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Tonight, israel is firing back at hamas with strikes on cities in gaza after the staged Terrorist Attack unlike anything israel has ever seen before. One israeli Air Strike Hitting near a palestinian mosque. Israel also intercepting a number of rockets by hamas tonight near the gaza border. Intense fighting is still under way. At least 300 israelis were killed and at least 1,500 wounded after Hamas Terrorists launched an unprecedented attack by land, by air, and by sea. Focusing on israeli civilians, taking the country completely by surprise. A fresh round of Rocket Attacks in tel aviv and other areas this evening. It is almost daybreak in israel now, just after 5 00 a. M. Local time. Lets get the very latest now from cnn Correspondent Hadas gold in jerusalem. Hadas, tell us what its like on the ground right now. Reporter jake, as we speak, i can hear what must befyinger jets overhead of us in jerusalem. Weve been hearing them all evening long. It has been quieter for us in jerusalem than it was earlier today when we were getting several rounds of sirens and we could hear Rocket Explosions over us in jerusalem, tel aviv also getting a barrage of rockets earlier in the evening. Most of the activity rocketswise has been focused lately on southern israel. We know of a direct hit on a hospital, no injuries reported there. But there are injuries reported elsewhere. Whats been the latest just in the last few minutes is Israeli Police have confirmed they have regained control of sterot, one of the more wellknown cities or towns, a pretty Small Community just right by the border with the gaza strip. So many journalists often go there when theres these sorts of conflicts, set up shop to report from. There had been ongoing gun battles with militants there since the early hours of what is now yesterday morning. And just in the last few minutes, police have confirmed that they have regained control. They said militants had essentially taken over the Police Station, but they now have control of sterot once again. Were seeing reports of other gun battles and with militants in other parts of israel, but this is the number one priority for the Israeli Military is gaining control once again of these israeli communities that were infiltrated by what Israeli Military have said could have been hundreds of hamas militants who not only infiltrated by air, by land, by sea, but then also took prisoners of war, took hostages with them. We know for a fact that there are soldiers and civilians who have been taken hostage, taken back into the gaza strip. We dont have specific numbers, but we expect those numbers to be in the dozens. Thats in addition to the hostages that were taken within israel itself. Militants would have entered homes and things like that. And were keeping hostages within homes there. Thats why we have this death toll and injury toll, about 300 israelis killed, more than 1,500 wounded. We expect those numbers to rise. Meanwhile, the Israeli Military is striking in the gaza strip. Theyve even sent out a warning to civilians in certain areas of gaza, telling them to leave those areas and go further into cities as a way of sort of warning them that something is coming. Whats also interesting what is weve heard from the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. He sent a message in the last couple of hours saying, we are embarking on a long and difficult war. He said, the first phase that is going to be ending soon, hopefully, is regain control from these militant infiltrations that right now he says are starting the offensive formation. He also said among decisions the cabinet has made is the stopping the supply of electricity, fuel, and goods to the gaza strip. So israel controls almost all of the Electricity Supply for the gaza strip. They are cutting off the electricity. This is obviously as an attempt to try to cut off the hamas organizations ability to communicate, to work together. Of course that affects the civilians in the gaza strip in t. Palestinian casualties are in the high 200s, over 1,600 injured so far. We dont know the breakdowns of how many were militants who may have been killed on israeli territory, because we to do know there were quite a few militants, how many of those are civilians . This is a quickly unfolding situation. I think the next stage this is military response. As of now we dont have indication that a Ground Incursion is happening by Israeli Forces into gaza, but the israel Israeli Military is saying they are preparing for that. This is a very complicated situation because israel obviously wants to go after the hamas militants, the organization, their heads in the gaza strip. But now there are israeli civilians and soldiers, some of whom may be dead, some of whom are expected to be alive, being held in gaza, in strategic locations. Any air strike israel undertakes, they need to be aware there could be israeli civilians or soldiers there as well. Well be talking with a mom who has two teenage children who were taken hostage by hamas. Just a nightmare scenario. Thank you so much, appreciate it. The Israeli Defense forces say a Senior Officer was killed during the fighting. 