This is cnn Breaking News. Hello and welcome to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. Im Lynda Kinkade with cnns breaking News Coverage of israel at war. Take your belongings and go south. Thats the message from israel to the residents of Northern Gaza as it prepares to launch a Military Ground Operation at any moment. The u. S. Is sending a second Carrier Strike group to the Eastern Mediterranean, as well as additional fighter jets. The move is intended to deter iran, hezbollah, and others from entering the conflict. On saturday, israel declared its ready to open a new phase in the war with a focus on significant ground operations. The idf says it struck more than 100 hamas targets in gaza overnight. A cnn team close to the Northern Gaza has been Hearing Heavy Machine Gunfire near the border fence as well as loud explosions. Israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu met soldiers on the front lines offering words of support and telling them to be prepared. Palestinian authorities in gaza say the death toll from the israeli air strikes is now more than 2,300 people with more than 9,000 injured. According to the health ministry, 300 of those deaths were in just the past 24 hours. Most of them women and children. Israel claims it has already killed two senior hamas leaders who were behind last weekends massacres. Earlier i interviewed a spokesperson from the idf about one such operation in the past several hours. I can inform you that over the night, we attacked and killed one of the commanders, leaders, belal al kidra. He was the leader that conducted butcher and attack in the near rim bib duties. This goes to exemplify we have the intelligence to take out hamas leadership from the mastermind of the massacre all the way down to the terrorists that breached, penetrated, and butchered our babies in their bedrooms. Live from london, elliot gok. Israel has continued to strike gaza in retaliation for the hamas Terror Attacks. It has also carried out some ground raids. What can you tell us about this second stage in their offensive . It seems like its imminent, lynda. Weve been talking about the possibility, the likelihood of a Ground Invasion since hamas launched that Terrorist Attack more than a week, just over a week ago, killing more than 1,300 people inside of israel. We really do seem like we are getting very, very close to this actually happening. And of course, the Evacuation Call from the Israeli Defense forces to gazans living especially in gaza city, but in the northern part of the strip, to tell them to grab their belongings and move south, is designed to get the civilian population out of harms way and minimize civilian casualties for this expected Ground Invasion. But its much much more complicated than previous one, not least because of the more than 100 hostages that hamas grabbed when it launched that attack into israel. They are believed by the idf to be being kept underground, and of course hamas also has this labyrinth of tunnels almost like an underground city underneath the surface of gaza which will also provide them with problems, allow hamas militants both additional defensive and offensive capabilities. All the while, we are also seeing the death toll in the gaza strip rising, as you just said. And of course, there are concerns that the northern border could become an additional front. Just as we were coming on air, the idf sending out a report saying there was fire towards a community in northern israel, and israel is as we speak striking the origins, the source of that fire in southern lebanon. It hasnt turned into an additional front just yet, but if it does, israel has warned that it will bring destruction on lebanon. And of course, we know, elliot, that the u. S. Is sending a second Aircraft Carrier and fighter jets to the region. Just how involved will the u. S. Get . Well, the u. S. Involvement is relatively rare deployment of a second Aircraft Carrier to the Eastern Mediterranean, specifically to try to deter this additional front from opening and to deter hezbollah, which is, of course, the shia Militia Backed by iran, from getting involved in the war. Its a kind of a warning to both hezbollah and to iran and, to a lesser extent, to syria where weve also seen rockets being fired towards israel. I think its pretty clear the u. S. Is not going to have boots on the ground at any stage. Its providing additional military aid to israel since this particular war began, and perhaps it may increase that involvement at some point. But no one really is expecting boots on the ground. For now it is support, both in terms of Political Support and in terms of military aid and the presence of those two Aircraft Carriers really designed to send a clear message to hezbollah and its backers in tehran that they should not get involved if they dont want to suffer the consequences. Elliot, just speak to us big picture about the reaction we are seeing around the world and how its changed over the course of the past week . I think to begin with, there was quite a lot of Support Rallying around israel from the International Community, really shocks at the barbarity and savagery of this Terrorist Attack by hamas in the early hours of last saturday morning. But of course, as the civilian death toll has risen in gaza, which was inevitable, sadly, given how embedded in the Civilian Population Hamas is, that has generally been a sense this