Welcome to our viewers joining us in the United States and Around The World. Im bianca nobilo. And im max foster. Israeli airstrikes on hamas targets this gaza seem to be getting more power it will by the day. The death toll on both sides of the border continues to climb. Israel now says that more than 1200 people were killed in the weekend attacks by hamas. Huge explosions have rocked gaza this morning where the Palestinian HealthMinistry Says more than 5,000 have been wounded. Israeli naramilitary has cal up more than 300,000 reservists and evacuated near the border. The defensive against hamas may have started from the air, but it will also come on the ground. President herzog is worning against harming any hostages. Israel is committed to the security of its citizens, to their safety and wellbeing both when they are attacked by murderers and cruel Human Monsters and when they are kidnapped and taken prisoner by them. I would like to emphasize the full responsibility rests on the barbaric murders of hamas and islamic jihad. Therefore to the wellbeing of those an strbducted and kidnapp not a hair on their heads should be harmed. They should be released and returned home. And each passing day brings another horrific example of the hamas attacks. More than 100 bodies have been found in a kibbutz now gaza. Nic robertson saw the carnage. A warning this report contains graphic content. Reporter the drive into kaf is chilling. I thought about General Eisenhower that comes into the death camp and he brings the press. Reporter he did the same inviting about 50 journalists. You will see, it is a big massacre, big disaster. Have you ever seen anything like this in your career before . Never. Reporter less than a mile from gaza, 70 hamas fighters stormed in here early saturday. Some even flying. This is one of the paragliders that flew in here. You can see the engine here, propellers here made of carbon fiber, the fuel tank up here and the frame of it at the front. Reporter the idf in control now after a two day battle. Hamas lie where they fell. Only now the extremes of their barbarity becoming apparent. 700 plus civilians lived here. How many were killed still unclear. How they died, brutally apparent. Some decapitated they say. They be in the front of their parents, they killed parents and we found babies between the dogs and the family that killed before him. They cut head of the people. Reporter each body bag silent, sent nacentral that all kfar to be overrun. A motivation for troops too. We wait foe would you defend our people and until now we collect the bodies. Will you be going into gaza itself . I look to the next 100 yards. You take care of the next 10. Next 100. I fight the next 100 yards and then look for more. Reporter forward to a possible showdown with hamas. How and when, still to be determined. Nic robertson, cnn, kfar aza. And the response continues. This is a view across the skyline of gaza, you can see how there are multiple missiles being fired into that area. Targeting hamas infrastructure according to the israeli, but many on the ground saying that civilians very much being caught up in that and the hospitals are full. And an increasing desperate situation when you consider the whole area has had the food, medicine all cut off. Elliott gotkine is with us. The number of israeli deaths going up by a frightening number every day. And you get a sense of it when you see those idf soldiers still discovering bodies in the south. Right. Just yesterday we were talking about 1,000 deaths inside of israel. Now were up to more than 1200. Just to put it into context, this is around about half the number of casualties that israel suffered in the Yom Kippur Woor which began almost 50 years ago to the day according to the gregorian calendar. So future historians will be no doubt racketing what is happening right now alongside those wars such as the Yom Kippur War and the like. And of course every day were seeing more and more evidence of the brutality and savagery of the hamas attack. We heard from Benjamin Netanyahu saying hamas is isis and this is like isis. And i suppose as a sceptical journalist your initial reaction is this is a bit of hyperbole. But now weve seen the evidence on the ground. Nic robertson there in kfar aza where the troops say women, toddlers, the elderlywou brutal butch erd. And of course were seeing the other stories, people weve spoken with, who for example had to hide under corpses for hours on end in order to stay alive to not be killed when they first attacked that Peace Festival going on just next to gaza. These are things that you hear about in wars whether from the holocaust or the bosnian war, people hiding under masses of bodies in order to stay alive. So quite unimaginable things that have happened and more and more evidence of this, more and more videos and our reporters are seeing it with their own eyes emerging every day. If there is any doubt that hamas was a Terrorist Organization because obviously it is a government as well effectively in gaza, that has gone away now in the global consciousness because of the nature of the attack. Youd think, wouldnt you. But you only have to look at the scenes that weve seen in australia and other places like that where people are coming out into the streets, whether celebrating the initial attack on israel or still, you know, applauding what has been happening against a lot of those are supporting palestinians. Yes, but at the same time, there is a lot of things going on with people from Student Bodies such as particularly at harvard for