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we were there when the russians invaded ukraine. the front line each hour is moving. we were in afghanistan after the taliban takeover. there's no question who's in charge here. i've reported from lebanon. protesters are clashing with the garden of lebanon's parliament from iraq, from across the middle east. hundreds of palestinians are marching through the streets of gaza city. i've seen a lot i've seen war firsthand. but nothing could have prepared me for october 7th. on the morning of october 7th, our team responded as rockets soared through the skies of israel. you can hear the explosions overhead.

we would ultimately report amid a hamas infiltration of the country, then entering the gaza strip with the israeli military following a ground invasion. the israelis have cut the gaza strip in half. this is the story of how it all began on black saturday. my phone rings at 7:03 a.m. and it's my producer. you're not. my parents live not far away from the israeli-gaza border. and my dad was the first one to call me and say something is off. she said there are rocket sirens all over. they're firing on central israel.

we know the drill here. i've been covering this story for the past ten years. and when rockets are fired from gaza, we immediately start reporting. they heard the sirens, sound siren. that's not good. it's not the usual. something is wrong. i went when my wife woke up. tell her. become. but it seems like war story. 6 minutes after i wake up, i'm on the phone with greg hayden, the vice president of news coverage of fox. just after midnight eastern time. i got a call from trey. i said israel is under attack. and hayden knows when it makes sense to move, when it makes sense to stay put. he asks all the right questions. i was like, what is your threat assessment? there's no margin for error here.

safety first. trey gave me his best assessment of where he wanted to go. the team he wanted it to take. i told hayden. same plan as always. we're going to go to stewart and start reporting. that was about as close to the border as probably i would feel secure. and i told them to do it. start driving down route for. this is saturday morning. shabbat. the roads are empty. there's no one out. this is a weekly day of rest for the jewish people. i see rockets being intercepted overhead. the closer i get to gaza border, the rocket fire gets more intense. hamas and islamic jihad continue to target positions here along the border with gaza.

there's been an impact just right here. i to have my cameraman show you the black smoke rising up this massive rocket fire right now into southern israel. it's just nonstop fire right now. okay. roll on all this. yes. rolling. yes. we're going to. you can see here one of those rockets just fired from the gaza strip, slammed into a house behind me. secondary explosions taking place. many things on fire. we could see debris on the road. paramedics and firefighters just ran.

we do our reporting there. and yonat not jumps in my car. yonat■s a producer who has decades of news experience. she's covered this story her entire life. her parents live in southern israel. i was worried about friends and other families that i have all around the communities next to the borders. she was trying to get in touch with her parents. she said, i think they're in the shelter. we all texted each other and some of us didn't get a response back. and i could tell that she was shaken up by what was unfolding before our eyes, but had very limited information about what was taking place. really, the only video that we have that indicates this is an infiltration is video of hamas gunmen on the back of a pickup truck.

does this doesn't go down well, i thought it was an old movie out of iraq. but then i saw the familiar signpost of the market instilled and i said, this is the world we know this town like the back of our hand. we figure if hamas is installed, the army and police will get there and they'll engage them and we'll go and report on what happened. our plan is to take a left turn at this gas station and head towards sderot. we get to this intersection and we see an ambulance on the side of the road. we figure let's jump out and do some reporting on the constant flow of civilians being loaded into ambulances here along the gaza border. people are using their personal cars to drop off their loved ones. and so we start to piece together what's happening

and we have a decision to make. do we stay at the intersection and report or do we go with the initial plan? if one person on the team feels not good about it, the whole team doesn't go. i made a decision for us to stay put. i don't know why i made that decision at that moment, but i'm glad that i did because had we driven just one intersection further, we would have driven directly into a hamas ambush at this road where hamas had ambushed civilians. and had we continued driving, we would have driven directly into the ambush. you know,

i keep thinking what would happen to us if we didn't stop, because otherwise we would be down in sderot when the massacre was taking place. we were one decision away from dying. i think about what i would have done. what i have just driven over them. what i've tried to get away, what i've tried to reason with them to explain that i'm a journalist. i don't know if they would have killed us. and very quickly, the intersection turns into a triage point. straight to a fox news alert. israel declaring it is at war. trey angst is live on the ground in southern israel with the very latest. good morning. and unimpressive, vented and coordinated attack against israel is taking place right now.

