Murdered them. But israel needs to continue to be able to defend herself. We all across the world need to ensure the safety and security of civilians and the United States needs to stand ready to help our allies. Congresswoman spanberger, thanks so much for joining us. Thank you so much for having me. And Erin Burnett Outfront live from israel starts right now. Outfront next, live from israel, the Breaking News. 20 americans now missing on top of 14 already declared dead. This as a u. S. Aircraft carrier moves closer to israel at this all. All while israel prepares for what appears to be a major invasion after a barbaric isisstyle attack from hamas. Outsmarted the militants by jamming the safe room door. What she did to keep the attackers at bay as they tried again and again to get through. A miraculous story of survival. And that brave woman is my guest tonight. And then inside gaza. Its as densely packed as the city of london. Underground tunnels that could be booby trapped. What an invasion there could truly look like. Lets go outfront. And good evening, welcome to a Special Edition of outfront. Im erin burnett live in tel aviv tonight. And tonight, the Breaking News this hour. As we were going to air, our crews near gaza hearing many loud explosions, and were going to go to the ground there in just a moment. First, though, here off the coast, u. S. Aircraft carrier is getting closer to israel at this hour. Now in the Eastern Mediterranean sea. On the uss gerald r. Ford, a number of Guided Missile Destroyers, guided missile cruisers. It is a major Show Of Force after the horrific Show Of Force by hamas that killed more than 1,000 people. And, tonight, we are learning that 20 americans are now missing after the attack still unaccounted for. And that is on top of the 14 americans that we already know declared to be dead. The fate of the 20 is unknown. Have they lost their lives, are they being held as hostages as well . They do not know. And this raises a major question. Just how will the United States respond. Israel right now preparing for an invasion, a Ground Invasion of gaza that appears to be imminent. Along the Israeli Border with gaza, there are thousands of israeli paratroopers, snipers, artillery and tank units ready for what could be a major Ground Invasion. And throughout the night, we have heard the terrifying sounds of explosions, and here in tel aviv you can feel them actually through your body. And we have seen israels iron dome in action intercepting rockets fired from gaza again and again. That, of course, is where the massive and highly coordinated attack on israel was launched from. And in just a moment, we are going to take you inside a town that was raided by palestinian gunmen, what our reporter found was chilling. Bodies everywhere, some executed and then beheaded, homes burned, isisstyle savagery committed by hamas is hard to comprehend. And today President Biden delivering an angry and forceful conte condemnation. This is an act of sheer evil, more than 1,000 civilians slaughtered, not just killed, slaughtered. Stomachturning reports of babies being killed. Entire families slain. Young people massacred. The brutality of hamas, this blood thirstiness brings to mind the worst rampages of isis. This is terrorism. And i want to begin our coverage live here tonight with nic robertson. He is outfront live in sderot, israel, which is about 45 miles south of where im standing right now. And, nic, where you are, many loud explosions just moments ago. Whats happening as best as you can tell . Yeah. Theres a lot of Helicopter Activity in the sky. I heard fighter jets. This is not that uncommon. But weve heard a lot of Mechanical Heavy Equipment moving in the area between this town and the gaza fence, which is less than a couple of miles really from where were standing right now. So theres a lot of machinery, Mechanized Units BeingMilitary Units being maneuvered in that area at the moment. We dont know what for, but the explosions that weve been experiencing here over the past perhaps hour or so. But pretty intense up here in the past 20 minutes. You see a Big Flash Go Off behind me, count to five, and then you will hear a huge explosion. The explosions have been enough to shake the roof of this building here. So theyre impacting in gaza a couple of miles away. And its enough to shake the roof of the building here. But what we found when we went to it took the Israeli Defense forces 48 hours of fighting against hamas to take back control of it. What we found there and what the Israeli Defense forces wanted to show us was what they were describing as the brutality of the way that people were treated there, of the residents were treated. That some of them had their hands bound, that whole families were executed, parents, children, people even beheaded, he said. This is what happened on the road there. The drive into kafir azar is chilling. Evidence of hamas butchery everywhere. This Israel Defense force general shocked at what he found. I thought about General Eisenhower that come to the camp in europe. He did the same, inviting about 50 journalists. Its a big massacre, big disaster. Have you ever seen anything like this in your career . Never. Reporter less than a mile from gaza, 70 hamas fighters stormed in here early saturday, some even flying. Theyre telling us this is one of the paragliders that flew in here. You can see the engine here, the propellers here made of carbon fiber. The fuel tank up here, and the seat at the front. The idf in control now after a twoday battle. Hamas lie where they fell. Only now, the extremes of their barbarity becoming apparent. 