yoni is still waiting for news of his family. daughter, emily. should i have realised earlier? i couldn't have realised earlier. i knew something was unusual, but... ..i missed my window of opportunity... ..to go and get her. and i'll regret that for the rest of my life. woman sings shaylee�*s burying her husband yahav. she found out, four days after the attacks, he'd been killed by hamas. she sobs i think israel will neverforget this. i feel so many people are dead and are kidnapped and are hurt that i think israel will never be the same. israel's intensifying its air strikes in its mission to destroy hamas. in gaza city, it's becoming even more dangerous. give me hug! roshdi recorded this video last wednesday. baba? clatter burst of gunfire hey, baba. baba. nearby explosion loud explosion frantic chatter baby cries yesterday, there was another air strike close by. roshdi's wife and daughter survived. roshdi al—sarraj was killed. tens of thousands of israeli troops are massed on gaza's border. this is one of the most dangerous m

we have been checking in with yoni ever since then. and i was able to meet him in person over the weekend, traveling to his home north of tel aviv. here is our conversation. >> well, yoni, we get a chance to see each other, to see you in person. how are you doing now? >> well, eight days since my wife and two daughters got kidnapped. i am realizing that i got to see the gates of hell. i got to see how hell looks like. i don't know if there are any more tears left in me. but it became -- it became clear to me that i saw hell. i saw what hell looks like. you know, it's not only the phone call that i got from my wife 10:00 a.m. telling me that they're entering the house shooting and we got disconnected. and it's not even the video nine seconds long video which i saw my wife getting taken with my two daughters recognizing them, just like that after a few hours of nerve-wrecking time, which i tried to get information. the hell was the images. i didn't watch them. i heard, i understand very quickly. that, when i saw that, when i knew that th

yoni is still waiting for news of his family.ter, emily. should i have realised earlier? i couldn't have realised earlier. i knew something was unusual, but... ..i missed my window of opportunity... ..to go and get her. and i'll regret that for the rest of my life. woman sings. shaylee�*s burying her husband yahav. she found out, four days after the attacks, he'd been killed by hamas. she sobs. i think israel will neverforget this. i feel so many people are dead and are kidnapped and are hurt that i think israel will never be the same. israel's intensifying its air strikes in its mission to destroy hamas. in gaza city, it's becoming even more dangerous. give me hug! roshdi recorded this video last wednesday. baba? clatter. burst of gunfire. hey, baba. baba. nearby explosion. loud explosion. frantic chatter. baby cries. yesterday, there was another air strike close by. roshdi's wife and daughter survived. roshdi al—sarraj was killed. tens of thousands of israeli troops are massed on gaza's border. this is one of the most dangerous

yoni is still waiting for news of his family. daughter, emily. should i have realised earlier? i couldn't have realised earlier. i knew something was unusual, but... ..i missed my window of opportunity... ..to go and get her. and i'll regret that for... ..for the rest of my life. woman sings shaylee's burying her husband yahav. she found out, four days after the attacks, he'd been killed by hamas. she sobs i think israel will neverforget this. i feel so many people are dead and are kidnapped and are hurt that i think israel will never be the same. israel's intensifying its air strikes in its mission to destroy hamas. in gaza city, it's becoming even more dangerous. roshdi recorded this video last wednesday. baba? clatter burst of gunfire hey, baba. baba. nearby explosion loud explosion frantic chatter baby cries yesterday, there was another air strike close by. roshdi's wife and daughter survived. roshdi al—sarraj was killed. tens of thousands of israeli troops are massed on gaza's border. this is one of the most dangerous moment

