Israel fighting back against evil. For a fourth day Hamas Terrorists have brought a barbarism unseen since attacks on jews last mid century. Will the world and especially the United States do more than watch . And we had all better pay attention. Our mutual enemies are thirsty for a broader conflict. Families of americans being held hostage are pleading for help. President biden has been silent for two days. Finally set to address the nation again today. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. Israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu says his forces are, quote, just beginning their counter. Israel has been pounding hamas with air strikes and their forces are also amassing at the Gaza Border Signaling a Ground Assault could be imminent. Were now seeing the faces of some of those americans held hostage or missing in the conflict. This man was at a Music Festival. There is an american serving in the Israeli Defense force and another woman, a 66yearold mom of four and grandmother of seven who spent most of her adult life as a nurse and a midwife. Countless lives touched by her as she brought new life into the world. Their families today. There were two texts in a row from our son at 8 11. The first one said i love you, and immediately at 8 11 also it said im sorry. I took it to mean i love you and im sorry because whatever is going to happen is going to toss cause you tremendous pain and worry. It is not a war, a fair fight. It is a pagrome. Hundreds of heavily armed well orga organized terrorists came over the border to kill, maim and destroy civilian life around the border. 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 are held hostage by these terrorists. Harris Fox Team Coverage now. Senior Foreign Affairs correspondent greg palkot is on the ground in israel. Matt finn giving us a deeper look at the Hostage Crisis here and also in focus, former israeli ambassador to the united nations, danny. I want to go straight to greg. An active day and morning here watching you put on a helmet. Go into shelter. Whats the latest activity you are seeing in the war . Harris, a lot of activity coming from both sides. I suppose in the past hour if i give you our latest news is we saw rocket after rocket after rocket being fired by hamas militants from gaza, which is only about two miles from where we are standing headed in the direction of a major Southern City called ashkalon. The skies were filled with the rockets. Luckily for the citizens there, the Iron Dome Defenses of israel worked for the most part. Knocked out most of the rockets. Some hit and a sign of hamass very black humor, they had prior to that had told the citizens of that city to leave by 5 00 p. M. Or they would send the rockets. They sent the rockets. Very much is going the other way, too, harris. Weve been Hearing Plane after plane after plane of the Israeli Defense force. The air force hitting Something Like 250 targets inside gaza that they describe as the infrastructure of the hamas militants. Where were standing right now after 3 1 2, 4 days of fighting, the israeli army is saying they are in control of this town and 21 other towns. But again thats a long time. I will step away and ask our cameraman to show you the scene of The Last Battle here. This was the Police Station here. Hamas militants were inside and did battle with the police and with the soldiers. And they finally lost out. In fact, it took the entire Police Station down and now they are tearing it down. They are clearing it away. In the words of one resident so we can build again. Thats the determination here. The Hostage Situation is very serious. Hostages have been taken from here and other towns. They are inside gaza. As you have been saying, americans involved. Americans speaking out. On top of the death toll. Remember, 900 plus dead on the israeli side including 11 americans. Also palestinians, close to 800 palestinians dead and thousands of wounded on both sides. A lot of destruction there but a lot of fear and pain on this side. We can tell you that. Weve heard from Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu in the last 24 hours. He has been saying this coming Military Move will be something that generations will remember. We have a little foretaste of it here today. Weve been watching dozens of tanks lining up along the border ready to go in if the decision is made to do it on the ground. That could be a tricky matter. Harris greg, before i let you go, something that has been really startling to watch today is how fast we are learning those Hostage Stories and we know that hamas and its blood thirsty evil has been putting out videos and will continue to show the world what it is doing to basically annihilate a population of people they were living next to. They are not kind to their own people. So what you spell out is also getting a lot of palestinians killed because of the way that they are fighting and the way that they are drawing in now an entire force from israel. I have think thats a very good point, harris. There are 2. 