We continue with the Breaking News this morning. Nine u. S. Citizens are among those who have been killed during this unprecedented attack on israel. As of this hour Israeli Military says it has retaken control of all communities around gaza and is calling for a complete siege of gaza. No food, no water, no fuel, no electricity. Cnn spotted israeli troops and heavy Armored Vehicles heading towards the border. At the same time hamas continues sending a barrage of rockets into israel, were showing you new video there of rockets being launched from gaza city this morning. More than 700 people have been killed in israel, thousands more are injured. The death toll in gaza we are told is up to 560. This morning rockets hit what looks to be a residential street in israel. Were also seeing horrifying video of the moments the Hamas Terrorists ambushed and kidnapped israeli civilians, some do you know what, were going to take a break from this video right now and go right to clarissa ward. Clarissa is on the ground right now. Clarissa, tell us whats happening. Reporter hi, john. So, forgive me, slightly unelegant position, but we have just had a massive barrage of rockets coming in here, not too far from us, so we have had to take shelter here by the roadside, we are just about five minutes away. Gaza is in that direction, we can hear now a lot of jets in the sky, we could also hear the iron dome intercepting a number of those rockets as they were whizzing overhead and making impact in that direction, not too far from here. We came to this location because this was ground zero for this entire operation of carnage, hamas militants came on a pickup truck, this was the first place where they breached that border wall and they basically drove down this strip just spraying lead wherever they went. I was just grabbing it before that happened and we had to hit the deck, but heavy weaponry being used its saying we can get up now. Where are we moving to . Sorry, just one second, guys. All right. So now i can show you the scene here. This is where those militants first came, opening up fire on all these vehicles. There is a Baby Carriage down there turned over on its side. You can see over there, clayton, if you just show in the distance there some kind of strikes, looks like in gaza as well, returned fire, or is that the smoke from the rocket launches . Forgive me. Its a little difficult crouche know exactly whats going on. Multiple casualties along this area. You can probably see the scale of the damage that was done to these vehicles, a lot of them just blew up with the force of the ammunition they were taking and theyre just now toga way the actual pickup truck that was carrying those hamas fighters, and met with some resistance. Careful, clayton. There were a couple of bullet holes in the Window Shield in the windshield, rather, so they stopped the car, they got out of it and they just went on this shooting spree. This is also we believe where a lot of hostages were taken. They just got out of this, started grabbing people, started shooting people and taking them back to that side of the border. John . So, clarissa, i will give you a chance to catch your breath right here. You were headed closer to the israel gaza border, you heard some rockets being fired from inside gaza, maybe some of them, many of them, hopefully all of them being intercepted. What is around you in terms of civilian life . Are the israelis back in their homes . Reporter not here theyre not. This was, you know, the city of sderot is just over there, which is a pretty buzzing city, but almost everybody has left at this stage or they are spending most of their days in a shelter and this has really become a kind of an area where the only vehicles you see are ones like this, Israeli Military, israeli personnel, israeli army being moved and deployed all up and down along this border, fueling speculation that some kind of a Ground Offensive could be imminent, although obviously that is complicated by the fact that there are a lot of hostages. Im just moving us out of the roadway here. Oh, another one. You can see where they shot up this car here, just completely, completely destroyed. We dont know, we asked how many lives were lost here, its very difficult to get a sense of who might be alive, who was taken as a hostage, but you can imagine the visceral terror as this scene was unfolding, john. Clarissa, this is sara. Let me ask you about you have not only been there where youre seeing rocket fire still coming in, but you actually went to the site where there was this festival and that awful video of people running for their lives and being slaughtered by hamas militants. Can you give us some sense of what you saw there . Reporter so we visited there yesterday, share ration im just going to step out of the way, theres an ambulance coming this way. We visited there yesterday and, again, just carnage. You can still see the dead bodies of those hamas militants all over the approach where thousands of young revelers had gathered, celebrate the end of the high holidays, they were dancing through the night until about 6 00 in the morning when the militants started firing a barrage of rockets overhead, then they actually infiltrated The Dance Party sorry, im just going to move us over here again. Were trying to keep out of the way of these guys and let them do their job. I also wonder if someone in the control room can turn around that video that just showed the initial moments we were taking shelter there when that barrage of rockets came in. But the scene at reim that you are talking about was just nothing short of horrifying, and the fear that so many families still have, they dont know, sara, if their loved ones are even alive. An israeli Volunteer Group that identifies Human Remains said at least 260 bodies were found, but there were thousands of people there and there are still