and i'm not going to share with hamas our operational plans. >> major general amos yadlin in tel aviv, many thanks for joining us. >>> well, u.s. president joe biden speaks with the israeli prime minister and tells him the hamas attacks are akin to the atrocities of isis. we'll have a report from the white house after the break. >>> plus the heartbreaking stories of people taken hostage by hamas. we will hear from their families pleading for help from world leaders. >>> ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is making his first visit to nato headquarters in brussels since russia's invasion of ukraine began early last year. he spoke standing alongside nato's secretary general jens stoltenberg a short time ago. the meeting comes ahead of a meeting by nato ministers later today. >>> u.s. president joe biden spoke with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu by phone on tuesday, underscoring the need for all countries to unequivocally condemn hamas' brutal attack, and comparing it to the atrocities of isis from years ago. the two leaders agreed to speak again in the next few days. cnn'

in fact, the israeli defence intelligence chief, amos yadlin , in two thousand and seven said israels took over gaza because hamas is seen as not a legitimate actor and therefore more violence can be done again against against gaza. you know, we're talking about now 16 years of the most extreme blockade in the world and in probably the most densely populated place in the world. you know, when the defence minister announced the coming israeli war crimes the other day by saying that there was to going be a total siege, no food, no water and so on and so forth, this is an intensification of an already existing 16 year long siege, which is why gaza has been referred to and again been referred to again and again by the un and others, by the un and many others, including our former prime minister as an minister david cameron, as an open prison , because that is open air prison, because that is what we heard none what that is. now, we heard none of that context whatsoever in that presentation. instead, we heard this theory that it heard this this theory that it was all to do with iran , whi