Staff to evacuate gaza. Our coverage continues now in The 11th Hour with stephanie ruhle. Good evening, once again, im stephanie ruhle. There is a major news break out of congress today, where Steve Scalise has dropped out of the race for speaker after being nominated by his fellow republicans. Well have much more on the chaos in the house in just a moment. But first, lets begin our broadcast with israel. Who is continuing its she siege on got a. Launch more airstrikes six days after the hamas terror attacks. The bombing is intensifying, as israel is building up its military forces along the border with gaza for a potential Ground Invasion. At least 1300 people have been killed in israel, and at least 1500 have been killed in gaza. Today, Secretary Of StateAntony Blinken was in israel meeting with both Prime Minister netanyahu and israelis who survived the terror attacks. We get more from my colleague, lester holt, in tel aviv. Tonight, israeli airstrikes relentlessly Bombarding Gaza with a potential Ground Invasion blue main. Tensions escalated here for six days now. This newly released Body Camera Video from saturday shows Israeli Forces firing at militants, and freeing hostages during hamass attack. But perhaps the most disturbing images of this war so far were released today by israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu on social media. Photos of babies so horrifying that we will not show you. Hamas has shown itself to be an enemy of civilization. Netanyahu sharing those images with Secretary Of StateAntony Blinken, who traveled to israel in a show of support from the u. S. Its simply depravity in the worst imaginable way. And Secretary Blinken had this emotional a moment with a survivor from a Music Festival. Were strong here, were powerful here in this place now. In tel aviv and everywhere. [applause] i sat down with him soon after. Is there a risk, a greater risk, a regional war at this point . Were determined that theyre not the. We deployed the largest Aircraft Carrier group that we have, the gerald r ford, to the region. Weve taken other steps to make it very clear to anyone who might think of taking advantage of this moment, that that would be a big mistake. Israeli forces say they have already dropped more than 6000 bombs on gaza, with power cut off, hospitals are chaotic and overwhelmed. Israel vowing no humanitarian aid will be allowed into gaza until all hostages are released. Meanwhile, the United Nations and other International Groups are sounding the alarm about the grave situation in gaza tonight. Nbcs Richard Engel has more on that, and israels air campaign against hamas. There is an air war in gaza tonight, with hamas Firing Barrages of rockets toward israel to little effect. Israels iron dome Missile Defense system launching tiny projectiles at supersonic speed, intercepting and destroying nearly all of them. Israels airstrikes are not been stopped. They are slamming into gaza. Where there are no air defenses. The United Nations is sounding the alarm of a growing humanitarian crisis. Human Rights Groups are calling for civilians to be allowed to leave and for aid to enter the 139 square mile territory thats home to 2 million palestinians. 40 of them under 15. Israel says it will keep Attacking Gaza until hamas is destroyed. The Israeli Military says it only targets hamas. Israels military is amassing tanks and troops along the border with gaza. Its Chief Of Staff saying, now it is time for war. And at the head of hamas and all of those who operate under him deserve to die. 22yearold lives in gaza. The media is barely covering any news because of the situation. There was no electricity, there is no connection. The israelis are literally bombing everywhere. Nowhere is safe. The gaza strip is bordered by israel, the mediterranean sea, and egypt. All exits are closed and locked. Refugees are not screaming out. This isnt ukraine. No one is taking in the people of gaza. The United Nations now says at least 12 of its own aid workers, including a doctor, have been killed in gaza. Earlier on, this network, one u. S. Describe the conditions there. On the ground are huge. We are running out of supplies. We do not have any access. We are not able to bring in any supplies inside the gaza strip. We have people on the ground who continue to respond, but they themselves have been impacted. The Largest Agency working in the gaza strip. We have 13,000 staff. These are teachers, doctors, nurses, sanitation workers, emergency personnel, but they also are terrified. Theyre exhausted already. They are terrified. They told me yesterday that this could be the end for all of us here in gaza. With that, i want to bring in msnbc chief correspondent, my dear friend ali velshi, joining us live from tel aviv, where it is just after six i am in the morning. Ali, the situation in gaza is getting worse by the day. What do we need to know . Probably by the hour, even by the minute, at this point, i spent all of the day about two and a half miles from the gaza border and towards the end of the day, the overnight hours, the pounding that you could hear only two and a half miles away, a missile lands, was just increasing. We would count four, five, six at a time. As you know, stephanie, from talking about this all week, the air force would take four hours, the navy would take four hours, they are pounding that. Theyre completely ready. The israelis are completely ready for a ground incursion. Whats stopping them . A couple of things. One is theyre trying to get as many civilians out of the way as they can. Theyve been dropping these leaflets, because theres no power, the phones are losing, charge this very Bad Cell Service if youve got power. Theyre trying to get people to move away from the occupied parts of gaza. The way they have the gaza strip organize that when you see it on a map, its a sort of a little thing like that, but the part near israel is the most populated. When you cross into gaza, within a couple of miles, here in gaza city. Thats where most of the people live. 700,000 of the 2. 