the, the, this is the, the news why from berlin? prime minister benjamin netanyahu tells israel we are at war. kay's comments follow the largest assault in years of launch by militant, as long as we come off from the gaza strip. israel responds by striking back at targets in gaza. we bring you the latest developments, the i, michael, look good to have you with us is really prime minister benjamin netanyahu says

israel is at more after palestinian militant, as long as the organization of mos launch is a massive surprised attack. a mazda is armed wing says it has fired more than 5000 rockets into israel from gaza. israel's army says, armed militants have also infiltrated is really territory with pictures, apparently showing palestinian militant as long as fighters with a destroyed is rarely tank close to the border in the south of the gaza strip. according to israel's national rescue service, at least 22 people have been killed. well, hundreds more have been wounded. israel's military is striking targets in guns that in response. as i mentioned earlier, israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu made a statement as part of a televised address in response to the attacks. we have more of that for you. now. this is a nice land citizens of israel ma, we are not in an operation,

but it was this morning hum us launch to murder, a surprise attack against the state of israel and it citizen energy, nothing. so when we had meeting this since the early morning hours that we find convenes the heads of the security establishment and ordered the 1st of all to clear out the communities that would be infiltrated by terrorist lima uplift currently is being carried out at the same time i have all that an extensive mobilization of the reserve and that where your tongue fire of 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 to strictly adhere to the direct visit. the idea of when homefront come onto the world war and we will win into football. but i don't want an accessible. let's bring in dw, corresponding rebecca ritters in jerusalem. rebecca and netanyahu is talking about war here, even though this is a nation where people often confront conflict. i imagine this kind of event is never the less jarring. how does this news today change life for the typical is

really is israel, this region is there is a region that does typically see conflict. c was, but i've got to say here michael. a did really as well as not saying anything of this scale at least for the last 50 years, but really nothing. this is unfreeze it into these saved we saved from gaza. these kind of level of attack uh, both air a ground and see a mouse militants making their way through the boat defense into his right. the cities. we're seeing them in towns and cities around that cause a border. we're seeing them now. the in, in, in fights ongoing fights with you is right in the military is yet ready. military said they trying to bring that area under control. now, benjamin netanyahu was saying that is the number one priority, is to try and get me that 10 times as out of those towns and cities at the board.

but as i say, this is still ongoing, just where this is going and really is, is anybody's guess at this stage, there were fees that this could spill over, that there could be a tax from the northern golder from living on. we're groups like has been getting involved as well. of course people security establishment he worried about attacks coming from the west bank as well. so really potentially multi pronged attack, something that is around the defense the, the security establishment has been warning all for some time. but what's really caught out everyone by surprise and shocked. everyone is just that it has come by surprise that the security establishment was unaware of this attack in the lead up that that there was no warnings in that they weren't able to get under control. now, i don't want to talk about any numbers we have had official figures of 22 is right . citizens kill that is from the health services here. but that number is likely to rise. you know, numbers really in flux at the moment. and now the figure that way,

hearing is in the range of 50, is ready at civilians and soldiers. a number potentially of both. these are unconfirmed reports that have been captured all that are being held hostage by announced militants. now, some of those on, in his riley tow it territory and we've seen videos of some of those people being taken back into gaza, but they remain on confirmed reports and, and video is that with succeeding circulated on social media. so really an unprecedented attack. and at this stage, very unclear, just as to where this is going to go. and just how big these riley responds. he's going to be as well, that something else that should be no, it says they have been striking the gaza strip. and you know, people are talking about potential ground incursion into kaiser as well. so where this is headed, we don't know, we do know that the number of civilians has saved reportedly killed already in gaza from those as strikes. no official figure has been released, but this way this is headed. michael is really at this stage. anybody's. this

dynamic situation on the ground. therefore, rebecca rivers in jerusalem. many thanks. rebecca. tony. me now is there shawnee was honest. dw, the middle east analyst shawnee give us some perspective here. what so unusual about this morning's attacks. i believe we are having some technical different difficulties there with shawnee, but will certainly bring her back up when we have the opportunity where we go to next.

