Yeah. The president making clear that United States would stop at nothing to gethose hostages back. Thats right. The lead with jake tapper starting right now. This is cnn Breaking News. Welcome to the lead. Were following two major breaking stories, first on capitol hill, where House Republicans are meeting behind closed doors, right now tallying the results of a Secret Ballot where they are trying to decide who their next speaker nominee will be. Our teams are stationed across capitol hill and assuming House Republicans are finally able to nominate a speaker after ten days without one, in the midst of two wars and a pending Government Shutdown we will bring you the results. That is an assumption. Not sure if thats going to happen but well bring you the results. Our other story, Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu vowing this afternoon this is only the beginning of israels fight to destroy hamas. This time one week ago, one week ago today, right this moment, it was just after 11 00 p. M. In gaza and roughly 1,000 members of hamas, which is the ruling government of gaza, were preparing to invade israel to attack. They were going to infiltrate israel by land, by sea and air, by paraglider to kill israeli soldiers, israeli babies, israeli women and men in their beds, israeli young people at a music festival, hundreds and hundreds in totally. The deadliest day for the jewish people since the holocaust. Now nearly seven days later, that attack has resulted in hundreds more innocent dead killed in israeli retaliatory strikes in gaza, strikes the Israeli Defense forces claim are against hamas targets. They say this is based on Israeli Intelligence, though, of course, postoctober 7th hamas Terrorist Attacks, the quality of Israeli Intelligence inside gaza is a legitimate question as an Idf Spokesman admitted the other day. While currently no Western Leader challenges israels right to defended itself, few can answer the question as to what exactly the plan is. As all signs point to israel ramping up an assault on gaza to destroy hamas, including what appears to be a pending Ground Invasion and if and when hamas is destroyed, few can answer what then . Israels military dropped leaflets from the sky warning the 1. 1 million Civilians Lirng in Northern Gaza to evacuate the area. Thats nearly half the population of the entire gaza strip. Hamas, which embeds itself within the palestinian population there, is telling the population to not go anywhere. The United Nations says evacuations on that scale, 1. 1 million, would be impossible to carry out, quote, without devastating humanitarian consequences and there are already questions, of course, about whether israel having cut off food, water, fuel, and other supplies to the entirety of gaza, constitutes a violation of international law. Israels done that, they say, until the hostages that hamas took are returned. U. S. Defense secretary lloyd austin visited israel today where he was on hand to see a u. S. Cargo plane delivering more u. S. Weapons and munitions to support the Israeli Military. Secretary austin also spoke to cnn exclusively. This was his answer when asked about assurances from the Israeli Military about avoiding palestinian civilian casualties. This is a professional force thats well led. Im sure theyll do the right thing. The Palestinian HealthMinistry Says more than 1900 palestinians have been killed since last saturday. More than half of which the authority says have been women and children. Israeli authorities put the total israelis killed at more than 1300. Lets bring in Clarissa Ward who is in israel north of the gaza border. The Israeli Military is warning more than 1 million civilians in Northern Gaza to evacuate, to go south. The u. N. Says its impossible for that to happen without major humanitarian consequences. Thats right. Weve been talking to people in Northern Gaza, Chaotic Scenes there, as people desperately trying to move. No clear idea where they can go because simply put, jake, they cant get out. The efforts that have been ongoing to build some kind of a humanitarian corridor have so far been fruitless. So you see the scenes of people putting their lives into their cars or on their backs, walking with no sense of where they will end up, of where is safe. Meanwhile, that death toll continuing to climb according to the Palestinian Health ministry, more than 500 children in gaza among the dead. The u. N. Palestinian Refugee Agency called this Evacuation Order from the Israeli Military, quote, horrendous and said that gaza is becoming, quote, a hell hole. We actually spoke with a 22yearold dentistry student, yara, she is from that area in Northern Gaza that has been directed to evacuate. She told us that they havent left their home yet because theyre afraid they might never be able to come back and they dont know where to go. Take a listen. Im actually terrified. Im trying not to show it, but its all the situation around us, its like theyre saying that you can die at any moment. You