 wounded. Palestinian sources hold that the fatalities in Gaza are now over 2,600 people. This is the Israel Defense Forces continues to strike Hamas targets in the Strip. According to Palestinian media affiliated with Hamas, the overnight airstrikes mainly in Gaza's city in the north constituted the heaviest sorties since fighting began last week. Over 600,000 Gazans have relocated to the southern part of the Strip as per the IDF's constant warnings and amid an imminent ground incursion. Hamas is continuing to launch rockets from the enclave into Israeli cities with exchanges of fire also coming across the country's northern borders. Hezbollah tests Israel's result. Let's cross our live to our correspondent Hamda Selkut who is standing by for us in the north of Israel. Hamda, Hezbollah is testing Israel. How is Israel currently responding? Well, look, Batia, a joint statement from both the Ministry of Defense and the Israeli military says that the National Emergency Management Authority is announcing the implementation of a plan to evacuate residents of northern Israel who live in the area up to two kilometers. This plan approves by the Defense Minister, Yohav Galant, it applies to 28 different communities. An indication that the fighting along the northern border will continue. It's going to be an interesting situation for the Israeli military to have to tackle both a battle on the northern front and the southern front as well. Hezbollah's weaponry, their arsenal is far more sophisticated than the weapons coming out of the Gaza Strip back in June in a military showcase that they did. They were able to show media a lot of their handheld weapons that they claim can take down airplanes and other types of attack helicopters. We're talking about an arsenal of at least 150,000 short-range rockets. We haven't yet seen what their larger, more ballistic and destructive missiles can do. But Hezbollah is warning Israel and they're saying that it's only a matter of time before they get involved in the conflict and the Israeli military is taking all precautions against an all-out war. The United States, as I've reported earlier, is urging Israel not to take any preemptive action inside of Lebanese territory against Hezbollah for fears of a semi-regional conflict breaking out. A lot of countries within the region are now on alert, specifically Iran, who is watching the situation and has been commenting on it since last week, saying that there are no guarantees, especially if Israel enters a ground invasion inside of Gaza. Alhamdulillah, as we're speaking to you, sirens are going off in the southern communities of Israel as Hamas continues to launch airstrikes over the border. What is it like at the moment in the north? Has it been relatively quiet? You have been up in the north and in the south over the past week. Can you explain a little bit in terms of the difference? Right. So, along the northern border, we did see some rocket fire yesterday, the Al Qassan Brigades, that's Hamas' military wing claiming responsibility for that saying they launched 20 rockets. But the Israeli military saying it was more around nine. The Iron Dome intercepting most of them. Palestinian factions operating in southern Lebanon saying that they're ready to fight. They're ready to continue launching rockets against Israel. But only if Hezbollah takes the lead inside the Gaza Strip, rocket fire continuing to pound southern Israel and reaching places as far north as Tel Aviv, Herzliya and even Haifa, Hamas does have longer range missiles in their arsenal like the Ayyash 250 that we saw just a couple of days ago that alerted sirens all across northern Israel. The Iron Dome, though able to intercept that missile. Israel's air defense systems are threefold. There are three different mechanisms that they are able to use specifically when it comes to longer range missiles. So the Israeli military on high alert for rocket fire coming from all fronts. Correspondent Hamas' Salchut giving us an update on the northern border in Israel. Thank you very much for that. Let's go now live to Ness Zeona in Central Israel where I'm joined by Professor Kobe Michael, a research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies and the former Deputy Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs. Good morning to you, Professor. As just discussing the capabilities between Hamas and Hezbollah remarkably different, I think what has been such a shell shock this time round is the fact that there were infiltrations of Hamas terrorists into the state of Israel. In comparison to their arsenal, we've always known that Iran does find Hamas and we know what their arsenal is capable of. That wasn't necessarily the shell shock. But if Hezbollah is to join this war, what can we expect from a surprise sort of aspect from our northern front? Good morning. It is going to be much more complicated. But I think that the idea that the state of Israel is capable to fight both fronts simultaneously. By the way, we did it in the past and even more than once in a very successful manner with much bigger state armies. But I think that Israel has to do all the possible efforts in order to keep the northern front for the time being out of this scene, out of the war, in order to accomplish successfully the mission in the Gaza Strip. But I have no doubt that we will have to finalize or we have to deal with the northern problem with Hezbollah someday. And I think that it will be sooner than later. And Professor, stay with us. I do want to cross our live to our correspondent, Pia Stickelbach, who is standing by for us in the south of the country. Pia, reports coming out now that the rough crossing between Gaza and Egypt is reopening being 9 AM local time, namely for foreign nationals and humanitarian aid. But it appears that not all parties are on the same page in particular Israel. What can you tell us? That is true. But you're also coinciding with the reports that the rough crossing is opening now at 9 AM. And this morning there are reports that the US, Egypt and Israel have agreed upon a ceasefire starting also now at 9 AM. These reports are also unconfirmed by Israel, also Hamas. There are reports that Hamas is saying that it is unaware of such a ceasefire. Now the rough crossing, if it is to open for nationals have been camping there for days, waiting for the border to Egypt to open. It does only apply for foreign nationals, which accounts really for the very minority of the more than two million strong population in Gaza. It is also intended to allow humanitarian aid to enter, to arrive to Gaza via that crossing. This comes against the backdrop of intensified Israeli strikes throughout the night. We're hearing reports from Gaza that this night has been the most intense since the beginning of the war. The humanitarian crisis for the civilian population there is intensifying. The UN warning that the hospitals there might run out of fuel to use for the generators within the next 24 hours. We have here on the Israeli side in Storot, we're at right now. We have had quite a quiet night here. The last Red Alert that we have had here in Storot is about 11 hours ago. But just before 9 AM, Red Alerts going off in Beri and in Akhalos further down south here, we have had Red Alert there. But this humanitarian ceasefire that is reportedly entering at 9 AM would also only apply for the southern part of the Gaza Strip. As you know, Israel has been calling upon the civilian population in Gaza to go south because it is preparing the ground defensive. We have heard that more than 600,000 people have already made their way down to the south of Gaza. Of course, Israel having cut water, fuel and electricity to the Gaza Strip at the beginning of the war. Now they have reinstalled the water supplies in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Also in an attempt to really foster that movement of civilians to the southern part of the Strip, which is of course not possible, not feasible for every civilian in Gaza right now. Therefore, now the Rafah crossing opening for humanitarian aid reportedly and also for foreign nationals to leave, which again does not account for the vast majority of the civilian population in Gaza. But yeah. And Pierre, with regards to the Israeli side, you're in the city that has around 30,000 residents. Many of them are clearing out to state funded hotel rooms or elsewhere in Israel, but there is a percentage that is standing their ground. Well, but yeah, right, it is estimated that about 10% of the population speaking about round about 3000 people have until now remained in the city and people have been clearing out this area really throughout the week already as it has been recommended by authorities. Now people are offered state paid hotels in other areas of the country, but there are still people. It is estimated that they're mostly disabled and elderly people that decided to stay here in their city. This is a city that is at the part where you're at right now. The Gaza Strip is behind us. We're about three kilometers away from the Gaza Strip that has come under heavy fire in the first days of the war. Also yesterday, barrages of rockets fired. He is too still, although it has already been deserted. Now the municipality of Starrot is trying to map out the areas where still civilians are located and try to cater to them and try to make sure that they're attended to and try to find out what they're in need, what they're needing. But of course, the city of Starrot, a major city that has also been expanding in recent years. You see major construction projects here. It has become a ghost town. It has been becoming a ghost town throughout the week. Of course, now the evacuation has almost been finished. 3000 people deciding to remain here as of now. Again, the night has been quiet, but here in Starrot, that really can change any second. Our correspondent Pierre Steckelbach there in the south, giving us that updates with regards to the rougher crossing, but also the rockets coming over the border. Now that Egyptian controlled border crossing into Gaza, better known as the rougher crossing, is said to be reopened now as we're speaking on air, allowing foreign nationals to leave the Strip and humanitarian aid to enter. Here's the US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken speaking on the matter. In place, Egypt is put in place. A lot of material support for people in Gaza. And Rafa will be open. We're putting in place with the United Nations, with Egypt, with Israel, with others, the mechanism by which to get the assistance in. And still with us from Nesiyon and Central Israel is Professor Kobe Michael. Kobe, we need to discuss this because it's important from understanding a geographical point of view. Israel has asked residents in the Gaza Strip to move from north to south in order to get away from some of the infrastructure that it plans on pounding and also with regards to their ground incursion going in from the north. Why then from the Israeli perspective would they potentially, as these reports allude, say that they would also be allowing for that humanitarian ceasefire in the south if Israel is not allegedly striking the south? Because the main center of gravity of Hamas is in Gaza area, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. And I think that in order to deal it effectively, Israel has to concentrate all of its military efforts and to prepare the combat zone there for the ground force operation. And in the very same time to enable people to reach to a safe zone. And the safe zone for the time being is in the south of the Gaza Strip because the south of the Gaza Strip is a less important place for Hamas and it is not a very crucial center of gravity. If we want to collapse Hamas as organization we have to deal first of all with the main center of gravity where most of the assets, the military assets and the governmental assets are concentrated. And this is the reason that we are concentrating on the Gaza area, the city, the villages and the refugee camps around the city of Gaza. Professor, stay with us. I want to bring our guests in the studio into the conversation with us here is Daniel Sheik, the former Israeli ambassador to France and a political commentator as well as our correspondent Nicole Zedek. Thank you both for being here with me this morning. Daniel, the conversation that has come out with regards to rougher crossing, opening as our correspondent Pierre Stechelbach also mentioned, it is not only the humanitarian aid that's being allowed in, but what's being allowed out is the foreign nationals that are a minority. What about the Palestinians? The argument of the innocence in Gaza, surely if they do want to escape for the time being, why have no Arab countries, including Egypt, extended their hand and said, right, we'll send in planes, we'll send in this, we'll help you evacuate because we understand that stuff is about to go down. The only relevant country to answer that question is obviously Egypt, because I mean, these refugees won't go to Morocco and they won't go to the UAE, they will stay in Sinai and they will be on Egypt's hands. And I can't answer for President Sisi's regime, but clearly they are not at all keen on having hundreds of thousands of Palestinians move into their territory and God knows when and if they will want to go back. So I think they are clearly reluctant to do so. We'll have to see how things evolve over the weeks, maybe the situation in Gaza will be such that there will be so much pressure from other Arab countries on Egypt that they will have to fold and agree to opening that crossing, but I am not in a position to predict that for the moment. It doesn't look like they're going to do it. From Egypt's point of view, that does make sense, but what about countries in the Gulf when we saw what was unfolding in Afghanistan? And mind you, they are in different situations and different circumstances, but albeit a similar situation where there was a retaliation, they needed to be an evacuation of foreign nationals, civilians, and then a sense of trying to reclaim some kind of political vacuum in the area. Why has there not been any outpouring of not necessarily support, but actual assistance in terms of we will send a plane, we will come and evacuate the people that wanna leave? But yeah, this sounds great, but we're talking about two million people. That's a hell of a lot of planes. It's not evacuating a few families of people who worked with the American army and have a certain standing. This is what's happening more or less at the Rafa crossing now. Talking about foreign nationals, clearly neither Israel nor Egypt wants to have a situation on their hands when friendly countries, nationals of friendly countries are in harm's way during the fighting. But this has absolutely no bearing on the fate of the actual Palestinians who live there and there are over two million of those. So for the moment, the only thing that Israel is doing is urging people to move away from the north into the south. Clearly that is where ground operation is planned at least as a first phase. And with more or less success, there are hundreds of thousands of people who have heeded that call, but they will be in a dire situation in southern Gaza too. They might be out of harm's way directly, but it's still a very difficult situation for them. There's no argument about that. The situation to evacuate citizens is also happening in Israel and Nicole. We've seen it in the south and we're seeing it in the north now where the IDF is said to evacuate civilians from 28 communities along the Lebanese front in the event of an escalation with Hezbollah. The majority of the people conglomerating to the center, but there's also a fortune of foreign nationals, including at this channel, that have been given the go ahead by their home countries to leave if need be. Exactly, that's what you are saying from the foreign front. Many also states urging their citizens to get out, especially in advance of what we are going to see these escalations not only in the south, but as you said, all signs seem to be pointing to an escalation in the north as well. And so that's why the IDF right now is urging everyone within two kilometers, 28 different communities to evacuate from the northern Lebanon border. One of those communities I wanna just point out appears to be Haifa as there's live images on the screen of people attempting to be evacuated from that area as well. And Haifa, a major, major city. We were talking about a very large population, if that's the case. So we are about to see so many different people moving towards central Israel. We've already seen this happening. We've already seen so many different state funded hotels, so many people offering their homes. I've also seen as many foreign nationals might be leaving if they do have a home there. They're posting all over Facebook saying, if anyone does need to take my home for the time being, it is all yours. The keys are under the mat, please. Anyone who needs to come, stay in my house. So as some people are leaving due to their safety reasons and other people are evacuating from those southern and northern borders. We're seeing a lot of support here in the central taking in anyone that they can. And Professor, from a logistical point of view in terms of the IDF, what does it mean to be evacuating the citizens, particularly in the north or south because of the ongoing rocket situation? But with regards to this new report coming out of 28 different communities in the north being evacuated towards the center, how does this aid the IDF with their plans? First of all, there are plans that enable that the IDF and not only the IDF, this is all the state institutions as well to evacuate the people from the villages and the towns along the border, the 22 communities that you are talking about. And there are preparations that were done and this is going to be an operation but that's all complicated operation with all the difficulties for the people themselves. But I think that the IDF needs to assure that all of this area along the border, like all the communities that we used to have along the Israel envelope, okay, should be evacuated, the place should be without people because the IDF should concentrate on the attack and not on the defense of the people on the communities that will be there. It is a great risk and we have to minimize the risk and we have to be able to operate freely without thinking about the idea of defending the communities along the border. So I think that if we are evacuating the communities, it means that we are in a further step towards a higher probability of another front which means the Northern Front vis-a-vis Hezbollah. Perhur Saqobi-Michel, a research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies and the former deputy director general of the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs. Thank you very much for both your time and analysis here this morning. Thank you, good morning. Now, survivors have been brave enough to share their horrific stories with the media. Recovering still in hospital, 13-year-old Khadar Bachar shared her tragic ordeal as her family was trapped in a safe room during the terror rampage of Kibbutz-Beri. Take a look. We heard a missile alert siren, so we ran to the safe room. Suddenly, we got a message from another Kibbutz saying, there's a terrorist infiltration. You need to lock all of the doors. We thought it would take one or two hours tops. We kept waiting and nothing happened. Around 8 a.m., we heard terrorists knocking on the door. They tried to get in. They couldn't get inside the house through the doors, so they climbed on a stand outside the house and came in through the bathroom window. Then they started to knock on the safe room door. They yelled in Arabic, open the door. My father yelled at them, go. And then suddenly, we heard them shooting at the door. My brother was wounded. His arm was crushed. They sensed where my dad was standing and fired at him. Meanwhile, my mother and I treated my brother and tried to stop his bleeding. My dad collapsed. They continued to try opening the door, but they couldn't because the door of the safe room is automatically locked when someone shoots at it. Then they set a closet next to the safe room on fire. The smoke from the fire entered our safe room through the bullet holes in the door. We couldn't breathe. We thought we were going to faint. Then I heard they were trying to open the window. They managed to open the window. They shot the window and opened it. They threw three hand grenades into the safe room. Two of the grenades exploded. My mom and I were wounded. They continued to fire. My mom got shot. I took off my shirt and tried to stop the bleeding. We also treated my brother, but we couldn't stop my mother's bleeding because we didn't know where she'd been shot. We kept moving around in the safe room. I called several people, like the emergency unit and the people of Kibbutz-Baeri. The IDF and emergency first responders told us there is nothing we can do. We can't get inside your Kibbutz. The only thing you can do is play dead. We kept hearing the terrorists firing and shouting. They continued to set our house on fire. At 3 p.m., my mother started to choke. Everyone else was fainting, and I tried to wake them up over and over again. At a certain point, my mother stopped breathing. We felt that she became cold, and that was it. We felt that we were getting burned. I told my brother to put his legs up because he was losing blood. He started to gurgle. We told him, don't shout, Carmel. Don't shout. If they know we're alive, they'll either kill us or kidnap us. I tried to give them CPR, but my father told me, forget him. Now let's focus on saving ourselves. I yelled to my dad, don't die. Don't leave us alone. At around 6 p.m., a few people from the Kibbutz texted me and said that we're going to hear a very loud boom. It's an Israeli tank that will bomb our neighbor's home and get inside our home to rescue us through the wall. Then I heard this loud explosion. We heard people inside the house. We heard someone talking in Hebrew, but with an Arabic accent. My father told them to come through the window that the window was open. I told him they could be terrorists. They may be fooling us. He said it doesn't matter. They came with flashlights, they said what a massacre. I told them please come and lift me up. I can't move. They told me that they couldn't get through the window because they had too much equipment. I managed to bring myself up and get to the window. They took me out and opened the door. We went outside and saw that the entire neighborhood was on fire. They separated me and my dad and took us to Netivot, where there is a special unit. I just like to clarify the images that you were seeing on your screen live from Haifa are many U.S. citizens with U.S. passports that are being evacuated out of the country via the port there. There may be many nationals, Israelis that are coming there from the northern communities, but for the time being that is U.S. nationals. Still with me in studio, Nikol Zedek and I'll tell you Nikol, the testimony is coming out of survivors. It's just impossible. You were in the south. Wrap it up for us. It's just heartbreaking. And seeing a 13-year-old be able to tell her story coherently, proudly, it truly does show the strength of these survivors and the people of Israel. I want to really emphasize that because as I was in these southern communities all last week speaking to soldiers as well who were the first people to come and rescue people like her, their strength right now is just immense. They're coming here comforting the journalists, comforting people like me who are witnessing one of the most horrific scenes of a massacre that I could never even imagine seeing in real life. And they were also there. They were experiencing it. She was experiencing it. And yet these soldiers are comforting all of the civilians. They continue to offer not only our comfort for our safety but for our well-being as well. And that's what they continue to be concerned about. So the fact that they're here protecting not only the civilians but the countless journalists that have flown in to continue to cover the story on the ground in these very, very dangerous situations witnessing some of the most horrific acts. You can hear it from a 13-year-old survivor herself. It's heartbreaking as we continue to learn more about these witness testimonies and everything that happened. Corresponding Nicole Siddick will commentate on the form of the Israeli ambassador to France, Daniel Sheik. 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Over 1,400 Israelis have now been murdered by Hamas's combined onslaught while more than 3,600 are still wounded. Palestinian sources hold that the fatalities in Gaza are now over 2,600 people. This is the Israel Defense Forces continues to strike Hamas targets in the strip. According to Saudi media affiliated with Hamas the overnight airstrikes mainly in Gaza city in the north constituted the heaviest sorties since fighting began last week. Over 600,000 Gazans have relocated to the southern part of the strip as per the IDF's constant warnings and amid an imminent ground incursion. Hamas is continuing to launch rockets from the enclave into Israeli cities with exchanges of fire also coming across the country's northern border with Hamas's Israel's result. Let's cross now live to our correspondent Hamda Selkut who is standing by for us in the north of Israel. Hamda Hezbollah is testing Israel. How is Israel currently responding? Well look Batia a joint statement from both the Ministry of Defense and the Israeli military says that the National Emergency Management Authority is announcing the implementation of a plan to evacuate residents of northern Israel who live in the northern border. As you can see here, this plan approved by the Defense Minister Yoav Galant. It applies to 28 different communities and indication that the fighting along the northern border will continue. It's going to be an interesting situation for the Israeli military to have to tackle both a battle on the northern front and the southern front as well. Hezbollah's weaponry, their hand-held weapons that they did, they were able to show media a lot of their hand-held weapons that they claim can take down airplanes and other types of attack helicopters. We're talking about an arsenal of at least 150,000 short-range rockets. We haven't yet seen what their larger, more ballistic and destructive missiles can do, but Hezbollah is warning Israel and they're saying that it's only a matter of time before they start taking all precautions against an all-out war. The United States, as I've reported earlier, is urging Israel not to take any preemptive action inside of Lebanese territory against Hezbollah for fears of a semi-regional conflict breaking out. A lot of countries within the region are now on alert, specifically Iran, who is watching the situation and has been commenting on it since last week saying that Israel enters a ground invasion inside of Gaza. Khamda, as we're speaking to your sirens are going off in the southern communities of Israel as Hamas continues to launch airstrikes over the border. What is it like at the moment in the north? Has it been relatively quiet? You have been up in the north and in the south over the past week. Can you explain a little bit in terms of the difference? Right, so along the northern border of Gaza, Hamas's military wing claiming responsibility for that saying they launched 20 rockets with the Israeli military saying it was more around 9. The Iron Dome intercepting most of them. Palestinian factions operating in southern Lebanon saying that they're ready to fight. They're ready to continue launching rockets against Israel, but only if Hezbollah takes the lead inside the Gaza Strip rocket fire continuing to pound southern Israel and reaching Tel Aviv, Herzliya and even Haifa Hamas does have longer range missiles in their arsenal like the Ayash 250 that we saw just a couple of days ago that alerted sirens all across northern Israel. The Iron Dome though able to intercept that missile. Israel's air defense systems are three fold. There are three different mechanisms that they are able to use specifically when it comes to longer range missiles. So the Israeli military on high alert for that. Correspondent Hamdas Al-Khut giving us an update on the northern border in Israel. Thank you very much for that. Let's go now live to Ness Ziona in Central Israel where I'm joined by Professor Kobe Michael a research fella at the Institute for National Security Studies and the former Deputy Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs. Good morning to you Professor as just discussing the capabilities between Hamas and the Shal Shalk this time round is the fact that there were infiltrations of Hamas terrorists into the state of Israel in comparison to their arsenal. We've always known that Iran does find Hamas and we know what their arsenal is capable of that wasn't necessarily the Shal Shalk but if Hezbollah is to join this war what can we expect from a surprise sort of aspect from our northern front. Good morning. It is going to be much more complicated but I think that the idea that the state of Israel is capable to fight both fronts simultaneously. By the way, we did it in the past and even more than once and in a very successful manner with much bigger state armies but I think that Israel has to do all the possible efforts in order to keep the northern front for the time being out of this scene, out of the war in order to accomplish successfully the mission in the Gaza Strip but I have no doubt that we will have to finalize or we have to to deal with the northern problem with Hezbollah someday and I think that it will be sooner than later. And Professor Stay with us. I do want to cross our live to our correspondent Pia Steckelbach who is standing by for us in the south of the country. Pia reports coming out now that the crossing between Gaza and Egypt is reopening being 9 a.m. local time namely for foreign nationals and humanitarian aid but it appears that not all parties are on the same page in particularly Israel. What can you tell us? That is true but you are also coinciding with the reports that the Raffa crossing is opening now at 9 a.m. and this morning there are reports that the U.S., Egypt and Israel have agreed upon a ceasefire starting also now at 9 a.m. These reports are now unconfirmed by Israel also Hamas their reports that Hamas is saying that it is unaware of such a ceasefire now the Raffa crossing if it is to open foreign nationals have been camping there for days waiting for the border to Egypt to open it does only apply for foreign nationals which accounts really for the very minority of the more than 2 million strong population in Gaza it is also intended to allow humanitarian aid to enter to arrive to Gaza via that crossing this comes against the backdrop of intensified Israeli strikes throughout the night we're hearing reports from Gaza that this night has been the most intense since the beginning of the war the humanitarian crisis for the civilian population there is intensifying the UN warning that the hospitals there might run out of fuel to use for the generators within the next 24 hours but yeah we have here on the Israeli side in Storot we're at right now we have had a quiet night here the last red alert that we have had here in Storot is about 11 hours ago but just before 9 a.m. red alerts going off in Beiri and the Nachalos further down south here we have had red alert there but this humanitarian a ceasefire that is reportedly entering at 9 a.m. would also only apply for the southern part of the Gaza Strip as you know Israel has been calling upon the civilian population in Gaza to go south because it is preparing the ground defensive we have heard that more than 600,000 people have already made their way down to the south of Gaza of course Israel having cut water fuel and electricity to the Gaza Strip at the beginning of the war now they have reinstalled the water supplies in the southern part of the Gaza Strip also in an attempt to really foster that movement of civilians to the southern part of the Strip which is of course not possible not feasible for every civilian in Gaza but there are a lot of people who have already made their way to the southern part of the Gaza Strip and the Rafah crossing opening for humanitarian aid reportedly and also for foreign nationals to leave which again does not account for the vast majority of the civilian population in Gaza and Pierre with regards to the Israeli side you're in the city that has around 30,000 residents many of them are clearing out to state funded hotel rooms and the population speaking about around about 3,000 people have until now remained in the city and people have been clearing out this area really throughout the week already as it has been recommended by authorities now people are offered state paid hotels in other areas of the country but there are still people it is estimated that they are mostly disabled and elderly people that decided to stay here in their city this is a city that is at the part where we're at right now the Gaza Strip is behind us we're heavy fire in the first days of the war also yesterday barrages of rockets fired here is to Starrot although it has already been deserted and now this municipality of Starrot is trying to map out the areas where still civilians are located and try to cater to them try to make sure that they're attended to and try to find out what they're needing but of course the city of Starrot a major city that has also been expanding in recent years you see major construction projects here it has been becoming a ghost on throughout the week of course now the evacuation has almost been finished 3000 people deciding to remain here as of now again the night has been quiet but here in Starrot that really can change any second our correspondent Pierre Stekelbach there in the south giving us that updates with regards to the rougher crossing but also the rockets coming over the border now that Egyptian controlled border crossing into Gaza better known as the rougher crossing is said to be reopened now as we're speaking on air allowing foreign nationals to leave the strip and humanitarian aid to enter here's the US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken speaking on the matter in place Egypt is put in place a lot of material support for people in in Gaza and Rafa will be will be open we're putting in place with the United Nations with Egypt with Israel with others the mechanism by which to get the assistance in and still with us from Israel is Professor Kobe Michael Kobe we need to discuss this because it's important from understanding a geographical point of view Israel has asked residents in the Gaza strip to move from north to south in order to get away from some of the infrastructure that it plans on pounding and also with regards to their ground incursion going in from the north why then from the Israeli perspective potentially as these reports elude say that they would also be allowing for that humanitarian ceasefire in the south if Israel is not allegedly striking the south because the main center of gravity of Hamas is in the Gaza area in the northern part of the Gaza Strip and I think that in order to deal it effectively as well as to concentrate all of its military efforts and to prepare the combat zone there for the ground force operation and in the very same time to enable people to reach to a safe zone and the safe zone for the time being is in the south of the Gaza Strip because the south of the Gaza Strip is a less important place for Hamas and it is not a very crucial center of gravity if we want to collapse Hamas as organization we have to deal first of all with the main center of gravity where most of its assets the military assets and the governmental assets are concentrated and this is the reason that we are concentrating on the Gaza area the city the villages and the refugee camps around the city of Gaza Professor stay with us I want to bring the studio into the conversation with us here is Daniel Sheik the former Israeli ambassador to France and a political commentator as well as our correspondent Nicole Zedek thank you both for being here with me this morning Daniel the conversation that has come out with regards to rougher crossing opening as our correspondent Pierre Stechelbach also mentioned it is not only the humanitarian aid that's being allowed in but what's being allowed out is the foreign nationals that are a minority what about the Palestinians the innocent in Gaza surely if they do want to escape for the time being why have no Arab countries including Egypt extended their hand and said right we'll send in planes we'll send in this we'll help you evacuate because we understand that stuff is about to go down the only relevant country to answer that question is obviously Egypt because I mean these refugees won't go to Morocco and they won't go to the UAE they will stay in Sinai and they will be on Egypt's hands and you know I can't answer for President Sisi's regime but clearly they are not at all keen on having hundreds of thousands of Palestinians move into their territory and God knows when and if they will want to go back so I think they are clearly reluctant to do so we'll have to see how things evolve over the weeks maybe the situation in Gaza will be such that there will be so much pressure from other Arab countries on Egypt that they will have to fold and agree to opening that crossing but I am not in a position to predict that the moment doesn't look like they are going to do it. From Egypt's point of view that does make sense but what about countries in the Gulf when we saw what was unfolding in Afghanistan and mind you they are in different situations in different circumstances but albeit a similar situation where there was a retaliation they needed to be an evacuation of foreign national civilians and then a sense of trying to reclaim why has there not been any outpouring of not necessarily support but actual assistance in terms of we will send a plane we will come and evacuate the people that want to leave but yeah this sounds great but we are talking about 2 million people that's a hell of a lot of planes it's not evacuating a few families of people who worked with the American army and have a certain standing this is what's happening more or less at the Rafa crossing now talking about foreign nationals clearly neither Israel nor Egypt wants to have a situation on their hands when friendly countries, nationals of friendly countries are in harm's way during the fighting but this has absolutely no bearing on the fate of the actual Palestinians who live there and there are over 2 million of those so for the moment the only thing that Israel is doing is urging people to move away from the north into the south clearly that is where ground operation is planned at least as a first phase and with more or less success there are hundreds of thousands of people who have heeded that call but they will be in a dire situation in southern Gaza too they might be out of harm's way directly but it's still a very difficult situation for them there's no argument about that the situation to evacuate citizens is also happening in Israel and Nicole we've seen it in the south and we're seeing it in the north now where the IDF is said to evacuate civilians from 28 communities along the Lebanese front in the event of an escalation with Hezbollah the majority of the people conglomerating to the center but there's also a fortune of foreign nationals including at this channel have been given the go ahead by their home countries to leave if need be exactly that's what you are saying from the from the foreign front many also states urging their citizens to get out especially in advance of what we are going to see these escalations not only in the south but as you said all signs seem to be pointing to an escalation in the north as well and so that's why the IDF right now is urging everyone within two kilometers 28 different communities to evacuate from the northern Lebanon border one of those communities I want to just point out appears to be Haifa as there's live images on the screen of people attempting to be evacuated from that area as well and Haifa a major major city we were talking about a very large population if that's the case so we are about to see so many different people moving towards central Israel we've already seen this happening we've already seen so many different state funded hotels people offering their homes I've also seen as many foreign nationals might be leaving if they do have a home there they're posting all over Facebook saying if anyone does need to take my home for the time being it is all yours the keys are under the mat please anyone who needs to come stay in my house so as some people are leaving due to their safety reasons and other people are evacuating from those southern and northern borders we're seeing a lot a lot of support here in the central Israel taking in anyone that they can and professor from a logistical point of view in terms of the IDF what does it mean to be evacuating the citizens particularly in the north the south because of the ongoing rocket situation but with regards to this new report coming out of 28 different communities in the north being evacuated towards the center how does this aid the IDF with their plans first of all there are there are plans that enable that the IDF and not only the IDF this is all the all the state institutions as well to evacuate the people from the villages and the towns along the border the 22 communities that you are talking about and there are preparations that were done and this is going to be an operation but that's all complicated operation with all the difficulties for the people themselves but but I think that the IDF needs to assure that all of this area along the border like all the communities that we used to have along the Israel envelope should be evacuated the place should be without people because the IDF should concentrate on the attack and not on the defense of the people on the communities that will be there it is a great risk and we have to minimize the risk and we have to be able to operate freely without thinking about the idea of defending the communities along the border so I think that if we are evacuating the communities it means that we are in a further step towards a higher probability of another front which means the northern front per her a research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies and the former Deputy Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs thank you very much for both your time and analysis here this morning thank you, good morning now survivors have been brave enough to share their horrific stories with the media recovering still in hospital 13 year old Khadar Bachar shared her tragic real as her family was trapped in a safe room during the terror rampage of Kibbutz Berry take a look we heard a missile alert siren so we ran to the safe room suddenly we got a message from another Kibbutz saying there's a terrorist infiltration you need to lock all of the doors we thought it would take one or two hours tops we kept waiting and nothing happened around 8am we heard terrorists knocking on the door they tried to get in they couldn't get inside the house through the doors so they climbed on a stand outside the house and came in through the bathroom window then they started to knock on the safe room door they yelled in Arabic open the door my father yelled at them go and then suddenly we heard them shooting at the door my brother was wounded, his arm was crushed they sensed where my dad was standing they fired at him meanwhile my mother and I treated my brother and tried to stop his bleeding my dad collapsed they continued to try opening the door but they couldn't because the door of the safe room is automatically locked when someone shoots at it then they set a closet next to the safe room on fire the smoke from the fire entered our safe room through the bullet holes in the door we couldn't breathe we thought we were going to faint then we heard they were trying to open the window they managed to open the window they shot the window and opened it they threw three hand grenades into the safe room two of the grenades exploded my mom and I were wounded they continued to fire my mom got shot I took off my shirt and tried to stop the bleeding we also treated my brother but we couldn't stop my mother's bleeding we couldn't know where she'd been shot we kept moving around in the safe room I called several people like the emergency unit and the people of Kibbutz-Bahri the IDF and emergency first responders told us there is nothing we can do we can't get inside your Kibbutz the only thing you can do is play dead we kept hearing the terrorists firing and shouting they continued to set our house on fire at 3pm my mother started to choke everyone else was fainting and I tried to wake them up over and over again at a certain point my mother stopped breathing we felt that she became cold and that was it we felt that we were getting burned I told my brother to put his legs up because he was losing blood he started to gurgle don't shout, Carmel if they know we're alive they'll either kill us or kidnap us I tried to give them CPR but my father told me, forget him now let's focus on saving ourselves I yelled to my dad, don't die don't leave us alone at around 6pm a few people from the Kibbutz texted me and said that we're going to hear a very loud boom it's an Israeli tank we're going to take our cars home and get inside our home to rescue us through the wall then I heard this loud explosion we heard people inside the house we heard someone talking in Hebrew but with an Arabic accent my father told them to come through the window that the window was open I told them they could be terrorists they may be fooling us he said it doesn't matter they came with flashlights and we saw that they were IDF soldiers they just come and lift me up I can't move they told me that they couldn't get through the window because they had too much equipment I managed to bring myself up and get to the window they took me out and opened the door we went outside and saw that the entire neighborhood was on fire they separated me and my dad and took us to Netivot where there is a special unit very soon we can I'd just like to clarify the images that you were seeing on your screen live from Haifa are many U.S. citizens with U.S. passports that are being evacuated out of the country via the port there may be many nationals Israelis that are coming there from the northern communities but for the time being that is U.S. nationals still with me in studio Nicole Zedek and I'll tell you the testimonies coming out of survivors just impossible you were in the south wrap it up for us it's just heartbreaking and seeing a 13 year old be able to tell her story coherently, proudly it truly does show the strength of these survivors and the people of Israel I want to really emphasize that because as I was in the southern communities all last week speaking to soldiers as well who were the first people to come to rescue people like her their strength right now is just immense they're coming here comforting the journalists comforting people like me who are witnessing one of the most horrific scenes of a massacre that I could never even imagine seeing in real life and they were also there they were experiencing it, she was experiencing it and yet these soldiers are comforting all of the civilians they continue to offer our comfort for our safety but for our well-being as well and that's what they continue to be concerned about so the fact that they're here protecting not only the civilians but the countless journalists that have flown in to continue to cover the story on the ground in these very very dangerous situations witnessing some of the most horrific acts you can hear it from a 13 year old survivor herself it's heartbreaking as we continue to learn more about these witness testimonies and everything that happened Correspondent Nicole said they can political commentate on the former Israeli ambassador to France Daniel Sheik, thank you for joining us stay with us, more to come 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 more than 100 soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped because we don't know what to do we just don't know anything entire families including babies and children and elderly their beds awaken the giant and we are ready and we are strong everyone is showing up, this is the unity works as it generates this random body that kind of looks like a sponge and it evaluates its behavior bringing in breaking news coverage of day 10 of Israel's war against Hamas the Israeli death toll continues to climb Israel's have been murdered by Hamas's combined onslaught more than 3600 are still wounded Palestinian sources hold that the fatalities in Gaza are now over 2600 people this is the Israel Defense Forces