>> todd: a fox news alert, israel says it will begin handing out rifles to volunteers

on the front line against hamas. they are saying they regained control of their border. [shooting firing and firing] >> todd: you are watching "fox and friends first" on tuesday morning, i'm todd piro. >> carley: i'm carley shimkus. hamas is threatening to execute hostages. americans are likely among those taken captive. there are 11 americans being held captive. >> it is any parent's worst nightmare. it is unconsefable this is

hatching this day and time. these are husbands and wives. i am listening to the newings and know what is being said about release of hostages. >> carley: we're talking to the sister of this man captured at the music festival over the weekend. >> todd: first greg palkot is live. >> greg: we are just two miles from the gaza strip. things are picking up here. we've been hearing a lot of israeli fighter jets overhead and hearing them bomb locations. for the first time in the last minutes, we saw and heard a rocket coming close to where we

are standing right now getting hit by israel israeli defense forces. my cameraman shows two miles down the road gaza, everybody being held up and dozens of armored vehicles and tanks, ap c, israeli military getting ready for what could happen and that queue be entry to gaza to deal with hamas militant threat. day four. 900 plus israelis killed, 700 plus palestinians killed. the israeli government putting a number on hamas militants who came over on is the and caused

death, destruction and carnage, saying they killed 1500 hamas militants. if correct, we are talking about a couple thousand militants roaming around. one town near sderot, that has been cut off. we heard from prim minister benjamin netanyahu who talked about what he sees them doing in next couple days. listen to that. >> we didn't want this war issue it was forced on us. israel didn't start this war, we will finish it. once jewish people were defense lszless, no longer.

we will exact a price that will be remembered by them and israel other enemies for decades to come. >> greg: exact a price that will be remembered decades to come. there is a huge u.s. connection with this, 11 u.s. citizens so far have been killed in the attacks and thought some of the hostages inside gaza areern americans, as well. same message from benjamin netanyahu praise for support given by the united states. there are ships coming close to the coast of israel and mu nittions being flown in. to the north, there were hezbollah-backed militants shot and killed coming across the border from lebanon. we were in the capital last

night and saw and heard incoming fire from the militants in gaza, as well. a lot of action on different fronts and this is what could be middle of the action in coming days. >> carley: greg palkot, thank you. let's bring in this person whose brother was captured at the music festival on saturday. so sorry for what you are going through. tell us how you found out your brother was captured? >> went to the nova music festival, he left friday night. 6:30 in the morning on saturday, we woke up to alarming sound of

the siren, when you hash the siren, you need to leave anything you are doing and go to the nearest bomb shelter. we went to see if everything was okay with him. he told us people were shooting. 7:45 in the morning, we lost contact with him. posted on social media, picture of him with my phone number so if anyone knows soming to call me and let me know where is my brother. there were very long hours for our family and 2:00 p.m., some unknown number texted me on

what's app, screen shot posted and asked me if i recognize my brother, if it is him and of course me and my family immediately recognized him. he also sent me a link to a video which in the video, you can see him walking with terrorists from hamas, with his hand around his neck with a gun in his other hand in this video. i can't watch, i'm sorry. >> carley: we are showing the video you provided for us. hamas released this footage themselves? >> yeah, they posted disturbing

video and pictures and telegram. and i can't watch this video. so -- >> todd: understood. what do you know about rescue efforts to try to get your brother home? >> unfortunately, we don't have a lot of information. for now, we only know he is professionally got kidnapped in the gaza strip. for the first 50 hours, we didn't know anything, except from the video hamas posted. yesterday two soldiers came and told us he was kidnapped.

>> todd: you have friends in the army looking for him. what your family is going through, our thoughts and prayers are with you. thank you. >> carley: she's 18 years omed and he's 23. u.s. military will be doing everything to get your brother back. sorry for what you are going through. >> thank you so much. >> todd: president biden will address the nation today. >> carley: a former eshl special opes analyst will tell us what the u.s. needs to do to support one of our greatest allies coming up next. enough with good eno ughs. don't stay hiding or hurting.

