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hello again on james bay's israel has got hundreds of thousands of troops ahead of its ground invasion of gaza. but how mazda is like me to be ready for them. tens of thousands of foxes have had time to prepare traps and bushes with the conflict about to enter a dangerous new phase phase of grubbing for civilians. colton. the cross far along with concerned the war, might spread beyond the strip. we'll go to a panel of guests and just a few moments, but 1st st in the honda has this report is really prime minister benjamin netanyahu had a question for the 10s of thousands of troops mass along the florida with gaza. are you ready for what comes next? a ground invasion appears inevitable. in the past week. these really news readings dropped the thousands of farms on gaza. and that, and yahoo says it's only the beginning. i mean, but goose we is striking in the me was unprecedented minds. i emphasize this is

just the beginning. our enemies have only begun paying the price and i won't detailed what has yet to come. but if i tell you that this is only the beginning, israel as cold up as many as 360000 reserve, it swelling the armies rank to 3 times its usual size. but the enemy is likely to be prepared. hum us is believed to have tens of thousands of fighters and a complex network of tunnels beneath the enclave. there fighting on home ground and have had time to prepare traps and bushes. the head of its expected invasion is really army issue to force evacuation order for 1100000 palestinians in northern gaza. but they have nowhere to go the lot. we couldn't leave. they said leave towards the south, but there is no transportation in the street. was closed,

there was a traffic jam, some cause got bombed by a strikes. this is a genocide, not a war. and that's an attempt to displace the people of the gaza strip. but this will not happen. our ground invasion could have brought a repercussions for the region following and meeting with hamas leaders and cover their arms, foreign ministry board of far reaching consequences. israel push the head within next stage of it's offensive. meanwhile, the us is deployed to aircraft carriers and a host of war plains, the mid leaf president, joe biden has worked other nations in groups not to get involved. let me say this is clearly as i can, this is not a moving or any party hospital. the israel to exploit these attacks to seek advantage. the world is watching to thousands of people on both sides have been killed in the past week of sizing. further escalation is on the horizon. one that may go far beyond the war zone in gaza. vince and bald headed for inside story

the well that's bringing to a panel of experts to discuss this further in bed route. we have l yes. kind of retard lebanese ministry general in brussels is elijah making the imagery. and this is kind of complex and i'm at least for more than 30 years. and in the us state of delaware, lawrence called the retard u. s. navy captain and former assistant secretary of defense. thank you very much for joining us. i'm going to start with you lawrence. we've got very clear, i think is really signaling. now this is going to happen soon. the prime minister set, the next stage is coming. they will treat, put out of state and these ready military, and it's gonna be a coordinate attack from the land and see um let me also give you, you've been involved in ministry planning at the highest levels in the pentagon. what do you think the thinking about in terms of the timing, there was some reports that they were planning to do with it the weekend, but it's been delayed because of cloudy conditions and they need to be able to see things from that wreck of as well. i think they were good for them, it from

a military point of view to delay. because given the internal problems that you've had in israel ever since the prime minister in that and now it's a goal. but the military was an in the normal shape. in fact, people weren't even showing up for reserve duty be costs are they are concerned what netanyahu was do away. it also gives the united states was secretary blake and secretary austin to go around the region to get the other countries in the region to work with us. and the as railways, after this military operation is over to make sure that it doesn't, doesn't happen again. the real question is, what, how long will it take, how much damage will it do? and when will the, as rarely stop, stop it? what will be the role of egypt? will they allow the hostages and some of the,

the people from god. so to come in so that we minimize civilian casualties. ok, elijah, of course, the thing we don't know is exactly what these right. these are planning to do. we don't know the end game here. we don't think it's going to be another limited incursion. a prime minister netanyahu has gone on record every how mass member is a dead man. what do you think they are probably planning on this occasion? thank you for having me. first of all, i think that the question is whether a just an excuse we've seen in 2006 when he's right decided to the tax never done to them 2 weeks to organize themselves and caught up on the reserve it. and they were very hesitant to walk in to live and that were not successful in achieving the objectives. hey, we talking about reserve, is that coming from one of the places we talking about 300000. that all divided