continues to strike Hamas targets in the Strip According to Palestinian media affiliated with Hamas the overnight airstrikes mainly in Gaza city in the north constituted the heaviest sorties the city began last week over 600,000 located to the southern part of the Strip as per the IDF's constant warnings and a murder and imminent ground incursion we are seeing live images on the screen now and Hamas is continuing to launch rockets from the enclave onto Israeli cities with exchanges of fire also coming from across the country's northern border as Hezbollah tests Israel's resolve let's cross now live to our correspondent Pierre Stekelbach who is standing by for us in the south of Israel Pierre, rougher crossing between Gaza and Egypt set to reopen but Israel doesn't seem to be on board with a potential even temporary humanitarian ceasefire that is true but we've been receiving reports that a ceasefire has been agreed upon between the US, Egypt and Israel now we're hearing from the Prime Minister's office that that is not the case Hamas also saying that it is unaware of an agreed upon ceasefire that of course coinciding with the expected opening of the rougher crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt at 9 am local time that also does not seem to have been the case now US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken saying that the crossing yesterday saying that the crossing will be opening in the following hours he didn't specify when their crossing would be opening they have been reports that the crossing would be open from 9 am this morning for five hours foreign nationals have been opening up in front of that crossing already within the last days because that crossing is supposed to be open for the entry of humanitarian aid on the one side and the exit of foreign nationals on the other side now that only accounts for really a minority of Gaza civilians only those who only also hold a foreign passport that comes against the backdrop of the humanitarian crisis really increasing and worsening for the civilian population there Israel is saying that more than 600,000 have made their way from the northern part of the Gaza Strip to the southern part following Israel's call to evacuate that area as a possible ground invasion is looming here the UN saying that the hospitals in Gaza who really need fuel to run their generators will run out of their fuel within the next 24 hours Israel has cut the fuel and electricity and water supplies to Gaza they have reinstated the water supplies for the southern part of the Gaza Strip really fostering or calling upon more people to make their way south here we've just before we spoke we saw really a roll of four or five tanks making its way to the Gaza border that is right behind us as a possible ground invasion is expected you're right Bacha Palestinian sources saying that this night has been the most intense night since the beginning of the war when it comes to Israeli strikes on Gaza we have been hearing continuously booms and noises from the Israeli strikes here where we're at right now about three kilometers away from the border we have not really heard a lot of noise within the last hour but that really doesn't mean that a ceasefire is in place now Bacha and Pierre we are looking at live images on the screen right now of Rafa crossing in Gaza and as you mentioned it seems like a minority of foreign nationals because it doesn't seem overly busy I'll remind the viewers we're talking about two million people that are currently in the Gaza Strip and so when we're looking at these live images very few seem to be coming but what more do we know about the potential humanitarian aid that is coming into the Strip not the foreign residents going out of the Strip here right in terms of foreign aid we do know that we first and foremost talking about water food and medicine we're not talking about fuel because Israel's concern is that Hamas will use that fuel to run their generators to operate their tunnels underground Israel's goal here is to dismantle the Hamas infrastructure and also the goal to cut those electricity and fuel and water supplies was to really torpedo the efforts of Hamas to run their system of course this is first and foremost targeting the civilian population there more than two million people who have nowhere to go again foreign nationals we don't know the exact numbers of how many people in Gaza actually hold a foreign passport that again they're the absolute minority for the vast majority of the population this humanitarian way to cross to Egypt is not an option but yeah Correspondents here in the south of Israel giving us that latest update before that and bringing the conversation here in studio with me is Rafael you're a show me a former senior IDF intelligence officer and a security analyst and our correspondent guy Israel guy being very saying that relief for Gaza any aid has to be brought to the cabinet to first review but there's also other reactions coming out about this potential humanitarian or temporary humanitarian ceasefire yes of course any sort of relief to Gaza while Hamas is still in control of that area is not seen with kind eyes not in the Israeli government and certainly not in the Israeli public I think the world needs to understand what sort of trauma the Israeli public in general has been through on that daily Saturday that attack in which 1400 Israelis including women children elderly were slaughtered some of them beaten burned their bodies desecrated and also up to 200 Israelis that are currently in Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip Israelis are not willing to give any reliefs to Hamas until that murderous terror group is being eliminated so yes the prime minister's office was very quick to deny the reports about that humanitarian ceasefire Ben Gvir is requesting that any relief will be first approved in the cabinet we're also hearing from energy minister Israel Katz who yesterday of course announced the decision to allow water supply into southern Gaza Strip under the demand of President Joe Biden well today he writes that I supported the agreement with Biden about supplying water I object to the opening of the siege and to bring aid into Gaza our commitment is to the families of the Israelis murdered and the hostages now in Gaza and not to the killers of Hamas obviously is all wants to apply maximum pressure on these Hamas terrorists and any such aid we know very well will go first to the hands of Hamas to these murderers who slaughtered so many Israelis on Saturday well Egypt's president Fatah el Sisi is saying that Israel's current campaign in Gaza goes beyond the right to self-defense saying this also as nationals are starting to gather at the rougher crossing but Palestinian nationals of the Gaza Strip not being allowed to enter into Egypt well first of all coming from Mr. El Sisi this kind of accusation makes me smile when you're talking human lives Mr. El Sisi is a dictator he got Egypt rid of the Muslim brothers the Muslim brotherhood which was also a tyrannical regime that didn't last long but he himself is no great democrat so coming from him it's really just just let us smile and ignore and let's accuse him and the Egyptian government on crime against mankind because during the past few days the Israelis have insisted on the fact that Egypt should open the rougher crossing and not only to let some foreign double nationality Palestinians go out which by the way even though we saw quite a few people at the rougher crossing are many there are tens of thousands of Palestinians who do have citizenship whether it's European or American the fact that you don't see a lot of people there is very simple the Hamas is not letting them get there the Hamas is blocking their way to the rougher crossing the Hamas has exploded main highway used by the people to evacuate the north of Gaza towards the south killing 70 people the Hamas killed 70 Palestinians to block a highway to prevent them from reaching the rougher crossing this being said of the Hamas who have no doubt they have a record of crimes against mankind but the Egyptians are very guilty for the simple reason that would they open it's not like people are going to go into Cairo right in the coffee shops and around the Nile they are going in the Sinai desert it's a desert and there you can open a ginormous refugee camp the same way it was done by the Syrian refugees with all the international help being able to arrive freely and I say it again Egypt is guilty but the international community is even more guilty because it doesn't put enough pressure on Egypt it should parachute without asking Mr. Sisi's permission already parachute tents beds food and make it a feta complete to receive these people now on the Israeli part I don't understand two things ceasefire, a humanitarian ceasefire it doesn't exist we do not need to ceasefire we know for sure that we will not hit areas where there are Palestinian innocent civilian people refugees or not refugees south, north it doesn't matter we will not hit them but we have to be able to hit the terrorists even though there is a humanitarian operation going on when I was in with the IDF we were in Rwanda and there were the civil war between the Hutu and Tutsis in Rwanda we had a new humanitarian operation going on we were always our weapons and we were ready to fight because at the same time there were terrorists there in Rwanda and even people who were trying to take advantage of the humanitarian aid you will see it in the Sinai and you will see it in Gaza gangsters as you said it might come to the table of the Hamas this humanitarian aid but it will also be attacked by people who want to steal it so all this means we do not need to have a ceasefire we can continue firing but we will spare the innocent people just a small comment when we hear these statements from Sisi and other Arab leaders about caring so much about the Palestinians in Gaza well Europe has managed to take in millions of refugees out of Syria why isn't Egypt and other Arab countries taking any of the Gazans that they say they care so much about it's a good question I want to move now to our correspondent Hamza Salchut is standing by for us in the north of Israel we've been discussing here in studio the evacuation of Israeli citizens from the south to the center but also the evacuation of civilians in the Gaza Strip through the rough crossing in Egypt but now we're hearing that the IDF is planning to evacuate civilians from 28 communities along the Lebanese border as well that's right Bati about an hour ago the Israeli military along with the defense ministry issuing a statement saying that they are evacuating the two kilometers that's 1.2 miles all of those communities along the Lebanese border and indication that the fighting with the Israeli soldiers is going to be a success we've heard about a publishing videos of the anti-tank fire yesterday and the group saying that it was a success I'll remind you one Israeli soldier killed several others wounded in that exchange of fire since the beginning of the tensions along the northern border seven people have been killed one civilian six Israeli soldiers a number of other injuries the international community is calling on all parties to stop especially since one of their headquarters in the Nakura was targeted yesterday by a rocket yesterday Palestinian factions in the south of the country launching several rockets at Israel the Iron Dome intercepting those missiles the Iranians also a key player here as to what will happen on the northern front saying that there are no guarantees as to who will enter this conflict as Israel now braces itself for a regional war should there be continued activity on the northern border Khamda we are looking at live images of the Israel Lebanon border appears pretty tranquil compared to what's happening in the south sirens just before 9 a.m. before this humanitarian ceasefire went into effect we're still blaring what is the situation on the north and explain a little bit to our viewers the difference between both Hamas and Hezbollah's arsenal even though both backed by Iran well look right now along the Lebanese border it is quiet though overnight the Israeli military struck several Hezbollah posts and targets inside Lebanese territory the difference between Hezbollah's arsenal and Hamas is extravagant the Hezbollah group has around a minimum of 150,000 short-range rockets and these are numbers from 2016 so the exact number of these types of missiles is unknown it could have doubled it could have tripled they're also saying that they have longer range more destructive missiles these types of sophisticated weapons that probably come from it on could really inflict damage in Israeli territory so the Israeli military is on high alert the United States does not want a conflict along the Lebanese border it doesn't want Israel in a multi-front war both in the north and the south asking the Israelis to cause any preemptive strikes inside Lebanese territory to try to perhaps eliminate Hezbollah commanders and other figures from the group but the tensions here along the northern border continue the exchanges of fire continue on Friday a military chief in Hezbollah was saying that they are ready to enter the conflict I'll remind you Palestinian factions operating in the south of the country say they're ready as well but only if Hezbollah takes the lead giving us an update on the northern border thank you for that for more than a week the eyes of the world have been on southern Israel as well as the Gaza strip but even the Gaza arena might ultimately prove a side show should the war expand to Lebanon Syria or even Iran itself our senior correspondent Owen Ultiman looks at the Dalemah facing Iran to cut Hamas loose or risk losing everything in Doha on Saturday he was all smiles Iranian foreign minister Hossein Amar Abdul Ayyan greeting Hamas leader Ismail Hania in the capital of Qatar and in Beirut on Friday too he had been all smiles Amar Abdul Ayyan happy with his work and playing coy with what comes next of course the resistance has kept on the table all possible scenarios on the other fronts the zero hour for any action against the crimes is also at the hands of the resistance of course is Hezbollah with Iran even at this hour separating itself formally from the group even as Hezbollah is widely recognized as Iran's proxy as Iran and its network face in Israel at top readiness and the United States set to be parked offshore with two aircraft carrier strike groups Iran and Hezbollah since day one of this war are finding themselves in a dilemma here is the dilemma if Iran is going to send Hezbollah Iran is going to jeopardize not only the risk or downfall of Hamas in Gaza street which seems to be like almost imminent imminent but also a massive strike to Hezbollah and indeed that dilemma Axios reported Iran passed Israel a message through the United Nations warning of Iran's direct entry into the war should the Israeli campaign in Gaza intensify the decisions in Tehran are fateful ones by design or by accident the clock for Iran is ticking to high noon and Israel hopes that for Iran's proxies from Gaza to Lebanon to Syria and beyond that the clock is ticking to midnight Still with me here in studios Rafael Urashalmi a former senior IDF intelligence officer and a security analyst as well as our correspondent guy Azrael Herzog showed CNN yesterday Rafael pictures of a Hamas booklet obstructing the terrorist that infiltrated into Israel how to kidnap and torture Israeli civilians before then taking them into the Gaza strip and yet we still have media like CNN like the BBC that are refusing to call Hamas a terror organization and worse perhaps they are senior correspondents at least one that no longer works for BBC saying slitting the throats of children does not justify as terrorism so what does I think it's easy to say that for a long time now CNN the BBC and some other media are absolute accomplice to terrorism they are instrumental to what is happening and it encourages terrorists to act and even document their atrocities because they send journalists to film the tortures and the raping they are proud of it and that press that is anti-Semitic because there is no other cause for this attitude it has nothing to do with supporting the Palestinian cause believe me you can support the Palestinian cause while condemning terrorism it doesn't go together nothing justifies killing a child nothing justifies raping a woman but first of all let's start by the beginning these journalists are not doing their job as journalists they do not inform they misinform there is a disproportion in the way they cover the Israelis as towards the Palestinians it's not objective they are fed any propaganda material and they will relay it given by the Hamas anything the Hamas will send video clip they will relay it when the Israelis want to do some kind of explanation then they will say no but that's the official version we are not interested they will find all kinds of excuses this is a war that we lost a long time ago we are not going to win it tomorrow morning millions and millions of petro dollars dollars from MBS very rich Arabic countries financing it I just want to say one thing about it it is annoying it is horrible but really really after all these years all these millions and millions of dollars what this propaganda has achieved for the Palestinian cause what has BBC and CNN achieved to advance the well-being of Palestinian people or even the freedom of Palestinian people they have done nothing all they've managed to do is brainwash some people who are already willing to be brainwashed into hating Jews into hating Israel and feeling good about their good feelings towards the Palestinian people but really on the ground nothing has changed all that money could have been used to make schools and hospitals in Gaza all that money could have been spent on going for peace and all the advertising on CNN is financing an anti-Semitic channel that apart from that is not professional it's just not professional they are not giving the info here we are on the channel of course associated with Israel and we have a sympathy for Israel but we give the info as it is that's the difference well perhaps that's a question that I want to challenge you on if we're pointing the finger at other channels is to then turn that finger back to us are we perhaps too close to the story being as Rafael pointed out in Israel a comment that came through on one of our Twitter videos that ended up going viral of our correspondent Nicole Zedek who was in Kibbutz Berri who was in Kfaraz showing the atrocities as it was claimed the only proof that we had at that time before the images came out was the word of the IDF which means that we are de facto biased first of all and this is not an easy position to be in also as a former CNN I will mention here not all CNN correspondents are the same we've seen very good reporting from Nick Robertson and from Anderson Cooper people who did bring the story about the atrocities committed by Hamas and that has to be mentioned here obviously we like other media outlets are relied on information that we are getting from Hamas from the IDF from many other sources obviously we are there to validate that information where Nicole Zedek was in Kfaraz she did not just receive a text message with the IDF instructing her on what to say she saw bodies and she was there and she saw the burned houses she was there and she saw dozens of corpse in bags so yes obviously the IDF is providing information both to us and to other foreign media but that is based on things that we see with our eyes it just doesn't come out of nowhere that is the most basic things as for our channel obviously we try to present Israel's side to this conflict this is part of the reason why this channel was created but I24 news has always been there to also criticize both actions of the IDF wrongdoings of Israeli settlers in the West Bank we've been here in studio so many times criticizing some retaliatory attacks of extreme Israeli settlers against Palestinians we are there to report on any wrongdoing to any civilian and that I think is the difference do you think that there could be still focusing on the subject a piece of some of these viewers we're dealing with two very different viewers there's a viewership that perhaps and I'm not talking about the people that genuinely watch I'm talking about those that are anti-Semitic, anti-Israel have some kind of bias leaning toward the pro-Palestinian stance is there a sense of perhaps because of the amount of I think the correct term is Pollywood the Palestinians using dolls to indicate children I mean there was a video going around just yesterday being Sunday of a doll that was being looked after in a Gaza health ministry who was proclaimed dead do you perhaps think that we are fighting a battle that perhaps doesn't even need to be fought because some of the viewers yes want to be informed they want to see a different role they want to perhaps challenge themselves to understanding that this is far more complex far more intricate there's a lot of moving parts there's a lot of nuance with the Middle East that's why it's a problem that hasn't been solved for so many years but then there's a viewership that is just here is our stance need I say on air perhaps just vile anti-Semites that don't want to see it any other way yes of course we shouldn't waste our time in trying to fight this propaganda and fight even CNN and BBC they are very rich and powerful channels but then it's a waste of time because as you rightfully say we will not change an anti-Semite in a jewelry overnight we cannot impact on that our real aim our goal is to inform those who wish to be informed they do not have they haven't chosen a side yet they are not anti-Semites or they are not jewel-lovers they are just normal people who want to know who want to understand they are far from here it's not their main concern in life either really but sometimes they see these pictures they are short or moved or curious this is a target this is the important target and we have to come we shouldn't go into like arguing with other journalists even though they annoy us but really aim at this huge majority of the viewers who just want to know what's going on what's the score and what's the score is so simple is to remind them of some basic facts historically and genetically true just speak the truth and there are like 10 facts I have no time not to spell it but I actually have an internet site for free where you have those basic facts and this is aimed at people who want to know for instance on this site you have just a few pages with 10 points in 10 points you give the 10 important points you have to go back to the basic things of where all this is all come from what is a Jew, what is a Palestinian what is Jerusalem what is a territory what do you call a terrorist all these things people don't know information but they don't have the means to understand information because they have not been told the basic things Rafael Nerochelmi a former senior IDF intelligence officer and security analyst and our correspondent guy Israel thank you both very much for breaking down the latest stay with us because we have much more on our rolling and breaking news coverage of day 10 of Israel's war against Hamas 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 100 soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped help us we don't want to do 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 this particular project a gross capacity of 103.5 megawatt we'll be producing around 230 gigawatt hour of clean renewable energy per year we came out here to claim for the rain at this moment global warming is affecting Bolivia and not only Bolivia but the whole world and we need rain for the embryos for the embryos rolling and breaking news coverage of day 10 of Israel's war against Hamas the Israeli death toll continues to climb over 1400 Israelis have been murdered by Hamas's combined onslaught more than 100 are still wounded Palestinian sources hold that the fatalities in Gaza are now over 2,600 people this is the Israel Defense Forces continues to strike Hamas targets in the strip according to Palestinian media affiliated with Hamas the overnight airstrikes mainly in Gaza city in the north constituted the heaviest sorties since fighting began last week over 600,000 Gazans relocated to the southern part of the strip as per the IDF's constant warnings and a imminent ground incursion we're seeing live images on the screen now and Hamas is continuing to launch rockets from the enclave onto Israeli cities with exchanges of fire also coming from across the country's northern border as Hezbollah tests Israel's resolve let's cross now live to our correspondent Pierre Stechelbach who is standing by for us in the south of Israel Pierre, rougher crossing between Gaza and Egypt set to reopen but Israel doesn't seem to be on board with a potential even temporary humanitarian ceasefire that is true but we've been receiving reports that a ceasefire has been agreed upon between the US, Egypt and Israel now we're hearing from the Prime Minister's office that that is not the case Hamas also saying that it is unaware of an agreed upon ceasefire that of course coinciding with the expected opening of the rougher crossing between Gaza Strip and Egypt at 9am local time that also does not seem to have been the case now US Secretary of State Antony Blinken saying that the crossing yesterday saying that the crossing will be opening in the following hours he didn't specify when the crossing would be opening they have been reports that the crossing would be open from 9am this morning for five hours foreign nationals have been lining up in front of that crossing already within the last days because that crossing is supposed to be open for the entry of humanitarian aid on the one side and the exit of foreign nationals on the other side now that only accounts for really a minority of Gaza civilians only those who also hold a foreign passport that comes against the backdrop of the humanitarian crisis really increasing and worsening for the civilian population there Israel is saying that more than 600,000 people have made their way from the northern part of the Gaza Strip to the southern part following Israel's call to evacuate that area as a possible ground invasion is looming here the UN saying that the hospitals in Gaza who really need fuel to run their generators will run out of their fuel within the next 24 hours as Israel has cut the fuel and electricity and water supplies to Gaza they have reinstated the water supplies for the southern part of the Gaza Strip really fostering or calling upon more people to make their way south here we've just before we spoke we saw really a roll of four or five tanks making its way to the Gaza border that is right in the middle of the Gaza Strip there is a lot of noise and a lot of noise within the last hour but that really doesn't mean that a ceasefire is in place now but yeah we are looking at live images on the screen right now of Raffa crossing in Gaza and as you mentioned it's a lot of noise from the Israeli strikes here where we're at right now about three kilometers away from the border we have not really heard a lot of noise a lot of things within the Raffa crossing in Gaza and as you mentioned it seems like a minority of foreign nationals because it doesn't seem overly busy I'll remind the viewers we're talking about two million people that are currently in the Gaza Strip and so when we're looking at these live images very few seem to be coming but what more do we know about the potential humanitarian aid that is coming into the Strip not the foreign residents going out of the Strip here right in terms we're first and foremost talking about water food and medicine we're not talking about fuel because Israel's concern is that Hamas will use that fuel to run their generators to operate their tunnels underground Israel's goal here is to dismantle the Hamas infrastructure and also the goal to cut those electricity and fuel and water supplies was to really torpedo the efforts of Hamas to run their system of course this is first and foremost targeting the civilian population there more than ever to go again foreign nationals we don't know the exact numbers of how many people in Gaza actually hold a foreign passport that again they're the absolute minority for the vast majority of the population this humanitarian way to to cross to Egypt is not an option but yeah if it is in place at all. If it is in place at all. If it is in place at all. If it is in place at all. If it is in place at all. If it is in place at all. If it is in place at all. If it is in place at all. Our judges are the analysts and our correspondent guy Israel Guy being very saying that relief for Gaza any aid has to be brought to the cabinet to first review but there's also other reactions coming out about this potential humanitarian or temporary humanitarian ceasefire. Yes of course. Any sort of relief to Gaza while Hamas is still in control public, I think the world needs to understand what sort of trauma the Israeli public in general has been through on that daily Saturday that attack in which 1400 Israelis, including women, children, elderly were slaughtered, some of them beaten, burned, their bodies desecrated, and also up to 200 Israelis that are currently in Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip. Israelis are not willing to give any reliefs to Hamas until that murderous terror group is being eliminated. So yes, the Prime Minister's office was very quick to deny the reports about that humanitarian ceasefire. Ben Gvir is requesting that any relief will be first approved in the cabinet. We're also hearing from Energy Minister Israel Katz, who yesterday, of course, announced the decision to allow water supply into southern Gaza Strip under the demand of President Joe Biden. Well, today he writes that I supported the agreement with Biden about supplying water. I object to the opening of the siege and to entering aid into Gaza. Our commitment is to the families of the Israelis murdered and the hostages now in Gaza and not to the killers of Hamas, obviously, Israel wants to apply maximum pressure on these Hamas terrorists and any such aid. We know very well, we'll go first to the hands of Hamas, to these murderers who slaughtered so many Israelis on Saturday. RFL, Egypt's President Fatah El Sisi is saying that Israel's current campaign in Gaza goes beyond the right to self-defense, saying this also as nationals are starting to gather at the rough crossing, but Palestinian nationals of the Gaza Strip not being allowed to enter into Egypt. Well, first of all, coming from Mr. El Sisi, this kind of accusation makes me smile. When you're talking human rights and the respect of human lives, Mr. El Sisi is a dictator. He got Egypt rid of the Muslim brothers, the Muslim Brotherhood, which was also a tyrannical regime that didn't last long, but he himself is no great Democrat. So coming from him, it's really just let us smile and ignore and let's accuse him and the Egyptian government of crime against mankind, because during the past few days, the Israelis have insisted on the fact that Egypt should open the rough crossing and not only to let some foreign double nationality Palestinians go out, which, by the way, even though we saw quite a few people at the rough crossing are many. There are tens of thousands of Palestinians who do have citizenship, whether it's European or American, the fact that you don't see a lot of people there is very simple. The Hamas is not letting them get there. The Hamas is blocking their way to the rough crossing. The Hamas has exploded main highway used by the people to evacuate to the north of Gaza towards the south, killing 70 people. The Hamas killed 70 Palestinians to block a highway and prevent them from reaching the rough crossing. This being said, of the Hamas, we have no doubt they have a record of crimes against mankind. But the Egyptians are very guilty for the simple reason that would they open. I mean, it's not like people are going to go into Cairo right in the coffee shops and around the Nile. They are going in the Sinai desert. It's a desert. And there you can open a ginormous refugee camp the way the same way it was done in Turkey for Syrian refugees with all the international help being able to arrive freely. And I say it again, Egypt is guilty, but the international community is even more guilty because it doesn't put enough pressure on Egypt. It should parachute without asking Mr. Sisi's permission, already parachute tents, beds, food and make it a feta complete to receive these people. Now on the Israeli part, you have to understand two things, ceasefire, a humanitarian ceasefire. It doesn't exist. We do not need to ceasefire. We know for sure that we will not hit areas where there are Palestinian innocent civilian people, refugees or not refugees, South, North, it doesn't matter. We will not hit them. But we have to be able to hit the terrorists, even though there is a humanitarian operation going on. When I was in with the IDF, we were in Rwanda and there were the civil war between the Hutu and Tutsi in Rwanda. We had a new humanitarian operation going on. We were always our weapons and we were ready to fight because at the same time there were terrorists there in Rwanda and even people who are trying to take advantage of the humanitarian aid. You will see it in the Sinai and you will see it in Gaza gangsters who will try to take this humanitarian aid. As you said, it might come to the table of the Hamas, this humanitarian aid, but it will also be attacked by people who want to steal it. So all this means we do not need to have a ceasefire. We can continue firing, but we will spare the innocent people. Just a small comment when we hear these statements from Sisi and other Arab leaders about caring so much about the Palestinians in Gaza. Well, Europe has managed to take in millions of refugees out of Syria. Why isn't Egypt and other Arab countries taking any of the Gazans that they say they care so much about? Good question. I want to move now to our correspondent Hamza Selkut standing by for us in the north of Israel. Hamza, we've been discussing here in studio the evacuation of Israeli citizens from the south to the center, but also the evacuation of foreign nationals in the Gaza Strip through the refer crossing in Egypt. But now we're hearing that the IDF is planning to evacuate civilians from 28 communities along the Lebanese border as well. That's right, Batia. About an hour ago, the Israeli military along with the Defense Ministry issuing a statement saying that they are evacuating the two kilometers. That's 1.2 miles. All of those communities along the Lebanese border, an indication that the fighting with Hezbollah will persist. Also in the last hour, Hezbollah publishing videos of the anti-tank fire yesterday and the group saying that it was a success. Our mind you, one Israeli soldier killed several others wounded in that exchange of fire. Since the beginning of the tensions along the northern border, seven people have been killed. One civilian, six Israeli soldiers. A number of other injuries. The international community is calling on all parties to stop, especially Unifil, the peacekeeping organization along the blue line that is the Lebanese Israeli border calling on all parties to stop, especially since one of their headquarters in the Nakoura was targeted yesterday by a rocket yesterday, Palestinian factions in the south of the country launching several rockets at Israel. The Iron Dome intercepting those missiles. The Iranians also a key player here as to what will happen on the northern front saying that there are no guarantees as to who will enter this conflict as Israel now braces itself for a semi-regional war. Should there be continued activity on the northern border? Chanda, we are looking at live images of the Israel-Lebanon border appears pretty tranquil compared to what's happening in the south sirens just before 9 a.m. before this humanitarian ceasefire went into effect. We're still blaring. What is the situation on the north? And explain a little bit to our viewers the difference between both Hamas and Hezbollah's arsenal, even though they are both backed by Iran. Well, look, right now along the Lebanese border, it is quiet. Though overnight, the Israeli military struck several Hezbollah posts and targets inside Lebanese territory. The difference between Hezbollah's arsenal and Hamas is extravagant. The Hezbollah group has around a minimum of 150,000 short range rockets. And these are numbers from 2016. So the exact number of these types of missiles is unknown. It could have doubled. It could have tripled. They're also saying that they have longer range, more destructive missiles. These types of sophisticated weapons that probably come from Iran could really inflict damage in Israeli territory. So the Israeli military is on high alert. The United States does not want a conflict along the Lebanese border. It doesn't want Israel in a multi-front war both in the north and the south, asking the Israelis not to cause any preemptive strikes inside Lebanese territory to try to perhaps eliminate Hezbollah commanders and other figures from the group. But the tensions here along the northern border continue. The exchanges of fire continue on Friday. A military chief in Hezbollah was saying that they are ready to enter the conflict. I'll remind you, Palestinian factions operating in the south of the country say they're ready as well, but only if Hezbollah takes the lead. Correspondent Hamza Selkut giving us an update on the northern border. Thank you for that. For more than a week, the eyes of the world have been on southern Israel as well as the Gaza Strip. But even the Gaza arena might ultimately prove a sideshow. Should the war expand to Lebanon, Syria or even Iran itself? A senior correspondent Owen Ultiman looks at the dilemma facing Iran to cut Hamas loose or risk losing everything. In Doha on Saturday, he was all smiles. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amr Abdullaian greeting Hamas leader Ismail Hania in the capital of Qatar. And in Beirut on Friday too, he had been all smiles. Amr Abdullaian happy with his work and playing coy with what comes next. Of course, the resistance has kept on the table all possible scenarios on the other fronts. The zero hour for any action against the crimes is also at the hands of the resistance. The resistance of course is Hezbollah, with Iran even at this hour separating itself formally from the group. Even as Hezbollah is widely recognized as Iran's proxy. As Iran and its network face in Israel at top readiness. And the United States set to be parked offshore with two aircraft carrier strike groups. Iran and Hezbollah, since day one of this war are finding themselves in a dilemma. Here is the dilemma. If Iran is going to send Hezbollah to the war, Iran is going to jeopardize not only the risk or downfall of Hamas in Gaza Street, which seems to be almost imminent, but also a massive strike to Hezbollah. And indeed that dilemma. Axios reported Iran passed Israel a message through the United Nations. Warning of Iran's direct entry into the war. Should the Israeli campaign in Gaza intensify? The decisions in Tehran are fateful ones. By design or by accident, the clock for Iran is ticking to high noon. And Israel hopes that for Iran's proxies from Gaza to Lebanon to Syria and beyond, that the clock is ticking to midnight. So with me here in studios, Rafael, you are showing me a former senior IDF intelligence officer and a security analyst as well as our correspondent guy Azrael. Herzog showed CNN yesterday, Rafael, pictures of a Hamas booklet instructing the terrorists that infiltrated into Israel, how to kidnap and torture Israeli civilians before then taking them into the Gaza Strip. And yet we still have media like CNN, like the BBC, that are refusing to call Hamas a terror organization. And worse, perhaps, they are senior correspondents, at least one that no longer works for BBC saying, slitting the throats of children does not justify as terrorism. So what does? I think it's easy to say that for a long time now, CNN, the BBC, and some other media are absolute accomplice to terrorism. They are instrumental to what is happening and it encourages terrorists to act and even document their atrocities because they send journalists to film the torturers and the raping. They are proud of it. And that press that is anti-Semitic because there is no other cause for this attitude. It has nothing to do with supporting the Palestinian cause. Believe me, you can support the Palestinian cause while condemning terrorism. It doesn't go together. Nothing justifies killing a child, nothing justifies raping a woman. But first of all, let's start by the beginning. These journalists are not doing their job as journalists. They do not inform. They misinform. There is a disproportion in the way they cover the Israelis as towards the Palestinians. It's not objective. They are fed any propaganda material and they will relay it given by the Hamas. Anything the Hamas will send a video clip, they will relay it. When the Israelis want to do some kind of explanation, then they will say, ah, but that's the official version. We're not interested. They will find all kinds of excuses. This is a war that we lost a long time ago. We're not going to win it tomorrow morning. Millions and millions of petro dollars, you know, dollars from MBS and, you know, very rich Arabic countries financing it. I just want to say one thing about it. It is annoying. It is horrible. It encourages violence and anti-Semitism and hatred. But really, really after all these years and all these millions and millions of dollars, what this propaganda has achieved for the Palestinian cause? What has BBC and CNN achieved to advance the well-being of Palestinian people or even the freedom of Palestinian people? They have done nothing. All they've managed to do is brainwash some people who are already willing to be brainwashed into hating Jews, into hating Israel and feeling good about their good feelings towards the Palestinian people. But really on the ground, nothing has changed. All that money could have been used to make schools and hospitals in Gaza. All that money could have been spent going for peace. And all the advertising and CNN is financing an anti-Semitic channel that, apart from that, is not professional. It's just not professional. They're not giving the info. Here we are on the channel that's, of course, associated with Israel and we have a sympathy for Israel. But we give the info as it is. That's the difference. Well, perhaps that's a question that I want to challenge you on. If we're pointing the finger at other channels, is to then turn that finger back to us? Are we perhaps too close to the story being, as Raphael pointed out, in Israel, a comment that came through on one of our Twitter videos that ended up going viral of our correspondent, Nicole Zedek, who was in Kibbutz Baeri, who was in Kfaraz, showing the atrocities as it was, claimed the only proof that we had at that time before the images came out was the word of the IDF, which means that we are de facto biased. First of all, this is not an easy position to be in, also as a former CNN. I will mention here, not all CNN correspondents are the same. We've seen very good reporting from Nick Robertson and from Anderson Cooper, people who did bring the story about the atrocities committed by Hamas and that has to be mentioned here. Obviously, we, like other media outlets, are relied on information that we are getting from Hamas, from the IDF, from many other sources. Obviously, we are there to validate that information where Nicole Zedek was in Kfaraz. She did not just receive a text message with the IDF instructing her on what to say. She was there and she saw bodies. She was there and she saw the burned houses. She was there and she saw dozens of corpse in bags. So, yes, obviously the IDF is providing information, both to us and to other foreign media, but that is based on things that we see with our eyes. It just doesn't come out of nowhere. That is the most basic things. As for our channel, obviously, we try to present Israel's side to this conflict. This is part of the reason why this channel was created. But I24 News has always been there to also criticize both actions of the IDF, wrongdoings of Israeli settlers in the West Bank. We've been here in studio so many times criticizing some retaliatory attacks of extreme Israeli settlers against Palestinians. We are there to report on any wrongdoing to any civilian and that, I think, is the difference. Do you think that there could be still focusing on the subject, a piece of some of these viewers? We're dealing with two very different viewers. There's a viewership that perhaps, and I'm not talking about the people that genuinely watch. I'm talking about those that are anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, have some kind of bias leaning toward the pro-Palestinian stance. Is there a sense of perhaps because of the amount of, I think the correct term is Pellewood, the Palestinians using the word Pellewood, the Palestinians using dolls to indicate children. I mean, there was a video going around just yesterday being Sunday of a doll that was being looked after in a Gaza health ministry who was proclaimed dead. Do you perhaps think that we are fighting a battle that perhaps doesn't even need to be fought? Because some of the viewers, yes, want to be informed. They want to see a different angle. They want to perhaps challenge themselves to understanding that this is far more complex, far more intricate. There's a lot of moving parts. There's a lot of nuance with the Middle East. That's why it's a problem that hasn't been solved for so many years. But then there's a viewership that is just, here is our stance, need I say on it, perhaps just vile NTC minds that don't want to see it any other way. Yes, of course, we shouldn't waste our time in trying to fight this propaganda and fight even CNN and BBC. They are very rich and powerful channels. But then it's a waste of time because as you rightfully say, we will not change an NTC might in a Jew lover overnight. We cannot impact on that. Our real aim, our goal is to inform those who wish to be informed. They do not have, they haven't chosen a side yet. They're not NTC might, so they're not Jew lovers. They're just normal people who want to know, who want to understand. They are far from here. It's not their main concern in life either, really. But sometimes they see these pictures. They're short or moved or curious. And this is the target. This is the important target. And we have to come and we shouldn't go into, like arguing with other journalists or even though they're noyous, but really aim at this huge majority of the viewers who just want to know what's going on. What's the score? And what's the score? It's so simple is to remind them of some basic facts that are historically and genetically true. Just speak the truth and they're like 10 facts. I have no time now to spell it, but I actually have an internet site for free where you have those basic facts. And this is aimed at people who want to know, for instance, on these sites, you have just a few pages with 10 points. Jerusalem, in 10 points, you give the 10 important points. You have to go back to the basic things of where all this is all come from. What is a Jew? What is a Palestinian? What is Jerusalem? What is a territory? What do you call a terrorist? All these things people don't know. And then you give them all this information, but they don't have the means to understand information because they're not being told the basic things. Rafael Aguirre-Shalmi, a former senior IDF intelligence office and security analyst, and our correspondent, Guy Azrael. Thank you both very much for breaking down the latest. Stay with us because we have much more on our Rolling and Breaking News coverage of day 10 of Israel's war against Hamas. We'll be right back. 1,300 people murdered and more than 3,000 injured, and the war with Hamas continues. We bring you firsthand testimonies from the front lines, from those who survived and all the records of the atrocities by Hamas. Follow us as Israel fights terror from the south and north. Get the inside scoop on what's going on. Only on I-24 News. Officially in a state of war, this is a very active scene, and we need to get in the car as we're talking. More than 100 soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped. Tell us we don't want to do it. 