42yearold colonel Jonathan Steinberg led the nahal brigade, idf infantry unit. Im joined by michael oren, former ambassador to the United States. What is israel looking for from the United States in this situation . Good evening, jake. Good evening. I want to express my condolences to the steinberg family. I knew general steinberg. Extraordinary man, extraordinary defender of israel and the jewish people. What israel is expecting from the United States is stand foursquare with us. That was very much the essence of President Bidens speech today. His statement, which was extraordinary, i dont think israel could have wanted anything more, to say that the United States will stand solidly with israel. It will give israel everything it needs. If i can unpack that for a second, in every round of fighting weve had with haums and hezbollah in lebanon, we tend to run out of certain types of ammunition. Prepositioned beneath the state of israel, large amounts of American Military equipment, including ammunition. We asked administrations during wartime for the keys, as we say, to these warehouses. And we are allowed to go in and take what we need. We write it down and pay for it later, its replenished. Only one time, 2014 that permission was denied during another round of fighting with hamas. The Obama Administration did not concede to our requests for certain types of helicopter ammunition. But its very, very rare. I think what we understood from President Bidens Statement Today was that whatever we need, were going to get. And im very sorry to say that were going to need a great amount. Do you have any concerns about the u. S. Governments ability to provide what you need, given the political paralysis in washington . We dont have a speaker of the house right now. It is a concern. I was asked on the Israeli Press again and again, what are the ramifications of the crisis in congress . One of them is the ability of israel to request Emergency Aid for certainly systems like iron dome. Weve done that in the past. I think that would be very difficult right now if congress is dysfunctional. There are other considerations. Our reports have stated that the United States has removed a large amount of munitions from those prepositioned munitions under the state of israel and transferred them to ukraine. I cant be completely convinced that the hamas wasnt aware of this, especially as the current conflict can very easily mushroom into a regional conflict involving not only hamas but more importantly, more crucially, hezbollah in lebanon. There are obviously questions being asked by citizens of israel about the Intelligence Failure and about the military readiness questions, about whether or not the idf was positioned too much on the west bank and not enough in other parts of the country. With the complete and utter understanding that the fault of what happened today lies with hamas and the terrorists who committed these barbaric crimes, 100 , what is your understanding of these failures of intelligence and questions of readiness . I think its unassailable that there was a failure here. Its too early to start fingerpointing right now. Im sure in israel everyone is accountable in israel, no one is above that type of responsibility. Thats been our experience in previous rounds of fighting. But right now, israel is focused on defending itself. Defending its territory, clearing our territory of terrorists, of restoring our hostages to their homes, to their families, defending our homes and families. Jake, you know me and my family. Theyre all in Bomb Shelters tonight, everybody. My kids, my grandchildren are all in Bomb Shelters tonight. Theyve all known people who have fallen victim to this. Its a small country. Theres been lots of comparisons to 9 11. Everyones tragedy is their own, but proportionally, weve lost in one day probably twice as much as america lost in 9 11. So Everybody Knows somebody and its intensely personal and tragic. The hostages that were taken, i dont know how many, it hasnt been disclosed how many. It might not even be known at this hour. Were going to be talking to a mom in a few minutes who has two teenage kids who were taken hostage. That really complicates the response, because the targets that the idf would otherwise focus on might have israeli children, women, elderly hostages there. How can those hostages be rescued . We have Special Forces trained to do precisely that. This will figure into decisionmaking over subsequent stages of fight. The israeli public will be overwhelmingly in favor of a nonreturn to the status quo. Weve had that status quo for five rounds of fighting with hamas, it is not productive. Israel is ready to make a fundamental change in that status quo at a great price. A great price to israeli lives, certainly. We have no desire to inflict casualties on the other side, but we have an enemy using its civilians, now our civilians, as human shoeields. But we cannot endure this anymore. This is literally insufferable for any modern nation, certainly the state of israel. My assumption will be, a, israel will take further steps to rid hamas rid gaza of hamas. The big question, Will Hezbollah Sit on the sidelines . I have any doubts. Will radical elements among the arab population of israel sit on the sidelines . We have to be prepared for the possibility of a multifront war which will drag on and be immensely costly. We have no choice. Former israeli ambassador to the u. S. , michael oren, thanks so much for your time. Coming up, a woman who says hamas killed her children. Shell join me. Her story is unbelievable, it is heartbreaking, and it is after this break. Welcome back to cnns continuing coverage of israel at war in response to hamas Terrorist Attacks on israeli civilians. Youre looking at video of Hamas