 Israeli will use the Israeli force and the Israeli power according to our interest and according to our plans. The fact that somebody had crossed the border this afternoon doesn't mean that the Israeli side need to attack immediately. Okay. But it's not just somebody. It's multiple terrorists. It's multiple. Yeah. It's multiple. Guy. We are getting a report that that incident in Betelel, the threat there is no longer that might have been a false alarm. We still don't know for sure that these paragliders have landed into Israeli territory. That also might have been some sort of a trick, some sort of an attempt by Hezbollah to check Israeli alertness. The Hezbollah and the Hamas try to have all kinds of exercises. We saw it in Gaza as well. They try to do all kinds of things. Some of it because they would like to prepare themselves. Some of it because they would like to bother our forces, especially now when most of our forces are dealing with what is happening in the south. So the fact that somebody report that some drones or other things have crossed the border, it doesn't mean that it's fake news, but it doesn't mean that it's really a beginning of Hezbollah or even a Hamas strike from the north. The Israeli respond is based on the Israeli way to give the respond. It doesn't mean that the respond will be immediate, but there will be a respond. There are two levels of respond. There is the immediate one, and there will be an immediate response, but it will be very limited. The real response might take times, perhaps weeks, and the Israeli side will do it based on the best way to give the answer, the real answer, not the respond and the real answer to what is happening in south Lebanon. Okay. Thank you. Thank you for coming off all across the north of Israel amid warnings of terrorist infiltrators coming across the border from Lebanon. 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The fact that I-24 News is live from Tel Aviv and Sirens have been sounding across all cities in northern Israel amid a suspected terrorist infiltration from across the border in Lebanon. What we do know is that rockets have been fired at the city of Haifa in the north. We've seen Israeli citizens running to shelters. Hamas is claiming that it shot the rockets. We don't have any clearer information about the suspected infiltration. There is some suggestion that it might have been armed terrorists coming in. But again, as I say, I stress there is no confirmation of what exactly that is. I'm joined here in the studio by Colonel Itamayar and our senior correspondent, Guy Azriel. Guy, just give us a recap of what we do know so far. I'm still trying to gather information about that infiltration, that aerial infiltration. Certainly, several armed, well, what was initially suggested to be armed terrorists on paragliders. Certainly, we've seen some aerial infiltration in the north. The nature of it is still unclear. The defense establishment and military is still trying to figure out whether they have made their way into Israeli communities or flew back into Lebanon. A lot is unclear at this moment. Obviously, the Israeli military and everyone here is on high alert, is very tense. Amid these warring developments, what we do know is those rockets that were sent towards the north at the same time. And one can ask whether that was coordinated, that aerial infiltration and those rockets that we know Hamas have claimed to shot. Hamas says it shot long-range missiles at the Haifa area, that's what they're claiming. Because Colonel, the big fear here in Israel is that Hezbollah is waiting to get the green light from Tehran and then it will launch its big attack on Israel while the IDF is busy in Gaza. That's the big concern. The big concern is the whole Iranian way of thinking about Israel. In general terms, what we saw from the Hamas, the bigger picture is not the operation itself. The bigger picture is that we have now clear evidence that for the Hamas as part of the whole Iranian groups, they don't see any reason that the state of Israel and the Israelis themselves will exist. And they will do whatever they think will serve their goal. And they will try to use the opportunities. The Hamas used his opportunity and we know exactly what are the results of it. We paid a huge, huge, huge price. I will not mention the human rights element and the human Tehran element and the rules of law and so on. It's clear we don't need to speak about it even. But the idea, the overall idea is that all these elements, including what we hear from the Hezbollah daily, for years, is that the state of Israel doesn't have any right to exist. This is what we hear from Iran. This is the reason why Israel have said that the nuclear capability in Iran will allow them to do what they want to do much easier. So it's part of a big operation. It's part of a big ideology. And we saw the results. And now we know that the Hezbollah, once the Hezbollah will think, it's a good opportunity for them to act. They will do it without ground operation in Gaza. This is the reason I believe, and I mentioned it earlier. Home front command says that residents of communities on the Lebanese-Syrian border in the Golan Heights must enter their shelters, lock their doors and lock their windows. Okay. Fears of a terrorist infiltration. It means that everybody is nervous and we don't want to take any risks. And we do things to limit the risks. It's obvious. What is comforting guy for many Israelis, of course, is the steadfast international response. We've got the British Foreign Minister is here inside Israel today. I would like to correct you. You said earlier that we see reports from the Europeans and to the Western world, you