 News 24, Israel Bajo Ataque. News 24 en Español trae el análisis y la información de los acontecimientos de la guerra, espadas de hierro. Entrevistas exclusivas reportes desde la zona de guerra, la reacción de los países hispanoparlantes. News 24, el único medio en español que te mantiene informado y conectado con la comunidad latina en Israel. News 24, únicamente en I24 News. Welcome to I24 News, I'm Sivan Raveev and these are the latest developments coming to you live from Tel Aviv. Today is Day 31 of Israel's war with Hamas, a war which began with a horrific massacre of innocent Israeli civilians as 1,400 women, men, children and elderly were brutally tortured and murdered on October 7th in southern Israel. We begin with a surprising announcement by the Pentagon. The U.S. military said that one of its nuclear submarines arrived to the region on Sunday in the U.S. Central Command Area of Responsibility, which covers the Middle East. Meanwhile, the CIA chief reportedly arrived in Israel and will meet his Israeli counterparts later today. This follows the U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken's visit to the region, including a trip to Israel, Jordan, the Palestinian Authority, Turkey and Iraq. Blinken continued to stress the need for a humanitarian pause. Let's have a listen. Israel's raised important questions about how humanitarian pauses would work. We've got to answer those questions. We're working on exactly that. In fact, we agreed that our teams would get together and they're doing just that, including today, to work through the specifics, the practicalities of these pauses. Second, it's important that the pause advance a number of things. One of them is hostages. We are intensely focused. The United States, Israel, every other country that has one of its citizens being held hostage by Hamas to bring them home. There are 241 hostages currently held in captivity by Hamas and Gaza. Over 30 of them are children and babies. Following the humanitarian corridor, which was provided for citizens of Gaza yesterday, the IDF resumed operations and airstrikes in Gaza and announced that the Gaza Strip is now divided into north and south, urging again all citizens to evacuate safely to the south. Meanwhile, a short while ago, rocket fire into Israel resumed. The IDF announced the name of yet another Israeli soldier killed and combat in Gaza for Sergeant Shachar Cohen. In the north, Hezbollah launched a barrage of rockets into the city of Kiryat Shmona, killing one Israeli civilian. This follows an IDF strike on a vehicle on the Lebanese side of the border, killing three people. Jordan air-dropped medical assistance to the Jordanian field hospital in Gaza. This move was reportedly coordinated with Israel. The IDF has opened a humanitarian corridor to evacuate civilians to the southern Gaza Strip as its air and ground offensive continues. According to the IDF, the Strip is now divided into north and south, as IDF forces reached the Gaza coast on Sunday. Let's have a listen. I am currently standing on the Salahadin Road south of Zaitun neighborhood. On Sunday, we opened the Salahadin Road as a humanitarian corridor for civilians on the northern Gaza Strip. I ask again that all civilians of the northern Gaza Strip move south of the Vadi Gaza. The northern Gaza Strip and Gaza City are a war zone, a very dangerous area. The criminal Hamas terrorist organization are using you as human shields. Move south of Vadi Gaza. We are facilitating humanitarian aid to the area of south Vadi Gaza. Joining us now is retired IDF colonel and director of the International Institute for Counterterrorism at Reichmann University, Miri Eisen. Thank you for joining. Hi. Can you please tell us about the CIA chief visiting Israel? This comes after a series of top U.S. official visits. What is the meaning of all of this? We're at this stage, the international community, but I'd say at the forefront, the United States of America are trying to, what I'm going to call, contain this conflict, meaning it's only Israel against the Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip, and they're trying to contain it, both from spreading to Hezbollah, where it already exists, but at a lower level, let alone for it to spread further to the different proxies that are attacking U.S. forces throughout the Middle East, and, of course, behind that, all Iran. So there's a variety of different ways of trying to contain that, everybody right now in the world. And I say in that sense also in Israel, nobody here wants a regional conflict. Having said that, this is part of the challenges of how do you contain it, and at the same time make sure that you are destroying Hamas capabilities, that you are rescuing the hostages, and what do you do with Hezbollah in Lebanon and the other side of the Israeli border if you don't open up a front there? So it's a complex arena that you need to talk about to be sure that we're safe, that we are protected, that we are defended, that we're doing what needs to be done, which in this case is a very challenging one. Do you open another front or not? Do you wait for Hezbollah to attack or not? And if you don't open that front, what do you do with Hezbollah on the day after? We're all focused on the Gaza Strip. We're all focused on Hamas capabilities, but there is that question there. And that's where both the United States and the international community have really important inputs into what could happen. The U.S. military mobilized the nuclear submarine into the Middle East. What's the message here? It's clearly a message of deterrence. Is it deterrence to Iran? You're speaking of other fronts that might be opening. Siobhan, there's no question right now. This is not something just new. The United States has sent the most weaponry capabilities into the greater Middle East. It's both on the side of the Mediterranean Sea. That's to the west of Israel and throughout the Gulf, the Red Sea, surrounding the area of both Yemen in the Persian Gulf, the Arab Gulf. And so we have a lot of U.S. presence in this area. They're not the only international one, but they're the main one. What does a nuclear submarine mean? For me, that is very much looking towards Iran and the Islamic regime of Iran in the way that it is trying to utilize, what a wonderful word, all of its different Shiite proxies against Israel were just the little Satan and against the United States, the big Satan. Those different proxy forces in a country called Yemen, in Iraq, certainly in Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon and additional groups that are both in Lebanon and in Syria are all right now, both attacking and threatening Israel and the United States. When the United States brings here the nuclear submarine, that's looking at Iran. Iran is a country of edging into 90 million people. The Islamic regime have both an enormous Iranian revolutionary guard. Many of you have heard of that. In addition, they use all of these different proxies. This is threatening against that country much more than participating in any way with the fight of Israel against Hamas. We're doing that. It could also be of interest looking, as I said, at the proxies of the Iranian presence, both in Lebanon and in Syria, Iraq, as I said before, but the focus back towards Iran. Thank you, Miri Aizen. Please stay with us. We will be back to you for more questions. We move to our I-24 news correspondent in northern Israel, Pia Stekelbach. Hi, Pia. Right. Good morning, Sivan. This has been a quiet night here in the northern Israel, although now only a couple of minutes ago, several communities here in the Upper Eastern Galilee were asked to stay close to their protective areas, stay in their homes, stay close to their shelters. This is exactly what we've also seen yesterday night before rockets were launched towards that area, especially the city of Kiryat Shmona has been targeted twice with rockets. Each time, six of those fell into open areas there in the city, causing only damage to infrastructure. No injuries reported as the city, especially of Kiryat Shmona, has been evacuated throughout the past two weeks. It is one of the dozens of northern communities that have been evacuated because those scumishes between Israel and Hezbollah have been constantly increasing since the beginning of the war. Now, yesterday's launch of rockets was claimed by Hezbollah, and that comes after an incident on the Lebanese side of the border. A car was targeted, an airstrike that by Hezbollah is attributed