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slaughtering civilians and assaulting military bases. again, these photos coming earlier today. you see the explosions. the incursion by hamas appears to have caught israel completely offguard and we should tell you we are going to hear from israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu in just moments. we will bring you his remarks as they happen. >> at this hour more than 700 israelis have been reported killed as well as 560 palestinians who have died, that's according to the palestinian health ministry. israel's government has ordered what the defense minister called a complete siege of the gaza strip. hamas claims to have over 100 israeli hostages and the group is still firing rockets from gaza into israel. a short time ago cnn chief international correspondent clarissa ward and her team had to take cover during one of those attacks. >> yeah.

yeah. get down. get down. >> get down. close. close. cl close. >> you're fine. you're fine. you're fine. you're fine. you're fine. you're fine. you're okay. you're all right. you're all right. >> okay. >> that's the iron dome. okay? that's the iron dome. >> yeah. g guys? are you seeing our situation, guys? >> yes. >> okay. >> can you hear the shots? >> stay down. >> we have to stay here.

>> fuck. >> we have to stay here. >> fortunately clarissa and her teammates are safe but this is an active war zone and the fighting could very easily spin out into a broader regional conflict, that is part of the reason the pentagon sent a carrier strike group to the eastern mediterranean and there are u.s. forces in the strait of hormuz, where the u.s. has had frequent run-ins with iran who has applauded these attacks. there are questions about how much tehran may have been involved in this particular at attack. with he want to take you straight to nic robertson who is on the ground for us. nic, what are you seeing? >> reporter: there's literally an attack under way right now, incoming rocket fire. we're seeing the interceptor rockets fly through the sky, they're just following tracing, following -- we will watch this rocket here, watch this interceptor here just intercept in the sky above us here. there was a barrage of rockets coming from gaza.

we are just literally a couple miles from the border right at a shelter point, concrete shelter point here, but that barrage came in, you saw the intercepters fly up. waiting to see if there is an all clear sign at the moment. but this is what we're seeing here close to that, close to the border with gaza. i think the rockets have finished for now, so we will just step out of this bit of cover. we are okay, we've just been given an indication that it's all clear. so looking across this way, i know it's darkness right now, but looking across this way you're looking towards graez. that's where the rockets have been coming from, the intercepters were trying to take them down before they could fly too far. but if you see a big flash over the horizon behind me, that will be the impact of an air strike or artillery on hamas inside gaza. we've been seeing literally in the last few minutes here

hearing multiple impacts, hearing multiple booms of impacts inside gaza, hearing the fighter jets in the sky. this has been going on all afternoon but there's quite an intensity right now. hearing -- is that a warning? there is another warning. we're going to step back here towards the shelter because we're hearing there is another alert warning going off here. it is a very active situation. if we see the interceptor rockets come up, we will point them out to you. so just at the moment staying close to this shelter building. we keep saying this today, it's an active and dynamic situation and as you were just watching moments ago, my colleague, clarissa ward, perhaps about four or five miles at the northern tip of gaza not far from where we are now earlier on in the day coming under a barrage of rockets, a similar situation here again today. the number of security forces also here at this point taking

shelter in this concrete shelter behind me. this is literally so close to gaza here that when the warning goes off, you have literally six, seven seconds maximum to get into shelter because those rockets really don't have far to fly before they impact here. the intercepters seem to be working, no indication that there were any successful hamas rockets landing in this particular area right now. i think this is what we're going to see all night, the tempo of this war situation the siege of the buildup of the israeli forces here, the tempo is not letting up, we're going to see more of this going through the evening, i think. >> nic, that iron dome as you're seeing it right in front of you, extremely effective, but missiles of course do get through. and you're almost certainly right that this will continue in the coming hours. you are that close to gaza. what sense do you have in terms of the buildup of the israeli

military around the gaza strip and any sense that a ground incursion into gaza may be coming soon? >> reporter: i don't think there is a ground incursion soon, but obviously the caveat is we don't know the military planning, you know, we only see a partial picture, but what we have seen today are the biggest concentrations of israeli defense force firepower, a raid in the fields near gaza, a few miles away, concentrations of more than 20 tanks in one area we saw. we haven't seen that in recent days. we're seeing a lot more troops on the move. a lot more heavy military equipment on the move. it's very clear that the tempo here in terms of military readiness, if there was a ground incursion, the tempo is stepping up at the moment, but it still feels to me as if it's still some way off and we don't even know if the political decision to call for that has actually happened just yet. we're being told that we can step back up here a little bit

