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tonight our special edition of nightly
0:02 0:04 news from Israel as the military here
0:04 0:07 orders a Complete Siege on Gaza after
0:07 0:10 the unprecedented attacks by Hamas
0:10 0:11 Israeli air strikes hitting targets
0:11 0:14 across Gaza after at least 700 Israelis
0:14 0:16 were killed in the worst attack here in
0:16 0:19 decades 11 Americans among the Dead the
0:19 0:22 stunning images Hamas attacking by land
0:22 0:25 sea and air dropping out of the sky on
0:25 0:27 paragliders and opening fire on a music
0:27 0:31 festival 260 people Massac there the new
0:31 0:33 drone images revealing the scope of
0:33 0:35 Destruction Hamas now threatening to
0:35 0:38 kill hostages after kidnapping more than
0:38 0:40 100 the White House Now warning
0:40 0:42 Americans are likely among them the
0:42 0:44 horrifying videos a woman ripped away
0:44 0:46 from her boyfriend a 12-year-old boy
0:46 0:49 taken away by Hamas gunman we spoke with
0:49 0:51 his family do you keep coming back to
0:51 0:53 the video it's something that no parent
0:53 0:57 no human can ever imagine uh to see a
0:57 0:58 child in the hands of
0:58 1:01 terrorists the desperate race to save
1:01 1:04 the abducted Israel calling up 300,000
1:04 1:07 reservists is a ground offensive coming
1:07 1:09 our Richard angle near the Gaza border
1:09 1:11 taking cover Under Fire he joins us
1:11 1:13 tonight and President Biden huddling
1:13 1:16 with advisers as the US moves a strike
1:16 1:18 group closer to Israel the growing
1:18 1:20 question is was there an intelligence
1:20 1:23 failure before the attack and did Iran
1:23 1:27 play a role as security ramps up back
1:27 1:31 home this is NBC Nightly News with
1:31 1:36 Lester Holt reporting tonight live from
1:36 1:39 Israel good evening from Israel a nation
1:39 1:41 Beyond stun tonight vulnerable in ways
1:41 1:43 it has never had to accept after a far
1:43 1:46 weaker adversary Hamas Unleashed a
1:46 1:48 ferocious attack over the weekend that
1:48 1:51 seemed to come from everywhere riging
1:51 1:53 deadly Rockets into residential streets
1:53 1:55 and setting militant Fighters across the
1:55 1:57 Gaza border where they murdered and
1:57 2:00 kidnapped Israeli civilians isra is says
2:00 2:02 it has retaken control of areas Hamas
2:02 2:05 had seized tonight Israeli officials
2:05 2:07 cutting off Gaza the Hamas stronghold
2:07 2:10 declaring it is under siege and hitting
2:10 2:12 it with repeated air strikes nearly
2:12 2:15 1,400 in Gaza and Israel have died in
2:15 2:18 the attacks and counter offensive the US
2:18 2:20 confirming at least 11 Americans have
2:20 2:22 been killed and President Biden saying
2:22 2:24 the US believes Americans may be some of
2:24 2:27 those being held by Hamas since we
2:27 2:29 arrived in the ground here we have seen
2:29 2:31 incredible stor stories of bravery and
2:31 2:37 loss and seen Unforgettable images of
2:37 2:40 violence tonight Israel bombing the
2:40 2:43 Hamas run Gaza Strip ordering a Complete
2:43 2:46 Siege no electricity fuel or food
2:46 2:49 allowed inside as they hunt down the
2:49 2:51 Palestinian militants responsible for
2:51 2:53 the massive terror attack that's left
2:53 2:56 hundreds dead including Americans what
2:56 3:00 Israeli officials call their 911 tonight
3:00 3:02 Israel's prime minister says air strikes
3:02 3:06 in Gaza are just the
3:06 3:11 beginning just started to hit the Hamas
3:11 3:12 and now the race to find what Israel
3:12 3:15 says are at least 100 hostages with
3:15 3:18 Hamas threatening to start executing
3:18 3:20 them among those abducted 25-year-old
3:20 3:23 Noah aramani screaming for help as she
3:23 3:26 and her boyfriend are taken hostage by
3:26 3:29 Hamas terrorists this woman Barefoot her
3:29 3:31 hand hands bloodied and tied behind her
3:31 3:34 back her face bleeding as she's forced
3:34 3:36 into the back of a Jeep and a mother
3:36 3:39 crying clutching her two children as
3:39 3:41 they're about to be kidnapped the horror
3:41 3:44 starting Saturday morning at 6:30 when
3:44 3:46 the biggest attack against Israel in
3:46 3:49 decades began Israel's vaed military and
3:49 3:52 intelligence agencies apparently caught
3:52 3:55 by surprise Hamas Fighters coming in by
3:55 3:58 land sea and air including paragliders
3:58 4:01 getting past Israel's border barrier
4:01 4:04 armed Hamas men in the back of trucks
4:04 4:06 and this video is showing Hamas
4:06 4:10 terrorists on foot randomly opening
4:10 4:14 fire going door too executing civilians
4:14 4:16 and unleashing a massacre at a music
4:16 4:19 festival in southern Israel young
4:19 4:22 reelers running for their lives others
4:22 4:24 desperately crouching behind vehicles in
4:24 4:27 bushes as the terror unfolded Sahar Ben
4:27 4:30 Salah saw friends die at the Festival
4:30 4:33 seriously it's really living hell never
4:33 4:36 since something like this bues old
4:36 4:38 places for the slaughter the
4:38 4:41 slaughterers there they didn't care if
4:41 4:43 you are a man or woman you're young or
4:43 4:46 old man they Killers Israel releasing
4:46 4:49 this chilling image from the aftermath
4:49 4:51 the dead in body bags officials say at
4:51 4:55 least 260 people were killed this drone
4:55 4:57 video shows burned out cars strewn along
4:57 5:00 the side of the road
5:00 5:03 by 11:30 Israel's prime minister
5:03 5:06 declaring war on Hamas Israeli military
5:06 5:08 operations are launched but others
5:08 5:11 taking matters into their own hands you
5:11 5:14 were a grandfather on a mission exactly
5:14 5:16 today I met retired Israeli Major
5:16 5:19 General Noam Tbone he got a text
