Hello welcome to our viewers joining us here in the United States, and all around the world. We continue our breaking News Coverage from israel at war. This is what i am here on the east coast. Im john false. The death toll in israel continues to surge. More than 1200, mostly civilians now killed, with close to 1000 palestinians. Mostly civilians now dead in gaza according to the Palestinian Health ministry. Israeli airstrikes on gaza have been unrelenting, with more than 2000 hamas targets destroyed according to the idf. With no timeline at this point on the airstrikes will and, hamas fired another barrage of rockets and the Southern Israeli city of ashdod on tuesday, with three hamas militants also died and exchanging gunfire with israeli troops. More than 300,000 israeli reserves have now been called, up and civilians are towns and villages have been evacuated to safety. On tuesday, israels Defense Minister toured Southern Israel maintains that troops have been amassing for days, hummus will soon face a military not just in the air, but also from Ground Forces as well. Meantime the idf says rockets launched from syria fell in open areas in israels north, Tens Of Thousands of his early troops have been deployed to the northern border with lebanon. In washington, President Joe Biden confirmed at least 14 americans were killed in the weekend attack by hamas. The white house says 20 or more u. S. Citizens are unaccounted for. This is an act of sheer evil. More than 1000 civilians slaughtered, stomach turning reports of babies being killed. Entire families slayed. Young people massacred and the brutality of hamass bloodthirstiness brings to mind the worst rampages of i. S. I. S. This is terrorism. The Aircraft Carrier uss john ford has arrived in the Eastern Mediterranean after the first plane load of u. S. Military assistance has now landed in israel. In the meantimes National Security adviser Jake Sullivan says the white house is not expecting israel to complete Siege Of Gaza as the Defense Minister ordered on monday. Still, Electricity Supplies have been cut and water supplies. For now is earlier strikes are doing cnns Matthew Chance has our report from jerusalem. Across gaza, israel is unleashing its wrath. The small gaza port from the air. Israels military says more than 2000 targets in this densely populated area including Apartment Buildings and mosques have been destroyed. Recent attacks by hamas triggering a devastating response. In gaza, it is a bloody war as well. Palestinians are digging through the rubble, flattened buildings, as the death toll climbs. Health officials there say more than 900 people have so far been killed. My three sons were killed along with their wives and children. There are in this building. Israels military says it has retrieved the bodies, another 1500 palestinians israeli territory. It is now hamas down. I must operatives will have nowhere to hide in gaza, the fouls this is really military spokesperson. We will reach some anywhere handsomests. That may mean going in even harder. Already israel has deployed forces and called Up Hundreds Of Thousands of reserve troops, an apparent readiness for land attack. But not only is because one of the worlds most densely populated areas, it is also crisscrossed by a hidden possibly booby trap network of tunnels used by militants to move undetected through the area. Israels widely anticipated a Ground Assault on gaza, if it happens, will also be fraught with danger. Matthew chance, cnn, jerusalem. Live now from, london journalist is a following developments. I guess the question, now we have seen this israeli airstrike continue for a number of days, weve seen Ground Forces amassing on the border, not far from, gaza when does this turn from an air campaign to a ground fact . Clearly we do not know for sure, john. The idf is not going to give away specifics. But of course, there isnt going to be an element of surprise really if this Ground Invasion does take place, because israel is talking about it. Hamas is not only expecting, but probably going to welcome it. It will give hamas another opportunity to take more israelis captive, and to try and kill more israelis. But it is expected to happen. We did not know when. We do not know how. We do not know from what point airstrikes or anything else. For now, the attacks or retaliation from israel on hamas militants in the gaza strip in the wake of that unprecedented Surprise Attack that began in the early hours of saturday morning, for now that campaign remains in the air. Israel says it struck more than targets over the past 24 hours, and in the last couple of hours it has also told us about attacks on the port and docks in the gaza strip which were also being used by hamas militants. Of course overall you have given the Headline Figures which came out this morning, the death toll in israel more than 1200 now. And as Matthew Chance was saying in his report, hundreds of thousands of rivers is now called up 3 of the israeli population and the death toll in excess of 1200 israelis. We are now about half of all the casualties that israel suffered in the war which began almost 50 years ago to the day. Of course every day we are also seeing more and more evidence of the savagery of the brutality of this attack by hamas. Yesterday our own Nick Robertson was in just to the east of the gaza strip with idf soldiers and the idf saying women and