. >> thanks for following those developments and we'll continue to check in with you, gideon levy is a columnist for haaretz that's the newspaper and wasn't adviser to former israeli prime minister shimon peres. he joins us now from tel aviv. and i thank you for joining us this morning. the israeli response was weeks and coming it is narrow, defined. does this surprise you in any way? >> it weighed surprise me, but it is good news for a change finally, for a moment, please. logic prevails and also the american influence finally had some, some effect because israel really went to the most measured the operation that one can expect a no, no information about casualties. it's only military targets i mean, israel paid its fair in retaliation. >> and i hope by this, it will be over it now in depends on the iranian, by iranian also seem to open a new page yeah, in right about that, so far they've gone out of their way. >> in fact, are on a state media and saying that so far they're not really trying to point out any damage or anything that's actually going on there. of course, they will be

and that anyhow is not looking for any other arise gideon levy here in tel aviv. thank you very much indeed, for joining us thank you all. do more on what is our top story in the hours to come. meantime, some other news for you and there was no shouting, name-calling all talking over each other. in fact us vice presidential debate seemed almost normal details on that are just ahead news of the week and asked questions like, what does a comedy show doing on scene? that's too much but i want donald know. can you slice that i got news for you saturday at nine on cnn? >> ma'am is dead the throne is vacant. we were about to choose the most famous man in the world another cardinal turning to he was never on our list. it has to be an impostor saying bandwidth, want the pain proceed the men were the dangerous warrants would do want you should be careful. thomas conclave, radio dj only in theaters october 25th, if you're shopping for a home, you couldn't grasp forever to find everything they want or compare home values. lot sizes are home ages all at once searching for col

as the civilians in gaza who have really been waiting for some measure of hope and all of this, gideon levy, thanks. >> we appreciate it and gaza now we're emergency response officials say at least 26 palestinians were killed and strikes early friday in the southern part of the enclave and in northern gaza health authorities claim israeli forces opened fire in a hospital compound after days of laying siege to the facility, the hospital's director describes the situation as truly terrifying. sources say the facility is in desperate need of aid humanitarian korean catastrophe if there is no solution to the situation in the next few coming hours, the hospital will turn into a mass grave. >> there is a huge number of wounded people and approximately every hour we lose one of them as a martyr continued to flee the nonstop violence, local organizations have set up dozens of tents and a stadium in gaza city to shelter displaced people from northern gaza. >> united nations human rights chief is raising concerns about the crisis. a warning that it could amount to crimes against humanity today one of

, thank you for talking to us and bringing us to perspective the from israel gideon levy from average intelligence. thank you. i the center of the world news now and at least 63 people are dead. dr. years worth of rain fell in just 8 hours in parts of spain. prime minister federal sanchez has promised governments support for survivors on the flash funding, which is sweeping across the region of valencia sanchez as asked people in front of fact to the areas to remain vigilant and to avoid non essential travel that speak to monica bennett font about old issues joining us from valencia in spain, monica, so you have many people that many more missing. i talked to us about the situation in valencia currently and why these funds have been so devastating. hi, good afternoon from buying see how he's upset. they today here. now the eyes, so putting the consequences, say use consequences of why donna grains have left more than $300.00 lead test, but mentors square. now you say that official sources have gone for you already. now. 62 in the balance. yeah. did people i'm more than 20 missing peop

now gideon levy was very pessimistic about the prospect of a ceasefire in gaza. on the other hand, they were talks they happened talks going on here in cutoffs on guys which involved most sides we heard, but very little has been filtering. what are you hearing about those thoughts and what are the chances of us these fire and gas i any time? so yes, actually give the leave and i on the same page on this one, unfortunately, sadly speaking again because of the lack of for a question on that them. yeah, let's see. have some pressure on the video on that. some of the negotiations of the auto struggling, they're not a problem then. then no progress is being made. we have had that's one of the is wally negotiation. theme has the design for lack of progress and for the concerns of on demand this of the negotiation theme. so that as serious as before getting going on on that trouble, i think what, nothing. yeah. who is trying to do as a trying to maneuver, manipulate the situation in order to show that we are doing something we, he's buying fine for the us elections for

joining us now from tel aviv is award—winning israeli journalist and author gideon levy, who's been fiercely being with us. as we approach the anniversary of october the 7th, benjamin netanyahu was so criticised in the aftermath of that and yet now he seems to be riding high in the opinion polls in israel because of what he is doing against hezbollah. absolutely, but it's in this point of time, you cannot say anything because the operation against hezbollah just started and israelis alike military achievements. and there are some achievements, but we are farfrom knowing how it some achievements, but we are far from knowing how it will be concluded, and you will still see ups and downs in the popularity of netanyahu. i'm not sure it's going to be a story of success, this invasion, this penetration into lebanon. wait and see. last time israel went there, it took months to work out and the time before it took 16 years to get out from lebanon. that's not success. �* out from lebanon. that's not success— success. and also 'ust going back to october _ success. and also just going back to october t

let's speak to the israeli journalist and author gideon levy.columnist with the newspaper haaretz. and joins us from tel aviv. welcome. a former israeli prime minister said this was the best opportunity in 50 years to change the face of the middle east. is that the prevailing narrative amongst the administration there? unfortunately, it is the prevailing narrative and unfortunately even more so it is a false narrative because war is never an opportunity. it always has ended with big disappointment if not a fiasco. israel thinks still that getting into lebanon will sort the problem of hezbollah, by getting into gaza will solve the problem with hamas. in both cases it failed. israel is one yearin cases it failed. israel is one year in gaza and nothing was solved. and now it will repeat its same mistake also in lebanon, which is much more complicated because hezbollah is a much stronger organisation, and it is regrettable that israel again and again repeats its mistakes and again repeats its mistakes and the mindset still seems that war is a soluti

against the accusations that as well have leveled out out of there at john list and in tennessee, gideon levy columbus at her read these paper and all through of the punishment of gaza if i will welcome to all of you, mohammed wants to stop with you because you've taken a close look through this evidence. evidence that israel says is provided to accuse these 6 journalists and goals of belonging to palestinian on groups. all these documents are available on line. what did you make of them? basically to start with some of these general list have been threatened repeatedly by the idea of what is being the authorities to stop doing what they were doing to stop their credit can work particularly and move in gaza or is face consequences. so this is very convenient, so it suddenly is really the finds out all of the mark militants. but basically if you look at the documents itself, you get the immediate impression that is a very, very badly connected fraud. for example, take for instance, and the sensor view is as easy as main generalist and loading cars at the moment. basically, they claim that he w

thank you gideon levy is a columnist with haaretz newspaper and joins us from tel aviv. >> it's good to have you let's start what was your initial assessment if you will, of what we are learning at this point on the ground operation the first welcome to the arabic becky it now to your question, i think that everything is so expected this scenario repeats itself every war that is distraction first, nobody is interested in it full-scale war then comes the bombardments from the air and all kinds of operations then it will be very limited ground operation, limited in time, limited in territory, and few weeks later out, we might be in the outskirts of labor of beirut and then, and then comes the main question, how do we get out from there? because entering lebanon is the easy side. the easiest step look what happens in gaza. israel is deeply starting gaza without having any idea how to get out from there and what to do with gaza? saying is expecting us now in lebanon, we will start a ground operation. it will get complicated. i'm sorry, i'm so pessimistic, but experienced taught us that t