on 2 different funds. plus the reserves under the command of the general commander in case one from these more than the other. because in my opinion, there is going to be definitely a 2nd from us and we will receive that. and then next 2472 hours that the these read is all whole thing into a trap. and they knowing these really, these are very good in the ad souls they can destroy. and we've seen what they have done in does that they can level the city, but they cannot guarantee the success of the infantry at the end of the day. it is not that a pull that going to whole 2 by 3 by 3, by thing in of and city is not a problem. and that is something extremely challenging. even to these really armies . we've seen the consequences in 2014, and we understand that these are easily received

a heavily damage on all the soldiers. and again, i repeat, the other phones are not stopping and i think that will be visible very. so l e s a lot of that mentions 2014 israel, last 67 soldiers. then tell us in your view how the 2 sides stack up in terms of the, the military forces. clearly, israel has huge numbers involved. they cooled up 360000 resist. how do you see the 2 military forces that potentially are going to face each other? the flower is in is randy schafer. however, the characteristic of this floor is still kind of defense from 20062014. if you are planning to go into gaza for another big one, chair, i mean you have to define what is the, what is a good time. you'll see that you have the cheating you go. um no,

it is so much you wanted to sort of uh, how much would you be able to use throwing on. so i think that is 3 dynamics. that is he playing this game for political dynamics, the minute the max this of this. busy army is a lot of these, he do, they have to use in order to go on to god. what would be the, i mean, the operation of design would they go and, and the life, you know, this basic does just check the what would be after? what time they think that it's just, you know, uh, cool lot over with we have to take into consideration. the reason i say did you do that by next look to the happen? i didn't even use the phone, which is your, the so it could be coming out or another. and then all of that that the global

dynamics should be, should be left by the like a step of my, my gosh, it's like a professor. i think this operation to a certain degree, you know, that i think that the american dev decided to what degree there was of the water or the 3 or 4 almost at that time model over the, in a problem or really fast for these ladies who used to go into something that's pretty well they don't have the situation in our lives. and the fact that they show a sofa that sits in front of the fast and the fence usually gets in to the i'm use one defender against the 3 a factor in this kind of a of engine area. and maybe you have to have one focused on what is a be able to accept such kind of lawrence, let me ask you about, that's about the about dollars as it stands now, which will become potentially the battlefield. if we have this ground intervention,

you have potentially snipers next booby traps mine fields. i these suicide bombers, one military person. i saw a site, that's the positive goals and i looked like stalin grabs and how much have all sorts of capabilities. some we might not know about, for example, drones called cope to, is capable of drop dropping bombs, all those sort of things. i mean, if you up a military planet, you'd be very wary. wouldn't you right now? well, no doubt about it because my colleagues have mentioned urban warfare as opposed to air and see you're going to have more casualties. i have no doubt that home loss is putting itself forces in the civilian areas including hospitals. and so you, even if you try and limit the damage, which i think the as rarely as well, you can't do with doc completely. and the real question becomes, if you have all of the civilian casualties,

what else had their reaction from the united states and uh israel's, all their allies around around the world? and yes, that's going to be difficult because traditionally the as really have separate very few casualties. going back all the way through the war. so i think this is going to also be a struggle caught, you know, for the, for the got it for the government there. fortunately they have a unity government. so that should enable them to keep going. but i do think they better be prepared to take a lot of casualties and the world needs to be prepared for a lot of civilian casualties. because how boss is going to bed themselves with the normal people and hospitals and the apartment houses and stores. so pick, get you off what lawrence said, elijah, do you think how mass potentially have the psychological advantage here is ready. troops, perhaps court cautious off to what happened on october. the 7th they saw

a mouse is tactics, they sold that planning. they sold that capabilities and the cost in that attack, israel lost a lot of prove that his rails intelligence wasn't good, but they also lost a loss of the senses and cameras around the casa. well that's, that's really the goal of the supervisor and the action. and the vision of the separation 1st of all is not to the come us because it is a completely different objectives because this will because of the system a shift. and these are really the body confidence and the minute 3 days, a huge and certainty, all the people of these read. this is why these really is all going into this full with a very low spirit. only 3, those that there is again and to be trust to the population that they have lost and questioning the effectiveness of their forces so salty. we have