children, toddlers, the elderly were brutally butchered in his words, in an ice this way of action. The Israeli Defense minister talking about some of the israeli victims who were killed by hamas militants were beheaded as well. So really just harrowing tales of have been. I know we had a few speaking to us about how they hid bodies in order to survive that attack on a Music Festival next together as well. John . Only, thank you. Live at this hour from london. Appreciate it. David singer is a cnn political National Security analyst as well as well as the National Security correspondent for the New York Times. As always, david, it is good to have you with us. Good to be back with you, john. So this first shipment of u. S. Supply missions arrived on more from the u. S. President. We are sending additional Military Assistance including ammunition and interceptors, to replenish the iron dome. We are going to make sure that israel does not run out of these critical assets to defend its cities and citizens. Because of the chaos in the u. S. Congress, u. S. Military assistance is coming from existing inventories. We will get that in a moment. But israels iron dome for example, is essentially a modified version of the which is also being deployed to ukraine. So you know, if israel is getting whatever it needs from the u. S. President , what does that leave for ukraine . Well, john, in some cases a lot, and in some cases there is competition. For artillery rounds, and for the u. S. Using stocks that it was keeping in israel, americas socks, not as really starts. To help the war in ukraine and as you are now hearing, we are seeing ammunition now flow in the other direction. The Iron Dome System uses a pretty bespoke kind of interceptor missile, which the largely hes released manufacture themselves, in fact the export this to others. We have seen over the weekend, that the hamas forces figured out a they knew that all the 80 or so missiles on by the israelis for the iron dome wouldnt be shot out. And then they shot more while this was reloaded. So it is a long extended conflict between israel and hamas, not like the previous encounters where it is ongoing for a few weeks, the news a ceasefire. So the Bigger Picture here is, israel will to pass aid like ukraine will need congress to pass the bill for Military Assistance. But that is on hold whether republicans and again, here is president biden. When congress returns, i will ask them to take urgent action and funded National Security requirements of our partners. This is not about party or politics. This is about the security of our world. The security of the United States of america. The New York Times is reporting fewer than half of House Republicans are publicly announce their support for former speaker Kevin Mccarthy and his supporters trying to engineer possible vote to have him reinstated. It is a mess. At this point, are republicans with the internal infighting to help israel, we will have to stand alone with ukrainians, do they need a street in the first place in theory you can do it with an acting speaker. In reality, there are going to be focused on when they get back on the speaker, and we think that one of the reasons that the israelis may have taken their eye off the ball here was that the would wrap up their own arguments about judicial reform, Prime Minister netanyahus government, keeping that coalition together and hamas may see this as an opportunity. Now here in the United States, we are seeing the question of whether or not the congress can get together and actually elect a speaker, in this case the republicans elect the speaker. Fast enough to begin to pass what will be aid for israel, and aid for ukraine. Theres every indication were hearing from the white house that they will try to tie the two of those together, to make it a harder point of this now is the situation of americans being held hostage in gaza, the exact number remains unknown. But according to the state department, there are efforts underway to try and secure their release. Listen to this. We do believe that there are partners in the region that are playing a productive role here, want to help secure the release of hostages, but in terms of details of those efforts are not going to talk about them publicly. Qatar has reportedly tried to intervene, but what are these negotiations look like . How can any country reward hamas how can any country not Everything Possible to secure the release of Innocent Men Women And Children . There are two Prisoner Swaps and so, fourth and the second is to try and new this Ground Invasion when the hostages clearly have been spread out across the gaza and it is very likely i would think that a good number of hostages could die in the process of trying to get them liberated. So my guess is that there is going to have to be a diplomatic solution attempted first. Of course right now these are human field and they are the main thing keeping israel from doing a full Ground Invasion. David, thank you for being with. Us thank you. We will take a short break. When we come back, form is Prime Minister and idf generally speaking out across the massive intelligence values over the weekend, and also laying blame. An update now on afghanistan which has been in northwest. According to the u. S. Geological survey, the quake was the 6. 