This is John Matcher. What follows is the first report I put on air on October 9th,

2023 when Malcolm Hoanline, who was in Jerusalem for the holidays, was escorted by the IDF to travel south to see the remains of

the attack the massacre of the 7th of October. Malcolm returned to Jerusalem and gave us this

report. It's not the detail we'll now have but it does suggest right away the scale of the horror and what we can expect

to learn over these next days as Israel moves to make very clear that Hamas is the problem, Hamas is the threat, Hamas is

ISIS, or worse.

Here's Malcolm, October 9th, 2016, late in the evening, Israeli time. Thank you. Thank you. This is CBS I on the world with John Bachelor. Here's John Bachelor.

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Malcolm is in Jerusalem. He's just back from the south of the country

where the crisis is apparent fog of war. Malcolm, a good day to you, it is not. However, I I greet you I am very glad you've been cautious in your back what can you tell us about what you've experienced these last 72 hours good evening to you Malcolm good evening to you, Malcolm. Good evening to you. It's good to be back with you, even though remotely still being in Jerusalem.

And it's an ongoing battle as you know.

We heard rockets over Jerusalem landing in some of the outlying areas,

usually just in open areas, but there have been thousands of rockets fired from Gaza. It started in a surprise

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