to less these -- let these troops do their job because their job is to make this place safe so we moved out there and they can now -- they can now point their weapons where we were standing. that's their job and ours is standing here reporting. but this is going to be an ongoing situation through the evening. >> it absolutely is. and as you're saying that is correct nic, we're looking at live pictures of gaza where the skyline has been lighting up all night. you see there in the sort of center of your screen the glow from an explosion that took place just moments ago and intermittently we've been watching it light up for hours now. >> reporter: yeah, that's what we're witnessing here. i just saw a flash on the horizon, slightly to my south over in this direction in gaza.

it's fluid. you know, the strikes are going to come where the israeli military think that they need to put them down. not hearing fighter jets at the moment, but that doesn't mean anything because they can come back in seconds. the tempo of this it's up, it's down. every soldier will tell you this, that when you're so close to the conflict like this, there will be moments of calm that can feel like they stretch out and then concentrations of activity, of adrenaline, of movement, of motion, of readiness, of those rockets coming in. these soldiers taking cover, us taking cover, then it drops away, you enter another lull, it will cycle back up again. >> yeah, and as you say, nic, that tempo almost certainly going to continue into the evening as we watch that sky in gaza glow presumably from israeli jets firing into the gaza strip.

nic robertson in central israel, we are lucky to have you, we know that you will stay on top of this and we will come back to you as things arise. now, turmoil in the middle east of course between israel and the palestinians is long simmering, punctuated by clashes, uprisings and wars like the one we are seeing unfold right now. >> yeah, but of course the two sides that have been at this for a long time don't see an end to this violence anytime soon. their animosity dates back long before the late 1940s when israel first became a state. the current map, though, dates back to 1967 when israel captured the gaza strip from egypt and began to occupy the region. we should point out what you are looking at in front of you is an area of about 2 million palestinians. gaza is one of the most densely populated places in the world and that complicates the picture when it comes to avoiding civilian casualties. now, the militant islamist group is hamas, they were formed in

1987, it is an has nim that means islamic resistance movement, it's backed by iran, listed as a terrorist organization by the united states, by the eu as well as obviously israel. hamas does consider israel an illegitimate state and they have long fought israeli occupation of gaza and the west bank. >> back in 2005 when israel withdrew from the gaza strip hamas eventually took over and by 2007 was in full control of the territory as they still are today. that led to israel and egypt, the country to the west, to impose a strict blockade on gaza which still exists to this day. i want to bring in michael orrin a former israeli ambassador to the united states. mr. ambassador, thank you so much for joining us at such an important moment. we're watching these live pictures from gaza, we've seen both rockets flying into israel, presumably fired by militants, we've also seen strikes by the israeli side into gaza. i want to ask you what we were

just talking about with our correspondent nic robertson. he has been seeing amassing of forces, of equipment, the tanks. do you have a sense that a ground invasion by israel into gaza is imminent? >> good to be with you, and thank you for that summary of the history of hamas. just very -- two very important points before i get to your question, one is for israelis, not just for israelis, barbarians who shoot 260 young people at a rave concert, who put children in cages, who parade women naked through the streets of gaza, go into houses and take out families and shoot them, these are not militants, these are not fighters, these are terrorists and it's important to state that. i can also say that i was the deputy to the prime minister, a member of knesset and i was in charge of gaza and in charge that have blockade. the blockade was never a blockade of food or medicine, it was solely a blockade of

materials that can be used for armaments or had a dual use that could be used to make a tunnel and cement or maybe a 2 x 4. never food, never medicine, never any other essentials for life. it's important to state this. it was a military blockade not a civilian blockade. as for your question the answer i think unfortunately is yes. this is now the fifth round of our fighting with hamas, every single round has ended in basically a return to the status quo and the hamas or islamic jihad, these two organizations, these organizations in gaza fire thousands of rockets at us, we fire back, there is a ceasefire and we go back to that status quo. i think that is no longer possible and i think though i'm not a spokesman for the israeli government i think i do represent israeli public opinion in says that israeli people are unwilling to go back to what was, we can never allow hamas to attack us in this egregious bar