this has been a constant scene along the gaza border. the military also bringing their injured troops here. severely wounded soldiers are being evacuated from the front here. the first person that i saw die during the war was at this intersection, something about war. until you see that first person die, it doesn't feel real. but you have to constantly remind yourself that it is real, because otherwise you're in a really dangerous situation. and just now, we're receiving reports of israeli troops entering the city to try to rescue civilians that were taken hostage. as the day went on, we started to realize that this wasn't just a rocket attack and a few gunmen that had entered israel. it was thousands of gunmen that attacked nearly every community along the border.

the elite hamas fighters from their nuclear unit had led the initial charge into israel. well, it took us a few days to understand the scale of this, the amount of people murdered. we have like 20 people die 30, 4020. it's took time until they realize it was 1200. hamas and islamic jihad used rockets and mortars as cover around 6:30 a.m.. and as those rockets were soaring overhead, they sent their most elite militants, gunmen with rocket propelled grenades, small arms and ieds.

they targeted the outposts of the israeli military that have remote machine guns. they knew how to get through the border fence to deliver to here. that was touted as one of the most advanced in the world. they cut through the fence, the al kassam brigades. then around 3000 gunmen over the border into these communities to slaughter civilians. the hamas attack against israel was systematic. these units had clearly trained to infiltrate into these border communities.

some of them had maps. they had intelligence that had been gathered before. and there's this bullshit line that you hear over and over from hamas officials when we interview them that they were only targeting soldiers. and that's not true. if this was just a story about the israeli army battling hamas gunmen, it might be easier to consume. but this is a story about a massacre

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versus terrorists with m-16s, with rpgs. when the terrorists took over, the offices that were inside, ran to the rooftop and they were pinned down on the roof of the police station. and there was an insane battle, movie style battle from like seven, eight in the morning until one, two in the morning. we rescued the officers from the roof, and that's when the commander just decided it's going to be the safest thing for everybody. he can't risk more officers going inside. and they took down the station. we made it into the road october 8th, and it was frozen in time. this is the closest any journalist has been to the gaza strip since this erupted. there were cars that still had their blinkers on, pools of blood all over that infamous bus stop where older israelis were slaughtered before they were

planning to go on a day trip. we got to the police station, all the area without electricity was totally in the dark when we saw what's going on in the police station. it was just unfathomable. we are in the israeli town of strout that sits just near the gaza border. and we stood outside and i interviewed dean live on that night. i don't even think there's words to describe what took place right behind us. eight officers lost their lives during the combat that took place right here. there was so much incoming rocket fire this night and we had to just dive down and take cover and get down everyone flat. so i don't have everyone down flat. we had more rockets now, loud explosions coming off. another time there, they're trying to overwhelm the iron dome again.

i can see them blowing off the gaza strip from multiple locations. it was scary because the rockets were being intercepted right overhead and slamming into the ground. and so it was just a matter of chance that we weren't hit. it sounded like a few of those slipped past the explosions just rocking the area. it became the soundtrack of the war. everyone okay? these are the teams that are going in to try to find the bodies of those officers. they don't have the time to go through and identify each and every person because as you see there, they have stacked ten or 11 bodies into the back of one pickup truck. the first responders were pulling bodies out of the police station and for the first time since the attack,

i just cracked, i, i held back tears. i was trying not to cry. and there's not a lot that makes me cry. you see scenes of parents showing up to. i'm sorry. it's. it's difficult. yeah, but parents showing up to to give a pair of their kids to the authorities to see if they can match the dna to the bodies. and i just. i cracked live. i'm going to stop talking here. i just want to give this the respect that it needs. you know, most of the time i'm able to separate my emotions from the work because we have to, you know, you see such horrific things and the time to deal with it is not during the coverage. i'll deal with it later. i still haven't dealt with it, to be honest. but the coverage continues.

