Garner enough support for their nominee. It is a whole mess. And well have more on that later in the show. We begin tonight in israel where earlier today Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu announced that he is forming an Emergency Unity government in the wake of the hamas attack. Adding two Opposition Leaders to his cabinet. Netanyahu said the newly. Formed government would, quote, crush hamas. It comes as the nation intensified, relentlessly bombarding gaza with missiles throughout the day, leaving the streets unrecognizable. Entire neighborhoods destroyed. Tonight, all of gaza is completely in the dark. The fuel to the Power Station ran out after being cut off by israel, leaving the people of gaza with no electricity and no running water. On top of that, the humanitarian situation there is being described as catastrophic. More than 260,000 people have now been displaced. Authorities are pleading for help. And hospitals are overwhelmed, filled with the cries of children. Meanwhile, hamas militants have been Firing Rockets at israel into the night. On the border, the scale and browalty of this weekends attacks are still being uncovered. One israeli soldier describing the horrific scene inside a kibbutz that was ambushed by hamas militants. Its not a war. Its not a battlefield. You see the babies, the mother, the father in their bedrooms, in their Protection Rooms and how the terrorist killed them, its not a war. Its a massacre. Its a terror activity. The human toll of this war has been catastrophic, at least 1200 israelis have been killed and in gaza, at least 1100 people have been killed. Between 100 and 150 people are estimated to have been taken hostage by hamas. Something President Biden addressed today when speaking at a round table with Jewish Community leaders. We want to make it real clear, were working on every aspect of the Hostage Crisis in israel, including deploying experts to advise and assist with recovery efforts. Press is going to shout to me, and many of you are, that what are you doing to bring these get these folks home . If i told you i wouldnt be able to get them home. Folks, theres a lot were doing. A lot were doing. I have not given up hope. Im bringing these folks home. This all comes amidst growing signs that a Ground Invasion may be imminent. As Israeli Forces gather near the border. As Nbcs Richard Engel points out. Reporter israel has brought in enough tanks and armor for a full scale ground war and is now mobilizing the more than 360,000 reservists called up for national service. A new phase of this conflict is about to begin. And there will be many casualties. For israeli troops, the risks are high. Hamas planned for saturdays murderous rampage into israel for a year. Its gunmen showing a level of training and savagery that shocked israel and the world. New photos shows hamas Gunmen Para Gliding into that Music Festival saturday morning. Hamas is prepared for israels Ground Invasion and says it welcomes it. Hamas has a network of tunnels and booby traps and knows the ground far better than israel. For the 2 million civilians in gaza, the risks are even higher. Gaza is one of the most denselypopulated areas on earth. Street to street fighting could kill thousands. Richard engel joins me now from ashdod, israel. Lets start at the last point that you were making, richard. Thank you for joining us. A Ground Invasion, where would it come from . And how would it even work in that tiny strip of land that we know that gaza is. We can throw up the if we can. Please explain where would it come from . Reporter well, if you pull up a map its easy where it could come from becau would come from everywhere, all sides. Israel would move in from all sides. And i think thats not a secret. Im not revealing any plans. I dont have inside knowledge. But israeli troops are deployed all around gaza. And they would try and overwhelm it. There would be attacks from the sea. There would be attacks from the air. There would be drone attacks. There would be attempts to block out communications with jamming equipment. So it would be a fullscale invasion. Israel has done this before. They have gone into the gaza strip. But usually when theyve gone in theyve just stayed in the north or theyve tried to cut the region in half. The actual Tactical Operations will be revealed, if they do this. But generally, they push in from multiple sides. They cut the roads. They cut the north from the south. They use a lot of drones and a lot of jamming. And it is highly destructive. I was in gaza during a previous Ground Assault. And there was one area, it was more or less levelled to the ground. And it was it became a parking lot. There was no way that anyone could survive in that area. So, it is highly destructive. You cant move tanks into a builtup area and start firing them without causing a lot of destruction. This is not a pinpoint operation. But, in addition to the blunt move in with the tanks and the armored bulldozers, there will also be because of all the hostage situation, Commando Raids because they are going to be looking for the hostages. So this will be a highly complex operation, very difficult to carry out for israel, very dangerous for israel and for the troops involved. And potentially extremely lethal for all of the