>> this is cnn breaking news. >> hello, welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world, i am john vause for cnn's breaking news coverage of israel at war. it is seven a.m. in gaza and already, thick plumes of smoke are rising about the city after yet another israeli ashtray. soon, israel's war with hamas could get dramatically worse. according to u.n. officials, israel once more than 1 million palestinians in gaza to be relocated within the next 24 hours to the south of the

enclave towards the border with egypt. the clearest indication yet that a ground incursion could be imminent. a u.s. spokesperson has described the process impossible, warning that an already tragic situation can easily become a calamity. israel's assault on gaza is not into its seventh day. 6000 airstrikes in six days. on average, a dozen a day. the idf say that they have targeted hamas, but according to palestinian officials, more than 1500 people have been killed, and the widespread devastation is pushing gaza closer to a total humanitarian catastrophe. gus's only power plant is now off line and days earlier, supply of electricity and water supply was cut off from his early. that will stay that way until hostile this is all hostages in gaza. they are warning that causes health system already under resourced and struggling at the best of times is now on the brink of a collapse. the u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken arrived in israel on thursday, and as we negotiate humanitarian

assistance into gaza. after meeting with the israeli prime minister benjamin not who, -- anthony blinken's visit to tel aviv may have been brief, but it was a visible public show of support for israel. washington has also deployed an aircraft carrier to the region, and not to israel's enemies. the white house says they have no plans to send u.s. troops to israel, ahead of any u.s. incursion into gaza. cnn's nick robertson has the latest now, reporting from sderot in southern israel. >> israel nearly emerging frontline in the war with hamas. heavy howitzers just stuck in, firing on the terror group a few miles away in gaza. part of israel's massive military buildup since hamas's attacks on saturday. many of the 300,000 reservists called up already deployed

ahead of a highly anticipated ground offensive into gaza. >> these are exactly the same gun pieces since the israeli defense forces use and their last major confrontation with hamas back in 2021. the question now, will this confrontation be different? will israel actually be able to crush hamas, as the prime minister says he wants to do. >> military offensive have been done before and won't be easy now, the palestinian death toll, an unintended consequence of israeli shelling and missile strikes, is climbing. there is day, staunch ally u.s. cautioning care. >> the prime minister and i discussed how israel does its matters. we democracies distinguish ourselves from paris by a scrapping for a different standard, even when it's difficult. >> and it will be difficult.

israel is still reeling from the deadliest, most barbaric attack on its citizens since the state was founded. anger at hamas is high, so to pressure on the prime minister to act decisively. his calling for more international support, as he plans his offensive. >> hamas should be treated exactly the way i.s.i.s. was treated. they should be spit out from the community of nations. no leader should meet them. no country should harbor them, and those that you should be sanctioned. >> in the meantime, hamas is still getting into israel. this gun battle with the late wednesday. >> there are multiple incursions by hamas terrorists today. i drove right through there road during the time dignitaries were out, again, looking for civilians to kill. >> the tempo of fire here, far higher than in 2021, a drumbeat that seems to signal a ground

offensive, all but inevitable. even so, it's all come, far from certain. nic robertson, cnn, sderot, israel. >> live not alluded for the very latest. journalist gubkin is with us. elliott, a meeting in 24 hours, says the ppases is a toll ordered. the timing now is clear now. >> very much no. this is very much tied to what nick robertson was saying there, john, about the inevitability of the ground of asian. israel telling the united nations essentially to evacuate at the gaza strip, the nose and -- part of the gaza strip. that you and says that accounts for about 1.1 million palestinians. that's about half of the entire population of the gaza strip this specific distances a around about ten kilometers south of the -- it's not ten kilometers south north throughout, but that is what israel is saying.

