We were there when the russians invaded ukraine. The Front Line each hour is moving. We were in afghanistan after the taliban takeover. Theres no question whos in charge here. Ive reported from lebanon. Protesters are clashing with the garden of Lebanons Parliament from iraq, from across the middle east. Hundreds of palestinians are marching through the streets of Gaza City. Ive seen a lot ive seen war firsthand. But nothing could have prepared me for October 7th. On the morning of October 7th, our team responded as rockets soared through the skies of israel. You can hear the explosions overhead. We would ultimately report amid a Hamas Infiltration of the country, then entering the Gaza Strip with the israeli military following a Ground Invasion. The Israelis Have Cut the Gaza Strip in half. This is the story of how it all began on Black Saturday. My phone rings at 7 03 a. M. And its my producer. Youre not. My parents live not far away from the israeligaza border. And my dad was the first one to call me and say something is off. She said there are Rocket Sirens all over. Theyre firing on central israel. We know the drill here. Ive been covering this story for the past ten years. And when rockets are fired from gaza, we immediately start reporting. They heard the sirens, sound siren. Thats not good. Its not the usual. Something is wrong. I went when my wife woke up. Tell her. Become. But it seems like war story. 6 minutes after i wake up, im on the phone with greg hayden, the Vice President of News Coverage of fox. Just after midnight eastern time. I got a call from trey. I said israel is under attack. And hayden knows when it makes sense to move, when it makes sense to stay put. He asks all the right questions. I was like, what is your Threat Assessment . Theres no margin for error here. Safety first. Trey gave me his best assessment of where he wanted to go. The team he wanted it to take. I told hayden. Same plan as always. Were going to go to stewart and start reporting. That was about as close to the border as probably i would feel secure. And i told them to do it. Start driving down route for. This is saturday morning. Shabbat. The roads are empty. Theres no one out. This is a weekly day of rest for the jewish people. I see rockets being intercepted overhead. The closer i get to gaza border, the Rocket Fire gets more intense. Hamas and Islamic Jihad continue to target positions here along the border with gaza. Theres been an impact just right here. I to have my cameraman show you the black smoke rising up this massive Rocket Fire right now into Southern Israel. Its just nonstop fire right now. Okay. Roll on all this. Yes. Rolling. Yes. Were going to. You can see here one of those rockets just fired from the Gaza Strip, slammed into a house behind me. Secondary explosions taking place. Many things on fire. We could see debris On The Road. Paramedics and firefighters just ran. We do our reporting there. And yonat not jumps in my car. Yonat■s a producer who has decades of news experience. Shes covered this story her entire life. Her parents live in Southern Israel. I was worried about friends and other families that i have all around the communities next to the borders. She was trying to get in touch with her parents. She said, i think theyre in the shelter. She doesnt really have a ton of information. We all texted Each Other and some of us didnt get a response back. And i could tell that she was shaken up by what was unfolding before our eyes, but had very limited information about what was taking place. Really, the only video that we have that indicates this is an infiltration is video of hamas gunmen on the back of a pickup truck. Does this doesnt go down well, i thought it was an old movie out of iraq. But then i saw the familiar signpost of the market instilled and i said, this is the world we know this town like the back of our hand. We figure if hamas is installed, the Army And Police will get there and theyll engage them and well go and report on what happened. Our plan is to take a left turn at this Gas Station and head towards sderot. We get to this intersectiOn And we see an ambulance on the side of the road. We figure lets jump out and do some reporting on the constant flow of civilians being loaded into ambulances here along the gaza border. People are using their personal cars to drop off their loved ones. And so we start to piece together whats happening and we have a decision to make. Do we stay at the Intersection And Report or do we go with the initial plan . If one person on the team feels not good about it, the whole team doesnt go. I made a decision for us to stay put. I dont know why i made that decision at that moment, but im glad that i did because had we driven just one intersection further, we would have driven directly into a Hamas Ambush at this road where hamas had ambushed civilians. And had we continued driving, we would have driven directly into the ambush. You know, i keep thinking what would happen to us if we didnt stop, because otherwise we would be down In Sderot when the massacre was taking place. We were one decision away from dying. I think about what i would have done. What i have just driven over them. What ive tried to get away, what ive tried to reason with them to explain that im a journalist. I dont know if they would have killed us. And very quickly, the intersection turns into a triage point. Straight to a Fox News Alert. Israel declaring it is at war. Trey angst is live on the ground in Southern Israel with the very latest. Good morning. And unimpressive, vented and coordinated attack against israel is taking place right now. This has been a constant scene along the gaza border. The military also bringing their injured troops here. Severely wounded soldiers are being evacuated from the front here. The first person that i saw die during the war was at this intersection, something about war. Until you see that first person die, it doesnt feel real. But you have to constantly remind yourself that it is real, because otherwise youre in a really dangerous situation. And just now, were receiving reports of israeli troops entering the city to try to rescue civilians that were taken hostage. As the day went on, we started to realize that this