 We are setting a siege in this city, no energy, no food, no water, no fuel, all is closed. We are fighting against animals and we are acting accordingly. Into this special broadcast on I-24 News, I'm Khaled bin David. We are now in day three of Israel's war against Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups in the Gaza Strip. Now the IDF has apparently and finally managed to clear the southern border area of terrorists. This as it builds up its truth strength there, now some 300,000 soldiers called up preparing for a likely ground invasion of Gaza. Israeli airstrikes pounded Hamas targets in Gaza throughout the day. This is a rocket fire from Gaza struck as far north as the Jerusalem area resulting in several people injured. The fighting has also spread to the country's north with Israeli security forces killing two terrorists who infiltrated from across the Lebanese border that resulting in Israeli firing on his Bala positions there. Now the death toll has climbed to some 900 Israelis killed and over 2600 wounded and at least 100 being held hostage in Gaza. But many more are still unaccounted for and their family and friends are demanding more information from the government. So we are expecting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak in the coming hour. We will bring you that live as it happens. The Prime Minister met today with Benny Gantz. They had formed a defense minister and head of the opposition national unit a party reports that they are coming close to an agreement to form a unity government and a special war cabinet. Well joining us in the studio is reserves IDF okay. We are getting our reports of more rocket alerts down south in Steroat. We'll go down there shortly. And the studio with us is IDF reserves Colonel Grisha Yakubovich from the head of the civilian department of Kogat and an expert in Israeli-Palestinian relations. Grisha first I want to just relate to something we just had a few minutes ago a spokesperson from Hamas and looked like a pre-recorded message saying that Hamas, Hamas now threatening to kill hostages. They say they'll kill one hostage for every further Israeli air strike in Gaza. Well it was Abou Abayda the spokesman of Hamas of the military wing. It's not his first time that he's declaring. It's his seventh time that he is on air since Saturday. It means seven times you know sending messages it sends a message of a pressure. Now if I will refer to the statement that they will execute in Israeli for every attack it means it's a huge pressure. On the other hand psychological it's not a psychological war when he declared that he will do it when he will do that I believe that they mean that this is what they are going to do. And you know it's as I said it's evil at its peak. They are animals they behaved like animals and they will continue behaving like animals. But how the IDF is taking air strikes we don't know where the hostages are we don't know what the conditions are. This is playing any way into IDF strategy at this stage it's simply impossible since on the by the way the IDF does say it has now information on every Israeli that has been taken hostage but with that information not made public yet entirely. Let's not forget that Hamas already declared that four hostages were killed from Israeli bombings. Right without offering any any proof for that no there's no proof to that no there's no proof to that. But we can only rely on what they are saying of course whenever they spoke about people who were kidnapped or soldiers they always lied. So this is our experience with them. Now we are talking about a different situation. They are in pressure. The IDF is bombing the Gaza Strip with so many bombs so many tons of bombs on on on on their heads and they understand that they also need to look a little bit to the end the day after and what will the Palestinian people will say on them and they understand that they brought it on them and it's their responsibility to pull them out of it. And this is what they are trying to do. So they are threatening. I believe that it's not a threat. What Abu Abayda said he means what he says. I believe that unfortunately we will be forced to see unbelievable pictures which we've already seen. Yes but terrible what we've seen yes but those were pictures where we were surprised now we are talking about a different situation. We stabilized the front line. The IDF moved from a defense situation to an attack situation. And it's also expected that when you attack you will behave differently. And as I said the last three days the IDF is entering to a war with Gaza and he is the IDF are focused to win this war and they are obligated not to think about the ones who are kidnapped into Gaza. So the other hand the IDF and the state of Israel are obligated to do whatever they can do to release those people from captivity and think nothing about this war happening in Gaza. I know it's a contradiction. I know it's a catch 22 but this is how you have to move ahead. All right let's go down to Jonathan Raghava correspondent in the Gaza border town of Steirout and Jonathan reports of sirens just really in the past couple of minutes. Yes Kalev there were two different barges just in the last five minutes or so forcing us to basically duck right behind the cars where we're standing. We saw at least at least 10 interceptions or so in the sky right above us this happening in the past five, ten minutes or so before that very long hours of extremely heavy bombardment towards Gaza. We're hearing very loud explosions through Gaza. Obviously it seems as if the Israeli offensive is taking up a beat with a lot more force. That's what we're hearing. Also still a heavy military presence here yes the Israeli army saying that the community are clear the Israeli army saying also that there are no more infiltrations through the many holes in the wall that we've seen but still refraining from saying that there is total control that there's no risk of more terrorists because you can never know who's hiding behind the bushes here who's hiding in a forest or something and waiting for the right time to just rise and try to kill more people but basically it seems as if the army is saying we do have control of the area and basically stabilizing the area that was stage number one. Stage number two reinforcing the attack on Gaza something that we're already hearing. And Jonathan many of the border communities have been at least partially evacuated. The residents are relocated to hotels and other places around the country. What is the situation there in sterot or there's still a civilian population there or at least some of them been relocated. Many of them have been relocated but as opposed to the border communities which are right on the border fence and that have suffered the most in this terrible attack by Hamas sterot has not been given the order to evacuate completely. Many of the citizens evacuating themselves understanding that we're in for long, long days of battle. So in sterot there are still residents. But obviously they're mostly indoors much of the time staying in protected shelters because most of the rockets we're seeing today are headed to this area. Yes we have seen rockets to Tel Aviv to Jerusalem as well but mostly to this area so the residents is the road those who have stayed here in the city spend most of the time indoors there's not much to do outdoors anyways. The communities right on the border fence are practically all evacuated to other places. All right Jonathan reggae down in the community of sterot take care of yourself down there Jonathan Grisha I want to let's talk about the situation in the south. The IDF says it has a situation under control there. What does it have to do now? What's the next step now? Well as I said previously it will take between 24 to 72 hours to stabilize the situation. I hope that we will not see the last remains of terrorists that were headed. Right Jonathan there's always a possibility that a terrorist can be hiding in a basement zone. Yes and I believe that Hamas will continue and try and use this motivated situation of being of achieving so much and to continue attacking instead of this is this is plan A. So plan A by Hamas completed and I think that what we can see now is plan B starting from the north. We shouldn't I think that the following 24 hours will indicate what is going to happen in the north. Well let's put it on let's put it bluntly. Is this Bala going to get involved here even with the US sending warships to off the coast of Lebanon and warning it not to get above I just want to motion four more red alerts down in the southern area that rocket barrage continues. But even with the threats from the United States I don't know if you call it threats warnings let's say but certainly the threats from from Israel. The 6th fleet is getting closer to Israel and it's a message not to Hizballah it's a message to Iran. Okay we need to understand that there was also some some information that I got an hour ago about the coordination between Germany French United States and Israel. It's the Western countries and this is something that is a it's a message that is supposed to get to Iran and maybe Russia. We heard already Russia yesterday also in the picture somehow saying that if the United States will interfere they will also be there. All right. Look you know let's jump to the north our correspondent Hamas al-Hut is in a Nahariya. Of course we mentioned two terrorists infiltrating into Israel there was a fire fight some Israelis wounded taken to hospital then Nahariya fill us in on what developed there during the course of the day Hamda. Well club several infiltrations along the northern border engaging in a gunfight with the Israeli military at least six soldiers have been wounded are now being treated for their injuries one in serious condition the Israeli military retaliated with strikes inside of Lebanese territory hitting one Hezbollah military position one member of Hezbollah has died and the group releasing a statement just a short while ago saying quote we mourn the martyr Mujahed Hussam of Hamad Ibrahim from the south of Lebanon who rose as a result of the Zionist aggression against southern Lebanon this afternoon now Hezbollah is vowing a retaliation and what they're saying are their rules of deterrence the Israeli military is safeguarding the area sending a lot of reinforcements to the northern border those who infiltrated earlier this afternoon were from Palestinian Islamic Jihad a lot of different Palestinian factions operate out of southern Lebanon and reports are indicating that all of those factions say they're ready to get involved in the fighting and really level a new scale of this war against Israel but only if Hezbollah takes the lead right and now some of those border communities that are directly on the border have been evacuated as they have been in Gaza what is the mood up there in the north especially in for example Naharia which is the sort of biggest town right adjacent or nearest to the Lebanon border right so the Israeli military is calling for the evacuations of these towns similar to Lebanese authorities asking their citizens to evacuate anywhere near the border because of the implications of what what might happen with Hezbollah's retaliation with perhaps continued Israeli strikes inside of Lebanon there's still a lot of unknowns but Hezbollah has vowed retaliation and the Israeli military and Lebanese army alike are alert all right Hamd al-Sahut there in Naharia thank you for that now among the many Israelis concerned over the fate of their still unaccounted for loved ones is Mehtab Jerno sister Karen has been missing since attending that music festival that after a music festival near the Gaza border that was attacked by terrorists she joins us now from the town of Maskeret Batia Mehtab first of all tell us what you know about what occurred with your sister at that Nova music we don't know nothing we