yoni is still waiting for news of his family.ter, emily. should i have realised earlier? i couldn't have realised earlier. i knew something was unusual, but... ..i missed my window of opportunity... ..to go and get her. and i'll regret that for the rest of my life. woman sings. shaylee�*s burying her husband yahav. she found out, four days after the attacks, he'd been killed by hamas. she sobs. i think israel will neverforget this. i feel so many people are dead and are kidnapped and are hurt that i think israel will never be the same. israel's intensifying its air strikes in its mission to destroy hamas. in gaza city, it's becoming even more dangerous. give me hug! roshdi recorded this video last wednesday. baba? clatter. burst of gunfire. hey, baba. baba. nearby explosion. loud explosion. frantic chatter. baby cries. yesterday, there was another air strike close by. roshdi's wife and daughter survived. roshdi al—sarraj was killed. tens of thousands of israeli troops are massed on gaza's border. this is one of the most dangerous

yoni is back with us now. yoni, it's been five days now. have you heard anything about your wife and children and where they are? >> not yet -- >> i know that, since we last spoke, you have had a chance to speak with israeli authorities. i know your wife is a dual german citizen. what are they telling you? have either the german authorities or the israeli authorities told you anything at this point about what they know? >> well, i don't know yet. they told me that they're trying to look for information. but at this moment, i don't have any new information unfortunately. >> yoni, i know your wife called you from the safe room in your mother-in-law's house. and you were actually speaking to her when the terrorists first broke in to the house. i can only imagine that call has to be engrained in your mind, every single second of it you can remember as you're sitting there waiting and waiting. can you tell us more about what she said to you? >> well, she was whispering. she didn't say a lot. she was whispering and told me that they entered the h

yoni is back with me now. so, yoni, when you first heard the news that hamas has released two hostages, how -- what was your feeling? >> hello, erin. first of all, i felt -- i felt that i really, really miss my wife and my two young baby girls. that's the first feeling i had. and i was happy for this family, who got their relatives back to them. >> the idf, this morning, said that the majority of hostages are still alive. and i know -- we called you obviously, yoni, right away, and you had not yet heard that news. have israeli officials told you anything, yoni, in these past few days, as these announcements have come out about hostages being released and the majority of hostages being alive? have they been able to give you any details or any information about your wife and daughters? >> well, right now there is no specific information delivered to me. they are still talking to me, and specific, my personal needs to them. and i asked them to try to maybe make the picture a little bit clearer for me about what h

yoni rapoport in the middle, a massive man united fan.yoni, a british—israeli father—of—two, murdered by hamas. he was so excited to be taking yosefi with him. it's very heartbreaking now. yoni will always be with us. he's in my heart and always will be, and i miss him, ijust miss him. before the destruction of kibbutz be'eri, yoni tended the gardens — an expert on trees, a nature lover. he was a lovely man. he was quiet, he had a most amazing smile, which just lit up the room. the family said he saved his two children, telling them to hide under the bed when the terrorists burst into the safe room. and they killed yoni, and they killed a lot more of my friends. we are not an army base, we are just a peaceful village. we got slaughtered because we are jewish. in the midlands, dr 0mar hassouna is mourning multiple members of his family who have been killed by israeli air strikes in gaza. three, four days ago, _ my niece and her three children, as well as her husband, has been killed. - two days ago, a further my niece |again, with her husb

yoni is still waiting for news of his family.couldn't have realised earlier. i knew something was unusual, but... ..i missed my window of opportunity... ..to go and get her. and i'll regret that for the rest of my life. woman sings. shaylee's burying her husband yahav. she found out, four days after the attacks, he'd been killed by hamas. she sobs. i think israel will neverforget this. i feel so many people are dead and are kidnapped and are hurt that i think israel will never be the same. israel's intensifying its air strikes in its mission to destroy hamas. in gaza city, it's becoming even more dangerous. give me hug! roshdi recorded this video last wednesday. baba? clatter burst of gunfire. hey, baba. baba. nearby explosion nearby explosion loud explosion frantic chatter baby cries. yesterday, there was another air strike close by. roshdi's wife and daughter survived. roshdi al—sarraj was killed. tens of thousands of israeli troops are massed on gaza's border. this is one of the most dangerous moments in this decades—old confl

