Israel says it has regained ‘full control’ of Gaza fence

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00:00 So what Mohammed was just talking about the idea there are still individual

00:06 fighters left inside Israeli territory that is something that the military has

00:10 acknowledged but what they've been saying in the last hour or so Darren is

00:13 that they have now got control of the border there have been no more people

00:16 traveling from Gaza into Israel over the last 24 hours you'll remember of course

00:21 there were large numbers of locations across that barrier fence Hamas breached

00:27 on Saturday in order to launch their attacks in the time from then until now

00:32 we've seen drones and tanks being used by the Israeli military to target people

00:37 and vehicles approaching those breaches in the fence they have now started to

00:41 mine the areas around those breaches and say they have stopped any infiltrators

00:46 over the last 24 hours. Willem let's talk about some of the politics if we can

00:50 because Prime Minister Netanyahu has been talking about stepping up Israel's

00:54 response and so far Israelis seem to be united behind them despite their big

00:58 political differences. Yeah those political differences are going to be

01:05 very challenging for the government here in Israel. Mr. Netanyahu has a narrow

01:09 majority inside the Parliament the Knesset he relies on support from two

01:14 far-right parties and has members of those parties inside his cabinet some of

01:20 his most high-profile and experienced political opponents who have previously

01:24 worked with him this is men like Avigdor Lieberman, Benny Gantz the former

01:28 defense minister as well as Yair Lippid they've said they would potentially be

01:33 willing to join what's known as an emergency government something we often

01:36 see at times of tension here in Israel but they've also insisted they will only

01:39 do so if some of the members of those far-right parties are excluded from

01:44 security related decisions inside a special wartime cabinet Darren. Willem

01:50 just a final thought to you before you go we've seen several escalations on the

01:53 northern border with Lebanon how big a worry is that then for Israeli military

01:58 planners Willem? Well Darren you can have 300,000 reservists being called up they

02:05 have a massive active pool of people they can draw from in the Israeli

02:08 military but in terms of having two separate fronts they would have to guard

02:13 against that does make it far more challenging for the logistics and the

02:17 strategy for those military planners over the course of the last 24 hours we

02:20 have seen artillery traded back and forth between southern Lebanon where

02:24 Hezbollah has a presence and also of course the Israeli military Hezbollah

02:28 acknowledging three of their members have been killed vowing retaliation we

02:32 also had two individuals traveling from southern Lebanon into Israeli territory

02:37 they were killed by the Israeli army six soldiers wounded one deputy commander

02:42 killed so that does really complicate the efforts ahead for the Israeli

02:47 military if they are fighting on two separate fronts. Alright Willem Marks

02:50 live for us there in West Jerusalem Willem thank you