dont know. I dont know if im going to live through the next minute. Yeah. Its really terrifying. I hear the voices of Young Children in your house and how do you protect them from this . Yes. It is its terrifying of that, of just imagining if anything were to happen to them, and when any bombing happen, i could see the look on the 4yearold. He would look terrified. Its really heartbreaking. Have you lost any friends or family throughout the strikes of the last seven days . Yes. Theres friends. She got out from her house to her cousins house. When she was there, the area were targeted. And the house got bombed. Shes gone. What was she like . She really loved to joke a lot, laugh with us a lot, even though in school, you know, even though in school we had tough times, she just always she just always knows how to make us laugh. Im sorry. Dont be sorry. Dont be sorry. We just want peace. Thats it. And jake, the name of yaras friend is asma. She was killed according to yara at 3 00 this morning in khan yunis. Want to under score from the people we are talking to today inside gaza, so many of them share that same feeling that you heard yara express. They just want peace. We did ask yara about her response to the atrocities carried out by hamas and she believes and prays all civilians should be off limits, all civilians should be safe. Jake . Clarissa ward, thank you so much. While we have generally been focused this week on the victims of the brutal hamas Terrorist Attack on israel, the deadliest day for the jewish people since the holocaust, our team has been in touch with many in gaza where as you can see from clarissas piece the situation is dire. One man we asked to join us told he was trying to evacuate gaza but didnt know where he would be by the end of the day. He told our producers youre lucky if im still alive the next time you reach out to me. Another man told us he had only 30 minutes left of battery on his phone and could not charge it without power in gaza. He told us the you are Israeli Military destroyed his home. Hes sleeping on the ground. There is no food, no water. We have been in touch all week with hanin. The palestinian American Woman from new jersey who had been on the show on tuesday, stuck in gaza city with her three children. At one point we lost all communication with her, but this afternoon we did get this voice memo saying she had managed to make it close to gazas Southern Border with egypt. Take a listen. People left their homes, everything. They left everything. I hope that everybody could make it out of here because its not safe at all. People are still waiting for egypt and israel to open the Southern Border. The problem appears to be at this hour egypt refusing to open that border. Cnns nada bashir has a wider look at the situation in gaza and want to warn you many images are disturbing. Reporter as dawn breaks in gaza now under bombardment from israel for seven days a warning from the skies, pamphlets telling all civilians in Northern Gaza to evacuate southwards. Were seeing our children killed right in front of us. Theyre starving us of food and water. We have no electricity, nothing. This isnt a life. Now they tell us we have to leave, but we dont know where we will end up. Hamas leaders have called on civilians to remain steadfast, and stay put. Accusing israel of engaging in psychological warfare. But families desperate for some semblance of security gather their belongings. And while they are unsure of what awaits them in the south, one thing is clear, there is no guarantee of safety wherever you are in gaza. It happened to our grandfathers, and now it is happening to us. We are being forced out. Gaza is being destroyed. Nothing is left. It is a catastrophe. More than 2 Million People live in a tiny besieged gaza strip. Still under a blockade enforced by israel in 2007, more than half of those are now being told to move. The Norwegian Refugee Council characterized the Evacuation Order which holds no guarantee of safe return as an act of forcible transfer. In other words, a war crime. Meanwhile, the u. N. s Refugee Agency for palestine says the scale and speed of the unfolding humanitarian crisis is bone chilling. On the move are more than 1. 4 Million People in gaza. These are ordinary palestinians, who live in the gaza strip, with their families, including pregnant women, children, children with disabilities. Reporter an ongoing siege means access to food and safe water is quickly running out. The u. N. World Health Organization warned that hospitals here have only a few hours of electricity each day, pushing gazas already crumbling Healthcare Infrastructure to the brink of collapse. At the hospital, the bodies of those killed in the air strike lay shrouded outside. There is, doctors say, simply not enough space in the morgue. They were all innocent civilians. Women, children, the air strikes came suddenly and destroyed all our homes, with children still inside, and now we dont even know where we can bury our