that is a headline of an editorial in the israeli newspaper haaretz.papers editors wrote -- we go now to tel aviv where we are joined by gideon levy, award-winning israeli journalist and author. columnist for the newspaper haaretz and a member of its editorial board. his most recent piece is headlined "israel can't imprison two million gazans without paying a cruel price." if you can talk about how israel is are responding right now, what you feel is important for people outside israel, especially in the united states, to understand and to do. at this point, 300 there's an -- 300,000 reservists moved along the gaza border. >> and the one or two days, you could feel it everywhere. nobody expected this unprecedented situation. it broke many perceptions, both hamas and palestinians and their capabilities. [indiscernible] the more time passes, the more horrible scenes are exposed. i can tell you, i have been so many times to the south in times of war. what i saw was nothing like happen in the past. i must say side-by-side, i mention here, here is also a bi

zionist media such as haaretz reported the power outage in the south of occupied palestine. yediod aharanovet also wrote: the israeli army has not yet been able to regain control of some towns in the gaza strip, and what is happening is a heavy military, intelligence and political defeat for israel. al-aqsa's storm operation aired. hamas has called the palestinian youth living in the west bank to face the occupation. hazem qassem, the spokesman of the hamas movement, said: ready to face any kind of land attack by the occupiers, they came to the streets from the resistance operation against the israeli occupiers. mohammad azaf, the commander of the qassam chaldeans , announced in an audio statement that the resistance action is to protect the al-aqsa mosque and respond to the crimes. it is the occupiers. the people of tehran also showed their joy by gathering in palestine square for the operation of the palestinian resistance against the zionist regime. the next part of the news at 3 o'clock. ladies and gentlemen, hello, i am alireza hashemgan i am with you today. this mornin

thank you so much. . ~ ,, levy from haaretz, thank you so much. . ~' ,, , levy from haaretz, thank youch. . ~ ,, , . hello and welcome to your friday one show live on bbc one and iplayer, with gethinjones. and alex scott. hello, welcome to the programme. major developments tonight in israel's military says it is stepping up its air and ground operations amid reports of heavy bombing of the gaza strip. internet and mobile phone services have been cut off, residents of gaza city have once again been urged to move south. a spokesman said that israel is prepared on all fronts to preserve israel's security and is committed to the task of returning the israeli and foreign hostages that are being held by hamas. as tension continues to rise across the region, the united states has carried out air strikes against targets in syria linked to iran's revolutionary guard. the us insists they are not related to the conflict between israel and hamas and said it was a response to attacks on us forces in iraq and syria by iranian backed militia groups. and within the last few hours, a source familiar wi

haaretz wrote: netanyahu should not remain in his position for a single day, neither tomorrow next week he has to go now. hearts emphasized: benjamin netanyahu is not capable of leading israel in wartime. according to this newspaper, netanyahu's face , despite crying a lot, shows the shock that the israeli regime has suffered. two days ago , residents of the occupied territories demonstrated against netanyahu and the current cabinet. at the same time , the minister of finance of the zionist regime, who is one of the hard-line figures in netanyahu's cabinet, said: "while our heads are down, we must admit that we failed ." in the separate telephone conversations of the minister of foreign affairs of our country with his pakistani and tunisian counterparts on the necessity of cooperation between the member countries of the organization of islamic cooperation it was emphasized to stop the crimes of the zionist regime and to open communication routes to gaza. mr. amir abdollahian called the act of resistance in the occupied territories a legitimate defense to remove the occupation. in a tele

haaretz described what happened as a disgrace and added: this disgrace has caused anger in the hearts of israelis a tragedian. jerusalem post newspaper also emphasized: such an infiltration operation. it had not occurred in any of the attacks or wars throughout history. this operation was very surprising. foreign media quoted israeli officials as saying: they have no idea how this happened. the western press emphasized that the israeli intelligence apparatus, despite the huge resources at its disposal, did not predict such an attack, and if it had predicted an attack, it would have done so in time. in the past, israel carried out very precise attacks and assassinations at specific times they were closely aware of all the movements of their targets. based on this, the israeli media's fear of tel aviv's inability to deal with the al-aqsa storm operation is not surprising. the only response from israeli officials and leaders is that a massive investigation has begun and questions will be raised for years about how this happened. now , we will have a table to discuss more about the dimens