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>> carley: fox news alert, president biden set to speak today after confirming 11 americans have been killed in the attacks. >> todd: alexandria hoff has more. >> alexandria: the united states is fully engaged in supporting israel. at this time president biden will address the nation from the

white house, which is lit up in blue and white for support to israel. france, germany, italy and uk. our countries will support israel in effort to defend itself against the atrocities. embassy xas to germany weighed in this morning. >> this is strategy of containment with islamic jihadist has not worked and will never work. we have to make sure that the state of hamas and military infrastructure is basically taken away. >> alexandria: president biden

has been in close contact with prime minister netanyahu. hamas is threatening to execute hostages if airstrikes continue. the white house's john kirby said it was complicit. >> iran is complicit because of support to hamas and other networks in the region. we beefed up presence in the gulf area and eastern mediterranean to support national security interest against a growing threat. >> alexandria: here is former house speaker kevin mccarthy. >> what they want to do is wear out the iron dome and then send precision guided ones.

provide it to them now. this is not about weakening hamas, this is about enjoying hamas. >> alexandria: pentagon is using their authority to move aid to israel. congress has not been needed yet. >> todd: alexandria hoff, thank you. bring in intel analyst brett velicovich. you heard alex get into detail about weapons we could be sending. what do israelis need from us to fight the fight they are about to fight. >> bret: thank you for having me. my heart goes out to your last

guest. innocent people being taken hostage. this will backfire. there one day is over and israel is about to pummel them. we need to support them. the u.s. military strike force moving aircraft carrier into the mediterranean is a start and provides a message. u.s. need to make iter cloo, they plan to strike iran or hezbollah on larger scale if they enter this conflict. it is looking like a full-scale israely war. we need to support israelies and give them the opportunity to defeat hamas. all international support fadeings and they get pressure

they are using too much force and are told to pull back. we can't let this happen thchl is why we are in this situation. they need hamas strength and able to carry out disgust ing attacks because they were not held at bay. >> carley: you mean direct u.s. military involvement. if the u.s. gets involved, would iran get involved? where does that leave us? >> brett: it is clear iran was involved in this. hamas movement to israel would not have occurred without their help. they are providing intelligence, financial support, paid them to tune of $100 million per year according to u.s. state department.

we need to support israel. this is a egregiousion that understands strength, not when you give them $sic billion u.s. dollars to support hamas and hezbollah. >> todd: we appreciate it. moment of silence without honoring the murder of israelis. >> this is sad reminder of illegal foreign occupation. >> carley: former special envoy to combat antisemitism under president trump joins us next to respond.

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being criticized for disregarding murdered israel israelis watch. >> regrettably this huge los of life and unlimited violence is reminder of disrespect for international law. >> todd: the ceo of israeli american council, served under president trump joins me now. what is your reaction when you hear a statement like that? >> first of all, todd, i was listening it your guest describe how her brother was kidnapped and dragged into hamas cap

captivity, there are 100 such captives, including little kids and 900 israelis murdered in a genocide massacre in southern israel and todd, to dpif a sense of what 900 means, in the united states that would be ekquivalen to 30,000 americans killed in the united states. now this statement by the pakistani representative to the un human rights council. this has been called israel's

9/11. enormous casualtieses from a surprise terrorist attack at hands of islamist orchestrated by osama bin laden. he went to pakistan to hide. they harbored him. when president obama to his credit send special forces to pakistan to kill him, they were outraged. now they stand up in human rights council of the un and make a statement that is false. israel left gaza in 2005. blockade? not been a blockade. food and water get into gaza.