said. It's not only the Western world. No. There are only two countries, as far as I know, that didn't condemn what the Hamas have done. Those countries are Iran and Qatar. All the others condemned it. And I can tell you, I spoke with Indian authorities. Did they condemn Hamas or did they condemn the escalation of violence? No. They condemn what had happened in the south. We're waiting for the condemnation of Mahmoud Abbas to what the Hamas has done. I spoke about different countries. I spoke with the Indian media. In fact, they wanted to interview me at the same time that I am now here. So it's not only the Western world. I think that the more or less all the world understands that what we saw Saturday morning is not Hamas. What we saw Saturday morning is something that is related to Daesh. It's something to what we saw in Libya in many places. And we still even see some support to these activities in some places, not only in Europe, in Australia, in Europe, even in the state. It's unbelievable. What had happened in Saturday? It's an attack not on Israel. It's an attack not on the Jewish people. Please remind ourselves that among the casualties, we have Muslims, Christians, Jews, Israelis, foreigners from something about 20 other countries. Including Chinese, Russians, Thai, Europeans, American, South American and others. It's an attack on the civilization. On the civilization. You might call it the Western civilization. But it's not only the Western civilization. This is what we see. And this is the reason why Israel is saying again and again and again. Fighting Hamas and fighting Rizbala is fighting this kind of evil. It's not only interviewing in some kind of a conflict between Israel and somebody else. One update about the aerial vehicles that are unmanned. This is what we're going to do now. Unmanned vehicles. So not terrorists flying in on hand gliders. No, they might be terrorists, but not men. Okay, let's find out what's happening. Robert Swift is at the Northern border. Robert, tell us the latest. Robert, can you hear me? I'm standing with my back to the, yes, I'm standing with my back to the Lebanese border. We've been hearing the sounds of Israeli fast jets above us. I'm going to step aside and perhaps you will see what the cameraman is trying to show us. There is explosions going on in the south of Lebanon behind us. Perhaps you can see the flashes on the horizon. This appears to be possibly Israeli airstrikes, possibly artillery fire. But we've been watching it for the last couple of minutes. And as I say, this was after we heard Israeli jets in the sky above us. Now, this is all in relation to the possible intrusion of 15 to 20 drones, which are assessed to be Hezbollah escalation on the border, coinciding with a rocket fire towards Israeli cities. Which Hamas is claiming? Hamas claiming that. Exactly, exactly. So the fact that these two events are coinciding is clearly coordination between the two groups who are both understood to be allies and connected through their patron, Iran. Okay, and Rob, the advice to civilians in the north is get into shelters in the communities on the Lebanese Syrian border. Get home, get into the shelters and lock the doors and windows. That's correct. I've just been looking at the app on my phone from the home front command. It says in very clear terms, get inside a shelter, remain there until you're given the all clear. That's the advice the Israeli government is giving to the public as what appear to be airstrikes take place behind me. Okay, we're looking at, what are we looking at there, Colonel? It's fire in the Lebanese side of the border as far as I believe. Yeah, go on, Rob. So this is on, as the Colonel says, this is on the Lebanese side of the border. From where I am, it appears it may be flares. I can see one light falling slowly to the ground. It could be Israeli illumination flares which are often used by infantry on the ground so that they can light up an area. Often these are used if soldiers which are on guard are attempting to overwatch. This could be a sign that the Israeli military is concerned about a possible intrusion by foot in this area. I fully accept it. Fully agree with it. Okay, Rob. And the advice... We're going to step aside for one second just to... Yeah, so what we're looking at there... In fact, I can confirm now that it is flares. I've seen additional flares going up so it does look to me like this is flares being fired presumably by the Israeli side as they attempt to guard this part of the border. Yeah, as the colonel says, the Israeli forces on this side of the border. We have had reports earlier in the day that... Sorry, just a short while ago about 30 minutes ago of a possible intrusion and this appears that it could be something falling in line with that. Possibly the Israeli military concerned that at the same time as these aerial intrusions are taking place there is infiltrations on foot. Yes. One of the options is that after they sent rockets to Haifa and some drones and some other elements across the border under this coverage somebody will try to cut the barrier or the fence and to go physically into Israel. Even a very small group of three people. So this is the main concern now and what we just saw is that the military along the border is checking different potential places where these kind of activities might happen and they check every place. They're patrolling the border constantly. And they check very sensitive areas where we know that these places are the easiest places to cross so they go there and cross. If they check and they realize that nothing had happened, nothing had happened. If they realize that there are signs that something had