bar rouse way and it will involve ground action which will be very complicated, certainly because of the density of the population of gaza, because the fact that gaza -- hamas will not only be using it's on population as human shields they will be using our hostages as human shields. then it raises the spectre of the possibility of a multifront war, as i'm talking to you now there is fighting on the gnash front as well. so it is not an easy decision for israeli leaders, but i think right now and given the state of israeli public opinion it's inescapable. >> ambassador orrin, we are getting word that the death toll on the israeli side has gone up to 900 due to these hamas attacks, that is a significant increase from the previous figure. i also want to ask you about these hostages that hamas is holding, we've just gotten word that hamas has warned that they will execute civilian hostages if israel targets people in gaza

without warning. do you have any sense of what both israel and the international community, including the u.s., because we understand there is a good chance that our americans are among the hostages, what they might be doing to get those hostages out? >> first of all, as for the casualties, 900, understand that in american terms proportionately we are talking about 13, 14 times the number of casualties and deaths that america experienced on 9/11, something equivalent to 35,000, 40,000 americans would have been killed in israeli terms and the hostages probably over 100 hostages, we are talking about in american terms thousands of hostages and probably upwards of 100,000 proportionately casualties for the united states. imagine the immensity of the pain and the cost of this egregious attack by hamas on our civilians. just unspeakable. what we can do about the

hostages, israel will be doing its utmost with the united states and other democratic allies in the world to try to locate them through technological means. we have special forces who are specially trained to rescue hostages in very difficult situations. a number of these units have been operating in releasing hostages from the various farms and settlements surrounding gaza because hamas terrorists took a number of hostages in those settlements and they were successfully released. we're talking about the hostages who were dragged into the gaza strip and tortured and beaten there, israel will do its utmost to try to locate them and to send the forces necessary to liberate them. >> all right. ambassador michael oren, we do have to leave it there. as we leave you we continue to see the sky over gaza lighting up. there certainly is a sense that this is just the very beginning of what could be a long and

deadly conflict. ambassador michael oren, the former israeli ambassador to the united states, thanks very much. as we're hearing explosions over gaza we should, again, point out the breaking news that hamas has warned they will kill israeli civilians, some of them potentially americans, hostages that they are holding if these attacks in gaza continue without warning. that news coming just moments ago. we are awaiting word from israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, he is set to speak at any moment. we will bring you those remarks live. and the pentagon has deployed carrier groups to the region, the u.s. pledging to provide even more military support in the coming days. we will get a live report from the pentagon in just moments. plus, families desperately searching for their loved ones taken by hamas, as we go to break, here is one mother's plea for the safe return of her daughter. >> i'm a mother who is looking

for her daughter. every minute that passes by, the chance to find her alive, you know, are reducing, and there's nothing -- nothing anyone can do.

right now the united states is ramping up military support to israel as israel prepares for what could be a major campaign in the gaza strip. the secretary of defense lloyd austin announced on sunday that he ordered the most advanced aircraft carrier and its heavily armed strike group to move closer to israel's coast in the mediterranean sea. a u.s. official is telling cnn that multiple squadrons of fighter jets will be deployed to the middle east to deter the conflict from escalating. boris, over to you. >> we want to dig deeper on this now. we have retired u.s. army brigadier general mark kimmitt with us. always a pleasure to have you. there is significant concern that this conflict could become

regional and there are multiple fronts. walk us through them. >> sure. israel is surrounded by adversaries and extremist groups. if you were to take a look at just around directly on their borders, you have lebanese hezbollah in the south of lebanon, you have extremist groups here just a stride the sinai heights, you have potential concerns coming from the hamas and fattah organizations in the west bank. down in egypt primarily here in the sinai you have old al qaeda elements as well, plus throughout the region you have other organizations swearing support, popular mobilization fronts in iraq are willing to help. so this could burst out of gaza and israel into a much larger