to Israel. Four people were killed, three children, and their grandmother, reportedly the family of a journalist. The Israeli military is looking into the incident. We have not received any statement on that incident yet. But Hezbollah there, basically threatening to step up their actions. We've been hearing also from the idea of Chief of Staff Herzli Alevi that the Israeli forces here in the north are ready for a stronger offensive there. That comes also after yesterday afternoon, an Israeli civilian was killed by an anti-tank missile launched by Hezbollah in the Israeli community of Yiftah, which is right underneath the city of Kiryat Shmona. That is already the second Israeli civilian killed by Hezbollah fire there since the beginning of this war, Sivan. OK, and what's expected today on this front? Are we seeing an escalation in the exchange of fire? Well, after that incident on the Lebanese side, where four people were killed in a strike that is attributed to Israel, again, the Israeli military has not commented on that yet. An escalation was expected. The reaction coming very quickly with those rockets, several rockets launched into the area of Kiryat Shmona. That front is constantly heating up. And what we're seeing in the rhetoric of Hezbollah and coming also out of these other proxies there in southern Lebanon is that they are transferring, that they have the ability to escalate that front further. They have been mentioning Gaza as a red line, the ground offensive. We haven't seen that escalation, that really opening, full opening of the northern front manifesting yet. But these skirmishes already cause a lot of tension where you're speaking about thousands of Israeli residents being evacuated here. We also do know that several communities on the Lebanese side have been evacuating. Their civilians have fled. So the question is, what would an escalation like this look like? Possibly long arranged rockets onto the center of Israel, because this northern front is very much existing here. We are seeing skirmishes in the form of anti-tank missiles and mortar shells being sent from southern Lebanon on a really daily basis. As per protocol, the Israeli military is striking back, causing these skirmishes. And their pace and their intensity has been increasing over the course of the past weeks. What we might expect is a continuation of that and possibly also an intensification of the pace on also of the measures that are being used. Yesterday, for example, another Hezbollah drone was intercepted by the Israeli Arundog on the Lebanese side because the Israeli forces were seeing that it was traveling towards Israel. So we're speaking about several threats there coming from southern Lebanon, first and foremost, anti-tank missiles, mortar shells, and rockets. But you also have to speak about drones and the very real danger of infiltration here, especially in the beginning of the war. We've seen several first and foremost Palestinian groups that are trying to infiltrate into Israeli territory here. All these attempts were prevented by the Israeli military here. But that also is part of why these communities have been evacuated, communities that are in a proximity of five kilometers to the border. That is also a real threat that Israeli forces and also residents take into consideration. Okay. Thank you very much, Pia, on our northern border. Next to the border of Lebanon is the town of M'toula, where Jews have lived through many wars and conflicts for more than a century. The residents are used to having to evacuate during wartime to make room for the Israeli military. However, this war with Hezbollah and Hamas is different than ever before. I-24 News correspondent Emily Francis went to Tiberias, where the people of M'toula have organized and kept the routine intact, even while being displaced indefinitely from their homes. As we enter the fifth week of the war in Israel, the town of M'toula on the border of Lebanon has turned into a military base. M'toula is the northernmost town in Israel. We are surrounded by Lebanon on three borders. And our neighbors, Hezbollah, are the best and the most evil of all possible neighbors. But when the proud, robust M'toula community of about 2,000 people had to evacuate after October 7th, they didn't miss a beat. M'toula community has experience in being harassed on the border for years and years. M'toula is the only settlement in Israel that is actually surrounded by hostile border and like 70% of our fence, basically one road to come in and out. So it's a part of who we are and it's a part of our choice to live there and to help define the strong borders of Israel at this edges. Liat Cohen-Raveave is a consultant by profession and a community leader who along with other municipal leaders have taken the helm to make sure the 2,000 residents stick to a routine. Organizing activities and exercise all to keep people calm. How is this an important way to not just go down to a deep state of depression? I will say it's even our responsibility as community leaders. I think that a time of uncertainty and vagueness and a situation when you have to deal with so much unknown factors and your sense of security and safety was deeply harmed. It is super important to try to relate to that by creating as much as you can. The majority of the residents are living in three hotels in Tiberias, the Sofia Hotel for the elderly residents and adult couples. And next door at another hotel, families and children are keeping to a routine, something that is a top priority for many reasons. We built units that fit for every age from zero till 18. Here and in Tiberias we made a connection. We made everything that the children will get education and will have something to wake up for and not be all the time in the rooms and don't do nothing because it's a very difficult time for the children. Matula is a small moshav built by pioneers and farmers about a century ago and many of the descendants of the original families still live in Matula, a testament to their commitment even with an enemy on the other side of the fence. They built Matula in 1896 and from since 1896 our family, the Lishansky family, is in Matula and our family has a small hotel which is going generation after generation. My grandfather built it and now it's empty. I am the seventh generation. My great-great grandparents lived in the second house built in Matula. It's my home and my life and even though we live next to a dangerous border it's not a scary life here. It's a full life. In the end we will return home. And even though we're living in a terrifying war time the majority of Matula residents have no intention of moving away when the war is over. What is the heart and soul of the Matula community that is choosing to really live right next to Pesbala? These are unique special people. This is an internal dialogue that you are having with yourself and if the answer is yes I'm going to be there it makes you a unique person. I want to think right because it's a choice. It's a daily choice to raise your children 100 meters from a whole style border. You want to help define the borders of this country. If crazy people like us will not exist we're going to have a problem. If 2000 people from Matula will not be able to go back into their homes feeling that they can go to sleep without fearing that someone will cut the fence and then cut their throats which is not an option they're not going to go back right? Would you go back? Emily Francis, I-24 News. Recently Israel's Antiquities Authority sent a dozen archaeologists to the houses where atrocities took place where families were murdered and kidnapped in Khwar Gaza, Berri and Niroz in order to collect their remains in hope of locating those people who are still missing. With us is Joe Uziel, Director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Unit at Israel's Antiquities Authority joining us from Netivot. Good morning. Good morning. Thank you for joining us. Why is the Antiquities Authority involved in such an effort and why is this unique? Well, subsequently October 7th massacres and horrifying events and many different teams and professionals set out to find the missing people the people that were murdered in order to get a better understanding of what happened and to basically be able to determine with the maximum amount of certainty who was dead, who was kidnapped and deal with the missing people that weren't being found. Within the Kibbutzim many of the houses were burnt as you can see in the photos that you're