haaretz newspaper wrote that the hamas movement, which is a small organization , revealed the fragility of israel, which considered itself a regional superpower. hart stressed: the responsibility for this failure, although first and foremost. in charge of administration israel 's military intelligence and public security organization, but israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu will not be able to save himself from this disaster . haaretz described what happened as a disgrace and added: "this disgrace has caused anger in the hearts of israelis and is a tragedy ." the jerusalem post newspaper also emphasized: "such an infiltration operation has never happened in any of the there were no attacks or wars. this operation was very surprising. foreign media quoted israeli officials as emphasizing: they have no idea how such a thing happened. western press emphasized israel's intelligence apparatus, despite the huge resources it has, did not predict such an attack, and if it had predicted an attack, it would counterattack. failed with it. in the past, israeli intelligence agencies carried ou

his new op-ed on haaretz is titled "israelis must maintain their humanity even when their blood boilse joins us in tel aviv, israel. thank you so much for joining us, michael. welcome to democracy now! if you could talk about your piece that you wrote for haaretz "israelis must maintain their humanity even when their blood boils." >> good morning to you and thank you very much for having me. these are terrible, terrible days. actually quite a nightmare that we are living through and my heart goes out to the previous interviewees from gaza. we have experienced a shock. i have to mediate to you the sentiment in the israeli society. the attack was a savage attack, targeting civilians going from one house to another in civilian neighborhoods and killing, murdering women, children, elderly, innocent people and also in the scene of the party, killing hundreds of people. the blood boils. it is not just the blood boils, but also one feels a puncture in the heart, a hole in the stomach. and now the question is, what do you do with that? what do you do with this, confronting this inhuman attack

of the soas middle eastern institute, and from jerusalem, anshel pfeffer, senior correspondent at haaretzorised biographer of benjamin netanyahu. also tonight, labour routs the conservatives in two big by—elections. can they repeat the trick in a general election? have you sealed the deal with middle england or is it much closer than people think? england or is it much closer than peeple think?— england or is it much closer than heolethink? _, , , people think? everybody picks their own dates, people think? everybody picks their own dates. i _ people think? everybody picks their own dates, i look _ people think? everybody picks their own dates, i look forward, - people think? everybody picks their own dates, i look forward, it - people think? everybody picks their own dates, i look forward, it will. own dates, i look forward, it will be tough, we landed in a bad place in 2019. good evening. hamas has released two american citizens — a mother and her 17—year—old daughter — for what they describe as humanitarian reasons, after negotiations led by qatar. hamas says their action is a message

gideon levy, always a pleasure to speak with you and read your stuff in the haaretz. much. >> thank you. >> while relief groups are calling for the protection of civilians in gaza who can continue to suffer in the bloody war between hamas and israel. cnn's nada bashir reports now. and a warning, her report does contain graphic content. >> gripped by grief. a loss of unfathomable scale. gaza's death toll, and the number of civilians wounded is rising with each and every airstrike. in the al shut to refugee camp, men dig with their bare hands, desperate to rescue loved ones from beneath the rubble of what ones with their homes. [speaking in a non-english language] >> he begins to list the names of the children killed in this latest strike. among them, his niece. she was just a few months old. now, she is one of more than 440 children gazis health ministry says have been killed by israeli airstrikes so far. >> israel says it is striking hamas targets. authorities hearsay medical facilities, schools, and residential areas have been impacted. >> our neighbor said that the

now when this military base was taken over, what he says, atmosel in haaretz, the well-known israeli newspaper, he says that rosenfeld, when he realized that the base was overtaken, called in an air strike. this is in haret, these are not my words, these are the words of amos haril. what we then saw is since october the 7th, 22 israeli civilian detainees killed in gaza by israeli air strikes. the israeli military has something called the hannibal directive. the hannibal directive was developed in lebanon in the 80s by the israelis with the clear understanding that they do not... want the other side to take hostages, so for example, you have the case of hada galding, golding in 2014, what israel called operation protective edge, which killed over 2,200 palestinians, but when this israeli soldier was taken captive by the palestinians, israel then proceeded to kill everyone, including the civilians in the area around where he was. and the soldier himself, so what israel has, unfortunately is a policy of killing captives, if you look at the case of gilad shalit, this was an is, allow me