5:19 5:21 Saturday from his son Amir who was
5:21 5:23 staying with his family on a kabut near
5:23 5:26 the Gaza border when Hamas arrived he
5:26 5:29 told me dead there are terrorist all
5:29 5:33 around they are shooting on the house
5:33 5:36 and I said only one thing be quiet I'm
5:36 5:39 on my way armed with only his pistol
5:39 5:41 Noam and his wife who's also a retired
5:41 5:44 military officer drove to the Kuts
5:44 5:47 joining Israeli soldiers in a gun battle
5:47 5:49 with Hamas you killed some of the
5:49 5:51 terrorists I killed at least at least
5:51 5:53 one yeah you are a trained soldier but
5:53 5:55 still you're protecting your family at
5:55 5:57 that moment I was in many battles this
5:57 5:59 is by far the most important thing that
5:59 6:02 I did in my life I was protecting my
6:02 6:05 family I was protecting their whole
6:05 6:06 Community because he arrived at his
6:06 6:08 son's house finding his family was
6:08 6:13 hiding terrified but safe my my little
6:13 6:17 granddaughter Galia said Grandpa came
6:17 6:20 and this is maybe the the best word that
6:20 6:23 I I ever heard in my life meanwhile the
6:23 6:25 death toll is also growing inside Gaza
6:25 6:27 tonight Palestinian officials say
6:27 6:29 hundreds are dead from Israeli
6:29 6:31 retaliation operations including
6:31 6:35 civilians Rescuers combing through
6:35 6:37 Rubble we were sitting peacefully and
6:37 6:39 then started feeling debris falling on
6:39 6:42 us my dad and sister were killed this
6:42 6:45 man says Hamas is backed armed and
6:45 6:48 financed by Iran and tonight former US
6:48 6:50 intelligence and military officials tell
6:50 6:53 NBC News the unprecedented scale and
6:53 6:56 sophisticated tactics Hamas used
6:56 6:58 indicate Iran most likely played a
6:58 7:01 significant role in the terror attack
7:01 7:03 Iran's president tonight praising the
7:03 7:05 Hamas strike which he calls resistance
7:05 7:08 efforts while Iran is denying direct
7:08 7:10 involvement and at least one Hamas
7:10 7:13 official saying Iran was not involved
7:13 7:15 but the Wall Street Journal reporting
7:15 7:18 that Iran helped Hamas plan the attack
7:18 7:20 giving it a green light last Monday
7:20 7:22 citing senior members of Hamas and
7:22 7:25 Hezbollah the White House says they do
7:25 7:27 not have evidence to cooporate the
7:27 7:29 report tonight Israeli forces say they
7:29 7:32 are still working to clear Hamas out of
7:32 7:34 Israeli territory with so many waiting
7:34 7:37 for word on their loved ones held inside
7:37 7:40 Gaza right now all we care is that they
7:40 7:43 come home safely like American Abby an
7:43 7:45 whose family texted her Saturday from
7:45 7:48 Southern Israel describing Hamas gunmen
7:48 7:51 inside their home they were overturning
7:51 7:53 furniture and that they could hear
7:53 7:54 gunfire and they were locked in bomb
7:54 7:56 shelters and they began to communicate
7:56 7:57 that they were afraid they wouldn't come
7:57 7:59 out did you know that they were taking
7:59 8:01 home hostages we knew at this point that
8:01 8:04 they were slaughtering people missing
8:04 8:06 tonight her American cousin three of her
8:06 8:09 grandchildren and her
8:09 8:11 son-in-law she's seen this disturbing
8:11 8:15 video online her cousin 12-year-old arz
8:15 8:18 Calderon being abducted by Hamas
8:18 8:20 kidnappers when you review the the
8:20 8:22 moments of that day do you keep coming
8:22 8:25 back to the video yes I mean when I when
8:25 8:28 I saw that video my husband and I burst
8:28 8:29 into tears and started shaking it's it's
8:29 8:32 something that no parent no human can
8:32 8:34 ever imagine uh to see a child in the
8:34 8:37 hands of terrorists tonight desperate
8:37 8:40 for her family's nightmare to end it
8:40 8:42 felt like a horror movie this this
8:42 8:44 doesn't happen in real life and also you
8:44 8:46 live in a country who boasts one of the
8:46 8:49 best armies in the world so it felt like
8:49 8:51 all the wrong things happened at the
8:51 8:54 right moment for this to to take place
8:54 8:56 and it's just been it's hard to close
8:56 8:58 your eyes at night we've learned tonight
8:58 9:01 100 of the Dead were a single kabut at
9:01 9:03 the same time a Paramount concern is the
9:03 9:05 fate of those hostages captured and
9:05 9:08 taken into Gaza by Hamas Richard Engle
9:08 9:11 has late
9:11 9:13 details families across Israel tonight
9:13 9:16 are facing the worst possible anguish
9:16 9:19 with loved ones held hostage by Hamas
9:19 9:21 and dragged into Gaza among the missing
9:21 9:25 is Romy gonan a 23-year-old waitress who
9:25 9:26 enjoys
9:26 9:29 travel this was her last birthday
9:29 9:32 before Romy went to that doomed Music
9:32 9:34 Festival Romy was going to a party her
9:34 9:36 mother marive first heard from Romy by
9:36 9:39 phone as Rockets started falling on
9:39 9:41 Saturday which was not that unusual for
9:41 9:43 Israel she's calling me mommy what
9:43 9:46 should I do tell me what to do no no
9:46 9:47 worries the bombing will stop in a
9:47 9:50 minute just be relaxed go to your car
9:50 9:55 and but this attack kept going she was
9:55 9:58 terrified she was saying mommy we are
9:58 10:00 trying to get that out of here but I'm
10:00 10:02 bleeding we were shot everybody here was
10:02 10:04 shot and she said Mommy I'm afraid I
10:04 10:07 will die and I said no you're not going
10:07 10:10 to die then she heard voices in Arabic
10:10 10:13 and then I heard shooting all around
10:13 10:15 very close to the car and started
10:15 10:18 hearing uh voices in Arabic talking to
10:18 10:20 each other shouting at each other and I
10:20 10:24 was so afraid I was so afraid after that
