All right. The breaking news. We just learned that more than 1,000 israelis have now been killed in the hamas terrorist attacks. This comes as were standing by to hear from four American Families who they they are missing loved ones who had Family Members taken hostage by hamas. This Press Conference is taking place in tel aviv, where our crews just have to take shelter because Air Raid Sirens just went off. Israeli parents this morning are being warned that they should receive social media from their childrens phones because hamas would release videos of executions. Israel claims its killed 1500 Hamas Terrorists executed over the weekend. In gaza, more than 200 targets of what they call terrorist hubs, even as hamas has threatened to kill some of the more 100 hostages that they hold. As israel continues to pound gaza to take out some of the infrastructure. These are some of the scenes what is left behind, widespread destruction in gaza. In israel, theres also new evidence coming to light of barbaric tactics using by terrorists against israelis. And as john mentioned at least 1,000 people are reported dead in israel. Militants came in there about 6 30 a. M. 48 hours quite literally. And were we went in there, scenes of destruction, houses blown apart. There were dead bodies lying around. The Israeli Defense force was taking out the bodies of israelis who had been killed in the houses. Women and children in the houses. I was told one story where the husband and wife had twins. Military operation about what it was like. This is a 39year ra service. And israels military forces. Hed never witnessed anything like this, he said. What i saw, hundreds of terrorists full armor, full gear, with all of the equipment and all of the ability, they massacre, go from apartment from apartment, from room to room, and kill babies, mothers, fathers in their bedrooms. Reporter were you telling me some of them their hands were tied together. Oh, in the house, and without with their children as they killed them. They killed babies in front of their parents and then killed the parents. They killed parents and we found babies in between the family killed before them, cut the head of the people. Reporter this is the first time i mean, when did you secure this area year . Late last night . So, we fight here wave after wave. In last night. Reporter and this is really the scene that youll find in any one of these kibbutzes along the border with gaza. The numbers of dead in some of them, over 100. The death toll is incredibly high. And thats why were seeing the numbers continue to rise. Because its only now that the militarys getting in and beginning to get full control there. Say sara. Thnic, thank you so much. Were going to a Press Conference, speaking out in israel, concerned that also some of them kidnapped by hamas. Lets listen in. Should i start with what happened starting Saturday Morning . I was upstairs in my house in jerusalem. I knew that hirsch and a friend of his were sleeping out, camping somewhere, i didnt know exactly where. The first sirens, the bomb sirens, went off in jerusalem. So, i ran down the stairs to wake my two daughters so we could get into the bomb shelter in jerusalem. When we got out, ten minutes later, with the allclear, i normally dont use my phone on the jewish sabbath, but it was an emergency, and i needed to know where my son was. So, i turned my phone on i believe at 8 23 in the morning. When i turned on, there were two texts in a row from hirsch at 8 11. The first one said, i love you. And immediately, at 8 11 also, it said, im sorry. And so i knew, immediately, wherever he was, it was a terrible situation. I took it to mean. I love you, and im sorry, because whatever is going to happen is going to cause you tremendous pain and worry. Since that time, i, of course, tried calling him right back. There was no answer. I texted him a couple times, are you okay . Ive not heard from him since the text i received at 8 11 on Saturday Morning. Weve since found out from putting together eyewitnesses from a picture from inside of a bomb shelter that we saw, we tried to put together who was in that bomb shelter with him. Weve spoken to eyewitnesses. We know that he was injured in a gun battle. I mean, they were all civilians at a Music Festival, and they were fish in a barrel, sitting in this bomb shelter, terrorists came to the door. They were throwing grenades in. Shooting machine guns. And we know that hirschs arm from the elbow down was severed. Was blown off. And that he tied a tourniquet around with his shirt. And hamas came in after the gunfire settled down and said, anyone who can walk, stand up and walk out. We are told that he was completely calm. I think he was probably in shock. And he got up and he walked out with five other people, young people, from the Music Festival. Two young women, three other young men, they were put on a pickup truck. And driven away by hamas. And then the police told us one thing they knew is that the last known signal, cell signal, from his phone was on the border with gaza. So, not much to add. Hirsch was at the festival with one of his best friends, amir sha shapiro. But eyewitness accounts from people we talked to in this bomb shelter, several others say your son and his friend saved our lives. Anybody who was alive because as grenades were being thrown in, they were tossing them back out. They were trying to comfort people. And so, just thought id add that. And you can add. Sure. Ill just say rachel and i both grew up in chicago. We were living in california in 2000 when hersh was born. And we made it there 2008, hersh was our oldest child, 2008, weve been living in jerusalem of since. We have two daughters 20 and 17. And i just want to take a little bit to talk a little