Im Boris Sanchez live in washington where at any moment President Biden will address the nation and the world on the escalating war between israel and hamas. We are going to bring that you speech live. A speech in which weve learned biden is not expected to urge israel to exercise restraint in a potential Ground Incursion into gaza, something that President Biden weve learned has not tried to dissuade Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu from carrying out. We want to take you live to israel with my Colleague Anderson who is on the group with us. Thanks very much. Today the bulk of the fighting has been in the skies here, israel air strikes, Hamas Rocket Attacks ra ramping up on this fourth day of blood shed. Here, take a look at the aftermath of air strikes on gaza, entire city blocks wiped out, the Israeli Defense forces say that they have hit hundreds of hamas targets. On the israeli side the scale of hamas atrocities is now just really fully coming into view. New video shows the scene left behind after more than 250 civilians were massacred by hamas at that Music Festival on saturday. The idf says the terrorists brutally butchered women, toddlers and the elderly in a southern israeli town this weekend. Hamas has also taken dozens of hostages as you know, the exact number unknown. The son of a missing American Citizen was understandably emotional speaking to reporters today. My mom used the little bit of arabic that she picked up working as a nurse in the hospital for years to calm down the terrorists and it is our hope, which is a little bit ridiculous at this stage to say that the optimistic scenario is that shes held hostage in gaza and not dead on the street where we grew up. I want also to speak about the responsibility that 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. They are responsible to bring the u. S. Citizens back home safe and sound. We expect nothing less the Hostage Crisis certainly likely would be part of President Bidens remarks momentarily. As we await that we have Clarissa Ward in ashkelon and Nic Robertson from did he remember rot. Nic, the idf forces say that hamas gunmen carried out a massacre in southern israel, this is now just becoming apparent. Tell us what you have seen. Reporter we were taken to can a kfar aza, this was one of the places that hamas stormed into early saturday morning. 70 hamas fighters, about 700 residents. It was a 48hour fire fight by the Israeli Defense force to take back control. They only got control of it back last night and the general who was in charge of that took us in there today and he told us the reason he wanted to bring he wanted to bring journalists in there, he said, the horror that i found, the massacres that i found, the brutality that i found, he said, it reminded Me Of General Eisenhower being taken and shown the death camps after world war ii. He said eisenhower said get the journalists in here and the general told me thats what i told my commanders. He said, get the journalists in here. So we were taken in today to see the aftermath. But what he had to say about that brutality thats being described as isisstyle executions, he said very clearly that hamas was cutting the heads off of people. Listen to his words. What i saw, hundreds of terrorists in full armor, full gear, with all the equipment and all the ability make a massacre, go from apartment to apartment, from room to room and kill babies, mothers, fathers in their bedrooms. Reporter you were telling me some of them you went in their hands were tied together. They locked themselves in the protection rooms of their house and people were out with their children and they killed them. They killed babies in front of their parents, they killed parents and we found babies between the dogs and the family killed before him, he cut head of the people. Reporter and this is the first time i mean, when did you secure this area here . Was it late last night . So we fight here wave after wave of terrorists until last night. Reporter and the aftermath is quite brutal. The apartments ransacked, there was one apartment, anderson, just to tell this other one story from there, where i was told that the parents realized that hamas was coming, they had 10yearold twins and they locked the 10yearold twins in a cupboard and then went out to fight hamas and hold them off, and then they were killed, the parents were killed. It was several hours later that neighbors heard the twins screaming in the cupboard and they went in and the 10yearold twins were okay, but how did they tell them that their parents had been killed by hamas . This is just one of the myriad of stories were learning today, anderson. So, nick, we should explain, a kibbutz which is an a grainian community, small community, could be several hundred people, there are a number of them along near the gaza border, many of them have been there for decades and decades. These arent necessarily the settlements that weve seen in East Jerusalem and elsewhere, a lot of these are older established communities, but they were on literally the front lines, when the walls were breached, when the border was breached. It was often these kibbutz communities that were first assaulted and some of the brutality, some of the worst brutality were seeing, it occurred very early on and, as you said, this Battle In K Kfar Aza seems to have been going on until just the last 24 hours or so did you actually witness with your own eyes what the commander was saying . What have you seen . Reporter we saw we were shown a lot of different areas, but one of the areas was where the young families lived. You