 Welcome to the special edition on I-24 News. And by 11th or coming July from our Tel Aviv studios, thanks for joining me this hour. It is day 81 of war between Israel and Hamas. Palestinian media has reported a heavy IDF bombardment and deadly raids over nights in the central and southern parts of the Gaza Strip. The continued fighting coming as the Israel Defense Forces continues to push on with its ground offensive to dismantle Hamas and the threat it poses on the Jewish state. On Tuesday morning, the Israeli military announced the deaths of two more soldiers killed in the fighting, bringing the IDF's death toll since the start of its ground incursion to 158. Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has laid out three prerequisites for peace in an op-ed recently published in the Wall Street Journal. They are to destroy Hamas, demilitarize Gaza and de-radicalize the whole of Palestinian society. Well, to start with our broadcast, let's cross to our correspondent, Pierre Clashidlo, who is standing by for us in the south of the country, more specifically the Israel Gaza border, Pierre. Yesterday, being Monday, when we spoke there, almost seemed to be a lull overnight before rocket alert sirens went off around 16 hours afterward. What's the story today being Tuesday? There were rocket alerts at 11.17 a.m. local time to be precise. There was the last rocket alert on Nachal Oz, which is in this direction. And just 10 minutes earlier, there was also a rocket alert on the city of Zderot facing the northern sector of the Gaza border after a 10-day lull on that city of 30,000 inhabitants, which has been evacuated for most of its residents. Right, and Pierre, this morning, the horrific news of another two soldiers that were killed in combat in the Gaza Strip. The overall consensus is that while the numbers are gut-wrenching, that keeps growing, that given the guerrilla warfare in the Gaza Strip, in particular with Hamas at the moment, that this number is still kept relatively low? I think yes. It's relatively low. You wouldn't say that to the families of those soldiers who died. The soldiers who died and four others were severely injured, give an indication of the kind of warfare that's going on in the southern and northern sector of the Gaza Strip. One of the soldiers was a tanker, and he was killed in a clash. That means that you have Hamas terrorists popping out of tunnel shafts, for instance, or from the rubbles of a building and shooting at close range at soldiers. Three others were severely wounded by motor fire. Another one was killed with a rocket-propelled grenade on his tank. Another one, a soldier was killed in a northern Gaza Strip. The rest of them were in the southern front, which shows that the southern front is heating up in comparison to the northern sector of the Gaza Strip, where there's only one pocket of resistance by the Aldarash Tufach battalion of Hamas in the center of Gaza City. But apart from that, the thrust of the offensive is on the central refugee camps and on the city of Hanyunas. I want to show you, with Daniel Boko, cameraman, what's going on here in the sector, which is just south of Gaza City, in Shejaya al-Muraka and Jucho Redik, which are three small towns south of Gaza City. It's been wrapped in a cloud, in a black cloud. There's been intensive bombardments by the Israeli Air Force, by the artillery and the Navy on the three refugee camps in the central sector of the Gaza Strip, al-Murazi, al-Burej and Nusrat, especially on the axis leading in between those refugee camps. Belts of Fire call it the Palestinian media affiliated to Hamas because they're bombing areas very intensively. In Hanyunas also, belts of fire around the Nasser Hospital. Hospitals are used by Hamas underneath the ground and above ground as operational command and control centers. And as a result, the Israeli Army besieges those hospitals. And Nasser hospitals seem to be in Hanyunas, one of those hospitals that the Israeli Army wants eventually to take over. Correspondent Pierre Clushenberg giving us all the updates this morning on the Israel-Gaza border. We'll be crossing live to you a little later. Thank you for that. And in Israel's north, the idea of struck launch sites and other nearby areas in southern Lebanon after two projectiles were fired toward the northern Israeli community of Manara on Monday. There were no reports of injuries from that attack as the border community has been largely evacuated. Meanwhile, according to the semi-official Iranian news agency Tasnim, a senior officer in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was killed Monday and alleged Israeli airstrike in the Syrian capital of Damascus. The elimination of Brigadier General Razim al-Savi has prompted threats from Tehran with Iran's foreign minister warning that Tel Aviv faces a tough countdown. And Iran's President Ibrahim Marisi vowing that Israel will certainly pay for this crime. Well, joining me now from Russia, Ayan in Central Israel is Reserve Brigadier General Yosef Kupavasa, the former Director General of Israel's Ministry of Strategic Affairs and the former head of the Research Division for IDF Military Intelligence. Good morning to you. And thank you so much for joining me here this morning. Good morning. Good morning. Now, the roads in northern Israel seem to still be closed as Israel-Chesbola clashes intensify. Is Israel progressing with Chesbolo? Does the terror group's retreats or at least threats at least temporary? No, I think that not much has changed on the north and front yet. We cannot count it by the day and look at the changes just because one day there was less fire from the north. It's still an ongoing escalation, ongoing tension that there is a war being fought over there. And both sides are interested in making sure that it doesn't explode until it turns into a wide-scale war. But in this context, they carry out all kinds of activities that do have the potential of bringing an escalation, a further escalation. And it's very unstable, the situation in the north as it looks right now. Now, a lot of these communities have been largely evacuated, similar to the south in the sense of hundreds of thousands of Israelis being moved toward the center of the country. If that is the case, what is the purpose of Chesbolo shooting over a lot of these drones and projectiles knowing that it's not hitting civilian-populated areas? Well, these are the targets they have. They shoot at what they consider to be legitimate targets on their side, including civilian locations. On the other side, there are civilians hit and what they claim to be civilian targets attempted to be hit by the Israeli defense forces. That's why they shoot at civilian locations. They know that there are no civilians over there at this point of time. They realize that, but these are the targets available. Israel is trying to make sure that we don't provide his bala with better targets. And the military in these locations is very well protected. Military analysts have spoken in the last couple of weeks, or I should now say months of the ground offensive in Gaza, saying that the IDF wants to do what it can in the Gaza Strip in terms of dismantling Hamas and its Terry infrastructure before dealing with the North. Because in the words of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others, what was will not be in the sense that there will not be another war with Hamas because it will be completely eliminated. But what if Chesbolo beats them to the punch and launches more of a full-scale war as opposed to just skirmishes along the border? Is the IDF prepared? Yes, the IDF is maintaining preparedness for such an eventuality all the time. We have to remember that we use very little of our air force in the Gaza Strip and most of the air force is kept for the eventuality of a breakout in the North. And of course we can also switch some of the ground forces to the North if necessary. Right now we prefer to focus on the South. That's where we were attacked from with this 7th of October barbaric attack. And we have to make sure that we take care of Hamas and finish the job over there. And this is going to take quite a while. You just have shown that we are moving now to the areas that we have not yet dealt with in the Gaza Strip, mainly the so-called refugee camps in the center of Gaza Strip, the Borej and the Nusairat, the Muazi. And we have to finish that before we focus on the North. We also have to see what is going to be done about Trafakh. And that's another center that we have to deal with before we move to the North. Once we move to the North, we believe that based on the achievements we are going to have in Gaza, we are going to be able to convince Hezbollah to move farther North from the Tani River and make sure that the civilians in the North are not in Hamas' way when they move back into the villages. And if this is going to be the case, then by winning the war in Gaza, we should also create a better condition in the North. If not, we are going to have enough forces in order to deal with Hezbollah in the North militarily. Now over the border from Lebanon to Syria, obviously as per IDF policy, it will not comment on specific strikes within Syrian territory. But according to Syrian media, there were alleged strikes in Damascus that took out Brigadier General Razim Husavi, a top IRGC commander. Iran threatening Israel directly, although at the moment it's using its proxies, including that of Hamas, which has close ties and affiliates to the Iranian regime. How serious should Israel be taking the threats from Hamas and exactly who was Brigadier General Razim Husavi that he needed to be eliminated? Well, according to the news, Brigadier General Husavi was responsible for supplying Hezbollah with Iranian arms. And this is in charge of an effort that has been going on for a long time, many, many years, in which on the one hand Iran was sending arms, advanced arms to Hezbollah. Israel was trying to hit them on the road to Lebanon while they were crossing in Syria. So he's probably in charge of this operation for many years and was, according to the news, eliminated simply because of that. But we have to remember that we are at a time when the Iranian involvement in orchestrating this entire effort to hit Israel and Israeli interests is as it speaks. We see the Houthis and the Thals. We see the attack on a ship that allegedly was somehow connected to Israel near India. These are things that happened with direct Iranian involvement. We have witnesses that speak about involvement of the Iranians in directing the Houthis attacks in Yemen from Yemen. And we have information that connects the Iranians directly to the attack on their ship next to near India. So as the Iranians raise their level of involvement, direct involvement in the proxy war against Israel, then some of the results can be with hitting Iranian targets in Syria. Reserve Brigadier General, stay with us because I do want to get your analysis on another topic. And Palestinian media has also reported heavy clashes with Israeli forces in the West Bank overnight. The areas targeted were Nablus, Jericho, Ramallah and Bethlehem. The latest escalation follows an IDF arrest raid yesterday morning being Monday in the Janine refugee camp in the northern part of the West Bank. The West Bank has seen surging violence and arrests in parallel to Israel's war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli military saying that it is dismantling Hamas terrorists and affiliates in the West Bank as well. Some polls show that most Palestinians in the region support Hamas' October 7th attack on Israel, despite the death in Gaza and do not believe that the group committed atrocities. In fact, support for Hamas today in the West Bank stands at 44% compared to 12% just three months ago. Still with me from Roshan in Central Israel's Reserve Brigadier General Yosef Koupervasa. Yosef, these figures are astonishing. I mean that rise going from 12% to 44% in the West Bank. At the moment we're talking about the fight on the southern and the northern flanks of the country. But the West Bank, the east of the country has the potential to blow up and be pretty explosive in itself. Yes, definitely. It's amazing to see how wide is the support for Hamas inside the areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority. The Palestinian Authority is so corrupt and so weak that it doesn't get any support from its own constituencies. That's a very disturbing situation. Hamas is gaining popularity because of what they did on the 7th of October. This is the lesson learned that if you carry out horrific terror attacks against Israel, you are becoming more popular in the Palestinian street. That's what we're seeing and that brings back the potential of explosion in the West Bank as well. The Israel is aware of this and that's why we are carrying out so many arrests throughout the West Bank day in, day out, or actually night in, night out. That's what's happening. We have arrested already about 2,500 terror activists out of them. About 1,200 Hamas terrorists in the last two and a half months. And that tells you how widespread is the support of, is the presence of terrorists inside, inside the areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority. And I think that brings us back to what Prime Minister Netanyahu repeatedly says, that we cannot afford bringing the Palestinian Authority to the Gaza Strip after we finished the war in Gaza because the Palestinian Authority, first of all, is so weak and corrupt. And secondly, this is actually supporting the terror activities of Hamas and raises children, pupils in its territories to hate Israelis, to hate Jews and to carry out terror attacks against them. And the results we have seen in the attacks on October 7th. So it's a very dangerous situation. I hope that without ongoing activities to arrest those terrorists, we can prevent the outbreak of another terror wave from the West Bank. But it's going to take an ongoing effort in the future as well. Reserve Brigadier General Yosef Kupivase, the former Director General of Israel's Ministry of Strategic Affairs and the former head of the Research Division for IDF Military Intelligence. Thank you very much for both your time and your analysis here this morning. Thank you, Ruby. Now on the hostage front, the families of those kidnapped by Hamas gathered at the main gate of the Israeli Defense Ministry complex in Tel Aviv on Monday. Their aim was to wait for security cabinet ministers in the hope of stopping their vehicles and pleading with them for help for their loved ones. The protesters laid out our glasses, inferring time is running out for each of the hostages that are still in the terror group's captivity. We're standing here because the cabinet is gathering here to discuss a deal, a deal that's on the table and we're here to tell them that they have our back and that we trust them and believe them that they can make brave decisions and we expect them to do anything they can to bring back the hostages now. I don't know who is going to come but if it will be the Prime Minister, I will tell him that he is responsible to what happened in October 7th and he needs to fix it, he needs to bring them back as soon as possible because they don't have any time over there and the tunnels and their life are in danger and we hope that they will make a deal as soon as possible because we need to save them. We know that nothing is moving right now but we need someone to talk to us, we need someone to tell us what they're going to do, we need everyone to know that Romy and many more hostages are still held in Gaza and we want people to remember them and to not forget that they're there and they need to come home. On the other side of the country on Monday in Jerusalem, relatives of the hostages bird Prime Minister Benjamin Isanyahu as you spoke at the Knesset plenum after he declared that despite making every effort to bring kidnapped Israelis home doing so requires military pressure to succeed. Or with me here for more on this in studio is I 24 year senior editor Gaya Azrael, Gaya good morning to you, whether one loaths or doors in Isanyahu it's evident that not many people would want to be in his shoes right now, it's a very hard line to walk between choosing to secure the hostages versus making sure that the threat to millions of Israelis being Hamas is completely dismantled. That's exactly we did see those families in the plenum yesterday as Prime Minister Netanyahu was speaking they didn't boo but they did call out now this is what they've been calling for for all this time for a deal that would happen immediately as of course the time is ticking the clock is ticking 81 days now since these hostages have been taken by Hamas and we saw how so many of them have already lost their lives practically being murdered by Hamas in those tunnels in Gaza in captivity not being given medicine no been given any visits by the international Red Cross and therefore it's very clear the concern of those families we did hear another opinion from the opposition leader Yair Lapid saying we can kill Sinwa Yaxi Sinwa of course the head of Hamas in a month's time if we want to but now we need to focus on releasing those hostages the problem is that you need to to tango and Hamas is not giving his biggest card or his only card right now so easily Hamas's rocket threat on Israel has decreased significantly we've seen very scarce rocket fire in the past week or so Hamas knows this war will last for quite a few months now and is saving whatever rockets it still has and therefore those hostages are the insurance for the heads of Hamas this is not something they'll be giving away easily and just yesterday a report that Hamas and Islamic jihad have both refused the Egyptian proposal for a new hostage deal that would also include a wider vision of Egypt with regards to Gaza that would see the end of Hamas as the governing body in the Gaza Strip something that Hamas is not willing to accept and meanwhile the IDF continues its operation and the idea of Netanyahu and the military as well is that the military pressure will lead to release of more hostages obviously the previous deal would not have come into fruition without the military presence of Israel in the Gaza Strip and as Iroxinoir is still dug up in his tunnel also not really seeing what's happening in daylight not seeing the immense suffering of the people of Gaza that of course he does not care less about but also the devastation to the Hamas strongholds sticking to his gun literally not willing to release the hostages not willing to reach any sort of compromise at this hour so Israel does have to continue with this operation try to release these hostages or bring Hamas to a point where it agrees to some sort of a deal if there's no other word other than the almost sickening that human lives are being toyed with in this manner that as you mentioned appeared to be sort of a pawn in a game at the moment at least for Hamas but we knew as Israelis that this was going to be a long haul operation we had heard a time and time again not just in studio from military and strategic affairs analysts but also from a lot of the citizens knowing that we need to dismantle Hamas we need to get rid of the threat on the border so families can return home so that the country can start to heal where the concern lies is where the morale is sitting amongst the soldiers that are currently fighting in Gaza and we had the pleasure a few times to interview Iris Chaim which is the mother of your time who was unfortunately and accidentally killed by IDF soldiers operating in the Gaza Strip but she seems to understand that very well sending quite a morale boost to the soldiers absolutely incredible woman that we had here between me and you in studio and I'm a personal friend of Iris before this war even started I also visited her during the Shiva during the morning period for her son it was quite incredible to see the amount of Israelis that came to first pretty respects but beyond anything to gather some of the strength and the positivity the positive spirit that she brings she incredibly with great nobility said she has no anger for the soldiers who accidentally shot and killed her son in fact she sent them a message and eventually they did come to the Shiva they did come to meet her she hugged them she told them she wants to give them strength to continue with their mission an absolutely incredible woman what a great inspiration for the people of Israel and this is a great inspiration also for these soldiers obviously that need to go back despite the very tragic mistake that they've done in the battlefield killing those three hostages they say they did not identify them as hostages they did not see the white flag this is all still being investigated by military officials as to why the forces on the ground did not know that there's a possibility that hostages may be there they did not gather get the information about the SOS sign that was hanged on one of the buildings that will all be investigated but this woman iris haim just absolutely remarkable the message and the strength that she gives both to the Israeli soldiers and to the people of Israel sticking with the principles of unity of staying positive and giving everyone the strength to continue with with this justified war despite the tragedy that she endured she and her family absolutely and obviously this is not a war that Israel wanted we've heard numerous calls for a ceasefire but the world tends to forget that there was a ceasefire before October 7th there was no war across the border and obviously iris has come something of an epitome or a symbol of resilience in this country as you mentioned a pretty remarkable woman that is sending love and strength to the soldiers despite her own personal tragedies I 24 new senior editor guy Israel thank you so much for that just to recap we are on day 81 of war between Israel and Hamas overnight strikes hitting both northern central and even southern Gaza at the moment Israel continues on with its military campaign to eradicate Hamas and make sure that the threat no longer continues you are looking at live images of the border at the moment stay tuned though because at the top of the hour will bring you more updates with more analysis and experts opinions here in studio as well as around the country you're watching a special edition of I 24 news stay with us we'll be right back after the short break Israel is in a state of war families completely gunned down in their beds we have no idea where she has our soldiers are fighting on the front lines but the general perception is something that certainly needs to to be fought as well semana news 24 Israel bajo ataque news 24 en español trail analysis y la información de los acontecimientos de la guerra espadas de hierro entrevistas exclusivas reportes desde la zona de guerra la reacción de los países hispano parlantes news 24 el único medio en español que te mantiene informado y conectado con la comunidad latina en israel news 24 únicamente en I 24 welcome to the special edition on I 24 news about 11th or coming to life from our Tel Aviv studios thanks for joining me this hour it is day 81 of war between Israel and Hamas Palestinian media has reported a heavy IDF bombardment and deadly raids overnight in the central and southern parts of the Gaza Strip the continued fight incoming as the Israel defense forces continues to push on with its ground offensive to dismantle Hamas and the threat at the poses on the Jewish state on Tuesday morning the Israeli military announced the deaths of two more soldiers killed in the fighting bringing the IDF's death toll since the start of its ground incursion to 158 meanwhile Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has laid out three prerequisites for peace in an op-ed recently published in the Wall Street Journal they are to destroy Hamas demilitarized Gaza and he radicalized the whole of Palestinian society well to start with our broadcast let's cross to our correspondent pia klosher low is standing by for us in the south of the country more specifically the Israel Gaza border pia yesterday being Monday when we spoke there almost seemed to be a lull overnight before rocket alert sirens went off around 16 hours afterward what's the story today being Tuesday there were rocket alerts at 11 17 a.m. local time to be precise there was the last rocket alert on nacha laws which is in this direction and just 10 minutes earlier there was also a rocket alert on the city of sderot facing the northern sector of the Gaza border after a 10-day lull on that city of 30,000 inhabitant which has been evacuated for most of its residents right and pia this morning the horrific news of another two soldiers that were killed in combat in the Gaza Strip the overall consensus is that while the numbers are gut wrenching that keeps growing that given the guerrilla warfare in the Gaza Strip in particular with Hamas at the moment that this number is still kept relatively low I think yes it's relatively low you wouldn't say that to the families of those soldiers who died the soldiers who died and and for others were severely injured give an indication of the kind of warfare that's going on in the southern and northern sector of the Gaza Strip one of the soldiers was a tanker and he was killed in a clash that means that you have Hamas terrorists popping up of tunnel shafts for instance or from the rubbles of a building and shooting at close range of at soldiers another three others were severely wounded by mortar fire another one was killed with a rocket proper rocket proper grenade on on his tank another one a soldier was killed in a northern Gaza Strip the rest of them were in the southern front which shows that the southern front is heating up in comparison to the northern sector of the Gaza Strip where there's only one pocket of resistance by the Aldar Ash Tufa battalion of Hamas in the center of Gaza City but apart from that the thrust of the offensive is on the central refugee camps and on the city of Hanyunas I want to show you with Daniel Boko cameraman what's going on here in the sector which is just south of Gaza City in Shejaya al-Muraka and Jucho Redik which are three small towns south of Gaza City it's been wrapped in a cloud in a black cloud there's been intensive bombartments by the Israeli Air Force by the artillery and the navy on the three refugee camps in the central sector of the Gaza Strip al-Murazi, al-Burej and Nusrat especially on the axis leading in between those refugee camps belts of fire call it the the Palestinian media affiliated to Hamas because they're bombing areas very intensively in Hanyunas also belts of fire around the Nasser hospital hospitals are used by Hamas underneath the ground and above ground as operational command and control centers and as a result the Israeli army besieges besieges those hospitals and Nasser hospitals seem to be in Hanyunas one of those hospitals that the Israeli army wants eventually to take over. Correspondent Pierre Klushenberg giving us all the updates this morning on the Israel Gaza border will be crossing live to you a little later thank you for that and in Israel's north the idea of struck launch sites and other nearby areas in southern Lebanon after two projectiles were fired toward the northern Israeli community of Manara on Monday there were no reports of injuries from that attack as the border community has been largely evacuated meanwhile according to the semi-official Iranian news agency Tasnim a senior officer in Iran's Islamic revolutionary guard court was killed Monday in an alleged Israeli airstrike in the Syrian capital of Damascus the elimination of Brigadier General Razim al-Savi has prompted threats from Tehran with Iran's foreign minister warning that Tel Aviv faces a tough countdown and Iran's President Ibrahim Marisi vowing that Israel will certainly pay for this crime we'll join me now from Russia in central Israel is reserve Brigadier General Josef Kupovasa the former director general of Israel's ministry of strategic affairs and the former head of the research division for IDF military intelligence good morning to you and thank you so much for joining me here this morning morning good morning now the roads in northern Israel seem to still be closed as Israel Chisbollah clashes intensify is Israel progressing with Chisbollah is the terror group's retreats or at least threats at least temporary no I think that not much has changed on the northern front yet we cannot count it by the day and look at the changes just because one day there was less fire from from the north it's still an ongoing escalation ongoing tension that always there's a wolf being fought over there and the both sides are interested in making sure that he doesn't explode into and turn into a wide-scale war but in this context they carry out all kinds of activities that do have the potential of bringing an escalation a further escalation and it's very unstable the situation in