Coverage right noufrmt now. Right now a brutal new warning for around 1 million palestinians, Leave Northern Gaza immediately as the world holds its breath for a possibly imminent Ground Invasion. The damage inside gaza already massive, no fuel, no clean water, hospitals on the verge of collapsing, but will those people be able to leave . And where can they go . And later, the fate of the hostages, President Biden speaking out on the dozens of missing denouncing the barbarism of hamas. This is not even human behavior. Its pure barbarism, and were going to do everything in our power to get them home if we can find them. Right now the Israel Hamas War entering its seventh day. This time with a new warning, israel ordering the entire population of northern gaza to evacuate to the south. Hamas has urged the more than 1 million palestinians to ignore the order. The United Nations calling it, quote, impossible without devastating humanitarian consequences. You can see here the leaflets israel has dropped from the sky into gaza, written on the paper, quote, evacuate immediately. Moments ago, we saw u. S. Secretary of defense lloyd austin with Israels DeputyMinister Of Defense at an Israeli Air Base 40 miles east of gaza. Theres a lot of work that needs to be done, that will be done. We owe them a lot of thanks. Thanks to the great cooperation like i told the Minister Of Defense and the Prime Minister today, were going to continue to do whats necessary to ensure that you have what you need to be successful. Joining us now is Nbcs Richard Engel from the Israel Gaza Border and raf sanchez in southern israel. What are you seeing at this hour . Well, air strikes into the gaza strip are continuing, even as this Evacuation Order has been given, but were not seeing the same tempo of attacks. Overnight, while it was still dark here, there was a very intense bombardment into gaza with the strikes happening every few minutes pounding buildings, pounding the center of gaza city. That is gaza city behind me. You can see some smoke coming out of it. That is the densely populated heart of gaza in the north. The area where palestinians have been told to leave, and you can still hear strikes. So there is still an active campaign against the gaza strip, even as this Evacuation Order has been given, but it is not nearly on the same scale. I think once midnight tonight, which is the deadline for that israel has given, once that deadline expires, i think its very likely were going to see a Vasting Intensification of this campaign again. The people inside gaza, you said that hamas is telling them to leave. Hamas has given that instruction saying dont leave, defy this order, but people are leaving. They are leaving any way they can. This is not an organized evacuation. They are just getting into their cars, they are heading south. They are walking, sometimes they are going in horsedrawn carts as well. Gaza is a very poor area. It is very densely populated. It is always cut off from the world, and no it is more cut off from the world now than ever before. Hospitals are on a brink of collapse. They say that the death toll continues to rise. Were at about 1,700 palestinians killed so far since the start of this operation, 1,300 israelis killed in those hamas massacres. So we are now, i think, waiting for a major turning point, what will happen tonight at the stroke of midnight. Will it be the start of a Ground Invasion, why is israel telling the people to leave the north now, clearly because it plans to do something dramatically different after the stroke of midnight tonight and it is telling people head south, leave gaza city, go to the south of gaza for your own safety. And so were talking about seven hours in change from now, richard, and im just wondering for the folks, you know, that dont maybe have a direct knowledge of what exactly that gaza strip includes, when theyre asking people to leave the north and go south, what does that geographically look like . Reporter well, the gaza strip and im not sure if you can pull up a map is a rectangle. Its bordered by israel in the north, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea and it is bordered by egypt to the south, so it is completely cut off either cut off by israel, which controls most of the border, egypt in the south, or the mediterranean. So the people inside cant go, so were not seeing an exodus of refugees out of e territory like you might see in other war zones like we saw in ukraine, when the bombings started in ukraine, the borders were open, people started flooding into poland. They were going on trains and then they were being distributed throughout europe. Many of the refugees are still in europe. Here were talking about an internal displacement. They cant leave the gaza strip. The gaza strip remains closed off. All they can do is go from the north below an area called gaza valley. An israel is suggesting below it they will be safe or safer. Some people are choosing to stay in gaza city, however, particularly medical officials. They say they have an obligation to stay behind. They also say they cant move patients. This is not an easy thing to just pack up while under attack after youve already been under attack. You dont have supplies. You dont have food necessarily because the whole area has been cut off. You dont have power. You dont have water. So now youve just been told by any means just move south, take whatever you can. Take your families with you, and start heading towards that egyptian border. There are people who are elderly who might not be