golan described what yoni was like. ican... he's hard to describe. he was so, so nice to talk to.y. and he was a great father. he was a great father. he gave his life for his kids, and he's an amazing man. we spent a lot of time together, and i think i should have spent more time with him. cos, no, i'm going to miss him. he was one of the most amazing people i ever knew. he had an aura of happiness around him, and that's the guy. yeah, he sounds like a really nice guy. the best. yeah, you say he gave his life for his children. can you tell me a bit about what happened the day of the attack with him? as far as i heard, they tried to break into yoni's shelter, into his room, and as far as i heard, that... i'm not sure 100%, but i heard that he stepped outside of the shelter and said that there is no—one else in the room, only him. and... and then they executed him on the spot. for a long time we thought he was kidnapped, but after a while, he was recognised and pronounced dead. they took the most gentle, gentle person there is. he was such a loving, loving man. he loved his family,

yoni. i'm david. thanks for having us. i'm sorry. i'm sorry. you're still waiting? >> thank you for coming. >> david: this young father, yoni asher, was on the phone with his wife. she had brought their two young daughters, 2 and 4, to see their grandmother. she called her husband after they rushed into a safe room in the house. they knew the militants were outside. >> she was whispering, i then heard background, didn't hear the girls. she was frightened. and when the call i just couldn't do anything. i just went down on the floor like this on my knees. couldn't feel my legs and try to hope for the best. >> david: the call drops. he had no idea what happened to his wife and children until this video. yoni says this is his wife, doran. he watches as militants start to cover his wife's head. he sees a flash of one of his daughters. >> i recognize them immediately and i saw the video twice. in the second time, i couldn't watch anymore, because i got -- i got -- i melt down. i didn't know what to do. i couldn't believe this is happening to me. it was a nightmare. it was

i don't know to do anything else. >> ainsley: yoni, you were able to track her phone for a little bitr? >> i don't know where they take her. but, i did locate the mobile phone. there is a lot of speculations about whether people looted equipment and money. we didn't know the mobile is with her or not. it did appear somewhere in gaza but i don't know inside of gaza, so, i don't know if it's her location and enough information for me to know. >> ainsley: are the authorities saying we are sending in our top special operators to go in. experts to go in and try to find them? >> well, the military authorities are in contact with me and i don't have any concrete information. i know that they are operating. it's hard to say, you know, what they are doing exactly. but, they try to support and give hope. our whole people is in a difficult situation. we try to give hope and unite -- united and i believe that we will make it through. >> ainsley: everyone who is watching this, please say a prayer for yoni and those precious little children and his wife. everything that he works for. everyone he lo

thank you so much. >> yes. >> we say good night to yoni. these are live pictures from where nic robertson is. what are you seeing and hearing? >> reporter: literally what we've just witnessed. here's another barrage of rockets. the iron dome missiles come up to intercept the missiles coming from gaza. you'll hear the explosions. this iron dome being fired up all around us. it is illuminating the sky here. the bangs intersecting from gaza couple miles away. literally exploding in the sky above us here. this is what we've been seeing happening over the past, perhaps, 10 or 15 minutes. i'll go silent so you can listen to it. and that's how it is. as quickly as it begins, it's over. the iron dome missiles. they are tracking and intercepting the rockets that come from gaza. they were able to detect where the rockets are flying. then they fired up and they intercepted them in the air. you can see where the impact bursts were. i'll go quiet and we can listen. that's israel's iron dome system working to protect the people of israel this evening. th

yoni asher's entire family, his wife and two young girls, were abducted while away visiting relativess wife calling him for help. >> the last thing she said to me was that there are terrorists in the house. >> reporter: this video showing yoni's wife and daughters along with his mother in law being loaded onto a truck. all he could do was track his wife's phone all the way to gaza. >> and later on, i located her mobile phone and only later on, i saw the video. >> reporter: this video released by hamas showing a group of women being held at an undisclosed location. the hostages are believed to be hidden throughout gaza, likely being used as human shields and to blunt a full-scale israeli counterattack. and they are also powerful bargaining chips. in 2006, hamas fighters seized this man and held him for five years. he was ultimately exchanged for more than a thousand palestinian prisoners. >> kelly, you spoke to these family members. it's heartbreaking to hear them. what sticks with you the most? >> reporter: well, they're incredibly grief-stricken of course. but what's making it even m