know, the young parents with young children. When we were there there was a team in forensic white suits taking the dead in body bags and loading them into a van. So the stage that we were at was we were there was, you know the dead people were being taken away. There were, i will say, a lot of hamas fighters lying where they had been shot and killed in the fire fight there. And the proximity youre talking about of all these little, you know, small communities, as you say, you and i have probably both been to some of the same ones over the years, ive been in some of them, you know, 20 years ago. It is, its a group of very peaceful People Living in, as you say, an egrarian life. The gates to that community were broken in where hamas forced their way n right now there is a big tank blocking that hole. We have also shown one of those paragliders, the small portable paraglider with the small engine on it and a motor and a fuel back on it that hamas had used actually to fly into the kibbutz as well. So, again, as weve seen so many times, this was so wellplanned. The fighters that came through one hole in the fence knew exactly where they were going and what they were doing and what they were targeting. 70 armed gunmen against 700 civilians and now we see the cost. And, nick, we know of children who have been kidnapped from other kibbutz locations along that border. I talked to a woman today whose cousin was kidnapped with her two very young children, a 9 month old, a 4yearold. Is it clear if there were any people taken alive from that kibbutz, from kfar aza . Reporter some were. Some were. I think were still in such an early phase of whats happened that really theyre trying to the Israeli Defense force, the police, are just trying to figure out the numbers. Who is safe and got away . Who escaped in the day . Who was who was taken out of a safe place by the Israeli Defense force and who wasnt . And who was killed and who was taken into gaza. But some people from kfar aza were taken back into gaza. Nic, stay with us. I want to bring in Clarissa Ward. Clarissa, explain where you are and what you have been seeing because i know youve witnessed numerous volleys of rockets being fired today. Thats right, anderson. Hamas had put out a message on their telegram channel, on their social media app basically saying that people in the city here of ashkelon should leave by 5 00 p. M. , that there was going to be retaliation for what they called the force displacement of ordinary civilians in gaza and then at exactly 5 00 p. M. We heard the first i wont even say volley barrage of rockets come slamming in. We have subsequently been watching, you know, every 20 minutes or so of the Air Raid Sirens go off, you see the skylight up, the iron dome starts intercepting those various rockets. Some of them have made impact, there have been reports of at least one home that we know of that took a direct hit. We actually spoke briefly earlier to the woman who was living there and she is miraculously perhaps alive. She was in her in her shelter. But certainly i would say a definitely uptick in the tempo here in ashkelon. Again, this is a city that is not a stranger to rocket attacks, there are shelters all over, theres shelters on every floor of this hotel, but people here say that they havent seen anything approaching this level in terms of the veracity, the volume and the continuous nature. And now everyone really just bracing themselves for what the night will bring ahead, anderson. Clarissa and nic, if you can stand by as we await for President Biden to speak were joined by Lieutenant ColonelJonathan Conricus. We just got the report from the idf, from kfar aza that women, children, the elderly were butchered in this kibbutz. Can you talk about what you think the significance of what you understand idf forces have seen in kfar aza. The scenes in kfar aza up until a few days ago was a peaceful society, many of the residents who lived there believed in peace, coexistence and Mutual Respect and had friends in gaza. I know that personally i know many people in kfar aza who had friends in gaza. The butchery and the executions and the i dont want to confirm yet, there are many reports out there about beheadings. At this stage i cannot confirm that but i know that atrocities in kfar aza and in many, many other communities, things that they are hard to imagine. Weve seen that and the reports that are coming up from Israeli Soldiers that are Clearing Communities are unimaginable. Its like things that you would see in a zombie movie or that you would see on online Snuff Terror Movies Distributed by isis. Theres no comparison. It is unimaginable the cruelty of the just families being executed, children mutilated. It is horrendous. Can you give us an update just on what the progress, i mean, in terms of what is happening on the ground, you know, you and i have been talking now for several days and youve been very up front about what areas have been secured as best as anything can be secured and what the situation on the border s what is it like now at this hour . Are there still i mean, in kfar aza there was fighting according to that on Scene Commander 24 hours or so ago or last night. What are you seeing on the ground . What were seeing on the ground and the reports that are coming up is that just less than an hour ago the israeli troops in another kibbutz were able to kill two Hamas Terrorists who somehow made their way to that kibbutz. They were engaged in battle and israeli troops were able to kill them swiftly. Im not aware of any civilian or israeli casualties in that event. This tells