dead. Enough, please, enough. In less than one week, israel has dropped more than 6,000 bombs on gaza. The equivalent to the total number of air strikes carried out, during the 2014 israelgaza war which lasted 50 days. And while there continues to be widespread condemnation of the collective punishment the people of gaza are being subjected to there is every indication that this war will only intensify. And many here feel that the world has abandoned them. Nada bashir, cnn. And our thanks to nada bashir for that report. Our focus is not only in the middle east but washington, d. C. Moments ago House Republicans chose their next nominee for house speaker. Manu raju is on capitol hill for us. Manu, what are the results . Yeah. Jim jordan just won his partys nomination to be speaker of the house. He won a majority of House Republicans, but he is far short of the vote that he would ultimately need on the house floor to be elected speaker of the house. That number he just won 124 votes from republicans supporting him to become speaker. He needed to clear a majority of votes. We believe there are 209 members. Congressman, was the 124 to 81 . I think that was the first count. That was congressman higings. Were trying to get information. This is behind closed doors, Secret Ballot election. We understand from multiple sources is jordan got 124 votes. We believe hes gotten more than 80 in opposition to him. We were told 81 from several sources and want to make sure before we report that. Congressman higgins seems to believe that was the number, 124 to 81. Once we get the final number we will report it. The larger issue here is that jim jordan indicated for some time he needed to get 217 votes behind closed toors before going to the full house. He did not want to go through a messy floor fight the way we saw Speaker Mccarthy do. 15 ballots, ultimately getting the vote to become speaker. Jordan wanted to hammer this out behind closed doors. It is clear he did not here. What is the question . This is how it could potentially play out. He was up against austin scott of georgia. The question will be what will austin scott do . Does he decide to step aside and do austin scott supporters go and support jim jordans candy dasy in . Does that increase his totally or does another Candidate Step in if jordan decides to step aside. All Big Questions at the moment. Still uncertainty about what congressman jordan congressman, was the vote 12481 . Something like that. As you can tell, people have different recollections of what happened. The congressman said 124 to 81, Something Like that was the vote. Well try to get a better sense of what the next steps are when we talk to more members as they come out here. At the moment, jim jordan, winning the republican nomination to be speaker after this week of a tumultuous moment in the house, completely paralyzed unable to do anything until they elect a speaker. Can they elect one now, still a question, despite jordans win. My conversations with House Republicans that are reluctant to support jim jordan for speaker have centered on two issues. One of them, obviously, is the Ohio State University scandal involving the former doctor who has since died by suicide, i believe, who would molest the players and jim jordan was the Assistant Wrestling Coach and claimed to not know anything, and there have been players this week, who said they didnt believe that. Thats one of the issues. The question about whether or not jim jordan would be a good representative for the party given that scandal and questions about that. And the other one, former congresswoman and House Republican conference chair liz cheney tweeted early today and said jim jordan was involved in trumps conspiracy to steal the election and seize power. He urged that pence refused to count lawful electoral votes. If republicans nominate jordan speaker they will be abandoning the constitution, lose the House Majority and deserve to. There are a number of republicans from districts that President Biden won that probably are fearful of being tagged with jim jordan as the speaker. He could be radioactive to them, i would think. Whats your impression of why there are dozens of republicans reluctant to support him . One reason, uncertainty about whether jim jordan can help them keep the republican majority. There are members from Swing Districts supporting him, so well see ultimately how some of those members who ended Speaker Mccarthys speakership and do not want to reward what they consider bad behavior. He rewarding the members that tanked the sitting speak and getting behind the person they are backing. A lot of members on the far right are backing jim jordan. That is where his strength is. The question, too, jake, if jordan decides to go to the floor without having 2917 votes, does he dare those more moderate members to vote against him on the floor . Kind of a reverse of what we saw in january when the conservative members voted against mccarthy, time and time again, until mccarthy ultimately won that