families desperately looking, desperately hoping and not knowing where their loved ones are. What you are showing in stark relief right now, clarissa, this is kate, is that this isnt a Terrorist Attack from just this weekend. This is ongoing. Take us back to i mean, when we came to you you had hit the deck with your crew. What is happening . What was happening around you and what does it tell about this ongoing situation . Reporter yeah, so just as we started this live shot the red alert went out which means incoming is imminent. We tried to run to the shelter, we didnt quite make it because we could already hear the rockets whizzing overhead so we had to sort of jump into a ditch over there and wait until the barrage passed. We could hear the iron dome being activated overhead. But it really just gives you a sense that even with the most sophisticated Military Technology the israelis are still up against a really tough fight and the Prime Minister bibi netanyahu, benjamin netanyahu, has acknowledged that himself. He has told the israeli people you have to prepare yourselves for a long fight, for a tough fight. At the moment the focus is obviously on trying to ensure that any hamas militants who were able to infiltrate that border have successfully been pushed out and to repair the breaches to the border. Dozens and dozens of breaches all along that border. And of course then to try to win back the release of these dozens of hostages. Hamas saying more than 100 hostages. The Israeli Military on the ground telling us they dont know if these guys are alive, they dont know what the situation is with regards to their whereabouts, to their health. And so its a very, very delicate calibration that the israelis have to engage on trying to thread the needle between issuing a fearsome response to this unprecedented act of aggression, while at the same time trying to protect the lives of those who may be held hostage in the gaza strip. Clarissa, thank you so much. We will get back to you, as always. Keep going and stay safe. Clarissa is in Southern Israel, very clearly. We will get over to Nic Robertson, but first john is over at the magic wall to show where we are talking about, where Nic Robertson s this is the scene of the Music Festival, that Music Festival massacre, if the control room can show john at the magic wall. John, he is in reim. This is where Nic Robertson is right here. Clarissa, we are not giving the exact location, but at this area up here. Lets get to Nic Robertson now, nick, talk to us about what you see there and also just more and more horrific stories that are coming out that have massacre. Reporter theres a lot that we can see from here. Very quickly, gaza is just over there, a few miles away, you can see the smoke rising, were seeing multiple impacts over there in gaza. Im going to ask john to spin the Camera Around now on these vehicles here. There is a situation about to develop here. Now, the people here are pulling the bags from the vehicles are volunteers getting the Identification Documents of all those young partygoers who were who were at the party. They were this is where they were shot up, all these vehicles were shot up, the soldiers here come over to make sure that these people have authority to do what theyre doing, literally smashing the windows here. This is unfolding around us here right now. But these people its okay. Its okay. Not okay. Not okay. Not okay. Its not okay. Reporter were explaining. Dont talk to me like this. You cant treat a man like this. What is it . Reporter theyre collecting the documents. Its okay this is up to him not me, im not involved in that. So this is an unfolding situation as we talked about there. Passions as you can see are really high and with really good reason because this is where those young people had parked their vehicles for that party on friday night, saturday morning, and this is where they rushed back to when hamas raced in here to start killing them and this is where they were shot up. You can see car after car after car after car here. We see the bags being taken out, weve seen documents laying at the side of the road. Its confusing, an active situation. There are soldiers here, there are angry and upset civilians, there are volunteers taking the documents away. But look up here, more and more of these vehicles and it just really gives you that sense and understanding of the horror, the horror of the moment when in the early hours of the morning suddenly the partygoers found themselves being attacked by hamas, brutally murdering them. We have listened to testimony of doctors who have treated some of the wounded and the dying and they were trying to escape, they were trying to get they were trying to get away. Its hard to its hard to overstate the horror of what was happening here, but you only have to look at the way the vehicles are parked, the way that you can see people are trying to throw themselves in to drive away here in desperation and just cut down. And the situation unfolds further down the road here, more shot up and destroyed vehicles as more of the partygoers were trying to leave. But i can tell you the situation here is very dynamic, its very fluid, it is changing and as weve been drying in here just to get to this spot, we passed an area where hamas fighters, terrorists, were shot and killed by Israeli Defense forces, their vehicles are laying at the side of the road, their bodies are still laying at the side of the road and weve also seen the biggest deployment weve witnessed to far of Israeli MilitaryDefense Forces with tanks, howitzers, Armored Personnel Carriers deployed out in the field, dozens and dozens of them, the biggest deployment weve seen so far. While we were driving down here weve seen a lot more reinforcements on their way. This is an area thats having increasingly more and more troops put in here. Very close to gaza as we