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Speaker 1: So the Israeli Defense Force is reporting right now that

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Speaker 1: rockets are being filed, missiles are being fired from Iran

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Speaker 1: into Israel being intercepted by the Iron Dome.

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Speaker 2: The skies above us are lighting up. We are seeing

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Speaker 2: Israeli Iron Dome interceptors and they appear to be shooting

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Speaker 2: down some of these missiles as they streak over the

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Speaker 2: skies of northern Israel.

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Speaker 1: James mackenzie is the REUCES Bureau chief for Israel and Palestine.

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Speaker 1: He's with US Live this morning. James, Welcome to the show. Hello,

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Speaker 1: tell me what's happening at the moment.

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Speaker 3: Well, yes, as you're hearing a missile barrow has been

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Speaker 3: going on, the sirens sounding warning alerts being sent out

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Speaker 3: to people's mobile phones to take cover and go to

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Speaker 3: the shelters. This is, you know, the second attack by Iran,

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Speaker 3: an early one in April, and this is you know,

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Speaker 3: happening in the moment. It's a little difficult to tell

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Speaker 3: exactly what the impact has been. Certainly we can hear booms,

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Speaker 3: which are the typical when the when the aerial defense

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Speaker 3: system hits these missiles. You know, we can hear the

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Speaker 3: sirens and you know, we're really just sort of waiting

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Speaker 3: to see how it's all in a playout.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, as you say, it is, it is early days,

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Speaker 1: has only just happened in the last sort of ten

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Speaker 1: to fifteen minutes it started. But how big of a

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Speaker 1: deal is it given that that you know, Iran has

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Speaker 1: done this before in April, as you said, most of

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Speaker 1: the missiles were intercepted.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's a very big deal in a sense, almost

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Speaker 3: regardless of whether the you know, of how successful the

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Speaker 3: aerial defense system is, because you know, the first the

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Speaker 3: first time has happened, not no significant damage was or

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Speaker 3: very little significant damage was caused, and you know, they

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Speaker 3: seem to be a sort of tacit agreement to let

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Speaker 3: it slide as well, you know, struck back also in

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Speaker 3: a kind of limited way. But I think if it

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Speaker 3: happens again, then mistakes are definitely raised. We've already seen,

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Speaker 3: you know, really sharp up together essentially the beginning of

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Speaker 3: war in Lebanon, you know, very very heavy is rarely

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Speaker 3: air strikes. This morning, a ground incursion by commandos. He

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Speaker 3: the silent background is now and I think you know

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Speaker 3: this is you know, a very potentially a very dangerous

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Speaker 3: step up from that. You know, We're gonna have to

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Speaker 3: see what what they decided to do. But you know,

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Speaker 3: I think this is definitely a very serious step.

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Speaker 1: James, Where are you right now?

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Speaker 3: I'm in our office in Jerusalem where you can maybe

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Speaker 3: hear the hear the siren.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, are you not in a bombshell or are you

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Speaker 1: just in your office?

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Speaker 3: Well, we have we have a we have a bombshell,

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Speaker 3: so that.

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Speaker 1: You know, And and can you tell me do you

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Speaker 1: think Israel is feeling I don't know if emboldened is

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Speaker 1: the right word to respond, but after obviously taking out

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Speaker 1: in israela and you know, going after his Billa, do

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Speaker 1: you think that perhaps Israel's response to Iran, you know,

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Speaker 1: to these attacks might be stronger, might be different.

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Speaker 3: I think so. I mean it does seem, you know

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Speaker 3: that they were for a long time as well as

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Speaker 3: been kind of on the back foot over the you know,

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Speaker 3: the very the very critical you know, the world reaction

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Speaker 3: to you know, the campaign in Gaza with you know,

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Speaker 3: which is caused these these these huge number of casualties

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Speaker 3: can cause so much damage. I think you know that

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Speaker 3: that the sort of public move has been very much

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Speaker 3: you know, from the Israeli point of view, the scessful

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Speaker 3: operations that have been having in the assassination of all

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Speaker 3: these essentially decapitation of the Edible movement and the leader

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Speaker 3: a raft of other and you know, I think.

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Speaker 1: I think we might be losing James.

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Speaker 3: There.

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Speaker 1: That is the voice of James mackenzie. He's the Reuters

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Speaker 1: bureau chief for Israel and Palestine, currently sheltering in a

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Speaker 1: bomb shelter inside the Router's office in Jerusalem, talking to

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Speaker 1: us there. The sirens you can hear in the background

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Speaker 1: are air sirens from warning of other imminent or current

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Speaker 1: strike from Iran. We're hearing from the Israeli Defense Force

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Speaker 1: that at least one hundred missiles have been launched just

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Speaker 1: in the last ten to fifteen minutes from Iran into Israel.

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