has generally been shift, that theres been more calls for concern for israel to take greater care with civilian lives. And of course, weve seen this play out in the past, that when there are wars in gaza and the civilian death toll rises, that this kind of cams for more care to be taken with civilians kind of moves over into potential condemnation of israel, whether its the United Nations or by international bodies. Weve heard from other countries in the region, such as the united arab emirates, calling for israel to take more care with civilians. There are discussions under way to try to get some kind of safe passage for american civilians and also other citizens of gaza out of the rafha Crossing South of the strip. For now, aid is not able to get in. It seems for now, people are not able to get out either. I think that we will, over the coming days, see more criticism of israel and perhaps leading to some kind of condemnation in various bodies of the United Nations. I think israel knows that that is likely to happen at some point, but given the gravity of this Terrorist Attack on israel which has been described by the president of israel as the darkest day, the biggest loss of jewish life since the holocaust in a single day, that israel is perhaps less concerned about the optics now than it has been in the past. Elliot goch live from london, thank you very much. Aid convoys are arriving in egypt in preparation to enter gaza. The egyptian Prime Minister says the Rahfa Crossing is open but roads cannot be used because of the aerial bombardment by israel. Border crossing on the gaza side is inoperable because of the damage that has been af afflicted and the procedure for those managing the border on the gaza side to verify the documents and lists of third nationals that are provided have not been fulfilled. This report does contain some graphic and disturbing images. Reporter this is what running for your life looks like in gaza. An ambulance with a young girl and wounded woman inside rocked by explosions as they attempt to flee. It is unclear what happened to the pair, but theyre among the tens of thousands of people on the move after israels military called on nearly half of gazas population, some 1. 1 Million People, to get south in a matter of hours. But along the safe passage specified by the idf, utter horror. Youre looking at the carnage and chaos on salah hadim streets, one of the evacuation routes. Families killed amid their belongings. Cnn has geolocated this video and four other clips from the horrifying scene. The u. N. Calls israels Evacuation Advisory impossible and a violation of the rules of war. Palestinian officials accuse the idf of bombing civilians, even as they fled. Dozens of evacuees were killed or wounded by israeli air strikes according to hamas. Cnn has reached out to the Israeli Military for comment. The victims are flooding into gazas overwhelmed hospitals. Again, its the youngest caught in the crossfire. Nearly half of gazas population is children. Translator what did the children do to deserve this . Did they fight you . Did they fire rockets . My niece and her whole family are dead. The only survivor is a 2yearold girl. Reporter the Health Care System is on the brink, a complete siege making it impossible to get aid into the enclave. Already theres a shortage of everything, even space in the morgue. Translator keeping the dead in Ice Cream Truck soth the bodies dont rot. Gaza is in crisis. Gaza needs help. Reporter for those still able to move south, this is one of the neighborhoods families are expected to flee towards. Where israeli air strikes have wreaked havoc. Translator this is a genocide, not a war, its genocide. And its an attempt to force all palestinians out of the gaza strip. Reporter Finding Refuge is proving dangerous and deadly, and for the many families desperate for shelter, the fear is there may be no safe places left. Salma abdelaziz, cnn, london. Joining me from cairo, egypt, is kireen fleischer. We know that essentially israel has cut off any entry of food, of clean water, of fuel, electricity, into gaza. What can you tell us about the reserves that are left in gaza right now . So far, the World Food Program has reached 520,000 people in gaza. We are providing canned food and bread, and we also provide cash for people to redeem in the shops. We still are distributing, december spite the absolute chaos and our staff being themselves in shelters with no food, no mattresses, no water, no bathrooms, no electricity. But they are there distributing. Yesterday we distributed more than 36,000 people. Today were distributing to 224,000 people, food and what they need. But we are running out of stocks. And we need to replenish. And kareen, given youve got a team on the ground in gaza, you have been able to distribute what food is left. Have they told you what is the shelter situation for those that have fled from north gaza to the south . Well, theyre all together in these shelters and all are facing the same catastrophic situation. And for us, some also stayed home. Its not that everybodys in the shelter. So its very difficult for us to reach everybody right now. And we do need unimpeded, safe humanitarian access to reach all people in gaza, and of course, again, its no time left. We need to bring food through the borders. We have food for 1. 