700 plus civilians lived here. How many were killed still unclear. How they died brutally apparent. Some decapitated, they say. Babies in the front of their parents and then they kill the parents. We found babies between the family that was killed before. They cut the head of the people. Reporter each body bag silent, sentinel, to the Intelligence Failure that allowed this community and others to be overrun, and motivation for troops, too. We wait to switch ourself from the defense to because we defend our people. And till now reporter you say youre going to attack. Will you be going into gaza . We can see it here. I look to the next hundred yards. Reporter do you take care of the next hundred yards . Then look forward. Reporter forward to a possible showdown with hamas. How and when, still to be determined. And thats really where i think these troops find themselves at the moment. They are waiting for that political decision. The sense with them today was there was sort of a pause, but not a pause where you sit back and rest but a pause where you change posture and begin to lean forward. And you get that sense for them. Theyre really waiting to get the political direction of what they need to do. They know that if they go into gaza, that this will be a very bloody fight, a very dangerous fight for them because theyll be fighting in streets, in small streets and civilian neighborhoods where the enemy know the terrain, where the population is against them. But also in an environment where they want to avoid civilian casualties. Yet, in an environment like that in gaza, civilian casualties, as seen in the past, do and will happen. So, all of this stands in front of israel, stands in front of the Prime Minister right now. And most particularly stands in front of those troops we were with today. Erin . All right, nic, thank you very much. Major ben wahlhaus is the spokesperson for the idf. I very much appreciate your time, major. On the back of this reporting and here we are tonight. Hamas obviously has always been a brutal organization. Now, though, these reports were seeing beheadings, isislike cruelty, babies. Have you seen a shift in their tactics . Hamas has always been a murderous terrorist organization, and its openly stated its explicit aim is to kill all the jews and all the israelis that it can. So in terms of who it is as an organization, thats nothing new. But surely the extent and the barbaric nature of these attacks is something we havent seen before. And as your journalists saw today, as our forces go through the south and clear house by house making sure there is no terrorist presence left, we are starting to find those corpses that were brutally mutilated, entire communities mass conferred. And, yes, as you say, this is something that we havent seen before. Major, there is the strikes coming from gaza. I also understand there was a clash between idf soldiers and hamas militants inside israel. In the north, meantime, three rockets were seen launched from syrian territory, according to the idf. Rockets were launched from lebanon earlier. Where does security of israeli land stand at this hour . Yes. This is an extremely complex security situation. We are continuing intensive fighting in the south with the aim of Stopping Hamas attacks and making sure they cant carry these kinds of attacks out again. Thousands of rockets are still being fired into israeli cities indiscriminately. And at the same time, now our northern border and on our eastern border, we have antitank fire, rocket fire from lebanon and syria. We have called up over 300,000 reserve soldiers who have left their families and are deployed on all of their borders. And in the north were watching very carefully and making sure that the message is clear that no one should join in the fight. Reuters is reporting that for months leading up to the attack, hamas misled israel to believe that it didnt want to fight, didnt want a confrontation, and that report cites a source close to hamas saying that the organization went so far as to construct a mock israeli town, a settlement in gaza where they practiced a military landing. They trained to storm it. Can you confirm any of this . Well, hamas intentions have always been clear. The fact that it makes a mock israeli town to invade shows that this is a war against civilians. Hundreds of terrorists streaming across the border and massacring women and children and elderly is a war against civilians. Taking civilians entire families into gaza, abducting them, thats a war against civilians. And, at the same time, theyre using their own civilians as human shields, placing the military targets inside homes, mosques, hospitals, all in an effort to use their civilian population as shields. So, in terms of any sort of a mock, you know, settlement that they may have created, do you know where that is or what they were doing . Do you know how this was trained for and accomplished . Were looking forward at the moment, our immediate priority is to stop hamas attacks. Their rocket attacks indiscriminately into our cities. Attempted attacks by land, by air from gaza. And our immediate priority is to protect our civilian population from further attacks. All right, major, i appreciate your time, and thank you very much. Of course, it is past 2 00 in the morning, so another late or allnight for you. In a moment im going to be joined by a man whose nephew was abducted from the Music Festival in israel where hamas fighters killed at least 260 innocent people. I want to warn you that the video that im about to show you of omar being taken is disturbing. But we are showing it because ricardo and omars parents want to see it. He is just 22 years old in the back of that truck. His clothes appear to be missing. The hamas militants are hitting him, whipping him. You can see the torture, the degradation that hes enduring. Theres a gun pointed at him. This is horrific to watch for any human being. Ricardo grishner is outfront now. For you, this is human this is your family, it is incredibly hard