Israel intensifies retaliation after massive Hamas terror attack
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00:00 Good evening and welcome from Israel, where Hamas rockets once again flew overhead toward
00:05 Israel, sirens sounding, sending many of us into shelters and reminding that Hamas is
00:10 still pressing its deadly attack.
00:12 Pain of the terror assault being felt far beyond Israel tonight.
00:16 President Biden confirming in addition to 14 Americans dead, 20 or more are missing.
00:22 Tonight I speak to Americans here who are demanding the Biden administration take responsibility
00:27 for finding and securing the freedom of their loved ones.
00:31 Tonight here in the region, the death toll is rising to a thousand in Israel, 900 in
00:36 Gaza.
00:37 Israel making good so far on its promise to lay siege to Gaza, cutting off its access
00:42 routes for many basic necessities.
00:45 Early tonight we heard the rumble of what we believe were further Israeli airstrikes
00:49 on Hamas positions.
00:51 Hamas in turn escalating its threats to kill its captives.
00:58 Tonight new escalations in this Mideast war.
01:01 Israel intensifying its retaliation in Gaza, targeting Hamas, which is still firing rockets
01:10 into Israel after it unleashed its massive terror attack.
01:14 And this dramatic newly revealed body cam video showing the fierce firefight.
01:20 Israeli forces rushing to rescue soldiers in Southern Israel Saturday after the area
01:26 was invaded by Hamas.
01:28 Chilling images showing Hamas terrorists killing drivers in their cars and dragging their bodies.
01:35 This disturbing video showing a terrified Israeli concert goer desperately hiding behind
01:41 a vehicle as he's executed at point blank range.
01:46 Israeli officials releasing this image of body bags, over 100 people killed in the Bari
01:51 kibbutz.
01:52 Well, tonight Israeli troops now amassing for a potential ground offensive inside Gaza
01:58 with President Biden vowing American support.
02:02 Let there be no doubt, the United States has Israel's back.
02:07 And blasting the carnage unleashed by Hamas.
02:10 Stomach turning reports of babies being killed, entire families slain, women raped, assaulted,
02:17 paraded as trophies.
02:19 Like every nation in the world, Israel has the right to respond, indeed has a duty to
02:24 respond to these vicious attacks.
02:27 Still looming, the threat by Hamas to start executing over 100 hostages on camera, including
02:33 Americans.
02:35 We now know that American citizens are among those being held by Hamas.
02:40 That's your mom?
02:41 Yeah, that's my mom.
02:42 But tonight, some families of Americans held by Hamas say the Biden administration is not
02:47 doing enough.
02:48 Nehar Neta says he's only received one call from the U.S. Embassy since his mother, Adrienne,
02:55 a nurse born and raised in California, was presumed to have been abducted by Hamas.
03:00 I expect those people to act to bring to the release of all the hostages, my mom included.
03:08 Telling us his siblings were on the phone with her when it happened.
03:12 My brother told me that they both heard Hamas terrorists burst into the shelter in my mom's
03:20 home.
03:23 And that was when the conversation was disconnected.
03:27 But notably, there were no shots heard.
03:29 There were no shots heard.
03:30 Yeah.
03:31 So you take some hope in that?
03:32 Of course, yeah.
03:33 I'm quite confident that if those animals didn't kill her on the first go, that she
03:42 survived and she's kept hostage in Gaza.
03:46 Tonight, his whole family is stuck in a nightmare.
03:50 I am confident, mom, I'm confident that you're holding on.
03:55 We're waiting for you.
03:56 We love you.
03:58 I know that you're holding on.
04:02 We're waiting for you at home.
04:03 While Din Tesler, fearing for his childhood friend and co-worker, Bar, also held hostage
04:09 by Hamas tonight.
04:10 You hear the bullets, you saw left and right, and you see people go down.
04:16 And you just want to survive.
04:18 They were both working security at that music festival in southern Israel.
04:24 Helping rush concert goers away as Hamas gunmen massacred hundreds of people.
04:30 The two friends were separated.
04:32 Later, he saw this haunting video.
04:35 That's Bar being kidnapped by Hamas.
04:38 And then you saw the video.
04:40 Yeah, and then I saw the video.
04:42 That must have just been devastating.
04:44 Yeah.
04:45 It's not just a friend for me.
04:48 It's a very good friend.
04:49 His family is like my second family.
04:51 And I love him like my brother.
04:54 The thing is that I'm here and he's there, it's killing me from the inside.
05:00 He says he hid in the woods for hours and was able to escape.
05:04 There was no question they were hunting people.
05:06 Yeah.
05:07 They meant to kill people.
05:08 Yeah.
05:09 They're looking for people to kill.
05:11 Meanwhile, Israelis are coping with the danger here, 24 hours a day, from Hamas rockets.
05:20 With air raids sounding, we left our van heading into a shelter.
05:24 We rushed into a shelter.
05:25 We were driving down the street.
05:26 The sirens went off and then it was about a minute, minute and a half.
05:30 We're beginning to hear impacts.
05:33 While inside Gaza tonight, Israel's bombardment is ongoing.
05:39 The Palestinian death toll rising from Israeli retaliation strikes.
05:43 Entire buildings flattened.
05:46 My brother was killed, she says.
05:48 If we stay in our houses, we die.
05:50 If we go on the streets, we die.
05:53 I can't handle more.
05:56 Back in Israel, I visited a hospital.
05:58 This is what a country at war looks like.
06:00 Thousands have lined up at the Central Tel Aviv Hospital to donate blood.
06:04 For many, it's a recognition of a belief that more dark days lie ahead.
06:09 So many telling me Israel is united in the face of terror.
06:14 The camaraderie between the Israeli people is unparalleled.
06:20 Even a tourist from France.
06:22 It's pretty amazing that you're not from here, you're French, and yet you came to give blood.
06:28 Yeah, sure, it's nothing.
06:30 They do so much for us to be sure that we have a country where we can feel free.
06:39 And I met this Israeli soldier wounded by Hamas gunmen after they poured into Israel
06:44 Saturday.
06:45 And they're coming across the border.
06:47 Yeah, and they're running towards Israel.
06:49 There were like 20 terrorists attack on us, on our tank.
06:53 Do you worry about your fellow soldiers who have been captured?
06:58 Of course.
06:59 Any civilian that got captured, my prayers are for them.
07:03 It's terrible.
07:04 From someone who was there, and says he is eager to rejoin the fight for his countrymen
07:09 as soon as he is able.
07:12 Thanks for watching.
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