By representatives of hamas and islamic which are in operation here. He did not sound conciliatory. Crossfire at the border between lebanon and israel, iranians not conciliatory but at the same time very interesting to see the iranian Supreme Leader saying that iran had nothing to do with the planning of this attack. Everyone is taking pause and looking at what is coming next. Very much uncharted territory. Kim ghattas , thank you so much for joining us. Thanks for watching. Live from israel starts right now. Out front next life from israel, troops massing and no word of the hostages tonight. Israels Prime Minister making the case for spitting hamas out like i. S. I. S. Showing unspeakable pictures of a baby and childrens letter. Russians fight militants hand inhand with the Pistol Pete Retired Israeli General tells us what he witnessed and you will hear is incredible story of taking on the attackers. Rockets said to be fired by hamas, footage from a videogame. Israeli jets bombing gaz
Civilians. A total siege, no fuel, water, food, and no electricity at all as the strips sole power plant has died. Gazan authorities are pleading for a humanitarian help. Its not clear how any aid can get through. The only Border Crossing point between gaza and egypt has been hit multiple times over the past 24 hours. At the same time, overwhelmed hospitals are doubling as shelters. This is the corridor of one of those today. Children, newborn babies, families, have all been huddling. And then there is israel, which is reeling from both more rocket attacks, and the spreading news of just how unspeakably awful hamas was when it brutalized and murdered innocent civilians, including children and even babies. In the israeli city of ofakeem, our reporters have been making their way through some of the homes there that were ransacked by militants and learning how some residents escaped. Others, of course, were not so lucky. They were kidnapped, including potentially americans. President bide
This is the aftermath in the city of ashkalon, not far from the gaza border. This all comes some 48 hours after hamas militants launched an unprecedented attack by land, by sea, and by air, killing civilians and taking hostages overnight. Israeli air strikes pummeled hundreds of targets in the gaza strip. Israels Defense Minister has this morning ordered a, quote, complete siege, saying electricity, food, and fuel will all be cut off. The videos show the horror on the ground at a Music Festival in israel are 260 people have been found dead. This is a drone video of burned out cars at the site. A dash camera video shows a hamas Fighter Shooting his rifle and taking a hostage. This morning, a spokesman for the Israeli Military say that hamas have brought dozen of hostages and there could be terrorists hiding in israel now. They came in in hundreds. There still could be terrorists. Were slowly scanning each of the communities and were evacuating the israeli population from these locations
if that s true, that feels like a war crime. yes. those russian arguments, that the russians are also targeting with missiles, civilian population centers. they ve killed numerous ukrainian citizens by their wanton destruction of the ukrainian landscape, and, so going after the critical infrastructure, power grids, water pumping stations, other types of things, are designed to weaken the resolve of the reopening of people. i think if anything, it s a strengthening the resolve, because it just demonstrates just how evil and ruthless putin has been in prosecuting this very unjust war. it strengthens global reserve, to, resolve to help ukraine in this effort. sir, thank you for joining us this morning. it s always a pressure to see you. john brennan is the former cia director. he is nbc news is senior security and national intelligence analyst. he is the author of undaunted, my fight against americas enemies at home and abroad. coming up next hour, i will break in the trials and
russians knew the hospital wasn t vacant. is this part of putin s play book? look, it s a really ruthless war and one of the things she s trying to do is depopulate the regions he wants so he can occupy them. and one way you do that is by executing people, right? you do it by bombing civilian population centers. ia do that by raping women, by torturing people. all those things were done by the bosnian serbs. i think it s pretty clear that s what putin is trying to do. i want to talk about trevor reed who was being held in russia. former marine detained in russia since 2019, freed today in a prisoner swap for a russian citizen. it s great news, but it s also remarkable given the extreme tension between the u.s. and russia. how do you make sense of the timing here? i mean i timing may not be relevant. i mean it may these