series of lies and to have a moment of silence for gaza and not acknowledge israelis were massacred, it is out rage. >> todd: sickening. you worked under trump administration, would hamas have attacked if trump was still in place, would iran have felt emboden to help hamas and hezbollah? >> i don't want to engage in counter factual, look at the world for four years, russia invaded ukraine during the obama administration not during the trump administration. russia invaded ukraine in the biden administration and iran had crushing sanctions that had

regime on its knees and now they have been empowered, emboldened and supported. president biden made a strong statement about israel right to self-defense. i am grateful, that is right thing to do. when you look at the world on fire that the united states has lost vast portion of deterrent abilities. this protects our interest. >> todd: thank you for your time this morning, we appreciate it. >> carley: now in the fight, he flew from new york city to fight alongside israel israeli forces. you were watching the news

unfold and decided to go to israel to serve. what factored into your decision to go to israel? >> the fact that my actual two brothers and my brothers here are already on base getting ready to fight, no way i could stay in new york and let them do that. i was in israel within 12 hours. >> todd: what are the sounds behind you? >> doesn't need to be explained, reservists getting ready to fight this war against terrorists doing inhumane unimaginable things to the people. >> carley: you were there within 12 hours of this war breaking out. what have you seen and what have you done so far? >> the first thing i did, went

up north to see my grandparents. this is unfortunate situation, the country is coming together and everyone is helping each other and everyone is forgetting about left or right politics, people are fighting this fight. wives, husbands, kids, it is unfortunate situation and hamas may have started a war, israel will finish it. >> todd: you bought a one-way ticket, no idea when you will come back. what has been the reaction from family and friends. >> surprising the community, the community has been supportive, they want to get over here, i started a fundraiser, people

have been supportive. the less -- good things coming our way, too. people are supportive. my mom doesn't want me to go. my dad understands, he was an officer, as well. >> carley: when will the ground invasion begin? what do you expect to be doing today? >> no one knows and there is information that cannot be disclosed. israeli forces are on the ground, a lot of unknowns that will come out. you don't know how bad this war is right now, you don't know. >> todd: could be house to house combat or house retrieval.

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>> i spoke to our dorm mother this morning, she is a wreck about it. she said, he was such a good boy, i knew he was going to go far. he is not going far because he is going to be buried a half mile from our school at the military cemetery. i will be there. that is not the kind of far we expect our students to go. we have one boy close to gaza border and he hasn't come out of a kitchen cabinet he locked himself in. we have a 12 year old. a 13 year old is supposed to have a barmitzvah yesterday. >> carley: tragic stories of

murder by hamas terrorists and rales they are counting the bodies. we spoke to a sister of a hostage taken that day. on the video, you can see him walking with terrorists from hamas. his arm around his neck with a gun in the other hand. this video, which i can't watch, i'm sorry. >> carley: thousands seen fleeing the festival when the unthinkable happened. >> this music festival, everybody having fun and enjoying themselves one minute and next it is a massacre.

what did you do to survive? >> hi. okay. we had festival going on at 6:30 the music stopped and we started hearing rockets all over the sky. we had to run away. we didn't know what to do. some run away. we decided to get in the car and started driving in the field to this road, which we tried to go one direction, a lot of people started screaming there are terrorists shooting. we went the other way and saw terrorists that way, as well. a lot of shooting all the time and we realize we have to ditch

our car and run toward the field. we did. we ran for two or three hours because like -- sorry. wherever we went, we had a lot of shooting at us and people screaming go the other way. we started like a thousand people running, at the end, we saw people following, not sure if they were killed or kidnapped or fell down. after two or three hours of running, we got tired and realized we were surrounded by hamas. i decided to hide under a tree. we are four girls and stayed s silent and covered ourselves

with leaves for six hours. we called the police, they were doing their best but we were pretty much on our own. hamas is taking over multiple villages and they can't reach us. i tried to call my family and friends to tell them i'm hidden somewhere. after a few hours, we got connected to this amazing angel person who was rescuing people from the party. we were -- he was able to track us down after two hours of trying to navigate the dangerous zone. the shooting was all the time.

we knew if we stood up we would get killed. the rockets never stopped, we heard screaming in arabic. we heard people asking for help. we were rescued. there are still people out there waiting for rescue. >> carley: thank you for joining us this morning and telling your story. you are a survivor and we thank you that we are so glad that you are safe and thank you for joining us. thank you. >> carley: israel is activating 60's,000 reservists almost mobilized. >> todd: including our next guest's brother. her family's message is next.

