Los angeles. The Israeli Military releasing a statement moments ago saying it has killed a senior hamas member involved in planning last saturdays horrific attacks in israel. Murad abu murad was killed in a strike targeting a building in the gaza strip. We also just received some new video showing the damage from the israeli city of ashkelon. Hamas armed wing al qassam saying friday that it launched 150 rockets toward that city. There are now reports whether any israelis. No report, should i say, whether any israelis were injured in that attack. Its been exactly one week now since hamas staged those shocking, brutal and deadly attacks against israel. Israel has been striking back hard all week. Now, the Israeli Military says Commando Units are conducting localized ground raids in gaza. And a short while ago, they also issued a statement that more than 120 civilians are confirmed to be held captive by hamas in gaza. The idf also continuing to pound gaza from the sky. Hundreds of thousands of israeli troops are amassing at the border, but theres still no word yet when we could see a full scale Ground Invasion as israel continues to go after hamas fighters in the gaza strip. Theyre also facing a threat from hezbollah at the northern border. The Israeli Military says the situation there is very intense with hezbollah firing antitank missiles surface to air missiles and drones toward israel. On friday, the idf, however, says all attempts at striking israel were intercepted. Were now also past that 24 hour deadline urging Palestinian Civilians to evacuate from Northern Gaza. The Israeli Military says many have heeded the warning and relocated to the southern part of the gaza strip. For more, lets go ahead and turn to senior fox news correspondent kevin corke for more information on this and where things stand right now. Kevin. Yeah, very interesting. Marianne, weve been watching the live pictures throughout the evening here on Fox News Channel. Weve seen some explosions in gaza city as we bring you the live pictures. You mentioned something that i thought was very important. You talked about concern by the idf and Israeli Government in general about hamas and other make that hezbollah and other groups perhaps coming over from lebanon. Thats a real concern in here, and that is the expansion of potential expansion of this conflict. Ive just received word this via public telegram board. The idf has killed at least three militants attempting to enter israel from lebanon. And so that once again becomes part of this storyline. You mentioned also this idea that there was a 24 hour period in which they were expecting or at least advising more than a Million People to get out of the north in gaza and move south in the territory, presumably to begin perhaps some sort of a Ground Incursion. We do know in our coverage here overnight on Fox News Channel that there have been very specific and targeted incursions, not a widespread incursion, at least not yet. And yet when you have reports like the one i just shared about militants coming over, attempting to enter from lebanon, it is obviously a concern and one that obviously the Israeli Government and the military in particular will have to keep a very close eye on marianne. Yeah. And kevin, it sounds like there are pretty prepared like they were expecting possibly attacks to come from the north. Yeah absolutely. I think youre right on that. And in fact, in one of the conversations that we had earlier here on fox, and you and i have sort of talked about this in our previous conversation, is its this notion that we have got to be super careful to make sure you dont expand this. You want to be targeted if youre israel. At the same time, you have to be prepared to defend yourself from all corners. Marianne yeah , absolutely. Kevin thank you very much. And for anyone whos just joining us, we are we have continuing coverage of the situation in israel and gaza and what is going on at this hour. And we just received reports that the Israeli Military has killed the leader of the air force for hamas, murad abu murad. It says he was killed in a strike target, a building located in the gaza strip. And as kevin and i were just talking about, they are still trying to evacuate civilians to a safer area so that they can continue to carry out strikes in gaza to try and find hamas fighters if they can do that. This has been continuing coverage of that situation in israel and gaza. Keep it here for the very latest. For now, back to our regular programing already in Progress Programming already in progress. Im not sure the model is getting work, but this would be a deal. So. Would marine corps do carry her to who let her go to her suburban . Do people also . Well, weve come a long way from bugs bunny and tweety bird. Here is what needs to happen with israel. As of tonigh t Gaza Can Nochin longer be used as a Launching Ground for Hamas To Fire int rockets into neighboring very near, very geographically close israeli cities. A rael must end this as a Staging Ground for hamas, f as gaza is so close to israel geographically. What happens next is willull on be full on war, conflict, shootings, bombings, exchanges. S people on both sides are going to die. Sadlidy innocent people will di. Our prayers tonight are with the israelis now have to defend once again their homeland and the innocent, you know, human beings