Netanyahu is about to address his nation. Were going to go there live once he begins. The situation in israel is changing by the hour. Here is a look at the gaza skyline right now. You can see smoke even though its very dark, and flames out there in the distance, from near continuous israeli strikes. The idf says thousands of targets have already been hit. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised that this is only the start with more than 700 israelis dead, he says what is coming next will be painful. But what exactly can come next . There are those within the Israeli Government, including the former Defense Minister who told the bbc that the only choice is to eliminate hamas period, and there are others who say the only way to do that is to flatten gaza. But how do you do that without incurring major civilian losses. There are roughly 2 million civilians trapped in gaza, blockaded by both israel and egypt. The Israeli Government has told them to get out. Where exactly can they g
The hamas fighters broke through the border fence from gaza at these points marked in green, and then reached these areas in red. Israel says 700 of its citizens have been killed, with many others taken hostage. Israel has compared it to the 9 11 attacks and in retaliation, its launched a wave of air strikes on gaza, where nearly 500 palestinians have died. Live now to my colleague anna foster, whos in ashkelon, close to the gaza border. We are only a few kilometres from the border and i can hear an israeli plane overhead and the regular sound of explosions, which have continued notjust of explosions, which have continued not just through the of explosions, which have continued notjust through the night but through the morning. We were in ashkelon this morning as people they are dived for cover, the Commander A Barrage of missiles that had been fired in from gaza. It is something the people here are used to, but sites like this feel very different. You can see Israeli Military vehicle
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