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cabrera. the historic mobilization of israel continues. these are live pictures you're seeing of gaza and there are again plumes of smoke emanating from different parts of that tightly lived city, where these attacks have been pretty consistent throughout the past 24 hours. hundreds of thousands of reservists are preparing to join the war. >> the possibility of a ground invasion is still growing. and then inside gaza, entire neighborhoods we're seeing images that are just really breathtaking here from bombings where you can see neighborhoods destroyed, and this is all happening right now in retaliation for the terror attack by hamas. right now we're told electricity in gaza is out as night is set to fall. just as the last power plant there in gaza runs out of fuel. >> plus, the devastation in israel from saturday's surprise attack coming into greater

focus. one woman who escaped the terrorists describing it as a second holocaust. we have complete coverage with reporters on the ground in israel. let's take you live now to the images out of gaza, you can see a lot of smoke and haze just hovering, blanketing over the city there. i want to go right now from israel, our nbc news foreign correspondent kelly cobiella who is standing by. kelly, tell us what you're seeing where you are, what do you know? >> reporter: well, ana, we are outside a shelter for some of the many, many families who are evacuated from the south over the weekend. they were told that that area just wasn't safe enough. this was when the israeli military was still trying to secure those neighborhoods along the border with gaza. there are about 200 people here, about 50 families, and they have

been told that their kibbutz has been -- you can't go in unless you get permission from the military because of safety concerns there. as we were talking to them, they were getting alerts on their phones, sirens were sounding over their homes, but they don't know what is happening at their homes where they live. they're trying to move on, get some semblance of normalcy for their families, for their children, here at the shelter. meantime, as we know, the situation in gaza is turning -- is going from bad to worse. it is really a desperate, desperate situation there with families looking for their loved ones, civilians still being killed, buried under rubble of buildings after these israeli air strikes. we have actually been hearing the jets overhead as we have been here north of tel aviv, on a pretty regular basis.

every probably half hour or so you'll hear another jet overhead. and the other thing that is happening in israel right now is just this incredibly long process of identifying the dead. we spoke to a family last night, whose two daughters were missing. today we heard from them again and sadly their younger daughter, the 22-year-old, has been confirmed as one of the victims. this is a 22-year-old who was born in l.a., she moved here 14 years ago, spent half of her life in the states, half of her life here, she was down at that music festival with her sister when the gunmen attacked. her sister's status still unknown. parents have submitted dna samples like so many families have across israel and just waiting for word as to what has happened to their relatives. so that's what the situation is here. you can maybe hear, we can hear the jets flying overhead yet again, guys.

>> and just what you described, with that family, and the anguish that so many are feeling right now that is really powerful. kelly cobiella, stay close, please and stay safe. thank you for joining us. >> and want to bring in jerusalem -- from jerusalem ari mayer, the editor in chief of the jerusalem post. thank you for being with us this morning. in your latest piece, you compared saturday's terror attacks by hamas to september 11th. give us a little bit more of the perspective of that. >> well, jose, i was a high school senior in the d.c. area on september 11th, 2001, i remember the fog of confusion and chaos, not knowing whether people were alive or dead, whether people's loved ones were going to come home at the end of the day and that's very much what israelis are feeling today. but orders of magnitude worse. when i wrote that piece, a number of casualties, i believe er 1200 israeli dead, just by

way of comparison, that would be the equivalent given israel's size of 12 9/11 attacks on a single day. this country is devastated, it is in a state of shock, it is in a state of mourning. there is not a single family in israel that hasn't been affected in some way, that doesn't have a loved one, a neighbor, a colleague who has lost a family member or whose family member is missing and presumed kidnapped in gaza. and so that is the situation on the ground. it is a devastating period in israel. one of tremendous confusion. and israelis really are in a state of total shock and despair. >> israeli forces as they go and try to fight hamas, and they try to free some of these areas where hamas came in and just brutalized innocent civilians, what they are uncovering is unthinkable, it is unspeakable. what has been the reaction beyond that initial state of shock? what are you seeing in terms of how israelis are responding to what happened?

