Is Netanyahu's Endgame Achievable?
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🗓️ 20 March 2024
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On the agenda – the next steps in Israel's war against Hamas. The meeting comes as famine is imminent for roughly 300-thousand Palestinians in Northern Gaza.
At the same time, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seems to be losing US support. Still, Netanyahu insists that Israel won't stop until it has achieved, quote, "total victory." But what does that mean – and how close is Israel to achieving that?
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| 0:00.0 | That sound is from a video by the Israel Defense Forces. It shows armed Hamas militants moving through tall tunnels, which the IDF calls Gaza's metro. |
| 0:16.0 | It's an innocuous name for a vast network of tunnels that spans hundreds of miles and for a decade or more |
| 0:25.9 | Hamas has used them to wage a fight against Israel. They are humid and suffocating |
| 0:32.0 | and they are incredibly are incredibly afraid. That's Daphne Rishman |
| 0:43.0 | Barak, a specialist on tunnels at Tel Aviv's Reichman |
| 0:46.0 | University. |
| 0:47.0 | This is where they keep their ammunition, their weapons, their |
| 0:49.6 | rocket launchers, this is where they have their command and |
| 0:52.4 | control centers. |
| 0:53.6 | Because of that, those tunnels have been a key focus of the Israeli military |
| 0:58.0 | since it launched a retaliatory attack on Gaza |
| 1:00.6 | after last year's October 7th attacks. |
| 1:03.0 | In the more than five months since, |
| 1:05.0 | the IDF has fought in those tunnels, |
| 1:08.0 | pumped seawater in those tunnels, |
| 1:10.0 | and... |
| 1:11.0 | Tried to blow them up, as you can hear in this IDF video. |
| 1:16.4 | Our soldiers are systematically destroying the massive underground terrat tunnels. |
| 1:20.4 | Hamas believed this was an impregnable network, yet our brave soldiers are now physically |
| 1:26.7 | inside these tunnels. |
| 1:28.3 | That's Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking in early February about the war. |
| 1:33.0 | Our security and the prospects of peace in the Middle East |
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