don't know nothing we spend our all day watching the TV watching the news and just waiting for someone to talk to us from the government from the military someone no one is talking to us we were lost that's what I can say we are lost we don't know where my sister is the last time she talked to us it was yesterday no it was in Saturday at 8 a.m. age 42 she sent us a message a message that said if something happened to me I will I love you that's what she said if something will happen to me I love you she called us she yelled she screamed she said they're shooting us you are Mehtab I'm sorry were you able to talk to any other I mean now some people did make it out of that festival obviously they've been traumatized from it have you were able to talk to anybody there who might have seen your sister at least she went there she went there with like nine friends all of them all of them came back home she broke a leg before she went to the party but because it was part it was something to celebrate her friend is leaving is live to USA so they wanted to party and she went with a broken leg with a right little kid the video you can see a leg a right leg was broken she went there she just stand and dance and I don't know what happened to her she she went with a broken leg like an hour and then she disappeared their friends was afraid from the shooting everyone just ran and they don't know where she is right now everyone is home except koreen all right the government did have appointed it says a special coordinator gal her to deal with the issue of those missing and unaccountable have you had any have you had any contact with any but have you had any contact with officials yet your family on about your sister no we're just talking to the news and waiting for someone to talk to us I send gallish like a thousand messages no one is talking to me right okay prime minister Netanyahu is apparently going to address the nation even in the coming minutes what do you want to hear from the prime minister I want to hear something about her something about it about the other ones that missing no one no one of the families knows anything we don't know nothing just nothing we just keep posting on the social media a lot of videos a lot of just about her someone if someone heard from here if someone saw her with their broken leg you can't miss someone you know with a broken leg in a party like this right no one saw her no one all right may top journal thank you for joining us we wish you the safe return of your sister kareen all the best to your family thank you thank you thank you very much now we've already talked and we've been talking ever since it happened about that rave music festival it was called the nova festival which was attacked by Hamas terrorists at which apparently some 260 people were killed and as we heard dozens have been kidnapped into Gaza dozens not still not accounted for to give you some idea of what happened there we prepared a compilation of some of the footage that was shot while this event was happening I want to warn you some of these images are disturbing those images I do have to say anybody who has gone on social media in the last 72 hours have actually seen even more disturbing images from that event and it's aftermath that week will not show you or can't show you out of sensitivity and also accounts of what happened there which we will not go into detail I do want to say this message has now come out this evening from the idea of spokesperson's office further to the it says we will clarify this from the idea of spokesperson's office we will clarify that most of the details of the the abductees are in our hands and as of this time the details of 30 abductees have been given to their families the victim seems continue to send messages to the families I-24 News has asked to speak with the idea of spokesman to the international press Richard Hecht so far we have not received a positive answer to that Grisha words fail me in this way I do want to say let's not go into how this the how of why that occurred is something of course will be discussed and debated for years but 72 hours only 30 families and there are families like that of the of Karen journal that have not even been contacted clearly the system system here is not working well it's not only one system probably it's few systems okay and and it's a it's a failure okay it's a failure we can do nothing with that for now and again let's put it aside no I'm not talking about the failure of of not finding the families or the ones who were kidnapped or nobody actually really knows how many people were kidnapped into Gaza so maybe the ones that families are trying to find maybe they are inside Gaza or maybe they are dead somewhere in a certain I don't know in certain hole and you need to cover a huge territory to find those people so it takes time it will take more than 72 hours it will take another 72 hours to understand exactly who is where so so we need to be prepared for that also and the numbers as I said three days ago we will be in shock from the numbers we are at 900 now I believe that we are going to cross very fast the number of 1000 okay we are already in shock I will say it's way more it's way more than the 9 11 events okay when you compare populations right way more okay all right difficult to hear let's go to our correspondent Ariel Osiron he's down in the town of Ashkelon which has been on the rocket fire and there at Basili hospital the hospital in itself Ariel has been under a rocket attack in the past 72 hours indeed Kalev the hospital itself suffered a direct hit Saturday evening it did not disrupt operations here there were no injuries but this comes as as you mentioned there have been almost non-stop barrages of rockets since Saturday morning every few moments we hear booms sometimes other booms of interceptions like the ones I'm hearing now with this latest barrage of rockets towards Derot and other border communities in the past few minutes sometimes those booms are the echoes of Israeli airstrikes which have been very significant in recent hours and on that given the severe damage that is being caused in the Gaza Strip throughout the last couple days but mainly in the past few hours with reports from Gaza very significant Israeli airstrikes Hamas's military spokesperson or the spokesperson the military spokesperson of their military wing Abu Baidah the spokesperson of the Al Qassam Brigades giving out issuing a new threat from the worlds of the psychological warfare that we know basically saying that for every targeting of a civilian house without warning we will be forced to execute an Israeli prisoner in exchange for that and the audio and video of his or her execution will be broadcast to the entire world to see and so if there were any thoughts perhaps who Israel is dealing with I think it became it already Saturday morning it became very very clear these are pages taken out of ISIS terror ISIS playbook of the Al Qaeda playbook this is who Israel is dealing with these are scenarios that we would only see in movies until now or in our worst dreams following different atrocities carried out by ISIS and Al Qaeda and that is the threat that is coming out from Gaza today every strike of a civilian home in Gaza will be answered with the public execution of Israeli hostages and I'll remind you there according to Hamas there's over 130 of these hostages babies women children elderly Hamas is holding dozens of them and issuing this latest threat obviously this could be just an attempt to scare the Israeli public and obviously inflict psychological warfare that is the classic move by them but the significance of this is very very very large now earlier today I spoke to one of the survivors of the desert rave party that became a massacre in an open field he described to me how he once the shooting began they ran he waited for 14 hours in a dry riverbed until he was rescued by his former military commander I should say let's take a listen to part of what he told me earlier today my mother calls me and told me that terrorists are in Israel and after a couple of seconds I get a message from the news that it's really happened and after one minute we started to hear a lot of a lot of shots and the screams and in this moment we know that we we we're in trouble so we we decide to hide under the stage I want to say that they do a ambush and they came to the stage and in this moment we we run away to the open area in the open area we was something like 300 the people from the from the from the party and a lot of people near to me I saw a lot of people get shot in the head in the leg in the in the in the in the body and I saw a lot of bodies now in my conversation with raz unfortunately it had to be cut short also because he came here to get some emotional psychological support he ended up leaving before getting that treatment because there was such a line a long line here but raz shared with me some horrifying atrocities that he witnessed during the 14 hours that he was waiting he described to me how the people the the guys the Palestinians who were there most of them if not all of them were not armed were not most of them weren't armed or wearing military uniform a lot of them were just in plain civilian clothes mainly armed with knives and he described how for hours he could see them undressing Israeli women he could hear them raping them some of the women who were raped I I'm sorry we're sharing these details these horrific details but it is important to describe what happened there in those terrifying moments of that desert party raping Israeli women dead alive some injured he told me he could hear this now unfortunately we cannot corroborate these these testimonies ourselves but it does fall in line with similar testimonies that we have heard from survivors from that horrendous uh desert party that turned into a desert massacre following you know he said he chose not to look but he could hear them laughing constantly and that he said these were regular Gazans these were not members of any special unit military unit by Hamas or Palestinian Islamic jihad or Palestinian Islamic jihad these were Gazans who came to have fun and unfortunately this fund came at the expense and and life of many many Israelis he said that the number that has been released so far does not match what he saw with his own eyes of the amount of Israelis who were killed in that party and given the number the death toll of Israelis continuously rising since Saturday it's not necessarily that more Israelis are dying as time progresses but mainly Israeli forces our emergency services are reaching the bodies of Israelis that have been out in the open left out for hours days without anyone without their families knowing about what happened to their relatives and so as the time progresses I'm also going to agree with what you have said in studio this this death toll is indeed expected to rise color all right well we have a there's a red alert we're getting a notification of a red alert in Ashkelon are you hearing sirens and I want to know that you're in a safe area relatively safe area area we are we are in a safe area even if there is a barrage of rockets towards Ashkelon the sirens and alert systems are so advanced that they really break up the town into different areas and so if we don't hear a siren that means that a rocket is not aimed directly at us but obviously the moment there is a siren like everyone here we will move quickly and swiftly into the hospital to stay safe I am hearing the booms overhead but this has been going on for days for hours all right I just want to say it is difficult to even sit in the studio and hear you describe account that testimony of what you heard but it is our job to bring the truth of what happened at that event and what's happening and not to hold back and that the world should know and get an accurate picture of what transpired down south there on saturday and particularly at that