>> look, i think israel is a very small, tight-knit country. when things like this happen, the country tends to mobilize quickly to support those who have been affected. so as has been mentioned, there has been a very high mobilization of troops to go down and serve reserve duty, perhaps ahead of a larger military campaign in gaza. but even the civilian population is -- those who are not mobilize ready volunteering in remarkable ways, sending food packages, care packages, hosting families in the south in their homes because they can't go back to areas that are no longer considered safe and so many other ways. but i think what is so remarkable about this moment and striking to so many people is that we always knew that hamas was a terrorist organization, that's not new to us. it has been murdering israelis for decades, thousands of them. but what we saw on display on saturday was isis-like behavior. children slain in their cribs, entire families burned to death in their homes, elderly people

executed on the street. and that is the force that we're contending with today, that's the force that we in the west must realize is now at the forefront of this campaign. and so when you see this response taking place in gaza, we have to understand this is like the american response to 9/11 or to the campaign against isis. that is what we're talking about now. and that is why this force of evil must be eradicated from the face of the earth. >> i think, avi, it is important you mention that. it is just the widespread dissemination of evil to, as you say, you know, little children, men, women, babies, hostage taking, you know, 260 people massacred in a peace concert in -- at sunrise. >> forgive me for interrupting. i just got word we need to go to the secretary of defense lloyd austin speaking right now.

>> forgive the interruption. we're working to get the audio. jose, please continue. >> i was wondering, we're probably going to go back to the secretary as soon as we get that audio -- there he is. let's watch. >> -- fighter squadrons in the region and the department of defense stands fully ready to deploy additional assets if necessary. as president biden has said, for any country, for any organization, for anyone thinking about trying to take advantage of the agony in israel, to try to widen this conflict or to try to spill more blood, we have just one word. don't. additional u.s. military aid to israel started flowing in

yesterday, including key munitions. and we'll be providing more iron dome interceptors so israel can protect its citizens and cities. and we'll continue to ensure that israel has what it needs to keep itself and its citizens safe. and like any other country, israel has a right to defend itself. as the president says, israel has a duty to defend itself. and make no mistake, the united states will remain able to project power and to direct resources to tackle crises in multiple theaters. so we will stand firmly with israel, as we continue to support ukraine. so let me turn to today's agenda. this was the 16th time i've convened the ukraine defense contact group, and i'm pleased that we were joined in person today by -- >> and that was the moment that you -- the secretary is speaking

directly about the situation, the israeli-hamas war. i want to bring back avi mayer, the editor in chief of "the jerusalem post." tieing into what the secretary was talking about as far as what the military reaction should be in this case. and how do you deal with a group that its existence is to deny the existence of israel but that is in a place filled with civilians? >> well, i think it is right -- quite appropriate that the secretary tied israel and ukraine together in his remarks. i think it is notable that the ukrainian president and the ukrainian people, zelenskyy, had been tremendously supportive of israel during this time. they view israel as being in the same boat they are. on the receiving end of murderous acts of terror and

violence. and so, look, how do you respond to that? you respond with full force and determination. that is what israel must do, that's what any country in its situation would do under the circumstances. and, yes, certainly care must be taken to spare innocent civilians in gaza of whom there are many. they have received warnings from israeli military leadership and from prime minister netanyahu himself to evacuate those areas that will be targeted. israel has a long-standing practice of warning civilians before they are targeted to give them the opportunity to escape. many of them don't have many places to go so there are u.n. facilities and others that will try to keep them safe during that time. but that cannot prevent israel from doing what it must to keep its own people safe and not only its own people, but quite frankly the west. this is a war of civilization. that what we see happening, israel is dealing with the same thing the united states dealt with on september 11th, and that israel's allies in the region dealt with when isis came to power. this is a war against a form of

fundamentalist islamism that is terrorizing the world, murdering as many people as it possibly can and it must be stopped. >> avi mayer, thank you for being with us this morning. i appreciate your time. >> joining us from israel is a man whod the attack at the super nova music festival. some of his friends were among those killed at the festival. guyam, i'm so sorry for your loss and what you've been experiencing. can you talk to us about what you witnessed and experienced at the festival on saturday? >> yes, hello. i want to start first of all that we all of us want to come and just celebrate life. i'm, so, so sorry for the loss of my friends and everyone that lost their lives. five minutes before we even

start, i talk with my friends, and i tell them something i'm going through and she told me it is okay, everything is going to be okay. and one hour after they took her on a motorcycle with weapons to gaza. i want to tell if they see me now, i want to tell you, just be strong, keep breathing, trust and believe that everything is going to be okay. >> guy, how do you process this? and just to think that, you know, just before that happened, that was your motorcycle, and then that motorcycle was used to such horrendous things, how -- what is it -- how do you process this? >> stay kind. be with your loved ones and to talk a lot about the things -- i

