♪ all right. the breaking news. we just learned that more than 1,000 israelis have now been killed in the hamas terrorist attacks. this comes as we're standing by to hear from four american families who they they are missing loved ones who had family members taken hostage by hamas. this press conference is taking place in tel aviv, where our crews just have to take shelter because air raid sirens just went off. israeli parents this morning are being warned that they should receive social media from their children's phones because hamas would release videos of executions. israel claims it's killed 1500 hamas terrorists executed over

the weekend. in gaza, more than 200 targets of what they call terrorist hubs, even as hamas has threatened to kill some of the more 100 hostages that they hold. >> as israel continues to pound gaza to take out some of the infrastructure. these are some of the scenes what is left behind, widespread destruction in gaza. in israel, there's also new evidence coming to light of barbaric tactics using by terrorists against israelis. and as john mentioned at least 1,000 people are reported dead in israel.

militants came in there about 6:30 a.m. 48 hours quite literally. and were we went in there, scenes of destruction, houses blown apart. there were dead bodies lying around. the israeli defense force was taking out the bodies of israelis who had been killed in the houses. women and children in the houses. i was told one story where the husband and wife had twins.

military operation about what it was like. this is a 39-year ra service. and israel's military forces. he'd never witnessed anything like this, he said. >> what i saw, hundreds of terrorists full armor, full gear, with all of the equipment and all of the ability, they massacre, go from apartment from apartment, from room to room, and kill babies, mothers, fathers in their bedrooms. >> reporter: were you telling me some of them their hands were tied together. >> oh, in the house, and without with their children as they killed them. they killed babies in front of their parents and then killed the parents. they killed parents and we found

babies in between the family killed before them, cut the head of the people. >> reporter: this is the first time -- i mean, when did you secure this area year? late last night? >> so, we fight here wave after wave. in last night. >> reporter: and this is really the scene that you'll find in any one of these kibbutzes along the border with gaza. the numbers of dead in some of them, over 100. the death toll is incredibly high. and that's why we're seeing the numbers continue to rise. because it's only now that the military's getting in and beginning to get full control there. say sara. >> thnic, thank you so much. we're going to a press conference, speaking out in israel, concerned that also some of them kidnapped by hamas.

let's listen in. >> should i start with what happened starting saturday morning? i was upstairs in my house in jerusalem. i knew that hirsch and a friend of his were sleeping out, camping somewhere, i didn't know exactly where. the first sirens, the bomb sirens, went off in jerusalem. so, i ran down the stairs to wake my two daughters so we could get into the bomb shelter in jerusalem. when we got out, ten minutes later, with the all-clear, i normally don't use my phone on the jewish sabbath, but it was an emergency, and i needed to know where my son was. so, i turned my phone on i believe at 8:23 in the morning. when i turned on, there were two texts in a row from hirsch at 8:11. the first one said, i love you. and immediately, at 8:11 also, it said, i'm sorry. and so i knew, immediately,

wherever he was, it was a terrible situation. i took it to mean. i love you, and i'm sorry, because whatever is going to happen is going to cause you tremendous pain and worry. since that time, i, of course, tried calling him right back. there was no answer. i texted him a couple times, are you okay? i've not heard from him since the text i received at 8:11 on saturday morning. we've since found out from putting together eyewitnesses from a picture from inside of a bomb shelter that we saw, we tried to put together who was in that bomb shelter with him. we've spoken to eyewitnesses. we know that he was injured in a gun battle. i mean, they were all civilians at a music festival, and they were fish in a barrel, sitting

in this bomb shelter, terrorists came to the door. they were throwing grenades in. shooting machine guns. and we know that hirsch's arm from the elbow down was severed. was blown off. and that he tied a tourniquet around with his shirt. and hamas came in after the gunfire settled down and said, anyone who can walk, stand up and walk out. we are told that he was completely calm. i think he was probably in shock. and he got up and he walked out with five other people, young people, from the music festival. two young women, three other young men, they were put on a pickup truck. and driven away by hamas. and then the police told us one thing they knew is that the last known signal, cell signal, from his phone was on the border with gaza.

