a central command in your us european command regions. and what those capabilities provide us is verse integrity in terms of responding to a variety of contingencies. and so, you know, basically having the right tools and the tool kit to be able to respond appropriately to any type of attack or contingency situation. and so, as you well know, pat fighter aircraft, ken, ken perform a variety of missions to include taking down drones, taking down missiles, particular kinds of missiles, as well as, you know, providing uh i sr electronic warfare and the types of capabilities. so all of this comes together to provide us with options on how best to respond to any type of attack and to protect our forces. let me come back to the room here.

yes ma'am. thank you. just a 1st on it on after 2 days of talk and the expected response from is it on the assessment at the pentagon? still does the situation end up with this is the under control and we are not in or out or yet. and the 2nd question on 11, excuse me. what's your understanding to what is the role is forwarding limited ground operations for inclusion? and is it limited by that like in time in school, how do you see this? sure. so in terms of your 1st question, as you know, we've been working very hard from the beginning to prevent a wider regional conflict. certainly the, the type of aggressive action that we saw by iran today makes that more challenging . but that continues to remain our focusing remain. our goal is to prevent a wider regional conflict. and so we'll continue to stay laser focused on that in

terms of israel's operations. again, they're in the best position to, to answer questions. but our understanding in consulting with them is that again, these will be limited operations focused on dismantling facilities that hezbollah has built along the border to stage attacks into israel. and so, you know, part of those discussions, again, had been focused on you know, making sure that there's an understanding as far as the potential mission creep. and so as it relates to the broader tensions in the region. but again, we support their right to defend themselves from hezbollah attacks. and so we'll, we'll continue to consult with them on that. as i mentioned, wafaa ult, ultimately, we do believe that a diplomatic resolution is the only way to achieve blasting stability and security

there. tim few more fil a couple of questions. one is why we're in the land based air defenses used. and did you find that you are the united states have fewer partners and trying to knock down these running missiles this time that i did into an april i would compared to a pallet fil, you're going to use uh, the, the, you know, capability that you need to respond to a particular situation. so, you know, i mean, as evidenced by the fact that, that our forces were able to so quickly support israel's defense. we have a wide range of capabilities arrayed to be able to respond to whatever those threats may be in the most appropriate way possible. so it's less about the platform and it's more about the capability. and so again, we still maintain a robust capability to be able to respond to any potential future threats as well.

and i just want to follow up on helene was asking which was important because i think you said a red line that if a ron or its forces. ready to attack us troops, there wouldn't be a us response, i guess, to wrong least, that's what it sounds like. you were saying that it's just that, is that correct? what i said is it should be very clear that if i ran or it's proxies use this as an opportunity to attack us forces we will respond appropriately. yep. okay. last question that i'm things, but i just wanted to clarify a few things that you said in terms of runs, keeps going forward. is it clear from the us side that this is, the risk is over time from iran? well look, you know, it's something we're gonna keep an eye on. um, we certainly hope that there's not another attack, but obviously iran maintains a capability and it's just demonstrated that they're willing to use it to directly attack israel. and so we're going to continue to consult closely with the israel on

next steps, and importantly on the defensive israel. so drove one of these incursions provided . and some of the time that i, i'd refer you to is really talk about that. i don't think it'd be appropriate for me to talk about that. he folks. while there has been an understandable folk as today on the middle east before we conclude, i would like to provide a quick update on a topic closer to home as d o. d continues to work with federal, state, and local officials to support hurricane away in response efforts. as the name of the pentagon, spite spun, major general pop vida as he brief the media at around 1230 in the afternoon in washington. we've been hearing in the past hour from many different departments from the u. s. we were hearing that from the pens again. we've also been hearing from the state department of the white house as well. pat, rise of the spokesman of the pens again,

was giving in some details of the us is generally when this preparedness and involvement infringing all stay around and attack which happened just around 3 hours ago. now, a launch of some 300 missiles from iran to israel, most of which were intercepted, no reports of any casualties do us that it wasn't aware of any pre warning by ronald of this attack or something we'll get into with running and guess because we do have word from rom that it did through it's diplomatic channels warned us that this was going to happen. indeed, we did hear from a us official about an hour or 2 before it happened that this was imminent. and so we'll get into that with all guess a bit later. part right, also the saying that the u. s. navy used to, of it's destroyed is to help shoot down these ballistic missiles. he describes this attack as twice the scope of that of april,