that are used as shields. So that hamas could well try and protect their own lives,s ty you know, being the cowards all they really are, because you know what . But all of this could stop. All of it could end w d right nw if hamas, the terror group, would lay down their weapons dop lay down their arms, stop using human shields. But dont hold your breath. Why would you expect a Terrorist Group with such vile hatred in their hearts g to ever have any empathy, anrouy awareness of the carnage that they are causing . This is a group that foundeded in their principle, their charter, with the ideae that israel must be destroyed. They use hospitals as human shield s, along with schools. And now, according to reports, they plan using israeli civilian hostages as human shields. Theyre already using Palestinian Civilians tryinge to as human shields. Why . Just to advance their radical ideology. If hamas laid down their arms today, nobody would die. Nobody needs to die. The inevitable, senseless loss of life, it could all be prevented. Israel could enter gaze a. Er they can prevent future attacks from happening on their country. But Ifd Prevent Furthe Israel Wh their arms as some on the radical left havee ra cad for. Well, it would be a not a just a cease fire. Israel would cease to exist. D ceasthe Hamas Terrorists t who have no regard for human life os haver hezbollah. Oth to the other side of israel, sid would destroy israel. They have said so. They have plotted, they have plan. They have scheme to do so. And meanwhile, today , iransnt Foreign Minister warned israel of new fronts openinopening in war if they dont stop their retaliatory strikes, meaning defend themselves, which iran is now referring to as War Crimesiran is refe. Thats a bit of a joke, a sickic joke. Now, these strikes wouldnt have been necessary if hamas hadnt killed 1300 plus israelis and didnt and burn and behead even little babies and women while apparently carrying isis flags as they commit these brutal, violent, repulsive acts. Now, the comments from irans Foreign Minister came during foi a to lebanon in which he met with the head of the iranian he Terrorist Group hezbollah, which has been Firing Rockets into israel all week. And earlier today, Hezbollah Claimeerroristd for attacks on s military posts along o the lebanon and in a desperate and frankly, pathetic attempt to swing approval. Claimin hamas is now claiming 13 hostages were killed say by israeli airstrikes. But take everything they say with a grain salt. These are terrorists. They are killers. They are. Their words are worthless. But the gullible mob and the they might eventually start going along with it and stopstart their propagandae they did during todays day of. Somehow, over the course of the last 24 hours, 48 hours outlets, though, they stoppe d calling it what hamas meant it to be. Hamas wanted it to bs e a dayd. Of. And then all these news outlets said, well, no, this is a day of rage instead of the day of. Now, by the way, which means holy war. S prot now, as angry and violent protests are breaking out across the world now, protests in the United States have gone on all week with some of the prt worst propalestinian pro hamas protests taking place across our College Campuses. How repugnant it is to watch this ivy. Institutions like yale and harvard, look at harvard. Titution yale you know take. Take a look at the Gut Wrenching video of Two Jewishron Women Confronting Protesters at the university of washington. D her prettythisus much says it all. Ey wan its inexplicable. They want to kilt dl us. They want to destroy us. They want to murder us. Listen, they want we will have reaction to all of this momentarily. But first, we go to our verye own greg palkot site for the very latesstt, the ground. A it is 10 minutes. M after 4 a. M. In gaza as he reports to us tonight. Greg, thank you again for staying up into the earl uy morning. Our pleasure, sean. Yeah greg seeing, were seeint of pick up in activity of the israeli air force. Were hearint g fighter jets. Overhead. Were seeing impacts in the fi as they strike hamas militants. Theres been a lot of activity since, like to last talk here. Hamas militant rockets have targeted the city of ashdod just a little just cit a little behind us right here. Thank heavens for their Reallyrh Iron Dome defenses. They knocked most of it down. No indications they hit any place in the city. But in the laseyt 24 hourst on the israeli air force, theyve been very active. 750 bombs, they say has been dropped. But i think the big story for us tonight is this word coming y from the Israeli Defense force that they have entered gaza that Commando Units, apparently, according to the variouaza. S reports, had intel v about where certain hostages were or certain corpses were. T i hate to say that word, but they went in, moved in. They had clashes with hamass an militants. They came out, they say, with evidencthey came oue aboute some of the 150 hostages are inside strip. Were seeing more reporting saying even more than that. But we dont have confirmation, so we wont go there. Do, our viewersn will remember we talked about we talked about this evacuationevacuati demanded by p in the northern part of gaza. Well, hamas said, no way, you stay there. We need you as civilian humann a shields. And the un said, hey, that thats not going to happen. Either. There have been people