let's bring in dw, corresponding rebecca ritters in jerusalem. rebecca and netanyahu is talking about war here, even though this is a nation where people often confront conflict. i imagine this kind of event is never the less jarring. how does this news today change life for the typical is really is israel, this region is there is a region that does typically see conflict. c was, but i've got to say here michael. a did really as well as not saying anything of this scale at least for the last 50 years, but really nothing. this is unfreeze it into these saved we saved from gaza. these kind of level of attack uh, both air a ground and see a mouse militants making their way through the boat defense into his right. the cities. we're seeing them in towns and cities around that cause a border. we're seeing them now. the in, in, in fights ongoing fights with you is right in the military is yet ready. military said they trying to bring that area under control. now, benjamin netanyahu was saying that is the number one priority, is to try and get me that 10 times as out of those towns and cities

earlier i ask who responded rebecca ritter's ins, parole close to the border with gaza. whether it's really troops were still inside the gaza strip. well, that's what we're hearing from the officials to michael that the ground offensive. all the targeted raids is the bank will buy these ready military. you're still on going the one that the, the troops that went in last night, a still inside the gaza strip as far as where, where, according to the latest updates that we have. now i also have been hearing that the, the day of trying to work out now they're still caught trying to make a decision about whether or not they're going to continue the fluid and, and try and make this a lodge around invasion. as we've also been expecting for the last few weeks, whether they going to pull out and keep doing these, it's more rates that are on the periphery or just inside the periphery line. i should say that just over my shoulder, you can say goals, you can save employees of smoke, that's the bait who neighborhood in the north eastern part of casa, and we've been seeing and hearing

if that is that what to come to pos, dw, correspondent rebecca ritter's non self and got so many thanks. as we just heard, there are tensions on israel's northern border with the hezbollah militant group. and the is really army exchanging fire. the un peacekeeping force in southern lebanon has urged all sides to exercise restraint has blessed said it had shelled is really military positions and a disputed area close to the border in solidarity with hamas is huge. attack on southern israel. these really army has fired back into southern lebanon with artillery and drones saying it was striking, has blood targets. a soft more cut down is a counter terrorism expert. and the dean of the lauder school of government, diplomacy and strategy at whiteman university in israel. yesterday's attacks are left is real stunned. how did is really intelligent miss vis so thank you for having me on the show. and maybe just before i get to is less than, uh, let me just say that this is really uh, this has been a horrible day for me as well. um perhaps the most um, tragic day for israel and the last 50 years

around 1000 survivors are trying to deal with their trauma and the loss of loved ones as rebecca ritter's reports. >> portraying the dead, from a time before their world fell apart. one of the therapy is helping these people process their trauma at this upscale resort on the dead sea. it is a place of relative safety,. . in a country at war 1000 israelis who escaped the massacre were evacuated here. they will live here for at least the next few months. trying to come to terms with what happened. >> we heard a lot of bombs and we woke up. >> she recalls the moment the ordeal began. her parents soon texted her from their home up the street. they were a hiding. hamas gunmen killed people that they and ella feared that her mother and father were among them. >> i saw a picture of them on telegram. it is not in israel. it is in gaza. >> two weeks later she found this video of her captured mother, filmed by hamas. looking for clues on where they might have been taken, she and her sister went back to their childhood home. >> why? >> i cannot even describe it, it was so hard. when i went there --

okay. ease of use, rebecca re ritter is important for us from southern israel. dozens of israelis have been protesting in front of the defense ministry and tell of eve, asking authorities to bring their missing relatives back home. many held signs with the names and pictures of their loved ones. some are still unaccounted for, and some are believed to be held captive and gaz. following the massive assault launched by how much last saturday they killed. more than 1300 people, at least a 150 is really are believed to have been taken hostage. stephen ryan is with the international red cross and red crescent society in jerusalem. i asked him whether his organization is playing a role and getting him asked to free the is really hostages. well certainly i, but we can say right from the start is of nothing can justify the attacks that were carried out in israel, in the, in the last week or hertz the i see, or see all of her stuff as well as people around the world or has glad to find these have lost loved ones and especially also to those who are left, waiting and wondering what has happened