Announcer this is cnn breaking news. And wellcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. And we start in the middle east where americas top diplomat delivered an inperson message to the israeli people who are grieving and wounded. He said the United States will never back down from its support of israel. Secretary of state Antony Blinken is on his way to meet with other u. S. Allies in the region. Saudi arabia, egypt, uae, qatar, and jordan after standing side by side with Benjamin Netanyahu today. The secretary also met with families of americans killed and taken hostage by hamas, a group the u. S. Has labeled terrorists. The white house says at least 27 americans have been killed and at least 14 others remain missing. In its efforts to eliminate hamas which brutally attacked israel last saturday, Israel Defense forces are currently pounding gaza with air strikes today. Since hamas embeds itself within the palestinian population, this is tragically resulting in hundreds of innocent palestinian casualties. More than 1,400 have been killed so far. Civilian and hamas according to the Palestinian Health ministry. Israel has also cut off l electricity, fuel, water, and Food Supplies to gaza. Israel Officials Say none of those supplies will be restored until all hostages being held by hamas will be returned home. Today democratic senator Bernie Sanders said that such would be an International Law violation. Today we are also getting a horrific new look at the atrocities hamas committed on saturday. We want to warn you some of the images you are about to see are graphic and incredibly disturbing. One of the images were going to show you is so upsetting, im even going to give you a few moments warning so you can prepare yourself to look away. It will be the photo of a corpse of a baby, a baby murdered by hamas. Its not clear where and when this innocent young human was killed, but it was saturday. And its one of the many children the terrorists killed in their rampage on saturday such as in kibbutz, one of the first places they reached after reaching in israel. Video shows them breaching a gate and entering on motor bikes. Just after 7 00 a. M. On saturday, a bloodbath followed. The kibbutz was mostly destroyed, more than 100 people slaughtered, most of them innocent civilians. The victims include 8yearold emily. She was having a sleepover with a friend. Her father waited two days before learning the awful news. His reaction before learning she was dead tells you about the depravities of which hamas is capable. I just said we found emily. Shes dead. And i went, yes i went yes and smiled because that is the best news of the possibilities that i knew. Another one of the victims, a french israeli soldier named elli who was killed fighting off hamamas. These are photos. Around the same time the invasion began hamas opened fire on a Music Festival under way here. The festival was supposed to be an all Night Dance Party celebrating the jewish holiday. People came from All Over The World for the party. But as dawn broke, gunfire began. Survivors say there was nowhere to hide in the empty field. Some jumped into passing cars. Others survived by hiding under bodies, bodies of individuals who had been killed by hamas bullets and grenades. I saw so many things that i cant even explain. I saw guts. I had flesh all over my body. We had to bury ourselves under these dead corpse to protect ourselves from these grenades that were hitting and from the rifles and from the rpg. An Israeli Rescue service says it later found at least 260 dead bodies at the festival site. An unknown number of other attendees were taken hostage and have not been heard from since. It took the israeli Defense Forces more than two days of intense fighting to clear hamas out after the saturday invasion. When the idf could finally take stock of what the Terrorist Group left behind, there was frankly not much left. The idf went house to house collecting the dead in body bag. The soldiers say men, women, the elderly, children, all of them were brutally murdered. Actions they said were nothing short of a massacre. And that brings me back to the photo that i warned you about a few minutes ago of the baby killed by hamas. Heres your last chance to look away, but i dont think you should look away. Israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu showed this photo to Secretary Of StateAntony Blinken today. Its one of the photos the Israeli Government is now sharing with the public so the world can see what hamas did. They also showed two other photographs that are worse than that one, if you can believe it. Were not going to show you those photos, but we will continue to tell the stories of the innocent victims of this war. Lets bring in cnns erin burnett whos live in israel and cohosting the show with me. Erin, lets start with the scope of the humanitarian crisis because were talking about hundreds of civilians killed in israel, hundreds now killed in gaza, many others trapped without food, without water or power all because of these brutal attacks by hamas. I mean, jake, it was an unbelievable tragedy. And as you speak, it is in your voice and in your heart, too. I know it is just a profound grief that is here and also a rage. And it is affecting obviously peel in israel, those innocent people who were killed and slaughtered, who were massacred. Those are the fair and right words to use. Its now also affecting people in gaza. I mean today, jake, we were just a few miles from that border. And it almost becomes a background noise, the thuds of explosions in gaza. And on the other end there, of course, people who were affected, and as you said no food, no fuel, no electricity. Israel says thats going