Now abroad, where a cookie missile fell inside central Israel overnight, the Israeli military also gave reporters a look at the border area that has become central to cease-fire talks. He joins us live from Tel Aviv this morning, with the very latest good morning-and good morning today the idea of telling me a while back that that missile broke down over Israel. Yet this is the first time that a missile fired from thirteen hundred miles away in Yemen managed to penetrate Israel’s sophisticated air defense system-fired from Yemen for the first time this morning. The missile set off a red siren as it penetrated Israel’s air defense, with pieces falling on Israel’s new main airport. The militia said that this hypersonic missile attacks will continue until. As long as Israel remains in Gaza, the idea of taking us to the Philadelphia Quarter late Friday night along the border of the Egyptian gods as well as the road recently paid off a joint Israeli flag. Flying Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said he would not sign a ceasefire and hostage release agreement until Israel maintains control over the Philadelphia Quarter.
A mosque described it as a non-starter area, with Hamas tunnels. It is big enough to drive a truck inside, says this tunnel was built, right under the mosque, which is used as cover. They also say that this is one of the centers of operations of the whole brigade, the center of so many tunnels in the area, which are about two hundred. Which were apparently here, but they wanted us to see another tunnel, so we went into the rubble of Rafah, their jaw dropped at the sound of destruction. It is absolutely pancaked buildings, you see household goods scattered everywhere and all this goes on, as far as the eye can see, the convoy stops. The idea is extremely scary, where we are right now, tell me, what’s next to the sixty foot deep tunnel where those six hostages were found two weeks ago. Do you think there could be more hostages in this area.
While Sultan is investigating, our estimate is that there are no other hostages with us, we are very careful while we work, Israeli security sources believe there are about fifty hostages alive, the idea of seeing Hamas has been defeated here. But the resistance remains, you can hear all the gunfire. There is still some active fighting here, say it’s mostly small cells of Hamas operating out of the tunnels. Over one point four million people have been displaced from the Rafah area over the weekend. The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza noted that sixty-four people have been killed, many of them wounded, including this father comforting his son. Medical workers are caring for him. Those images are hard to look at and in more than twenty years of covering the conflict I have never seen such destruction. The camera cannot fully capture the scope of it. Israel says it would not have targeted those areas if Hamas had not been hiding among civilians, but it is clear that places like Rafah will take years to rebuild.