mentioned to come together to find a speaker? >> you know what? i wish it would. but i have no confidence that these eight folks will do that they have personally put their political wants and needs above the interest of the country. everyone is frustrated with congress. i changed my life to come here to be a member of congress because the system itself is dysfunctional. but this is no way to try to correct the system by destroying it. they have no plan in place to get a speaker in and we are essentially paralyzed until we get a speaker. so, i would encourage these eight folks that sided with the 208 democrats to put the country's interest above their own, read the constitution and the rules of the house so we can get on with the nation's business and try to help our allies in israel. >> carley: thank you so much for joining us this morning. we appreciate it? >> you bet. >> carley: all right. "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪

[explosions] >> brian: all right. we begin with this. fox news alert, explosions and sirens heard in jerusalem. moments ago you just saw the video as long range missiles are fired toward the central part of the country. our own trey yingst just posted a video of himself amidst the chaos. huge rocket barrage just staghted the city. we saw multiple impacts across this heavily populated area. we took cover next to a building but you could see the rockets coming off the gaza strip and slamming into buildings in this community. >> ainsley: more than 700 people in israel have been murdered by hamas terrorists since the war began. including at least four americans. >> lawrence: israel now ordering a complete siege of gaza. not letting food, electricity, or fuel in the territory.

>> steve: and that is where we stand on this monday morning. bebb gentleman minute hall joins us right now from our european news room with the very latest. benjamin? >> lawrence, steve, brian, ainsley good morning. still there right at the front seeing more of those rockets coming in from gaza. what we are also hearing is in the last couple of hours the israeli defense forces have finally retaken all the towns along the gazan border. about two days that some of these hamas terrorists have managed to hold on to some of these towns. we know for a while they were controlling villages and going door to door and killing families. some of the images coming out of those villages simply horrific. we also heard the israelis have now completely blockaded gaza. and the israeli defense forces come out with a statement saying that they have ordered a complete blockade of the gaza strip. they have even said that there will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. we are fighting human animals

and we will act accordingly. but the next step is going to be very, very difficult. and that's because of all the prisoners, the hostages that are being held right now by hamas there are at least 100 people, including women, including children, toddlers, elderly people, being held captive inside gaza, inside the tunnels. you see some of the images of them and you can imagine the operosities that they are seeing right now. what this does is add a different complication to the next step. we know there are 100,000 israeli forces getting together. they are planning on going into gaza if is very complicated because of the prisoners being held right now. in the past in hamas took israeli prisoners they would do exchange. in 2007. exchange 1,000 for one israeli soldier. hamas now has around 100, maybe over 100. including some americans. so it does look like a prisoner exchange for the moment. t. is not going to happen. instead israel has said it is going to go in and anile a late

how best it can but it's going to be difficult for a while the israelis have stayed out of gaza. despite all of the rocket attacks over the last few years, they knew how dangerous it is to go into gaza. that's because they know it will be full of booby traps. they will be facing an urban fight and so now finally they have decided they have to do it. one of the big issues i think on bakinger scale is perhaps whether iran was involved. we know iran supports hamas it. gist them weapons 2 trains them and gives them money. what we heard earlier today from the "wall street journal" was that they have that they have evidence that hamas and hesitate ba lat they met in beirut on monday and gave the green light for this attack to go ahead. "wall street journal" said officer of iran's islamic revolutionary guard corps had worked with hamas since august to i do advise the air, land and sea incursions the most significant breach of israel's

borders since the 1973 yom kippur war. those people said. if that is confirmed and yesterday secretary blinken said there was no intelligence the u.s. had yet though he did acknowledge that the iran ranses were supporting hamas, that opens up a different sen march joy. may need to retaliate against iran for the death of 700, maybe more of its own citizens. if that happens we could see hezbollah come down from the south. they have stayed back from the moment. they have launched some rockets but into very unpopulated areas they haven't entered popular. this is on the border and fear this could escalated into a regional dramatic war. for now the focus is getting in. saving those hostages and annihilating hamas as best as they can. getting rid of all military places. this isn't going to be days it's going to be months ahead change the policies towards them. last few years more gazans coming out of gaza. the 20,000 a day. things were considered to perhaps be getting better.