are talking about over here and, again, thats the impact of air strikes there on gaza. And they are ongoing. We hear the fighter jets in the skies above us and then you will see a plume of smoke rise up from over there. The reason that these people are rushing in to take away the possessions of all those who were killed, injured, during the hamas killing spree, theyre rushing in and theyre doing this at high speed because theyre very concerned about the Security Situation here. What theyre trying to do is to bring information and relief to some of those families who have no knowledge of what happened to their loved ones. Youve just witnessed what its like here at the moment. Theres multiple things going on and tensions are high, concerns are high. Most of the civilian population has been evacuated from around here. I was going to ask you about the civilian population there because we are watching a woman there with a backpack trying to get whatever she can. Are people being allowed to come in and do this, or were they nearby . Do you have any sense of whats happening at the security there because obviously you are very close to the border, rockets have been coming over this morning. We just saw clarissa hit the deck. It is a very dangerous situation and i know that there are also, i think you just showed when you swung the Camera Around, a place where people can hide, they have shelters, but, you know, with the barrage of rockets you just never know whats going to happen. Is it open so that people can come in there right now . Reporter its not open at all. There are military check points to get in here, several of them, so you get you get questioned by the military to get in here. There are military encamped literally across the road from us, this he came and checked us as well. We can be sure if these people got here, they got here with a position with the permission of the military who control this area. Its not its an area where the civilian population has been advised to get out of. Its an area where the government has been quite literally Busing Hundreds of civilians out of at least 20 of the villages that are close to this area along the border because of that fear, very real fear, reality, of possible hamas continued incursions, even though this morning the Israeli Defense forces said that they had taken back and secured control of this area, you still go past check points where some of the check points are very twitchy, they are very concerned, they will come at the vehicle with their weapons absolutely at the ready to check you. While weve been here there are multiple Different Military units coming through, multiple Different Police units coming through here. You just get the sense that this is at the leading edge of a massive military deployment. The situation is fluid because it has never stopped being fluid since the moment the attack took place down here. The lead element, this is so far from being an established set, if you will, ready for an incursion or ready or ready military maneuver. It is fluid, it is in the flow and you have just witnessed some of it here. Nic, before we let you go, very quickly, you did say that an idf spokesman said that the Hamas Terrorists had been cleared from the region, but have you seen any evidence of Ground Fighting still taking place or even heard any evidence . Reporter no, we havent, and late last night in the early hours of this morning it was still happening and we were witness to it, and we havent had that same experience today, obviously even with the number of teams that we have, we are not everywhere all the time, that goes without saying, of course, and weve been moving around a lot but we havent seen any active engagements and i would say the posture of the troops who we met just around the corner controlling this area, they were a little bit more relaxed than some of those two hours ago on outer perimeters. Here they are on high alert, dont get me wrong, they are absolutely on high alert, theyre ready, but slightly more relaxed. I dont think they feel there is an immediate threat. Im going to ask john to spin around here and take a look. Weve been talking about the heavy armor here, this is one of israels main battle tanks, merkova battle tank, i think, i dont want to give it a wrong description but i would estimate thats what it is from this distance. Increasingly were seeing tanks like this deployed in the area. Weve seen dozens of these thanks already this morning. So if you saw the camera shaking, that was because the ground was literally shaking. I dont think john even you and your skills can hold a camera still during that. That just gives you a sense of the power of those military machines. The reality is its going to take a lot of them to maintain security here and if there is going to be an incursion its going to take a lot more than the dozens that weve seen so far today, john. Nic robertson there with the car alarm still going off around you, you see that massive, massive Military Equipment coming right down the road. Nic, thank you so much. We will have much more of our continuing coverage, the Breaking News coming out of israel, the war in israel. Israel at war. We will be right back. All right. Welcome back. Just moments ago cnns teams on the ground near the israelgaza boarder, they had to take cover, jump in a ditch because of what was happening overhead. Im going to show you these moments. Listen to this. Yeah. Yeah. Get down. Get down. Get down. Close, close, close. Youre fine. Youre fine. Youre fine. Youre fine. Youre fine. Youre okay. Youre all right. Youre all right. Okay. Thats the iron dome. Okay . Thats the iron dome. Yeah. Guys, are you seeing our situation, guys . Yes. Okay. Can you hear the shots . Stay down. We have to stay here. Fuck. We have to stay here. Guys, come to us. Fuck. Multiple rockets. Multiple rockets. We should be clear, lying