destructive israel gaza war, killing over 33,000 palestinians. speaking at a cabinet meeting, prime minister netanyahu said a ceasefire would not be agreed until israeli hostages, captured by hamas in october, were released. translation: the achievements of the war are great. we eliminated 19 out of 2a of the hamas battalions, including senior commanders. we killed, wounded or captured a significant number of hamas terrorists. we purged shifa and many other terrorist headquarters as well. we destroyed factories, manufacturing rockets, control rooms, weapons, ammunition, and we continue to systematically destroy what is underground. we are one step away from victory. israel is not the one preventing a deal. hamas prevents a deal. its extreme demands were intended to bring about an end to the war and leave it intact, meaning to ensure its survival, its rehabilitation, its ability to endanger our citizens and our soldiers. surrendering to hamas demands will allow it to try to
mr netanyahu says that they will go back and they will do that military operation in rafa, where1.4 million palestinian civilians are sheltering. that is something that the americans do not want them to do. benjamin netanyahu has been saying they are one step away from victory. there are lots of israelis who say that is absolutely untrue, that he has not, quite patently he has not, succeeded in the war aims that he stated. getting the hostages back and eliminating hamas as a force in gaza, because they are still able to fight. and his critics also say that he is prolonging the war artificially for his own political reasons to escape a day of reckoning for mistakes that he may have made. on both sides, six months on, is a very significant milestone. a lot of people did not think this war would last this long, but i think it might even last a lot longer. i have been to one of the israeli border communities which was kibbutz nir oz, which was probably among the worst hit on that
day. by the end of the day, after hamas gunmen breached israeli defences, many israelis have been killed and many more taken hostage. it sparked the most grievous council war. the united nations says the territory is on the brink of famine. in this programme we will speak to the executive director of the world food programme to look at new measures. let s look at some of the latest of elements here in israel. last night, tens of thousands of israelis covered in the city of tel aviv, as well as others across israel, to magic the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to do much more to bring the hostages home. many calls on him to resign. the protest took place in the wake of grim news that the party of another hostage, 47 year old elad katzir, had been recovered in a military operation from gaza. he had been seized here in southern israel on october the 7th, along with his father abraham, who was killed on that day, and his mother hannah, who was later released in november
he joined us earlier from the city of denver. i was at my first music festival, i was not expecting it to end with us driving by gun men and over corpses. when. what was the moment when you realised it was no longer a music festival? after the rockets began at 6:30, and they did not stop. i was worried that it was notjust rockets, and they went on for a while. the rockets began at 6:30. and we actually physically got to our car at about 7:51am, over one hour later, and the rockets had not stopped. and at that point i was growing increasingly more anxious and concerned about the situation. behind me, as i am speaking to you, i am at the site of the festival. there is now a sea of israeli flags and photographs of those who died here on that day. they may include some of your friends. would you like to tell us about the people who were with you on that day who did not escape? so i was with a group of eight others, total. myself, my cousin, mordecai, his now fiancee, tamara, and
translation: the achievements of the war are great. we eliminated 19 out of 2a of the hamas battalions, including senior commanders. we killed, wounded or captured a significant number of hamas terrorists. we purged shifa and many other terrorist headquarters as well. we destroyed factories, manufacturing rockets, control rooms, weapons, ammunition, and we continue to systematically destroy what is underground. translation: the achievements of the war are great. we are one step away from victory. israel is not the one preventing a deal. hamas prevents a deal. its extreme demands were intended to bring about an end to the war and leave it intact, meaning to ensure its survival, its rehabilitation, its ability to endanger our citizens and our soldiers. surrendering to hamas demands will allow it to try to repeat the crimes of october seventh again and again, as it promised to do. hamas hopes that the pressure from outside and inside will make israel surrender to these extre