People from thailand, people from children missing. People from around the world. This is a humanitarian crisis and the world needs to get involved. It very much is a humanitarian tragedy on a global scale, as you just rightly pointed out. Isaac thomas, thank you for joining us, thank you for sharing your story with us. And thank you for watching, Laura Coates Live starts right now. Thank you abby, a very tough evening. Good evening everyone, this is Laura Coates Live. It is 6 00 in the morning in israel. Israelis are waking up not knowing what today is going to bring, but here is what at least we know so far. The Israeli Military is going on the offense against tomas with the Prime Minister benjamin yet neowho vows, will be, like never before. After a devastating Surprise Attack that left at least 900 people dead in israel. We have begun, and i emphasize, we only begun to strike at hamas. The images of the devastation and destruction from the hamas stronghold in gaza are just the beginning. We have eliminated many hundreds of terrorists and we will not stop there. At least 260 people were killed at an all Night Dance Party celebrating the jewish holiday of the coat. Shot as they tried to escape. Well talk to one woman who was on the phone with her friends when the shooting started and has not heard from, them since more than 680 palestinians have been killed according to gazas health ministry. Hamas claims to be holding more than 100 hostages and said that civilian hostages will be executed without any warning and broadcast give israel targets people in gaza without giving a warning. The white house says the United States has, quote, no intention to put u. S. Boots on the ground in israel, but President Biden will, quote, do what he has to do, unquote, to look after National Security interests. Here it means to you tonight to help put everything in perspective and context is interNational Security advisor and analyst peter bergen and cnn Global Affairs analyst Kimberly Dozier. I want to get on the ground in jerusalem where cnns Jeremy Diamond is right now. Jeremy, the sun is rising momentarily, it is day four of this horrific conflict. How is the Israeli Government responding . Well, for, just as hamas is surprised Terrorist Tech this past weekend in israel was unprecedented in scale, the Israeli Government is also making it very clear that its response, its Military Campaign in gaza is also going to take on new proportions never before seen. Israel has already formally declared war on hamas and we have heard the Defense Minister say that they are now officially laying a full siege of the gaza strip, allowing no food, water, electricity, or fuel into that enclaves. And the israeli Prime Minister, in an address late monday night, making clear that he wants to eliminate hamas. Making clear that he wants the Military Campaign that is government now waging will be unprecedented in scale. What really shows us that it is, perhaps, going to be unprecedented to the fullest extent is what has yet to come. And, what we are seeing building on the ground. More than 300,000 Israeli Military reservists have been called up. We have seen tanks, Artillery Formations building up around the gaza strip and all of this a potential sign that israel could be preparing for some kind of Ground Invasion of gaza, an invasion, perhaps, the biggest in scale since israel withdrew from the gaza strip back in 2005. But, what is clear amid all of this, we have watched the Israeli Death toll has risen to over 900 according to Israeli Defense forces. In gaza we have watched as that Palestinian Death toll has risen to over 680 individuals. What we certainly know, every time there is a conflict between israel and gaza, innocent Palestinian Civilians are so often caught in the middle with nowhere to really go. Few Bomb Shelters to speak of and, certainly, we know that civilian casualties typically take their toll in these conflicts. Jeremy diamond, thank you so much. We will keep with this. Please keep us informed, it has been one of the most shocking attacks. In the first few days of this war the assault of an all night Music Festival in the rural area near the gaza israel border. One minute people are dancing, theyre celebrating the holiday, and then suddenly youve got the sound of rockets, the sound of sirens followed by gunfire. At least 260 people were killed. Now, some survivors reportedly were taken hostage as well. Joining me now is nowhere for mayor, who her friends, they have been missing since the attack. Noah, thank you for joining us this evening. We are all watching what is happened. Please tell us about your friends who have been missing. When was the last time you spoke to them . Hello laura, thank you for having me. My friend, my best friend, sister, and her husband, and another good friend of them they went to the festival on saturday morning. Some friends of theirs were already there. The girl in the middle, she is like my childhood friend. We were talking a few hours before and in the morning. , saturday morning we all slept and they have never reached the festival and you know this festival is 3000 people celebrating, dancing a prairie dance because all these Beautiful People the only thing that came it with love in their hearts to celebrate and pray for peace. Because we all want peace, we all want quiet times. They went and they made, friends of theirs were at the party already. They made food for them and waited for them. Last time they were talking to shiraz and they told him that they were