music party arie los ron and in ashkelon thank you thank you for that grisha it's sitting here even just listening to that is is so painful and you know you have to decide whether it is something you want to make public but again as we said the world has to know that has to know what happened here yes painful you know in the past when israel compared hamas to the muslim brotherhood they they were in shock it's like they said no no no we are not muslim brotherhood it's not us it's something else because we're more than what islamic state maybe yeah yeah no no we compared them to the muslim brotherhood and they refused to that comparison because of the relationship with egypt no assisting whatever and now somebody mentioned that they are something like al qaeda isis right they are worse than isis isis is a compliment to hamas and to what they did and what bothers me more than anything is that the international community still continues sending money to the gaza strip when they know that an organization that is worse than isis controls that area and i think that the whole world needs to wake up and to understand what they did and what they're doing right now all right i do want to say we just have a a director from home front command which to my mind is unprecedented in my time here the idea of home front command has just issued a statement saying the home front command instructs the residents of the state of israel to prepare the safe room for a three day stay first day kit flashlight with batteries food and water grisha i've never even during the gulf war with the the scud rockets coming in and i was here for the first gulf war in the second i don't remember where they're warning people that they might have to spend three days in the safe room and this is not a particularly airy it seems to reply to the whole nation what are you making that the first thing that i would say that we are at a war as it was declared and we are going to win this war period two as we expected we are probably heading towards the threat of the multi arena war and this is explain that for our viewers you mean a rocket fire from the north the multi arena the multi arena threat or the multi arena war means rockets from gaza rockets from lebanon rockets from syria rockets from yaman rockets from iraq and rockets from iran it means the state of israel is if that will happen will be covered with rockets from all over now we can understand why the sixth fleet is moving towards israel now maybe we can understand why turkey threatened syria that if they will continue bombing some areas they will stop bombing them now we can understand other declarations and now we can also understand why the rules of engagement in the westmen were also changed all right another i just want to say that we we were expecting prime minister netanyahu to speak be even perhaps during this hour but there is some news according to some reports he and benny gantz the former defense minister head of the opposition national party apparently close to an agreement that agreement we talked about about forming a unity government and a war cabinet and it perhaps that that may come tonight i'll ask you about that and then first i do want to go you talked about the getting the message out to the world and the world understanding what happened a foreign minister ellie cone today gave his first press briefing to the international media in english uh let's take a look here is a bit of that israel is at war a war against the vicious terror organization hamas following the brutal slaughter of civilians amongst them children women and teenager dancing in an holiday party in the field they gunshot the children at the party with automatic weapon in an evil not created by the devil we will regain control and bring back security and stability we will defeat terror because there is no other choice as many israeli and other of different nationalities are held hostage we are committed to bring them back in the spirit of mutual responsibility it was foreign minister ellie cone i wish i want to go go back to this report that perhaps even as early as this evening we're gonna have the announcement of a unity government or at least the entry of the party of benny gantz people are talking about the formation of a war cabinet that would bring him a former idft for staff and maybe a second former idft after number two in in in his party into some kind of war cabinet forget to put aside the political dimensions which it does have but let's just talk about insecurity how important do you think it is for there to be first of all that show of unity across the political spectrum and also bringing in more uh these uh uh former idft commanders uh into into the uh echelons now of the government those political events are actually some of the reasons why hamas hezbollah and others are so motivated to attack us this is this is for them was the window of opportunity saying that the state of israel is not united but you're talking about the divisions in over the past this is the beginning of the year over the judicial reforms and other this is this is like what i refer to okay yeah and i think that what the prime minister and benny gantz and others are obligated to do is actually to show them that we are united and it's not obvious that in 48 hours 300 000 soldiers in the reserve drafted to the idf airplanes landing from all over the world that's right with soldiers coming here to fight because people do understand that we are fighting for our existence and if we will not eliminate the threat now it will explode in our faces in the future so we are obligated to eliminate hamas from now and until the mission will be completed it means we're in the war and eliminated hamas in gaza and in the west all right well we'll see if how uh if when if we hear prime minister not to me i speak how clearly he lays out whatever the the goals the aims of this operation are which apparently is about to move into a new stage with that announcement from home from command telling israelis to prepare for three days in a safe from gushy akbab stay with us we are going out for a brief break but stay with us on our continuing coverage the third day of israel's war against hamas in gaza trail is at war since the early hours of the morning israel has been facing infiltrations of terrorists kidnapping of israelis and a barrage of thousands of rockets emanating from the gaza strip the biggest and bloodiest attack in years tune in for our extensive and rolling 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nation tonight what can you tell us at least about what the government's goals what he might tell us or what the government's goals are going to be in now what is clearly going to be a very serious operation i think that the government's goal is exactly is the nation of israel goal is winning the war it's winning the war trying i mean wishing hoping doing everything to bring back i mean our citizens back from gaza to israel and in order to do so i mean we shall use all the means now i in your question i hear what i mean is defining defining victory what is what is going to be victory in this thing as opposed to perhaps other operations it will be very easy as you know because we had many unfortunately many cycles of violence we had in 2010 and eight and twelve and i would say that the big difference would be for many israelis i mean in those cycles of violence israel stopped too soon or maybe they stopped with pressure for sometimes it was from egypt from international community israel is also maybe found that the war was too long or the operation that couldn't use the world war but operation but this time it's a new game this time it's a war this time hamas already crossed a lot of red lines i mean in the past it's a terrorist group we're talking about a group that is like for people to understand in the world we're talking about daesh with the isis if you want we're talking about el qaeda this is what we're talking about but this time i mean as the president mentioned today he made a comparison with her nazi regime with nazi soldiers me personally i never liked the comparison with nazis but this time if i look back in history and i try to imagine who went to houses in order to look for jews and slaughter them and then present the corpse to do to in front of cameras well that was actions of nazis then what we have seen on saturday is jews being attacked by nazis the only difference is that we never expected such a thing to happen in an independent strong israel and that is something that shocks us a lot that is something that is shocking for every any israeli now we will have time to check what has happened responsibles will be found heads will be chopped i mean professionally speaking of course this is something that is obvious but today today time is for two things unity and victory unity and victory this is the moment afterwards we shall think exactly of what brought us to what has happened on saturday all right unity we do see unity we see uh the this massive people volunteering more people than the army can even uh it says they even need volunteering to do their service uh we see flights of israelis coming back what about on the uh on the political level talk of benny gantz entering the government reports that may be him and prime minister well close to agreement how important and it has supportive is the the government and your ruling party to the joining of other political parties in the government so first of all you mentioned and i'm very happy about the unit in the israeli society because i think only a few weeks ago we're speaking about debates about i've been praying in tel aviv this is crazy a few days a few days ago and look today how we unite israelis are never united as in front of danger or during wartime and this is today hamas will feel it every of our enemies will see it will feel it we are ready to kill each other during peace but will kill for each other during war this is the this is how israelis are and this this is why we're united now only today i was in the uh security in the foreign affairs and security uh committee in the knesset as i'm a member of this committee and believe me in this last year i never saw such unity between opposition coalition i would even say that today what i saw in this in our community is an opposition and coalition it was israel speaking and therefore i think that as our goals as our aims are the same when i think of the opposition and the coalition what do we want today we want to win the war we want security for israelis and we want our citizens back back back our kids our wives our our children back from gaza back to their homes that's exactly what we want so if you want the same thing we should sit together and and and succeed in the in our goal right and i'll succeed right now as you say there'll be post-mortems of plenty after the war about how what happened happened so the time now i i i get that but there is an ongoing situation and we've had even this evening uh family and friends of people who have are still unaccounted for 72 hours who say nobody from the government has contacted them even though uh they've made public cries they've gone public and saying they haven't uh questions have been asked specifically not i'm not going into what happened Saturday but what now what you know what's happening that the government is not making an effort to reach out to some of those those people so first of all i will never never debate with families which are always right i mean they're it's always they are the ones i mean that they always respect down and they are the ones right i mean i will not debate and they deserve the best and they deserve a better if you want to call it i mean a better assistance from outside because i mean they live there because i mean they live in israel there is a citizens and some are soldiers for the israeli army and some the crime was what going for a party like by the way the ones who