fight. Will jordan do that with the moderate and will they stand up . Those are huge questions at this moment, but really, the biggest one, is what swrrds will do despite winning the nomination well short of the 217 votes how does he press ahead . Keep us posted. Coming up what sources tell cnn about activity picked up by u. S. Intelligence days before the hamas Terrorist Attacks last saturday. Stay with us. Were back with the sources that tell cnn u. S. Intelligence signaled the potential clash between hamas and israel in the days before that Terrorist Attack by hamas. Cnn helped break the reporting and what did the intelligence show . There were a series of Intelligence Reports that had varying degrees of different warnings, two of them were american, one was israeli in the days before this horrific attack. Starting on September 28th There was a u. S. Intelligence report that said that there was a likelihood, a possibility of crossborder attacks that would include rocket fire. October 5th there was a cia wire that went out that spoke generally about the possibility of gaza violence and then one day before the horrific attacks on saturday, u. S. Officials disseminated annual isr an israeli report that indicated there was unusual activity among hamas members and now we know what happened on october 7th. None of these warnings pointed specifically tactically to this, the scope of the attack that happened and brutality. Theres a good chance, jake, even hamas was surprised by what it was able to pull off. What weve heard from israeli and american sources these warnings might not have been taken as serious as they should have been because there was a complacency in israel, an assumption, were something to happen, that it would look like a flareup weve seen before, rockets would be fired into israel, they would be intercepted by the iron dome, it would last for a couple days and die away. But the culmination of these sucks sessive reports combined with warnings from other middle eastern ally, there was a buildup of weaponry, a Fury Building among the palestinian population that begs the question of whether or not israel and the u. S. Really should have expected something bigger to happen and we are hearing from american officials and people people with the intelligence that onus was on israel, thats their backyard. They have the collection on gaza and that there might have been a better sense from the Israeli Intelligence passed on to u. S. Intelligence this could have happened. Its flight their charter to destroy israel. Its not a surprise. No. But the fact that they were able to fly over the wall and break through the wall, that certainly was a surprise to israel. Yeah. Thanks so much. Im going to ask a top israeli official about our new reporting on the u. S. Reporting. Thats next. Nice footwork. Man, youre lucky, watching live sports never used to be this easy. Now you can stream all your games like its nothing. Yes [ cheers ] yeah woho running up and down that field looks tough. Its a pitch. Get way more into what youre into when you stream on the xfinity 10g network. 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. Were back with more on the war in the middle east and the new cnn reporting that sources say that u. S. Intelligence signaled vaguely a Potential Attack or unusual behavior from hamas regarding israel in the days before the Terrorist Attack by hamas a week ago tomorrow. I want to turn now to the israeli ambassador to the United Nations gilad ardam. What do you make of this new reporting from cnn that u. S. Had some warnings of potential violence from gaza towards israel, but israel failed to understand what hamas had in store . This comes on top of some reporting and from the Netanyahu Government that egypt passed on some warnings as well . First, thank you for having me. Obviously, we everyone understand that we were surprised, and we have many things to investigate, but we can wait and everything will be postponed for the time after the war because now our main goal is to obliterate hamas Terror Capabilities. Were not looking to blame anyone or blame one another. Its very important for us now to be united. Thats why we established a unity government two days ago, so yeah, we were surprised, but this is not the time now to investigate it. So theres some reporting out there that suggests that President Biden and the Biden Administration are urging israel to hold off on any ground incursion until there has been a humanitarian a corridor established so the innocent palestinians in gaza can escape and the United Nations, as you know, is saying that israel is warning to the 1. 