the, the, this is the, the news life from berlin, prime minister, benjamin netanyahu tales, israel, we are a tool, is comments, follow the largest assault in? yes, launched by militant as long as group hamas from the gas. a strain is widespread international condemnation of the attacks. israel responds by striking back its targets in gaza. we bring you the latest developments, the

monica jones. thanks for joining us. is really prime minister ben. how many natania was this is right ill is at war off the palestinian militant, as long as the organization from us launches a mess of surprise attack. how much is on the wing says it has fired more than 5000 rockets into israel from gaza. israel's he says on the militants have also infiltrated is rarely territory. with pictures apparently showing palestinian militant islam is fine to this with a destroyed is randy tongue close to the board and the spouse of the gaza strip. according to is what in the media? several people have been killed. why doesn't small have been wounded, as well as military striking targets in gaza and response was mentioned, dahlia is was prime minister opinion and that's on our made a statement as part of a televised address in response to the attacks. we have more of that for, you know, as i say. so i am citizens, israel ma, we are full and is not in an operation,

but it was this morning hum us launched a murder, a surprise attack against the state of israel, and it citizen you nothing. so when we had meeting this since the early morning hours, the reflection being the heads of the security establishment and ordered festival to clear out the communities that would be implemented by terrorist lima upload it currently is being carried out at the same time, i have all that an extensive mobilization of the reserve i've seen and that where your tongue buyer of a magnitude that the enemy does not know, do that and you will pay an unprecedented price low. in the meantime, i call them assistance of israel, just strictly adhere to the direct visit. the idea of inquiry on homefront come onto the world war and we will win into football and accessible the prime minister benjamin netanyahu was there earlier in a televised speech. let's bring in dw, corresponded rebecca rich, us always in jerusalem. rebecca, just hearing there a benjamin that's on the hour talking about a war here. what does this change to israel is how does this affect life in

jerusalem? where you are it's how to know exactly how this is going to affect israel. uh, going forward, monica, this is a, a developing story. it is very much come as a surprise hearing israel this morning. it's not yet clear what the full retaliation will be or in fact, what the full attack is. uh, were there a fee is of course that this is a coordinated attack with all the groups, not just a mouse and is let me jihad who are conducting the current attacks from guns or at the moment and, and through the goals a barrier into his riley towns but that they may in fact be also a help or, or attacks from the northern border from 11. no one has been a, it's really too early to predict just where this might go and what this might mean for israel, for relations with palestinians and all of that stuff here in jerusalem. this

morning, the sirens have been sounding on and off. we have had a low, recently, we've been seeing in the sky, the rockets coming all the way here from 1000. most of them have been intercepted by v i and i'm, i'm hearing that some sirens currently going off in other parts of the country as well. all throughout the south and the center of the country. some have made land full. we saw one in tel aviv, uh, hit an apartment building, one person who's been killed there. in terms of all the numbers. i can say that the health authorities have confirmed that at least 22 civilians or it's 22 is riley's, i should say, has been killed in these attacks and what's going on around gaza. the ground for is the ground of tax for that happening at the moment. that number is likely to rise. some of the videos that we're seeing circulating from social media certainly show some pretty graphic scenes with st. we know from the id f as well that concerns and

a from the israeli defense forces, i should say, oh, these are the military that they are conducting a ground operations. and that there is flashing ongoing and at least 20 locations down around the gaza strip. so this is very much a developing situation and suddenly something of this country really hasn't seen at all. not coming from guys or this isn't on presidents that attacks. and as i say, court israel by surprise. right. uh, rebecca. um also because when we can see uh, also when we see you, we can see the life right behind you. still on going obviously on the, on a beautiful sunny day. but when the prime minister and that's on your mention to that, the citizens of israel should adhere to the guidance of the guidelines. but giving, just wondering, it has anybody been told to stay in doors to take shelter? all is, is life at the moment, at least going on as usual. well, i would say that nothing today is usual here, monica,

for an 80 kilometer radius around. so gone, so strip, there has been a state of emergency, declared people, they're certainly not going about their lives as normal behind me. you can see of course, traffic code to reach them is still relatively far away. it's, it's relatively sped. there's a lot of i would say, a hope and because people really believe in the environment we've seen in perceptions happening here this morning. you can see them in the sky. is the rockets come from gathering there, intercepted by the guns i most people do feel relatively protected, but when i was leaving my house this morning, i spoke to some neighbors who were leaving. we in that area there are no bomb shelters. that's an old part of the neighborhood. of a full bump shelters were mandated people going to find. i'm sick, you will places to stay. people all worried. as you walk through the city, you see a much heightened police presence, especially around the old city. the holy sides, you know, where people of the security services are, is obviously feeling that they may be further attacks or

a time set of things going on here. but apart from that, most of the life does appear to be normal behind me. although something that has happened as well today is that it is siobhan. so most of the observant jews are not listening to the media. they're not using their phones, et cetera. they have actually being urged to turn on their radios to break ship out and to listen to what is being asked of them to, to, to get advice from the government. so things definitely not going on as normal here today and not likely to be going on in any kind of normality in the coming days of potentially weight rep that covers the reporting for us from jerusalem. they, rebecca, thank you so much that we can now tool to journalist costing about lucia, who is joining me from a gas uh on the phone. uh huh. thing. good to have you back. do tell us a bit about the situation in gas, especially off the israel has launched missiles in response to homeless attacks

