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but i think they're walking into a trap, as i said. >> hussein ibish, senior resident scholar at the arab gulf states institute, good to get your perspective, thing. >>> two freed american hostages reunite with their family in israel. but what about the hundreds of others still in hamas captivity? i'll speak to an expert next. >>> welcome back to our viewers all around the world. i'm liynda kinkade. tens of thousands of israeli troops are preparing for a ground incursion of gaza as israel says it will step up air striked on the territory. the edf chief of staff said saturday their military will enter gaza and initiate an operation to take out hamas. but it did not provide any time frame. the u.s. is sending more missile defense systems to the middle east. the pentagon is placing additional u.s. troops on a prepare to deploy order in response to the escalating situation in the region. aid organizations are calling for unrestricted access to gaza, saying in a joint statement from the united nations that time is running out to help the thousands in need of medical assistance. cnn's salm

live now to washington, and we can speak to hussein ibish, senior resident scholar with the arab gulfprogramme. listening to jonathan's report there, talking about israel's next move, how it is preparing, what do you think hamas is doing in terms of preparations? i do you think hamas is doing in terms of preparations?- terms of preparations? i think the are terms of preparations? i think they are bracing _ terms of preparations? i think they are bracing entirely - terms of preparations? i think they are bracing entirely for. they are bracing entirely for they are bracing entirely for the hottest possible welcome for the israeli troops, many of them are reservists, many of them are reservists, many of them are reservists, many of them are not used to close quarters combat. hamas obviously spent many months, possibly more than a year, probably with some help from hezbollah and certainly with help from the quds force of iran, preparing the attack on southern israel, which was extremely effective as well as brutal and vicious. it was a killing spree, but they encountered not only much wea

hussein ibish is a senior resident scholar with the arab gulf states institute. by israel — he explained what hamas was doing in preparation. they are bracing entirely for the hottest possible welcome for the israeli troops, who, many of them are reservists, many of them are not used to close quarters combat. hamas obviously spent many months, possibly more than a year, probably with some help from hezbollah and certainly with help from the quds force of iran, preparing the attack on southern israel, which was extremely effective as well as brutal and vicious. it was a killing spree, but they encountered not only much weaker defences than they expected, but also they themselves were more effective than anticipated. but they will have put in at least as much effort during that same period of months, over a year possibly, into preparing to meet the counter attacks. so they are hunkering down, they are braced, i think they are ready for the israelis. frankly, the israelis have already been surprised by what they have encountered from hamas last saturday, and they we

hussein ibish is a senior resident scholar with the arab gulf states institute in washington.ake of that statement from the white house and given what we have from the wall streetjournal earlier in the day? i we have from the wall street journal earlier in the day?— earlier in the day? i don't think there's any _ earlier in the day? i don't think there's any doubt _ earlier in the day? i don't think there's any doubt among - earlier in the day? i don't think - there's any doubt among analytical thinkers who followed me are events that hamas was heavily influenced by iran. they were probably commanders or advisers in gaza helping to plan this since the summer. i think the wall street journals story about a series of meetings in beirut and a final decision to go ahead and august makes perfect sense. it all scans with everything we know. hamas broke with iran during the decade of the arab spring uprising between 2010 and about 2019 when there was a secretary and split throughout the region. since 2019 or so it has been much easierfor hamas region. since 2019 or so it has been muc

endless choices right now, only at red lobster welcome to fun dining >>> our commentary comes from hussein ibishsraelis and made no preparations for the 2 million people of gaza to survive the inevitable retaliation. israel is responsible for avoidable civilian deaths and for cutting off all basic necessities for the gaza palestinians under collective attack. deaths could easily rise into the tens of thousands. how did it come to this? the history is long and disputed. yet today a structurally unsustainable, inherently explosive situation prevails. in the territories controlled by israel since 1967 there are roughly equal numbers of jewish israelis and palestinian muslims and christians. all 7 million jewish israelis have citizenship and full human legal rights as do the 1 million palestinian citizens of israel. the 5 million palestinians under occupation don't. in a world made up of states and their citizens, the stateless palestinians are unique because they have no citizenship in israel and yet no state of their own. the occupation forces israelis and palestinians into a toxic relationship of