Israel pounds Gaza as Hamas threatens hostages
Anderson Cooper 360
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🗓️ 10 October 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Israel has launched new airstrikes in Gaza after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to go on the offense against Hamas with a force “like never before.” More than 900 people have died in Israel and 600 in Gaza. Hamas said they’d kill civilian hostages and would broadcast it if Israel targets people in Gaza with no warning. Avital Alajem was taken by Hamas fighters, forced to walk to Gaza with her friend’s two young children, then they were all released. Her friend, the mother of the two children, was not as lucky and is still missing. She tells Anderson Cooper what she knows about her friend Adi and calls her “brave.” Plus, Israel Defense Forces International Spokesperson Lt. Col. (Res.) Jonathan Conricus joins AC360 from Tel Aviv to discuss how the IDF is handling the threat from Hamas about Israeli hostages.
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| 0:00.0 | It is 3am in Ashtot about 19 miles from Gaza, and you may not be able to pick it up from |
| 0:08.2 | the microphone I'm wearing, but you can hear the steady booms of shells being fired |
| 0:14.6 | into Gaza by Israeli forces. |
| 0:17.1 | We've also, throughout the day, seen rocket fire coming to Ashtot, to Ashtalon to our |
| 0:22.9 | south, Hamas saying they have fired 120 rockets into the two cities today. |
| 0:30.7 | Israeli war planes have been pounding numerous locations in the territory, hitting targets |
| 0:36.1 | that Israeli officials describe as strategic to Hamas, causing what appears to be also |
| 0:41.1 | widespread destruction and densely populated neighborhoods. |
| 0:44.5 | Today, Israel's Defense Minister ordered the military to put Gaza under what he called |
| 0:48.8 | complete siege in Prime Minister Benjamin Nenya, who spoke to his people tonight warning |
| 0:55.6 | that what we have just seen is the beginning of its campaign against Hamas, just the beginning. |
| 1:01.6 | Hamas, for its part, warned it will begin killing hostages that they have taken and broadcasting |
| 1:07.0 | those killings. |
| 1:08.0 | If Israel targets people in Gaza without warning. |
| 1:11.4 | It is here, as we did last night, when we have to warn you about some of the images you'll |
| 1:16.1 | see in the hour ahead, because again, today, news stories and new videos have emerged |
| 1:20.6 | that show unmistakably the sheer barbarity of Hamas gunmen unleashing and what they unleashed |
| 1:28.9 | on innocent civilians up close, slaughtering hundreds. |
| 1:33.3 | There is so much sorrow here, shrouded in the waking nightmare for those who are missing |
| 1:37.3 | loved ones or worse who have witnessed their abduction either in person or on video that |
| 1:43.1 | they see on social media. |
| 1:45.3 | It's like a woman named Yifat who saw these images of her cousin, Shiri, and Shiri's |
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