example putting out statements which are then kind of blowing up on social media as well. So still a very im sure that you would find many people that would say no, that is not the case. But weve seen the evidence that hamas has been behaving in the same way that the islamic state, isis, was behaving in syria and iraq. Elliott, thank you. U. S. National security adviser Jake Sullivan says the white house does not sxetexpect israel to pursue a siege, but they are consulting with allies in case the conflict escalates. A u. S. Carrier strike group has arrived in the Eastern Mediterranean sea. Officials say it is meant to deter other nations or groups in the region from trying to widen the war. The Aircraft Carrier was accompanieded by Guided Missile Destroyers and cruises. In a speech from the white house, President Biden said that he will be calling on congress to pass supplemental funding for israel. And he shared details about his call with the israeli mprim minister Benjamin Netanyahu. And he compared it as elliott referred to do the atrocities of isis from years ago. Mj lee has more now from washington. Reporter For The Second Time since the attacks on israel began, President Biden delivering a speech trying to show the u. S. s resounding support for israel and condemning hamas. The president saying in his remarks that hamas actions compare to some of the worst rampages of isis. He used words like shear evil and abhorrent. And he confirmed that the death toll of americans in israel had climbed to 14 and confirmed for the first time that americans were among the hostages taken by hamas into gaza. We now know american citizens are among those being held by hamas. Ive directed my team to share intelligence and plememploy experts to consult with and advise israeli counterparts in the hostage recovery efforts. Because as president , i have no higher priority than the safety of americans being held hostage Around The World. Reporter President Biden tuesday also spoke for the third time since the attacks with Prime Minister netanyahu. He said that he had pledged to netanyahu again that the u. S. Would offer whatever resources the country needed to get through the next several weeks. But it is certainly unclear at this moment exactly how all of that would unfold legislatively. Mj lee, cnn, the white house. Hamas is firmly rejecting President Bidens remarks on israel calling it inflammatory. In a statement tuesday, the militant group said bidens statement aims to escalate tension against the Palestinian People. It also urged the American Administration to reassess its position on the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Biden described it an act of sheer evil. Joining us now is michael stevens, associate professor of international studies. Thank you for being with us. Thank you. What do you think some of the contingencies that the u. S. Administration would be exploring in the event that this Conflict Spills over or that there any intelligence suggestion of greater involvement from other regional players, what might they be looking at . Certainly they have already been building on those contingencies. They have been talking to the saudis and to a number of the European Countries who they themselves have good access to the Palestinian Authority and to the israelis on the grounds. So at the moment what were seeing is a set of plans being put in place for an escalation trying to understand that actually things might get a bit worse before they get better. But ultimately as your piece just said, there are hostages on the ground, there are italian hostages, german hostages, american hostages. There is a limit. The question is when do people start to talk and the sad thing is that time is not yet now. Can i just ask you, obviously a big factor in the background is iran and concern that if this is not contained and iran gets folded in, that is a much bigger global issue, isnit. Yes. Can i also ask you about russia and where they are sitting on this . We havent heard much from them. Obviously the relationship with iran but also with israel. Sure. I mean the russians are a bit distracted right now as you well know. I dont see any Military Role for them in the conflict. Not only that, but the u. S. Has first move advantage. They have moved a lot of personnel and armored warfare into the region. And basically saying that everybody else stay out. So of course the russians arent going to mess with that. They have a strong relationship with Bashar Al Assad in syria, but that is about as far as it goes. And as weve seen the last few years, there has been a kind of cold peace between the two. They do coordinate in syria, they accept sometimes that the israelis will go into target iranian backed militias like hezbollah that are operating close to the Israeli Border and there is a takes set understanding that russia has its interests, israel has its interests. Set understanding that russia has its interests, israel has its interests. But i dont see them stepping into this at the moment. Michael, this is a sort of difficult question to frame correctly hamas is designated as a Terrorist Organization, but there is a large amount of sympathy globally for what hamas might be trying to achieve or how they might be trying to protect the Palestinian People. Given that this unprecedented and surprise attack was clearly very sophisticated and well planned, what do you think that this strategy was if there was one in terms of the brutality that were Hearing Reports of from the israeli soldiers, the hostage taking, Hearing Reports of babies