Will all pay the price. They are mortal. I would like to thank our dearfriends from around mortal. I would like to thank our dear friends from around the world, especially the united states. There is a commitment that we all feel to return our hostages home and we will do everything that is possible in order to fight this evil. Over 200 children and elderly are not awarded any humanitarian help. Own people, hamas brought it upon themselves. Justice must prevail and it will. Because i see our troops and our commanders, they are standing steadfast and strong. I trust them full heartedly and whatever happened and what will happen in the future, we are with them. The leadership in the whole state is with them. Churches said, that we would fight wherever we need to fight because we are safeguarding and protecting our home. And that is what we will do wherever it is needed and whenever it is needed. We will never give in and we will not stop. It is a process until we do succeed in winning. It will take a long time until we can truly achieve these goals although the all over. But our strength is in our unity, now and afterwards too. No one can beat us. We will do our utmost and we will win. Translation i may ask you a question would you take responsibility of what would you take responsibility of what happened on the 7th Of October and would what happened on the 7th Of October and would you have a state Inquiry Committee . And would you have a state Inquiry Committee . ,. ,. , committee . Hard questions, there was a terrible failure. I promise you no stone will be unturned, now we must save our country. That is the mission. And the minister of defence just spoke about it, how ive just come from a meeting which shipped me to the bone. Shipped me to the bone, the meeting with the hostages families. We all feel their agony. This, by the way, dictated the objectives of the way, dictated the objectives of the wall and the way we are carrying it out. We have expanded their Ground Force Operation and we are hitting out at them strongly and this is what we are concentrating on now. ~. , ~. , i. This is what we are concentrating on now. ~. , ~. ,. , now. We would like to wish you all success in now. We would like to wish you all success in this now. We would like to wish you all success in this war. You said that the responsibility for of course, you said that the responsibility for of course, things you said that the responsibility for of course, things like you said that the responsibility for of course, things like this you said that the responsibility for of course, things like this on you said that the responsibility for of course, things like this on the l of course, things like this on the shoulders of course, things like this on the shoulders of of course, things like this on the shoulders of the of course, things like this on the shoulders of the government. I you said that this was an unprecedented tear in our people. 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No, there is no contradiction. Dismantling the hamas. No, there is no contradiction. We dismantling the hamas. No, there is no contradiction. We will dismantling the hamas. No, there is no contradiction. We will not no contradiction. We will not suddenly change what the objective is. There is no contradiction. This does not detriment the effect our desire to bring back the hostages in any way. We intend to give Hamas A Lethal Blow but in addition, our second objective is bringing the hostages home. We said we will destroy the hamas in gaza should never return to be what it will be before. I never wanted to strengthen them. Protective edge, guardian of the walls, and so many other campaigns against the islamic jihad. They weakened actually that hamas and actually stop them becoming even more powerful. We will complete this task. Mr becoming even more powerful. We will complete this task. Complete this task. Mr Prime Minister. Complete this task. Mr Prime Minister, do complete this task. Mr Prime Minister, do you complete this task. Mr Prime Minister, do you know complete this task. Mr Prime Minister, do you know that i complete this task. Mr Prime Minister, do you know that irans stood minister, do you know that irans stood behind the massacre on the 7th Of October stood behind the massacre on the 7th Of October and what about these negligible ministries that are redundant with yellow what are you going redundant with yellow what are you going to redundant with yellow what are you going to do about that . Going to do about that . Hamas of course delegates going to do about that . Hamas of course delegates from going to do about that . Hamas of course delegates from iran, going to do about that . Hamas of course delegates from iran, they | going to do about that . Hamas of. Course delegates from iran, they are financed by iran, trained by iran. 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The Prime Minister, the ministers, the l Prime Minister, the ministers, the security Prime Minister, the ministers, the security cabinet, Prime Minister, the ministers, the security cabinet, everyone. My mac so thatis that is the end of that Press Conference, Benjamin Netanyahu conference, Benjamin Neta nyahu giving conference, Benjamin Netanyahu giving details of the meetings with families of hostages. He said this is now the second phase of this war. Massive air strikes to assist our ground troops, he said, Hitting Hamas targets. He said the wall will be long. He urged people again in gaza to move south. He said, they are now deployed in the north and in the south. They are now fighting in enemy territory. As for the military, he said we are the most moral army in the world. They, talking about hamas, use their people as human shields. We will win, we will prevail. Lets get a bit of reaction to this. 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We will look at some live shots coming into us here at the bbc. These are live pictures of southern israel looking over towards gaza. 30 minutes or so, that Press Conference. We did pick up some interesting lines from Benjamin Netanyahu there. Lets just neta nyahu there. Lets just reiterate netanyahu there. Lets just reiterate some of the new information, some of the emphasised information. He talks about meeting the families of the hostages because he had met a group of them just before that statement and he said that meeting broke his heart. He said he will do our utmost to bring them back, when referring to the hostages. He said the efforts to bring the hostages back and to dismantle hamas, there is no contradiction between those two aims, he said. That is something that Military Strategist had been grappling with. Wed been having conversations about just that over the past couple of hours, the difficulty of the logistics and strategies of combining those two aims but Benjamin Netanyahu saying there is no contradiction. No contradiction between bringing hostages home and Dismantling Hamas. He said, we are now in the second phase of this war. There had been massive air strikes, Hitting Hamas targets. He described gaza as a stronghold of evil. He said they are now fighting in and me enemy territory. He said, they use their people as human shields. He was referring to hamas. We will win, he said. He said this is our second war of independence. We will not withdraw, this will be a victory of good over evil. A warning to that this war will be long and difficult and urging people in gaza yet again to move from the north to the south. Lets try and speak to our correspondent paul adams who is standing by for us. You are listening in. What were your takeaway from that Press Conference . It is circled back endlessly to the subject of the hostages. That is what a lot of the questions were about. Benjamin netanyahu and his opening remarks only made a brief reference to meeting hostages families. He said his heart broke talking to them and that his military were doing everything in his power to bring them home. As you mentioned, he said there was no contradiction between these two objectives are fighting hamas and bringing the hostages home. But he did say immediately after that, bringing hostages home was the second objective, the first being to destroy it hamas. His Defence Minister said, the more we hit out at them, we know they will be unwilling to reach some kind of agreement. I think the message there was this relentless pressure on it hamas will continue but the Israeli Government believes that is the way t