Edition of Andrea Mitchell reports. Katy tur is up with more special coverage. Good to be with you. Israel says that it has regained control of towns attacked by hamas militants and spokesman for the idf says there are no more Hamas Terrorists on the ground in israel but they are still attempting to get through the border. In the past few hours weve seen nearly nonstop rocket fire from both sides. Hamas warning residents it would strike ashkelon at 5 00 p. M. Local time and then doing so. Night has now fallen over the region leaving the skies above h iron dome intercepts. At the border itself, israeli troops are massing getting ready for a potential Ground Incursion of their own into gaza. Benjamin netanyahu vowing to root out hamas, but within the country, there is growing criticism of netanyahu. Allegations that he position helped prop up hamas in an effort to weaken the Palestinian Authority. From analysis in the times of israel, the idea was to prevent president abbas or anyone els
With a story that is very much still developing, very much still unresolved, and very personal to our first guest. This is yair yaakov and myrav. They live on a kibbutz in Southern Israel. A kibbutz call and yairs sons are 16 and 12 years old. Orr is the big brother. He is 16. Yagil is the younger son. He is 12. And on saturday morning, at 8 45 a. M. Local time, this is just a couple of hours after the hamas Terrorist Attacks started in Southern Israel, yair got on the phone with his sister in law from the kibbutz. And he told his sister in law that he and his girlfriend were in a shelter inside their house. They were gonna try to write out these bombings that had just started. He said his two sons, his 12yearold and his 16 year old, they were now with them. They were with their mother at a different house on the kibbutz. And yair said that the plan was everybody was Gonna Stay Put until the bombings stopped. And then, they would find each other and get back together and stay safe. The
Military aircraft closer to israel amid concerns of a larger regional conflict breaking out. Was iran involved in hamas planning and new attacks from the north . Americans among the dead. The state Department Says at least nine americans have been killed. More than 1200 people, soldiers, civilians and children are death on both sides. Those numbers are expected to climb even higher. Im Andrea Mitchell with our continuing coverage of the war in israel. A constant barrage of israeli air strikes lighting up the sky. 300,000 israeli troops have been called up after this weekend marked the most extensive invasion of israeli territory in decades. These tanks are at the border area between israel and gaza. Any Ground Invasion will be complicated of the desperate hostage situation. A heartbreaking dilemma of one israeli mother who was brave enough to come on and talk to me about it at this hour. I could hear people speaking in arabic outside their door, and they broke in. The last thing i hear
Policy director forjeremy Corbyn Andrew fisher 7 and from washington, republican and former adviser to george w bush, ron christie. Good evening. The biggest number ofjews killed in a single day since the holocaust. Women, children, grandmothers, driven away possibly to their deaths. Driven away possibly some of them raped repeatedly and murdered. That is the context. And that is why these coming days we will see an unflinching response from the Israeli Government. This is the fourth such conflict in gaza since israel unilaterally withdrew from the strip in 2005. But this is unlike those otherwars, not least because the number of israelis killed in the weekends violence is itself unprecedented. The israeli public will demand that hamas pays a heavy price, and the calls for a Ground Incursion will be ringing in the ears of the politically imperilled benjamin netenyahu. The question is to what end . And at what cost . We will get into some of that tonight, but it is fair to assume it wil
At least 1200 people are dead, 570 people in gaza, the west bank, 700 people in israel. Soldiers, civilians, children. The state Department Says nine americans are among those killed, and more may be missing. Around 150 taken hostage by hamas, and presently somewhere in gaza, the fates unknown. This afternoon. Hamas that is threatened to execute they. Now she says she has no idea her father, sister, cousin with special nines, grandmyowith demeantia. Another carried away to be used as a bargaining chip. Meanwhile, begging for the return of his wife and his daughters, ages 3 and 5. I tell them that be strong, hold on. Im thinking about you. Im working hard to try in order to get you back. Stay strong, trying to happy. Adopt be afraid. You know, its hard to say those things when i dont really know what conditions theyre being held in. Americans are believed to be among those kidnapped as the United States and the world plots the next moves. Nation scrambling to say their citizens out of a