the north as it as it looks right now now a lot of these communities have been largely evacuated similar to the south in the sense of hundreds of thousands of Israelis being moved toward the center of the country if that is the case what is the purpose of Chisbollah shooting over a lot of these drones and projectiles knowing that it's not hitting civilian populated areas well these are the targets they have they shoot at what they consider to be legitimate targets on their side including civilian locations when on the other side there are civilians hit and what they claim to be civilian targets attempted to to be hit by the Israeli defense forces that's why they shoot at civilian locations they know that there are no civilians over there at this point of time they realize that but these are the targets available Israel is trying to make sure that we don't provide Chisbollah with better targets and the military in this location is very well protected military analysts have spoken in the last couple of weeks or I should now say months of the ground offensive in Gaza saying that the IDF wants to do what it can in the Gaza Strip in terms of dismantling Hamas and its Terry infrastructure before dealing with the north because in the words of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others what was will not be in the sense that there will not be another war with Hamas because it will be completely eliminated but what if Chisbollah beats them to the punch and launches more of a full-scale war as opposed to just skirmishes along the border is the IDF prepared yes the IDF is maintaining preparedness for such an eventuality all the time we have to remember that we use very little of our air force in the in the high in the Gaza Strip and most of the air force is kept for the eventuality of breakout in the north and of course we can also switch some of the ground forces to the north if necessary right now we prefer to focus on the south that's where we were attacked from with this 7th of October barbaric attack and we have to make sure that we take care of Hamas and finish the job over there and this is going to take quite a while you just have shown that we are moving now to the areas that we have not yet dealt with in the Gaza Strip mainly the so-called refugee camps in the center of Gaza Strip the Borej and the Nusairat and the Muazi and we have to finish that before we focus on the north we also have to see what is going to be done about Rafa and that's another center that we have to deal with before we move to the north and once we move to the north we believe that based on the achievements we are going to have in Gaza and we are going to be able to convince Hezbollah to move farther north from the Ditani River and make sure that the citizens civilians in the north are not in harm's way when they move back into the villages and if this is going to be the case then by winning the war in Gaza we should also create a better condition in the north if not we are going to have enough forces in order to deal with Hezbollah in the north military Now over the border from Lebanon to Syria obviously as per IDF policy it will not comment on specific strikes within Syrian territory but according to Syrian media there were alleged strikes in Damascus that took out Brigadier General Razim Ossavi atop IRGC commander Iran threatening Israel directly although at the moment it's using its proxies including that of Hamas which has close ties and affiliates to the Iranian regime how serious should Israel be taking the threats from Hamas and exactly who was Brigadier General Razim Ossavi that he needed to be eliminated Well according to the news Brigadier General Ossavi was responsible for supplying Hezbollah with Iranian arms and this is in charge of an effort that has been going on for long time many many years in which on the one hand Iran was sending arms advanced arms to Hezbollah and Israel was trying to hit them on the road to Lebanon while they were crossing in Syria so he's probably in charge of this operation for many years and was according to the news eliminated simply because of that but we have to remember that we are at the time when the Iranian involvement in orchestrating this entire effort to hit Israel and Israeli interests is as it speaks we see the Houthis and the thousands we see the attack on and a ship that allegedly was somehow connected to Israel near India these are things that happened with direct Iranian involvement we have witnesses that speak about involvement of the Iranians in directing the Houthis attacks in Yemen from Yemen and we have information that connects the Iranians directly to the attack on their ship next to near India so as the Iranians raised their level of involvement of direct involvement in the proxy war against Israel then some of the results can be with hitting Iranian targets in Syria. Reserve Brigadier General stay with us because I do want to get your analysis on another topic. Palestinian media has also reported heavy clashes with Israeli forces in the West Bank overnight. The areas targeted were Nablus, Jericho, Ramallah and Bethlehem. The latest escalation follows an IDF arrest raid yesterday morning being Monday in the Janine refugee camp in the northern part of the West Bank. Now the West Bank has seen surging violence and arrests in parallel to Israel's war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli military saying that it is dismantling Hamas terrorists and affiliates in the West Bank as well. Recent polls show that most Palestinians in the region support Hamas's October 7th attack on Israel despite the death in Gaza and do not believe that the group committed atrocities. In fact support for Hamas today in the West Bank stands at 44% compared to 12% just three months ago. Still with me from Roshayen in Central Israel's reserve Brigadier General Yosef Koupervassar. Yosef these figures are astonishing. I mean that rise going from 12% to 44% in the West Bank. At the moment we're talking about the fight on the southern and the northern flanks of the country but the West Bank the east of the country has the potential to blow up and be pretty explosive in itself. Yes definitely it's amazing to see how wide is the support for Hamas inside the areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority. The Palestinian Authority is so corrupt and so weak that it doesn't get any support from its own constituencies. That's a very disturbing situation. Hamas is gaining popularity because of what they did on the 7th of October. This is the lesson land that if you carry out horrific terror attacks against Israel you are becoming more popular in the Palestinian street. That's what we're seeing and that brings back the potential of explosion in the West Bank as well. Israel is aware of this and that's why we are carrying out so many arrests throughout the West Bank day in day out or actually night in night out. And that's what's happening. We have arrested already about 2,500 terror activists out of them about 1,200 Hamas terrorists in the last two and a half months. And that tells you how widespread is the presence of terrorists inside the areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority. And I think that brings us back to what Prime Minister Netanyahu repeatedly says that we cannot afford bringing the Palestinian Authority to the Gaza Strip after we finish the war in Gaza because the Palestinian Authority first of all is so weak and corrupt. And secondly this is actually supporting the terror activities of Hamas and raises children that pupils in its territories to hate Israelis, to hate Jews and to carry out terror attacks against them. So then the results we have seen in the attacks on October 7th. So it's it's a very dangerous situation. I hope that with our ongoing activities to arrest those terrorists we can prevent the outbreak of another terror wave from the West Bank but it's going to take an ongoing effort in the future as well. Reserve Brigadier General Yosef Kouper-Vassar, the former Director General of Israel's Ministry of Strategic Affairs and the former head of the Research Division for IDF Military Intelligence. Thank you so very much for both your time and your analysis here this morning. Thank you. Now on the hostage front the families of those kidnapped by Hamas gathered at the main gate of the Israeli Defense Ministry complex in Tel Aviv on Monday. Their aim was to wait for security cabinet ministers in the hope of stopping their vehicles and pleading with them for help for their loved ones. The protesters laid out our glasses and fairing time is running out for each of the hostages that are still in the terror group's camp activity. We're standing here because the cabinet the cabinet is gathering here to discuss a deal the deal that's on the table and we're here to tell them that they have our back and that we trust them and believe them that they can make brave decisions and we expect them to do anything they can to bring back the hostages now. I don't know who is going to come but if it will be the Prime Minister I will tell them that he is responsible to what happened in October 7th and he needs to fix it he needed to bring them back as soon as possible because they don't have any time over there and the tunnels and their life are in danger and we hope that they will make a deal as soon as possible because we need to save them. We know that nothing is moving right now but we need someone to talk to us we need someone to tell us what they're going to do we need everyone to know that Romy and many more hostages are still held in Gaza and we want people to remember them and to not forget that they're there and they need to come home. On the other side of the country on Monday in Jerusalem relatives of the hostages bird Prime Minister Benjamin Isanyahu as you spoke at the Knesset plenum after he declared that despite making every effort to bring kidnapped Israelis home doing so requires military pressure to succeed. Or with me here for more on this in studio is I-24 new senior editor Gaya Israel guy good morning to you whether one loaths or doors Netanyahu it's evident that not many people would want to be in his shoes right now it's a very hard line to walk between choosing to secure the hostages versus making sure that the threat to millions of Israelis being Hamas is completely dismantled. Yes exactly we did see those families in the plenum yesterday as Prime Minister Netanyahu was speaking they didn't boo but they did call out now this is what they've been calling for for all this time for a deal that would happen immediately as of course the time is ticking the clock is ticking 81 days now since these hostages have been taken by Hamas and we saw how so many of them have already lost their lives practically being murdered by Hamas in those tunnels in Gaza in captivity not being given medicine now being given any visits by the international Red Cross and therefore it's very clear the concern of those families we did hear another opinion from the Opposition Leader Yair Lapid saying we can kill Sinwar Yahya Sinwar of course the head of Hamas in the most time if we want to but now we need to focus on releasing those hostages the problem is that you need to tango and Hamas is not giving his biggest card or his only card right now so easily Hamas's rocket threat on Israel has decreased significantly we've seen very scarce rocket fire in the past week or so Hamas knows this war will last for quite a few months now and is saving whatever rockets it still has and therefore those hostages are the insurance for the heads of Hamas this is not something they'll be giving away easily and just yesterday a report that Hamas and Islamic jihad have both refused the Egyptian proposal for a new hostage deal that would also include a wider vision of Egypt with regards to Gaza that would see the end of Hamas as the governing body in the Gaza Strip something that Hamas is not willing to accept and meanwhile the idea continues its operation and the idea of Netanyahu and the military as well is that the military pressure will lead to release of more hostages obviously the previous deal would not have come into fruition without the military presence of Israel in the Gaza Strip and as Iri Sinwar is still dug up in his tunnel also not really seeing what's happening in daylight not seeing the the immense suffering of the people of Gaza that of course he does not care less about but also the devastation to the Hamas strongholds sticking to his gun literally and not willing to release the hostages not willing to reach any sort of compromise at this hour so Israel does have to continue with this operation try to release these hostages or bring Hamas to a point where it agrees to some sort of a deal there's no other word other than the almost sickening that human lives are being toyed with in this manner that as you mentioned appear to be sort of a pawn in a game at the moment at least for Hamas but we knew as Israelis that this was going to be a long haul operation we had heard it time and time again not just in studio from military and strategic affairs analysts but also from a lot of the citizens knowing that we need to dismantle Hamas we need to get rid of the threats on the border so families can return home so that the country can start to heal where the concern lies is where the morale is sitting amongst the soldiers that are currently fighting in Gaza and we had the pleasure a few times to interview Iris Chaim which is the mother of Yotam who was unfortunately and accidentally killed by IDF soldiers operating in the Gaza Strip but she seems to understand that very well sending quite a morale boost to the soldiers absolutely incredible woman that we had here between me and you in studio and I'm a personal friend of Iris before this war even started I also visited her during the Shiva during the morning period for her son it was quite incredible to see the amount of Israelis that came to also first pay their respects but beyond anything to gather some of the strength and the positivity the positive spirit that she brings she incredibly with great nobility said she has no anger for the soldiers who accidentally shot and killed her son in fact she sent them a message and eventually they did come to the Shiva they did come to meet her she hugged them she told them she wants to give them strength to continue with their mission an absolutely incredible woman what a great inspiration for the people of Israel and this is a great inspiration also for these soldiers obviously that need to go back despite the very tragic mistake that they've done in the battlefield killing those three hostages they say they did not identify them as hostages they did not see the white flag this is all still being investigated by military officials as to why the forces on the ground did not know that there's a possibility that hostages may be there they did not gather get the information about the SOS sign that was hanged on one of the buildings that will all be investigated but this woman Iris Chaim just absolutely remarkable the message and the strength that she gives both to the Israeli soldiers and to the people of Israel sticking with the principles of unity of staying positive and giving everyone the strength to continue with this justified war despite the tragedy that she endured she and her family absolutely and obviously there's not a war that Israel wanted we've heard numerous calls for a ceasefire but the world tends to forget that there was a ceasefire before october 7th there was no war across the border and obviously iris has come something of an epitome or a symbol of resilience in this country as you mentioned a pretty remarkable woman that is sending love and strength to the soldiers despite her own personal tragedies i-24 new senior editor Gai Israel thank you so much for that just to recap we are on day 81 of war between Israel and Hamas overnight strikes hitting both northern central and even southern Gaza at the moment Israel continues on with its military campaign to eradicate Hamas and make sure that the threat no longer continues you are looking at live images of the border at the moment stay tuned though because at the top of the hour we'll bring you more updates with more analysis and expert opinions here in studio as well as around the country you're watching a special edition of i-24 news stay with us we'll be right back after the short break selection a recarga and digital numero el que deseas colocarle la recarga además ellos reciben el doble de balance en recarga de 8 dólares o más altis la red global de los dominicanos in a state of war families completely done down in their beds we have no idea where she has our soldiers are fighting on the front lines but the general perception is something that certainly needs to to be fought as well we'll come through the special edition on i-24 news i'm batch 11th all coming to live from our television studios thanks for joining me this hour it is day 81 of war between israel and Hamas palestine in media has reported a heavy idea of bombardment and deadly raids overnight in the central and southern parts of the Gaza strip they continued fighting coming as the israel defense forces continues to push on with its ground offensive to dismantle Hamas and the threat it poses on the jewish state on tuesday morning the israeli military announced the deaths of two more soldiers killed in the fighting bringing the idea of the death toll since the start of the ground incursion to 158 meanwhile israeli prime minister benjamin itzanyahu has laid out three prerequisites for peace in an op-ed recently published in the wall street journal they are to destroy Hamas demilitarized gaza and he radicalized the whole of palestine in society palestine media has also reported heavy clashes with israeli forces in the west bank overnight on the areas targeted were nablus jerico ramallah and Bethlehem the latest escalation follows an idf arrest raid yesterday morning being monday in the janine refugee camp in the northern west bank now the west bank has seen surging violence and arrests in parallel to israel's war on Hamas in the Gaza strip the israeli military saying it is dismantling Hamas terrorists and affiliates in the west bank as well recent polls show that most palestinians in the region support Hamas's october 7 attack on israel despite the death toll in Gaza and do not believe the group committed atrocities in fact support for Hamas today in the west bank stands at 44 percent compared to just 12 percent three months ago and joining me right here in studio this morning is rafael urashalmi a former senior idf intelligence officer and the host of our prime time show the rundown caliph ben david general and good morning to you caliph the wall street journal piece notably as we've spoken about in the past did not include the fact that 129 hostages are still being held captive by Hamas it almost appears that the premier has changed his rhetoric a little well look to be fair that piece really dealt with more than what we call the day after presumably after Hamas is defeated and after the hostages released however certainly somebody in the prime minister's office had to suggest that perhaps we should have one mention saying after the hostages released it would be noted that there would and that is what at least at the very least on the rhetoric of the prime minister being a little tone deaf when it comes to the hostages i did note that in this kineset speech the prime minister was at pains to try to paint the picture of doing everything he can he even spoke of talking to Xi Jinping or sending a message to the chinese leader Xi Jinping in order to get no argamani out of captivity because her mother has chinese roots but yes there is beyond the rhetoric though there is this question the prime minister the war cabinet is facing some decisions now about weighing the operation in Gaza hamas demanding a full end to it which is and which is a non-starter but at least probably was going to be have to be an extensive ceasefire against another hostage deal and these are very difficult considerations it does seem as if the prime minister is putting more priority on the the the goal of defeating Hamas while still saying it is remains one of the the other key goal is freeing the hostages and i fell the column also avoided mentioning anything of a palestinian state or at least a two-state solution and in today's current climate it's hard to imagine that israelis throughout the political spectrum are even interested in engaging in a talk like that when there isn't a viable partner for peace yes and anyway it's much too early to consider this alternative right now what should be done and immediately is to speak of the day after but not who is going to rule eventually finally the gaza street or the palestinian territories more how do we re establish law on order and start rebuilding gaza and giving the gaza people their lives back so i think this should be starting now we should also involve much more the international community i mean we're doing our utmost to show our goodwill in helping in a humanitarian way the population we should involve much more the international community starting with the egyptians continuing with the arabic countries europe the united states everybody should be involved even physically with a presence maybe already of some blue helmets in some areas i'm not exaggerating i'm saying this because we should make the hamas rule completely irrelevant by now the military operation will take a long long time this doesn't mean that we cannot suppress the political power of hamas in gaza the hamas has lost gaza but he's still having a hold on rafiyah and hanunas and we should make them completely utterly irrelevant by offering already the beginning of the day after now the day after he's starting now because we have won the war the fact that he's going to take weeks or months to clean up the gaza strip it's one thing but we have won the war the objective is that the ramas is not to the in control militarily of the gaza strip but he's still somehow a little in control politically and also of some pockets of resistance that are very important strategically which is rafiyah and the philadelphia road there's no doubt that there has been a hit to at least the military campaign from the the gaza side with regards to hamas but it hasn't completely got rid of their capabilities to still launch rockets at the state of israel kalev just a few days ago you posted security footage just outside our studios of where a rocket landed presumably sent over the border from gaza toward tel aviv that was not struck down by the iron dome well let's keep in mind but you that even now in northern gaza even though the idea has control over the above surface say area of northern gaza there are still tunnels the idea of just releasing footage yesterday of yet another tunnel that they found we did see fighting in north gaza even on our broadcast you could see the going on there so even with even within northern gaza there is still the capability through i guess tunnels they could always come out shoot a rocket go back in the idea has to clean that up and yes in southern gaza in the southern half for most of that area is still totally controlled by hamas as rafiyah said the strategy seems to be more to encircle that area of southern gaza of khan units and say move into the rafiyah here in the philadelphia corner but that will still leave a considerable amount of various southern gaza for the hamas to operate even from the so-called safe zones that israel has set up and we know that hamas has uh uh five rockets from those safe zones a gentleman stay with me i do want to get an update from the south of israel so let's cross to our correspondent pier clash and learn who is standing by for us on the israel gaza border pier what's the situation there this morning it still is early but are there any signs of rocket alerts warnings going off no the last rocket alert was at 17 a.m local time on nacha laws which is just north of where we are and early around maybe 10 minutes earlier there was a rocket fire on sderot a city of 30 000 inhabitants which has been most largely evacuated uh no damage no casualties sderot had the lull of 10 days in rocket fire which is something quite unusual up here the death toll unfortunately with regards to the close combat of which the idea of soldiers are fighting in in the gaza strip has gone up by another two bringing the total to 158 what do we know about the two that the idea revealed yesterday being monday i believe one of them is left behind a pregnant wife we know that's one of the soldiers was killed in the southern sector of the gaza strip uh he was killed in a clash uh which gives you an indication of the kind of warfare that the idea is conducting against ramas terrorists the many of the terrorists are operating guerrilla mode coming out of peers in in coming out of tunnel shafts in very small squads of two to three to five people and clashing at close range with the israeli army the other soldier was killed in the northern gaza strip it seems by a rocket propelled grenade an rpg anti-tank missile and i want to show you the northern gaza strip because you just spoke about it earlier and there are heavy fighting just inside gaza city in two neighborhoods that haven't been taken over by the idf the aldar agent to fah neighborhood where you can see maybe some smoke billowing there is a whole division of the israeli army fighting a chamaz battalion there and uh there are fierce fighting inside and it could take days or even weeks for these these two neighborhoods to uh fall under the idf and that would complete the total in the total control of gaza city by the idf now the tactical way the army is conducting its warfare in the northern gaza strip is striking strikingly very different from the tactics employed in the southern sector of the gaza strip because in the northern sector basically the army took over one neighborhood or one village or one little town after the other they bite they chew and they digest and that's the way they operated very methodically regarding the southern sector especially the city of hanyunas a city of 200 000 inhabitants prior to the war the there was a swarm of idf ground troops which came into the city in the heart of the city and encircled the city at the same time there are five divisions a five regimen brigade sorry fighting in hanyunas with a lot of forces and as a result the israeli air force for instance is very reluctant to bomb uh targets because of the proximity and the number of ground forces in the area now what's happening is at night when the idf is less operating on the ground the air force is striking at command center control centers uh tunnel shafts etc etc terror infrastructure but they do that at night and overnight there was according to the idf 100 such strikes on presumed terror targets uh in hanyunas and in the vicinity of hanyunas also further south in raffa which shows you the intensity of the bombing at night 100 strike on a very small area which is probably something like 90 square kilometers corresponding pier clash and they're giving us all the latest updates from the israeli gaza border at this hour thank you for that now onto several other fronts of this war a possible maritime attack close to the coast of yemen is being investigated this tuesday morning this according to the united kingdom maritime trade operations agency the body says it received a report about an incident approximately 50 nautical miles west of the city of al-khodaida in yemen earlier in the morning no further details have yet been provided now yemen's hootie rebels backed by rand however have carried out numerous missile and drone attacks on vessels sailing through the key renzi shipping lane in recent weeks causing a massive disturbance to global shipping and in israel's north the idf struck launch sites and other nearby areas in southern lebanon after two projectiles were fired toward the northern israeli community of minara on monday there were no reports of injuries from that attack as the border community has largely been evacuated meanwhile according to the semi-official iranian news agency taznim a senior officer in iran's islamic revolutionary guard call was killed monday in an alleged israeli airstrike in the syrian capital of demascus the elimination of brigadier general razi mousavi has prompted threats from tehran with iran's foreign minister warning that televiv faces a tough countdown and iran's president ibraham rizy vowing that israel will certainly pay for this crime and still with me in studio rafael urushalmi and kalev ben david rafael what is happening with the us-led coalition that was supposed to be taking out these threats are they actually combating the hootie threats because every day it tends to be reported by some maritime body in the area that more threats are coming toward the red sea nobody is doing the job first of all the americans and their so-called