>> reporter: tonight the israeli military publishing video of what it says is an operational tunnel inside the al shifa hospital complex. the idf has been operating around the complex for days, closing in on what they long asserted was a hub of hamas activity. >> ak-47s. we see handcuffs. >> reporter: doctors and health officials in the hamas-run enclave have denied those accusations. but this, the israeli military says -- >> and this is where they choose to hide everything. >> reporter: -- is part of the evidence they had promised as the idf continues its operation in the hospital complex that began early wednesday morning. it's not just the credibility of the idf and israel that's at stake. president joe biden says he feels absolutely confident hamas is there as the u.s. throws its weight behind israel. >> the first war crimes being committed by hamas by having their headquarters, their military hidden under a hospital. >> reporter: on thursday gaza again found itself under a total communications blackout. according to a u.n. agency, this time due to fuel shortages. many hospitals in gaza have already shut down as the medical system collapses. getting updates from inside has become more difficult by the day. israel may now be preparing to expand its ground operations. after previously telling gazans to evacuate from the north, leaflets dropped in south gaza wednesday warned people to move and head toward known shelters. >> translator: today in their leaflets they're telling us to evacuate to the south, which means that there is no safe place today. >> reporter: international calls for a break in the fighting have grown. the u.n. security council passed a resolution pushing for humanitarian pauses, and the european union urged israel to temper its military actions. >> i understand your rage. but let me ask you not to be consumed by rage. that's what the best friend of israel can tell you. >> reporter: in israel demands to the israeli government to facilitate the release of hostages held by hamas in gaza are growing. the families of the hostages continued their march toward jerusalem, stopping at the home of noa marciano, who died in gaza. her mother demanded to hear from the government where the negotiations stand. >> translator: bring noa and everyone else home now. we will not stop fighting until noa and all of the hostages and everyone will return home. now, now, now. >> reporter: and shortly before the idf released the video you saw at the beginning of the piece they released a statement that yehudit weiss, a 65-year-old grandmother who was kidnapped on october 7th, had been found killed inside gaza. but the idf did not mention a specific cause of death. the idf spokesperson says she had been murdered by hamas. her body, they say, was found near the al shifa complex along with ak-47s and rocket-propelled grenades. her husband shmuel was killed in the attack itself on october 7th. jake. >> cnn's oren liebermann, thanks so much. in california an arrest in what police call the homicide of a jewish protester earlier this month. 69-year-old paul kessler died hours after falling and hitting his head. kessler was at a protest involving both pro israeli and pro palestinian groups. kessler was involved in a sort of physical incident, a confrontation. cnn's stephanie elam is in los angeles. and stephanie, what more do we know about the person arrested and the charges? >> reporter: we have his name, to begin with, jake. a 50-year-old man. his name is loay alnaji. this is someone we've seen in images from that incident and that date. the problem is law enforcement officials are saying that they did not have any video from exactly what led up to this altercation, but they did believe that something went on between these two and they were not clear of that. so he was right there on the scene when pictures that we have seen. he's now been arrested this morning on involuntary manslaughter and his bail has been set at $1 million. law enforcement still asking the community for information on what happened. we know that whatever happened paul kessler fell backwards, hit his head, and then hours later died from those injuries. that's what we do know. we do know it was a pro-palestinian demonstration that was happening and that there were some pro-jewish -- pro-israel protesters that showed up and that's where this altercation happened early in this month. november 5th is the day that happened. as for the district attorney, they're saying they're finalizing the review of this case and that their charging issue will be declared later on, probably today. we've also learned about alnaji that he worked for the ventura county community college district. they say effective immediately he has been placed on administrative leave. so some details coming out. obviously, though, this is just horrible news, of someone dying during a protest like this. jake. >> all right. homicide investigation and arrest. stephanie elam, thanks so much. the flash points over the israel-hamas war lit up on the streets last night in d.c. as protesters calling for a ceasefire clashed with capitol police outside the democratic party's national headquarters. activists claim they were being peaceful and had been assaulted by law enforcement. capitol police are defending their actions saying the group was not peaceful. six officers were injured, with one person arrested for assaulting an officer. some of the protest organizers held a virtual news conference this morning. they argued that they only wanted to be heard. >> democratic leadership and the democratic party is not aligned and is not listening to us. and so we can't -- we went last night arm in arm to sing, to again light candles in memory of the dead, and to attempt to engage actually with democratic leadership as they were coming into the building. >> now, some of those there last night, not all but some of those there at least according to their own tweets were with the new york branch of a group called democratic socialists of america. you might remember that's the same group that on october 7th, immediately after the attacks, attempted to justify the hamas terrorist attacks as, quote, resistance. in this push from activists on the left including the hamas-supporting far left adds more pressure on president biden as he tries to navigate how he continues u.s. support for israel while trying to push netanyahu to the center for a post-war world. here is president biden last night. >> i can't tell you how long it's going to last. but i can tell you i don't think it ultimately ends until there's a two-state solution. i made