Thanks very much for watching. Im wolf blitzer in the situation room. Erin Burnett Outfront starts live from israel right now. Outfront next live from israel. Breaking news. The us navy intercepting drones. The pentagon Officials Say theyre potentially targeting israel. It comes as Officials Say the army has been given a green light to wipe out hamas. Plus, a new dispatch from inside gaza. Youre going to hear tonight from the brave cnn journalists who have been documenting what its like inside gaza. He says air strikes are intensifying where he is in Southern Gaza. And the incredible story of how a group of Volunteer Israeli Guards took on hamas and protecting an entire community from a massacre and what they found in the bodies of dead hamas gunmen more chilling. Youll see their story. Lets go outfront. And good evening. Welcome to a Special Edition of outfront. Im erin burnett from tel aviv. We begin with breaking news. Shot down. Cnn is learning that a u. S. Warship stationed In The Red Sea near yemen has intercepted three land attack Cruise Missiles. Some potentially heading towards israel. According to the pentagon, all were fired by iranian backed militant and heading north along the red sea. If you can see how far away that is from israel. This Development Comes as israel inches closer to a Ground Invasion of the gaza strip. Israels Defense Minister telling forces stationed along that gaza border. Weve seen so many of them. Theres 350,000 of them. Its impossible to miss them. He goes you see gaza from a distance. You will soon see it from inside. The command will come. Youll soon see it from inside. More than 2 Million People in a 25 mile long tiny strip. Defense minister words, ominous sign of possible urban combat fought not only aboveground, but below, as we have reported hamas fighters have a Massive Network of tunnels that are almost certainly housing not just militants, but hostages tonight. 203 of them according to israels latest numbers. Israel and hamas could be locked in a months long war which is why tonight in less than an hour, President Biden will be speaking to the nation. Only the second time he has delivered an address from the oval office. He is expected to press congress for another billion dollars. The majority for israel and ukraine seen as tied together by this administration. The address coming after the president announced this morning the u. S. Had secured a deal with egypt and israel to send that critical humanitarian aid into gaza. I want to show you new pictures of the aid trucks. We have reporters, Truck Drivers talking to cnn. It looks like the border leaving ukraine did. Thats to go into gaza. Supplies. It is unclear when those trucks will be allowed to enter. Closed counselor of Prime Minister netanyahu said that crossing would open tomorrow but sources tell cnn that the Rafah Crossing is not expected to open on friday. And every hour is of the essence. You know, weve been talking to various people inside gaza getting brief clips because you cant get a signal established to have a real conversation with anyone there. An american is there, a retired art teacher from florida. She traveled to gaza to visit family before the war broke out. Shes now trapped and sent us this Audio Message of what life is like tonight there. This trip for me, its an open graveyard. Its death everywhere. You can smell it around you. You can feel it. Its scary. Were all scared. Im scared in the nighttime. But im scared also in the daylight comes out. Dont know what to expect. And you will hear much more from wafa coming up because the new details asbout the explosio at the hospital in gaza city. According to an assessment, its believed there were likely 100 to 300 people killed, not 500 as it was alleged. Although its a horrific thing. It may be less, still a horrible number. We have a team of reporters standing by. Warren at the pentagon, Nic Robertson along the Israel Gaza Border and mj lee is at the white house. I want to begin with you at the pentagon with this breaking news, disturbing news, that u. S. Warships near yemen, that is not close. Were not talking about gaza or hezbollah. This is all the way In The Red Sea. Intercepting multiple pr projectiles. Drones, land attack missiles. What do you know about this . The pentagon says the interceptions were potentially targeting israel so you can see what that would take. The pentagon says they were launched by the houthis, iranianbacked militants who fired them and they were moving north along the red sea towards israel and likely why israel may have been the target. It is worth noting theres the destroyer that intercepted these drones and missiles but theres also the u. S. s baton, Amphibious Assault ship, and a Marine Expeditionary unit. Theres a resort city at the tip of israel. Perhaps what they look at in seeing these missiles heading north saying this may have been the target. Israel and the u. S. , not the only threat theyre facing in the region. In iraq, there have been a wave of Drone Attacks against u. S. And Coalition Forces there so the u. S. Facing pressure there even as officials are trying to keep this from becoming a regional conflict. He spoke with officials earlier today to try to make sure the u. S. Has israels back but also to keep this from spreading. It seems a very tall order. Thank you very much. Lets go to Nic Robertson along the border with gaza where hes been over the past 12, 13 days. You just saw a tank fire and flares, Hearing Heavy