Then begin to carry out retaliatory air strikes in gaza. At around 11 30am, israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declares, we are at war, in a video posted on x. The enemy will at war, in a video posted on x. The enemy will pay at war, in a video posted on x. The enemy will pay a heavy price on a scale enemy will pay a heavy price on a scale it enemy will pay a heavy price on a scale it has enemy will pay a heavy price on a scale it has never known. I call on all citizens scale it has never known. I call on all citizens of israel to listen to the home all citizens of israel to listen to the Home Front Command instructions. We are the Home Front Command instructions. We are at the Home Front Command instructions. We are at war the Home Front Command instructions. We are at war and we will win. Shortly we are at war and we will win. Shortly after, at 12 30pm, we hear from the palestinian president mahmoud abbas. He says his people have a right to defend themselves against what he ca
Civilians inside gaza in homes and schools, hospitals and mosques. Hamas behaves like isis. I repeat, hamas behaves like isis. I repeat, hamas behaves like isis, it is the same strategy, to maximise civilian casualties in gaza and israel and make you all forget the massacre of hundreds of israelis that started this war in the first place. We will not forget. Hamas target israeli civilians, israel will target hamas and islamichhad terrorists wherever they will be in gaza. We will do whatever it takes to protect our people and restore security to israel. We are also looking to the north as well. With full readiness. And we are fully coordinated. The general has just finished a conversation and will keep talking in the next hours again. Whoever taxes all over the middle east will face a decisive attack back. Whoever attacks us. Whoever attacks us. 0k, whoever attacks us. Ok, i think that press whoever attacks us. Ok, i think that Press Conference whoever attacks us. Ok, i think that Press
mohammad shtayyeh, welcome to hardtalk, and thank you forjoining us from ramallah. now, the terrible scenes in rafah are just the latest mass casualty event of this war. as we stand nearly eight months into this phase of the conflict, how do you envisage the current war in gaza coming to an end? well, first of all, i hope there will be an immediate ceasefire and an immediate end to these atrocities that israel is committing against our people. as you rightly said, what is happening in rafah is simply a repetition of what has been happening since october 7th, a very terrible situation, genocide, massive killing and also use of aid and food and water and electricity as a tool for killing good people. there are people who have been killed because of bombing, and there are people who have been dying because of hunger, been dying because of lack of medical treatment. so the situation, really, is very catastrophic. and there isn t anything called refuge. there isn t anything that s
mohammad shtayyeh, welcome to hardtalk, and thank you forjoining us from ramallah. now, the terrible scenes in rafah are just the latest mass casualty event of this war. as we stand nearly eight months into this phase of the conflict, how do you envisage the current war in gaza coming to an end? well, first of all, i hope there will be an immediate ceasefire and an immediate end to these atrocities that israel is committing against our people. as you rightly said, what is happening in rafah is simply a repetition of what has been happening since october 7th, a very terrible situation, genocide, massive killing and also use of aid and food and water and electricity as a tool for killing good people. there are people who have been killed because of bombing, and there are people who have been dying because of hunger, been dying because of lack of medical treatment. so the situation, really, is very catastrophic. and there isn t anything called refuge. there isn t anything that s