00:00Prime Minister, two questions. Firstly, why is Israel not allowing foreign journalists
00:08into Gaza to report independently? And secondly, President Trump has said there is real starvation
00:16in Gaza. Do you disagree?
00:19Yeah. On the first question, in fact, we have decided and I've ordered, directed the military
00:27to bring in foreign journalists, more foreign journalists, a lot. There's a problem of assuring
00:31security, but I think it can be done in a way that is responsible and careful to preserve
00:38your own safety. So the directive has been since, when is it, two days ago. For what you're
00:45telling me, it hasn't yet been implemented, but it should be, should be, because I think
00:49you should see it. And one of the things you're going to see is precisely our efforts to bring
00:53in Gazans, to bring in, rather, food to Gaza. You'll see the trucks that have been entered
01:00Gaza and are still waiting to be distributed. You'll see Gazans who are fighting Hamas. You
01:07know, we haven't seen it since the beginning of the war. You know, and that's a reflection
01:12of the fact that they know that we're approaching the end stage. And these people are, you know,
01:19risking their lives and their families. But they say, we can't take it anymore. And they
01:24fight back. And the other thing you'll see is physical destruction. And the physical destruction
01:29is not because Israel is destroying structures with people in there. That's not what's happening.
01:36Israel, in fact, is clearing the population, as in Rafah. But the Hamas terrorists who may
01:41stay in those areas, booby trap just about every single building. Not every single building,
01:47but a lot of them. And every road, and every street, and every junction, every intersection.
01:52So one of the things that we do is we place, basically, old APC armored personnel carriers
02:00with tons of explosives. And we detonate them, and they set off all the booby traps. That's
02:04why you see the destruction. And we do similar things in the tunnels. The tunnels, these terror
02:10tunnels, we, you know, put TNT in them, and we detonate that after people have left. But
02:16they're under buildings, so the buildings collapse. That's why you see destruction. You see destruction
02:21not because we go after civilian populated areas, but in fact, areas that have been cleared
02:27of civilians, and are still rife with terrorists. And that's how we've been able to reduce, actually,
02:34the civilian casualties, and increase, of course, the terrorist casualties.
02:39I very much appreciate President Trump's support through this entire seven-front war, his magnificent
02:48cooperation in the battle to stop the existential threat from Iran, his support throughout, and
02:57his support now. He says two things. He says, all 20 hostages have to be released. And he
03:03says Hamas should not be there. And I think that he, like me, he recognized the fact that there
03:09have been deprivations in Gaza caused by Hamas. Hamas has been the cause of that. And what we
03:16have to do is overcome it. So we're working together to overcome it.
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