went to batak law in order to in 2013 and being killed for that only for foreigners to understand for people in france for example people in to lose to understand they've seen three coffins of three little kids here you multiply by 10 or maybe by 100 to understand the what we have lived or died when i see lived on saturday so those families it is true the figures the numbers are so enormous and we're not used to such a thing that it takes more time i don't want to go to the technical issue right now what i would only say is that we can do better and we are doing better tomorrow by the way i'm meeting before coming to your studio i've spoken to a few of those families of course we're assisting them as much as we can tomorrow i'm going to visit another some of the families they deserve and i can understand the hell they're living by not knowing i mean only to understand try to imagine everyone was a parent who's watching now us on television try to imagine if you call your son or you call your kid and he doesn't answer the phone once after one hour or two hours you go crazy everything saturday people don't know where their children this is crazy right now you spoke about the international community you have extensive extensive in your past life as a journalist reporting and the in on the international community right now we see unity in europe mainly supporting israel the united states sending the six fleet here certainly but let me ask you when if and when israel makes an offensive into gaza and we do see the casualties the civilian casualties palestinians gaza how confident are you that that community europe maybe even the us are going to back israel all the way to achieve the kind of victory that you're talking about okay if i tell you for example now people were going to if you when you fight terrorism when america fought for example and i covered it as a journalist or in iraq in afghanistan i mean would you ask that question to an american or to the international community would you one day maybe swip swap and maybe be on the side of al qaeda or isis never it will never occur even in your mind this is exactly the same thing we're dealing now here with fighting terrorism fighting a terrorist group which is chamas chamas equals now but i'm asking how confident you that the international community is going to accept that i have seen the speech which i which i respect a lot and i'm very grateful for the speech of the american president mr biden on saturday i think saturday or sunday and i would say it doesn't surprise me and you know why not the only because we share the same values and because we're friends and because this is great america that we respect and love and also by french president macron international community of course it's very simple you've got two axes right now in the middle east you've got one axe at the end of the road is saudi arabia this is of course the abram accords this is morocco this is egypt this is peace this is an arab coalition with israel against terrorism and you have another axe and there is iran at the end iran and of course and chamas and the islamic jihad this is another group now the community international community you tell me where do you place france spain italy great britain america are they on the side of the arab countries which are with israel with peace with prosperous communities with respecting their people and prospering their lands or are you with iran and terrorism you tell me where the community international community is will you tell me since you have a lot of experience i think according to the last days and by the way another thing the thing we have seen on saturday you know when i was watching i was watching with my son on saturday on television it was awful awful i was shocked because we're preparing on that night to celebrate an orly you know orly uh festivity simchatura we have to go and and and and and praise the the the ten commandments if you want instead of that i mean you know exactly what happened saturday and i thought that i looked at myself 50 years ago my son is nine 50 years ago i was nine years old it was the yom kippu war we're all very very surprised nobody expected nobody expected okay we didn't have at that time you know social media and here we had social media and we could see we could see i mean pictures that you would never broadcast on television because we're dealing here with barbarians with animals we discussed not only slaughter but they're proud of slaughtering they expose they're exposed their atrocity but there was one big difference another one between my son and myself 50 years ago we were dealing against a nation against an army against each a few years after four years after alwar el sadat landed in israel and we made peace amazing peace a game changer this time we're fighting terrorism meaning this time you can't see that at the end of the road there is a prospect of peace afterwards this is hamas we need them dead and this is why the big difference between the the former rounds of violence and this one is that this time it's not a round of violence it's war and this war you need a clear victory from the side of israel this is what the israeli people expect well let's see if that comes to pass boas bismuth member of parliament for the ruling coup thank you thank you for joining us and speaking of unity israelis have united to try to provide all the necessary aid that they can to those who have been suffering especially those residents down south both with goods with donating blood our correspondent robert swift is down in rishon let's see on where there is a blood drive going on robert what have you seen there that's right people have been coming here all day long to do what they can to to basically respond to what they've seen over the last three days many of them been coming here to donate blood and just to be a part of what's happening here and unify around the community we spoke to a number of volunteers who even if they they weren't of the correct blood type they felt that they had to be involved so there was one of the volunteers we spoke to her blood type wasn't actually required it wasn't one of the ones that was desperately needed so she came here and has been and she volunteered to be organizing and managing the event we also spoke to another two young brothers who'd come down here they were all type blood and which is universal donor blood and so they immediately came down here to to help out to give their blood but then they didn't leave and they've been until very recently they were here one of them with his dog just taken part as people felt that they had to be a part of what was going on here all right and is there a sense that they've got what they need or they're asking for more my own daughter went to give blood she's waited for hours she said the line the lines are so great there that's great the lines were very long here they have actually closed the doors a little while earlier but that that was only because they were dealing with the people that had already entered and and they were asking people to return the the plan is for the same thing to happen again tomorrow color all right robert swift of course if anyone in israel should consul can should consider donating blood in this time robert swift and rachon let's see on thank you for that i mean israeli is willing to bleed and you know we just see that and we see it so many ways but i want to you know maybe react to some of the comments from boas a member of the government a member of the ruling liqud party it does sound i mean he is at least saying this time it's going to be different grisha but again it's going to have to come at some sacrifice and perhaps even political sacrifice for some of those people who are making that decisions boas is from the government and actually we said the same thing and they're not from the government i have only one comment but he's a politician and you're not i mean i think he has to he has to take some uh he does have to take some of those means politicians understand the experts okay that's the meaning that's how i see it with one comment okay the second game okay or the game of hamas now because they expected that israeli start attacking and there will be a certain line that israel will be stopped by the whole world now israeli stopped supplying electricity water to gaza the crossings are closed the only thing that is open is a rafa crossing from egypt i think that egypt is obligated to close it also and i believe that the western world will back us till the end the problem will be with the countries the arab countries the countries that are part of the abraham accord the moment the number of casualties in gaza will rise up and it will reach two thousands okay and they will present a humanitarian aid then we will need to see if we will be continue being backed by the western world with the pressure of the coalition countries and that's the catch that's that's that's the challenge actually but krisha one of the things that the the western world may demand even if it if it if it backs israel in the elimination of hamas is what is the day after scenario clearly israel and even this government has not said that they intend to reoccupy the gaza strip or we or rule over it so there will be pressure and we're not going to break down the possibilities here because anything could happen uh once that once the shooting starts in urnis there but there will be demands from the western world uh okay i do i want to have a unfortunately we do have an update from that clash we spoke with with our hamdas al-khut earlier one of the soldiers who was injured in that clash in the north uh has died of his injuries um and that's the first fatality in a different front other than the uh than the southern front grisha yeah right another event and it's only unfortunately the beginning of what we will have to deal with all right well and we will have to defend the state of israel and we will do it and we will win all right grisha yakubo colonel grisha yakubo which thank you for joining us on this segment of our broadcast we are going to go down now back down south to jonathan reggaev or defense correspondent who's been in a steel road and jonathan uh as i just maybe you've heard news from the north that a soldier has died from that clash with uh uh the two terrorists that infiltrated from the northern border and unfortunately the fatality is no longer or just in the south they're in the north as well i'd also want to relate to uh this uh notification from home front command israel idea of home front command telling israelis to prepare for all israelis not southern israel all of israel to prepare for a safe room for the possibility of three a three-day stay our uh expert and analyst grisha yakubo colonel grisha yakubo which saying an indication now now maybe israel is seeing that this will be what is we've talked about during the whole past year a multi-front war yes so uh the home front command releasing in the past 30 40 minutes two different statements first the statement that you mentioned about the fact that all israelis should have a a basically a equipment for three days of staying in shelters and protected rooms three liters per person per day for three days a the option of being without electricity meaning flashlights and things like that a statement a lot of bannock as anyone connected to what's up i think could have seen and this led to the fact that about a half hour later the home front command released a sort of a clarification meaning that the these are things that have to be ready but not something that is expected to take a place right away maybe sort of an understanding that in case israel heads to a multi-front war which may happen uh then these are just want to say the home word they did jonathan i'm sorry the home front command clarifying these are recommendations to prepare for a three-day stay stay they're not saying one has to go now in for three