do you and say it's impossible to do so without, in its words, devastating humanitarian consequences. the response from israel to the u.n., from israel's envoy to the u.n., is to say that response by the u.n.'s itself shameful. but seeing what israel is trying to do is to get the civilian population of the gaza strip to basically make way for the israelis for this expected ground incursion to minimize civilian casualties. of course, moving that many people is no easy task. at the same time, the biden administration has been talking about trying to get safe passage for the civilian population of gaza do the southern caressing into egypt. of course, egypt is not likely to want hundreds of thousands potentially palestinian refugees to come into the country. that's on the border has been sealed, of course, as well. it's a difficult situation for the civilian population of the gaza strip.

as you say, the death toll now, according to the palestinian ministry of health rising above 1500. of course, we know more than 1200 people inside of israel have been killed since hamas launched this attack against israel in the early hours of saturday morning. that's a death toll that is also expected to rise, john? >> elie, thank you. and they got can in london, appreciate it, thank you. in all the conflict between israel and hamas over the years, there has been and is still one constant, civilians in gaza are owes on the losing end of israeli airstrikes, and what the death toll surging once again, aid groups are calling for greater efforts to spread the men, women and children in gaza who are caught in the cross fire. cnn's not publisher has our report. a warning, herbert contains graphic content. [screaming] >> gripped by grief -- [screaming] a loss of unfathomable scale. causes death toll at the number of civilians wounded is rising

with each and every air strike. in the refugee camp, men dig with their bare hands, desperate to rescue let ones, eat the rubble of what once was their homes. >> [speaking in a non-english language] >> set bigots to list the names at the church and killed and a lettuce strike. among them, his niece. she was just a few months old, now, she is one of more than 440 children gaza's health ministry says has been killed by israeli airstrikes so far. >> israel says it is striking hostile gets, but authorities here say medical facilities, schools and residential areas have been impacted. >> our neighbor says that the israelis called and told them to evacuate the area around our home, so we came to stay with relatives here in the shelter, no bill says. but the next morning, will wake

up to pray at dawn, the air strike happened. there was no warning. the densely populated gaza strip, which has green under and as clearly land, sea and air blockade since 2007 it's home to more than 2 million people. around 47% of them are children. so far, at least 340,000 people have been displaced within gaza. many are now forced to take shelter and u.n. around schools like this one. but civilians here are also now facing with the israeli government as described as a complete siege of gaza. >> there is no water for us to drink, no water for us to wash ourselves with so that we can pray, this child says. they bumped our schools, many people have been killed, it's not fair for children like us. why is this happening to us? life under a blockade is all that the children of gaza have ever known. for some, like 13 year old 19,

it is hard to imagine a future beyond this relentless conflict. >> last couple of nights have been the worst couple of nights that i have ever lived in my life. this is not living, this is existing. we are not planning our futures anymore. we're just trying to survive. >> but survival in gaza is becoming more and more difficult by the day. the humanitarian situation is rapidly deteriorating, and while the u.n. has condemned it as described as israel's a lawful blockade on gaza and the indiscriminate nature of israel 's airstrikes, there is little hope of the bloodshed will end here. not a beshear, cnn. >> live now to raleigh in the west bank. the director general of the palestinian red cross. thank you for being with us, we appreciate your time. >> thank you for having me. >> i want to talk about gaza

here and the health minister to start off with. the hospitals and health care system in gaza has always been strained at the best of times. what is the situation right now as they try to treat thousands of wounded and also being under fire at the same time? >> in the last few hours, there has been a development that has shocked everybody, our teams, the medical doctors, the paramedics, et cetera, and we are, to be honest, we are just buffered and trying to make sense of it. that is the order to evacuate more than 1 million people into the southern gaza. we have hospitals. in those hospitals, there are people who are sick. and in intensive care, there are wounded, there are people with disabilities and i just don't know, how the israelis