Machine gunfire. How does this compare to what you have been hearing especially in light f the Israeli Defense minister saying you will soon see the inside of gaza. What does soon mean where you are . Yeah, i think everyones looking to see if theres any signs of an incursion and just looking over my shoulder here where we were seeing the tank rounds where the flare was hanging in the air. There was a second one a few minutes ago. And hearing the Heavy Machine Gunfire coming from over there. Thats the area youd expect. The sorts of things that would be associated with an incursion. We had some heavy explosions ahead of that. So when we see that here, we watch really carefully. Does it build into something . Is it is beginning of an incursion of just a little tension along the border fence there . But you go back to 2014 at the time of our last incursion, that is exactly where Israeli Forces went into gaza in that area. So thats why were watching it so closely. And yes, the Defense Minister today when he was visiting idf forces, some really heavy detonations there as well. When he was visiting idf forces saying look, it wont be too long before youre in gaza. Weve been hearing from other officials who are saying flatly and clearly the politicians have given a green light. In israels war with hamas, more than the terror groups operatives arrested early thursday in the west bank. The clock now ticking on a far more dangerous phase of the war for the idf. Going into hamas heartland, gaza. The Israeli Government made a decision. Gave green light to the army. Wipe them out. Israeli politicians are preparing expectations for a long war and for the first time, hinting at what an end of war may look like. All along were that they will not be able to get in. It will be a fire zone. No matter who are you. Youll never be able to come close to the israeli border. A former head of Israeli Security says what israel wants is the level of Security Control they currently have in the west bank. Complete access on their terms. Today, whenever we have military problems, in every west bank, thats what we have in gaza. Gaza internal security. One, theres no administration. It has to be built in other administration. But as these plans take shape and troops prepare to go into gaza, air strikes are triggering International Calls from humanitarian pause to ease civilian suffering. He rejects the need for a pause. We dont activate against civilians. But there are civilians collateral damage. In a war, in a war in a war, we do understand we have suffered. With or without a pause in strikes, 20 trucks loaded with humanitarian aid are expected to enter gaza from egypt soon. Against the scale of need, its a token. Ahead of a possible ground incursion, maybe all that gets through for a while. One of those flares over there that area up in the sky there, and this as the u. N. Secretary general, the sort of worlds top diplomat if you will, is calling for that humanitarian aid. He says in from israel to get the hostages out. No indication its actually going to happen. Look at that. Just watching that. Watching that flare come down along with nic here as he moved his, hes standing next to the camera watching this come down. The flares, we dont know what was on the other side of that and what happened to anyone underneath it. And that of course is the real tragedy of the situation were in right now. Lieutenant jonathan joins me now. The Israel Defense forces spokesperson. I appreciate your time tonight. You had the Israeli Defense minister with troops today saying that you will soon see gaza now from a distance. You will soon see it from inside. Im sorry, the command will come. Nick just reporting he saw activity from gaza. We saw that explosion live. Is a ground war imminent . Is it in a position where the command has done the army can go w when its ready . Is that how it is . Good evening. Thank you for having me again. Situation is that the idf is deployed along the gaza strip. The reserves are ready, equipped. Mission oriented. And standing by. For the next stage of our operations, but at this time, of course, we will not advertise when, with here, and how we wil advance or do or enhance our military activities. Ground activity is one of the options, one of the tools at our disposal. So, i also want to ask you about that, the missiles that led our program with. That a u. S. Warship near yemen intercepted fire. That the pentagon believes was intended for israel. These rockets were coming from far away, from the red sea. Even aiming at the south of israel. This is a much further distance than anything else were talking about and they came from iranian backed militias according to the u. S. Is this an escalation from iran, colonel . All of the information currently is coming out of the pentagon and we havent broiefe about it yet. Of course, we are in touch with our american counterparts but all of the information is based on u. S. Sources. At this time, i can only say our air defenses are ready taking into consideration the various weapons that we know organizations have. In lebanon, iraq, gaza and anywhere else. And wherever they will try to fire from, if they do, then our air defenses will be ready and we will respond accordingly. More than 60 alleged hamas operatives were arrested today in the west bank. Thats a lot. Do you believe there are a lot more hamas militants in the west bank right now . Yes. Hamas has built, it has actually spent a lot of money, time, and