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she is the haaretz correspondent for the occupied palestinian territories.lly based in ramallah. her latest piece is "with no water or electricity from israel, gazans risk dehydration and disease." today we bring you part two of our conversation. nermeen shaikh and i spoke to her after she attended wednesday's historic protest in washington, d.c., led by american jewish roots calling for an immediate cease-fire. we asked her to describe the scene. >> it was an expression of common grief and shock of people for juice is made sue slogans were "not in our name" and "cease fire immediately." for me it was important to be there so i was there as a person come as an individual, as a je,s not a journalist. there were quite a few israelis that i know that started the days in the states. we all need support cash which, by the way, palestinians are not allowed. jews are allowed to hold demonstrations. all over, there are places where palestinians are not allowed to hold demonstrations and solidarity. we privilege the jews that we can do things that palestinians are no

just brought up. >> i should just note that that quote, which is, i think, reported by reporter for haaretzn a statement that netanyahu had given to fellow -- members in a closed-door meeting. i can't confirm that, so i want to be clear on the sourcing of that quote. >> but i would like to add, this is not a solitary quote. he has had very well, publicly or articulated policy of demonizing the palestinian authority that was politically expedient for him, and one of his ways of doing that was to sell israelis on the idea, we can deal with hamas. these pathetic little ragtag terrorists, we can handle them. and that entire doctrine has blown up in the face of all israel right now. >> noga tarnopolsky, who i've been reading for years and is an incredible reporter in journalists there. thank you so much for making time with us. i hope you and your loved ones are safe. >> thank you. >> still ahead, the republican issues in congress logging in americas response around the world. >> the world is watching. they're seeing a dysfunctional democracy. we need to get a speaker by wednesday. >> senator ch

the attack, according to the israeli newspaper haaretz, was a big surprise for israel's military intelligence. but it was not only the zionist intelligence apparatus that was surprised. the zionist settlers were also arrested. they look for their lost ones in social networks. anyone who has seen my brother, let us know. my brother has been fishing since 6 in the morning and we don't know about him. or they ask for help from inside the trash can. al-aqsa storm operation is a response to the crimes of the occupying regime and the result of the repeated crimes of this regime. the deputy head of the political bureau of the hamas movement announced today's actions of the palestinian fighters was a pre-emptive operation, saleh al-arouri, we had information that the occupying army was preparing to attack the gaza strip and the west bank, and our operation today was a pre-emptive action . he confirmed and said: we have captives that we can exchange to free all palestinian prisoners in israeli prisons . the news about the capture of one of the senior officers of the zionist regime in today's operation

zionist media such as haaretz reported the power outage in the south of occupied palestine. yediod aharanot also wrote: the israeli army has not yet been able to regain control of some towns near the gaza strip and what is happening give a heavy military, intelligence and political defeat for israel. stalal 12 of the zionist regime aired pictures of the ruins caused by the al-aqsa storm operation. hamas called the palestinian youth living in the west bank to face the occupation. hazem qassem, the spokesman of the hamas movement, said: we are ready to deal with any kind of land attack by the occupiers on gaza. people on the way and yemen in support. from the resistance operation against the israeli occupation , they came to the streets. mohammad, the commander of the chaldeans of qassam, announced in an audio statement that the resistance action is to protect al-aqsa mosque and answer to the crimes of the occupiers. we are still with you today's world. now we have a guest from lebanon's hezbollah, mr. sheikh atallah hammoud, who is one of the officials of the palestine case i

haaretz announced today: today's attacks continued and the sound of sirens in the populated areas has not stopped. the sound of the siren at the bennguri airport caused the panic of the fleeing zionists. at the same time, it was reported that more than 170 settlers fled to turkey by sea in the past days. pictures of the attacks of the resistance groups on the south of tel aviv and the towns of dar the border of the gaza strip is also published. secretary general of yemen's ansarullah, warning about us involvement in the palestinian conflict, said: "we are aligned with the axis of resistance." if america enters the battle directly , we will participate in the battle with missiles and drones. later, in his speech about the developments in palestine, abdul malik called the zionist regime a representative of the west and announced that this regime is killing the palestinian nation with the green light of the western countries. the secretary general of yemen's anzarullah, referring to america's support for israel, said: "since the start of the al-aqsa storm operation, america has behaved a

and in tel aviv, gideon levy, columnist at the israeli newspaper haaretz and author of the punishmentgaza. if i could start with diana, how common, how rare is it in modern political discourse to hear a government minister openly vowing to starve a population of food, water, electricity and fuel? diana: this is not at all new for israel. the seige has been in place for 17 years. and much longer than that, if you look at the system of closure. the problem is that israelis have gotten used to this process of dehumanizing palestinians. we heard as much yesterday when he called palestinians human animals. the fact he gets to do so with complete impunity, it is this that has led to the events of this past week, that somehow they believe that they can do whatever they want to palestinians in the history only began on saturday. discounting 56 years of military occupation, 56 years of what they saw over the course of the past 48 hours. sami: something has changed, this was a territory, gaza has been under seige for 56 years. under occupation for 56 years, it has been under seige for 16 years.