want to tell my story. so there was rockets and then one of us run to our cars and start to drive to the main road so we can drive to the main road and the main road became traffic because all of us -- they put a gun over here and gun over there, so start to close us. and my friend run so fast east, like opposite from gaza, but i was able to see what was going on, so i stayed, but then i just hear woman scream, so i run with guys to there and she was so injured from bullets, so we just tried to take her to a safe place and after a few minutes after, just feel the bullets around you, so just feeling it close to my ears, i jumped in the bush and from there, shots

back to terrorists. just for a second, i put my head down and i look up and i saw bullets just hit the leaf above my head. so close. and so close. i tell the guy hiding with me, we need to run. so we start to run, and just look back and i saw them just explode, the cars over there. and even, like the -- they try to hit any of them, but they didn't do it. so we saw me and my friend left, the terrorists have uniforms. we get in, we drive on the field, so, so, so fast, and he

give me his gun. i open the window. but then started screaming arabic. and me and a friend realized maybe he is a terrorist, and will take us to the border. just give me his gun to make me trust him. and my friend was ready to choke him from behind. so just screaming, what's your name, stop now, he stopped, and we keep going by foot. after it is israeli officer. there was a lot of situation like that, yeah. >> that is a nightmare material what you just described. i cannot imagine the fear you must have felt and the panic of everybody who was trying to escape. thank god you were able to escape. i just am wondering, do you feel

safe right now? >> now i'm safe. now i'm safe with my family. and difficult time for everyone. now i'm safe. my soul is scared. every one of us, it will take time. but for now my physical body is safe, yes. >> guy, i just couldn't stop to be, you know, horrified, by what you were describing. and what you saw. and i just keep thinking about, you know, there are 260 plus people just like you that were doing what you were doing, that were having those conversations that you had with your friend about problems and breathe, keep going, and they didn't. they didn't survive. how -- boy, how is that even possible?

how does something like this happen? >> i think a lot of people freeze when they saw the guns and the terrorists. and when i say that, i saw a group of girls in the car, so afraid to get out, and i realized if they stay there, they are going to get killed. just take them, and screaming and just run, so fast east because they understand if the people that get freeze, they going to die. so, yeah, i think that's the reason that most of the people there get killed from the shock. it is really, really deep fear, just make you freeze, you know. i heard people just put themselves in blood and just get under bodies to make them safe. >> yeah. >> guy ben shimon, thank you for sharing your story with us. >> thank you. >> keeping you and your loved ones in our hearts and wishing

everybody strength and comfort during this very difficult time. thanks again. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> we continue to monitor the situation meanwhile in gaza, where we just saw some fresh explosions, just moments ago. >> up next, a u.s. carrier strike group is now in the mediterranean, trying to deter any other countries that might want to get involved in this. we'll talk to a former white house military official about the strategy going forward. >> we're back in 60 seconds. you're watching special coverage of the israel-hamas war. g specie of the israel-hamas war. one aleve works all day so i can keep working my magic. just one aleve. 12 hours of uninterrupted pain relief. aleve. who do you take it for? and for fast topical pain relief, try alevex. the citi custom cash® card automatically adjusts to earn you more cash back in your top eligible spend category. hi. you don't have to keep tabs on rotating categories... this is the only rotating i care about.

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political military affairs under george w. bush from august of 2008 to january of 2009. thank you for taking the time. your expertise is so valued by all of us. israel is now believed to be planning a ground attack. they have 360,000 reservists who have been called up. what would a potential ground attack look like if they're trying to go into this very densely populated area that is currently controlled by hamas? >> well, i think the important thing is that president netanyahu said that he would be conducting a -- that tells me conventional forces will move up to the outside of the city, but it will be a significant step going inside -- this is a tough mission for military, probably one that no military -- >> so, general, because there are two very difficult things among all of the difficult things that they have, one is

going into a place where it is densely populated, and that civilians are in and among the areas where the organization is. and then there is the other issue, general, of hostages. you know, more than 100 hostages, maybe individually put in different parts. how are those two aspects taken into consideration and how would that change the planning? >> you know, first of all, operating inside of a populated city is a very, very tough mission. it is not unique. we did it in fallujah. the iraqis have done it in mosul. there is three -- for that. but the notion you have hostages in there changes everything. remember, hamas, they took over in 2005 after the election. they tossed the politicians off