13th to remember on april 13th. that was the 1st time around it ever launched direct. and it's a direct attack on that as well. it looks some $300.00 drones and miss styles from room to as well. it was a very low my is of a loan. boeing thing, loan timeframe. the and its, uh, uh, once we get all the projectiles. what intercept is that right? uh saying that the number of ballistic missiles this time shows that ron absolutely had the intent of causing destruction so loudly we were listening to matthew mentor as well. he is, the site is functioning for the state department and he was saying that now every nation must condemn yvonne full this attack. he said he wasn't aware of any damage . however, to us facilities have a piece of the line that we repeatedly have from the us that is well, has a right to defend itself,

and that must be consequences. it will not get into both they. we also have just a letter from the us national security advisor jake sullivan from the white house. he cooled the attack a serious escalation. also say that washington coordinated efforts with as well to respond to the strikes us naval destroyers joined is really air defense units. and firing interceptors to shoot down inbound missiles, president biden, and vice president harris monitor the attack and the response from the white house situation room joined in person and remotely by their national security team. we are still working with the id f and the authorities in israel to assess the impact of the attack. but at this time and stress at this time, we do not know of any depths in israel. we are tracking the report a death of a palestinian civilian in jericho in the west bank. we do not know of any damage to

aircraft or strategic military assets in israel. in short, based on what we know at this point. this attack appears to have been defeated an effective. busy so that's bringing my kind of now he's all correspondence as the white hospitals, he's been listening into all the statements made on various departments from the us . so we're basically hearing might be us agreeing with israel saying that that will be serious consequences for this attack. but no indication of what those consequences will be. that's correct. we heard that from the national security advisor jake sullivan, making very clear that it's too soon to predict what the consequences are. they do not want to get into any details. he made the point clearly that everything has happened so quickly that is still, the information is still being assessed, both at the white house and in israel. but clearly there's been a great deal of co donation between the us and israel. we heard the us destroyers,

took part in repelling the rang imbeciles as they flew into israel. we also know that the us has been in touch with the is really authority throughout the day. in particular, at a military level, the, at the us defense secretary speaking to his, his really counterpart on a number of occasions. so the us very invested in what is being happening in israel, and indeed may well be invested in what the consequences or what ever they may be just to back track a little bit back in april, which was the last time that iran launch besides into israel along with a drone attack, israel responded to by taking out a messiah battery close to, and they're writing in nuclear facility. so what's that is not a prediction about what will happen next. but from it was the point of view. it appears that they have done what they needed to do this in response to as it. 1 and

said the killing of the reading and citizens, including as well the assess the nation of the lead of a must in tear on itself. and then last week's assassination. i'll pass on this relative to his pull that lead to. so the situation still very fluid, but the one thing we've got from all the statements from the pentagon, from the state department and from the white house is of close coordination between the us and israel. and president biden obviously is continuing to be in the situation room monitoring the situation. okay, mike, money, thanks indeed. that's what we're hearing from the us in the wake of this attack that solves time to roll on and see what they are hearing from them. we won't be as lumnick, revelation regard quotes, releasing a statement on the attack saying it comes in response to the killings of how i say that you smell honey, a has valley to us and that's all and the around in general, a bus no for us on the i a g c says the attack is in accordance with a bronze white, legitimate,

self defense on the united nations chaucer. they also say the strikes all due to the escalation of his wells action supported by the us and the massacre of the people of lebanon and gone. so the state mendoza williams, but if as well was supposed to be on probation, it'll say further devastating, crushing attacks that's been tested, a savvy, he's a reisa and specialist. and iranian affairs doing the slide from tapper on. i just wanna pick up a one thing that i just read in the, in that statement, as i'm saying this is in accordance with it's white to defend itself. now this of course is very much in line with the language that we have from israel. and the us a while it comes out from to iran, that is really, is, are facing the repercussions of their continued aggression against the rain in national interest in different parts, including the tax that they made, the gas to solve into 2 of the country and including the attack in bitch is mind