Terrorists taking israelis cap dave. Tonight, the families of many of those civilians are pleading for help to get them back home safely. Joining me now is a mother whose two kids were kidnapped by Hamas Terrorists this morning. We are not going to identify her or her children for their safety. Thank you so much for talking to us. I cannot imagine what youre going through. Please tell us what happened this morning. Sick 30 in the morning, we all woke up to the alert that were all, unfortunately, used to. Since i was awake, they were alone in the security room. They were with me on the phone, and by about 8 00 in the morning, they said they were starting to hear shooting, gun shooting outside. They heard gunshots outside . Yes. And i started getting messages, texts from other people, saying that soldiers are walking around, trying to break into houses. About 8 30, theyd heard the door break. They said, someone is breaking the door, someones breaking the door. They were scared to death. I cant even imagine what they felt. And i wasnt there to help. I was on the phone, and i said, just be quiet, stay quiet, stay in the security room, lock the door. But the doors dont really lock. Theyre not meant to. Theyre not meant to give a solution, because thats kind of the situation. No one thought a terrorist would walk down free. About quarter to 9 00, i heard on line, on the phone, the door break. I heard terrorists speaking in arabic to my teenagers. And the youngest. Im too young to go. 16 and 12. Very, very hard to hear. And the phone went off, the line went off. That was the last time i heard from them. There it was a very, very hard day. Many, many people from our place and other places were taken. They took babies. They took 2yearolds, 5yearolds, mothers. Just innocents. They did nothing wrong, they were just sleeping in their beds. Even war has rules. They just dont have any morals. Its something that you dont do. You know, i always tell my k kids i mean, the kids in gaza are struggling and having a hard life, a lot more. But now im not sure im able to be so moral about this. They took people over 80. They took sick people. They took people who were shot, wounded. Dragged them into gaza. You cant kidnap civilians just like that, you dont. You just dont. It just shows how cruel they are and how sorry. Im very sorry. You dont need to apologize. You dont need to apologize, i cant imagine what youre going through. I have two teenagers myself. I cant imagine. Not only what im going through. What our people are going through. I dont know if they eat, i dont know if they drink, i dont know if theyre together, i dont know if theyre apart. I dont know if theyre dressed. I dont know if theyre tortured. I dont know anything. Has anyone from the military or the government come by to say anything, to talk to any of you . No. No . Well, no, but i cant really blame anyone. It was a very, very difficult day in israel. Hundreds died. Thousands wounded. And protect hundreds taken or kidnapped to gaza strip. We dont really know how many. Its a very, very hard day. Its going to take its obviously taking time to get to all the people. To have everything reorganized in some way. It might be i have no connection and no information. At all. Weve heard people in israel say that this is like israels 9 11 or israels pearl harbor. Just a day that will live in infamy, to use the language that President Roosevelt used about pearl harbor. Is it that a day of that magnitude . Obviously for you it is the worst day of your life. But for the country, is it of that magnitude . It is. It is. I dont know you know, i cant really compare it to anything. Its obviously a day that will be remembered for a very, very long time. And theres obviously a lot to learn. But this is not the time now to deal with that. The time now is to release all the innocent people in the gaza strip who are held as hostages for nothing. For nothing. I mean, the people we keep here in our prisons, people who are terrorists. Were dealing with terrorists. Mostly men. Its unbelievable that they just think they can hold anyone they want and do anything they as i said, war has rules. Even war has rules. This is obviously the fault of the terrorists who did it, and i dont want my next question to be interpreted in any other way. But i have heard and read questions from israelis about, where was the idf . Why was the idf not in the area . Why did it take so long for the idf to get to the eastern part of the country . Why were so many of them on the western in the west bank, et cetera . Is that something that youre thinking about . You were talking about how your safe room is not it was set up not for terrorists to be able to stroll down the street and walk into your home. Is that something that youre thinking about . Obviously, obviously. And there will be time that all these questions will need to be answered. And the idf definitely took long to arrive and took long to take charge. Weve learned later that the main base that is supposed to be responding to this area was also under attack. Many commanders were shot. So im not trying to make any excuses for them. We were waiting for them, and people were staying in Security Rooms begging for help. Certainly theres a lot to learn from the idf and for others, for others. The government, for the country itself. They easily lost faith, our faith. Which was also, you know we had to have some faith in the country and in the government and the idf in order to live here at