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Past to reach within the reaching point of communities. we posted on the border of gaza and they serve as a physical border between hamas terrorists and our civilian communities. if we need to mobilize, we will. we don't want to. we clearly said it last week we have no interest in any confrontation or escalation with gaza. but unfortunately, hamas made this bad decision. >> so if hamas stops firing rockets and missiles into israel, you'll step back? >> no, i think that they have -- we are beyond that point now. hamas are going to pay for the attacks they are carrying out. we refuse to be held ...

Israel. dealing with millions potentially of civilians. diane is on the scene for us. along the mediterranean coast, not far away from gaza. sirens are going off not only there but in tel aviv and jerusalem. diana, what's the latest? >> that's right, wolf. the last three hours or so, it's been fairly quiet here also. but about three hours ago, there was a real barrage of rockets coming over our heads. air raid sirens sounding and they were sounding in jerusalem and tel aviv as well. two rockets intercepted by the iron dome, miss i'll defense system, clearly doing an extremely effective job of ...

Iran's nuclear progress. they're about a year from getting a bomb if they want it. the prime minister echoed those statements, agreeing with that. so of all of this talk of division between the two and problems behind the scenes, none of that evident today. very little daylight. ed henry is traveling with the president and is live in jerusalem. a lot of talk about the reports of chemical weapons being used in syria and the definition of chemical weapons varies between ours here and there's over there. >> it does. the president was on defense because a reporter from israel questioned and sugges...

Might hit jerusalem or israel. it was dramatic and it made me wonder if we missed something. i wonder what you're sense of where we are on this matter today is. >> reporter: well, it still is confusing. there are reports all over the map. prime minister netanyahu's intelligence minister today telling army radio that there are suggestions to him that chemical weapons in fact were used by the syrian government. but there was a hearing on capitol hill where in fact there were lawmakers kicking it around and the u.s. embassador to syria said we don't know this as a fact yet. it needs to be investi...

American military assistance to israel. i think this is very significant and i want to express my thanks for everything that you have done, and i want to thank you, also, for that statement you just made. i think it's very, very important. so i think israelis will judge this by the unfolding events and by what is happening, what is taking place. and for this, you know, there's a simple answer to your question, the gentleman from nbc. you see a second term as president and third term at prime minister, that really fixes things. >> all right. thank you very much, everybody. [ applause ] >> shepa...