c -- >> one of the key components of israel's defense is the iron dome. we've been watching it work since this conflict started intercepting missiles coming from gaza in the night. how critical is it to israel's defense and how does the united states go about supporting it? >> first of all, the united states has been actively involved in the iron dome development ever since its inception, has contributed about $2.5 billion. it is specifically designed for the short-range rockets being fired out of gaza. in fact, at one time the consideration was to call it the anti-kassan system because of the kassan rockets being fired. there are only 10 to 15 batteries, four launchers per battery. that means they can only fire about roughly 500 to 750 rockets

at once and when you have about 2,000 rockets coming in at any time, what we call a swarm attack, that's why you've seen so many casualties and so many rockets getting through. >> it's an attempt to overload the defense system? >> absolutely. >> let's talk about hamas's military capability. we've seen them use rockets, a paraglider which we have video of here, even speed boats. talk to us about their capabilities. >> this is a fairly unsophisticated organization, short-range rockets, rocket-propelled grenades, something you would expect to see from a second to third-tier military organization, but now they're bringing in drones, you're seeing they're cleverly using paragliders, speed boats to deliver ammunition. they've been fairly clever with the limited capabilities they have. >> you're describing their limited capabilities, i think one of the things that caught israeli intelligence services and generally the west off guard is the scale of these attacks.

for hamas they are unprecedented but gaza as we take a look at the map one more time, gaza it's pretty fortified, there are very large border barriers, a militarized border. how are they able, hamas, to get all of these weapons into that area? >> well, a number of ways. if you take a look at the rafah crossing from egypt, that has always been the area we are concerned about with the tunnel systems. they are not bringing the large rockets through there, but they're bringing the guidance system for the missile, some explosives, so they're using that. they're also getting a tremendous amount of help out of lebanon through the water where they actually float containers above and below the water to get this equipment in. same thing from syria. and now even more concerning is the notion that iraq is being used as a land bridge from iran to bring this over and take it

into gaza through that way as well. so there is no lack of support that they are getting for some of the high tech equipment or the high tech capabilities we're seeing, even though they are limited. >> the question of how much influence and physical material supply iran may have provided in this attack is still open. u.s. officials are working to get a determined answer on that. general kimmit, great to have you. more news on "news central." a day of celebration at a music festival turning into a massacre. hundreds killed in what is the deadliest mass casualty event in israel's history. details from survivors on what happened and much more on the lives lost. stay with us.

you're watching cnn's special live coverage of israel at war. israeli government is responding to the deadliest attack on its people in generations over the weekend. the death toll on the israeli side right now up to 900 according to the israeli military. they say they have now retaken all communities around gaza that were briefly held by palestinian fighters. >> at least 560 palestinians have been killed so far, that's according to the palestinian health ministry. a warning now for the video that you are about to see, it does

show the devastation just moments after an air strike on gaza today. take a look. >> our cnn correspondent hadas gold is in jerusalem. hadas, israel is now saying that it has launched today more than 100 retaliatory air strikes against hamas targets. what more do we know? >> reporter: i mean, israel continues to just pound the gaza strip right now, we've seen

high-rise buildings being brought down, we're also seeing reinforcements of ground troops, tanks and other military vehicles along the border with gaza. it doesn't necessarily mean that the ground incursion is coming, but it does seem as though there's preparation for that because also they've called up more man 300,000 reservists, that is the fastest biggest call up of israeli reservists in israeli history. something else we're just learning now is a warning from hamas on those hostages and they have just put out a statement or this is a broadcast statement where they are saying that if israel strikes gaza without warning, for some context often when israel strikes gaza they will do warning knocks or call ahead of time to the buildings warning residents to get out of the buildings giving them time to leave and then they destroy the buildings. hamas is saying if israel doesn't do those warning knocks before attacking, they will start executing israeli hostages and they will broadcast them. so once again hamas is

threatening to execute israeli hostages and broadcasting that on air. that is a really stunning development and the israeli military has been saying, you know, these people are like isis. this is really -- i asked the israeli military are you stopping these warning knocks? are you no longer doing the warning knocks asking them directly. they said no comment. earlier when we asked the israeli military about that they didn't give a direct answer about whether or not they are still doing the warning knocks instead they said hamas didn't give us warning knocks when they entered civilian houses and started shooting and killing them. >> so unbelievably cold blooded and chilling. thanks so much for that reporting. one of the hamas attacks turned an event of fun and revelry into a scene of unimaginable terror and death over the weekend. israeli rescuers say they found some 260 bodies at the site of an outdoor music festival in israel, just miles from the border with gaza.