all in the first place. A lot of people are asking, why . How i can live in a place like that . Right. I dont think anyone could ever imagine this would happen. No, i certainly understand. No one in israel could have this nightmare even thought about. Because as i said, war has rules. Were going to stay in touch with you, and were all going to be thinking about you and your teens tonight and praying for you. Thank you very much for having me, and i hope they will all be released soon. Theyre only innocents. Babies, women, children, elderly people. They had nothing to do with the war in gaza. They have nothing to do there. Thank you for talking to us. They have a big army to fight if they want to fight, fight the army. Take someone your size. Thank you for talking to us tonight, we appreciate it. Thank you so much for having me. A former Israeli Military official calls what happened today a pearl harbortype moment. Up next, the former director of National Intelligence joins us. Were Warning Signs missed . What are intelligence officials doing right now . The terrorists of hamas are flaunting the success of their Surprise Attack on israel by releasing various propaganda videos. This video, for example, has been geolocated and t d authenty cnn. It shows dozens of terrorists descending on an Israeli Military base with guns, grenades, even drones. The videos are heavily edited to hide identities but they offer the first glimpse into how they pulled off this specific ambush, killing several israeli soldiers, at least six soldiers, all of them women, then taken prisoner. Israeli Officials Say these are unprecedented attacks on their country. And all of this does raise questions as to why no one not u. S. Intelligence, not israeli intelligence, not egyptian or jordanian no one apparently saw this coming. Im joined now by retired general james clapper, Cnn National Security analyst, and former director of National Intelligence. For the United States. Thanks so much for being here. Was this an Intelligence Failure . I think writ large, its hard to characterize it any other way. I would observe, though, that i think to understand completely what happened, you need to go to the next left of detail. Was this a case where the entire Intelligence Community of israel is caught completely ignorant . Or they had some evidence which may not have been compelling enough for a policymaker, commander, to take action . I think we spent decades in the business of trying to impart warning to Government Decisionmakers it is difficult sometimes if you cant present the evidence thats sufficiently compelling. And the nature of intelligence work, whether ours or israelis, is youre always dealing with a certain degree of uncertainty. You dont have complete, perfect knowledge. So i dont know about this. Its early. But in the postmortems, i think we need to consider that. The other this is a philosophical comment, i guess. Is that people have a hard time getting around their heads around a threat that they havent experienced. In this attack by hamas which reflected, i think, a degree of sophistication, of planning, multidimensional. Air, ground, sea, cyber. I think that took the israelis by complete surprise. They did not assess hamas was capable of doing that. U. S. Intelligence community was critiqued, and i think i guess appropriately so, for failure to connect the dots on our 9 11. I think this has to be regarded as their 9 11. And for a failure of imagination. It isnt a lack of imagination on the part of our Intelligence Community or their Intelligence Community. How do you impart evidence thats sufficiently compelling for a decisionmaker to do something . Beth sanner, former Deputy Director of National Intelligence, was on earlier. You know her well, obviously. And one of the things she seemed to be suggesting was that perhaps israel, when it comes to gaza which is basically an openair prison. I mean, there isnt people are not going back and forth between the gaza strip and israel as they once did. Or as they do with the west bank. That maybe israel relies too much on Signals Intelligence drones and spyware and not enough on human intelligence, because the western world and israel just doesnt have the spies in gaza anymore . Well, i can speak historically here. I dont have current inside the last time i toured the west bank and toured along the line between gaza and the west bank, or israel, i was blown away with the suffocating surveillance that the israelis maintain all along the gaza strip and shin bet, which is a Domestic Intelligence organization, the impression i came away with was they had really great insight into what was going on in the gaza. Now, thats some years ago. Whether israel had become has become more preoccupied with the west bank, took their eye off the ball with respect to hamas, i dont know. But at least at one point, they had great insight into hamas. I think beth pointed out the difficulty of conducting Human Operations in the gaza. Thats a tough place for israelis to operate. But they certainly use whether they depended on it too much, i dont know. But they certainly had visual surveillance, overhead surveillance, Signals Intelligence meaning cell phones and this sort of thing. Perhaps i would Surrise Hamas went to school on all that. Yeah. And plotted this out very secretively. Beth suggested hamas wasnt using cell phones, they would just meet in person. Im sure they went radio silent. Yeah. And perhaps, although i think Israel Intelligence