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i spoke earlier to a man named yoni asher. his wife and two young daughters age 3 and 5, were visiting their grandmother's house in a kibbutz near the gaza border on saturday morningment i want you to take a listen to his description of the last phone call he had with his wife. >> she said that they're hearing gunshots. not much longer passed, and about 10:00 a.m. we had a phone call. hamas people was inside the house. she told me that my mother-in-law's spouse went out to speak with them. from what i'm guessing, i guess that retrospect, he wanted to negotiate with them, tell them to take some money and leave. i couldn't stand. i couldn't believe what i'm hearing. it happened so fast. we discovered that the mobile was inside gaza. >> reporter: no, yoni tracking his wife's cell phone, using the find my iphone app, seeing the phone was inside gaza and hoping and praying that perhaps these hamas militants has stolen the phone and taken it with them. andrea, it wasn't until he saw a video published by hamas where he watched his wi

families are kidnapped as well, among them yoni's wife and their five and two—year—old daughters.ask of hamas, don't hurt them. don't hurt little children, don't hurt women. if you want me instead, i am willing to come. from israel's government comes a warning. the country faces a long and difficult war ahead. this horrific terror act demands a forceful, determined and sustained response. well, they have said that they are still working very intensively in these areas in southern israel, around these communities. they have said that they have special forces in these areas, and they are doing everything they can to find hamas militants who may be hiding here. these pictures of israeli missiles landing in gaza are being filmed by a bbc team on the ground there. as i have said, hamas is using offices in this building to perform some terrorist activity. elsewhere in gaza, many civilians are killed. people living in this tightly populated area have nowhere else to go. israel keeps saying the blockade and repeated assaults on gaza are to destroy hamas military capabilities and ensure se

railways, but also included a number of foreign nationals and also women, children, and the elderly. yoni asher is living a nightmare. his wife and 2 young daughters are among those, kidnapped by him mazda militants, and taken over the border into gaza. he identified them in a video, widely circulated on social media. they were visiting his mother in law and a kibbutz near gaza when palestinian militants searched across these really border on saturday during the morning. ready the context, my wife, and then she told me on the phone that the terrorist inside the house. that was the last time they spoke. he doesn't want these to be the last images. he has the goose family. not simply to know that to your 2 babies and your wife and your entire family, the most precious thing you have these captive. but the trying to be positive and i'm trying to, to believe that something go we will happen. and some of my country is with my prime minister, my government will do something to bring them back soon as possible to another viral video shows a destruct young woman driven away on a motorbike by figh

. >> reporter: yoni says his entire family, his wife and two young girls, were abducted while visiting calling him for help. >> the last thing she said to me was that there are terrorists in the house. >> reporter: this video appears to show his wife, daughters, along with his mother-in-law being loaded into a truck. all he could do was track his wife's phone all the way to gaza israel's ambassador to the u.k. saying more than 100 people are taken hostage, an unknown number of americans among the captives. the secretary of state antony blinken said the u.s. is still trying to verify how many americans may be among those hostages savannah >> kelly cobiella, thank you joining us from israel is yoni his wife, two little daughters and mother-in-law have been taken by hamas good morning to you. i am so, so sorry for what you are suffering right now. have you had any updates at all? any new information whatsoever about your family? >> thank you since saturday, i don't have any new information, since i saw the video which i recognized my wife and two daughters, two baby girls. less than five

