to hit back in april there's only moments ago, kasie, i spoke to former israeli prime minister naftali bennett and he told me this is the moment israel needs to take out or runs nuclear facilities all this is coming as israel is continuing to target hezbollah targets in lebanon just moments ago, he israeli military issuing new evacuation orders for southern beirut this is a very densely populated area where hezbollah holds a lot of sway jeremy diamond is standing by his germany yes. >> from gadara in israel, jeremy, what have you learned so far about the damage on the ground caused by these iranian ballistic missile strikes wolf, it was a terrifying night in israel as we saw some 180 ballistic missiles fired by iran towards central and southern israel. >> i'm on the grounds of an elementary school here in central israel. and you can see behind me the damage that was wrought as a missile drunk. this area, right besides the school, those are second and third grade classrooms that you can see there where the walls have been broken down, the windows, shattered as well. the israeli military says th

we are now going to bring in former israeli prime minister naftali bennett. thank you so much as always for joining us. first, wen i want to start gettg your reaction to a leak claiming ironic back to publication received highly classified u.s. intelligence about israel's plan to strike a run. a few questions specifically for you. how do something so sensitive to get leaked? who would want to leak it? does this change israel's strategy? >> are such a leak of considerable concern from our perspective. when we have operational plan we do not want it to leak. not have it linked to anyone and certainly not to our enemies. i understand and am confident the united states is going to look into the source of this leak take care of it. ari: okay we will move on. let me move on to idf reaction. the drone attacks has been attacking israel for the last 30 years through several of its proxies that hamas, hezbollah, houthi it. they're killing many israelis i romp through its proxies killed hundreds of americans including 241 servicemen in beirut. but much much more. it's t

former prime minister naftali bennett is one of them, saying this opportunity should not be missed.s ago, but there's also an ability that didn't exist until now because essentially, iran was defending itself with two arms, hezbollah and hamas. they were sort of its insurance policy against a strike. but now both of those arms are pretty much neutralised. so the defences are down — is that what you're saying? exactly, and the road is paved. is it the case you want the americans to do it for you? i can tell you, we've never asked, in our history, of america to fight our wars or to send soldiers to fight our wars. iran, from iran's point of view, they might think they're defending themselves, because you think about it, israel escalated the war in lebanon. israel decided to assassinate the leader of hezbollah, hassan nasrallah, a very big ally of theirs. and so they were pushed into a position, weren't they, where they had to respond? quite the contrary. you're mistaking the events. there is a regional war taking place, but the, the head of the octopus that's conducting all this war i

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were leaking israel that were plans for early you had an interview with former prime minister naftali bennett. here's what he had to say about those leaks. >> such a leak is of considerable concern from our perspective. when we have an operational plan we do not want it to leak. we know want to have it leaked to anyone. certainly not to our enemies. >> recall both president biden vice president ayres warned the israelis not to go into haifa. that's where the idf killed hamas leader yahya sinwa print former secretary of state mike pompeo says it's a good thing the israelis did not listen to the white house. >> there is no doubt about it. really the demands with united states of america. the hezbollah leadership and the threat on is really nine states of america still be out there. >> as we await israel's response for the on precedent list of missile attack by a run earlier the pentagon is investigating unauthorized release of highly classified documents that assess israel's war plans to attack iran for the classified document show israel using military assets into place to conduct the retaliat

out of israel right now, we're hearing from some former officials, prime former prime minister naftali bennett, who is saying that they should go for iran's nuclear program if they don't do it now, they may never do it. so the united states does see a need, does support israel responding, but they are in these conversations at least publicly and excuse me, at least privately. and now we know publicly with these comments from biden bit and making it clear that they don't want this to get too far out of control where it turns into an all out war. brianna. >> all right. kylie atwood live for us at the state department. thank you for the report for us. >> let's expand the conversation now with cnn military analyst and retired army general james spider marks, general. thank you so much for being with us. you heard president there saying that israel should respond proportionally. what would that look like fair to say that israel certainly will choose when and where they want to respond. >> and i would say there are no rush. they can do this at a time of their choosing. so we're all leaning forward t

there were several israeli officials that were on with my colleague wolf blitzer last night, naftali bennett, former prime minister michael oren the former israeli ambassador to washington. and they both had pretty hawkish things to say about israel seizing this moment to take on an attack. frankly, the iranian nuclear facilities and you write in your piece that that is something that benjamin netanyahu, the prime minister, has been looking for an opening to potentially do for many years. do you think that is on the table here? and what does that mean in terms of escalation but i think it's on the table. >> kasie, i'm not sure they're going to go that far and certainly the biden administration is urging them not to well let's just step back for a moment. the wider war that we were trying to really spent the past year of trying to avoid it's here, it's upon us. >> right. i mean, what what it meant was don't spread the gaza war, the war against hamas elsewhere. and now of course we have seen israel go after hezbollah kill its leader. we've seen israeli attacks and are houthi attack on israel a