expect that this should be done when the roads, when the roads are all broken. i am telling you, i am starting with this, because this has been the recent development, and we are shocked, we don't know how to deal. we are appealing to the whole world to stop the madness. >> you've been told historically by the united nations, by israel, by the u.s., so there are active discussions about how this could even be possible? >> we have been told that the u.n. is evacuating, that the committee at the red cross is evacuating. when we asked then, how do you expect 1 million people in this situation when gaza has been turned into rubble, every infrastructure, single infrastructure is destroyed. when we have hospitals which

are full of sick people and want it and homeless. there is no answer. >> just in terms of logistics -- here >> i think there is no answer because israel has made it important, and it ruled a silent. looking at the humanitarian catastrophe that we don't hear the same voice coming. we just cannot deal with this. we are overwhelmed. i am on the floor from 1:00 this morning with our release, with our doctors, our paramedics. they just don't know what to do. >> just in terms of logistics, does this mean that gaza is being cut in half. from there down to the south will essentially be declared safe for the population. anything north will be declared a military zone, what have they told you? >> there is no safe zone in gaza. gaza has no water, no food, no electricity. the roads are destroyed. all parts of gaza have been

bombarded heavily. there is no safe zone. >> in terms of an evacuation order, what are they looking at here? what are they want them to go to? >> they want people to go south of gaza valley, this is half of gaza. they'll have people who are 20 kilometers away. they have no means of transportation, as i said, there are injured people, there are children, there are six people. we have hospitals in this area that they are asking us to evacuate. how do we evacuate hospitals in the middle of this? and where to go, where to go? you know the area, this is an overpopulated, people are on top of each other, so where do they go? >> tomato, obviously, this is an image sign that a possible ground incursion or some other major military offensive is on its way. if those people don't leave,

then they are facing dangers as well. >> well, i think that's why the world has to intervene. i plead that some sane voices, the world has to intervene and stop this madness. you cannot write the road that happened with a massacre of people with a genocide, you cannot do that. the world is leaving palestinian people helpless, under fire, being killed, children and women. half of those killed are women and children. the world asked to intervene, and they have to intervene now before the situation really gets worse. >> -- >> i have pleaded to the world, please, please intervene, stop the madness. >> have you been told what will happen if the evacuations did not take place? >> we have not been told anything. we have not been told anything. they told the u.n., the i-crc.

we are hearing secondhand information, and even those international organizations, they are leaving without -- they don't have any information. they themselves, they just received the order on the phone and are shocked. >> just for context here, with this evacuation apply to gaza city, as well? >> yes, yes, this is the catastrophe. 1 million people with hospitals with elderly, with children, how the world is silent about this, it baffles me. i am just shocked, beyond shocked. we are not hearing anything. we hear people beating the drums of war. i think it's enough. it's enough. we have already suffered. >> this is a matter of being open for negotiation, or is it just a done deal, this is what the israelis have set, and of story? >> well, this is what the

israelis have set, and i don't hear any voice, i don't hear secretary blinken say anything about this. he has been in israel just this a day. he must have been told about this. so is the ignited states giving the greenlight to this massacre, to this humanitarian catastrophe? is at the west keeping quiet and giving clean right to israel to do that? this is the question, this is the question that you had to ask the western leaders, to the israeli officials. they just cannot do that. >> just for our audience, explain to the viewer over here of gaza is basically built on, because in the north, which is gaza city, that's where the city's, and a lot of people, there are built up. to the south, there is not a lot of infrastructure, mostly rural agriculture, there is no where for people to go. >> the whole of gaza's urban,

over populated, many refugee camps, with the most densely populated areas in the world. in between, there are certain, especially to the north, farming areas, which have been destroyed and the pass and in previous wars. the whole of gaza is like a big city, one small city overpopulated. so the south is the same. you have -- refugee camps, a number of refugee camps in the south. the area itself is already with the whole gaza strip is the most densely populated area in the world. so to move 1 million people in half of this area is going to be catastrophic. there are going to be massacres. the utterly is going to be left behind. children will be lost. the sick will be left behind, because we have no means to transport them, and gaza has

