00:00Bring in Doug Herbert, our Interest Affairs commentator.
00:02Bring us up to date, Doug.
00:03We're hearing in Israel a large number of injured.
00:07Yeah, I think that the latest number is over 45.
00:10I think it's 47, but we should stay away from numbers
00:12because it's really, you know, it varies and it goes up
00:15and the number of wounded who are being treated.
00:18What we do know is, look, Dimona, town in the south of Israel,
00:23and it houses its home to a nuclear, it's called in the Negev Desert,
00:27it's the Negev Nuclear Research Center.
00:30So, yeah, it's a nuclear facility.
00:33We don't know the details of, obviously, what specifically was targeted.
00:39You know, the town of Dimona itself was hit,
00:44and the fact that it houses, you know, that this nuclear facility
00:47is in such close proximity on the outskirts of this town
00:51obviously is going to raise a lot of questions.
00:55And, like you said, Iran saying that this is in response
00:59to what it says, an attack on Itznatan's nuclear facility,
01:05an attack for which Israel has denied responsibility.
01:09So we are literally in the fog of war in these tit-for-tat attacks.
01:13What they do say is that as we enter this fourth week of war this Saturday,
01:18first day of spring here in Europe,
01:21this war shows no signs of abating,
01:23the tit-for-tat, the retaliations,
01:25and the fierce volleys of fire back and forth,
01:28with Iran continuing to show perhaps a resilience
01:30that the U.S. and Israel, perhaps safe to conjecture,
01:35did not anticipate, would stand the test of time
01:38and be able to still make these types of attacks,
01:42even if a lot, obviously, of these missiles,
01:44almost all of them are intercepted, the drones are intercepted,
01:47or they don't reach their targets or they fall in other places.
01:51We can see that literally the fallout,
01:53in this case the shrapnel from these types of attacks,
01:58are still causing massive anxiety,
02:01massive worry, both among the Iranian population
02:05and also around the Persian Gulf and in Israel itself.
02:08These types of incidents, like I said, as of tonight,
02:11they don't see, we don't see an exit tunnel for them.
02:14We see Iran as determined as ever to stand its own,
02:18to show resilience, to show that it will retaliate
02:20for what it sees as an unprovoked war of aggression,
02:23a war of choice by Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu.
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