that's been reversed. the policy moving forward is going to be a district and a stern one. and so we wait to see exactly how that is going to play out. >> ainsley: i know four americans confirmed dead what about hostages? he said a dozen of them could be being held inside quaz. that did come from the israelis. they are saying there are some americans being held. yes. >> steve: jonathan, you had the good news that the israeli army has regained control of those communities along the gaza area that has been controlled by hamas. that's really good news. but now today what has happened in the last hour or so is you have hamas firing these rockets deep inside of israel. they are not content just to be along the border. now they are aiming at the capital. they are aiming at verizon and tel aviv as retaliation for the strikes on the people's houses

in the hamas areas. that just changes everything. >> yeah. hamas completely committed now to a fullout war. they said so about 50 days ago. they said they were preparing for a fullout war. the israelis maybe not enough attention was paid to that. they are going to launch everything they have go. they are ready for urban warfare street to street. those rockets they keep firing. we see some of the stronger range rockets as well until a few years ago they didn't have. it's thought that iran helped build and provide those rockets. those rockets can reach jerusalem and tel aviv. that's why this is so frightening. the iron dome system is very effective it blocks out about 80% of them. trey in the last 10 minutes posted a video showed the rockets still landing where he is that's one of the reasons why the israelis are going in. they know there are military factories. they continue to build rockets, they continue to build them. they build them in schools and hospitals. and that's why it's going to be

so difficult for the israelis to move in and to try to annihilate the terrorists while trying to protect the civilians in there. >> brian: by the way, trey going to join us. he needs a little bit of rest he will join us later in the show. benjamin, what is so interesting is they had these meetings according to the "wall street journal" in beirut where hezbollah is located. everyone is wondering will this be a two front war. what will it take for hezbollah to get involved. they it had squirmishes in disputed areas. you have to think if they were able to plan in detail the initial attack did they anticipate the reaction and is hezbollah plotting and planning when to come in? >> well, it's interesting. because yes, we have seen some rockets come from southern lebanon but they haven't targeted you had any of the populated areas yet. the message from hezbollah they are in. seeing whether israel are l. reach tout iran. if that happens you can expect hezbollah to come in a big way.

they have far more rockets than the hamas does. that really escalates things. right now hezbollah staying quiet for the moment. but that's another threat that iran has that hamas has. that hezbollah has. is they will come. they will escalate this if the israelis, you know, start to attack ever more. >> lawrence: benjamin i had an opportunity to talk to one of my friends in the idf he said the targets striking right now were already on israel's radar. when are they going to start attacking other targets and why didn't they not attack these targets before? >> you know, there has been a real balance recently. the israelis have been trying, you know, to hold back and they usually respond when hamas launches rockets. that's when they respond. they generally don't bomb, if there hasn't been any altercation. i think now they are realizing perhaps they held back. perhaps they should have been more involved in the past. big questions about how they didn't see this attack coming.

up to 1,000 of these hamas terrorists came across. that is not a small operation by land, by sea, by air. meetings that we are hearing from the "wall street journal" in beirut. and, yet, the israelis have said they had great signal intelligence. great human intelligence. and, yet, no warning at all about this. so, yes, the question will be asked, if a while, could more have been done? but right now the israeli focus is getting in, getting rid of the threat that is posed to them and straight away and obviously the questions will keep coming after that. one thing is certain that is israel is totally unified right now. in the past there was were concerns should they go over and escalate that? that ♪ being doubted right now. everyone i spoke to in israel from the political spectrum from the left to the right are unified. this is a terror threat and has to change. they see this as their 9/11 and they will not let it happen again is how they see it we expect them to go in and take out everything they can that has to do with hamas and their military capability. >> lawrence: is it true there was this perception it.

seemed like there was this perception that israel was the bully here. and so they held back some restraints there was some sort of intelligence that they saw them training but they didn't know the exact day they were going to attack or anything like that. israel held some restraint because in the world's eye there was this perception that they were the aggressors? >> yes. i mean, look, you look around the world. you look at how the u.n. responds forever and for many years israel has been the bullies here. they are the ones that have held gazans inside and surrounded by walls. but, the israelis have watched hamas train and mobilize constantly. they have constantly been aware of it. and now they won't be held back by what they would say the u.n. and many of these other groups say against them. this is their time to wipe out the evil. >> brian: thank you so much. that rowrnl report was astounding because it came out after antony blinken came out and says we have no idea, we have no proof or any word that

iran has anything to do with this when it turns out the al quds force leading meeting in beirut with hezbollah and hamas who really don't like each other sunnies and she a and they are meeting in beirut. you wonder this is happening over a series of weeks. some say april, some say august. at which time they plot and plan. they have hang gliders five different points of attack. pickup trucks, blow open the wall and come in and take over bases something that needs to have been rehearsed but there is no proof that it has been reinvestigatorsed before. you just wonder and here in america we could probably relate to this. if the distraction of their civic unrest in all the protests in the west bank had them focusing more in the west bank it means some in israel because of the judicial maneuvers they were just resign from the merlt distraction moves off gaza great opportunity to do something. >> ainsley: the stories were just horrific.

