2023-10-09 22:57:32
Israel has launched a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. Days after the Hamas attack on the Israeli population, its defense minister has announced the total blockade of the Strip. Bombing of different targets in the area has also continued. For their part, Hamas and Islamic jihad have continued to attack different Israeli positions with rockets, including the Tel Aviv airport. The victims on both sides are already estimated at 1,300, thousands injured and hundreds missing.
El Intermedio contacts conflict expert Mikel Ayestaran who is currently in Jerusalem covering the conflict. As the journalist explains, he is experiencing a complicated situation. The bombings in the Gaza Strip have not stopped. As he explains, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself has said that “this revenge is underway” and that “he wants to change the Middle East with this offensive.” As Ayestaran transmits, “we have witnessed that situation, at some moments the earth shook.”
Furthermore, another issue that the journalist highlights is the presence of Hamas militiamen infiltrated in different areas of Israel, which causes fighting to continue in areas near the Gaza Strip. As he puts it, “there is a feeling of instability and insecurity that I had not known in this country.”
As the Foreign Ministry has reported, there are two Spanish people among the hundreds of missing people: a 47-year-old man and a 19-year-old Spanish-Israeli girl. As the journalist says, “we have to be very cautious.” As he explains, there is a large group of kidnapped people at the hands of Hamas and it is known that some are in the hands of the militants but others are not. Furthermore, there is no certainty about how many they are or where they are since the Islamist group has not provided that information. This has caused the Israeli government to affirm that, since there is no certainty about the number of kidnapped people or where they are, they will not stop their operations.
Another of the most surprising points is the fact that Israel failed to detect the attack, something that surprises the journalist. As he explains, it is an area that he knows and in which a multimillion-dollar investment has been made in security that has even been exported to other countries, which makes it very surprising that “in the country of security there has been a failure of colossal security”. You can now see the full interview in the main video.
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