Israel, and over gaza city. Joining us now, nbcs senior White House Correspondent gabe gutierrez, nbc Foreign Correspondent raf sanchez in israel, david friedman, former u. S. Ambassador to israel in the trump administration, former Obama Deputy National Security adviser ben rhodes, and former Israeli Foreign minister sidney libny. Gabe, first to you, the white house apparently has been on an extended call with Prime Minister netanyahu. Talk to us about the speech, it could be one of the most important speeches of his term. What do we expect . Thats right, andrea. Theyre the second on camera remarks since the fighting in israel in gaza began over the weekend. And as you said, a very long call this morning, the president and the Vice President meeting with interNational Security team and also as of just a few moments ago, still on the phone with israeli Prime Minister benjamin netanyahu. The president is expected to offer his support for israel, reiterate his support for israel. Yesterd
Maybe more than dozens of rockets fired at this city as hamas said would happen. So far it seems the israeli Missile Defense systems have been able to contain this attack, at least as far as we can report from what we are seeing. Richard engel on the front lines. This as the u. S. Officials describe the Terrorist Groups tactics against israelis and american citizens as i. S. I. S. Level savagery. She was terrified. She was saying, mommy, we are trying to get out of here, but im bleeding. We were shot. Everybody here was shot. She said, mommy, im afraid i will die. I said, no, you are not going to die. Then i heard shooting all around very close to the car and started Hearing Voices in arabic talking to each other, shouts at each other. I was so afraid. We are waiting for sagi to come home. We do not know what fate he met along as i said with dozens of other people. So you understand, these arent all 35yearold men. These are children. These are aged people and everything in between. Isr