in this place, a place very close to the party, and she said that we are hearing bombing, people shooting at us, and the other girl, celine, she was texting with her husband and she is writing to him like, yeah, theyre shooting at us, they are shooting at us, we hear bombing. My friend said that i hear the powder, the burning powder. They can smell everything, they can feel everything. And celine was telling her husband, oh, i see soldiers. I see soldiers. And since then we never heard of them, we dont know either theyre kidnapped, we dont know nothing. We keep the faith, but we dont know. We dont sleep, the families they have two little girls asking about their parents, when theyre going to come back. It is really hard. How hard has it been to get information, any information about where they are for what may have happened . You know, you choose life. To ourselves, to everyone. So we always want to keep the faith. We are strong, we have faith. So, until we have no shoes, we keep the faith. It is hard, it is hard, you cannot even imagine. I dont know if any one ever invented a word to describe what happened there because the massacre, it is an understatement. You talk about the festival, but the festival it is all over. You know, first of all, they thought its a bombing. Unfortunately we are used to these bombings. People in the south, it happens all the time. We have time, running into the shelters. Its something that we know how to deal. So, nobody would believe that this is what they believed. They all finished with the bombing, they all do what they need to do in case of bombing. Then they realize it is a shooting, it is a massacre. And it is horrible to even tell you what happened there. Even until yesterday i dont know, they were taking bodies out of the festival like three days, four days, they are still taking out bodies from this festival, you know . And all of these people just want to dance for peace, they just want to dance for having a better reality for everyone. Noa its so difficult for you to even describe this, spoken with their families. Saline as a child at home as well and you have grown up with shiraz. Shiraz just finished maternity leave. My message, i tell you laura, we all are under the same sky. You know, the world is one global village. All of us under the same sky. We saw it on the covid time, now with the climate, we see that if something happens it happens to all of us. And every country has a gift because it is universe, uni, it is one. It is like a puzzle. Every country has its own gift. Israel has it gives that if something happened somewhere in the world we go and help everybody, taking our forces and doing whatever we need to help. The United States has this gift of helping everybody also in business. The arab people have this gift of hospitality and you know they respect the old people and they have such a beautiful legacy of these things. We really think about gaza like a riviere. I can go there, i can be a tourist. We believe in peace, but, i have to say, every country has the right to defense and it offend on their existence. It is very important keep alive. I just want to say something, with your permission, good luck in arabic. [speaking in a nonenglish language] just, a new reality to come. Thank you so much for sharing your story and your thoughts today with us. Our thoughts are with you and were seeing on the screen right now your friends, thank you so much. If somebody saw something, that the picture, we dont know what happened to them. Theyre still missing, a lot of people are still missing. Thank you laura for having me. Thank you so much. There is new Video Tonight and, i warn you, it is disturbing. It captures just some of the brutality of the attack of the Music Festival fight. Militants so round a Bomb Shelter Screaming at a shirtless men standing outside of it. Now, it is unclear what exactly is being said, but he squats on the ground and they began kicking him. His fate is unknown. One militant then throws a grenade into a bomb shelter, a man runs out trying to escape the grenades explosion. He runs out of the frame, but the militants immediately fix their guns on him and began firing. His fate tonight is also unknown. Shocking violence by all accounts, i want to bring in peter bergen and dozier into the conversation as well. When you look at what is happening here, peter, hearing the accounts and the stories that are being told, it is so significant. We are four days watching what is happening right now. Give me a sense of how you are viewing this . Well lets assume that the least 100 hostages. One of the hardest things is to mount Hostage Rescue Operations. First of all we have to know where the hostages are. That seems pretty obvious but that can be pretty hard. One and Hostage Rescue situated theres a lot of things it can go wrong. Ive seen a lot of the Hostage Rescue Operations by jihadist groups. When its a Hostage Rescue is hostages are killed, either by people or trying to rescue them or by the hostage takers. Even if you have an Operation Lot of things can go wrong. When you look at this kimberly as you were explaining, there is potentially a strategy now of unclaimed all these passages knowing all and well what impediments it creates for the Israeli Soldiers and the government didnt retaliate . The hostages are essentially Human Shields because everything in everything that the Israeli Defense forces do from here on out might injure or kill them. Hamas has even threatened to execute them live on camera. Meanwhile you have