1 million citizens in Northern Gaza to evacuate, is going to be impossible to do in any short term because its too many people in the immediate theater to get out in any near period of time . Well, i dont know of any pressure coming from the Biden Administration to hold our operation. We said that we will use every mean at our disposal to eradicate hamas Terrorist Probabilities and we meant it. The Prime Minister gave an early a few days ago already, and sadly, its very sad, because im i really feel sorry for the suffering of the people of gaza, but we should all remember, they elected hamas 18 years ago. Hamas is the only one responsible for everything that is happening there. Hamas embedded its Terrorist Infrastructure within the civilian population under public facilities and theres no other way to eradicate hamas Terrorist Capabilities and ensure these atrocities will not happen again without eliminating it and without temporarily evacuating the population. But i think we should all remember another thing, jake, evacuation temporarily is reversible, but the loss of life is not and right now, we cherish life. What were doing is making sure that no more people will lose their lives in the future. So you just said something about the people of palestine or gaza rather electing hamas in 2007 and it is true they elected hamas in 2007, which is 18 years ago, and hamas has not allowed an election since then. Hamas is a terrorist organization. They rule with guns. They rule with terror. President herzog said this week it is, quote, an entire nation out there thats responsible. Its not true this rhetoric about civilians not aware and not involved. They could have risen up and fought against the evil regime which took over gaza murdering their Family Members in fattah. You basically just insinuated something similar. And i guess my question is, if hamas is a terrorist group, which it is, but if it is, then how can you hold all 2. 3 million palestinians in gaza responsible for what hamas did . Dont you think that they rule by killing people who he oppose them . How seriously can you hold we do not how seriously can you expect the palestinian people, half who are kids, how seriously can you expect them to rise up if they are brutal murderers, which they are . We do not expect them to rebel. We cannot decide for them how to live their life, but we are fighting for our life. We just lost 1300 israelis who were slaughtered and butchered and massacred and like any other normal country we have to ensure that such atrocities will not happen again. I really feel sorry for many people in gaza, like i am sure that in germany, nazi germany, there were germans who were not involved, its not about retaliation, its not about revenge. We dont want to punish them. We just need to obliterate hamas Terror Capabilities and sadly, theres no other way to do it. We will try again to protect the civilians and try to mitigate the loss of life. Thats why we ask for the evacuation of the civilian population. Were not going to harm anyone who is who is not involved in terror activities. But sadly, that is the situation in gaza. Its a threat against our future. Right now some people will tell you its an existential threat because their longterm goal is to attack us from different, multiple fronts, as we start to see on our northern border coming from hezbollah. Right. Thats our thats the only way to survive for the state of israel and i think that the civilized world should understand that we are fighting not only for israel, we are fighting against a jihadist genocidal terrorist organization like isis and exactly like the nazis. So lastly, sir, theres been talk of trying to open the rafah gate in the south and that can only be done jointly with israel and egypt. My understanding is the hold up is egypt, egypt is refusing to open it. That is, obviously, key to letting the i think there are Something Like 500 americans stuck in gaza, but in addition, obviously, Hundreds Of Thousands of innocent palestinian children, women. When can that be opened so a humanitarian corridor can be opened so people can get out before this invasion . We i understand. We are Holding Close talks with the u. N. , with its agencies and also with the egyptians, and i hope that the rafah Border Crossing will be open very soon. I hope so. Thank you so much for your time. Appreciate it. Thank you for having me. As an israeli Ground Invasion appears imminent, how complicated the assault could be. Thats next. Welcome back. Were here with mark kimmitt, former secretary of state for Political Military Affairs and former Deputy Assistant secretary of defense for Middle East Policy in the george wr. Bush administration. 1. 