resources on building infrastructure. Personnel. But also physical infrastructure in samaria, jeanine, many other locations. We have been attacking that infrastructure even before this war against hamas and gaza happened. So this is an ongoing situation. Exasperated by the war that hamas launched. We continue to operate in Judea And Samaria with a isa based on accurate intelligence and we arrest different terrorists. Some of them so they wont be able to execute Terror Attacks that we know are in the work and some for other purposes. The aim here is to maintain stability. To protect israeli communities, israel lives and to make sure this doesnt escalate into another front. Colonel, thank you very much. I appreciate your time and i want to go to seth jones. Senior Vice President at the center for strategic and International Studies which is at the forefront of the International Conflicts and this one, this war zone. U. S. Government relying heavily onset on seths work and the work of his colleagues in the war. Sometimes i know when youre not here, its because youre in those meetings. Tonight, we have a chance to ask you what you know. You just heard the idf spokesperson talking. The pentagon confirming that u. S. Warship near yemen shot down three missiles. Launched by Iranbacked Houthi forces. Thats what the u. S. Is saying. I know you had a chance to speak to u. S. Officials about this today. Youre in the loop on what they know. So what is this and is this coordinated at all with what were seeing from hamas . Thanks. These are great questions. I think the concern as we take a look at the region right now is that there is escalation right now. The houthis who shot the land attack Cruise Missile and the drones are funded, aided and their weapons are provided by the iranian. But weve also, oren indicated some of this. Weve also seen attacks on u. S. Bases in iraq as well as in syria within the last 48 hours. One u. S. Forces in syria, another at the conoco oil fields. In addition, weve seen Fire Exchanges at the israeli lebanese border and whats happened in the west bank as well. Those are multiple locations. Iran has linked with all of those organizations. We dont know at this point to what degree iran has actually orchestrated. These groups are not all puppets of the iranian government but it is a concern were seeing some escalation here. I know row also have been in contact with israeli officials and you know, we hear the Defense Minister saying soon youll see the inside of gaza. Whats the latest youre hearing about the gaza plan . Well, two things. One is i think the israelis are indicating that they need to have a peresence on the ground. That you know, were not clear at this point what the size of the force thats going to go in, how long its going to go in for but it will have a ground presence. Im also hearing some of what ill call good news. The idf is thinking about Reconstruction Efforts after buildings are destroyed and letting in some humanitarian activity into gaza. So, its not just pure Military Operations that are part of the planning process. Thank you very much. Next, President Biden is about to address the nation. Weve got new details coming up on exactly what hes going to be focused on in his remarks. Moments away. Plus, dispatches from gaza. We bring these to you and tonight, a cnn journalist who is trapped in gaza with his young family is giving outfront updates and tonight, hes going to tell you about the strikes and the increase hes seen in strikes coming in. Remember, there is no water and there is no iron dome there. And i speak to a group of brave men who banded together to stop hamas and as you will hear, they found out that hamas knew things about their community that they as the security and People Living there didnt even know. Israel had indicated it was going to open and tonight, sources say its not. But that aid is desperately needed. A cnn journalist has reported exclusively for outfront. You saw his evacuation from the north. Along with his wife and their two sons who are age 11 and 7. Theyre now in communist where there was a major strike today and he says theyre Drinking Water meant for toilets now. But thats what its come to. Heres his latest dispatch from today. Gives you chills to hear it. What hes going through and how adorable those kids are even amidst what theyre going through. We also tonight have an american whos trapped in gaza, sending her dispatches to outfront because we want you to hear whats happening there any way we can. She sent some pictures of rubble. Shes a retired teacher from florida. We told you about her earlier in the show. Shes huddled in a home neuar te rafah Border Crossing along with 50 other people. Shes been sending us Voice Messages to play because her internet and her Phone Connection are not stable enough to appear live on the air. Shes been telling us about how dire her living situation is as humanitarian aid has yet to arrive. Water is the issue right now. For more than anything and utilities. We dont have any utilities. We ask people not to flush the toilet so its absolutely disgusting and stinky. Just to even imagine that and as ibrahim said, just drinking toilet water. It is precarious for every human being there. There is no situation that makes you immune to whats happening there unless youre someone from hamas in a tunnel with airconditioning. Wafa also telling us about the challenges of caring for her motherinlaw who has less than a weeks worth of