international coalition speaking of 20 countries there is a force that was created in april 2022 of 39 countries that was supposed to deal with this problem of the security in the red sea now you have only 20 out of the 39 and when you say 20 i'll give you one example australia has sent six soldiers that's its participation why aren't they not doing the job because they are not attacking the hooties they're just patrolling and on a defensive mode whereas it's utopian about the biggest military power in the world facing a group of mercenaries paid by tehran and still they operate freely other countries around are also not interesting apparently to protect their own interests but starting with Saudi arabia followed by egypt who is losing a lot of money because their ships do not go through the sewers kelan anymore or even eritrea who has also invested interest in the red sea opposite yemen the eritreans have have complained in the media the ones who are the most outspoken about the problem so it's uh really regretful and a little ridiculous uh to see that these hooties can actually threaten the world economy and your wallet and my wallet in the long term uh without anything happening to them well caleva i want to touch on that economic perspective because no doubt if some of these missiles or drones or projectiles manage to reach the southern most city of israel being a light we know what the civilian casualties will be but what about the economic casualties although this only counts for and correct me if i'm wrong i think 30 percent of all israeli imports it's around 15 to 20 percent of global shipping right most of the imports that go through a lot actually um are it's exporting a potash from the from israel's uh dead sea also watermobiles most of the watermobiles from asia anybody who goes down to the allot port can see that uh so i think it'll be able to sustain economically but to build on what rafael is saying look at some of the countries adding to that china which is uses the red sea in the sues canal as a major shipping lane and you know you would expect china perhaps could exert pressure for example on the iranians to deal with this situation and they're not and also take a look what happened here yesterday i seen a figure in the irgc is killed in uh demascus alleged to be an israeli a strike where do we see iran's proxies retaliating the hooties maybe this attack we may discuss it there were his attacks on american forces based in iraq by another his uh by another iranian proxy called hasbala hatib which is another ashiite uh militia there the iranians seem to feel that the americans are unwilling to come they're the kind of weak underbelly here in the region they're willing to attack them and really not face consequences there was an article in the washington post i think it was a couple of weeks ago saying there are some members in the u.s defense apartment that are getting a patient with the body of the administration saying we can't we have to respond strongly to these iranian proxy attacks or even send a message a stronger message to aran itself that this isn't acceptable speaking of one of the biggest iranian proxies hasbala what is actually happening with regards to the skirmishes that are breaking out in the north at the moment as of today being tuesday roads do appear closed but the civilian population has largely been evacuated and knowing that why would hadsbala continue to target some of the open area at least in the north is the threat actually being dealt with or is it's sort of like you shoot your rockets at empty areas it's not harming anyone will just let you keep the status quo we have met some progress in the north there is a kind of redeployment of the radwan force and some of the isbala troops going a bit further away from the border with israel but a lot of them remain you have to remember that a lot of them live there they are from south lebanon with their families they just don't want to evacuate so it's taking a while it's taking a little too long we know that the main hold is the again the american pressure we asked now for extra apache helicopters so far the Biden administration is not willing to give these extra helicopters and the main reason is because they're afraid we're going to use them to attack isbala because we don't have enough to to do both south and north with what apaches we have we have sent a strong message I think today to the Biden administration by stating very clearly that Iran is behind everything here and we suppressed an Iranian general do just to prove our point it's true that it was an opportunity that you could miss this was a guy we were targeting for a while we missed him twice in the past so this time we got him but it's also a very strong message like we're like we're not kidding here we know who's being on all this and we know that it is really silly politically and geostrategically to make a difference between Hamas is balaa who it is it's all just one front there is no multi-front it's only one front and we have to confront it unfortunately we're held back it's also possible and I'll finish with that that we want to wait the best time for us to operate it might not be right now that we want to attack is balaa we are preparing this attack anyhow we're ready for it we're just probably waiting for the best time militarily and politically to do it now let's keep in mind in bacha that uh even with the civilians evacuated over the past two and a half months we've got 12 people have been killed uh in the north eight soldiers four civilians in any other period if over a two and a half month period you had had that many people killed by his bala five north this would have made a a general war on his bala but circumstances are not permitting it at this time absolutely I want to thank both klevbin david rafael you're show me thank you both gentlemen for your expert analysis at the sour and on to a different front the families of those kidnapped by kamas gathered at the main gate of the israeli defense ministry complex in telavev on monday they aim us to wait for security cabinet ministers in the hope of stopping their vehicles and pleading with them for help for their loved ones the protesters laid out our glasses in faring time is running out for each of the hostages still in the terror groups captivity we're standing here because the cabinet the cabinet is gathering here to discuss a deal the deal that's on the table and we're here to tell them that they have our back and that we trust them and believe them that they can make brave decisions and we expect them to do anything they can to bring back the hostages now i don't know who is going to come but if it will be the prime minister i will tell him that he is responsible to what happened in october 7 and he needs to fix it they needed to bring them back as soon as possible because they don't have any time over there and the tunnels and their life are in danger and we hope that they will make a deal as soon as possible because we need to save them we know that nothing is moving right now but we need someone to talk to us we need someone to tell us what they're going to do we need everyone to know that rome and and many more hostages are still held in gaza and we want people to remember them and to not forget that they're there and they need to come home well with me now in studio is ofir khanan the project manager and international spokesperson for israel is in geo thank you so much for coming into the studio this morning the NGO was founded in 2017 and it tends to broaden the lens of how israel is viewed and perceived why tell us a little bit about the organization yeah so we were established in 2017 because we realized that the power of youth is something that we have to harness and really take advantage of in the international arena especially since a lot of israelis travel abroad after their army service we really wanted to make sure that we know how to give them the right tools to advocate for israel and and our narrative while abroad and that's how it all started but now obviously we've reallocated all of our efforts and resources towards helping the hostages families and sharing the israeli narrative in terms of the war abroad right and also recently you have shifted to collecting some of the testimonies from the survivors just how difficult is it with so much of the criticism abroad with these testimonies that the rapes didn't occur that the atrocities in which they experienced didn't happen how do you combat the hate yeah it's definitely heartbreaking and and very difficult to witness and that's kind of why i i started working with the families on october 7th really from day one we realized that the best way to try and combat the situation is just by humanizing the stories of the families i mean why is taking people hostage something that is a matter of public debate it shouldn't be it's a global humanitarian issue and that's what we're trying to project to the world and that's what we want the world to help support us and that's what we've been doing just humanizing them it's a it's a very hard but very bold undertaking absolutely and especially because israel's public relations tends to take such a hit during times of conflict and war in particular is this why NGOs such as yours are trying to get involved in the fight of making sure that israel's image perceived abroad shifts from the the usual anti-semitic and anti-zionist rhetoric to something a bit more positive yes definitely there have been a lot of NGOs and initiatives mostly from the civilian front that have been founded either as a result of october 7th or like israel is that have been here for a while that truly as you said are trying to show the israel israeli narrative for what it is which is a complex but full of life narrative so we're really i believe that the best way to combat the situation is again just by showing the people showing the hope that we have for returning the hostages and really trying to generate as much international support towards the humanitarian issues rather than you know the geopolitical complexities of the region which as we know far exceed my capabilities to advocate for because it's so complicated we really just want to make sure that people understand that our nation here has been hurt we have people that have been taken hostage civilians and that's what we're trying to advocate for as you mentioned really bringing the the human aspect the most basic aspect to a lot of their stories you were able on a dime to switch very quickly to relocating your your resources and what you guys were doing abroad to assisting the hostages and the families where do you see the organization going next i think we have to do everything in our power to keep showing these stories to keep having people to people conversations and advocating for the return of the hostages through storytelling another project that we've initiated is a VR virtual reality project in which we're going to take testimonies of people who have survived or have had family members taken hostage and we're going to showcase this to campuses abroad particularly for university students and i think that's also one way in which we can try and really showcase what happened here and just bring it to people's attention get the international press international world to advocate for our cause and help bring these people home well we at i24news have the esteemed honor of being able to provide you with a platform to be able to do that of your khanan thank you so very much for joining me this morning and that brings us to a wrap of this special edition covering the 81st day of the war between israel and hummus well is in a state of war families completely done down in their beds we have no idea where is she as our soldiers are fighting on the front line but the general perception is something that certainly needs to to be fought as well welcome to the special edition on i24news i'm batch 11th all coming july from our television studios thanks for joining me this hour it is day 81 of war between israel and hummus palestinian media has reported a heavy idf bombardment and deadly raids overnight in the central and southern parts of the gaza strip the continued fighting coming as the israel defense forces continues to push on with its ground offensive to dismantle hummus and the threatened poses on the jewish state on tuesday morning the israeli military announced the deaths of two more soldiers killed in the fighting bringing the idea of the death toll since the start of the ground incursion to 158 meanwhile israeli prime minister benjamin itinerary has laid out three prerequisites for peace in an op-ed recently published in the wall street journal they are to destroy hummus demilitarized gaza and he radicalized the whole of palestinian society palestinian media has also reported heavy clashes with israeli forces in the west bank overnight on the areas targeted were nablus jericho remalla and bethlehem the latest escalation follows an idf arrest raid yesterday morning being monday in the janine refugee camp in the northern west bank now the west bank has seen surging violence and arrests in parallel to israel's war on hummus in the gaza strip the israeli military saying it is dismantling hummus terrorists and affiliates in the west bank as well recent polls show that most palestinians in the region support hummus's october 7th attack on israel despite the death toll in gaza and do not believe the group committed atrocities in fact support for hummus today in the west bank stands at 44 compared to just 12 three months ago and joining me right here in studio this morning is rafael urashalmi a former senior idf intelligence officer and the host of our prime time show the rundown kelev ben david general and good morning to you kelev the wall street journal piece notably as we've spoken about in the past did not include the fact that 129 hostages are still being held captive by hamats it almost appears that the premier has changed his rhetoric a little well look to be fair that piece really dealt with more than what we call the day after presumably after hamas is defeated and after the hostages released however certainly somebody in the prime minister's office had to suggest that perhaps we should have one mention in saying after the hostages released it would be noted that there would and that is what at least at the very least on the rhetoric of the prime minister being a little tone deaf when it comes to the hostages i did note that in this kineset speech the prime minister was at pains to try to paint the picture of doing everything he can he even spoke of talking to jizhi or sending a message to the chinese leader shijin ping in order to get no argamani out of captivity because her mother has chinese roots but yes there is beyond the rhetoric though there is this question the prime minister the war cabinet is facing some decisions now about weighing the operation in gaza hamas demanding a full end to it which is which is which is a non-starter but at least probably was going to be have to be an extensive ceasefire against another hostage deal and these are very difficult considerations it does seem as if the prime minister is putting more priority on the the the goal of defeating hamas while still saying it is remains one of the the other key goal is freeing the hostages now afail the column also avoided mentioning anything of a palestinian state or at least a two-state solution and in today's current climate it's hard to imagine that israelis throughout the political spectrum are even interested in engaging in a talk like that when there isn't a viable partner for peace yes and anyway it's much too early to consider this alternative right now what should be done and immediately is to speak of the day after but not who is going to rule eventually finally the gaza street or the palestinian territories more how do we re establish law on order and start rebuilding gaza and giving the gaza people their lives back so i think this should be starting now we should also involve much more the international community i mean we're doing our utmost to show our goodwill in helping in a humanitarian way the population we should involve much more the international community starting with the egyptians continuing with the arabic countries europe the united states everybody should be involved even physically with a presence maybe already of some blue helmets in some areas i'm not exaggerating i'm saying this because we should make the hamas rule completely irrelevant by now the military uh operation will take a long long time this doesn't mean that we cannot suppress the political power of hamas in gaza the hamas has lost gaza but he's still having a hold on rafiyah and hanyunists and we should make them completely utterly irrelevant by offering already the beginning of the day after now the day after he's starting now because we have won the war the fact that he's going to take weeks or months to clean up the gaza strip it's one thing but we have won the war the objective is that the ramas is not today in control militarily of the gaza strip but he's still somehow a little in control politically and also of some pockets of resistance that are very important strategically which is rafiyah and the philadelphia road there's no doubt that there has been a hit to at least the military campaign from the the gaza side with regards to hamas but it hasn't completely got rid of their capabilities to still launch rockets at the state of israel caliph just a few days ago you posted security footage just outside our studios of where a rocket landed presumably sent over the border from gaza toward tel aviv that was not struck down by the iron dawn well let's keep in mind about you that even now in northern gaza even though the idea has control over the above surface say area of northern gaza there are still tunnels the idea of just releasing footage yesterday of yet another tunnel that they found we did see fighting in north gaza even on our broadcast you could see the going on there so even with even within northern gaza there is still the capability through i guess the tunnels they could always come out shoot a rocket go back in the idea has to clean that up and yes in southern gaza in the southern half most of that area is still totally controlled by hamas as rafiyah said the strategy seems to be more to encircle that area of southern gaza of khan units and say move into the rafiyah here in the philadelphia corner but that will still leave a considerable amount of various southern gaza for the hamas to operate even from the so-called safe zones that israel has set up and we know that hamas has uh fired rockets from those safe zones a gentleman stay with me i do want to get an update from the south of israel so let's cross to our correspondent pier clash and learn who is standing by for us on the israel gaza border pier what's the situation there this morning it still is early but are there any signs of rocket alerts warnings going off no the last rocket alert was at 117 a.m local time on nacha laws which is just north of where we are and early around maybe 10 minutes earlier there was a rocket fire on sderot a city of 30 000 inhabitants which has been most largely evacuated no damage no casualties sderot had a lot of 10 days in rocket fire which is something quite unusual up here the death toll unfortunately with regards to the close combat of which the id of soldiers are fighting in in the gaza strip has gone up by another two bringing the total to 158 what do we know about the two that the idf revealed yesterday being monday i believe one of them is left behind a pregnant wife we know that one of the soldiers was killed in the southern sector of the gaza strip he was killed in a clash which gives you an indication of the kind of warfare that the idf is conducting against hamas terrorists the many of the terrorists are operating guerrilla mode coming out of peers in coming out of tunnel shafts in very small squads of two to three to five people and clashing at close range with the israeli army the other soldier who was killed in the northern gaza strip it seems by a rocket propel grenade an rpg anti-tank missile and i want to show you the northern gaza strip because you just spoke about it earlier and there are heavy fighting just inside gaza city in two neighborhoods that haven't been taken over by the idf the aldar agent to far neighborhood where you can see maybe some smoke billowing uh there is a whole division of the israeli army fighting a hamas battalion there and uh there are fierce fighting inside and it could take days or even weeks for these these two neighborhoods to fall under the idf and that would complete the total in the total control of gaza city by the idf now the tactical way the army is conducting its warfare in the northern gaza strip is striking strikingly very different from the tactics employed in the southern sector of the gaza strip because in the northern sector basically the army took over one neighborhood or one village or one little town after the other they bite they chew and they digest and that's the way they operated very methodically regarding the southern sector especially the city of hanunas a city of 200 000 inhabitants prior to the war the there was a swarm of idf ground troops which came into the city in the heart of the city and encircled the city at the same time there are five divisions a five regime brigade sorry fighting in hanunas with a lot of forces and as a result the israeli air force for instance is very reluctant to bomb targets because of the proximity and the number of ground forces in the area now what's happening is at night when the idf is less operating on the ground the air force is striking at command center control centers tunnel shafts etc etc terror infrastructure but they do that at night and overnight there was according to the idf 100 such strikes on presumed terror targets in hanunas and in the vicinity of hanunas also further south in raffa which shows you the intensity of the bombing at night 100 strike on a very small area which is probably something like 90 square kilometers corresponding pier clash and they're giving us all the latest updates from the israel gaza border at the south i thank you for that now on to several other fronts of this war a possible maritime attack close to the coast of yemen is being investigated this tuesday morning this according to the united kingdom maritime trade operations agency the body says it receives a report about an incident approximately 50 nautical miles west of the city of al-khudaida in yemen earlier in the morning no further details have yet been provided now yemen city rebels back by rand however have carried out numerous missile and drone attacks on vessels sailing through the key renzi shipping lane in recent weeks causing a massive disturbance to global shipping and in israel's north the idf struck launch sites and other nearby areas in southern lebanon after two projectiles were fired toward the northern israeli community of minara on monday there were no reports of injuries from that attack as the border community has largely been evacuated meanwhile according to the semi-official iranian news agency taznim a senior officer in iran's islamic revolutionary guard call was killed monday in an alleged israeli airstrike in the syrian capital of demascus the elimination of brigadier general razi musavi has prompted threats from tehran with iran's foreign minister warning that televiv faces a tough countdown and iran's president ebra marisi vowing that israel will certainly pay for this crime and still with me in studio rafael urushalmi and kalev ben david rafael what is happening with the us-led coalition that was supposed to be taking out these threats are they actually combating the hootie threats because every day it tends to be reported by some maritime body in the area that more threats are coming toward the red sea nobody is doing the job first of all the americans and their so-called international coalition speaking of 20 countries there is a force that was created in april 2022 of 39 countries that was supposed to deal with this problem of the security in the red sea now you have only 20 out of the 39 and when you say 20 i give you one example australia has sent six soldiers that's its participation why aren't they not doing the job because they are not attacking the hooties they're just patrolling and on a defensive mode whereas it's utopian about the biggest military power in the world facing a group of mercenaries paid by tehran and still they operate freely other countries around are also not interesting apparently to protect their own interests but starting with Saudi arabia followed by egypt who is losing a lot of money because their ships do not go through the sewers canal anymore or even eritrea who has also invested interest in the red sea opposite yemen the eritreans have have complained them the media the ones who are the most outspoken about the problem so it's a really regretful and a little ridiculous to see that these hooties can actually threaten the world economy and your wallet and my wallet in the long term without anything happening to them well kelev i want to touch on that economic perspective because no doubt if some of these missiles or drones or projectiles managed to reach the southern most city of israel being a light we know what the civilian casualties will be but what about the economic casualties although there's only council and correct me if i'm wrong i think 30 percent of all israeli imports it's around 15 to 20 percent of global shipping right most of the imports that go through a lot actually um or it's exporting a potash from the from israel's dead sea also automobiles most of the automobiles from asia anybody who goes down to the allot port can see that uh so i think it'll be able to sustain economically but to build on what rafael is saying look at some of the countries adding to that china which is uses the red sea in the sues canal as a major shipping lane and you know you would expect china perhaps could exert pressure for example on the iranians to deal with this situation and they're not and also take a look what happened here yesterday i seen a figure in the irgc is killed in uh demascus alleged to be an israeli a strike where do we see iran's proxies retaliating the hooties maybe this attack we may discuss it there was a tax on american forces based in iraq by another his uh by another iranian proxy called hasbala hatib which is another Shiite militia there the iranians seem to feel that the americans are unwilling to they're the kind of weak underbelly here in the region they're willing to attack them and really not face consequences there was an article in the washington post i think it was a couple of weeks ago saying there are some members in the u.s defense department that are getting a patient with the body of the administration saying we can't we have to respond strongly to these iranian proxy attacks or even send a message a stronger message to iran itself that this is unacceptable speaking of one of the biggest iranian proxies hasbala one is actually happening with regards to the skirmishes that are breaking out in the north at the moment as of today being tuesday roads do appear closed but the civilian population has largely been evacuated and knowing that why would he continue to target some of the open area at least in the north is the threat actually being dealt with always it's sort of like you shoot your rockets at empty areas it's not harming anyone we'll just let you keep the status quo we have met some progress in the north there is a kind of redeployment of the radwan force and some of the hisbala troops going a bit further away from the border with israel but a lot of them remain you have to remember that a lot of them live there they are from south lebanon with their families they just don't want to evacuate so it's taking a while it's taking a little too long we know that the main hold is the again the american pressure we asked now for extra apache helicopters so far the Biden administration is not willing to give these extra helicopters and the main reason is because they're afraid we're going to use them to attack hisbala because we don't have enough to to do both south and north with what apaches we have we have sent a strong message I think today to the Biden administration by stating very clearly that Iran is behind everything here and we suppressed an Iranian general do just to prove our point it's true that it was an opportunity that you could miss this was a guy we were targeting for a while we missed him twice in the past so this time we got him but it's also a very strong message like we're like we're not kidding here we know who's being on all this and we know that it is really silly politically and geostrategically to make a difference between Hamas hisbala who it is it's all just one front there's no multi front it's only one front and we have to confront it