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Are a much easier target, providing it's believed or known that the hamas has the rocket capability to hit. you don't want some imagery enemy that couldn't hit you if they tried. if there's any reason to believe they could hit a target leaving or arriving at ben gurion, that's different. >> how does that assessment happen? you have a pilot that has filed a flight plan, has a plan to arrive at the airport there in israel. how is that assessment made and how is that decision come about? >> that's the point what was said at the white house. it's not up to the airlines to have military intelligenc...

The israeli military says one of its soldiers has been killed in its invasion of gaza. >> officials say the operation is targeting tunnels used by hamas militants to infiltrate the jewish state, trying to mitigate the rocket capability of hamas as well. >> we want to look at these live pictures. this is gaza right now. but the -- it looks -- well, we're seeing a lot of smoke there. at this point, we don't know, we don't want to speculate exactly what is happening. at this stage, that is the scene. of course, when the incursion, the ground incursion was launched thursday night there was chaos. ...

Intent. you will lose a lot of people of your own, you'll face international pressure and it's not clear what you could achieve. having said that, there is a different situation than existed before. before you had tunnels from egypt that provided constant material and constant smuggling, which allowed hamas to build up this rocket capability. egyptians today have choked off those tunnels. that wasn't the case before. if you can in fact set back the rocket-producing capability, their storage capability, which is something that the israelis are trying to do right now, then if you bring this to a...

Pressure to end it and it is not clear what you can achieve. however there is a different situation today than before. before, you had tunnels from egypt that provided material and smuggling allowing the hamas to be up the rocket capability. the egyptians today have choked off the tunnels. if you can set back their rocket-producing capability, their storage capability, which is something the israelis are vying to do now, then if you bring this to an end you are buying a lot more time. the cot of trying to go in there on the ground are high and that is a reason that the prime minister is trying...

Out the long-range rocket capability of hamas attacking rocket piles but it's a major threat. >> has there been an anticipation for this type of escalation, given what's taken place with deadly rocket fire and benjamin netanyahu being very stern? >> reporter: this is the red line. there's a sense in israel israelis don't care about the small towns attacked from hamas but if it hit tel aviv, the story would change. that's exactly what hamas wants to do. they said yesterday they would attack tel aviv. israel's been trying to destroy their ability do so. but israel said they had destroyed most of...