the, the, this is dw, use live from the leading israel steps opposite to step sop. it's bombardment of gaza prime minister benjamin netanyahu, warrens about long and difficult war. the conflicts in saturday has nearly claimed already claimed nearly 2000 lives as the violence escalades. there are reports of atrocities out of keyboards. me is around the border. we've gone to babies and children seems to be among those noted and we meet the families waiting for news of a missing loved ones that i were out of music festival. when,

how must have gone down hundreds until thousands hostage, the general grade? thank you for your company. the 1st american plane carrying munition has landed in use, right? that's according to the is riley military. this follows comments from us president joe biden, who said on tuesday that israel had the right and duty to defend itself subsidize attack by how much gunman has killed more than 1000 people. meantime, israel has intensified, it's a strikes on guns in retaliation to the type palestinian officials say at least 900 people. they have been killed and thousands more wounded satellite images. so the destruction caused by them bombardment. and do

w correspondent rebecca bruce's travel to the is riley town of sto ross near the border with gaza. the police station day was destroyed and a day long baffled with how much gunman she sent us. this report. this is this the rock police station or what's left of it. and as the scene of one of the biggest vassals during this audio, how mouse militants will hold up inside. i'm use riley military will caught up in a 20 hour gun by so many as rallies are angry and terrified. horrifying because we saw them running around here everywhere. we were pretty much innocent and we didn't have anything to do in this entire situation. no weapons to, you know, protect ourselves, nothing to actually do in this situation. i've been this for both, but not nothing like this, nothing like and the most and those sort of and,

and which of the kids and systems and photos and the children to the babies and everything. such a quotation is real, has responded to the attacks with a mass of air strikes on the gaza strip. these really government told gardens to evacuate, but the territory is trapped between israel and egypt and to see many residents had nowhere to go to escape the bones. one woman said her brother died while trying to follow israel's instructions to relocate. we'd fled to escape death. there were continuous air strikes, the israelis told us to come down to con eunice, but we only found duster if we stay home, we die. if we go in the streets, we die. my beloved brother fled from one place to another. my beloved brother, may your soul rest in peace. the skies of regatta are filled with missiles flying in both directions, incoming and outgoing fire. the news really talented basketball north of the gaza

strip. some of the rockets continue to cause destruction. israel has called up hundreds of thousands of reserves as it prepares, the next stage of its retaliation. at least one government administer has joined the troops there to avenge what he calls israel's 911 in the cabinet. so this is not going to be another circuit. you're going to chase and hunt each and every militant or from us. you're going to change chase and hon. their leaders. and we would fights and to be in against him. and we would be victorious, not just for us, but for the sake of the civilized world. a ground defensive by is really forces looks likely. prime minister benjamin netanyahu told his country to prepare for a long and difficult war that will reshape the middle east. and joining us from

tel aviv is lieutenant colonel jonathan con rate, because from the is riley army. lieutenant lieutenant colonel. thank you so much for your time. israel is massing forces on causes border. there is of course speculation. data a ground defensive into gaza is imminent. is that something being conceded or planned as things stand now? i yes, good night. thank you for having me on your show. it is all it is a fighting for and defending itself on 3 fronts. the southern front in gaza, which you have spoken about this been active and there's been a tax by terrorist trying to get into his rated communities. they are met by israeli soldiers who are ready to engage and have ended all of these engagements with it showed up as well from syria. we do not yet know if it was uranium proxies

feasible of all the syrian on forces and but we retired the 8th and fire towards those who fired. i'm currently the situation very stable in the north, along on northern border, physical law and other uranium proxy, tara organization has fired anti tank missiles and other terrace have tried to infiltrate across the border. all of those events have since been taken care of. and currently, there is no fighting there, but we all deployed in significant strength and numbers, vigilant and ready to respond to any aggression from those areas. so if in the thoughts we have about the spelling, all that out, my question is, is, is a ground defensive into gaza, something that is being planned or can see that yes, i was just about to get to that. so in the south we have them deployed. well we have pulled up $300000.00 reservists from infantry, amr,

artillery, combat the engineers and the come up intelligence units. they are now around the gaza strip, getting ready to execute their emissions, preparing, getting their gear and everything in order. the assignment that is that the idea of has been given by these ready administered these maybe government is to take away all of home us military activities. so that's at the end of this war. how much does not have any military capacity to, to terrorize or hurt is radius of reasons cannot. can i take your answer to mean that you are not ruling out a ground defensive into gaza? you'd be correct in assessing. that's all options are on the table. and as i said, our troops are preparing in order to implement the mission to execute the mission that'd be, have been given by these ready government. we are at war against

