joining us is tsach saar, acting down sewell general of new york's consulate.ining us. given the humanitarian crisis among the humanitarian crisis among the civilians in gaza, will israel heed the calls from the us, the un, the eu among others to allow water, electricity, fuel, medicalsupplies to allow water, electricity, fuel, medical supplies and general humanitarian aid into gaza. ., ., ~' general humanitarian aid into gaza. �* ., gaza. look, we're doing everything _ gaza. look, we're doing everything we _ gaza. look, we're doing everything we can - gaza. look, we're doing everything we can in - gaza. look, we're doing i everything we can in order gaza. look, we're doing - everything we can in order to prevent and to avoid collateral damage and harming of civilians, innocent civilians, but i think that these questions should be directed to hamas. hamas is blockading and doing whatever it can for its own citizens to stay in places where we asked to evacuate. we pre—emptily warned civilians to evacuate these areas. we provided specific instructions. we gave wi

lisa: joining is now the acting console general of new york tsach saar.ons to 9/11 what is this been like to watch from afar. >> these are very difficult days for us, we woke up saturday morning. it was a peaceful morning. very important jewish holiday to a barrage of rockets and hundreds of terrorists that infiltrate into israel and kidnapped people, butchered people, massacred, little babies, elderly, whole families. it was a terrible day of the reminiscent for me. and seeing the photos coming from israel especially from far away was a very difficult mo moment. the war is still going on as you can see and as you imagine in the marriage of rockets continue, fighting on the ground continues and israel did will do whatever it takes and will respond with an unprecedented response to an unprecedented event. griff: griff jenkins, we have seen a handful of u.s. lawmakers ended initial response from the u.s. office of palestinian affairs, an official office of the administration in a tweet since they have taken down. all saying that israel should not retaliate,

lisa: joining is now the acting console general of new york tsach saar. is this been like to watch from afar. >> these are very difficult days for us, we woke up saturday morning. it was a peaceful morning. very important jewish holiday to a barrage of rockets and hundreds of terrorists that infiltrate into israel and kidnapped people, butchered people, massacred, little babies, elderly, whole families. it was a terrible day of the reminiscent for me. and seeing the photos coming from israel especially from far away was a very difficult mome moment. the war is still going on as you can see and as you imagine in the marriage of rockets continue, fighting on the ground continues and israel did will do whatever it takes and will respond with an unprecedented response to an unprecedented event. griff: griff jenkins, we have seen a handful of u.s. lawmakers ended initial response from the u.s. office of palestinian affairs, an official office of the administration in a tweet since they have taken down. all saying that israel should not retaliate, your response

. >> tsach saar, appreciate your time this evening.he israeli defense forces says its main objective is to re-establish control and the number of civilians kaup toured is, quote, significant ran joining us, jonathan konk iikas. you have called this a pearl harbor moment for israel. one of the questions i've heard a lot of people asking is about the intelligence failure, and obviously intelligence in real life is not like it is in tv shows and movies. intelligence failed to what happened on 9/11. intelligence failed to realize what happened on january 6th, 2021. intelligence failed to realize what happened during the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan. so by no means is intelligence operations in the united states infallible. but that said, what went wrong here for israel? >> yeah, it is a very difficult day here in israel as we are counting our dead and wounded and coming to terms, wrapping our heads around the situation that we have many israelis captive, abducted by hamas that are now in the hands of a murderous terrorist organization