10:24 10:25 the phone went
10:25 10:28 dead the family later tracted to inside
10:28 10:29 Gaza
10:29 10:31 earlier today we drove to the town of
10:31 10:34 zot near Gaza close to where the music
10:34 10:36 festival was held major derome Spelman
10:36 10:39 and hisra Military spokesman described
10:39 10:41 the Hamas killing spr here starts
10:41 10:43 shooting all these vehicles stand people
10:43 10:46 standing at the bus stop every single
10:46 10:48 thing you see Carnage everywhere dead
10:48 10:50 bodies then came a barrage of rockets
10:50 10:54 from Gaza
10:54 10:57 close get in everybody in this is what
10:57 11:00 we're up against this is like a shooter
11:00 11:03 situation in the US imagine a thousand
11:03 11:09 shooter situations happening
11:09 11:13 constantly you think we're clear we are
11:13 11:15 as we left for another part of zot
11:15 11:20 Israeli troops seemed
11:20 11:27 tense it turned out with good
11:27 11:37 reason
11:37 11:48 stay down stay
11:48 11:52 down ni ni keep moving so these seem to
11:52 11:55 be mortars they are coming in very close
11:55 11:58 no one on our team was injured tonight
11:58 12:00 morav and her family are trying to hold
12:00 12:03 themselves together but as they looked
12:03 12:05 at photos of Romy and reminisced her
12:05 12:08 sister Daria was
12:08 12:11 overwhelmed when you hear the sound of
12:11 12:14 pure grief it never leaves you it's raw
12:14 12:19 and Primal tonight it's all over
12:19 12:21 Israel Richard with me here we're glad
12:21 12:23 you and the team are okay but this could
12:23 12:25 go on for a long while it could and
12:25 12:27 really we don't know exactly where this
12:27 12:29 is going it feels like we are just in
12:29 12:32 the early phases of this but what Israel
12:32 12:35 has set as its goal is regime change in
12:35 12:37 Gaza it wants to get rid of Hamas Hamas
12:37 12:41 is dug in Gaza is fortified and there
12:41 12:43 are all these hostages so how do you
12:43 12:44 carry out regime change in that
12:44 12:46 situation all right Richard angle thank
12:46 12:48 you for that Israel is calling up
12:48 12:50 hundreds of thousands of reservists as
12:50 12:51 the military appears to be mobilizing
12:51 12:54 for a large scale ground offensive but
12:54 12:57 as Raph Sanchez reports efforts to get
12:57 12:59 more than a 100 hostages back will make
12:59 13:02 it all the more
13:02 13:04 complex after being caught off guard by
13:04 13:07 the worst surprise attack in 50 years
13:07 13:09 now comes an even bigger challenge for
13:09 13:11 Israel a potential allout invasion of
13:11 13:14 Gaza the Israel Defense Forces tonight
13:14 13:16 pounding the strip from the air but all
13:16 13:18 signs point to a ground offensive and
13:18 13:21 soon Israeli tanks massing near the Gaza
13:21 13:24 border and more than 300,000 reservists
13:24 13:26 called up for duty is it really
13:26 13:29 militarily feasible to invade Gaza to
13:29 13:32 fight Street by Street and to overthrow
13:32 13:34 Hamas there it is possible the question
13:34 13:36 is what is the price and strategically
13:36 13:38 what is the best way to carry this out
13:38 13:40 invading Gaza would mean urban Warfare
13:40 13:42 in one of the most densely populated
13:42 13:44 places on Earth and at the same time
13:44 13:47 trying to rescue the Israelis being held
13:47 13:49 hostage likely imprisoned in the
13:49 13:51 elaborate network of tunnels that run
13:51 13:53 underneath Gaza the value of hostages as
13:53 13:56 bargaining chips for Hamas shown in the
13:56 13:59 case of soldier gillad shal captured in
13:59 14:02 2006 and held for 5 years Israel
14:02 14:04 eventually agreed to free more than a
14:04 14:06 thousand Palestinian prisoners to bring
14:06 14:08 him home today's hostages guarded by
14:08 14:10 Palestinian militants emboldened by
14:10 14:13 their success new CCTV footage showing a
14:13 14:16 squad of Hamas gunmen on motorcycles
14:16 14:19 storming into this kibutz walking calmly
14:19 14:20 through the streets stepping over the
14:20 14:23 bodies of Israeli civilians before
14:23 14:25 driving away in this stolen
14:25 14:28 car the IDF now says it's retaken
14:28 14:31 control of all Israeli communities but
14:31 14:33 struggling to contain fresh waves of
14:33 14:36 rockets these MERS in Jerusalem ducking
14:36 14:39 for cover but inside Gaza there's
14:39 14:41 nowhere to run for the 2 million
14:41 14:43 Palestinian civilians who live under
14:43 14:46 Hamas rule Israel last launched a ground
14:46 14:48 offensive in Gaza nearly a decade ago
14:48 14:51 dozens of Israeli soldiers were killed
14:51 14:55 and around 2,000 Palestinians
14:55 14:57 Lester rap Sanchez thank you tonight the
14:57 14:59 Biden administ a is dealing with a war
14:59 15:02 that is hit home for many Americans
15:02 15:03 Peter Alexander is at the White House
15:03 15:05 Peter what's the latest on the
15:05 15:06 president's
15:06 15:08 response ler we've just learned that
15:08 15:10 President Biden will deliver remarks
15:10 15:12 here about the attacks tomorrow
15:12 15:13 afternoon for the president tonight a
15:13 15:15 grim acknowledgement that Americans are
15:15 15:17 likely among those held hostage
15:17 15:19 directing his administration to share
15:19 15:21 intelligence and to send hostage
15:21 15:23 recovery experts to Israel he says
15:23 15:25 federal law enforcement are monitoring
15:25 15:28 for any domestic threats the president
15:28 15:29 calling the enmity of the loss
15:29 15:31 unfathomable today huddling with
15:31 15:33 National Security advisers and in a
15:33 15:35 joint statement with European allies
15:35 15:38 condemning the attacks right now the USS
