Im natalie vossoughian. Im joining you from msnbc World Headquarters here in new york city. We want to begin with Breaking News on the war between israel and hamas. Here is what is new this hour. 160,000 Israeli Forces are of war against hamas. Xt phas New York Times reporting that israels plan is to capture hamas leadership. En destroy secretary of state, anthony blinken, saying that israels bring gay a took asma. En to then appeal to gaza for voluntary medical team to support hospitals. [sirens] also new today, sirens in tel aviv. As you can hear, sending u. S. Senators Majority Leader schumer and republican leader, mitt romney, and bomb shelters. Schumer is saying that came under hamas rocket fire. Israel also reporting that they are taking refine the Southern City of surat. Israeli strikes were unrelenting along the gaza strip. This new video showing an Explosion Join rescues following previous strikes on the jabalia refugee camp. Desperate searches for were survivors following a strike on yet another refugee camp. Strikes are sending hundreds to hospitals. The World Health Organization is saying that orders for hospitals to evacuate around gaza are a Death Sentence for the sick and for the injured. More new video showing palestinians cooking with firewood as Fuel Supplies are running low, as well as Energy Minister saying that and turn the water back on for parts of Southern Gaza following talks between President Biden and israeli Prime Minister, netanyahu. New update on the 70 People Killed when three convoys of evacuees in gaza were killed by strikes. And idf spokesman telling our colleagues that sky news, israel, they did not strike the convoy. Is it appears that hamas had the road booby trapped. Here are the latest casual numbers. 1400 killed, 3500 wounded in israel. 2670 killed, 9000 wounded in gaza. 55 killed, 1200 wounded in the west bank. We have several reporters in place from israel to washington comfort these new developments. We want to go first to nbcs raf sanchez. On the israel gaza border, where, off in the last hour or so you showed us that Incredible Cachet of hamas weapons. Before we get into, that what can you tell us about the military activity at the border, especially over the last 12 hours or so. And the possibility of this Ground Invasion into gaza. Well, yasmin, everything we are seeing here in Southern Israel indicates that the Ground Invasion is getting closer and closer. The highways here are absolutely full of Israeli Military vehicles, heavy trailers, carrying tanks, artillery. There are new are endless column of jeeps, trucks, moving infantry around. Israels Defense Minister was here in the south meeting with israeli troops earlier as well as the Chief Of Staff ahead of the Israeli Military. Every indication we could see from the conversations they were having was that they felt they were meeting troops very soon. They will be sending into harms way, inside of gaza. Now the Israeli Military just wrapped up a briefing a few moments ago. They said, yasmin, 600,000 Palestinian Civilians from the northern half of gaza have now moved to the south. It is 600,000 out of the 1 million or so civilians who live in that area. A little more than half. That is, as you said, despite the absolute carnage we saw when that convoy was attacked, 70 People Killed, many palestinians saying that even if they wanted to move to safety, they are terrified after seeing that scale of bloodshed. It remains unclear who is responsible for that explosion. The Israeli Military is denying they carried out the strike. Hamas is saying that it was an israeli airstrike. Weve seen in the past Hamas Records Falling Inside the gaza strip for some of its explosives going off. It remains unclear who was responsible but what is obvious is that this is a perilous, perilous situation for palestinians inside of gaza. To say nothing about the humanitarian disaster that is unfolding in front of their eyes, despite the fact that the water has been put on. Yasmin, i want to mention the situation that is going on in the north on israels border with lebanon. That is heating up right now. Earlier today, the powerful Lebanese Militant Group hezbollah filed a missile into northern israel. It killed one civilian, that is the first civilian to be killed on the israeli side of the border. This is ana frequent basis, theyre exchanging fire that it appears to be a Ground Evasion on the south. Gaza joined by a very serious confrontation at the north. I think the question is whether or not hezbollah is planning to pounce on what they see is all focus on the border with gaza that the, militants on the border with gaza, i think a lot of folks are wondering if that, in, fact will be in their future. Rafah, wont to talk a little about that cachet of weapons that you took in the last hour. One, i like to know if you know the origin of that weapon, if you got a close look at them, and where it seems as if the mosque was getting the majority of their weapons from, and to how often are you seeing rocket fire overhead going in both directions . So, just to answer your second question, this rocket fire has decreased remarkably here in Southern Israel. Israeli airstrikes are designed to stop the rocket fire out of gaza, it has been relatively quiet here, this was not the