for any human being to watch that video. But i know that you and omars parents are insisting you want the world to see it because you want the world to know what is happening. You want the world to know what hamas is capable of. Have you heard anything about your nephews condition now and his whereabouts . Thank you very much for the opportunity to basically assess the situation. Its exactly as you said. The situation is brutal. The video is horrifying, to see your nephew in this situation basically hit, brutalized, something that anybody that is human would be, of course, shocked. From my point of view, i just want to see one thing, i want to see omer getting back to his family. He is 22 years old. He is sick, he needs some medical attention. From our point of view, what we see is hamas is responsible for his wellbeing. Give him back to his family. It can be done. So, anything that we can do, anything that can be done. Ricardo, you mentioned your nephew being in poor health. I know he has a serious medical condition. He does urgently need medication for it, colitis. What is your biggest concern . We saw how he was actually physically tortured. I know that you have no idea what his actual condition is. But even the basics of going without his medication, what cost does that come at for him . So, of course, the situation can deteriorate. We dont know exactly what will happen at the end of the day because he can get very ill, high fever, physical illness. And, of course, we assume that he will not be treated very good. So, the best thing for hamas is to return him to his family, he is 22 years old, civilian, restaurant manager. He has nothing to do with the situation. He was abducted from a rock festival, a peaceful rock festival. There was no justification, no logic whatsoever. Well, i want to ask you, because i know you appealed to the red cross. They actually did appeal to hamas, just asking them to allow your nephew his medication. The basic Human Dignity of his medication even within the hostage situation. Did they even respond, was there a response to that plea . Nothing whatsoever. We have no information. The international laws, the International Agreements regarding taking care of sick, getting to visits, even the hamas brutal murders in the jails of israel get visits. They know exactly the situation. The fact that we are right now 130 captives that we dont even recognize their location, their wellbeing, any information whatsoever about their condition. I know regarding omer specifically that is okay because you can see from the video. You can see that he is not having any wound shots or any damages. So he should be back to his family immediately without any justification. So you believe from the video, ricardo, that im so sorry. I didnt mean to talk over to you. But you do believe at this point from every indication that you have that omer is still alive tonight . Exactly. There is no reason to think something else. As you can see in the video, he has no blood, nothing to shed any justification, only consideration that he is damaged. So he should be okay unless something happened only in gaza, which is under the responsibility of hamas. Its already in the area of because you can see in the background of the movie that you can see gaza area. Its not israel. So he was perfectly fine. The only thing was, of course, he was stripped from his clothes, he was hit, but he was perfectly fine from physical condition, as you can see in the movie. So we expect him to return back to his family. Again, he is a civilian, 22 years old. Thank you for sharing. Thank you so much for sharing the story and the video. And i know it has got to be so horrific and a hard choice for you and his parents to make a decision to share that. But it is important, and we thank you very much, ricardo. Youre in my thoughts. Omer, we are waiting for you. You have a loving family. We are here for you. Go back home. We will take you home. And, as we wait for omer and the other hostages, all of whom are still missing tonight, no one knows where they are, their condition in gaza. Our breaking News Coverage continues live from israel with a heartstopping story of survival. Next im going to talk to a woman, she was at home. Hamas stormed her neighborhood. She survived by barricading herself in a safe room. Hear how she was able to outsmart the militants as they banged on that door. And live pictures out of gaza where loud explosions can be heard at this evening, and as casualties mount there, a look at what an invasion could actually look like, and what is truly one of the worlds most densely populated areas. And im going to speak to a Hostage Negotiator who has gotten american hostages out of ukraine and other countries Around The World including afghanistan. Hes with me tonight, on the hostages he is trying to free right here in gaza to save lives. Breaking news. A u. S. Carrier strike group just arriving in the Eastern Mediterranean sea just off israels coast. It is led by the uss gerald r. Ford. It is a nuclearpowered Navy Aircraft carrier, and is accompanied by Guided Missile Destroyers and guided missile cruisers. Its arrival comes as the u. S. Confirms 20 americans are missing after hamas brutal attack on israel. On top of 14 already declared dead. Oren liebermann is outfront. Oren, what more have you learned about this Show Of Force from the United States . Right now thats what it is, its a Show Of Force, as opposed to actual force. But thats the question, what could it mean for a much deeper and more serious involvement in this conflict . Reporter erin, the Biden Administration has made clear that it is not getting involved in this fight right now between israel and hamas in gaza. Thats not the purpose of the uss gerald r. Ford and the Carrier Strike group thats coming with it. But it is a message to o