days a recommendation but it sounds like a recommendation people should take seriously absolutely but at first they looked as if as if sort of i'll call it an order by the home front command go and get water now go and get flashlights now because very soon you'll have to be for three days in the protected room this is not the case these are general recommendations maybe an understanding after the fact that uh due to what happened on saturday when people were looked for hours and hours without a water without electricity this is a possibility it may happen if israel goes into a prolonged war multi-front war but it's not as if the home front command is saying we now know this is going to happen get ready now but clearly the first the first statement was quite stressing i'm not sure the second statement will relax people a lot because the the impression left by that first statement clearly after the past 72 hours we've seen is going to leave a their mark is this a clear indication that we're going to a three-day due to a multi-front war with no electricity no internet no water no this is not the case but i think that we have to understand that it is a possibility it may happen and israel is have to be unfortunately ready for that all right uh they should certainly be prepared uh for the for that possibility but as you said these are recommendations nobody should be panicking and running out and uh uh scouring the shells don't clear don't clear the supermarkets right now no no no uh jonathan reggaev there in sterot thank you for that joining us in studio is uh ambassador daniel alone the former israeli ambassador of the u.s former israeli deputy foreign minister not chairman of silver world capital uh mr ambassador thank you for joining us uh but uh i just want to get your comment the government basically issuing a warning to the public to prepare for the possibility of something as serious we are expecting prime minister netanyahu to speak tonight we're not 100 sure on the timing of that what should be the message he should be bringing first and foremost to the israeli public this evening but first about about this uh let's say it's suggestion suggestion maybe to move out from the northern border is not just a precaution which may be necessary but it's also a signal to his bala right we are seriously prepared and uh we will not take us by surprise this is quite obvious but if uh if you want to act up then all stops are pulled off and you will bear the consequences i think that uh what netanyahu should the message should be is to reassure the people that first and foremost we will win and we will win we know that but with the question is people are asking what is winning exact because and we've had many operations in which is you'll declare a victory uh or that the operation was successful in in in the Gaza Strip and clearly that that fell short of what what should be it's totally different now it's a sea change and in my mind winning is the demilitarization of Gaza Gaza should be demilitarized and the second message is that now we fight we will do all the inquiries later and there should be some thorough uh inquiries in the political echelon in the military intelligence and all that but i think the most important message for him now is i am ready for a a unity government with an emergency cabinet that only the most seasoned and suitable ministers will be in we don't need clowns like bengveer or smotridge or anybody that not only they don't have the experience they're incompetent they don't have anything to add but only to detract so now is the time for leadership and not to think about his government whether his government will survive after this war or not and now is the unity of the people you know i drove down here on island highway i saw this really it was really touching and and heartwarming to see all the signs of the demonstrations that were turned against the government now it's for unity and for you know we will win and all those you know israeli flags we are together this is what the people say even on the most extreme left they want to see the unity now and not politicking and he should reach out to them and and and do what needs to be done as a leader of the entire country and not as a leader of a party or of a camp all right we are getting reports that the prime minister now is scheduled to speak at 9 30 local times that would be in 25 minutes from now can i throw a speculation sure could be that the extension of time is for him to sign on a unity agreement and maybe he will come out wanting to announce already the unity right with certainly with benny gants and there have been some some reports of that i want to relate to the situation now in the north because we just had as we just announced a report of the first casualty there an idea of soldier killed from that firefight with two terrorists who infiltrated from the lebanese border israel did shell some then there was a exchange of gun firefighting on his bullet positions his ball is saying that the infiltrators did not come from their organization but of course his bullet does control that stretch of lebanon we have the six us six fleet taking positions basically off the uh the lebanese and syrian coast and availed the warning from president biden to his bullet not to get involved uh but do you see that as effective uh if israel goes into the gaza strip in force as you say to demilitarize it uh his bullet his bullet sit in the sidelines is a is that warning from the us enough to keep it on the sidelines i would say if it was up to nasrallah he would keep on the sidelines because why should he join a losing battle i mean yes he can exact a uh a tall price from israel but the the price for him the cost for him would be just enormous and maybe uh you know would bring the demise of him and his organization on the other hand iran would very much like them to attack why because they want to show solidarity with hamas i'm not sure at all although there is no hard intelligence yet but you could you can kind of uh surmise that such an attack by hamas could not have been done without the encouragement of iran of course the support of iran i just gonna reference and a wall street journal a report in the wall street journal today an article that did claim meetings between iranian officials and hamas officials in which they claim uh to their reporting or their sources that are ran actually even participated in the planning of this uh uh of this operation right and uh just two weeks ago there was a meeting like a trilateral meeting between salah kharrouri which is the number two of hamas with nasrallah with iranians officials also so every everything is very well coordinated by iran now the question is here uh there's no doubt that god forbid if israel was on the verge of collapse and hamas was really advancing then in no time khizballah would take advantage and attack but this is not the case so what would be the purpose of uh khizballah participation now in the war just to show solidarity with hamas and to save face with the iranians that the iranians did not keep hamas or sacrifice hamas without really coming to the rescue in some mode or or shape i i want to reference there was a report in the israeli media today in why not claiming that egyptian intelligence officials warned the government the israeli government uh oh we have a red alert in ashkelon the city of ashkelon now in red alert i do want to announce that warning israel that a major operation on a way i'm going to note the prime minister's office says that is completely fictitious there was no conversation with the prime minister's office with the egyptian intelligence officials uh the question is uh uh do you think the prime minister has to adjust not that but has to address whether uh uh at some point there will be a reckoning of what what went wrong here clearly or how this developed yes but not now he will have to do all this all this reckoning for a commission of inquiry which undoubtedly will be um you know it would be created would be established after the war i mean it's eerily resembling everything that happened the whole dynamics of the of the yom kippur war right 50 years ago right 50 s go to the day amazing it's amazing now we have a war to win then we'll be inquiring i don't think that he should dignify even this uh suggestion from from cairo uh it could be fake news i usually the interlocutors of of the intelligence community is the is there uh right they don't speak directly they don't speak the right i don't think this will be uh should be taken seriously all right uh ambassador daniel lone i'm going to ask you to stay with you just a couple of updates uh there are right now uh red alert sirens in the uh city of ashkelon as we reported uh one israeli soldier has died of his wounds that were sustained in a firefight with two info two terrorists who infiltrated from the lebanon border uh that set off uh that set off israeli fire across the border on his ball of positions uh and of course uh khamas this evening threatening making public threats to execute hostages if israel continues uh its air strikes stay with us we are expecting prime minister benjamin netanyahu to make a public address uh in some 20 minutes uh if he does at that time we will bring you that live stay with us on my 24 news we'll be back shortly with more of our continuing coverage of israel's war against khamas and the palestinian terror groups in the gaza strip we'll be right back israel is at war since the early hours of the morning israel has been facing infiltrations of terrorists kidnapping of israelis and a barrage of thousands of rockets emanating from the gaza strip the biggest and bloodiest attack in years tune in for our extensive enrolling coverage of the khamas deadly attack on israel with reporters on the ground in depth analysis and most updated and accurate information stay tuned with i-24 news being able to see into the future we can take you there welcome to israel business speeds your gateway to the captivating world of israeli business and technology israel business beats sunday's and monday's 9 30 p.m gmt the middle east is changing old alliances make way for new partnerships bigger threats lead to new relationships and shared goals meaning new opportunities we speak to those who know the inside story and are at the heart of the changes don't get caught up with the same old story find out what's happening in middle east now middle east now on i-24 news made for me a unique concept in israel custom made men's fashion to your measurements made for me designer of all your events schedule your appointment at www.madeforme.co.il made for me official dresser of i-24 news good evening ladies and gentlemen welcome back to i-24 news is special coverage of israel's war against khamas and gaza but not just because as we reported there was a firefight today in the north of the country between idf soldiers and two terrorists who infiltrated from the northern border reports of also cross-border firing going on even as we speak let's go to a hamd sakhut who's in the town of naharia right south of the israel lebanon border hamd what are you hearing about perhaps a possible cross-border firing even now right colev so four people actually infiltrated the border this afternoon the israeli military killing two of them reports indicating that the other two might have fled back into the border the situation here is as follows the israeli military asking people to evacuate the area in and around the northern border for their own safety several explosions heard in the distance reports that alerts were activated in an open area in the north but additionally reports are indicating on the lebanese side that a third hezbollah member was killed now after the confirmation from hezbollah that one person was killed they said they would vow within what they said was the views of their deterrence so the situation here is still extremely volatile it is a waiting game