15:38 15:40 Gerald Ford carrier strike group is
15:40 15:42 headed to the Israeli Coast meant to
15:42 15:44 deter Hamas still Republicans are
15:44 15:46 slamming the president arguing his
15:46 15:49 policies have only emboldened terrorists
15:49 15:51 and late tonight the White House has
15:51 15:53 revealed that President Biden was
15:53 15:55 interviewed yesterday and today by the
15:55 15:57 special counsel as part of that
15:57 15:59 investigation into how classified
15:59 16:01 documents ended up in his Delaware home
16:01 16:03 and at an office he used after leaving
16:03 16:05 the vice presidency a person familiar
16:05 16:06 with the matter tells me the interview
16:06 16:10 was scheduled several weeks ago
16:10 16:12 Lester all right Peter Alexander thank
16:12 16:14 you in 60 seconds with such
16:14 16:16 sophisticated intelligence capabilities
16:16 16:19 how did Israel and the US get caught off
16:19 16:25 by this Invasion Andre Mitchell is
16:25 16:27 ex we're back with perhaps the biggest
16:27 16:30 question this h attack on Israel has
16:30 16:32 raised why didn't Israel see it coming
16:32 16:34 especially given its scale Andrea
16:34 16:36 Mitchell now with that part of the
16:36 16:39 story clearly promoting what they see as
16:39 16:41 a victory Hamas produced and edited a
16:41 16:43 publicity video it says shows their
16:43 16:46 Fighters training to use paragliders to
16:46 16:48 attack Israel how could the celebrated
16:48 16:50 Israeli intelligence services and
16:50 16:54 Military be caught completely off
16:54 16:56 guard many tonight calling it a
16:56 16:59 Monumental intelligence failure how did
16:59 17:01 Israel's vaunted intelligence Network
17:01 17:03 and Military and the US not see this
17:03 17:06 coming there were a lot of failures that
17:06 17:08 led up to this clearly the Israelis
17:08 17:10 didn't have the either human or
17:10 17:12 technical sources that gave them insight
17:12 17:15 into this this clearly was a a failure
17:15 17:17 of Epic Proportions now questions about
17:17 17:19 whether Israel has been distracted by
17:19 17:21 year-long protests dividing the country
17:21 17:23 over the prime minister's controversial
17:23 17:25 plan to overhaul their Supreme Court
17:25 17:27 even prompting many army reservists to
17:27 17:29 refuse to show up for
17:29 17:32 Duty some reporting Iran helped plan the
17:32 17:34 attack but us and Israeli officials tell
17:34 17:37 NBC News it's unclear what role Iran
17:37 17:40 played I want to say that we're
17:40 17:43 examining the exact Iranian role in this
17:43 17:48 we are U not 100% sure about their you
17:48 17:50 operational role in this and whether or
17:50 17:53 not they were involved in the
17:53 17:55 operational planning execution of this
17:55 17:58 sack on Israel it wouldn't surprise me
17:58 18:00 if who discover that there was a
18:00 18:02 concrete Iranian role behind the scenes
18:02 18:04 Now new concerns that Iranian backed
18:04 18:06 Hezbollah will open a second front from
18:06 18:09 Lebanon in the north this time Israeli
18:09 18:12 intelligence is on high alert
18:12 18:15 Lester Andrea Mitchell thanks coming up
18:15 18:16 more top stories including Robert
18:16 18:19 Kennedy Jr's presidential Gambit could
18:19 18:24 it complicate
18:24 18:27 2024 back home a new shakeup in the 2024
18:27 18:30 race Robert F Kennedy Jr has announcing
18:30 18:32 today he is dropping out of the
18:32 18:34 Democratic presidential primary and will
18:34 18:36 instead run as an independent Kennedy
18:36 18:38 has struggled to gain traction with
18:38 18:40 Democrats with views on issues like
18:40 18:43 vaccines and abortion outside the
18:43 18:45 party's mainstream coming up what
18:45 18:47 American family's deep connection here
18:47 18:57 now changed Forever by this
18:57 19:01 war
19:01 19:02 finally tonight so many stories of
19:02 19:04 heroism and heartbreak emerging from
19:04 19:07 here Stephanie GS has the story of one
19:07 19:10 family now facing unimaginable
19:10 19:13 loss they were a couple of idealists who
19:13 19:17 sent their kids to a school where you
19:17 19:20 learned Arabic and Hebrew together
19:20 19:23 brandise University Professor Elan troan
19:23 19:24 remembering his daughter Deborah and
19:24 19:27 son-in-law schoy he was on the phone
19:27 19:28 with them on Saturday
19:28 19:30 when hamas's gunmen broke into their
19:30 19:33 home the last words from her was that I
19:33 19:35 hear glass breaking they're speaking in
19:35 19:39 Arabic and I hear shots that's the last
19:39 19:41 words we heard from her he says the
19:41 19:43 couple was shot and killed while
19:43 19:45 shielding their teenage son rotem we
19:45 19:50 heard rotem her son say that I am shot
19:50 19:54 there is blood in me and he was
19:54 19:57 instructed then not to speak for roughly
19:57 20:00 10 hours troan says they texted RM as he
20:00 20:02 hid from the attackers when Hamas
20:02 20:04 returned the last time he says they
20:04 20:06 tried to burn the house down they try to
20:06 20:09 burn it down and why cuz in the event
20:09 20:11 that there were any survivors they
20:11 20:13 wanted to shoot any Survivor who would
20:13 20:15 walk out the front or the back door
20:15 20:18 rotem survived but the family is left
20:18 20:20 Shattered by hamas's attack these are
20:20 20:22 not the people who should have been
20:22 20:25 killed by hate mongers but they
20:25 20:28 were and what happens in the future I
20:28 20:31 don't know his daughter and son-in-law
20:31 20:33 had always hoped for peace he says and
20:33 20:36 now they will never see it Stephanie gos
20:36 20:38 NBC
20:38 20:41 News That's Nightly News for this Monday