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for for me and for the team. when friends to a bury, there was a pile of bodies. houses were severely damaged. torched. and you would see bodies that you couldn't understand. they're the residents or the terrorists. you can see the blood stained patio of this home and you saw marking of hands on the walls. and you could see the track of blood in the corridors of the homes. it was early in the morning on saturday when hamas militants stormed into their homes, slaughtering women and children. there were bodies just everywhere. i was heartbroken and speechless. you had to be careful not to trip over bodies.

i couldn't believe the amount of hatred people can inflict on other people, especially the people i know who live in those communities, as were peace activists and artists. and they have done their outmost to help the people and the children of gaza. and it was just so heartbreaking. i covered tsunamis. i cover wars. i cover a suicide bombing cover. a lot of things. but to walk into kids rooms and you see the blood everywhere, the smell was horrific. it stuck to your clothes and in your nose. and it was hard. do you hear me? harris the policy was you can't go live from the border area. and i just said, look, we need to show the world what's happening here. i got him out.

i got you. harris we felt the world needed to see this live because people had already started to deny what took place. okay, guys, i need to warn our viewers what we're about to show you is the aftermath of the massacre. we arrived here with the army a few hours ago. and on the road in, you could smell the stench of death in the air. it became obvious that we didn't even have a full grasp of what took place here. i was talking to harris faulkner and we went into one of these houses of horror. this is what israel is facing right now, and it's very important that we show you this. i'm going to have my cameraman come in here. you can see the floors are stained with blood. the floor was sticky. the blood was getting on the boots that i was wearing. but we needed to be live. we needed to show the world what was happening. and so we did.

it is the most horrific thing i have ever seen. the most difficult for me was to see the families houses that with the kids pictures, food on the tables, the family photos on the fridge. was just like my whole home. and within a minute, it all shattered in the most horrific and horrendously. it shows just how violent these militants were against the civilian population here. i mean, just there are no words really. i literally felt my heart was broken.

i even can feel it today. we were in the work mode and we did live shots and everything. but when we went out, i felt that i couldn't breathe. i've been trying for all my life to see with empathy the other side and how we have more things in common than sets us apart. and that specific day, my whole being was shattered in the second the morning of october 7th. yoav, our technician, was trying to get in touch with his brother gil, who lives in nero's. i tried to call him.

he didn't answer. he couldn't reach him. there was no way to confirm if his brother had been killed or kidnaped. and eventually we made it to nero's. and it was filled with scenes of horror houses that were stained with blood. bullet holes in shelter doors. this is the shelter known as the mermaid. the place where people were hiding when militants entered their home. the blood stained floors tell the story of the struggle that ensued. so many houses in the community of nero's are burned down. many relatives still looking for their loved ones, holding on to hope that they are alive and just pulled into gaza, held hostage by hamas. and we saw gil's home the first time. actually, i have break down. it was when we went to my brother community and i saw his burned house.

we did not know this was the exact house. but now that we're on the other side to see it is this is the home of the brother of our engineer. this is yoav. when? when you see when you see this, what does it feel like? horrible. horrible. i'm just trying to think what's happened to them. the house was totally burned. 25% of his community at that time was either murdered or kidnaped. 25% from 400 people. it's crazy. it is grief. gil had survived with his wife in their shelter. when do you know something's wrong? six in the morning. the red alert. and we went to the mahmoud to the safe room.

there was no stopping. and the missiles? one after another. like in thousands. then it became quiet. so i said to my wife, well, i'm going to bring the cell phone, open the door of the safe. and we had a mass people inside here shouting and screaming, i know what i'm doing. but so immediately we locked the door, get inside, hide behind the couch and wait. you know, we heard them shouting and shouting. and then someone approached the door. hamas had entered the home, fired on the shelter door and the latch locked, and that saved their lives. somehow we hit the lock so no one could open it. from now on, we heard them destroying things in the house. then you realize we are alone.