to continue until the hostages are returned, and obviously we still have no word on those hostages at all. People desperately hoping against home theyre still alive, they could get them back. But you hear that in the background. As we move further south along that border, jake, of gaza. And theres now i would describe it as sort of a bit of a buffer zone the idf is creating theyre amassing those troops. As you move south you hear more and more artillery, more and more rocket back and forth and you see that buildup. And theyre continuing, jake, to flood the zone. And you see convoy after convoy. All of them going in with heavy machinery, the tanks, armed personnel carriers all of that continuing to move in. You think about that this amassing and complete transformation of the readiness of this country all because of these horrific acts we saw saturday morning, and that picture of that baby that as you say no human being can look at that and ever take it away from their eyes. Yeah, i mean thats an image thats going to be with me the rest of my life. There were emotional moments there on the ground in tel aviv as secretary blinken met with hamas attack Family Members of americans who were either killed by hamas or kidnapped. Reporter yes, and those were obviously emotional moments for the Secretary Of State, very important. And ill say, jake, one thing talking to anyone here. They make a very specific point of saying thank you to the United States. There is a great gratitude for what the United States is doing, in particular the supplies that are coming in related to that iron dome. These iron domes are fired up every few moments at different places in this country it feels at this point. And that help from the United States is direly needed and appreciated. The support is appreciated by so many. But, jake, i will say the grief, it is unbelievable the grief. Weve been talking to people and i know you have as well, right, missing their children. One father missing both of his daughters. A mother missing both of her daughters. And they are praying that they are going to come home. And then those who have lost those they loved. Lost friends. I saw a woman today right near where that festival happened, so were basically right over the ridge. She just burst into tears talking about seeing her friend die. Or i talked to a former idf general who ran out with his pistol that morning into settlements with a group of men killing terrorists. He saw countless terrorists and was killing them, members of hamas. And he saw them a Mother Holding her baby shot to death, saw someone beheaded. These are things he pointed is some of those people come over who breached that wall were people who worked in those kibbutz settlements, they did know the people they were able to see horribly slaughter. Erin burnett in tel aviv, well check back with you in a few minutes. The horrors inflicted on israel over the weekend, since hamas embeds within the palestinian population that means tragically hundreds of civilian casualties both israeli and palestinian as a result of what happened saturday. The Israeli Military buildup continues for an expected ground incursion into gaza. And cnns Clarissa Ward has been to kibbutz that was attacked by hamas on saturday, and now its a Staging Ground for the Israeli Military. Tell us what were seeing. Reporter jake, this was the kibbutz area, one of the scenes of some of the grossest atrocities that took place on saturday. I think its symbolic that the Israeli Military has now taken it over and repurposed it. It is now a Staging Ground for an artillery brigade. When we arrived there yesterday we could see many soldiers, tanks. We heard outgoing artillery. Its clearly a Staging Ground as i said but also for support, communications. I would note that the posture of the soldiers was relatively at ease. One didnt have the sense Walking Around that some kind of a Ground Offensive was imminent in the sort of coming hours. But clearly the building up the forces along the Gaza Envelope is fueling the expectation of imminent Ground Offensive. And i think were seeing that as wellbeing borne out in terms of the incessant bombardment, which you and erin had just referenced on gaza. Today the u. N. Coming out saying that 2,500 Housing Units have been destroyed. 23,000 have sustained moderate to minor damage, and the rate of displacement has increased by more than 30 in the space of just 24 hours. Theyre talking about having hours left only in terms of fuel supplies. So the humanitarian situation in gaza is rapidly approaching an alarming level, and the question then becomes how long can israel wait before making its move. But can it make a move before it has secured some kind of a humanitarian corridor . We heard Secretary Of StateAntony Blinken talking about this again today, the importance of providing people who want to flee the violence, ordinary civilians, with a way out. So far that has not been agreed upon. And as a result we continue to see a growing intensity in terms of the desperation of the situation there, and a growing anxiety on this side of the border as well as to when there may be some further movement, jake. All right, Clarissa Ward, thank you so much. Stay safe. Lets go now to whose daughter was attending the Music Festival where hamas killed 260 people and took others hostage. As of now you dont know exactly what happened to your daughter. No, i dont. But you were on the phone at some point as this attack unfolded. Tell us what she said. Tell us what you know. Yes. What we know from half past 6 00 until two minutes to 11 00, 10 58, she was at the party and she called me and said, mommy, there are a lot of missiles here. We dont know what to do, we dont