showing and basically as archaeologists we're able to apply our methodology to this situation sifting through the remains in order to be able to find the most minute human remains that can help us identify some of the missing people and in fact we've managed to retrieve dozens of remains of individuals numerous of which have already been identified and have helped provide closure for some of these families who hardly lost their loved ones. Now what are some of these methods can you specify what the methods used and why exactly are they necessary? Well as archaeologists were trained in searching for the most minute finds that reflect on human presence and human activity in archaeological sites in the past. In the case at hand we're talking about buildings that were burnt down and went through destruction and so we're able to excavate layer by layer and area by area very methodologically and very carefully using the most careful archaeological tools and then sift through this and be able to recognize the smallest remains that can be crucial in identifying some of these missing people. Now these are surely gruesome images that you confront while being there. What can you tell us about what you've seen? Well I must say that from a from a personal standpoint although these images are very very difficult at least we can say that we're contributing something to these families that have lost so much to these communities that have lost so much and we can we can take a little bit of comfort. They saw so much more and they've gone through so much more that this is I'd say the least we can do for them to be able to just contribute to at least some of them some closure and be able to provide them with some comfort that they know what happened to their loved ones. Of course these are difficult images we're used to seeing things from hundreds and thousands of years ago and now we're dealing with modern atrocities but at the same time I think it's the least we can do and the fact that we have the ability as archaeologists to apply our professional expertise to this specific case is something of a special calling. Dr. Josiel, director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Unit at Israel's Antiquities Authority. Thank you. Thank you. Joining us now again is retired IDF Colonel and director of the International Institute for Counterterrorism at Reichmann University, Mary Eisen. Mary, we spoke... On that kind of thing that you just showed, that's the thing, look at me, I'm smiling. So what a horrific story that I'm smiling. Wow. We're getting initial reports, Mary, about a suspected terror attack in the old city in Jerusalem. The terrorist is apparently neutralized and one woman was injured. We'll be sure to bring more details as the investigations continue. I do want to ask you about these kind of threats internally and of course we discussed before the external threats, the different fronts that may or may not be opening up on the northern border with Hezbollah in addition to Hamas in the south. What can you tell us about this? So Sivan, the way I would put it is that all of the fronts are open. That's what perhaps the international community that we're talking to right now don't understand. It's a full-scale war that Hamas started attacking in that sense and trying to destroy in the Gaza Strip. But Hezbollah are already fighting on the northern, they're just doing it at a low level. And as all these different Shiite proxies, Yemen firing missiles at Israel, it's the Houthis, etc. But when we talk about that domestic arena, Hamas from the beginning from October 7th and every single day, and not just Hamas, but mainly Hamas, are constantly trying to present what they did. The atrocities, they present them and people need to understand, I'm quoting them, okay? They're saying it's resistance. They're saying that everybody should join in and they're trying to pose in a very clear-cut way Israel's response to trying to eradicate Hamas as being something totally different. And I say that because we should expect and we all need to be on the alert of individuals who are impacted by what Hamas says. I'll even give a different kind of example. Yesterday, an Israeli member of Knesset who is inside a party which is a Muslim Arab party said very harsh things and she was fired by the head of her party because she said to the public that the October 7th atrocities could not have taken place because it exited against Islam. He fired her and she retracted her statement and in that sense, you know, it's like this little thing that went under the radar. Why is it important? Because within the Arabic speaking, within the Muslim world in general, Hamas have been selling the most fake, horrific version of October 7th and the aftermath. They have not talked about the atrocities. They say that they attacked soldiers. They have not in any way said anything about the hostages and they continue to pose themselves as the defenders of Palestinians. So when that narrative comes out, there are going to be people who believe it. There are going to be people who act on it and we need to be wary. It can be anywhere in that sense. It's part of the challenge of what's going on. That's what terrorism does. It's not just the lying and that fake aspect of a totally fake narrative. It is the inspiration that they're trying to show in their terms, which is so horrifying. Mary Eisen, as I say, we all need to be careful. Mary Eisen, thank you very much for your input. Just an update that there are apparently two injured people in the suspected terror attack. We're looking at footage. Thank you for joining. This is I-24 News, the latest edition. Keep watching. 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 scoop on what's going on. Only on I-24 News. Espadas de Hierro. Entrevistas exclusivas reportes desde la zona de guerra. La reacción de los países hispano parlantes. News 24, el único medio en español que te mantiene informado y conectado con la comunidad latina en Israel. News 24, únicamente en I-24 News. Hay frases que sabes desde dónde vienen. Ve acá. Y el paquete copa cuándo. Y recargas que ya sabes hacia dónde van. En vía recargas internacionales Altiz a tu gente en rd. Accede a nuestra página web recargas.altiz.com.be. Selecciona recargas y digita el número al que deseas colocarle la recarga. Además, ellos reciben el doble de balance en recargas de 8 dólares o más. Altiz, la red global de los dominicanos. To I-24 News, I'm Sivan Raviv and these are the latest developments coming to you live from Tel Aviv. Today is Day 31 of Israel's war with Hamas, a war which began with a horrific massacre of innocent Israeli civilians. As 1400 women, men, children and elderly were brutally tortured and murdered on October 7th in southern Israel. We begin with a surprising announcement by the Pentagon. The US military said that one of its nuclear submarines arrived to the region on Sunday in the US Central Command Area of Responsibility which covers the Middle East. Meanwhile, the CIA chief reportedly arrived in Israel and will meet his Israeli counterparts later today. This follows the US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken's visit to the region, including a trip to Israel, Jordan, the Palestinian Authority, Turkey and Iraq. Blinken continued to stress the need for a humanitarian pause. Let's have a listen. Israel's raised important questions about how humanitarian pauses would work. We've got to answer those questions. We're working on exactly that. In fact, we agreed that our teams would get together and they're doing just that including today to work through the specifics, the practicalities of these pauses. Second, it's important that the pause advance a number of things. One of them is hostages. We are intensely focused. The United States, Israel, every other country that has one of its citizens being held hostage by Hamas to bring them home. There are 241 hostages currently held in captivity by Hamas and Gaza. Over 30 of them are children and babies. Following the humanitarian corridor, which was provided for citizens of Gaza yesterday, the IDF resumed operations and airstrikes in Gaza and announced that the Gaza Strip is now divided into north and south, urging again all citizens to evacuate safely to the south. Meanwhile, a short while ago, rocket fire into Israel resumed. The IDF announced the name of yet another Israeli soldier killed in combat in Gaza for Sergeant Shachar Cohen. In the north, Hezbollah launched a barrage of rockets into the city of