Our first and foremost responsibility is to keep israelis safe. After the slaughter and the horror that we saw this weekend, were going everything within our power to be vigilant. The optimistic scenario here is that shes held hostage in gaza and not dead on the street. Were people with families. We want to be back with our families again. Neil the war still on. Help on the way. President biden announcing more support for israel as now the search for american hostages continues. The son of one of those hostages is appealing to the administration for help. He is here. The latest on potential threating in in this country. Why americans are being urged to remain vigilant. What do they know that we do not . Welcome. Im neil cavuto. Glad to have you. Lets get to it with trey yingst in israel. Trey . Neil, good afternoon. As we speak, the israelis continue to hit targets along the northern and eastern part of the gaza strip. Theres tanks staging. They have their lights on and engines running. The soldiers look like theyre prepared to enter gaza when they come. Tonight, hamas tried to infiltrated in to southern israel. They were engaged by Israeli Forces and three hamas members were killed. Throughout the day, weve seen mortar fire in syria, rocket fire from lebanon and a country bracing for the possibility of this expanding to a multifront conflict. Earlier today i reached out to a hamas official inside gaza to give comment on the attack that took place saturday. He ignored my questions about the massacre about civilians but the palestinians will remain in their homeland talking acted the potential of an israeli occupation. Today were learning the death toll from the attack saturday has reached more than 1,000 people. Were also getting new numbers about the number of militants that crossed ito southern israel. The military says more than 1,500 of them. Bodies litter the area as israeli troops look to regain control of southern israel. We know that rockets from lebanon, the major concern tonight as the israelis worry and call up more than 300,000 reservists. Neil . Neil we want to go to the white house right now. The president speaking on this issue in the last hour. Jacqui . Yeah, neil. It was the president s first remarks since we got the announcement that americans had been killed in these attacks. The president confirming the death toll of americans has risen to 14. Officials revealed that theres 20 americans that are presently missing. Its not clear that all 20 of them or what number of them may be held hostage at this point in time. The president emphasized that the u. S. Commitment to israel is rock solid and warned against any bad actors trying to take advantage of the situation. I just got off the phone, a third call with Prime Minister netanyahu. I told him, the United States experiences it. Our response will been swift and overwhelming. Ive consulted with congress throughout this crisis. When congress returns,er with announcing them to take urgent action to fund the National Security requirements of our critical partners. National security adviser Jake Sullivan appeared to get choked up answer ago question about why Neither Israeli intelligence for u. S. Intelligence saw anything of this scale coming. He also addressed reporting that while theres not yet any direct link to iran in this attack, that they are complicit that that tearist state is complicit in this by Funding Hamas over years, boosting their military, training people. He gave no clear answer on whether or not the u. S. Is considering refreezing the 6 billion in funds that we just unlocked for that country. You just laid out all of the ways that iran is complicit in this and facilitated it over years of support for hamas is. That reason enough to freeze refreeze the 6 billion that the u. S. Helped unlock for them to get in exchange for the prisoner . We have not had a dollar of the 6 billion spend. Ill leave it at that. Officials say the yes was not yes, its being considered. It was yes, calling on another reporter. But im also cautioned its not a no. Neil Jacqui Heinrich at the white house on that. I want to go to this story that youve probably said. This man was taken hostage last saturday. Hes been doing his best to find his mother and make sure shes safe. Very good to have you. Im sorry for this situation youre dealing with. Have you heard anything since youve been talking to the media and addressing this . Thank you for having me. No. The answer is no sadly. We have not yet heard from any Government Official although we have gotten promises that we will be contacted. Where was your mother . Was she add this festival . Maybe you can tell us what happened. Yeah. My mother just recently retired. Saturday morning she was sitting in the porch in our home. Just enjoying the morning. This tragedy was unfolding. Yes. Just a nice old lady on her porch. Neil how close was she to where this festival was going on . The festival was a few miles away. My mom lives near one of the epicenters for this attack. We are talking about a community of 1,000 people where we have over 100 people reported dead. More than that reported kidnapped by the Hamas Terrorists. Neil have you talked to your mother that morning . Any correspondence at all . This attack was starting, my mom gave me a direct call. We