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. So our rolling and breaking news coverage of day 10 of Israel's war against Hamas. The Israeli death toll continues to climb. Over 1,400 Israelis have now been murdered by Hamas's combined onslaught, while more than 3,600 are still wounded. Palestinian sources hold that the fatalities in Gaza are now over 2,600 people. This, as the Israel Defense Forces continues to strike Hamas targets in the strip. According to Palestinian media, affiliated with Hamas, the overnight airstrikes mainly in Gaza City in the north constituted the heaviest sortie since fighting began last week. Over 600,000 Gazans relocated to the southern part of the strip as per the IDF's constant warnings and an imminent ground incursion. Those are live images of your screen at the moment of Rafa crossing between Gaza and Egypt. Hamas is continuing to launch rockets from the enclave onto Israeli cities with exchanges of fire also coming across the country's northern border as his bullet tests Israel's resolve. Let's cross our live to our correspondent, Hamde Selkut, who is standing by for us in the north of Israel. Hamde evacuations taking place inside Israel itself in the south, locating families from the southern communities more to the center in Gaza as well with regards to foreign nationals, but also in the northern communities in Israel. What's the latest? Well, Bateh, the Israeli military is continuing that evacuation of 28 communities that are within two kilometers of the Lebanese border and indication that a fight with Hezbollah is imminent, but also at the port in Haifa, several dozen US citizens and their families gathering for an evacuation at a ship, the queue this morning following a security alert issued on Sunday by the US embassy in Jerusalem saying that it's for citizens seeking to leave the country due to flight cancellations in connection with the continued fighting between Israel and Hamas. Now, there have been multiple emergency evacuations, several chartered planes that different countries have been bringing in, but this is the first word of a ship looking to evacuate its citizens back onto US territory here in the north. It has been quite calm overnight. There were strikes in Lebanese territory, the Israeli military targeting Hezbollah sites, but for now it really has been a tense calm, but the situation could change as the Israeli military is preparing itself for continued confrontations with Hezbollah. Hamta, you've been moving between the south and the north of the country over the last week. What is the difference in terms of the sirens that we've been hearing with regards to rockets coming over the borders and the difference in Arsenal by Hamas and Hezbollah and knowing that both are backed by Iran? Well, look, Bante, there have been sirens sounding in all parts of the country from rockets coming in different directions. Earlier in the north, like a few days ago, Hamas launching a long-range missile called the Ayesh 250 that was able to reach Haifa. Now, this is an extremely sophisticated weapon for the regular type of short-range rockets that they have. Yesterday, Palestinian factions in southern Lebanon firing a barrage of rockets into northern Israel, the Iron Dome, able to intercept a lot of those. The weapons capabilities of Hezbollah are far more severe and sophisticated than what they have inside of the Gaza Strip because they are manufactured, how weapons should be manufactured, not underground, not using water pipes or materials used to build buildings from, but they're manufactured in weapons facilities and they could cause a lot of damage if they do come on to Israeli territory. Correspondent Hamdas Al-Khut giving us an update there from the north of the country. And with me here in the studio at the moment is Gonen Ben Yitzhak. I wanna thank you so much. A former Shin Bet agent for being here with me. It's a big question at the moment that many are wondering. The Hamas leadership is sitting in Qatar and giving orders to at least the military leadership in the Gaza Strip that is now being targeted by the Israeli attacks. Why has the Mossad intelligence within the Shin Bet over the past years not gone after the head of the so-called snake so to speak in Qatar? I think that this is a long-term mistake by Israel. Israel didn't know how to govern the situation or how to manage the situation because first of all Hamas is a terror organization but also a government in Gaza. So the decision of Netanyahu's government to keep Hamas alive because Hamas, as long as Hamas is governing the Gaza Strip, you don't bring anybody else, not the PA or anybody else. If you don't bring the PA, you don't need to move on with the peace process or anything like this. So for many years Hamas was functional for the Netanyahu's government. I think that also Netanyahu remembers what happened when he tried to assassinate Khaled Mashal. And I guess that he was afraid to get into some international problem the way he had with Jordan when he tried to assassinate Khaled Mashal. To mention that after the assassination or when he tried to assassinate Khaled Mashal, he needed to release Sheikh Yassin. And Sheikh Yassin was one of the architects of the Second Intifada. So Israel was mistaken all the time the way it handled the problem of Hamas in Gaza Strip. Stay with us. I want to continue that angle of the conversation but I do want to cross now live to our correspondent Pia Steckelbach who is standing by for us in the south of Israel. Information coming through that Rafa crossing is a buzzing but we see at least from the live image is not as many, I'll remind our viewers two million people currently reside around in the Gaza Strip. And it doesn't appear that many are at the Rafa crossing for the time being who is there and what is currently happening. Well Bachi the potential opening of the Rafa crossing we always have to say potential because as of now the crossing did not seem to open yet. Would only apply for foreign nationals. That means that those residents out of the more than two million civilians there that hold a second foreign passport would be eligible to cross over that crossing into Egypt. On the other hand we've been seeing images of trucks lining up on the Egyptian side of the border waiting to get entry to Gaza carrying all kinds of humanitarian help supplies such as food, water, medicine. Israel has said that it would not allow the delivery of fuel into the Gaza Strip as it expects Hamas to use it in order to facilitate their underground tunnels and their weapon facilities. But what we've been seeing is of course that Gaza big parts of Gaza are on their feet more than 600,000 people have followed the Israeli call to move from the northern part of the Gaza Strip to the southern part of the Gaza Strip. But here we're talking about many people who are also not able to move. We're talking about families, elderly people, children. The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is the worsening and has been warning that for the next hours the generators that are used by hospitals will run out of fuel. We've been hearing from Palestinian reports that this night has seen the strongest striking of Israeli forces in Gaza. This morning has been relatively quiet. We have heard from the background here we're about three kilometers away from the northern part of the Gaza Strip. We have heard Israel striking in Gaza. However, especially in the last two hours it has really decreased now. As also there were reports earlier this morning about a possible humanitarian ceasefire to really enable that convoy of humanitarian goods to enter Gaza and to enable foreign nationals to get out. Those reports haven't been confirmed. Also the reports about the possible opening of the Rafah crossing have not been confirmed. It might also be possible that the sites that are involved, Israel, the US and Egypt are now trying to negotiate some sort of agreement leverage with Hamas regarding the hostages. We're talking about 126 confirmed hostages confirmed by the IDF in Gaza that of course are waiting to be freed. And also efforts are being made behind the curtains here, but yeah. I wanna inform our viewers that rocket sirens are going off across central Israel but not Tel Aviv for the time being. We are crossing now to the IDF spokesperson who is busy giving a presser. Let's step in. Stop terror targets in Gaza as we struck operational headquarters, terror infrastructures and terrorists. Hamas is preventing residents of the Gaza Strip from evacuating themselves south of the Gaza City. It sees this as a loss of control. Hundreds of thousands have already went south. I call again to the residents of the city of Gaza and its surrounding. Go south. Go south. Hamas has proven its cruelty towards the people of Israel and now it does so to the residents of the city of Gaza for your personal safety because we are striking in the city of Gaza. Go south. There are corridors that enable you to go there safely. Go south of the Gaza River. We continue our effort on the Gaza border communities to clear the space of terrorists. The citizens must show responsibility, must not reach the area and allow the security forces to continue with their important task. Over the past week, we have reinforced the units in all the communities, part of the war effort and part of the need of the public to be protected. But in these days, it is our duty to be responsible while carrying weapons and maintain the security guidance. There are events of errors with the use of forces. Those who need to operate guns are the security forces. They need to maintain the security guidelines. They save lives. I want to touch on the northern front. Hezbollah has fulfilled, executed yesterday, a number of attacks in order to divert our operational efforts from the south that under Iranian guidance and while risking the state of Lebanon and its citizens, the IDF is prepared. In the north, we've reinforced our forces and we are reacting offensively against the, any attack against us decisively. This morning, the Defense Minister has approved the operation to evict residents from the south up to two kilometers from the border. It is operated by the IDF and the local authorities. Residents have been evacuated, sponsored by the government. This was done in order to reduce the risks for human lives and allow the IDF more operational freedom. We continue to look at the residents of the north. We wanted to reduce risks and that's why we decided on this program. We will continue to reassess the situation. If anything else is done, we will do so. We will take no risk for the residents of the south. Our task is to fight the Hamas terrorist terror group, murderous terror group, and we are focused on Gaza. That's where the kidnapped Israeli civilians are. This is where we're focused on. It is important for me to tell you the reality as it is. The State of Israel has a strong army that is ready on two fronts, can operate on more fronts. It knows how to operate on its own. We maintain other capabilities so that if Hezbollah, and I repeat, if Hezbollah is wrong to examine us, the response will be deadly. The U.S., we operate with full cooperation and that is expressed by actions, and these are well-perceived in the Middle East. I wish to speak about the home front. Our ability to run a war, our ability to run a war, our ability to run a war, our ability to run a war is based on the resilience of the home front and the ability to defend it. Over the next weeks, we'll have to operate next to the war. And that is necessary for us as a state and as a people. We are able to do so. It will be enabled only through listening to the orders of the home front command. I wish to commend the Israeli citizens who are following the guidelines and thereby saving lives. And still, I wish to stress there is no complete defense. You need to remember this. When you listen to the home front command guidelines, when you enter shelters, you are saving lives. We saw this yesterday in Ashkelon how you reduce the number of casualties when people seek shelter, continue to operate in this way. The guidelines of the home front command are updated on a daily basis according to the assessments. You can find them on our website. And at the 104 hotline, we wish to continue the regular life. As for the equipment, at the end of each briefing, I receive a lot of messages about laxing. That was the latest press conference from Rea Admiral Daniel Hagarri, the IDF spokesperson. We now go to Jerusalem, where I'm joined by a member of the Knesset for the United Toro Judaism Party, Mr. Moshe Roth. Good morning to you. You're also a member of the Foreign Affairs, Defense and Health Committees. I'd like to point out as well. We've just heard the IDF giving an update with regards to the situation on both the northern and the southern France, evidently very invested in the fact that this is now a full-on wartime scenario. The security cabinet also said to meet this evening at 8 p.m. local time. How will the government now be moving over to handling the war? Good morning to you, all you listeners. We do hope for the best. I hope this to be a good day, a good morning. I think it's a very trying times for us. To your question, actually all the preparations for this operation has taken into account the possibility of having an autumn front that will be active. We do hope that the Hezbollah will restrain themselves because they are going for a situation where they will totally be annihilated. There's no other possibility for us. In the north, many villages have been evacuated already. We are prepared, fully prepared. The army is prepared. The home front is prepared. But we do hope we don't have to get to that. But if we do, God forbid, have another front, we will be able to handle it. Are you satisfied with the forming of what has come out as the emergency unity government? I'd like to remind the viewers that a lot of the criticism over the past couple of months, even prior to the war with Hamas, was on the coalition, but more specifically, the more far-right members of the coalition in terms of those parties. United Toro-Judism as well as the Shast Party has long been part of the government. What stance does your party take with regards to the formation of a unity party, a national unity emergency government, and also with regards to how you plan on moving forward with the war effort? To your first question, let me tell you something a very important thing to all listeners. The most important thing that we have, the best ammunition we have is our unity. We are, at the moment, unified. That's the most important thing. There's nothing more important than that. So to be unified means to be unified in the government, to be unified out in the street, and to be unified in the Knesset. I'm sitting together with other Knesset members who are on the far left, and we work together totally, brother, sister, together. There's no difference whatsoever. You would never know the difference. You would walk into the Knesset today. You would never know who is part of the coalition, who is part of the position, who is on the right, who is on the left, and the same is in the streets. There are tens of thousands of volunteers from the religious community or working together with the non-religious community. Together on the front and on all parts, men, women, and children are together today with one goal in mind. And that is to bring peace back to our country. So there's nothing else on the agenda. That is to your first question. Going forward, the same. Going forward, we are full with the army, full with the government, and whatever has to be done should be done. And if I may just ask you one final question. Yuli Edelstein, a member of the Knesset for the Nikud Party, has said that as part of the protocols, there will be a thorough investigation as to who exactly was at fault for what is being deemed a major, but major screw up with regards to both the intelligence and the government failures. I understand that there will be a time for reckoning, but where do you stand and what exactly do you have to respond to the fact that at some point, blame will be placed in likely four and many of your coalition partners? There is nothing that should be kept back from the public or from any kind of inquiries about who is to blame. That is very important. What's more important is that nothing should be focused now when everything that has to do with blame should wait till the end of this operation until we bring back the peace to the land. And only then should we sit down and find not only who is to blame, but what social part was to blame and which part of government or judicial has to be changed. But all of that should wait after the operation. Member of Knesset for the United Tour Judas and Party, Mr. Moshe Roth. I want to thank you so very much for taking the time to join me here on the I-24 News Desk this morning. And still with me here in studio is Gonen Ben Yitzhak, former Shin Bet agent. Now Gonen, another part of your job that has famously come to light, obviously being the Green Prince, Mossab Hassan Yosef's handler, the son of Hamas. Before getting to the question, I would like to play you a clip that if I'm not mistaken, I think went viral about six years ago. Let's take a look. Thank you, Mr. President. I take the floor on behalf of the UN Watch. My name is Mossab Hassan Yosef. I grew up in Ramallah as a member of Hamas. I address the words to the Palestinian Authority, which claims to be the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people. I ask, where does your legitimacy come from? The Palestinian people did not elect you and they did not appoint you to represent them. You are self appointed. Your accountability is not to your own people. This is evidenced by your own total violation for their human rights. In fact, the Palestinian individual and their human development is the least of your concerns. You kidnap Palestinian students from campus and torture them in your jails. You torture your political rivals. The suffering of the Palestinian people is the outcome of your selfish political interests. You are the greatest enemy of the Palestinian people. If Israel did not exist, you would have no one to blame. Take responsibility for the outcome of your own actions. You fan the flames of conflict to maintain your abusive power. Finally, you use this platform to mislead the international community, to mislead the Palestinian society, to believe that Israel is responsible for the problems you create. Thank you. Now, interesting that that clip was addressed to the Palestinian Authority, but we are talking about the son of one of the senior members in the Hamas organization. How is it that after listening to a clip like that, we still have a biased media presence toward Israel and we still have, yes, there is a legitimate pro-Palestinian solidarity and cause, but surely their plot gets overshadowed when they can't distinguish between the Palestinian people and Hamas. Somehow, people don't understand the difference between the fact that for the last 50 years, there is an occupation, okay? We occupy millions of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, and the fact that in Gaza, Hamas is a terrorist Gaza in the West Bank, but I'm talking now about Gaza because Gaza is our biggest concern. Hamas is a terrorist organization. They are more into murder and killing people to really save their own people. I think that after the attack last Saturday, Hamas and the Islamic Jihad are not part of the human race. I think that like the Nazis, Israel should aim to destroy them to assassinate all the members of Hamas, but we need to remember that on the other hand, we have Palestinians that are not part of Hamas, they're not part of the killing, and we need to find a solution to this problem. And the fact that Israel, for the last many years, didn't try to find a solution, and it's hard, and I must say, also the PA is not perfect. The PA is not perfect. Abu Mazen is not a perfect match for Israel or for Netanyahu, but we have a problem that we need to solve. And all the time, like I'll say, like in a Polish family, we try to suppress the problems, to hide them, and say, as long as we don't see the problem, there is no problem. No, there is a problem, and the people that want to attack Israel, many of them are anti-Semitics, and they hate Israel, they hate Jews, they use the problem, the Palestinian problem in order to attack Israel. But, again, I think the biggest problem is not the fact that some people criticize Israel in the world. Our biggest problem is to find a solution to our region, because in the end, many Palestinians and all Israelis want to live in peace. They want future to their children. They don't want to wake up into a nightmare like the one we woke up last week. And two words that are very important here are leadership and people that need to take responsibility. And we see right now no responsibility and no leadership, unfortunately. So what is the solution then for the Gaza Strip? We're talking about, okay, we go in, we eradicate Hamas, and it's now the day after. Is imposing then the rule of the Palestinian Authority and the Gaza Strip good enough? Is that an actual viable solution? I think that one part is to attack Hamas, but the other part is to bring the PA back into Gaza. So many people say, do you think that the PA will be ready or will agree to step back into Gaza and rule Gaza using the force of IDF? I say, yes, if we give them a future, if we go not only for them or ask them to take over Gaza, but also we find a solution to what's going on also in the West Bank, we can walk together with the PA to take over Gaza. This is what we need to do. Solutions that hopefully will have some final answers in the next coming days and weeks. Thank you so much for being with us here on the program. We'll see you again at the top of the hour for more updates on day 10 of the war. 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. More than 100 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 work at I-24 News since 2013, since a channel was established and I'm the defense correspondent in English since 2018. As the defense correspondent and also in my previous roles, I was hundreds of times in the road and the Gaza border communities when Red Alert siren sounded meaning that rockets are incoming and we all have to run to the shelters. Most of the times the rockets were intercepted, there were no casualties, no damages and that was my report. But there was one time in the city of Zderot which made me realize we are all wrong. My colleagues and I ran to the shelter again but with us ran a group of children and their mothers. The children were crying. Their mothers were supposed to help them but they were also crying. That is when I realized that what is the work for me is life for them. That's where I understood that there is damage even if no building was damaged and no one was physically hurt. There is railies just like us in Tel Aviv and they deserve to feel the same safety and security that we feel here. Since that morning in Zderot my whole reporting has changed. No longer, no casualties, no damage rockets intercepted and that's it. The damage is ongoing. The damage is mental for those people for those kids who have now grown into this reality. I think they deserve much more than that from the state of Israel and I keep saying this in every report I file about rockets being fired to Zderot even if officially there are no damages and no one was injured. And breaking news coverage of day 10 of Israel's war against Hamas. The Israeli death toll continues to climb. Over 1,400 Israelis have now been murdered by Hamas's combined onslaught while more than 3,600 are still wounded. Palestinian sources hold that the fatalities in Gaza are now over 2,600 people. This as the Israel Defense Forces continues to strike Hamas targets in the Strip. According to Palestinian media affiliated with Hamas, the overnight airstrikes mainly in Gaza City in the north constituted the heaviest sortie since fighting began last week. Over 600,000 Gazans relocated to the southern part of the Strip as per the IDF's constant warnings and an imminent ground incursion. Those are live images of your screen at the moment of rougher crossing between Gaza and Egypt. Hamas is continuing to launch rockets from the enclave onto Israeli cities with exchanges of fire also coming across the country's northern border as his bullet tests Israel's resolve. Let's cross our lives to our correspondent Hamde Selkut who is standing by for us in the north of Israel. Hamde evacuations taking place inside Israel itself in the south, locating families from the southern communities more to the center in Gaza as well with regards to foreign nationals but also in the northern communities in Israel. What's the latest? Well, Bate the Israeli military is continuing that evacuation of 28 communities that are within two kilometers of the Lebanese border and indication that a fight with Hezbollah is imminent but also at the port in Haifa several dozen US citizens and their families gathering for an evacuation for at a ship, the queue this morning following a security alert issued on Sunday by the US embassy in Jerusalem saying that it's for citizens seeking to leave the country due to flight cancellations in connection with the continued fighting between Israel and Hamas. Now there have been multiple emergency evacuations several chartered planes that different countries have been bringing in but this is the first word of a ship looking to evacuate its citizens back onto US territory here in the north it has been quite calm overnight there were strikes in Lebanese territory the Israeli military targeting Hezbollah sites but for now it really has been a tense calm but the situation could change as the Israeli military is preparing itself for continued confrontations with Hezbollah. Hamda you've been moving between the south and the north of the country over the last week what is the difference in terms of the sirens that we've been hearing with regards to rockets coming over the borders and the difference in Arsenal by Hamas and Hezbollah knowing that both are backed by Iran. Well look Badi there have been sirens sounding in all parts of the country from rockets coming in different directions earlier in the north like a few days ago Hamas launching a long-range missile called the Aayesh 250 that was able to reach Haifa now this is an extremely sophisticated weapon for the regular type of short-range rockets that they have yesterday Palestinian factions in southern Lebanon firing a barrage of rockets into northern Israel the Iron Dome able to intercept a lot of those the weapons capabilities of Hezbollah are far more severe and sophisticated than what they have inside of the Gaza Strip because they are manufactured how weapons should be manufactured not underground not using water pipes or materials used to build buildings from but they're manufactured in weapons facilities and they could cause a lot of damage if they do come on to Israeli territory. Correspondent Hamdas Al-Khut giving us an update there from the north of the country and with me here in the studio at the moment is Gonen Ben Yitzhak I want to thank you so much a former Shin Bet agent for being here with me it's a big question at the moment that many are wondering the Hamas leadership is sitting in Qatar and giving orders to the at least the military leadership in the Gaza Strip that is now being targeted by the Israeli attacks why has the Mossad intelligence within the Shin Bet over the past years not gone after the head of the so-called snakes so to speak in Qatar I think that this is a long-term mistake by Israel Israel didn't know how to how to govern the situation or how to manage the situation because first of all Hamas is a terror organization but also a government in Gaza so the decision of Netanyahu's government to keep Hamas alive because Hamas as long as Hamas is governing the Gaza Strip you don't bring anybody else not the PA or anybody else if you don't bring the PA you don't need to move on with the peace process or anything like this so for many years Hamas was functional for the Netanyahu's government I think that also Netanyahu remembers what happened when he tried to assassinate Khaled Mashal and I guess that he was afraid to get into some international problem the way he had with Jordan when he tried to assassinate Khaled Mashal I need to mention that after the assassination when he tried to assassinate Khaled Mashal he needed to release Sheikh Yasin and Sheikh Yasin was one of the architects of the Second Intifada so Israel was mistaken all the time the way it handled the problem of Hamas in Gaza Strip Stay with us I want to continue that angle of the conversation but I do want to cross now live to our correspondent Pia Steckelbach who is standing by for us in the south of Israel Pia information coming through that rougher crossing is abusing but we see at least from the live image there's not as many I'll remind our viewers 2 million people currently reside around in the Gaza Strip and it doesn't appear that many are at the rougher crossing for the time being who is there and what is currently happening the potential opening of the rougher crossing we always have to say potential because as of now the crossing did not seem to open yet would only apply for foreign nationals that means that those residents out of the more than 2 million civilians there that hold foreign passport would be eligible to cross over that crossing into Egypt on the other hand we've been seeing images of trucks lining up on the Egyptian side of the border waiting to get entry to Gaza carrying all kinds of humanitarian help supplies such as food, water medicine Israel has said that it would not allow the delivery of fuel into the Gaza Strip as it expects Hamas to use it in order to facilitate their underground tunnels and their weapon facilities we've been seeing is of course that Gaza, big parts of Gaza are on their feet more than 600,000 people have followed the Israeli call to move from the northern part of the Gaza Strip to the southern part of the Gaza Strip but here we're talking about many people who are also not not able to move, we're talking about families elderly people, children the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is worsening the UN has been warning that for the next hours the generators that are used by hospitals will run out of fuel we've been hearing from Palestinian reports that this night has been the strongest has seen the strongest striking of Israeli forces in Gaza this morning has been relatively quiet we have heard from the background here we're about three kilometers away from the northern part of the Gaza Strip we have heard Israel striking in Gaza however especially in the last two hours it has really decreased now as also there were reports earlier this morning about a possible humanitarian ceasefire to really enable that convoy of humanitarian goods to enter Gaza and to enable foreign nationals to get out those reports haven't been confirmed also the reports about the possible opening of the Rafah crossing have not been confirmed and might also be possible that the sites that are involved Israel, the US and Egypt are now trying to negotiate some sort of agreement leverage with Hamas regarding the hostages we're talking about 126 confirmed hostages confirmed by the IDF in Gaza are waiting to be freed and also efforts are being made behind the curtains here but I want to inform our viewers that rocket sirens are going off across central Israel but not Tel Aviv for the time being we are crossing now to the IDF spokesperson who is busy giving a presser let's step in stop terror targets in Gaza as we struck operational headquarters terror infrastructures and terrorists Hamas is preventing residents of the Gaza Strip from evacuating themselves south of the Gaza city it sees this as a loss of control hundreds of thousands have already went south I call again to the residents of the city of Gaza and its surrounding go south go south Hamas has proven its cruelty towards people of Israel and now it does so to the residents of the city of Gaza for your personal safety because we are striking in the city of Gaza go south there are corridors that enable you to go there safely go south of the Gaza river we continue our effort on the Gaza border communities to clear the space of terrorists the citizens must show responsibility must not reach the area and allow the security forces to continue with their important task over the past week we have reinforced the units in all the communities part of the war effort and part of the need of the public to be protected but in these days it is our duty to be responsible while carrying weapons and maintain the security guidance and there are events of errors with the use of forces those who need to operate guns are the security forces maintain the security guidelines they save lives I want to touch on the northern front Hezbollah has fulfilled our executed yesterday a number of attacks in order to divert our operational efforts from the south that under Iranian guidance and while risking the state of Lebanon and its citizens the IDF is prepared in the north we have reinforced our forces and we are acting offensively against any attack against us decisively this morning the defense minister has approved the operation to evict residents from the south up to two kilometers from the border it is operated by the IDF and the local authorities residents have been sponsored by the government this was done in order to reduce the risks for human lives and allow the IDF more operational freedom we continue to look at the residents of the north we wanted to reduce risks and that's why we decided on this program we will continue to reassess the situation if anything else is done we will do so we will take no risk for the residents of the south our task is to fight the Hamas terrorist terror group murderous terror group and we are focused on Gaza that's where the kidnapped Israeli civilians are this is where we're focused on it is important for me to tell you the reality as it is the state of Israel has a strong army that is ready on two fronts can operate on more fronts it knows how to operate on its own we maintain other capabilities so that if Hezbollah and I repeat if Hezbollah is wrong to examine us the response will be deadly if Hezbollah is wrong to examine us the US we operate with full cooperation and that is expressed by actions and these are well perceived in the Middle East I wish to speak about the home front our ability to run a war is based on the resilience of the home front and the ability to defend it over the next weeks we'll have to operate next to the war and that is necessary for us as a state and as a people we are able to do so it will be enabled only through listening to the orders of the home front command I wish to command the Israeli citizens who are following the guidelines and thereby saving lives and still I wish to stress there is no complete defense you need to remember this when you listen to the home front command guidelines when you enter shelters you are saving lives we saw this yesterday in Ashkelon how you reduce the number of casualties you need to operate in this way the guidelines of the home front command are updated on a daily basis according to the assessments you can find them on our website and at the 104 hotline we wish to continue the regular life as for the equipment at the end of each briefing I receive a lot of messages about lax that was the latest press conference from Rhea Admiral Daniel Haagari the IDF spokesperson we now go to Jerusalem where I'm joined by member of the Knesset for the United Tourism Party Mr. Moshe Roth good morning to you you're also a member of the Foreign Affairs, Defense and Health Committees I'd like to point out as well we've just heard the IDF updates with regards to the situation on both the northern and the southern France evidently very invested in the fact that this is now a full on wartime scenario the security cabinet also said to meet this evening at 8pm local time how will the government now be moving over to handling the war good morning to you to all you listeners we do hope for the best hope this to be a good day a good morning it is a very trying to your question actually all the preparations for this operation has taken an account the possibility of having an autumn front with that will be active we do hope that the Hezbollah will restrain themselves because they are going for a situation where they will totally be analyzed annihilated there is no other possibility for us in the north many villages have been evacuated already we are prepared fully prepared the army is prepared the home front is prepared but we do hope we don't have to get to that but if we do God forbid have another front we will be able to handle it are you satisfied with the forming of what has come out is the emergency unity I'd like to remind the viewers that a lot of the criticism over the past couple of months even prior to the war with Hamas was on the coalition but more specifically the more far right members of the coalition in terms of those parties united Torah Judaism as well as the Shast Party has long been part of the government what stance does your party take with regards to the formation of a unity party a national unity emergency government and also with regards to how you plan on moving forward with the war effort to your first question let me tell you some very important thing to all listeners the most important thing that we have the best ammunition we have is our unity we are at the moment unified this is the most important thing there is nothing more important than that so to be unified means to be unified in the government to be unified out in the street and to be unified in the Knesset with other Knesset members who are on the far left and we work together totally brother sister together there is no difference whatsoever you would never know the difference you would walk into the Knesset today you would never know who is part of the coalition who is part of the position right who is on the left and the same is in the streets there are tens of thousands of volunteers from the religious community working together with a non-religious community on the front and on all all parts men women and children are together today with one goal in mind and that is to bring peace back to our country so there is nothing else on the agenda that is to your first question going forward the same going forward we are full with the army full with the government and whatever has to be done should be done and if I may just ask you one final question Yuli Edelstein a member of the Knesset for the Likud party has said that as part of the protocols there will be a thorough investigation as to who exactly was at fault for what is being deemed a major but major screw up with regards to both the intelligence and the government failures I understand that there will be a time for reckoning but where do you stand or what exactly do you have to respond to the fact that at some point there will be placed in likely four and many of your coalition partners there is nothing that should be kept back from the public or from any kind of inquiries about who is to blame that is very important what's more important is that nothing should be focused now when everything that has to do with blame should wait till the end of this operation until we bring back the peace of the land and only then should we sit down and find not only who is to blame but what what social part was to blame and which part of government or judicial has to be changed but all of that should wait after the operation member of Knesset for the united Torah Judas and party Mr. Moshe Rath, I want to thank you so very much for taking the time to join me here on the I-24 News Desk this morning and still with me here in studio is Gonan Ben-Yetkha another part of your job that has famously come to light obviously being the green print Mos'ab Hassan Yosef's handler the son of Hamas before getting to the question I would like to play you a clip that if I'm not mistaken I think went viral about six years ago let's take a look Thank you Mr. President I take the floor on behalf of you and watch Abbasan Yosef I grew up in Ramallah as a member of Hamas I address the words to the Palestinian Authority which claims to be the so legitimate representative of the Palestinian people I ask where does your legitimacy come from the Palestinian people did not elect you and they did not appoint you to represent them you are self appointed your accountability is not to your own people this is evidenced by your total violation for their human rights in fact the Palestinian individual and their human development is the least of your concerns you kidnap Palestinian students from campus and torture them in your jails you torture your political rivals the suffering of the Palestinian people is the outcome of your selfish political interest you are the greatest enemy of the Palestinian people if Israel did not exist you would have no one to blame take responsibility for the outcome of your own actions you found the flames of conflict to maintain your abusive power finally you use this platform to mislead the international community to mislead the Palestinian society to believe that Israel is responsible for the problems you create Thank you Now interesting that that clip was addressed to the Palestinian Authority but we are talking about the son of one of the senior members in the Hamas organization how is it that after listening to a clip like that we still have a bias media presence toward Israel and we still have yes there is a legitimate pro-Palestinian solidarity and cause but surely their plot gets overshadowed when they can't distinguish between the Palestinian people and Hamas somehow people don't understand the difference between the fact that for the last 50 years there is an occupation okay we occupy millions of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza and the fact that in Gaza Hamas is a terrorist Gaza in the West Bank what I'm talking now about Gaza because Gaza is our biggest concern Hamas is a terrorist organization they are more into murder and killing people to really save their own people I think that after the attack last Saturday Hamas and the Islamic Jihad are not part of the human race I think that like the Nazis Israel should aim to destroy them to assassinate all the members of Hamas but we need to remember that on the other hand we have Palestinians that are not part of Hamas that are not part of the killing and we need to find a solution to this problem and the fact that Israel for the last many years didn't try to find a solution and it's hard and I must say also the PA is not perfect okay the PA is not perfect match for Israel or for Netanyahu but we have a problem that we need to solve and all the time like I said like in a Polish family we try to press the problems to hide them and say as long as we don't see the problem there is no problem no there is a problem and the people that want to attack Israel many of them are anti-Semitic and they hate Israel they hate Jews the problem the Palestinian problem in order to attack Israel but again I think the biggest problem is not the fact that some people criticize Israel in the world our biggest problem is to find a solution to our region because in the end many Palestinians and all Israelis want to live in peace they want future to their children they don't want to wake up into a nightmare like the one we woke up last week and two words that are very important here are leadership and people that need to take responsibility and we see right now no responsibility and no leadership unfortunately. So what is the solution then for the Gaza Strip? We're talking about okay we go in we eradicate Hamas and it's now the day after is imposing then the rule of the Palestinian authority in the Gaza Strip good enough is that an actual viable solution I think that one part is to attack Hamas but the other part is to bring the PA to bring the PA back into Gaza so many people say do you think that the PA will be ready or will agree to step back into Gaza and rule Gaza using the force of IDF I say yes if we give them a future if we go not only for them or ask them to take over Gaza but also we find a solution to what's going on also in the West Bank we can work together with the PA to take over Gaza this is what we need to do and the solutions that hopefully will have some final answers in the next coming days and weeks thank you so much for being with us here on the program we'll see you again at the top of the hour for more updates on day 10 of the war over 1300 people murdered and more than 3000 injured and the war with Hamas continues we bring you first-hand testimonies from the front lines from those who survived records of the atrocities by Hamas follow us as Israel fights terror from the south and north get the inside scoop on what's going on only on i24 news a particular project with a gross capacity of 103.5 megawatt will be producing around 230 gigawatt hour of clean renewable energy per year where they come to claim for the rain in these moments global warming is affecting Bolivia and not only Bolivia, but the whole world and we need rain for the embryos Vakita reserve we have the right ingredients and we have to do the job and that if we have the right ingredients and we do the job that the Vakita can be protected with the coverage of day 10 of Israel's war against Hamas Israeli death toll continues to climb over 1400 Israelis have now been murdered by Hamas's combined onslaught more than 3600 are still wounded Palestinian sources hold that the fatalities in the Gaza Strip are now over 2700 people this is the Israel Defense Forces continues to strike Hamas targets in the Strip the media affiliated with Hamas the overnight airstrikes mainly in Gaza city in the north constituted the heaviest sortie since fighting began last week over 600,000 locations relocated to the southern part of the Strip as per the IDF's constant warnings and an imminent ground incursion Hamas is continuing meanwhile to launch rockets from the enclave into Israeli cities with exchanges of fire also coming because volat tests Israel's resolve well joining me now is your Irocolan the former deputy IDF chief of staff good afternoon to you earlier we heard the IDF spokesperson Rea Admiral Daniel Higari giving a press briefing but was there actual any substance in terms of an update with regards to the Israeli public on the IDF's operations well I think that I cannot add something no serious to Daniel Higari speech is the best person to describe the ongoing operation and the way the general staff is willing to conduct this war I can say few words about the goals of this war and I can mention five different goals the first and the most important one is to destroy the military capability of Hamas the second one is to lock any future attempt to recover Hamas militarily the third goal is to isolate the Gaza front from any intervention from the north or from elsewhere and to be ready for any deterioration in the other front and the fourth is to free all our captive all our hostages in the hands of Hamas and the shift is to recover all our villages and towns around the Gaza street this is a project for the next 10 years and that should be the most important project of any future Israeli government You're correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that you've been stationed down in the south dealing with the situation then I also believe that 300,000 reservists that I have now been deployed both to the northern border, the southern border as well as areas in the west bank and the center of the country does the IDF now have a you've mentioned five goals but are they focused in terms of what comes next we know that during the past year there's been splinters in the IDF in particular with regards to the Air Force with regards to the protest and the ideology and politicians are we seeing it coming together the same way we're seeing an emergency unity government from the political side and citizens coming together regardless of whether they are left or right on the public side it should be said that this unity government is a country government it's no we seem to be losing connection with you the former deputy IDF chief of staff can you hear me we seem to be losing connection with your ear but I do want to thank him for his time the former deputy IDF chief of staff with me here in studio is our correspondent Ariel Levin Wolman and also raffael urushelmi who joins me once again in a studio IDF intelligence officer and a security analyst. Gentlemen, I want to start, Rafael, with you with regards to he mentioned five clear goals that the IDF has. But there's a fundamental question that keeps popping up now that the fog of war has really settled and we've been able to spend the last week still spending the next couple of days mourning the losses that Israel has seen over the past week from Hamas's massacre. What happens the day after all these five tasks are achieved with regards to Hamas in the Gaza Strip and the southern communities? Well, the day after will depend a lot on the situation on the ground. For instance, the day after in Gaza will depend on the level of destruction that have been perpetrated by the heavy combats and bombardments. Also, whether