Israels plan was for this regime to announce the Ground Invasion of the gaza strip and in practice send some ground units to gaza so that hamas fighters enter the tunnels to resist the ground battles and instead of israels Ground Invasion, the network of tunnels is destroyed. Raining from the sky, the aim was to kill the largest number of hamas fighters in addition to destroying the tunnels. This plan is according to the plan of israel did not go. One of the commanders of the Intelligence Organization of qassam battalions explains this issue. In the oath information, we managed to approach and discover the enemys efforts during the preparation of the deception plan in the holy sword battle. The enemy planned this plan by learning from the battle of 2000, which shocked the army and reduced confidence in the Ground Forces. The Ground Forces of the killing and capture of his soldiers were in the field with our forces he had spent more than five years to complete this plan and had made a l
Have a look at this new video coming in to the bbc. Explosions boom. Israel was clearly caught off guard by the attacks from hamas, and there will be much analysis in the weeks and months ahead about why no one saw it coming. Michael singh is former senior directorfor Middle East Affairs at the National Security council, and he joined me earlier. To what extent do you think the us might be concerned tonight that it likely had not heard word of the attacks that we had seen from its israeli partners, that there appeared to be a failure of intelligence . There will be tremendous concern, tremendous concern within israel first and foremost because this was a real failure of anticipation, a failure to detect what was the most significant attack on israel for decades, there will be concern within the United States as well not just at the apparent Israeli Intelligence failure but perhaps the United States intelligence agencys own failure to detect this was happening because you have a very cl
And, israels allies have shown their support through displays like this. Heres berlins Brandenburg Gate lit up in white and blue to show support for israel. The conflict is also impacting air travel. The federal Aviation Administration is urging us airlines and pilots to use caution when flying in israeli airspace. The us air regulators warning follows an earlier alert issued by the Israeli Government and applies to planes flying at any altitude or flight path through israel. Lets show you live pictures from gaza now. This comes as israeli troops are still, quote, Going House To house to clear communities after the saturday assault. Thats according to an Israel Defense forces spokesman. Israel forces have struck several targets in gaza in retaliation for the attacks by hamas. We want to show you the moment, Caught On Camera by our bbc team, when a nearby building was hit by air strikes, take a look. Explosions. 0ur Bbc Arabic Team Capturing that footage of several air strikes on a buil
George washington university. Hello, everyone. Welcome. My name is alexander wilson, on the president of the John Quincy Adams society here at gw when i am so honored to be starting off our event, facing the next step for u. S. Foreign policy in iran. It is a great honor to host this event which has been nine months in the making. Thank you all for coming. [indiscernible] thank you all for coming out. It is a pleasure to see you all excited about this event being offered today. A special thanks to sam who did a lot of the great work in presenting and creating this event. Thank you for the kind invitation. It is great to be here. I will start with introducing our speakers. [indiscernible] as we move on the questions will be more difficult. Especially the last one. Michael singh is a managing director at the Washington Institute and a former senior director of the National Security council. [indiscernible] with a focus on iran and the middle east. Michael is on the board of the u. S. Ins
Out to you . Out to you . Firstly, if this is true, it out to you . Firstly, if this is true. It says out to you . Firstly, if this is true, it says israel out to you . Firstly, if this is true, it says israel is true, it says israel is attacking the isfahan Nuclear Facility. Three reactors there that form the concrete for the fourth reactor. Isfahan really is, to a great extent, the centre of the Iranian Nuclear programme, both in terms of training, research and fact, some would say the development of the Nuclear Capability so it is a likely site that israel would hit because again, the greatest fear that the Israelis Haveis Greatest Fear that the israelis have is not continued missiles today but a Nuclear Capability tomorrow. We today but a Nuclear Capability tomorrow today but a Nuclear Capability tomorrow. We have heard, of course, several tomorrow. We have heard, of course, several times tomorrow. We have heard, of course, severaltimes not l course, several times not only from us