. >> former israeli prime minister naftali bennett is calling for the destruction of iran's nuclear program. bennett took to social media, writing in part, israel has its greatest opportunity in 50 years to change the face of the middle east. and he on to say the octopus's tentacles are temporarily paralyzed. now comes the head. joining us now, blaise mittal, vice president for policy at the jewish institute for national security of america. blaze, thank you so much for being here. if you're talking about taking out the head of the octopus, then surely you have to take out. that means taking out the leadership, the ayatollah, those who surround him is israel. and should israel go that far? >> well, good morning, jonathan i think if you look at the pattern of how israel has conducted this war, what it's gone after, prime minister netanyahu made it clear in his speech last night, it gone after hamas's leadership and most of them are gone. it has gone after hezbollah's leadership. and we saw what happened to hassan nasrallah on friday. and if you apply the same logic to to iran, that it's no w

former prime minister naftali bennett is one of them, saying this opportunity should not be missed.se three years ago, but there's also an ability that didn't exist until now because essentially, iran was defending itself with two arms, hezbollah and hamas. they were sort of its insurance policy against a strike. but now both of those arms are pretty much neutralised. so the defences are down, is that what you're saying? exactly, and the road is paved. is it the case you want the americans to do it for you? i can tell you, we've never asked, in our history, of america to fight our wars or to send soldiers to fight our wars. iran, from iran's point of view, they might think they're defending themselves, because you think about it, israel escalated the war in lebanon. israel decided to assassinate the leader of hezbollah, hassan nasrallah, a very big ally of theirs. and so they were pushed into a position, weren't they, where they had to respond? quite the contrary. you're mistaken, the events. there is a regional war taking place, but the, the head of the octopus that's conducting al

yourformer likud party colleague and former pm, naftali bennett, says this is a historic opportunityael. he says, "we must act now to destroy "iran's nuclear programme, cripple this — quote, unquote — terrorist regime. "we have the tools." israel, iran right now, he says, stands exposed. you're a hawk on iran yourself. do you agree with mr bennett? well, you understand that i will not be able to go today with you on specific targets. i'm involved in the discussions. i'm saying that we're thinking very carefully. we didn't respond immediately. i think, many countries, if they would have been targeted like the way we were, the next day they would have retaliated. we take the time, we think very carefully, and i think that we have the ability to protect ourselves. but the burden to deal with nuclear iran should not be only on the shoulders of israel. the thing is, you do risk making your relationship with the united states deeply toxic. listen to the words of a former, very senior, cia official, alan pino, who said, basically, israel cia official, alan pino, who said, basically, israel

a former israeli prime minister, naftali bennett, has urged benjamin netanyahu to go after iran 5 nuclearvous. back to our top story now, and hurricane milton has made landfall in the us state of florida. it hit siesta key. the national hurricane center just released a new advisory. as of now, the hurricane is located around 75 miles or 120km south of the city of orlando. it is carrying wind speeds of 165km per hour. milton was downgraded to a category two hurricane about 90 minutes after making landfall, but still remains extremely dangerous. despite dropping in intensity, it is expected to remain at hurricane strength for the entire time it moves over land before dissipating over the atlantic in the next few days. brenda griffiths is in sarasota, just south of tampa, where the eye of the storm currently is, and shejoins me now. thank you forjoining me. tell me what it's like there at present for you. it me what it's like there at present for you.- me what it's like there at present for you. it is much auieter present for you. it is much quieter than _ present for you. it is much quieter