1 million live in gaza which israel said they need to evacuate further south immediately. How realistic is that . In the time theyve been talking about doing this in one or two days, almost impossible. The u. N. Is right about that. That massive humanitarian crisis that would create, i dont think its going to happen at all. Lets talk about the workable plan, if israel has one, for any sort of Ground Invasion. Its worth making some sort of historical comparison to see what israel might be entering into if they go into gaza. Yeah. I think the best comparison for an american is fallujah. Take a look at the size of this city and the fact that it took us three weeks just on the north side of the river to clear this area in the iraq war for the kids out there that dont remember. Exactly. That took three weeks, a couple hundred american casualties killed, a thousand wounded. Its important to understand that gaza city is nine times the size of fallujah. Its going to take months. The casualties more than likely enormous. How would you say, if i can ask, that the iraqi forces that u. S. Were fighting compare to hamas . First of all, we were fighting primarily what we call former militants, former sudan regime. They were fighting pretty much like soldiers do. The civilians were generally protected and werent used as human shields. It was more conventional war. Hamas shows no does not adhere to any rules at all. It is slaughter and brutality. Secretary austin, the defense secretary, is in israel today. Hes been meeting with Israeli Military leaders. Do you think uaustin is telling them to slow it down until theres a viable plan for what they do in gaza and then what they do, assuming they are able to defeat hamas, what they do after . I i yeah. The concern i have, when i heard general austin talk, he said we must show resolve. He never used the word restraint. I think that that would have been the opportunity to use that word in front of the world to indicate that the United States was talking about restraint. I dont think i think all as long as they adhere to the laws of land combat and the geneva convention, i think all of it is opening game. All right. General kimmitt, thank you so much. Lets get an update on our Breaking News where republicans who are trying to elect a new house speaker, are really having quite a difficult time. Just tallied the votes of a second Secret Ballot. Cnns manu raju is on capitol hill. Manu, what are the results here . Not good news for jim jordan here. He had hoped to get 217 votes to try to show that he can actually get the support to be the next speaker of the house. He is short of that. In fact, were told that vote was 152 to 5 5. The second question is how would people vote for him on the floor . He lost 55 votes. I will ask congressman kevin mccarthy, mr. Mccarthy can jim jordan continue to run here . Yes, yes. He only got 152 votes. Yeah, but hell get there. I dont see a problem with him not getting there. I think look, people have been here a long time. Weve now elected a speaker designee and i think people can go home and be with their family and come back. He will be able to talk to those dozen well be able to get there. What makes you so confident . More than 50 votes . What is he going to have to do . Ive been through this many times and see where were at and where the conference is. Steve only had 110. 155 is a lot more than 110. Steve thought he would start at 150. Thats why i thought he had a challenge. He was in a much stronger position. I came in, i had 180 some. We had struggles. So i think i was more than paul had less than that or something. Pelosi had less. I see it coming together. Why do you think members have so many reservations of jim jordan right now . I dont know so much of it is jim jordan as it is maybe with the eight who 4 cause this whole problem and all the democrats. People just dont feel like they should have new leadership . Thats why . I dont think about new leadership. I just think they saw eight people work with all the democrats to disrupt the country and i think thats a real problem. How do you get past that . How do you get past that . Its not easy. Its a tough job. 55 members vote for jordan on the floor . No. Look, i think given the time and they probably have some more questions, things are moving fast, so it gives speaker designee time to sit down and talk to them and earn their vote to get past 20 i dont think no, i dont think it will take 15 rounds. I think well be able to get it on the first one. Congress cannot do anything at the moment. Everything is stalled. Is it time to make clear that Patrick Mchenry has more power, give him more power, the interim speaker, to allow legislation to advance . Should the house do something about that . I always believed he did unfortunately when all the democrats got together with eight republicans to stop it, the first thing they did was try to go and say that that position didnt have any power, so theyve really stymied and brought chaos to congress and now tried to stymie our ability to have continuity in congress which is a real problem, what the democrats have done. To round up the votes he needs he has to sit down and talk to them and they will be there. You dont think there should be another consensus candidate . Is there a consensus candidate at this point . How many people have we gone through . You know. I think well be able to work this out, right. File comfortable that well get there. How do you think this reflects on the gop right now . Its terrible. If you think from a gop perspective, eight republicans led by gaetz worked with every single democrat, swalwell, schiff, omar, thats talib, to bring chaos with the concept of being