the Hamas is really, really annihilated or is it still around the ideal situation if this war is one to call it a victory, actually, is that the Hamas is destroyed not to come ever back here again. That's it. Might be some other guys coming around. Normally, as Joe Biden rightfully said, we should go back to what it was before the Hamas, meaning Gaza is part of the Palestinian autonomy, the Palestinian entity and the regime in place in Ramallah. Well, right now it's the PLO with Abu Mazen. Tomorrow it might be some other party, but it doesn't matter. It should be back into that. We've certainly, I agree with the Biden administration that we should not think of occupying the Gaza Strip or recuperating the Gaza Strip. Nobody wants the Gaza Strip. The Egyptians for sure don't want it. We are not so happy with it either. It's a very difficult place to govern. It's densely populated. There are no resources for people. There are no workplaces for people. It's a humanitarian problem even in peacetime. So it should be under the Palestinian autonomy and go back to the help from Qatar, from all the rich-arming countries to help the Gaza Strip. The day after is also, we are now documenting every single move that we make. Every unit has a camera on the helmet to show what we are doing. So it's because we want to make sure we are doing it the right way, the humanitarian way following the rules of war, but avoiding as much as possible collateral damage. This is because of our Jewish values, our humanistic values, also our responsibility to us, our allies, such as the Americans and European countries, that expect us to behave that way. So we want to show them we are behaving that way because that's the way we will have their support. We spoke before about Hasbara explaining to the foreign press, to the public convenience. We have, first of all, first priority to explain to the governments that are allies. From administration to administration, from army to army, people trust us to be moral, ethical, et cetera, but we have to show, detail it, all the more so now that because of the judicial reform, we might really, after the war, the day after, we might see the Hague Tribunal and also tribunals try to sue us for crime against mankind, et cetera, et cetera. The day after, we also depend on what happens here. Because here in Israel, first of all, we'll have, at the day after, see what went wrong. What the hell went wrong? Intelligence, okay, army, okay, but also at the political level, heads are gonna fall. It could be any head, starting with the highest head, the prime minister. So what happens then? Do we have a change of government and then a change of policy? But unfortunately, the day after seems to be quite far away right now, even now more in the day before. We don't even know when we are going to go in. So the day after, we'll speak about it when it's after. Gentlemen, stay with us, Ariel. I do want to touch on the social media side of things, because that's another side of the war that we need to cover. But first, I want to get an update from our correspondent, Hamda Salchote, standing by for us in the north of Israel. Hamda, we've just heard rocket siren alerts being going off in the southern communities, supposed time frame for the time being that Gazans are able to move to the south to get to Rafa crossing, to get humanitarian aid in and possibly foreign nationals out. But now that seems to be crumbling down with rockets coming over the border. What's the situation in the north at the moment? Well, at Batia Comm continues here along the northern border. We haven't really heard any activity since last night when the Israeli military struck several Hezbollah targets. But just in this last hour, the Israeli military spokesperson sending a direct message to Iran, warning them from getting involved in the conflict and echoing that message to Hezbollah, saying, quote, Hezbollah carried out a number of attacks yesterday in order to divert our operational efforts away from the Gaza Strip under the direction and backing of Iran while endangering the state of Lebanon and its citizens. We've increased our forces on the northern border and will respond aggressively to any activity against us, continuing on to say that the response to Hezbollah will be deadly. The Iranian foreign minister speaking out, saying that he denies that Iran has any involvement in Hezbollah's activities along the northern border. I'll remind you since the started last Saturday in the activity here along the northern border, border seven people have been killed among them. One civilian and six Israeli soldiers, countless others wounded. So the Israeli military is really preparing itself here on the northern front, several reinforcements sent in throughout the last week, battle tanks, armored vehicles, all types of other military equipment and machinery along with dozens, if not hundreds of reservists that have been sent up here to the north to secure the border that the Israeli military is now afraid will turn into a new front of this war. Correspondent Hamza Selkut reporting from the north of Israel on the border with Lebanon. Thank you for that update. I'd like to go back now to your Ergolan, the former deputy IDF chief of staff. I believe we have you up and running again. The last question that I'll ask you before we got cut off by technical issues was whether the IDF is now united the same way the politicians and the public claim to be with regards to the war? Well, the IDF is well, I think recovered entirely and completely from the major blow inflicted upon us by Hamas. But right now, I think we all units are ready and determined to beat Hamas and to beat the Jihadic Islam in the Gaza Strip and elsewhere if it's needed. So I don't think there is a problem with the IDF right now. What we need to keep in mind is that some, you know, strategic mistakes have been done in the last 14 years by politicians. And the fact that for many, many years when strength Hamas and weakened the Palestinian Authority, that's a major mistake. The fact that for the last 10 months, we harm the Israeli deterrence by showing the rest of the region that we that we tore ourselves from the inside. That's a terrible mistake. And the people who and some people, some prominent politicians should take the blame for that. You can we cannot ignore the military blunder. And we cannot explain the military blunder without understanding the political blunder. And I would say that the creation of the political system for the last four years. So this is something we need to keep in mind. Maybe it's not the time to elaborate more about it. But by the day, the last gun will be silent. Then we should say, all right, we have some internal problems that we need to fix. And as we're speaking to you, there are rocket sirens going off again in the Gaza border area. And as you mentioned, obviously not the time for reckoning or for blame placing. But you bring up an interesting point that the political and the military failures go hand in hand here, which brings me to my next question of now before the time of reckoning comes, there's a plan in action that is getting rid of the terrorist organization of Hamas from the Gaza Strip. Hamas, for many years, seen as sort of the smaller player when you're looking at them compared to Hezbollah and in terms of Iran's backing. I think the major shock factor here was the fact that we had terrorist infiltrate into Israel. Is there a sort of shock factor with Hezbollah? Does it have to depend on their arsenal, which is by far stronger than Hamas in the event that we are facing a multi-front war? Well, first and foremost, we need to understand every Israeli civilian and every civilian around the globe need to understand that we are capable to fight more than one front simultaneously. We prepare for that. We are ready for that. And we are going to do it in the most decisive manner. And yes, if Hezbollah is willing to challenge us, or if Iran is willing to challenge us, then they will be defeated entirely. And that's something I can assure you. And all our audience, because there is no other way. Israel is fighting for its life, for its ability to flourish and to be a healthy society here in the Middle East. And I call everyone around the globe to support Israel because this is truly a war of flight against darkness. Yeah, Erdogan, the former Deputy IDF Chief of Staff. I want to thank you very much for taking the time to speak with us here on I-24 News this afternoon. Thank you. Thank you very much. And as I mentioned before, we got updates from the Northern border as well as the former IDF Chief of Staff Ariel Levin-Waldman, our I-24 News correspondent is here in studio as well. A different war to be fought with regards to what is happening at the moment online. Now, what sort of happened over the last week is we went from seeing an uptick in support for Israel. Manny from Mark Zuckerberg, the head of Metta and Facebook, and also from other organizations like Google, and I believe Twitter as well with Elon Musk, if I'm not mistaken at the helm. But then it started to fizzle out as we've started to retaliate in Gaza. And now we're starting to get to the point of memes and almost lighthearted jokes coming to the fore of Jewish MPs in Belgium. And I'm hoping that we've actually got the clip showing how he bought the Hamas domain in Belgium. And when you click on it, it turns into the IDF website. Well, ultimately, the digital battleground has always been a facet of what's known as fifth generation of warfare. In the past, when we're talking about information and warfare, you talked about propaganda. It was a tool to demoralize the enemy or remoralize or revitalize your own troops to fight harder. In the modern era with social media and the digital battleground, it has become a strategy in and of itself, fifth generation of warfare, because so much of how wars fought, particularly in Western democracies, involves rallying the support of democratically elected politicians and to put pressure on them. Usually you could do this through misinformation and disinformation to change people's minds, but it's beyond that too. And social media has become a tool for doing exactly that. In the immediate aftermath of the attack, Hamas had been live streaming their atrocities for the entire world to see. Civilized people around the world saw this and realized there was no way they can call themselves a human being and support this. However, in the week since then, we have seen wave after wave of denials making its way across social media, saying the video was fake, the video that Hamas directly live streamed. People are now saying this was done via artificial intelligence, providing absolutely bonkers images they claim are the originals that were doctored that were obviously created by AI themselves. So this is the battleground in which they are trying to make Western populations look at the video and say, okay, maybe it didn't happen, maybe it wasn't that bad, maybe it doesn't justify what Israel is doing as something necessary to protect itself. Because this information control space is a vital facet of how war is done. And not just informational control when it comes down to support for democratically elected leaders, more talking about the digital battleground, it's also a way of mobilizing people, including fifth column elements. It's critical to mention this because we saw in the immediate aftermath of Hamas's massacres in Israel South rallies supporting Hamas in every major European capital, not supporting the people of Gaza, supporting Hamas for their atrocities. If you promote atrocity propaganda to them, which Hamas has been doing, taking pictures of dead Israeli civilians and saying, oh, these are children in Gaza that were killed by the Israelis. Well, you can promote these fifth column elements in Western nations to carry out attacks on their behalf. So this is the power and the usage of fifth generational informational warfare. The question then becomes, what can these organizations, these social media companies actually do about it? And the European Parliament directly called on Mark Zuckerberg to answer this question, to give him a 24 hour deadline. What are you doing against terrorism? What are you doing against misinformation on your platform? And that's the big question that all these platforms are trying to say to answer. They can say very loudly they support Israel. What does that translate into when the chips are down? When you see Hamas, Iran, Hezbollah using fifth generational warfare strategies to mobilize fifth column elements in other nations commit attacks to deny the atrocities of Hamas and to put pressure on democratically elected politicians to try to pull their support out from behind Israel to prevent that and to get sympathies for the murderers of Hamas themselves. And we don't know how that's going to manifest yet. Certainly they might try to crack down on the survey information, but there's so much of it out there that a human being looking at this doesn't have enough time in the world. And to add to that, it's not just Hamas massacres and Israelis that are being targeted. This number is just almost unfathomable and not even believable. But calls online for violence against Jews rose by 1200% in the past week. That's according to organizations that are tracking a 1200% violence against Jews, not Israelis and not with regards to the Hamas massacre. So as you mentioned, this is what the social media giants are now trying to mitigate. Well, absolutely. It's hardly surprised because we saw the rallies. The rallies did not begin after Israel began counterattacking. The pro Hamas rallies came out immediately in the aftermath of the massacre of civilians, of atrocities and crimes against humanity commit against civilians. So these rallies, which took place in every single major European and Western capital around the world, were fully in support of the murder of Jews, not against the Israeli government, not against the Israeli military, the Jewish civilians worldwide. When you see people walking down the streets of New York, waving swastikas and chanting gas the Jews, they mean it. They mean to be organized to do it and social media is allowing them to organize these protests, these rallies, and frankly, these calls to action against Jews worldwide. Ariel, we'll continue with that discussion in Littlebirds. But based on that topic, here in studio is another guest, Alec Birkin, an Israeli-American who took on a truly selfish, selfless, rather, mission. I believe you were meant to get married this past week, and then the war broke out, and so the wedding was postponed, cancelled. You also had the mission of trying to get friends and family that had flown in out of the country to evade war. But then you did something truly remarkable by raising money for reservists. I want to start by asking the first part of that question and tell you how sorry we are that your wedding first and foremost got interrupted by this war. But also, how difficult was it to get your friends and your family out of the country, given that most airlines barring LL, Israel's National Carrier, were halting all their flights? Yeah, I mean, Danielle, my fiance and I were meant to get married on October 12th. This past Thursday, when the war broke out, 6.30 a.m. on Saturday morning, we already had about 50 of our 120 out of town guests that we were expecting. Obviously, they are not accustomed to this, nor should any of us be accustomed, but that's the unfortunate reality of living here in Israel with Hamas as the governing body of Gaza. And there was immediate panic. We did not know what to do. Certainly, it took all of us, I think, the day on Saturday to understand the severity of this issue. Personally, right when I saw that there were armed Hamas terrorists inside of Israeli territory, it was clear to me that this week was not going to continue as planned. This was going to take time. Certainly, the number of hostages now that we learned there's nearly 200 Israeli hostages that are being held by Hamas in Gaza. And Danielle and I had to make a very quick decision. We woke up on Sunday morning and together decided to postpone, cancel. We don't know what. We're not in a position to think about that. And I wanted to make it very clear. We feel, obviously, a loss for our wedding, but this is a small suffering relative to the pain, the angst, the death that this land folks on both sides are feeling. So we feel lucky. We wake up every morning. We hug each other. We will get married. And our guests, thankfully, the 50 guests that were in country have made it onwards on their way home. It was very challenging getting them out of the country. It was difficult managing the flights, many flight cancellations, obviously expensive flights. Unfortunately, that's what happens in times of conflict. Demand rises. I wish the governments around the world acted quicker in order to mobilize their citizens as a dual Israeli-American. I can express my frustration with the US government that more didn't happen faster in the aid of US citizens that have been stuck in Israel. But I'm very, again, fortunate to say that my US-based family is all out of Israel and on the way home. And tell us a little bit about the fundraising part. You started an initiative to raise money for reservists. Yeah, so again, on Sunday, we very quickly transitioned our thinking, our mindset, our efforts from dealing with the wedding to helping our guests get out of Israel and the outreach from my American-based community was incredible. As conflicts occur over the years, people have reached out with concern. But based off of the severity and the tragedy that we have faced on Saturday, the response was equivalent. And folks from all walks of my life reached out wanting to help. And it was very clear and evident that we needed to provide them an avenue to help. So we have very quickly opened up just a very direct way of funding the reservist units. I have many friends who have been called up into the reservists, have left their families, and we are providing direct donation. So far, we've raised about 30,000 US dollars in order to provide immediate relief on the ground. And no doubt possibly your friends and family that were flying in from overseas wanted to help out as well. Are they part of this initiative? Of course, yeah, every single person has been sharing dealing with the battle of social media and helping spread the word. Of course, they will be resharing this segment, as I'm sure. And they have played an extremely important role having experienced a small taste of this. I think in planning a wedding in Israel with many guests from abroad, we had a fantasy of showing them only the beautiful parts of our country. Hamas had a different plan and they succeeded in this instance. And this is just clear evidence of why they need to be destroyed. Israel cannot exist and will not exist with Hamas as the governing body of Gaza. Well, no doubt, as I'm pretty sure Raphael can attest to as well as Ariel and yourself included, that that will not be the case. And you will be able to have your wedding and invite people to see the beauty of Israel. Alec Burkin, Ariel Levin Waldman, Raphael Yerushalmi. Thank you all so very much for being in here in studio to break down the latest on our rolling coverage here on I-24 News on day 10 of Israel's war against Hamas. We'll be right back at the top of the hour for more news. 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 100 soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped. Tell us we don't want to do it. 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. And the way that it works is it generates this random body that kind of looks like a sponge and it evaluates its behavior. 100 people murdered and more than 3,000 injured. And the war with Hamas continues. We bring you first hand testimonies from the front lines, from those who survived and all the records of the atrocities by Hamas. Follow us as Israel fights terror from the south and north. Get the inside scoop on what's going on. Only on I-24 News. Rilling and breaking news, coverage of day 10 of Israel's war against Hamas. The Israeli death toll continues to climb. Over 1,400 Israelis have now been murdered by Hamas's combined onslaught. More than 3,600 are still wounded. Palestinian sources hold that the fatalities in the Gaza Strip are now overtaken. The Israeli death toll continues to climb over 1,400 Israelis have now been murdered by Hamas. The Israeli death toll continues to climb over 2,700 Israelis have now been murdered. The Israeli death toll continues to climb over 2,700 Israelis have now been murdered. Over 2,700 Israelis have now been murdered by Hamas. This is the Israeli defense forces continues to strike Hamas targets in the strip. According to Palestine media affiliated with Hamas, Hamas is continuing meanwhile to launch rockets from the enclave into Israeli cities with exchanges of fire also coming across the country's northern border as Hezbollah tests Israel's resolve. Well, joining me now is your Iroh Golan, the former Deputy IDF Chief of Staff. Good afternoon to you. Earlier, we heard the IDF spokesperson Ria Admiral Daniel Hagarri giving a press briefing. But was there actually any substance in terms of an update with regards to the Israeli public on the IDF's operations? Well, I think that I cannot add something no serious to Daniel Hagarri's speech is the best person to describe the ongoing operation and the way the general staff is willing to conduct this war. I can say, you know, few words about the goals of this war, and I can mention five different goals. The first and the most important one is to destroy the military capability of Hamas. The second one is to lock any future attempt to recover Hamas militarily. The third goal is to isolate the Gaza front from any intervention from the north or from elsewhere and to be ready for any deterioration in the other front. The fourth is to free all our captive, all our hostages in the hands of Hamas, and the shift is to recover all our villages, kibbutzim and towns around the Gaza Strip. This is a project for the next ten years, and that should be the most important project of any future Israeli government. Yeah, Eric, correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that you've been stationed down in the south dealing with the situation there. And I also believe that the 300,000 reservists that I have now been deployed both to the northern border, the southern border, as well as areas in the West Bank and the center of the country. Does the IDF now have a, you've mentioned five goals, but are they focused in terms of what comes next? We know that during the past year there's been splinters in the IDF, in particular with regards to the Air Force, with regards to the protests, and the differences in ideology and politicians. Are we seeing it coming together the same way we're seeing an emergency unity government from the political side and citizens coming together regardless of whether they are left or right on the public side? Oh, it should be said that this unique government, the temporary government, I am hopeful that they will be able to do that. All right, we seem to be losing connection with you, the former deputy IDF chief of staff. Can you hear me, Eir? No, we seem to be losing connection with Eir Golan, but I do want to thank him for his time, the former deputy IDF chief of staff. With me here in studio is our correspondent, Ariel Levin-Waldman, and also Raphael Yerushalmi, who joins me once again in studio, a former senior IDF intelligence officer and a security analyst. Gentlemen, I want to start, Raphael, with you with regards to, he mentioned five clear goals that the IDF has. But there's a fundamental question that keeps popping up now that the fog of war has really settled, and we've been able to spend the last week still spending the next couple of days mourning the losses that Israel has seen over the past week from Hamas's massacre. But what happens the day after all these five tasks are achieved with regards to Hamas in the Gaza Strip and the southern communities? Well, the day after will depend a lot on the situation on the ground. For instance, the day after in Gaza will depend on the level of destruction that will have been perpetrated by the heavy combats and bombardments. Also, whether the Hamas is really, really annihilated or is it still around? The ideal situation, if this war is one to call it a victory, actually, is that the Hamas is destroyed not to come ever back here again. That's it. Might be some other guys coming around. Normally, as Joe Biden rightfully said, we should go back to what it was before the Hamas, meaning Gaza is part of the Palestinian autonomy, the Palestinian entity, and the regime in place in Ramallah. Right now it's the PLO with Abu Mazen. Tomorrow it might be some other party, but it doesn't matter. It should be back into that. We've certainly, I agree with the Biden administration that we should not think of occupying the Gaza Strip or recuperating the Gaza Strip. Nobody wants the Gaza Strip. The Egyptians for sure don't want it. We are not so happy with it either. It's a very difficult place to govern. It's densely populated. There are no resources for people. There are no workplaces for people. It's a humanitarian problem, even in peacetime. So it should be under the Palestinian autonomy and go back to the help from Qatar, from all the rich Arab countries to help the Gaza Strip. The day after is also we are now documenting every single move that we make, every unit has a camera on the helmet to show what we are doing. So it's because we want to make sure we are doing it the right way, the humanitarian way, following the rules of war, but avoiding as much as possible collateral damage. This is because of our Jewish values, our humanistic values, also our responsibility towards our allies, such as the Americans and European countries that expect us to behave that way. So we want to show them we are behaving that way, because that's the way we will have their support. We spoke before about Hasbara explaining to the foreign press, to the public opinion. We have, first of all, first priority to explain to the governments that are allies, from administration to administration, from army to army. People trust us to be moral, ethical, et cetera. But we have to show, detail it, all the more so now that because of the judicial reform, we might really, after the war, the day after, might see the Hague tribunal and also tribunals try to sue us for crime against mankind, et cetera, et cetera. The day after, we also depend on what happens here. Because here in Israel, first of all, we'll have the day after see what went wrong. What the hell went wrong? Intelligence, OK, army, OK, but also at the political level. The heads are going to fall. It could be any head, starting with the highest head, the prime minister. So what happens then? Do we have a change of government and then a change of policy? But unfortunately, the day after seems to be quite far away right now. We are even now more in the day before. We don't even know when we are going to go in. So the day after, we'll speak about it when it's after. Gentlemen, stay with us, Ariel. I do want to touch on the social media side of things, because that's another side of the war that we need to cover. But first, I want to get an update from our correspondent, Hamda Salchote, standing by for us in the north of Israel. Hamda, we've just heard rocket siren alerts being going off in the southern communities. Supposed time frame for the time being that Gazans are able to move to the south to get to Raffa Crossing, to get humanitarian aid in, and possibly foreign nationals out. But now that seems to be crumbling down with rockets coming over the border. What's the situation in the north at the moment? Well, at Batia Com continues here along the northern border. We haven't really heard any activity since last night when the Israeli military struck several Hezbollah targets. But just in this last hour, the Israeli military spokesperson sending a direct message to Iran, warning them from getting involved in the conflict, and echoing that message to Hezbollah saying, quote, Hezbollah carried out a number of attacks yesterday in order to divert our operational efforts away from the Gaza Strip under the direction and backing of Iran while endangering the state of Lebanon and its citizens. We've increased our forces on the northern border and will respond aggressively to any activity against us, continuing on to say that the response to Hezbollah will be deadly. The Iranian foreign minister speaking out, saying that he denies that Iran has any involvement in Hezbollah's activities along the northern border. I'll remind you since this started last Saturday, in the activity here along the northern border, seven people have been killed, among them one civilian and six Israeli soldiers, countless others wounded. So the Israeli military is really preparing itself here on the northern front, several reinforcements sent in throughout the last week, battle tanks, armored vehicles, all types of other military equipment and machinery along with dozens, if not hundreds of reservists that have been sent up here to the north to secure the border that the Israeli military is now afraid will turn into a new front of this war. Correspondent Hamd Al-Sahut reporting from the north of Israel on the border with Lebanon. Thank you for that update. I'd like to go back now to Yair Golan, the former deputy IDF chief of staff. I believe we have you up and running again. The last question that I'll ask you before we got cut off by technical issues was whether the IDF is now united the same way the politicians and the public claim to be with regards to the war? Well, the IDF is, well, I think recovered entirely and completely from the major blow inflicted upon us by Hamas. But right now I think we, all units are ready and determined to beat Hamas and to beat the Jihadic Islam in the Gaza Strip and elsewhere if it's needed. So I don't think there is a problem with the IDF right now. What we need to keep in mind is that some, you know, strategic mistakes have been done in the last 14 years by politicians and the fact that for many, many years when strength Hamas and weakened the Palestinian authority, that's a major mistake. The fact that for the last 10 months, we harm the Israeli deterrence by showing the rest of the region that we tore ourselves from the inside. That's a terrible mistake. And the people who, and some people, some prominent politicians should take the blame for that. You can, we cannot ignore the military blunder. And we cannot explain the military blunder without understanding the political blunder. And I would say that the trolleysion of the political system for the last four years. So this is something we need to keep in mind. Maybe it's not the time to elaborate more about it, but by the day, the last gun will be silent and then we should say, all right, we have some internal problems that we need to fix. And as we're speaking to you, there are rocket sirens going off again in the Gaza border area. And as you mentioned, obviously not the time for reckoning or for blame-placing, but you bring up an interesting point that the political and the military failures go hand in hand here, which brings me to my next question of now before the time of reckoning comes. There's a plan in action that is getting rid of the terrorist organization of Hamas from the Gaza Strip. Hamas, for many years seen as sort of the smaller player when you're looking at them compared to Hezbollah and in terms of Iran's backing. I think the major shock factor here was the fact that we had terrorists infiltrate into Israel. Is there a sort of shock factor with Hezbollah? Does it have to depend on their arsenal, which is by far stronger than Hamas in the event that we are facing a multi-front wall? Well, first and foremost, we need to understand every Israeli civilian and every civilian around the globe need to understand that we are capable to fight more than one front simultaneously. We prepare for that, we are ready for that and we are going to do it in the most decisive manner. And yes, if Hezbollah is willing to challenge us or if Iran is willing to challenge us, then they will be defeated entirely. And that's something I can assure you and all our audience, because there is no other way. Israel is fighting for its life, for its ability to flourish and to be a healthy society here in the Middle East. And I call everyone around the globe to support Israel because this is truly a war of flight against darkness. Yeah, Erdogan, the former deputy IDF, chief of staff, I want to thank you very much for taking the time to speak with us here on I-24 News this afternoon. Thank you, thank you very much. And as I mentioned before, we got updates from the Northern border as well as the former IDF chief of staff, Ariel Levin Waldman, our I-24 News correspondent is here in studio as well. A different war to be fought with regards to what is happening at the moment online. Now, what sort of happened over the last week is we went from seeing an uptick in support for Israel, mainly from Mark Zuckerberg, the head of Metta and Facebook and also from other organizations like Google and I believe Twitter as well with Elon Musk, if I'm not mistaken at the helm. But then it started to fizzle out as we've started to retaliate in Gaza. And now we're starting to get to the point of memes and almost lighthearted jokes coming to the fore of Jewish MPs in Belgium. And I'm hoping that we've actually got the clip showing how he bought the Hamas domain in Belgium. And when you click on it, it turns into the IDF website. Well, ultimately the digital battleground has always been a facet of what's known as fifth-generational warfare. In the past, when we're talking about information and warfare, you talked about propaganda. It was a tool to demoralize the enemy or remoralize or revitalize your own troops to fight harder. In the modern era with social media and the digital battleground, it has become a strategy in and of itself fifth-generational warfare because so much of how war is fought, particularly in Western democracies, involves rallying support of democratically elected politicians and to put pressure on them. Usually you could do this through misinformation and disinformation to change people's minds, but it's beyond that too. And social media has become a tool for doing exactly that. In the immediate aftermath of the attack, Hamas had been live streaming their atrocities for the entire world to see. Civilized people around the world saw this and realized there was no way they can call themselves a human being and support this. However, in the week since then, we have seen wave after wave of denials making its way across social media, saying the video was fake, the video that Hamas directly live streamed, people are now saying this was done via artificial intelligence, providing absolutely bonkers images they claim are the originals that were doctored that were obviously created by AI themselves. So this is the battleground in which they are trying to make Western populations look at the video and say, okay, maybe it didn't happen, maybe it wasn't that bad, maybe it doesn't justify what Israel is doing as something necessary to protect itself because this information control space is a vital facet of how war is done. And not just informational control when it comes down to support for democratically elected leaders. When we're talking about the digital battleground, it's also a way of mobilizing people including fifth column elements. It's critical to mention this because we saw in the immediate aftermath of Hamas's massacres in Israel South, rallies supporting Hamas in every major European capital, not supporting the people of Gaza, supporting Hamas for their atrocities. If you promote atrocity propaganda to them, which Hamas has been doing, taking pictures of dead Israeli civilians and saying, oh, these are children in Gaza that were killed by the Israelis. Well, you can promote these fifth column elements in Western nations to carry out attacks on their behalf. So this is the power and the usage of fifth-generational informational warfare. The question then becomes, what can these organizations, these social media companies, actually do about it? And the European Parliament directly called on Mark Zuckerberg to answer this question. They give him a 24-hour deadline. What are you doing against terrorism? What are you doing against misinformation on your platform? And that's the big question that all these platforms are trying to say, to answer. They can say, very loudly, they support Israel. What does that translate into when the chips are down? When you see Hamas, Iran, Hezbollah using fifth-generational warfare strategies to mobilize fifth column elements in other nations that commit attacks to deny the atrocities of Hamas and to put pressure on democratically-elected politicians to try to pull their support out from behind Israel, to prevent that, and to get sympathies for the murderers of Hamas themselves. And we don't know how that's going to manifest yet. Certainly, they might try to crack down on mis-survey information, but there's so much of it out there that a human being looking at this doesn't have enough time in the world. And to add to that, it's not just Hamas massacres and Israelis that are being targeted. This number is just almost unfathomable and not even believable, but calls online for violence against Jews rose by 1,200% in the past week. That's according to organizations that are tracking a 1,200% violence against Jews, not Israelis and not with regards to the Hamas massacres. So as you mentioned, this is what the social media giants are now trying to mitigate. Well, absolutely. It's hardly surprising because we saw the rallies. The rallies did not begin after Israel began counterattacking. The pro-Hamas rallies came out immediately in the aftermath of the massacre of civilians, of atrocities and crimes against humanity, commit against civilians. So these rallies, which took place in every single major European and Western capital around the world, were fully in support of the murder of Jews, not against the Israeli government, not against the Israeli military, the Jewish civilians worldwide. When you see people walking down the streets of New York, waving swastikas and chanting gas to Jews, they mean it, they mean to be organized to do it, and social media is allowing them to organize these protests, these rallies, and frankly, these calls to action against Jews worldwide. Arielle, we'll continue with that discussion in a little bit, but based on that topic, here in studio is another guest, Alec Birkin, an Israeli-American, who took on a truly selfish, selfless mission. I believe you were meant to get married this past week, and then the war broke out, and so the wedding was postponed, canceled. You also had the mission of trying to get friends and family that had flown in out of the country to evade war. But then you did something truly remarkable by raising money for reservists. I wanna start by asking the first part of that question and tell you how sorry we are that your wedding first and foremost got interrupted by this war, but also, how difficult was it to get your friends and your family out of the country, given that most airlines, barring LL, Israel's national carrier, were halting all their flights? Yeah, I mean, Danielle, my fiance, and I were meant to get married on October 12th, this past Thursday, when the war broke out, 6.30 a.m. on Saturday morning. We already had about 50 of our 120 out-of-town guests that we were expecting. Obviously, they are not accustomed to this, nor should any of us be accustomed, but that's the unfortunate reality of living here in Israel with Hamas as the governing body of Gaza. And there was immediate panic. We did not know what to do. Certainly, it took all of us, I think, the day on Saturday to understand the severity of this issue. Personally, right when I saw that there were armed Hamas terrorists inside of Israeli territory, it was clear to me that this week was not going to continue as planned. This was going to take time. Certainly, the number of hostages, now that we learned there's nearly 200 Israeli hostages that are being held by Hamas in Gaza. And Danielle and I had to make a very quick decision. We woke up on Sunday morning and together decided to postpone, cancel. We don't know what. We're not in a position to think about that. And I wanted to make it very clear. We feel, obviously, a loss for our wedding, but this is a small suffering relative to the pain, the angst, the death that this land folks on both sides are feeling. So we feel lucky. We wake up every morning. We hug each other. We will get married. And our guests, thankfully, the 50 guests that were in country have made it onwards on their way home. It was very challenging getting them out of the country. It was difficult managing the flights, many flight cancellations, obviously expensive flights. Unfortunately, that's what happens in times of conflict. Demand rises. I wish the governments around the world acted quicker in order to mobilize their citizens. As a dual Israeli-American, I can express my frustration with the US government that more didn't happen faster in the aid of US citizens that have been stuck in Israel. But I'm very, again, fortunate to say that my US-based family is all out of Israel and on the way home. And tell us a little bit about the fundraising part. You started an initiative to raise money for reservists. Yeah, so again, on Sunday, we very quickly transitioned our thinking, our mindset, our efforts from dealing with the wedding to helping our guests get out of Israel. And the outreach from my American-based community was incredible. As conflicts occur over the years, people have reached out with concern. But based off of the severity and the tragedy that we have faced on Saturday, the response was equivalent. And folks from all walks of my life reached out, wanting to help. And it was very clear and evident what we needed to provide them an avenue to help. So we have very quickly opened up just a very direct way of funding the reservist units. I have many friends who have been called up into the reservists, have left their families, and we are providing direct donations. So far, we've raised about US $30,000 in order to provide immediate relief on the ground. And no doubt, possibly your friends and family that were flying in from overseas wanted to help out as well. Are they part of this initiative? Of course, yeah. Every single person has been sharing, dealing with the battle of social media and helping spread the word. Of course, they will be resharing this segment, as I'm sure. And they have played an extremely important role. Having experienced a small taste of this, I think, in planning a wedding in Israel with many guests from abroad, we had a fantasy of showing them only the beautiful parts of our country. Hamas had a different plan, and they succeeded in this instance. And this is just clear evidence of why they need to be destroyed. Israel cannot exist and will not exist with Hamas as the governing body of Gaza. Well, no doubt, as I'm pretty sure Rafael can attest to as well as Ariel and yourself included, that that will not be the case. And you will be able to have your wedding and invite people to see the beauty of Israel. Alec Burkin, Ariel Levin-Waldman, Rafael Yerushalmi. Thank you all so very much for being in here in studio to break down the latest on our rolling coverage here on I-24 News on day 10 of Israel's war against Hamas. We'll be right back at the top of the hour for more news. Over 1,300 people murdered and more than 3,000 injured. And the war with Hamas continues. 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I'm Ariel Marguliet. The 10th day to Israel's war with Hamas, these are some of the latest developments. The IDF has identified at least 199 hostages that have been taken captive by Hamas. 199 Israelis held hostage in Gaza as we speak, the 10th day. Dozens of U.S. citizens are being evacuated out of Haifa by boat. The IDF says Hamas likely struck Gaza refugee convoy, killing 70 people. Israel's denies a truce to allow aid into Gaza and suffers criticism from around the world. 