yoni asher is begging for the safe return of his wife and two small children after they were kidnappedle visiting in—laws. i want to ask of hamas... ..don�*t hurt them. don't hurt little children. don't hurt women. if you want me instead, i'm willing to come. now in gaza, most areas are without power after israel stopped supplying electricity. there are shortages of food and water. tens of thousands of palestinians have fled their homes — many seeking shelter in un schools. as israel hits back, the international community has rushed to support its right to defend itself, but there have been warnings, too, about a growing humanitarian crisis. israel keeps saying the blockade and repeated assaults on gaza are to destroy hamas military capabilities and ensure security. clearly and expectedly, its blockade and assaults accomplished neither. and with palestinians killed in clashes with israeli soldiers in the occupied west bank, there are new signs of the violence spreading. yolande knell, bbc news, jerusalem. let's get more now on the situation inside gaza. i spoke a little earlier to our

how could you deny that yony humanity? they are evil. there college students they gotta know how to access this hi information. it almost makes you believe that they are in support of destroying the jews. then you have to go back and saying, what if the jews done too? took the jews could up october 7 at say, let's destroy hamas? no i. the of israel. it's terrific. >> is this evil? >> seems pretty evil to me. i would like to believe they lydon't understand actually the history of this. what happened at other social media hafeeds, they are being sent karen amaris that we are fed on our spirit and information we seek out. there have access to the information. graphic do our best to keep bombarding them. with that kind of good information. i saw aoc was interviewed by maddie has had over the weekend. she's coming for a cease-fire. she kept pushing her. this i mean hamas is in charge? it ended up with, yeah, they ended up that. for a owhile, this release won' settle for that they shouldn't. the us won't settle for that and they shouldn't.i wo

we spoke earlier to a man named yoni asher.n hamas captivity. on saturday morning they were at their grandparents' home in southern israel. the last time yoni spoke to his wife deron she said there were palestinian gunmen at the door of her safe room. the call disconnected. alicia, he used the find my iphone app to try to track her phone and he could see that her cell phone was inside of gaza city. and he was hoping and praying that maybe these gunmen had just stolen the cell phone. but then hours later he saw in hamas video his wife being blindfolded, her arm protectively around the shoulders of one of his two young daughters. and he does not know where they are tonight. he said when i asked him what would you say to the people holding your children? he said he would gladly, in a heartbeat, go to gaza and surrender himself if it meant that his family was free. and that is the sentiment that we are hearing all over this country. a couple other quick points. israel's military says it is now in control of the border towns and com

this is yoni asher, a 37-year-old father whose wife and two children have been taken hostage by hamassterday while my wife and daughters by five years old and three years old, went to visit my mother-in-law near gaza. and during the morning, i contacted my wife and she told me on the phone that there are terrorists inside the house. later on, i saw video come the same video that was in social media, which i identified my wife, my two daughters, and my mother-in-law on some kind of a cart and terrorists of hamas all around them. i want to ask of hamas, don't hurt them. don't hurt it'll children. don't hurt women. if you want me instead. amy: and this is a mother in gaza, sabreen aub daqqa, who survived after being trapped in rubble after an israel rocket hit her home. the attack killed three of her children. >> i was at home and suddenly i hear a sound and everything fell over our heads. my children were next to me. one of them was next to my legs and the others were next to me. my brother was a bit further. nothing happened to him. i was hiding between the sofa and the door, so there

you heard yoni asher there.ire life is gone and his home, his children's toys and pink monkey and there's no children. and how a person even can endure through such pain and fear and loss is incomprehensible. is there anything you're able to tell us, mark, now that there's been one hostage video, about your knowledge as to the safety of what you say are 199 hostages being held in gaza. >> so i think what we all can learn from this terrible, terrible, shocking story from that father, is we understand who we're up against. and when president biden and my prime minister talk about an isis-type terrorist group, it's not just words. this is the reality. they are brutal, inhumane killers who target the innocent. why on earth could anyone with any sense of humanity kidnap young infants, a 2-year-old and a 4-year-old? this is this has to outrage everybody. this isn't about israel and the palestinians. this is about humanity against people who are so barbaric in their behavior that they are, as president biden said, they