happened and somebody tried even to cross then they opened the whole operation to try to catch them. I'm seeing reports now about IDF artillery strikes on southern Lebanon and a possible reaction to these aerial vehicles whether they attempted to get on the ground into Israel or for any other reason but reports that the IDF is striking with artillery in southern Lebanon. All right, so we have seen skirmishes in recent days. Haven't we between Israeli forces and Hezbollah and what we're looking at right now, IDF flares going up over the border and that is on the Lebanese side of the border. It might be on the Lebanese side. It might be on the Israeli side. The main aim for it, as I said, is to check sensitive places along the border between Israel and Lebanon in both sides. We're being told it's on the Lebanese side. It might be. And of course both Hezbollah and Hamas claiming responsibility for this latest development in the north. Rockets fired at Haifa and a suspected terrorist infiltration as well. Okay, this is all happening, this very fast-moving unfolding drama is all happening of course as Israel is reeling from the worst atrocities perpetrated against its civilians in history. More than 1,200 Israelis have been murdered by Hamas terrorists. The death toll continues to rise. 2,400 people have been wounded and dozens of foreign nationals are among the dead and among the dozens of captives being held in Gaza. Many children, elderly people, women, mothers with children all have been taken hostage and are in Gaza. And as I say, not just Israelis, there are French, there are Americans, there are Italians, there are many different nationalities, ties that are being held by terrorists in Gaza. And joining me now is someone who's going through the nightmare that many people in Israel are going through right now, Ron Mandelbaum, Nitzan Liebstein. Your family member is missing. Can you tell me more? Yeah, good evening. Nitzan Liebstein, aged 19, is missing. He was shot in his room in Farazah. We spoke to him over the telephone. My daughter is a doctor. She's a medical doctor. And she told me what to do. I had to dress himself. And after about two hours, the battery died. And unfortunately, we have managed to talk to the military, to some special units. And we had prepared some maps for them off the kibbutz because we know the kibbutz very well. It's my wife's kibbutz. And all her family is living there. But they didn't manage to get there. And when they did, after 28 hours, he was not there anymore. So we don't know where he is. So he was wounded and then he was taken away or we don't know what happened to him after that? We don't know. We looked in every single hospital, in every single list that was taken by the authorities. And we don't know where he is. We are so anxious. It's heartbreaking. It's overwhelming. Just to remind you, his mother has lost her husband, Ophir, who was the president of the regional council. And she lost her mother 82 years old an hour before that. And she lost her son, her nephew, an hour after. So four members of our family. Oh, my goodness. And one is gone, I think. Four members of our family. I have to tell you, they're all here. They all moved here. To us, we are in the Chiron. And I am a Holocaust survivor son. I'm a second generation. The last time I've heard stories about atrocities and about the things that are happening for us was when my parents, every now and then, they never told me the entire story. They probably had some trauma. But every now and then, they told me something that happened to them in Poland. It's the same. It's the same all over again. And it's unbelievable. Yeah, it's horrific in the whole country. We are facing a new wave of Nazis. Yeah, I've heard that comparison a lot in the last few days. Also, comparisons to ISIS. It's a level of barbaric savagery, not seen for many, many decades. And that is part of the reason, Ron, that the world is standing with Israel. Almost every country in the world has condemned this. The Americans are standing strong with Israel. Israel has friends. And rightly so. I've heard the Biden's speech yesterday that was overwhelming. I've never, ever heard a speech like that from an American president on behalf of Israel. In my life, I'm 65 years old. I have some experience. I lived abroad for a while. I have never, ever seen a Western leader speaking like that. He was visibly disgusted, wasn't he? You could hear it in his voice. He was firming the president. I can see it in his face. It's from around the world. The Americans, all the countries around the world. We've got the British Foreign Secretary in Israel right now. He flew right in to be with the Israeli people. We've got the American Secretary of State here. That's very encouraging. Thank you so much. It's very encouraging. Yeah. Well, listen. It's unspeakable what you're going through. And we're all thinking of you. I want to describe to you something. Yeah, please. If I can have a minute, half a minute to explain to you something. Sure. Think about Barad, my sister-in-law. She lost her husband. Her son is gone missing. Her nephew is dead. And her mother is dead. My father-in-law. He lost his wife. He lost two of his grandchildren. And his son-in-law. I can do the connections. But it's overwhelming. It's unbelievable. It is. It's heartbreaking. I can't breathe. No one should go through this. No human being should go through this. Should have to deal with what you're dealing with. It's horrendous. We're all with Iran. It's suffering the same situation. It's absolutely unspeakable. And the world is with Israel, as I say. And Israel is striking back. Please pray for it. We will pray for it. We want to find him. We are anxious his mother is devastated. The family is broken, shattered to pieces. I can't. We do everything we can to comfort them. But it's very difficult. Nitsan lives on. Nitsan lives on. And we will win. There's no doubt about that. We have no other choice. We will win. But the price, the toll is... It's hard. Well, we hope you get some good news, Ron. We're all praying for you. We're praying for Nitsan. 