3 magnitude, the epicenter located near there are indications the quake may be relatively close to the surface, raging theus of high, casualties and widespread destruction. The area was shaken over the weekend by another powerful quake, we saw 2000 dead. More information, more updates as we get them. I served us both a general and the, idf and leader assess where the Prime Minister. From his perspective, the Surprise Attack by hamas was a major failure of intelligence. He blames the current leadership of the coalition government, specifically naming israels Defense Minister head of the secret service, and current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He told cnn, more serious people should be brought in to handle the Current Crisis and boiling blood is not a good recipe for successful strategic decisions. The director of research at the group which provides will one telegenic early guidance towards governments, and businesses operating in highrisk environments. It is good to see, you thank you for being with us. Thank you for having me. So no one has been able to explain fully how Israeli Intelligence failed to see this attack coming. Those questions about more than just finding, blame finding out what went wrong, this is relevant to the here and now, especially on the eve of what could be a major ground by Israeli Forces into gaza. Yes, i think clearly there has been a failure at multiple levels, here are multiple echelons. The israelis have worldclass intelligence service, nay have may have it mapped out from but the fact they missed something of this magnitude is mindboggling. There is going to be a lot of blame shifting and fingerpointing, but as you know in particular there as they gear up for what could be a messy Ground Incursion, and tunnels that hamas is likely to use that used to their advantage. And according to some israeli reporting, as part of hamass preparation, the Terror Organization to train for the assault which went house to house in border towns on saturday killing residents. Hamas had no real interest in conflict and it was that the essence of the route here . Clearly they underestimate hamas. I think they were so focused on domestic political turmoil, and Benjamin Netanyahu personal coming on tv, talking about how this would impact negatively impact readiness and intelligence. I dont think anyone could have ever imagined to this extent. This is something of hamas was training in plain, site youve been asked is really shifted attention and focus to the west bank, it just remains inexplicable to me that and hack of this magnitude could take place without unintelligent Services Like israel having even the slightest whiff that any of this was going on yes there is one constant sound when you visit gaza, especially late at night, and that is the sound of his early drones overhead amid ongoing Realtime Information in realtime surveillance to Israeli Intelligence, which literally as you, say has meant that every square inch of gaza into a notsohave Human Intelligence saying nothing happens of what is going on. So its just a case they got all the information to these hamas planners and jihads go so deep underground, once so low tech that they managed to pull this off without the israelis having much of an idea of the extent of the operation . That is one possible explanation. Instead of growing support in attempting to compete with the israeli or cracking and corruption in this, case they want the ditched phones, they ditched electronics, and reverted to oldschool methods like face to face meetings, and the like. Even still, it would be hard to believe that through all the Human Sources the israelis had, and still have, that they didnt find out something was up. So there is all sorts of hypotheses about why, double e. Jeans haply, who dropped the ball, i think again this is something we will be bluetooth for quite some time the question now is, moving forward, not only did the israelis miss when the United States mace, and it my my terms first two and hezbollah, but also some of the proxies that what is a phase two of his conflict, what else does hamas and its allies have in store, and agencies, Policy Makers around the, world the some real tectonic shifts, and it will come on israels favor. What happens in israel often does not stay in israel. As, always thank, you good to see you. Thank you. Still to come on cnn, one of the biggest in israeli history. Now running herschmann into gaza. More details on the response to the deadliest attack on israeli soil in 50 years. The power goes out and we still have wifi to do our homework. And thats a good thing . Great in my book who are you . No power . No problem. Introducing stormready wifi. Now you can stay reliably connected through Power Outages with unlimited cellular data and up to 4 hours of battery backup to keep you online. Only from xfinity. Home of the xfinity 10g network. Coming up to 28 minutes past the hour, im john, plus you are watching cnn newsroom. And Southern Israel, idf troops are moving door to door in towns to try and secure the area, and theyre finding hundreds of, bodies mostly civilians murdered by, hamas and also hamas fighters who have been laying low, as well as booby traps like renees left in a playground. This is where idf troops having gauged amongst militants on tuesday, Officials Say this operation is moving Problem Defensive to offensive. Israels Defense Minister visited on the gaza border employed a Ground Incursion into gaza