>> so, not much to add. hirsch was at the festival with one of his best friends, amir sha shapiro. but eyewitness accounts from people we talked to in this bomb shelter, several others say your son and his friend saved our lives. anybody who was alive because as grenades were being thrown in, they were tossing them back out. they were trying to comfort people. and so, just thought i'd add that. >> and you can add. >> sure. i'll just say rachel and i both grew up in chicago. we were living in california in 2000 when hersh was born.

and we made it there 2008, hersh was our oldest child, 2008, we've been living in jerusalem of since. we have two daughters 20 and 17. and i just want to take a little bit to talk a little bit about hersh. he's a smiling fun loving guy, people of ages gravitate. if you mention his friends, teachers, our friends, you mention his name, people smile .

things were sort of calm when she heard gunfire outside of her shelter. and we tried to calm her down. that's when i dropped off the call. and both my brother, my sister were on the call with her, agency the terrorist barged into her home. and we heard a little bit of screaming. and that's was -- that was the last contact with her. there was no shooting on the

call. and the neighbors downstairs also didn't hear any shooting. my mom is a knows a little bit of arabic, what she picked up in the hospital that she used to calm down the terrorists but it is our hope, it's a little bit ridiculous at stage to say the optimistic scenario here that she's held hostage in gaza, and not dead on the streets where i grew up. my mom is a 66-year-old lady. me and my other siblings are in the room with me. seven grandkids.

she was sitting on the porch of her home in bber're. my bottom mom devoted her life. she was special to people, her kids and her grandkids. as i said, my last contact with my mom was saturday around around 5:00 a.m., as the terrorists barged into her shelter and her home. there are a lot of images,

spreading around, which i don't feel the need to talk about. i want to bring forward the responsibility that the israeli government has to bring back all the hostages. that are kept in hostage by the hamas terrorists. while saying this, i want to also speak about the responsibility of the u.s. administration, president biden, and the secretary of state blinken has for the lives of every u.s. citizen that is out there. they're responsible to bring the u.s. citizens back home safe and

sound. we expect nothing less from the u.s. administration, and from president biden. and secretary of state blinken. i speak for in the name of myself and my family. and i wish for the quick solution for this. terrible, terrible situation that all of us are in. we never imagined that this is how it will look. thank you again for coming. >> i'm just going to read out.

my name is ianna neta, i'm the youngest of my mother's children. my mother adrienne is missing and probably taken to the gaza strip. my mother is an exceptional human being. she spent most of her adult life as a nurse in the community and then as a midwife in a hospital. when she walked into a delivery room, she saw a human being in front of her. not a religion. not a race. not a hijab, not an orthodox jew. always the human being we saw. we once calculated that my mother has brought in thousands of lives into this world. when hamas walked into my

mother's room they saw there a woman but they did not see a human being. >> again, thank you for coming. my name is libi chen, before starting i just want to ask all of you here, thank you for coming, all of those listening to us, please, do not think of us only as a headline. we're more than that. i'm here with my family. my two sisters. we grew up in new york city. we'd like to say we are the proud outcome of the new york public education system. still have family out in new jersey. long island. and i'd like to talk about family, before talking about et

ay, by some twist of fate we became family. in addition to us, we've identified about ten other families like us that have a u.s. citizen missing. this family and my family is now missing. we have a missing family. in my family, i have in addition to itay two sons. one of them, the youngest is actually celebrating his bar mitzvah this weekend. a bar mitzvah for those of you who do not know is the celebration where a young jewish man becomes a man. and itay, in order to be home this weekend, elected to be at his base the previous weekend,

in order for us to celebrate the bar mitzvah as a whole, the whole family. we still hope that that celebration with my sisters and my family will happen in the near future. and i'm sure my friends here as well, all my new family, have additional, you know, events happening that they also wish to have that whole, wholeness, of these events. so, please, you know, think of us, not just as that headline. we're people. we're people, we're families. and we want back families again. itay, my son, joined the army about a year ago. he's in the armed corps. he was serving on the border of gaza.