19-year-old Nitsan. He's missing. One of the many Israelis. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. People dealing with that across the country. It's all very overwhelming. We mentioned the Americans, the Americans and the Americans. It's not only the Americans. I think that... But it's the strongest country in the world, so it helps. No, I speak about the Americans. President Biden's speech yesterday was not only a speech of an American president. It was a speech of somebody that is well-connected to Israel for more than 40 years. He said, and he mentioned it yesterday, that 50 years ago, he met Prime Minister Goldo Meir. And he still speaks about it. And I can tell you, President Biden mentioned it more than once along the last few years. He likes that anecdote, doesn't he? It means he is involved deeply, emotionally, with Israel, with the Israelis and what Israel represents. And he mentioned it yesterday as part of his speech as well. He said, it's not Israel. It's a war against the way of life, of freedom, of justice and so on. And I think that the message that he's so deeply involved personally is also a very important element on the message that he sent to everybody in the Middle East to think that they might play with Israel and that's it. The Americans will not be involved. It's much more than it. Because in the past, every time Israel has gone to war with Hamas, it's gone on for a couple of days and then there's been substantial international pressure on Israel to stop its operations. You know, the good news is that what you just said is fully true. The bad news is that such a support is something that you can't trust on. It can survive for a week, for two weeks, for three weeks. But we saw in the past, I can tell you I was part of the government during the 2005 operation of taking our forces and people after the Gaza Strip. We met with all the senior leaders and with all the senior diplomats and with all the experts from all over the world and they told us, you will go out and we'll support you. It has happened for one year and not more. One moment, Colonel, if I could interrupt you because we are joined now by Moshi Davidovich, the head of the Mate Asher Regional Council, that's the western Galilee region. Thank you for joining us. What is happening in your region right now? It's a fast-moving situation. We heard a lot in our area and there is now an event that aircraft and drones are attacked the northern Israel border. We are now in the shelters. All the citizens of Mate Asher region supposed to be in the shelters, closing the shelters and their homes and to be quiet until the event will be stopped. We heard that there is more equipment like motor paragliding that are in the air now and the army are searching for them. So the advice is to stay home, lock the doors, lock the windows and let the Israeli security forces deal with this and they're prepared this time. And wait until we will say to them that we can get out from the shelter. This is the event now and there was two alarm in our region. Two alarms going on. All the citizens from Aifa till the northern border supposed to be in the shelters. I should point out that the north of Israel has quite a large Arab population as well. Israel is a country of Jews and Arabs. That is something that they will be dealing with as well. Israeli Arabs and Jews Israelis are dealing with tonight. There is now an alarm and the army say to us that there is drones and we must get to the shelter. So I'm sorry. Yes, go. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. We went into the shelters like many other people across the northern Israel guy. It's an ongoing event. It's clear that nothing is clear. It's clear that something is going on. The IDF is doing its job in searching for whoever may be attempted to infiltrate into the country firing those flares up in the air to get a better view of the area. And meanwhile residents are instructed to remain closed in their homes. We saw how important that was during their attack in the south for those that at least managed to buy some time by locking themselves up until help comes. Very sadly in the south that help didn't come for many hours for long hours which enabled the Hamas terrorists to get such a significant achievement if killing babies and young mothers is an achievement to them but what we are seeing is that this conflict this war with Hamas is affecting not just the residents of the south but really the entirety of the state of Israel with these rockets in the north these alerts now on the northern border all the southern communities and we've seen rocket alerts in Tel Aviv, in Jerusalem all of Israel is affected 10 million people basically are affected by this war having to rush to shelters or defend themselves as we saw right on the border and as we've been saying Israel is prepared this time this is not like last Saturday let's say that Israel is much more prepared than it used to be only three days ago are we 100% prepared for every scenario you can't be 100% prepared for everything and this is the main challenge and along the time as I said, one of the reasons why you don't see the biggest Israeli response to what happened Saturday dealing with the Hamas is because we want to be prepared and it takes time and