a mass with they have spirit. beacon ties into these really all i mean with a, a low spirit to go into a guy. secondly, and most importantly, we have seen every time. is there a way to move on from us? how much became stronger? is it exactly the same thing? when he's right away the whole on has a lot and he will not became such a strong no stay after that. today he is really need the support of the americans to keep it from the side. it's not going to stay on the sides. so we see these really instead of the 3rd from us and destroy from us on the mice becoming stronger. mother doesn't need to hide behind the civilians because he's really already off. they can go to the civilians. we have 8800 wonder. most of them civilians,

we have 2800 did most of them to the videos. so these really are pretty good involved in these agreements and sending them because they are finding things, embalming using a quarter of a nuclear bomb on the city only 5 to 6 days. nobody can use up to 5 pilot. but these really and if they have confidence why they need to let the whole city where they want to go in, because they are afraid. so stopping before the beginning of the operations, they are losing a l. e. s. um, you just had a larger, they're talking about the 5 pounds as being used 6000 bottoms in 6 days. we haven't had an update from the is ready since then, but that's mold in the us dropped on the syrian city of record during the siege, which last 8 months and it's moles in the us used enough kind of song in an in natal. yeah, yeah, 7007000. and how do i know, i mean,

ever since you have to, i mean it's literally just something isn't break, it isn't big dilemma. the problem is really despite the state 19 in 2006, the united states of america wanted the use and you, me to use. and then they gave the green light for this reading. so i thought his beloved for 30 days, they didn't to, but there is a formula that has a lot as long because it didn't choose and it's very low because it didn't as the, the what's happening today was because after the flow and this spectacular low se versus i'm pick him up for the news, i guess how much and instead of the story i'm a and the, the big the why? because the is really repetitive. shuffled the whole chair and the stickies. i

remember i do remember and i need you to when day and they did live on on the side of the fire. and then it goes to silent and then shut the site and then went to the director tool. so they don't then when they decide to add to the face, so i mean a fight to get a citizen. so the 3 of us on sort of you start. so the dilemma which really what to lead to ending it to destroy or minimize or, you know, uh uh, the guy takes the deals from us. so they have to do something otherwise, i mean it to be definitively. uh, they can, you know, you know, the biggest, really, as the, the power as a good follow me. the thing is you can, if you imagine, if you go and you know, uh, the goods this, you know, you also love the election. i mean looks like isaac says size. busy

speed is just the street and i think that's how much i really for different scenarios. and they have succeeded with the level upside. what happened? i think they, they really the rid of defense. they were pretty panic for, or they have for example of she not as possible, including whoa and vision from there's radius and to the guys. lawrence, let me bring in another fact. so, and it's more than a fact because it's very human. and that's the captives that are being held by how mass right now in gaza. does that make? do you think this operation much more difficult for these riley's and of course we're talking about a 100 or so people, but then not only is riley, some of them are all foreign nationals that brought us citizens, french citizens, u. k. citizen, some, some of the israel as close allies have stacy and all of this. well, that certainly does make it more difficult. it was a real question is whether through the is really sad,

the intelligence to know where those hostages are compared to try and on the line, the military capability of hamas and the ice us to the home. also spreading them out all throughout the region. so that no matter where the is really is go to try and eliminate home loss and their military capability. they're going to be endangering hosp searches. there's no doubt about the fact that we'll do that. and that, of course, will have an impact on opinion around the world, including in the, in the, in the united states. so that's makes, this very difficult, is israel has the capability to do what the real question is, are they prepared to pay the costs? both in terms of lives and in their, uh, the perception of them around the world. it certainly olaja it looks like now is the israel has the gloves off. we talked about the number of items that have been dropped this time around,

then not doing what they used to call the roof knock. so it's low intensity strikes as a warning, but just warning and tyler areas and we're hearing and i'll quote this because it's from new york times, apparently for the ground defensive. that going to have new military rules of engagement, let me loose and to allow. so just to make few a checks before shooting suspect to them is this is going to lead to a massive test total. is it not? obviously because they also have the 100 button directive where they can build their own soldiers if they are inc of to be. and if there are a found a taken away by the minute. and so they prefer to negotiate that or on, over the funding rather than i still do it. that is their lives. however, i would like to say something we've seen that then. yeah. when you bought it for the last 15 years, and we still have a july chevy in captivity. and the not negotiate for these were nice. so