able to do it. People who dont want to leave. So this is not i dont want to say an orderly process. This is just an order, a time that israels given them to say get south however it happens, how you can do it. Richard engel, i thank you so very much. Appreciate your time. Lets go to raf sanchez. What does it look like where you are . Reporter jose, its relatively quiet here in ashdod, were a little bit further away from the gaza border than richard is. I want to just update you on a situation that is unfolding on israels Northern Border with lebanon. This is an alert we got living roomily literally three minutes ago. There was an explosion at the border fence, the border with lebanon. The Israeli Military is responding with artillery fire, and they sa an alert was activated concerning the possibility that gunmen crossed over from Southern Lebanon into Northern Israel and that Israeli Ground forces are now searching the area. Jose, there have been a number of false alarms about the situation in the north over the course of the week. People, as you can imagine, are very, very jumpy, very concerned about the possibility that hezbollah, the powerful lebanese militant group, which is aligned with hamas, not the same as hamas, but aligned with hamas, might swing into action here. So far there is no sign that hezbollah is bringing its very, very significant fire power against israel in a full scale way, but it does seem to be tolerating smaller palestinian factions carrying out sort of smaller scale attacks against the border fence. We have seen videos on social media that appear to show large crowds gathered on the lebanese side of the border fence, and so it does appear that somewhere amid this confusion, this large gathering, there was some kind of explosion, and israel is now concerned about the possibility of fighters, of gunmen crossing over from lebanon into those communities in Northern Israel because, jose, the Nightmare Scenario for israel if its possible for something to be more nightmarish than what weve seen over the last weeks is that theyre fighting not just the war in the south around gaza, but potentially a war in the north on the lebanese border also, jose. Raf sanchez, thank you very much. Of course well stay very close with you to give us updates on this rapidly changing story. Were now going to go to mark regev, a former Senior Adviser to Prime Minister netanyahu and a former israeli ambassador to the united kingdom. Thank you so much, mark, for being with us. Youre in tel aviv. I understand youve actually been Hearing Sirens moments ago. What is happening . So if i can correct you and i apologize for doing so, im currently adviser for the Prime Minister, no longer former. Ive been drafted for the duration of this conflict. But your question is correct, sir. The while i was sitting on the chair just waiting to be interviewed, the sirens went off in this part of tel aviv, and me and all my staff, we went down to the safe room for a required tenminute period because we didnt thats the rules, and if Government Officials like myself dont lead by example, we cant expect others to follow, and weve had these attacks in tel aviv. Weve had more of them in the south. This is one of the realities that israelis have been living with ever since hamas came to power. Theyre a brutal and formidable enemy. They have no qualms whatsoever about shooting rockets into urban centers to deliberately target innocent civilians. The sort of violence theyre capable of we saw close up when they were butchering people in the gaza frontier communities. The sort of violence that reminded us all of isis. We have no illusions about the sort of enemy were facing. And ambassador, i think its important to a lot of people may question what and how israel reacts to this Terrorist Attack a week ago tomorrow. What is it that you think we need to know about what the decisions Going Forward by the israeli people and its government may mean. I think in the past there might have been an attempt to find a mow tus op ren dee with hamas. Lets find a way to live and let live, and people thought maybe because hamas has been running the gaza strip now for almost 16 years that maybe the fact that they have to rule, that forces them to be more pragmatic. That forces them to be more moderate even and there was hope that somehow maybe hamas was going to change, but we saw on Saturday Morning that hamas hasnt changed. Theyre stuck in this very extreme, radical theological, ideological agenda, which says that every israeli is a legitimate target, that every jew is a legitimate target, and we can have no illusions. And in many ways, i think what we saw Saturday Morning was a wakeup call for everyone. Who are we dealing with here . Its not about palestinians. This is about a group of extremists like the taliban in afghanistan, like isis that have taken control of a territory and turned it into a massive terror base. And these people should be remembered are also the enemies of everyone who would like to see peace and coexistence in the middle east. Hamas says no to peace. Hamas says my country has no right to survive in any borders. Hamas says any arab leader who negotiates peace with israel is a trader to the arab world and to islam. Their words not mine. They say every israeli man, woman, and child is a legitimate target for murder. These are not people that unfortunately we can make a peace deal. I wish, i wish, i wish it wasnt the case. Its important to look back at the founding documents of hamas and their constitution and see that there