20:41 20:43 thank you for watching I'm Lester Holt
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0:02 0:04 news from Israel as the military here
0:04 0:07 orders a Complete Siege on Gaza after
0:07 0:10 the unprecedented attacks by Hamas
0:10 0:11 Israeli air strikes hitting targets
0:11 0:14 across Gaza after at least 700 Israelis
0:14 0:16 were killed in the worst attack here in
0:16 0:19 decades 11 Americans among the Dead the
0:19 0:22 stunning images Hamas attacking by land
0:22 0:25 sea and air dropping out of the sky on
0:25 0:27 paragliders and opening fire on a music
0:27 0:31 festival 260 people Massac there the new
0:31 0:33 drone images revealing the scope of
0:33 0:35 Destruction Hamas now threatening to
0:35 0:38 kill hostages after kidnapping more than
0:38 0:40 100 the White House Now warning
0:40 0:42 Americans are likely among them the
0:42 0:44 horrifying videos a woman ripped away
0:44 0:46 from her boyfriend a 12-year-old boy
0:46 0:49 taken away by Hamas gunman we spoke with
0:49 0:51 his family do you keep coming back to
0:51 0:53 the video it's something that no parent
0:53 0:57 no human can ever imagine uh to see a
0:57 0:58 child in the hands of
0:58 1:01 terrorists the desperate race to save
1:01 1:04 the abducted Israel calling up 300,000
1:04 1:07 reservists is a ground offensive coming
1:07 1:09 our Richard angle near the Gaza border
1:09 1:11 taking cover Under Fire he joins us
1:11 1:13 tonight and President Biden huddling
1:13 1:16 with advisers as the US moves a strike
1:16 1:18 group closer to Israel the growing
1:18 1:20 question is was there an intelligence
1:20 1:23 failure before the attack and did Iran
1:23 1:27 play a role as security ramps up back
1:27 1:31 home this is NBC Nightly News with
1:31 1:36 Lester Holt reporting tonight live from
1:36 1:39 Israel good evening from Israel a nation
1:39 1:41 Beyond stun tonight vulnerable in ways
1:41 1:43 it has never had to accept after a far
1:43 1:46 weaker adversary Hamas Unleashed a
1:46 1:48 ferocious attack over the weekend that
1:48 1:51 seemed to come from everywhere riging
1:51 1:53 deadly Rockets into residential streets
1:53 1:55 and setting militant Fighters across the
1:55 1:57 Gaza border where they murdered and
1:57 2:00 kidnapped Israeli civilians isra is says
2:00 2:02 it has retaken control of areas Hamas
2:02 2:05 had seized tonight Israeli officials
2:05 2:07 cutting off Gaza the Hamas stronghold
2:07 2:10 declaring it is under siege and hitting
2:10 2:12 it with repeated air strikes nearly
2:12 2:15 1,400 in Gaza and Israel have died in
2:15 2:18 the attacks and counter offensive the US
2:18 2:20 confirming at least 11 Americans have
2:20 2:22 been killed and President Biden saying
2:22 2:24 the US believes Americans may be some of
2:24 2:27 those being held by Hamas since we
2:27 2:29 arrived in the ground here we have seen
2:29 2:31 incredible stor stories of bravery and
2:31 2:37 loss and seen Unforgettable images of
2:37 2:40 violence tonight Israel bombing the
2:40 2:43 Hamas run Gaza Strip ordering a Complete
2:43 2:46 Siege no electricity fuel or food
2:46 2:49 allowed inside as they hunt down the
2:49 2:51 Palestinian militants responsible for
2:51 2:53 the massive terror attack that's left
2:53 2:56 hundreds dead including Americans what
2:56 3:00 Israeli officials call their 911 tonight
3:00 3:02 Israel's prime minister says air strikes
3:02 3:06 in Gaza are just the
3:06 3:11 beginning just started to hit the Hamas
3:11 3:12 and now the race to find what Israel
3:12 3:15 says are at least 100 hostages with
3:15 3:18 Hamas threatening to start executing
3:18 3:20 them among those abducted 25-year-old
3:20 3:23 Noah aramani screaming for help as she
3:23 3:26 and her boyfriend are taken hostage by
3:26 3:29 Hamas terrorists this woman Barefoot her
3:29 3:31 hand hands bloodied and tied behind her
3:31 3:34 back her face bleeding as she's forced
3:34 3:36 into the back of a Jeep and a mother
3:36 3:39 crying clutching her two children as
3:39 3:41 they're about to be kidnapped the horror
3:41 3:44 starting Saturday morning at 6:30 when
3:44 3:46 the biggest attack against Israel in
3:46 3:49 decades began Israel's vaed military and
3:49 3:52 intelligence agencies apparently caught
3:52 3:55 by surprise Hamas Fighters coming in by
3:55 3:58 land sea and air including paragliders
3:58 4:01 getting past Israel's border barrier
4:01 4:04 armed Hamas men in the back of trucks
4:04 4:06 and this video is showing Hamas
4:06 4:10 terrorists on foot randomly opening
4:10 4:14 fire going door too executing civilians
4:14 4:16 and unleashing a massacre at a music
4:16 4:19 festival in southern Israel young
4:19 4:22 reelers running for their lives others
4:22 4:24 desperately crouching behind vehicles in
4:24 4:27 bushes as the terror unfolded Sahar Ben
4:27 4:30 Salah saw friends die at the Festival
4:30 4:33 seriously it's really living hell never
4:33 4:36 since something like this bues old
4:36 4:38 places for the slaughter the
4:38 4:41 slaughterers there they didn't care if
4:41 4:43 you are a man or woman you're young or
4:43 4:46 old man they Killers Israel releasing
4:46 4:49 this chilling image from the aftermath
4:49 4:51 the dead in body bags officials say at
4:51 4:55 least 260 people were killed this drone
4:55 4:57 video shows burned out cars strewn along
4:57 5:00 the side of the road
5:00 5:03 by 11:30 Israel's prime minister
5:03 5:06 declaring war on Hamas Israeli military
5:06 5:08 operations are launched but others
5:08 5:11 taking matters into their own hands you
5:11 5:14 were a grandfather on a mission exactly
5:14 5:16 today I met retired Israeli Major
5:16 5:19 General Noam Tbone he got a text