I'm sure that the answer will come Itamar, your leave is now thank you very much indeed going to speak to the Indian TV networks perhaps more of our allies thank you very much indeed thanks for being with us Simon's going off across northern Israel a suspected terrorist infiltration and Hamas says it has fired rockets it's claimed responsibility for a barrage of rockets fired at the northern city of Haifa so Jews and Arabs in northern Israel sheltering tonight in the latest escalation stay with us, Israel at war stay tuned 100 soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped 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 Joe I want to give you a clear picture of the difficult situation we face we were struck Saturday an attack whose savagery I can say we have not seen since the holocaust I mean we had hundreds of massacres families wiped out in their beds in their homes women brutally raped and murdered over a hundred kidnapped including children I was literally part of the team that opened this place some 10 years ago it was dramatic to come in here post construction blow the sawdust off the table and get to work building the first broadcast for the channel even with all the experiences of that first year and being here 10 years later everything we've done since nothing compares to the tension filled news period of that summer of 2014 all leading up to the ground invasion of Gaza I was in the studio under rocket sirens, rocket attacks where there would be one person left in the control room me sitting there seeing the news room clearing out the corner of my eye and continuing to talk to the camera about the moment we are in joining me now on set I've been exposed to the conflict for many years but something about that summer was just so much more unsettling than anything ever before maybe something inside me knew that there was more coming the big night came the night at the IDF ground invasion of Gaza we were here until well after two in the morning covering that exhausted and I went home I think it was by 7 a.m. already the IDF was calling me one of the mobile reserves here sending them off to the war we got those phone calls and by Friday night we'd be inside Gaza in 48 hours and you're going from one minute you're in your job, you're in your normal life the next minute you're being sent off to war a collective experience that somebody had that summer it's a wholly unique experience for me covering the war telling the story to the international audience covering those soldiers to the next day being one of those soldiers out there on the front lines I mean truly it's given me perspective that I've carried with me here ever since on covering this conflict welcome back you're watching I-24 news coming to you live from Tel Aviv significant developments on this day five of Israel's war with Hamas millions of Israelis are sheltering people in the north have been told to lock their windows and doors alarms going off amid a possible terrorist infiltration from across Israel's northern border rockets have been fired at the city of Haifa Hamas has claimed responsibility for those rocket attacks and security forces telling people to stay inside amid a potential infiltration several aircraft they're now saying have come across the border Israeli forces have been seen checking the border between Israel and Lebanon in the last hour so Guy Azrael is here, he's got all the latest details so the sky is over the Israeli border with Lebanon is lit up now as the IDF has fired flares up in the air trying to find out more about that possible aerial infiltration of these aerial vehicles that penetrated into Israeli territory it is not clear yet whether they intended to make a ground invasion make a landing inside Israeli towns or initially plan to just cross the border and fly back into where they came from we are hearing finally from the IDF spokesman saying that no hits were reported so far no report of casualties following the infiltration of these aerial vehicles they have recognized that launch of a rocket that landed near Haifa in the Karmel region fired out of Gaza okay Major General Eitan Dagot thank you for being with us this is a significant escalation people in Israel of course still reeling from the atrocities perpetrated in the south by Hamas terrorists just a few short days ago a lot of people will be worried about what is coming from Lebanon tonight yes and there is a reason because all the time and even now we consider the Hamas threat to where I'm sorry Hezbollah threat to where it is as the major and the main because of all the reasons that they have number of rockets capacities of rockets number of units they are used there and of course Hezbollah is the main strong terror organization the Middle East that really controlled also Lebanon the issue you have to be alert you have to be in readiness and you have to be serious unfortunately we estimate this kind of escalations with Gaza and with Lebanon but unfortunately we are entering to that event with a tragedy that happened on Saturday beside it I think that the event that we are first of all we have less sense we have to wait till there is no explosions and other so Hamas launched a rocket from Gaza to Haifa does it surprise someone they made one and they want to create a state of mind by such activities but Haifa is threat much more from Lebanon this is not Hamas groups firing from Lebanon no it was launched from Gaza to Haifa yes that is only the reason that Hamas wants to show it's a range and only one I said people are living in Haifa unfortunately Israel is covered from the threat of rockets from Lebanon from Syria and from Gaza secondly about the UAVs this is something we