of buildings. this is an incredibly brutal organization. i would not expect they would do anything different. >> and, general, we have some reporting about a briefing that the biden administration did with senators and this, we're told, is part of israel's plan now in terms of their objectives, regain control of the gaza strip, dismantle hamas infrastructure existing in gaza, the hostage recovery which we were discussing, and trying to mitigate a second front from occurring because, of course, this is a tinder box region, not only as hamas a threat to israel, the jewish people, but the hezbollah in the north, which is also controlled by iran, iran obviously is benefitting to some degree from the chaos and the horror that hamas has inflicted in this region. do these objectives that i just laid out from israel sound doable to you? >> well, they sound plausible. that is probably the most

difficult mission i have -- we need to realize that hamas is an ideology as much as it is an organization. i'm not certain how you throw out not the people, but the ideology. this -- i'm concerned about that no other actors come into the -- israel is going to be completely focused on gaza, possibly what is happening -- but the united states i'm wondering if the united states taking on that mission to contain this to gaza and israel the way they did with ukraine, do we want american involvement? all of these are very, very tough questions that the president, his national security team not only has to make, but has to sell to the american people. >> general mark kimmitt, thank you for being with us this morning. up next, we'll go to lebanon

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27 past the hour. right now, officials in the middle east and around the world are watching to see if another front opens up in the israel-hamas war. >> here's what we know this morning, the israeli defense force said an antitank missile was fired from lebanon north of israel toward an israeli military post. u.s. officials are signaling to hamas' allies in iran and hezbollah in lebanon not to get involved in this conflict. >> joining us now from lebanon is nbc's matt bradley. what is the latest there? >> reporter: yeah, jose. we heard from hezbollah and they condemned president biden's emotional speech yesterday and also said they were not afraid of the u.s. naval assets that

are now parked off the coast in the mediterranean, kind of near to where i am right now. but i got to tell you, right behind me, we have been having a front row seat. if you see along the ridge line there, where those lights are, there has been quite a lot of shooting back and forth of artillery and what we understand are air strikes. we even saw yesterday a fire that was blazened there, that appeared to have been set off according to israeli sources by some of the tit for tat fighting going on. so far, a lot of this pales in comparison to what we have been seeing in israel and the gaza strip. so far about seven people have been killed including one israeli official and four members of hezbollah. and i hate to say it, but that's not out of the ordinary when it comes to the fighting we have seen here over the past several decades, since 2006 when there was a sustained more than a month long awful war that nearly brought lebanon to its knees and killed nearly 1500 lebanese people, most of them civilians and hundreds of israeli

soldiers. that's the big fear here is that this whole thing could return to that kind of awful war. but, you know, it seems as though most of the sides involved are still kind of playing by the informal rules that have governed sort of the engagements going on ever since that 2006 war. but we were at a funeral yesterday, for two of the hezbollah fighters who were among the four who have been killed so far. and it was overflowing with anger and rage, both toward israel and the united states. we heard versions of that iranian chant you heard so much, death to america. and then i also spoke with an imam affiliated -- very distantly affiliated with hezbollah, but he said he swore that even though hezbollah has not entered the fight so far, they were prepared to do so. here's what he told me. he said not at all. he doesn't wait for a signal

from anyone. but when i asked if the lebanese people feared a war, he said no. telling me lebanon has hundreds, even thousands of marters prepared to sacrifice themselves against israel. and that's the exact reason, jose, there is so much anxiety both here in lebanon and across the border behind me in israel. because if hezbollah decides to enter the war, it would be a game changer. hezbollah is so much more powerful than hamas because it has partial governance over the entire country of lebanon. it enjoys so much more support from iran and other actors in the middle east, and its people have freedom of movement, they can leave the country, they can come and go, unlike hamas, which is stuck inside that blockaded enclave on the mediterranean coast. they have real weapons, real training, and they are bloodied in the fight in syria for much of the past decade, fighting against islamist, suni islamist groups there. they're an experienced, organized militant group, really

more resembles an army and that's why the u.s. and all of -- and israel, they're so concerned that hezbollah could possibly weigh in, even as they plan what could be a major ground incursion into the gaza strip. now, our understanding and speaking to analysts and people who are close to hamas and hezbollah is that the decision to enter has not been made yet and there is no reason to doubt that that decision hasn't been made yet and there are a couple of factors that could tip the balance. the biggest one is going to be how israel engages with hamas in the gaza strip. and whether or not iran wants hezbollah to sacrifice itself by fighting against israel to distract troops from that invasion of the gaza strip or whether it hopes to preserve hezbollah as one of the most formidable antiisraeli forces raised a raid along the border with israel. >> matt bradley, thanks so much. with us now to continue our conversation is aaron david miller, he served as a negotiator and senior adviser for arab israeli negotiations at

