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00:00 Dozens of Israeli civilians, an unknown number as of yet,
00:03 they're being held hostage in Gaza.
00:05 What more can you tell us about what's been happening there?
00:08 That has actually been the most heartrending part of this event, I think,
00:16 because this morning you hear, first of all, you hear Israelis in shock,
00:21 and then you hear people ringing into radio stations to describe hearing their loved ones,
00:27 they were taken away, you know, live because they were on the phone to them,
00:31 and they said they're shooting at us and now they're taking us.
00:34 And one woman hears her son and her nephew being taken.
00:37 And there's so much chaos here that Israel has actually set up a point where people can bring
00:44 their DNA so they can determine who has been injured, i.e. who's in hospital, who's dead,
00:50 and who's been taken hostage and is presumably in Gaza, because the numbers are not known.
00:56 Hamas says it has more than 50 hostages.
00:59 Israel can't confirm that because actually people here don't know.
01:03 But I think this is, it was the heart of this operation.
01:07 It was one of the aims of this Hamas operation.
01:10 And I have heard an Israeli analyst saying they succeeded beyond their wildest expectations.
01:15 So now they have 50 Israelis, which includes soldiers, women, children.
01:21 I heard a man talking about his wife and his four-year-old and his two-year-old,
01:25 who are now in Hamas custody in Gaza, with Hamas saying that they're going to spread them out
01:31 everywhere that Israel would hit with airstrikes.
01:36 In other words, we'll put them with our leaders.
01:38 And the spectre of what that means, you know, will Hamas start killing them publicly?
01:43 All these things are being discussed today in horror in Israel, as at the same time
01:50 in the Israeli tradition.
01:51 The names of the soldiers who died, of the people who died,
01:55 are read out on radio.
01:56 And as you know, there's 300 names to read.