have really to investigate it has no explosion we have to see what is the range behind it what is really that in such way no one open a war it was not opening a war by Hezbollah but what is going on there is increasing with the messages that are done by Hamas and Hezbollah and Israel concerning from the beginning of this war with Hamas between Hezbollah and Hamas coming to a stage with all of the things that has been done entering of Cabin of Terror the Fogyat Islamic entering anti-tank rocket towards one of the targets of the IDF in the north there is all of them have an exit point the corridor is coming more and more narrow the two both sides are walking each towards other with a chance it will increase the escalation that will come we are not there one now don't forget that on the air you have already the threat or the warning by the United States there are in my opinion two messages in this occasion what happened leave the rocket from Gaza to Haifa one thing is clear Hamas wants to pass a message we are on readiness and we are climbing towards escalation but the green light has not been passed from Iran to Hezbollah to open this because Iran has still a lot of calculations should Israel wait for that green light to be given in my opinion in my opinion Israel will react to what happened tonight in the way that it will be on a circle limited containing the reaction Israel will not open a war there is no need to it now the war now by Israel is with Hamas there we are centralizing we have to use every hour we have to continue and to strike and to make our process of destroying Hamas as a terror organization and we are climbing up we are not losing the percentage that will be escalation with Hezbollah it is climb today but it still has a distance till it begin okay thank you we have seen that artillery fire towards Lebanon is a reaction okay significant developments on Israel's northern border then there is a war going on there is also an information war going on and we want to firmly identify our reporters Nikol Zedek and Mayel Ben-Oliyel both were in the town of Kfar Azar in the south of Israel yesterday where evidence of a massacre was unveiled both to them and to other international journalists three IDF officials told our reporters that dozens of babies and young children had been murdered among those murdered some of the infants were decapitated you can listen now to one of those IDF officials we all of us came to this place at 6pm Saturday afternoon we walk door after door we killed a lot of the tourists we are stronger than them they are aggressive, they are very bad they cut head of children cut head of women but we are stronger than them and in any meeting against them we win and we all of us have the same hand we came from all the kind of Israel religious non-religious we are stronger than the right side of the political but we all of us left our families and we took the green clothes we took the weapon we have one enemy against all of us we heard about the thing that they do before that we came but we didn't imagine that it will be so difficult we know that they are animals but we found that they have no any heart they came to the houses they found women and children in the beds with knife, with mortar water etc but they say again in any meeting that we meet the tourists we kill them and we will win because we are all of us together against them we feel that they same family here like my family we left our brother and our children because they here our children and our brother so we fight exactly like we will fight for my family Well this information was corroborated by journalist Margot Haddad and by CNN journalist Nick Robertson and by others sadly, outrageously this has become a debate on social media with prominent anti-Israel voices such as Francesca Albanese the UN Special Rapporteur bullying and trying to discredit our reporter and also trying to discourage other international news outlets from covering the story a reminder because many on social media are trying to smear this network i24news is not a state-owned news channel we are in Tel Aviv and our staff include Israelis Europeans, Americans Israeli Arabs, Palestinians and South Africans and Irish citizens as well the list goes on and we strongly reject efforts to undermine and discredit our reports we stand firmly by our story Hamas beheaded babies and infants and efforts to whitewash Hamas atrocities of futile dishonest and frankly disturbing there is also a widespread effort to discredit testimony of rape and we will now play a clip of an Israeli Shin Bet intelligence interrogation of a captured Hamas terrorist listen they are from his own mouth meanwhile as Israel reels from the atrocities perpetrated against its civilians in recent days the country is also under attack now from the north there's been a suspected terrorist infiltration from across Israel's northern border and rockets have been fired from Gaza at Haifa sending citizens into bomb shelters we are joined in the studio by Major General Etan Dangot and our senior correspondent Guy Azriel our reporters in the north as well I'm not sure if we can get back with Rob is Rob available perhaps not okay short update if you want to give us an update on the security cabinet Netanyahu the prime minister today finally managing to ink that emergency unity government that is so needed for Israel at this time as it is engaged in a war on several fronts as we see already a full war with Hamas in Gaza that is affecting all Israeli civilians and right now cabinet meeting is being held with two new members Ben Gantz and Gadi Eisencott two former IDF chiefs joining Netanyahu's emergency government we're also hearing that