bit about hersh. Hes a smiling fun loving guy, people of ages gravitate. If you mention his friends, teachers, our friends, you mention his name, people smile. Things were sort of calm when she heard gunfire outside of her shelter. And we tried to calm her down. Thats when i dropped off the call. And both my brother, my sister were on the call with her, agency the terrorist barged into her home. And we heard a little bit of screaming. And thats was that was the last contact with her. There was no shooting on the call. And the neighbors downstairs also didnt hear any shooting. My mom is a knows a little bit of arabic, what she picked up in the hospital that she used to calm down the terrorists but it is our hope, its a little bit ridiculous at stage to say the optimistic scenario here that shes held hostage in gaza, and not dead on the streets where i grew up. My mom is a 66yearold lady. Me and my other siblings are in the room with me. Seven grandkids. She was sitting on the porch of her home in bberre. My bottom mom devoted her life. She was special to people, her kids and her grandkids. As i said, my last contact with my mom was saturday around around 5 00 a. M. , as the terrorists barged into her shelter and her home. There are a lot of images, spreading around, which i dont feel the need to talk about. I want to bring forward the responsibility that the Israeli Government has to bring back all the hostages. That are kept in hostage by the Hamas Terrorists. While saying this, i want to also speak about the responsibility of the u. S. Administration, President Biden, and the Secretary Of State blinken has for the lives of every u. S. Citizen that is out there. Theyre responsible to bring the u. S. Citizens back home safe and sound. We expect nothing less from the u. S. Administration, and from President Biden. And Secretary Of State blinken. I speak for in the name of myself and my family. And i wish for the quick solution for this. Terrible, terrible situation that all of us are in. We never imagined that this is how it will look. Thank you again for coming. Im just going to read out. My name is ianna neta, im the youngest of my mothers children. My mother adrienne is missing and probably taken to the gaza strip. My mother is an exceptional human being. She spent most of her adult life as a nurse in the community and then as a midwife in a hospital. When she walked into a delivery room, she saw a human being in front of her. Not a religion. Not a race. Not a hijab, not an orthodox jew. Always the human being we saw. We once calculated that my mother has brought in thousands of lives into this world. When hamas walked into my mothers room they saw there a woman but they did not see a human being. Again, thank you for coming. My name is libi chen, before starting i just want to ask all of you here, thank you for coming, all of those listening to us, please, do not think of us only as a headline. Were more than that. Im here with my family. My two sisters. We grew up in new york city. Wed like to say we are the proud outcome of the new york Public Education system. Still have family out in new jersey. Long island. And id like to talk about family, before talking about et ay, by some twist of fate we became family. In addition to us, weve identified about ten other families like us that have a u. S. Citizen missing. This family and my family is now missing. We have a missing family. In my family, i have in addition to itay two sons. One of them, the youngest is actually celebrating his bar mitzvah this weekend. A bar mitzvah for those of you who do not know is the celebration where a young jewish man becomes a man. And itay, in order to be home this weekend, elected to be at his base the previous weekend, in order for us to celebrate the bar mitzvah as a whole, the whole family. We still hope that that celebration with my sisters and my family will happen in the near future. And im sure my friends here as well, all my new family, have additional, you know, events happening that they also wish to have that whole, wholeness, of these events. So, please, you know, think of us, not just as that headline. Were people. Were people, were families. And we want back families again. Itay, my son, joined the army about a year ago. Hes in the armed corps. He was serving on the border of gaza. The last time that we talked to him was Saturday Morning, where he said that they were under attack. We know that he was active. That he was in communication for a while. But since then, silence. The formal indication that we received from the idf is that hes defined as missing in action. What does that mean . It means that nobody since Saturday Morning has been able to physically locate him. Identify him, and see him. It also means that hes not in the hospital. It also means hes not on the deceased list and has been identified. You would think it would be a good assumption to say, that after 70 hours, if hes not in the state of israel, he might be some other place. And if that is the case, then he is, by definition, p. O. W. , u. S. Citizen, and israeli citizen and what were asking for his captives and for the u. S. Government is one, to ask the captives hamas to see him according to international law, having to visit him, able to see him, have the u. N. Representative see him as well. And as said before, we want to go back to become family. We want this as soon as possible. Hopefully, with your help, the people here will help us amplify this message to the u. S. Government, Secretary Of State that in now have been saying all of the right things. But we do, at least i, on behalf of my family, ask the u. S. Not to take a back seat. The u. S. Has a lot of resources at its attention. Is able to do many things that can be the difference