the medications she needs. Shes going to need high Blood Pressure medication and inhalers for her asthma. Painkiller for her back and also were going to need some diapers because shes bound now with diapers. Wafa says gazans want one thing. An end to the carnage. I really wish to hold a camera and just walk through gaza street by street because i know it by heart and to show you the destruction. Im sure youve seen lots of pictures and im sure youre seeing lots of death but when is going to stop . Thats the question. Please, please ask them to stop. All i want for it to stop. And she also talked to us about how the smell of death is everywhere. Its horrible there. Absolutely horrific. And among the estimated five to 600 americans in gaza mostly amassed along the southern border near rafah, she has of course. Weve been talking about her every night. Her ordeal of what shes going through. Shes a pediatrician. She was in gaza treating patients when hamas attacked israel. Shes been there many times but this time, arrived just a day before this all began and shes been trapped. We have not been able to establish a stable enough connection to speak with her since last week, but this was what it was like when we last spoke to her. Well, whenever you go to gaza, you always know theres danger of some violence while youre there, but no, i wasnt. Come prepared for this. Her husband, paul, has been getting sporadic updates. Hes outfront now. Paul, we speak again and still we wait for aid. We wait for your wife to be able to come out of that exit from the Rafah Crossing. I know you told us that the toilets werent working. Were hearing that from others, too, and having to drink toilet water. These things hurt the humanity in a person. You told us she was sleeping in a car, sharing it with other people. Clean water situation was dire. Whats the latest youve heard from her, paul . Thank you for having me join you. Actually, ive been getting Text Messages from her last night and its much better for her. Nigerian mercy core gave them a lot of food and water so actually now they have working toilets and have water and food. So that was quite a relief for me. And as you said, in your previous story, shes in a much better situation than a lot of the other people around her. Well that certainly sounds like tits the case. I know she cares so deeply but i know you must be relieved. Nigerian mercy corp. , i just want to emphasize that help and humanity can come from anywhere. It has to be an amazing feeling for you and her. This Desire Situation that help would come . Exactly. They delivered so aid to them and so what they did was people in the compound made a makeshift oven out of scrap metal. Burning wood pellets for fuel. And they actually are making some sort of dinners now. Her sleeping, shooes now sleepg on a cushion outside because it was just too crowded in the car she was sleeping in. She said actually things could be worse. Well, they can and certainly there, they are for so many as you point out. Although dire for her as well. Now, we understand, paul, that obviously Prime Minister netanyahu said the rafah Border Crossing would open tomorrow but now sources tell cnn it is not expected tomorrow. So, gosh, how disheartening is this . At this point, i know youre holding out hope any day, but how do you even manage this . This is not if first time weve had our hopes dashed. I think at one point, Secretary Blinken came on and said the border was going to open. So were all kind of taking this you know with cautious optimism. You know, i must say i spoke, someone from the state department gaza Evacuation Task force called me last night and i was reassured talking to him. It sounds like they are really trying to work getting these americans out but that you know, theres a lot of moving parts here and its much more complicated than, he talked to me for like 20 minutes. Its much more complicated than i thought. So things that seem a little bit easy to solve from our standpoint are not. Well im glad you had that conversation. Im glad it was 20 minutes because i know you had frustrated with the lack of communication. You deserve that. Thank you very much, paul. I appreciate your time. I appreciate you having me. All right. Right now, you are looking at live pictures out of New York City where a large crowd attending a rally organized by the Israeli American Council in times square is going on. And that obviously is israeli american. So pro israel. It comes as egyptian officials are calling for a day of nationwide protests friday. Friday of course a holy day on the muslim calendar and often when you see protests, they say this is in support of palestinians and president sisis opposition to letting displaced residents of gaza into egypt. So they are not happy with israel but dont want the gazans. One day after sisi predicted quote, you will see millions in the streets if they are told to protest. Protests have been outlawed in egypt for the past ten years since sisi assumed power. I remember the arab spring. All the people on the streets. Now hes willing to let it happen. Outfront now, ambassador to the united nations. Sisi is doing something people thought he would never do. The protests we were there for and now ten years, nothing. Now he says millions of egyptians can come in the streets. How focused are you on what happens in egypt and how big those protests may be . Lets make it very clear, erin. The border between gaza and egypt is not under our