former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen has joined that cabinet meeting a lot of very experienced people attending this room decision-making and what how Israel should deal with these threats both on its southern border with Gaza and these new threats from Hezbollah in the north should things escalate on that front as well so a new or a wider unity government an emergency government and a new cabinet a new war cabinet with former two IDF chiefs Ben Gantz and Gadi Eisencott joining in with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and of course defense minister Joav Galant okay do you want to weigh in on that later? I think it has to be done few days ago it's late but it's never better not better late than never exactly I think that they started to work immediately it means that the top of the decision-makers of analyzing the situation will be by few serious people that are representative the majority of the nation of the Israeli civilians secondly it's put on the second floor the cabinet which is including some ministers that are a lot of complains towards the way their behavior their decisions and probably the cabinet will adopted most of the recommendation of this cabinet it make the situation and as I have a lot of experience working with cabinet and my former jobs it needed to be the tense should be only on professional things and I think by this step it will make Israel more analyzing and decision taken that will be much more understanding professional by people which has a lot of support a very good step I bless for it and I hope it will help us to fulfill our goals and to win as we should yeah a lot of military experience there just a second guy I think we can now go to our Robert Swift who's at the Lebanese border Rob. Yes Laura just about 20 minutes ago when I spoke to you last we saw flares being fired to just across the border and then a short distance after we finished talking there was live fire fired from the Israeli side across the border what appeared to me to be a short burst of machine gun fire and the occasional rifle shot now it's worth noting that there didn't appear to be any return fire what we were looking at appeared to be the Israelis looking for a potential infiltration and the live fire we saw may have just been in line with that essentially checking the ground by firing upon it to see if any reaction occurs if there were to be an infiltrator there and in fact just as I'm speaking there's live fire from the village just to the south of us I saw a couple of tracer in fact I've seen more tracer rounds going up into the sky now if we can just pan there we might be able to see it now this is a Israeli Arab village I believe it is just to the south of us this could just be essentially a demonstration this fire that we're looking at it doesn't appear to be anything in particular there is a lot of activity here on the border as well as what we're seeing now maybe about ten minutes ago to the west of us which is the direction that we've been hearing a lot of Israeli fighter aircraft operating from that direction I saw a couple of flashes explosions something in the sky it was quite a distance from us but the fact that it was such a high altitude was interesting when we're considering the fact that we're talking about a possible intrusion into the country from the Lebanese side by around 15 to 20 Hezbollah drones okay Robert the advice is for people to go home lock their doors, lock their windows right yes yes absolutely that's been the advice for at least the last hour the home front command app has told people to return home, remain in shelter and not to leave until they have been given the all clear normally when there's a rocket alarm people essentially they get in the shelter and they stay there for a couple of minutes when things seem to go back to normal Israelis just get back to things but this is not the same advice here okay Rob thank you thank you Rob Swift there we have the border with Lebanon so significant developments there in the north guy you have some updates? yes so just to follow on what Rob has said people basically all of the country are getting notifications now from the home front command from the home front command to enter protected areas and this seems like it is all over the country we don't have any further information there is a bug in the application in the alerts of the home front command or something bigger is going on that is requiring basically so many Israeli citizens to seek shelter right now we're hoping to get an update from the home front command very soon yeah sorry A-10 I wanted to ask you because the IAF has been pounding Gaza for what is it more than 72 hours now how are they still able to fire rockets? it sounds like a simple question but no the answer is first of all you are your member when was escalations with Gaza for one week to weeks till the end they are launching and I'm telling you here they will continue to launch rockets till the last minute the goal is not to destroy all the rockets we cannot do it we can the goal is to destroy the main movement of Hamas the main capacity several senior commanders have already been confirmed killed haven't they? yes some of them and there will be another more and more we are moving among a large circle not even commanders those who belong to the leadership those who are close to the leaders families of the leaders those who involve in terror and we will do it not only in Gaza we will do it every against Hamas in many places the timing will be decided so it's one of the tools we are using the third one is to make a pressure on Hamas concerning the life in Gaza it means fewer electricity and water it's something