28 communities in the north of Israel are going to be evacuated as the country prepares for a severe assault by Hezbollah when and if. Israel indeed enters Gaza with a land operation. Hamda Salchout, I-24 News correspondent, joins us from the northern border. Hamda IDF issues stay at home warning for the town of Mehtullah on the northern border a short while ago. That's due to Hezbollah shelling. Right, Ariel, so early this morning the Israeli military ordered the evacuation of 28 different towns that come within two kilometers of the Lebanese border out of fears at another front of this war evolving with Hezbollah. Yesterday, five exchanges of anti-tank fire, several rockets coming in from southern Lebanon, the Israeli military retaliating overnight striking several Hezbollah positions. Just at this hour, the World Health Organization is saying that it is sending critical and crucial medical supplies to Lebanon should a war break out there. I'll remind you, Lebanon has been in an economic and medical downturn since four years ago when their economy started to plummet. Here along the northern border, it's been quiet today but that might not be the case later on. The Iranians are telling the Israelis through mediators and through third parties that there are no guarantees when it comes to who else will get involved in this situation, especially if there's a ground operation inside of the Gaza Strip. So the Israeli military bolstering its forces along the northern border in preparation for a semi-regional conflict. Hamda, you were just yesterday and then the last few days in the south of Israel as well, I think you're criss-crossing the country from north to south as Israel is confronting these two fronts at the same time. Does it feel talking to citizens up there in the north like the scenarios that we saw in the south with shelling? I don't talk, of course, of the infiltration of the 1,500 terrorists from Gaza, Hamas terrorists. But does it seem like they're preparing for massive shelling? There sadly are accustomed to that sort of bombardment from Hezbollah as well. Well, look, the Israeli military orders people to shelter in place whenever they feel there is any alert for infiltration, excuse me, or any sort of shelling that will happen. A lot of these communities have already been evacuated. People are afraid of what's to come and the Israeli military is really preparing itself. Hezbollah has an arsenal of minimum 150,000 short-range rockets. That is an estimate from 2016. So we don't really know the exact types of weapons capabilities that they have because in their showcase in June, their military showcase, they were able to show media some of these other handheld weapons that they have that could they claim down airplanes, down drones, down helicopters. They have much larger destructive ballistic missiles that could cause severe damage and harm if inflicted onto Israeli territory. So the war with Hezbollah in Lebanon would be a totally different game than what's going on in the South. You are talking about weapons that are manufactured underground in Gaza that do cause damage, but it is nothing compared to the sophisticated capabilities that Hezbollah has in their arsenal. Thank you very much, Hamda. Dr. Jagdiriya, colonel and reserves. Thank you very much for joining us here in studio. Is there anything that can prevent this regional war by now? Or is it something that we have to look in the eyes and say this is what's gonna happen if Israel indeed goes ahead with the land operation in Gaza? You're asking the wrong person. I was considered for a long time the prophet of doom. And what's happening today with Hezbollah and with Hamas was, I mean, it was my assessment for a long time. And we have seen this alliance being formed and by Iran who initiated the theory of surrounding Israel and supplicating, making Israel supplicate, by having to fight in the northern front and the southern front in the West Bank and far from, deep in Iraq, Iran and in Yemen. This was the theory and the theory is now applied on the ground. So there's no surprise that there have been some conditions that have put on the ground and the Iranian foreign minister have said it very plainly. As soon as the moment Israel will cross into Gaza, then the options are open. What does he mean by that? It means that immediately intervening in order to try to alleviate from the effort that Israel is concentrating on Gaza. And this would mean that the Hezbollah would activate its arsenal and they will try in a way or another to overcome the obstacle. Okay, Jacques Teria. Israel is evacuating 28 villages and towns in the north of the country. It's already evacuated the population surrounding the Gaza Strip in the adjacent towns, cities, et cetera. We're talking about a population of 10,000 evacuating from the north, around 18,000 or so evacuating from the south. If you add Ashkelon that is made perhaps for evacuation as well, you're already talking about 135,000 people. Yes. Now, I wanna ask you, we're evacuating people as a country from these two regions. But we have seen Hamas in the last few days firing missiles all the way to Haifa to the Carmel. We have seen them firing missiles to Herzli and to Tel Aviv. And we have seen them firing missiles to the Northern West Bank, to the area of Ariel. And we know the capabilities of Hezbollah as you and Hamda mentioned are far greater. Is this enough? Or should Israel prepare, in this case, to something much grander? American citizens are fleeing from here. Ukrainian citizens are fleeing from here. Well, Israel has to make a decision. Right now, Israel is not interested in entering a war with Hezbollah. This is definitely, it's said very plainly, very openly, we don't want a war, even though we are in the state of fall right now with Hezbollah. And if this happens, then Israel will have to deal with the threat. The main threat are the precision-guided missiles, heavy missiles that can hit Israel, every spot in Israel. As you saw right by saying that Hamas can fire at Tel Aviv on Haifa. And there's no point. There's no area in Israel that is uncovered by the missiles of Hezbollah. What does this mean? It means that if the intelligence will get hold of information that Hezbollah is preparing to hit us with missiles, I think that the right decision will be to preempt. So maybe war isn't the way? I think that there is no other option right now. There's no other option. If you want to reach the goal that you have set, being eliminating, eradicating Hamas presence in the Gaza Strip and its military and political capabilities, you have to go inside and plant a flag. You were a policy advisor to the late Prime Minister Eitzhak Rabin, who launched the Oslo Accords together with brave partners in Israel and on the Palestinian side supported by Bill Clinton, then-president, and the Norwegians, of course. In spite of the American administration, who was not aware of what was going on? I do want to hear from you whether toppling a regime is possible. And if there is another way and a peaceful way, but we have to turn to Renat Karmel, now-resident of the North Galilee, who evacuated a few days ago already, 28 towns, 10,000 citizens will be evacuated from the North. Where are you right now, Renat? And how do you feel? How does it make you feel to be far away from home, knowing that Israel is preparing for a severe, potentially, missile attack by Hezbollah on the North? Hello, everyone. Right now, I'm at my daughter's house in Petah Tikva. I am a refugee. Since last Saturday, I know this one, but the 7th of October at night, with my little son, all my family is spread all over the country. My husband is working, an emergency worker, and he cannot be with us. I have one Navy soldier, officer, which is near Gaza. I have a son, which is working from home in Aria. My father doesn't want to evacuate until this morning. He has the choice, but today he understood he has no choice. I just want to say hello to Dr. Nerea, which was interviewing people in my porch in Zareit. I think it was in July, last July. The question was... You remember her. I was at her house on the border bordering the Lebanese side. Yes, we spent some hours there. That's right. It was the main issue, but then we talked about the programs, how we will continue living there. Aren't you afraid this was the issue? Well, now it's the... I would say the true hour for us to be strong, but we cannot live there, although we want. We didn't want to evacuate. We had no choice. Rina, first of all, what happens last week, Saturday? What makes you take your children and your bag and move to stay with your daughter in Petah Tikva? What goes through your mind? Well, it's not a secret. We knew that the program of the Hezbollah, the main potential was Zareit. All the talk, all the army, all talks about we are going to be occupied by Hezbollah army, and we should be prepared. So we weren't so prepared, because we didn't know when it will be the right hour to do so. On Saturday, we opened television at 6 o'clock in the morning, and I understood something is starting, but it was south, near Gaza. So we didn't thought it will be something that matters to us. My daughter- And at what time do you decide that you are getting into the car and leaving? I think it was 9 o'clock in the evening, when we heard a suggestion to evacuate. It wasn't an order like today, but it was a suggestion, which we really conclude very seriously. And we thought it will be okay that it will be better that me and my son, which is 14 years old already, but not enough to be a soldier, and we have no army and nothing. So we thought it will be better if we'll go to the center. I think the suggestion then, correct me if I'm wrong, was by the Materne-Sche regional council and not by the central government. It was by regional councils that took the responsibility for their own citizens. So you've been in Petah Tikva for a week now with your son, a teenager. I'm sure he's going crazy. Thank God for screens. Finally, there's something good about them. But are you talking to citizens of the North now? Are there people that stayed behind? And like your father are now understanding that they have to leave. And does it really feel like Hezbollah is going to strike if Israel indeed goes ahead with the land operation in Gaza? Of course, I'm in touch with all the citizens of the Mushav, Zahriit. We are talking by WhatsApp and so most of them are not there already. My father, which was almost the last one, went to Daytona area. I hope he can stay there. I don't know what will happen next. And we have an emergency team, which my husband is a part of them. So my husband is alone in Zahriit with the emergency team, which is nine or 10 people. I don't know what will be with him tonight because he's at work all day. And then at night, the emergency team is outside. Of course. Waiting for news or something. Well done for him, for the hard work. So many Israeli families are encountering this same situation. Before we part, since you and Jacques Neria have a relationship and we're discussing the issue of Zahriit and the Northern border. I'm wondering, Rina, if you have a question for Jacques Neria or a comment, anything you wanna tell him? I just wanna tell him and all the people in Israel that we are strong, it's a rough situation because really we are not at our home, we have no clothes, we have nothing, but this is really not a problem. We are managing the situation, we are very troubled and worried about our soldiers. I just think all the time that it should have started in Zahriit. So I don't know how to think what would happen, what would have happened if it was like that. It's Saturday, October 7th. My feelings are for the injuries and the death and the family. So I have nothing to say, but sorry for this happening and for Israel being not so prepared because we feel that the country is not prepared. Although our settlements near the border, we are not prepared. Jacques, what can you say to Reenat? Well, you know, I really admire her, I admire her courage and I understand the situation. This is exactly what I said there when I was there and I was, I had in front of me a former Brigadier General. I was only, I mean Colonel, who said that yes, we understand that Hezbollah would certainly try to take over a few villages, but we will contain it. You know, the arrogance, the arrogance of the argument was such that I said to myself, well, we are living in a dream. And what happened in Gaza is the exact copy of the plan Hezbollah had on the Northern border. Had we been surprised on both fronts, we wouldn't be here speaking. Okay, thank you very much for that, Reenat, take care, Reenat Kamel. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you, thank you for being with us and sharing with us. We're going to the Southern border now with Gaza, Piaz Tehobaha is there. She's our R24 News correspondent. Pia, the latest from there this morning and today. All right, Arielle, it has been a quiet morning. However the Israeli army continues to block off the roads leading to the localities, to the villages close to the Gaza border. I wanna step out of the frame so you can see where we're located. We've been trying to get closer to the Gaza border to access also the villages, the Kibbutzim closer to the border. We're talking about Kfaraza, Nakhal-oz, Mifalsim that are located on the end of this road that you can see here that the army has blocked off and you can see those roadblocks really everywhere here in the area. We do see quite a lot of movement of army vehicles. We've seen tanks, we've seen reinforcement of troops going on here all morning. As you can see over there where the soldiers are stationed right now where you can see the Israeli flags, there's still one car located at the Waikawa. We can see the bullet holes in its door and you can see sporadically still the remains of the massacres that have been happening in this area here. More than a week ago, and the scene is still not completely cleaned up. There are quite a lot of journalists here as well trying to see what is going on here at the Gaza border as the ground invasion is expected to happen anytime soon now, Ariel, but the army has been blocking off roads here. Anything that is closer to the Gaza border than is Sterot. Sterot, by the way, a major city of 30,000 residents that is almost empty. We've been there before, Ariel. Although Sterot itself did not have a red alert, did not have a siren since yesterday night. There was sporadic red alert, so there was sporadic sirens in the communities closest to the border. Sterot itself, we've been driving through it. It is really empty. It is a ghost town as residents have been called to evacuate the city. They're staying right now in state sponsors' hotel. Many of them and only 10% of the residents have remained there. So the area here is quite deserted. You don't see civilians here. Pia, you were talking about, of course, the land operation. We're all holding our breaths to see if this is indeed something that Israel will launch in Gaza, or if it continues for now with the strikes. We talk about what's to come, probably, in the northern border. If that land operation will get a green light. Now, I do wanna ask you about the situation in Gaza. You're not far from Gaza. What are you hearing about the movement of residents there? We've seen footage of blockades by Hamas that is preventing people in Gaza from moving to the south of the strip. What are you hearing from Gaza today with regards to the Rafah crossing, and with regards to the movement of population within the strip? Well, there have been different reports about the Rafah crossing between the Gaza strip and Egypt opening up this morning for humanitarian goods from the Egyptian side, and also to enable the exit of foreign nationals that want to exit Gaza towards Egypt. As it seems right now, the crossing is still not open as a ceasefire hasn't been agreed upon. There were also reports of Israel, Egypt, Hamas, somehow agreeing upon a ceasefire to really enable that humanitarian corridor there also at the southern border crossing. However, both Israel and Hamas have denied that such negotiations are going on, that such a ceasefire is expected anytime soon. However, also, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has said yesterday that the Rafah crossing will eventually open. However, of course, two million civilians that are in desperate need for humanitarian aid such as food, medicine, and water. However, the option to get out of the Gaza strip as of now, according to what we are hearing, would only apply for foreign nationals, which would apply to really a small minority of the two million civilians that are located in the strip as of now. We're hearing from the UN that within the coming hours the hospitals will run out of fuel to operate their generators. We know that already in the beginning of this war, Israel has cut off fuel, electricity, and water supply to Gaza. It has reinstated the water supply now to really foster the civilian population to move from the northern part of the Gaza strip to the southern part. We know that more than 600,000 people have already done so. And this is also why we're expecting that the ground invasion is imminent because we've also heard this morning throughout the night, we've been hearing reports, Palestinian reports, saying that this night has been the most intense night so far in terms of Israel striking the Gaza strip. We've been hearing the booms of Israel striking Gaza this morning as well, which is coming here. We are at the northern top of the Gaza strip, which is very much coming from the north. Gaza here, it's a very tense atmosphere. We've seen movement of soldiers, movement in tanks, but also throughout the last days. So we really don't know how imminent this ground invasion is, but we do definitely see that the Israeli army is prepared for it here at the Gaza border. Pia, just about an hour ago, I understand that you were saying that there were no shellings in that area where you are right now around Sderot and the border with Gaza. But where we are here in Tel Aviv and Jaffa, we had a very large explosion. Just about 30, 40 minutes ago, I was sitting here outside the studio working on the show together with the team. We had a large explosion. There was no alarm going off. And same happened last night, around 8 PM or so. We were at home, my partner and I, and there was a large explosion that was heard again and no alarm. Considering the fact that we might be getting into an even larger campaign of an attack by Hamas and Hezbollah, how does the IDF explain that? The fact that there are shellings, that there are barrages coming from the Gaza Strip with no alarms. Well, the IDF or the Iron Dome usually doesn't get activated if the missile is expected to fall into an open area. At least what we know from that loud boom, I heard it too in Jaffa where I was yesterday evening. The missile apparently landed in the sea. Now Tel Aviv is close to the sea, so you can actually hear a very, very loud boom causing no injuries, no casualties, no damage to any infrastructure when it lands in the sea. Now, of course in Tel Aviv, we're very used to hearing the sirens before a missile is intercepted here in the Gaza area. And this is also why it has been widely evacuated. Many of times there is just no siren because of the proximity of these localities here alongside the border to the Gaza border. Now, what we've been hearing here is that there were some red alerts in some communities very sporadically throughout the morning here close to the Gaza Strip, no casualties reported. But that is also why the city of Sderot, a major city, 30,000 residents, has been evacuated because in this area, many of the times you do not even have the siren, you do not even get the red alert in time before you actually, many of the cases already see the interception. Okay, Piaz Takobach, thank you very much. Jacques Nerilla, a calm morning for now as Piaz mentions from the south. We've seen very little shelling in the south and also towards the center of the country in the last few days. Hamas is also preparing itself for the land operation by Gaza, or has its military power been already harmed and diminished so badly that its capabilities have been lowered? Well, I think that your first assumption is the right one. Hamas right now is concentrating on the land battle. They're preparing ambushes, they're putting mines all around just to make the advance of the Israeli troops as difficult as possible to inflict as much damages and victims to the Israelis. And I think that this is the war that they are preparing. They are right now preparing themselves in the tunnels, in the metro city, waiting for the Israelis to come in. And this is why the Air Force has to continue bombing in order to just stop, to just, I would say, try to eradicate the tunnels, which is a mission almost impossible. We will have to go there on foot. A word before we part about status of the abducted and the missing, we're hearing more than we thought that there would be 130, 170 hostages. Today we're hearing formally from the IDF, 199 hostages held by Hamas. And this is without the number of disappeared that we don't know what has been their fate. So this is really something that unprecedented in Israeli history. This is something that we are not accustomed to face and we don't know how to treat it. And I think that this weighs a lot on the decision-making of our leadership concerning the next step in Gaza. Yesterday, the forum of the bereaved, sorry, not bereaved, God forbid, the forum of the hostages and missing people are meeting with the prime minister for the first time. First time he meets them yesterday after nine days. And he was meeting only with the parents of missing people. They are not the ones that have hostages. And certainly he didn't meet the... No, he did meet with parents and family members of the hostages as well. The thing is, his team brought some other people that are missing. Some other people, some other people. And the prime minister has told them that liberating the hostages, getting back the hostages is one of the goals of this war. Thank you very much, of course. Chuck Neri, thank you. You're staying with me. We're going to take a short break now. We'll be right back with plenty more. Stay with us. 1,200 people murdered and more than 3,000 injured. And the war with Hamas continues. 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And we are right now, as you can see, even just a few moments ago, still striking Gaza, striking Gaza targets, really focusing our efforts on ensuring that no Hamas militant in the Gaza Strip, whether that's from the top leader Yif Ya Sinwar, who is a dead man walking right now, to the lowest foot soldier, will be able to continue with their desperate attempts to annihilate Israelis. Okay, do you expect that the land infiltration by the IDF will occur this week? Right now we can't say anything due to operational importance. We are ready for whatever it may come. Okay, tell me about the targets that the IDF was striking today and overnight. So we've struck over 100 targets overnight. And our top priorities are to some of the top leaders of Hamas. So the commander of Hamas is National Security, the Southern Division that was on Monday, Bilal al-Qaeda from the Nukba, which is their elite commando forces. We struck him in southern Qanyunas and he was one of the responsible players within the Niroz massacre. And we are really focusing our efforts on some of these top brass, as well as all of the infrastructure and the capabilities, both rocket launchers, infrastructure, intelligence centers, anything that is focused on enabling and abetting Hamas in their efforts to attack Israel. More than 2,000 people, I think it's already 2,300 people have already died in Gaza, among them according to reports of by the Hamas Health Ministry, around 400 children. Are these the numbers that you have as well? I don't have any of those numbers here, but it's always something to ask when the health ministries of other countries are run by the terrorist group themselves. I would ask you about that. But still there are casualties, you know, in Gaza, in the hundreds and in the thousands potentially. Is the IDF doing enough in order to prevent civilian casualties? Because if it's not, then it doesn't make us much better than the terrorists who came to kill us. The IDF is doing above and beyond what is necessary in order to secure the safe passage of Gaza civilians from the north of Gaza to the south of Gaza. We see Hamas actually preventing Gaza civilians from making that route and moving down towards the southern areas which we have directed with leaflets, directed with maps, directed with phone calls. And we see video proof, we see phone call proof, intelligence of Hamas preventing the civilians from making that safe passage down to an area where we have specifically said this is where the civilians of Gaza need to go. I think the question about civilian casualties in Gaza needs to be directed to Hamas. What are they doing to ensure that their civilians are being saved? And when you, we know the answer to that. They are not, they are intentionally placing their civilians in harm's way. They're embedding all of their military capabilities within civilian areas. And normally that they're preventing, like we had just said, preventing those civilians to find their way toward safety. So rather than asking the IDF who, you know, is here to protect Israeli civilians from the terror onslaught of Hamas, what we're doing to prevent, you need to ask the controlling murderous group in Gaza what they are doing to secure the safety of their own civilians. Of course, it's first and foremost the hands of Hamas that are wrapped around the necks of these people. But I do want to ask, are there areas in the Gaza Strip where the IDF has made clear to citizens that are completely safe, that they can move to and are completely safe? I mean, these areas in the south that you have directed people to move to, are these areas that the IDF does not and will not strike? I cannot go into details of how and where we're striking. Our goal is to take out any Hamas leader wherever they may be and to ensure that Hamas, again, Hamas does not have their grip on power and their grip on terror in the Gaza Strip. Now, again, we're encouraging the civilians of Gaza to move towards a safer area and we're going to be doing what we can within the scope of international law to ensure the safety and security of Israelis and to ensure that God and civilians have a safe passage towards where we're directing them to go. And those are areas that the IDF is not going to bombard at this moment. Again, our operational activities focus on ensuring that Hamas top leaders to the bottom foot soldiers are no longer- Yeah, that message has come across. You've said it more than once. I was asking about the safety passage of civilians. There are women and children there as well. I'll go on to the next question. Today, the IDF officially publishes a number for the hostages held by Hamas, 199. Can you tell us why it took so long for the IDF to publish that number? And are we talking about people that are alive? Are we talking about bodies that are held by Hamas? Sorry, it's horrible to ask. But what is the ratio there? I've spent the last few days down south. I've spent the last few days walking through the wreckage of the homes in Baeri through the homes in Kfar Azar, finding people that are returning back to go take the things that were left behind, those things that may not have been blown up in the RPG launches by Hamas. I have been spending hours and hours as have, I'm sure, you and your team and so many people that are so concerned about that. And when you look at the destruction and the devastation that was caused and the amount of Israelis that have been killed and the amount of IDF soldiers that have been killed, it is one of the worst things that you've probably ever seen, I've ever seen. And I think the IDF and the Israeli government are doing whatever we can to focus our efforts on securing Israelis, speaking to the families of those that are held hostage and trying to understand where are things going and if you've been there, you can understand the complexity of why things are taking time, why understanding, why it's so complex to have these conversations and to understand who is missing, who has been killed, who has been murdered, who has been burned to death. It's complex, it's still not a reason to leave these families without answers for a week and more. I volunteer, when I'm not here, I volunteer at the forum of the hostages and the missing families. And some of them have not heard from you until today as we speak still. Maybe these 199 heard from you today, but yesterday they did not. And we used to pride ourselves in the fact that this country works, that the military works, that we know how to handle situations like that. These people were left just abandoned completely by the establishment. So I'm wondering if you couldn't have given them a call, the IDF, to ask about the whereabouts if they need anything? The IDF has put two generals in charge, hundreds of people that are working right now towards this effort. And with respect to the families and our operational complexities when it comes to this, I can't really say much more. Okay, I was asking just before we part, what do we know about the hostages? How many of them does the IDF estimate at the moment are alive? I don't have those numbers for you. We have announced and spoken to 199 of those families as you have mentioned and as you have down there on your screen. Okay, thank you very much, Lieutenant and Reserves Faye. I appreciate your time. Thank you. Recovering still in hospital, the 13-year-old Hadar Bachar shared her survival story from the massacre in Kibbutz, as she was trapped in her safe room with her family. Take a listen. We heard a missile alert, Siren, so we ran to the safe room. Suddenly we got a message from another Kibbutz saying, there's a terrorist infiltration. You need to lock all of the doors. We thought it would take one or two hours tops. We kept waiting and nothing happened. Around 8 a.m. we heard terrorists knocking on the door. They tried to get in. They couldn't get inside the house through the doors, so they climbed on a stand outside the house and came in through the bathroom window. Then they started to knock on the safe room door. They yelled in Arabic, open the door. My father yelled at them, go. And then suddenly we heard them shooting at the door. My brother was wounded. His arm was crushed. They sensed where my dad was standing and fired at him. Meanwhile, my mother and I treated my brother and tried to stop his bleeding. My dad collapsed. They continued to try opening the door, but they couldn't because the door of the safe room is automatically locked when someone shoots at it. Then they set a closet next to the safe room on fire. The smoke from the fire entered our safe room through the bullet holes in the door. We couldn't breathe. We were going to faint. Then I heard they were trying to open the window. They managed to open the window. They shot the window and opened it. They threw three hand grenades into the safe room. Two of the grenades exploded. My mom and I were wounded. They continued to fire. My mom got shot. I took off my shirt and tried to stop the bleeding. We also treated my brother, but we couldn't stop my mother's bleeding because we didn't know where she'd been shot. We kept moving around in the safe room. I called several people, like the emergency unit and the people of Kibbutz-Baeri. The IDF and emergency first responders told us there is nothing we can do. We can't get inside your Kibbutz. The only thing you can do is play dead. We kept hearing the terrorists firing and shouting. They continued to set our house on fire. At 3 p.m., my mother started to choke. Everyone else was fainting, and I tried to wake them up over and over again. At a certain point, my mother stopped breathing. We felt that she became cold, and that was it. We felt that we were getting burned. I told my brother to put his legs up because he was losing blood. He started to gurgle. We told him, don't shout, Carmel. Don't shout. If they know we're alive, they'll either kill us or kidnap us. I tried to give them CPR, but my father told me, forget him. Now let's focus on saving ourselves. I yelled to my dad, don't die. Don't leave us alone. At around 6 p.m., a few people from the Kibbutz texted me and said that we're going to hear a very loud boom. It's an Israeli tank that will bomb our neighbor's home and get inside our home to rescue us through the wall. Then I heard this loud explosion. We heard people inside the house. We heard someone talking in Hebrew, but with an Arabic accent. My father told them to come through the window that the window was open. I told him they could be terrorists. They may be fooling us. He said it doesn't matter. They came with flashlights, and we saw that they were IDF soldiers. They said, what a massacre. I told them, please come and lift me up. I can't move. They had too much equipment. I managed to bring myself up and get to the window. They took me out and opened the door. We went outside and saw that the entire neighborhood was on fire. They separated me and my dad and took us to Netivot, where there is a special unit. Within the terror and after the terror, there are an extreme number of initiatives by civilians in Israel doing everything they can to help the population here, people that have had to evacuate from their homes, survivors that have been sent to hotels in Elat, in the Dead Sea, in Tel Aviv, etc. We're now joined in the studio by Rabbi Moshe Rouven Zaman. He's the chief Rabbi of Ukraine in Kiev. Thank you very much for coming into our studio. And welcome to Israel. I understand you just landed two, three days ago. A few days here. Why did you come here? I came from one war to this war. I couldn't sit quite when I saw these pictures. That's what Hamas Ival did with our brothers and sisters. And I saw it's a genocide, holocaust. From the time of holocaust it never happened. And I decided to come here with the mission of solidarity to try to help to Israel people, to soldiers, to spiritual, physical. What can I do? I have here a few of my children and grandchildren in Israel. And I have to be here with our brothers and sisters. It's hard time. What sort of work are you doing on the ground? Or what do you plan to do? I know you just arrived. Yes, first of all I came to support. A few years ago I brought to Israel a few mitzvot tanks. Tanks of mitzvot of the good deeds. We have special motorhomes. That's what Babichur rabbi said. We brought from America. And now it's Habad working this to bring the spiritual aid with music. We organized many things for Shmirah, for saving soldiers. We printed the special humash, the Torah, and the ilim. It's Psalms and God's doka. We get to all soldiers to save lives. It's a spiritual aghanah. And we brought what all they need. We brought many things to bring them food and medicine. No medicine, but special things that they need. And we bring them Simha. We bring them the... We come with music and we make them special spiritual help. And not only this, I came to Ashkelon on the first day that I came. I came this Friday. I came to my mother's tomb in Ashkelon, in the south of Ashkelon. We have there the cemetery. And after this I came to my relative in Ashkelon. It was a strong, shelling Ashkelon. I felt myself, what I feel every time in Ukraine. So it doesn't happen often when we get to interview somebody who's experienced both wars. Where is the situation worse? I was few times in the hard shelling in Ukraine. I was here in the shelling. And I don't know where it was. I'm not afraid, but it's the same... Who stands behind it? The same people. I think it's Iran with Russia. They are partners of this war. In Ukraine they begin war in there. You usually said that, you know, the Russia partner with Iran. I said to Israel government here, please wake up that there is evil. Iran, Russia, North Korea, Syria and Hamas. Hisbala is the same evil. And what's happened in Ukraine, Israel have to see. Tomorrow can come to here. Now you see the war here. And not only war. You know, the Hamas that trend, it was in Russia few times political. And the military government of Hamas was in Russia few times. And Iran helped them with all they need. And we see that, I think it's the same. Now we understand, you know, that's Ukraine. What's Ukraine feeling now is Israel feeling. That's why our countries can understand each other much more. And we see the reaction from Putin or the lack of reaction. If anything, he praises the Gazans under Hamas rule and condemns Israel. I don't think he has even called Prime Minister Netanyahu so far. I do want to ask you something that I'm sure you're well aware of in the last few months, in the last year during the term of this government. There again has been a great public discourse over Yeshiva members, Yeshiva students, going or not going to the military, their exemption from military, the age that they will be exempted from the military. We are at a time in the history of Israel where 350,000 Israelis have gone to reserve service. And many of them are critical of ultra-orthodox Jews in Israel that don't take part in protecting this country and protecting this land and protecting the Jewish people. What do you say to them? First of all, I hear this. It's real, about 9,000 religion, Haridi. People just came to be mobilized into the Israel army. And you know, we're feeling now it's a very, very strong unity of Jewish people and the Israel people here because it's our strategy of all, it doesn't matter religion or religion. For example, I feel it's my personal strategy what's happening in Kibbutzim, but they're not religious, most of them. But it's my personal, my brother's sister. And you know, first of all, it's many, I know personally many people of Haridi, they come to the Tzawa to the Israel army. But some of them that studied Torah and first of all, study Torah is just to give, we know from our history that Torah has saved the survived Jewish people. And that's why it's spiritually. But in Torah we know from Torah that if we have so dangerous situation we have obligation to come and fight against the enemies that would like to kill us. That's why I come to blessing to our soldiers and I stayed with them, with the Israeli people now. Okay, Rabbi Moshe Rouven Azman, thank you very much for coming into our studio. Now the U.S. is present in the Eastern Mediterranean like never before to airplane carriers and that may not be the end of it. President Biden will be arriving in Israel this week according to reports. A U.S. carrier strike group carries enough firepower to level a small nation. The Biden administration has sent two of them to the Mediterranean as a show of force to support Israel. We moved the U.S. carrier fleet to the eastern Mediterranean and we're sending more fighter jets there in that region and made it clear, made it clear to the Iranians be careful. Each strike group has close to 70 war planes thousands of troops and a host of missile support boats and destroyers. The United States has made its interest clear this war between Israel and Hamas's murderers must not escalate into a full regional war. America's credibility is on the line proving it is still a major player in the Middle East and will back its allies when the worst happens. It's also a message to Russia and China to keep out of the region. What we're actually doing, including the deployment of these aircraft carrier battle groups again, not to provoke anyone but to send a very clear message of deterrence that no one should do anything that widens this conflict in any way or that furthers aggression against Israel from any other direction. The United States has also thrown the might of its arms industry behind Israel with rapid resupplies of ammunition. We heard from what the Israeli leaders about what is needed and in munitions we heard about precision guided bombs we heard about iron dome replacement we heard about 155 millimeter mortars we heard about JDAMs and many other things and not just munitions. The US can rally the western world to diplomatically support Israel and maintains a crucial security council veto to keep the UN in line. But this support comes with a diplomatic bottom line a set of lines Israel must not cross. The Biden administration has demanded Israel lift the siege of Gaza and restore water to the strip something Israel has done. Despite Hamas' atrocities the US says Israel must minimize civilian casualties and should not reoccupy Gaza and maintain the ability for a two-state solution going forward. Restraint may be a bitter pill for Israelis still shocked by the brutal massacre of Israeli civilians. But American support will be critical on the battlefield and beyond. Sagi Kamel, developer for something called Words of Iron which of course is reminiscent of the name that was given to this war joins us now in studio. Thank you very much Sagi and you're here to talk about a lot of this information that we're seeing out there in the media it's especially prevalent in social media but not only also in mainstream media what can be done about it and what are you doing about it with your development capabilities? Well what that we've essentially did we have this organization named Words of Iron and it's a group of people from different companies such as a CODA oracle on Monday we essentially took all this people and gathered them around and we said we need to build an app that amplifies the Israeli voice the way we did it is pretty simple it's pretty straightforward we are getting out tweets that we've scanned the internet for and then after we're gathering the tweets we give a very simple interface for the user to just post on it to amplify the positivity of Israel. So tell me a little bit about how much misinformation you're encountering out there and where does it originate from usually? Well it's originated from what that I've seen well mainly Muslims of you know Muslim descent it's from Arab descent we are seeing a lot of misinformation from people with the same origin and there is quite a bit of it and it's very unpleasant that it's very unpleasant to hear that there is so much disengagement from the truth that is actually what sort of sentiments are you do you mean what are you seeing? Well from what that I've seen in very short videos that I've seen first of all we've seen the videos of Hamas and the insane atrocities that the Hamas group did the acts of violence so many so many bad things and about the misinformation is that people that are not aware of the horrific acts that this terror group did and essentially saying that you need to free Gaza and Israeli is the Gaza is the victim and Israeli is the target Are you considering using hacking capabilities to bring some of that content down or what's the way to combat this? Well we are combating this as I said that the entire main point of words of Israel is to amplify the Israeli voice what that we are lacking is I believe that we are lacking the government and the department we are lacking is explaining what it's actually going on in Israel and what actually we are going through this horrific war and what Hamas is actually is a terror group and that's why misinformation pops up because we haven't been successful at amplifying this message across the board. Thank you very much for joining us Sagi Komel. We're going to take another short break. We'll be right back after with a lot of news. Stay with us. Over 1300 people murdered and more than 3000 injured and the war with Hamas continues we bring you hand testimonies from the front lines from those who survived and all the records of the atrocities by Hamas follow us as Israel fights terror from the south and north. 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Hamas the 10th day to the war at this moment barrages of rockets from the Gaza Strip towards the south of Israel the area of Sderot Mavkeem Karmia this is an update that we're getting right now and another update the IDF has destroyed from the air 10s of the military command in the Gaza Strip in addition to that the IDF has identified at least 199 hostages that have been taken captive by Hamas 199 hostages held by Hamas since last Saturday dozens of US citizens are being evacuated out of Haifa by boat the IDF says that Hamas likely struck a Gaza refugee convoy killing 70 people in the Gaza Strip Israel denies for the meantime a truce in order to allow aid into Gaza amid growing pressure and 28 communities are going to be evacuated in the north of Israel as the country prepares for potentially severe assault by Hezbollah when an IDF Israel indeed enters Gaza with a land operation we now turn to Piaz Zakobach she's our I-24 news correspondent in the southern border with Gaza Piaz your update about those barrages right Ariel a couple of minutes ago we had barrages also on the cities of Bersheva and the Bedouin community surrounding it and also Ashkelon further to the north of the Gaza Strip here where we are at right now in the area of Stirot we did not have any sirens today the community of Stirot did not have any sirens in fact since yesterday evening they're very close to the communities bordering the Gaza Strip this behind me you can see this is the entrance to the communities Nahal Oz but these are very deserted communities this is the places where the massacres of last weekend have happened almost all of the residents there have fled the area have evacuated already this is the first situation in the city of Stirot Hamas claiming of course very quickly responsibility for the barrages of rockets saying that this is the retaliation for the killing of civilians and we know that Israel has throughout the night and also throughout the morning continued to strike targets in the Gaza Strip we can in fact hear the boomings here we're very close to the Gaza border we can hear the sound of the Israeli strikes in the Gaza border in the northern part of the Gaza border in the meantime surrounding a truce to allow humanitarian aid to get inside of the Strip to allow the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Israel to open that would also according to reports allow foreign nationals to get out of Gaza and to really allow the entry of the humanitarian goods such as food, water, medicine to enter the Strip we're talking about more than 2 million civilians more than 600 thousands have already made their way to the southern part of the Strip as Israel has requested Israel we know is preparing its looming ground invasion nobody knows when it will begin if it will begin in the end but we do see quite a lot of preparations are being made we see reinforcements of troops of equipment are being carried here to the Gaza border area we've seen a number of tanks already so also lots of journalists here in the area who are asking themselves the same question we do see that the IDF is preparing itself it seems to be ready here at the Gaza border and we do hear that it continues to strike the northern Gaza Strip however when this ground invasion will happen the IDF is very very unclear as of now Pierre the IDF says that Hamas likely struck a Gaza refugee convoy in the Strip killing 70 people what do we know of that incident well that refugee convoy made its way from the northern Gaza Strip to the southern Gaza Strip this is what Israel has been requesting in the past days to really clear the area of the northern Gaza Strip as the ground offensive is looming there it is expected to start in the north however sources in Gaza say that it is in fact Israel who struck the convoy Israel is saying that it is Hamas because only Hamas right now could be interested in having those images of civilians women children being struck in the end the IDF the one IDF spokesperson Jonathan has said that it must be Hamas it is not Israel Israel has not targeted that civilian convoy but Hamas time and time again says that Israel is striking a civilian targets this is also what we have been hearing from journalists who are still in the Gaza Strip that entire neighborhoods are targeted Israel is trying to target Hamas infrastructure but Gaza is one of the most densely populated areas in the world and of course civilians are suffering civilians also who escaped there also civilians who do not have the option to escape from the north to the south we have been hearing from the UN maybe you could hear the boom behind me right now this is the IDF striking targets in Gaza the UN has said that the hospitals are in their generators within the next couple of hours so what we are seeing in Gaza on the level of the civilian population is humanitarian catastrophe Ok, thank you very much Pia Caldón reserves Grisha Yakovlevich former head of the civilian department of Kogat in the IDF we just heard today an official number from the IDF with regards to hostages being held by Hamas 199 and just yesterday Netanyahu meets with the families of many of those hostages what do we know about negotiations that are happening behind the scenes? Netanyahu now says that there are continuing efforts to release them before it was stated both by Hamas and by Israel that the hostages situation will only be dealt with after the war are there negotiations happening at this time well maybe there are but it's not going to happen like it happened in the past because in the past after every round of escalation or during round of escalation some Israelis met some mediators in some places around the world not necessarily in Israel and you know there are negotiations, conditions demands from on both sides and everybody knew that you know it's a duck, it looks like a duck it looks like a duck, it's a duck so everybody knew that actually there are some negotiations between Israel and Hamas, this time it's different this time Israel is not there's no plans to negotiate with Hamas because the goal eventually the mission eventually is to make Hamas or to reach a goal that Hamas will collapse so it's an entity that will probably not stay there anymore negotiations have to happen now because later Hamas will not exist is that what you're saying? what I'm saying that there are some initiatives from what I heard for example Qatar and the United States that are trying to do something trying to reach somewhere so if there are negotiations there will be actually given or there will be somebody a third party as I've heard with the table of the two parties it will not be Israeli initiative or Hamas initiative to reach them for now, as for now Grisha, stay with me, we want to turn to Hamda Salkhut our 24 news correspondent at the northern border Hamda, your update Ariel, good afternoon news just in the Iranian foreign ministry speaking about the Israeli hostage situation saying that Hamas is potentially ready to release the nearly 200 hostages if Hamas's air strikes inside of the Gaza Strip this happening just a short while ago at a press conference in Tehran Hamas official stated this is his quote, Hamas official stated that they're ready to take the necessary measures held by resistance groups but their point was such measures require preparations that are impossible under daily bombardment now we haven't heard this from Hamas specifically but we do know that the Iranians do communicate with Hamas, the Iranians also communicate with Hezbollah where there have been tensions here along the Lebanese border so this is interesting information coming out of the Iranians when it comes to the Israeli hostages the nearly 200 of them that are being held inside of the Gaza Strip but no word on any negotiations between the Israelis and Hamas for the time being earlier today a spokesperson for the Israeli military said they're trying to get the hostages and that they might have some information regarding their whereabouts is still really up for congestion really it's an ever-changing situation because of the multi-front situation you have here with all of these parties involved this message from Hamas being relayed by the Iranians how the Israelis will choose to react to it is probably not very well so a lot of information still coming out at this time as the Israeli military one of their main priorities is to get all those hostages back so this comes from the Iranian foreign minister speaking in in Iran Hamda that's correct the Iranian foreign ministry spoke correct this and we know that this comes after a meeting of the foreign minister with Hamas officials in Qatar in the last few days and just to reiterate Hamas comes out with a message via Iran saying that Hamas is ready to release the 199 hostages held by Hamas in return for the stoppage of Israeli strikes on Gaza yeah Hamda correct but that would really contradict the Israeli military's plan of eliminating Hamas altogether so there's a lot of information flow this is a war the news updates are constant but this is an interesting development from the Iranians I'll remind you the Iranian foreign minister has been speaking out quite a bit the Iranians in general have been speaking out quite a bit about this conflict evolving into more than just a war with Israel and Hamas also involving themselves involving potentially Hezbollah turning it into a semi regional conflict but the Iranians here are really in the midst of it all as a lot of these groups are backed by Iran okay Hamda before we part an update from the northern front where you're at what's the latest from there look it's been on the northern front last night was the last we heard of any sort of military activity when the Israeli air force struck targets inside of Lebanon belonging to Hezbollah but earlier in the day Hezbollah releasing