wasnt just a Rocket Attack and a few gunmen that had entered israel. It was thousands of gunmen that attacked nearly every community along the border. The Elite Hamas fighters from their nuclear unit had led the initial charge into israel. Well, it took us a few days to understand the scale of this, the amount of people murdered. We have like 20 people die 30, 4020. Its took time until they realize it was 1200. Hamas and islamic Jihad Used Rockets and mortars as cover around 6 30 a. M. And as those rockets were soaring overhead, they sent their most elite militants, gunmen with rocket propelled grenades, small arms and ieds. They targeted the outposts of the israeli military that have remote machine guns. They knew how to get through the Border Fence to deliver to here. That was touted as one of the most advanced in the world. They cut through the fence, the Al Kassam brigades. Then around 3000 gunmen over the border into these communities to slaughter civilians. The Hamas Attack against israel was systematic. These units had clearly trained to infiltrate into these border communities. Some of them had maps. They had intelligence that had been gathered before. And theres this Bullshit Line that you hear over and over from hamas officials when we interview them that they were only targeting soldiers. And thats not true. If this was just a story about the Israeli Army battling hamas gunmen, it might be easier to consume. 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But we cant do it alone. We need you to stand with israel now. Many have lost everything with casualties on the rise. Tens of thousands of families desperately need emergency lifesaving aid today. Please dont wait. Now is the time to act. Call, scan, or go online now. [narrator] life with Ear Ringing sounded like a constant Train Whistle i couldnt escape. Then i started taking lipo flavonoid. With 60 years of clinical experience, its the number one doctor recommended brand for Ear Ringing. And now im finally free. Take back control with lipo flavonoid. In sderot, hamas were very systematic in their attack. The first location that they went to on the morning of October 7th was this sderot Police Station. Theres about 25, 26 of them, and they start storming the Police Station. Once they were here, the police came from everywhere. Well, going back to hamas. But you had Police Officers who were off duty showing up just with their Hand Guns to try to help the taliban. You had civilians coming here to try to help their battling them with handguns versus terrorists with m16s, with rpgs. When the terrorists took over, the offices that were inside, ran to the rooftop and they were pinned down on the roof of the Police Station. And there was an insane battle, Movie Style Battle from like seven, eight in the morning until one, two in the morning. We rescued the officers from the roof, and thats when the commander just decided its going to be the safest thing for everybody. He Cant Risk more officers going inside. And they took down the station. We made it into the road october 8th, and it was frozen in time. This is the closest any journalist has been to the Gaza Strip since this erupted. There were cars that still had their blinkers on, pools of blood all over that infamous Bus Stop where older israelis were slaughtered before they were planning to go on a day trip. We got to the Police Station, all the area without electricity was totally in the dark when we saw whats going on in the Police Station. It was just unfathomable. We are in the israeli town of strout that sits just near the gaza border. And we stood outside and i interviewed dean live on that night. I dont even think theres words to describe what took place right behind us. Eight officers lost their lives during the combat that took place right here. There was so much incoming Rocket Fire this night and we had to just dive down and take cover and get down everyone flat. So i dont have everyone down flat. We had more rockets now, loud explosions coming off. Another time there, theyre trying to overwhelm the Iron Dome again. I can see them blowing off the Gaza Strip from multiple locations. It was scary because the rockets were being intercepted right overhead and slamming into the ground. And so it was just a matter of chance that we werent hit. It sounded like a few of those slipped past the explosions just rocking the area. It became the soundtrack of the war. Everyone okay . These are the teams that are going in to try to find the bodies of those officers. They dont have the time to go through and identify each and every person because as you see there, they have stacked ten or 11 bodies into the back of one pickup truck. The first responders were pulling bodies out of the Police Station and for the first time since the attack, i just cracked, i, i held back tears. I was trying not to cry. And theres not a lot that makes me cry. You see scenes of parents showing up to. Im sorry. Its. Its difficult. Yeah, but parents showing up to to give a pair of their kids to the authorities to see if they can match the dna to the bodies. And i just. I cracked live. Im going to stop talking here. I just want to give this the respect that it needs. 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Pope francis has chosen 21 new cardinals in a move that broadens pool of potential successors, the archbishop of of tehran is among the group. The new cardinals will get their red hats at a ceremony on december 8. I am Chandly Pager now back to Black Saturday be■eri was arguably the hardest day for for me and for the team. When friends to a bury, there was a pile of bodies. Houses were severely damaged. Torched. And you would see bodies that you couldnt understand. Theyre the residents or the terrorists. You can see the blood stained patio of this home and you saw marking of hands on the walls. And you could see the track of blood in the corridors of the homes. It was early in the morning on saturday when hamas militants stormed into their homes, slaughtering women and children. There were bodies just everywhere. I was heartbroken and speechless. You had to be careful not to trip over bodies. I couldnt believe the amount of hatred people can inflict on other people, especially the