it clear to the israelis, i think it's a big mistake for them to think they're going to occupy gaza and maintain gaza. >> as israel intensifies its assault on gaza and innocent palestinians are killed, these divisions at home are likely to widen and they will increasingly pose a political schaj to president biden that could last up to and through election day. he is facing outrage from the far left. and now images of their confrontations with capitol police reminiscent in some ways -- we shouldn't overemphasize it, but reminiscent of scenes from january 6th. could undermine democrats' condemnation of trump and republicans' role in interfering with the 2020 vote. that's what democrats are afraid of at any rate. turning to our tech lead, here is something many of us did not see coming. osama bin laden, the late al qaeda terrorist leader, who orchestrated the 9/11 attacks, his words are going viral on tiktok. i'm not joking. this is true. bin laden's infamous two-decade-old letter to america where he attempts to justify killing nearly 3,000 innocent people is apparently resonating with some young americans, ill-informed people on tiktok. some are going so far as to praise bin laden's words. the white house telling cnn today there is never a justification for spreading bin laden's, quote, repugnant, evil and antisemitic lies. all this amid the polarization already being caused by the israel-hamas war. cnn's donie o'sullivan is here to put this into context for us, if you can. i don't know if you can. that's a challenge for you. >> it's a lot to unpack here, jake. >> let's take a step back. why and how did this go viral? >> the why, i mean, the broader context here of course is the israel-hamas war. we know younger generations, particularly a lot of people on tiktok, are far more sympathetic toward the palestinian cause, even at some point hamas, than older generations in the united states. that's the kind of context of what is happening on tiktok. over the past few -- about the past week or so this letter purportedly written by osama bin laden and was released in 2002 started circulating online and was actually initially published by the "guardian" newspaper in the uk which i think we have a screen shot of. the "guardian" actually, because so much traffic was going to that letter from tiktok, the guardian took it down. perhaps not exactly a wise decision on the part of the "guardian." they said they took it down because there wasn't context around it, it was just the letter itself. but that of course then spurred conspiracy theories that there was a cover-up going on about this letter even though it's been published in books. what happened was then people started reading this letter, tiktok discovered it. we're not going to show the videos of some of the young people who posted this but we'll read out a little bit of what people were saying in the videos. one person who was kind of a new york-based lifestyle influencer, she said in the video if you have read it let me know. true and existential crisis in this very moment because in the last 20 minutes my entire viewpoint on my entire life i believed, the life i have lived has changed. another person saying, if we're going to call osama bin laden a terrorist, so is the american government. bizarre, crazy. i mean, a lot of these -- a lot of people sharing this stuff. obviously who weren't born -- weren't alive when 9/11 happened. that's of course not an excuse. but you can just really see there a total disconnect. and of course -- this is i think young people who are trying to push back against maybe u.s. government policy toward israel, but you can find critiques of the u.s. government online without resorting to osama bin laden and praising or sympathizing with the mastermind of the september 11th attacks. >> that's what's so weird. have they not read any chomski? there's plenty leftist critiques of american imperialism and corporatism out there without going to a terrorist. >> i think this is much -- i think this is a symptom of a much bigger issue happening in this country right now. pew research center had new survey details out yesterday showing just how many young people are getting their news from tiktok rather than anywhere else. i should say tiktok in their defense they've been pushing back. they're saying this kind of content promotion, this letter is against their rules and it says they are taking it down. they also kind of have a go at the media saying the number of videos on tiktok is small and reports of it trending on our platform are inaccurate. we mentioned, this is -- we've stated in our reporting, this is dozens of people. it's not hundreds of people or thousands of people sharing it. however, of the videos me and my team were able to find today we were able to find dozens and many of them have now either been removed or taken down and the videos we found had more than 14 million views. so not insignificant. if we're able to find them, tiktok clearly isn't doing the job they say they're doing. >> and we should note this doesn't help their argument. there are a lot of people on capitol hill say this is exactly the problem, they're controlled by the chinese government and these algorithms are meant to destroy our children's brains. >> no doubt a lot of republicans will pounce on that. >> well, democrats too. donie o'sullivan, thank you so much, appreciate it. the breaking news on our pop lead, sean diddy combs is being accused of rape and abuse in a brand new lawsuit just filed by hihis ex-girlfririend cacassie ventura.a. ststay with usus. in our pop culture lead, just in, producer and musician sean combs, also known as diddy, is facing a new federal lawsuit. his former girlfriend is alleging that he raped her and subjected her to years of physical and other kinds of abuse. let's bring in cnn's jean casarez. jean, walk us through the other allegations laid out in this lawsuit. >> these are serious. these are really, really serious. first of all, this is a civil case. it's filed in federal court in new york. the district court of the southern district of new york. and it's under the adult survivors act, which is just about to expire but allows someone that has allegations of this nature far in the past to bring this civil action for monetary damages. that is the justice at this point. but this young woman at the time, her name was caste ventura, it was 2005, she was 19 years old and she met and became the girlfriend and employee, she alleges, of sean diddy combs, of his mega record label. she was a singer herself. but she goes on to say that during this time that she