Kiryat Shmona, killing one Israeli civilian. This follows an IDF strike on a vehicle on the Lebanese side of the border, killing three people. Jordan air-dropped medical assistance to the Jordanian field hospital in Gaza. This move was reportedly coordinated with Israel. The IDF has opened a humanitarian corridor to evacuate civilians to the southern Gaza Strip as its air and ground offensive continues. According to the IDF, the Strip is now divided into north and south as IDF forces reached the Gaza coast on Sunday. Let's have a listen. I am currently standing on the Salahadin Road south of Zaitun neighborhood. On Sunday, we opened the Salahadin Road as a humanitarian corridor for civilians. On the northern Gaza Strip, I ask again that all civilians of the northern Gaza Strip move south of the Vadi Gaza. The northern Gaza Strip and Gaza City are a war zone, a very dangerous area. The criminal Hamas terrorist organization are using you as human shields. Move south of Vadi Gaza. We are facilitating humanitarian aid to the area of south Vadi Gaza. Joining us now is retired IDF colonel and director of the International Institute for Counterterrorism at Reichmann University, Miri Eisen. Thank you for joining. Hi, can you please tell us about the CIA chief visiting Israel? This comes after a series of top U.S. official visits. What is the meaning of all of this? We're at this stage, the international community, but I'd say at the forefront, the United States of America are trying to, what I'm going to call, contain this conflict, meaning it's only Israel against the Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip, and they're trying to contain it, both from spreading to Hezbollah, where it already exists, but at a lower level, let alone for it to spread further to the different proxies that are attacking U.S. forces throughout the Middle East, and of course, behind that, all Iran. So there's a variety of different ways of trying to contain that, everybody right now in the world. And I say in that sense, also in Israel, nobody here wants a regional conflict. Having said that, this is part of the challenges of how do you contain it, and at the same time, make sure that you are destroying Hamas capabilities, that you are rescuing the hostages, and what do you do with Hezbollah in Lebanon and the other side of the Israeli border if you don't open up a front there? So it's a complex arena that you need to talk about to be sure that we're safe, that we are protected, that we are defended, that we're doing what needs to be done, which in this case is a very challenging one. Do you open another front or not? Do you wait for Hezbollah to attack or not? And if you don't open that front, what do you do with Hezbollah on the day after? We're all focused on the Gaza Strip, we're all focused on Hamas capabilities, but there is that question there, and that's where both the United States and the international community have really important input into what could happen. The U.S. military mobilized the nuclear submarine into the Middle East. What's the message here? It's clearly a message of deterrence. Is it deterrence to Iran? You're speaking of other fronts that might be opening. Siobhan, there's no question right now, this is not something just new. The United States has sent the most weaponry capabilities into the greater Middle East. When we say Middle East, it's both on the side of the Mediterranean Sea, that's to the west of Israel, and throughout the Gulf, the Red Sea surrounding the area of both Yemen and the Persian Gulf, the Arab Gulf. And so we have a lot of U.S. presence in this area. They're not the only international one, but they're the main one. What does a nuclear submarine mean? For me, that is very much looking towards Iran and the Islamic regime of Iran, and the way that it is trying to utilize, what a wonderful word, all of its different Shiite proxies against Israel. We're just the little Satan, and against the United States, the big Satan. Those different proxy forces in a country called Yemen, in Iraq, certainly in Syria. Hezbollah in Lebanon and additional groups that are both in Lebanon and in Syria are all right now both attacking and threatening Israel and the United States. When the United States brings here a nuclear submarine, that's looking at Iran. Iran is a country of edging into 90 million people. The Islamic regime have both an enormous Iranian revolutionary guard. Many of you have heard of that. In addition, they use all of these different proxies. This is threatening against that country much more than participating in any way with the fight of Israel against Hamas. We're doing that. It could also be of interest looking, as I said, at the proxies of the Iranian presence both in Lebanon and in Syria, Iraq, as I said before, but the focus back towards Iran. Thank you, Miri Aizen. Please stay with us. We will be back to you for more questions. We move to our I-24 news correspondent in northern Israel, Pia Stekelbach. Hi, Pia. Right. Good morning, Sivan. This has been a quiet night here in the northern Israel, although now, only a couple of minutes ago, several communities here in the Upper East and Galilee were asked to stay close to their protective areas, stay in their homes, stay close to their shelters. This is exactly what we've also seen yesterday night before rockets were launched towards that area, especially the city of Kiryat Shmona has been targeted twice with rockets. Each time, six of those fell into open areas there in the city, causing only damage to infrastructure there. No injuries reported as the city, especially of Kiryat Shmona, has been evacuated throughout the past two weeks. It is one of the dozens of northern communities that have been evacuated because those scumishes between Israel and Hezbollah have been constantly increasing since the beginning of the war. Now, yesterday's launch of rockets was claimed by Hezbollah and that comes after an incident on the Lebanese side of the border. A car was targeted, an airstrike that by Hezbollah is attributed to Israel. Four people were killed, three children and their grandmother, reportedly the family of a journalist. The Israeli military is looking into the incident. We have not received any statement on that incident yet, but Hezbollah there, basically threatening to step up their actions. We've been hearing also from the IDF Chief of Staff Herzli Alevi that the Israeli forces here in the north are ready for a stronger offensive there. That comes also after yesterday afternoon an Israeli civilian was killed by an anti-tank missile launched by Hezbollah in the Israeli community of Yiftakh, which is right underneath the city of Kiryat Shmona. That is already the second Israeli civilian killed by Hezbollah fire there since the beginning of this war, Sivan. Okay, and what's expected today on this front? Are we seeing an escalation in the exchange of fire? Well, after that incident on the Lebanese side where four people were killed in a strike that is attributed to Israel, again the Israeli military has not commented on that yet. An escalation was expected, the reaction coming very quickly with those rockets, several rockets launched into the area of Kiryat Shmona. That front is constantly heating up and what we're seeing in the rhetoric of Hezbollah and coming also out of these other proxies there in Lebanon is that they are transferring, that they have the ability to escalate that front further. They have been mentioning Gaza as a red line, the ground offensive. We haven't seen that escalation, that really opening, full opening of the northern front manifesting yet. But these skirmishes already cause a lot of tension here. We're just speaking about thousands of Israeli residents being evacuated here. We also do know that several communities on the Lebanese side have been evacuating their civilians have fled. So the question is, what would an escalation like this look like? Possibly long arranged rockets onto the center of Israel because this northern front is very much existent here. We are seeing skirmishes in the form of anti-tank missiles and mortar shells being sent from southern Lebanon on a really daily basis as per protocol the Israeli military is striking back, causing these skirmishes and their pace and their intensity has been increasing over the past, over the course of the past weeks. What we might expect is a continuation of that and possibly also an intensification of the pace and also of the measures that are being used yesterday, for