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And Marshall, Winston, thank you so much for joining us
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What a week to be in Israel. Can you describe some of your experiences over the last seven days
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Yeah, it's been quite an experience. It's now the ninth day, actually, since Operation Rising Lion was launched by Israel on Iran
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I was here visiting coincidentally and was awoken in the 3 a.m
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in the morning of Friday the 13th. And we've still revelations, sorry, revelations, revelers outside for the pride celebrations that had just begun that were brought to an abrupt stop
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Since then, well, the first couple of nights, heavy bombardment ballistic missiles, some of which I witnessed myself, including the missile that hit Batyam, killing nine
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Since then, things have changed. And the big news today, in Israel at least, is that this morning the first drone from Iran successfully penetrated at Be'at She'an, which is near the border crossing between Jordan and Israel
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It's the first time a drone has not only penetrated, but even managed to get into Israeli space
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A lot of the footage you've been seeing from Israel have been ballistic missiles that have come through, and that's been the success
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At the beginning, the defense system was working as to the usual rate, 90, 95 percent interception
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As the week has gone on here in Israel, a higher percentage of ballistic missiles have been cutting through
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Still, our nights are interrupted with alarms and alerts to get down to the shelter
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this morning at about 2 a.m. We had a call It was only 10 ballistic missiles drastically down from the 200 on the first night 100 on the second night and none of those penetrated through There also news from what coming through in Iran and you just had President Trump saying that Israel were winning
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Well, this morning it's been revealed that Saeed Izaidi, the head of the Palestinian division in the IRGC Quds Force
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who was killed in an Israeli strike at his apartment in the Iranian city of Qom
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He was the mastermind behind the Hamas. He's the man supposed to be funding and arming Hamas in charge of the operation on October 7th
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So it's another big scalp for the Israelis, I suppose. But nevertheless, despite this, the mood here in Israel remains tense
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as I say, whatever we're up to at any point of the day, there might be interruptions to get down
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to shelters. And Winston, we're hearing this morning that up to nine B-2 stealth bombers of
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the US Air Force moving west, potentially to Diego Garcia, that staging post for strikes on Iran
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if they do come. What's your reaction to that very quickly? And what's been the mood in Israel about
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the Americans joining in on their interventions in Iran. Yeah, well, on the B2s, why this is significant is that the Israelis don't have either the
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bombers or the bombs to eliminate the Fordow nuclear facility, which is buried 80 metres
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beneath rock and soil. So it says there are, I should note, Israelis saying there's other options to get rid of the four-dow site, which is one, to use their commanders
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And I've even heard others say they could use their nukes, although they don't officially have nukes