we all heard interviews with husbands or with family members. a dad this morning i heard an interview, is he missing his daughter. he was showing pictures his daughter. she was the one taken, begging for mercy at the music festival and her boyfriend was taken. and then i saw an interview with a husband. who his wife was in a back of a pickup truck and he was confirming the video was his wife. they were covering her head. and his two little girls. he was showing pictures of his children who had to have been 7 or 5 were taken as well and he can't find them. i saw pictures that are too graphic to show you this morning. >> steve: so bad. >> ainsley: bodies on top of each other covered in blood. everyone dead. >> steve: the israeli military posted that on x. formerly known as twitter. and they said you know, we thought about not showing it but the world should see exactly what kind of evil we are talking about. so to go back to the "wall street journal" article that talked about iran helped hamas for weeks and gave they say

yeah, we did it. apparently officers from the islamic revolutionary guard helped devise the land, air, and sea incursions. and while the united states says we don't have any evidence of that "wall street journal" apparently spoke to an adviser to the syrian government. iran involved in the lead up. the strike was intended to hit israel while it appeared distracted by internal political divisions over prime minister benjamin netanyahu's government. it was also aimed at disrupting accelerating u.s. brokered talks to normalize relations between saudi arabia and israel that iran saw as threatening. the senior hamas and hezbollah members told the "wall street journal." >> lawrence: if you are joining

the program you are looking at live pictures from gaza city as you can see the flames and smoke in the area. brian, i want to get your thoughts on this because i there is going to be a lot of evaluating when it comes to the administration. they have given the palestinian authority over $200 million in aid. of course the trump administration canceled that it looks like we were aware of the weapons land bring from tehran to beirut. this is where they were doing all these secret meetings as well. $6 million and the administration officials can push back and go back and forth about the money not being released they were examining this money. what type of criticism do you think that the administration is going to have now seeing all of their actions take place and now we see the first attack since yom kippur. >> they came in wanting to

reestablish aid to the palestinian authority even though they knew they were run by a terror organization hamas. they wanted to reestablish and hopefully get the nuclear talks back in action. to do that, they had to ease up on the sanctions and stop enforcing them. that's exactly what they did. their oil -- we were allowing them to make 400,000 barrels a day. now it's up to 3 million barrels a day. do you know how much money you get with that 6 billion was just the latest. this was part of two and a half years of kissing up to iran hoping to factor them into the world community while vilifying saudi arabia and calling them a pariah nation and then trying to get that back on track. meanwhile trey yingst is back with us today. i don't know when he sleeps but right now he is in the middle of this barrage that you are looking at the left side of our screen right now. trey, what is it like on the ground? >> yeah. it's very tense on the ground right now in southern israel. hamas and islamic jihad continue their rocket fire.

not only toward population centers along the border but also targeting major cities like jerusalem and tel aviv this morning. we were just in the city that sits two towns up from the gaza border. and hamas says they launched 150 rockets. and from what we saw that would be an accurate number. you could see israel's missile defense system the iron dome sending off their missiles trying to shootdown these rockets but the barrage was so large that they slipped past, slamming into buildings throughout the city. there was black smoke rises up from the sky. and as we were there we saw these interceptions and watched as firefighters and paramedics rushed towards these buildings looking for any survivors or anyone who was injured. right now we are headed closer to the gaza border where there are thousands of israeli soldiers tanks and a pcs they are preparing for a ground invasion at this hour. >> steve: ground invasion means all-out war. word to mark, the director in the control room.

can we run the little bit of sound that we ran at the top of this hour with trey yingst as incoming missiles were heading his way as as hamas started firing rockets deep inside of israel tel aviv and jerusalem? this is a little different than what we have seen in the past. if we have got that video, let's go ahead and show it? >> a huge rocket barrage just targeted the city of ash today. we saw multiple impacts across this heavily populated area we took cover. you see the rockets coming off the gaza strip and slamming into buildings in this community. >> steve: you mentioned a moment ago the iron dome is 80% effective. but they have only got so many iron dome rockets that they can fire up to defend the country. hamas is just shooting a bazillion things at them all over the place.