the last time that we talked to him was saturday morning, where he said that they were under attack. we know that he was active. that he was in communication for a while. but since then, silence. the formal indication that we received from the idf is that he's defined as missing in action. what does that mean? it means that nobody since saturday morning has been able to physically locate him. identify him, and see him. it also means that he's not in the hospital. it also means he's not on the deceased list and has been identified. you would think it would be a good assumption to say, that

after 70 hours, if he's not in the state of israel, he might be some other place. and if that is the case, then he is, by definition, p.o.w., u.s. citizen, and israeli citizen and what we're asking for his captives and for the u.s. government is one, to ask the captives hamas to see him according to international law, having to visit him, able to see him, have the u.n. representative see him as well. and as said before, we want to go back to become family. we want this as soon as possible. hopefully, with your help, the people here will help us amplify this message to the u.s.

government, secretary of state that in now have been saying all of the right things. but we do, at least i, on behalf of my family, ask the u.s. not to take a back seat. the u.s. has a lot of resources at its attention. is able to do many things that can be the difference than what the israeli government can do. we're asking on behalf of my family for president biden, to ensure his heart is in the right place when it comes to it and secretary of state to do what they can to meet this end for us, as soon as possible, to become family, whole again. >> thank you all for coming this afternoon. my name is jonathan.

i am i lifetime of kibbutz on the border since 1990. and attacked in the early morning of this saturday, and i have children and grandchildren, who live there with me. kibbutz is no more. it was destroyed in a barbaric inhumane attack in which dozens of my friends, neighbors were killed. many dozens more are either known to be hostages or missing. i'm here speaking today, reaching out to my son ziggy who grew up on the kib butsz. and he's an arm's length away in gaza, evidently, but couldn't be farther from me and our family right now. i grew up in connecticut, as you

can probably hear from the accent. but i've never felt farther away from there either. and he's the father, as you can see, 35 years old. the father of two beautiful daughters. and his wife is now pregnant with their third daughter. and sagui is exactly the kind of son that every father would want to have. a leader, a friend, a loving man. he and many other such young men on the kibbutz are now missing after having tried to repulse the attack by evidently hundreds of hamas terrorists and looters. and many died in the process. sagui was not found. and we have heard or seen no trace of him since then. the survivors of the kibbutz and the kibbutz, we're a community of 400.

at the moment, we know of 160 survivors. the rest have either died or, as we said, prisoners or missing. the survivors called this a -- what happened to us. it's not a war, it's not a fair fight. it's a pegrom. hundreds of heavily armed well organized terrorists walk, ran over the border with one object in mind, that is to kill, maim, destroy civilian life along the border. as such, it seems to me that the united states, my original home, and still a very beloved place for me always wants to be and must be on the side of good. hamas is evil. and it's difficult for me to say, i'm what is called a peacenik in israel as many of

the kibbutz members are in our area. but when we witness this kind of savagery, this kind of inhumanity must be stopped. like the other five people on this stage who would prefer to be anywhere but here now do appeal to the united states government, to the congress, to do what they can on the side of good here. we're waiting for sagui to come home. we do not know what fate he met along, as i said, with dozens of other people from the kibbutz. and just so you understand, these aren't all 35-year-old men. these are children. these are aged people. and everything in between. so, if there ever was a moment of good against evil in the harshest terms, this is it. and i thank you for listening to us. and i'm sure all of us will

welcome questions. we'll answer as we can, both for our children and relatives. and for those well over 100 hostages that were taken. among the hostages, i'll add, that outside of sagui that were taken from my kibbutz, civilian americans and two that were murdered saturday morning. >> thank you very much. to all of the families participating, we're going now to questions from the journalists. we're going to start with becky andersonson from cnn. we're going to go one by one, please, when you get the microphone, say your name and the outlet that you're from. thank you. >> thank you, and thank you for doing this today. israel has said that it will do its best to get any hostages home. there's also talk of an imminent ground incursion at this point.