control. We disengaged completely. Its up to the egyptians to decide who is allowed to come into egypt and who is not. By the way, we have received million of refugees. We are focused on our goal which is eradication of hamas. King abdullah would say hes got millions of refugees and theyre not refugees anymore. They dont leave. Thats become permanent. Thats whats egypts facing from refugees of other crisis in africa. Do they have a point . Well, we have enough on our plate. We are not going to run the policy of the egyptians. I think its up to them. I heard some countries in europe are looking to accept ref ugees from gaza but we are not focused on those issues. We are focused on eliminating hamas. Its going to be a longterm operation. You saw whats happening in israel now. We go to the shelters every once in a while, but we are willing to pay that price. I know you say its going to last a long time. We had the Defense Minister go to the troops on the border and say youll soon see gaza from the inside. Maybe he needs to rally the troops. Weve seen them there. Bussing in and out every day. Sleeping in the open air. They want to know what theyre going to do but does this to you signal a different posture . That this is indeed finally about to happen . We knew from the beginning we have no choice. We have to go into gaza, chase those terrorists and kill them. Period. And i tell you today, we dont care about when. We care about what. The cabinet is meeting as we speak. I expect in the near future, they would reach a decision. If it means another week, another day, thats okay but at the end of the day, the goal should be to finish with the problem. It will be better for the palestinian and gaza. You spoke with some people. You heard how much they suffer. But not only we suffer from hamas, also the palestinians deserve a better future. All right. Ambassador, i thank you very much. As he says the Cabinet Meeting right now as it is 2 33 in the morning here in israel and next, an incredible story. Im going to talk to a group of volunteer security guards. They actually fought off hamas. They saved their kibbutz from a massacre. Not a single death in their community. They say it was a miracle but well tell you how they did this miracle, next. Plus, live pictures of the white house where the president will address the nation at the top of the hour. We have new details on what he is about to say. Is it possible my network could take my business to the next level . It is with comcast business. Powering all your devices with gigspeed wifi. And you get fast downloads and uploads. Pick it up pick it up oh we got this because its powered by The Next Generation 10g network. More speed for your business . Its not just possible. Its happening. Get started for 59. 99 a month for 12 months. Plus, ask how to get an 800 prepaid card with a qualifying internet bundle. Comcast business, powering possibilities. You are looking at live pictures of the white house where President Biden is Just Moments Away from a crucial prime time address. He will be talking about the dire situation in the middle east and why he believes that the United States must help israel fight its war. Mj lee is outfront. And this is rare. The president s only given an Oval Office Address once before. So what are your sources telling you about what hes going to say tonight . Well, erin, even the decision to deliver this speech from the oval Office Speaks volumes about the gravity of this moment and the sober tone we expect to hear from the president tonight. One senior official told me today that the scenes of violence that were pouring in from israel prompted the president to tell his advisers in recent days that he wanted to have an opportunity to speak directly to the American People. Not just about the situation in israel but the ongoing war in ukraine as well. And advisers tell us that the president believes there is a powerful message to be sent to the rest of the world but theres also an important case to be made that the u. S. Continuing to support israel and ukraine is a matter of National Security. Now, erin, of course this comes at a moment of importance for the white house in trying to shore up public support for both of these conflicts. As you know very well, public support for ukraine has waned in recent months. We know that the majority of americans are sympathetic to the people of israel but that when it comes to the question of supporting israel amid this conflict, that there are mixed views. The speech also comes on the eve of the white house preparing to send a supplemental package to the tune of some 100 billion. 60 billion would go towards ukraine and 10 billion towards israel. You can very much easily imagine the president sort of hearing the voices of the leaders of israel and ukraine as he has been drafting the speech for the past several days. I was told he actually worked on this speech with his aides on Air Force One as he was traveling back from israel yesterday and we also know that the president spoke again with the ukrainian president zelenskyy earlier today to once again get an update on the conditions on the ground there. All right. Thank you very much. And if mj has more, were going to go back to her as we await this speech. Thank you. Joining me now, the democratic senator, chris murphy, of connecticut. He is a member of the Foreign Relations committee. And i appreciate your time, senator. So President Biden is going to be making an argument, i would assume