5:19 5:21 Saturday from his son Amir who was
5:21 5:23 staying with his family on a kabut near
5:23 5:26 the Gaza border when Hamas arrived he
5:26 5:29 told me dead there are terrorist all
5:29 5:33 around they are shooting on the house
5:33 5:36 and I said only one thing be quiet I'm
5:36 5:39 on my way armed with only his pistol
5:39 5:41 Noam and his wife who's also a retired
5:41 5:44 military officer drove to the Kuts
5:44 5:47 joining Israeli soldiers in a gun battle
5:47 5:49 with Hamas you killed some of the
5:49 5:51 terrorists I killed at least at least
5:51 5:53 one yeah you are a trained soldier but
5:53 5:55 still you're protecting your family at
5:55 5:57 that moment I was in many battles this
5:57 5:59 is by far the most important thing that
5:59 6:02 I did in my life I was protecting my
6:02 6:05 family I was protecting their whole
6:05 6:06 Community because he arrived at his
6:06 6:08 son's house finding his family was
6:08 6:13 hiding terrified but safe my my little
6:13 6:17 granddaughter Galia said Grandpa came
6:17 6:20 and this is maybe the the best word that
6:20 6:23 I I ever heard in my life meanwhile the
6:23 6:25 death toll is also growing inside Gaza
6:25 6:27 tonight Palestinian officials say
6:27 6:29 hundreds are dead from Israeli
6:29 6:31 retaliation operations including
6:31 6:35 civilians Rescuers combing through
6:35 6:37 Rubble we were sitting peacefully and
6:37 6:39 then started feeling debris falling on
6:39 6:42 us my dad and sister were killed this
6:42 6:45 man says Hamas is backed armed and
6:45 6:48 financed by Iran and tonight former US
6:48 6:50 intelligence and military officials tell
6:50 6:53 NBC News the unprecedented scale and
6:53 6:56 sophisticated tactics Hamas used
6:56 6:58 indicate Iran most likely played a
6:58 7:01 significant role in the terror attack
7:01 7:03 Iran's president tonight praising the
7:03 7:05 Hamas strike which he calls resistance
7:05 7:08 efforts while Iran is denying direct
7:08 7:10 involvement and at least one Hamas
7:10 7:13 official saying Iran was not involved
7:13 7:15 but the Wall Street Journal reporting
7:15 7:18 that Iran helped Hamas plan the attack
7:18 7:20 giving it a green light last Monday
7:20 7:22 citing senior members of Hamas and
7:22 7:25 Hezbollah the White House says they do
7:25 7:27 not have evidence to cooporate the
7:27 7:29 report tonight Israeli forces say they
7:29 7:32 are still working to clear Hamas out of
7:32 7:34 Israeli territory with so many waiting
7:34 7:37 for word on their loved ones held inside
7:37 7:40 Gaza right now all we care is that they
7:40 7:43 come home safely like American Abby an
7:43 7:45 whose family texted her Saturday from
7:45 7:48 Southern Israel describing Hamas gunmen
7:48 7:51 inside their home they were overturning
7:51 7:53 furniture and that they could hear
7:53 7:54 gunfire and they were locked in bomb
7:54 7:56 shelters and they began to communicate
7:56 7:57 that they were afraid they wouldn't come
7:57 7:59 out did you know that they were taking
7:59 8:01 home hostages we knew at this point that
8:01 8:04 they were slaughtering people missing
8:04 8:06 tonight her American cousin three of her
8:06 8:09 grandchildren and her
8:09 8:11 son-in-law she's seen this disturbing
8:11 8:15 video online her cousin 12-year-old arz
8:15 8:18 Calderon being abducted by Hamas
8:18 8:20 kidnappers when you review the the
8:20 8:22 moments of that day do you keep coming
8:22 8:25 back to the video yes I mean when I when
8:25 8:28 I saw that video my husband and I burst
8:28 8:29 into tears and started shaking it's it's
8:29 8:32 something that no parent no human can
8:32 8:34 ever imagine uh to see a child in the
8:34 8:37 hands of terrorists tonight desperate
8:37 8:40 for her family's nightmare to end it
8:40 8:42 felt like a horror movie this this
8:42 8:44 doesn't happen in real life and also you
8:44 8:46 live in a country who boasts one of the
8:46 8:49 best armies in the world so it felt like
8:49 8:51 all the wrong things happened at the
8:51 8:54 right moment for this to to take place
8:54 8:56 and it's just been it's hard to close
8:56 8:58 your eyes at night we've learned tonight
8:58 9:01 100 of the Dead were a single kabut at
9:01 9:03 the same time a Paramount concern is the
9:03 9:05 fate of those hostages captured and
9:05 9:08 taken into Gaza by Hamas Richard Engle
9:08 9:11 has late
9:11 9:13 details families across Israel tonight
9:13 9:16 are facing the worst possible anguish
9:16 9:19 with loved ones held hostage by Hamas
9:19 9:21 and dragged into Gaza among the missing
9:21 9:25 is Romy gonan a 23-year-old waitress who
9:25 9:26 enjoys
9:26 9:29 travel this was her last birthday
9:29 9:32 before Romy went to that doomed Music
9:32 9:34 Festival Romy was going to a party her
9:34 9:36 mother marive first heard from Romy by
9:36 9:39 phone as Rockets started falling on
9:39 9:41 Saturday which was not that unusual for
9:41 9:43 Israel she's calling me mommy what
9:43 9:46 should I do tell me what to do no no
9:46 9:47 worries the bombing will stop in a
9:47 9:50 minute just be relaxed go to your car
9:50 9:55 and but this attack kept going she was
9:55 9:58 terrified she was saying mommy we are
9:58 10:00 trying to get that out of here but I'm
10:00 10:02 bleeding we were shot everybody here was
10:02 10:04 shot and she said Mommy I'm afraid I
10:04 10:07 will die and I said no you're not going
10:07 10:10 to die then she heard voices in Arabic
10:10 10:13 and then I heard shooting all around
10:13 10:15 very close to the car and started
10:15 10:18 hearing uh voices in Arabic talking to
10:18 10:20 each other shouting at each other and I
10:20 10:24 was so afraid I was so afraid after that