let me just read your quote from naftali bennett.to change the face of the middle east. when you hear someone of that weight say that sort of thing and it's being increasingly said in israel as well, what is your response? to be recise, well, what is your response? to be precise. it — well, what is your response? to be precise. it will _ well, what is your response? to be precise, it will change. _ well, what is your response? to be precise, it will change. is - well, what is your response? to be precise, it will change. is it - well, what is your response? to be precise, it will change. is it going l precise, it will change. is it going to be lebanon completely in rubble, gaza being as desperate as it is? and iran finally decides to do what is being accused to do, but hasn't done — going for nuclear weapons. if thatis done — going for nuclear weapons. if that is the result, it's going to be even more complicated than it's been so far. let's hope it can be avoided. but we should be aware of the fact that we are in a very dangerous mo

it seems israel is insisting on a strike against iran, and especially former prime minister naftali bennettanyahu himself wanting to strike iran very hard, but on the other side, the americans against that. some contact between them in order to find a way to achieve easing the tension in the region. achieve easing the tension in the region-— the region. thank you for bringing _ the region. thank you for bringing us _ the region. thank you for bringing us up-to-date i the region. thank you for i bringing us up-to-date with bringing us up—to—date with what is going on in the middle east. we have the latest online and on the app. we are live on bbc news, keeping track of hurricane milton as it crosses across the state of florida. debts have been confirmed —— deaths have been confirmed in a nearby county, although the levels are still unclear. millions fled their homes on wednesday as they prepared for hurricane milton to make landfall. dozens of flash floods, tornadoes and storm surge warnings have been put in place. it has been described as extremely dangerous and life—threatening still. you

i think we can bring up this from a former israeli prime minister, naftali bennett, we must act now to essential energy facilities and to fatally cripple this terrorist regime. what things might be be considering in terms of what they go for? test considering in terms of what they go for? �* ., ., for? at the lower end of the spectrum — for? at the lower end of the spectrum they _ for? at the lower end of the spectrum they might - for? at the lower end of the spectrum they might be - for? at the lower end of the - spectrum they might be satisfied with demonstrating how much better they are conventionally, hitting radar sites, they are conventionally, hitting radarsites, perhaps they are conventionally, hitting radar sites, perhaps larger revolutionary guard facilities, but they could escalate into things like oiled production facilities, really hurt the regime, senior leadership figures or even the nuclear programme. figures or even the nuclear programme-— figures or even the nuclear rorramme. , . . ., programme. these are the nuclear facilities? it _ programme. these are the nuclear f

former israeli prime minister naftali bennett wrote on his social networks that israel has the best opportunityo change the face of the region. we must act now to... iran's nuclear program, its main energy facilities, to deal a fatal blow to this terrorist regime, we have seriously damaged the tentacles of this octopus, now is the time to hit the head - bennett said, speaking of iran. how high is the risk of strikes on iranian nuclear facilities now, well, they are also talking about strikes on iranian oil facilities and so on, but it seems to me that strikes on nuclear facilities could have the most serious consequences, then it is definitely... no, but tactically he is planning such strikes, now together with the americans they are deciding to strike super-sensitive facilities, which you mentioned, these are nuclear facilities, oil facilities, but the americans have not yet signed up for this, especially the biden administration, the democrats, they are not giving the green light for this, but here netanyahu can play, as he has already played his game, and can break through some. option, with

however, i do agree with naftali bennett and others like general wesley clark that there needs to be a disproportional response to this attack. this unprecedented attack on israel. i mean, we're in this with them. >> the united states and israel, our close ally. >> they are fighting against authoritarian regimes just like we are and so the israelis need to build a coalition including the united states they need to continue their offensive operations in southern lebanon. but i believe that they need to take out the nuclear facilities of iran because they're going to continue to develop these facilities. they well and the fourth thing i'd recommend is that they need to continue to they need to take out some iranian energy infrastructure. they need to take, deliver some hurt to the iranian people to put pressure on the people though hopefully over to overcome this brutal authoritarian team. that for the last 40 years has been driving this train secretary, let me just ask you in the context of this nuclear program, right? >> us intelligence assesses that iran is two weeks away from getti

thank you very much indeed, for joining us one former israeli prime minister naftali bennett is calling on netanyahu's government to take action against iran's attacks by destroying tech runs, nuclear program. here's what he said to our wolf blitzer this is a once in a 50 year opportunity. >> what israel needs to do immediately we need to take out iran's nuclear program. we need to attack irans energy facilities and we need to attack the regime itself right away because iran made a fatal mistake of shooting 200 ballistic missiles at the state of israel enough is enough meanwhile, former us secretary of defense, william cohen says that israel might capitalize on its response and fulfill one of its long longtime objectives. why would expect that they would level a very serious attack in iran against a number of facilities possibly their oil industry, which conceivably, their nuclear facilities. this has been a prime objective of the israelis at some point in time to prevent iran from ever getting a nuclear weapon from iran seem to be getting closer to that possibility and i think the isra