2 Million People are right there. They want to move those people down south into where they would like most of them to go. We have displaced people that are in the hundreds of thousands of now, people who either left because their homes have been destroyed or because they expect their homes to be destroyed. So thats that part of things. As you, know theyve run out of fuel, theyre running the medication, and water, and food. On the israeli side of things, more and more images continue to be released to that show the depravity of what happened on saturday. It is hardening people in israel who are calling for the movement to wipe out hamas in gaza. I have to tell you, with each passing day, generally speaking, the more people i speak to want this to be done and done for good. The strategic question, of course, is how does that happen . There are many times that his real has tried to get rid of hamas or deal with these kinds of challenges. And it hasnt worked in the past, staff. I know you also talk to Family Members of some hostages, and these days must be excruciating as theyre waiting in silence. What do they tell you . Well, i spoke to the son of a 74 year old woman from winnipeg. Her name is vivian silver. She has spent her adult life on this kibbutz next to the gaza strip, but she was a piece activist. She was a woman who interacted with palestinian women, tried to come to reconciliation. And pieces sometimes abstract in this part of the world. She actually talked about it as reconciliation. The other thing she did is in gaza, there is difficulty and getting advanced medical treatment, especially for cancer. Because i cant get the radiation equipment, its the kind of thing that can be used for weaponry. You have to leave gaza, which is fairly complicated process, and come into israel for cancer treatment. Shes the one to try to take you for the treatment. She got taken. That family has not been told by the government that she is officially one of the hostages. They dont have complete evidence that shes been taken. I asked kherson about it. Have you heard anything about your mother . Not from the authorities. Not so ever. But, only yesterday after four days, my fatherinlaw was able to get inside her house. We have strong assumptions that she is being held in gaza. She was obsessed with piece, you know. Violence was always wrong in her mind, so she would say, now, even though our communities are wiped out, all my friends lost. I lost my friends, or they lost their parents, she would say we dont need more dead babies. We need to stop the violence now. Vengeance it is not a strategy. We need to negotiate and we need to get the captives out. Thats what im sane. I call on everybody, theto put pressure on both sides to negotiate and to get the captives out. Stephanie, can you imagine that . His mother has been taken hostage, he believes. He hopes shes been taken hostage. He hopes that hes not going to get a call saying that she found in her body. And thats her his take on it. Its very hard. The degree of emotion that that man and the family of so of them. Is impossible to comprehend. Waiting in silence. They dont even know what to pray for. Ali, thank you so much. Stay safe where you are. Lets bring in our lead off panel this evening. Retired four star u. S. Army general, barry mccaffrey, joins us. I desecrated combat veteran of vietnam and former battlefield commander in the gulf, jeremy bash is here. Former Chief Of Staff at the cia and the pentagon, general, can you give us a Reality Check here . A Ground Invasion in gaza as well as how does one even think about Hostage Rescue . What is the Israeli Military facing . Its a devastating situation, obviously. There are probably some 30,000 hamas fighters ensconced in the middle of a giant urban area of 2. 3 million civilians. Theyve got to go in on the ground and the armored forces, special forces. Theyve got to dominate the streets and then they have to go underground with tunnel rats and try and recover their hostages. Its unlikely that thats going to work very well. It will obviously be devastating consequences for the civilians. Although the idf will make every effort to target the enemy force and not Collateral Damage the civilian communities. I dont know any other way to go about this. Its impossible to believe. Stephanie, can you imagine if we had lost 30,000 murdered by hamas, what would we be doing . I think the israelis have got to go in and try and exterminate hamas. Theyll stay as long as they have to, and theyre going to suffer some considerable casualties in the process, im sure. Jeremy, how do you see the calculus for Israeli Military leaders right now . I largely agree with General Mccaffrey. I think the idea of his left with worse options and worse options. But of course, their number one responsibility is to protect the civilian population of israel and to protect the security of israel. And right now, israel continues to be under fire. They continue to be under fire from Rocket Artillery