spying on us. this is a very big deal, your meeting yesterday. i want to ask you about israel and how sustainable israel s policy, they say it s self-defense. john kerry today in beijing supported their right to self-defense. but they are firing rockets into gaza. and as i was saying to israel s ambassador, a key ally of the united states yesterday, it is asymmetric. they have iron domes. they are going into shelters. it s a terrible strain on the israeli populous. but the people in gaza are getting hit because hamas is reportedly hiding weapons manufacture in civilian dense civilian areas. and they are taking terrible casualties. well, look. the loss of civilian lives on either side is a horrible reality. but by the same token, andrea, if hundreds of missiles were being fired by a neighboring part of the world, into the
want to do but they see it as a last resort and it is an option. it is on the table. but it definitely means more civilian casualties and more pressure on israel if they go in on the ground. the question then becomes how long can they stay inside gaza. when we re talking about an israeli ground operation inside gaza, it isn t necessarily a full scale assault on gaza going into as deeply as the center of gaza. could be a much smaller pinpointed operation aimed at taking out those rocket centers. but let s say as i mentioned earlier it appears the israeli army does not have the intelligence, does not know where those rocket stockpiles are. that would make it much more difficult for the israeli firearm they come in and a lo longer operation. ayman mohyeldin in gaza, what is the situation on the ground there because you have got a population that doesn t have the kind of air raid shelters and certainly doesn t have the protection of iron dome which has been stopping these missiles from h
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officials as you know better than anyone. but what is the end game here is the question that i keep asking. how can they win, especially given the fact that they are hitting so many civilian targets in gaza? you know, andrea, this is the this similar kind of operation took place two years ago. and then five years ago. and the question always arises, how long can israel continue shelling gaza as the civilian death toll mounts. and then international pressure because of the civilian death toll mounts on israel to stop the fighting. so that s the question. israel says today that the palestinians have been firing at least 440 rockets inside israel over the last couple of weeks with a dramatic escalation in the last few days. they say we have to stop the palestinian rockets hitting our people. so israel has been shelling from the sea and from the air palestinian targets, especially en masse in gaza but they ve not been able to stop the rockets
being fired. and tarks peers they don t even know where the long range missiles are stored and they haven t been able to destroy them. so until that happens, israel says it will need to continue this operation. and if they can t do it from the air and from the sea as they ve been attempting to do over the last couple of days, they say a ground option is very much on the cards. they ve called up between 20,000 and 23,000 army reserves just in the last couple of days to join the regular army. and then massing right now on the border with gaza. a ground operation would be such a serious escalation. any time they do that, then it becomes so much more difficult to unwind it. well, that s right. the ground operation will need to be proceeded by an even stronger air and sea bombardment of gaza before the soldiers go in. more civilian casualties. when the israeli army goes in that will mean a lot more civilian casualties and the israeli army at risk. it s not something the israelis