palestinians who are there. Hamas is saying, we welcome it. Bring it on. We want to fight on our own territory. We know the territory better than anyone else. And hamas is feeling very confident after this weekends assault into israel that have raised the groups reputation across the arab world, at least. And now we will see what happens if israeli troops do go in. It will make this early phase of the conflict pale in comparison. Thank you for explaining that. If we can put the map back. Because this is the question, if there is an assault from the sea, from the north of gaza gaza is tiny. Were blowing it up to try t make you see what it is. But its really small. There is only one way out for the 2 million civilians and that is to go south, to egypt, you can see is south of the gaza strip. Egypt has been talking about trying td , trying to get u. N. Aid in. The u. N. Talked about it as well, but egypt rejected any move to set up safe corridors inside of egypt for people trying to flee south. What is the status of that Southern Crossing . Because if egypt closes it, that means that this catastrophic assault that youre describing takes place at a place where everyone in gaza is trapped there. Reporter so, that is generally the dynamic that happens. The assault comes. There are two main cities in gaza. Theres gaza city in the north and honunis in the south. There are other smaller communities, but two major urban centers. One of the first things that israel has done in the past is cut it off from the north to the south to prevent movement from one area to the other and prevent hamas from resupplying and communicaing and gathering in force. And the other thing that happens is people rush toward the border with egypt. Egypt traditionally has not wanted to open that border because it doesnt want all of the 2 million gazans to end up on egyptian territory and may never leave and become new egyptians and the gaza strip could empty out. So negotiations and discussions are already under way and appeals are already under way to open some sort of humanitarian corridor into gaza to get supplies in, to allow medical relief in, to give the people some sort of way to survive, to give the civilians a way to survive. But so far that corridor hasnt been opened and its unclear if it will. Richard engel, thank you very much. We really appreciate your eyes and knowledge on this. Thank you. Let me bring in msnbc political reporter, ben rhodes, in the in the obama administration. Hopefully you were able to hear richard, ben. Because what were talking about is potentially a major Ground Assault inside of a very small, packed, denselypacked area where no one can leave. So this could be difficult and then an attempt to also locate hostages up to 150 people who only hamas knows where they are. From a National Security point of view, are there what are the risks here . You know, because the idea, im assuming, is to not have this spark a larger war. But inside of the countries that are around the region,re going to see whatever the aftermath of that assault is and god only knows wt happens next. Thats right, joy. I mean, theres so many risks involved here. First of all, there are obviously risks to Israeli Ground forces moving in to a densely populated area where hamas may have prepared to ambush troops coming in. Theres obviously catastrophic risks for the civilians and we should think about the innocent gazans trapped and have no way out and will be in the crossfire of this assault and already are in the crosshairs of the bombardment of gaza. But then beyond that, joy, as you point out, there are risks that if the images coming out of gaza are horrific, of a humanitarian catastrophe, there are risks that that might prompt hezbollah to enter the conflict from the north. Hezbollah has actually said that a Ground Invasion might, might bring them into this war. And so then all of a sudden you have another front in this, a major iranian proxy and more Capable Organization than hamas and hezbollah with rockets and with manpower potentially coming in and escalating this conflict from the north and if the images again are obviously going to be triggering, you could see uprisings in the west bank. We have already seen some settlers, Israeli Settlers attack palestinians in retribution for the horrific attacks by hamas and suddenly you could be looking at a multiple front war in the west bank from lebanon and as well in gaza. So there a lot of risks associated with that kind of escalation. Human risks and security risks. Absolutely. I will just note that reuters is report what had the saudi prince and irans president talked since diplomatic ties restored and the they discussed the need to, quote, End War Crimes against palestine. Theyre not making noises that sound like theyre very much supportive of what israel is planning to do. Let me play President Biden and what he had to say and he has known netanyahu for a long time and he reiterates that. Take a listen. Ive known bb for over 40 years. Very frank relationship. I know him well. And the one thing that i did say that it is really important that israel all the anger, frustration and cannot explain it, that exists, is that they operate by the rules of war. The rules of war. And there are rules of war. Netanyahu has a new government. What