now for the israeli military as they await perhaps a response from hezbollah on the lebanese side all schools along the southern border have been suspended as lebanese authorities are also urging their citizens to evacuate the area as well it is worth noting earlier today hezbollah said they would only get involved in the conflict if they were quote provoked or harassed by israel but now that three of their members have been killed the israeli military is expecting a response all right then we'll have to see if that comes hamd sakhut there in naharia just south of the israeli border with lebanon thank you for joining us now across much of the world there are demonstrations in both solidarity with israel and also support for the palestinians now both of those are taking place today outside the israeli consulate in new york city or mike wagonheim is there mike what is going on there in new york city right now i appreciate it i'm just starting to do my job so do we have mike wagonheim i'm sorry mike can you hear me say again yes yes i got you all right tell me what what's going on there gollum can you hear me yes okay i wanted to get away from the uh wanted to get mobile for this i call everybody counter rally here going on among the whole israelis outside the israeli consulate on second avenue it'll turn this around here the israel supporters who have come out to answer the girl come out supporters who have come out today to demonstrate this is the pro-israel side over here it actually runs about a half a block from 42nd to 43rd speed they are chanting out to the opposite side of the speed there are some ISIS supporters a lot of pretty harsh rhetoric going back and forth between the two sides here the israeli cop pro israeli cop well it actually seems to be a mere numerous in the pro-palestinian side which is kind of unusual for these sort of situations so we're going to turn the camera around to the other side of the street the police may prevent me from going out to the other side here because of the traffic but we're trying to get a view here of the the pro-hamas supporters are on the other side of a 42nd street here it's normally a much larger much thicker crowd for these kind of conflicts on the palestinian side but the nature of i think that the Hamas attacks have driven even some palestinian supporters away on this particular day here the police are doing their best and they're out in full force to keep the two sides separate there was a confrontation earlier on here before the rally started as some pro-hamas supporters taunted essentially the pro-israel supporters the police were quick to step in and break it up one police officer was shoved by a Hamas supporter but it ended without any further violence out here collar hopefully it stays that way but emotions are obviously running very high out here today running very high on the political level though primarily almost almost i would say across the board support in washington and in places like new york city on the political level support for israel certainly so far that's right it really seems to be different this time around there's usually a education and equivalency that tends to be drawn in these situations between israel being attacked whether it's by rockets or other means and their response we're not really seeing that this time either here on the streets or in the halls of congress there really seems to be almost not quite but almost the amount of unanimous support for israel in the halls of congress in the white house there are very very not seen calls for de-escalation calls for ceasefire as we usually do at this stage of time even from us some pro-israel democrats they really seem to be saying hey a red line has been caused here and not there's enough israel needs what it needs to get the job done here and make sure that it can defend itself really haven't seen that in recent years in washington and really here in these types of protests either all right mike uh wagenheim there in new york city clearly emotions running and passions running high uh and not only here but uh also across the world and certainly there in new york city mike wagenheim thank you for that and danny there's the war on the battlefield which is of course the most important most crucial but there is also the war in the international in the arena of international public opinion israel has not always fought that war with the same expertise and and and and smarts that it's fought the war on the actual battlefield right but unfortunately now hamas is doing the job for us you know with the gruesome gruesome consequences i mean it's ghoulish manifestation but they are doing it for us now the world understands that there is no difference whatsoever between hamas and isis actually hamas is the twin brother of isis and this is exactly the emotions now that evokes everywhere in the world right i want to just interject because now the uh the israeli military has confirmed the fact which had been circulating speaking of the atrocities on kibbutz berry that is one of the frontier kibbutz seen by the gaza border that was overrun by hamas terrorists on saturday 108 a total of 108 bodies have been found just on that one kibbutz alone we should know that kibbutz have some a little over a thousand people so literally one ten one tenth of that the residents of that one community that one kibbutz have been wiped out yeah it's just amazing you know it's something that you cannot really think about this are i would say these proportions are proportions of the holocaust you know i saw this report which is true that you know on october 7th right this day with hamas terrorists more jews were killed in 24 hours then on a day than any other time since the holocaust this is that enormous uh of of of an event and and this is a sea change which not only will turn and has turned the the world against hamas but also we we've discussed it here it unifies the people it also added a new grit whereby we know we must win and if we have you know we always are very careful and we are very thoughtful about casualties and human lives we cherish human lives this is why we did not go into a ground operation into gaza for the last 15 years but now things have changed and if we you know if we must die we better buy die in a battlefield right and not not on your knees as they say better standing and than fighting than on your knees uh i'm sure one thing we will not hear from the prime minister and we are expecting prime minister benjamin netanyahu to speak perhaps in the in ten minutes time we're not a hundred percent sure of that uh he'll talk about achieving victoria imagine he won't probably talk about the day after that yes uh but those questions even those countries like the united states that made back israel in terms of uh victory of al-hamas demilitarizing gaza are going to be pressuring israel for what we call sometimes the political horizon okay hamas is if hamas is taken out who who will rule gaza certainly even this government even the hardest of hard lawyers in this current government israeli government do not talk about reoccupying gaza so so that so the question then has to come and it has to be talked about maybe not publicly what is the day after what is the political horizon here for gaza well this is a time of real leadership and statement you know it's not slogans anymore it's not ideology anymore and indeed the major question and also part of the reason why we did not get into gaza before is what was the thinking okay what is the day after you know someone more extreme can take out can take over from hamas well that's a little hot right now that's a little hard to imagine now exactly so now this was until now right but now we know that there is no more extreme right this is it this is why i believe we'll have to have ground operations we'll have to wipe out the hamas from gaza and then after we wipe it out then it's time for some political moves or even geopolitical moves even geopolitical and here would be the time maybe maybe to bring back to gaza the palestinian authority which was kicked out in a coup by hamas in 2007 right but maybe now after gaza is changed and without hamas we can think with uh on a geopolitical you know the soddies the egyptians the jordanians of course israel you know with the very very i would say overwhelming and overreaching effort to bring the palestinian authority to prop them up and you know if there is no weapons and no military equipment in gaza then israeli can be very generous in investing in a hot sea naval port and and an airport and maybe development of the offshore natural gas that absolutely and maybe cooperator maybe building a tourism infrastructure i have to say how unlikely even as we're the goal i understand that of course in the current atmosphere it's almost impossible to uh to imagine that but i guess somebody has to be thinking along those terms right right exactly exactly and this is the vision of course now we have a war to win and then you have to make sure that gaza is the you know stabilized without hamas and hopefully again i said the palestinian authority and then hopefully again if there would be pressure and if there would be a whole coalition because we have to date two coalitions in the middle east in the world i would say you know you have the the axis of evil as it used to be termed which now here is iran khizballah the hamas the hoodies all the militarist the islamist militias backed by iran in syria iraq in sudan in libya this is on the one hand on the other side is the abraham accord countries egypt jordan and saudi arabia well that's a big question mark because hamas specifically said one of the reasons they launched this operation was to create a an atmosphere in which a normalization between saudi arabia and israel cannot move forward so the question is whether that is the case whether saudi arabia can stay on that track while we see some very difficult scenes potentially out of the gaza strip and for here we will need leadership from the united states from western countries like there's going to be a four-way call today between biden and the heads of the uk germany and france so somebody has to think ahead and with their support as well i think the saudi's can come in the loser will be iran only iran will be and and the timing as you say hamas may have done it to scuttle off this idea of normalization between saudi arabia and israel but this is not necessarily hamas interest it's an iranian interest to do that and and again it shows that hamas is the pawn of iran iran is fighting till the last palestinian in whether it's in the best west bank or whether it's in gaza they will fight until the last lebanese in in lebanon and hopefully there will be some reckoning here and the only way to stop iran is by pulling together all the moderate countries the countries that will need to orient themselves with the west in order to survive politically all right ambassador daniel alone thank you for joining us we're going out for a break but stay with us we are expecting prime minister benjamin that's now to make a public address perhaps in the coming minutes or coming half hour stay with us we'll cover that live as it happens we'll be right back israel is officially in a state of war this is a very active scene and we need to get in the car as we're talking within a hundred soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped we just don't know anything entire families including babies and children and elderly were butchered in their beds awaken the giant and we are ready and we are strong everyone is showing up this is the unity the travail pour it won't if or news depuis son lancement et l'histoire dont je me souviens le plus c'est celle ci c'était en décembre 2014 quelques mois après l'opération border protectrice amnistre palestinien meur au cours d'une manifestation contre sale it won't if or news décide donc de nous envoyer avec mon caméraman nazib safadi en plein