the projectiles reached as far north as tel aviv and as far east as al gorez. shortly after palestinian fighters stormed towns in the south launching. deadly attacks and taking more than 200 captives, including military personnel. the 10-hour al-axsa flood operation dealt a humiliating blow to israel's muchted military and intelligence system. shortly after the operation, the israeli military launched a massive strike on the besieged gaza strip that has killed more than 30,000 people, most of them women and children so far. the... the regime, encouraged by the us and western allies support, outline three major objectives for this onslaught on gaza. i have three goals, one goal is to defeat hamas, utterly defeat and destroy hamas, the second is to bring back our hostages, and the third is to ensure that we don't have a similar threat in the future from gaza, and that what happens is gaza is good for israel, good for palestinians, good for the middle east, and to do that we need to demilitarize gaza and deradicalize gaza. we cannot have uh, it mean for the forese