Youve had a little bit of time to reflect. I just wonder how you are feeling and how you would characterise the mood of israel right now. Stephen, we are in pain. We are in deep pain when we are actually still counting the number of casualties. We are not even burying the dead yet. The numbers are beyond imagination. We are talking about almost 800 people who were killed, massacred. The barbaric terrorists went into the villages, communities and during a morning of a quiet holiday, they committed a horrible massacre. And today, we actually seeing those pictures and we are in deep pain. At the same time, we are regrouping. We realise that we have no other choice but to defend ourselves and we are getting ready, getting ready to fight back, to stand up strong, to fight back evil. Thats exactly what will happen in the next few days. We will continue to support the families. Until today, we dont know the exact number of people who were kidnapped into gaza. And im not talking about soldiers
The men in orange had to hit out but when they did, it backfired. Thanks to the Juggling Skills of a relieved trent boult. Santner says he didnt bowl that well, but if you take five wickets for 59 runs, youre a hit with your team mates. The netherlands finally ran out of batters three and a half overs before the end a 99 run victory for a dominant new zealand. Drew savage, bbc news. So, disappointment for the dutch and new zealand obviously very happy with that win, but theyre not getting carried away at this early stage. We knew that turning up today, after the highs of beating england, we couldnt get too complacent. We know the netherlands are a good team and they touched up pakistan the other day, so it was obviously nice to get the w tonight. Its another two points. But youve got to move on pretty quickly in this tournament. We lost by 100 runs today, but i think we just gave them too many runs. We shouldnt have chased 320. Maybe 280, 290 would have been a decent chase. Well, defen
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Begun bombarding gaza, cutting off electricity and water, and building up troops along the border. More than 500 palestinians have been killed in almost two and a half thousand strikes. Our International Editor jeremy bowen, has been following the days of intense violence. Inside gaza it looks every bit as if palestinians are feeling the full force of Israeli Military power. Israel says hamas is responsible for the suffering of gazas civilians. And its retaliation for the hamas attack is only just begun. Hamas has threatened to start killing its israeli hostages. The air strikes rolled on, hour after hour. Palestinian armed groups undeterred, kept up their own barrage of israel. Our bbc team was in ashkelon in southern israel not far from the gaza border when a salvo came in. Ashkelon is so close to guard so that there is no more than a ten second warning. Israel is moving in more fire power. The next stage of the offensive against hamas looks certain to be a Ground Offensive, much big