10:24 10:25 the phone went
10:25 10:28 dead the family later tracted to inside
10:28 10:29 Gaza
10:29 10:31 earlier today we drove to the town of
10:31 10:34 zot near Gaza close to where the music
10:34 10:36 festival was held major derome Spelman
10:36 10:39 and hisra Military spokesman described
10:39 10:41 the Hamas killing spr here starts
10:41 10:43 shooting all these vehicles stand people
10:43 10:46 standing at the bus stop every single
10:46 10:48 thing you see Carnage everywhere dead
10:48 10:50 bodies then came a barrage of rockets
10:50 10:54 from Gaza
10:54 10:57 close get in everybody in this is what
10:57 11:00 we're up against this is like a shooter
11:00 11:03 situation in the US imagine a thousand
11:03 11:09 shooter situations happening
11:09 11:13 constantly you think we're clear we are
11:13 11:15 as we left for another part of zot
11:15 11:20 Israeli troops seemed
11:20 11:27 tense it turned out with good
11:27 11:37 reason
11:37 11:48 stay down stay
11:48 11:52 down ni ni keep moving so these seem to
11:52 11:55 be mortars they are coming in very close
11:55 11:58 no one on our team was injured tonight
11:58 12:00 morav and her family are trying to hold
12:00 12:03 themselves together but as they looked
12:03 12:05 at photos of Romy and reminisced her
12:05 12:08 sister Daria was
12:08 12:11 overwhelmed when you hear the sound of
12:11 12:14 pure grief it never leaves you it's raw
12:14 12:19 and Primal tonight it's all over
12:19 12:21 Israel Richard with me here we're glad
12:21 12:23 you and the team are okay but this could
12:23 12:25 go on for a long while it could and
12:25 12:27 really we don't know exactly where this
12:27 12:29 is going it feels like we are just in
12:29 12:32 the early phases of this but what Israel
12:32 12:35 has set as its goal is regime change in
12:35 12:37 Gaza it wants to get rid of Hamas Hamas
12:37 12:41 is dug in Gaza is fortified and there
12:41 12:43 are all these hostages so how do you
12:43 12:44 carry out regime change in that
12:44 12:46 situation all right Richard angle thank
12:46 12:48 you for that Israel is calling up
12:48 12:50 hundreds of thousands of reservists as
12:50 12:51 the military appears to be mobilizing
12:51 12:54 for a large scale ground offensive but
12:54 12:57 as Raph Sanchez reports efforts to get
12:57 12:59 more than a 100 hostages back will make
12:59 13:02 it all the more
13:02 13:04 complex after being caught off guard by
13:04 13:07 the worst surprise attack in 50 years
13:07 13:09 now comes an even bigger challenge for
13:09 13:11 Israel a potential allout invasion of
13:11 13:14 Gaza the Israel Defense Forces tonight
13:14 13:16 pounding the strip from the air but all
13:16 13:18 signs point to a ground offensive and
13:18 13:21 soon Israeli tanks massing near the Gaza
13:21 13:24 border and more than 300,000 reservists
13:24 13:26 called up for duty is it really
13:26 13:29 militarily feasible to invade Gaza to
13:29 13:32 fight Street by Street and to overthrow
13:32 13:34 Hamas there it is possible the question
13:34 13:36 is what is the price and strategically
13:36 13:38 what is the best way to carry this out
13:38 13:40 invading Gaza would mean urban Warfare
13:40 13:42 in one of the most densely populated
13:42 13:44 places on Earth and at the same time
13:44 13:47 trying to rescue the Israelis being held
13:47 13:49 hostage likely imprisoned in the
13:49 13:51 elaborate network of tunnels that run
13:51 13:53 underneath Gaza the value of hostages as
13:53 13:56 bargaining chips for Hamas shown in the
13:56 13:59 case of soldier gillad shal captured in
13:59 14:02 2006 and held for 5 years Israel
14:02 14:04 eventually agreed to free more than a
14:04 14:06 thousand Palestinian prisoners to bring
14:06 14:08 him home today's hostages guarded by
14:08 14:10 Palestinian militants emboldened by
14:10 14:13 their success new CCTV footage showing a
14:13 14:16 squad of Hamas gunmen on motorcycles
14:16 14:19 storming into this kibutz walking calmly
14:19 14:20 through the streets stepping over the
14:20 14:23 bodies of Israeli civilians before
14:23 14:25 driving away in this stolen
14:25 14:28 car the IDF now says it's retaken
14:28 14:31 control of all Israeli communities but
14:31 14:33 struggling to contain fresh waves of
14:33 14:36 rockets these MERS in Jerusalem ducking
14:36 14:39 for cover but inside Gaza there's
14:39 14:41 nowhere to run for the 2 million
14:41 14:43 Palestinian civilians who live under
14:43 14:46 Hamas rule Israel last launched a ground
14:46 14:48 offensive in Gaza nearly a decade ago
14:48 14:51 dozens of Israeli soldiers were killed
14:51 14:55 and around 2,000 Palestinians
14:55 14:57 Lester rap Sanchez thank you tonight the
14:57 14:59 Biden administ a is dealing with a war
14:59 15:02 that is hit home for many Americans
15:02 15:03 Peter Alexander is at the White House
15:03 15:05 Peter what's the latest on the
15:05 15:06 president's
15:06 15:08 response ler we've just learned that
15:08 15:10 President Biden will deliver remarks
15:10 15:12 here about the attacks tomorrow
15:12 15:13 afternoon for the president tonight a
15:13 15:15 grim acknowledgement that Americans are
15:15 15:17 likely among those held hostage
15:17 15:19 directing his administration to share
15:19 15:21 intelligence and to send hostage
15:21 15:23 recovery experts to Israel he says
15:23 15:25 federal law enforcement are monitoring
15:25 15:28 for any domestic threats the president
15:28 15:29 calling the enmity of the loss
15:29 15:31 unfathomable today huddling with
15:31 15:33 National Security advisers and in a
15:33 15:35 joint statement with European allies
15:35 15:38 condemning the attacks right now the USS