would be wise to that, you know. If the comms go radio silent, you know theyre communicating some other way, probably in person. What do you suspect or how involved do you think the iranians and or the russians may have been . Obviously hamas has met with both in the last year. Publicly, openly. Yeah. Its possible. And im sure folks in moscow are happy about this. You know, this is a distraction from ukraine. Perhaps this will lead to more Military Armament support to israel on the part of the United States, so thats going to put a strain on our system which is already under stress, supplying ukrainians. You know, politics aside. So i just i dont know the extent to which they are involved. This is one area where u. S. Intelligence should be assisting, you know. I always felt like the israelis knew their own neighborhood like a glove and theres no way we could replicate that. In the larger region, notably with iran involvement, i think we may have some insight there. But i wouldnt overanalyze that, at least at this point. I think we need to know more, at least from open sources. All right, james clapper, always good to see you. Thank you so much, appreciate it. Coming up next, were back on the ground in israel for all the latest, plus new details on President Bidens phone call with israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu. What steps the u. S. Is taking after this quick break. The Israeli Defense forces say that its navy has foiled an attack in the area of zikkin beach. Nic robertson is there. Its Early Morning in israel, tell us the latest. Reporter yeah, the latest were hearing is that the Police Station in sderot taken control of by hamas militants about five miles or so in that direction is now back under Israeli Defense force control. Weve seen a lot of tanks being transported into the area, into closer to gaza. Weve seen civilian buses, empty, going in. Then some of them coming out. It appears as if some of the civilian population now, that area is more fully under israeli golf control. Some of the civilians are being bussed out of that area. But this is becoming a very active spot again right now. Helicopters in the air. Jets flying overhead. Weve had a few more missile intercepts, missiles fired from gaza, intercepted overhead here. But i think now as we wait for daylight to break in the next hour or so, that will bring a real perspective on just the movement of troops thats going to be anticipated here and a movement again of more heavy fighting vehicles, when is beginning to pick up pace. Jake . Lets bring up the map again to show people where you are in zukim, israel, in relation to gaza, if we can bring that up. You are just north of gaza. There you are. Do we have zukim beach . Anyway, there you are, youre right just north of the gaza strip. How much has life changed there in 24 hours. Reporter everyone here has been told to stay at home, stay close to shelter, be ready to use the shelter. The word from the Israeli Government is you have no reason to be out of your home at this time. So people are very aware that they need to stay home and be close to shelter. The roads have been empty. The stores we were driving past early on, taking in the southern Coastal Highway to come down from tel aviv, the stalls were pretty much all shuttered. Peoples lives have changed in this area in a way that they probably wont reclaim that previous normality, not for a long time. Thats what the Prime Minister says hell do, which is push out the hamas militants, which seems theyd be pretty much under control and happening, secure the border. But to be able to bring that sense of Normalcy Back that people lost this morning, jake i think thats going to take a long time. And of course, part of that is going to involve, it appears, a significant Israeli Military push to take out those hamas leaders. And that could take a few weeks to put into place. Nick robertson, thank you s much. Today the white house is condemning the Terrorist Attacks by hamas. President biden and Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu spoke by home earlier today. Lets bring in cnn senior White House Correspondent tail la tower show. Kayla, what has President Bidens response been . Reporter jake, the white house is working around the clock to figure out how best it can support israel at this moment in time. You mentioned that call between the two leaders that happened today. And im told that on that call, Prime Minister netanyahu made a specific request for military aid and that President Biden directed his team to provide that support, including additional intelligence support. That is clearly one e. R. A. Where the u. S. Is monday morning quarterbacking, trying to figure out exactly how this happened and where there was such a significant lapse. Which i know youve been discussing with your guests throughout the evening. As they try to figure this out, there have been questions as to whether there was a third country, like egypt, that had this intelligence and it was simply overlooked. A Senior Administration official said that simply was not the case. But earlier today, President Biden in no Uncertain Terms said there would continue to be rocksolid and unwavering support for israel. Heres the president in his own words. You know, when i spoke with Prime Minister netanyahu this morning, i told him the United States stands with the people of israel in the face of these terrorist assaults. Israel has the right to defend itself and its people, full