yoni asher is looking for his wife and young daughters after seeing them in this video, a scarf placedn his wife's head as they're taken away on a cart. he describes the last moment he spoke with his wife. >> she told me that the terrorists of hamas entered the house, and later on, the conversation was disconnected. >> reporter: ricardo luc found out her daughter had been abducted on social media. the video shows her daughter, shani, unconscious in the back of a pickup truck being paraded around by armed militants. >> it looks very bad. but i still have hope. i hope that they don't take bodies for negotiations. i hope that she's still alive somewhere. >> reporter: hamas is now threatening to execute civilian hostages and broadcast those executions if israel targets people in gaza without warning. israeli rescue operations could be dangerous. >> the hostage-takers could kill the hostage, there can be an accident in which the rescuers kill a hostage. so that typically, a very dangerous moment for a hostage is a rescue. >> reporter: the government of qatar has been in talks with hamas abo

one is a father name d yoni. i had an opportunity to speak with him in person. again, a feeling of press electricity pass, wolf, but yet he wants the world to know because he wants them back. here's what he said. >> i am realizing that i got to see the gates of hell. i got to see how hell looks like. i don't know if there are any more tears left in me, but it became -- it became clear to me that i saw hell. i saw what hell looks like when i saw the images therein. it is forever. >> wolf, his daughters both will have birthdays in january, turning 3 and 5. and his wife, they are all gone. and just imagine what life is like that man without them that is the situation for those families here, as it is so hard for whole world to comprehend what happened here, as now there is such, such dispute and such anger about what the response will be. wolf? >> it is so heartbreaking to hear those stories. erin, thank you very much. and this note to our viewers. erin will be back right at the top of the hour for her program, erin burnett out front. and in lebanon to israel's nor

later we went to see yoni in person. how are you doing?o be calm. >> reporter: if there was some way that you could take their place, they could be free and you could go to gaza -- >> where do i sign? i'm willing to get killed right now for their lives. >> reporter: anything to bring them home? >> they could take me for as long as they want. >> reporter: it is a pain being shared this morning by american families. abby, an american living in israel, told lester holt she watched in horror as a hamas militant took her cousin, 12-year-old, hostage. >> it is something that no parent, no human can ever imagine. >> reporter: this israeli's father grief is universal. his only child screaming for help as she's carried into gaza. her boyfriend, hands tied behind his back, helpless to save her. she has what so many israeli families are praying for, a video shows noah inside gaza alive and apparently uninjured. now every indication is that israel is massing its forces for a ground invasion of gaza. that would be complicated enough at the best of time

. >> reporter: yoni's entire family, wife and two young girls were abducted while visiting relatives.ife calling him for help. >> the last thing she said to me was that there are terrorists in the house. >> reporter: this video appears to show his wife, daughters and mother-in-law being loaded into a truck. all he could do was track his wife's phone all the way to gaza. israel's ambassador to the u.k. says more than 100 people are believed to have been taken hostage, a number of americans may be among the captives. just a quick update, jose, on that strike in sderot by hamas. we understand one rocket did fall in that city in front of a supermarket. one person was injured. there have also been a number of hits in towns in greater jerusalem, ten injured in and around that air e yeah, two of them sseverely. >> kelly cobiella, thank you so much. >>> former fbi agent and msnbc national security analyst clint watts joins us. clint, thank you. i'm just wondering, clint, when you're seeing what we're all seeing, and kelly's story of the people who were just at a festival or at home, and these

