Where israeli troops are still fighting its a mess on the ground inside of israel. Two days after the largescale attacks. Israeli Military Keeping strikes on gaza and has completely upgrades the fatalities in hamas. Hamas is claiming to have launched a major Missile Attack on the Southern Israeli City Of Ashkelon with israel saying an Apartment Building was hit, this comes as the militant group claims to now be holding 100. The death toll has claimed past 700 inside of israel. Aleast 260 were killed at a Music Festival near the israelgaza border. Were following the developments and elliott is joining us now. Elliott, this is so much to stay on top of. But there has been discussion about the hostages. Weve been hearing the harrowing stories from Family Members on our air. How much will that impact israels retaliation . It certainly complicates things. If they werent hostages weve probably already seen incursion by the israelis to demonstrate in the gaza strip. Because of the hostages, p
they have to avoid the pitfalls of the iran deal. it s got to be up front. they are making the concessions, we are not. it has to be guys with the u.s. flag on their shoulder inspecting. not the iea? we have to have our own verification. sandra: it s been the international community, only with delays. we are not on the ground. we are the military keeping them at bay. we have been on that dmz for 70 years, we have stayed there. we have a vested interest if we are going to end that conflict on our terms. sandra: the president could speak to reporters, he could make comments on north korea. we ll take those if we get them. the white house making no bones about it. where is abc s apology to the
1.5 million secret agents, informers and the like. that apparatus is still all there. it s hated. it is feared. what happens to it? do we know much about how it will work with the military? i don t think we do. at least i don t. i think that it s obviously got to be a scaled way down and back and controlled. i think that the only thing we ve really got going for us and the egyptian people do here really is the coherence between the egyptian military and the population. you saw those wonderful films of the egyptian soldiers hugging some of the children and the demonstrator groups and giving people tea and so forth. a lot rides here on the military keeping things stable and working with whoever helps manage things anew in egypt to scale back and down and control
that apparatus is still all there. it s hated. it is feared. what happens to it? do we know much about how it will work with the military? i don t think we do. at least i don t. i think that it s obviously got to be a scaled way down and back and controlled. i think that the only thing we ve really got going for us and the egyptian people do here really is the coherence between the egyptian military and the population. you saw those wonderful films of the egyptian soldiers hugging some of the children and the demonstrator groups and giving people tea and so forth. a lot rides here on the military keeping things stable and working with whoever helps manage things anew in egypt to scale back and down and control some of those outfits like the interior ministry people.
that these detention, arrests, this type of action from the military on ground, continues, over the next few days, it is going to be very difficult important the population to find the process of negotiation into a transition area period credible, candy. do you get the sense that the talks which began today have calmed things on the street? is the prime minister correct that it seems that the atmospheric seems better? reporter: it is definitely better. it is a whole host of reasons. there may be protester fatigue. some proceed testers may consider the idea that the vice president, owe man suleiman, is now talking to the opposition group for the first time, in talks with the regime. possibly somewhat of a victory. you still have a hard-core protesters in tahrir square. there may be that. then there s also the military