1 month after Hamas' attack on Israel, a desperate father's plea: "At least let the children go."

Tel Aviv — More than 200 empty children's beds and cribs sit on a plaza in Tel Aviv — a powerful reminder of the people taken from their homes and communities across southern Israel one month ago when Hamas launched its bloody terror attack. Israel says the Palestinian militant group killed more than 1,400 people in the assault and kidnapped 241, including soldiers, and civilians of all ages.

Five people — two Israelis and two U.S. nationals released by the group plus an Israeli soldier freed by her fellow troops — have come back home alive, but it's impossible to know the fate of the rest of the hostages. They're believed to have been taken by Hamas into the Gaza Strip, which the group has controlled for almost two decades and underneath which it has constructed an elaborate and well-equipped tunnel network.

Since the unprecedented Oct. 7 terror attack, Israel has pounded Gaza with relentless airstrikes and, over the last week, it has also waged a ground war — all, it insists, targeting Hamas. But officials in the Hamas-run Palestinian territory say more than 10,000 people have been killed in the densely-populated strip of land, including more than 4,300 children and, they say, dozens of the hostages.