3 million People Living in the gaza strip. One of the most densely Populated Areas of the world. For the most important they are not involved in what these militants are doing so these militants are not only doing harm to israelis and americans and others that weve been seeing but doing harm to their own people. As israel is exacting its revenge again what weve been Hearing Pounding air strikes after air strikes, harris. Harris the reason i bring that up is the politics at play here are that you want to make israel look like the bad guy in all of this even youve wageed war as a terror group. You sandwich the citizens in between you, even your own citizens. Hamas, cruel. Cant imagine theyre doing this on their own. Well come back to you. Were watching the live pictures you were telling us about. A lot on fire in the center of our screen as israel has gun its Counter Attack not on the ground, were told yet, but a lot of power going in via the air. As hamas continues to shoot back missiles and the iron dome for right now is holding. It was down a bit in the beginning of this on friday when it began and they were shooting thousands of missiles and that iron dome was working hard and could not keep up. You have seen the heartbreaking videos and heard from their families those hostage families i was just telling you about. The unprecedented Hostage Crisis take a turn. Hamas took more than 100 during the attack. They are threatening to execute who they call their prisoners. These are civilians now. They are going to execute them unless the Israeli Government pulls back its bombardment of the gaza strip. These guys are cowards on top of everything else. Matt finn is following that part of the story. Matt. This morning americans are pleading for the safe return of their missing Family Members and imploring the president and Israeli Government to communicate with them and take action. There are many horrific videos emerging showing the moments that women, men and even children were suddenly taken captive by hamas. Israel alone estimates hamas is holding more than 150 soldiers and civilians in hostage gaza and they are threatening to start killing hostages if israel strikes civilians without warning. One man was on the phone with his mother as she was abducted. It is our hope, which is a little bit ridiculous at this stage to say that the optimistic scenario here is that she is held hostage in gaza and not dead on the street. And one young woman tells fox news that her family discovered her brother was abducted. Her brother was marched through a streets by an armed terrorist. He was taken from the Music Festival. She is sharing the video of her brother to help find her but having difficulty watching this footage. They posted a lot of disturbing pictures and videos on telegram and i really cant im sorry, i cant watch this video. And right now there are any number of americans remaining in israel that are trying to get out. It is growing more difficult as airlines like delta and american have stopped flying to tel aviv. Harris. Harris that will make it hard. You know, i want to have a deeper conversation, matt, maybe you know. I may wait for the military guests that we have coming up expeditiously. When you stop flying to and fro tel aviv you cant be the solution. Any threats against the airlines that they would do that or what is the calculus. They were trying to fly out on friday. They are trying to get on an Israeli Airline to athens, greece today. He says there is no guarantee theyll get on the plane and further they expose themselves to any incoming missiles or anything like that on their way to the airport. A lot of americans have the flightening store eaves right now. Harris the American Airlines are having the same thoughts. Excellent point about the missiles. They dont just have to go toward one part of the country. They can put them where they want. Thank you very much. Well come back to you this hour as well as the news warrants. In focus now from tel aviv, the former israeli ambassador to the United States and member of israels house of representatives. Ambassador, when you and i have spoken in earlier times, it was always about the potential for this. What was the Tipping Point that you see that got hamas in a position to be able to make this kind of strike on a sovereign nation next door . To be honest with you, we dont know. You cannot look for any logic when you deal with terrorists. There is no logic for 9 11, no logic for isis, those barbaric terrorists unprovoked attacked us. Chose to attack communities and not military bases. Today we were exposed to horrible scenes in israel where we found the bodies of Young Children who were tied and were killed in a brutal manner. Some were burned while they were alive. Some of them were decapitated. Horrible things they did to Young Children and women. Those bar barons. We need to eliminate them. We shouldnt look for a reasonable explanation. I dont think we can find one. Harris when you hear the president of the United States and others who will push for he did on saturday push for a more moderate tone. Obviously condemning whats happening but not moving in right away. When you hear that kind of response, when you dont see a Huge Movement from Around The World supporting israel full throatedly, i dont know if you saw what russian president Vladimir Putin put out but my goodness, it was like milquetoast. What does it tell you what you are up against in terms of defending yourselves as a country . We know we can count only on ourselves. Thank god we have the ability to protect ourselves. We have a strong army. At the same time we bury the victims and we are in pain, we also regrouping our military. We have called up the reserves, more than 300,000 Boys And Girls and getting ready to hit back and well hit them down. Well hunt down the militants and who committed war crimes and they will pay a heavy price. I can tell you it will not look nice