unfortunately we're held back it's also possible and I'll finish with that that we want to wait the best time for us to operate it it might not be right now that we want to attack hisbala we are preparing this attack anyhow we're ready for it we're just probably waiting for the best time militarily and politically to do it now let's keep in mind about you that uh even with the civilians evacuated over the past two and a half months we've got 12 people have been killed uh in the north eight soldiers four civilians in any other period if over two and a half month period you would have that many people killed by hisbala five north this would have made a general war on hisbala but circumstances are not permitting it at this time absolutely I want to thank both Clev bin david Rafael you're showing me thank you both gentlemen for your expert analysis at this hour and on to a different front the families of those kidnapped by Hamas gathered at the main gate of the Israeli defense ministry complex in Tel Aviv on Monday they aim was to wait for security cabinet ministers in the hope of stopping their vehicles and pleading with them for help for their loved ones the protesters laid out our glasses in faring time is running out for each of the hostages still in the terror groups captivity we're standing here because the cabinet the cabinet is gathering here to discuss a deal the deal that's on the table and we're here to tell them that they have our back and that we trust them and believe them that they can make brave decisions and we expect them to do anything they can to bring back the hostages now I don't know who is going to come but if it will be the prime minister I will tell him that he is responsible to what happened in october 7 and he needs to fix it he needed to bring them back as soon as possible because they don't have any time over there and the tunnels and their life are in danger and we hope that they will make a deal as soon as possible because we need to save them we know that nothing is moving right now but we need someone to talk to us we need someone to tell us what they're going to do we need everyone to know that rome and and many more hostages are still held in gaza and we want people to remember them and to not forget that they're there and they need to come home well with me now in studio is of ir khanan the project manager and international spokesperson for israel is in geo thank you so much for coming into the studio this morning the NGO was founded in 2017 and it tends to broaden the lens of how israel is viewed and perceived why tell us a little bit about the organization yeah so we were established in 2017 because we realized that the power of youth is something that we have to harness and really take advantage of in the international arena especially since a lot of israelis travel abroad after their army service we really wanted to make sure that we know how to give them the right tools to advocate for israel and and our narrative while abroad and that's how it all started but now obviously we've reallocated all of our efforts and resources towards helping the hostages families and sharing the israeli narrative in terms of the war abroad right and also recently you have shifted to collecting some of the testimonies from the survivors just how difficult is it with so much of the criticism abroad with these testimonies that the rapes didn't occur that the atrocities in which they experienced didn't happen how do you combat the hate yeah it's definitely heartbreaking and very difficult to witness and that's kind of why i i started working with the families on october 7th really from day one we realized that the best way to try and combat the situation is just by humanizing the stories of the families i mean why is taking people hostage something that is a matter of public debate it shouldn't be it's a global humanitarian issue and that's what we're trying to project to the world and that's what we want the world to help support us and that's what we've been doing just humanizing them it's a it's a very hard but very bold undertaking absolutely and especially because israel's public relations tends to take such a hit during times of conflict and war in particular is this why NGOs such as yours are trying to get involved in the fight of making sure that israel's image perceived abroad shifts from the the usual anti-semitic and anti-zionist rhetoric to something a bit more positive yes definitely there have been a lot of NGOs and initiatives mostly from the civilian front that have been founded either as a result of october 7th or like israel is that have been here for a while that truly as you said are trying to show the israel israeli narrative for what it is which is a complex but full of life narrative so we're really i believe that the best way to combat the situation is again just by showing the people showing the hope that we have for returning the hostages and really trying to generate as much international support towards the humanitarian issues rather than you know the geopolitical complexities of the region which as we know far exceed my capabilities to advocate for because it's so complicated we really just want to make sure that people understand that our nation here has been hurt we have people that have been taken hostage civilians and that's what we're trying to advocate for as you mentioned really bringing the the human aspect the most basic aspect to a lot of their stories you were able on a dime to switch very quickly to relocating your your resources and what you guys were doing abroad to assisting the hostages and the families where do you see the organization going next i think we have to do everything in our power to keep showing these stories to keep having people to people conversations and advocating for the return of the hostages through storytelling another project that we've initiated is a VR virtual reality project in which we're going to take testimonies of people who have survived or have had family members taken hostage and we're going to showcase the campuses abroad particularly for university students and i think that's also one way in which we can try and really showcase what happened here and just bring it to people's attention get the international press international world to advocate for our cause and help bring these people home well we and i24news have the esteemed honor of being able to provide you with a platform to be able to do that of your hand and thank you so very much for joining me this morning and that brings us to a wrap up this special edition covering the 81st day of the war between israel and hamas well is in a state of war families completely gone down in their beds we have no idea where is she as our soldiers are fighting on the front line but the general perception is something that certainly needs to to be fought as well entrevistas exclusivas report es desde la zona de guerra la reacción de los países hispano parlantes welcome to this special edition on i24news i'm back 11th or coming to you live from our televive studios thanks for joining me it is day 81 of war between israel and hamas palestine and media has reported a heavy idea of bombardment and deadly raids overnight in the central and southern parts of the gaza strip the continued fighting coming as the israel defense forces continues to push on with its ground offensive to dismantle hamas and the threatened poses on the jewish state on tuesday morning the israeli military announced the deaths of two more soldiers killed in the fighting bringing the idea of death tolls since the start of its ground incursion to 158 meanwhile israeli prime minister benjamin itzanyahu has laid out three prerequisites for peace in an op-ed recently published in the wall street journal they are to destroy hamas demilitarize gaza and de-radicalize the whole of palestinian society let's cross live to our correspondent pia klush and those standing by for us on the israel gaza border for an update on the south pier what's the latest at this hour where there's been quite a lot of artillery pounding one area one specific area south of gaza city which is called the al-mugrata which is actually a little town which has control over the strategic access route to khanouness the salah hadin access and therefore there's been a lot of activity in that town aerial and artillery activity and navy as well in order to gain control of that particular section of the salah hadin access further north you can maybe see if daniel book will show you to the right of your monitor you'll see smoke billowing out of the to far al-daraj neighborhoods of gaza city where a brigade the 162 brigade of the idf is operating this is the last bastion the last stronghold of hamas in gaza city there's a whole battalion there fighting the israeli troops and this could take a few days if not weeks if we judge the fighting that was close to there in shijaya up until last week in as you mentioned in the southern gaza strip in the central sector of the refugee camps al-burej nusserat al-murazi they were heavy air strikes as well as in khanouness and in raffa during the night 100 air strikes during the night on presumed terror targets which in a sense indicates is an indication of the kind of fighting that's going on in the central area of the gaza strip with the three refugee camps ground forces are clashing with hamas forces east of al-burej for a few days already according to palestinian media affiliated to hamas and israel is gaining control bit by bit in the city of khanouness and around it there's been now you just heard an outgoing of an artillery position and in khanouness the ground offensive has gone has been going on since the second of december corresponding pier clashing late giving us the latest updates at this hour thank you very much for that and joining me now on skype from northern israel is political and military analyst reserve major eliot shadoff and here in studio with us is our prime time show host of the rundown kelev ben david gentlemen thank you both very much if i may reserve major i'd like to start by asking the idf seems to be shooting artillery over as well as airstrikes into the southern part of the gaza strip in order to make way for the preparations of the ground incursion moving more into the south what then happens to the refugees a lot of the gaza citizens that were told to move further south in order for the idf to operate in the center in the north of the strip like i think the the important thing to understand is that the division north and south of the strip is somewhat artificial we're talking about essentially three major urban areas the north being gaza city and its environs and and suburbs the south being khanouness and rafiah they don't take up the entire area either of the north or the south so using north and south as as terminology is is a bit overly general what we're seeing now are strikes air and artillery at specific targets and i think that's that's also important to understand we're not talking about what used to be called carpet bombing specific targets are being hit they're being targeted based on intelligence based on observation and the people who have fled are in a humanitarian zone in an area called the malasi which is out on the beach area of southern gaza not in the urban areas of rafiah right in kalev obviously the idf making every effort to avoid civilian casualties which becomes even harder to do when khamas doesn't really care for the lives of its civilians putting them in harm's way creating a double war crime shooting behind civilians at civilians what is this rule doing from a pr standpoint to the rest of the world in terms of now moving into the south where there are civilians located well i don't it's not just on from a pr standpoint the idf is using extraordinary means to try to get people from the north of the south actually interesting article today about unit 504 an intelligence unit of the army that's making that's called over personal cut calls with 50 000 palestinians that's one-on-one calls between these idf intelligence officers and palestinians in most cases telling them instructing them where to move where to move south the idf dropping leaflets of course setting up these safe zones taking i would say unprecedented measures for any military at least that i know of in trying to avoid civilian casualties there is also the question being raised whether the iaf is reducing its air more general air strikes and eliot spoke about precision strikes maybe even getting more precise some have raised issues whether due to american pressure especially in communists and or the the that a general area which has become so already was crowded has become so crowded with people coming down from gaza the gaza city area it's now so crowded makes any air strikes runs a high risk of civilian casualties but at the same time those civilian those airstrikes can be useful to soften a target before ground troops come in we've heard some rare criticism just in the past couple days from some government officials on that so the idf taking extraordinary measures to protect gaza civilians and perhaps in one half some have argued even at the at the extent of putting its own troops at risk and eliot a lot of these precision strikes obviously taking out not only hamas terror infrastructure but also trying to target some of the high-profile military ushalan that are in the strip what is the military doing or perhaps even the shin bet or the mosad in terms of trying to cut the head off the snake from the political standpoint we know a lot of the political heads of hamas are hiding out in qatar and turkey that are not actually in the gaza strip it's one thing eliminating the threats directly from israel's borders but if it doesn't eliminate hamas in its entirety surely it lives on and it is able to regroup and rearm absolutely but i think uh keeping in mind that operations against a political leadership as you say in qatar and in turkey they're also in lebanon those are not the kind of operations that that are a quick military fix these usually take months to set up often fail the first time or two or three until they actually succeed and we know this from not only israeli operations but american and other operations as well that that's a long-term goal long-term strategy in the strip itself i would say very very few a very small percentage infinitesimal of the strikes are targeting leaders simply because the majority of the strikes a rn artillery are being used for specific tactical military purposes softening up the targets and and here infrastructures is a combination of things it's storehouses it's launching points but it's also places where snipers or anti-tank teams are identified in other words these are real-time dynamic targets not just structures that we happen to know have been used for years as infrastructure and kelev speaking on the pr angle in just the last few minutes the red crescent in khan unis has claimed that their headquarters was bombed in a recent iaf strike no doubt the international press before the idea comes out and confirms this is going to say that israel is targeting NGOs israel is targeting aid and humanitarian facilities inside the gaza strip but that's only because that's what it appears perhaps on the outside being on top of the ground there's a whole tunnel network underneath gaza and it's not even a tunnel network i mean we have seen so much copious proof over the past two months of how hamas has specifically used offices and buildings associated with aid groups with hospitals red crescent being the middle east branch of the the the red cross and not just in tunnels and storing we just ran a report yesterday where we from the idf showing how the indonesia hospital in in north more in the north of gaza was being used by hamas storing vehicles there it's these these institutions have been compromised they have become centers of terror they have become launching pads for rockets they have been points of refuge for them and under by the way under international law if a an institution like this a medical facility becomes being used for military purposes as a then it becomes a legitimate target under international law and believe me there are uh you have your lawyers in the idf that before a specific target is uh attacked uh deal with that they look at the evidence and they do so so yes we're gonna see that kind of coverage and then israel is going to have to present the evidence it shows and it has been able to present that to show that these are being used as military facilities it seems that both from the military point of view and from public relations israel has to constantly go on the offensive gentlemen say with me because i want to bring you in on the other front of the war in israel's north the idf struck launch sites as well as other nearby areas in southern lebanon after two projectiles were fired toward the northern israeli community of manara on monday there were no reports of injuries from that attack as the border community has largely been evacuated meanwhile according to the semi-official iranian news agency tasnim a senior officer in iran's islamic revolutionary guard called was killed monday in an alleged israeli airstrike in the syrian capital of demascus now the elimination of brigadier general razi musabi has prompted threats from terran with iran's foreign minister warning that telegram faces a tough countdown and iran's president marisi vowing that israel will certainly pay for this crime i want to bring back in eliot obviously discussing here cutting the head of the snake in terms of hamas but we're talking about the big bad brother of hamas being khizbollah in the north a major perhaps the prime proxy of iran just how credible should israel be taking these these warnings and these threats we know that they've come time and time again but is this time a little bit different well first of all your uh khizbollah is not a proxy of iran khizbollah is a wholly owned subsidiary of the kutz force of the islamic revolutionary guard corps and in that it's very different from hamas which is a proxy khizbollah takes its orders directly from tehran so the chain of command going through people like musavi and he he was uh you showed him in a picture with sulimani the americans took out this is part of a chain of command that goes up to up to tehran and it's not just representative it's a direct line should israel take the threat seriously israel should take all of it all the threat seriously but from a country that is sworn to destroy israel we're coming from a homanias philosophy which drew its ideology from from hitler and the nazis it's hard to get terribly excited when somebody who says they're going to wipe you out repeatedly then threatens you so again the threat is serious but it's nothing new and it's not it's not an escalation they've already threatened to kill us all now a possible maritime attack has been reported close to the coast of yemen it's being investigated this tuesday morning it's according to the united king de maritime trade operations agency the body says that it received a report about an incident approximately 15 or equal miles west of the city of al-khodaida in yemen earlier in the morning there's been no further details but yemen's hooty rebels backed by ran however have carried out numerous missile intro and attacks on vessels sailing through the key red sea shipping lane in recent weeks causing a massive disturbance to global shipping clev not really a coincidence at least uh i'm i want to say that this irgc commander in damascus was taken out and it almost appears as a retaliation from another iranian back proxy the hooties toward the red sea right there were in the category of this a biggest subsidiary of iran because they're fully armed and backed by iran and yes i think it's telling by the way uh we saw that irgc commander taken out in syria where where is the iran threatens televieve it's not attacking televieve you notice or it or its subsidies as proxies they're going after soft targets what are those soft targets that shipping in uh in and around the red sea and gulf waters because so far the international community in especially the united states has not taken firm action uh to prevent those kind of attacks they've put this coalition but so far as only even talk to only taking defensive actions shooting down rockets not directly attacking uh hooty targets uh in yemen and also let's look at uh rack where the uh uh a sheite militia allied with iran that has brought a team a launch an attack on us forces there we're coming out now from the pentagon three us soldiers killed in that attack it's a series of attacks that have been launched there so uh really when when iran wants to strike out it's been striking at forces linked to the us a lot of people there reports in the u have been reports in the us press where the defense department officials putting pressure on the biden administration say we have to respond more forcefully to these provocations by iran and we'll see if the biden administration kind of wakes up and realizes it has to make some kind of deterrent action and get directly against iran ali it there's been a lot of analysts that point to the fact that with so many fronts in this war it's looking similar to the 60 war in 1967 and obviously the 1973 war but in your opinion just how accurate is that at the moment there's a full-scale war in the south with uh hamas in the gaza strip there seems to be skirmishes in the north skirmishes that occurring on the very southern tip being a latin obviously the red sea and obviously the volatile area that is the west bank is seeing escalations but just how close are we to a full fully fledged war on all of israel's flanks it's hard to predict the the northern front can erupt on any day it can erupt by intent or by accident in other words uh iran can give khizballah the orders to to launch a massive attack uh on the other hand it could happen inadvertently uh khizballah missile or rocket uh currently being aimed primarily at places that are the where the population has been evacuated but could certainly hit something and kill a bunch of people and that would cause an escalation that could lead to war without them having intended for it to happen on that day it's it's precarious i think we're we're certainly in the middle of a multi-front war if you throw khizballah iran syria and the hutis in along with with gaza and let's not forget what's happening in the west bank in judei and samaria it's it's reported every day but kind of quietly we're in a low intensity counter-terrorist operation war there as well so there are certain parallels i'd say more paralleling the sixth day war than the young kipper war in the sense that in the sixth day war there was a kind of one step two step even though they happened kind of simultaneously it was only after the breaking of the egyptian army that the operation started in jerusalem and then only after the defeat of the jordanians and the egyptians that start on the golan heights and these those were all by our initiative here we're not the only ones taking initiative right and speaking of a potential uh another front uh palestinian media has also reported heavy clashes with israeli forces in the west bank overnight the areas targeted were nablus jericho ramallah and bethlehem the latest escalation follows an idf arrest raid yesterday morning being monday in the janine refugee camp in the northern west bank the west bank has seen surging violence and arrests in parallel to israel's war on hamas in the gaza strip the israeli military saying it is dismantling hamas terrorists and affiliates in the west bank as well just a few moments ago notifications coming out that the idf seized makeshift rockets and firearms in those overnight raids in the west bank recent polls show that most palestinians in the region support hamas's october 7th attack on israel despite the death toll in gaza don't believe that the group committed atrocities and in fact support for hamas today in the west bank stands at 44 compared to just 12 three months ago now kelev obviously those numbers are striking but not really surprising israel much more able to investigate and to deal with some of the threats going on in the west bank which is inside of its territory but pretty alarming given the rise of how many people in the west bank palestinians mostly are affiliated or at least connected or support hamas right and by the we saw this situation prior to october 7th actually the mistaken conception at that time was that hamas wanted to keep the fight against israel focused more on the west bank rather than in gaza which turned out to be of course a completely misguided fatally so conception there and yes hamas we have seen by the way polling i always take even though i think these numbers probably are absolutely accurate i take a sort of grain assault when you do polling in the palestinian sector we're not the people there we're not living at democracy they're not speaking out freely we don't know actually what feelings these people have the shift the mood can shift there but certainly just looking at those polling numbers when we're talking about the two-state solution it brings us further from any idea of that moving forward certainly in any time in the near even mid future and again hamas is yes hamas has there's a big question now about what is the role going to be as hamas versus the palestinian authority more accurately or more accurately if the fatah movement that dominates that and one of the missions of the of israel and if this government is to eliminate the influence of hamas not only in the gaza strip where it has military influence uh military control but also potentially uh in the west bank judae and samaria as well all right i want to thank both the host of the prime time show the randan kalev ben david as well as political and military analyst reserve major elliot shut off for being with me this morning and for your analysis now 21-year-old bar kupstein was working security at the music festival in reem that fateful morning of october 7th bar was kidnapped almost 80 days ago and his aching grandparents have still not heard a word from or about him here's more in the story it is very difficult for me to talk about him because i love him so much a very sweet boy very cute likes to help everyone has hands of gold but lives within himself he's the only grandchild born with blue eyes like his grandfather and they were good friends and he was especially good friends with his father his father had a car accident and his mother was always by his father's side and he took care of his younger siblings when did he move in with you his father came to need total nursing care so we hired a foreign worker for him and a foreign worker needs a room so bar moved in with me i called it was 659 he answered and i said bar what's going on he replied grandma are you okay i said yes we are fine but there was someone next to him shouting look how many barrages how many rockets are coming so it asked bar where are you what's going on and he said grandma we'll be packing up soon packing up and leaving here i called bar again after half an hour he didn't answer he ran they showed me the picture i saw four or five other guys one with the torn shirt another bleeding and bar lying on the floor shouting bar bar bar i am a holocaust survivor these are worse than the german fascists worse to this day we are not calm killing because we don't know the more time that passes sorry this is more difficult it is since that sabbath you have not received any additional information about him nothing nothing nothing how do you feel these days with the fighting resumed and the swaps ended very difficult feelings we want them home who's taking care of them there they killed them there they will all come with a broken heart and we too will have a broken heart it's impossible we're waiting every day well what will happen when does he come back how is he there it's impossible bar we love you i'm sorry i can't help you with anything it's hard to look i only look at your photo come home i love you come back come back while we are still alive yes and that brings us to the end of this special edition at this hour but make sure to tune in again at the top of the hour where we'll have more updates on day 81 of war between israel and hamas in the gaza strip there has been reports overnight of intense fighting occurring in the center and also the south of the gaza strip as the idf continues with its ground incursion moving further south into the strip you are looking at live images on your screen of the israel gaza border you can see a pillar of smoke in the background there is intense fighting continues on day 81 stay tuned we'll be right back with more well is in a state of war families completely done down in their beds we have no idea where is she as our soldiers are fighting on the front line but the general perception is something that certainly needs to to be fought as well welcome to the