being murdered. Why this lack of discipline . I mean, this is an attempt to hit back in any way possible. But clearly it was tactically very well planned. I dont see much strategy there. And somewhat mass sympathizers have implied that this is a form of resistance to iz sraeli occupation. Inall of us can agree that it is difficult to understand how killing babies is a form of resistance. But nevertheless, this motion that what has happened is so shocking that it has woken the world up to talk about the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Im sure the last six months to the year the focus of your show has been on ukraine. But now israeli is top of the agenda on breakfast news. So in a way hamas has done a barbaric act but were talking about Israeli Palestinian situation and people are being knowledging that there is a problem that needs to be solved, that it probably cannot be solved militarily. And that there needs to be a political solution. The question to my mind is not about hamas who clearly have signed their own extermination by the israelis and i think we have to accept that will be pretty bloody and brutal and it will be a very bad time coming ahead, but there is also the Palestinian Authority. There are palestinian actors on the ground who are not hamas and who do need to be engaged and we need to start thinking strategically about how palestinians talk to israelis in the future because lets be honest, they havent been talking and the situation has been getting worse. Youre right about ukraine. Lets talk about ukraine briefly because what does this attention on the middle east have on the ukraine war . Does russia capitalize on it, but also what does it mean for the u. S. Funding which is already drying up going to ukraine and some of that funding now will be focused on the middle east presumably, so it makes funding even less likely for ukraine. Yeah, so i think in terms of funding, i dont see a huge shift because, you know, israel has a strong relationship with the United States. That is signed off every year and has bipartisan support in the congress. So the funding streams that support israel i dont think will be unduly changed. The types of Weapon Systems the israelis use which are extremely advanced are very different from the Weapon Systems that the ukrainians use. Obviously the Ministry Of Defense in the uk, the Department Of Defense in the u. S. , have a set strategy for ukraine. And so it is coming in that country and there are plans afoot to try to resist the russian Defensive Push and to push back in that way. So these things can be separated defensively. In terms of political time, bidens time, macrons time, that is a different story. They will have to focus heavily on trying to solve this problem that has broken out between israel and palestinians, they will have to try to come to some sort of negotiated solution, not now, but in the future, and that does divert attention away from zelenskyy and the ukrainian cause, no doubt about it. I was even just talking to somebody in the region today about an hour ago who said isnt It Interesting that weve stopped talking about ukraine. I think in terms of political attention, yes, we probably have. And this conflict in palestinian and israel will take all the News Headlines for a while. But strategically, the position on ukraine stands. I think the big challenge there is about the u. S. President ial election and what will happen if donald trump becomes president. Michael, really appreciate the time. Thank you. Coming up, chaos in gaza, palestinians say billions are scrambling to find water, food and shelter. How the International Community is responding. Plus Top European Union officials are responding to the crisis as israel intensifies it. The latest International Reactions to the fighting, next. In u. N. Human rights is warning israel that keeping essential goods out of gaza is prohibited by international law. And they have ordered a complete siege blocking supply of electricity, water and fuel. And the u. N. Says this will only Coal Pompound the misery o those trapped. And hospitals are filling up as the airstrikes bombard the region. Doctors without borders says hospitals in gaza are overwhelmed. Officials say they are already seeing shortages of medicine, water, electricity and fuel which hospitals rely on for their generators. And policy chief is urging israel against punishing all palestiniansofs over the hamas attack. Nada bashir is joining us now. What is happening to try to deescalate the conflict . We know on the regional front there are intense talks between regional leaders trying to not only deescalate the tensions ongoing as weve seen across israel and palestinians, but also crucially focusing on ways to get aid to gaza. As you mentioned there, gaza is now under siege and no water, no food, no electricity, no fuel getting into the gaza strip which is of course under blockade, it has been since 2007 as a force by israel. And this has really sparked concern. And weve heard from the eu chief, he has spoken about the issues around inflicting what he has described as collective punishment. Of course israel says it is targeting hamas positions in order to break down hamas military capabilities and ability to pose a threat to israel, but as we have seen because gaza is under a blockade, because there is simply nowhere for palestinians to run or take shelter, this has become an issue and long been an issue of collective punishment. Take a listen to what he said on tuesday. 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