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>> todd: israel calling up reservists against hamas. nina join us. what was his reaction when he knew he was go be to be called up? >> it was shabbat, it was is the morning, we didn't have our phone because it was shabbat. my brother is in the army, his phone went off and he had to drive to tbase and be united wih his unit. >> todd: have you been in contact ever since? >> very little contacts. they are in operation, this is something every father, mother,

sibling, co-worker is dealing with and feeling the same as our brothers and sisters are called up and going down and fighting for their lives. one thing he did tell us, him, his whole units, the soldiers feel the prayers. they are seeing miracles as comrades are coming back after fighting all day and being so happy they are alive. they have one mission to save as many innocent lives. they are fighting against satan and monsters and we pray our brothers and sisters will come back safely. >> todd: our prayers are with

your brother and all the brothers and sisters fighting to save israel. jews from all over the world are coming to join in the fight whachl goes through your mind when you see people leaving safety to come to the war zone to defend your people? >> let me tell you, nothing stronger than the jewish people. we have battled persecution for 3000 years. this is more than a war thshg is a massacre. we are fighting monsters and ruthless savages that go after innocent which were, mothers, elderly, butcher them and rape them and post online. nothing like we have seen

before. to see our people come together from around the world shows the strength and shows this cannot break us and we'll prevail stronger than ever >> >> todd: i believe you told your producer your grandparents are holocaust survives, is that correct? >> yes, both survived auschwitz, my grandmother survived in the forest for a year when she was 14 years old, like an animal. the are it ises coming out about what is happening is too familiar and to think this is happening in our lifetime in 2023, shows it is ink incomprehensible to think this is happening and to also think that this -- this started --

sorry. this may have started here, but telling everyone, it will not end. this was an attack on israel and the jewish people and an attack on the entire western world and you can see it in new york, in the streets and in l.a. and chicago and london, in france. this is deep, deep embedded hatred for the jewish people. >> todd: nina, thank you for your time and words. prayers to your brother and the families of all the brothers and sisters fighting. the world rallies around israel,

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♪ >> a fox news alert. pro-hamas protesters are taking to the streets in new york city rallying against israel for its retaliation to the brutal terror attacks. >> todd: former new york assemblyman founder of americans against an anti-semitism. what goes through your mind when you see protesters in your city, new york city, blaming israel as hundreds of israelis are murdered? >> it's pathetic. it's sick. it's not just the demonstrators

in the street. don't stakeout. what more does it take watching children being shot in the face, grandmothers being murdered? i mean, the scenes that we are seeing, we have -- these are the nazis of 2023' hamas. let me tell you something, they will be destroyed this time. there will not be a cease-fire. you need to destroy hamas. they are an organization. we have watched them over the past couple of days. >> this is what the nazis did. wait a second. the nazis hid their slaughter of the jewish people. hamas is proud to display. they put you the videos showing men, women and children being murdered, brutalized. and you have people demonstrating in the streets? how sick?

how pathetic. we have people who support this hate and violence directed against innocent people. it's beyond comprehension. >> carley: you are flying to israel later today. as a lot of people are trying it leave the country you are flying there. what will you do? >> number one, i want to be there with my people. i want to walk the streets go. to the south with a group of people i'm going to. i want to be there. i foe people are trying to leave, my family and daughter and six kids just got back yesterday. you know, you got to be there for the people not just when the sun is shining even if it's raining and difficult times. these are difficult times. i'm not going to change anything but do you know what? i'm going to be there. i'm going to walk the streets of jerusalem. i am going to go to the areas in the south that are facing such

difficulties. i have friends who live in those areas. i have relatives who live in those areas. so, you know, my family is nervous. but honestly, i can't wait to get off the plane and the beautiful land of israel. >> todd: dov hikind. our prayers are with you. we know you are leaving the security of new york city. you do not have to go. you are not part of the military. do you not have to be there you want to be there. >> carley: these are your people. >> todd: this is more than a cause this is your life. dov hikind, thank you for your time. >> thanks for having me, we appreciate it. >> carley: we do know to the president spoke to benjamin netanyahu, he told the israeli soldiers to prepare for a mass offensive against hamas at intensity that has never been seen before. that is where we are today. "fox & friends" starts right now.