upset because we paid our troops. Our troops got paid today. Imagine being someone in the Armed Services in the middle east on an Aircraft Carrier right now questioning whether your family will be able to pay the rent . Thats what they wanted. Thats what thats why they wanted to throw me out. Im more than willing to fight for our American Public and especially for the troops. What does this do to your swing district republicans . What does it do to the 18 members from biden districts . All the democrats voted to bring chaos . No. You guys cant govern. You cant govern. I dont know i dont know. We passed the parents bill of rights, passed to make us the democrats are over there fighting about whether they can stand with israel. I mean, youve got to you cant even act on an aid package to israel. You have a leader of the Democratic Party in Hakeem Jeffreys that still says no comment when can you believe that . If they cannot stand with israel, they cant publicly say that it is wrong that they think that israel is a parttime nation or that us providing money to israel is wrong. I dont understand how someone runs on that. Reporter it will hard you cant pass aid to israel, sir. And i just lost my audio here, jake, so im probably going to toss it back to you other than saying that as you can hear from the speaker there, the former speaker, that the votes are not that he believes that jim jordan is still going to try to push through here and try to get the votes somehow but very far away from getting 217 vote, jake, back to you. All right, manu raju on capitol hill. Keep us posted in the House Republicans are ever able to elect a house speaker. Its been ten days without one for the first time in the history of the United States of america. Well be right back. Welcome back. Nearly one week after the heinous october 7th Terrorist Attacks in israel by hamas, we are learning more about how hamas heinous assault unfolded. These three lived in a kibbutz in southern israel just outside the gaza strip and then hamas attacked. She managed to escape with her two girls but they kidnapped the 12yearold son, 12 years old. Hes still missing as is the father. His sister and her husband mark join us now. Im so sorry to hear of the horror that your family went through and is continuing to go through. Mark, tell us about ohad and his wife and the three kids. Well, othihad grew up in the south of israel in the desert. He was really a nature person. He lived in that area. He grew up there. He decided to build his house in that beautiful area together with the family to raise their kids there, and they just lived and they say that the place is a heaven. It was a heaven. We visited there. It was really heaven. They helped each other, lived together. How did you learn about what happened to them and can you describe at all what it was like, what it was like hearing about this horror . Well, actually it was, you know, here where we live it was last friday night after we heard the lovely dinner with our family and then his mother called and said she is in the shelter and her home in central israel, and we i kind of felt, okay, that happens from time to time. Theres Rocket Barrages and people go into shelters, sometimes theyre longer. But then we started to look a little bit at the news and started to see really things we couldnt believe. Hamas cars and the militants in the middle of the israeli town of sderot and others and then we started to really get concerned because we know that ohad and his family live on the border and seeing militants going around shooting at random in places like sderot, we thought, okay, whats going to go on . Its stressful, and we started to communicate over whatsapp with them, tried to communicate and they didnt communicate a lot but said they are, see the message as riving there then at one point, it was about 10 or 10 15 a. M. In israel, both of them, they didnt receive any messages and first few hours we kind of thought, okay, maybe they just cut the communication there, the cell tower doesnt work, whatever, we are hopeful that really nothing bad would happen. My family is gone. I know that. I have it in my gut. I say it cannot be. Im an engineer. I know that several hotels back down and then a few hours we got a message from bacheva, she told us the story, the horrible story that and at that point she was talking in kind of detached voice that doesnt even seen that she believed the story from i dont know. I would hope its a hollywood movie that would resolve itself with a good ending in a couple of hours. It does not. I want to put a picture of her up. Tell us about etan if you can, this sweet innocent 12yearold has done nothing wrong to anybody. You can see. Tell us about him. You can see i mean, you can see yourself, its the sweetest he lived his happy life in nature, right . He was going with his parents to what many times with him and the family now kids to look at, i dont know, scorpions at night and watch the nature there and the farm nearby and its a boy that