Americas strongest mideast ally is at war. Israel is striking back at Hamas Terrorists in response to a coordinated series of Terror Attacks resulting in the murder of more than 800 men, Women And Children. The u. S. Now confirming at least Nine Americans are among the dead. Good morning to you, im dana perino and bill is off today. Good morning, aishah. Aishah a very tough day as the world wakes up to this horrific attack. This is americas newsroom and here is where things stand at this hour. The combined death toll in israel and in gaza has now surpassed more than 1200 people. There are thousands more wounded and more than 100 israelis kidnapped behind enemy lines. Dana despite israels Retaliation Hamas is still attacking. They have now fired more than 3500 rockets into israel. Aishah the Wall Street Journal is reporting that iran was directly involved in all of this. The paper says tehran worked with hamas for weeks to plan the attacks. This directly after the u. S. Opened up 6 billion in funds. Dana reaction from Robert Obrien. Edward lawrence has more on the 6 billion payment. Peter doocy has the latest from the white house. Lawrence, well get to trey yengst in a moment. Lawrence, well start with you now. A lot of conversation about the 6 billion payment over the weekend. What do we need to know . Making this all worse the State Department confirmed Nine Americans have been killed. President joe biden coming out quickly condemning the attack but he refused to say who was ultimately behind it. President biden the United States stands with israel. We will not ever fail to have their back. Well make sure that they have the help their citizens need and they can continue to defend themselves. Mike waltz on house Foreign RelationsIntel Committee points the finger directly at iran. At the end of the day, this is 100 iran. Hamas doesnt so much Fire A Bb Gun Without Iran giving it the green light and resources to do so. To now find out there were weekly planning meetings, extensive coordination with the iranian regime, we still have a lot to unpack here. So the attack on israel by hamas comes three weeks since President Biden authorized the release of 6 billion to iran as well as releasing five iranian convicts to get five american hostages. Right now the money sits in the central back in qatar unfrozen. The u. S. Says it will only be used for humanitarian aid in iran. If thats true it frees up the money iran is using now for aid to be directed elsewhere. Still, over the weekend the Biden Administration hedging its bets on blame. We dont have anything that shows us that iran was directly involved in this attack and planning in or in carrying it out but thats something were looking at very carefully and we have to see where the facts lead. We do know that iran has had a long relationship with hamas. And the president with no Public Events on his calendar today. Dana do you expect you will hear from anybody at the white house . Surely they will put somebody on camera today, edward. The pressure has to be mounting at the white house. We have not heard as of yet that someone will come out and speak but over the weekend you saw quickly the president came out on saturday to make an announcement about this to quickly condemn it and Antony Blinken was out. You have the there is pressure mounting within this white house to do something. Ive asked if the president will add something to his schedule. I did not hear back on that front but you have to believe that behind the scenes they are working to figure out how this messaging should go forward. Dana we do know that weve just heard that john kirby, the spokesperson for the National Security council, will be on at 3 00 p. M. With Martha Maccallum on the story. Now we have trey yengst back with us. Your reporting has been incredible over the weekend and more developments breaking just now . Yeah, absolutely. Were learning just now that israel has killed a number of infiltrators on the northern border with lebanon. Earlier today there were 12 rockets fired into Northern Israel from Southern Lebanon and now this infiltration attempt. An indication they will have to continue their efforts to bolster security and support along the northern and southern borders. Since we last spoke, israel has started to shell the gaza strip with Artillery Units. You can hear the bang. Art illry shells flying through the air and slamming into positions along the gaza border. We do know the tanks behind me are getting set to enter gaza. You can see they are in place waiting for that order. One of them has an israeli flag on top. These are just a few of the more than 300,000 israeli reservists to serve in the war. Unpredictable days are ahead. Israeli military says they are prepared for a prolonged battle and the Defense Minister has ordered a complete siege on the gaza strip saying there will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. He added were fighting human animals. The level of conflict that were seeing today has not been experienced in israel in decades but yet people responded quickly when the war erupted, they did not need to receive orders to show up for duty. You have seen the images of cars outside of Military Bases in tel aviv and jerusalem. People understood something very bad had happened. They didnt have all the details but knew this meant war. And so they showed up and as their military continues to strike gaza, throughout the day and night, they are preparing to enter on the ground. Rocket fire now into Southern Israel. You can hear the explosions overhead. Hamas has launched a huge barrage. Guys, just stay down. There has been an impact right here. The black smoke rising up. One of those rockets just fired from the gaza strip slammed into a house behind me. Some secondary explosions taking place. Many things on fire. We can see debris on the road. Paramedics and firefighters ran into the building. Theyre not sure who was inside. This was not an area that was evacuated. It is chaos here but just an example of what is taking place in Southern Israel. The paramedics bringing in stretchers to try to evacuate anyone who was wounded inside. As we were driving here you could see people in the neighborhood running toward the building into the fire trying to look for people that might have survived. Everyone was so scared. People are crying and we had to find shelter in less than 20 seconds. And this is the way we have to protect ourselves. More than 4500 rockets have been fired into southern and Central Israel since this conflict began saturday morning. Remember, it started with the slaughter of civilians. Israel today says more than 800 people are dead, most of them civilians. Dozens of soldiers. The Artillery Units firing at this hour. Air strikes continue and the war is underway. Dana on the hostage. What have you heard about any additional plans to try to find them . What is the status of the hostages and the plans to get them out . There are dozens of Israeli Citizens and soldiers inside the gaza strip. They were taken hostage. Now prisoners of war. Hamas and Islamic Jihad say theyve taken them into the Tunnel System underneath gaza and nearly impossible for the israelis to find where these hostages are held. So even once they go in on the ground they wont be able to conduct a raid and rescue them right away. This is an operation that could take weeks, if not months and part of the reason were already hearing about negotiation behind the scenes. A source told fox news this morning that qatari mediateors are on the phone with hamas officials trying to convince them to free israeli Women And Children that were taken into gaza during that initial Ground Assault on saturday morning. The images were heart breaking. They were terrifying. Women holding their small babies as hamas militants holding guns yelled at them dragging them into the gaza strip. Just horrific scenes. Unimaginable scenes. Stories were hearing from civilians in Southern Israel horrific and the only way to describe what has taken place. When it comes to the hostages, the families are doing everything they can to get any piece of information but there is no information to receive. If you go on social media in israel and you see every person that lives here are posting photos, Posting Phone Numbers asking, pleading for anyone who knows anything about their loved ones to reach out. Unfortunately, those who were taken both dead and alive into gaza, their fate is unknown. Dana trey yengst, stay safe and well be back as developments are happening there as we speak. Want to bring in ambassador Robert Obrien, the chairman of the American Global strategies and former National Security advisor. Mr. Ambassador, lots to ask you about. The fact that there were americans killed, where do you think this stands now when you are in the Situation Room and in the white house and advising the president . Obviously israel is our strongest ally. Has this changed at all in your mind in the last 24 hours . Well, dana, there are two things that changed. One americans have been killed by a terrorist organization. Potentially a dozen killed and we dont know how Many Americans taken hostage. This complicates the life of the planners in the Situation Room dramatically. The second thing we learned from Wall Street Journal reporting which seems to be better than the intelligence sources the administration is getting is iran is heavely involved in this operation and green lighted it, planned it, and then they did so at the same time we were paying 6 billion to iran. We unfroze the assets or paying ransom or gift whatever you want to describe it. The white house is running around in circles trying to make it look like it wasnt a ransom payment. We were paying 6 billion to the iranians they were planning on appear ration to Kill Americans and israelis and take them hostage. It is pretty horrific. Dana trey yengst said qatari officials are on the phone with hamas. It seems galling to me. Are you the diplomat. What do you think of that . Well look, the first effort to rescue these prisoners or hostages, when hamas calls these people prisoners of war, they arent engaged in a war but acts of bar areism and savage re since we havent seen the call fate in syria and iraq. This is a Geneva Convention situation. What is happening with the qatar east im speculating here. My guess is theyre telling hamas these images are so horrific you have no one supporting you in the world and the retribution will be dramatic. Get the Women And Children out. Dana they have support from iran and the importance of the diplomacy here. Which can be tough, right . You can have tough diplomacy. What do you think about the allies sponsor our allies response when we know iran. The reason i say the qatari outreach seems galling, you wonder about the support there also. I think the qataris are trying to use their good offices. Qatar is across the gulf from iran and exposed to the iranians and they are probably not confident in the United States ability to defend them. Weve seen the kowtowing to iran from this administration and talk about galling, the galling part is giving iran 6 billion for five american hostages. And the problem with that, dana, is one, you create a market for future Hostage Taking and two, i said this at the time, you fund future Terrorist Operations. What we didnt think would happen is those plans would be so vividly illustrated so quickly as weve seen now. Major Terrorist Operation and major Hostage Taking including of americans. Dana how important is it that there not be this medicals for israel to stand down . We said were with ukraine for the long haul, over a year since they were invaded by russia. We have to be with israel for the long haul. This will be a long operation. Neutralize gaza and turn using their internal lines of communications and internal supply lines and go north and take out hezbollah. That is the only way youll deal with iranians and protect the israeli people in the long run. We have to have their back. When folks at the u. N. Start calling for israel to show restraint we need to remove the orgy of violence to start the war. It wasnt started by israel. It was started by iran, hezbollah and hamas. Dana we appreciate it. Aishah there was an incredible display of patriotism and unity in israel as a group of Israeli Soldiers banded together to sing their National Anthem before heading out on deployment. Watch this. Aishah they showed their dedication to israel as they prepare to defend it on the front lines. Dana, there is often a compareson between what just happened over the weekend and what continues to happen and our 9 11 and the country is so small comparatively. When they lose this many people, i mean, it just it is striking. Dana one of the things that trey yengst was saying if you go on social media you will see it on the news it is hard to watch. But i also think its so important that we dont turn away. This is reality, this is whats happening on the ground there and there will be time to figure out what went wrong and what did they miss and how did they miss it. All those questions will come eventually. In the meantime the show of solidarity you showed and the patriotism. Can give us hope that they have all that they need within themselves and the support of the United States and allies in order to fight back. Israel strikes back launching air strikes in gaza. Emerging about the israeli military. Where its eyes closed in the leadup to the unprecedented Terror Attack that killed hundred dress . The United StatesStanding Shoulder to shoulder sending ships and Aircraft Carrier closer to israel in a show of force. Hamas showing no mercy in taking over 100 civilians hostage. 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