>> just to give you a sense of how many rockets have been fired since this round began, and i had to hesitate to call it a round. because we have covered many small wars between israel and gaza. this is the largest war that israel will face in decades. a massive, massive operation. and there is a reason for that in terms of the rockets. [broken audio] more than 45 rockets have been fired over the last 48 hours in the jewish state. just a comparison, during the war in 201, a war that lasted a 51 days there were 4500 rockets fired toward israel. so this is a huge, huge escalation by the factions inside gaza. and we have to remember how all of this started. it started on saturday morning, when israeli civilians were sleeping in their homes and hamas and jihadi militants more than a thousand of them crossed north of the border israel and

slaughtererred women and children. they bee headed soldiers they butchered bodies children and women. this is the reality on the ground and we can't look away from what has taken place. the war is just beginning. israel will enter gaza and according to the country's defense minister, no food will be going into gaza no. aid will be going into gaza. a total siege of the strip is about to take place. it will be a very violent and bloody battle. and it is expected to take weeks. the following days in israel are going to be incredibly challenging. >> ainsley: trey, several things, what do you make of the timing of this? i know that there was a holiday that the jewish people were celebrating. it was the last day of the holiday when this was happening. what do you make of the timing with the u.s.-led negotiations underway for this historic peace agreement between israel and saudi arabia? will that be jeopardized and also the airports there, do we have individuals trying to get out, trying to flee?

>> yeah. people are trying leave israel. and they have shut down a lot of the flights coming to the airport. the situation is changing each and every minute. even earlier today hamas tried to target the airport. so a lot of the major american carriers and european carriers have stopped their flights into ben gorian. >> yesterday they fired rockets and mortars into israel. the understanding is that this could erupt into a regional war. there are questions now, too. about how the americans will be involved we know there were americans killed in this massacre. we know there could be americans held hostage inside the gaza strip. and an american carrier is moving closer to israel to

basically act as a show of force against these militant groups inside gaza. >> lawrence: trey, i'm just curious and you brought up the hostage situation. traditionally when the israeli hostages 2006 it was one person for a thousand hostages of hamas. are the israelis abandoning that philosophy and just doing the hostage rescues themselves? >> at this point. [broken audio] >> lawrence: look like we just lost trey,. >> brian: robert o'brien said this saturday night and sunday. time for the hostage teams to get in there i wanted that before i knew americans were americans were taken. we have to work with them.

we also understand that president biden got direct requests from benjamin netanyahu about what they need and this woman this is an example of a woman being taken hostage what they need. and evidently he is rushing to get them the weapons they need right away gave support to palestinian terror group. they celebrated this at the highest level. grand ayatollah khamenei was celebrating about this. yesterday they said no, no. we had nothing to do with it meeting in beirut with these guys they plotted and planned my question is did they just plot and plan saturday or did they plot and plan and anticipate the israeli reaction? the worst yet to woman? >> ashley ash. >> ainsley: they are celebrating that you will carnage that happened on saturday and the days after. >> brian: did they orchestrate

it. >> ainsley: they showed parliament members rising from seats and chanting death to recall have a. they congratulated the palestinian fighters. we will sand by the palestinian fighters until the liberation of palestine and jerusalem. >> steve: right. what about the timing of things here in the united states? we're about to talk to somebody about that right now. for anybody just tuning in, israel is at war at this hour. there was a rocket attack in the last hour and israel has announced a total blockade of gaza. meanwhile, here at home, the demand for u.s. aid is adding urgency to the search for a new speaker of the house. some republicans including our next guest are now pushing to reinstate the former speaker, kevin mccarthy to help israel. california congressman john joins us now from capitol hill. john, good morning to you. >> good morning, steve. >> steve: you said that you wondered whether or not the biden administration's policies and the disarray in our house of

representatives, given the fact that we don't have a speaker, could be part of the timing by hamas. >> they could be as we leisure more it looks like this was happening before kevin mccarthy was ousted from the speakership. but what we do know is that there is no greater friend of israel than kevin mccarthy. in terms of american government this last year, kevin mccarthy our speaker of the house has been the adult in the room. we have been passing the appropriations bills. we did pass hr-1 to make sure america had its own energy supply. kevin mccarthy has been engaged in world affairs. we need kevin mccarthy back in the speakership right now. we need to get that vote done this week. and on the democrat side, i don't know if we will get our crazy 8 back in line or not. on the democrat side when we have that vote, anyone who is a friend of israel needs to go have a tea party or vote present and let kevin mccarthy get back in the speakership chair right now. >> steve: because, congressman, there is nothing the house can do until they elect a speaker. and i was talking to somebody on