video footage of themselves striking several Israeli targets yesterday Hezbollah spokes people relaying a message saying that what's happening at the border is merely a warning and while they haven't decided to enter the conflict just yet that might change given the development specifically when it comes to an Israeli ground invasion inside of the Gaza Strip so a lot to watch for at this hour as the war continues and we're hearing Israeli officials saying that to 28 different towns and villages will be evacuated up north 10,000 people is it something that you're seeing on the ground already so a lot of villages in the north have actually evacuated last week but the Israeli military is now moving people into state owned guest houses anywhere within a two kilometer distance from the Lebanese border indicating that there might be more military activity the IDF says this is to prevent civilian casualties to protect them in any way they can the feeling throughout the country is that anyone who has a safer place to go has either gone there already or is going there and the people who are choosing to stay in their homes are following orders from home front command to stay in place but the Israeli military on high alert for a number of things at the northern border whether it's anti tank fire rocket fire or even infiltration along the border like we've seen in the last week okay and that alert that was in place for a metula is that off for now correct so when the Israeli military tells its people to shelter in place telling the citizens through these several applications to shelter in place they do so it's recommended for about ten minutes and if there is a longer period of time that they need to shelter for the Israeli military will advise how much longer they need to stay in place but for now the Israeli military as I said all along the northern border really trying to evacuate all of these places in preparation for a new front in this conflict okay thank you very much we'll be back with you shortly Gili Roman the brother of Yerden Roman who has been abducted by Hamas joins us now thank you very much Gili for speaking with us tell me thank you for talking to me when was the last time you heard from Yerden I imagine it's a story you repeat time and again in the last few days I'm sorry for the burden but we want as many people in the world to hear this as possible and perhaps some of them might be able to help in locating Yerden today we're hearing that 199 hostages are held by Hamas please tell us what was your last communication with Yerden so I agree with you it's it's our task and our mission to tell this story and to tell the world that you will not forget that there are still hostages alive inside of Gaza and it's our responsibility to free them Yerden alongside with her family along her husband and given her daughter three years old daughter came back with me from a trip in Africa just on Friday morning and they went to alone's parents in Kibbutz Berry next to the Gaza border for Shabbat dinner and to stay there for the holiday in Shabbat so the last time I saw them was on Friday and the last time I have spoken with my sister was through WhatsApp on Saturday morning I was very concerned about them in the shelters when we start to hear about the infiltration to the southern border and we talked once in a half an hour to make sure that she is okay but without stressing her too much in the last time that we had a WhatsApp correspondence was about 10 a.m. and we talk about very silly conversation about teddy bears which one of them managed to survive and get into the shelter in which ones didn't and that was the last time we know that around 10 20 she was abducted with her husband and kid also alongside with her mother-in-law Kinnerid that was afterwards murdered brutally shot in the head just a few meters outside of their home in Berry on the sister of Fallon her sister-in-law Carmel that has also been kidnapped and probably held a hostage alongside many other women and children and innocent civilians inside of Gaza the story of Yerden and Alon and Geffen is that they were taken inside a stolen vehicle towards the Gazan border just a few meters before the border Alon and Yerden found an opportunity and decided to run away they just jumped out of a moving car with Geffen in the hands of Yerden and started to run for their life to seek shelter in the forest when the when they haven't found a nearby shelter and the terrorists noticed their escape and started to chase them and shoot at them with their rifles Yerden understood that in order to protect Yerden she has to transfer her to Alon so she gave the child to Alon in order for him to run faster and to save both of them which he did he managed to run fast enough to find a hiding place where he spent more than 12 hours with Geffen in his hands later that night he managed to walk all the way back to the Kibbutz to our troops and both him and Geffen are safe and they are with us here at home That's just unbelievable and chilling the stories that we're hearing and the story of your family I'm so sorry to hear of this and of the loss in your family really but tell me about Yerden what do we know about what happened next the last thing that we know and the last thing that we've heard from about Yerden is that she was hiding behind the tree trying to protect her body from the bullets this is the last place and the last time where Alon saw her what we've done all of last week is being on ground I was there just an hour after we got the call from Alon that he's okay and telling us the story and giving us the coordination of where he last met her I just straight went to the battlefield to convince our troops and inform them and go with them to seek for my sister for five full days unit after unit we managed to take them into the fields under fire under a big threat of Hamas hitting our troops while seeking for my sister we went out with trackers with special units and we haven't found any substantial evidence of Yerden's escape but we also haven't found any substantial evidence or any evidence at all that she was hurt or injured this is why we assume very it's very substantial that we assume she has been re-kidnapped taken by her by the terrorists that were there with them in order with her while she is healthy and now our fundamental assumption is that she's been held hostage alongside as I said a lot of children a lot of teenagers women innocent civilians alongside of our soldiers inside of the Gaza Strip waiting for release and we are waiting for a proof of life we are waiting for the release I think that this is the most basic human thing anyone can expect and this is what we are waiting for and it's very important for me to speak with you and through you to speak with your audience to express how crucial the pressure to get those people back there is no reason there is no absolutely zero justification of holding them probably hurting them I have no idea what is going on with my sister I don't know how she might be abused at the moment on a daily basis maybe hurt on a daily basis I have zero trust no trust in Hamas in the barbaric brutal blood seeking terrorists that hurt our families I was there in Bari in Takibutsu for the whole week outside inside I saw all the horrific scenes taking out of a horror movie taking out of historical memories that we hold pretty strongly and hope that we will never see and I think that this cruelty has to end and this thing that we have to remember that they are still alive who can be saved we are facing people who seek only death this is the only thing they had a hunger they had a thrive for death for brutal bleeding people this is what they wanted to see we need to see the opposite every liberal person that is watching and hearing me we still have the ability to save life this is the highest goal those people are there there is no reason for Hamas to keep them and only yesterday the prime minister meets for the first time with some representatives of the families of the abducted and the missing what do you make of what he says to them he says finally he says we are negotiating we are doing everything that we can previously the government said and also Hamas that it will be dealt with only after the war honestly first of all I didn't I don't have time to follow the news in this detail so I didn't know about this meeting about any statement that he made or Hamas made I don't get into the details I don't think that I don't know when will be the right timing I think it should be as soon as possible I don't get into the details whether it will be by military release whether it will be by negotiation it's not my responsibility it's the responsibility of our leaders it's the responsibility of the world leaders Yerden is also a German citizens I think that the German government is also responsible directly to her safety alongside 14 other German citizens that have been held hostage so I don't get into the details I'm sorry and have you heard personally from the Israeli government or from the IDF or from the German government we are in content with the German government and also with the representative of our government they don't have anything to tell me I think that we know much more than they do but they are in content with us and they express their responsibility and their devotion to make the highest efforts in order to get Yerden back to get all mothers, women, children innocent people, all our civilians all the Israelis back so yes we are in content with them unfortunately they don't have much light to share on this event at the moment Gili Roman whose family was murdered some of the family members were murdered in Kibbutz Berry a brother of Yerden Roman an Israeli German citizen who is missing thank you very much for being with us I really really hope that everybody including all governments all world leaders are doing everything that they can to put pressure on Kamas to bring about their immediate release and that you will be reunited with Yerden very soon thank you very much Gili for speaking with us thank you very much I turn back to you we were talking about the hostages situation we are hearing from the family members how distraught they are there is no information and the IDF continues to bomb Gaza from the air according to your experience the IDF has enough intelligence to know where they are held so these hostages are not it? it's a good question the answer is depends on many many issues let's take for example Gila Chalit he has been in Gaza for 5 years and with our best technology, best intelligence we knew nothing about where he is it's almost 200 people that are hostages it's a big number so maybe there is some information from what I understand about the humanitarian process in Gaza or aid the aid will enter if we will get the beginning at least one an information let's say that the ICRC will at least see the people and verify how many are there and we have the IDF captured also terrorists so as time goes by we collect information and there are other measures to collect information let's be careful and see what will happen Hamas is preventing the international Red Cross from seeing the refugees from giving any information about the hostages anything Hamas with the experience that we have with them if he gave something he demanded a prize so what will be the prize that he demands let's see it's something that Hamas planned when they entered this war this brutal war they planned it as one of the measures that will push Israel those interior demonstrations against the government he expected that this will happen it will be an issue maybe to prevent Israel from a ground attack it's one of the pressures that they have against us Gusha, thank you very much we're going to take a short break now we'll be right back after the break with plenty more news and very interesting interviews that we have lined up for you so stay with us 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 we are ready and we are strong everyone is showing up this is the unity this particular project with a gross capacity of 103.5 megawatt we'll be producing around 230 gigawatt hour of clean renewable energy per year we need rain for the embryos Ibrahim Brahma was killed while fighting to defend his kibbutz the kibbutz of Khwarazah Ibrahim Ibrahim was singing for him and his family at his funeral yesterday thank you for joining us thank you for having me how are you? I've been better those are really really hard days to be honest we we've been waiting to hear about Aviv since Saturday and then we found out he didn't make it and yesterday was the funeral and to be honest since this whole thing began we've been going around a lot like for example the footage you showed actually from a different funeral of this amazing guy called Sagi who was supposed to marry his partner Omel in a week and this was the song that was supposed to play at their wedding and then they called me to play it at his funeral of course I think he was supposed to perform it at the wedding and instead you performed it at the funeral he was a commander of a unit and died also so it's right now there's a lot of things going on we play in funerals and then on the other hand we're trying to go and play for soldiers for people who were evicted from Khwarazah and Nativa Sara all those places around hospitals and you know to do whatever it is we can do for people in this situation which is I don't know music has some more to help I guess in extreme situations like this but not to a point we're all doing everything we can right we're seeing visuals there of course I know the story of the sergeant that you were talking about that was supposed to marry his partner we were also seeing now footage of you singing at the funeral for Aviv what were you singing for Aviv and can you tell us about him well Aviv Aviv was truly amazing guy, husband, father friend he was one of those people that not everybody just loves and super professional and but in the nicest way you know like in what we do there's so many details and little things and it can be pretty high pressure the world of stage and equipment and you know taking care of everything and everything will be perfect and Aviv was really a perfectionist he was always he wanted everything to be so so precise and perfect for the concert and everything and but he always did it with such grace and smile and like very good energy and he was one of those guys that you could always and I mean like always trust like he was really one of those people you know you know them when you meet them but he was really really one of them like it's not a surprise that he was shot while going to help one of his friends who was injured and what happened on Saturday we understand that he was killed while fighting to defend his own kibbutz Falazzo yeah he was on the the kibbutz squad the defensive squad of the kibbutz yeah so he was on that list and he was part of that squad called in the morning he got text that said he should come and then his amazing wife helped him with like equipment and helmet and you know everything and she and their two kids went into the mamad and the save room and Aviv just went to meet his friends outside the guys who were with him on the squad and they just started fighting people and defending the kibbutz and defending the families and everything and then from what I know from the story I know this his friend was injured and he wanted to go and help him and reach him and while going to help him he was shot himself and started you know he couldn't do a lot and he was hiding and he even managed to while injured he managed to write messages to a lot of people in the kibbutz about how to be careful and where where the terrorists are and how they're dressed they were dressed in the tzal uniforms like Israeli army uniforms so he was sending messages for people to not open doors and was trying to take care of everybody that was it's so Aviv to do that we injured in such a hard situation and just think how do I help everybody and how do I take care of everybody else and like make sure everybody's okay that was very very typical to Aviv actually we're in a very difficult week and maybe the most difficult week that Israel has known since its foundation 75 years ago definitely in our lifetime I think you and I are close in age what are you most fearful of at this time you know right now I think we are very very focused on a protecting everybody taking care of everybody see that everyone's okay all the people who are left behind there all the people who doesn't have homes right now and nothing you know just absolutely nothing right now and taking care of everybody and that the Israeli army will do whatever it needs to do and you know defend defend Israel right now and um so I'm not sure we even started to understand exactly what this will do um in a month in two months um I'm not sure it brings out the best in people I think right now here it's really amazing to see how people just take care of each other and help each other and you know immediately everybody is just each one of us each one of the people around is just doing whatever they can you know like to help um and that's very encouraging and beautiful to see so there's a feeling of it's very unite that's a good feeling especially after everything that happened in Israel the last year so maybe the fact that actually the Israelis can can be this way you know right now and should be this way right now and um that gives us a lot of hope I think to all of us that is I think for me personally that gives hope I have to say like it I think it's yeah to see civilians so involved and um Yivri Lide thank you our condolences to Aviv Brahm's family of course and to all of your friends the people your studio and your colleagues for the loss of a dear friend a brave dear friend thank you very much for joining us Yivri Lide we want to turn now to our guest Ako Bach who's in Sderot I understand that there are fresh barrages there of rockets from Gaza Pia right not one at Sderot we're at right now but in other smaller communities south from us alongside the Gaza Strip but here's Sderot the city of 30 thousand residents has been really deserted of people we estimate that only about 10 percent of people of residents have decided to stay as they were called upon to leave the city they have been financed hotels organized for them because this city has gotten under constant rocket fire throughout the week and I want to show you this seems to be from an impact of a rocket from two days ago we're here at a storage facility right in the middle of the city and you can really see how it tore down the wall of this building here and you can see that it also destroyed the shelves here in front of the building and you can see that also parts were falling down while we were walking up and down the street next to us we could really see how the rocket impacted the road in front of us really smashing a hole into the concrete on the floor another bakery was targeted from was was smashed the windows of the bakery were smashed from the impact of shrapnels shrapnels when the iron dome intercepts a rocket so here in Sderot the situation is estimated to be quite dangerous for people to remain and really Sderot has been it has become a city of journalists really journalists are the only people you see here walking around these days there's a press center around it is estimated that those residents who stayed are elderly people or disabled people we're hearing that the municipality is currently mapping out the areas where there are still people and trying to catering to them we're constantly hearing from afar that the IDF is striking a Gaza has been doing that throughout the day and also throughout the morning throughout the night as well the the the rocket fire now we are we're in Sderot I'm deciding to lay down now because it is not a lot of time to really stay on the floor I don't even know if you can still hear or see me but it is really recommended to where we may on the floor in case that there are shrapnels in case there are shrapnels falling down I've just shown you that there was a rocket impact or an impact from shrapnels two days ago but you can see that these situations are quite dangerous this is exactly why this city has been doing this for a long time and this is why we have been doing this for a long time this is exactly why this city has been evacuated because now we could hear actually the the alert but it was maybe a second until we could already hear the interception okay that was very close to us as well the boom here I'm sure you could hear it many times people do not get that alert many times people do not hear that siren that we could hear right after we could hear the first boom this is why the city has been evacuated there are only journalists here we are all wearing helmets we're all wearing west vests there are a lot of shelters here in Stirot but in a situation like this where the fire is so close and so constant as well but this is really the first alert that Stirot the city of Stirot has gotten for today sometimes it's just really better to lie on the ground instead of run to a shelter because it just might be too late we have heard two booms which might indicate two interceptions we're all fine I want to update all of you we're fine and I'm looking at my camera I'm trying to get up if we can see anything in the sky I think we're fine to get up you go checking with you is most secure and the safest for you and the team there Pia I believe we're fine I see other journalists walking around as well this is how fast the situation here can change we're very close to the Gaza border Israel has been striking the Gaza Strip really throughout the night we're hearing from Palestinian sources that it has been the heaviest bombardment since the beginning and the idea is continuing to do so as we're all awaiting the possible the potential ground invasion here into Gaza refugees still crossing from the north of the Gaza Strip to the south still we do not hear that any humanitarian aid has been entering the Strip so far so Hamas is really retaliating there have been barrages also on to Ashkelon and Belsheva earlier Hamas they're saying this is the retaliation for civilian casualties and I think Pia for example on air for many of our viewers of what reality has been like in for the residents there and in the surrounding communities for 17 years since Hamas took power it's a matter of seconds here in Tel Aviv in the center of the country we have a minute and a half or so before between the alarm and the interception hoping that it is intercepted or before impact you we just saw that it's really a matter of seconds how does that feel well this time we could actually hear the siren for a second or two before we actually could hear the first boom we were lucky to actually hear that and do you know I laid down immediately I made the decision not to run to shelter because I thought I saw that the next shelter maybe our cameraman can show you the next shelters right over there so it would have been way too late to actually run though you see shelters everywhere here in Starot but sometimes maybe four or five kilometers there is just no time to run to a shelter so this is a very very different situation than the one you have in the center in the area of Tel Aviv where you actually have time to go to a safe area either to a shelter or to the staircase here the best decision is in many times just to lay on the ground or also to stay at home in these situations now as I said the city of Starot is a city of 30,000 residents it has been evacuated people have been leaving basically also since the beginning of the war now people are used to that kind of situations but Starot has become really under constant fire here and I can really show you how empty the city is there are no civilians here the only people we've seen are journalists and one very very lonely supermarket Echios that has decided to remain open and is now supplying the journalists with coffee but of course this is a very very sensitive situation and therefore most of the residents up until maybe 10% that remained left the area as you can see the streets are extremely empty. Thank you Pia. Thank you and take care there. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is on his way to Israel via Albania joining an area of world leaders that are coming to Israel to show their support in Israel's war with Hamas. Scholz has previously said that his country's only place right now is at Israel's side and froze all funding to the Palestinians. Polina Garev I-24 News Europe correspondent joins us from Berlin. Thank you Polina Scholz is coming to show support the US and the UK have moved warships here does Germany back Israel officially in its objective to topple Hamas? Well as you mentioned Germany has been very clear over the past week that it stands by Israel it supports its right to defend itself and there's really no other place for Germany to be as Chancellor Scholz said when he addressed the parliament the past week he repeated the famous quote by Merkel that Israel's security is part of Germany's reason of state and now it remains to be seen what exactly does this mean so Germany has already accepted some of Israel's request for a military aid it's allowed for German drones already in Israel to be used it also is now weighing requests for ammunition for Germany for Israel's navy similar requests are expected to follow and each of them is at least according to Germany's defense minister is likely to be of course granted we also seen Germany's foreign minister on Elena Bellbog during her visit to Israel last week minimize the criticism Germany usually voices regarding Israeli operations and the Gaza Strip the only saying that any sort of Israeli reaction needs to take into consideration the humanitarian situation in Gaza it's also here in Germany they've been of course an investigation into Hamas criminal investigation into Hamas launched by German prosecutors over the murder and kidnapped of Israelis with German citizenship and also we're seeing over the past week a lot of pro-Palestinian demonstrations but also a lot of crackdown by authorities and many of those demonstrations have been banned so Germany is really taking steps to supporting Israel but really what this statement of Israel's security being part of Germany's reason of state what does this mean in reality this will be tested over the next couple of weeks as this operation as this war continues and of course as the toll on civilians and God's growth it might be more difficult for Germany to justify this stance internally here where there is also a lot of support and sympathy towards its civilians in the Gaza Strip thank you Polina thanks for that update and Olaf Scholz will be arriving tomorrow potentially to Israel as Israel grapples with the aftermath of the deadliest attack on the country since the foundation of the state people around the world are showing support from funds and supplies to joining the fight themselves thousands are coming together to help Israel win the war against Hamas our country a nation of nine million is reeling in pain but amid all the heartache, garm major signs of humanity we've been so destroyed over the past few days like literally emotionally and you know rather than sitting at home watching the news and hearing horrible things that are happening it's like at least here you feel active you feel like you're actually helping you're donating you're donating a time you're donating after donations you're like working together and it's just like it's such a heartwarming feeling and it's so nice to feel something so positive hundreds of funds around the world have been set up to support Israel as major corporations pledge millions of dollars in humanitarian relief I know you joined me in absolutely having a broken heart for the victims in Israel I'm angry I'm sad we've cried and together our entire organization is praying for Israel while countless corporations are sending money for the fight many individuals are joining the fight themselves hopping on a prepaid flight to a country in a state of war the Israeli national anthem blaring through the skies a symbol of unity for a country that was seemingly divided two weeks ago all the infrastructure of the protests has been transformed once we had this temporary event into helping in different settings I took into under my wing to try to direct and try to build all this array that takes care of the absentees of the kidnapped on the basic people on the people who are dead the anti-government movement now using their platform to garner support for families who have evacuated from Israel's southern and northern borders and the soldiers who have jumped into action in those very same places each act of kindness from abroad and at home serving as a reminder to the state of Israel that light will always outshine darkness another organization that's doing a sacred work here in Israel all the around and today even more so is a Yad Sarra Philip Benheim is a director for international relations and resource development at Yad Sarra thank you for joining us tell me I'm sure you've been extremely busy since Saturday what are you doing on the ground what do you need how can we help well we need some of which we're getting more and more of all the time our volunteers we're a volunteer based organization but we need funds because a lot of the equipment most of the equipment we lend out cost money so to those who don't know can you explain what Yad Sarra does Yad Sarra is an organization that provides medical equipment and many many other services to their people out of hospitals avoid them from ever going to a hospital but in this situation to get them out of hospitals the hospitals wouldn't be able to perform today if not for the work and the equipment of Yad Sarra patients couldn't be released to go home if they didn't have wheelchairs and crutches and hospital beds and hoists and everything else that they need to go home and wouldn't be able to free up space we've aided over a thousand soldiers so far to date in this war effort and we're there for them now and always we've opened up two additional fronts of branches we close some branches open some branches we opened up a pop-up branch in Yama Melech because so many people were transported and relocated to hotels over there the work doesn't end. We have added 300 volunteer drivers who are moving equipment and people from the south to other homes we deliver medicines we have an amuta called Ryutla Kola Khair and we've distributed to date also over a quarter of a million shekel worth of medications people didn't have it people left it in their homes when they left the work here is unending and more importantly we hear not just today we hear for them tomorrow the next day and we company them through life some of the other first responders they do wonderful work but they take the injured to the hospital and then they're done that's when our work begins and we're with them every single day till they're better or through life. Are you also in need of more volunteers Yes, depending on what it is again those who the Hebrew speaking one because we're here in Israel and so the ones who have interactions with the folks are Hebrew speakers we've been able to put non-heber speakers to work in different areas our equipment repair department for example has increased their activity by 50% and in Yatsura when you talk numbers the numbers are huge you know the big multipliers so we're talking in thousands and thousands as opposed to tens and so we've been able to put non-heber speakers in the repair department they've been some of the ones who've been willing to be drivers they were willing to go down to the south in their own before we had protective equipment to give them fortunately we had some donations and they now all have protective helmets and vests but the willingness of the people is just incredible I mean we haven't had workers in the building to clean floors and to clean the bathrooms and to do a laundry service and we've had wonderful students have come here who've really pitched in it's phenomenal It's amazing to see so many people putting time and efforts and really donating everything they can to this war effort thank you very much Phillip Benheim from Yatsura for your sacred work there as I mentioned year round and especially today do you have a number that people can call for donations Yes there's a phone number here it says star 6444 you get through to the operator or if you you're here in Israel you just go on Google to Yatsura and you'll come right up to the website here if you're overseas we have offices overseas or I can give you my own personal number here 054 Let's not do that let's not do that but people can definitely Google Yatsura and find ways to help I'm available 24-6 and in the emergency cases also 7 Phillip Benheim thank you very much and thank you our viewers for watching wherever you are in Israel or the world we hope that you're keeping well and safe Over 1300 people murdered and more than 3000 injured and the war with Hamas continues We bring you first-hand testimonies from the front lines from those who survived and all the records of the atrocities by Hamas Follow us as Israel fights terror from the south and north Get the inside scoop on what's going on Only on I-24 News All you have to do is prepare the phone and point to the Q-A and there opens a brief questionnaire very easy to complete Another option is to enter the link that appears on the screen Let's wait for your answers 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 This breaking news edition I'm Benita Levine coming to you live from Tel Aviv Rocket alert siren sounding in Israel's southern communities just a short while ago yet again including in Ashdod and 10 days into the war The Hamas terror group confirming that it has fired rockets towards Tel Aviv earlier in the day Millions of residents of the city hearing a massive blast in central Israel after midday on Monday It's believed that rocket landed in the sea In the north Israel's defence officials announcing they are planning to evacuate civilians who live in towns up to just over 15,000 people from the Lebanese border amid repeated rocket and missile attacks by Hezbollah and Palestinian factions in recent days These residents of 28 communities will be taken to guest houses The IDF is advising the residents of the northern border town of Matula to stay in their homes and not to go out following warnings of a shooting in recent hours The US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is back in Israel following blitz visits to Jordan, Saudi Arabia Qatar, Egypt, Bahrain and the UAE as he works to garner support from allies in the region President Joe Biden could be visiting Israel as early as Wednesday or Thursday this week and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is expected here tomorrow The IDF is in touch with the families of 199 hostages being held captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip including women, children and elderly civilians We have updated the families of 199 hostages 199 hostages The efforts on the hostages are top national priority Several tracks belonging to the UN have been seen leaving the southern Gaza Strip on Monday The Reuters news agency is reporting the vehicles initially appeared to be on their way to the Rafah crossing on the Gaza Egypt border but their course later appeared to take them in the direction of Karim Shalom an Israeli border crossing close to the Egyptian frontier So for the latest developments let's go up north Our correspondent Hamda Sahud joins us from the northern border between Israel and Lebanon So Hamda evacuation orders for all communities close to the border within one mile or so impacting residents of around 28 communities We're talking about 10,000 people who live in 28 different places within a 2 kilometer radius of the Lebanese border that's around 1.2 miles The Israeli military is hoping to really secure the front because of the exchanges of fire that have been happening yesterday with Hezbollah Yesterday when we were hearing from spokespeople for the group that operates out of Lebanon they said that that fire was simply a warning that they're going to join the larger conflict However, the Iranians have been speaking extensively about this conflict and about Hezbollah's involvement saying that if there is a ground invasion inside of the Gaza Strip they cannot guarantee who will or will not get involved really warning of a semi-regional conflict here For now today it has been all quiet along the northern border other than those evacuations The last fire happening inside Lebanon's territory the military struck several Hezbollah targets Hezbollah also releasing footage of some of their attacks on Israeli soil yesterday publishing the video saying that it was a success that they were able to really achieve some of their mission by destroying what they say was an Israeli surveillance post I'll remind you since the beginning of this conflict on the Lebanese border 7 people have been killed 1 of them a civilian and 6 soldiers multiple others wounded This is a conflict that is starting to become a new front for the Israeli military In the last 10 days they have reinforced the border with several armored vehicles, tanks all other types of military equipment hundreds if not thousands of reservists coming here to the north as Israel prepares itself for potentially another conflict Correspondent Hamd al-Sahut on the northern border between Israel and Lebanon Thank you very much for that update And now for more from the Air Force Combat Pilot Brigadier General in the Reserves Israel Relik Shafir former commander of the Tel-Norff Air Force base Thank you so much for being here in studio The country is still in shock The trauma of what unfolded on Saturday the 7th of October Before we get to what could happen next You'll take your assessment of where things stand right now in the country The last 10 days have been so difficult where do things stand from your perspective It looks like our community our social system our political system government system are x-rayed to the public so that everybody can see the upside, the downside, the flaws the trauma I would say even the freezing of the government which decided not to react at all so none of the ministers came out until a couple of days ago none took responsibility and so on and the civilian I would say quadrant so to speak which has been activated during the protest times these same people who were activated grouped into large groups that worked together turned their vector into helping the gaza border people helping the villages and the towns and being able to amass goods and services to those in lieu of the government had it not happened had it not been for these people to be ready and activated already so this is an interesting part and now we are in a transition phase where the government is taking responsibility each minister understands better what he has to do in the aftershock that we are at militarily we are challenged President Biden is not coming to see what happened in the gaza area he is coming to tell us restrain yourself do not overreach in gaza and hear what we are planning with all respect to showing sympathy same thing with the chancellor coming tomorrow and also restraining on the northern border and understanding the game that is taking place there where we cannot react to what happens on the other side but everything is below the threshold of full scale war so that is my take on that given your experience in the combat field particularly within the air force what do you make of suggestions of Israel conducting a preemptive strike against Hezbollah up north obviously this is possible and if there is a war with Hezbollah obviously a pre-strike will improve the outcome at the end of the day but I think this is some of the hints or even directives that we are hearing from President Biden and others do not strike first and do not escalate the system into such a way that it will drag the western powers and it may drag Iran into something uncontrollable so as long as we can keep that simmering below the threshold then this is probably something that we would do now the air force is a power to be used by the politicians and politicians understand this this is why we are seeing a teta-teta type action and it does not escalate into something bigger and I guess it will stay that way at least until there is a massive ground incursion at which time nobody knows what will happen and to that point the viability of that ground incursion it comes with a red line demand out of the north saying if Israel does in fact invade the Gaza Strip then Hezbollah will get involved it comes with Iran saying they are watching and they won't stand by and be a spectator talk to us about your understanding of the risks involved militarily if and when that ground incursion does in fact take place in the Gaza Strip well you know this area in the world has been under such talking is cheap in the last 3500 years since the Biblical times so the fact that they are saying this or we are saying something doesn't mean it's going to take place let's say we said that we will take out Hamas is it possible is there an operational plan that can really pluck every Hamas and their ideology out of Gaza without actually overtaking the whole of Gaza and then what we will have in our hands so I'm not saying that talking is cheap talking does have a meaning does have inflections so to speak and challenging the other side but when the time comes we will have to find out whether the Air Force was able to puncture the tunnels in Gaza and be able to take Hamas out of their tunnels out of their strongholds in one way or another and or will it need a massive ground attack that nobody knows everybody knows how it starts nobody knows how it ends so I think as long as we can let the Air Force try to do the work on its own the longer we can stretch that period of time the better the chances that we will not need a ground a massive ground invasion I'm very happy to see you have your helmet on rocket sirens in several parts of the south what is happening where you are what can you tell us right now we here had a very short notice of learn about how to communicate with the people in Gaza how to communicate with the people in Gaza how to communicate with the inhabitants what is happening what is happening right now we here had a short notice about how an hour ago that was the first Aliah In two weeks as we are only a few kilometers away from the Gaza border you can hear the Israeli forces striking in Gaza and a lot of alerts throughout alongside the border. The city of Sirot has gotten under fire throughout the last week constantly. So we here are standing in front of the police station, Benita, that was demolished by Israeli forces last week after a lengthy shootout with Hamas infiltrators. At least 10 of them hiding in here until Israel, until Israeli forces regain control and then later decided to really demolish that police station. As you can see, maybe we're in the middle of a residential neighborhood here. And when you walk through the city, everything is deserted. You barely see civilian. The city really has turned into a city of journalists. There are many foreign journalists, Israeli journalists as well that are touring the city here now because you can also see impacts of rockets, impacts of shrapnels. You can see still broken glass also from the shootouts between Israeli security forces and Hamas infiltrators that have happened right here in the city, right here in this residential areas. And from here, you can also hear the constant striking of Israeli forces in Gaza that has been going on throughout the morning, also throughout last night. In fact, Palestinians' reports are saying that this night has been the most intense bombardment that they have seen since the beginning of the war. At the same time, the Rafah crossing that was said to be opening this morning still seems to remain close, the Rafah closing, the opening between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, saying to allow humanitarian aid to enter, such as food, medicine, water, desperately needed by the more than two million civilians now in the Gaza Strip and also allowing foreign nationals to exit the Strip now. Only a very small minority of the two million strong population have actually a foreign passport. But that was a glimpse of hope, but also Egypt, Israel, the U.S. and Hamas not being able to really agree on a truce there to enable the humanitarian goods to enter. As you can see here, Israeli security forces are very, very present in the area. This is now two cars here arriving of the Israeli border police. In fact, here again, this is right next to the police station where Hamas infiltrators have been hiding out for hours and hours until Israeli forces tried to actually decided to demolish it. And I would say we do not really know what is going on here as of now. They seem to approach a house. Actually, this area has been said to be cleared off for the Hamas infiltrators, but only yesterday in a residential area near Baistirot, one of them has been found still. So there is still not 100% clear that there are no Hamas members in the area anymore. But this city, as I said, has been almost completely evacuated for that reason also, as this has been continuously also struck from Gaza. Stay safe. Live from Storot, correspondent Pierre Stekelbach in Southern Israel. We will be coming back to Pierre in the coming hours. Thank you. Now, as we've been discussing here in studio, the United States has thrown its full support behind Israel's war against Hamas. But what exactly does that mean? And what are the likely costs? Our correspondent, Ariel Levin Waldman, takes a deeper look. A U.S. carrier strike group carries enough firepower to level a small nation. The Biden administration has sent two of them to the Mediterranean as a show of force to support Israel. We moved the U.S. carrier fleet to the eastern Mediterranean and we're sending more fighter jets there in that region and made it clear, made it clear to the Iranians. Be careful. Each strike group has close to 70 warplanes, thousands of troops and a host of missile support boats and destroyers. The United States has made its interests clear. This war between Israel and Hamas's murderers must not escalate into a full regional war. America's credibility is on the line, proving it is still a major player in the Middle East and will back its allies when the worst happens. It's also a message to Russia and China to keep out of the region. What we're actually doing, including the deployment of these aircraft carrier battle groups, again, not to provoke anyone, but to send a very clear message of deterrence, that no one should do anything that widens this conflict in any way or that furthers aggression against Israel from any other direction. The United States has also thrown the might of its arms industry behind Israel with rapid resupplies of ammunition. We heard from what the Israeli leaders about what is needed. And in munitions, we heard about precision guided bombs. We heard about iron dome replacement. We heard about 155 millimeter mortars. We heard about JDAMs and many other things and not just munitions. The U.S. can rally the Western world to diplomatically support Israel and maintains a crucial Security Council veto to keep the U.N. in line. But this support comes with a diplomatic bottom line, a set of lines Israel must not cross. The Biden administration has demanded Israel lift the siege of Gaza and restore water to the strip, something Israel has done. Despite Hamas' atrocities, the U.S. says Israel must minimize civilian casualties and should not reoccupy Gaza and maintain the ability for a two state solution going forward. Restraint may be a bitter pill for Israelis, still shocked by the brutal massacre of Israeli civilians. But American support will be critical on the battlefield and beyond. And still with me in studio Brigadier General in the reserves Israel Relic Shafir. We were talking a little bit earlier about the U.S. involvement, the U.S. support. We know that Anthony Blinken has conducted this blitz trip going to allies, trying to garner some kind of support. Talk to us not only about what that message means right now for people watching in the region up north, but also for the IDF, a massive knock for Israel, for the Air Force, for the IDF on the 7th of October. What does it mean to embolden them now to know that that U.S. support is there if it is needed? I think we all understand that if Hezbollah fires the mass of rockets that they have towards Israel, the more they fire, the more iron dome missiles will need to take them out. Now, at the beginning, the number of iron dome missiles aimed to take down the rockets has to do with how much is left in the bunkers, whether to shoot two missiles per rocket, or even if it's, let's say, if it's an area that is important to protect maybe four missiles, which is in some areas, this is the way it