us that it is still a combat zone, as unimaginable as this is to say, but southern israel is still, unfortunately, a live combat zone. Today when international correspondents, cnn included, were granted access to those areas, it was like a combat it wasnt taking the International Media to a community in israel, it was like taking the International Media to see a combat zone and we had to have security and Armored Vehicles and the journalists had to wear their protective gear because it is an active combat zone, even in an area where there are so many troops. So it is a situation that we definitely did not imagine before. We are coming to terms with the situation and as, i think, your reporters have also said, the resolve is high and the level of commitment of the public in general, you know, general sentiment, but most importantly of soldiers, of reserve soldiers and the regular soldiers, is very high. As we see the atrocities it saddens and tears our hearts, but it also serves to galvanize our spirit and our focus on what needs to be done against these monstrous terror that we have on our doorstep. I also want to be very just im trying to be very careful in our reporting on what Nic Robertson saw at kfar aza. As you said, you have not been able to confirm all of the reports that have been coming out from troops on the ground, from others, but obviously there is more to be learned in the coming hours. You gave an update saying that the idf recovered the bodies of roughly 1,500 hamas gunmen inside israel. If that is the number of dead, do you have a sense of how many Hamas Terrorists were involved in this overall offensive . Do you have an idea of how many are left on the hamas side . Yeah, we are it is an evolving number. The figures here are rolling and were trying to provide as much information as quickly as possible and as accurately as possible. Were working on counting bodies, the priority is first and foremost to identify israeli civilians and try to match using dna and other information and to, you know, inform families. There is tremendous outcry in israel of the lacking information. I dont know how much that has been reflected in International Media, but that is the talk of the day in israel. So that is priority number one, getting information to israelis. And second priority is, yes, finding terrorists and then counting the bodies. I am aware of that high number that you mentioned. Its not an official idf talley yet, it will be, i hope, during the night or in the morning, and then we can, you know, put pieces of the puzzle together and start to assess the combat capabilities of hamas since they have sent over so many of their trained terrorists, some of them highly trained of their best units, which is their equivalent of the Special Forces if you can draw a comparison to a military, with the better equipment, better training and that are really task oriented to do this kind of butchering, going into israeli communities and murdering israeli civilians. So they sent over those, but also lets say rank and file, runofthemill terrorists, perhaps with less training. We will get to the bottom of it. Our intelligence people will analyze and make sense of every piece of information. We have live terrorists that we have apprehended, quite a few of them. They are being interrogated in order to extract intelligence, very important intelligence, exactly to answer those questions and others. How did this happen . How did they plan it . How did they enter . Et cetera, et cetera. And we will make sense of it and we will use it for our future operations. Just briefly, reuters has reported that hamas built a mock israeli settlement to train for the operation. Can you confirm that . Yes. I mean, we can see you could see it on their Propaganda Videos that theyre disseminating, both with their buckeye aerial unit, those glienders, motorized gliders and other units. Weve that that in the past that they used the ruins of the israeli communities in gaza and theyve used that to practice on. Weve seen that in the past, that is not necessarily a new thing that they have urban Training Centers and now they released this propaganda video. So it confirms it. Lieutenant colonel conricus, thank you. Thank you. We are awaiting on President Biden, anticipating his remarks, reaction to what is happening in israel and gaza. We will bring you his remarks once they begin. Also we are monitoring the live pictures from the region, hamas and israel exchanging as Clarissa Ward was reporting a barrage of rockets. We are on top of the fast moving developments as we head to a quick break. Here is an israeli man whose daughter is still missing after the attack on that Music Festival. You cannot imagine the situation that kids going to dance and, you know, have fun and going to club and theyre not coming back home because theyve been captured as war prisoners. We are standing by for the white house as biden is due to speak at any moment from the state dining room about the attacks on israel. We just learned that he wrapped a call moments ago with israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu. Lets take you to the white house now with cnns mj lee. So, mj, talk to us about what youve learned regarding the call and what were anticipating will be bidens message during these remarks. Reporter boris, we are told by officials that we should expect President Biden to address a couple of things here. First and foremost, and this is no surprise, we should expect President Biden to reiterate the u. S. s support for israel, both the government of israel and the people of israel, and that the