More than 1,000 palestinians, including many children, have been killed. My guest is former israeli Prime Minister ehud barak. Unimaginable horror has been unleashed. Where will it end . Ehud barak, in tel aviv, welcome to hardtalk. You have fought in many of israels wars. Youve led the country as Prime Minister. Have you ever experienced a mood in the country as you see it and feel it right now . This is the most severe blow that israel suffered since its establishment some 75 years ago. And the death toll of a devastating 1,200 within the first 2a, 30 hours, its something that never happened in our history. And in this case, its not a war. These are notjust soldiers. There are many citizens, many civilians, women, young babies, elderly people, even some holocaust survivors. And we still have 150, so to speak, in their hands. So its very tough. Great, huge failure of our Early Warning system, of our operational system. But we, the israelis, we are a defiant kind of species. We know ho
Its seven in the morning in singapore, and two am in israel where we begin our programme as israel continues its mass mobilisation of troops, Hundreds Of Thousands, on the southern border with gaza. The widespread expectation, that a ground offensive, across the frontier, maybe coming. But the un is calling for Essential Supplies to be allowed into the territory where the humanitarian situation is deteriorating rapidly, as israel enforces a complete siege. It follows the unprecedented attack five days ago on the country, by militants from hamas, a group committed to the destruction of israel and designated a Terror Organisation by many western governments, including the uk. At least 1200 people in israel are now thought to have been killed in the multiple assaults last saturday. At least a thousand palestineans have been killed in retaliatory israeli airstrikes. Well be inside besieged gaza, with our correspondent, rushdi abu alouf. But we begin with a report from our International Edi