example, another Hezbollah drone was intercepted by the Israeli Arundel and the Lebanese side because the Israeli forces were seeing that it was traveling towards Israel. So we're speaking about several threats there coming from southern Lebanon, first and foremost anti-tank missiles, mortar shells and rockets. But you also have to speak about drones and the very real danger of infiltration here, especially in the beginning of the war. We've seen several first and foremost Palestinian groups that are trying to infiltrate into Israeli territory here. All these attempts were prevented by the Israeli military here, but that also is part of why these communities have been evacuated, communities that are in a proximity of five kilometers to the border. That is also a real threat that Israeli forces see and also residents take into consideration. Okay, thank you very much, Pia, on our northern border. Next to the border of Lebanon is the town of Mehtullah, where Jews have lived through many wars and conflicts for more than a century. The residents are used to having to evacuate during wartime to make room for the Israeli military. However, this war with Hezbollah and Hamas is different than ever before. I-24 News correspondent Emily Francis went to Tiberias, where the people of Mehtullah have organized and kept the routine intact, even while being displaced indefinitely from their homes. As we enter the fifth week of the war in Israel, the town of Mehtullah on the border of Lebanon has turned into a military base. Mehtullah is the northernmost town in Israel. We are surrounded by Lebanon on three borders. And our neighbors, Hezbollah, are the best and the most evil of all possible neighbors. But when the proud, robust Mehtullah community of about 2,000 people had to evacuate after October 7th, they didn't miss a beat. Mehtullah community has experience in, you know, being harassed on the border for years and years. You know, Mehtullah is the only settlement in Israel that is actually surrounded by hostile border and like 70% of our fence, basically one road to come in and out. So it's a part of who we are and it's a part of our choice to live there and to help define the strong borders of Israel at this edges. Liat Cohen-Raveave is a consultant by profession and a community leader who along with other municipal leaders have taken the helm to make sure the 2,000 residents stick to a routine. Organizing activities and exercise all to keep people calm. How is this an important way to not just go down in a deep state of depression? I will say it's even our responsibility as community leaders. I think that a time of uncertainty and vagueness and situation when you have to deal with so much unknown factors and your sense of security and safety was deeply harmed. It is super important to try to relate to that by creating as much as you can. The majority of the residents are living in three hotels in Tiberias, the Sofia Hotel for the elderly residents and adult couples. And next door at another hotel, families and children are keeping to a routine, something that is a top priority for many reasons. We built units that fit for every age from zero till 18 here and in Tiberias. We made a connection. We made everything that the children will get education and will have something to wake up for and not be all the time at the rooms and don't do nothing because it's a very difficult time for the children. Matula is a small moshav built by pioneers and farmers about a century ago and many of the descendants of the original families still live in Matula, a testament to their commitment even with an enemy on the other side of the fence. They built Matula in 1896 and from since 1896 our family, the Lishansky family is in Matula. And our family has a small hotel which is going generation after generation. My grandfather built it and now it's empty. I am the seventh generation. My great-great grandparents lived in the second house built in Matula. It's my home and my life and even though we live next to a dangerous border it's not a scary life here. It's a full life. In the end, we will return home. And even though we're living in a terrifying war time the majority of Matula residents have no intention of moving away when the war is over. What is the heart and soul of the Matula community that is choosing to really live right next to Fezbala? These are unique special people. This is an internal dialogue that you are having with yourself and if the answer is yes I'm going to be there it makes you a unique person I want to think right because it's a choice. It's a daily choice to raise your children 100 meters from a whole style border. You want to help define the borders of this country. If crazy people like us will not exist we're going to have a problem. If 2000 people from Matula will not be able to go back into their homes feeling that they can you know go to sleep without fearing that someone will cut the fence and then cut their throats which is not an option they're not going to go back. Right? Would you go back? Emily Francis I-24 News Recently Israel's Antiquities Authority sent a dozen archaeologists to the houses where atrocities took place where families were murdered and kidnapped in Kfar Gaza, Berri and Irhaz in order to collect their remains in hope of locating those people who are still missing. With us is Joe Uziel director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Unit at Israel's Antiquities Authority joining us from Netivot. Good morning. Good morning. Thank you for joining us. Why is the Antiquities Authority involved in such an effort and why is this unique? Well, subsequently October 7th massacres and horrifying events many different teams and professionals set out to find the missing people the people that were murdered in order to get a better understanding of what happened and to basically be able to determine with the maximum amount of certainty who was dead who was kidnapped and deal with the missing people that weren't being found. Within the Kibbutzim many of the houses were burnt as you can see in the photos that you're showing and basically as archaeologists we're able to apply our methodology to this situation sifting through the remains in order to be able to find the most minute human remains that can help us identify some of the missing people and in fact we've managed to retrieve dozens of remains of individuals numerous of which have already been identified and have helped provide closure for some of these families who hardly lost their loved ones. Now what are some of these methods can you specify what the methods used and why exactly are they necessary? Well as archaeologists were trained in searching for the most minute finds that reflect on human presence and human activity in archaeological sites in the past in the case at hand we're talking about buildings that were burnt down and went through destruction and so we're able to excavate layer by layer and area by area very methodologically very carefully using the most careful archaeological tools and then sift through this and be able to recognize the smallest remains that can be crucial in identifying some of these missing people. Now these are surely gruesome images that you confront while being there what can you tell us about what you've seen? Well I must say that from a personal standpoint although these images are very very difficult at least we can say that we're contributing something to these families that have lost so much to these communities that have lost so much and we can we can take a little bit of comfort they saw so much more and they've gone through so much more that this is I'd say the least we can do for them to be able to just contribute to at least some of them some closure and be able to provide them with some comfort that they know what happened to their loved ones of course these are difficult images we're used to seeing things from hundreds and thousands of years ago and now we're dealing with modern atrocities but at the same time I think it's the least we can do and the fact that we have the ability as archaeologists to apply our professional expertise to this specific case is something of a special calling Dr. Josiel director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Unit at Israel's Antiquities Authority thank you thank you joining us now again is retired IDF colonel and director of the International Institute for Counterterrorism at Reichmann University Mary Eisen Mary we spoke on that kind of thing that you just showed