case a couple days ago. In terms of the tempo of israeli airstrikes, they are continuing. It doesnt seem to be quite as intense as it was before. On those weapons, yasmin, it was really interesting, i asked the Israeli Military when you look at the stockpile of hamas weapons, does any of it indicate to you direct involvement by iran . They said, no. They said these are the weapons that you would expect hamas to have, it maybe these weapons were paid for by a wrong, but that theyre not saying specifically iranianmade weapons inside of the gaza strip. A lot of them, expressly explosives thats exactly what im trying to get. I thank you for that,. Rafael brigitte. It want to go now to our reporter in washington. Im talking specifically about iran. As we often i were just talking about, along with the message that he is sending to israel with their impending Ground Invasion into gaza. They are going to have to intervene, as he puts it, at the israeli operation in gaza continues. How our Defense Officials here are in this country interpreting that . Well, yasmin, since hamass attack, it happened in israel just over a week ago, Secretary Austin echoed the president s warning when he was in tel aviv just a couple days ago, telling any country or group thinking about wanting this conflict, basically, dont do it. As you mentioned the Eisenhower Strike is heading towards the Eastern Mediterranean. The striker pet already been on a preschedule deployments and lost that Secretary Austin publicly announced that they joined the ford Carrier Strike. Having to Carrier Strike group in the Eastern Mediterranean not only show solidarity with israel, but it is meant as a show of force to deter iran another proxy Group Efforts to think twice before trying to escalate further chaos in the region. Yasmin. Thank you. I want to bring in now, talking about u. S. Defense officials and general, and this potential Ground Invasion, what next steps will happen . What we can expect . But thats going to look like. I want to bring in u. S. Lieutenant general to talk more about this, and former deputy commander. Steph, thanks for joining us. Appreciate it. You just heard emotion talking about the setup right now, right . Youve got to Carrier Strike groups, in the mediterranean, kind of acting more as a deterrent than anything. We are waiting this impending Ground Invasion. You have Israeli Forces, idf, on the border. That could happen at any moment now. As you think about this Ground Invasion, and understand it all kind of the landscape of gaza and general, and many of the underground tunnels, is something that we talked about, a potential, as a potential invasion, potential russian forces. They were moving on the capital city and ukraine. This urban warfare, and who exactly has the advantage here and understanding what their landscape is. What do you think are the advantages and disadvantages, first for the idf, with essential Ground Invasion . First of all, right off the bat, no matter how you look at this, hamas will have the advantage because theyre playing home field advantage. It is their home, they know where the titles are located, they know where the small alleyways are located. They know where the hainan points are located. They know where the eye ease and other things they planted to recap ick on the idf, once they come through and attack the city, to include the extensive Tunnel System that is hunter gaza, in terms of the idea of, what they have at their advantage is a highly professionalize force that will fight. They may be and an away court, but with the firepower that theyre going with, 360,000 troops, to bring to bear the problem. As well as the professionalism, and the Weapon Systems that they are bringing. They will eventually get this under control. Its going to cost a lot of casualties. Both in the idf, and hamas. I hate to say this, whenever you are fighting in urban battles, that means civilians are on the battlefield. Youre going to have civilian casualties. And this case, i think theyre going to be significant. Theres already a major humanitarian crisis taking place in gaza. I was taking place before this war began. It is taking place now. It is only going to get exasperated, staff. As you think about how the president has urged netanya who to practice restraint to abide by the laws, the International Laws of war. That means, minimize civilian casualties. How confident can we be that that will in fact happen, considering the Intelligence Failures that we have already seen by israel. Yeah, what i think that youll see here is the Israeli Forces. They will do all they can to get the population and the south. I think that is whats the holdup is. And the Ground Offensive is right now. As you know, you can always have a round of ricochets off the building. You can also have a round that follows sort of its target. You can always have secondhand explosions occur when they hit ammunitions. That costs are things that are unforeseen, that call civilian casualties on the battlefield. I, mean yeah, sorry to cut you off. Ricocheting off of buildings as one thing, i, mean images right now that we are seeing in gazas entire buildings be flown to oblivion with whole family is dying in the wake. Innocent families and innocent children. Absolutely. Those are the