capitol hill yesterday and they said essentially that, you know, given this timing, it's impossible to -- for the house to authorize emergency funding to israel. because you can't run anything. >> exactly. they are going to run out of ordnance and we are not going to be able to authorize the funding to get them the weapons and the defense they need. we have one of our strongest allies of the world under attack and we are dilly dalying around with a leadership struggle in the house that should have never occurred. kevin mccarthy should have never been ousted. he has led through some of the most bipartisan constructive legislation that's happened in the house for years. and he is an excellent speaker. we need to get him back and the democrats need to look, you know, i don't blame them. the party wants to tear itself apart, let them. but, in this situation right now, we need the democrats' help, just a few of them need to take a walk while we elect kevin mccarthy back into the

speakership so we can help israel. >> steve: what are the odds that you could actually pick a new speaker? it sounds like wednesday or thursday this week. >> very low. very low. between the demand to get kevin back in, jim jordan is a fine man. steve scalise is a fine man. they are good guys. but getting the conference lined up around them and neither one of them has the experience. i mean, when you become a freshman in congress as i am now, the number one caudill the number one delegation trip that kevin mccarthy tells us we need to make is an 8 day trip to israel. 8 days is a lot of time. kevin mccarthy has put israel first in so much of his policy and so much of his development of the congress itself, that he stands alone in his ability to navigate this with our ally, israel. >> steve: congressman, i know mr. mccarthy is aware and apparently grateful that there is this move by moderate republicans like yourself, but

is he actively involved behind the scenes saying hey, let's do this? >> no. kevin mccarthy will always put the country first. if the country needs him back and we can get him back in there, he will serve. i have no doubt. kevin mccarthy stepped aside because he thought it was the best thing for the country. kevin mccarthy will step back in if he has got the support and believes it's the best thing for the country and i can't see how he wouldn't believe that the country needs his leadership right now as the speaker of the house. >> steve: well, if he could get the votes, that would be. >> we don't need very many votes. again, if it a few democrats, israeli supporters would go have a tea party, we will have a votes. >> steve: right now the odds are long that this could actually happen. >> i won't give it that. facts are much different today than they were tuesday of last week. >> steve: apparently, mr. mccarthy is going to have a press conference today at 11:00 in the morning. any idea what that's about? >> i don't know. >> steve: all right.

as you are sitting here on this columbus day morning, you say there is an appetite among a majority of moderate republicans to do this? >> there was an ap appetite 210n our conference to do. this we have two of our congress people back this week, judge carter from texas and anna balloon that luna from florida that were out ill last week with health issues. they are back this week. we only need a few more votes kevin mccarthy back in the chair help ally israel and help the american people. we have got a lot of work to do. we don't need a prolonged speaker fight. we can get these appropriations done. we are heading for another shutdown if we stretch this out. we just need to get back to work. i think our conference and a few democrats are going to sober up and do what is right for the country at this point. >> steve: that would really be something they vote them out and vote them back in. congressman, thank you very much for joining us on this columbus

day? >> good to be here. >> steve: coming up 6:30 here in new york city. it's 1:30 in israel. new information on the war in israel. hamas just said that four israeli captives and their hamas captors have been killed in israeli strikes on the palestinian enclave since sunday. we are staying on top of the developments. we break down the damage so far straight ahead. plus, an eyewitness to hamas' attack joins us next with what he saw on the ground and it wasn't pretty ♪ struggling with the highs and lows of bipolar 1? ask about vraylar. because you are greater than your bipolar 1, and you can help take control of your symptoms - with vraylar. some medicines only treat the lows or highs. vraylar treats depressive, acute manic, and mixed episodes of bipolar 1 in adults. proven, full-spectrum relief

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weave them back in throughout this segment. these long range missiles are still coming and here we are in day three. our own trey yingst just posted a video of himself amidst the chaos. >> a huge rocket barrage just targeted the city of ashdod. we saw multiple impact across this heavily populated area. we took cover next to the building. but you could seat rockets coming off the gaza strip and slamming into buildings in the community. >> brian: ♪ line of fire. overnight counter strikes killed four israelis held captive by the terrorist group and rumored to be about 200 if you are listening to the numbers that hamas is giving. reuters reporting there is a high risk of third party involvement foreign ministers will meet tuesday to met at the u.n. and came up with nothing. show you briefly what has happened over the last two days. this is the places where the missile initially struck that started this huge infiltration a

five point attack everything from hang gliders to pickup trucks came through. blew open a wall at the same time missiles came overhead. you see it all came from the gaza strip and you see the areas in which they hit and that was the capital of israel. meanwhile we take a look at what they did on the ground and first got to warn you inform you the squares of the town infiltrated by hamas militants still there up until a few hours ago. the circles are the rocket sirens and of course the darkened circles are the evacuated towns. so they got everybody evacuated here. here is where they came in and they stayed and they continue to stay. again, again, again, they continue to stay in this area. while they continue to rocket. 45 hours later, they still could not get hamas off these -- out of israeli land and some off military bases. meanwhile, our next guest is a tour guide in tel aviv who witnessed yesterday's attack and seen the city goes from holiday to horror story. robbie burman joins us now.

