Elise Hammond

Live Breaking News Writer, CNN Digital

Elise Hammond is a live breaking news writer for CNN Digital's Live News Team in New York, covering the latest headlines in real-time.
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Palestinians walk amidst the rubble of destroyed buildings in Gaza City on November 26, 2023, on the third day of a truce between Israel and Hamas.
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November 27, 2023 Israel-Hamas war
Nov 28, 2023
The first groups of Israelis and Palestinians have been released under a brokered agreement that brought a temporary halt to fighting in Gaza. Israel said it received a list of a second group to be freed Saturday — and it includes children, a source told CNN.
People search rubble for survivors and the bodies of victims in the aftermath of Israeli bombardment in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on November 6, 2023, amid continuing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. (Photo by Mohammed ABED / AFP) (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images)
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November 24, 2023 Israel-Hamas war
Nov 27, 2023
The first groups of Israelis and Palestinians have been released under a brokered agreement that brought a temporary halt to fighting in Gaza. Israel said it received a list of a second group to be freed Saturday — and it includes children, a source told CNN.
Smoke rises as displaced Palestinians take shelter at Al Shifa hospital, amid the ongoing conflict between Hamas and Israel, in Gaza City, November 8, 2023. REUTERS/Doaa Rouqa
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November 17, 2023 Israel-Hamas war
Nov 18, 2023
Israeli troops will advance to anywhere Hamas is found, including the southern part of the Gaza Strip, a military spokesperson said, amid growing indications that an offensive into the southern part could be imminent.
An aerial view shows the compound of Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on November 7, 2023, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. (Photo by Bashar TALEB / AFP) (Photo by BASHAR TALEB/AFP via Getty Images)
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November 16, 2023 Israel-Hamas war
Nov 17, 2023
Israel released a photo and video of an alleged “operational tunnel shaft” it claimed was found in the Al-Shifa Hospital complex in Gaza. Hamas rejected the claim as “baseless lies.”
Armed Hamas movement militants take part in a rally to denounce the killing of Palestinians by the Israeli army in West Bank and to support Palestinians in Israeli jails, in Beit Lahia in the northern of Gaza Strip, on March 10, 2023. (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED / AFP) (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images)
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November 15, 2023 Israel-Hamas war
Nov 16, 2023
Israeli forces raided Gaza’s biggest hospital in what the military said was a “precise and targeted operation.” Soldiers found “military equipment used by Hamas,” the military said in a statement but offered no evidence yet of a vast tunnel network it claimed was used by Hamas.
Smoke rises as displaced Palestinians take shelter at Al Shifa hospital, amid the ongoing conflict between Hamas and Israel, in Gaza City, November 8, 2023. REUTERS/Doaa Rouqa
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November 14, 2023 Israel-Hamas war
Nov 15, 2023
Israel says its forces are carrying out a “precise and targeted operation” at the Al-Shifa Hospital. Israel has claimed the hospital, the largest in the Gaza Strip, includes a Hamas command center, an allegation denied by hospital officials and Hamas.
A picture shows a view of the exterior of Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on November 10, 2023, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement. Heavy fighting was raging near Al-Shifa hospital, with Israel saying it had killed dozens of militants and destroyed tunnels that are key to Hamas's capacity to fight. Israel launched an offensive in Gaza after Hamas fighters poured across the heavily militarised border on October 7, killing 1,400 people, mostly civilians, and taking around 240 hostages.
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November 13, 2023 Israel-Hamas war
Nov 14, 2023
Conditions at the Al-Shifa hospital, the largest in Gaza, are “catastrophic” as essential units have collapsed, the facility’s director told CNN.
GAZA CITY, GAZA - NOVEMBER 09: Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in Tel al-Hawa neighborhood, where buildings are heavily damaged or collapsed in the southern part of Gaza City, Gaza on November 09, 2023. (Photo by Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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November 10, 2023 Israel-Hamas war
Nov 11, 2023
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken gave one of his most direct condemnations yet of the mounting death toll in Gaza, saying “far too many Palestinians have been killed.”
Palestinians flee to the southern Gaza Strip on Salah al-Din Street in Bureij, Gaza Strip, on Wednesday, November 8, 2023. ( AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
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November 9, 2023 Israel-Hamas war
Nov 10, 2023
Israel had agreed to daily four-hour pauses of military operations in areas of northern Gaza, the White House said Thursday. A senior Israeli official said the “tactical localized pauses” would give people in the north the ability to travel south for aid and relief.