stop. Reporter of course, this all undermines the administrations agenda in The Middle East where National Security adviser Jake Sullivan said just one week ago, its quieter than its been in two decades. And there have been talks ongoing, jake, to normalize relations between israel and saudi arabia. As to a suggestion that perhaps those talks served as a provocation to hamas, the Administration Says that hamas will not derail any progress thats being made even though that pact is still months away. Does the United States government, President Biden, others, have any plans to announce more specific assistance for israel . Reporter that is something that is under discussion at this moment, jake. A senior official tonight said that could be ready as soon as tomorrow, although im told by a separate source its not quite ready and could be at least another day after that. We will see. As both sides are trying to accelerate this package. But there are fraught relations at this very unique moment in time in washington. Theres no speaker of the house of representatives. Theres no u. S. Ambassador to israel, although some senators are suggesting that when the senate comes back in session, that confirming the nominee, jack lou, the former treasury secretary as the ambassador, should be the first order of business. So how that calendar comes together will be important. But there is an expectation from the administration that there would be strong bipartisan support for a new security package. Its just getting all the ducks in a row to be able to pass it. Kayla tausche at the white house, thanks so much. Israels Prime Minister says theyre now embarking on a long and difficult war. So what will that look like . Israeli military session as much as 1,000 took part in the astack. Now the couple is embarking often the lodge and difficult war against hamas. Im joined by aaron david miller, aaron good to see you. Youve been there for other attacks on israel. How does what were seeing today compare with what youve been there for in the past . Jake, things are add manipulate, it goes beyond Anything Desc Israelis Have seed the United States have seen. Pursued a pretty risk diverse strategy against hamas, and occasionally when hamas reacted with rockets the fight got pretty brutal. Like in 2021. I think youre witnessing since this israel Prime Minister just on this issue but on other ones, have become not risk averse but risk ready. The overall in trying to given the brutality and the savagery and the stories yet to be told and the ongoing fights the blood is up. I think that the israelis have reached the conclusion that Risk Aversion when it comes to gaza is no whronger fees longer feasible or desirable. I think what youre going to see, i think it will take some days maybe longer is a change of strategy. I think whats coming is a pretty dramatic air, sea and Ground Attack against gaza. Designed to do three things. Number one, decapitate and or eliminate as much as the hamas leadership as possible. The israelis have pursued targeted attacks on hamas leaders before pretty successfully. This is going to be something i think much more amount beneficiaries. So you destroy infrastructure, decapitate the leadership, and goal number 2 is you send a powerful message to hezbollah, that the israelis are risk ready. The problem as you know jake is the day after. Even if the israelis are successful what happens in terms of gaza . What authority prevails there . Do the Descreams Occupy 363 square kilometers with 2 Million People . The egyptians arent going to be very supportive here and wouldnt if its done on the back of an israel tank or an f16. So i think thats the real problem and thats whats dissuaded so many israel leaders from a more ambitious strategy. Is there any possibility that the leaders of any other arab country, whether jordan osh egypt or the or egypt or the uae, bahrain, saudi, would do anything, in lets say if there is a gaza in the future with 2 million palestinians desperate for leadership and a functioning society, and lets assume that just to pos it for is posit for the sake of this discussion that the hamas leadership has again eliminated, is there any room for any of those arabisrael countries to step in and fill the breach and help . I know there is room for it. Would they ever do it, is my question . I mean i think they contribute to reconstruction, assistance, quite generously under the right circumstances. The question is how does the gaza story end . Does it end in a massive israel incursion which december mates hamas but ends up Killing Hundreds if not thousands of palestinians, not to mention losses for the israel Defense Forces in the most densely Populated Areas on earth. I think youre going to run into the problem of palestinian Self Determination and their own determination to run themselves. I think gaza is like a lost child. Right now as you pounded out is an open air prison, unemployment is more than 50 . Terrible psychological and social problems. I think that were watching a situation without a determined or definitive and i can say with great authority, jake, i dont make predictions but this situation is going to get worse before it gets much worse. Were in for a very, very rocky ride. Over the next several weeks or even months. Aaron david miller, thank you so much, always appreciate it. Take care jake. In the next hour more on what appears to be a massive Intelligence Failure for israel as some are calling this israels 9 11. Stay with us