in gaza and calling the people of gaza to move away from the headquarters of hamas. Were coming to get them. We will be strong and evil because we know we cant have mercy on those kind of brutal enemies. Harris you know, i know i want to ask you if this is still the case. Are you a lieutenant in the reserves for the idf . Indeed, you have a very good memory. Today my son is a lieutenant so my son was called on saturday at 6 00 a. M. When the attack started. He went down south and we pray for him and wish him the best. At my age, i am not active anymore but i do participate as a member of the parliament and the Defense Committee and we are all together here. Now what happened we dont find any dispute in israel. No left or right. We are united to defeat hamas. Harris tell me the numbers you anticipate you are up against. I was reading some 300,000 of the idf, including your son as you just shared, and i do know when all hands are on deck, at least when my father served he used to say they wont call me to the battle lines but i can help them with a lot of things like strategy. I imagine you are in that position, too. What kind of numbers versus hamas . How many of them or do you think theyve been fortified from what youve seen . So we know talking about Tens Of Thousands of militants but it is challenging. It is not a military. They are hiding in the civilian. They attack civilians in israel and go and hide behind civilians in in gaza. We have no option. We have to go there and look for them and kill them. Because, you know, after you saw those pictures it reminded us horrors from the holocaust. I dont recall in the last 75 years when you saw people taking jews out of their homes and killing them in daylight. It was horrible. We are committed to stop it. Harris i opened this hour with something that we have not seen since the middle of the last century and thats what you are talking about. And one of the Family Members of the four hostages who gave a news conference, four who have been taken and their families were given a news conference. Compare it to pograms leading up to the holocaust. We have to watch and see if our thirsty enemies who we have in common in iran in particular, would want to make this a wider conflict. What are your thoughts on that . So, we pay a very much attention to whats happening in our northern border with hezbollah. Thats another proxies of iran. We were talking about the saudis and u. S. To expand abraham accord in the region. All of a sudden hamas attacks us. I think iran was not happy to see more peace in the region and thats why they initiated this Border Attack against israel unprovoked. So we if they will do that we will fight hard against them also. The iranians. They are doing things behind the scenes and we can see their fingerprints all over the area. Harris like what . Mainly funding. Training, we know many of the militants of hamas flew to tehran to learn how to use explosive and how to attack our facilities and then for us we were caught by surprise. We have to admit that. In 1973 it happened during the yom kippur holiday. Now it was another holiday. We were celebrating the holy day. We were caught by surprise again. I can assure you we will win the war. We have no other choice. Were coming together. We will prevail. We will need the support of the American People to stand for us and pray for us but especially when International Community will start to pressure us to have a ceasefire or blame us for suffering, so we will not listen to them. With all due respect. If you are an ally of israel you should tell us finish the job. Do what you have to do. Harris on the other side of all this, too. Theyve closed their border and thats egypt. Interesting they are closing their border to the very they are arabs. They dont even want to help the palestinians coming out of that area. It is really fascinating. I want to get to this. You talk about what you did not know coming up. We know something of that. You compare it to 9 11 and pearl harbor. National security advisor jake sullivan, expected to be at the White House Briefing later today, said this last week about the middle east. Watch. The war in yemen is in its 19 month truce. For now the iranian attacks against u. S. Forces have stopped. Our presence in iraq is stable. I emphasize for now. All of that can can change. The middle east region is quieter today than it has been in two decades. Harris what does that even mean to you . So, you know, the naivety is something we cant argue about. When you have a terrorist organization using its funds to dig tunnels and acquire rockets and missiles they will use it one day. We are not sure when and how it will happen but we knew it was the intention and why i think at this time the government must go all the way to eradicate hamas not only to hurt the capabilities of hamas but this time to finish the job, to make sure we can live peacefully and it will be good for the palestinians. They will be able to build their society not under the regime of hamas. Who is taking advantage of the palestinians themselves. Harris ambassador, thank you for being in focus. Appreciate your expertise and we pray for you and your country. The pentagon is rushing aid to israel. And looking to accelerate existing contracts for weapons shipments. We reported to you yesterday that it is already sent its most advanced aircraft carrier, the u. S. S. Gerald ford to the mediterranean. That happened sunday. Dozens of tanks and hundreds of Israeli Soldiers