Good to be with you. Im katy tur. One year ago today, hamas militants launched an unprecedented multipronged attack on southern israel, descending on communities close to the border, killing 1,200 people, including 46 americans, and taking more than 250 hostages back to gaza. Kids, and babies, moms and dads, grandparents, soldiers, people in their homes, people at work. People at a Music Festival. It was the largest massacre of jews since the holocaust, the worst Security Failure in israels history. In the years since, israel has turned gaza into rubble, trying to root out hamas. And rescue hostages, killing 40,000 gazans, militants and civilians. In many cases, entire families, and lots and lots and lots of children. More than 16,000, according to local accounting. On top of that, an ever escalating humanitarian catastrophe, a lack of food, water, shelter, and medicine. Of the 250 hostages taken back to gaza, 117 have been released in shortterm Cease Fire and lopsided Prisoner Exchang
Maybe you all have a better answer is why this is not more the responsibility of israels neighbours, of lebanon said neighbours . Why is egypt and the uae and qatar, why are they not more responsible for what is happening in the Middle East as well . Why are they not more influential with hamas, his brother. That makes no sense to me. ,. ,. , brother. That makes no sense to me. E. , brother. That makes no sense to me. , me. Its a good point, its something. Me. Its a good point, its something. Aaron, me. Its a good point, itsj something. Aaron, lets me. Its a good point, its something. Aaron, lets get you back again. While you are thinking about an answer im going to bring another line coming in for the from reuters news agency, this is quoting a senior israeli official that says israel is saying it is the only force actively fighting iran and its proxy. Just going back to the point that hillary was making. Why are other countries within the region not more actively involved . It does
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him? right now it looks pretty good, although mr. netanyahu is well beyond his quotient of nine lives and i frankly was surprised by this and i won t believe this until the government is actually not just announced but sworn in i believe early next week, maybe on monday. he still will command he will go to the opposition, he will still be the head of the largest and probably most coherent political party in israel, the likud, but it will bring to an end, erica, a decade plus longest governing prime minister in israel s history surpassing even israel s greatest prime minister. so if that were to happen as you said, you will believe it when you see t this could be a very long week as we watch things play out depending on where they end up, what do you see the impact being specifically when it comes to the situation in gaza because i think the timing here is really important and can t be ignored. just on the heels, of course, of this ceasefire, this is typically a move that would ha