robbie, first off, are you safe? >> yeah, thank you very much for having me back. just a small correction. the capital of israel is jerusalem. i think you made a mistake there. >> brian: i said was tel aviv. >> okay. >> brian: go ahead. >> in any case i live in tel aviv and just like an hour ago i had to run into the safe room. the will alarms missiles were launched. i got word one of the alarms arab village i called up a friend is he okay a fear raining upon us. it is unconceivable this is going on. you said i don't have any work i had to give back thousands of dollars of deposits because everyone has canceled trips. seeing what hamas, these animals have done there are legitimate

problems and issues. what have they done to solve this? they have just killed thousands of people. now thousands of them will be killed. the they are wasting trillions of dollars of the economy. the g.d.p. is going to plummet. this is really bad for everyone. it doesn't give them closer to their goal. doesn't bring us closer to our goal. i have quote to tell you something everyone on the ground that i'm talking to is asking the big question. will this be a wake-up call to america, to england, to france and to israel that we need to take care of iran? what are we going to wait? iran like these people, these people are religious fanatics. religious fanaticism doesn't end well in any country. in israel we are working hard to make sure that jewish religious fanatics don't take over the country. they already have a country they are trying to take over getting nuclear weapons. putting embargoes on iran for 30 years. it's time be a wake-up call for the world. after we take care of this problem with gaza to take care

of iran. >> brian: we had a maximum pressure campaign on iran and we had a nuclear program, a nuclear deal that was so horrific, most senators, democratic senators didn't even vote for it. when donald trump came in, they ripped it up and then started with a high pressure everywhere they went. and hamas got -- was suffering in funding. hezbollah suffering in funding. a lot of the terror groups in syria were being starved out because iran did not have the funds. that has all all changed. they are actually involved, if you believe in the "wall street journal" of plotting and planning what you are experiencing right now. do you think it's abundantly clear to those nations that you just named? >> i hope it is. i mean, this is a wake-up call for israel. this is our pearl harbor, 9/11, whatever you want to call it. 9/11 when i was in new york, 3,000 people were killed. the parallel here would be 25,000 americans being killed in one day. so this is a wake-up call for israel. we know that we now know from

the "wall street journal," it seems very unlikely that this type of sophistication and technology could have been done by hamas themselves. they were probably helped by iran. you know what? even if they weren't, that is the elephant in the room that we are not taking care of. we are trying to cope with it and deal with it. trying to do the best -- no. there is evil, and there is good, and iran is evil. they are killing their own people for not covering their hair. they are raping our women, they are abusing our children that took 200 civilians hostage. this is not islam. these are religious fanatic monsters. we need to take a stand and do something before iran gets a nuclear weapon. and when they do, what are you going to say oops? sorry, we have another korea on our hands? who is going to stand up and take responsibility for this? someone better. >> brian: we used to take responsibility we might have to wait another year and a half. first off, real quick. are you getting communication from your go. , local and federal about what to next and how to handle this

has the communication to the israeli people been good. >> i have got to tell you something, there is such chaos here my good friends mark and debby and reynaldo waiting to bury their son killed two days ago they still haven't gotten his body. still waiting for the funeral. we are waiting for the funeral. it is healther skelter. there is chaos. the government is not functioning the way it should we are hoping that the government is going to rally around the government and army. we are waiting for a sky disblawp is unforgivable by everyone you do have a guy the most experienced in israeli history at the helm who is not afraid. >> but the buck stops with him i is responsible and there will be a inquiry and commission and someone will have to be held accountable for one of the worst tragedies since i don't mean

kidnap you are. only 670 soldiers killed one. we had 70800 people killed in one day and it's not even over yet. >> brian: i hear you. the right guy in charge in terms of putting the hammer down. thank you, robby, stay safe. israel is at war. we are monitoring every development as there are more rocket barrages happening this morning from both sides. pete hegseth has been to israel many times. many specials on there. he knows what it's like on the ground. he will bring us that perspective in a matter of moments. ♪ ♪