the state department. he helped formulate u.s. policy on the middle east and the arab israeli peace and he's now a senior fellow in the american state craft program at the carnegie endowment for international peace. you offer so much wisdom on this region. thank you for joining us. what do you make of this news now that netanyahu and an opposition leader in israel have formed a unity government? >> it is the first piece of good news that i heard since saturday. during hamas' terror rampage in southern israel. it is good news because it is going to serve as a check on the more extremist ministers in netanyahu's government. it is good news because you're bringing in benny ganz, and you'll get some serious military expertise. and perhaps even a moderating constraining rule with respect

to israeli policies toward the west bank. and it is good news because the government, according to its terms, the new government, when it is officially formed, will not be able to pass any legislation that is not directly related to the prosecution of the war or the intensification of the war that is coming. which means for the short-term and i would argue for the long-term, any notion of judicial overhaul, the government's efforts and rearrange literally the furniture of the israeli political system to make it less democratic, that's all now in the deep freeze. and finally i suspect that this emergency government, this unity government, unity government, yes, benny ganz and netanyahu can't stand each other, is going to extend for quite some time to come. on balance, i think frankly, amidst all the bad news and deep

hesitation with regard to the dark tunnel that we are about to enter or the darker tunnel, it is a ray of light. >> and, i'm wondering about that dark tunnel and the darkening of that tunnel going forward. you know, there is the concern we're just talking to matt about hezbollah, lebanon, syria, iran, these are all major players that could -- that could really change the balance of a lot of things if they decide to get more involved in the case of iran. seemed to be involved already, but in hezbollah and lebanon. what do you see as the major dangers going forward? >> i don't see right now a direct confrontation. we talk about a regional war, we're not talking about war between israel and the government of syria, israel and the government of jordan or egypt. we're talking about an iranian israeli confrontation which would involve direct strikes on

iranian territory and iranians reciprocating. it could easily bring in the united states. i think that's possible right now, but certainly not probable. hezbollah is another matter. it has stockpiled since 2006, let me remind you what happened in 2006, for 30 days 5,000 guys, hezbollah, with relatively unsophisticated high trajectory weapons shut down the northern half of the middle east's most preeminent military power, israel. now, they have acquired high trajectory weapons of varying ranges and lethality. if hezbollah gets into this fight, you're talking about opening up an entirely new front, which is going to mean death and devastation in lebanon. and i think if that happens, i'm not persuaded that you could keep the iranians out. right now, i think this is possible. but not probable.

the trip wire may well be the breadth and depth of the israeli move into gaza. and it is hard now to identify the contours of that campaign or what the israelis would hope to achieve. >> at this point, what do you see as the international community's role in trying to de-escalate the situation? >> yeah, you know, i stopped worrying about the international community a long time ago. i'm sitting here talking to you from washington. the biden administration, i think, really cannot play a central role in this conflict. but there are important things that it can do. number one, a deterrence. the carrier strike group is now in eastern med. the administration clearly is sending direct and indirect messages to iran and hezbollah to stay out of this. they're pushing hard with anyone

who has influence with hamas to release hostages and they are now in negotiations with the israelis and egyptians about opening up a humanitarian corridor which would allow several hundred american aid workers in gaza to leave and presumably also provide a humanitarian corridor that would allow food and medicine to enter gaza and the tricky part, how many palestinians who live in gaza would want to leave? and with the egyptians would allow large numbers to do so. so that's tricky. but the u.s. has a role to play. the central role, however, i don't think will come until we see how this israeli movement into gaza is going to unfold. >> aaron david miller, thank you for being with us this morning. i appreciate it. >> always a pleasure. thank you for having me. up next, we're learning horrific new details every day about saturday's hamas attack.