(From L) Former Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie, former Governor from South Carolina and UN ambassador Nikki Haley, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, and US Senator from South Carolina Tim Scott attend the third Republican presidential primary debate at the Knight Concert Hall at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, Florida, on November 8, 2023. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
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Third 2024 Republican presidential debate
Nov 09, 2023
Republican presidential candidates faced off tonight in Miami in the third primary debate of the 2024 cycle. Follow here for the latest live news updates and analysis.
People hold Israeli flags on the day of a ceremony in memory of the victims, on the one-month anniversary of the attack by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on October 7th, in Jerusalem November 7, 2023 REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
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November 8, 2023 Israel-Hamas war
Nov 09, 2023
Thousands of Palestinians are fleeing northern Gaza as Israel continues its offensive in the war against Hamas. Follow for live news updates.
Michael and Pam Meadows, of Lancaster, walk out after casting their ballots for the November 7 Ohio elections at the Fairfield County Board of Elections office on November 2, 2023, in Lancaster, Ohio.
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The latest from elections in Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky and results
Nov 08, 2023
Voters in several states headed to the polls Tuesday to decide key races that shed light on what’s fueling the American electorate ahead of 2024. Follow here for the latest live news updates, results and analysis.
Wounded Palestinians sit in al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, central Gaza Strip, after arriving from al-Ahli hospital following an explosion there, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. The Hamas-run Health Ministry says an Israeli airstrike caused the explosion that killed hundreds at al-Ahli, but the Israeli military says it was a misfired Palestinian rocket. (AP Photo/Abed Khaled)
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November 7, 2023 Israel-Hamas war
Nov 08, 2023
More than 10,000 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel launched its military offensive following Hamas’ October 7 attack, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Ramallah said. Follow for live updates.
Palestinian labourers, who were in Israel during the Hamas October 7 attack, arrive at the Rafah border after being sent back by Israel to the strip, in the southern Gaza Strip, November 3, 2023. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
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November 6, 2023 Israel-Hamas war
Nov 07, 2023
More than 10,000 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel launched its military offensive nearly a month ago, the Hamas-controlled health ministry in the enclave said Monday. Follow for live updates.
Flares and explosions are seen in Gaza, as Nic Robertson reports from Sderot, Israel, on November 2.
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November 3, 2023 Israel-Hamas war news
Nov 04, 2023
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Israeli leaders, as Israel’s military says it is surrounding Gaza City amid an intensifying bombardment of the strip.
People enter the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip before crossing into Egypt on November 1, 2023. Scores of foreign passport holders trapped in Gaza started leaving the war-torn Palestinian territory on November 1 when the Rafah crossing to Egypt was opened up for the first time since the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, according to AFP correspondents. (Photo by Mohammed ABED / AFP) (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images)
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November 2, 2023 Israel-Hamas war news
Nov 03, 2023
Israel’s military says it is surrounding Gaza City as its bombardment of the strip continues. Follow for live news updates.

About

Elise Hammond is a live breaking news writer for CNN Digital’s Live News Team in New York, covering the latest headlines in real-time.

She is responsible for writing dynamic, fast-paced updates and analysis during breaking news events. Her coverage on a variety of historic stories is read by millions of daily CNN users, including the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the Jan. 6 insurrection and subsequent investigation and the killing of an al Qaeda leader. Hammond also dives into various political stories as well as state and federal elections. She is also passionate about covering the climate crisis and extreme weather— writing stories in a way that is digestible and impactful.

Hammond first joined CNN as a freelance writer for the Live News team in the spring of 2020, writing about the emerging Covid-19 pandemic, among other topics. She also previously worked as a multi-platform producer at WBIR-TV in Knoxville, Tennessee, where she produced a daily, hour-long newscast and several cross-platform special projects.

She later came back to New York to help build and develop CNN+ as a member of the content programming team, covering breaking news in a non-conventional way while using analytics to curate user experience. After that, she joined the Live News team full-time in 2022.

She was born and raised in Ohio and graduated from Ohio University with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. You can follow her on Twitter @elisehamm3.