coeur de ramalla pour suivre les funérailles en attendant ici au coeur de ramalla la rue palestinienne n'a toujours pas décidé et là tout va changer une journaliste dans le coup de civil organ de propagande du ramas me demande 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news welcome back to why 24 news is special coverage of the third day of israel's war against hamas and and the other palestinian terror groups in gaza rockets continue to fall uh on israel as israel carries out airstrikes on gaza one of the uh communities that have been targeted throughout has been the southern port city of ash kalan our car some middle east correspondent ariel osron is there at the basalai hospital which has been the main a main recipient of the uh over 200 and 2600 i think now israelis who have been wounded first of all just what has been the situation uh there this evening ariel right kalev so as you mentioned out of the 2800 injures injuries throughout these past two days 500 of them made it here to basalai hospital out of them a hundred today uh given that the main the the bulk were in the first two days given that that's when the fighting i mean much of the fighting or a lot of the killing of helpless israelis took place today rate a lot slower out of the 150 of them were between uh lightly and moderately injured one in critical condition and doctors are still fighting to stabilize his situation but throughout the evening we've been hearing booms of of explosions of rockets in fact about half an hour ago there was a rocket launch over our heads and we could hear very closely feel the interceptions there was not a siren uh for that at this area but indeed uh we did hear and feel the interception of rockets overhead in gaza strip they're reporting heavy massive israeli strikes over the past few hours uh ongoing non-stop strikes we can hear the jets going flying down south to gaza dropping their bombs flying back i hear one jet flying back right now as we speak and according to the uh according to the health ministry there the death hole in gaza has risen to nearly 690 since israeli retaliation began and so again there's a concert of booms going on whether it's booms of interceptions booms of israeli strikes and also uh not to mention the northern border that currently there are also israeli strikes going on over there and so this is something that uh the fear of of the potential of more fronts erupting at the same time could potentially be unraveling before our eyes but here the situation in southern israel is pretty much as it's been all day sporadic rocket launches and most of them interceptions haven't heard reports haven't seen reports by israeli officials of any direct impacts in these latest salvos but indeed all this could change with one rocket that is not intercepted obviously 95 percent of them are intercepted but the bigger the salvo the bigger the chances of some of those rockets falling through and making it into urban populations all right uh our aria lo siran there in ashkelon at barzolai hospital thank you for that well joining us in studio now we have ellie hawkenberg a host of our global eye program and professor uzi rabbi director of the motion diane santa for middle east studies at teller the university senior researcher center for iranian studies also at the university and who's he uh lots to talk about in the south but also in the north and i just want to relate we do have now a confirmation from the lebanese side from hisbulla the three of its officials or fighters were killed in an exchange of of cross-border fire israel of course firing at those positions after four apparently four infiltrators terrorists infiltrated across the lebanese border two were killed in a firefight the troops two unaccounted for may have made it back across the border but the question is whether now hisbulla is going to escalate and fully join in now this conflict that has been started by hamas well that's that's the big question uh basically hamas was working from the beginning under the assumption that the baldai fraud scenario is definitely feasible and uh hasbulla would do his own calculus in any case hisbulla has to get kind of approval from iran and i would like actually to note that what we do see when it comes to the us performance says that this game has become kind of a grand game well i wanted just for the viewers who are unaware the us has moved a six-fleet uh into position it's uh aircraft carriers and destroyers off the lebanese syria coast they've been i guess you could sort more like veiled threats not specific made by president biden himself apparently perhaps directed against hisbulla and iran but is that enough to deter hisbulla and iran well what would you expect the us to do if hisbulla does though get involved i think that the us is highly invested in this whole thing which is called middle east actually the the the other vector so to speak and uh this india saudi arabia emirates uh gaza israel egypt uh train so to speak or road is something that is uh in a way in a way uh would definitely pave the road for a different middle east so basically we can definitely confine ourselves to a bilateral conflict when it comes to israel hamas but i would dare say that there are many many players in the middle east who are who do lack to look at what's going on in kind of a very keen interest because the results of this conflict is going actually to affect the middle east uh what the united state is doing basically is just to prevent iran from letting hisbulla getting into uh the scene uh in my opinion we are in a so delicate uh a situation and since we are in the midst of dynamics of war you know things can definitely uh go down in the slippery slope but in uh uh i think that hisbulla currently uh would rather wait actually some days in order to see what's going on with gaza what he did is to build up an equation saying the more or the deeper israel goes into gaza the more probable hisbulla is going to actually take action so this is actually the equation that was put on the table whether or not this is something by which to follow or we'll wait and see but uh we are in a very sensitive situation remember that both hamas and hisbulla were trying to we're trying to test the water in the recent month because they were working only the assumption that israel uh is getting weaker and weaker because of the internal chism in it uh basically this is also a psychological worry i mean on top or beyond the operational dimensions of the thing right and if i may note uh in this uh respect um it is important to stress uh kalev it is not political anymore it's a matter of national security the lack of cohesion or the easy path to create absolute unity we are expecting to hear from israel prime minister benjamin natanyao any minutes now um more or less since the very beginning of this war uh contacts between natanyao and opposition leaders began to form this unity emergency government and yet uh three days in while the momentum on the ground when it comes to the fighting seems to be slowly but surely changing when we're talking about a political situation contacts are still underway and yet no breakthrough um but we don't know that yet deli we might no we might we might be we might hear that i'm speculating there have been reports that he was close with benign as we don't know close for certain uh and the best indication for that is perhaps that we've heard no briefings on that when you hear uh quiet uh it signals that something is happening when you hear lots of statements it's usually uh the indication of the opposite but speaking of the psychological warfare um that brought us to this point if israel is unwilling which definitely is the case not to give further ammunition to the enemy a unity government as such uh must be formed i do hope that uh it will uh happen sooner rather than later again there's nothing to do with politics and any political calculation is completely irrelevant it's a matter of national security period and another point sure israel is at a bay what happened is sort of a genocide by radical merely realistic fundamentalistic group this is why israel is getting sort of a backup from your both europe and the americans right they have memories coming back or dating back to you know isis right the pictures we've been showing are reminiscent of what how islamic state uh dealt with the people they took prisoner but israel actually for the first time is being uh actually introduced as kind of a very very weak or kind of an organ which is getting weaker uh this is applicable to what i said before and this is basically the theory which was nurtured by both hamas and hasballah israel cannot get away with this war with letting hamas go on running the affairs of gas right so the qu that is the question because of course the prime minister is going to come out and say the goal is victory uh in this conflict but what is victory in this conflict dizzy victory in my opinion must be the end of the historical role of hamas in gaza not as a society but as a political leader or uh you know kind of uh an army with all these militias why because what was proved that israel was mistaken in the recent years while trying to appease hamas while trying to fend or to find kind of a bonus vivendi by which actually you are living side by side with that kind of a monster now hold on we are seeing prime minister netanyahu take to the podium let's take a listen we are on day three of this campaign we are in a campaign fighting over our home our homeland war on our mere existence a war that we will win this war was forced on us by a vile enemy animals that are murdering the elderly women and children the horrors that hamas committed we haven't seen since isis kids being murdered executed with their families youngsters boys and girls executed by shooting at their back and and so many more horrors that they will not illustrate here we always knew what hamas was all about now the entire world knows hamas is isis and we will eliminate it in exactly the same manner that the enlightened world eliminated isis hamas wanted war hamas will get worse at the beginning of the war i instructed to do five immediate things first to clear out the southern communities and and fend off any entry of the enemy to our borders these fights are still ongoing several terrorists are still within our territory and our forces are working around a clock to eliminate all of them the second action taking place these moments as we speak to move to an aggressive offense against hamas that was never seen before third move is to solidify Israeli security on the northern border and west bank and within israel i reinforced i strengthened the warriors the soldiers the fighters that are working on all fronts as we speak risking their lives to defend the state of israel the fourth action to continue the international backing and support that to to maintain the leeway we have vis-à-vis our enemies and the last action of paramount importance to solidify the unity among the people the separation the division within us is over we are all united and when we're united we win the nation is united and now the leadership should unite i call on the leaders of the opposition to um to form an emergency unity government without any reservations or conditions the way menachem begging did with the golden year back in the yongi poor or citizens of israel i stayed again we've only begun to head back on hamas the images you're seeing from gaza just the very beginning we've eliminated hundreds of terrorists and we will not stop there i said it from every single corner or point where hamas is operating from will become will vanish it is happening now and it will continue to happen even more so i mean constant content contact with us president joe biden i would like to thank him from here for the american support in words and in actions you says general jerald ford is on its way here our allies and enemies understand very well