been turned -- as i was told by my colleagues, like a chessboard, and they were moving from one square to another, bobbing, flooding, the whole thing, the next square to the next square. sir, please, there are no safe areas, there are no rural areas, there are no open areas in gaza. it's more densely populated, and people are going to be on top of each other even more so, and it's just impossible. it is a humanitarian catastrophe. >> director general of the palestinian red cross there in -- thank you for your time. thank you for your contacts for our audience and bringing this up to perspective from your point of view, as well. yeah, this is an incredible undertaking, which seems to be impossible at this point. thank you for being with us, sir. appreciate time. still to come here, hiding in plain sight.

it seems the hamas jihadi sub trained for years, leaving little effort to hide, raising more questions about how israeli intelligence never saw hamas attacks coming in the first place. those details next in a moment. more on the lives lost and the surprise hamas attacks, including the 27 u.s. citizens now being declared dead.

>> less than a week after hamas militants carried out a well planned, well coordinated attack, did that this ever on israeli civilians and one day, and one simple but painful question keeps growing louder, how could israeli intelligence have missed it? cnn's chief international correspondent clarissa ward and her team located six training camps in gaza, and now the israeli military is taking a closer look. according to our reporting, all of the sites are within two kilometers of the most heavily patrolled section of the border with israel. here is clarissa's report. >> propaganda videos put up by hamas revealed chilling details about the ears a preparations that went into saturday's bloody attacks right under israel's nose. analyzing meta data from the videos, a cnn investigation can reveal the presence of at least

six training sites inside gaza, one just a 720 meters from the most heavily fortified of patrol part of israel's border. and that camp, hamas recreated and israeli compound, elements of the nearby border crossing, including and insignia of the areas battalion. the video shows they even practiced taking prisoners, is it tying their hands in the camp. satellite imagery indicates that the camp was constructed within the last year and a half. at two other locations in the southern part of gaza, hamas trained for their audacious paraglider assault, reversing takeoffs and landings. and all, six sites, two years of satellite imagery reviewed by cnn shows no indication of offensive israeli military action. the imagery instead shows that in the last two years, some camps even expanded into surrounding farmland, and that there was activity in the last

several months at the camps. the stunning revelations raised questions as to how hamas was able to train so openly, so close to the border for so long, and why israeli officials were unable to pick up on and prevent the october 7th attack. clarissa ward, cnn. >> washington has confirmed 27 americans were killed in the weekend attack by hamas. 14 remain unaccounted for. we're learning that names and stories of some of the victims. here is cnn's erica hill. >> beaming smiles, every day joy, now forever frozen in time. >> she's amazing person and, each and every one that i've met her have loved her. she's done nothing wrong and nothing bad to anyone. >> a. all waltman start if i feel daughter daniel was born in california. she and her boyfriend noem

recently moved into a new apartment. they adopted a dog at we're building a life together. >> they went to a party to celebrate peace and love. >> danielle and no one never made it home for the music festival. >> she taught me in the last minute that she and her mom decided that they would get married. unfortunately, we would bury them together. >> this still citizen spent his summers at camp at the u.s.. his aunt, debbie, describes rea as a fun loving at that a kid, was passionate about protecting his country. captain zearing was 27. he got walks ex-wife says they move back to israel two years ago to care for their mother. on saturday, hamas attacked the village where they live. >> they were part of the security team, the petrel team in the village.

>> his brother, both israeli americans, were killed. >> everyone called him johnny. that is my sister in law. she was running for the council of the area, a bunch of beaches. she was such an of lifting, quality human being. >> when a butler's family along with their mother carol were murdered at the kibbutz on saturday. >> such a beautiful tribe we had. half of our family is god. this is our life, our love. i had 14 nieces and nephews, 11 now. >> a family shattered, as countless more way forward on their loved ones and wonder, whether they will ever be hole again. erica hill, cnn, new york. >> intense u.s. diplomacy

underway to end the carnage. the u.s. top diplomat holding talks with israel, jordan and others. we'll have a report from tel aviv in a moment.