and mortar positions operated by hamas. As long as those Hamas Terrorists are able to operate with impunity and rain fire down on the israeli population, israel has no choice but to go and try to protect their own civilians. So some people in the media are calling this vengeance, retaliation, its neither of those things. Its strictly selfdefense. Its the very same thing we would do if somebody wore on our border, lets say, in mexico, raining down artillery and mortar pieces in texas. We would absolutely go in and try and take out those terrorist hideouts. Now, the civilian populations are going to have to be on the move. Theyre going to have to get out of harms way. The israelis are shocking to the u. N. , theyre talking to the egyptians, theyre talking to the qataris. Secretary blinken is in the region. Nobody wants to see civilian loss of life. But hamas are the ones to blame for this because they use the civilians as human shields. General, on a scale of 1 to 10, how complicated is this whole situation for israel . Its a ten. Unfortunately, so far, that magnificent Secretary Of State blinken has managed to achieve is to keep the rest of the region out of the war. Obviously, in my mind, the iranians were 100 involved in this whole effort. Now just funding, but probably also training, and may well have organized the Operational Security that made this attack so devastating. Hezbollah, maybe 100,000 fighters, probably 120,000 rockets, now menacing israel from the north. And obviously we have to take into account, in addition, the Jordanian Army moved up in a frontier earlier today. And the syrian army has also, looking at being engaged in this war. So, weve got to try and prevent wiping of the war, step number one. But we are going to have to stand behind the idf as they go in there and try to exterminate how moss. I do not believe the israelis will ever be able to negotiate with how moss. They need a long term strategy, i would argue, of engaging the Palestinian People in a positive way, a tenyear effort that hamas needs to be destroyed. Israel has one of the most sophisticated intelligence operations in the world. Jeremy, how could this have happened . I think this appears to have been a systemic failure on multiple fronts. Not only a failure of intelligence collection, but probably also analysis, and probably also warning, tactical and strategic warning. Quick reaction, force posture. Theres a concentration of idf forces on one military base. There were breakdowns in Coastal Defense and air defense and uncivil defense. So, i think when the history of this is written, we are going to see a comprehensive, systemic failure. The other point i want to make is i think the point that General Mccaffrey was echoing, which is that this was a highly trained force. This was not the Hamas Terrorists, they want some Ragtag Bunch Joking Jumping on the back of motorcycles with ak47s. They had flak jackets, they had technology with him. Bedrooms they were able to take out cameras with. They operated silently. They clearly trained a very long time for this mission, and they clearly got some training beyond the leadership of hamas. So, i think this investigation is going to have to also reveal who is behind us this . Was this done by the irgc . With this done by the quds force 1200 civilians and soldiers, operated this. This was not just some merry band of on the move . General, do you agree . Absolutely. People talk about what was hasses objective. From a political viewpoint, it was a disaster. They are going to destroy a good bit of their own gaza infrastructure, what is their. They have already lost probably more than 1000 killed in action inside israel, never mind the in suing Ground Invasion of the populated areas. It was simply an expression of sheer rage, of murderous rage. The israelis will not forget this for 1000 years, though, the people now have to find some way to defend their interests. And the option, as jeremy bash said there was intra units going into an area of combat, they are going to lose 30, 50 casualties during the fighting. But i think there wont be an endgame, an exit strategy, until the israelis are convinced it will not happen again. Wage is exactly why people stateside are scared tonight. Jeremy, a former hamas leader has called for a day of anger tomorrow. And we have got cities around the u. S. Bracing themselves. What do you think we are in for . Yeah, its hard to know what to make of this. Because, on some level, you dont want to just heed anybody who is just spouting off on social media about threats to jewish individuals and institutions. That said, there are rising antisemitism, threats against jewish schools in but tomorrow night is the sabbath. I expect the Synagogue Pews to be filled with people not just praying but also expressing solidarity for israel. I think if we all stay home because someone is on social media saying they are going to kill all the jews i dont think any one in our country want that to happen. Jeremy bash, and General Mccaffrey, thank you both very much. Very serious, important conversation tonight. When we come bac new reporting on the Music Festival festival where Hamas Terrorists massacred over 250 people. Plus Steve Scalise is officially out of the speaker race. We will ask peter baker how it will end. Underway on a thursday night. man mm, hey, honey. Looks like my todo list grew. Paint the bathroom, give baxter a bath, get life insurance, hm. I have a few minutes. I can do that now. Oh, that fast . Remember that Colonial Penn ad .