special edition on i24 news i'm back to live and from our television studios thanks for joining me it is day 81 of war between israel and hamas palestine and media has reported a heavy idf bombardment and deadly raids overnight in the central and southern parts of the gaza strip the continued fighting coming as the israel defense forces continues to push on with its ground offensive to dismantle hamas and the threaded poses on the jewish state on tuesday morning the israeli military announced the deaths of two more soldiers killed in the fighting bringing the idf's death toll since the start of its ground incursion to 158 meanwhile is really prime minister benjamin ditanyahu has laid out three prerequisites for peace in an op-ed recently published in the wall street journal they are to destroy hamas demilitarized gaza and de-radicalize the whole of palestinian society let's cross live to our correspondent pia kloschen though standing by for us on the israel gaza border for an update on the south pia what's the latest at this hour where there's been quite a lot of artillery pounding one area one specific area south of gaza city which is called the al-mugrata which is actually a little town which has control over the strategic access road to hanunas the salah hadin access and therefore there's been a lot of activity in that town aerial and artillery activity and navy as well in order to gain control of that particular section of the salah hadin access further north you can maybe see if daniel bok will show you to the right of your monitor you'll see smoke billowing out of the to far al-daraj neighborhoods of gaza city where a brigade the 162 brigade of the idf is operating this is the last bastion the last stronghold of hamas in gaza city there's a whole battalion there fighting the israeli troops and this could take a few days if not weeks if we judge the fighting that was close to there in shijaya up until last week in as you mentioned in the southern gaza strip in the central sector of the refugee camps al-burej nusserat al-mugazi they were heavy air strikes as well as in hanunas and in rafah during the night 100 air strikes during the night on presumed terror targets which in a sense indicates is an indication of the kind of fighting that's going on in the central area of the gaza strip with the three refugee camps ground forces are clashing with hamas forces east of al-burej for a few days already according to palestine media affiliated to hamas and israel is gaining control bit by bit in the city of hanunas and around it there's been now you just heard an outgoing of an artillery position and in hanunas the ground offensive has gone has been going on since the second of december corresponding pier clashing late giving us the latest updates at this hour thank you very much for that and joining me now on skype from northern israel is political and military analyst reserve major elliott shadoff and here in studio with us is our prime time show host of the rundown klev ben david gentlemen thank you both very much if i may reserve major i'd like to start by asking the idf seems to be shooting artillery over as well as air strikes into the southern part of the gaza strip in order to make way for the preparations of the ground incursion moving more into the south what then happens to the refugees a lot of the gaza citizens that were told to move further south in order for the idf to operate in the center in the north of the strip like i think the the important thing to understand is that the division north and south of the strip is somewhat artificial we're talking about essentially three major urban areas the north being gaza city and its environs and and suburbs the south being hanunas and rafiah they don't take up the entire area either of the north or the south so using north and south as terminology is a bit overly general what we're seeing now are strikes air and artillery at specific targets and i think that's that's also important to understand we're not talking about what used to be called carpet bombing specific targets are being hit they're being targeted based on intelligence based on observation and the people who have fled are in a humanitarian zone uh in an area called the malasi which is out on the beach area of southern gaza not in the urban areas of rafiah right in kelev obviously the idf making uh every effort to avoid civilian casualties which becomes even harder to do when hamas doesn't really care for the lives of its civilians putting them in harm's way creating a double war crime uh shooting behind civilians at civilians what is this all doing from a pr standpoint to the rest of the world in terms of now moving into the south where there are civilians located well i don't know it's not just on a from a pr standpoint the idf is using extraordinary means to try to get people uh from the north to the south uh actually interesting article today about unit 504 an intelligence unit of the army that's making that's called over personal cut calls with 50 000 palestinians that's one on one calls between these idf intelligence officers and palestinians in most cases telling them instructing them where to move where to move south uh the idf dropping leaflets of cross setting up these safe zones uh taking uh i would say unprecedented measures for any military at least that i know of in trying to avoid civilian casualties there was also the question being raised whether the uh the i the iaf is reducing its air more general air strikes and uh elliott spoke about precision strikes uh maybe even getting more precise some have raised issues whether due to american pressure especially in communists uh and or the the that a general area which has become so cruelty was crowded has become so crowded with people coming down from uh gaza the gaza city area it's now so crowded makes any air strikes uh runs a high risk of civilian casualties but at the same time those civilians those air strikes can be useful uh to soften a target before ground troops come in we've heard some rare criticism just uh in the past couple days from some government officials uh on that so the idf taking extraordinary measures to protect gaza civilians uh and perhaps and one have some have argued even at the at the extent of putting its own troops at risk and elliott a lot of these precision strikes obviously taking out not only hamas territory infrastructure but also trying to target some of the high-profile military oshalon that are in the strip what is the military doing or perhaps even the shin bet or the mosad in terms of trying to cut the head of the snake from the political standpoint we know a lot of the political heads of hamas are hiding out in qatar and turkey that are not actually in the gaza strip it's one thing eliminating the threats directly from israel's borders but if it doesn't eliminate hamas in its entirety surely it lives on and it is able to regroup and reallm absolutely but i think uh keeping in mind that operations against a political leadership as you say in qatar and in turkey they're also in lebanon those are not the kind of operations that that are a quick military fix uh these usually take months to set up uh often fail the first time or two or three uh until they actually succeed and we know this from not only israeli operations but american and other operations as well uh that that's a long-term goal long-term uh strategy in the strip itself i would say very very few a very small percentage infinitesimal uh of the strikes are targeting leaders simply because the majority of the strikes air and artillery are being used for specific tactical military purposes softening up the targets and and here infrastructure is a combination of things it's storehouses it's launching points but it's also places where snipers or anti-tank teams are identified in other words these are real-time dynamic targets not just structures that we happen to know have been used for years uh as infrastructure and kelev speaking on the pr angle in just the last few minutes the red crescent in khan unis has claimed that their headquarters was bombed in a recent iaf strike um no doubt the international press before the idf comes on and confirms this is going to say that israel is targeting NGOs israel is targeting aid and humanitarian facilities inside the gaza strip but that's only because that's what it appears perhaps on the outside being on top of the ground there's a whole tunnel network underneath gaza and it's not even a tunnel network i mean we have seen so much copious proof over the past two months of how hamas has specifically used offices and buildings associated with aid groups with hospitals red crescent being the middle east branch of the the the red cross and not just in tunnels and storing we just ran a report yesterday where we from the idf showing how the indonesia hospital in uh in north more in the north of gaza was being used by hamas storing vehicles there it's these these institutions have been compromised they have become centers of terror they have become launching pads for rockets they have been points of refuge for them and under by the way under international law uh if a an institution like this a medical facility becomes being used for military purposes as uh then it becomes a legitimate target under international law and believe me there are uh you have your lawyers in the idf that before specific target is attacked uh deal with that they look at the evidence and they do so so yes we're going to see that kind of coverage and then israel is going to have to present the evidence it shows and it has been able to present that to show that these are being used as military facilities it seems that both from the military point of view and from public relations israel has to constantly go on the offensive gentlemen say with me because i want to bring you in on the other front of the war in israel's north the idf struck launch sites as well as other nearby areas in southern lebanon after two projectiles were fired toward the northern israeli community of minara on monday there were no reports of injuries from that attack as the border community has largely been evacuated meanwhile according to the semi-official iranian news agency tasnim a senior officer in iran's islamic revolutionary guard called was killed monday in an alleged israeli airstrike in the syrian capital of demascus now the elimination of brigadier general razi musabi has prompted threats from terran with iran's foreign minister warning the telegram faces a tough countdown and iran's president marisi vowing that israel will certainly pay for this crime i want to bring back in eliot obviously discussing here cutting the head of the snake in terms of hamas but we're talking about the big bad brother of hamas being hezbollah in the north a major perhaps the prime proxy of iran just how credible should israel be taking these these warnings and these threats we know that they've come time and time again but is this time a little bit different well first of all your uh hezbollah is not a proxy of iran hezbollah is a wholly owned subsidiary of the kutz force of the islamic revolutionary guard corps and in that it's very different from hamas which is a proxy hezbollah takes its orders directly from terran so the chain of command going through people like musavi and he he was uh you showed him in a picture with sulimani the americans took out this is part of a chain of command that goes up to up to terran and it's not just representative it's a direct line should israel take the threat seriously israel should take all of it all the threat seriously but from a country that is sworn to destroy israel coming from a romanian philosophy which drew its ideology from hitler and the nazis it's hard to get terribly excited when somebody who says they're going to wipe you out repeatedly then threatens you so again the threat is serious but it's nothing new and it's not it's not an escalation they've already threatened to kill us all now a possible maritime attack has been reported close to the coast of yemen it's being investigated this tuesday morning it's according to the united king's and maritime trade operations agency the body says that it received a report about an incident approximately 15 ornical miles west of the city of al-khodaida in yemen earlier in the morning there's been no further details but yemen's huhti rebels backed by iran however have carried out numerous missile intro and attacks on vessels sailing through the key red sea shipping lane in recent weeks causing a massive disturbance to global shipping cleav not really a coincidence at least i want to say that this irgc commander in damaskus was taken out and it almost appears as a retaliation from another iranian back proxy the huhtis toward the red sea right there were in that category of this a biggest subsidiary of iran because they're fully armed and backed by iran and yes i think it's telling by the way we saw that irgc commander taken out in syria where where is the iran threatens televieve it's not attacking televieve you notice or it or its subsidies as proxies they're going after soft targets what are those soft targets that shipping in in and around the red sea and gulf waters because so far the international community in especially the united states has not taken firm action uh to prevent those kind of attacks they've put this coalition but so far as only even talked to only taken defensive actions shooting down rockets not directly attacking uh huhti targets in yemen and also let's look at uh rakh where the a uh a sheite militia allied with uh ran the hezbollah khatib a launched an attack on us forces there we're coming out now from the pentagon three us soldiers are killed in that uh attack it's a series of attacks that have been launched there so uh really when when iran it wants to strike out it's been striking at forces linked to the us a lot of people their reports in the u have been reports in the us press where the defense apartment officials putting pressure on the bottom administration say we have to respond more forcefully uh to these provocations by iran and we'll see if the Biden administration uh kind of wakes up and realizes it has to make some kind of deterrent action and get directly against iran eliot there's been a lot of analysts that point to the fact that with so many fronts in this war it's looking similar to the 60 war in 1967 and obviously the 1973 war but in your opinion just how accurate is that at the moment there's a full-scale war in the south with uh Hamas in the Gaza Strip there seems to be skirmishes in the north skirmishes that occurring on the very southern tip being a latin obviously the red sea and obviously the volatile area that is the west bank is seeing escalations but just how close are we to a full fully fledged war on all of israel's flanks it's hard to predict that the the northern front can erupt on any day it can erupt by intent or by accident in other words uh iran can give khizballah the orders to to launch a massive attack on the other hand it can happen inadvertently uh khizballah missile or rocket uh currently being aimed primarily at places that are where the population has been evacuated but could certainly hit something and kill a bunch of people and that would cause an escalation that could lead to war without them having intended for it to happen on that day uh it's it's precarious uh i think we're we're certainly in the middle of a multi-front war if you throw khizballah iran syria and the hutis in along with with gaza and let's not forget what's happening in the west bank in judei and samaria it's it's reported every day but kind of quietly we're in a low intensity counter terrorist operation war there as well so there are certain parallels i'd say more paralleling the sixth day war than the young kipper war in the sense that in the sixth day war there was a kind of one step two step even though they happened kind of simultaneously it was only after the breaking of the egyptian army that the operation started in jerusalem and then only after the defeat of the geordanians and the egyptians that start on the golan heights and these those those were all by our initiative uh here we're not the only ones taking initiative right and speaking of a potential uh another front palestinian media has also reported heavy clashes with israeli forces in the west bank overnight the areas targeted were nablus jericho ramallah and bethlehem the latest escalation follows an idf arrest raid yesterday morning being monday in the janine refugee camp in the northern west bank the west bank has seen surging violence and arrests in parallel to israel's war on hamas in the gaza strip the israeli military saying it is dismantling hamas terrorists and affiliates in the west bank as well just a few moments ago notifications coming out that the idf seized makeshift rockets and firearms in those overnight raids in the west bank recent polls show that most palestinians in the region support hamas's october 7 attack on israel despite the death toll in gaza don't believe that the group committed atrocities and in fact support for hamas today in the west bank stands at 44 compared to just 12 3 months ago now kelev obviously those numbers are striking but not really surprising israel much more able to investigate and deal with some of the threats going on in the west bank which is inside of its territory but pretty alarming given the rise of how many people in the west bank palestinians mostly are affiliated or at least connected or support hamas right and by the way this is a we saw this situation prior to october 7 actually the mistaken conception at that time was that hamas wanted to keep the fight against israel focused more in the west bank rather than in gaza which turned out to be of course a completely misguided fatally so conception there and yes hamas we have seen by the way polling i always take even though i think these numbers probably are absolutely accurate i take a sort of grain assault when you do polling in the palestinian sector we're not the people there we're not living in democracy they're not speaking out freely we don't know actually what feelings these people have the shift the mood can shift there but certainly just looking at those polling numbers when we're talking about the two-state solution it brings us further from any idea of that moving forward certainly in any time in the near or even mid future and again hamas is yes hamas has there's a big question now about what is the role going to be as hamas versus the palestinian authority more accurately or more accurately if the fatah movement that dominates uh that and one of the missions of the of israel and of this government is to eliminate the influence of hamas not only in the gaza strip where it has military influence uh in military control but also potentially uh in the west bank judaean samaria as well all right i want to thank both the host of the prime time show the round dunk aleph ben david as well as political and military analyst reserve major eliot shut off for being with me this morning and for your analysis now 21-year-old bar cupestine was working security at the nova music festival in rayem that fateful morning of october 7th bar was kidnapped almost 80 days ago and his aching grandparents have still not heard a word from or about him his morning story it is very difficult for me to talk about him because i love him so much a very sweet boy very cute likes to help everyone has hands of gold but lives within himself he's the only grandchild born with blue eyes like his grandfather and they were good friends and he was especially good friends with his father his father had a car accident and his mother was always by his father's side and he took care of his younger siblings when did he move in with you his father came to need total nursing care so we hired a foreign worker for him and a foreign worker needs a room so bar moved in with me i called it was 659 he answered and i said bar what's going on he replied grandma are you okay i said yes we are fine but there was someone next to him shouting look how many barrages how many rockets are coming so i asked bar where are you what's going on and he said grandma we'll be packing up soon packing up and leaving here i called bar again after half an hour he didn't answer he ran they showed me the picture i saw four or five other guys one with the torn shirt another bleeding and bar lying on the floor shouting bar bar i am a holocaust survivor these are worse than the german fascists worse to this day we are not calm because we don't know the more time that passes sorry this is more difficult it is since that sabbath you have not received any additional information about him nothing nothing nothing how do you feel these days with the fighting resumed and the swaps ended very difficult feelings we want them home who's taking care of them there they killed them there they will all come with a broken heart and we too will have a broken heart it's impossible we're waiting every day well what will happen when does he come back how is he there it's impossible bar we love you i'm sorry i can't help you with anything it's hard to look i only look at your photos come home i love you come back come back while we are still alive yes and that brings us to the end of this special edition at this hour but make sure to tune in again at the top of the hour where we'll have more updates on day 81 of war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip there has been reports overnight of intense fighting occurring in the center and also the south of the Gaza Strip as the IDF continues with its ground incursion moving further south into the strip you are looking at live images on your screen of the Israel Gaza border you can see a pillar of smoke in the background there's intense fighting continues on day 81 stay tuned we'll be right back with more well is in a state of war families completely done down in their beds we have no idea where is she as our soldiers are fighting on the front line but the general perception is something that certainly needs to to be fought as well welcome to the special news edition i am batch 11 all coming to you from Tel Aviv thanks for joining me it's day 81 of war between Israel and Hamas palestine and media has reported a heavy IDF bombardment and deadly raids overnight in the central and southern parts of the Gaza Strip the continued firing coming as the Israel defense forces continues to push on with its ground offensive to dismantle Hamas and the threat it poses on the Jewish state on Tuesday morning the Israeli military announced the deaths of two more soldiers killed in battle bringing the IDF's death to all since the start of its ground incursion to 158 meanwhile Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has laid out three prerequisites for peace in an op-ed recently published in the Wall Street Journal they are to destroy Hamas demilitarized Gaza and de-radicalize the whole of Palestinian society all with me here in studio to discuss all this and more is retired colonel dr. Jacques Nairia the former deputy head of assessment for Israeli military intelligence and the former foreign policy advisor to prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and the host of our prime time show the rundown Kalev ben David gentlemen thank you for joining me at this hour. Jacques there is a very difficult proposition at the moment to be Benjamin Netanyahu whether you love him or love him to be put in a situation where you are dealing with the hostages versus the eradication of Hamas because they seem to sort of conflict one another well you know personally I don't think that there's a chance to reach any agreement with Hamas on the hostages I mean this is this is definitely the based on the positions that Hamas has has declared lately and it's quite clear that he wants Hamas wants a total ceasefire the cessation of hostilities before even beginning to negotiate the hostage deal this is something that is unacceptable for for Israel because he says three things he said first total ceasefire second with role of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip and third we will sit down at our time and we'll discuss with you what to negotiate and when and on the first the first batch will be only the civilians and then we'll talk about the soldier the women's soldier and the others so it's it's a process a long process Hamas understands very well that the the hostages are the it's safety it's safety and it's a line of life because without that you would be good it would have nothing to to give in return and this is what the what is right now stopping and blocking all negotiations with Israel and live with regards to the hostages Israel obviously reaching out to its closest allies the United States as well as the European Union to try and help them in some of the negotiations with the hostages but also reaching out to those that are more neutral countries or at least at this point more agitated countries with Israel being both Russia and China now right specifically because there are there are us Russia hostages who have Russian citizenship or Russian nationality and Russia does maintain a line of communication with Hamas it to its shame hosted senior officials of Hamas during this operation and the other is China because in the case one specific case no Agamani a young woman being held in Gaza is the daughter of a woman with Chinese roots even though she's Israeli so reaching out supposedly Prime Minister Netanyahu saying in the Knesset yesterday he reached out through to the Chinese ambassador to try to make contact get a message to Xi Jinping the Chinese leader to intervene in the case in no Agamani but I don't really think at the end of the day those countries would have much influence with Hamas the only two countries or three possibly obviously Iran which is still a major sponsor of Hamas Qatar which will maintains communications and we have Hamas officials still there and to some degree Egypt because Hamas knows that its future if it has any future role at all in in in the Gaza Strip or is there's going to be any opportunity for them to slip out of Gaza as eventually maybe a part of a hostage deal which would probably only come really when Hamas leadership is completely courted and that's their only way out would have to go through Egypt so those are the countries that more likely would have any kind of leverage I would add something very interesting that the proposal that was presented by Egypt to Hamas contained a clause saying that the the exile exile of the Hamas leadership to either Algeria and this was the idea that was begun by Saudi Arabia so this is this is something is on the table right now all the participants understand that one of one of the ways to end this this war is to ask I mean to to accept the fact that Hamas leaves the ground and and and gets some in with his troops and leadership whatever to to a country with the same with the safe haven so this is right now it has been refused totally by Hamas you understand that this is the end of Hamas but on the other way he can just be in Spain but what happened with the Palestinian leader as Yasser Arafat although he left Lebanon to Tunisia but he kept on dominating the PLO and kept on attacking Israel so it might be the same the same solution that might might be accepted by Hamas but not at this point because it's not it's not it's not right yet I want to continue this discussion in just a few short moments but I do want to get an update from our correspondent Pierre Closch and who is standing by for us in the south of Israel on the Israel guards aboard a pier we can see quite a bit of smoke behind you once the latest at the moment it's where you are right there's been quite a lot of sporadic artillery pounding of the area which is inside Gaza city and south of Gaza city to the left of your monitor you can see two towns al-muraka and juchu reddick which are you just heard an outgoing artillery shell in that direction these two name these two towns control the Salahadin axis which crosses the Gaza Strip from north to south on the eastern side and is an access road to the central refugee camps and to the southern city of Hanyunas and to the right of your monitor these are the Daraj to Fah neighborhoods of Gaza city where the last stronghold of Hamas is still holding on this was this is a neighborhood that have been left by the IDF ground offensive that started to operate in the northern sector of the Gaza Strip on October 27 and this last stronghold is now being taken over by the 162 brigade of the IDF but that could take probably weeks I would say if to judge the way the grinding way the IDF operated in the northern sector neighborhoods and towns so this is more or less what's going on here but further south overnight there were heavy air force strikes on the on presumed terror targets in the refugee camps and al-muraz which are in the central sector of the Gaza Strip and further south in Hanyunas in Hanyunas