3 Million People for two weeks piled up at the Borders Into Gaza to continue to provide what is absolutely required. People are really getting hungry. Of course, they also need water, medicine, and so forth. But they are getting hungry, and we need to reach them. So we know that additional flats of aid has arrived in egypt, that it is along the border with gaza. Talk to us about the barriers to get that aid into gaza. We have flights in the air to bring highenergy biscuits. This is the easiest thing to distribute and put across the border. Were talking to all parties to be able to move in. Unfortunately, we have not received that okay yet. And we are running out of time. So please, everybody who can who can help us to get in with humanitarian supplies into gaza. You said youre waiting to get the okay to take that aid in. Who are you waiting to get the okay from . Were waiting to get the okay from all parties. We need to be able to cross the border, we need to have safe Supply Corridors to go to the shelters to distribute the food. And so we are talking to all parties to get that. So egypt says on their side, the border is open. But that the roads have been destroyed by the bombing or the bombardment, means that they cant let the trucks through. Is that your understanding of the situation at the rafha border . Look, we will always find a way to get our trucks through. How difficult it is. But as long as we have safe corridors. But we need those safe corridors to move in. And we need the okay to pass the border. Corinne, before this war most people in gaza, half the population were already in poverty, onethird in extreme poverty. What are your concerns for the population in gaza . Just how dire could the situation become . Well, right now, i mean, it is war in there. Now we have to go over this period to ensure that they actually survive. But even before this conflict broke out, wfp had the big Funding Crisis in our operation there. We had the hand to mouth operation. We already had to cut 60 of the 350,000 people we were reaching every month. We had to cut off our lists because of lack of funds. So we really, really need funding now. We need 74 million for three months to be able to support about 800,000 people. Thats our estimate right now. But that may, of course, go up and higher. And so we need money to support the people. We need access to bring our food in. And we need our ability and humanitarian access inside gaza. Corinne fleischer of the World Food Program, we appreciate what you and your team are doing. Thank you for your time. Well direct our viewers to our website where you can find their details if they want to help with humanitarian relief efforts in gaza and israel. They can go to cnn. Com impact. We have a list of vetted organizations responding on the ground. Thats cnn. Com impact. When we come back, u. S. President joe biden shares a message about ending all forms of hatred at a Human Rights Event. His remarks plus what his administration is focusing on as the israel hamas war enters a second week. Well have an inside look at the deadly training that went into the hamas attack on israel. How did this go unnoticed for so long . Welcome back. The u. S. State department now says the number of americans killed in the hamas attacks has risen to 29. Officials say 15 american citizens remain unaccounted for after those attacks. Florida Governor Ron Desantis says the first evacuation flight bringing florida residents home from israel should arrive later sunday. For the first time in more than four decades, israels national airline, el al, flew on shabbat, the jewish day of rest, bringing israeli fighters to tel aviv from new york and bangkok. Cnn was at the Los Angeles Airport saturday morning when a nonprofitchartered flight to the middle east for israeli reservists and american volunteers looking to join the fight against hamas. U. S. President joe biden is continuing talks with israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu since the hamas attack. Mr. Biden also called attention to the humanitarian crisis in gaza at a Human Rights EventSaturday Night as the israeli hamas war enters a second week. Reporter President Biden on saturday spoke with Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu, marking the fifth time the two leaders have talked since the attacks on israel last saturday. In that discussion, is two talked about u. S. Military support as well as protecting innocent civilians as this conflict unfolds. In a second call, the president also spoke with Palestinian Authority president abbas. In that call they talked about humanitarian supplies reaching gaza, which is facing Water Shortages and food shortages. The president also spoke at a Human Rights Campaign dinner. In his remarks he too talked about the Terror Attacks in israel, as well as the humanitarian crisis in gaza. Take a listen. A week ago, we saw hate manifested another way in the worst massacre of jewish people since the holocaust. More than 1,300 innocent lives lost in israel, including at least 27 americans. Children and grandparents alike kidnapped, held hostage by hamas. The humanitarian crisis in gaza, innocent palestinian families, and the vast majority have nothing to do with hamas [ cheers and applause ] theyre being used as human shields. The focus for officials at the white house continues to be that this conflict not widen in the region, but they are sending a message of deterrence in the region as well and focusing their efforts, too, on bring