the call dropped out and yoni had no idea what happened until he saw this video. he said that's his wife. militants covering her head, taking her and their two daughters who are just 2 and 4. >> i recognized them immediately. i saw the video twice. the second time, i couldn't watch. i melted down. i didn't know what to do. i couldn't believe this is >> reporter: prime minister netanyahu declared israel is at war. more than 700 killed here, including at least four american citizens. the biden administration warning that number could rise. overnight abc news speaking with the mother of one of those american victims, 32-year-old haim castman. >> he was taken hostage. i didn't get official information that that's exactly what happened. his body was found in hi apartment. we understand he and his neighbor were hiding in a closet. the neighbor was released, a woman, and he was shot immediately. >> reporter: now his loved ones left grieving, remembering a son, a colleague, a friend. >> you know, getting so many messages from people who worked with haim or who knew him, c

i want to >> so going leave if you that >> yoni ashar story like so many tonight who are seeing graphic images of kidnappings and recognizing their loved ones. this grandmother captured on video being taken across the border into gaza on a golf cart crammed with gunmen. her daughter tonight pleading she doesn't have a lot of time left without her medicine. the pain palpable. >> thank you >> the father of this. 25 year-old >> noah argamani and her partner among thousands attending an outdoor music festival. when witnesses say hamas militants sprayed bullets into the crowd and began taking hostages in the video, she screams don't kill me. her friend saying this is the most helpless he's ever felt terrorized. >> it's a i don't think everyone ever has built. such terror. and since. helplessness. when you're you're taking away from your boyfriend from your loved ones to to known terrorists and can't i can't imagine what he's going through right now. >> that was natasha is a vast reporting for us. other news now, as we're learning that a celebrity chef. michael chiarello has died at the age o

you know, yoni diller who survived the super nova music festival said hamas is out to kill israelis and the only way to do it is get rid of hamas. is iran is bank rolling hamas, does iran not have a price to pay here? >> it should. i don't know what it is, i would like to see what netanyahu's policy is and give the president time to come up with his. but the fact that he dithered so long, even about refreezing the oil revenues, is not a good sign. and it worries me. and here is the big question. if iran is such a regime, motivated by willingness to pay proxies to kill americans, can we really let them get a nuclear weapon, can you imagine what they would do if they had a nuke? even if they don't use it, the fact is it would insulate them from attacks. you can't always -- seems to me joe biden, his primary concern is will the enemy escalate, like putin. and it's a concern, but it can't paralyze you because they read it as weakness and they get more aggressive. >> john: president biden has sent the u.s.s. gerald ford carrier group to the eastern mediterranean on stand-by, eisenhower is on

including yoni after's wife, tehran, and they're too little dollars, rot and aviv.nd her daughters shoulder, her mother next to her. >> when i saw this video, i couldn't believe what i'm seeing. it was the beginning of the route. >> using a tracker app, you follow the movements of his wife's cell phone. >> and i see the street name, and i recognize, this is gaza. it was hard to believe. >> if you could speak to the people who are holding your family, what would you tell them? >> show some decency. show some respect. if you are real soldiers, you will let them go. you will do no harm. >> it's rails as the attack was spearheaded by members of an elite hamas commando units, and that it's already begun targeting them from the air inside gaza. new documents tonight obtained by nbc news show hamas fighters carried detailed diagrams highlighting the weak points of israeli tanks. israel has bitter experience in settling the score. after 11 of its olympic athletes and coaches were murdered by palestinian terrorists at the 1972 munich games, that jewish state began a years-lo

yoni asher is begging for the safe return of his wife and two small children after they were kidnappedisiting in—laws. i want to ask of hamas... ..don�*t hurt them. don't hurt little children. don't hurt women. if you want me instead, i'm willing to come. now in gaza most areas are without power after israel stopped supplying electricity. there are shortages of food and water. tens of thousands of palestinians have fled their homes — many seeking shelter in un schools. as israel hits back, the international community has rushed to support its right to defend itself, but there have been warnings, too, about a growing humanitarian crisis. israel keeps saying the blockade and repeated assaults on gaza are to destroy hamas military capabilities and ensure security. clearly and expectedly, its blockade and assaults accomplished neither. and with palestinians killed in clashes with israeli soldiers in the occupied west bank, there are new signs of the violence spreading. yolande knell, bbc news, jerusalem. let's get more from our correspondent anna foster who is in ashkelon. we've heard anot