>> the reports coming from the area are just heart-wrenching. videos show people running from hamas militants on saturday, the terrorists are seen opening fire as well as taking many victims hostage. nada bashir has the details. >> reporter: it was israel's music festival in the early hours of saturday morning but in the distance rockets seemingly intercepted in the dawn sky. the festival then brought to an abrupt terrifying end as hamas gunmen launched a deadly rampage, killing hundreds and taking dozens hostage. 21-year-old adi was among those targeted in the ambush. her mother hopes she could still be alive, held captive in gaza, but fears time is quickly running out. >> i'm a mother who is looking for her daughter. she is missing. i think i believe she's hurt.

she's bleeding somewhere. and like me there are more hundreds, families that are looking for their beloved. i'm a mother. i want to protect my kids. that's all i want to do and i'm sure that all mothers in the other side, in gaza, in everywhere that they are not me are thinking the same thing. >> reporter: dash cam footage geolocated by cnn shows hamas gunmen at the site shooting and killing people at any point-blank range. the site of saturday's massacre now stands eerily quiet, charred cars line nearby streets. hamas claims it has captured more than 100 israeli citizens. there are no exact figure yet from the israel defense forces. the result, dozens of families left in anguish. all hoping against hope for a miracle. >> translator: she called and

said, mom, they're shooting at us, the car is hit, we are all wounded. i don't know how you feel, but the nightmare of a parent sitting and hearing her child saying, mom, come and help me and we cannot do a thing, nothing. only to be with her on the phone and say to her, rami, i love you. rami, hide. >> reporter: but as their anxious wait continues questions are also beginning to mount as to how an attack of this scale was allowed to take place. >> translator: what is happening is unbelievable. simply unbelievable. i join, we join in the grieving of all the families. we demand answers. not all the answers will be happy ones. >> reporter: nada bashir, cnn. >> thanks to nada bashir for that report. we just got an update that president biden has been updated by his national security team on the situation. we understand the president is

going to be speaking with several u.s. allies about the situation in israel, this afternoon we will of course keep you posted on that and we are anticipating some remarks from israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, he is apparently running late. >> a little bit late. >> perhaps understandably so. as soon as he gets to a microphone, we will bring that to you live. and notably on the u.s. side there has been des array on capitol hill and there are questions about whether the disfunction in the united states house could delay much needed military aid to israel. we are going to take you live for an update from capitol hill next, but first, while we're heading into the break, the sights and sounds out of jerusalem as air sirens ring out. from chrome to duckduckgo.

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the unfolding war in israel is now adding new urgency to getting in place a new speaker of the house, but house republicans remain bitterly divided over their two choices for speaker to replace kevin mccarthy after they just ousted him six days ago. >> house members are due to return to work tomorrow but without an elected speaker the house is essentially paralyzed, they can't get to pressing business without first ee lgbting a speaker and that means they cannot pass emergency military aid for israel. let's take you now live to kplil with cnn's manu raju and, manu, just a few days after we reported that former speaker mccarthy was contemplating resigning from congress all together he has added more intrigue because of a question you asked him about a possible come back. what did he say? >> reporter: that's right. he's not ruling that out.

and this could be a possibility simply because right now it doesn't appear that neither candidate who has emerged to become speaker, steve scalise and jim jordan can get enough votes to be elected at this moment, it would require 217 votes on the house floor, meaning he cannot lose more than four republican votes, the concern among republicans is that neither men can actually get in a number and that potentially another candidate could emerge. that has led talk on capitol hill today about speaker mccarthy, former speaker mccarthy, trying to put his hat in the ring, something he did not rule out just moments ago. >> any scenario in which you could be candidate for speaker, especially with the daddy line. >> that's a decision by the conference. i will allow the conference to make whatever decision, whether i'm speaker or not i'm a member of this body. >> speaker mccarthy, he didn't seem to rule it out today when at a press conference -- i'm. >> just talking to our

colleagues, we have good support and i will continue to do that. i haven't talked to kevin today. >> reporter: will you go to the floor if you don't have 217 votes in the conference? >> i've said all along we need 217, 218, whatever that number s but we need to sell that in the conference before we go to the floor. >> reporter: and that last point so critical at this moment because to nominate and elect a house speaker first under normal conference rules a majority of the conference would have to nominate that person, that is half of 221 members but there is discussion of trying to make sure that person actually has the vote of 217 members in order to avoid a long, drawn-out floor fight on the house floor and jim jordan telling me right there moments ago that he was trying to get essentially full unity behind his bid, won't accept the speakership nomination if he simply gets a majority of the house republican conference. so that is a debate that will happen behind closed doors tonight, tomorrow and then wednesday, the closed-door meeting before they head to the house floor as soon as thursday.

