ambassador tzipi hotovely, welcome to hardtalk. hi, it's great to be here. israel's strategic objective right now? is it to restore quiet on that southern front with the gaza strip or does it go much deeper? is it to destroy the military capability of the islamic militant groups? well, the first thing is definitely true. we want to restore quiet. just yesterday, we had another night that most israelis spent in shelters. from my personal experience, my family, they all live in the centre of israel and they all spent it in shelters. my mother is over 60. she had to go to a shelter for the first, time, you know, for many years that she had to go through this experience. and my eldest daughter, maayan, she's seven and she's zooming with herfriends in israel. all her class was in shelters because children are... you know, hamas is targeting our children and we need to protect ourselves. and i have a sense that every government that would have been in the same position — parliament being fired with rockets, the israeli parliament was evacuated just two days ago —