was ab abused, she was a part of the cycle of violence, physical and sexual abuse, there was uncontrollable rage. some of the specifics she says, she says that she was raped in her own home when she tried to leave him, that she was often beaten, kicked, punched, stomped on, resulting in bruises and burst lips, black eyes and bleeding. that he blew up a man's car at one point when he thought that that man was interested in her. that he introduced her to a lifestyle of excessive alcohol, substance abuse and required her to produce illicit prescriptions to satisfy his own addictions. now, there are always two sides to every story. and his attorney has released a statement to cnn which reads in part, "mr. combs denies these offenses and outrageous allegations. for the past six months mr. combs has been subjected to ms. ventura's persistent demand of $30 million under the threat of writing a damaging book about their relationship, which was unequivocally rejected as blatant blackmail. baseless and outrageous lies aiming to tarnish mr. combs' reputation and simply seeking a payday." so this has just been filed. discovery will begin. but of course this is filed in new york. they are residents of california. but you've got epic records as a defendant as well as his own record company himself. bad boy records. so we'll see where this goes. >> wow. stunning. all right, jean casarez, thanks so much. now in our law and justice lead today, the man that violently beat former house speaker nancy pelosi's husband paul with a hammer was found guilty in federal court. david depape now faces decades in prison as well as a state trial where charges include attempted murder. joining us now former assistant secretary of the department of homeland security and cnn national security analyst jehl yo juliette kayyem. depape was the attacker. the question was always what was his intent. and that was a big part of what the jury had to consider today. >> right. and they didn't consider for long. in other words, they come back just a couple hours later. and the question for them was is this a federal crime or is this just an attack and assault. so the federal crime that they are looking at has the words -- was the target against a federal official in their federal official capacity. so what the defendant was trying to convince the jury to believe is he just happened to show up in nancy pelosi's house, he wants her -- and he has admitted that, he wants to target her. and paul pelosi is just sort of a bystander. no, it doesn't work that way. clearly he's a family member. he's in the home. the home is hers and his. and he was there to target her in her official capacity. and that would extend to paul pelosi. to me this was -- you know, it maybe took two hours too long. this was so obviously just an attempt for them to get out of federal charges because it has a higher sentence. >> there was pretty immediately a flurry of conspiracy theories after paul pelosi was attacked being floated by prominent right-wing politicians. and donald trump continues to make light of it. >> yeah. >> rather disgustingly. is this usual? is this typical when it comes to politically related violence like this? >> i thought this case was really interesting and something to watch out for as you and i have been talking as we head toward 2024 because we've seen nothing yet, is the extent to which we are -- depape enters this world through gamergate. gamergate is, as many people remember, a very sexist sort of organization of guys who are online gaming and they don't like women who are in the industry or who awho are glorifying rape and these things. it's called gamergate. so depape enters through gamergate. and this entry then serves as a gateway drug to something worse. and steve bannon, trump's adviser at one stage, has often said that he grabs people in the sort of -- in one world, people who will be susceptible to incitement, to this glorification of violence, and then through the internet and through bringing it to things like qanon and stuff, they then become violent. so people may start off benign and end up, you know, attacking paul pelosi. >> juliette kayyem, thank you so much. appreciate it. coming up next, speaking of violence, my reporting on some of the most damning allegations about what hamas did during the october 7th terrorist attack. and these are claims you might not have heard much about. that's next. the power goes out and we still have wifi to do our homework. and that's a good thing? great in my book! who are you? no power? no problem. introducing storm-ready wifi. now you can stay reliably connected through power outages with unlimited cellular data and up to 4 hours of battery back-up to keep you online. only from xfinity. home of the xfinity 10g network. the other day a member of congress sent me a clip from back in her home district where a muslim american leader was attacking her, accusing her of lying because she had mentioned that hamas had committed rapes against civilians on october 7th. of course it is not a lie. it is an ugly fact. though the rapes have not gotten as much attention as the murders. israeli authorities have only recently begun their investigations into these atrocities. but sadly, often the evidence has been lost along with the victims. a warning. the story we're about to show you contains graphic content, and it assuredly will be disturbing to most viewers. in the aftermath of the october 7th attacks by hamas israel's focus immediately turned to war and to identifying the bodies of those slaughtered by hamas in israel's largest mass casualty attack. but now israel is launching an investigation into allegations of rape and other forms of sexual violence on that deadly day. israeli police are starting to build rape cases, relying on eyewitness testimony, video, and forensic evidence as well as hamas interrogations. dr. kohav el kayyemlevy named chair of the civil commission on october 7th crimes by hamas against women and children points to one reason why the investigations have been so difficult. >> we'll never know everything that has happened to them. we know that most women who were raped and who were sexually assaulted were also murdered. and it will take time. even in other atrocities it takes time until the crimes against women are revealed, until survivors even share their stories. >> reporter: still, cnn found witnesses to the atrocities and their aftermath. g, a paramedic in israel's elite 669 special tactics rescue unit, went house to house in kibbutz be'eri, one of the sites of the worst massacres. he did not want to be identified on