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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that Israel would "crush and destroy" Hamas in response to its attack.

In a major escalation on October 7, Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel, firing a barrage of rockets into the southern and central parts of the country.

At least 60 palestinians killed today. israels president calling hamas fighters "the worst kind of terrorists." >> these peemt are the worst terrorists genocidal terrorists, they call for the killing of every jewer they can find them. u.s. secretary of state planning to go very shortly to the middle east. can he get both sides to drop their weapons? plus, an academy award winning actor whose career spanned over 50 years has died. james garner, a man who says he wasnt looking for star status, h...

Excessive. theyre not only targeting our cities but deliberately firing thousands of rockets. theyre already fired 2,000 rockets in the last few days on our cities. you can imagine this. its not only that. and they wanted to kill as many of our six million israelis who are targeted as they could. they havent succeeded, not for lack of trying. its because weve developed -- with american help and i appreciate the help that president obama and the congress have given us -- to develop these iron dom...

Better. >> the argument your critics make is that youre overreacting right now. overkill. >> well, look, i want to say this. i mean, there are very few examples in history of countries that have been rocketed on this scale. if you look at our response, its actually very measured and trying to be as pinpointed as we can. but i think when people say that -- i appreciate the support weve received from president obama and many world leaders for israels right to self-defense. but others are saying, y...

Russia with a missings -- at least one missing missile on it. so we have enormous sort of input about this which points fingers and now we have -- >> at who, mr. secretary? at who? >> well, it basically -- its pretty clear that this is a system that was transferred from russia in the hands of separatists. we know with confidence, with confidence that the ukrainians did not have such a system anywhere near the vicinity at that point in time. so it obviously points a very clear finger at the separ...

We develop anti-missile systems to protect -- we use anti-missile systems to protect our civilians. they use their civils to protect their missiles. thats the difference. so, again, such a cynical, brutal, heartless enemy. we try to minimize civilian casualties, we try to target the military targets and unfortunately there are civilian casualties which we regret and we dont see. they fall on the responsibility of hamas. >> president obama urged you the other day, all of the parties, to return to...