that's the thing look at me I'm smiling it's what a horrific story that I'm smiling we're getting initial reports Mary about a suspected terror attack in the old city in Jerusalem the terrorist is apparently neutralized and one woman was injured we'll be sure to bring more details as the investigations continue I do want to ask you about these kind of threats internally and of course we discussed before the external threats the different fronts that may or may not be opening up on the northern border with Hezbollah in addition to Hamas in the south what can you tell us about this so Sivan the way I would put it is that all of the fronts are open that's what perhaps the international community that we're talking to right now don't understand it's a full scale war that Hamas started that we're attacking in that sense and trying to destroy in the Gaza Strip but Hezbollah are already fighting on the northern they're just doing it at a low level and as all these different Shiite proxies Yemen firing missiles at Israel and to the Houthis etc but when we talk about that domestic arena Hamas from the beginning from October 7th and every single day and not just Hamas but mainly Hamas are constantly trying to present what they did the atrocities they present them and people need to understand I'm quoting them okay they're saying it's resistance they're saying that everybody should join in and they're trying to pose in a very clear cut way Israel's response to trying to eradicate Hamas as being something totally different and I say that because we should expect and we all need to be on the alert of individuals who are impacted by what Hamas says I'll even give a different kind of example yesterday an Israeli member of Knesset who is inside a party which is a Muslim Arab party said very harsh things and she was fired by the head of her party because she said to the public that the October 7th atrocities could not have taken place because it existed against Islam he fired her and she retracted her statement and in that sense you know it's like this little thing that went under the radar why is it important because within the Arabic speaking within the Muslim world in general Hamas have been selling the most fake horrific version of October 7th and the aftermath they have not talked about the atrocities they say that they attacked soldiers they have not in any way said anything about the hostages and they continue to pose themselves as the defenders of Palestinians so when that narrative comes out there are going to be people who believe it there are going to be people who act on it and we need to be wary it can be anywhere in that sense it's part of the challenge of what's going on that's what terrorism does it's not just the lying and that fake aspect of a totally fake narrative it is the inspiration that they're trying to show in their terms which is so horrifying as I say we all need to be careful Mary Eisen thank you very much for your input just an update that there are apparently two injured people in the suspected terror attack we're looking at footage thank you for joining this is I-24 News the latest edition keep watching past since October 7th the day Israel was brutally attacked by Hamas a month since the Black Sabbath when Hamas terrorists murdered over 1400 Israelis wounded thousands of others and took 240 people captive a month since the IDF entered a war against the vicious terrorist organization a month later I-24 News returns to the place where it all began join us on November 7th only on I-24 News 1,800 people murdered and more than 3,000 injured and the war with Hamas continued 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 Welcome to I-24 News I'm Sivan Raveev and this is our latest edition coming to you live from Tel Aviv Today is Day 31 of Israel's war with Hamas a war which began with a horrific massacre of innocent Israeli civilians as 1,400 women, men, children and elderly were brutally tortured and murdered on October 7th in southern Israel A short while ago a suspected terror attack was reported in the old city of Jerusalem according to police the suspect stabbed two border police officers they are both injured in critical and light conditions we will continue to update about this developing story A surprising announcement by the Pentagon the U.S. military said that one of its nuclear submarines arrived to the region on Sunday in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility which covers the Middle East Meanwhile, the CIA chief reportedly arrived in Israel and will meet his Israeli counterparts later today This follows the U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken's visit to the region including a trip to Israel Jordan, the Palestinian Authority Turkey and Iraq Blinken continued to stress the need for a humanitarian pause Let's have a listen Israel's raised important questions about how humanitarian pauses would work We've got to answer those questions We're working on exactly that In fact, we agreed that our teams would get together and they're doing just that including today to work through the specifics the practicalities of these pauses Second, it's important that the pause advance a number of things One of them is hostages We are intensely focused The United States, Israel Every other country that has one of its citizens being held hostage by Hamas to bring them home There are 241 hostages currently held in captivity by Hamas in Gaza Over 30 of them are children and babies Following the humanitarian corridor which was provided for citizens of Gaza yesterday the IDF resumed operations and airstrikes in Gaza striking more than 450 targets in Gaza overnight Yesterday, the IDF spokesman announced that the Gaza Strip is now divided into North and South urging again all citizens to evacuate safely to the South Meanwhile, a short while ago rocket-fired resumed on Israel's southern cities and the Gaza border communities Earlier, the IDF announced the name of yet another Israeli soldier killed in battle for Sergeant Shachar Cohen In the north, Hezbollah launched a barrage of rockets into the city of Kiryat Shmona killing one Israeli civilian This followed an IDF strike on a vehicle on the Lebanese side of the border killing three people And Jordan has airdropped medical assistance to the Jordanian field hospital in Gaza A move which was reportedly coordinated with Israel We move to our I-24 news correspondent in northern Israel Pia Stekelbach What's the latest on the northern border, Pia? We're hearing of a security incident where people are instructed to stay in their safe spaces and lock the doors Do you know about this? Right, Sivan, we're talking about what seems to be an ongoing security incident A bit more than an hour ago the message was issued as for the residents in the upper very east Galilee region Residents of several Kibbutz such as Margaliot or Kvargiladim Iskav Am and several other communities residents that were asked to enter their protected areas to enter their shelters We do know that several roads in that area were blocked off Those Kibbutz were asked to shut their gates You know, these communities do have a gate at their entrances Those gates were asked to get shut down We do not have any further information But these incidents do happen quite a lot on the Israel Lebanon border We're speaking about communities that are very, very close to the border We can assume that they are almost void of civilians as in a proximity of five kilometers communities have been evacuated of civilians But you always have people who decide to stay there We're also speaking about the security guards of these communities that occasionally do decide to stay there That comes of course as you mentioned after yesterday Hezbollah fired a barrage of rockets twice actually towards the area of Kiryat Shmonad that is very close to that area that was not asked to get into their protective areas here That really shows you how volatile the situation is that also coming after an airstrike that is attributed to Israel by Hezbollah killing four people for civilians there on the Lebanese side and Hezbollah threatening to increase the operations here towards Israel Thank you P.H. Tekelbach on our northern border With us in studio is Yaakov Lapin Military and Strategic Affairs Analyst at Jewish News Syndicate and Miriam Institute Thank you for joining us here We're hearing of a reported terrorist attack We're hearing of two injuries in the old city of Jerusalem Should we be expecting more attacks of this kind