negotiating at the end of the day, $400.00 plus the med soldiers officers or civilians. he know that he had to release all the senior and soldiers, all the senior prisoners. he's the how much and did you have a pen? oh, i have 200. so the number is it'd be coming right at the, at the end of the day. and so having these hostages, all these prisoners been during the boxing, is not going to effect law, the americans and all the other nice. and that's, and i do because i already have the approval of the american for a ground defensive. taking in to your com of the day all the games of they're not center. i said come us and that you have preferred to have them a nice because it's always the have we have seen in the negotiation of hostages between the 15 and ended ebony and because really it's always better to have

a hostage that does a lot of brother that never the less with this though, i think the degrees are going to have a mood engagement where there is no mass. see, because we've seen all the air force is behaving with this of a yes and with the guns that therefore i think these really ami that and done with piece is behaving heavily with the battery that we had on the 1st thing it says it means is going to have mercy on anything that is moving, particularly when the level of attention is extreme. the highest amount of these relays that for some bugs migrating from one country to another. they weigh a deal on all the x rays and they are a really high tension, and they have struggled against each other when they were trying to repair electricity or groove down the pool. the main thing because there is

a hard tension. so when they're going to walk in the city of 1300000 in the last and 1000000 in the saw, they going to go for this more the area. and then our area that is in the know and they going to open the city. what they know under every debris they, it's a try. i've seen that and then turn them on by the interior because this is what i was present. and i've seen how it's nice to put them sense really at the bottom of the big. the knock on the top and they managed 15, many of the fight is trying to get by the city. so there is a lot of experience today. we talking about the amount of the, how much scientists and militant in the city where they have gained so much experience in previous one more. and they know how to fire and safety. but these really don't. and we feed them in 2006 and the spending a solid snap. and then all they really with source to we throw on the,

the hate of the grade level. the fact that i'm not, they not used to. on the contrary, these really special forces, know how to, how to fight this guy in the full big page, right. as you know, especially the closest bush and how much the gods up of course not. okay. um las um, if you look already, we've only had a week of this bombardment the death toll a palestinian civilians is now mold in 2014 and that will last it for 50 days. i've seen one analyst saying the civilian death toll could equal the battle against iceland, both sole web, that is estimated to be 921-1000 debt. how worried all you about a vast civilian casualty right here? i am deeply worried because as far as the cheese gets close, they have to go inside. going inside they have to been bought me,

especially the city. oh gosh. where do you have like 750000 people and that goes into the cities versus they say that most of the bones, underground tunnels with. busy the mouse is a commander's and read this. we have my id in a big be below the ship hosted. and so i mean in order to eat late or define the fixture, the. busy the tell you the book city when you do so and saying i did, i do what he achieve. my goal is to say, you know, because you have to have much to say because you are going as in the world war 2 additional surrender. we're talking about sort of that now that's talking about the story of how much. so can you the story of how much is it ease but it's been going over a good guys and you are, but i need to change the population density over position. and we didn't do any

member and the other thing or for that is c as in the lady we the new. busy and the city, the, the, the program, the n g, i'm going to send this to use. they do have a special general going to be the, they change, they change the, the landscape, the big, the big change, the state. they make a difference. maybe maybe we can say on a 60, it's like a level that is the mother who lives in between the balance of power in the us. but let me just bring in laurens to the end because i, we, we've seen now i think weston countries were fully behind israel, beginning to be a bit of us, a splintering, some really cooling, very strongly for restraint. what do you think could be a break on these? riley's, if we do have mass civilian casualties, is it really only us public opinion in the white house in the end? well, i think whatever side the white house is, will be the key. these other nations and international organizations are already

coming out against the casualties that are big cause just by the bombing. so the real question is, what role will the united states play? i assume that secretary blake and going around now to the other countries in the region as working with them to come up with some way to deal with this situation, which is inevitable once they send in ground forces. as my colleagues have mentioned, this going to be an awful lot of casualties. a lot of innocent people. israel says their objective is to completely eliminate home off, not just their capability to eliminate them completely. that is a very, very difficult goal. busy for them to achieve in a reasonable amount of time, and with a reasonable amount of dest falls to the civilians, add to the israel a forces trying to lawrence. i'm trying to to our panel for that military and

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