or all the sort of scenarios that they had feared or that israeli opposition politicians like naftali bennett had asked the government to do. so. i think iranians and i've spoken to several sources in tehran the last few hours. i think they're mostly relieved there are those who think israel might escalate later on, but i think they're relieved than i think the consensus is that they they don't really want this to they don't want to broaden the conflict and like the white house. >> they they're sort of aiming for an end to this for tat collection that we've seen in the past few months really. yeah. to your point, there are as far as we know, no known strikes against the irgc or quds force personnel. do you believe that supreme leader ayatollah khamenei will call it a day and perhaps just look for asymmetric opportunities to hit israel down the line is, as they've done in the past this is a very shameful day for harmony because for decades he had promised, if you will, that iran had some, some sort of a naval no peace policy that it far israel indirectly, but without ever inviting warren irani

pressure internally from our opposition israeli figureheads, including the former prime minister naftali bennetto had been publicly arguing ever since that october 1 attack, and even before then it's time in his view to go after leadership. perhaps directly in iran and target the oil and the nuclear facilities in the country quickly, christiane, can i can i get you to weigh in on something that you touched on earlier in what, if any, impact does this have on the possibility of resuming? these ceasefire and hostage talks. as it relates to the war in gaza. antony blinken making his 11th trip to the region just this past week, trying to get that back on the table. >> well, i think this is the last dish last ditch dash of this administration's last month. they absolutely wanted to make sure that the iran retaliation, which everybody expected, was going to be manageable. they're absolutely need to get a ceasefire and a resolution in lebanon to somehow strengthen the lebanese government women maybe put other third party monitors inside southern lebanon to protect that. that border there and make sure

former israeli prime minister naftali bennett was on with wolf blitzer here on cnn. he said, now is the moment to destroy iran's nuclear program. if israel does, that, should the u.s. support the move? >> well, as you know, good morning good morning. and california as you said before, neck was on, we want to avoid a bigger war as you know, full well, that president obama had a plan to reduce the capacity of the iranians to produce a nuclear weapon. the next president in line, he came in and eliminate it that unfortunately, because now iran is on a path again for enriching uranium or fully taking it closer to having the capacity for weapon. i don't know how close they are to that. and if i did, i wouldn't say so. again. again, we don't we want to avoid a bigger war. we do know that hezbollah and hamas our proxies for iran. they are the troublemakers in the region the fact that israel was attacked 200 ballistic missiles coming into israel, tank god without any major effect shows that they, they must be stopped. but i don't think we should get and then an open discussio

they include naftali bennett, of course, former prime minister, have a listen to his comments and i wantyour response opportunity. what israel needs to do immediately, we need to take out iran's nuclear program. >> we need to attack iran. energy facilities and we need to attack the regime itself. so now is the moment, you know, sometimes history knocks on your door and you got to seize the moment. if we don't do it now, i don't see it ever happening to that suggestion? >> not just attacks on nuclear facilities, but it seems on senior iranian leadership is his suggestion i think i think it's a reckless suggestion. >> i think he should have really thought about what he was going to say beforehand. it's very easy to go gung when you're not the prime minister, when you not me and we are ready. >> jim, we're ready. called in an escalating spiral and to begin with the falasi of weaken control escalation and we dominate escalation is a flawed premise. we don't northern iran and if this is going to become a ping pong or retaliatory strikes before you know it, you're going to have a full-blown wa

has done very, very little to play something for you that former prime minister of israel, naftali bennett had to say to my colleague wolf blitzer last night about what he believes israel should do right now in retaliation for this, let's watch once in a 50 year opportunity. >> what israel needs to do immediately. we need to take out iran's nuclear program. we need to attack iran's energy facilities and we need to attack the regime itself. so now is the moment, you know, sometimes history knocks on your door and you got to seize the moment. if we don't do it now, i don't see it ever happening with him should israel do those things that he outlined well, i think what we have to focus on us, what's going to change your iran's behavior what exactly what action is going to stop or wrong from funding hamas, from funding to hoodies or, or hezbollah and to date, nothing is worth diplomacy sat hasn't worked. >> the biden administration as loud northwards of 80 billion of sanctions to be skirted, which was directly resulted in an army of a morant. >> so, you know i think that that point is very agg