the meaning of the idea if i would like to thank all other israeli allies around the world for their unwavering support citizens of israel i would like to tell you there are a lot of fake news and a bit to divide us to dismantle us like the false the fake news as if the egyptian intelligence tipped off israel before the war something that never happened we should not fall in those traps and we must pack ourselves with the most important things in a war resilience and strength it will take time to citizens of israel but i promise you to at the end of this campaign all our enemies will know very well it was a grave mistake to attack israel what we will do to our enemies in the coming days will echo will resonate for decades for generations the battlefield is filled with heroism on behalf of our people our civilians our fighters i saw a video today of one of our commanders standing with his people today and this is our spirit of our fighters of our people standing firm and strong together i saw a video of one soldier david his newborn was circumsized yesterday and on the screen of his phone he saw the ceremony to prayer and wished upon all of us life yesterday i nominated gal here to be in charge of the issue of the kidnap the hostage the captive we will do anything everything we can do for them our hearts are with the families of the kidnapped of the many people who are murdered we've we've lost many people young elderly civilians soldiers fighters jews and non-jews deep share destiny is among all of us this is not fake this is real nothing is more real than that this is the most profound thing that connects us all together we will overcome together we will win only together it's prime minister of israel i'm telling you full heartedly tough days are still ahead of us we are still in pain and agony over the blood of our sisters and brothers but we are committed we're determined to win this battle to bring the light upon us the state of israel is a miracle of resurrection the bible there's a phrase the eternity of israel is not a lie even now today as well we will we will stand by this bow this promise because it's the nation of israel the state of israel the people of israel are alive all right we just heard prime minister bedjam and that didn't speak uh uzi i want to get your response to that comment well civil the first point is actually to just uh put hamas on the same scale as ices this is kind of a way by which to talk to the international community as we said before second the program is actually to reconquer all these kibbutzim and shavib in israel and make sure that everything this is phase one thereafter go to gaza the third thing is israel proper it's a political one Benjamin Netanyahu is capitalizing on the new you know situation actually and adhering for supporting this spirit of unity because of what happened uh i think that israel should be united actually i just want to just clarify he did not announce the unity government he did not and said he specifically said once again i mean i just want to clarify he said that they should join without precondition supposedly ben igance has been saying i wonder i want you should be part of a war cabinet i wonder why because he needs those guys from uh guns party they are professional former two former chief of staff one former defense minister essentially begging to help to help yeah and and and they are highly needed because what israel is going actually to meeting gaza is a very very intensive and difficult war day by day so this experience is highly needed but what i would have expected him to say and he didn't say what is the goal right when it comes to hamas and i'm highly disappointed of him not asserting that the goal is what i suggested that would be the goal hamas is done we are not going actually to let him run the affairs of gaza i hope that you know with the uh you know passage of time is it would find himself in a situation to say or declare it maybe this is kind of a political move but uh i think that uh this is something that should be said in front of the people of israel too hamas has committed a genocide he has to pay for that the world knows that this is also a golden opportunity of israel and for the palestinian to get rid of this uh bunch of uh uh i would say mafiosis and with the uh with that uh i hope that we'll you know pave the way for it okay professor uzi rabi elie hochenberg thank you for joining us we want to end this part of the program by going back to one of the many israelis concerned about the fate so they're still unaccounted for loved ones one of them is jessica moranda elter whose boyfriend ben shimoni is missing since attending that music festival that was attacked by the hamas terrace uh jessica thanks for joining us tell us a bit like tell us what you know or what you've experienced uh since uh on that day saturday when this terrible event happened so ben went to a regular party uh he was supposed to come back saturday noon morning we were speaking on the phone all morning i woke up from the sirens and i called him because i knew he was outside in the party i called him to come back something is happening come back he said yes yes i will come back don't worry we were speaking a few minutes afterwards and he said i picked some people he was in the party area and from the party area he already saved he went outside but he came back and he took people to save them that he doesn't know he took five people in his car that he don't know i called him and i asked him where are you and he said jessica i took five people with me i'm saving them i'm putting them in their houses and he survived that and then he came back he came back to the party area again to save his friends his friends send them was sending him location can't pick us up please help us he said i have to go back to pick my friends he went their back and he knew there was shooting there he knew that he went back he picked three more friends four friends two friends and two anonymous people so they were a full car four people he knows actually i think only one of them one of the girl was working with him i was with him on the phone all morning 10 minutes without calling him 10 minutes with 15 minutes with all morning and then he went outside he took he called i called him and he said yes they're with me in the car i'm on the way out don't worry suddenly out of nowhere i was hearing shouting and screaming and the girls were screaming at him go go go drive they were begging him to drive and i understand something is happening and i was shouting to him to understand what's going on and i heard like running and a big mess and suddenly the phone call just i heard quiet for a minute that's it so none of the you haven't been able to speak to any people who might have been in the area at that rave that saw anything that might have happened to him we were trying we were posting photos of him this is the reason i'm here the first reason i'm here i want people to know what how brave he is he's a hero for me and for all the country for all amisrael and for praying for him people i'm begging pray for him his name is ben ben penina this is for the praying for him and and this is the most important thing and if somebody knows anything please send me a message you want to know where all our love people we're begging you we do know people did um the girl who was with him in the car did call her mom a few minutes later and said somebody's shooting us and another girl called her mom and said after a few minutes as well we're injured we know they're injured we know something happened right but we were begging for answers and we want them to be good answers all right uh while we join with you uh in that call if anyone has any information or may have been now we know there are some people who have made it out of there if you have any information about this young man if you would seen anything please be in touch uh with jessica the jessica moranda elter she's on social media you can convey your information there uh jessica thank you so much for joining us thank you so much please pray for him everybody please ben ben penina okay thank you so much jessica thank you so much thank you so much well that ends uh this uh uh broadcast but i24 news will continue with this rolling coverage israel's third day its fight for its life and for the lives of israelis against hamas in gaza is officially in a state of war this is a very active scene and we need to get in the car as we're talking within a hundred soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped we just don't know anything entire families including babies and children and elderly were butchered in their beds awaken the giant and we are ready and we are strong everyone is showing up this is the unity i'm making polo cash mesh a persian rice dish with dried fruits and carrots the persian cuisine is based on the polo meaning rice and it can be made with different ingredients such as beans greens and meat it's a dish that can even function as a whole meal i was born in persia and immigrated to israel with my family when i was three months old here in israel my mother was mainly busy taking care of the kids and being in the kitchen she loved cooking but at the age of 60 she lost her sight and that created a new situation in which i had to cook for her i improved my cooking skills and at some point started hosting people in my house for persian meals i serve them authentic dishes with persian tea and tell them my family's story after eating we turn the music on and that's when the dancing part begins it's always a very happy joyful evening i enjoy preserving my mother's cooking and culture the polo cash mesh is a great way of doing it it is occasionally eaten on holidays with a whole ceremony leading to the meal after it's cooked i turn the pot upside down and you have an impressive dish the people i host here love this part and they come out of here with a great unique culinary experience i'm having a great time with my family we traveled to the middle east right now without packing and without a plane ticket 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option of a ground operation very much on the table what seems to be off the table and in negotiations over the dozens over 100 israeli civilians and soldiers being held hostage captive kidnapped in the Gaza strip by the murderous vile terrorist meanwhile the north waking up terrorist infiltration and rocket fire from lebanon claimed by islamic jihad not hezbollah but there will be no schools in southern lebanon tomorrow an indication to what hezbollah might believe is yet to come all throughout the day heavy barrages of rockets um to israel's south center and east several direct hits well there is a sense of a change in the momentum underground the homefront command is instructing israelis stock up prepare basic essentials water canned food flashlights for days in shelters and then there's the numbers numbers that are rising at least 900 israelis confirmed dead thousands wounded hundreds of them in critical condition the body count far from over the biggest number of jews murdered so quickly since the holocaust and amidst all an egyptian official claims he tipped the israelis a week ago that something big is going to happen a message he claims was ignored more or less in jewsland israeli prime minister benjamin etaniel completely denies fake news he says vowing the israeli response to the situation will change the middle east if not it seems the middle east will be the one to change israel here's more from israeli premier speaking this fast hour the horrors that hamas committed we haven't seen since isis the kids being murdered executed with their families youngsters boys and girls executed by shooting at their back and and so many more horrors that they will not illustrate here we always knew what hamas was all about now the entire world knows hamas is isis and we will eliminate in exactly the same manner that the