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>> this is a fox news alert. a look at the smoke rising in gaza city as israel launches large scale counter strikes. back here in the state's pro-palestinian protesters are taking to the streets. the "new york post" calling them vile rallies in support of hamas. alexandria hoff joins us live from washington. alexandria? >> well, ainsley, good morning. i want to start with this, the israeli defense forces say that it has regained volume of all of the areas around the gaza border there is no longer active fighting between the military and hamas taking place from within the country. they say the threat has been removed internally but this morning new rockets launched

from gaza toward tel aviv and jerusalem. sirens projected residents shelters where some of those are still right now. formerly declared war yesterday and embarking on attacks left 700 dead that includes four americans. unfortunately congress was advised that last night that that number could rise. the administration is also working to confirm reports of americans taken hostage. so we do know there are many americans, many people from all over the world who are actually trapped in the confines of this conflict right now. detroit lions linebacker alex part of a group from naples. and they are trying to get back to the u.s. they are in tel aviv right now. flight cancellations are making that hard. and he had sent out a plea to president biden, you are seeing had here on social media. asking for help in getting his parents home. here at home, ainsley, as you mentioned pro-palestinian protesters in new york city, well, they turned out blaming

israel for the hamas terror attacks. demonstrators called for u.s. aid to israel to end and chanted palestine will be free. new york governor kathy hochul called the display abhorrent and morally repugnant. the protest prompted a counter protest from supporters of israel. pro-palestinian protesters stomped on the israeli flag as part of this. this was not isolated to new york. you saw similar pro-palestinian demonstrations taking place here in washington, d.c. and l.a. and atlanta. meanwhile you had synagogues around the country holding vigils for the lives lost of those in israel. ainsley, send it back to you. >> thank you so much for that report. the hamas terror attack marking the deadliest single day mass murder of jews since the holocaust. according to elites israel is to blame. in a joint statement more than 30 groups at harvard stating, quote: we hold the israeli regime entirely responsible for

the unholding violence. today's events did not happen in a vacuum. the apartheid regime is the only one to blame. israeli violence has structured every aspect of palestinian existence for 75 years. palestinians have been forced to live in a state of death. both slow and sudden. "fox & friends weekend" co-host and harvard alum pete hegseth is here to react. pete? >> >> pete: thisthis is the state f higher educate rampant anti-semitism. palestinians haven't been forced to live in any particular way. they have chosen to throw in with islamic. seek destruction of the state of israel. and with israel being the size of new jersey, imagine if connecticut, you know, long island, new jersey, were all under siege on new jersey, new york, all surrounding it, seeking its destruction. you make a lot of different decisions when every single moment of your life is surrounded by people who say

they want to wipe you off the map. and when you have the ayatollah, the supreme leader saying we're going to eradicate just on x just yesterday we want to eradicate the zionists. the jews. this impulse has made its way -- this is not a fringe at harvard. this is the mainstream. this is the student organizations. >> this is the professors. it's rampantly anti-semitic and a rewriting of history ainsley. if you open up your bible. god granted abraham this land. the 12 tribes of israel established the constitutional monarchy 1,000. kick david second king established jerusalem as the capital. jews were fighting foreign occupiers for centuries, ultimately maintaining a presence there. the key aspect and right now palestinians, arabs, muslims, are trying to erase the jewish ties to jerusalem as we speak. i have been there multiple times. trying to make it look like jews were never there the most

important aspect of this the international community granted sovereignty to the jews, to the jewish state after world war ii. and israel has had to fight defensive war after defensive war with every country coming to crush it ever since then just to exist. and so harvard is perpetuating the same tropes we have seen before. which is why they say only people are to blame are the people who 700 of which of innocence were killed in a surprise attack and now we have 100 hostages. it's the upside down world of the elites in our country. here's the other problem. a lot of these pro-palestinian millennials are the types that are staffers in the biden white house. and their instincts not to support israel. israel has a limited amount of time to execute what it needs to do to defend its country because the enemy is around it, which exists today say they would like to wipe it off the map and what we saw two days ago is an example of what they would do if they could.

>> ainsley: very scary, some of them are congress men and women as well that one sect that is so progressive. i wanted to ask you about what the "wall street journal" is reporting this morning that the iran has helps hamas and hezbollah. they have been plotting that attack for several weeks since august. and senior officials were meeting in beirut on monday. and also, there is this. this is the jerusalem deputy mayor calling iran the big puppet master. listen to this and we will get your reaction on the other side. >> iran is the country that does not want to see peace between israel and saudi arabia. they are already annoyed that we have peace with some other arab countries like the uae and bahrain. they are already annoyed about that. so iran, we must understand that hamas and hezbollah up north are the long arms of iran. they are the puppets of iran. iran is the big puppet master which in my opinion has coordinated this whole thing.