type of things where the israelis, they have to have restraints. They have to obey the rules of land warfare. And so it is my hope that we dont look at this in a revenge full way. That we stay in line with the laws of war, of land warfare. As they conduct this particular operation. Talk to me about some of the things that you are most fearful of, and anxious of, thinking about this potential Ground Invasion. So you put that together with these two Carrier Strike group, in the United States has said, sitting in the Mediterranean Sea is really acting as a deterrent, more, for lets say, it iran more than anything. You have this message coming out of iran, essentially, threatening the Israeli Government. Needing both with hamas leaders and qatar, and hezbollah leader in beirut do not continue to do what youre doing in gaza. Or we will have to do something about it. That is a serious situation as you know. At this point, this is a localized war, it is between it is between hamas and the israelis. What we dont want to happen is further instability and the region. If hezbollah gets into this fight, as you know, they are a proxy of iran, that could trigger, perhaps, the u. S. To get into this fight, and others to get in this fight. Then it becomes not a localized fight, but save regionalized fights, and then further to the region. That is what we dont want. Lieutenant general, thank you so much, sir. We appreciate it. Thank you. My next guest covering the seizure of the gaza strip, and then thisadline, which serves a a statement and brings up an important question. Were going to examine both. Back in just 60 seconds. Back in just 60 seconds. Back in just 60 seconds. This is Spring Semester at fairfieldsuisun unified. They switched to google tools for education because theres never been a reported Ransomware Attack on a chromebook. Now theyre focused on learning knowing that their data is secure. conquer financial reports. Conquer 2000word essays. Conquer a 6 course menu. Rule over what you write with the smooth writing, longest lasting gel ink pen in america. Do you g2 . Back with more Breaking News, everybody. A lot of fluid things happening this hour. You had another long, night in this trial in gaza head as these tensions are building ahead of israels plans for the next phase over televisions against tomas. This new unimportant statement on stages from the idf saying th we are making tremendous efforts regarding the eye bullet tees issue. Its a top priority for u. S. Families a r us. The hezbollah organization is escalating in the northern border to challenge israeland the war in gaza. It does this with iranian backing and in dangerous 11 of. Israel is prepared to fight on two fronts and even more. So far, over 200 wanted hamas members have been arrested in the west bank. I want to bring in a beirut based correspondent covering syria, lebanon, and the gulf in the washington post. Her byline is on 14 separate articles. Thanks for joining us on this. We appreciate it. First and foremost, if you can, dig in, especially because you have been reporting so extensively on this situation taking place right now both in israel and gaza, digging on the statement that we just got out from the idea. About the 600,000 . Yes. Yeah, we have been seeing Massive Movement of people trying to move to the south. Were seeing a lot of people who are trying to shelter in place to the extent that they can a shelter. Theres a lot of distrust in the Israeli Government and a lot of people who believe that if they were to get on the road they would just be struck. We saw an Airstrike Convoy which was on the way. We were hearing different numbers of casualties. A doctor i spoke to said there were seven casualties brought into the hospital. We are seeing a lot of people move to the south. We are seeing a lot of large numbers stay. The border has not opened. It is starting to seem like the aim is mainly just to have a Mass Movement toward the south and not necessarily that the border will open anytime soon. You are talking specifically about many gazans and palestinians moving to the south in light of these warnings from israel ahead of the Ground Invasion. The idf issued the statement when it comes to their focus on, as they are putting it, the abductees and the conduct that they have had with families. They reiterate families of 289 soldiers and 185 abductees have been returned. Anything else you are learning on the . On the add up to issue, there is not that much information out there. Hamas has been very numb about what is happening in regard to the hostages which makes sense. They are trying to hold their cards very close. They have said in the past that some have been moved to gaza. Some have been taken into the tunnels that hamas infamously has, these Deep Tunnels Underneath Gaza and going to israel. The issue is a big topic. Hamas has not even officially given a number of the abductees because they are holding those cards very close. As a result, we are seeing the Mass Movement. For the last couple of days, people have received different phone calls. They have to leave immediately. I want to read a quote from one of the pieces you wrote a few days ago talking about life inside gaza rig n. You wrote this he was on his way to the hospital when an airstrike ripped th