kilometers north of the gaza strip. that is possibly the longest range missile that we ve seen used out of gaza to date. we also had four rocket attacks over jerusalem. three of which we hear for the idf actually hit the city. but presumably not causing any actual damages. iron dome intercepted just under 30 of the more than 150 rockets, which the idf says has come out of israel today. so it has been extremely busy. hamas clearly making good on its promise that it would retaliate and retaliate hard for the israeli airstrikes supposedly targeting its terrorist infrastructure and capabilities to launch rockets from gaza and even though the idf says it made very good on taking out some of those key points, it s clearly hasn t done, you know, it hasn t been completely effective. these rockets are still coming,
does hamas have rockets or missiles that can reach the populated area of tel aviv? is tel aviv itself vulnerable to hamas rockets or missiles from gaza? i can confirm that the hamas do have the capability. we know from this evening as well one rocket landed north of tel aviv. we are taking into consideration that both the central part of israel as well as jerusalem and other areas are under threat. basically what we are talking about is more than 3 million israelis under the threat of the hamas. therefore, both the idf as well as different security organizations already take into consideration and do what has to be done in order to make sure that the people and the population of israel are safe. usually jerusalem is considered offlimits because it s not only the site of holy places for christians and jews,
israel s major cities. israel threatening devastating military response, not only from the air but on the ground. joining us from jerusalem, the superintendent mickey rosenfeld. thank you for joining us. first of all, did any of these rockets that were launched from gaza hit tel aviv, hit jerusalem? what can you tell us about that? i can tell you and confirm throughout the day there were more than 120 rockets that were fired by the hamas from the gaza strip inside israel. the iron dome successfully took down more than 20 rockets, and late this evening, sirens were heard both in jerusalem as well as in the tel aviv area. luckily enough, around the tel aviv area south of tel aviv, the rockets were intercepted. from what we know until now from different police units in and around the different areas on the ground, they are still searching around the outskirts of jerusalem. at least what i want confirm
but by and large, relatively quiet. now what s been interesting, wolf, is that a nearby mosque has been announcing these rocket attacks on tel aviv, haifa, jerusalem and other israeli cities. what they are leaving out of the story is that most of the rockets were stopped by israel s iron dome, anti-ballistics system. and when these announcements are made, you don t hear much reaction in the street. in fact, what we were hearing was much more reaction from the houses in this area as people were watching the germany/brazil game. because, speaking to a lot of people in gaza, you don t get the feeling they re wildly enthusiastically about this latest escalation. it s yet another disturbance to their already disturbed and difficult lives. wolf? i assume they appreciate the fact that the government of israel is under enormous pressure to deal with the rockets coming from gaza and potentially we will hear from an
in place it cease-fire as we did before. how do we influence hamas? can egypt play a role? jordani jordanians? listening to your interview, it strikes me that mission is to complete rockets and it sounds like they have a plan that may good on for a while to try to deplete that 10,000 number and maybe even get to the longer range. and if that the case, there may not be a short term cease-fire that s able to be put in place. the danger becomes, as i think, the ambassador pointed out, we have civilian casualties that are truly tragic. that may spark something in east jerusalem, west bank. and this thing could escalate very rapidly. you heard the israeli cabinet general zinni, they authorized, you understand this, you re a military man. possibility of 40,000 reservist, activated, called into active duty. so far a thousand activated. we did the math and we will put