heavy i was asked to sedated into ron, but let me just bring another round of updates me saw just the 2nd statement coming from i r g c. and that we have a reference for that's right. to self defend from the origin is 5, we know that patients was the name of the game that are on best practice thing in the past days after being faced with a lot of whole style of noxious behaviors from these really side. but at some point they decided to just stop. this is really the station policies are to expand the battle. so it's a retaliation so far. but the b. c. and but the here from the 2nd the statements. and i'm going to quote, is that iranians, 1st of all, they have hits the military and security targets, not disability. involves that's showing kind of the nature of your any and retaliated reaction in which we see a precaution not to drag things our region into

a full fledged whole lot more scenario. and the 2nd, the statements can see there is this attack 90 percent successful. this is spot the seeing the statement, they say 90 percent of the size have hit their targets in the operation that they called to promise to end up to promise funds refers to the operation that they did in april in response to an other run the whole started behaviors by these re lease and also be seen in this a statement about some details on the beat, on the nature of this. and the veterans used in this attack, which is basically a fox ha hopper sonic. let's say miss sign that has been used in this attack. it is used for the 1st time. it's positive bolt last year by i r g c. and now they're just having a video test fire that and they are putting emphasis that they use that to sort of this trucks 3 air basis the of these release in which they kept f $35.00 and after

15 fighters, these fighters were, according to your rating and reports used to conduct the attack, the latest attack and bitch hezbollah sticker to general. so to find us are law was estimated. so it's a gain showing the fact that they are trying to retaliate it, but in a very logical way and added to that is a double edged the statement that deferred in x because of the uranium pro. since dr. my suit because this guy and he said, and i'm quoting, iran is not war mongering, but it's bill briefly stand against threats. this is just a glimpse of our capabilities do not engage in conflict with iraq. so this is a very, to stop the matter that we can hear from the rainy and president, he tries to come back this clear message that iran has no intention to further

escalate the situation. but at some point, it has this obligation due to the pressure due to the circumstance due to the geo political complexities that to be observed taurus font and to stop the of these rarely insatiable desire. just small. last point i wanted to add, if i may, is about people's presence across the country. the state television is showing the edge of people joining us through it, celebrating this event in different cities of these non with republic of iraq. okay, to head a saw the brands to view the from that tap on that thanks very much to stay with us . we will be coming back to in the coming hours. just gonna remind you of what the us said earlier that that would be serious consequences for yvonne if it choose, if it chooses to launch a direct military attack against israel, which of course it did. america has significant 5 pounds across them. at least let's take a look at it. abraham lincoln striking group is in the arabian sea that's made off

of an aircraft carrier or michelle cruz, and destroyers of the was marine. i'm fabulous group is in the eastern mediterranean. it has units of highly trained marines and planting ships that can be used as lowball come on centers and as well for evacuation. 3 expeditionary wings as well containing form is still finances and fines of jet. so base here in castle united, alabama, and to wait, it looks like the us, 5th, please face and boxing, and that operates in the gulf. and i was miss all cruises and destroys are able to shoot down myself. that's bringing all defense as the alex good tough leslie joins us now. i didn't think we did just shift from the pentagon saying that 2 navy destroys of the us, shot down some of these latest ballistic mr. jones that was sent for the wrong. yes, this right, did they said they last 12, it just sent us towards the results. how many of them? it's a step to those missiles we don't know, but even the full 12 of them destroyed really, missiles evans still have left

a majority of their name missiles for these really to deal with a 190 or so. so most of, most of the missiles would have be not have been dealt with by israel's, a defense, which is multi tiered. it's, it's one of the best in the world. it suddenly come back proven. it has vast amounts of money poured into it both from israel and from the united states. a but it's proven and technology, it's only just come into existence the last few years. it's very tricky. it's like hitting a bullet with another bullet. but imagine those bullets are supersonic like even possible that. so it's very, very tricky stuff to get right. but we see what saw from the footage as well. but a lot of those missiles were intercepted, katie does work, but some of them have been getting through and the impacts on the ground. so not totally a 100 percent effective. and just took history was actually is big size. because again, we had some, the pentagon that this attacked was twice in the size,

