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Are a much easier target, providing its believed or known that the hamas has the rocket capability to hit. you dont want some imagery enemy that couldnt hit you if they tried. if theres any reason to believe they could hit a target leaving or arriving at ben gurion, thats different. >> how does that assessment happen? you have a pilot that has filed a flight plan, has a plan to arrive at the airport there in israel. how is that assessment made and how is that decision come about? >> thats the po...

The israeli military says one of its soldiers has been killed in its invasion of gaza. >> officials say the operation is targeting tunnels used by hamas militants to infiltrate the jewish state, trying to mitigate the rocket capability of hamas as well. >> we want to look at these live pictures. this is gaza right now. but the -- it looks -- well, were seeing a lot of smoke there. at this point, we dont know, we dont want to speculate exactly what is happening. at this stage, that is the scene. ...

Intent. you will lose a lot of people of your own, youll face international pressure and its not clear what you could achieve. having said that, there is a different situation than existed before. before you had tunnels from egypt that provided constant material and constant smuggling, which allowed hamas to build up this rocket capability. egyptians today have choked off those tunnels. that wasnt the case before. if you can in fact set back the rocket-producing capability, their storage capabil...

Pressure to end it and it is not clear what you can achieve. however there is a different situation today than before. before, you had tunnels from egypt that provided material and smuggling allowing the hamas to be up the rocket capability. the egyptians today have choked off the tunnels. if you can set back their rocket-producing capability, their storage capability, which is something the israelis are vying to do now, then if you bring this to an end you are buying a lot more time. the cot of...

Out the long-range rocket capability of hamas attacking rocket piles but its a major threat. >> has there been an anticipation for this type of escalation, given whats taken place with deadly rocket fire and benjamin netanyahu being very stern? >> reporter: this is the red line. theres a sense in israel israelis dont care about the small towns attacked from hamas but if it hit tel aviv, the story would change. thats exactly what hamas wants to do. they said yesterday they would attack tel aviv. ...

United states has nothing to fear. >> no, it cannot be used for military use. >> back on the train, nbc space analyst jim oh berg gave us his assessment. >> the design has weapons potential, serious weapons potential. its probably already 98% of a weapon. >> if successful, north korea says the satellite will monitor the weather and track forest fires but it could also advance this isfations long-range rocket capability. despite international condemnation, north korea says it will go ahead with i...

Page 11. they buried the lead, the thing that concerns the americans. theyre working on nuclear development at the same time they work at rocket capability and a great concern. one expert said 2015 is an estimate. what if its sooner and ear in the margin of error? another said there could be development problems and it could be later. if theyre five years out theres great concern here. >> and it says if tehran develops missiles technology and perfects nuclear capability, theres a problem but the...

Retaliation, what realistically are the alternatives and how do you differentiate rhetoric from reality? >> i think its easy to differentiate rhetoric from reality. the reality is, that they dont have that much capability to do so. theyve got this rocket capability. this certainly have the ability on occasion to smuggle a suicide bomber into israel proper. but that is much more difficult now than it used to be. so i think that theres a big difference between what hamas says and what they can do....

Europeans are involved in trying to come up with some truth proposals, but the israeli. benjamin netanyahu said this attack will go on for, quote, a very long time if necessary. israel says itll continue doing what it needs to do to defend its population in israel. >> im ayman mohyeldin in gaza. were seven days into this conflict. there are no signs that the violence or the rhetoric from either side is slowing down. in fact, today quite a sharp escalation both in the northern part of the israel ...

Martin. >> reporter: good morning, brian. well, did hamas get the message that the israeli prime minister was talking about? apparently not. they fired rockets towards tel aviv always mentioned. a game changer for israel if those rockets had actually landed and done damage in tel aviv. they didnt. two landed short and exploded harmlessly in feels and one landed harmlessly in the sea but more important for the symbolism than the effect. israels main goal apart from eliminating the militant islami...