Good day to our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im kasie hunt. It is tuesday , october 10. 5 00 a. M. Here in washington, Noon In Israel where the country is at war with hamas after militants waged coordinated attacks over the weekend killing at least 900 israelis including 11 americans and taking more than 100 hostages. In retaliation Israel Defense forces pounded gaza with airstrikes hitting more than 200 targets overnight. And sealed off the strip from food, fuel and supplies. Benjamin netanyahu says that this is just the beginning. Savage attacks that hamas perpetrated against innocent israelis are mind boggling. Slaughtering families in their homes, Massacring Hundreds of young people at an outdoor festival. Kidnapping scores of women, children and elderly. Even holocaust survivors. Hamas bombed, burned and executed children. They are savages. Gaza Health Ministry reports more than 680 have been killed. And they are threatening to execute hostages if israeli att
As you say rosemary, hundreds more are strikes by israel. Militant targets inside the gaza strip, including command post. Inside of mosques. On top of that, as you mentioned, there is a total block eight, a total siege of the gaza strip announced by the Defense Minister yesterday. No food, no fuel, no water, no electricity going from israel into the gaza strip and, i suppose the idea there is to get the civilian population to put pressure on to the militants of hamas to try to release the hostages. Now, a couple of things on that note, of, course if hamas is able to get weaponry, smuggle weapons, bulldozers, and other equipment into the gaza strip, one can only assume that they will be able to get fuel and other supplies in their. The, clearly not offset the kind of supplies that they usually get and it also seems unlikely, certainly at this stage, that there is going to be anything to sway hamas from its current position and it is holding on to as youve been speaking, weve watched the