a bloodthirsty terror organization that is as brutal roof, less than in humane as isis was. and it's worst days and i think that there is unfortunately ample evidence of that. when you see the image is coming out of the keep would seem the communities along the gaza strip of 4050 and hundreds of these riley bodies. that's all scaffold across those communities, including women and children, and the emily. the only conclusion that you can make, once you see that footage is that we are dealing with monsters that have no regard for human life across the border only in order to kill and take a hostage is ray, the civilians. so you just mentioned these hostages, and now i do want to ask you about that. how does this a very, very complicated mission complicate these if it's in terms of getting to the

hostages held by a mazda militants? because on the one hand, there is a, there are strikes from the is riley military onto gaza. but on the other hand, you, you, you want to rescue the hostages that uh, being held in gaza. could you, could you spell this out a bit more clearly for us the complicated uh the mission thats ahead of you. yeah, i think you touched upon the complexity quite well. the situation is that there are dozens of is riley's in garza, most of them all civilians. i'm talking about women, children, a disabled people, elderly people, and even babies or toddlers. there's even a holocaust survivor that we assess is being held by from us. and we know of the hostages that are also with dual nationality. there are americans, germans, french writs, brazilians, and ukrainians,

and from additional countries that are being held by some us. so this situation, this extremely complex situation is not and is really problem only. it is rarely a problem, but we have talking about many countries that have their nationals at the mercy or lack of mercy of commerce. you are right that the complexity here is immense. but our focus is the strategic focus of denying his beloved be, sorry from us, the ability to have any military capacity against as well. and that is what our aerial campaign is focused on. and that is what the next stages of our military operation will be focused on. so it is an unprecedented issue. we have never before been past with dealing with such a complex, sensitive, and frankly, at heart wrenching dilemma that we have before us today. but we will address it at

the end of this work. we will prevail, sir. to just finally, could you spell out for us, please? what are the measures that the is riley military is taking to minimize both to visit civilian casualties in terms of hostages box. also, palestinians in gaza as israel responds to this attack, a yes, the gaza strip is a small and dense base, more than 2 medium people live there. most of them are not how most of both those they lived there under oppression of from us. and some of us being coward terrorists are hiding behind the civilians and using them as human shields. and some of us have purposely positioned all of their infrastructure, all of their military hardware, their positions, the rockets, the bunkers, and every places the from us is they have positioned that behind the civilians and they are using them as human shields. we are trying the best we can to strike only

military targets and we act upon precise intelligence. and we tried to deliver very precise ordinance, only of places where we know that some us uses them for military purposes. it's important for me to explain that if, while you're showing footage of what looks like civilian house is being struck from the air and collapsing for the i'm trained i. the problem with thomas is that they don't put signs on buildings where they have offices and research and development and command and control. there's no sign that says this is a some us facility. and they hide b, b, b amongst the civilians. and therefore, it's very important to understand that we are striking houses and facilities that look civilian. but they are not because they are used by terrorist in order to fight against us. and that's why they are legitimate military targets. but i want to say and emphasize,

and shortly we are committed to the law of on conflict. we do not want to strikes the videos and we will try not to effect civilians as we carry on with this war against from us in gaza. lieutenant colonel jonathan calling because from the is riley defense forces. thank you so much for joining us. thank you for having the good, nice as well for days off to the terrorist attack tower down by hamas on these riley soil. one scene is revealing, the extent of signs of dies are out of respect for the victims, the one showing you all of what these cameras copy that the keyboard seem to find as uh, as it's round defense for since clean bodies the way we tend to use the id ethics is bear on many children among the victims, including during the list id, comfortable waits in jerusalem told us earlier more about these reporting

atrocities. as you said earlier, that we can show the photos out of respect to the victims. unfortunately, i had to watch these materials today and never, and all of my journal wasn't courier have i seen such horrific videos in images from anywhere in the world. we're talking about tens and tens of mutilated bodies. some of them burn. the headed babies thrown in the trails of the little community of club plaza. whole families burned to death in their shelters. young mothers, young children, shot down while they were bound outside their houses. truly unimaginable things. immense amounts of blood in each and every house of the keyboards. a result of the slaughter because of the terrace went from house to house. they didn't just come to a tap or conquered the keyboard. they came to a nearly the community to destroy them completely, to decimate them. and we have to realize the scale of this club as up is one of several communities on the border. there were about 700 people living in the ski

boots before the slaughter. at least a 100 of them are dead now. that basically means that the keep boots as it was will no longer exist. the act done by mouth and the palestinian islamic jihad in these communities is no less than the ethnic cleansing president biden compared. these active, she are evil as the said to isis. i don't even recall images like this coming from iraq when i did their journey of pores they're truly, i'm president, that size one community after the other part of the just being the 1st one that we get. testimonies out of that was due on the list, add a couple of weights. speaking to us a little bit earlier we'll see is our growing for dozens of.