guys? >> an eventually week on capitol hill amid a backdrop of a war raging in israel. the israelis need assistance from the united states, there is a debate ahead about that. there's funding for ukraine, there's keeping the government open. a long list. >> it's also hard to forget that 15 rounds of voting we saw earlier this year that it took to get mccarthy finally elected. why he thinks that's going to change now, i'm not so sure. >> we could see a repeat of that unfold on wednesday. there's still plenty more news to come on "cnn news central" including dozens of people believed to have been captured in israel by hamas over the weekend. what we are now learning about the negotiations to free those captured. we're back in just minutes.

some families are desperately searching for their loved ones after the assault on israel. we know at least nine u.s. citizens are among the hundreds killed, and an unknown number are still missing, including 34-year-old israeli american citizen daniel ben senior. her father jacob tells cnn his daughter was at the nova music festival which saw some of the worst violence in this weekend's attack. he's not been able to reach her since saturday. >> right now u.s. officials are scrambling to figure out just how many americans have been killed or kidnapped in the last few days. but an israeli official does tell cnn that americans are among the scores of hostages now

being held by hamas in the gaza strip. meantime, we are learning that the u.s. is trying to rally some support including qatar, that arab gulf country that is in contact with hamas, about those hostages. the u.s. has also been coordinating with the qataris as they play a key mediating role. my colleague natasha bertrand and i reported earlier that the prime minister of qatar has actually been in touch with hamas leaders meeting with them yesterday, presumably to talk about these hostages and other issues. >> likely one of several u.s. allies we anticipate president biden will be contacting. as we know, he's been briefed by his national security team and he will be speaking to key allies this afternoon. >> and we've also seen anthony blinken, the secretary of state, reaching out to allies for the past few days. the concern now, to try to make sure that this violence does not spiral out of control. but for more i want to turn now to cnn's security correspondent josh campbell. josh, you actually served on an

fbi global response team that investigated kidnapping. so when it comes to these hostages, walk us through the difficulties here in securing their release. >> yeah, well, these situations are obviously very complex. they are fraught, even more so in the middle of a war zone. and we understand the demand for action from the public saying, you know, do something. but authorities have to act rationally. you know, i heard calls over the weekend from some politicians saying that the biden administration should send in special operations command forces, some scheven send in the fbi's hostage rescue team. the logical response to that is a question. and that is send them where? now, the israelis are more than equipped to handle hostage rescues on their own, but they need to knowar with they're going. in order to effect a hostage rescue you have to know the location of the hostage, ideally the number of captors, the circumstances of that captivity. so that sometimes takes time. you also -- it's nice to know, good to know what the motivation is of the captors themselves. you know, i've worked overseas kidnappings where the motivation was financial.

i've worked kidnappings where it was a terrorist group taking someone captive. and that obviously the motivation political. in a situation like this with hamas where these extremists may not care to die in the process, that's very important because the last thing authorities want to do is stage a rescue operation that could put those hostages in even more harm than is their current captivity. we all can certainly understand the family members, the friends of those who are held in captivity and, you know, the pain that they're going through. i can tell you working overseas on these cases it was soul crushing to talk to family members demanding action. you can certainly understand their concerns. but for the rest of us and certainly for politicians now's the time for authorities to gather information. it's not as simple as saying go. >> and now we have this horrific chilling warning by hamas that if israel doesn't warn civilians that they're about to strike that they will start executing some of these civilian hostages and then broadcast it. just absolutely horrific stuff. josh campbell, really appreciate

your perspective. thank you. >> you bet. we are expecting to hear any minute now from the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. that as israeli forces conduct wide-scale strikes tonight, local time against gaza. we'll take you live to the region. stay with us.