army chief of staff and the head of the internal security agency shin bet they were coming out of a very long security cabinet meeting and he basically explain again why israel targeted this senior. jihad leader early this morning he said he was accused terrorist a ticking time bomb and that he was responsible for many attacks over the past year and that he was actually also planning a major attack and this operation was approved by all the agencies and the government together over the past. week or so so they were basically also 2 messages here and what they had to say on the one hand. the militant factions in gaza. israel knows where they are that they can target them if they need to be but also to the public because prime minister netanyahu said again. it is well it s not really interested in escalation but this might take time basically calling on
on sunday israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu discussed the growing net at his weekly security cabinet meeting. the israelis and americans have spoken at length about what many officials see as aggressive action by iran across the region, primarily in syria. [speaking in native tongue] translator: i have a clear message to the iranian regime that wants to destroy israel. israel will continue to act as necessary in order to block iranian military entrenchment in syria. reporter: with thousands of iranian-backed troops still operating on the ground in syria, both the israelis and americans worry that verbal threats from the iranian regime in tehran could lead to military action in the future. jon? jon: trey, thank you. u.k. prime minister theresa may is putting off wednesday s parliament vote on her brexit deal until as late as march 12th, that s just 17 days before britain is due to leave the european union. british parliament still will hold a series of brexit votes,
bit, saying even if president trump recertifies the agreement, the u.s. would be in violation for all of the negative comments it s made about the deal. cnn s orren lieberman is standing by live in jerusalem. we understand the prime minister will be making the statement from the israel against ministry in tel aviv. reporter: that s where our security cabinet meeting ended just a short time ago, which is an indication of how significant the situation is, where the tensions are, which is to say very high here and where benjamin netanyahu is focusing his target here, which is on iran. his aides, as you pointed out, have said this is a significant development in the iran nuclear deal. netanyahu has never hid his contempt for the deal, so this likely one more reason netanyahu giving president donald trump to leave the iran deal. netanyahu has always said, fix
friday. a stabbing attack in an israeli settlement. the knife attack killed three palestinians in jerusalem s old city. that violence set off by new security measures the israelis put in place with a sensitive holy site. oren lieberman. where is this headed? reporter: certainly tense at the moment to describe it. they have only risen. what happens in the next few days? some palestinian factions called for a day of rage tomorrow. and often, largely a symbolic move and we don t see that rage translate on the street but an indication of where the situation is. at a critical moment and could go at this point in either direction. meanwhile, the israelis have government meetings tomorrow including security cabinet meeting where they ll discuss the issue of the metal detector for jews, the temple mount and
reporter: of course, despite the latest efforts by israel to clamp down and prevent more of these attacks, these two attacks happened after those measures went into effect and reading the website of the israeli newspaper, you get an insight into how difficult it is to try to come up with ways to stop these lone wolf attackers. the defense minister is quoted as telling his colleagues during the security cabinet meeting, do you want us to go around and confiscate all the kitchen knives in east jerusalem? wolf? what a tense situation, indeed. thanks very much. let s bring in elyce, what s the next step for the united states? secretary of state john kerry is planning a trip to the region. he really wants to try to bring both sides back from the brink. u.s. concerned as everyone else about a possible third and the secretary is concerned about a couple things.