than what the Israeli Government can do. Were asking on behalf of my family for President Biden, to ensure his heart is in the right place when it comes to it and Secretary Of State to do what they can to meet this end for us, as soon as possible, to become family, whole again. Thank you all for coming this afternoon. My name is jonathan. I am i lifetime of kibbutz on the border since 1990. And attacked in the Early Morning of this saturday, and i have children and grandchildren, who live there with me. Kibbutz is no more. It was destroyed in a barbaric inhumane attack in which dozens of my friends, neighbors were killed. Many dozens more are either known to be hostages or missing. Im here speaking today, reaching out to my son ziggy who grew up on the kib butsz. And hes an arms length away in gaza, evidently, but couldnt be farther from me and our family right now. I grew up in connecticut, as you can probably hear from the accent. But ive never felt farther away from there either. And hes the father, as you can see, 35 years old. The father of two beautiful daughters. And his wife is now pregnant with their third daughter. And sagui is exactly the kind of son that every father would want to have. A leader, a friend, a loving man. He and many other such young men on the kibbutz are now missing after having tried to repulse the attack by evidently hundreds of Hamas Terrorists and looters. And many died in the process. Sagui was not found. And we have heard or seen no trace of him since then. The survivors of the kibbutz and the kibbutz, were a community of 400. At the moment, we know of 160 survivors. The rest have either died or, as we said, prisoners or missing. The survivors called this a what happened to us. Its not a war, its not a fair fight. Its a pegrom. Hundreds of heavily armed well organized terrorists walk, ran over the border with one object in mind, that is to kill, maim, destroy civilian life along the border. As such, it seems to me that the United States, my original home, and still a very beloved place for me always wants to be and must be on the side of good. Hamas is evil. And its difficult for me to say, im what is called a peacenik in israel as many of the Kibbutz Members are in our area. But when we witness this kind of savagery, this kind of inhumanity must be stopped. Like the other five people on this stage who would prefer to be anywhere but here now do appeal to the United States government, to the congress, to do what they can on the side of good here. Were waiting for sagui to come home. We do not know what fate he met along, as i said, with dozens of other people from the kibbutz. And just so you understand, these arent all 35yearold men. These are children. These are aged people. And everything in between. So, if there ever was a moment of good against evil in the harshest terms, this is it. And i thank you for listening to us. And im sure all of us will welcome questions. Well answer as we can, both for our children and relatives. And for those well over 100 hostages that were taken. Among the hostages, ill add, that outside of sagui that were taken from my kibbutz, Civilian Americans and two that were murdered Saturday Morning. Thank you very much. To all of the families participating, were going now to questions from the journalists. Were going to start with Becky Andersonson from cnn. Were going to go one by one, please, when you get the microphone, say your name and the outlet that youre from. Thank you. Thank you, and thank you for doing this today. Israel has said that it will do its best to get any hostages home. Theres also talk of an imminent Ground Incursion at this point. Just how concerned are you. This isnt to any Single Person . Who wants to take that one . Yeah. I can address the question, as with some of the kinds of questions coming up, right. I dont have any more acquaintance with anybody at the table, but i would assume that none of us are military personnel, or Foreign Affairs strategic thinkers. We are the Family Members of u. S. Citizens that were kidnapped into the gaza strip. Hence, i do not think that it is our place to comment on the necessary actions that Israeli Government has to take. Or the u. S. Biden administration, for that sake. All we ask, from the Biden Administration and the Secretary Of State blinken is to act to the Immediate Release of all hostages. And remember that the u. S. Government has direct responsibility to the lives of the u. S. Citizens that theyre held hostage by these terrorists. So, whatever any government needs to do in order to make that happen, please make that happen. Lester holt from nbc news, United States. Have any of you been contacted directly by the u. S. Administration, or the israeli administration, in terms of what a pathway toward negotiations might look like . Thank you. So, what i can say is that the side of the u. S. Embassy, weve been in contact with the State Department and the u. S. Embassy. And have taken note of the details of itay. But theres been no formal concentrated attempt to talk to us, as a group. And updating us about what they are doing in this matter. I think it is a legit request, from a representative from the State Department, to sit with us. Update us, what they have been doing, what theyre planning to do. And able to supply us. From the Israeli Government, as i said before, we got an indication about the status of itay, as defined as missing in action. And waiting to get additional updates. By the way, is there someone here from the u. S. Embassy . Excuse me, what have you been hearing so far from israeli officials can you identify yourself . From common level in israel. What have you heard from officials, israeli officials, how much information are you getting . And whats your expec