more than just about funding, right . The funding would have an offshoot of a much bigger point of National Security and democracy. What is this speech really about, do you think . Well, these are big dollars. When the American People hear spending 50, 60, 70 billion overseas, they have a high bar. In order to prove the efficacy and need for that money and the president i think is going to meet that bar because in israel, we are engaged in a communal fight against terrorism. This country has lost thousands of people to terrorist attacks. Israel has now lost over 1,000 and if you dont fight hamas alongside israel, then these groups grow in strength and start to contemplate attacks against the United States. In ukraine, its a bit of a different case to be made, but its another leader. This time in russia, that is trying to shatter the rules based order and if you dont beat him in ukraine, i think its likely he marches on a nato ally and its u. S. Troops in the fight. Hes got to make that case as to why both fights are really important and why they make the United States safer. So, your republican colleague, j. D. Vance, said something that reflect what is a lot of people think. Yes, republican, but also weve seen support for ukraine as an example drop in the democrat party. He says tieing new israel assistance to ukraine aid is a slap in the face to our israeli friends in a time of need. He says continued funding hurts america and its allies. And as i said, a lot of other republican senators agree with him and public support for ukraine has dropped sharply. So what do you do here . The reality of course is that a lot of the aid that goes to ukraine goes to u. S. Companies. Lockheed martin makes the high mars rocket. That moneys going to jobs. You can make that argument. 20 increase in hiring in one plant due to that. But how do you break through to people at this point . Has it gotten to the point you need an Oval Office Address to do this . I think its an exceptional moment. There are moments in which the world is on fire where the president can help make sense of of it. Yes, hes got to make a case for this money why its a good use, but it has a calming influence on a nation that feels like the world is falling apart a bit. The president can anchor us in a sense of what our role is when it comes to trying to bring order to that chaos. J. D. Is a friend but he is in a Minority Position. We are not holding one set of aid hostage to another set of aid. We are just acknowledging the fact that right now, theres a majority in the senate and house that supports both ukraine aid and israel aid and so we might as well vote on them together because there is majority support for both of those. J. D. Is in a Minority Position in the senate. Most of his republican colleagues support aid for ukraine and support aid for israel. Senator, thank you very much. Appreciate your time tonight. Thanks. All right. Next, youre going to hear from a group of men suddenly waking up very early on a saturday morning, 6 30 in the morning. Gun shots. Finding themselves at war with hamas. They saved their community and what they found on the body of the dead gunmen is shocking. Youre looking at live pictures of the white house where President Biden is moments away from a prime time address from the oval office as israel inches closer to its potential invasion of gaza. One kibbutz that came under attack, no one was killed despite Detailed Planning by hamas. Anti tank missiles fired at the gates and a gun battle that lasted for nearly six hours. I spoke with four of the civilian fighters that battled with hamas. Heres what they saw and how they survived. Ellie, they came three different sides of the kibbutz and yet nobody died. Yeah. I mean, how did you and a few others do this . Yeah. So, first of all, it is sort of miracle. I mean, we succeeded to do what we were training for i think for years. But thats not exactly what we were training for. I mean, for years, the fact that we have those squads in every kibbutz is to prevent like a small, to intercept a small group of terrorists maybe trying to do something very pinpointed. Not a full Military Assault with numbers, with dozens of terrorists coming to us with anti tank missiles. How many . More than 30. Estimation is there were around 35 terrorists were participating in the three assaults on the kibbutz. It all began around 6 30 in the morning. You were sleeping. You and your wife. Me and my wife on the second floor, we start to hear the Mie En Missile and then said to my wife, i think i hear a missile. She said yeah, i hear this, also. So i run to the first floor and then we got the meissile on the second floor. Hit your house. Come from the roof and blow everything. Then the smoke start to go down. I opened the to the second floor to see if there was fire or Something Like this. I see there is no fire. Suddenly, i start to hear shooting. I said to avi, its not normal. Do you have radios . Are you texting . We have radios but quite in the beginning, some were not functioning already so most of the communication actually goes through whatsapp. We start to, after everything is finished, so we start to hear the messages. So we start to understand where exactly everybody was and what it wasnt actually even going through. So afterwards, its ding, ding, ding. So you were really operating along. Each of you alone in a sense. Basically, yes. At some point, i had the connection at some points. Most of them didnt have