they should supply to the population and this is nothing to help apologies just important to emphasize to our viewers now the home front command clarifies that that was a false alarm for so many residents all over the country to seek shelter right now that is not to say that there are not live alarms real alarms real threats now in various places across the country as we saw both in the north and on the southern border but as for this one that is a false alarm mistakes with the system but we have to understand the population here is strong it should understand the system and in my opinion the home front command should now open channel explanations about all the threats and what to do that the people will not be under surprise to reduce the panic when it happen and I think and I support that it will start from now people are used to they have to do how to be we don't have to wait till it comes okay one second I'm sorry to interrupt you we're going to go to Sterot Jonathan Regev is in Sterot and Jonathan grew some discovery still being made in that city yes constantly things are discovered bodies and bodies of victims of Israelis bodies of terrorists we just came from the area for example one of the communities which was a severely hit were speaking of 110 bodies of Israelis that were found there and 103 bodies of terrorists the scenes are horrific and this is just one community of course one of those more severely hit but not the only one we heard more witnesses from more communities telling us that and we're constantly hearing since Saturday morning about what has happened but witnessing it with the eyes it's something completely different and the scenes are horrible yeah it's really difficult for people to digest all of the horrific things that are coming out of the south of Israel in the last few days Jonathan absolutely and just driving along these roads roads that I've been around 100 times coming down here to Sderot and now you see them full of cars upside down burnt dead bodies debris all over the place bullets on the ground these are common scenes now in the roads of the south this whole thing will take months and months to overcome not just the fighting itself but the cleanup and everything that comes around it because we just one community many many other communities went through the same and it's a horrific scene Jonathan thank you very much Jonathan Regev there and we are hearing that the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz they have formed a unity coalition and both of them are supposed to speak in 10 minutes or so so we will of course bring you that live but we are still Jonathan Regev telling us how Israelis are still discovering gruesome scenes in the south of Israel following that deadly assault by Hamas on Saturday a reminder of the death toll more than 1200 Israelis and other nationalities I should say have been murdered by Hamas terrorists 2400 wounded dozens of hostages are being held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza and there are dozens of foreign nationals including 10 Americans among those being held there's been a barrage of rockets fired at Israel all across the country including most recently at Haifa which is the city in the north of Israel close to the border with Lebanon but international support for Israel has been overwhelming not just western countries almost every country on earth has condemned Hamas for the atrocities it committed in the last few days and some news just coming in actually the number of American citizens killed in the Hamas attack has now risen to 22 it was 14 the US State Department just confirming that 22 American citizens also murdered by Hamas terrorists on Saturday Israel is dealing with a situation now in the north we are getting actually rocket alerts in the center of Israel next to the city is the southern coast areas that is a barrage that is taking place right now still no reports on any hits on the ground we're still waiting to see about interceptions we haven't heard any explosions above our heads with regards to that but as you can see the incidents continue throughout the day rocket alerts basically all over the country very few communities have been spared from these rocket attacks by Hamas targeting Israeli civilians this is what they do we just saw Jonathan Regev there are so many testimonies that keep coming in about the horrors of that Saturday attack and the pro Hamas supporters and others anti-Israel crew are all trying to deny or play down the atrocities perpetrated by Hamas as we've been pointing out on this program nothing is surprising the number of babies being beheaded and other outrageous statements like that we're going to hear from Benjamin Netanyahu shortly what would you like to hear from them I think first of all to declare to the country that they will work together and will do all their effort without entering any political issue to see how they are bringing as soon as possible stability and the win of this war to Israel and as I've been pointing out the international support for Israel has been overwhelming the British Home Secretary James Cleverly is in Israel tonight so is the US Secretary of State Tony Blinken they literally flew into Israel while this country is in a state of war a very strong show of support which shows just how disgusted many people around the world are and their governments are showing that they are here for Israel they will give Israel what they need do stay with us on our news in a few moments as I say we are hoping to hear from Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz the two of them have formed a unity government to deal with this war it is day five Israel is at war the country