Palestinian media affiliated to Hamas speak of 26 fatalities in over 100 air strikes overnight on the central sector and the southern sector of the Gaza Strip right here we can hear a fortune of that artillery being shot over the border from your position where you standing stay safe we'll be crossing life to you a little bit later for some more updates as we were discussing earlier in studio Israel is said to be mulling a new proposal for a ceasefire with Israeli reports stating that the war cabinet is discussing an Egyptian proposed plan now this as an Israeli and Hamas delegation visited Cairo over the course of last week to meet with the Egyptian officials but even if Israel is considering a pause in fighting Hamas does not seem to be Yahya Sinwar made his first public statement since the october 7th massacre vowing to keep fighting while greatly exaggerating Hamas's war achievements our correspondent Nicole Zedek breaks down the latest effort to halt the fighting which could prove to be a mission near impossible after weeks of continued fighting in Gaza the terror leader with a big Israeli target on his back is breaking his silence Hamas leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar wrote a letter to his political leaders abroad according to a now deleted post on Al Jazeera where he claimed his terror group is on its way to crushing the IDF and said Hamas will not submit to quote the occupation's conditions the exaggerated statement came with exaggerated numbers with Sinwar claiming Hamas has killed more than 1000 Israeli soldiers while the actual number stands closer to 150 the terror chiefs vow to continue fighting comes as a new proposal to stop the fighting is on the table this time with Egypt taking center stage instead of Qatar the Egyptian proposed ceasefire has three steps starting with a two week pause in fighting in exchange for the release of 40 of the 129 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza in return Israel would release 120 Palestinian security prisoners convicted terrorists freed from Israel's jails phase two would see a unified Palestinian government formed with the goal of creating a technocratic government in the west bank and Gaza this means Hamas could still govern Gaza likely alongside the Palestinian authority this could be a tough pill for Israel to swallow as it completely contradicts its stated war efforts of eliminating Hamas the third stage would see a complete ceasefire with the return of all remaining Israeli hostages including soldiers in return for an unknown number of Palestinian security prisoners and while Israel didn't immediately knock the proposal Hamas and Palestinian Islamic jihad reportedly said they won't stop fighting if it means giving up control of the strip and as he visited Israeli troops in Gaza on Monday Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to eradicate Hamas we aren't stopping anyone who talks about stopping no no stopping the war continues to the end until they are finished nothing less so while outside forces might be pushing for a diplomatic end to the war the actual parties involved don't seem ready to accept any deals quite yet and still with me here in studio Dr. Jacques Neria and Kalev Bendervid Jacques in comments that were recently leaked this month to Hebrew media Netanyahu also said that the Palestinian authority like Hamas wants to destroy Israel the difference though is that they want to do it in stages why then if the end goal is the same would Israel want even if it is a weakened Palestinian authority to maintain even any semblance of control in Gaza once this is done and dusted well you know you're throwing me back to 30 years and about the famous discussion whether we should try to make peace with the Palestinians yes or not and finally let us remember that on 9th of September 1993 the Palestinian authority with our fact that it said recognize the state of Israel as a state as an independent state and we recognize the PLO as being the sole representative of the Palestinian people so all the all the fuss and all the talks about the the intentions behind that what is important is the fact on the ground we've been living alongside with the Palestinian authority we've been cooperating on the security issues together and until the security coordination was stopped we didn't have such problems in the West Bank by the moment that the the we just weakened the Palestinian authority and didn't give us give us give us all the the the tools that it needed in order to fight terrorism then we had this upsurge of terrorism in Janine and other other towns so I think that let us put ideology on the side and treat the problem as concrete as possible let's be let's be I mean the concrete and see what is possible not what is impossible this we have to be creative we know that they don't love us but I mean the same we don't love them so it's not a story of love it's a story of interest so let's let's see what is our interest and what are their interests and try to reach a common common ground this is what what is diplomacy about right going back 33 years and record the Madrid conference after the first go for when the U.S. insisted there'd be Palestinian representation and the Palestinians said it has to be the PLO Yitzhak Shami other than Prime Minister said absolutely no PLO and they were creative they found some prominent Palestinian figures from the from the West Bank and Gaza that were not officially part all were manipulated by Tunis right but but who were taking everybody knew they were taking their instructions from from Yasser Arafat from Tunis and I think that's the kind of creative diplomatic solution in the short term we're going to see in the Gaza they're talking about a technocratic government for the administration in Gaza I suspect these will be figures not officially affiliated with the with the with the with the Palestinian authority Fatah but will we their orders will eventually be coming from Ramallah for sure one of the most common remarks as to why obviously not all but countless Palestinians do tend to join more of an armed resistance is because there's a viable political force for them to join how you know it's almost a pity that the Palestinian leadership is so divided the way that it is because it could have actually come up with some kind of thriving Palestinian statehood but how is this actually Israel's responsibility now in terms of managing what happens the day after in the strip they don't seek to regain any sort of control of the Gaza strip as I said earlier we have to look what is possible and what is and not what is impossible it is impossible for for us to tease them to love us we have to separate from the Palestinians we don't want to have one state with the with a majority of Palestinians or even there would be at odds with the Palestinians 50 50 this is impossible we have we'll have to change the state of Israel it will it won't be the state of a Jewish state it'll be a different state that we don't want that right now so because of that we have to create a situation or to to reach a situation where we separate of ourselves from the Palestinian and let them live their life be it as a self-determination as Rabin said at a time less than a state more than autonomy and try to to find a formula where we can live with the problem with the Palestinian authority is that for 18 years that had that has no democracy at all I mean the the Americans pressed us to let elections that they go freely in Gaza and we lost Gaza the Hamas just won the elections and on the West Bank the Palestinian Authority understood that if it would go on elections it would lose and we would have had Hamas and as a Palestinian Authority this is not what we want so that we have to to reach a situation where I mean we're talking about technocrats and sort of solution which which is impossible I mean the the the Palestinian Authority and is not ready to to reconcile with Hamas and Hamas is not ready to accept the Palestinian Authority so we have to use that as a tool in managing diplomacy between the different Palestinian factions and create a situation where there's a replacement for the actual corrupt Palestinian Authority there's a president who's been 18 years president without any elections so let's be realistic we have to change this reality into something else and maybe by changing that and choosing some some different solution we might reach a sort of arrangement where we can live or coexist with the Palestinian living by our side right and obviously with the the leadership of both Hamas and Hezbollah and what's happening with the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank all the factions have sort of a commonality of wanting to sort of squeeze Israel to at least its total non-existence completely and that's what the whole charter from the river to the sea is among many of the Palestinian or pro-Palestinian supporters around the world I don't think though that they intended at least to squeeze Israel economically unfortunately that is part and parcel of any kind of war we've seen that as well in Ukraine as well as Russia but it almost appears that that also backfired because Israel's economy at first people were panic buying but it does seem to have bounced back up Caliph well I'd be cautious there but because there is some good news today yeah Intel has announced a major investment in Israel they're going to have 25 billion to open a factory here for those who don't know we tell the the giant semiconductor manufacturer maybe globally is already a major presence in the Israeli economy in fact the largest private employee or in Israel through its huge factories and plants in Kyriac that's going to be expanded and Israeli economy is shown to be resilient the high tech sector has certainly shown itself to be resilient through the corona situation and through of even previous wars however there is a huge big toll being taken mainly because just the amount of people who have been pulled out of the economy to serve in Gaza and in the north as well that's a huge number of productive workers who are not at their jobs and there's figures coming up this week showing the Israeli economy projected to shrink by two percent which is a lot it sounds a little bit it's a lot over the coming year and the whole sectors economic sectors of the country such as tourism and leisure which is somewhere between seven eight percent of the economy are almost at a standstill so Israel the bad news is certainly the short term Israel's economy looking ahead the year it's going to be grim and maybe on the government has to be more proactive to take steps to counteract the suffering that's going to be the good news is over the long term the Israeli economy has shown to be itself pretty resilient gentlemen stay with me because I do want to switch to the northern front where the IDF struck launch sites and other nearby areas in southern Lebanon after two projectiles were fired toward the northern Israeli community of Manara on Monday now there were no reports of injuries from that attack as the border community has been largely evacuated meanwhile according to a semi-official Iranian news agency Tasnim a senior officer in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was killed Monday in an alleged Israeli airstrike in the Syrian capital of Damascus the elimination of Brigadier General Razi Musavi has prompted threats from Tehran with Iran's foreign minister warning that Tel Aviv faces a tough countdown and Iran's president Abram Risi vowing that Israel will certainly pay for this crime in recent hours a maritime attack close to the coast of Yemen is being investigated as of this Tuesday morning it was first brought to the fore by the United Kingdom maritime trade operations agency the body saying that it received a report about an incident rather approximately 15 nautical miles west of the city of Al-Hudaya in Yemen earlier in the day those updates are that there were two explosions that occurred near a ship in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen two drones were sighted near the vessel before the explosion but there was no damage caused to the ship or its crew the ship is continuing its voyage while maintaining contact with the coalition forces of course this also comes on the back of the Yemen Houthi rebels backed by Iran carrying out numerous missile and drone attacks on vessels sailing through the key Red Sea shipping lane in recent weeks causing a disturbance to global shipping I'm going to bring the conversation back to studio Jacques the situation in the north at the moment seems to be maintained but as Clef pointed out earlier we've already seen 12 casualties on the Israeli side if there wasn't a war at the moment going on with Gaza that would immediately spark a massive confrontation with the north well let me assure you we are at war in the north I mean it's not we are not having a promenade on the seashore we're having day battles day after day and the Hamas is majoring its provocations against Israel day after day and using weapons new weapons that we didn't have we didn't see in the past now the the blow that was administered yesterday to the to Iran was great this is this is this is the the representative of the Quds division in Syria the one who coordinated all the effort all the the the monies all the logistics between Syria and Iran and Hezbollah and all the the militia the pro pro Iranian militias and this blow comes after is significant because the Iranians understand very well that their behavior in the Red Sea been having had having had a ship that has communicated all that all coordinates to the Houthis where to where to hit and what to hit and also sending sending drones on the Indian Ocean and hitting hitting a ship that that belongs in a way or another to to Israel means that the under the Iranian understand that this was in fact a retaliation done by Israel it is not by chance the coincidence that this guy I mean Reza was killed yesterday so now they have to rethink their policy what do we do and how do we respond let's first wait 40 days the 40 days of of that are usually the the the amount of days after the after the death of somebody so and afterwards they will they will have the time to think about what sort of reaction they will they will hit back certainly they will hit back they can hit back in against objects in in Europe in the in South America and I mean this is one thing I mean the Jewish Jewish targets and of course I mean the individual targets the businessman that are in the in Cyprus or Turkey or whatever and finally I mean that they can just upgrade or escalate their their reaction on the front and certainly by activating a new front that till now has been dormant and this front is on the Syrian Golan where the militias are very very very near the deployed at less than 100 meters from Israeli positions and it's the famous triangle Israel Jordan and Syria from where from this this area where the Assad regime has lost control this is where the the some of the dangers some of the threats would come from from this area and we must be ready for that Dr. Shakneria Kalev Bindavid thank you both very much now we end on a personal story Matan Levi was serving as an IDF reservist on October 7th when Hamas launched a terror assault on Israel's seven communities and he nearly lost his life but he now speaks in this report Matan's family couldn't believe he'd ever walk again on October 7th he reported for reserve duty without thinking twice after a few days of fighting a mortar shell landed a few meters next to him and he was critically wounded that day I was on a mission patrolling when we came off guard and it was time for us to rest we heard the rocket siren I laid down with my hands on my head but it didn't help the rocket fell close and I was wounded in the head my arms and my eyes Matan was taken to the hospital where doctors fought for his life when he woke up he realized he'd lost his vision as I woke up first thing I did was to ask the doctor why I can't see anything I asked him if I'm blind he said that I was it's not easy to hear I tried to stay calm and thought about my new life Matan finished law school right before the war started and although he lost his vision he's not going to give up this dream of course it will be difficult but I'm not afraid of challenges I love challenges while Matan recovers his friends and teachers from law school haven't forgotten him they came to visit him and surprised him with a graduation ceremony at the hospital I'm very excited thank you all for visiting me at this difficult time we are here today to give Matan his law bachelor degree which he worked so hard for I believe you'll do amazing in your specialization in the criminal prosecutor's office life goes on it happens and I can't change what happened I'm looking forward to the future I don't want this injury to be for nothing mine or any other soldiers I want us to live here peacefully because this is our home even after losing his vision he stays optimistic and happy and that's all we have time for at this hour but stay tuned at the top of the hour for more updates on day 81 of war between Israel and Hamas Israel is in a state of war families completely done down in their beds we have no idea where is she as our soldiers are fighting on the front lines but the general perception is something that certainly needs to to be fought as well so we're seeing the first generation of solar panels now being recycled what's exciting is we're at the forefront what is about to happen is a tsunami of solar panels coming back into the supply chain into the special news edition I am batch 11th all coming to you from Tel Aviv thanks for joining me it's day 81 of war between Israel and Hamas Palestinian media has reported a heavy IDF bombardment and deadly raids overnight in the central and southern parts of the Gaza Strip the continued firing coming as the Israel Defense Forces continues to push on with its ground offensive to dismantle Hamas and the threat it poses on the Jewish state on Tuesday morning the Israeli military announced the deaths of two more soldiers killed in battle bringing the IDF's death toll since the start of its ground incursion to 158 meanwhile Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has laid out three prerequisites for peace in an op-ed recently published in the Wall Street Journal they are to destroy Hamas demilitarized Gaza and de-radicalize the whole of Palestinian society well with me here in studio to discuss all this and more is retired colonel dr. Jacques Nairia the former deputy head of assessment for Israeli military intelligence and the former foreign policy advisor to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the host of our prime time show the rundown Kalev ben David gentlemen thank you for joining me at this hour Jacques there is a very difficult proposition at the moment to be Benjamin Netanyahu whether you love him or love him to be put in a situation where you are dealing with the hostages versus the eradication of Hamas because they seem to sort of conflict one another well you know personally I don't think that there's a chance to reach any agreement with Hamas on the hostages I mean this is this is definitely the based on the positions that Hamas has has declared lately and it's quite clear that he wants Hamas wants a total ceasefire the cessation of hostilities before even beginning to the negotiate the hostage deal this is something that is unacceptable for Israel because he says three things he said first total ceasefire second withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip and third we will sit down at our time and we'll discuss with you what to negotiate and when and on the first the first batch will be only the civilians and then we'll talk about the soldier the women's soldier and the others so it's it's a process a long process Hamas understands very well that the the hostages are the it's safety it's safety and it's a line of life because without that he would be good he would have nothing to to give in return and this is what what is right now stopping and blocking all negotiations with Israel and clever with regards to the hostages Israel obviously reaching out to its closest allies the united states as well as the european union to try and help them in some of the negotiations with the hostages but also reaching out to those that are more neutral countries or at least at this point more agitated countries with Israel being both Russia and China now right specifically because there are there are us Russia's hostages who have Russian citizenship or Russian nationality and Russia does maintain a line of communication with Hamas it to its shame hosted senior officials of Hamas during this operation and the other is China because in the case one specific case no Agamani a young woman being held in Gaza is the daughter of a woman with Chinese roots even though she's Israeli so reaching out supposedly Prime Minister Netanyahu saying in the Knesset yesterday he reached out through to the Chinese ambassador trying to make contact get a message to Xi Jinping the Chinese leader to intervene in the case in no Agamani but I don't really think at the end of the day those countries would have much influence with Hamas the only two countries or three possibly obviously Iran which is still a major sponsor of Hamas Qatar which will maintains communications and we have Hamas officials still there and to some degree Egypt because Hamas knows that its future if it's as any future role at all in in in the Gaza Strip or as if there's going to be any opportunity for them to slip out of Gaza as eventually maybe a part of the hostage deal which would probably only come really when Hamas leadership is completely cornered and that's their only way out would have to go through Egypt so those are the countries that more likely would have any kind of leverage I would add something very interesting that the proposal that was presented by Egypt to Hamas contained a clause saying that the the exile exile of the Hamas leadership to either Algeria and this was the idea that was begun by Saudi Arabia so this is this is something is on the table right now all the participants understand that one of one of the ways to end this this war is to ask I mean to to accept the fact that Hamas leaves the ground and and and get some in with his troops and leadership whatever to to a country with with the safe haven so this is right now it has been refused totally by Hamas you understand that this is the end of Hamas but on the other way he can just be in Spain but what happened with the Palestinian leader as Yasser Arafat although he left Lebanon to Tunisia but he kept on the dominating the PLO and kept on attacking Israel so it might be the same the the same solution that might might might be accepted by by Hamas but not at this point because it's not it's not it's not ripe yet I want to continue this discussion in just a few short moments but I do want to get an update from our correspondent Pierre Kloschendler who is standing by for us in the south of Israel on the Israel Goddess of water pier we can see quite a bit of smoke behind you once the latest at the moment it's where you are right there's been quite a lot of sporadic artillery pounding of the area which is inside Gaza city and south of Gaza city to the left of your monitor you can see two towns al-muraka and juhu reddick which are you just heard an outgoing artillery shell in that direction these two neighborhoods these two towns control the Salahadin axis which crosses the Gaza Strip from north to south on the eastern side and is an access road to the central refugee camps and to the southern city of Hanyunas and to the right of your monitor these are the Daraj to Fah neighborhoods of Gaza city where the last stronghold of Hamas is still holding on this was this is a neighborhood that have been left by the IDF ground offensive that started to operate in the northern sector of the Gaza Strip on October 27 and this last stronghold is now being taken over by the 162 brigade of the IDF but that could take probably weeks I would say if to judge the way the grinding way the IDF operated in the northern sector neighborhoods and towns so this is more or less what's going on here but further south overnight there were heavy air force strikes on the on presumed terror targets in the refugee camps El Nucerat El Buraj and Almorazi which are in the central sector of the Gaza Strip and further south in Hanyunas in Hanyunas Palestinian media affiliated to Hamas speak of 26 fatalities in over 100 air strikes overnight on the central sector and the southern sector of the Gaza Strip right here we can hear a fortune of that artillery being shot over the border from your position where you standing stay safe we'll be crossing life to you a little bit later for some more updates as we were discussing earlier in studio Israel is said to be mulling a new proposal for a ceasefire with Israeli reports stating that the war cabinet is discussing an Egyptian proposed plan now this as an Israeli and Hamas delegation visited Cairo over the course of last week to meet with Egyptian officials but even if Israel is considering a pause in fighting Hamas does not seem to be Yahya Sinwar made his first public statement since the October 7th massacre vowing to keep fighting while greatly exaggerating Hamas's war achievements our correspondent Nicole Zedek breaks down the latest effort to halt the fighting which could prove to be a mission near impossible after weeks of continued fighting in Gaza the terror leader with a big Israeli target on his back is breaking his silence Hamas leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar wrote a letter to his political leaders abroad according to a now deleted post on Al Jazeera where he claimed his terror group is on its way to crushing the IDF and said Hamas will not submit to quote the occupation's conditions the exaggerated statement came with exaggerated numbers with Sinwar claiming Hamas has killed more than 1000 Israeli soldiers while the actual number stands closer to 150 the terror chief's vow to continue fighting comes as a new proposal to stop the fighting is on the table this time with Egypt taking center stage instead of Qatar the Egyptian proposed ceasefire has three steps starting with a two week pause in fighting in exchange for the release of 40 of the 129 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza in return Israel would release 120 Palestinian security prisoners convicted terrorists freed from Israel's jails phase two would see a unified Palestinian government formed with the goal of creating a technocratic government in the west bank and Gaza this means Hamas could still govern Gaza likely alongside the Palestinian authority this could be a tough pill for Israel to swallow as it completely contradicts its stated war efforts of eliminating Hamas the third stage would see a complete ceasefire with the return of all remaining Israeli hostages including soldiers in return for an unknown number of Palestinian security prisoners and while Israel didn't immediately knock the proposal Hamas and Palestinian Islamic jihad reportedly said they won't stop fighting if it means giving up control of the strip and as he visited Israeli troops in Gaza on Monday Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to eradicate Hamas we aren't stopping anyone who talks about stopping no no stopping the war continues to the end until they are finished nothing less so while outside forces might be pushing for a diplomatic end to the war the actual parties involved don't seem ready to accept any deals quite yet and still with me here in studio Dr. Jacques Neria and Kalev Bendervid Jacques in comments that were recently leaked this month to Hebrew media Netanyahu also said that the Palestinian authority like Hamas wants to destroy Israel the difference though is that they want to do it in stages why then if the end goal is the same would Israel want even if it is a weakened Palestinian authority to maintain even any semblance of control in Gaza once this is done and dusted well you know you're throwing me back to 30 years and about the famous discussion whether we should try to make peace with the Palestinians yes or not and finally let us remember that on 9th of September 1993 the Palestinian authority with Arafat at its head recognized the state of Israel as a state as an independent state and we recognize the PLO as being the sole representative of the Palestinian people so all the all the fuss and all the talks about the the intentions behind the what is important is the fact on the ground we've been living alongside with the Palestinian authority we've been cooperating on the security issues together and until the security coordination was stopped we didn't have such problems in the West Bank by the moment that we just weakened the Palestinian authority and didn't give us all the tools that it needed in order to fight terrorism then we had