will be the next stage. We started the offensive from here, later on we will also come from the ground. We can control the area since day two, and we are on the offensive. It will only intensify. Israel has called up more than 300,000 reservists and just 40 hours, while the last mobilization ever in israeli history. With all indications around incursion could be imminent. Cnn s from Southern Israel not far from the gaza border. Three days after hunches of hamas militants infiltrated israel, Israeli Forces are still fighting to eliminate the threat. We are here right outside the israeli town of we have been hearing repeated exchanges of gunfire over the last ten minutes or so. These exchanges, we have not seen exactly who they are between, but we do know Israeli Forces have been continuing to try and clear some of these israeli towns around the gaza strip from those hamas militants. The idf later confirming they killed two hamas terrorist in the battle, minutes after, landed Israeli Defense forces were casualty into an ambulance. But the soundtrack to life in most israeli communities around the gaza strip today was not gunfire, but rockets. The booms punctuating he is stillness of the day. Coming into a shelter here where we can take cover from this iron dome interceptions, of course theyre intercepting active rockets coming in from gaza. The booms are loud. They are directly overhead. 20 minutes later, another barrage of rockets headed for the city of we are in the city of where we can now see that brush that hamas promised at five pm, appearing to head over in the direction of now that is exactly where hamas officials said about an hour ago that they would fire rockets in that direction. But there is also another sound in hounds like israeli troops and reservists mobilizing into the gaza front. Part of a massive call of 300,000 reserve troops. Preparations for a potential Ground Invasion of gaza. For some, this moment feels different than we came in with a concept of full control. It started with and the Playing Field is different. Certainly, but i think in the last two days, the momentum has shifted the entire country is springing into action, with those out of uniform bringing food and supplies to troops. After days of tragedy, also a sense of resilience im not afraid of all, when it will be my, time it will be my time. Jeremy dined, cnn the slaughter has extended far beyond israel, for nationals release a dozen countries among the dead or missing. Many who are exposures living in with former identification of the date ongoing, a number of experts and foreign nationals killed by hamas could rise. Governments around the world are no other stunning fights to bring the citizens, home or making other arrangements to evacuate their citizens who would like to leave. Many commercial airlines are curtailing or canceling flights from tel aviv. Some nations are scrambling military aircraft, arranging Special Air Flight with a curious for those evacuations. Latin america nationals are also among the dead and onslaught on israel. Cnns Patrick Oppmann has details. Multiple people from Latin America are confirmed to have been, killed or believed to be missing following hamass attack on israel according to governments from across this region. The Largest Group comes from argentina. At least seven argentines were killed according to the argentine government. Another 15 are believed to be missing. Two peruvians were killed according to their government, and then one brazilian man was killed when his girlfriend said in an interview with cnn brazil, they were at the Music Festival when hamas Terrorist Attack that festival. They sought refuge in a nearby bunker, but than assailants through Smoke Grenades into that bunker they were separated according to this woman also a citizen her boyfriend was killed. Government storm across the region including mexico, brazil, and colombia have sent or will be sending planes to evacuate their citizens. Hundreds of Latin Americans who are now awaiting evacuation from israel to be brought back home into safety. Patrick oppmann, cnn, havana. Will families of the hostages taken by hamas being held somewhere in gaza are now holding out hope their loved ones will come safely. And the Rescue Operation comes with extreme risk. More now from cnns brian todd, and i, warning some of the images you are about to see are disturbing. This is 25yearold screaming do not kill me as she is taken away on a motorcycle. Her father describes seeing the video for the first time. It was no, frightened, and threatened. You do not want to believe it. Even though you can clearly see it is your daughter. This is 12yearold being shoved around two taken away by militants who attacked he is one of five members of the family who are missing. They say hamas taking, him grabbing him, it was so hard to watch it. I have to protect my brother my whole life. It was so hard. Told cnn this video is of her cousin, and her cousins two babies, nine months, old and three years old being kidnapped. Speaking to cnns anderson cooper, she broke down. I want my family back. I want my family back. I try to be strong, stoic, and speak clearly, but i am devastated. The parents of 23 year old saint witnesses told them their son as a hero. Throwing grenades back out of a bomb shelter. From the elbow down, was severed, was blown off. They say managed to walk out of the, shelter but was