any connection. The radios i didnt know they had a back up. They were on the other side of the kibbutz. I couldnt hear. Because there were three points. I couldnt hear them. I had no idea they were in a battle until noon maybe. But you were at the gate. They try to come in the vehicle gate and i know we saw all the burned out cars they used to block. You were able to stop that but they burst through the pedestrian gate. And we have footage of some of this from the security cameras. They were actually actually shooting anti tank missiles. There was carnage going on. People trying to rush in from the party that was just driving. The gate is closed. They cannot see the terrorists and they just go outside and run to the gate and theyre being shot at from short distance. They were just picking them off as they were running. Actually taking cover around the gate from the outside. And firing at those civilians thats running to the gate. To make sure they are dead. They are engaging, theres a small bomb shelter outside the gate. Some of the Party Members were hiding there. So you can see a group of terrorists going in the massacre there. They throw Hand Grenades. Into the shelter. Yes. You can see in the movie, the security movie, you can see the hand of the Terrorist ThrowHand Grenades inside. So i went out solo and starting moving towards the main gate but not in a straight line. I went through the houses. I got to Parking Number two thats like on the, and theres a hill. A Small Hill Overwatching it but from outside and there were two, three guys wearing black, looking at the road. I wasnt sure if this is our people or maybe i dont know what. And in the moment, they turned around, they saw ak 47s. Thats how you know because you had m 16s. All of you. We dont use ak 47s. You know immediately. Thats not us. I shot at his group. One of them got hit. The other one, The Other Two scattered. Do you have any idea how many, obviously you have m16s. You have magazines. But just a sense of this went on for hours. How many bullets did you even shoot . Do you have any idea of what this took . I know. You know . Hundreds. I shot 240 bullets. I knew that i have only six magazines and i counted every bullet. I knew that i cannot shoot like i have a back up or Something Like that. So ive been shooting every bullet has its own target. I did it just to make them lie. Right. You had to shoot to kill. I had to shoot to kill. So, i know you all know youve seen these. This is what was found on them. At least on somebody. Right . This is their plans. Of what they were going to do. I just was reading through it. I mean, its its dated october 22. They were planning it for a whole year. Yes. The details in here, i wanted to ask you one specific thing. They knew everything about except our names. Except your names. But they put their Phone Numbers in here. They put the task, kibbutz. Very specified. God is great, but at the top they have, you know, the cameras that are going to be visible. They needed a tank brigade. But its this part i wanted to ask you all about. This is exactly what they planned to do inside the kibbutz, the duty of where they were supposed to go, what street numbers, everything. Did you now that you see this and you saw them, were they trying to execute this plan . Exactly. Exactly. Exactly . Their plan was actually to engage the Security Group to open the main gates to allow in, to sabotage the main power and the generator, and to make as much casualties from the Security Team to allow the second wave to go in. And the fact that they know the exact street where to go to where the generator is. Street by street. Street by street. Thats exactly where they were executing. Exactly. They came to the exact points where the gates are. For instance, the point beside my house is the small gate. The hidden gate. Its in the plan. I actually saw a page. Symbols. Arrows. Gate, gate, gate. When you sit here now and you think about it, that they didnt just plan and train. I mean, this is military. This is how do you even react to that . This took the date is october 2022. Its terrifying, because it is a Military Plan that the combatants, they knew exactly what they were doing. They were disciplined. This is a militarygrade planning. Very, very fine. To make information. To make this plan, you need insider information. A lot of information. All kind. What we know, we know that many people from gaza also from the west bank come to the kibbutz to work and to build the houses. Inside help . Sure. Certainly. So all these plans are very specific, very information from inside. Someone come to the kibbutz every day with photos, make locations, and give information to the the advances from street 49, then street 50, and then the junction and then the gate. The number they gave. The number of cameras inside the kibbutz. You cannot see it from outside. Right. They would have had to have someone. Lists all the surveillance. I dont know what the cameras are. But they did. I cannot tell each and every. But they did. So we tend to think like some information from inside the kibbutz. But you saw outside your gates. Yes. What happened. So the world understands, can you just talk about what happened, what you saw . Massacre. Massacre. In every sense of the word, massacre. Blood thirst. Its not just okay, target killing, hes down, continue. No, no. They butchered. They it was barbaric in every sense. There is no fire 50 rounds at a guy that is already dead on the