>> ainsley: pete, what's your reaction? >> pete: well, she is precisely right. hamas gets funding and support from iran. hezbollah in the north has lock been supported by iran. the reason israel has to strike sites inside syria. which is because iran wants a staging ground in syria as well. that is what makes this so precarious, ainsley. you have the tactical level, operational level and strategic level for benjamin netanyahu to determine how to secure his people. how to create a counteroffensive that clears out the gaza strip while trying to prevent hezbollah's involvement in the north which i think is probably inevitable anyway if they think this is their moment to massacre jews which is their goal. then we have the reality of a looming nuclear capable iran. think of the savagery of what happened against innocence inside israel. if you have the ayatollah the supreme leader of iran needing weed no eradicate the jews what does he care if 8 million jews

are slaughtered in the state of israel by a nuclear bomb he? doesn't care he is going to yell allahu akbar glory to god. what we ventricle 6 million jews in history what happened in the holocaust. they are willing to pay that price even though they know the retribution would come at iran. israeli leadership right now has to think very seriously about what they do to continue to set back iran's nuclear capabilities to include military strikes. and they can do this alone. they can do this protecting their own sovereignty. they just need us, our willingness to back them up. because the rhetoric will ratchet up. you see harvard and those knuckle heads. you see the instincts of universities. you see it in the press. there will be a limited amount of time where there is some level of support and sympathy for israel. that's the moment to take the steps that will set the iranians back. because biden regime no billingness to do so just like the obama administration. cash, sanctions relief we want to cut a deal because we think

you guys are going to be fine. that's not how it works in international politics and israelis know it. yes they have got to take care of things at home. now would be the time for them to set the iranian bomb back so that a future isn't far worse than what we saw from the gaza strip two days ago. >> ainsley: yeah. you are right. pete, thank you so much for joining us. i watched you all this weekend. great coverage. >> >> pete: thank you. >> ainsley: i think we are going to hand it over to lawrence now. >> lawrence: thanks, ainsley, such important information from pete. fox news alert. looking live at gaza city as israel continues conducting counter strikes on hamas targets just moments ago jerusalem was hit by barrage of rockets. so as the injuries and death toll mount, what are some of the medical implications of the escalation of the war. let's bring in fox news medical contributor dr. marc siegel. doctor, you just saw pete lay out the. the damage they are causing. so from a mental standpoint, what these kids are experiencing. what these families are

experiencing, how much healing, how much medicine are we going to need to treat all of these victims in israel? >> first of all, lawrence, i agree with every word that pete just said. he was correct about the holocaust on the historical perspective of this. and we have to give a shout-out this morning to the courage of israel to secure its borders, which is the most important thing psychologically. medically, you have 360 that are in critical condition throughout hospitals in israel. i have been in touch with you not throwing our senior producer on the ground there. some of them were evacuated from the three hospitals on the border into central israel. they're on a plea for blood, donations, they're going through multiple surgeries. psychological torture. this is the idea of taking children separating them from their families putting them on videos to other people to watch. we he woo head heard yesterday thank god okay. but received the video of his best friend being shot in the

head, this is the way hamas is cowardly, hide behind hard for israel to fight back. hiding in hospitals and hiding in schools with essentially civilian hostages. it's crucial for israel to fight back. so that the people of israel have a sense of security. that's the torture part. do you know that studies have shown that rocket fire across from into southern israel has caused people especially people in under served areas to depressed. have anxiety. to have post-traumatic stress disorder. a 1/3 of israelis already suffering from post-traumatic stress. how feel coming into your neighborhood and shoot your friend or you, that type of psychological torture is what we are dealing with here and then, hamas being pressure on total disgrace looking at a live look

of gaza city as the rockets are going back and forth you can see the smoke. real quick, doc, it looks like this war is going to going on for a while. county healing take place before it even ends or can they start this moment of healing even while they continue to take rockets? >> that's great question. we have to separate courage vs. cravingliness. all the water in gaza being hoarded by hamas. knowing this morning if you are in israel and your military is down. and pete would agree with this down, your military is down securing the border. reoccupying those areas that gives you hope and strength. that's the first part of healing. courage in the place of fear. terrorists use fear to control the tool of terrorists is fear. >> lawrence: thank you so much, doc. >> good to see you. were as families wake up this morning to get their children dressed for school. it's a much different in