then taken away. Is looking for his wife and young daughters after seeing them in this video, a scarf placed on his wife said as they are taken away on a cart. He describes the last moment she told me the terrorists of hamas the conversation was disconnected. Ricardo says she found out her daughter had been abducted, also on social media. The video shows her daughter unconscious in the back of a Pick Up Truck Being paraded around by armed militants. It looks very bad, modesto have hope. I hope that they did not take for negotiations. I hope she is still alive somewhere. Hamas is now threatening to execute civilian hostages, and broadcast those executions if israel targets people in gaza without warning. Israeli Rescue Operations could be dangerous. The Hostage Takers could kill the, hostage there could be an accident in which the rescuers killer hostage. So typically, a very dangerous moment for hostage is the government of qatar has been in talks with hamas about the hostages, according to a senior u. S. Official, and a person familiar with the discussions we spoke to cnn. They say the u. S. Has been coordinating with the qataris on this. Unless peter bergen believes the qataris can be effective as a mediator, pointing out the recently played a key role in the release of several americans being held in iran. Ian todd, cnn, washington. When we come back on cnn, desperation in gaza. Many palestinians struck by airstrikes and intensified blockade, leaving them nowhere to go. 41 minutes past the hour, welcome back. With the Israeli Defense minister ordering a total Siege Of Gaza, nothing going in and coming out. The u. S. Is now negotiating with israel to allow safe passage for civilians to leave. This is something also that we have been discussing with our counterparts in israel, and with our counterparts in egypt. And without getting into the specifics of safe passage for civilians, i will say it is something to u. S. Government supporting how we undo it operationally. Large crowds out gathered at the border with egypt that Crossing Point Hit by an israeli airstrike tuesday. Along with at least 900, dead more than 4000 are wounded in cause according to the Palestinian Health ministry. Cnns Salma Abdelaziz is following the very latest developments out of, gossip but, first a warning, her report contains graphic images. Parts of gaza turned into ruins as israel continues to pound the coastal stretch. My whole building, it is all gone, the man behind this camera says. With countless civilians caught in the crosshairs, and undersea. Israel says it is targeting terror sites where talks emanated from as it vows to obliterate hamass military capabilities no matter the cost. But that cost inside distantly populated enclave will be steep, a place all too familiar with suffering bracing for even more. This mother among the Tens Of Thousands in gaza forced to flee their homes. Why is this our fault . What did my children do . There is no electricity, internet, food, or water. Why she says . Now im on the, street tell me where should i go. And why are only the first days of what are the military operation, hundreds already dead here. This war overwhelmed with bodies. Among the killed, two dozen journalists, struck down while doing their jobs, palestinian Officials Say. From this graphic, video friends cry over the body of still wearing his press flap jacket. On the other side of the wall, the horrors amassed are becoming clear. More than 100 bodies were retrieved from the small Israeli Community of days after the assault. Then we thought everything we saw, everything, it came yesterday when we went into and we saw the what was done to the families. Most of these neighborhoods now ghost towns, as hamas rockets continue to rain down, soldiers going door to door to find militants about that, and alive. It is not over yet. We do not know the area, the last engagement with anomie or terrorist here was in the military, i never Saw Something it is a terror attack. And gaza has yet to bear israels full firepower. Prime minister netanyahu has found a response unlike anything ever seen before. For now, it is a waiting game, a matter of when, not if. Some abdelaziz, cnn, london. With us with us now is the spokesman for the thank you for being with us. Thank you for having me. Whats the latest you have an exchange of gunfire between hamas gunfighters and israeli soldiers, one occasion near kibbutz a, another near an Industrial Area near the israeli city of ashkelon, also in the south of gaza, what do you know about that . The situation is that there is still active fighting in Southern Israel. Hamas terrorists have been attempting and succeeded in a few instances to get into israel and attack, trying to attack Israeli Forces and civilians. The difference between saturday morning and now is that now, all of Southern Israel is saturated with lots of security forces. And these hamas attempts have been met with a ready response. The terrorists have been killed, and were able to slowly restore order. However, we address Southern Israel as an active combat area, where we still proceed with caution until we are 100 sure that indeed all of the terrorists are in fact either dead or taken into custody. Just to confirm, these are hamas militants who have crossed over from gaza into israel recently, as opposed to say, militants who have been laying low, out of sight, since the weekend