Page 4 - Hit Jerusalem News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

>> does hamas have rockets or missiles that can reach the populated area of tel aviv? is tel aviv itself vulnerable to hamas rockets or missiles from gaza? >> i can confirm that the hamas do have the capability. we know from this evening as well one rocket landed north of tel aviv. we are taking into consideration that both the central part of israel as well as jerusalem and other areas are under threat. basically what we are talking about is more than 3 million israelis under the threat of the hamas. therefore, both the idf as well as different security organizations already take into conside...

Israel's major cities. israel threatening devastating military response, not only from the air but on the ground. joining us from jerusalem, the superintendent mickey rosenfeld. thank you for joining us. first of all, did any of these rockets that were launched from gaza hit tel aviv, hit jerusalem? what can you tell us about that? >> i can tell you and confirm throughout the day there were more than 120 rockets that were fired by the hamas from the gaza strip inside israel. the iron dome successfully took down more than 20 rockets, and late this evening, sirens were heard both in jerusalem as...

But by and large, relatively quiet. now what's been interesting, wolf, is that a nearby mosque has been announcing these rocket attacks on tel aviv, haifa, jerusalem and other israeli cities. what they are leaving out of the story is that most of the rockets were stopped by israel's iron dome, anti-ballistics system. and when these announcements are made, you don't hear much reaction in the street. in fact, what we were hearing was much more reaction from the houses in this area as people were watching the germany/brazil game. because, speaking to a lot of people in gaza, you don't get the fee...

In place it cease-fire as we did before. how do we influence hamas? can egypt play a role? jordani jordanians? >> listening to your interview, it strikes me that mission is to complete rockets and it sounds like they have a plan that may good on for a while to try to deplete that 10,000 number and maybe even get to the longer range. and if that the case, there may not be a short term cease-fire that's able to be put in place. the danger becomes, as i think, the ambassador pointed out, we have civilian casualties that are truly tragic. that may spark something in east jerusalem, west bank. and ...

What's the latest? >> reporter: hi, wolf. a few hours ago we had volleys of rockets going overhead past us. there must have been 15, 20 of them going north towards tel aviv. two rockets were intercepted by the iron defense system just south of tel aviv and over the city itself. also in jerusalem, the idf saying one rocket hit jerusalem. it is quite clear that hamas is stepping up its campaign, irrespective of air strikes all day along the gaza strip. we were standing over looking the strip. could you see columns of smoke from those air strikes, apparently very targeted, they say. we do know ci...