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40 past the hour. in the midst of the brutality in israel, one hospital located about 25 miles from the gaza strip received more than 800 patients in the initial hours of the attack. >> and joining us now from israel is a doctor from that hospital, from the siroka medical center. thank you for taking the time. you must be exhausted. you must be traumatized after all that you had to witness. but in doing your work, you saved lives, no doubt. you were there when all these victims started coming in from that festival we have talked about. what did you see? >> well, that day we woke up as

all israel with the bomb alarms. we went to the shelters. i was supposed to be on call, so i got over to the hospital. and i was called there because there was an injury in their hands and when i arrived, he told me he's been shot by terrorists. and in that moment dozens of patients start arriving. and all the person wasn't in the trauma room, but all the emergencies came to the trauma room. we were treating patients with wounds and most horrible things we ever seen in our life. we are used to seeing hard stuff, the doctors, but there is nothing compared with what we saw that day. >> and, doctor, i mean, you're in a hospital, which has an extraordinary trauma center.

and you said you just couldn't compare what you saw that day. how would you describe that and we're just thinking, you know, we throw numbers out, like 800, you dealt with 800 people in the initial hours, that's just so difficult for us to conceive of what was that like, doctor? >> it was worse. people were shot, bombed, burned, the most horrible thing everyone was -- i don't think anybody should see what we saw that day. you know, we saw babies, kids, old people, women, everybody was injured. blood was spilled all over the floor. i don't want to get graphic, but it was really a nightmare. >> are you still treating a number of people that are coming in? i'm sure a lot of them are still in the hospital who were initially treated, but given this battle is ongoing, i'm

wondering what you're seeing now a few days later. >> well, first thing we do after we more or less took control of the situation, of the chaos we saw, we started referring patients to other hospitals in the country. and today we're treating the wounds that we couldn't treat the first day. so there were nonlethal wounds that still need a lot of treatment and reconstruction. >> as a doctor, you have to somehow separate what you're doing and seeing from your humanity, but are there some things that stay with you etched upon your memory that will stay with you etched upon your soul? >> to tell you the truth, we try not to stop and think because if you stop and think what we're seeing and what we're doing, you can go forward to keep treating people.

now that we have spoke about what happened, it is very hard, but we must continue, we must be strong, and we must help everybody. >> thank you so much for being with us this morning. really appreciate it. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you for all you do. we just got word that the prime minister of israel benjamin netanyahu spoke with president biden again this morning. this would be the fourth time they had spoken since this horrific terrorist attack in israel. we'll bring you any new information we learn from that conversation as we get it. and up next for us, a dire humanitarian catastrophe is continuing to unfold right now in the region. what is being done here at home to send humanitarian aid to israel. >> you're watching special coverage of the israel-hamas war on msnbc. watching special coverage of the israel-hamas war on msnbc moderate to severe eczema still disrupts my skin. despite treatment it disrupts my skin with itch. it disrupts my skin with rash. but now, i can disrupt eczema with rinvoq. rinvoq is not a steroid,

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group is packing humanitarian aid kits to ship to israel volunteer groups. >> let's go to sam brock with them in doral, florida. how are folks there helping? >> reporter: sure, ana, jose, good morning, good to be with you. in these critical hours now for families stuck in the middle of this conflict, critical efforts in that vain, the global empowerment mission, a group based as you said here in doral, florida, the miami area, jose and ana, they have a 60,000 square foot warehouse. if you look over my shoulder, there are rows and rows of pallets that contain family kits being prepared as we speak to help those in need. they look like this. it is an example of one. it contains everything from pasta to water, hair bands, first aid kits, wipes, a compilation of necessities, some things we take for granted that are all going out right now. it condemns in the strongest possible terms the terrorist behavior of hamas. but wants to help people, all kinds of people, irrespective of

geographic boundaries and religion. i'll show you the stations and what they're doing. you have 20, 25 volunteers, they all have a specific role. soap in this box, wipes here, hygiene kits, over here we have socks, fruit and the list goes on and on and on. some 2,000 of these kits and 40 pallets are going out in a truck to international miami airport and out as early as this evening. patrick lynch is the chief development officer, he talks about the essential nature of what they're doing. >> these are kits we use in disasters all over the world and including right now with this conflict. so inside each kit we have volunteers helping pack items like water, nonperishable food items and hygiene kits. >> how much of a difference do you think the kits will make for those who are suffering and not sure about their next meal? >> it is designed to help a