haaretz wrote: netanyahu should not stay in his position for even one more day, neither tomorrow nor next week. he must go now. haares emphasized: benjamin netanyahu is not capable of leading israel in wartime. to the writing this newspaper shows netanyahu's face, despite crying a lot, the shock that the israeli regime has suffered. two days ago , the residents of the occupied territories demonstrated against netanyahu and the current cabinet . meanwhile, smotreich, the finance minister of the zionist regime, who is one of the hard-line figures in netanyahu's cabinet, said: "while our heads are down, we must admit that we failed." the end of this khodangdar news section. in the name of allah, the most merciful, the most merciful, have a good time , welcome to the program of jordan's four-way final football magazine and the last friendly match of the national team before the championships, the national football team to win its second trophy with amir qalano has to pass the 100 of qatar's national team in jordan's four-way cup. we hope it will be a very good game, but the quality of th

like the haaretz newspaper, about the power outage in the south of occupied palestine, yediod aharanot also wrote that the israeli army has not yet been able to regain control of some towns near the gaza strip, and what is happening is a heavy military, intelligence and political failure for israel . from the ruins caused by the al-aqsa storm operation. kurd hamas has called the palestinian youths living in the west bank to confront the occupiers. qassem, the spokesman of the hamas movement, said that we are ready to face any kind of ground attack by the occupiers on the gaza strip. the people in ramallah and yemen are in support of the resistance operations against the israeli occupation came to the streets. mohammad al-zif, the commander of the chaldeans , announced in an audio statement that the operation of the resistance is to protect the al-aqsa mosque and answer the crimes of the occupation. the people of tehran also showed their joy by gathering in palestine square for the operation of the palestinian resistance against the zionist regime. at the same time as the victory of the

sure you read his work, he's a military commentator, he writes for various publications, including haaretz — he said there were three failed concepts at work here. one, that hamas did not want and would not risk another war with israel. secondly, the gaza security apparatus that israel has created, including electronic surveillance, human intelligence, a military fence around gaza, that gave you a level of security comfort that allowed you to believe in security. and thirdly, the palestinian conflict, but particularly the gaza situation, had become something of a sideshow, that it was no longer a focus for the israeli military because israel felt that, in essence, it had kept hamas in a place it could keep them long—term. the strategic vision failed, didn't it? well, i agree only with one part, the issue about the security issues, and i think we have to analyse what happened, why we allowed them to get so close to the fence during the riots they had every once in a while, but i don't think we were surprised by the intentions of hamas. hamas is a terrorist organisation. that's their busines

live to tel aviv to speak to allison kaplan sommer, a journalist at israeli newspaper and website haaretzd developing story, what are you hearing from southern israel, about what's happening at the moment? southern israel, and you have to remember southern israel is no stranger to difficult security situations for decades, they have faced rocket fire and are used to this, this is something that they have never seen before. southern israel is in shock, panic, distress, and i think their biggest issue right now is that there doesn't seem to be anyone out there to help them. hours after terrorists infiltrated towns, cities, qubits communities, people are locked in their homes, in their shelters, curing fiery website, and there has been nobody there to help them. there is still a believer up to 10 places in southern israel where there is active ongoing infiltration and they are trapped in their homes and has not been response of help from the israeli security forces that everyone trusts and depends on for their defence. i think there is a physical security crisis and i think there is a massiv

this is the paper of record of israel , haaretz. that record of israel, haaretz. that is their editorial position because violence like you're justifying. >> no, i am not. >> no, i am not. >> violence begets violence. if you are going to displace people from from their land, put them in an open air prison, 2.3 million people under the most extreme blockade in the entire world. this when it says complete, it already is a siege. this is an occupied land and an occupied the tories. >> again, he recognised their legitimate concerns . the tories legitimate concerns. the tories is also recognised the legitimate security concerns of israel. if it doesn't have its safe state of israel, what is the point of israel? that's why it's there. and this was the biggest attack on israelis since the holocaust. >> so there is they have a right to defend themselves. so yeah, everyone has a right to defend themselves. and also the palestinian people also have a un mandated right as all occupied and colonised people do to struggle for self—determination and national liberation by any a

still with us is gideon levy from haaretz, the israeli newspaper.ll being held inside gaza. and that will be a huge concern both for the israeli families, but also the families of those international hostages who are still as it stands, their location is unknown. we assume inside gaza- — their location is unknown. we assume inside gaza. yes, _ their location is unknown. we assume inside gaza. yes, absolutely. - their location is unknown. we assume inside gaza. yes, absolutely. but - inside gaza. yes, absolutely. but two things must be clear and we should be very honest about them. first, that the big ground operation means losing most of the chances to release the hostages. it does not go together hand by hand, if you go for a big ground operation, you lose them. and all the efforts to show as if both are possible are misleading, in my point of view. in the second thing which should be said is that when it comes to the civilians, may be there will be some kind of deal, humanitarian deal or whatever. but they have dozens of soldiers and even some off

