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a warm welcome to this hour's coverage of israel at war. i'm richard quest live from abu dhabi and you're most welcome if you're watching in the united states or indeed from wherever you're a watching around the world. it is 10:00 on sunday morning in gaza. and idf helicopters have already been seen flying along the israeli coastline in ashkelon earlier today. the city is only 20 kilometers from gaza, where the idf says hamas is holding 230 hostages. now, in gaza, we are waiting to see the latest images of damage from overnight, and of course, receive the reports on possible casualti...

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the responsibility ahead of us. we also feel the pain and expectations of our citizens. i personally met the abductees' families and they can approach me any time. i promise, there's no step we're going to take, no possible stage. murderers, an organization using babies, they are conducting a psychological war, they're trying to tear us apart, the israeli society, and they're going to fail. we're going to make sure that all of them are going to pay the price. murderers, they are mortals. i would like to thank the usa for their support alongside. the world should know this war, there'...

>> translator: we are making any effort in order to return them to us, to our country. it's very complicated effort. it's dealing with reality that we didn't know in the past. we are ready to do anything possible. this is not a secondary mission. this is a national priority. >> today the prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, met with the families of the israeli hostages being held in gaza. they told him they would only support a comprehensive deal that frees all the israeli hostages at the same time in exchange for palestinians held in israeli prisons. just minutes ago, a hamas spokesm...

we're following all the breaking news in israel's escalating war with hamas. israel's prime minister says his country is now in the second stage of the war. the goal to eliminate hamas and eeradicate its threat to israel. israel's military says it has troops inside gaza, but it's not clear if this expanded operation is the beginning of a broad ground incursion. civilians in northern gaza say last night was the heaviest bombardment so far. israel's defense minister says the intensifying assault will improve his country's chances of treeing -- freeing the hostages. >> translator: we ar...