this upsurge of terrorism in Genine and other towns so I think that let us put ideology on the side and treat the problem as concrete as possible let's be let's be I mean concrete and see what is possible not what is impossible this we have to be creative we know that they don't love us but I mean the same we don't love them so it's not it's a story of love it's a story of interest so let's let's see what is our interest and what are their interests and try to reach a common common ground this is what what is diplomacy about right going back 33 years I'm recall the Madrid conference after the first go for when the US insisted there'd be Palestinian representation and the Palestinians said it has to be the PLO it's actually me other than Prime Minister said absolutely no PLO and they were creative they found some prominent Palestinian figures from the from the West Bank in Gaza that were not officially part all were manipulated by Tunis right but but who were taking everybody knew they were taking their instructions from from Yasser Arafat from Tunis and I think that's the kind of creative diplomatic solution in the short term we're going to see in the Gaza they're talking about a technocratic government for the administration in Gaza I suspect these will be figures that officially affiliated with the with the with the with the Palestinian authority Fatak but will we their orders will eventually be coming from Ramallah for sure one of the most common remarks as to why obviously not all but countless Palestinians do tend to join more of an armed resistance is because there's a viable political force for them to join how you know it's almost a pity that the Palestinian leadership is so divided the way that it is because it could have actually come up with some kind of thriving Palestinian statehood but how is this actually Israel's responsibility now in terms of managing what happens the day after in the strip they don't seek to regain any sort of control of the Gaza strip I just said earlier we have to look what is possible and what is there and not what is impossible it is impossible for for us to tease them to love us we have to separate from the the Palestinians we don't want to have one state with the with a majority of Palestinians or even the would be at odds with the Palestinians 50 50 this is impossible we have we'll have to change the the state of Israel it will it won't be the state of a Jewish state it'll be a different state that we don't want that right now so because of that we have to create a situation or to to reach a situation where we separate our ourselves from the Palestinian and let them live their life be the be it as a self-determination as Rabin said at the time less than a state more than more than autonomy and try to find a formula where we can live with without the problem with the Palestinian authority is that for 18 years that had that has no democracy at all I mean the the Americans pressed us to let elections that they go freely in Gaza and we lost Gaza the Hamas just won the elections and on the West Bank the Palestinian authority understood that if it would go on elections it would lose and we would have had Hamas and as a Palestinian authority this is not what we want so that we have to to reach a situation where I mean we're talking about technocrats and sort of solution which which is impossible I mean the the the the Palestinian authority and is not ready to to reconcile with Hamas and Hamas is not ready to accept the Palestinian authority so we have to use that as a tool in in managing diplomacy between the different Palestinian factions and create a situation where there's a replacement for the actual corrupt Palestinian authority there's there's a president who's been 18 years president without any elections so let's be the let's be realistic we have to change this reality into something else and maybe by changing that and choosing some some different solution we might reach a sort of arrangement where we can live or coexist with the Palestinian living by our side right and obviously with the the leadership of both Hamas and Hezbollah and what's happening with the Palestinian authority in the West Bank all the factions have sort of a commonality of wanting to sort of squeeze Israel to at least its total non-existence completely and that's what the whole chant of from the river to the seas among many of the Palestinian or pro-Palestinian supporters around the world I don't think though that they intended at least to squeeze Israel economically and fortunately that is part and parcel of any kind of war we've seen that as well in Ukraine as well as Russia but it almost appears that that also backfired because Israel's economy at first people were panic buying but it does seem to have bounced back up Caliph well I'd be cautious there but because there was some good news today Intel has announced a major investment in Israel they're going to have 25 billion to open a factory here for those who don't know we tell the the giant semiconductor manufacturer maybe globally is already a major presence in the Israel economy in fact the largest private employee or in Israel through its huge factories and plants in Kyriak that's going to be expanded and Israel the Israeli economy is shown to be resilient the high-tech sector has certainly shown itself to be resilient through the corona situation and through even previous wars however there is a huge big toll being taken mainly because just the amount of people who have been pulled out of the economy to serve in Gaza and in the north as well that's a huge number of productive workers who are not at their jobs and there's the figures coming up this week showing the Israeli economy projected to shrink by 2% which is a lot it sounds a little but it's a lot over the coming year and whole sectors economic sectors of the country such as tourism in leisure which is somewhere between seven eight percent of the economy are almost at a standstill so Israel the bad news is certainly the short term Israel's economy looking ahead the year it's going to be grim and maybe on the government has to be more proactive to take steps to counteract the suffering that's going to be the good news is over the long term the Israeli economy has shown to be itself pretty resilient gentlemen stay with me because I do want to switch to the northern front where the IDF struck launch sites and other nearby areas in southern Lebanon after two projectiles were fired toward the northern Israeli community of Manara on Monday now there were no reports of injuries from that attack as the border community has been largely evacuated meanwhile according to a semi-official Iranian news agency Tasnim a senior officer in Iran's Islamic revolutionary guard corps was killed Monday in an alleged Israeli airstrike in the Syrian capital of Damascus the elimination of Brigadier General Razi Musavi has prompted Therese from Tehran with Iran's foreign minister warning that Tel Aviv faces a tough countdown and Iran's president Ebrahim Risi vowing that Israel will certainly pay for this crime in recent hours a maritime attack close to the coast of Yemen is being investigated as of this Tuesday morning it was first brought to the fore by the United Kingdom maritime trade operations agency the body saying that it received a report about an incident rather approximately 15 nautical miles west of the city of al-Qudayah in Yemen earlier in the day those updates are that there were two explosions that occurred near a ship in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen two drones were sighted near the vessel before the explosion but there was no damage caused to the ship or its crew the ship is continuing its voyage while maintaining contact with the coalition forces of course this also comes on the back of the Yemen Houthi rebels backed by Iran carrying out numerous missile and drone attacks on vessels sailing through the key Red Sea shipping lane in recent weeks causing a disturbance to global shipping i'm going to bring the conversation back to studio Jacques the situation in the north at the moment seems to be maintained but as Kalef pointed out earlier we've already seen 12 casualties on the Israeli side if there wasn't a war at the moment going on with Gaza that would immediately spark a massive confrontation with the north well let me assure you we are at war in the north I mean it's not we are not having a promenade on the seashore we are having day battles day after day and the Hamas is is majoring its provocations against Israel day after day and using weapons new weapons that we didn't have we didn't see in the past now the the blow that was administered yesterday to the to Iran was great this is this is this is the the representative of the Quds division in Syria the one who coordinated all the effort all the the the monies all the logistics between Syria and Iran and Hezbollah and all the the militia the pro pro Iranian militias and this blow comes after is significant because the Iranians understand very well that their behavior in the Red Sea mean having had having had a ship that has communicated all that all coordinates to the Houthis where to where to hit and what to hit and also sending drones on the Indian Ocean and hitting the hitting a ship that that belongs in a way or not that to to Israel means that the under the Iranian understand that this was in fact a retaliation done by Israel it is not by chance the coincidence that this guy I mean there is a there's a musawi was killed yesterday so now they have to rethink their policy what do we do and how do we respond let's first wait 40 days the 40 days of of that are usually the the the the amount of days after the after the death of somebody so and afterwards they will they will have the time to think about what sort of reaction they will they will hit back certainly they will hit back they can hit back in the against objects in in Europe in the in South America and I mean this is one thing I mean the Jewish Jewish targets and of course I mean that the individual targets the businessman that are in the in Cyprus or Turkey or whatever and finally I mean that they can just upgrade or escalate their their reaction on the front and certainly by activating a new front that till now has been dormant and this front is on the Syrian where the militias are very very very near the deployed at less than 100 meters from Israeli positions and it's the famous triangle Israel Jordan and Syria from where from this this area where the the Assad regime has lost control this is where the some of the danger some of the threats would come from from this area and we must be ready for that Dr. Shakneria Clevven David thank you both very much now we end on a personal story Matan Levy was serving as an IDF reservist on October 7th when Hamas launched a terror assault on Israel's seven communities and he nearly lost his life but he now speaks in this report Matan's family couldn't believe he'd ever walk again on October 7th he reported for reserve duty without thinking twice after a few days of fighting a mortar shell landed a few meters next to him and he was critically wounded that day I was on a mission patrolling when we came off guard and it was time for us to rest we heard the rocket siren I laid down with my hands on my head but it didn't help the rocket fell close and I was wounded in the head my arms and my eyes Matan was taken to the hospital where doctors fought for his life when he woke up he realized he'd lost his vision as I woke up first thing I did was to ask the doctor why I can't see anything I asked him if I'm blind he said that I was it's not easy to hear I tried to stay calm and thought about my new life Matan finished law school right before the war started and although he lost his vision he's not going to give up this dream of course it will be difficult but I'm not afraid of challenges I love challenges while Matan recovers his friends and teachers from law school haven't forgotten him they came to visit him and surprised him with a graduation ceremony at the hospital I'm very excited thank you all for visiting me at this difficult time we are here today to give Matan his law bachelor degree which he worked so hard for I believe you'll do amazing in your specialization in the criminal prosecutor's office life goes on it happens and I can't change what happened I'm looking forward to the future I don't want this injury to be for nothing mine or any other soldiers I want us to live here peacefully because this is our home even after losing his vision he stays optimistic and happy and that's all we have time for at this hour but stay tuned at the top of the hour for more updates on day 81 of war between Israel and Hamas Israel is in a state of war families completely done down in their beds we have no idea where is she as our soldiers are fighting on the front lines but the general perception is something that certainly needs to to be fought as well come to another special edition here on i24 news number 11th all coming July from our Tel Aviv studios thanks for joining me this hour it is day 81 of war between Israel and Hamas Palestinian media has reported a heavy IDF bombardment and deadly raids overnight in the central and southern parts of the strip that is continuing through the morning now the continued fighting coming as the Israel defense forces continues to push on with its ground offensive to dismantle Hamas and the threat it poses on the Jewish state on Tuesday morning the Israeli military announced the deaths of two more soldiers killed in the fighting bringing the IDF's death toll since the start of its ground incursion to 158 meanwhile Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Esanyahu has laid out three prerequisites for peace in an op-ed recently published in the Wall Street Journal they are to destroy Hamas demilitarize Gaza and de-radicalize the whole of Palestinian society well first let's cross now live to our correspondent Pierre Clashenla who is standing by for us on the Israel Gaza border Pierre earlier when we spoke to you we not only heard the artillery fire but we also small smoke in the background at your position what's the latest at this hour well it's going on uh it's going on relentlessly Daniel Boc he's going to show you uh from left to right first of all the uh little towns of al-muraka and which control one of the main access roads to Hanyunis further south and then to the right of it further north inside Gaza city you can see uh also pillars of smoke billowing from inside Gaza city in the al-darash to Fah neighborhood of Gaza city where the army is wrestling with one Hamas battalion that is still in charge of that neighborhood and that would be the last stronghold of Hamas in the northern sector of the Gaza strip and in particular in Gaza city and then further north but now you can't see it any longer there were some artillery pounding on Jebalia refugee camp which is under operational control of the IDF at least nominally but there's still Hamas squads that are operating from time to time in the area and thus the artillery and the air force come in as support for the ground forces now you just heard an artillery outgoing shell further south 20 kilometers away from where we are there was a huge airstrike on a village on the northeastern outskirts of Hanyunis Alkarara which is just northeast of Hanyunis but it's also a control point of the the east west access road to Hanyunis so there's a lot of fighting on access roads actually one that leads to Hanyunis from east to west and from north to south and also in the central refugee camps of El Nucerat El Burej and Al Mugazi they wear overnight shellings and strikes on these refugee camps but also particularly on the access roads linking the three refugee camps the overnight bombing was performed by the Israeli air force they were over 100 s strikes on presumed terror targets and now it's more the artillery which is getting into and pounding presumed terror targets in those areas behind me and the neighborhoods to Farhan Daraj in the center of Gaza city. Correspondent Pierre Clashenda appreciate so much that reports hoping that you and your cameraman Daniel Bach manage to stay safe while those continued artillery strikes are in the south near the Israel-Gaza border. Now while the continued fire on goes Israel is said to be mulling a new proposal for a ceasefire with Israeli reports stating that the war cabinet is discussing an Egyptian proposed plan. This says an Israeli and Hamas delegation visited Cairo over the course of the last week to meet with Egyptian officials but even if Israel is considering a pause in fighting Hamas doesn't seem to be. Yahya Sinoa made his first public statement since the October 7th massacre vowing to keep fighting while greatly exaggerating Hamas's war achievements. A correspondent in colzettic breaks down the latest effort to halt the fighting which could prove to be mission near impossible. After weeks of continued fighting in Gaza, the terror leader with a big Israeli target on his back is breaking his silence. Hamas leader in Gaza Yahya Sinoa wrote a letter to his political leaders abroad according to a now deleted post on Al Jazeera where he claimed his terror group is on its way to crushing the IDF and said Hamas will not submit to quote the occupation's conditions. The exaggerated statement came with exaggerated numbers with Sinoa claiming Hamas has killed more than 1000 Israeli soldiers while the actual number stands closer to 150. The terror chiefs vow to continue fighting comes as a new proposal to stop the fighting is on the table this time with Egypt taking center stage instead of Qatar. The Egyptian proposed ceasefire has three steps starting with a two week pause in fighting in exchange for the release of 40 of the 129 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. In return Israel would release 120 Palestinian security prisoners convicted terrorists freed from Israel's jails. Phase two would see a unified Palestinian government formed with the goal of creating a technocratic government in the West Bank and Gaza. This means Hamas could still govern Gaza likely alongside the Palestinian authority. This could be a tough pill for Israel to swallow as it completely contradicts its stated war efforts of eliminating Hamas. The third stage would see a complete ceasefire with the return of all remaining Israeli hostages including soldiers in return for an unknown number of Palestinian security prisoners and while Israel didn't immediately knock the proposal Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad reportedly said they won't stop fighting if it means giving up control of the strip and as he visited Israeli troops in Gaza on Monday Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to eradicate Hamas. We aren't stopping anyone who talks about stopping no no stopping the war continues to the end until they are finished nothing less. So while outside forces might be pushing for a diplomatic end to the war the actual parties involved don't seem ready to accept any deals quite yet. And with me here in studios Robert Silverman the executive editor at the Jerusalem Strategic Tribune and a former U.S. diplomat as well as I-24 new senior editor Guy Azrael thank you gentlemen for joining me this hour. Guy one of the sort of topics of the hour has been this idea of relocating the Palestinians especially as the IDF pushes on with its ground incursion into the south where a lot of these citizens have been told to evacuate. Is this actually a viable option considering many are going to argue but they have a claim to the land of which Israel will undoubtedly say this is not a territorial conflict given the fact that we withdrew unilateral relief on the Gaza Strip in 2005 and look what happened on October 7th. Let's first make it very clear that whenever Israeli officials speak about relocating any Gaza refugees they speak about those who will choose to do so willingly that would like to leave the area of the Gaza Strip and then they would like to offer all sorts of solutions. Well today we hear the Israeli member of parliament Danny Denon with more information perhaps on that possibility speaking to Israeli radio he says that countries in South America and Africa have offered to take in refugees from Gaza for compensation. He worked out a plan of some sort. He says that immigration happens in every war and he suggests that we stay in touch with countries around the world do not scare them of big numbers. And of course last week the Canadian immigration minister have announced that they will also open their gates to a certain number of refugees from Gaza. And I can remind our viewers just a few weeks ago the same Danny Denon wrote an opad in the Wall Street Journal together with Ron Ben Barak that is a parliament member from the opposition from the Yashatid party in which both of them have suggested the possibility of willingly immigration and they spoke about countries in Europe that should be taking in refugees and of course how many refugees were accepted around Europe just from the war in Ukraine. They say why not take in those out of Gaza that want to seek a better life. And another option that was suggested just this morning in an opad to the J-post is of course the Sinai Peninsula that is the most the easiest or the closest solution to the people of Gaza an area that is mostly inhibited that where is being controlled by Egypt where those Gazans can seek refuge. And of course that is something that Egypt will have to deal with Israel and other countries will have to persuade Egypt, Egyptian president Fata Sisi to take in these refugees obviously some political problems there in his decision whether to take them or not. Robert Guy mentioned Africa, South America, even Canada obviously with a possible exception of being Egypt but where is in a sense the metaphorical Muslim brotherhood. Why have Arab countries in particular those in the Gulf even neighboring countries that have peace treaties with Israel not have not offered their hat in the ring to bring in some of these Palestinian refugees no doubt a lot of the Palestinians feeling let down by their own government but also possibly the Arab world. Well I would start with the proposition that the assumption that there is going to be two million plus Gazans left in Gaza at the end of this war there may be small immigrations but I wouldn't put a lot of store by that. First of all Egypt has said no to opening its border to resettlement of Gazans. Gazans have said no I've not heard any significant voices in Gaza saying we want to be resettled and to the contrary. So I just think we have to be realistic that in addition to the military victory which we have to push for for Israel to militarily defeat Hamas there has to be a strategic victory which is population centric focused on the deradicalization element that the prime minister talked about. Absolutely and Guy is speaking also of being let down Israel we're often the first to report it even here at I-24 news when there has been earthquakes, tsunamis, other natural disasters of mass proportions even buildings collapsing like in Miami in an ally state but even in non-allied states Israel is often the first to send some kind of humanitarian rescue and aid search teams but it doesn't appear that the favor has been returned in the slightest. Not at all of course we can remind our viewers mainly of that the earthquake just in February this year where Israel sends a massive delegation of military of field hospitals for search and rescue medical aid also a lot of private groups in Israel that have sent a lot of assistance to Turkey in the aftermath of that earthquake obviously no favor was returned from Turkey and very interestingly perhaps is the UN well an Israeli human rights group that's called Shirata Dean has formally accused the United Nations High Commissioner for refugees for failing to support some 130,000 Israelis who were displaced from their homes both in the north of the country and on the Gaza border communities as a result of this war it goes it's pretty clear there was no assistance or any any willingness of whatsoever from the UN to aid those Israelis obviously that is not not even considered by international organizations obviously yes Israel is a strong country but so is Turkey and in times of need these people need assistance of course so many of them have been displaced from their homes work from schools etc etc being relocated in Israel in big cities like Tel Aviv but also in smaller communities making it very difficult for Israel to rebuild their life and we know that when it comes to the north we're talking about a long time this is not going to be soon when those people will be able to return to their homes some 80,000 of them from the north are displaced there's a lot of questions still being raised into when will they be able to return home for now the threat of Hezbollah is still very prominent in the north and doesn't seem like Israel is very is even close to solving that issue and it goes without saying that there's no aid from the world that's not to say that we're not getting that aid from so many good Jewish communities around the world and of course we will do mention the military aid of the Americans when regards to this war but that is not the case when it comes to human rights organizations aiding Israelis right now Hamas Palestinian Islamic jihad pro-Palestinian support groups all around the world of course are saying that similar to what the United Nations Secretary General pointed out that this wasn't started in a vacuum but it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the so-called occupation the blockade it did actually happen in some sort of a vacuum and a vacuum that I would like to call the this close to Saudi Arabian Israel normalization so is that now still a possibility or is that been put completely on the back burner the Saudi Israel normalization I think is still on the agenda but it is not at the top of the agenda and if I were giving advice to the president of the United States the prime minister of Israel I would say keep the focus on Gaza win this war defeat Hamas militarily if killer it needs to be defeated completely that's a tough mission diplomatically and militarily given what Guy was saying which is also of course true that the world other than the United States is not supporting Israel in this conflict right now and so of course if you had to choose one country to support you you would want the United States and we have that so but focus on Gaza Saudi normalization is out there there is always going to be interest particularly in the two business communities which is where the normalization will thrive most but and we will need Saudi Arabia in the post-war I'm happy to discuss that too but defeating Hamas needs to be the focus and the US needs to let Israel continue as prime ministers suggested to finish this war to conclusion I'll just give you one quick story as to why I was in Iraq after the second Gulf War 2003 I'm an Arabic speaker I was sent there as part of the occupation force after the military Iraqis thought that Saddam won the first Gulf War that's surprising isn't it but it that was the prevailing view among Iraqis in Iraq and the reason is he survived the war the first Gulf War though he you know he faced the Americans in the huge coalition the mighty coalition of the Americans and survived Hamas cannot be allowed to survive so that has to be the job one all these other things are important and need to be on the agenda and discussed but keeping the priority right so you mentioned obviously the support of the US being critical in particular at a time like this but do you possibly see the US support potentially wavering we have seen almost what appears to be a loss of patience but also the United States pointing out time and time again it is not yet to dictate the terms of the war or a timeline with the Israelis but they do understand that the longer that this goes on the more complications it's going to at least pose to Israel's economy to Israel's politics but also to the Palestinians that are currently displaced all throughout Gaza and what that means for the day after in terms of some kind of leadership yes we have to watch this one very carefully this is playing in of course the US presidential politics let's keep in mind and 10 and a half months there will be an election and President Biden has been extremely strong in support of Israel I mean let's remember within five days of October 7th he had a aircraft carrier battle group which is a huge force you know deployed off the coast of Lebanon to prevent Iran and and his beloved from you know launching major missile strikes on Israel during this war so he's been excellent throughout this war we have to continue watch his space we cannot be complacent about it I think what I-24 is doing and other new services are extremely important strategically for Israel so that the accurate news can go out I'll just mention that you know you