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it's the top of the hour. i'm boris sanchez with jessica dean in washington, d.c. we have new video just into cnn, and we should warn you it is graphic and disturbing. so if you need to, it may be best to turn away now. it shows dozens of casualties near a hospital in gaza. we're seeing at least a dozen bloodied bodies strewn across the ground near an ambulance. the escalating humanitarian crisis in gaza, a main focus as america's top diplomat returns to the middle east. the secretary of state antony blinken today pressing israel for a pause in the fighting with hamas as the war now ...

♪ today on "inside politics," fear of an escalating war. the united states' top diplomat is on the ground in israel as hezbollah warns it is an unprecedented battle that they are in with israel. and all scenarios are on the table and possible on the border with lebanon. plus, president biden is under pressure from his own party over israel's response to the brutal hamas attack inside israel. 13 senate democrats are now pushing for a humanitarian pause in gaza. and a cnn exclusive, republican congressman george santos is speaking out on the criminal charges he's facing and w...

good morning. i'm phil mattingly with erica hill in new york. poppy is a off today. right now secretary of state antony blinken is back in a war zone in israel. diplomatic source telling cnn he is pushing for a pause in the fighting to allow mediation as civilian deaths and suffering mount in gaza. he spoke moments ago before his meeting with israel's president. >> we stand strongly for the proposition that israel has not only the right, but the obligation to defend itself and to do everything possible to make sure that this october 7th can never happen again. how israel does this ma...

right now. an extraordinary new israeli offensive in the skies of gaza -- >> you're probably going to see a significant reenforcement of israeli ground forces did occur. >> israeli officials saying that they have encircled gaza city. >> cut the north off from the south. >> fears of a second war along israel's northern border intensifying, the leader of hezbollah is expected to break his silence. >> hezbollah fighters saying their fingers are on the trigger. >> you have secretary of state antony blinken back in israel. >> can the united states tell its ally how to fight a war? >> ho...

this is drawn is that we want, that the drafters of this want to send a message of appeasement to iran and this has been tried. it hasn't worked. the last administration bent over backwards to offer appeasement to iran. they were greatly betrayed by it. it was tried with the jcpoa, and it didn't work. the reason it didn't work is we are not dealing with people here who are acting in good faith. what we need to do is we need to send a message of firmness and not weakness, and at the end of the day when we're all done with this, there will be such a message. it needs to be a consistent...