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>> brian: fox news alert, idf announcing death of hamas commander who directed major attacks on october 7. >> lawrence: the idf is pushing deeper into the enclave as we learn total of 240 people are being held hostage. >> ainsley: that number keeps going up and israeli forces are hunting hamas inside the tunnel network. >> steve: trey yingst is live in southern israel with the latest. trey, good morning to you, good afternoon there. day 25, what is the latest? >> trey: yeah, hi, guys, good morning. significant breaking news. israeli military says the arrow missile defense system inte...

Awlaki before that, so we see encrypted communications coming up where people get the okay and say go ahead and do it. they talked about doing different types of attacks, but interestingly enough, they talked about executions and kidnappings. and hostage holding. so during this time of ramadan where isis is perverting the faith saying extra points in paradise, we have seen an increase in attacks, not only in england, but also in places like afghanistan, iraq. >> steve, this is an unfortunate benchmark for what a terror attack by definition is. we have ramadan, an election about to happen in da...

>> so then the lawn goes off over the intercom? >> evacuate the building as quickly as posz. we get outside and there's siernss everywhere. as ever any hostage holding. it turns out not guilty to be true.

Clearly he was inspired, though, by isis. i think that's very clear from his postings. >> is there any indication -- anything we know about the timing, why this occurred, the hostage-holding, right now? >> well, i think it's important to note that after the air strikes began in iraq and syria, isis began a very impressive social media campaign calling for these types of attacks, these lone wolf attacks and they have obviously connections with australia, western europe and the united states. that's what makes u.s. officials most concerned is the idea of this type of thing happening also in the ...

>> al will lan chernoff joins us live. the taliban claims there was hostage holding by the group. any evidence of that? >> the littles say absolutely not. the friends say the same things. libby says we never handed out bibles. that was not our mission. we were there to provide assistance, provide health care assistanc assistance. >> did tom little intend to remain there? that's a long time to spend giving aid, alan? >> it truly is. his wife says they went there expecting to spend two years. then she says there was never a good time to leave. they were just committed. hay stayed there through w...