attack . Yeah, and its likely that the attack, and this is likely i caution my words here, its still unconfirmed, but its likely that the attack and ashkelon was related to a terrorist that cross the border in the air using a glider or a buckeye, basically a parachute with an engine behind. And thats how they were able to get in. And its likely that the terrorists that were apprehended or killed near kibbutz were a group of terrorists that head laid low and waited for an opportunity, or rather, felt that time is running out and tried to launch an attack. That is probably the situation, even though the details are still to be investigated and confirmed. Thank you for that update. There have also been Cross Border Attacks continuing in the north. Is there any indication that these attacks, for example, are from hezbollah, another iranian backed terrorist group, are they opportunistic or are they coordinated to go together with moss . Do we know that at this point . Yes, well, the situation is that were actually fighting on three fronts. The gazan front being the primary one. But a very significant front that could become extremely dangerous is the lebanese front. And hezbollahs position there. We have had a few attacks, and attempted attacks, anti tank missiles and Infiltration Attempt that was successfully thwarted. An exchange of rocket fire. Currently, the situation there is tense. But with no fighting. And we are deployed along that border with additional troops, lots of infantry, artillery, special forces, intel, and air force capabilities are organized in that area. And we are preparing ourselves and also sending a strong message of us being prepared to the enemies on the other side, what you very correctly pointed out, our yet a now theyre. And the biggest iranian proxy that we have at our doorstep. The third, an active area of fighting, is the golan heights. During the, Night Rockets were fired from syria at israel. Luckily, no injuries were sustained. We do not know who fired the rockets. It could be seen armed forces. It could be any of the different iranian proxies that are present in syria and welcome by the cnn rasheem, could be hezbollah units that are also stationed in syria. We retaliated fire, and we are currently monitoring the situation. So all in all, three open fronts, and quite a tense situation, with us focusing mostly on whats going on in the south. And of course, the living significant blows to hamas via the air. So with regards the air strikes on targets within gaza, is there a timeline on how much longer these airstrikes and Artillery Fire will continue. Some reports have already, what, 2000 lost artist been hit inside gaza. Is there an idea of how many more there are to go . There are many more to go, because the gaza strip is full of hamas infrastructure. And it is our intention to strike all of that infrastructure. Please remember that the aim of our operations is to achieve a situation where we have been able to take away from hamas all of a. At the end of this war, we wish to see a situation where hamas will not be able to threaten or kill a single israeli. Just very quickly, there are reports from gaza from the palestinians in particular that these rallies are dropping White Phosphorus on their areas, which is illegal under International Law. What is response to that . I am not aware of any such use phosphorus. And i can assure you that we are committed to the International Law of conflict. That is how we act and that is how we will continue to act, despite the atrocities we are facing. Colonel, thank you for your time sir, appreciate it. Thank you. Well, the brutality and savagery of the mass attacks on civilians left so many around the world shocked and appalled. When we come back, the International Show of support for israel. 54 minutes past the hour. This was the scene just moments ago in gaza city. It looks to be a very large explosion, possibly an airstrike there, with plumes of smoke. Now coming out from that very built up area of gaza city, an area where there are a number of high rise building, as well as transmission towers, just precisely other point this was hit, we do not know, but this is a powerful blast, are the ongoing israel era salt on kansas city as they target hamas, that infrastructure within the gaza strip. There is no timeline on how long that air campaign will go on for. We do know that close to 1000 Palestinian Civilians have been killed. European officials are warning x, the company formally known as twitter, against boosting if misinformation and illegal content about issues were on a mosque. A Top European Commission sent a letter to xs own elon musk, saying the platform appears to be dangerously close to breaking eu law regarding Content Moderation. Since musk bought twitter and laid off much of its Content Moderation and policy team and lower the standards of verifying accounts. So if x its found to have violet europes Digital Services act, musk could face billions of dollars in fines, partly his company x will. If you would like information on how to help the monetary efforts in both israel and gaza, please go to cnn. Com slash impact, and there youll find a list of organizations vetted by cnn responding to this crisis. Thank you for watching the past two hours with me, john vause. Cnn newsroom continues with my good friend Rosemary Church after a very short break. See you back again tomorrow