Weather closes in. Meanwhile, there have been further airstrikes on hezbollah targets in the lebanese capital, beirut. Whilst the iranian backed group fired more than 100 rockets into israel on monday. Most were intercepted. Lets hear some of Mr Netanyahus televised speech. Translation we are not to tiered. We have stood strongly together to defend and protect our homeland. Whatever strength was needed we defined what the objectives of this war was, we want to eradicate the hamas and bring our hostages home whether alive or not. We must thwart any future threat on the state of israel and bring the residents of the North And South into safe to their homes. As weve been hearing, israel is continuing to exchange fire with hezbollah and hamas, and more Air Strikes have been carried out On Gaza and beirut. With this report from israels northern border, heres our middle East Correspondent Lucy williamson. The gaps in israels defences are still being tested. A rocket fired from lebanon landed
Lets look at the wider situation. With me is Mohamed Taha from bbc arabic. Thank you forjoining us on The Programme. The Breaking News in the last few minutes. We knew that the israelis had discovered some bodies in rafah. Now we know that one of them is an American Citizen. What more do we know about whats happening there at the moment . 50 whats happening there at the moment . ~ whats happening there at the moment . ~. ,. , moment . So we knew about recovering moment . So we knew about recovering the moment . So we knew about recovering the Bodies Moment . So we knew about recovering the bodies of moment . So we knew about recovering the bodies of the | recovering the bodies of the hostages a few hours ago. And the announcement from the White House came just a few minutes ago that one of these bodies is american. The American Citizen is hersh Goldberg Polin, and his parents were really vocal about him. They had interviews in the us and in israel, and i gets you did an interview with
Countries, calling for an immediate humanitarian truce. Welcome to the programme. Lets take you live straight away to gaza. We have these pictures of the gaza sky. It is dark they are because of the time, but also because Electricity Power on the buildings is not on. What we have been seeing in these pictures over the last couple of hours is flashes of orange as israel intensifies its air strikes. It announced a ramping up of strikes from the airand announced a ramping up of strikes from the air and its operations on the ground. Many around the world are asking is this the ground incursion, the major operation . At this point, wejust dont incursion, the major operation . At this point, we just dont know. Incursion, the major operation . At this point, wejust dont know. What we do know is that Communication Lines are cut in gaza right now. Lets take you to some other life feeds that we have. This is southern israel. Hamas is launching rockets from gaza into israel, too. And we can take
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of illegal migrants. less than five months from now and we re going, and i ll tell you what we have to change the system. we have to straighten out what s going on in these courts. we got a rigged deal going, this whole country, and we ve got to do it. and those appellate courts have to step up and straighten things out, or we re not going to have a country any longer. but we re going to win the great state of arizona, and we re going to tell crooked joe biden, you re fired you re doing a lousy job, the worstjob the worst president in history. joe, you fired! our correspondent emma vardy, was at that rally in phoenix and gave us this update there were several thousand people queuing outside this building in extreme temperatures. and infact, over1,000 people didn t get in. some people were taken to hospital by emergency services. but for the people who did make it inside this event, the energy is very high, the volume is very high. they re clearly also relishing the op