just how concerned are you. this isn't to any single person? who wants to take that one? >> yeah. i can address the question, as with some of the kinds of questions coming up, right. i don't have any more acquaintance with anybody at the table, but i would assume that none of us are military personnel, or foreign affairs strategic thinkers. we are the family members of u.s. citizens that were kidnapped into the gaza strip. hence, i do not think that it is our place to comment on the necessary actions that israeli government has to take. or the u.s. biden administration, for that sake.

all we ask, from the biden administration and the secretary of state blinken is to act to the immediate release of all hostages. and remember that the u.s. government has direct responsibility to the lives of the u.s. citizens that they're held hostage by these terrorists. so, whatever any government needs to do in order to make that happen, please make that happen. >> lester holt from nbc news, united states. have any of you been contacted directly by the u.s. administration, or the israeli administration, in terms of what a pathway toward negotiations might look like? thank you. >> so, what i can say is that

the side of the u.s. embassy, we've been in contact with the state department and the u.s. embassy. and have taken note of the details of itay. but there's been no formal concentrated attempt to talk to us, as a group. and updating us about what they are doing in this matter. i think it is a legit request, from a representative from the state department, to sit with us. update us, what they have been doing, what they're planning to do. and able to supply us. from the israeli government, as i said before, we got an indication about the status of itay, as defined as missing in action. and waiting to get additional updates.

>> by the way, is there someone here from the u.s. embassy? >> excuse me, what have you been hearing so far from israeli officials -- >> can you identify yourself? >> from common level in israel. what have you heard from officials, israeli officials, how much information are you getting? and what's your expectation of israel regarding the situation? >> i can speak, i think, both specifically and more broadly. most of the good things that have happened so far, in response to the civilian level, at the civil level, including work around efforts around hostages and the missing have

been ground-up. from the ground up. and groups of citizens coming together to both aid people that live in communities like mine. and also to try to make some sense in this fog of war, as to what's happened. i know, i know what you're talking about. so far there's been little to no contact. >> i -- >> excuse me for interrupting, i am an american citizen, and i've been living in the u.s. for the last five years. as i said before, my mom was born and raised in california. but i was born and raised in kibbutz, in kibbutz be're. so i am natural israel blunt. and i want to be blunt when answering this question and saying zero communication from

the israeli government, zero communication on that side. i do have friends that are currently engaging in the combat around my home, around kibbutz. and i can appreciate the total mayhem and mess. that the combat environment is creating. but i think that after three day, more than three days now, it is more than a reasonable request to have somebody from the israeli government or the u.s. administration approach us with any type of information that they may have of our family members.

>> at least a plan, of what they intend to do. >> okay. thank you very much. to all of the families who were here today. thank you to everybody for coming. we have two gentlemen in the back who help coordinate individual interviews for any journalists who want to speak directly and specifically to some of the families, and we all wish and hope for better days, thank you. absolutely, hope and wish for better days. what we've been listening to and you've been listening along with us, is four families, desperate, angry, broken, as their family members are missing. and telling their stories and begging for help. >> talking about sons of these families, a mother, family members, loved ones. and at the end, you heard the man whose mother is currently missing that he's received zero

communication from either the israeli government or u.s. government about the well-being or potential well-being of his mother adrienne. >> we also heard them ask if you don't have information about our loved ones, at least tell us what the plan is with these hostages at this point in time. we do know a lot of details about each of the persons, we have the family members. can we by any chance go back to becky anderson. she's in the room watching this unfold. there were huge pictures put up, as john was mentioning, we're talking sons, a mother who was midwife, working as a nurse. give us a sense what it was like in the room, what it felt like, from our vantage point, it was harrowing, it was touching, it was awful to see these families struggle like this. >> reporter: yeah, yeah, i have to say, it was extremely