considering also his lack of popularity inside israel and how many israelis, i mean, the editorial board of haaretz as well has come out against benjamin netanyahu to take responsibility for what took place on october 7th. and talk about the possibility of new leadership inside israel as well, as they look for a new future, not only inside gaza but the future of israel? >> look, i don't even do domestic politics in the united states. i'm not even going to get into that, frankly. everything you said is correct. everything you said race is a very important question, but that is something, clearly, you know, someone trying to hold his coalition together to carry out a war, one can understand why there might be a skirting of those questions. >> general david petraeus, thank you sir, we're sticking with us. we appreciate it. good to talk to you. >> thank you. >> all right, everybody. we've got a lot more to cover in our 90 minutes ahead. but with that, that breaking news we were just coming to you with, and that is the announcement from the former vice president of the united states he is no longer runn

haaretz. -- ellison barber joins me now. -- tell us what you know about how the second part of the operationhis expanded ground operation is going so far, for the israeli military. >> you can probably, will likely see and hear it as we are talking to you here. but as we keep an eye on the skyline of northern gaza, the booms of artillery headed in the direction of gaza is constant. and there will often be just explosions that you can see happening inside of gaza. the sky will just turn to this reddish orange, and you will see that pocket, in some ways, in some moments, the explosions we have seen, a couple of them have been so big that, if you were to pause the shot, it looks like you are looking at the sunset. but you are not. you are looking at -- when that happens -- an explosion inside of gaza. and the reality is, every time you hear that, you probably hear, that it sounds like thunder. those booms, there are likely civilians on the other side being impacted. you touched on the fact that we don't have a lot of information from inside of gaza. for more than 30 hours now. because there is a

. >> with us now is gideon levi, a journalist at israeli newspaper haaretz . you, haaretz. good afternoon to you, gideon . thanks for talking to us gideon. thanks for talking to us on gb news is benjamin netanyahu meeting with president biden today , meeting with the british today, meeting with the british prime minister how much store does he hold by what they will have to say , telling him, you have to say, telling him, you know, that israel has a right to defend itself , know, that israel has a right to defend itself, but know, that israel has a right to defend itself , but in know, that israel has a right to defend itself, but in line with international law, how much will mr netanyahu be listening to those words, do you think ? those words, do you think? >> first of all, with all the respect , there is >> first of all, with all the respect, there is a difference between the british prime minister and the american president , sorry , israel was president, sorry, israel was never in this fragile situation like now and never was it? so depending on the united

and the argument which argument i'm making, which is made and israeli made in haaretz and israeli newspaperu has newspaper, which netanyahu has made to his own cabinet, is to newspaper, which netanyahu has ma(that his own cabinet, is to newspaper, which netanyahu has ma(that her own cabinet, is to newspaper, which netanyahu has ma(that he prefers|binet, is to newspaper, which netanyahu has ma(that he prefers hamas s to newspaper, which netanyahu has ma(that he prefers hamass tnhis say that he prefers hamas as his opposition fatah as his opposition than fatah as his opposition, doesn't opposition, because he doesn't want state solution. he want a two state solution. he wants takes up wants an opponent who takes up arms then he thinks arms because then he thinks that he absolute nonsense . he that is absolute nonsense. >> the way, it couldn't >> and by the way, it couldn't possibly get elected a possibly get elected on a consistent basis in israel if he was saying we'll have one rather than the other. it is ridiculous . the people of israel , who i . the people of israel, who i know very well

dust settles here. >> one paper titled, "netanyahu bears responsibilor this th israeli newspaper, haaretze danger looming isrl in recent years has been fully alized. a prime minister indicted in three corruption cases cannot ok after state affairs, as natial interests will necessarily be subordinate to extricating him from possible coiction and jail ti. this was the reason for establishing this hrific coalition, and the judicial gr advanced by netanyahu and for the enfeeblement of top army and intelligence officers who were perceived as political opponents. the price was paid by the victims of the invasion. >> anne, i can't help but wonder if this is a stark warning for the united states. here, you had israel divided. you had a prime minister indicted three times, who was declaring political war on the supreme court. you had people in the streets protecting. look at the united states, we have an empty speakership for the first time in u.s. history, have a president going around talking about the execution of the chairman of the joint chiefs, saying that american democracy is rigged. and y