mentioned the Sinwar statement his first public statement it was absurd he basically magnified times 10 the number of casualties of Israel you know instead of 158 he talked about 1,600 which is absurd however I've seen this morning media stories covering it is truth you know that so we need to push back in the media space here with accurate information that's an important mission and guy I believe the idea of has just released for publication after informing the family that Sergeant Daniel Nachmani who's 21 years old from Kfar Saba who was fighting in Gaza died in the north I apologize who died of his wounds this morning yes they haven't clarified the circumstances this is part of an operational activity so we do not know whether that was a part of an accident of some sort or after being hit we'll get that information unfortunately just another fatality another fallen soldier at this time on Israel's northern border it should be mentioned there's a real war going on in the north we don't see a lot of casualties because most of these communities are completely empty the only some emergency teams that are still there to safeguard their their homes and of course those IDF soldiers who are there and they suffer the main target of those Hezbollah rockets anti-tank missiles and even drones as we saw in in some cases as well unfortunately there are some fatalities as a result this is just the latest of a problem that is on Israel's border and will have to be solved either diplomatically or by military means right and I'm sure had there not been the current situation of a war happening in Gaza 12 now 13 casualties on the Israeli side in an escalation with Hezbollah no doubt would have started a much bigger escalation and possibly a much bigger war which brings to the point of speaking about a bigger war we see now that there's the involvement of America and Iraq could we see the potential with this situation that exploded of America putting through retaliatory strikes on Iraq exploding into the wider region or do you think that this is an isolated incident and it will be mainly contained between Israel and its borders I don't think it's an isolated incident I do think this is Iran's game plan and I think we need to ignore it and the Iranian game plan is to distract Israel and the US through all kinds of strikes elsewhere the Houthis in Yemen striking commercial shipping in the Red Sea the Iranian militia Iranian supported militia in Iraq rocketing and mortaring US bases in Iraq similarly in Syria and of course then in Hezbollah on the north this is all part of their game plan to distract us from Gaza because we are about to take out if the war continues as its current trajectory to take out the one terror group that has caused the most casualties to Jews and to Israelis and Iran and would suffer a huge defeat if that were so they're doing everything they can to distract us from that distract the Americans in Iraq in the Red Sea on the northern border absolutely yes I will just clarify that that soldier has died as a result of an anti-tank missile being hit by an anti-tank missile several days ago and died of his wounds today unfortunately it's just devastating to see the toll that this is taking on Israelis not just from in a physical capacity but also the untold toll that this is taking on Israelis also from a mental capacity as well Robert Silverman and Gai Israel I want to thank you both so very much for being with me this afternoon and for your analysis now the war of influence is another one that has escalated since the October 7th attacks many actors and celebrities are coming to Israel to show their support more in this report by Fabio Shapiro and Emma Oliver support is flocking to the holy land in addition to the thousands of volunteers from across the globe many international artists have come to Israel to see the reality of the country in these difficult times I had to physically come I had to physically be here to show my support to stand arm in arm with every person who's putting themselves in harm's way to tell the truth and show the world that Israel is our hope for democracy the star of my unorthodox life Julia Hart is only the latest Jewish celebrity to show her support on the field earlier this month Jerry Seinfeld also arrived in Israel the comedian also visited Kibbutz Berry one of the hardest hit communities in the murderous Hamas assault of October 7th just a simple person that put our heads up regarding all the people who are talking to me and we just want to come back home and we'll do whatever is necessary and thank you for being there for all of our employees and that you are an ambassador so thank you so much for that I'm proud of that too in a world so interconnected through social media any show of support can reach a great number of people in this war personalities become means to show the reality of the October 7th attacks and their aftermath but not everyone is receptive to the message I've been threatened my life has been threatened my children's lives have been threatened of course I've lost tens of thousands of followers on social media singer Montana Tucker actress deba messing producer scooter brawn tv host Emily Austin actor greg sulkin and comedian Michael Rappaport were some of the visitors people are paying attention I can say Jewish people in Hollywood are paying attention and people that are on you know that are that are that are understand the situation that have spent a little time to educate themselves are paying attention and again you know you can be not agree with the politics of Israel you could not agree with this war you could not agree a bunch of things the anti-Jewishness and the blatant anti-Zionist and the blatant anti-Semitism is when it it's not okay as the public diplomacy war also heats up Israel has friends willing to defend it and that's all we have time for on this hour and this special edition on i24 news so let's take a quick recap of day 81 of war between Israel and Hamas you are looking at live images on your screen of the Israel Gaza border the IDF has been continuing its ground offensive both in central as it pushes into southern Gaza a lot of these strikes happening there in order to clear way for the IDF to push on with their ground incursion into the Gaza Strip now on Tuesday morning the Israeli military announced the deaths of two more soldiers killed in the fighting bringing the IDF's death toll since the start of its ground incursion in the Gaza Strip specifically to 158 with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying that Israel will continue with its ground offensive until victory over Hamas is achieved stay with i24 news we'll have more special broadcast after this break Israel is in a state of war families completely done down in their beds we have no idea where is she as our soldiers are fighting on the front line but the general perception is something that certainly needs to be fought as well to the world welcome to another special edition here on i24 news and by 11th all coming July from our Tel Aviv studios thanks for joining me this hour it is day 81 of war between Israel and Hamas Palestinian media has reported a heavy IDF bombardment and deadly raids overnight in the central and southern parts of the strip that is continuing through the morning now the continued fighting coming as the Israel defense forces continues to push on with its ground offensive to dismantle Hamas and the threated poses on the Jewish state on Tuesday morning the Israeli military announced the deaths of two more soldiers killed in the fighting bringing the IDF's death toll since the start of its ground incursion to 158 meanwhile Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has laid out three prerequisites for peace in an op-ed recently published in the Wall Street Journal they are to destroy Hamas demilitarize Gaza and de-radicalize the whole of Palestinian society well first let's cross now live to our correspondent Pierre Klushenler who is standing by for us on the Israel Gaza border Pierre earlier when we spoke to you we not only heard the artillery fire but we also small smoke in the background at your position what's the latest at this hour well it's going on it's going on relentlessly Daniel Bocke is going to show you from left to right first of all the little towns of Al-Murraq and Juhu Reddick which control one of the main access roads to Hanyunis further south and then to the right of it further north inside Gaza city you can see also pillars of smoke billowing from inside Gaza city in the Al-Darash to Fah neighborhood of Gaza city where the army is wrestling with one Hamas battalion that is still in charge of that neighborhood and that would be the last stronghold of Hamas in the northern sector of the Gaza Strip and in particular in Gaza city and then further north but now you can't see it any longer there were some artillery pounding on Jebalia refugee camp which is under operational control of the IDF at least normally but there's still Hamas squads that are operating from time to time in the area and thus the artillery and the air force come in as support for the ground forces now you just heard an artillery outgoing shell further south 20 kilometers away from where we are there was a huge airstrike on a village on the northeastern outskirts of Hanyunis Al Karara which is just northeast of Hanyunis but it's also a control point of the the east west access road to Hanyunis so there's a lot of fighting on access roads actually one that lead to Hanyunis from east to west and from north to south and also in the central refugee camps of El Nucerat El Borej and Al Mourazi they were overnight shellings and strikes on these refugee camps but also particularly on the access roads linking the three refugee camps the overnight bombing was performed by the Israeli air force they were over 100 s strikes on presumed terror targets and now it's more the artillery which is getting into play and pounding presumed terror targets in those areas behind me Jucho Redik Al Murgata and the neighborhoods to Fahen Deraj in in the center of Gaza city correspondent Pierre Clush and I appreciate so much that reports hoping that you and your cameraman Daniel Bach manage to stay safe while those continued artillery strikes are in the south near the Israel Gaza border now while the continued fire on goes Israel is said to be mulling a new proposal for a ceasefire with Israeli reports stating that the war cabinet is discussing an Egyptian proposed plan this as an Israeli and Hamas delegation visited Cairo over the course of the last week to meet with Egyptian officials but even if Israel is considering a pause in fighting Hamas doesn't seem to be Yahya Sinwara made his first public statement since the October 7th massacre vowing to keep fighting while greatly exaggerating Hamas's war achievements a correspondent Nicole Zedek breaks down the latest effort to halt the fighting which could prove to be mission near impossible after weeks of continued fighting in Gaza the terror leader with a big Israeli target on his back is breaking his silence Hamas leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwara wrote a letter to his political leaders abroad according to a now deleted post on Al Jazeera where he claimed his terror group is on its way to crushing the IDF and said Hamas will not submit to quote the occupation's conditions the exaggerated statement came with exaggerated numbers with Sinwara claiming Hamas has killed more than 1000 Israeli soldiers while the actual number stands closer to 150 the terror chiefs vow to continue fighting comes as a new proposal to stop the fighting is on the table this time with Egypt taking center stage instead of Qatar the Egyptian proposed ceasefire has three steps starting with a two-week pause in fighting in exchange for the release of 40 of the 129 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza in return Israel would release 120 Palestinian security prisoners convicted terrorists freed from Israel's jails phase two would see a unified Palestinian government formed with the goal of creating a technocratic government in the west bank and Gaza this means Hamas could still govern Gaza likely alongside the Palestinian authority this could be a tough pill for Israel to swallow as it completely contradicts its stated war efforts of eliminating Hamas the third stage would see a complete ceasefire with the return of all remaining Israeli hostages including soldiers in return for an unknown number of Palestinian security prisoners and while Israel didn't immediately knock the proposal Hamas and Palestinian Islamic jihad reportedly said they won't stop fighting if it means giving up control of the strip and as he visited Israeli troops in Gaza on Monday Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to eradicate Hamas while outside forces might be pushing for a diplomatic end to the war the actual parties involved don't seem ready to accept any deals quite yet and with me here in studios Robert Silverman the executive editor the Jerusalem Strategic Tribune and a former US diplomat as well as I-24 new senior editor Guy Azrael thank you gentlemen for joining me this hour Guy one of the sort of topics of the hour has been this idea of relocating the Palestinians especially as the IDF pushes on with its ground incursion into the south where a lot of these citizens have been told to evacuate is this actually a viable option considering many are going to argue but they have a claim to the land of which Israel will undoubtedly say this is not a territorial conflict given the fact that we withdrew unilateral relief on the Gaza Strip in 2005 and look what happened on October 7th let's first make it very clear that whenever Israeli officials speak about relocating any Gaza refugees they speak about those who will choose to do so willingly that would like to leave the area of the Gaza Strip and then they would like to offer all sorts of solutions well today we hear the Israeli member of parliament Danny Denon with more information perhaps on that possibility speaking to Israeli radio he says that countries in South America and Africa have offered to take in refugees from Gaza for compensation he worked out a plan of some sort he says that immigration happens in every war and he suggests that we stay in touch with countries around the world do not scare them of big numbers and of course last week the Canadian immigration minister have announced that they will also open their gates to a certain number of refugees from Gaza and I can remind our viewers just a few weeks ago the same Danny Denon wrote an opad in the Wall Street Journal together with Ron Ben Barak that is a parliament member from the opposition from the Yashatid party and which both of them have suggested the possibility of willingly immigration and they spoke about countries in Europe that should be taking in refugees and of course so how many refugees were accepted around Europe just from the war in Ukraine they say why not take in those out of Gaza that want to seek a better life and another option that was suggested just this morning in an opad to the J-post is of course the Sinai Peninsula that is the most the easiest or the closest solution to the people of Gaza an area that is mostly inhibited that where is being controlled by Egypt where those Gazans can seek refuge and of course that is something that Egypt will have to deal with Israel and other countries will have to persuade Egypt Egyptian president Fata Sisi to take in these refugees obviously some political problems there in his decision whether to take them or not a rabbit guy mentioned Africa South America even Canada obviously with a possible exception of being Egypt but where is in a sense the metaphorical Muslim brotherhood why have Arab countries in particular those in the Gulf even neighboring countries that have peace treaties with Israel not have not offered their hat in the ring to bring in some of these Palestinian refugees no doubt a lot of the Palestinians feeding let down by their own government but also possibly the Arab world well I would start with the proposition that the assumption that there is going to be two million plus Gazans left in Gaza at the end of this war there may be small immigrations but I wouldn't put a lot of store by that first of all Egypt has said no to opening its border to resettlement of Gazans Gazans have said no I've not heard any significant voices in Gaza saying we want to be resettled and to the contrary so I just think we have to be realistic that in addition to the military victory which we have to push for for Israel to militarily defeat Hamas there has to be a strategic victory which is population centric focused on the deradicalization element that the prime minister talked about absolutely and guy is speaking also of being let down Israel we're often the first to report it even here at I-24 news when there has been earthquakes tsunamis other natural disasters of mass proportions even buildings collapsing like in Miami in an ally state but even in non-allied states Israel is often the first to send some kind of humanitarian rescue and aid search teams but it doesn't appear that the favor has been returned in the slightest not at all of course we can remind our viewers mainly of that the earthquake just in February this year where Israel sends a sent a massive delegation of military of field hospitals research and rescue medical aid also a lot of private groups in Israel that have sent a lot of assistance to Turkey in the aftermath of that earthquake obviously no favor was returned from Turkey and very interesting interestingly perhaps is the UN well an Israeli human rights group that's called Shirata Dean has formally accused the United Nations High Commissioner for refugees for failing to support some 130,000 Israelis who were displaced from their homes both in the north of the country and on the Gaza border communities as a result of this war it goes it's it's pretty clear there was no assistance or any any willingness of whatsoever from the UN to aid those Israelis obviously that is not not even considered by international organizations obviously yes Israel is a strong country but so is Turkey and in times of need these people need assistance of course so many of them have been displaced from their homes from their work from schools etc etc being relocated in Israel in in in big cities like Tel Aviv but also in smaller communities and making it very difficult for Israel to rebuild their life and and we know that when it comes to the north we're talking about a long time this is not going to be soon when those people will be able to return to their homes some 80,000 of them from the north are displaced there's a lot of questions still being raised into when will they be able to return home for now the threat of Hezbollah is still very prominent in the north and doesn't seem like Israel is very is even close to solving that issue and it goes without saying that there's no aid from the world but not to say that we're not getting that aid from so many good Jewish communities around the world and of course we will do mention the military aid of the Americans when regards to this war but that is not the case when it comes to human rights organizations aiding Israelis right now Hamas Palestinian Islamic jihad pro-Palestinian support groups all around the world of course are saying that similar to what the United Nations Secretary General pointed out that this wasn't started in a vacuum but it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the so-called occupation the blockade it did actually happen in some sort of a vacuum and a vacuum that I would like to call the this close to Saudi Arabian Israel normalization so is that now still a possibility or is that been put completely on the back banner the Saudi Israel normalization I think is still on the agenda but it is not at the top of the agenda and if I were giving advice to the president the United States the prime minister of Israel I would say keep the focus on Gaza win this war defeat Hamas militarily if killer it needs to be defeated completely that's a tough mission diplomatically and militarily given what Guy was saying which is also of course true that the world other than the United States is not supporting Israel in this conflict right now and so of course if you had to choose one country to support you you would want the United States and we have that so but focus on Gaza Saudi normalization is out there there is always going to be interest particularly in the two business communities which is where the normalization will thrive most but and we will need Saudi Arabia in the post-war I'm happy to discuss that too but defeating Hamas needs to be the focus and the US needs to let Israel continue as prime ministers suggested to finish this war to conclusion I'll just give you one quick story as to why I was in Iraq after the second Gulf War 2003 I'm an Arabic speaker I was sent there as part of the occupation force after the military Iraqis thought that Saddam won the first Gulf War that's surprising isn't it but it that was the prevailing view among Iraqis in Iraq and the reason is he survived the war the first Gulf War there he you know he faced the Americans in the huge coalition the mighty coalition of the Americans and survived Hamas cannot be allowed to survive so that has to be the job one all these other things are important and need to be on the agenda and discussed but keeping the priority right so you mentioned obviously the support of the US being critical in particular at a time like this but you possibly see the US support potentially wavering we have seen almost what appears to be a loss of patience but also the United States pointing out time and time again it is not yet to dictate the terms yeah of the war or a timeline with the Israelis but they do understand that the longer that this goes on the more complications it's going to at least pose to Israel's economy to Israel's politics but also to the Palestinians that are currently displaced all throughout Gaza and what that means for the day after in terms of some kind of leadership yes we have to watch this one very carefully this is playing in of course the US presidential politics let's keep in mind in 10 and a half months there will be an election and President Biden has been extremely strong in support of Israel I mean let's remember within five days of October 7th he had a aircraft carrier battle group which is a huge force you know deployed off the coast of Lebanon to prevent Iran and and his beloveds you know launching major missile strikes on Israel during this war so he's been excellent throughout this war we have to continue to watch his space we cannot be complacent about it I think what I-24 is doing and other new services are extremely important strategically for Israel so that the accurate news can go out I'll just mention that you know you mentioned the Sinwar statement his first public statement it was absurd he basically magnified times 10 the number of casualties of Israel you know instead of 158 he talked about 1,600 which is absurd however I've seen this morning media stories covering it is truth you know that so we need to push back in the media space here with accurate information that's an important mission and guy I believe the idea has just released for publication after informing the family that Sergeant Daniel Nachmanis 21 years old from Kfar Saba who was fighting in Gaza died in the north I apologize who died of his wounds this morning yes they haven't clarified the circumstances this is part of operational activity so we do not know whether that was a part of an accident of some sort or after being hit we'll get that information unfortunately just another fatality another fallen soldier at this time on Israel's northern border it should be mentioned there's a real war going on in in the north we don't see a lot of casualties because most of these communities are completely empty the only some emergency teams that are still there to safeguard their their homes and of course those IDF soldiers who are there and they suffer the main target of those Hezbollah rockets anti-tank missiles and even drones as we saw in in some cases as well unfortunately there are some fatalities as a result this is just the latest of a problem that is on Israel's border and will have to be solved either diplomatically or by military means right and I'm sure had there not been the current situation of a war happening in Gaza 12 now 13 casualties on the Israeli side in an escalation with Hezbollah no doubt would have started a much bigger escalation and possibly a much bigger war which brings to the point of speaking about a bigger war we see now that there's the involvement of America and Iraq could we see the potential with this situation that exploded of America putting through retaliatory strikes on Iraq exploding into the wider region or do you think that this is an isolated incident and it will be mainly contained between Israel and its borders I don't think it's an isolated incident I do think this is Iran's game plan and I think we need to ignore it and the Iranian game plan is to distract Israel and the U.S. through all kinds of strikes elsewhere the Houthis in Yemen striking commercial shipping in the Red Sea the Iranian militia Iranian supported militia in Iraq rocketing and murdering U.S. bases in in Iraq similarly in Syria and of course then in Hezbollah in the north this is all part of their game plan to distract us from Gaza because we are about to take out if the war continues as its current trajectory to take out the one terror group that has caused the most casualties to Jews and to Israelis and Iran and would suffer a huge defeat if that were so they're doing everything they can to distract us from that distract the Americans in Iraq in the Red Sea on the northern border absolutely and I will just clarify that that soldier has died as a result of an anti-tank missile being hit by an anti-tank several days ago and died of his wounds today unfortunately it's just devastating to see the toll that this is taking on Israelis not just from in a physical capacity but also the untold toll that this is taking on Israelis also from a mental capacity as well Robert Silverman and Guy Israel I want to thank you both so very much for being with me this afternoon and for your analysis now the war of influence is another one that has escalated since the October 7th attacks many actors and celebrities are coming to Israel to show their support more when this report by Fabio Shapiro and Emma Oliver support is flocking to the Holy Land in addition to the thousands of volunteers from across the globe many international artists have come to Israel to see the reality of the country in these difficult times I had to physically come I had to physically be here to show my support to stand arm in arm with every person who's putting themselves in harm's way to tell the truth and show the world that Israel is our hope for democracy the star of my unorthodox life Julia Hart is only the latest Jewish celebrity to show her support on the field earlier this month Jerry Seinfeld also arrived in Israel the comedian also visited Kibbutz Berry one of the hardest hit communities in the murderous Hamas assault of October 7th in a world so interconnected through social media any show of support can reach a great number of people in this war personalities become means to show the reality of the October 7th attacks and their aftermath but not everyone is receptive to the message I've been threatened my life has been threatened my children's lives have been threatened of course I've lost tens of thousands of followers on social media singer Montana Tucker actress deba messing producer scooter TV host Emily Austin actor Greg Sulkin and comedian Michael Rappaport were some of the visitors people are paying attention I could say Jewish people in Hollywood are paying attention and people that are on you know that are that are that are understand the situation and have spent a little time to educate themselves are paying attention and again you know you can be not agree with the politics of Israel you cannot agree with this war you could not agree a bunch of things the anti-Jewishness and the blatant anti-Zionist and the blatant anti-Semitism is when it it's not okay as the public diplomacy war also heats up Israel has friends willing to defend it and that's all we have time for on this hour and this special edition on i24 news so let's take a quick recap of day 81 of war between Israel and Hamas you are looking at live images on your screen of the Israel Gaza border the IDF has been continuing its ground offensive both in central as it pushes into southern Gaza a lot of these strikes happening there in order to clear way for the IDF to push on with their ground incursion into the Gaza strip now on Tuesday morning the Israeli military announced the deaths of two more soldiers killed in the fighting bringing the IDF's death tolls