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here in the united states and from all around the world. i am john vause, you're watching cnn's room. this is 32 minutes past the hour. israel has asked the u.n. to evacuate 1 million palestinians in gaza, including all of gaza city, according to some reports, to the south of the enclave, a move that could be -- to a major escalation in the military offensive, possibly a ground incursion. [sound of artillery] >> [speaking in a non-english language] >> 300,000 israeli troops now

passing near gaza's border. artillery air strikes inside gaza have continued almost nonstop. but with no safe way to escape, civilian casualties are climbing. >> translator: no one cries over us. there is no chivalry, no feelings, hearts are dead. only shots i had body parts are made. people are going to this. they can't find food and their homes, and there is a extremely tough social situation in gaza, seat by seat, and all of it is happening because it is. where should our people go? we have been besieged for 18 years. where should we go? >> according to the u.n., more than their hundred 40,000 civilians in gaza have been displaced, prompting this note of caution for the u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken. >> the prime minister and i discussed how israel does its matters. we democracies distinguish ourselves from terrorist by

describing to a different standard, even as difficult and holding ourselves to account when we fall short. our humanity, the value that we place on human life and human dignity, that is what makes us who we are. >> u.s. and qatar have temporarily withheld six billion dollars from iran, which is part of a prisoner exchange deal. the money is on hold as washington investigates to be directly involved in the we can attack by hamas. the phones were transformed to qatar demanded by iran a release of five americans. they say they were wrongfully detained. >> not a dog has been accessed, and we are watching it closely. even if they had access the, it would not go to the regime, it would go to approved vendors, that we approved, to go buy food, medicine and medical equipment, agricultural products, and ship it into iran directly to the benefit of the iranian people. >> u.s. officials concede so far, there is no direct

evidence of iran's involvement in the hamas attack. the country say they are complicit because of ongoing support guitarist groups like hamas. america's most senior diplomat is now in jordan at the spending thursday in israel. anthony blinken is now trying to prevent the israeli hamas conflict is peppy of borders. cnn's becky anderson has more now reporting in from tel aviv. >> the war between israel and hamas is kicking off a flurry of diplomatic activity across the middle east. >> u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken landed in tel aviv on thursday to show washington solidarity with israel. >> the message that i break to israel's this, you might be strong enough on your own to defend yourself, but as long as america exists, you will never have to, we will always be there. by your side. >> the secretary of state also

tried to secure the release of hostages taken by hamas. working with allies such as qatar, struck a deal for the release of israeli women and children from palestinian women and teenagers, according to a diplomatic source. but hamas says it will not negotiate, as long as it remains under attack from israel. and israel says it has cut off water, electricity and fuel, as long as those sausages are held in gaza. with the worsening humanitarian crisis in the besieged enclave, the u.s. has warned israel it must follow the laws of war, amid talk of a massive ground assault. elsewhere, talks underway with egypt to allow civilians to exit gaza by the rafah border crossing. so far, no concrete deal there. meanwhile, the crisis paving the way for the first ever phone call between iran's

president and saudi arabia's crown prince. mohammed bin salman stressing saudi arabia's efforts to halt any escalation and civilian targeting, as well as support for the palestinian cause. that risk adds much awaited normalization deal with israel. jordan's king abdullah, one of the first arab states to strike a peace deal with israel, renewing calls to establish a palestinian state. >> translator: what the palestinian territories are witnessing currently is evidence of again emphasizes that our area will not obtain peace and stability without achieving a comprehensive and just peace on the basis of the two state solution, so that the palestinian people can receive it's independent country with sovereignty. >> while blinken is in the region, he will reportedly meet with palestinian president mahmoud abbas on friday. but despite the diplomatic

pressure, peace in the region seems further away than ever. becky anderson, cnn, tel aviv. >> coming up on cnn, one u.s. president has shown real leadership over his support and comfort to israel, while former u.s. president used the hamas attack to trust up the israeli prime minister. big surprise for guessing who.