twice and scope of april, the 13th, and that he's referring to the number of ballistic missiles were involved. there wasn't any trainings this time. exactly. so just tell us what a ballistic miss file actually is. so you've called several different process, a ballistic missile takes a what is called a ballistic. ok if i throw something at you and you catch it, that thing has taken a ballistic off like a normally the further it goes. so he's like an arch. you know, the further you have to throw it to the further has to go behind the ok. so a lot of these missiles, some of them would've left the sentence for you and come back in. so then you for a 2nd cost of miss solve is the cruise miss solve for like pilot sat, crossed the design to go on to rate the an attack installations usually as a 1st strikes sort of capability. those when use this time, as you've mentioned, also lots of other drones. so this is very, very, even though this was a large attack, it still kept quite tight in types of the technology. they used little,

they did mention the readings, did mention that these, the hypersonic missile for the 1st time, the fuss of miss sol, which is conduct agents self and then a random pattern towards its target, which means it's hard to catch, hold it to intercept. and if we look at the timeframe as well and we look at the april 13th the tax, there was, there were many hours to wait. there was a warning that came from a how is the full, the best of notes and then arrived in israel. this time we saw no such warning. and how long would it have taken place? ballistic missiles to have traveled some 2000 kilometers from around to israel, a few minutes just a few minutes. a few minutes. yeah, some ferry and that's a warning barrier. the warning the houses behind them reacts to that. so you have multiple layers. ongoing deals with small scale rockets. is that that lower level, which is um, yeah, so let's go real kids country shows the sorts of things are funded by roaches. then

you have the next layer that will do with mod, medium range missiles, and that's the bar r h, which is the, is really version of the patrick, actually supposed to be back to them, the patrick system. and then you have the arrow range, the arrow 3 that deals with a major stuff coming over from the wrong in this case. so i will do a full, a lot of arrow 3 missiles. brock, 8 missiles would have been flight into step is this would have been these top 2 t is of israel's multi later defense systems that would have gone into action processing stuff. very good to get your analysis on your ends like the all natural military capability of israel, which is huge, especially when coupled with the us is in the region, buddy. thanks alex as well. that same seems of celebrations across calls running to even other places across the middle east, in response to the ronnie and miss all 5 of israel, people and goals that came out on the streets as the most missiles was seen flying

overhead going into israel. sorry, capitalism is in darrow ballot for us and central god. he's joining us now on the fight and type took us through the atmosphere the in general by law as well. um, there is a jimmy road send 2 men to happiness and joy in garza where people flocked to the street spell it, pray thing they run the attack on each man which came in retaliation to the east bed. he repeated provoked it says, attacks on lip and on, and yvonne including the latest as a nation all promises took lead to its main honey and the activation of his beloved complete husband looks one of the so people of guns generally sold rodney and politically styles from these areas in the strip flying over kind of a big to the east based elements on the part of the $6005.00, we show it at targeting that so we could we do in the central kind of it's chris

and in fact they rejoice then said that this was an unprecedented reconciliation. that will have grave consequences on israel. and i need to point out that following that running retaliation is where the fight to get in guns. i went because only then started to fly in a very low l, which you can slow over this kind of the congress trip. as a part of the preparation against any possible military move might be taken by hamas or any part of the city and come to court in because a straight they attacked in fact and about a couple of hours. and the ones moving close to needs the re inquiry though, and there was more growing estate develop a from the a is by any of the patient forces chip, or me, of course, board is with a go got to know as i'm talking to you, i can see on the sky looks of is really a quite cool to try it and then fight to get offline. and of course they can tell you that region, but people generally understand that this

a runjun retaliation might pre gum more. huge is value a response to that attack which can really give a key signed the entire region, always open a noise speech that can lead to a very and allow tool in the entire area here. yeah, i mean it is this plan that as well as the entire intimidating actions of garza as it was big, it's hacked source of just off. it was being attacked by iran. we mustn't forget the attacks on going on. asterix all going on on the golf, on a daily basis, the casualty numbers, i can use the 41600 people killed in a year of fighting. i suppose that with the full now broadening out into lebanon with it, potentially broadening even further as you say, into a regional event. so the people of gauze are filled with the attention from as well, is taken away from goals a little bit or hasn't remained as intense will begin. really believe. now is