a. hi, assume that blueshot is a journalist based in gaza. i asked him to describe the situation in gaza now that israel has begun launching missiles in response to the homeless attacks situation and now is i still on for you? um thousands are not. um, you know what's, what's, what's going to happen. um, there are different types of people. people who rushed to the, to the bakeries influence to the store fronts of the supplies for expecting long days off of fighting between the factions and these lady troops that in, in the same time mean. meanwhile, galvan watching the new to the social media and watching the videos coming from

where their office really, from hamas and islamic jihad, or other groups, or posting and act, exist about like and kept turning. what was what he told years. and settlers as well as that, and that is what you need me to get goals that confiscated with from so many bases and, and, and 12 and to dallas are trying to reach. and from time to time, we hear his radio strikes, started to think from some places on clear and no official number of the schedule, the keys 11 more officially reported scope money and 3 points from, from the different media and local media. let's say like buttons working were killed and injured during the latest days. radio strikes, hudson. this is one of the most densely populated areas in the world. i don't need to tell you that and one, imagine some measure of disorder. how word garza citizens reacting to the situation

right now? well, this is not, this is not the 1st time that goes like scary is such thing that says that we can say this is the 5th time of war. maybe this is the most um that satisfies one and then on the. ready whole, another experience awards an unlimited number of explanations and confrontations. um, usually it's, it's not easy for, for the bed or the movie people. and that was a, is a small enclaves full of people, as you mentioned and controlled by, by, as well. and the chips and the on me so and, and so we're sort of goods coming coming from as well. and this, they've started. goal is a close now. and so still it's on clear the hospitals. and uh oh, i sort of giving dollars and i to say it's,

it's that and in great score in shortages already before that so way it doesn't. it's not easy to predict how long this gonna happen and homework and head is coming. there is a hygiene, boucher, they're engaged in many things to you. for some analysis, i can now talk to you to steinberg senior fellow at the german institute for international and security affairs and kito easy. what seems to have been caught by surprise by this. how is that possible when it has happened in the pasta? and i think one of the reasons is simply that these varies without the holidays it's. it's no surprise that such an attack happened on ownership of the morning, but still of these early. so this is we have to, we have to explain what happened in general, how mazda is not a convention on army. this is not a conventional more. we probably talk only about

a few 100 fighters being involved in the whole operation. and it's extremely hard to get prior information about these, the survey events. i'm rather surprised how willing for him to days or at least have been over the over the years. i think of something that like that can happen. if you're there are 3, is well organized, highly ideological, highly motivated, is really prime minister benjamin netanyahu said israel was at war in that quote. now the enemy will pay an unprecedented price. help us understand what prompted these attacks from gaza from us in the 1st place. what, uh, i don't know it, uh, the, because the, the task came as a surprise to me as well. we, we are in an age of daytona in the middle east between the saudi arabia and the ron between israel and saudi arabia and how mazda is, as you know,

is being supported by you, ron. i think that the main reason for what is happening now the, the talks between the us, saudi arabia and israel, over a normalization or even a piece of the peace agreement between israel and saudi arabia. these news have shocked the shock, the palestinian body politic, and i think they want to hinder these know good negotiations from being successful is will of course, isn't as harsh military consequences for guys a i'm sure that the question will be asking in and coming days is whether israel's response was commensurate with the attack by hamas. what do you imagine that those targets for israel will be in addition to the attacks that they made this morning? and will they go towards ending this conflict? whether this conflict way to whether or not, and probably not in our lives to have this particular conflict,

this particular conflict with, we're definitely and in a while, but uh, the way it ends and when it ends depends on the, is there any reaction we have already seen the 1st attack attacks on how most military targets. so then these are at least we probably claim that they exclusively attack military targets. but lots of so the civilians will be killed. the big question though, is whether these were in these, we only attacked by here by strikes all whether they will enter the territory. and if the 1st reports about how most fighters taking hostages, a life or dead are correct, then we should expect some kind of ground incursion by is rarely forces. and probably, and in this case, probably a war that we lost a little bit longer than the reason we have seen this script before, shall we say,

how likely is it that this will and without the international community bearing some kind of force on this i, i tend to different different a little bit because we have not seen hamas incursions on, on this k and into is rarely territory. and we don't know yet how many is rarely have, have been killed. i think that this conflict will only, and if there is rarely, these are satisfied that they have reached the military. and the political aims of the government with the under lots of pressure to show strength right now. and even if somebody intervenes even days, if the west, for example, try to convince them to tell y'all who doesn't going to show restraint. that is where any government will not keep this advice. if it thinks it's not that it's necessary, perhaps to free somebody's riley citizens or get access to somebody's rarely bodies that have been taken hostage by how most kiddos steinberg many,

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