is. So the more we feel sure that we will have that replenishment, the more rockets we can take out without thinking of balancing the game. So that's one thing. Another thing is when the fifth and sixth fleet carriers are out there close by, they are also deterring Hezbollah because it's not just the Israeli Air Force that can put its aim on Lebanon, but also the carriers, if things get out of hand, if Iran sort of misbehaves in the Hormoz Straits. And so this game of chess is not just a two dimensional, but it's three dimensional because it has repercussions in how you project power all over the Middle East. So in that sense, I think it gives the Air Force the military and the whole Israeli system. It bolsters the confidence, which was heavily hit, obviously, 10 days ago. You call it a game of chess. It's a long haul, but we will be watching. We so appreciate your expertise on all the latest developments unfolding right now in the region Brigadier General in the Reserves Israel Relicts of Fear. Thank you once again for being here in studio. Thank you. And now we find out more about what is happening on the ground down south. We welcome Israeli resident of the south Nadav Snir. He lives just four miles from the border with Gaza. Nadav, thank you so much for being with us. We know siren sounding in certain communities not so long ago in the south. You yourself didn't witness any of the horrors of the terror attack on Saturday, but give us a sense right now what it's like to be living there so close to Gaza right now. Hi, hello, everybody. The sense is, I've been saying for the past 20 years, that should have been carried out at least 20 years ago. But unfortunately, we, we ran a policy of containment. I'd like to I'd like to use this platform to make to make some to to emphasize two main points if you may. Most of the Western world, I think nowadays is aware of the distorted indoctrination by Palestinians, the leaders, militant groups, of course, and many of the Palestinian residents. The indoctrination I'm talking about sanctifies death over life. It should be understood that all they talk about is death. Life has no meaning, however. And we know that I know that the Western world should be aware of it. And I don't really understand what is happening and I don't really understand why some governments still don't call Hamas and other groups terrors. Any group or any individual who wants just to kill and even enjoy killing is by no other definition a terrorist. Um, it's been, it's been carried out ever since 2001, not just the 7th of October, 10 days ago, when from Gaza, we started getting rocket missiles. And there is no difference in concept. Beyond this, the rocket rocket missiles launching is only for one purpose, kill as many as possible. This second indoctrination brainwash is has been carried out for a long, long, long time. And I would like to emphasize and make crystal clear to the Western world, civilians and governments, especially, that there is no, I can't even word, there is no other place to the to the Palestinians, at least in Gaza, rather than hatred, wanting to kill and join killing you in in some of the in some of the documentaries, features, you could see, you could hear them enjoying and laughing when they butchered and massacred children. Now, what is so interesting about what you're saying is that this time not only were their celebrations the joy that you are outlining, but Hamas actually filmed these attacks Hamas actually filmed the killing of children and of adults as well. And this is now being seen by the world. As you are describing very briefly, I only have a few seconds left. Do you and your family not want to be evacuated right now from where you stay very briefly? Well, as you mentioned earlier, we we are at very approximate vicinity to the Gaza Strip in the Gaza Strip to Gaza. Some of my neighbors have been evacuated. We don't really want to start wondering about we decided to stay put. I don't really I cannot really explain rationally what this is. I I just feel I wouldn't like to say the word secure here. But this is my home. I've been living here for ages. I was born here. I don't want to see myself not flee. But I want to stay here. Well, Nadav, please stay safe. You and your family Nadav sneer in southern Israel. We so appreciate you speaking to us. Be safe. Thank you very much. Israeli actor at Sahih Alevi from the Israeli TV show Fowder is one of thousands of reservists called to serve. Let's hear his thoughts. Hello, everyone, Sahih Alevi here. As you can see, my team is also being recruited to defend our beloved country. We feel the pain of the families who lost their loved ones. We all wish for the return of our loved ones who were taken from us. And we all pray for the speedy recovery of all those injured. At the same time, let no one be mistaken. We're all united and motivated to fight anyone who wants to harm us. We are all imbued with the faith that we will be able to allow our children to live here in peace, safety and freedom. And we're all full of hope that the good days, happy days, days of peace will still come. From here, I send a warm hug and great love and a huge thank you to all the soldiers, wherever they are, and to all the people of Israel who support, hug, love. May you know that you are the blowing wind and the lifeblood of our dear country. Together, I have no doubt that we will succeed. That's a wrap. I'm Benita Levine. Stay tuned. Over 1,300 people murdered and more than 3,000 injured and the war with Hamas continues. We bring you first hand testimonies from the front lines, from those who survived, and all the records of the atrocities by Hamas. Follow us as Israel fights terror from the south and north. Get the inside school on what's going on. Only on I 24 News. This particular project with a gross capacity of 103.5 megawatt will be producing around 230 gigawatt hour of clean renewable energy per year. Salido aquí donde nos ven para clamar por la lluvia. Si en verdad en estos momentos el calentamiento global está afectando a Bolivia y no solo a Bolivia sino a todo el mundo entero y nosotros necesitamos lluvia para los sembradíos. Tito reserve, we have the right ingredients and we have to do the job and that if we have the right ingredients and we do the job that the Vakita can be protected. This breaking news edition, I'm Benita Levine coming to you live from Tel Aviv. Rocket alert siren sounding in Israel's southern communities just a short while ago yet again, including in Ashdod and be a sheba 10 days into the war. The Hamas terror group confirming that it has fired rockets towards Tel Aviv earlier in the day. Millions of residents of the city hearing a massive blast in central Israel after midday on Monday. It's believed that rocket landed in the sea in the north. Israel's defense officials announcing they are planning to evacuate civilians who live in towns up to just over one mile from the Lebanese border amid repeated rocket and missile attacks by Hezbollah and Palestinian factions in recent days. These residents of 28 communities will be taken to guest houses. The IDF is advising the residents of the northern border town of Matula to stay in their homes and not to go out following warnings of a shooting in recent hours. On the diplomatic front this hour, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is back in Israel following blitz visits to Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, Bahrain and the UAE as he works to garner support from allies in the region. President Joe Biden could be visiting Israel as early as Wednesday or Thursday this week and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is expected here tomorrow. Iran's foreign ministry slamming the United States, saying Washington is already militarily involved in this conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Meanwhile, the IDF is in touch with the families of 199 hostages being held captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, including women, children and elderly civilians. We have updated the families of 199 hostages, 199 hostages. The efforts on the hostages are top national priority. Several tracks belonging to the UN have been seen leaving the southern Gaza Strip on Monday. The Reuters news agency is reporting the vehicles initially appeared to be on their way to the Rafa crossing on the Gaza Egypt border, but their course later appeared to take them in the direction of Karim Shalom and Israeli border crossing close to the Egyptian frontier. So for the latest developments, let's go up north. Our correspondent Hamda Sahut joins us from the northern border between Israel and Lebanon. So Hamda evacuation orders for all communities close to the border within one mile or so, impacting residents of around 28 communities. What is the latest there? Right, Benita, we're talking about 10,000 people who live in 28 different places within a two kilometer radius of the Lebanese border. That's around 1.2 miles. The Israeli military is hoping to really secure the front because of the exchanges of fire that have been happening yesterday with Hezbollah. Now, yesterday when we were hearing from spokespeople for the group that operates out of Lebanon, they said that that fire was simply a warning and not an indication that they're going to join the larger conflict. However, the Iranians have been speaking extensively about this conflict and about Hezbollah's involvement, saying that if there is a ground invasion inside of the Gaza Strip, they cannot guarantee who will or will not get involved. Really warning of a semi-regional conflict here. For now today, it has been all quiet along the northern border, other than those evacuations. The last fire happening inside Lebanese territory when the Israeli military struck several Hezbollah targets. Hezbollah also releasing footage of some of their attacks on Israeli soil yesterday, publishing the video saying that it was a success, that they were able to really achieve some of their mission by destroying what they say was an Israeli surveillance post. I'll remind you, since the beginning of this conflict on the Lebanese border, seven people have been killed, one of them a civilian and six soldiers, and multiple others wounded in this conflict that is starting to become a new front for the Israeli military. In the last 10 days, they have reinforced the border with several armored vehicles, tanks, all other types of military equipment, hundreds if not thousands of reservists coming here to the north as Israel prepares itself for potentially another conflict. Correspondent Hamd al-Sahut on the northern border between Israel and Lebanon, thank you very much for that update. And now for more, we welcome to studio former Israeli Air Force Combat Pilot, Brigadier General in the Reserves, Israel Relik Shafir, former commander of the Tel-Norff Air Force Base. Thank you so much for being here in studio. The country is still in shock, the trauma of what unfolded on Saturday, the 7th of October. Before we get to what could happen next, you'll take your assessment of where things stand right now in the country. The last 10 days have been so difficult, so tough. Where do things stand from your perspective? It looks like our community, our social system, our political system, government system are x-rayed to the public so that everybody can see the upside, the downside, the flaws, the trauma, I would say even the freezing of the government, which decided not to react at all. So none of the ministers came out until a couple of days ago, none took responsibility and so on. And the civilian, I would say quadrant, so to speak, which has been activated during the protest times, these same people who were activated, grouped into large groups that work together, turned their vector into helping the gaza border people, helping the villages and the towns and being able to amass goods and services to those in lieu of the government. That would not happen had it not been for these people to be ready and activated already. So this is an interesting part. And now we're in a transition phase where the government is taking responsibility. Each minister understands better what he has to do in the aftershock that we're at. Militarily, we are challenged. President Biden is not coming to see what happened in the Gaza area. He's coming to tell us, restrain yourself, do not overreach in Gaza. And here what we are planning with all respect to showing sympathy, the same thing with the chancellor coming tomorrow. And also restraining on the northern border and understanding the game that's taking place there where we cannot react to the government to react to what happens on the other side. But everything is below a threshold of a full scale war. So that's my take on that. Given your experience in the combat field, particularly within the Air Force, what do you make of suggestions of Israel conducting a preemptive strike against Hezbollah up north? Obviously this is possible. And if there is a war with Hezbollah, obviously a pre-strike will improve the outcome at the end of the day. But I think these are some of the hints or even directives that we're hearing from President Biden. And others do not strike first and do not escalate the system into such a way that it'll drag the Western powers and it may drag Iran into something uncontrollable. So as long as we can keep that simmering below the threshold, then this is probably something that we would do. Now the Air Force is a power to be used by the politicians and politicians understand this. This is why we're seeing a teta-teta type action and it does not escalate into something bigger. And I guess it'll stay that way, at least until there's a massive ground incursion at which time nobody knows what will happen. And to that point, the viability of that ground incursion, it comes with a red line demand out of the North saying if Israel does in fact invade the Gaza Strip, then Hezbollah will get involved. It comes with Iran saying they're watching and they won't stand by and be a spectator. Talk to us about your understanding of the risks involved militarily if and when that ground incursion does in fact take place in the Gaza Strip. Well, this area in the world has been under such a talking is cheap in the last 3,500 years since the biblical times. So the fact that they're saying this or we're saying something doesn't mean it's going to take place. Let's say we said that we will take out Hamas. Is it possible? Is there an operational plan that can really pluck every Hamas and their ideology out of Gaza without actually overtaking the whole of Gaza? And then what we will have in our hands. So I'm not saying that talking is cheap. Talking does have a meaning, does have its inflections, so to speak. And challenging the other side. But when the time comes, we'll have to find out whether the Air Force was able to puncture the tunnels in Gaza and be able to take Hamas out of their tunnels, out of their strongholds in one way or another. And or will it need a massive ground attack that nobody knows, everybody knows how it starts, nobody knows how it ends. So I think as long as we can let the Air Force try to do the work on its own, the longer we can stretch that period of time, the better the chances that we will not need a massive ground invasion. Brigadier General on the reserves, Israel Relic Shaffir, former commander of the Tel Nov Air Force Base. Thank you very much for being here in studio. Appreciate your insight on this day. Right now we go to our correspondent, Pia Stechelbach, she joins us from Storot in the South. Pia, I'm very happy to see you have your helmet on, rocket sirens in several parts of the South. Ashdod, Pia Sheba earlier and surrounds, what is happening where you are? What can you tell us right now? Well, we here had a very short notice alert about half an hour ago. That was the first alert that the city of Storot here received, but really there is nobody really here. There's the city of 30,000 residents, but only about 10% have remained. The city has been evacuating throughout the last week. As we are only a few kilometers away from the Gaza border, you can really hear the Israeli forces striking in Gaza and there have been quite a lot of alerts throughout the day in other areas alongside the street, but the city of Storot, alongside the border, the city of Storot has gotten under fire throughout the last week constantly. So we here are standing in front of the police station, Benita, that was demolished by Israeli forces last week after a lengthy shootout with Hamas infiltrators, at least 10 of them hiding in here until Israel, until Israeli forces regain control and then later decided to really demolish that police station. As you can see, maybe we're in the middle of a residential neighborhood here and when you walk through the city, everything is deserted. You barely see civilian. The city really has turned into a city of journalists. There are many foreign journalists, Israeli journalists as well that are touring the city here now because you can also see impacts of rockets, impacts of shrapnels. You can see still broken glass, also from the shootouts between Israeli security forces and Hamas infiltrators that have happened right here in the city, right here in this residential areas. And from here you can also hear the constant striking of Israeli forces in Gaza that has been going on throughout the morning, also throughout last night. In fact, Palestinians reports are saying that this night has been the most intense bombardment that they have seen since the beginning of the war. At the same time, the Rafah crossing that was said to be opening this morning still seems to remain close, the Rafah closing opening between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, saying to allow humanitarian aid to enter, such as food, medicine, water desperately needed by the more than two million civilians now in the Gaza Strip and also allowing foreign nationals to exit the Strip now. Only a very small minority of the two million strong population have actually a foreign passport. But that was a glimpse of hope but also Egypt, Israel, the US and Hamas not being able to really agree on a truce there to enable the humanitarian goods to enter. As you can see here, Israeli security forces are very, very present in the area. This is now two cars here arriving of the Israeli border police in fact here. Again, this is right next to the police station where Hamas infiltrators have been hiding out for hours and hours until Israeli forces tried, actually decided to demolish it. And I would say we do not really know what is going on here as of now. They seem to approach a house. Actually, this area has been said to be cleared of for the Hamas infiltrators, but only yesterday in a residential area near Baistirot, one of them has been found still. So there is still not 100% clear that there are no Hamas members in the area anymore. But this city, as I said, has been almost completely evacuated for that reason also as this has been continuously also struck from Gaza. Stay safe, live from Storot, correspondent Pierre Stekelbach in Southern Israel. We will be coming back to Pierre in the coming hours. Thank you. Now, as we've been discussing here in studio, the United States has thrown its full support behind Israel's war against Hamas. But what exactly does that mean? And what are the likely costs? Our correspondent Ariel Levin Waldman takes a deeper look. A US carrier strike group carries enough firepower to level a small nation. The Biden administration has sent two of them to the Mediterranean as a show of force to support Israel. We moved a US carrier fleet to the Eastern Mediterranean and we're sending more fighter jets there in that region and made it clear, made it clear to the Iranians be careful. Each strike group has close to 70 warplanes, thousands of troops and a host of missile support boats and destroyers. The United States has made its interest clear. This war between Israel and Hamas's murderers must not escalate into a full regional war. America's credibility is on the line, proving it is still a major player in the Middle East and will back its allies when the worst happens. It's also a message to Russia and China to keep out of the region. What we're actually doing, including the deployment of these aircraft carrier battle groups, again, not to provoke anyone, but to send a very clear message of deterrence, that no one should do anything that widens this conflict in any way or that furthers aggression against Israel from any other direction. The United States has also thrown the might of its arms industry behind Israel with rapid resupplies of ammunition. We heard from what the Israeli leaders about what is needed and in munitions. We heard about precision guided bombs. We heard about iron dome replacement. We heard about 155 millimeter mortars. We heard about JDAMs and many other things. And not just munitions. The US can rally the Western world to diplomatically support Israel and maintains a crucial security council veto to keep the UN in line. But this support comes with a diplomatic bottom line, a set of lines Israel must not cross. The Biden administration has demanded Israel lift the siege of Gaza and restore water to the strip. Something Israel has done. Despite Hamas' atrocities, the US says Israel must minimize civilian casualties and should not reoccupy Gaza and maintain the ability for a two-state solution going forward. Restraint may be a bitter pill for Israelis, still shocked by the brutal massacre of Israeli civilians. But American support will be critical on the battlefield and beyond. And still with me in studio, Brigadier General in the Reserves, Israel Relic Shafir. We were talking a little bit earlier about the US involvement, the US support. We know that Anthony Blinken has conducted this blitz trip going to allies, trying to garner some kind of support. Talk to us not only about what that message means right now for people watching in the region up north, but also for the IDF. A massive knock for Israel, for the Air Force, for the IDF on the 7th of October. What does it mean to embolden them now to know that that US support is there if it is needed? I think we all understand that if Hezbollah fires the mass rockets that they have towards Israel, the more they fire, the more iron dome missiles will need to take them out. Now, at the beginning, the number of iron dome missiles aimed to take down the rockets has to do with how much is left in the bunkers, whether to shoot two missiles per rocket, or even if it's, let's say, if it's an area that is important to protect, maybe four missiles, which is in some areas, this is the way it is. So the more we feel sure that we will have that replenishment, the more rockets we can take out without thinking of balancing the game. So that's one thing. Another thing is when the 5th and 6th Fleet carriers are out there close by, they are also deterring Hezbollah because it's not just the Israeli Air Force that can put its aim on Lebanon, but also the carriers, if things get out of hand, if Iran sort of misbehaves in the Hormoz Straits. And so this game of chess is not just a two-dimensional, but it's three-dimensional because it has repercussions in how you project power all over the Middle East. So in that sense, I think it gives the Air Force the military and the whole Israeli system, it bolsters the confidence, which was heavily hit, obviously, 10 days ago. You call it a game of chess. It's a long haul, but we will be watching. We so appreciate your expertise on all the latest developments I'm folding right now in the region. Brigadier General in the Reserves, Israel, Relic Shafir, thank you once again for being here in studio. Thank you. And now we find out more about what is happening on the ground down south. We welcome Israeli resident of the south, Nader Sneer. He lives just four miles from the border with Gaza. Nader, thank you so much for being with us. We know Siren sounding in certain communities not so long ago in the south. You yourself didn't witness any of the horrors of the terror attack on Saturday, but give us a sense right now what it's like to be living there so close to Gaza right now. Hi, hello, everybody. The sense is, I've been saying for the past 20 years that should have been carried out at least 20 years ago, but unfortunately we ran a policy of containment. I'd like to use this platform to make some, to emphasize two main points, if you may. Most of the Western world I think nowadays is aware of the distorted indoctrination by Palestinians, the leaders, militant groups of course, and many of the Palestinian residents. The indoctrination I'm talking about sanctifies death over life. It should be understood that all they talk about is death. Life has no meaning, however, and we know that. I know that the Western world should be aware of it. And I don't really understand why some governments still don't call Hamas and other groups terrors. Any group or any individual who wants just to kill and even enjoy killing is by no other definition a terrorist. It's been carried out ever since 2001, not just the 7th of October, 10 days ago, when from Gaza we started getting rocket missiles and there is no difference in concept. Beyond this, the rocket missiles launching is only for one purpose, kill as many as possible. This second indoctrination brainwash is has been carried out for a long, long, long time. And I would like to emphasize and make crystal clear to the Western world, civilians and governments especially that there is no, I can't even word, there is no other place to the Palestinians, at least in Gaza, rather than hatred, wanting to kill and enjoying killing. In some of the documentaries features, you could see, you could hear them enjoying and laughing when they butchered and massacred children. Nadal, what is so interesting about what you're saying is that this time not only were there celebrations, the joy that you are outlining, but Hamas actually films these attacks. Hamas actually films the killing of children and of adults as well. And this is now being seen by the world as you are describing very briefly. I only have a few seconds left. Do you and your family not want to be evacuated right now from where you stay very briefly? Well, as you mentioned earlier, we are at a very approximate vicinity to the Gaza Strip, in the Gaza Strip, to Gaza. Some of my neighbors have been evacuated. We don't really want to start wondering about, we decided to stay put. I don't really, I cannot really explain rationally why this is. I just feel, I wouldn't like to say the word secure here, but this is my home. I've been living here for ages. I was born here. I don't want to see myself, not flee, but I want to stay here. Well, Nadal, please stay safe. You and your family, Nadal, Sneer and Southern Israel, we so appreciate you speaking to us. Be safe. Thank you very much. Israeli actor, Tzaki Halevi from the Israeli TV show Founder is one of thousands of reservists called to serve. Let's hear his thoughts. Peace be upon you all, Tzaki Halevi. Hello everyone, Tzaki Halevi here. As you can see, my team is also being recruited to defend our beloved country. We feel the pain of the families who lost their loved ones. We all wish for the return of our loved ones who were taken from us, and we all pray for the speedy recovery of all those injured. At the same time, let no one be mistaken. We are all united and motivated to fight anyone who wants to harm us. We are all imbued with the faith that we will be able to allow our children to live here in peace, safety and freedom. And we're all full of hope that the good days, happy days, days of peace will still come. From here, I send a warm hug and great love and a huge thank you to all the soldiers wherever they are and to all the people of Israel who support, hug, love. May you know that you are the blowing wind and the lifeblood of our dear country. Together, I have no doubt that we will succeed. That's a wrap. I'm Benita Levine. Stay tuned. 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. More than 100 soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped. Tell us, we don't know what to do. 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. This particular project with a gross capacity of 103.5 megawatt will be producing around 230 gigawatt hour of clean renewable energy per year. Vakita Reserve, we have to write ingredients, and we have to do the job. And that if we have the right ingredients and we do the job, that the Vakita can be protected. Since breaking news edition, I'm Benita Levine, coming to you live from Tel Aviv. Rocket alerts sirens sounding in Israel's southern communities in recent hours, yet again, including in Ashdod and Beishiba, 10 days into the war. The Hamas terror group confirming earlier it had fired rockets towards Tel Aviv. Millions of residents of the city hearing a massive blast in central Israel after midday on Monday. It's believed that rocket landed in the sea. In the north, Israel's defense officials announcing they were planning to evacuate civilians who live in towns up to just over one mile from the Lebanese border amid repeated rocket and missile attacks by Hezbollah and Palestinian factions in recent days. These residents of 28 communities will be taken to local guest houses. The IDF is advising the residents of the northern border town of Matula to stay in their homes and not to leave following warnings of a shooting in recent hours. On the diplomatic front, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is back in Israel today. And as we speak, there is a one minute of silence being observed inside the Israeli parliament, the start of the session of the Knesset. One minute of silence. 16 October 2023, I opened the second session of the 20th, 25th Knesset. Mr. President Herzog, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Deputy Justice, Justice Fogelman, the head of opposition Lapid, the ministers, members of Knesset, past and present ambassadors who are with us, ladies and gentlemen, citizens of Israel, we're going to open the session of this Knesset with a moment of silence. And we will think with pain and sorrow the memory of hundreds and thousands of our citizens and combatants who perished in the war that Israel is in the midst of. Thank you. On behalf of the Knesset, I wish to console the families who lost their dearest relatives to wish all the injured speedy recovery of body and soul and to pray for the returning home of all the captives, the abducted, the MIAs. I would like to thank all the wonderful citizens to members of Knesset from coalition and opposition who mobilized in order to help the families, both through the headquarters of the Knesset or participating in the many funerals and consoling the families and civil initiatives. This is a time of peril. Even Israel, which is used to wars and terror, has never coped with such a painful blow in scope, in strength, in malice and in cruelty towards soldiers and citizens like women, elderly, young children, babies and men all innocent. This awful blow because of its power is there, but the battle is not over. The war has just began. We will be required to stand together side by side without any schism, no sarcasm, no suspicion. We will have to prove all these aside for the sake of the soldiers who are standing together shoulder to shoulder until the final victory, until the annihilation of our enemies will have to stand together until our citizens will be able to feel safe in their villages, towns all over the country and the kibbutz in towns until our young people will be able to dance and be happy without being afraid that the total evil will meet them. At this very hour, the IDF soldiers and the security forces are preparing for war. It's going to be a long and harsh war and the hearts of the entire nation are together with them because this is a war of justice that was imposed on us. All over the country, we pray for their well-being and pray for their success. Religious prayers as well as secular prayers, prayers that are all said from the bottom of our hearts. Soldiers, the security forces, Speaker of Parliament, Amir Ahana, opening Israeli Parliament's winter session, 10 days into the war. A little bit later, President Isaac Herzog is expected to speak as is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and when that happens, we will take you live to the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, to hear exactly what they have to say 10 days into the war, just after observing one minute's silence, one minute's silence, condolences for those who lost loved ones, prayers for the speedy recovery of those who are injured and prayers for the safe return of the hostages. For more, we welcome to studio Brigadier General in the Reserves, Amir Avevi, Director of Israel's Defense and Security Forum at the IDSF and former Deputy Commander of the Gaza Strip Division in the IDF and Ben Jor Yemini, Senior Journalist from the Iliot Afronot Daily. Thank you both for being here in studio. One minute's silence. It feels like the country needed this collective moment together right now. Your thoughts? Yeah, first of all, we have to bear in mind that we are speaking about the terror attack, which is, in the size, it's much bigger when we compare between the countries, it's much bigger than the 9-11. It's the worst atrocities that Israel experienced since its foundation. And even I would say, even I would say, since the Holocaust, this kind of brutality, this kind of slaughtering children, I saw it in my eyes because I was there on Friday, how they are collecting children and just burn them. It's things that are unbelievable. And yes, it's a moment of sorrow, not a moment of revenge. I'm not talking about that. I mean, I think that we have decision-makers and they will decide what will be the right retaliation of Israel. I'm not recommending anything because it's not my field. But yes, it is a moment of sorrow. The president is speaking. Let's take a listen. Well, Prime Minister, the Speaker of the Knesset, the Justice of the Supreme Court, the Head of Opposition, Ministers, M.K., ladies and gentlemen, very few are the minutes in the history of a nation where so much is at risk. Very few are the moments where the hearts of the entire nation beat together with one beat. Few are the minutes, but when they come, they also carry an extreme responsibility. I would like to speak in the beginning of the session of the Knesset, the symbol of the Israeli government to our torn family. To that family we went yesterday when the smell of death is still in the air and blood is all over under the pictures of the children and the grandchildren whose fate is unknown. I dedicated to the bereaved families within them, the family of Roi, the brave combatant who was badly injured and his parents asked me and my wife to stand by his bed in the hospital in his last moments. Moments of farewell when his twin brother is also a combatant in uniform, is hugging him, crying, refuses to say goodbye. From here, the Knesset, I talk to you, the citizens of Israel. I talk to the families of the abducted, of the hostages, those who are in complete darkness. I talk to the inhabitants of the south and to the people evacuated all over the country. I talk to the ones injured in body and soul. For years, for days, for months, they'll have to be rehabilitated. I talk to you, combatants of the IDF, the police, the Shabak, and the security forces who are sacrificing themselves for us and the family members who are worried and supportive and the forces of medicine and emergency. We love you. We salute you. I talk to you, the inhabitants of the north that again show their resilience and their strength. I talk to you, the brothers and sisters who feel so angry and looking for answers. I talk to the entire Israeli society, the Jews and the Arabs who show these days responsibility and resilience. I talk to the entire Jewish people, both in Israel and in diaspora. A whole country is bereaved. A whole country is grieving. On the young people, their heroism, the Yisko words that we know from the poet Katzenelson, whose name is upon the Kibbutz, Kibbutz Baeri, who lost so many of its members. The vicious attacks of our enemies was against the Jewish people, but they did not distinguish between blood and blood. There's almost no home in Israel that the painful tragedy did not reach. Families and communities who were badly hit, and this is the Israeli mosaics, which is so beautiful, yet so sad. One human texture of Jews, Muslims, Christians, Druze, and Circassians from Kibbutzim, from cities, villages, secular, traditional, secular, citizens of Israel and other countries who fell in the hands of the enemy when they were on their way to the synagogue, or at home, or in the military base, or in a happy dancing party. This shows that we are all one people. Very few are the minutes in the history of a nation when so much is at risk, but when they come, they bring with them the main heroes. We are now facing the tragedy bereaved, yet we are full of pride for the wonderful people of Israel, because against this attack, the Israeli people rose in its glory. It's here, all over, the citizens, the gods, soldiers, and police people who with unprecedented heroism fought against. They saved lives, and they sacrificed life. All came together, they all fought to the last bullet, the last breath, and we are still fighting. But the heroism didn't stop there. The Israeli people rose and fought in the emergency, and the savings, the headquarters, and the municipalities who showed resilience and the welfare people, and the mental health people, the Israeli people, and the Jewish people from all over the world started volunteering and showing love and brotherhood. This is without words. Now, this unity is uniting all of us, this amazing people of Israel. Our people rose with pride, with common responsibility. We have wonderful people, just like that. People with an endless field for life, because we know there is no other choice. We have no other country, no other state. This is a people who declares you will not be able to defeat us. We are the people of eternity, and we shall prevail. Everybody's talking about complexity, but this minute is not a complex minute. There is complete good and complete evil. There's light and darkness. The entire people is standing behind the forces of light, the IDF, and our security forces, while they are guarding our country and sacrificing their life in order to do away with the total evil with the help of God. We are not alone in this war. We are fighting the war of the family of nation. All the people who look for justice and peace and freedom against the enemy who showed that humanity is their enemy. We thank profusely to our allies all over the world, headed by the United States and headed by Joey Biden, a real lover of Israel and the Congress, both parties for an incredible support and resilient stand in the right side of history. Members of Knesset, very few other words in the history of a nation where so much is at risk, but when they come, they also carry a huge responsibility. The wonderful people of Israel have justified the requirements and expectations, expectations from us, the leaders, expectations from this Knesset. And I'm saying it simply, we cannot get out of this war the way we went in. It's true politically, it's true security-wise, and it's true in the inward Israel. This is a definite duty for clarifications, for interrogations, lessons to be learned. There's no question about that. This is an existential necessity for any country that went through such a disaster, but it cannot jeopardize our war efforts. The expectations of the people do not end with that. Among many in the Israeli public, there is frustration, pain, anger, lack of trust, and the country has to respond to that. The state has to align with the standards that our wonderful people are waiting for in this hour. The people are looking for responsibility and restoration of their trust and the communities and their families and rehabilitation of all those whose world fell apart. It wants to be listened to, even if it's angry and the trauma and the loss and the feeling of neglect, it wants a hand extended. It demands togetherness, even now, in the midst of the war. We didn't even finish burying our dead. I hear dangerous voices that are going strong who take an entire state back to the precipice and start to sowing seeds of separation. This cannot happen. It should not happen. Our enemies are waiting for any polarization among us. It's part of their strategic plan. And therefore, we have a great role in the critical importance to keep us all together. This Knesset has to reflect the feeling of unity of these people, to know that there are bigger things than controversies at this time. My brothers and sisters, very few are the minutes in the history of a nation where so much is at risk. And we are in the midst of this event. From this moment on, we have to grow. As it was said, this is a time of peril to the people of Israel, but this dark minute has to turn into our most beautiful hour, as somebody said already before. If there's a nation that can grow out of the doom, it is us. We are going to prevail. And we will show that the wheat can grow again and again. We are going to prevail, and we'll show that the south can be protected and prosperous. We will prevail, and we will show that we can overcome any hell and make it back into paradise. We are going to prevail, and instead of every house that was demolished, we shall build. We shall prevail, and we shall do it together. Thank you, Mr. President, and I now call upon the Prime Minister Netanyahu to address us. President of the State, the Speaker of the Knesset, Deputy Chief Justice, the Head of the Opposition, Members of Knesset, Citizens of Israel, my brothers and sisters, even after 75 years for the establishment of the State of Israel, the War of Liberation has not ended. The establishment of the State was a one-time event, but the campaign to maintain it is continuing without stopping. This is the hour to stand erect against barbarous forces of destruction and murder. This is a time of a determined struggle against those who are trying to demolish us. Our target is victory, complete victory over the Hamas, toppling its governance and its threat on Israel once and for all. The conditions for victory is unity and resilience. The people are united, the army is united, and the leadership of the State is united in the national emergency government that we established and it's good that we did. I also want to thank the members of the Knesset in the coalition and the opposition who supported the war effort. You are also acting in various ways in order to help the families and the volunteers and every single citizen. May you be blessed for that, and I also congratulate the citizens of Israel, Jews and non-Jews, who are united in their goal, in their tenacity, in heroism. In this national campaign, we are all together. This campaign, all Israel are responsible for one another. Members of Knesset, there are many questions about the disaster that befell us. We're going to investigate all of it. We already started drawing lessons, but now we are focusing on one goal, and that is to unite our forces and to storm ahead to the victory. And for that, we need resilience and we need determination, because victory will take time. There will be harsh moments. There will be hurdles. Sacrifice is required, but we shall prevail because we're talking about a mere existence in this area where there are many dark forces. Hamas is part of the evil axis of Iran, Hezbollah and their proxies. Their wish is to destroy the state of Israel and to murder all of us. They want to bring back the Middle East to the barbarous precipices of the Middle Ages, but we want to pull the Middle East ahead to the advancement of the 21st century. This is a struggle between the Sons of Light and the Sons of Darkness, between humanity and barbarism. We saw it in the atrocious acts of these murderers in the Kibbutz, Baeri and Khwar Azab, in all the villages of the Gaza envelope of these young people in the party, in the dancing party in Re'im. Many people in the world now realize what Israel is facing. They realize that Hamas is ISIS. They understand that Hamas is a new version of Nazism and as the world united in order to defeat the Nazis and ISIS, so it should do in order to defeat Hamas. And I say to our friends in the enlightened world, our war is your war as well, unless we face together one front, it's going to reach you as well. And I have a message also to the Hezbollah. Don't test us in the north. Don't repeat the mistake humans made, because today the price you're going to pay is going to be much, much heavier. President Biden said in English, don't do it. And I say to you the same in Hebrew, beware. The State of Israel appreciates the support of President Biden and the American people and also additional countries like Britain, Germany, France, Italy, and many other countries. Members of Knesset, we are preparing to the continuous war in the south and we're also ready in the north. We are acting to protect our citizens in their home front. Help and support. We are all united behind the IDF, all of us. And it has to be reflected in deeds and in words and it shouldn't be reflected in words that shouldn't be said. We are united behind our soldiers, our combatants, all the security forces and the medicine. In the heart of our courageous combatants, I met them and you met them as well. In their heart, the spirit of battle is beating. Our combatants are ready for the continuous war and there will be such until the complete defeat of our enemies. Members of Knesset, I met yesterday with the representatives of the families of their hostages. I embraced them. We spoke heart to heart. I listened with huge pain to the stories of their beloved ones. I heard about the shattering recording, more than one. Mommy, please save me. And then it was disconnected. We are committed to all their families. We don't stop any effort in order to bring them back. Our brothers and sisters, people, men, women, children, babies, all those who were abducted by these satanic people. The atrocity cannot be even described. I was in a house yesterday in one of the villages. The murderers butchered in the first floor and there was an attic, a hidden attic. The terrorists, the murderers found this attic. They came in and they massacred the children that the parents hid there and you just can imagine. And I'm imagining what these children were thinking in those moments when they saw these Nazis reaching them. What was in their mind in their last minutes? Our hearts is with the families of the deceased, of the missing, of the injured. The pain is so huge. The bigger the atrocity, so is the heroism. Members of Knesset, citizens, throughout our history there were endless attempts to destroy us when we were defenseless. We paid prices that no other nation in the world ever paid. Also in the generations after the establishment of the State of Israel, new perpetrators rose and wanted to destroy us. The difference is that today we have a strong state, a strong army, a strong people, and a strong capability to fight back. This is what we're going to do this time as well. We waged war and we're going to win it. And we are not going to stop until the victory. Thank you, Prime Minister. And now I call upon the head of opposition, Yair Lapid. Speaker of the Knesset, President, Chief Justice, Prime Minister. I visited yesterday the survivors of the Kibbutz, and I met Yaeli. Her name is like my daughter. She's 13, small, frail with long curls. They killed her best friend. And what do you say to a 13-year-old girl who already saw close the essence of human evil? Just on the way back to the North, I realized what I should have told her. I should have told her that my father was exactly her age when he was in the Holocaust. They murdered his father. They murdered most of his classmates and never didness. He grew to be a very happy man who ate a lot and smiled a lot and laughed a lot. And his answer to death was that he really swallowed life. Some of you knew him, of course, Mr. President, of course, because people go back to life. Even from the abyss, from the worst situation, you go with pain and anger. It takes time. You don't always know where to take the forces from, but you do come back. Yaeli is part of the great Israeli narrative that says that pain is part of life. You cannot escape it, but it's not all our life. Yesterday, the printing of the plant in the kibbutz was opened. There are no inhabitants there, only burnt houses and blood. But 30 employees went there with military escort, and the heavy printers started reproducing again credit cards and greeting cards like a heart that stopped beating, but started again after a blow of electricity. In the last few days, we all say the same, that we're going to continue until the victory, all of us together, to the victory. But there's only one question we have to ask ourselves. How does