u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton. she met with the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and meet with the egyptian president to try to come up with some kind of truce she describes as being durable. meanwhile, the israeli prime minister speaking before reporters saying israel has not rule out the possibility of a peaceful resolution. if there is a possibility of achieving the long term solution to this problem through diplomatic means, we prefer that. if not, i m sure you understand that israel will have to take whatever action is necessary to defend its people. this is something i don t have to explain to americans. i know that president obama you and the american people understand that perfectly well. i thank you for your support. reporter: in the last 24 hours gaza has fired 130 rockets into israel. one of those rockets landed just
we just heard what sounded like an interception off in the distance. i don t know if you heard that. it sounded like it was an interception. didn t see it. there is another one. southern israel again under attack this morning. it s almost 5:00 in the morning. this is pattern that people here have come to live with. earlier today, we were in a coffee shop and twice in half an hour time, scores of people including our crew had to rush into a bomb shelter. this is daily occurrence here. i should point out the israeli military continues to keep up pressure pounding hamas.
strike a temporary deal, why in the world would you ever think it would stick or hold? you would have to be totally unrealistic. the secretary-general s comments everybody should show restraint is absurd. if somebody lobbed 130 bombs on new york we wouldn t show restraint. the reality is hamas has provoked this completely. israel is acting 100% in self-defense. i feel a little happier if the obama administration were more precise about that and not play the game this is a situation where we have to de-escalate everybody. there is only one side that needs to be deescalated, that is the palestinians. if they continue to do it israel will invade them and have to take matters into their own hands and try to destroy hamas. greta: which would be
to bomb the hell out of my city. to be honest broker, he is completely on the side of hamas. he has made it clear he supports islamic extremists and terrorism. if he were interested in peace here, he would be saying to hamas, sand down. if you keep lobbing missiles into israel you will get attacked. they have completely provoked this. i don t see benjamin netanyahu has much of a choice. in fact i think he has already been restrained in his response. basically their response to defend themselves shooting down the missiles that are coming in there. taking aerial action and waiting a long time to take further action, namely an invasion. greta: it s almost dawn in israel. we don t have a cease-fire. i m hoping there will be one.
is unwavering. that is why we believe it is essential to de-escalate the situation in gaza. i can tell you the future of diplomacy here still remains very uncertain. what i can tell you for sure is that this air war did intensity. today alone. they fired more than 150 rockets into israel. it s a long term solution can be put in place through diplomatic means than israel would be a willing partner to such a solution. a stronger military action is necessary to stop the constant barrage of rockets, israel will not hesitate to do what is necessary to defend our people. the big question is, whether anybody can control hamas which you said is a terror organization, brutal and evil and intent on killing civilians. i don t think you can trust