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>> between u.s. president joe biden and his predecessor donald trump. biden was both measured and empathetic while offering israel full support. he went on to slam hamas and blamed foreign actors to stay at the conflict. this all feeds into his reelection narrative, as a competent steady leader when it comes to world affairs that trump told the likely republican presidential nominee set a speech that his critics say make him unreliable in crisis. on wednesday, he committed hezbollah, the iranian-backed terror group in and attack

israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu for not taking part in the u.s. strike on top iranian general back in 2020 >> and never forget that bibi netanyahu let us down. that was a terrible thing, a say that. when i see sometimes the intelligence you talk about the intelligence, or you talk about some of the things that went wrong over the last week, they've got to straighten out, because they are fighting potentially a big force. they say, gee, i hope hezbollah does not attack from the north, because that's the most vulnerable spot. hezbollah is very smart, there are very smart. the press does not like what they say up there. >> joining us now from washington is ron brownstein, cnn senior analyst and editor for the atlantic. ron, it's good to see you. >> hey, john. >> the washington post editorial board described the contrast between the current president and the former president like this. biden rises to the occasion on israel and hamas. trump's seeks a new low.

get to the politics of all of this in a moment. take a step backwards and say why does this stuff matter? why is it true in moments of crisis that whatever leaders or want to be leaders say and how they act is just so important. >> the personal contrast and demeanor and behavior from president brighten from former president trump really has been underscored by the last few days. biden when he ran in 2020 said he would be a steady hand, that he would manage and restore america's relations with its allies around the world. and he would react strongly but steadily through crises. by and large, i think so far, most observers and both israel and the u.s. believe that he has been both firm and un-yielding in his support of israel. but also modulated in his

comments, for example, by noting that democracies are always stronger when they adhere to the rule of law, a subtle warning to netanyahu about how far he would g civilin casualties. compared to trum netanyahu then biden's, but trump instantly makes it about him, about his personal grievances with netanyahu for not giving him enough credit for the 2020 assassination of an iranian general or his other sort of grievances and his habit of praising autocratic or strongman leaders, talking about the strategic brilliance of hezbollah and hamas, the personal contrasts in these very difficult hours could not be more stark. >> and whatever happens politically as a result of the hamas attack in israel will be for israelis to decide, but according to the rolling stone magazine, in recent days, trump has been speaking with both

israel donors and are part of a, trump has spent an inordinate amount of time aggressive hr suing netanyahu, saying he should be impeached by the israeli parliament because the assault heard on his watch. they say that israel's parliament cannot impeach a prime minister, but this story as been picked up and reported in the mainstream media in israel. you mention where president trump was popular for sometime. what seems to take this to a new low is the reported motivation for trump to attack the israeli prime minister. you touched on it, it's all personal, and it's all transactional. >> yeah, look, as i said, ideologically, netanyahu is more closely aligned with trump then with biden. netanyahu has identified with the republican party over the last, at least 20 years. i think more overtly than any foreign leader has ever identified with an american party. they repeatedly spoke before congress, at the invitation of republicans to oppose a promise efforts to make a nuclear deal

with iran, despite all of that, despite the ideological sympathy and netanyahu's general support for trump's direction of trying to normalize relations between israel and its sunni neighbors rather than focusing on the palestinian peace talks, despite all that, i think what you're seeing over the last few days is a view in israel that biden is still the more reliable partner, because he is the more reliable person. and trump kind of exploding in a fit and peek at not getting enough credit for netanyahu in the media aftermath of 12 israelis or more being killed and probably the worst day in the country's history is just a reminder of how much his politics is about him. >> yeah, and that's for long headlines, a lot of criticism at times like these. trump somehow manages to make the israeli hamas conflicts all about him. if you challenge us in the