15:38 15:40 Gerald Ford carrier strike group is
15:40 15:42 headed to the Israeli Coast meant to
15:42 15:44 deter Hamas still Republicans are
15:44 15:46 slamming the president arguing his
15:46 15:49 policies have only emboldened terrorists
15:49 15:51 and late tonight the White House has
15:51 15:53 revealed that President Biden was
15:53 15:55 interviewed yesterday and today by the
15:55 15:57 special counsel as part of that
15:57 15:59 investigation into how classified
15:59 16:01 documents ended up in his Delaware home
16:01 16:03 and at an office he used after leaving
16:03 16:05 the vice presidency a person familiar
16:05 16:06 with the matter tells me the interview
16:06 16:10 was scheduled several weeks ago
16:10 16:12 Lester all right Peter Alexander thank
16:12 16:14 you in 60 seconds with such
16:14 16:16 sophisticated intelligence capabilities
16:16 16:19 how did Israel and the US get caught off
16:19 16:25 by this Invasion Andre Mitchell is
16:25 16:27 ex we're back with perhaps the biggest
16:27 16:30 question this h attack on Israel has
16:30 16:32 raised why didn't Israel see it coming
16:32 16:34 especially given its scale Andrea
16:34 16:36 Mitchell now with that part of the
16:36 16:39 story clearly promoting what they see as
16:39 16:41 a victory Hamas produced and edited a
16:41 16:43 publicity video it says shows their
16:43 16:46 Fighters training to use paragliders to
16:46 16:48 attack Israel how could the celebrated
16:48 16:50 Israeli intelligence services and
16:50 16:54 Military be caught completely off
16:54 16:56 guard many tonight calling it a
16:56 16:59 Monumental intelligence failure how did
16:59 17:01 Israel's vaunted intelligence Network
17:01 17:03 and Military and the US not see this
17:03 17:06 coming there were a lot of failures that
17:06 17:08 led up to this clearly the Israelis
17:08 17:10 didn't have the either human or
17:10 17:12 technical sources that gave them insight
17:12 17:15 into this this clearly was a a failure
17:15 17:17 of Epic Proportions now questions about
17:17 17:19 whether Israel has been distracted by
17:19 17:21 year-long protests dividing the country
17:21 17:23 over the prime minister's controversial
17:23 17:25 plan to overhaul their Supreme Court
17:25 17:27 even prompting many army reservists to
17:27 17:29 refuse to show up for
17:29 17:32 Duty some reporting Iran helped plan the
17:32 17:34 attack but us and Israeli officials tell
17:34 17:37 NBC News it's unclear what role Iran
17:37 17:40 played I want to say that we're
17:40 17:43 examining the exact Iranian role in this
17:43 17:48 we are U not 100% sure about their you
17:48 17:50 operational role in this and whether or
17:50 17:53 not they were involved in the
17:53 17:55 operational planning execution of this
17:55 17:58 sack on Israel it wouldn't surprise me
17:58 18:00 if who discover that there was a
18:00 18:02 concrete Iranian role behind the scenes
18:02 18:04 Now new concerns that Iranian backed
18:04 18:06 Hezbollah will open a second front from
18:06 18:09 Lebanon in the north this time Israeli
18:09 18:12 intelligence is on high alert
18:12 18:15 Lester Andrea Mitchell thanks coming up
18:15 18:16 more top stories including Robert
18:16 18:19 Kennedy Jr's presidential Gambit could
18:19 18:24 it complicate
18:24 18:27 2024 back home a new shakeup in the 2024
18:27 18:30 race Robert F Kennedy Jr has announcing
18:30 18:32 today he is dropping out of the
18:32 18:34 Democratic presidential primary and will
18:34 18:36 instead run as an independent Kennedy
18:36 18:38 has struggled to gain traction with
18:38 18:40 Democrats with views on issues like
18:40 18:43 vaccines and abortion outside the
18:43 18:45 party's mainstream coming up what
18:45 18:47 American family's deep connection here
18:47 18:57 now changed Forever by this
18:57 19:01 war
19:01 19:02 finally tonight so many stories of
19:02 19:04 heroism and heartbreak emerging from
19:04 19:07 here Stephanie GS has the story of one
19:07 19:10 family now facing unimaginable
19:10 19:13 loss they were a couple of idealists who
19:13 19:17 sent their kids to a school where you
19:17 19:20 learned Arabic and Hebrew together
19:20 19:23 brandise University Professor Elan troan
19:23 19:24 remembering his daughter Deborah and
19:24 19:27 son-in-law schoy he was on the phone
19:27 19:28 with them on Saturday
19:28 19:30 when hamas's gunmen broke into their
19:30 19:33 home the last words from her was that I
19:33 19:35 hear glass breaking they're speaking in
19:35 19:39 Arabic and I hear shots that's the last
19:39 19:41 words we heard from her he says the
19:41 19:43 couple was shot and killed while
19:43 19:45 shielding their teenage son rotem we
19:45 19:50 heard rotem her son say that I am shot
19:50 19:54 there is blood in me and he was
19:54 19:57 instructed then not to speak for roughly
19:57 20:00 10 hours troan says they texted RM as he
20:00 20:02 hid from the attackers when Hamas
20:02 20:04 returned the last time he says they
20:04 20:06 tried to burn the house down they try to
20:06 20:09 burn it down and why cuz in the event
20:09 20:11 that there were any survivors they
20:11 20:13 wanted to shoot any Survivor who would
20:13 20:15 walk out the front or the back door
20:15 20:18 rotem survived but the family is left
20:18 20:20 Shattered by hamas's attack these are
20:20 20:22 not the people who should have been
20:22 20:25 killed by hate mongers but they
20:25 20:28 were and what happens in the future I
20:28 20:31 don't know his daughter and son-in-law
20:31 20:33 had always hoped for peace he says and
20:33 20:36 now they will never see it Stephanie gos
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