do you think that means for the way that they might conduct any operations Going Forward, presumably the new government includes some slightly more moderate voices. Slightly. I think what it means, joy, is you had a really unstable situation in some respects in israel over the course of the last several months because you have the most far right government in israels history and thats sparked Protest Movements in response to an attempted effort to seize kind of judicial power in israel. Thats created tensions in the society. So i think above all, it kind of signals a greater degree of unity. But, make no mistake, even the people coming into the government are pretty hard lined when it comes to not just this attack but even previous gaza wars. I think the warning that youre hearing from President Biden is he wants to be very respectful understanding the enormous emotions and anger that exist in israel right now and the desire to destroy really the Military Wing of hamas that carried out this attack. At the same time, theres both that Security Concern of this war could escalate, it could get worse. Its the middle east. It could go into a regional conflagration in ways that could be dangerous for israel and also it is a reality. You heard him mention repeatedly the laws of war. What hes eluding to there is collective punishment, essentially punishing the citizens of gaza for what hamas did. That is not permitted under the rules of war. Targeting hamas, taking out its Military Wing, thats obviously Military Objective that israel legitimately has right now. But this is difficult in a city of 2 Million People. And so i think President Biden is trying to at the same time signal support and understanding for how israelis are feeling but counselling as a friend and as a human being and understanding 1 million of gaza is children. Counselling that you should do this consistent with the laws of war in that does not mean collective punishment. That means going after hamas. Lets talk about netanyahus politics. This is a resident who is expressing some very understandable anger. This persons name is seani, a resident of kibbutz zaking. Biden had this wonderful speech and said israel, were behind you. Were your friends. Were with you. And i wish our Prime Minister, who no one knows why, why hes still the Prime Minister, would say even a quarter of the friendship, of the love, of whatever we got from our american colleagues, friends. Ill put up this video here because this video is actually its not in english. This persons name is sharel whose family was injured and his sister was burned. And hes speaking in a hospital in tel aviv and really, really angry and saying and thank you for the translation. That thousands of people were killed during your shift, sir. You can tell stories until tomorrow all you want. Where are you, mr. Ben kavir, another minister in the cabinet. Your World Champion in telling stories. Where are you, mr. Pistol of twitter. Theres a lot of anger, i think, just in general inside obviously for obvious reasons. Some of that is being directed at the Prime Minister himself. And you saw what was sads, theyre pointing a finger at him. How do his politics potentially look Going Forward . Very complicated, joy. And frankly theres a much more open discussion about this in israel even than the United States at times. The reality is there are a lot of questions to be answered. First of all, the reason that there was less Israeli Military presence along that gaza border is because a lot of those Military Units were up in the west bank because this government had empowered Israeli Settlers who were getting in for tit for tat balance with the palestinians and had to move military resources up there to protect them. There was obviously an Intelligence Failure not seeing this coming. There have been reports of warnings made to the netanyahu government that were ignored and own military ignored that the judicial coup he was attempting was creating divisions in Israeli Society that groups might try to exploit. And so there are a lot of questions, yes, his reputation has been im mr. Security. Ill protect you. Thats clearly been punctured. However in the immediate term, israelis are rallying together as they do. Its in their dna to rally together in defense of the state of israel. So i think in the immediate term, Prime Minister netanyahu is secure in his position as this war gets under way. But usually in the past in israels history in 1973, the invasion, at some point the bill comes due. He is in more precarious position in immediate term hell lead this government to national unity. People will have these questions of why israelis are so vulnerable in the south and whether the nature of the government he put together and the policies he was pursuing somewhat took the eye off the ball down south. Thats a medium and longterm question in israeli politics. Ben rhodes, thank you, as always for your expertise. Thanks so much. Thanks. Cheers. Coming up, much more of our breaking News Coverage of the Israel Hamas War. And latest on capitol hill with House Republicans still fighting amongst themselves and still speakerless tonight amid this Foreign Policy crisis. Stay with us. This Foreign Policy crisis. 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