originating from the West Bank? Unfortunately, because of the overall regional war that is taking place first of all on the Gaza Strip and also on the northern border we have to expect terrorist attacks This is not a time of routine Palestinian terrorism is going to try and raise its head from the West Bank And of course the Shin Bet Security Agency is doing everything it can to prevent as many of these attacks that year-round prevents hundreds of them every year But absolutely I think we have to be on guard for more of these incidents because we are at war And the IDF, what can it be doing about this? Is it even capable of monitoring yet another front in the West Bank? Well look the IDF has sent a lot of forces into the West Bank many backup battalions it's called up large numbers of reserves and not all of them have gone to the south or the north some of them have gone into the West Bank to act as backup and the Shin Bet is on its highest alert in the West Bank it has good intelligence The problem is usually the lone attackers who are acting on incitement are not part of a hierarchical organized terrorist cell those are harder to spot they slip through the cracks through the intelligence net and those are always more difficult to pick up on time And so should we be expecting more terrorist attacks such as these of lone of people who are not associated with one organization or another? The threat of terrorism is high at the moment there is no way to avoid that assessment and it's going to accompany us as long as this war continues to rage The Americans have announced about a nuclear submarine deployed into the Middle East What do you think this signifies? The Americans are systematically moving more and more military hardware into the region this is part of their deterrent posture towards Iran and the Iranian access the target audience of these moves is the Iranian regime in Tehran and Hezbollah and they are saying that they are here to have Israel's back in case of additional fronts opening up they have promised to retaliate against the attacks on them as well their bases in Iraq and Syria have come under almost continuous attack dozens of attacks by Shiite militias that are acting clearly on Iranian orders So their own promise of deterrence is already coming under test under it's being tested and they will probably have to show how far they're willing to go to establish American deterrence re-establish American deterrence in this region or seeing that the chief of the CIA has reportedly arrived to Israel and this comes after several official visits by the Americans so what's the significance of this why the CIA chief right now in Israel Well the American defense and intelligence establishments want to have a continuous access to the decisions that are being taken here they want to hear from their Israeli counterparts there is very close coordination between the two intelligence communities between the two militaries I mean this is just another expression of that close coordination nothing can replace face-to-face meetings the sharing of very sensitive intelligence and this boosts the security of both countries going forward Biden made such a positive and supportive speech when he was here before and when he was here in Israel and we are seeing all of this support but it doesn't necessarily reflect the voice of the people because we're also seeing a lot of demonstrations in the United States in Europe for sure what can you what can you tell me about that that's very interesting you know last night here in the studio a congressman from New York I believe was interviewed and he told the Israeli people don't mistake the allowed fringe voice with the American support for the state of Israel he was very clear on that and he was speaking as a Democrat but of course we have you know a very serious problem in the West this alliance that seems to be happening between Islamists and post-modernists and a whole host of other ultra-progressive forces like neo-Marxists that have no business being allied to Islamist jihadists with genocidal intentions somehow they have managed to create this anti-Israel anti-Semitic movement it is loud it is influential and we're seeing them on the streets across Western Europe and United States and it's a serious problem that you know has to be addressed once this war passes Yaakov Lapim thank you for your input thank you let's turn to the field for some updates this morning with us in Southern Israel is our I-24 news correspondent Pierre Kloschendler thank you Pierre we see Pierre that the IDF resumed strikes in the Gaza Strip overnight what can you tell us about that well the IDF has just published an announcement that over the past 24 hours 450 targets were eliminated by the Israeli Air Force as well as by the Navy compounds, training grounds launching pads for rockets and for anti-tank guided missiles weapon storage etc etc and field commanders have been also eliminated during the past 24 hours now the pounding of the Gaza Strip is going on but right now at a slower pace maybe we don't hear the roar of the Israeli fighter jets what we hear mostly is the artillery and the Ratata of the gunships from time to time but at this moment there is a sense that most of the intensive activity of the IDF over the northern part of the Gaza Strip was during the night now the IDF has announced that the northern part of the Gaza Strip is cut off from the southern part of it Gaza City which sits in between has been totally encircled that means that the IDF is actually progressing on two axes from north to south one on the coastal road with a Rashid axis and one on the oriental side of the Gaza Strip closer to the Israeli border on Salahadin axis at the same time the Golanian infantry brigade entered the Gaza Strip on October 27th through Sadzahiyah neighborhood facing south of Gaza City and managed to create a junction with the Mediterranean Sea which means that south of Gaza City is completely cut off from the northern part of the Gaza Strip and Gaza City as I said is totally encircled yesterday there was a humanitarian corridor do we expect another one coming up I think yes because that's the way of the IDF to try and deflect US pressure and Western democracy's pressure to humanitarian pause the IDF's policy for the past two days has been to uniliterally open a safe passage on this Salahadin axis which cuts across the oriental part of the Gaza Strip from north to south the problem is it's a unilateral step Hamas is not committed to it and for the past couple of days when that passage was open for about four hours Hamas terrorists targeted that safe passage with mortar fire and only a few thousand residents have managed to cross that axis toward the southern part of the Gaza Strip now it's very possible that there are as much as 500,000 Gaza residents still stuck in the battleground in the northern part of the Gaza Strip but Hanun that you can see behind me or even Gaza City and at the same time the estimate is that 800,000 Gaza residents from the north have entered the safe area designated by the IDF and the international community in Al-Muassi east of Rafah on the north on the Mediterranean coast in the southern tip of the Gaza Strip okay thank you Pierre and now let's hear from the IDF on this very issue I am currently standing on the Salahadin road south of Zaitun neighborhood on Sunday we opened the Salahadin road as a humanitarian corridor for civilians on the northern Gaza Strip I ask again that all civilians of the northern Gaza Strip move south of the Wadi Gaza the northern Gaza Strip and Gaza City are a war zone a very dangerous area the criminal Hamas terrorist organization are using you as human shields move south of Wadi Gaza we are facilitating humanitarian aid to the area of south Wadi Gaza Wadi Gaza still with us in studio is Yaakov Lapin military and strategic affairs analyst what do you make of this the Gaza Strip has been announced divided into north and south what is the strategic meaning and significance of this so militarily Hamas's center of gravity its main operational military terrorist capabilities are in Gaza City are in northern Gaza and that's why the IDF chose to go and focus on that area first stripping away the human shielding tactics of Hamas is a key part of the IDF strategy so the fact that 800,000 people have reportedly already moved from north to south is also a collapse of a sign of the collapse of the Hamas regime because the Hamas regime has told those people don't move don't listen to Israel