got on to a call with me and my siblings supporting my mom and trying to reassure her that shes safe. At that point she began to hear shouting in arabic outside of her home. Shooting im urged here to enter the shelter and keep the door closed. She managed to do that until a certain time when my siblings heard the Hamas Terrorists barge in to the shelter with a lot of screaming in arabic. Thats where the call got disconnected. So both my brother and sister were on the call when my mother was taken. I know youve been in contact with the u. S. Embassy in israel. What have you learned from them . Unfortunately the Information Stream both with Israel Government and the u. S. Administration and embassy here in tel aviv was one direction. Were providing information to them and not vice versa. Theyre not providing any information to us. I heard that your mom actually was born and raised in california. Right . Sometimes in the 80s she moved to israel. Had she had any problems, certainly nothing like this, but any incidents involving hamas . Had she ever shared with you problems . My mom was born and raised in california. Her dad was an air force engineer working for the navy. Theyre kind of in between naval bases in california. The area where its at is on the border with the gaza strip. So its not been relaxed for long years now. Never to this extent of terrorism and homicide and basically destroying every living thing. Children on the sidewalks and roads. Neil did she feel safe there . For the most part, people in our community including my mom did feel safe. We say that it was heaven for 95 of the time and hell for the rest 5 . Because the area was terrorized with missiles every few months. You kind of get used to that reality. As tough as that may sound. I think that the Terrorist Attack from saturday morning broke the trust and the confidence that we had living where were living by the gaza strip. Neil how are you holding up, your Family Holding up . Yeah, its tough. I think that the most important or most difficult issue for us currentlied is the uncertainty and unclarity about whats going on with my mother. The last communication that we had with her was on that call when the terrorist broke into her shelter. That was saturday morning. Since then, we havent heard anything from anyone. We do not know what happened to her. Thats a very tough situation to deal with. Having said that, we are strong. My mother is a very tough lady. Im sure that shes holding up. Keeping high spirits as much as possible. Were keeping strong for my mom and the rest of the people in our community. Stay strong. Be able to rebuild what has been destroyed. Neil hang in there. What youre going through, i can not imagine. Hopefully you get something that will give you hope in the days ahead. Just an incredible story. My best to you and your family, nahar. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Neil meantime, the fears of what is happening over there that it could happen over here. Israel calls up hundreds of thousands of reservists. A warning in New York City that theyre on the lock youd for Something Like that here. But they dont see any signs of it after this. Theres something going around the gordon home. Good thing gertrude found delsym. Now whats going around is 12hour cough relief. 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To see buildings burned down, cars with bullet holes throughout them and completely smashed, bodies of dead, civilians being brought out of the settlement, its just a shocking situation. To think to see going into a loot of these houses. Americans like johnny, an israeli middle and the, was called back to fight. Hes part of the largest draft in israel. The special Operations Forces team near the gaza border. Thats where more than 100 bodies have been discovered in the small village. The work is far from over. New videos were looking at show the horrific moments where people in that community appear to be kidnapped by hamas. Many taken hostage. Crews searching for life in that rubble as well. Donnie said they found two women that survived the attack in the village. Going into these houses and searching for these people and just seeing the insides of them turned upsidedown. The door is smashed in. You can only imagine that that was hamas trying to break in. Neil, as israel continues the draft, teams on the ground say they need more supplies on the ground like helmets and bull left proof vests that gear could mean the difference between life and death. Theyre out there doing everything that they can helping the women, children and men. Neil thanks, alexis. You might have caught on air Jake Sullivan, the National Security adviser outlining what the United States will do right now in response to this following up on the president s address. It wasnt so much as vague comments about iran and their responsibility for this attack or helping in this attack on the part of hamas, but his answer to a question that concerns something far bigger. Take a look. Under what circumstances would you put American Forces on the ground to help out . At this point, that is not something that is under planning. What we are focused on a when we talk about sending experts, its people that can work on a intelligence, that can work on overall planning and coordination