It that three months into this war the israeli military has only rescued a single hostage alive in gaza. he said this is an incredibly complex operation. it is difficult to get the intelligence about where the hostages are. but he said in some cases, israel s military has had the intention intelligence but decided it was too risky. we all saw back in december, that heartbreaking episode where israeli troops killed three israeli hostages. i asked him about that episode, and about the lessons learned. take a listen. how is it possible that israeli troops at any rank thought it was acceptable to kill people with their hands up who were waving a white flag? i heard my commander telling to every soldier in the idf
Need. mayor adams is also trying to get that requirement lifted, chris, at the moment it still applies. it s a morass. paul butler, thank you. good to see you, my friend. still to come, israel unveils its next phase in the gaza war. the idf spokesperson sat down with my colleague raf sanchez. that s coming up live from tel aviv, next. aviv, next right now get a free footlong at subway. like the new deli heroes. buy one footlong in the app, get one free. it s a pretty big deal. kinda like me. order in the subway app today.
Pretty remarkably. israel, a, needs to investigate this now and fully. b, reshape their military leadership based on the leadership failures that i think are quite obvious here. c, heal these internal divisions. we get back to the political and the benjamin netanyahu situation, it hurts israel s national security badly. as mika mentioned, quoted in the new york times, an idf spokesperson said, questions of this kind will be looked into at a later stage. they just don t want to talk about what happened on that day from the point of view of the military. david, you ve covered the middle east for so long. you understand israel so well. you know the way israel sleeps at night when they re surrounded by people who openly call for their destruction, why they have a thriving economy and the miracle of israel is because they trust the israeli military has them protected. they trust that things like this
To escalate more broadly. the lebanese prime minister has condemned the incident and accused the israeli military of trying to escalate and draw lebanon into a conflict more broadly. all right, nada bashir live for us in beirut. thank you for the report. let s talk now with cnn political and global affairs analyst barack ravine. he s also a politics and foreign policy reporter for axios. all right, barack. you heard danny de known their congratulating israeli forces. has the idf commented on this at all yet? reporter: hi. the idf did not comment on it yet. i think in five or ten minutes there will be a press conference with an idf spokesperson, but i do not expect them to take responsibility for this attack. it seems the israeli policy right now is to keep silent, at