floor, okay. There is no need for it. I can tell you that one of the most terrible i think few minutes in this day was actually when we went out of the kibbutz. Yes. Me and david, families, we went out of the kibbutz at about 3 00 a. M. In the morning, and there was no electricity also on the road, meaning it was complete darkness. And we went outside the gate of our house. The mill told us to drive very fast, only to the north, and we were driving like crazy. And from the gates, we told immediately the children, you are lying down on the floor, do not look out of the windows. In front of the gate, there were burnt cars, dozens of bodies. Dozens of bodies and sheer darkness. And sheer darkness. We were driving on the road, which is driving away our home. Every day. Like that between dead bodies. They describe it as being in sort of a zombie movie, like a video game zombie movie. Ill say one of them. One of them was talking afterwards saying to me i thought very significant. He said he walked in the street and he thought that one of the Hamas Terrorists was a friend of his. He looked like my friend. So i shouted the games name. He looks back, shouts a name back at me because he thinks im one of his guys. He said it was at that moment we realized we do look so much alike. We actually could have been friends. And then he moved a force to shoot him. Thank you so much for joining us. Ac 360 starts right now. It is just a little before 3 00 a. M. Here in tel aviv, and in washington, in just a few minutes, President Biden will be making a rare address from the oval office. He is expected to lay out the administrations next steps in the crisis here and the war in ukraine and ask congress to approve tens of billions of dollars to pay for it. High price tag, high stakes. What he says and what congress does come at a key moment for both israel and ukraine with what has been steady support for ukraine, now tangled up by dysfunction in the house. And with this Country Edging closer to sending Ground Forces into gaza. Israels Defense Minister earlier today telling troops they would soon see gaza, quote, from inside. Another minister saying the government has given the army the green light, which will transform a war that is already being fought on several fronts and could widen even further. Artillery and Rocket Battles continue in the north between israel and hezbollah forces, which are like hamas, backed by iran. And earlier today, a u. S. Navy destroyer shot down several missiles and drones launched from yemen. U. S. Officials saying Iranbacked Houthi militants were responsible. This action was a demonstration of the integrated air and Missile Defense architecture that we have built in the middle east and that we are prepared to utilize whenever necessary to protect our partners and our interests in this important region. So against that potential escalation, the humanitarian crisis in gaza continues. I want to show you new video of the rafah Border Crossing between Southern Gaza and egypt. Trucks full of relief supplies lined up, waiting. Several drivers telling cnn that egyptian authorities have started removing concrete blocks, but the border remains closed and is not expected, not expected to open today, friday, here in the region. With me here right now as we wait to hear from the president at any moment, the sources Kaitlan Collins and Nic Robertson near the gaza border. Nic, i understand youve been hearing some activity down there. What have you been seeing . Yeah, anderson, because were hearing that the troops have the green light to go in, the Defense Minister saying they could be in gaza soon. Were really watching out for any signs of an incursion. We saw in the area over my shoulder here a little earlier tank fire. We can see the the tracer, the red illumination, if you will on the tank fire. Heavy machine gun fire, flares being fired in that area. Now that is an area if there were to be an incursion, it would be a likely place for an incursion. Why . Because in 2014, that is the area that the idf went into. Just a few minutes ago, before we came on air right now, we were hearing quite sustained small arms fire over my shoulder in this direction. There were flares up in that direction a little earlier as well. This is not saying that there is a ground incursion. This is really telling us there are troops down there. They are close to the wire with the fence with gaza. Theyre really on high alert for any indications of hamas trying to spot them, trying to target them, trying to get ready for their approach, if and when it comes. So theyre really on their fingers were on their triggers. Thats what weve been hearing this evening. Where it goes in the coming hours, we dont know. But this is where were going to be watching because if there were an incursion, we expect this to potentially be one of the places, anderson. Nic, well check in with you. Kayla, what is the president expected to be saying in a few minutes . The president as he is known to do is making finishing touches to the speech right up until delivery. We know this is a broad message, that the world is an an Inflection Point and its fighting a war against tyranny. This is a shared by countries and the israel is finding itself on the front lines of the fight. While its been to be directly to the American People, its meant to be accessible. Its not about congress. Its not about the budget. There is a real Leadership Vacuum on capitol hill and cast into confusion the governments