with the israeli government. Were not sending forces to israel. Ill leave it at that for now. Neil ill leaf it at that for now. That raised a lot of questions and cures you responses from people wondering is that ultimately where this could be going. American troops on the ground in israel. General jack keane with us. General, what do you think . Well, im stunned by the president s speech and also by Jake Sullivans response to questions here. The president gave a heartfelt support certainly of the suffering that has taken place and the need to support israel to see this operation that theyre going to conduct through to its completion. But he never ever mentioned iran who is directing their proxies to attack israel and has been doing so for 40 years. They admit that iran is broadly complicit as Jake Sullivan said in funding, training and supporting hamas. But we dont have any specific confirmation that they were involved in the planning or coordination of this attack. What he should have said, he said we can make this assumption based on irans previous activities that they directed this, helped plan it, helped coordinate it and help achieve its success. Therefore we are going to support israel, but were also going to make certain that if any american hostage loses their life at the hands of the hamas, then iran, were going to react to that. You will pay the price for that. And direct that attention to the iranian leadership. The same thing. He makes the president made this speech and made a clear point about the expansion of the war. He did it in reference to the Aircraft Carrier and the Military Response that is in the region. Its there to deter an expansion of the war. What are we talking about . Lebanon, hezbollah opening up a northern front, possibly syria, et cetera. Mostly its all about lebanon. He should have said if you do, you have forced me to take action. We would not take support if they wouldnt have asked us to help them. They have never asked us since 1948 in every confrontation theyve had. Theyve been able to deal with it on their own. In they want our help, we would be there. I would put that out there so the iranians understand it. Thats the deterrence, not just having the ships there, but what . Deterrence takes two things. You capable the capability, the enemies have to see it. They have to belief youre going to use it. Those two things together gets you deterrence. He left out, im going to use it. That is the problem im having. The president needs to revisit his entire strategy dealing with iran, neil. The appeasement and contain meant strategy is not working. Hes got to confront them. The only thing that they understand. Really slap the sanctions on them. Pull back the 6 billion. Find every way you can to dry up their funding and their support. Then certainly dealing with the specificses of this, do the couple things that i just mentioned so this thing doesnt get worse for the us citizens there, but also for the Israeli Citizens in terms of the expansion of the war. Be unequivocal. Be clear. This is a time when you have to find your spine and your strong moral compass and stand up for stability, security and you have to be willing to confront these adversaries. Neil i wish i had more time, general. What was the strategy for hamas . Surely had to anticipate the sweeping response that israel is offering right now. That it would be what hamas did times ten. So whether complicit with i ran was the thinking that went in to that unless its encourage ago widening of the war, bringing hezbollah into it. We got the reports from Missile Attacks from syria. I dont know. The strategy escapes me here. Well, one of the basic strategies that theyve always had, they want a Strong Military response from israel in the gaza strip. Neil that it would unite the arab world. Right. They want the casualties. This is the horror of hamas. They expose the civilian population there. Theyre the government. Their designed to protect. But they hide themselves in that population. They weaponize their factories underneath mosques and schools. And then when the israelis are coming with their guns, they want that Civilian Population Casualty Rate to go up. They want the International Community to condemn the israelis. How the hypocrisy and horror associated with that these are their people. They want high casualty rates. Thats one of the purposes here. In 16 years, they have never done anything like we have seen in the first two days of this. They know that will give a strong response from the israelis. They want it. Their people will suffer. Neil general, were seeing the explosions going on in gaza city right now. There had been talk of a land war, getting boots on the ground to teal with that. They put out warnings that this is coming, whether this is the beginning of that, i have no idea. Who is the next stage of this as you see it . Well, theyre staging and preparing to conduct a Military Incursion in the gaza. Their purpose here is completely different than what they have said before. Before it was always go in hard, go in fast and push them back for a numbers of years before they can do this again. Kill as many leaders and as many fighters as you can, destroy the missiles and what you the get your hands on of any value and the tunnels and get out. Get out bef