emotional. you could hear a pin drop in this room, quite frankly. let me stand away so you can in fact -- in fact, you can't see the pictures anymore. it was remarkable, really, wasn't it, to hear these family members who are clearly in shock, and clearly very angry about the lack of communication from authorities, about their loved ones. i thought -- i think it's important to point out that adrienne neta, the 66-year-old midwife was the most badly hit, a lot of these kibbutzes on the border with gaza have been very badly hit. the stories of what you hear about what happened on saturday morning are absolutely tragic. but adrienne was at this kibbutz

where she's lived for 40 years, her son was explaining he was born there. she's a nurse. and this place witnessed a massacre. and clearly, you know, she is now missing. and you can just see in niha's face and his sister here as well, what they're going through. b b berre is one of the worst hit, and for 48 hours now, on the massacre, that happened there. a young israeli -- a young soldier serving here in the idf, his father, we heard from. and is now missing in action. and john and rachel, whose son,

of course, hersh, was at that festival. i don't think there's much to add, really. as far as the emotion in this room and what we've heard. but they are clearly now appealing to the u.s. administration directly. appealing to president biden and appealing to secretary of state antony blinken to do whatever they can. listen, this was my question to them, we hear much talk of the imminent incursion by the ground, the ground incursion into gaza at present. the assumption is that these four families here, representing four people who are missing at present, their understanding is the assumption is all of these people are being held hostage by hamas at present. >> becky, there was one moment when we heard from the woman, her mother, adrienne neta, the

66-year-old woman taken. he said the most optimistic hope is that she's alive as a hostage in gaza, and not dead at the kibbutz where i grew up. that illustrates, i think, the uncertainty that these families are still living with. >> reporter: absolutely. and you hear this, not just from these families, i have to say, from so many people that we've been speaking to here. there's just a vacuum of information, and as naha, adrienne's son just said, he said, look, i understand, it was a cauhaotic situation, we get that. but the fact there has been little or no communication from authorities is so difficult for

the families to deal with at present. and we do know for hours, certainly at the kibbutz. we've had this story we've told time and time again, i've heard it from the family at the hospital here yesterday, whose son is in icu. he was at a kibbutz on the border. you hear this story, 6:30 in the morning, they heard the rockets. by sort of 8:00 in the morning, 8:20, as rachel pointed out here, it seems that the militants were overrunning many of these kibbutzes. look, bombing isn't -- the rocket fire isn't all familiar to many living in these border communities. so they got into the bunkers, they got into the shelters as they normally do. but then these places, these communities, were overrun. and for hours, these kibbutz members were in the shelters. it was 10, 12, 15 hours before

anybody came. from the israeli authorities from the idf. to help out. and it was some time after that, that many of the wounded were evacuated from the actual kibbutz. and there's certainly the sense of abandonment in the early hours. a real sense of not being able to understand it, just not being able to understand why it was that nobody came to them. and the real sense of abandonment by authorities. and you're hearing exactly that from these families now. not just on the part of the israelis, but on the part of the u.s. administration at this point as well. >> we should make some distinction, just after listening to the four of them, that some of them have not heard from their loved ones at all. don't know where they are. they don't know if they're hostages. they don't know if they're taken, they don't know if

they're dead or alive. they assume they've been taken from hospitals. itay chen who is a soldier, israeli soldier, there's no information. but you do have the family, neta family, adrienne, they heard her being taken, they heard her speaking the little bit of arabic that she knows to calm down -- >> that's what's difficult. a lot of families were on the phone with their loved ones when the last communications occurred. to becky's point, these kibbutzes, especially along the border with gaza, they are used to rocket fire. that is not unusual to them. what is different is, as jonathan put it, he's a self-defined peacenik in israel. the humanity with the kibbutz that were overrun, this has to stop. speaking of rocket fire, we want to get back to nic robertson in