republican presidential primary of spoken out, criticizing trump, one being for the governor ron desantis, here he is. >> now is not the time to be doing like what donald trump did by attacking prime minister be beaten and yahoo, attacking israel's defense minister, saying somehow that hezbollah was very smart. we need to all be on the same page, now is not the time to air personal grievances about an israeli prime minister. >> the reality is, it seems whatever trump does never has any impact on him politically, but has he hurt him so politically, or is the case that he has actually helped joe biden? >> look, i do think that this kind of crisis is exactly what biden advertised himself as being more fit to handle then trump would be. this is going to be, right now, the dominant impulse really across the civilized world is to rally to israel support,

understandably. but there are going to be difficult diplomatic and military trade-offs as this moves forward that is going to require a lot of dexterity to support israel, but perhaps to restrain netanyahu, to avoid a wider war, to keep on track at the broader project that biden has continued admittedly from where trump started of normalizing relations between israel and some of its sunni neighbors stodgy are on the idea of countering iran. it will take a lot of skill and dexterity. you know, that is really the issue for trump, who is so volatile, so unpredictable. he argues that that is an acid that makes adversaries uncertain of the mad men dairy, a version of that richard nixon talked about. you see even the rivals in the republican race, a reminder that that kind of behavior at this kind of moment is

especially magnified. we know the foreign policy is on top of the list for americans when they vote, but one of biden's core ideas in 24, as it was in 20 is going to be, do you want to return to the constant chaos of the trump years and or you have seen in the last 24 hours from the former president is about a stark reminder of what that looks like as you could have. >> ron, good to see you, thank you for being with us, appreciate time, ron brownstein in washington, thank you. >> yeah. >> coming up here on cnn, when the gunfire rang out a music festival in southern israel, one woman was on the phone. it was her mother. this is really mother, it's hard to matter imagine that more agonizing moment. details in a moment.

>> it is difficult to fully appreciate the anguish of israeli families who have lost loved ones in the senseless massacre. one mother was on the phone with her daughter, trapped at the music festival with gunfire all around. she still does not know if her daughter is dead, or if she has been taken hostage. here she was speaking earlier with cnn's jake tapper. >> they finally went from the

car. she's trying to hide, bush to bush. we all the time talked with her. we heard the shooting going on around them, and they're hiding kids without no weapon, no nothing. and at some point just before 10:00, a very good friend came back. he was already out of this area, but he came back to take them, to rescue them. and he took, his name is ben. and he was taking another voice with him. the four of them tried to leave the area, they didn't get much much further when i got there at 10:15. crying, shouting, saying mommy we were shocked. they shot the car. we could not move the car does not start. we cannot move. all of us are badly wounded, badly injured. kyle is not talking to me.

that is not talking. phil and i are wooded. phil was telling me his name, and gave me his mother's number so i can call her. and mommy, she was so afraid. she said mommy i'm going to die. i said no, you are not going to die. you are coming back. we will find a way to take you out of there. and she was asking, mommy how can you take me out of here? please come and take us. please tell someone. tell the army, tell them police, tell them to come. i tried to call the police. we try to see how air force can maybe take a plane, or a helicopter to try to rescue them. and there was nothing to do. i could only lie to her, and tell her with everything, it's not a lie, we tried to do everything but i know we cannot help them. >> is that the last time you heard from her? >> yes. the last thing i heard from

them is the shooting around them, we were talking slightly, she was fading away and we heard the shooting around them and then a lot of people talking and arabic. shouting in arabic somebody. trying to stall the engine but couldn't do it, and then someone took the phone. and that is it. >> if you would like to help the humanitarian efforts in israel and gaza, please go to cnn.com slash impact. there you'll find a list of that it organization this morning. thank you for watching this hour of cnn newsroom, i am john vause. please stay with us, cnn newsroom continues after a very short break with my friend and colleague, michael holmes. see right back here next time.