. >> i mean, the real question is, what is the next step enough to former prime minister naftali bennettt on talking to wolf blitzer. he's saying now is the moment for israel's to strike nuclear facilities, energy facilities. the iranian regime himself itself there's a lot of, i mean, a lot of members of the israeli government probably are arguing the same thing right now tonight. >> listen i, again, what would a strike on the nuclear facilities? >> i'm not going to speculate about what israel may or may not want or plan to do. i can tell you one thing i have had many conversations with the biden-harris administration today. they're spending every he's single moment working on this, working with israel, working on not only to solve what happened today with 180 rockets, but working with israel on what may come next. and clearly, this is something that the biden-harris administration cares deeply about. obviously, they're not interested in escalating this war. we have a lot of our own resources as you know, but, but, but the u.s. >> hasn't been informed. it seems like on a number of action

let me first play for you what the former israeli prime minister, naftali bennett told wolf blitzer yesterday, kind of along these lines once in a 50 year opportunity. what israel needs to do immediately, we need to take out iran's nuclear program. we need to attack iran's energy facilities and we need to attack the regime itself right away because iran made a fatal mistake of shooting 200 ballistic missiles at the state of israel enough is enough taking out nuclear facilities, did taking out the nuclear program attacking her on energy facilities. is that is that going too far or is that kind of along the lines of what we're talking about here? >> well, i think you have work your work the actual targeting capabilities are lot of those nuclear facilities are deep underground. some of them were in south eastern iran are hard to reach you may not get them first time. about the principle is correct. kate lord the hardliners in the iranian government have watched the united states respond for over a year saying, we don't want to escalate all, please. let's don't escalate to them. that says weaknes

the islamic republic, in fact, this is exactly the strategy that former israeli prime minister naftali bennett voiced on cnn. what israel needs to do immediately is to strike iran's nuclear and energy facility, and also to attack the regime itself, because iran made a fatal mistake by launching 200 ballistic missiles at israel. at the same time, cnn reports that the white house has not yet consulted with israel regarding retaliatory measures and does not know at all how tel aviv is going to act, what it can do in such a situation. true, they also stated that they allegedly shot down several iranian missiles with the help of, in my opinion, their own ships stationed in the region, but that was the limit of their participation, well, in any case case, let's put an end to this topic for now, we will collect information with the hope that some uncontrolled surge, uncontrolled escalation will not happen in the near future, by the way, rosaviatsia, as far as i understand, has allowed our planes to fly over the territory of iran and in israel today from wednesday. but now suddenly in ukraine they are

as naftali bennett stated yesterday . naftali bennett stated yesterday.is is going to happen. so they are coming to war. this before they go in for the head of octopus. so, as you said, and you showed the iran before 1979. and forgive me for this, i don't call it the revolution so that i call it the international military coup against iran , islamism, against iran, islamism, occupation. so let me give you the very short story about few seconds, 1979, before all these chaos in iran. it was a meeting in guadeloupe, in france, between giscard the seine, james callaghan. from here, jemmy carter from america, and helmut schmidt from germany. so they decided in that three days meeting for regime change in iran, because the shah of iran says he's not going to sell the oil with the same price anymore. that was first reason. the second reason they were going to create an ideological wall in front of soviet soviet union in that time, in front of communism. so very soon after that, they created a character from khomeini, and they transferred the reformist movement t

well, you have got people, for example, naftali bennett, the former israeli prime minister, talking aboutthe united states and israel. and if you listen to the kind of thing is thatjo biden said since this tack and the americans have said, we really don't get the sense that the americans are up for some kind of big retaliatory strike alongside the israelis on iran. that might put a limitation on what the israelis attempted to do. and of course you have got the behind—the—scenes diplomatic urgings as we were hearing from keir starmer there, to try to put a lid on it. so it's a tricky situation, they will feel obliged to respond somehow militarily, but we just don't really know at what level. ihlnd militarily, but we just don't really know at what level.— militarily, but we just don't really know at what level. and you touched on in there. — know at what level. and you touched on in there, where _ know at what level. and you touched on in there, where does _ know at what level. and you touched on in there, where does that - know at what level. and you touched on in there, where does that le