nobody is coming. what emotions do you feel when you think about that? betrayed. and a few minutes later, they start burning the house. we were lying on the floor and smoke. you think about survivor and you don't think about anything. yes. let's go inside. what's it feel like to be inside the house? there's nothing in it that reminds me that this is my house. this used to be my whole. this used to be the kitchen. this is the what's left from the fridge to table. dining table. and over there is the safe room. you can see where they shot it. you can see some of the shots. but this the most important one. this is the one that hit it. hit the lock and. and locked it.

then they start to put fire on it in the house. if you could meet the people who did this, what would you say to them? terrorists. i don't know if i have to say anything to them. he waited there for 16 hours, and during that time, there was no information. you were with us in the south, and i saw you checking your phone, waiting for that call. what did it feel like in those moments? hard. hard. it was very hard. the massacre was unfolding before our eyes. but yoav, he stayed with us, making sure our shot was up, making sure that we could tell the millions of people watching what was happening in real time. even when he didn't know his own brother was alive. it needs to be told because already people are forgetting or denying that it happened and they will not be able to do that if they watched you this morning. trey, thank you. okay.

anytime. if you're in a war zone, often when you least expect it, you turn your head and there happens to be something you wish you had never seen. everyone is good. trey and jerusalem team have experienced that often. like something out of a horror movie. we had the privilege of having one of the best crews in the business. the crew is amazing. it's a family, close family. it's a small team. we know each other for many years. take it again. see it again from the top. our teams in the field all know that we at fox utterly have their back. i thought it was really powerful that earlier this year the fox executives came to southern israel to see where the massacre took place. lachlan murdoch, suzanne scott and jay wallace. while this area was still taking rocket fire. saw firsthand the aftermath of this massacre. and i thought it was brave.

but i also thought it sent a message to the world that they felt it was important to be here to bear witness to the atrocities committed against the israeli people.

some people might think that it's just a food pantry. but they don't know the significance of it and the importance of it to the people here. i feel so blessed to be able to help people with food on this reservation. one of the elders told me, there is no higher honor for our people than to give one another food.

a full scale invasion was almost a lore that was discussed but was never actually going to happen. you can see behind me israeli artillery units continue to fire on the northern part of the gaza strip, and the soldiers were ready for it and they were antsy. they wanted to go into gaza to bring the fight to hamas. the golani brigade is just waiting for their orders to enter the gaza strip. our mission is to wipe out hamas. hamas has no right to exist. i remember the night the ground invasion started. it was late october. we were standing on the hilltop looking into gaza, and it was a night

unlike any other. there's explosions in the distance. the israelis are shelling the gaza strip as we speak. they're launching more airstrikes. this huge bombing campaign started. it was lighting up the sky. the explosions were so big, you could feel it from where we were standing. and then you could start to hear the armored personnel carriers on the road and the treads on the asphalt behind us. and this was an indication that the ground invasion had begun. this is unlike any other night we have covered. a fox news alert overnight. israeli troops launching what's being called the largest ground raid into northern gaza since the war began. once the israelis were inside. my mind set shifted to thinking about how i can get inside. as a war correspondent, you always want to be there. you want to see it firsthand.

we knew that this was one of the most significant stories that we have to do, and it felt like a mission to tell it. our first embed would be to a place south of gaza city called juhr-a-dik. i was worried because we'd seen the videos that hamas was releasing, ambushing israeli soldiers with rpgs, anti-tank guided missiles inside gaza. so it was still quite dangerous to be going in. and these firefights were just starting to unfold. the israelis have cut the gaza strip in half. they fought their way to the mediterranean sea. the apc has reactive armor. and so we had some protection, but that wouldn't stop an ied blast or an ambush at close range. i remember hearing the commanders and there were also very nervous.

seconds after arriving on the outskirts of gaza city, the crack of gunfire pierces the air. so right now we are in the we went to this house that the israelis had taken over and they were battling hamas just next door. the battle is street by street. it is urban guerrilla warfare. this was the first taste of the war that we got. there's quite a bit of activity. and we also see a massive amount of destruction.

