the, the, this is dw news line from berlin squarely forces struggled to drive home us militants out the country's mass of mobilization and still hasn't defeated. the posting is on this group sliders in some areas of southern israel. since i'm a surprise attack on saturday, more than a 1000 east railways and coast indians have been killed the mare and told in berlin. thank you for joining us. is really forced to say they're

continuing to battle the most militants from 4 locations in southern israel. the posting is when this group, which is regarded as a terrorist organization by israel, germany, the you and others launch of surprise attack saturday is rampaging fighters, reportedly killed at least 700 people in israel, and have yet to be fully driven out. reprisal airstrikes from kansas city have killed hundreds there, and fighting is threatening to escalate. further with lebanon has beloved shelley, northern israel. israel is firing back while the full scale of mazda is attack is only now emerging. this is what israel's nights man looks like. a police station inside israel. oh the wrong by how must militants, what is the way the forces managed to end the stand off but it's a security breach that would have been unthinkable even a few days ago. 7 and it gets worse,

this woman that to be in is ready. the soldier is just one of dozens of hostages seized by the militants after they infiltrated israel as part of the multiplan, the sold on the country for this. israel is a biling retribution. i'm not fit on the show. the atrocious act upon this is a will crying for the enemy to hold women and children is concrete to international law in this country to as long as anyone who participates in this will be held accountable. the voice of questionable israel's response has been swift. it's just coming down as strikes on god the and they say this is only the start of what will be quote, a long and difficult tool. many in goal is to say the assaults 5 minutes and is

with ms. thomas with launch because of anger, is there a patient of palestinian territory? and israel's failure to rein in illegal is really set to him and some people say they have now lost everything in the thought on the what have on to us is complete destruction where we are the of a web family and there were a 150 people in this building, including my uncle's family, my sister's, i'm a sudden the families of my 5 brothers come to that house is we're also a little destroyed. but you have a lot of different fully and belmont shut me down a few months ago. how much continued firing rockets over night targeting civilians and hospitals israel to set up? it's the tax from the but seeing what some see, a good herald, a dangerous escalation. israel responded to fire from the militant group, has the law in lebanon after they launched guided missiles at a disputed area. is royal is now beating up its security presence. that to

earlier we spoke to internal associate fund a ton. she has been reporting from the city of skill and your guys him and gave us this update. so we spend the whole day in iceland, which is about 10 kilometers north of the gaza strip. the city was totally deserted . people were mostly staying at home. there is an 80 kilometer perimeter around the border of gaza, where people are asked to stay close to shelter. our schools are closed and there is a limit of the amount of people who can gather and people who are still very afraid because the militants were still on the ground. and we could also hear the air raids by the is rarely miller tree because here is really fighter to, it's going towards guys and we could hear designations. and we've just, there is a big number of civilian casualties as well in the gaza strip now. and we could

also see how um armored vehicles were moved towards the guys or border. this doesn't necessarily mean that there will be an invasion, something that's often being talked about. but there is already an intense response from the is really military underway. the israeli government has the cat today. the state of florida were joined now by steven a cook of the council on foreign relations in washington dc. so steven, how exactly could almost have prepared and carried out these attack, seemingly without warning. it is an extraordinary intelligence failure on the part of b is rarely as who were a combination of complacent, distracted by their domestic political turbulence in dealing with violence in the west bank, where they had moved forces that had previously been on the gauze of border, leaving the gauze border, dimly manned, and almost totally dependent on the use of technology to secure it. it seems that the in

a way that how mosse was taking advantage of all of these things as well as the jewish holidays and katara and the 15th anniversary of the october 1973 war. now do we know in the context of this current uptake and violence, who exactly is supporting home us as well? there's ample evidence already emerging that iran played a role in arming him, us and given the kind of quantum leap in, in, in how much capabilities in the extra 100, changing tactics that they used. one has to surmise that the iranians were at least offering them advice in the days leading up to the attack around supreme leader was pretty active in social media, threatening israel. and predicting that the, the design is entity as he called it was, was dying. so there is, there is a fair amount of indicators that suggest that the ronnie and you and have played

a role here, including a mazda zone admission that uh, that the iranians a help to arm them. now with the a shot over run looming large in the region, you wasn't specials. have said a most maybe trying to disrupt talks between is real and saudi arabia. what exactly do you make of that? well, i think that that's right. and it's something else that both of us any iran shares a desire to halt the normalization of israel into the region. and of course, the united states has many engage an intensive diplomacy to try to push forward an agreement between the israelis and the saudis. that would lead to mutual recognition. their iranians have been very open in threatening countries that would embark on normalization. so once again, it speaks to hum us are running cooperation on this issue. now we also know that egypt is attempting to mediate between israel and from us. do you think you can actually achieve a ceasefire? so this is a traditional role for the egyptians that the united states,