sderot where he's been this morning, nic, there is more -- there's more missile attacks happening. tell me what you're seeing. >> reporter: yeah, there are, in the last ten minutes there were more rockets fired in from gaza. the iron dome here fired off the sirens, to warn people to go to their shelters and be ready. i'm hearing explosions in the sky above me, and detonations probably linked with the attacks that are going on in gaza at the moment, you can see, john, if you're able to pan a little bit around there, you can probably see some of the smoke rising up from gaza, we are relatively close here, in a secure location. but the targets in gaza have been the hamas firing sites. the hamas leadership, islamic jihad firing point leadership as well. but hamas, specifically, is what

the iraqi defense force say they are targeting. looking there in the sky, it looks like a number of rockets have just been launched from gaza. one, two, three -- four. you don't really hear them being launched. at night, you can see the fiery trail. but right now, i'm looking at them in the sky. and the fact that they haven't intercepted yet would indicate to me that they're potentially on their way to central israel. maybe sort of tel aviv area. i would expect the iron domes in northern israel, to try and intercept those soon. but, again, impossible to say. i've just seen the trails of the rockets that weren't there a few seconds ago. it's a dynamic situation. this vantage point allows you to sort of see what's going on here but the iron dome intercepts, that when the coastline is being attacked there is ashkelon where the power station is farther north is ashdod, you get a

strong view of the iron dome, trying to intercept. and i'm hearing distant fire in this direction, which is maybe the intercept of those rockets that we're looking at there just under way. >> nic, as you're speaking, we're looking at pictures of gaza, we could see exactly what you were describing from that. very clearly, the rockets that had been launched. you can see the trail of smoke that they create. you can also see what appears to be air strikes. there's a huge black plume of smoke that came up just as you were speaking, right before we saw the trail from the rockets coming over to where you are. you're in a precarious position. you can give us some sense about who is still there? are there still civilians in sderot, or because you're so close to the border -- or, is it mostly quiet, and it's just the military who is there trying to secure it?

>> reporter: there's a handful of citizens here at the moment. but it's a -- it is really a handful. this is really a town that is actively being patrolled by the israeli defense forces, by the police. because there's a concern, there's a potential, you know, a limited potential, for hamas. but the fact that hamas came in here and essentially -- well, were killing people and took people and kidnapped them and wrought fear and terror on the population here. most people have decided to leave. the stores aren't open, so you can't -- even if you were living here, you couldn't go out and buy bread or buy food for your family. quite literally, most people have left here at the moment. >> nic, standby, if you will, we just put up a shot of our colleague jeremy diamond who is also in sderot. jeremy, if you can hear us, tell us what you you're seeing? >> reporter: john, you can

really feel the full war footing that they're on here in sderot. on one hand, you have convoys, reservists and troops, we just saw five humvees with about a dozen idf inside. and we had a barrage of iron dome intercepts right over where we are. we're actually standing in front of a shelter. there was a woman here delivering meals, food, for those troops who are mobilizing at this moment. she rushed into the shelter. and we were all headed in the same direction. but, again, there is this sense that life is still going on here. and yet, at the same time, there is a calm sense of slight concern. one woman stopped here on the side of the road to ask us if we could come with her to get her gas tank filled at the gas

station, simply because she is afraid of those rockets overhead. does not want to be alone. wants to feel some sense of security. she tried to flag down a police officer to do the same. on the one hand, you have life continuing. but on the other hand, you have this eerie sense that life is not as it typically is here. and certainly, a sense of concern. a sense of fear. and also a sense that this country is gearing up for something much bigger as all of these troops head to the border. >> absolutely, jeremy. all right. jeremy, thank you so much for that. we're going now back to becky anderson who is speaking with one of the men that we just heard, jonathan from that press conference who is missing his son. becky. >> reporter: that's right, and this is sagus dad. i'm just going to tell you where we are. we just had sirens going off here, and so we've come into the shelter which is the stairwell in this hotel. and some enormous booms outside