there have bee been Save Thousandsut that have left. Stbut most of them are indeed couning put as unrest is seen throughout the throughout the country and throughout the regionhout in the west bank. 14 palestinians killed in clashes. Youve beee westn Talking Aboute clashes in the Northern Israel and Lebano Aboutn arearn israe with hezbollah. But again, the focus is onth t the building, run up to a full scale Land Incursion. Take a look at this. What we saw and what wane Heard Milithe ground you are looking at the Israeli Military gettinge in place for action. Were two miles away from the gaza strip and big trucks are bringing in tanks, armored personnel carriers, other trucks as the Artillery Blasts in the. That Artillery Fire doing more damage to gaz a ahead of ad possible Land Incursion to knock out hamas. Throughout Southern Israel. Hundreds of pieces of Lethal Equipment Brough elt in, positioned, ready for the call, along with Tens Of Thousandss of soldiers manning the dangerous gear. And if Needef Miliacing off with the militants. You think its going to be strong . Its going to be veryst strong. Should it be strong . Yerong . Shoulds, it should be ve. What do you think of the hamas militants . What do you think of what they did . My english is not very. What do you think of hamas . Good, bad, bad and very bad. Sean . Yeah. His english wasnt perfect, but his determination was. And thats what we heard from the Rank And File up and downngi the border area. Sh wtheyre keeping in mind, however, also the toll, again, h 1300 killed by the hamas militants here in israel, trip. About 1900 now in gaza strip. The and fear that those tolls on both sides might soar if and when the Land Incursion happens. But it seems that according to the government here, its going to happen. Its jusion. T a of when. Jus back to you, neal. All right, greg palkot. Well be checkint a matterg in. You throughout the evening tonight. Thank you. South carolina senator linsey grahamSouth Carolina sam i, he r backlash over comments he made right here on this show about the war in israel. Take a look. They dont want to coexist with israel. This is not a land problem. A Boundary Problem is. Its a problem of you cannot m live in my world. My god determines that you die. The germans believe that the jews were inferior people, and their goal in the final solution was to Eradicateate Th the jewish people. Well, iran and hamas believee se the jewish people should die as a result of religious teachingvs or a religious war. Here i am with israel. Do whatever the Hellieresult Yoe to do to defend yourself. Level the place. Do all right. As usual, congresswoman, squad member ocasiocortez responded with talking points from the radical left, calling his comments. , quote, Textbook Rhetoric of ethnic cleansing. Anyway, soutspondeh senator linh graham is joining us now tonight to respond. Tosenator, good to see you. Thank you for being back. Ndi guess ill first ask you about your comment. Well, let me get to that in. A minute. E the 24 hour warning to the u. N. 24, the 24 hour warning com to the people of gaza has come and is gone. We now have israeli troops, as we have been reportin now hag all night. They have entered gaza. They are now conducting Localize Czed raids. We see all of the other equipment, the staging is rightn behind them, which means nowd that the basically wevene entered a new phase in this conflict, the ground war has a n. Yeah. Yeah, i think youre right. Welli thinar, Know Israel Has Ne but To Go Into Gaza and occupy the gaza strip and destroy hamas, or theyll get hit agaisn. The old way of doing business died with those babies get. So this is a world ware two type action, total war againsold ngt hamas. Im not calling for the eradication of the palestinian people. There are plenty of palestinians i know. I consider friends all palestinians are not hamas. But ill tell you this, hamai s and the ayatollah of iran want to kill all the jews, just like the s an. So i struck a nerve on your show, people. Watch your show. Im here to tell you that the response by israel and the civilized world will be tosponsf fight back against a religious o war with a war of humanity. Were not fighting for a faith. Were fighting fig for human decency. If israel does not occupy gazan. ,they will get hit again. Gh enough is enough. Heres what i worry about tonight. There are 100,000 rockets pointed at in the hands of hezbollah, a proxy of iran in, lebanon. It is my fear that biden is noto sending clear signal to the iranians. The iranians are threateningar to attack israel from in mass from hezbollah to two front wa. Theyre threatening to hit our soldiers in iraq and syria. We dont back off. It is now imperative to le syrta the iranianss know that escalation on your part, ln hezbollah means we hit you. We h it one of the problems we havo linsey, we talk about it often as we dont i personally dontat believe that this president has the strength of vigor, the cognitive commitment. I dont know why he has an obsession as as he had with with barack obama when he was Vice President to try and do deals with mullahs mu iran that want to wipe state israel off the map. That is their stated goal. The why he was going to give themio. 6 billion, why he is allowed the free flow of oil out of iran . You know ira, in of 8,000 billn deals that theyre doing. That has enriched their their wa