yoni is begging for the safe return of his wife and children after they were kidnapped while visitingr homes. many are seeking shelter in un schools. as israel hits back, the international community has rushed to support its right to defend itself, but there have been warnings too about a growing humanitarian crisis. israel keeps saying that the blockade and repeated assaults on gaza are _ blockade and repeated assaults on gaza are to destroy hamas military capabilities and ensure security. ctearty _ capabilities and ensure security. clearly and expectedly, it's blockade and assaults are accomplish neither~ _ blockade and assaults are accomplish neither. find blockade and assaults are accomplish neither. �* blockade and assaults are accomplish neither. . . , ., , neither. and with palestinians killed in clashes _ neither. and with palestinians killed in clashes with - neither. and with palestinians killed in clashes with israeli i killed in clashes with israeli soldiers in the occupied west bank, there are new signs of the violence spreading. yolande knell, bbc news, jerusalem. meanwhi

families are kidnapped as well, among them yoni's wife and theirfive daughters. well, among them yoni'so. i want| to ask of hamas, don't hurt them. don't hurt little children, don't hurt women. if you want me instead, i am willing to come.— i am willing to come. from israel's government _ i am willing to come. from israel's government comes _ i am willing to come. from israel's government comes a _ i am willing to come. from israel's government comes a warning. i i am willing to come. from israel's government comes a warning. the | government comes a warning. the country faces a long and difficult war ahead. country faces a long and difficult war ahead-— country faces a long and difficult war ahead. , ., . ., .,. war ahead. this horrific terror act demands a _ war ahead. this horrific terror act demands a forceful, _ war ahead. this horrific terror act demands a forceful, determined | war ahead. this horrific terror act i demands a forceful, determined and sustained response.— sustained response. well, they have said that they _ sustained response. well, they have said that they are _ s

his name is yoni. his wife and daughters, age 2 and 5, are inside gaza as far as he knows. a video, his wife, with her arms over the shoulders of their children. if hamas were to accept any kind of agreement where he offers himself as a prisoner to free his family, he'd do it. that's the sentiment of hundreds and hundreds of families across israel right now. >> raf sanchez, thank you very much. an awful story. a terrible situation for the israeli government and people to be in today. >>> still ahead on "morning joe," pressure to fill the house speaker vacancy. that's building. as the crisis unfolds in israel. we'll get an update on where the power struggle stands on capitol hill when "morning joe" comes right back. s on capitol hill when "morning joe" comes right back ♪ with wet amd, sometimes i worry my world is getting smaller because of my sight. but now, i can open up my world with vabysmo. vabysmo is the first fda-approved treatment for people with wet amd that improves vision and delivers a chance for up to 4 months between treatments. which means doing more of what i

yoni he was killed. he was he was commanding that particular unit. was the oslo accords in 19 and 1993. it was signed in 1994, the first part of the oslo was handing over gaza to the palestine liens and jericho and it was for the palestinians to run their own affairs and see how you get on. and i can tell you that there was so many arab gulf rich arabs who were willing to invest so much money, and they started to do that with hotels and shopping malls. >> qatar directly involved in more recent times. in this, we brought up qatar with charlie , i brought up qatar with charlie, i think you mark mentioned it. >> i have to tell you that qatar has been closely connected with palestinian hamas . in fact, the palestinian hamas. in fact, the former head of is living in a flat there at the moment. tania is actually hosted. >> i just want to i just want to interrupt you, to james, bring our viewers and listeners this this toll involving this latest death toll involving palestinians in gaza, now 1799 palestine aliens are dead. that's come from the gaza health m