these relatives and others have often look the difference to mediate and deescalate . however, given me, the number of killed and the number of casualties in israel, the v. dwayne, which this attack and told that that has undermined israel's deterrence, i think in a short run the difference. we're not going to meet with the any successes really seem intent on undertaking a very significant military operation. listening to your leading story. i think the movement of the armor into the area portends a significant ground invasion of the gaza strip. and it does appear that this conflict is going to be staying with us for some time to come. that was steven a cook with the council on foreign relations in washington dc. thank you for your analysis. the united nations security council has met in a closed door session to address with israel's, you wouldn't pass that are called legal documents and war crimes by him. us, but the pulverized council issued no resolution or even

a joint statement on the conflict. us deputy ambassador to the you and robert would . so the purpose of the session was for the international community to show solidarity with his royal dw correspondents, you know, doing a lot on is following the story for us from washington were present. joe biden has about as import israel. earlier i asked her what came out of the un security council meeting swell ahead of this un security council meeting. israel's permanent representatives, the united nations called on the member countries of the security council to issue an unequivocal condemnation of hum us. now this did not happen, although, as you said, the expectation that the un security council was going to issue any kind of binding resolution or joint statement was exceedingly low. now robert would that is the u. s. representative to the united nations that many countries,

he said that many countries were prepared to condemn us, but certainly not all in a pointed reference to russia. and that is part of the reason why so little was expected to come out of that meeting today. now if you look at the reactions to the attacks from the 5 permanent start security council members, it was rushes that differed the most. it differed from say, the reactions of the u. s. the u. k. and friends who were pretty much uniform in the response of the condemned. how mos unreservedly they said they stood in solidarity with israel, while russia called for an immediate cessation of hostilities. and there were also voices within russia. and that blamed western countries for it said not neglecting the israel palestine situation in order to focus on supporting ukraine. but just in general, we're in this sort multi polar situation where you have the western allies on one

side of the rules based order. and the lights of russia, china and iran growing ever closer. also at this moment where there was evidence to suggest that iran was involved in these attacks on israel. now, in a world where the potential exists for this conflict to wide and in such a way that, that puts israel and iran in direct collision with one another. the potential for the security council to find consensus today was always going to be quite limited. so it does appear, there is some division of the council regarding the current violence, but us president, biting as promise is real. his support. do we know exactly what that could look like of the biden and yahoo spoke again today sunday in bite and said that he told that in yeah. who would side assistance was on its way to israel. now we know that the aircraft carrier, the u. s. s. gerald or ford is on its way to the mediterranean to the,

to the east mediterranean. now this is the navy's most advanced and us aircraft carrier. it has more than 5000 sailors and a deck of war planes. it's accompanied by cruisers and destroyers, and it's a major show of support for israel having this carrier strike group close by. would uh, be helpful in any number of things, including surveillance, including blocking more weapons from reaching home us, or even evacuation operations. there's also reporting that the is really government once more, emergency funding from washington, in order to help in buying more interceptors for its iron, don't miss silent defense system. reportedly washington is receptive to this request. now the us already gives israel more than $6000000000.00 in military assistance a year with much of the equipment from that funding already in the pipeline

according to, to be sent to israel, according to the secretary of state antony blinking. but of course, depending on how the war developed, so we could see aid to israel expand further. so a strong show of support from washington directed towards israel. that was due to view washing corresponds, you know, do mclaughlin reporting for us from washington. thank you very much. here's a brief look at some more stories making headlines around the world. more than 2000 people have been killed in the series of earthquakes and north western f can't stand there at the dudley's tremors to hit the country in years. the taliban say at least 9000 more people have been injured. several villages have been completely destroyed. in 3 long ago, 5 people were killed with a massive tree fell on a bus. heading to my to gama, from the capital, colombo officials say the vehicle had stop and eat the tree to allow passengers to board more than a dozen people were injured in the incident. voters have dealt german

chancellor wolfe shorts as coalition government, a sharp review in elections and the key german states of bavaria and has a shelter. soto democrats suffered heavy losses or opposition conservatives. one in both states. and along with the far right alternative for germany party, one big authorities in italy say a total of $250.00 migrants arrived on the shores of land produce overnight to barges, originated from libya were carrying more than a 100 people each and g. o ships and the telling coast guard were involved in the rescue of 4 boats. and here's a brief reminder of the top story of us. our is realized with garza residents to leave. it has cut off the power as it conducted airstrikes on the area. fighting is continuing after the notes and is, will this group from us a surprise attack, which is really local media se has killed more than 700 outstanding officials say

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