here in tel aviv. that would have been the iron dome intercepting the rockets coming in. this is the third time in the past hour we've had them accepting shelter. sagui is 35 kibbutzkibbutz. yes, and with the countries that israel does not, and so it could be helpful for the united states and its various parts to engage with those friends, and those acquaintances to help negotiate in some way secure the release or get some solid information and not just about sagui, but some people that we have no information whatsoever about, but it could be a partnership,

but a partnership in a just cause. these are civilians, farmers, teachers -- regular people like my son who had dreams, have dreams. this is not the future any of us want. >> reporter: we heard from four families whose kids, mom, are missing at present. some assuming to be hostages with hamas, and you all explained that you not only have heard nothing about the whereabouts of your loved one, but you have not been conkt tac yourself, and it is clear from the press conference that there is clear some frustration about this. >> oh, i would say if this is a representative group, there is a great deal of frustration.

most of the organizing of not just the missing, but the communities in thesouth, and there are dozens of communities that are uninhas bebuninhabitaby are smoking wrecks, and much of what is a pagrom in the terms of the savagery, and in terms of the missing and the hostages, there is no contact whatsoever. the lists of course are growing, because more and more is becoming revealed outside of the fog of war about the people who we just could not track down and realize that they are in fact not with us, and somewhere in gaza.

not being contacted, and not only by the american government which is not the main thrust here, but even if it is the barbarianism of hamas, and they have proven it, and i am a man of peace, but they have shown their colors no, question. they are not all of gaza. but they are a sickness. i don't know what the future of negotiations would look like, but i do know that forces of good in the world in the same way that they came together to defeat at least temporary isis have the power to come together to create a better ending to this than without those combined forces of good. in this case, it is the light on the hill, the united states. i knew that growing up in the states. and that remains true. i believe it is.

>> reporter: i am sure that many people watching this trying to imagine -- or they cannot imagine, let me rephrase, and they cannot imagine this, and so elle the me, how are you and the family? >> my children and grandchildren who were on the kibbutz, and so sagui's young family experienced a living hell for the better part of 20 hours. these are young children. young men and women who are traumatized by what they witnessed. and my job as a parent is to put the pieces together not only as families, but as a community. we were a kibbutz, and communal

farm with a history, with a culture, with a beautiful home on the border of israel. that home is no more. it does not exist anymore. and so the 160 of the 400 people who were there on saturday morning, the 160 of us who survived it, we pray for the missing and the hos antages, ane have to figure out what to do and where to do it. >> reporter: thank you. thank you. so the message from here is really quite clear. i mean the concern of a ground incursion is present, and the family members talked to us to get involved. they are needing to hear about what happens next.

needing to understand how involved the u.s. government is in what happens next. >> yeah, and seeing jonathan just standing there behind you is emblematic of the resolve of the families. they will not give up as they should not until their family members are found and brought home. and please, i know that he cannot hear us but thank him for us all. >> thank him. and can we mention and show the pictures of those missing, because we have been hearing about them, but we did not get a good look at who is missing right now. and these are the americans that are missing, and the families have been begging for any information about them. we know that some of them were on the phone with, and one of them was a mother, and so this young man is a soldier who was at his post and his family has heard nothing from him.

this is itay chen, and they don't know where he is, but they don't believe he is in the hospital, and they have heard nothing from the hospital, and he is not on any of the deceased lists, and they don't know. and we should mention adrienne neta who is 66 years old living in be'eri, and we have heard from the israeli government, and hate to use this word, but it is a bloodbath, and that terrible in the kibbutz, but her family heard her being taken. heard the terrorists coming in and taking her away and heard her speaking to them, and then they have not heard from her since. there is hirsch poland goldberg who said, look, he was at the music festival trying to enjoy himself, and they believe he, too, was taken, and we have heard from his father for sagui

deckle chen, and he said he is a peacenic, and hamas is truly a terrorist group and they need to be taken out. >> we will be hearing from president joe biden about this, and the attack from hamas, and the terror attack in israel and the position of the united states. we are going to be hearing from him later today, and we will be right back.