is very clearly a desire and from their perspective, a need to destroy israel and to destroy the jewish people. Im wondering, though, theres now a 24hour period that israel has given to the people, the civilians that are in gaza to move from the north to the south. The United Nations is fiercely against this order. How do you whats the message here . So ill explain the logic, jose. Israel does not want to see harm come to the civilian population of gaza, and we know in that part of northern gaza, there are hamas tunnels. There are launches sites. There are arms depots. Their command and control. We have to go in there and clean it out. And we dont want to see civilians caught up in the cross fire, and weve asked civilians to vacate the area to move south so they stay out of harms way. Now its interesting, jose, i dont know if youve reported this. Hamas has been telling people to stay. Theyre telling them dont leave the zone. They might even be ordering people to stay because they actually want the civilian population as human shields, and this is the perverse situation. They say theyre for protecting the palestinians. The country is the truth. Israel is making more effort to try to save palestinian lives than hamas is. And there is the very real possibility, if not probability, that some, many, most or all of those 140 or 150 hostages that hamas took may be there. How do you balance that . Its very difficult, and i think the only thing i can say to you now are two things. Number one, we are watching hamas, and they are responsible, and anyone involved in hurting one of those hostages, anyone involved in harming one of those people, we will find them, and we will punish them. It might take a year. It might take five years, it might take 25 years, but anyone involved in harming one of those hostages, we will find them, and we will administer justice. The other point that has to be said is that the International Community has to be unequivocal. Taking hostages, the brutal way hamas has done and theyve taken children, they shot their parents and took the children possible. Theyve taken all people. Theyve taken a holocaust survivor. Theyve taken all these people from their home. This is considered against all norms of civilized human behavior, and the message from the International Community, not just israel, everyone, these people need to be released immediately and Unconditional Ly and that has to be the message, pure and simple. Ambassador, the 2 Million People who live in gaza, and we were just speaking with Richard Engel about it, there is a great part of it, of gaza that has a border with israel, but they have a border with egypt as well. Where is the assistance for those people coming from egypt and other countries that are nearby, and what about humanitarian corridors that can serve to save lives, where is that ambassador . So obviously were having discussions because we dont want to see, as i say, you know, israel is not interested in casualties. We are targeting not the people of gaza, were targeting the hamas organization, which is which has attacked us and declared war on us. But we are talking to people, relevant people about the possibility of making sure that we dont have a humanitarian crisis, but our immediate concern is to get people out of the fighting. Our immediate concern is not to see palestinian, innocent people caught up in the cross fire between us and hamas. And thats why the most important thing is at the moment is to evacuate theombat zones. The people of gaza know their cities. They know their communities better than i do, better than you do. They know where they live. They know where the hamas strongholds are. Th know where the arms depots are. They should move away. They should move away, even if hamas tells them dont move away, move away, stay out of the combat areas. We have no interest in harming you, please, you have time, not much, but you have time. Move away. What can we expect come just under seven hours from now midnight . So i cant be more specific, you can understand one doesnt talk about Military Operations before they happen, but i can tell you what the goal is. The goal is to free israel from this Terrorist Base, this massive Terrorist Base on our southern border. I mean, its a bit like, you know, isis remember took over territory in iraq and syria and turned them into kingdoms of terrorism. So hamas has done the same in gaza. When this is over, we didnt want this war, jose, they started it, but we will finish it. Well finish it on our terms. When this is over, there wont be a terrorist organization in gaza which has the cape the or the desire to hit israel the way they did on Saturday Morning, and i think that new reality will not only be good for israel, but it will be good for the palestinians in gaza that wont have to live under this rule of terrorism, and its also good for peace in the middle east because if you weaken the enemies of peace, maybe you strengthen those who want peace and reconciliation. Ambassador mark regev, i thank you very much for being with us this morning. Appreciate your time. I appreciate you having me, thank you very much. We are back in just 60 seconds, and when we come back, more special coverage of the israelhamas war including a report from the white house on President Bidens planned call with the families of american hostages today. But first, gavel gridlock has led gop congressman Steve Scalise to drop out of the race for speaker. So whats going to happen Going Forward . 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