know where to hide, where we can go. A lot of rockets falling on us, and we dont know what to do. She was with her best friend, gaya, and they were looking for a place to hide. But this is an open space. You dont have anywhere to hide. No shelters, no nothing. And they were trying to get to gayas car. It took them about an hour to get to the car, and then they tried to leave with gayas car, but they couldnt because there were so many cars around and the traffic was jammed. And later on we we found out that all the terrorists already arrived to israel and then started closing all the roads from north to the place of the party. And they finally went from the car and go to the bushes to hide, moving from bush to bush. And we all this time talked with her, and we heard the shooting around them. And theyre hiding, kids with no weapons, no nothing. At some point just before 10 00 a very good friend of gaya came back. She was already outthis area but he came back to take them, to rescue them. And his name is ben, and he was taking another boy with him. The four of them tried to leave the area. They didnt get much much further when i got a phone call at 10 15 crying, shouting, saying, mommy, we were shot. They shoot the car. We cannot move. The car does not start. All of us are badly wounded, badly injured. Gaya is not talking to me. Ben is not talking. Phil was telling me his name and gave me his mothers number so i can call her. And so afraid. She was saying, mommy, im going to die. And i said, no, youre not going to die. We are coming back and we will find a way to take you out of there. And she was asking, mommy, how can you take me out of here . Please, come and take us. Please tell somebody. Tell the army, tell the police. Tell them to come. I tried to call the police. We tried to see how air force can maybe take a plane or a helicopter to try and rescue them. And there was nothing to do. I could only lie to her and tell her that we were doing everything. Its not a lie, we try today Do Everything. But i knew we cannot help them. Is that the last time you heard from her . Yes. The last time i heard from her was the shooting around them. We were talking slightly. She was fading away, and we heard the shooting around them, and then a lot of people talking in arabic, shouting in arabic. Somebody tried to start the engine but couldnt do it, and then somebody have them phone, and thats it. Thats the last thing i heard from my daughter. You asked the Israeli Government for answers. Have they reached out, have they told you anything . We just know that her cellphone is in gaza. Thats what we know and what the representative of the government knows. What we are focusing now is to you know, to be united and bring our kids back home and do all the necessary actions to bring them back home. You said before dont look away. Thats what i am asking, what we are asking from our government, from the whole world. Dont look away. Exactly. How old is she . Shes 23. Shes my third one. I have five kids. Shes in the middle. Shes the glue between the bigger kids and the smaller, the younger one. Shes wonderful. Shes vivid. Shes so alive. Shes so wonderful. Everybodys fallen in love with her. Its easy to fall in love with her. Shes so wonderful. Shes such a good friend. Shes such a good person. She will never hurt anybody. Beautiful. Stay in touch. Well keep telling can i ask one thing, please . Yes. Can i have one minute of asking something . Sure. We want to ask the whole world we want to ask around the whole world to come and help us because its not just us. There are a lot of americans inside gaza. We need you with us to bring everybody back home. This is as you said a war crime, a crime against humanity. And we need the leaders we need the leaders from qatar that can push hamas, the leaders to push hamas. We ask you to spread all the things you just said, and i was so proud of the force you give to us, the strength you give to us. And i just ask you please continue to do that and please help us bring everybody home. We want them all home. Thank you so much and well Stay In Touch with you. And i want with every fiber of my being i want her home for you. Me, too. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. Coming up a 25yearold young woman from california, a 27yearold young man who was a captain with israels military, the stories behind the american citizens killed by hamas. Thats coming up. The death toll for americans in these horrific Terror Attacks in israel has gone up. Today the white house confirming that number has gone up to 24 americans confirmed. People still hoping their loved ones are going to be found alive. And we are learning the names, stories of some of these people who so needlessly were killed on saturday. Heres cnns ercica hill. Reporter beaming smiles, joy now frozen in time. Reporter his 25yearold daughter danielle was born in california. She and her boyfriend recently moved into a new apartment. They adopted a dog and were building a life together. They went to a park to celebrate peace and love. Reporter danielle and noah never made it home from the Music Festival. She told me they decided they would get married. Unfortunately, we will bury them together. Reporter he was a captain in the idfs dog handling unit. The dual citizen spent his summers at camp in the u. S. His aunt, debbie, describes him as a Fun Loving Athletic Kid who was passionate about protecting his country. The captain was 27. His exwife says he moved back to israel two years ago to care for his mother. On saturday hamas attacked the village where they lived. He and his brother were part of the security. Reporter renee butlers family along with his mother were murdered near kibbutz on