family of four up to 72 hours after an immediate disaster. it would be my hope if even for ten minutes it provides some semblance of relief in this awful time. >> reporter: and, jose, and ana, these volunteers here will go for the next several hours and then every other day this week and then every week beyond that as long as there is need right now. and they rely upon private donations. they're on the ground, right now just in israel, but also ukraine, poland, hawaii, and all over the globe, everywhere, >> sam brock in doral, florida, thank you very much. let's go live to gaza. we have a picture of what's happening there on the ground. it's 11:50 eastern time. but it's nightfall in gaza. you can see it's just complete darkness. their power is gone. there's no fuel currently coming into gaza. israeli reservists are getting ready to return to the fight

here. we know there have been ongoing air strikes from israel into gaza. we also know there have been additional rocket fire coming from gaza into israel. just wanted to touch on this and give you an idea of what's happening there right now. >> there is no power in gaza. remember that there are more than 2 million civilians, people that live in that small stretch of land there. americans who were in israel when hamas attack ready scrambling to get home. right now, the only airline operating flights out of israel is israeli airline, all others cancelling flights for weeks. >> steven romo has been talking to people who arrived back at jfk airport. what are you hearing from people who have just returned from israel? >> reporter: a lot of people are relieved to be back here at home

after such a grueling flight with lots of complications in getting here. some people actually said they wish they could stay, but they had family members, children they had to bring back here to the united states. there's a big desire for people with so many connections to israel to go back there and help after such a devastating loss. we heard a lot about the trouble they have had in getting on those flights. some had to wait nine hours. we talked to one person who had four different layovers trying to get here to new york city. so many complications at the airport. it's desperate at the airport. people trying to find an airline that has not canceled their flights. here is some of what they had to say to us. >> once we made it to the airport, it was chaos. everybody is trying to get out. lines out the door. >> a terrifying situation. it's scary. feels like post september 11th over there. i feel like i'm in another country. i feel like my home is over there. but i live here. we came over here and theyhe ca.

it makes a beeping sound. is that time to run to the bomb shelter? the ptsd is real. >> reporter: there were other people we talked to here who are eager to make it to israel. they are trying to find flights to israel so they can help out in the situation unfolding over there. some of that including people trying to serve in the armed forces. other people who were visiting the u.s. from israel who are trying to get back to their families right now. >> thank you so very much. appreciate it. the other big story in the u.s. is what's happening on capitol hill right now. house republicans are behind closed doors trying to elect a new speaker. this as president biden calls on congress to come up with aid for israel. >> you are watching special coverage of the israel/hamas war on msnbc. do you mean this one - the one with titanium? (sean) no way i can trade this busted up thing for one.

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>> reporter: you are right, republicans are meeting behind closed doors. they had to turn their phones in. this is a secret process as they try to get themselves out of their own party infighting and select a new speaker. they have been in the room for two hours, first debating what's known as a table to motion. kill this potential rules change that a group of lawmakers are trying to implement that would change the threshold needed for a potential nominee to be reported out of this room. as it stood with mccarthy when we saw the 15 ballots on the floor, that happened because he was chosen by majority, just a little more than half of the republican conference needs to agree before bringing them to the floor. this rules change would make it such the person who does end up on the floor could effectively get those 217 votes needed. now we are waiting to find out whether that fails or passes. i want to point you to sound we heard from steve scalise, from jim jordan, the two candidates currently in the race for speaker. watch this. >> it's really, really important that this congress get back to

work, we select a speaker, go to the house floor, get to 218 and get the house working again. the first order of business under speaker steve scalise is bring a strong resolution expressing support for israel. we have a bipartisan bill ready to go right away to express our support for israel. we have to get back to work. today we're going to do that. >> would you endorse steve scalise? >> i will support anyone who can get 217 votes. >> reporter: if this effort to kill that rules change does pass, that means that we are going back to the process we did see with mccarthy and could be set up for a long road on the house floor when either steve scalise or jim jordan come out as the conference nominee out of this room. that could essentially set up a very long day, a very long week, as they have a lot of important business to get to, especially as it relates to the global crisis in israel. >> of course, we just don't know if this is going to be wrapped up today or if it could be days before we have a new speaker of

the house. we know you and our hill team will keep us posted on the very latest developments. thank you. that's going to wrap it up for us today. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitchell picks up with our special coverage right now. right now on "andrea mitchell reports," desperate hours for the hostages taken to gaza. families in communities holding out hope for the missing after the brutal hamas attack responsible now for more than 1,200 israeli deaths, as benjamin netanyahu forms a new unity government. veteran israeli soldiers describing the brutality they witnessed. >> it's something that i never saw in my life. it's something that we used to imagine as our grandfather and grandmother in europe and other places. another wave of israeli missile strik