this victory look like? What does it mean? How will our life look after we prevail? The victory has the self-evident that we all know and we're all partners to. We are going to eradicate the Hamas completely. This long-time mistake will not repeat itself. You cannot live side by side of a murderous terrorist organization. There's only one way it can end. We are going to bring back our hostages and there will be no Habas in Gaza. It's going to take time. It's going to necessitate us to use a lot of force. If the world doesn't like it, well, it won't like it. The children of the world were not murdered. It's our children who were murdered. And Ya'eli's best friend was also murdered. We have to make sure that this threat will never hover over her head. And we will not stop until we verify it. But this is not the victory. This is just the way to the victory. The real victory is not what's going to happen to the enemy, but what's going to happen to us. The real victory is in the question, how are we going to get out of it? For 10 days, Israelis are saying to one another, after what happened, we will not be the same country. And I agree. I just want to remind all of us, it depends on us what kind of a country we will be. The Israeli system collapsed because it detached itself from its value, DNA. Israel always said to the world, we are the only democracy in the Middle East, and we are the strongest country. But we just forgot that these two things are not detached from one another. It's a reason and a result. We are strong because we are a Jewish and democratic state. We are technological and recreative more than the enemies because these are forces that can grow only in a free and open society. We are a story of success, economics, and army because there's equality and rule of law. Our strength is that we don't understand only strength. We only understand more than that. The events of October 7 are a memory that the fact that it's not the force that is here, but the people who live behind it, the fact that we believe in our ideas, values of the declaration of independence and the vision of our prophets. Last night, I went back from Sderot, and I had a long talk with Hadar. She's 19 and a half. She is a viewer on the base there, and she told me what happened about the attack and how they ran into the shelter. And while she was treating the injured, she also directed the helicopter to go to the right place. She also told us how she hid in a cabinet until the soldiers came to take the way. And when they took them out, she saw a very good friend, a soldier just lying there dead. How am I going to get out of it now? She said. She asked, how am I going to continue? And I said to her, there's one freedom. There's one freedom that no one will ever be able to take away from you. No terrorist. No one can take from her the freedom to choose according to what values she wants to live. If you want to live and to be a good and honest and happy person, a loving person, this is your choice, only yours. It's not in their control, and they cannot take it away from you. It's true also regarding Hadar, that woman soldier, and it's true for the state. In order to build what was destroyed, we have to work. You're watching live addresses out of the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, as it opens its winter session 10 days into the war. Yair Lapid, Opposition Leader, speaking there now. Earlier, we heard from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog, messages of unity, messages of resilience, and messages of pain for more. In studio, Bendro Yemini, Senior Journalist at Yadiot-Akhonot Daily. Bendro, you've covered this region for a long time. The country has been politically divisive for a long time, and now we are hearing messages of togetherness, messages of a collective need for victory, and a path forward, your take on what we just heard. Ah, I do believe that speaking about the military front, it can be done. It should be done. They will do it. They know how to do it, I guess. Even with all the failures that we experienced, something like eight days ago. But this is not the point. The point is that we have to think also about the civilian front. When I'm speaking about the civilian front, I'm speaking mainly about the international public opinion. Why? Why? Because once again, speaking from the second Lebanon War and the protective age and the guardian of the walls, in all the operations, Israel was stopped because of the international public opinion. We cannot ignore it now. We think that now it's something different because of the atrocities, because of the scale of what they did, the Hamas people. I mean, it's really bad, but let me tell you something. I read the polls. For example, just before I came here, I read the polls about what is going on in the United States, and a big majority support Israel. Very nice. But you know what? In a few days, when the pictures from Gaza will take over, everything is going to change, not in one day, but in a few days. Even with Anthony Blinken coming back to the region earlier today, even with President Joe Biden said to be coming later on in the week? Because we received the sympathy of the world and this kind of support, mainly because of the pictures that came from Kibbutz Berry, from the festival. That's why. But it will change the moment that we will see the destruction from Gaza. Ben Torre, stay with us. We're going to unpack a lot more a little later right now. I want to go to Jerusalem. Our senior diplomatic correspondent Owen Ultiman joins us from inside the Israeli parliament. And Owen, the country needed answers, the country needed assurances. Your take on what we just heard from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog, the messages you heard, your understanding. Right. And from opposition leader Yair Lapid, I think no less importantly, Benita, look, we don't have all the answers. No one expects that all of the answers will be there. But a few things I think we learned. First of all, clarity from both Netanyahu and for that matter, Yair Lapid about the objectives, right? We do finally have the Prime Minister coming out and saying truly in his own voice that the goal and the objective of this war is the end of Hamas control over the Gaza Strip. He didn't use exactly those words, but he used it close enough that I think especially from that podium, we can define that confidently as the objective that he has set for himself for the government, for the military. We heard Yair Lapid echo that, that that's certainly what he would like to see. We also heard a big, obviously focus on the day after and on the civilian front, particularly from Yair Lapid, that obviously is going to be a bigger challenge maybe even than the military campaign with all of the challenges that are there. A couple other nuances that I think are important to mention. First of all, the reference by President Herzog, of course, he does this speech and speech out, but it bears repeating, particularly for our audience in the United States and around the world, the mention and the centrality for this president of the Jewish diaspora, which he spoke about again and spoke about its efforts and spoke about its partnership in the Israeli enterprise and in this campaign. We also heard, including from Prime Minister Netanyahu, very, very notably, the unity between Jews and non-Jews. As the Prime Minister put it, there was no hint in any of the speeches of any kind of polarization or division between Jews and Arabs. And by the way, Benita, I recommend to all viewers to take a look at what Mansour Abbas, the head of the Raham party, the party that had been in the governing coalition under the Bennett Lapid government, the previous government, his words before the plenum session talking about the depravity of what Hamas did and the importance of Israeli Arabs continuing to act responsibly and follow order and not be prey to incitement from other parts of the Arab world and the Muslim world and also calling on the Jewish friends to do the same and for that matter calling on humanitarian aid to be given to Gaza. Going back to what Ben Dero was just saying, we didn't hear much about international public opinion at all except the thing from Muir Lapid who basically said, we don't care about it. What matters is our children, our children who were killed, our children who lost their friends, our loss, our sense of fear, our sense of vulnerability, and restoring our sense of confidence as a country and a society and the international public opinion will simply have to wait. Ben Dero obviously has a very different view and a very different contention and that debate is going to be playing out here in Israel. Obviously it's playing out on the airwaves around the world, much less so in that Knesset plenum, but Ben Dero I think is absolutely right that this sooner rather than later is going to become part of the Israeli discourse because it simply must. But again I think that it's clear for those of us who watch these speeches and those abroad who watch these speeches getting the flavor of the feeling in this country and how deep it is and how fearful it is, how vulnerable it is, and how determined it is to overcome those feelings and get to that day after putting aside all of the rest. Talking about nuances oh and of course those would have been quite clear when we saw Yair Lapid the opposition leader and Benjamin Netanyahu shaking hands as the one was leaving the podium, the other one was going up to the podium. Benjamin Netanyahu said our target is complete victory over Hamas, the people are united and he also said victory will take time gearing citizens up for a long haul ahead, preparing the Israeli civilians, the Israeli people who are wanting answers saying the investigation will happen right now we are looking at the next steps in the war. Right well a couple just a couple thoughts. First I'll Benita the words complete victory let's be very clear are empty of meaning. It's a hollow phrase what we need to be hearing from our government I've been saying this over the course of the last week are definable and measurable objectives for this war that we can measure ourselves and our government against right and I think by public consensus in Israel or at least the vast majority of public opinion that definable measure objective is the end of Hamas control over the Gaza Strip. Not necessarily the elimination of Hamas as an organization and certainly as an idea that may not be a realistic objective but the end of Hamas and taking away of every Hamas weapon and every part of the four corners of the earth but the end of Hamas control over the Gaza Strip and we did hear that not in that part of his speech but we did hear that from Prime Minister Netanyahu and for that matter from Yair Lapid as we're preparing the country for a long campaign I think viewers have to understand Israel is not a country that is undergone the American Civil War right what's the title of the book across five aprils or world war two campaigns here have tended to be measured in days weeks or months Netanyahu is certainly trying to get public opinion ready for a long campaign which we all certainly hope it will not be but I think everyone has to be prepared for the fact that in some way shape or form that it will be. Always appreciate your insight live from Jerusalem senior diplomatic correspondent Owen Ultiman inside the Israeli parliament. Thank you very much Owen and still with me in studio Ben draw Yemini so lots to unpack on exactly what we heard earlier from the Knesset from the Israeli parliament and also as we are speaking to you breaking news sirens are sounding right now talk about the timing sirens are sounding right now as we speak in Tel Aviv if you're just joining us now moments after President Isaac Herzog moments after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and moments after opposition leader Yair Lapid speak at the opening of the winter session in parliament in Jerusalem sirens are sounding right here in Tel Aviv overhead you can hear the alert going off on Ben draw Yemini's phone as we speak you can see our newsroom is empty right now people inside the newsroom have gone to shelters and as we are speaking those sirens are sounding right now in Jerusalem as well breaking news if you're just joining us now rocket alert sirens sounding in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem as we speak just moments after the opening session of the parliament Ben draw Yemini choosing agreeing to stay on in the studio you do have the option of course to leave if you'd want to your thoughts of the message we are hearing the sirens as millions of people run to shelters at this moment I guess in a way it's a Hamas response to what was held in the Knesset and what we saw actually is a kind of presentation of unity which is good we need it we need it after I'm going to stop you because we just heard an explosion overhead that we know well by now is the interception the iron dome missile defense system intercepting incoming rockets coming into Tel Aviv overhead we can hear it very clearly from the studio Ben draw continue yeah so this is the response of the Hamas I mean they don't like what they see in Israel because they trusted that Israel is going to be weak because of the polarization I'm sorry because even when it is silence it keeps on because of them let me explain to our viewers who are wondering what that noise is people in this part of the world are carrying phones with special apps on with alerts warning us of incoming sirens and giving us a warning to get to shelter and that is the noise you're hearing right now on Ben draw and the funny silence but I'm sorry we are looking as well at the same time at live images inside the Israeli parliament these are live images inside the parliament in Jerusalem rocket sirens sounding right now over the Israeli capital look at that image on your screen right now it speaks volumes that room is empty right now people have gone to shelters okay we need this kind of unity because of what we hear now because what we have the alarms in the background we need this kind of unity because yes I mean they actually agreed there was not any kind of of disagreement between the three main speakers speaking about the president of the state speaking about the prime minister and of course the head of the opposition yeah I repeat yes we did but but but I have to continue with something which in a way in a way I disagree with most of the speakers because I do think that the international public opinion is highly important I'm just speaking about our experience I mean we know it already we have been there in the previous operations so we know what the process is at the beginning just like now everyone is hugging Israel and everyone is declaring Israel has the right to defend itself and they say it now and we have the majority and but whoever watch some foreign channels the important channels like BBC and others you can see the change now they are actually describing the suffering of the people of Gaza or children are killed or innocent civilians are killed unfortunately innocent civilians are killed in everywhere generally speaking much less much less in the Israeli battles against Gaza much less not much more well let's talk about what innocent civilians in Israel are doing right now as you are talking your alert siren is going off on your phone once again this means that sirens are sounding across Tel Aviv right now sirens are sounding across Jerusalem right now that's the home to the Israeli parliament where we just heard addresses from the prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu from the president Isaac Herzog and from Yair Lapid the opposition leader this is a live image on your screen right now out of Jerusalem and that is because the Knesset where all those politicians were sitting and listening to those addresses that Knesset is now empty because those politicians are now in shelters as well that's not all sirens also sounding in the south so let's go to our correspondent Mary McAuliffe she joins us from Ashkelon so we know rocket sirens sounding in several parts of the country right now what is happening where you are Mary hi buddy now yes so as the sirens were going off in Tel Aviv we saw those alerts happening we also heard a number of big booms overhead these were likely iron dome missiles that were fired placed somewhere in the area but trying to intercept those missiles that were on their way to the center of Tel Aviv here in Ashkelon it's probably been about two hours since the last siren they've only had two today in recent days it has been a little bit quieter they have had less rocket attacks fired at them and less actual damage reported but yesterday we did see a number of apartment buildings a number we were also the synagogue that was damaged by some of these rockets that just continue to fall in this area there's some early estimates that say at least 25 percent of the rockets that have been fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel have been fired right here at the city it's of course a city that's very close to the Gaza border just about four miles so we do see them constantly under red alert sirens and we've seen much damage happened here as Hamas and other Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip continue to try and target this large city with over a hundred thousand people living here some people in the city we've tried to get estimates on how many people are still living here versus how many have decided to evacuate themselves but we are also hearing a lot of anger from within some of those who work for the city and the municipality which is the building that we're standing in front of right now as well as some of the residents who are calling for more aid from the Israeli government to do more to try and protect these residents and to let them evacuate and help compensate them while they evacuate and while they flee their homes they say they are essentially a Gaza border community just four miles away they said they should be included in the aid packages that have been going to those communities so we heard that from the mayor himself who's talking at the finance committee this morning who's very angry with the current government and very angry with the finance minister saying they're not doing enough to help the residents in the city. Mary many watching might be wondering why people in the Gaza border communities haven't left there have been plans in place for people to evacuate to move to other parts of the country we know many residents have opened their homes saying people who are evacuating from those dangerous areas right close to the border are allowed or should be able to come or invited to come to other people's homes what are people there you're speaking to saying why are they choosing to stay put as we wait for confirmation about a possible ground invasion in the Gaza Strip and as as we speak these sirens continue. I'm sorry it's a little bit hard to hear right now the rain just started pouring very hard and there's also a lot of vehicle activity just moments ago the Israeli transportation minister Mary Regev was here in the area it's part of many visits that we have seen from Israeli officials who have come to visit some of these Gaza border residents those who have still remained in the area as well as trying to provide for those and meet with those who've had to flee their homes as they continue to be hit with these rocket barrages that really are just not stopping as Israel does ready to try and up their offensive in the area in the Gaza Strip so we are certainly feeling a lot of the residents here gracing and many of the residents are just feeling the pain of this past week both what happened last Saturday and everything that's happened since they still many of them do not feel safe in their homes and Mary as you well know there are many reports that keep coming through across the region about developments in Israel about developments as well in the Gaza Strip and obviously we want to verify and clarify all those reports before we broadcast them so I want to ask you about a report that we were hearing from UNR the UN relief agency for Palestinian refugees apparently a truck belonging to UNR had items stolen humanitarian aid stolen from it within the Gaza Strip is there any confirmation any clarity on a if that happened and be what details are known if that was in fact the case absolutely this is a developing story that is coming out of the Gaza Strip as it continues to deal with a massive what UN is saying is a massive humanitarian crisis that is on the way as they do continue to brace for the Israeli operation that is on its way Israel says they're prepared to enter from land air and sea but the aerial bombardments have been significant and they have been heavy in some of the aid organizations including the UN UNRWA so the Palestine Refugee Works Agency that's operating they already had to leave their headquarters they don't have access to their compound they simply have received reports about some stealing fuel and medical supplies they say they were purporting to be members of Hamas members of the government in the Gaza Strip who came in and took these supplies from the compound the UN coming out and condemning that action saying they really don't know much more else because all of their cameras were disabled so they really can't have access to the compound let alone see what's going on at the compound as they have been forced to flee as well they prepare for this Israeli offensive and in terms of the civilians within the Gaza Strip who were trying to get out who were trying to make their way towards Egypt towards the Rafa crossing any updates at this hour about the number of people who are hitting that way and what decisions are being made on the Egyptian side of the border yes this is a situation that we are watching very closely that the world is watching very closely we know us is actively engaged on the ground including from the Secretary of State Anthony Blinken just recently arrived back in Israel this is something that they are working very hard to try and facilitate first of all the foreigners who are in Gaza Strip trying to first get them safe passage through the Rafa crossing but they're also a number of fuel trucks aid trucks medical equipment that are waiting in a nearby Egyptian town waiting to get the go ahead from both Egypt and Israel that these aid convoys can be allowed access into the Rafa crossing as well as to allow some of the civilians who've been forced out of their homes forced to leave that northern sector of the Gaza Strip it's believed that there's some 500,000 Palestinians who have fled from the Gaza Strip southwards there's really nowhere for them to go in the south and they are trying to exit the country but this is continuing to be developed situation that we are intensely seeing these negotiations going on to try and facilitate and open that crossing for aid to come in and people to get out. Correspondent Mary McAuliffe live from Ashkelon in the south thank you very much for that update we will be coming back to Mary of course in the coming hours for more updates if you're just joining us now it's breaking news edition siren sounding just in the last half an hour after the speeches at the opening of the Israeli parliament by Benjamin Netanyahu Isaac Herzog and Yair Lapid the prime minister president and opposition leader siren sounding in Jerusalem where the Knesset is housed and siren sounding here in Tel Aviv as well clearly a response to those speeches I'm Benita Levine in Tel Aviv back in a bit our coverage continues we'll unpack more of these latest developments stay tuned to breaking news edition this particular project with a gross capacity of 103.5 megawatt will be producing around 230 gigawatt hour of clean renewable energy per year for the reserve we have the right ingredients and we have to do the job and then if we have the right ingredients and we do the job that the faquita can be protected we went from house to house to stay covered by Daesh snipers before arriving on a roof at the level of the front line where the young Iraqi soldiers were able to spread their arsenal and their power of fire in front of our cameras it is only after leaving this war theater that I took the measure of what I just lived when the information fell according to which a French television team had been killed by an explosive machine a mine at the same place we found a few days earlier 1300 people murdered and more than 3000 injured and the war with Hamas continues we bring you first-hand testimonies from the front lines from those who survived and all the records of the atrocities by Hamas follow us as Israel fights terror from the south and north get the inside scoop on what's going on only on i24 news this is breaking news edition I'm Bernice Levine coming to you live from Tel Aviv rocket alert siren sounding in central Tel Aviv and in Jerusalem in the last half an hour just moments after the opening of the winter session of parliament in Jerusalem president Isaac Herzog prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition leader Yair Lapid had all given addresses to the parliament 10 days into the war and then the rocket sirens were alerted just moments after those speeches ended now earlier in the day the Hamas terror group confirming it had fired rockets towards Tel Aviv millions of residents of the city hearing a massive blast in central Israel after midday on Monday it's believed that rocket landed in the sea in the north Israel's defense officials announcing they were planning to evacuate civilians who live in towns up to just over one mile from the Lebanese border amid repeated rocket and missile attacks by Hezbollah and Palestinian factions in recent days these residents of 28 communities will be taken to local guest houses the IDF also advising the residents of the northern border town of Matula to stay in their homes following warnings of a shooting in recent hours on the diplomatic front US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is back in Israel today following blitz visits to Jordan Saudi Arabia Qatar Egypt Bahrain and the UAE as he works to garner support from allies in the region President Joe Biden could be visiting Israel as early as Wednesday or Thursday this week and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is expected here tomorrow Iran's foreign ministry slamming the United States saying Washington is already militarily involved in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians meanwhile the IDF is in touch with the families of 199 hostages being held captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip including women children and elderly civilians let's take a listen we have updated the families of 199 hostages 199 hostages the efforts on the hostages are top national priority several tracks belonging to the UN have been seen leaving the southern Gaza Strip on Monday the Reuters news agency reporting the vehicles initially appeared to be on their way to the Rafah crossing on the Gaza Egypt border but their course later appeared to take them in the direction of Karim Shalom that's an Israeli border crossing close to the Egyptian frontier now for the latest updates on the ground let's go live to our senior defense correspondent Jonathan Regev he joins us from Storot so many developments on the ground right now where exactly are you Jonathan what update can you share this is Benita the place where all that we hear about it becomes a site in a terrible site the place where I am is the place where the Storot police station used to be up until a week and a half ago this is the place where we used to broadcast so many times because the police station in the middle of Storot is a place where foreign dignitaries foreign leaders visitors would come there were very big shelves here housing hundreds and hundreds of a rocket debris that fell on Storot for more than 20 years all this was standing right here right in the place where I'm standing now and you can see what this place is like now in the building which used to stand here up until a few days ago some nine policemen were killed in battles with infiltrating Hamas terrorists but in the area around here some 30 Israelis were killed and more police reinforcements came in and fought with the Hamas terrorists this is what this place looks like now the former police station of Storot now you can see nothing but rubble difficult to believe what you're describing there certainly just rubble there just rubble pictures speak volumes thank you so much senior defense correspondent Jonathan Regev live from Storot in southern Israel now let's go north our correspondent Robert Swift joins us from the northern border between Israel and Lebanon so evacuation orders for all communities close to that border with in around a one mile or so space of that border apparently it's impacting residents of 28 communities what update can you share this hour Rob? That's correct and until a few minutes ago I would have told you that it seemed to be having an effect and that it was quiet here but just in the last two minutes we've had reports that there has been firing from the Lebanese side of the border and that the Israeli military has responded to that fire with artillery strikes and we have heard several bangs in the last two minutes which is presumably that Israeli fire now prior to that there hadn't been any security incidents so far today possibly due to the fact that as these villages have emptied out as the population along the border has reduced it's provided less targets for Hezbollah to aim at also civilian targets but also the military targets as the IDF is possibly able to have a lower profile once the population is removed from that area just one quick anecdote of something that we noticed from the side of road that was quite interesting that we passed two Israeli APC armed personnel carriers vehicles that were parked hidden among some trees and one of the machine guns on each of the vehicles was pointing skywards which to me suggests that while the Israeli military does feel slightly more secure here than it might have done yesterday they're still very much aware of threats posed by Hezbollah including threats from drones that's why those machine guns were pointing towards the sky Rob that certainly is an interesting development there you can feel the tension as you are speaking to us I want to unpack a little bit more about what we heard earlier from IDF spokesperson Brigadier General Daniel Hagaari he said earlier in the day Iran ordered Hezbollah to escalate against Israel on Sunday adding in his words quote that if Hezbollah fails to understand us the response will be deadly unpack for us the message being sent right now from the IDF up north well obviously the IDF is trying to encourage Hezbollah not to get involved if it could have its own way the Israeli military would be very happy to cord to conduct all of its operations in the south of the country coordinating its force there fighting on two fronts would not be to its advantage it would cause a distraction the question is really how much is Hezbollah have really invested in the fight are they it's possible that they want to keep the pressure on that to give the impression that they may be willing to get involved in the fight and that in itself could be the objective if the Israeli military has to maintain a large presence up here all those thousands of soldiers those hundreds of tanks that would be up here on the border all of them are units that cannot be used in Gaza operations and so it's possible that that is essentially the objective of Hezbollah and potentially Iran in conducting those attacks however the IDF can't be sure of that it has to take the threat seriously it has to assume that Hezbollah may indeed launch a much greater attack and that's why they're maintaining such a heavy presence here and indeed why they've conducted the the evacuation order earlier today correspondent Robert Swift live from the northern border we will be coming back to Robert of course in the coming hours thank you Rob and now an update just in from again David Adam the emergency rescue teams are confirming they have obviously been called out as those sirens were sounding in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem a little bit earlier confirmation that a 54 year old woman has been injured from shrapnel in the city of Holon just a short while ago so again David Adam emergency teams attending to a 54 year old woman from Holon she has been hurt that's from falling shrapnel after those rocket alert sirens that we heard just a little earlier during the broadcast those sirens happening just after the Israeli parliament opened for its winter session prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition leader Yair Lapid had spoken as had President Isaac Herzog let's take a listen to some of the messages out of Jerusalem a short while ago and I have a message also to the Hezbollah don't test us in the north don't repeat the mistake humans made because today the price you're going to pay is going to be much much heavier President Biden said in English don't do it don't do it and I say to you the same in Hebrew beware this long time mistake will not repeat itself you cannot live side by side of a murderous terrorist organization there's only one way it can end we are going to bring back our hostages and there will be no Habas in Gaza it's going to take time it's going to necessitate us to use a lot of force if the world doesn't like it well it won't like it the children of the world were not murdered it's our children who were murdered so for more let's go back to Jerusalem we're joined once again by our senior diplomatic correspondent Owen Ultiman inside the Israeli parliament and Owen shortly after we spoke not so long ago now sirens sounding in Jerusalem sirens sounding as well until I've we had the images on our screen of an empty Knesset room and pat for us describe for us what happened when those sirens went off across Jerusalem a short while ago yeah well Benito to put it bluntly as you mentioned the the plenum session ended member of parliament Miraf Ben-Ari had been at the podium and she simply said there's been a siren and the speaker Amir Khanna asked everyone to leave the middle of the plenum and went to a hall nearby we were up there too essentially in the same place where the members of parliament were so they and their and their advisors and their parliament their parliamentary assistance and members of the media all there I have to say as an Israeli citizen I'm disappointed that the plenum itself is not a protected space to allow the important sessions of the Israeli parliament to continue to move forward maybe that's one of the lessons from this incident I say that of course without understanding the technical elements and the budgetary elements but I have to say I was surprised of course it's a it's a it's a poignant moment right Benita the contrast between Hamas that is sending these rockets to try to to end the lives of Israeli citizens and the contrast between that and and democratic business being conducted in the legislature democratically elected parliament and that having to be stopped because of the the rockets and the sirens overhead obviously a poignant moment another one over the course of this war but one that we all experienced and it has to be said in step of Israeli resilience after the siren after the 10 minutes of waiting ended the members of parliament went back in and right at it and we're back here reporting so of course our work all of our work continues to go on certainly is another message we were talking earlier about the messages from various leaders about resilience and about unity and you're seeing it right there business continues just a short while after the all clear is given and people come back from the shelter explaining exactly what the atmosphere is like there now as you say there are important messages right now the country has been waiting for assurances from leaders and when sirens sound it affects every single person including leaders of the country people have to respond and respond quickly yeah absolutely you mentioned the members of parliament themselves having to leave the plenum and again go to that hall where we all were yeah and obviously the contrast between what Hamas is doing and what Israel at least is trying to do which is continue to go about its business to continue to act through a democratically elected government and through a professional military we hear the the bells potentially calling members of parliament to to be back in the plenum and to be back at their work so again the work of this building goes on is just the work of this city in this country but the work connected to the war and the work of raising our children and caring for for grandparents and all of the rest thank you so much live from jerusalem senior diplomatic correspondent oan ultiman inside the israeli parliament thank you oan and still with me in studio ben drawer yamini senior journalist at yadiyot akronot daily you were talking a little bit earlier ben drawer about the international arena watching developments yeah how they might respond a little bit differently come a couple of weeks if there is an operation in gaza and if civilians are hurt as is always the case in a war but the international community right now is also watching a parliament emptied out in the middle of a session when leaders are talking about unity when leaders are talking about responding to a terror attack the likes of which many never imagined seeing in their lifetime talk to us about those polls you made mention of a little bit earlier when people see this this is extraordinary parliament stopped so that politicians could get to a shelter so that people could get to safety it's it's a very good point i just want to the people that are watching us i don't know london just think about the british parliament actually targeted just think about it just think about the capital targeted i mean how the country is supposed to react just think about paris the senate the senate is targeted by an entity a terror entity which is not far away from the center of the country from paris and they are launching rockets to the capital i mean how will you react i'm asking the people that are watching us do you want us to restrain ourselves do you want us not to react do you want to tell us proportionality what proportionality what are you talking about kids children were massacred they were burned alive think about it so you are asking us to be nice i don't want anybody to suffer i think azeran should retaliate only according to the lines of your international law don't misunderstand it but the international law and i'm a jurist i know what i'm talking about enable israel to do a lot but they are going to suffer i don't want anybody to suffer they are going to suffer but they are going to suffer not because of the israeli retaliation they are going to suffer because of the hamas that rejected any offer any offer to do something new which mean no more blockade but no more terror they refuse to all the international offers by the quartet by the e you by others and still people say and i read it now wow wow it's the biggest open air prison no it's not they put the hamas put their people in a prison it's not israel that put the people of the gaza strip in prison they put it and if you do not understand it you do not understand anything so here are the facts and the factors clear cut it's the hamas fault and only the hamas which is a terror and isis kind of organization people in the world should understand it i'm not sure that we israelis are doing enough in order to clarify it and i'm going to interrupt you because the intro once again you can hear ben draw his phone sirens or sounding once again this is breaking news live in tel aviv sirens are sounding in tel aviv that means that as we speak rockets are being launched from the gaza strip towards tel aviv yet again warnings have gone out alerting people to get to a shelter and to do so quickly you are looking at a live image on our screens right now sirens sounding alerting people to get to shelters in tel aviv this is a built-up residential city rocket sirens sounding in tel aviv in central israel right now it's the second time the alert has hit right close to where our studios are our newsroom is going through to the shelter right now ben draw yemeny is agreeing to stay on for this coverage and we now go as well for the latest update in the south i just hope that my wife does not look that does not watch because it's not going to be easy at all thank you very much ben draw yemeny agreeing to stay here but again it is his choice to stay here and not go through to the shelters right now i want to go to our correspondent mary macaul of she joins us from ashkelon mary what update have you got there what can you tell us hi benita yes we are still outside the area so the municipality building inside ashkelon behind me you can see this white van this is belonging to transportation minister mary reggae who just conducted a visit with some of the area some of the municipality workers employees to talk about them about what their relief efforts have been like how their aid has been in the city how they're dealing with trying to treat some of the injured and try and continue to try and deal with these rockets falling on the city while also trying to prevent the city but it's also one effort that's coming as we've heard many voices raised against the government many complaining that ashkelon should be part of the gaza border envelope and that's exactly what me reggae herself just said is that ashkelon is absolutely a border community and it should absolutely be treated as such which should include some extra compensation measures for some of the residents who are living in the city it continues to see many rocket barges overhead but we did hear this message from the mayor of ashkelon himself this morning he smoked in the knesset inside the israeli parliament which had a discussion from the finance committee in which he really attacked the finance minister and said ashkelon needs to be part of the gaza border envelope it is absolutely a border community so let's listen to some of the words that he had for the ministers there how long will i wait we're on the 10th day of the war they bought me five million shackles but i already spent 17 million shackles of my budget who should i wait for who's problem is that the residents are not protected mine what answers do you have to give to those poor people who apart from praying that a missile doesn't fall on them have nothing to protect themselves and stay alive all the rockets above them each time over a hundred launches every time there is a hit so as we can hear some of the emotion in the voice of that mayor again calling for more action from the government calling for more compensation for the residents who are living here who facing these rocket barges who have been forced out of their homes we've seen a number of rockets who have fallen inside the city at least 30 have fallen on ashkelon in the past week or so and about 25 percent this is according to early estimates about 25 percent of all rockets fired from gaza strip have been directed here in ashkelon so we are hearing voices from the local government calling on israeli's government to try and do more to protect these residents to give them further compensation to include them in these aid packages that have been going out to the border communities over 250 dollars to a single person and up to a thousand dollars for families so these are all done for the border communities they've also been helping some of the residents especially from sterile giving them is with government subsidized guest houses that they can stay in here in ashkelon they really haven't seen any of that they have seen some money that has been promised them but the mayor himself is saying so far they haven't received it the safety of communities in the southern border strip region needs to be prioritized there is absolutely no doubt about bat mary a little bit earlier on in the broadcast we spoke about the un relief agency for palestinian refugees and this unusual report suggesting that a un truck had been targeted and that goods meant for palestinian civilians and the gaza strip had been stolen any updates there any clarity on exactly what did in fact happen there that's right benita so this is very much a developing situation the un rwa itself so that is the agency that is responsible for dealing with palestinian refugees inside gaza strip in the west bank they say their compound in gaza strip they had to evacuate days ago and they have absolutely zero access to the compound itself they had security cameras outside that would normally be able to catch or at least show exactly who that is believed to have stolen this material again critical life-saving material from medical equipment to gas that can fuel generators in hospitals all of this has come in from this aid center said to have been stolen they said that they believe whoever took it was in some way related to the government in the gaza strip that is of course hamas but they really do not have any further information only coming out to really condemn those who ever took that in all of their agencies all of their age should only be used for life-saving purposes and to definitely not be used as part of the warfare that is going on live from ashkel on our correspondent mary macaul of thank you so much for that update stay safe mary and still in studio ben drawry amini senior journalist at the idiot akonaut daily and those sirens coming through just a short while ago in central teller there were also seeing alerts were sounding in rishon let's see on as well and i want to unpack exactly what that means for people who are watching abroad because it's something we've discussed throughout the show the international reaction to what is unfolding right now and because of the iron dome missile defense system the vast majority of rockets that come from the gaza strip towards residential civilian areas are intercepted having said that a short while ago we had the confirmation that a woman in holon a 54 year old woman is being treated she's injured due to falling shrapnel the dangers are serious yeah it is serious and just to remind us that many rockets cannot be intercepted and and people were killed a week ago for example even among the israeli arabs people were killed because of the rockets and there is no country that can live in that kind of situation for such a long time israel restrained itself once and again israel was asking was even begging okay let's have a ceasefire but they do not expect any kind of ceasefire and and the truth is they don't care about the welfare of their own people they do care only about this big ideology of let's kill all the jews let's kill all the christians and i'm speaking about something which they broadcast in their own official channel al-akta channel and people when people are not aware to what the Hamas is they think okay they are against the occupation or they are not against any occupation they are against the very existence of israel they are against the uh of the existence of the free world and they said they said mahmud az-zahar one of the leaders lately said it's not israel it's not israel it's very interesting because he said it in the tv channel of the hutis in yemen he thought that maybe no one no one is going to hear but he said he said it's not israel that we are looking for we need to islamize the whole world that's what he said just listen to him to that exact point antony blinkin is back in israel today i'm not sure exactly where he is when those sirens went off but he has been visiting jordan saudi arabia katar egypt buccane and the ua e you talk about the message being sent in yemen right now these nations are also watching what is unfolding right now as antony blinkin tries to garner more support for israel around the middle east what message does he need to be sharing right now as he comes back from the splits trip the message is it's not the war of israel against the hamas not at all it's the war of the free world that right now israel is in the front against the global jihad global jihad is the enemy of the muslims is the enemy of the free world is the enemy of a free one who wants to live in free conditions so it's not it's not israel against the hamas it's much bigger and the world should understand that it is much bigger yes israel in the front i just can quote an american philosopher who said said a few years years ago it's not the whole world it is israel just some of us do not know it yet ben draw yemeni senior journalist from the europe akronaut thank you so much for being here in studio and for staying in the broadcast during those sirens alert as well and i'd like to end with another quote from earlier on in the day president isaac hurtzog in parliament saying the hearts of the entire nation beat two one