00:00In northern Israel, a missile attack on the city of Zarzir has wounded at least 58 people.
00:06Footage from the scene shows a heavily damaged vehicle and building.
00:09Officials say most people were injured by broken glass.
00:13Missile interceptions were reported across Israel and the Occupied West Bank overnight.
00:18Nidaa Ibrahim is live for us from Ramallah in the Occupied West Bank.
00:22Nidaa, good to see you.
00:24Let me ask you first, what more do we now know about the latest round of strikes in northern Israel?
00:32Well, we know that at least three barrage of rockets have been fired and missiles from Iran.
00:38Most of them have been intercepted.
00:40But as you've just been pointing out and reporting, one impact was reported in the village of Zarzir.
00:47It's a small Palestinian community near Nazareth in the northern Israel area, in the Galilee.
00:54And it has suffered this direct impact that took place in a residential area.
01:00They're filled with people causing burns to cars, damage to homes.
01:04According to one source in Israeli media, they say that 300 homes have been affected by this missile damage.
01:13As you mentioned there, 58 were injured, one moderately, and the rest have suffered light injuries with glass or shrapnel.
01:22A minor shrapnel, I should say, but the main issue here that led many Palestinian communities to raise this issue
01:30again.
01:31Palestinian communities inside Israel do not have the same aerial defense systems that the Israelis living in Israel have.
01:40That's a main issue of racism that has been voiced out by many Palestinian communities that why are these aerial
01:49defenses put up in certain places to provide protection to Israeli communities and not Palestinian ones.
01:55We see the same thing here in the occupied West Bank where some shrapnel falls in Palestinian areas, but it
02:02does not fall into the Israeli settlement or rarely falls into the illegal Israeli settlement.
02:07So that's an issue that Palestinians have voiced concerns.
02:10Of course, Israel always denies that, says that it is protecting all its citizens equally.
02:15But these barrages have been infiltrating through the Israeli defense systems, partly because Iran says that it managed to strike
02:27radars, not just in Israel, but also in the region,
02:30that has jeopardized the ability of these radars to detect the missile launches ahead of time.
02:37Now, the police, the army are all in Zadzir right now, deploying many troops there to try and investigate what
02:44led to this impact and what more they could do to secure the area.
02:49And Nida, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a press conference on Thursday.
02:55It was notable for various reasons.
02:57What did we hear from him in that appearance?
03:02Well, it's notable because it's the first press conference.
03:06Yes, it was held via Zoom, but it's the first time Netanyahu speaks and answers questions since the beginning of
03:14this war.
03:15We are now on the 13th day after the war started, and if not the 14th, and the Israeli public
03:23was wondering why Netanyahu was giving interviews to U.S. media and not talking to his own population.
03:29But the language of threats has been made massively dominant in his speech, talking about Mushtaba Khamenei, saying that no
03:36life insurance policy should be given to him,
03:38as the new supreme leader, as the new supreme leader, saying that Israel would not disclose what it's planning to
03:45do.
03:45But he urged, again, the Iranians to support a revolution, to support an overthrow, if you will, of the Iranian
03:55regime.
03:55And he said, you can take someone to water, but you cannot force them to drink.
04:00Basically, an analogy that is urging Iranians to take matters into their own hands in the Israeli opinion and try
04:08and topple the regime.
04:10This is something that Israel has also been talking about for a long time.
04:14But we've been seeing in the past few days Israeli analysts backtracking on that goal,
04:19saying that the most likely goal is that they will be decreasing the threats coming in from Iran rather than
04:25toppling the regime.
04:26And it would be up to the Iranians themselves to do that.
04:30On Hezbollah, Netanyahu said that they will keep striking until they disarm the party.
04:36All right, that's Nida Ibrahim, live for us from Ramallah in the Occupied West Bank.
04:40Thanks so much, Nida.
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