this morning. yes. um they were uh, february is really strikes uh, targeted different buildings and goals. uh uh, some of them like private building some uh, according to the new special ed, one hospital was targeted and a public places as well. um there is no official number on, on the casualty. there is a lot of of numbers circulating in social media, but still not official. the official number so far is one of the new killed. i'm from injured in the air strike that targeted public hospital in the middle of $10.00 to read and meanwhile, and we, we, we still hear some, some rockets are fired from gallagher in the last past an hour. and then dylan says, sirens are viewed and in any way she can hear in the background as well. and

as well as least we hear some of days lately and strikes bombardment and i course dollars trip. nope. and what would you say that the citizens of gossip were prepared for what was about to happen, where they taken by surprise, how are they reacting to what's happening now as well? this is actually a surprise, things them as long as it's for the age of 85, it's for dog a fide. nobody predicted this and there was no talk about it or any, and a sign of any escalation on the ground. and that in the morning was normal, people aware that that to go and especially students through the school that was at the school day will wait and was canceled. um but um it was a surprise especially that it came like a huge number of rockets where fire then people go into a lea at hours of the morning and on the sound of rockets fired from dallas and the

how much looking and attacking and into reaching in, in the is where 80 communities and the behind the borders and people are at a divided majority or the people are rushed to then a crazy get a flu shots, a to back supplies. and to get more as more as much as possible supply, because of course, people would, would expect this would, would be very long. it's not the fast timed out. the experience for wards before i'm over the 15th, a plus unlimited number of 4 fiscal nations and confrontations between gather fractions and, and is what 80 army. and still, it's so unclear, people are not. i don't understand what's going to happen, what's, what's, what's going on. so people in shopped right west. yeah, everybody is still trying to assess the situation and finding out in front of the

answer to that particular question up costing lou shaw journalist they're reporting from gaza for us the same. thank you so much. i, as i'm talking about assessment, let's now talk to a political analyst and fellow at the century, foundation dahlia. a shame lane. dalia. israel is same stuff been taken off. god. that's what we've heard. how is that possible? so i'm not quite you. can you hear me? dahlia. i don't know how this operation could have happened. either. yes, i can hear you. okay, now with the lease we seem to have some technical difficulties. uh. but just keep going. hear me. yep. i don't know exactly how this operation could as a plan, which was certainly a very long term planning and

a very elaborate plan based on quite significant intelligence on the part of the people who did this the some us we don't actually know yet, and i don't think we will know for some time, at least for another few days, months or years, exactly how this happened. but there could be no surprise that there would be escalations simply based on what has happened over the last, you know, decade of wars with guns up more. i mean, does that has been under a siege for essentially 16 years and there has been various rounds of violence ever since, but particularly since 2009, we've had up 5 or 6 such rounds of escalation depending on how you count some of them very recently. there was no question, there would be another one, but this particular form, the timing. and the type of attack was it has really caught everybody by surprise, particularly the fact that it is a matter of breaking through the wall a ground incursion of what we're seeing. you know, videos and people power shooting in a come along side rock and fire. that kind of coordinated attack was not

anticipated. as far as you know, at this point, not usually on from minister benjamin netanyahu said that israel was a war and that quote, the enemy will pay an unprecedented price. uh, so do help us to understand the extent of these attacks in israel and, and what he means by that it will be extensive. dfax has not yet known. it's still going on and we can only anticipate, i think there's a very high likelihood of further escalation beyond from us. so whatever from us has planned for this particular attack. there is we're already seeing a chain reaction of escalating violence among individuals. clashes, you know, in jerusalem and around settlements, but the real question is whether other factions will get involved. there is a high likelihood we've already seen statements from celsius. lemme jihad and principal out way in on this. and that has, and he is really nightmare of the security establishment for most of this year that we would see a multi front war,

or at least that there would be escalations on those different friends whether or not they were coordinated. if that happens, then certainly the attack will be unprecedented and the response to what kind of response we are likely to see. we know from precedent that's the 1st thing that will really happen is you know, mass of the aerial bombardment of guys i have no question that that will happen. it will cause bass devastation and gaza, which is already devastated by all the previous rounds. i can only assume there will be targeted assassinations of top leadership and of from us. and beyond that we could see ground incursion into gaza as we've seen in some of the previous rounds of fighting. it's all on the, on the, on the there may be of forms of escalation that we simply kind of disappeared at this point. why to donnie ocean, leave their political analyst and fellow of the century foundations. thank you so much less. thank you for having and to as a reminder of the top story, this al it's, it's been a major escalation and violence between israel and thomas the minutes. and as long

as the group has launched its biggest assault in years with the ross of rockets. that is broken into israel territory from the gaza strip. israel has responded by striking targets and gas and which is really prime minister video. mean that's a now saying the country is it was that's all from us for now. thanks for watching the rules. we say they're about never giving up every weekend on d. w then limited freedom of the online where young north koreans fled to south korea.