these families and friends missing. The government has told them that they will be informed in the next 48 hours if their loved ones have been found, identified dead. A friend of mine said they heard a motorcycle come up the driveway, go to a neighbors house, wheeling breakout inside. Thats other notifications are being delivered, and its taking a long time to get around the country and get to everyone who is related to those who have been killed. So people want to know, people like noaa, they want the answers, yet they dont want that knock at the door, not that one. Please stick around both of you. Were gonna have this conversation really rely on both your expertise, weve got a lot more to talk about. Next were gonna go to the magic wall. Way to break down whats happening on the ground right now as to the war enters its fourth day. As we go to a quick break, look at the white house tonight. It is lit up in the colors of these really flag. , israel has been pounding gaza with airstrikes and after the Surprise Attacks by hamas that have left at least 900 people dead. More than 280 palestinians have also been killed according to gazas health ministry. Whats happening on the ground right now and where is this conflict headed . Lets go right now to cnn military analyst retired colonel cedric leighton. Hes at the magic wall. Also peter bergen and Kimberly Dozier as well. Lets begin with a cedric because what is happening exactly on the ground right now . Others still fights in the streets of israel . Yes there are in fact laura and lets take a look at this because theres some interesting things that have developed here. The location of the festival that everybody talks about where the 260 people were killed is right about here just about southwest of the area. All these towns have had folks from hamas actually showing up in each of these areas. Some of them still have pockets of hamas fighters in them, others have been cleared and the israelis are saying that they have pushed out most of them now. But the latest briefings from the idf defensive forces say they still have some areas where they are fighting in one or two elements. That is one area where you can see theres hasnt been quite cleaned up yet basically laura. Israel is saying the, government is saying that over 4000 rockets were actually fired into israel. How have they been responding . So one of the key things that has happened 11th this is the take a look here. These areas in red with the red dots are the hostile attacks into israel. Explosion graphics are where israeli aircraft and artillery have struck targets within gaza. So what that looks like hes kind of interesting because this is a pilots i view of what is going on, and you can see how they go in and they actually target certain areas in all of this Gaza Territorial right here. You see one explosion right there, you can see that theyre going after road intersections, theyre going after specific buildings. This is the kind of thing that targeted ors go after. What they are trying to do is theyre trying to in essence limit the activities of hamas. Theyre trying to move them in a specific direction and of course takeout as many them as possible. Peter, on this point you raised the point of the last time israel attempted to go and it did not work out the way they had hoped . The last time they went into lebanon in 2006, eventually israel withdrew and i think there is a larger point. Urban warfare is very hard. Right now we are in an aerial campaign. Be look at when ices was embedded in mosel, which is a city of roughly the same population sizes gaza, it took many, many months with a major Iraqi Army Operations supported by u. S. Air support throughout before i. S. I. S. Was sort of removed. So one of the hardest operations you came out is urban warfare. Weve seen that very recently. So if it becomes a Ground Incursion we are in a very different kind of operation. Go ahead. Can i was going to say one of the reasons that they are leery of going in on the ground is because it is tightly packed. Hamas knows that they are coming and will of prepositioned weaponry et cetera. But also one of the reasons they withdrew originally from gaza is because once you get in there what do you do . Do you stay . And it becomes a Counter Insurgency situation where you are always be in friction with the local population. So what is the goal of this operation going to be . Are they just gonna go in and try to get the Hostages Intake of as much as the hamas hamas in extra Military Infrastructure as they can and then leave . And what happens with gaza . Who rules it . Next hamas is ruled it with an iron fist it won with elections. It hasnt held any since. They have all of these questions to ask but right now the public is asking them to get our people back, so that is pressuring this operation. Cedric, is this confined as we speak right now to israels war . Is it outside of the borders now . Let me do one quick thing before we get to that point laura. This is something that is really important to get a visual on because this is a mosque. Normally he wouldnt a religious site. But in this particular case, this is the before, this is the after picture. According to the Israeli Defense forces, this was a commanding Control Point for hamas. Now getting to who else is playing in this field, you have of course the area right here, this is gaza, you have Golan Heights which is Israeli Occupied territory of syria. There is a large presence of pro iranian and syria, the government is pro iranian. As he