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the level of destruction inside gaza is significant. the neighborhood behind me completely destroyed. the mosques and buildings reduced to rubble. more than 50% of the gaza strip has been decimated by the israeli air and ground campaign. it is catastrophic. it will take decades to rebuild gaza if it ever is rebuilt. there are more than 2 million people inside gaza. in the vast majority of them are not militants.

there are innocent people in gaza, children, women, men who are not part of the hamas. and if we'll all paint them with security colors, they're never going to be an ending to this cycle of violence. i hope they stop the war. i hope this protest in gaza and re-arrange you organize our lives to the best. that's only dream of. i've been covering this for so many years and it just getting worse. i think that when we lose compassion as people, that's the last part before your soul dies. it's important to document what happened on october seven when people were executed in their homes. but it's important to document what the israelis have done to gaza in response.

black saturday is about people. it's about humans. there's this line that the israelis say it time and time again, that they act on precise intelligence and it's just not true. backed on intelligence. absolutely. but precise intelligence. look at the images. they're using £2,000 bombs in civilian neighborhoods. it's pretty hard to be precise with a bomb that big. yeah. i got a call and saw it was a private number. we will bomb the house and so on. you have only 5 minutes and we will bomb it. it's important to talk about the impact this has had on the mental health of the population in this region, both israelis and palestinians. and again, words cannot describe how i feel now. and even if i it you would never feel what i feel because suffering is beyond what you can

imagine. there are so many neighborhoods that are flattened. palestinians that are internally displaced will simply have no homes to return to. and while we get a firsthand look at the destruction here, it's important to remember that palestinian journalists do not have this access. they have been pushed to the south. dozens have been killed. there's this false narrative about palestinian journalists. more than 100 of them have been killed by israel since the war began. and i take very few positions in the conflicts that we cover. but let this be a position that i take. journalist specifically, palestinian journalists must be protected amid the war. the israelis have killed journalists in drone strikes. they've killed them with small arms fire.

and it's unacceptable. i've been into gaza five times since the war started. right now, we are inside the southernmost city of rafah into the area of operation. we entered hon. yunis with the israelis where hostages had been held. israeli forces were going block by block to clear this area and look for the missing hostages. we know that the hostages are most of them inside the tunnels underneath the city. when doing everything we can, you know, to free them. more than 240 people were kidnaped and taken hostage into the gaza strip, many of them held in the tunnels beneath gaza. so we're going down now, 20 meters underneath the ground, down to the tunnels, down to the prison.

this is where they took the hostages when they led them to the prison. it was a true labyrinth of tunnels. and you'll see in some of this video, they go on and on and on. you can see israeli forces here remain on high alert. they have their weapons raised. understanding the hamas fighters could be just around the corner. this is one of the cells that the israelis say hostages were held in. you can see the iron doors here. they found women's clothing and hair belonging to at least one of the hostages. and you mentioned this cell that we're here, 6 to 7 people in this small cell, children, women, the elderly. no sense of time. no daylight. you just think about the amount of infrastructure beneath gaza, the amount of resource that it took to build those tunnels back above ground amid the sounds of war. we get a closer look at hassan younis.

countless vulnerable palestinians left without homes or shelter. and as the war moves further south. gazan civilians are running out of places to go. this is why in the north we call it the population for almost three weeks before we entered into the area to move to a safer zone because at least that there will be less casualties. but doing israel has targeted that zone as well. of course, i just read the story of your bravery. and part of our work as journalists is covering all angles of this story. and that means covering the attack on october 7th. risking our lives to get that information out to the world. but it also means covering what's happening to the palestinian people, the mass killing of civilians, the thousands that have been wounded, the airstrikes that have decimated the gaza strip.

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