Vossoughian live for you here from msnbc headquarters. We are going to begin with some Breaking News. As night falls in the middle east, here is what is new this hour. We just heard from the idf, big, Breaking News. A statement releaseby them that idea forces,backed by an extensive logistical effort and by completing the Reserve Mobilization of Hundreds Of Thousands of servicemen, are preparing to implement a wide range of offensive operative plans which include, among other things, and integrated and coordinated attack from the air, sea, and land. We are going to get a live report from israel in a moment on what this all means. Also some other headlines are happening this hour, as well. Three hours past if you outlined for the evacuation of Northern Gaza. The israeli Prime Minister, benjamin netanyahu, telling his soldiers, quote, the next age is coming. And new report from nbc news saying u. S. Officials privately low on israel to show restraint. And the u. N. Saying humanitarian cri
That theyre defended. And that, again, this cant be allowed to continue. With regard to the second point, yes, this is something that were very focused on. We want to make sure that no other country or entity tries to take advantage of the situation. The president s been very, very clear about that. He said very starkly that any state or nonstate actor considering that, dont do it. Hes backed that up in a number of ways, including, as i mentioned the other day, deploying our largest Aircraft Carrier battle group to the area. So, thats clearly designed to help ensure that anyone contemplating getting engaged doesnt do it. But beyond that, a big part of my own conversations here throughout this trip, including today, following up the next couple days, is working with other countries to make sure theyre using their own contacts, their own influence, their own relationship to make that case, that no one else would be taking this moment to create chaos in some other place. I should mention,
Colleague and friend ana ca grar cabrera. Right now, the unrelenting pounding of gaza city continues in response to the hamas terror attack. Youre looking at live pictures where it is just 6 00 p. M. Inside gaza. Just outside that city israeli troops and tanks are continuing to mass at the board leading to a belief that a Ground Invasion is imminent. Plus, Secretary Of State Antony Blinken is in tel aviv, affirming the united statess unwavering commitment to israel while standing along side israeli Prime Minister benjamin netanyahu. The message that i bring to israel is this, you may be Strong Enough on your own to defend yourself, but as long as america exists, you will never, ever have to. We will always be there by your side. We begin this hour with our reporters there on the ground, in israel. Lets get to nbcs ali velshi. Tell us where you are and the latest. Reporter were heading back to the border. We normally spend our afternoons and evenings into the night near the gaza border,
Unfortunately on saturday, around 8am, we lost contact with my grandmother. She lives in a kibbutz which is on the border with gaza. She sent us a message telling us there was a Terrorist Shooting in her street and that was the last message we got. We have other family that lives in the kibbutz so we heard from them all the time about the terrible things going on there, that the terrorists are getting into houses and killing people, hurting them, burning their houses while they were sitting there, taking them hostage and we could not reach our grandmother. Then at 5pm, who, after they got into the kibbutz and started taking people out of their hideaways, they went to my grandmothers house, it was completely broken. She wasnt there. We try to find some videos because we heard that some terrorists from gaza posted videos of people they kidnapped, and we found a video of her being taken away to gaza with four armed men around her. That is the last thing we know about her. Lets talk about