better. so keep them to tongue, said the sin toby, gravitate to the northern from especially to borders of living on in order to just take live, a known as pro destruction of what's going on here in district. as we have been observing in the course of the past a few weeks that there has been new, significant change in the east wait a minute, crease trophy taping guns. we are talking about the rates of the is about the test . i was told that you might, in some certain areas have been a very remarkable escalation in such attacks. for example, today we have been getting as low as the area alongside with an impulse residential . how does that work? completing the hit down of course, this trip day by day you to humanitarian situation as being much more valuable. there has been a very growing sense among governments here that it'd be, it's very ami. so key to growth in this course of the fighting for multiple tab

that says and there are no, i'm interested to reach at least by the here being god, the people understand back now all the international side, always on living on. but did you, its only the can saving cause i still own doing, for example, people in the middle of the street. they are really hungry. they are facing high rates and money. attrition. and they have been also bummed. we are talking about event read mounting number of to use really strikes when evacuation centers, residential homes, and even on a cap, lend fund made shift and for palestinians had been told by the ministry to go to an order to seek refuge. okay, tara, covered as in bringing us to seeing the and garza from central gauze or in the fall a towards thank you very much. it was it being celebrations, taking place? and the agenda, you know, in september was really forced, is carried out in the deadliest operation in the occupied west. fine. but since the war in gauze, the big gun atlanta were

a joins us now from bethlehem in the occupied westbank lay the festival. let's talk about this attack by iran israel on to israel night because the missiles that was sent to was tel aviv would have flown over the occupied west bank. just tell us about what you saw in the sky. is that what was the situation? so what we're see here in the occupied west bay was tens of rockets flying through the air and cold shaking. and people kind of going out into the streets and onto the roof tops to watch what was happening and to watch these events take place. while we're looking at this concept of people kind of going out into the streets, palestinians watching these, these miss aisles flying. it's important to remember that posted means of nowhere to run to unlike is really where getting messages from the government to go run to bomb shelters. tell us to be at the top know bomb shelters, months, you know, big area for them to take refuge. so everyone was out kind of watching and waiting

to see how this is gonna play out. yeah, that was actually, but by next point i was wondering whether indeed the what places for people the in the occupied westbank to seek safety. i don't know if you've heard anything about this, but we have a picked up one line about a reported palestinian civilian death in the occupied west binding. do we? do you know anything about that? yes. so at least one palestinian civilian from a venza was killed. died wounds from shot. no. this took place in the north of jericho in an area and keep posting in authority training facility where hundreds of buses are currently staying in the state for months. the palestinian civil defense crews are also saying that following miss aisles. and you also have also called cause damages across several other areas including around to mean that the to boss. and so there is

a general kind of atmosphere theory that people are viewing because these miss aisles are targeting is really stones, which are, it's really only communities built on soul and house and you live that are legal under international law. these settlements are not so between tell us to me in towns and cities. and so the miss files are happening very, very close to palestinian areas, which is why there. and again, there's no work for people to go to and there's no work for people to run to. so people are scared and there are, well, there's also a mix of kind of solar celebrations almost because a lot of people are say, this is the natural response to is wheels almost year long or, and where they killed over 41000 people on top of that baseball. ready patient of palestine, a very interesting indeed, especially as to when we built the us saying that there were no casualties or political is also in the new casualties reported. and that we have got

a casualty in the occupied west bank of palestinian civilian killed by trump know body. thanks in the late award. joining us the from the occupied west bank is just coming up to 20 g m t. hello again. i'm nor kyle, and this is all continuing breaking news coverage of a runs missile attack on israel just about 3 hours ago now. almost $200.00 missiles were fired towards the country. the loud explosions had in this guys have a ton of beef. as those missiles with intercepted light is really a defense is now a wrong revelation regard. cool says the attack was in response to the killing of hezbollah. lead a hoss, and that's wrong. the inmate was on friday, several iranian army officials were also.