -- >> acts of heroism that become more clear as time goes on. we were visiting with them yesterday, and three of the survivors of the bomb shelter, came over to meet american parents, and to thank them on behalf of a mayor for saving their lives. we were there for the meeting, is as you can imagine, quite emotional. there are thousands of thousands of stories of the day, october 7th, and how people experienced it. and how they're interwoven. i wasn't a meeting last night that i walked out, and some young one came over to me and introduce yourself and said my best friend was in the shelter with your son and she was killed and we want you to know that i'm so following the story in pulling for hersh i need people to survive, from that bomb shelter. it's these interwoven stories that keep on happening. from that one bomb shelter, of 29 people. >> you notice there, the 26 bat that she was wearing, she plans to wear that with a number of days the hostages are held captive, until they are brought home. >> a family of palestinian americans is mourning the death of dozens of relatives half a world away. people shown in this picture are just some of the 42 members of the family, the family said were killed in a single day, amid israel's war on hamas. mona abu chauvin, is directly related to eight of them, but the pain of those losses is driven heard act. she spent time in washington lobbying for a cease-fire, says it doesn't matter if one israeli or palestinian, everyone's terrified of their loved ones. >> mona abolition on, joins me now from ohio. i want to thank you for your time special given how difficult the circumstances are. mona firstly, i was looking some of the family pictures, all this must be truly soul crushing. how is your family doing? especially as you continue to see the humanitarian situation is so horrendous. >> it's very difficult. my dad trying to reach out the rest the family trying to survive. trying to cope with the laws. and just really trying to make sure, who is still there has everything they need. it's very difficult for them right now. >> what more do you know about how your family members died, what they went through, did they have any warning. what details have you been able to gather? >> i know that my uncle is seeking shelter with his daughter in her in laws. indifferent part of the city, they were told to evacuate their homes, and they're area because they're airy was going to be bombarded. they reached out to their daughter, and their in laws and they all decided to meet at the family complex that's a little further away. and, i know they were all together several family members, and they arrived with their wives children and grandchildren. i don't think they have any warning from where they were, that they complex was going to be bombed. their previous home where they were at the four, they were told to evacuate. they assume that people were gonna be safe. they told them, leave this is where we're gonna bomb. so they went to a safe area. safest basically. they didn't have any warning. >> mona, earlier we covered a survey from the arab barometer talking about the people of gaza realty didn't support hamas, and that wasn't the majority opinion. people in israel are suffering, giving everything they've gone through. do you think there is any way at this point in time, where you can get to a point where people will come back from the brink? on either side? >> i think israel needs to stop there bombardment of the citizens. i think they need to take a step back, actually several steps back. they need to lift the blockade, they need to give free range a motion to all of the palestinians. it's not just happening in gaza, they say it's happening there, it's happening in the west bank and what's going on in the west bank. settlers are going in kicking the palestinians out of their homes, telling them we're gonna have another -- if you don't leave. they're giving them 24 hours to vacate their homes. it's not a hamas issue. it's not a palestinian issue. it's a humanitarian issue. you can't have peace with all of that going on, speak from one side and say we are looking for a resolution, on the other hand you're letting your settles in the idf completely destroyed the lives of the palestinians who've been there for years and years. this is not a one-off type thing. we can't just say people are gonna stop bombing and then it is over. you have to give them their dignity. you have to give palestinians a place to call home. you can't keep displace them over and over again. >> to the end of trying to get to some trying of, pulling away from the brink, do you think a good start would be getting the release of those israeli hostages? >> i think these really hostages need to be released, i think all of the hostages in the falls in palestinians needs to be released. everybody has the right to freedom, and i think everybody is terrified for their loved ones, whether they're israeli or palestinian. so on both ends, i think that all of the people need to be released to their loved ones. we're >> all worried about everybody. >> i feel horrible, for their families and pretty sure some of them feel horrible for our families. >> it's not a very one-sided issue. we all feel with them. >> mona we feel for you as you continue what to go through absolute, for you and your entire family. we try and reached out to those loved ones in. gaza mona thank you for spending this time with. us >> thank you i appreciate your time. >> still to come for us, an exclusive dispatch from cnn journalist in casa. inside look at one refugee camp crammed with 20,000 people, living off canned food and without drinking water. those are live images at this hour the rafah crossing from gaza into egypt, where group of people have gathered hoping to make it through again today. >> on wednesday we saw brief opening of the gate, letting some palestinians leaves on clay for the first time, since israel declared war on hamas. egyptian officials say at least 361 people were foreign passports left gaza, the aid group doctors without borders, says all 22 other remaining staff in gaza left, including a specialized medical team. ambulances from egypt were able to take dozens of wouldn't palestinians out egyptian officials say at least 45 injured people are now being treated in hospitals across the country as israel continues its bombardment of gaza, there are countless civilians aid workers caught in the cross fires including our own cnn colleague abraham -- along with his wife who's pregnant and their two sons. abraham brings us this report from the u.n. refugee camp where he says there are more than 20,000 crown together hungry afraid and sleeping on the ground >> [speaking in a non-english language] > dr. tanya was a pediatric intensive carrot and manage taryn doctor with msf, or doctors without borders. she joins us now from jordan. >> good to talk to you if we wait to see more people are gonna make it sea to make it through the crossing. i want to ask you now that you've had contact with his colleagues. what are you hearing about the situation in the hospitals and clinics given the events of last few days. you started gaza medic voices to try and help give voice to some of the incredible things that so many are having to deal with right now. >> thank you for having me on this program. every day i feel like i coming on the news that i've never seen in my life and i could never even imagine witnessing in my lifetime. it's somehow gets worse, the call gets more and more desperate. i think that's true of every single humanitarian our hearts are burning. this is an avalanche of humans suffering and it's 100% man-made. >> in terms of what we're seeing on the ground. this is both in communications with the doctors without borders team and the colleagues of known over the last ten years going there teaching. all painted picture for you. >> for safety with limited access to water nowhere to sleep. they're sleeping in the corners of the hospital. the physicians have been workin