and they have moved and they have listened to Israel so that's a major crack and a sign of the future of this regime it's going to collapse and the more the civilians move south also, you know, tactically it's in Israel's interest because Hamas is much weaker without these human shields it's much harder for Hamas to hide from the Israeli air force from the ground forces that are closing in so this is a phased IDF plan we're seeing it move from one face to the other overnight there was a major advance as well they've captured a Hamas stronghold on the ground and the movement of these civilians is a major military goal for Israel as well as the other considerations that were mentioned in the report so this indeed does serve the IDF both militarily speaking and also diplomatically speaking in terms of the US absolutely because look without the human shields Hamas is exposed you know they have set up their nerve centers we know this under hospitals under medical centers under mosques under these tall residential buildings inside these buildings you know every other residential building in this area of northern Gaza is a lookout post is a firing post there's an anti-tank cell hiding on a certain floor the more civilians move out of those areas the freer the IDF is going to be to use its firepower and use its intelligence to strike to locate those targets and to strike so it's absolutely in Israel's interest to move these people south and it's in Hamas's interest to keep them there as hostages and human shields and that's why we're seeing such desperate efforts by this evil Hamas regime to keep its people in the line of fire evil indeed thank you very much Jacob Lapin for your input there are 241 hostages currently held in captivity by Hamas in Gaza one of them Al-Mogmeir a 21-year-old young man was kidnapped from the Nova Dance Festival his family is currently in Greece after meeting with the local Jewish community yesterday today his mother and uncle are expected to meet with the Greek president and with the head of parliament we are joined now by Avira Meir the uncle of Al-Mogmeir who was kidnapped joining us now from Athens hi Avira Avira your family is going through an ordeal that no family should go through please tell me about the sentiments of these past few weeks since the kidnapping I can summarize it in two words roller coaster this is what I feel lots of sentimental moments lots of worries and lots of moments of seeing how the people of Israel are wrapping us with love so it's ups and downs all the time I'm sure it's been a month since the kidnapping what are your hopes now that they'll come back that Al-Mogmeir will come back and all the others this is what we do we don't do anything else we meet with everyone who can help us press on decision makers on the meditaniens of Qatar and Egypt everyone who can help we will be there to talk with them for example in 20 minutes we're going to meet the representative of the Red Cross and it's going to be a conversation that we're going to mend from him some things so we are working with everybody with everyone who can help us and willing to talk with us you're going to be meeting with the Greek president and the head of parliament what is your message to them the same message the message that we need their help to press Qatar and Egypt to bring more press on everybody who can help this is what we want this is what we wish we all the time say that it's not a political issue it's not a political issue we are having difficulties in hearing you humanitarian sorry yes please continue we had some difficulty it's not a political issue it's humanitarian every mother it sends her son to a festival wanting back it's humanitarian totally humanitarian this is the message people who's going to a festival or people who are sleeping in their beds should have been kidnapped shouldn't be passed this horror that happened in the 7th of October so this is the message the message generally is humanitarian and pressing everybody who can we can press do you know what is the next move for you and for other families of hostages and there are so many what is the next move we are part of the family forum we are working together so there are people who are going to interviews they are going people who are going to the square to the kidnap square people who are sleeping in tents in Tel Aviv there are delegations in the states there are more delegations of kidnap families in Europe we are working in the media we are working in explain the situation yesterday we had a very nice meeting with the Jewish community here in Athens and I believe that in the end it will help I don't know when I don't know how but I believe it will help now what do you say to those pressing for humanitarian pause on the fighting against Hamas while your loved ones are still in there without any humanitarian assistance this is this is going to be the conversation now in I believe it will be in five minutes this is the issue it can't be that the kidnap didn't add a visit we don't know the medical situation and the Red Cross demands Israel to take care of the prisoners in Israel I can't understand it absolutely Avira Meir the uncle of Al-Mor Meir one of the hostages held in Gaza thank you very much for speaking to us about this sensitive topic thank you very much Yvonne bye bye in studio with us is Ziyakov Lapin the hostage situation it's such a big situation for Israel we have our military on the one hand trying to annihilate Hamas and on the other hand we also want the military wants to you know keep the hostages safe and not have them hurt in the process how you navigate that it's extremely difficult you know I think that once the military builds up a picture of where it thinks these hostages are being held it's obviously going to try and you know most importantly avoid firepower strikes in those areas while at the same time systematically dismantling Hamas putting the pressure on them and making it clear to them that there are no position to use the hostage situation to slow down Israel's momentum I think that's the balancing act that Israel is looking for and it and it feels that the more pressure Hamas comes under the leadership the more open it will be to a real deal to a real hostage exchange deal you know I think that that's one thing that's being explored while at the same time of course looking for any operational opportunity to rescue them alongside and whatever comes up first I think you know they're going to examine you know as it occurs it's such a fluid situation you know it's a strategic nightmare it's an operational nightmare it's an extremely difficult situation it's unprecedented but the IDF has shown that it's able to dismantle Hamas and to promote the pressure on Hamas that will eventually it hopes translate into some good news finally for some of these families and hostages when speaking of the hostages is there a difference do you think between hostages who are soldiers and hostages who are innocent civilians who were taken out of their homes or from a music festival is there a difference there well I mean from Israel's perspective no you know these are all all of its sons and daughters from Hamas's perspective they may decide that they will be willing to release in a deal the civilians first there was some attempt by Hamas to do some damage control and you know they drip dropped this sort of slow release of hostages and you know at that pace it would have taken two years to release all of those hostages and I think that that was an attempt by Hamas to slow down Israel's momentum and to divide Israel and then that has failed so I don't think you know that Israel's going to be making a huge distinguishment here it's after the release of as many hostages as it can and whatever you know whatever opportunity arises first I think that's what they're going to go for whether it's operational whether it's a deal an actual deal and not an attempt to slow Israel down because I think it's important to point out that Hamas views these hostages not only as bargaining chips to secure the release of its security prisoners but also and maybe primarily an attempt to slow Israel down Hamas's entire strategy right now is aimed at the idea of let's hold Israel off long enough for something else to happen to stop this war whether it's a northern escalation whether it's international pressure they want to survive this war as a regime and a terror army and the hostages in my opinion have become a tool in Hamas's toolkit it's awful toolkit to promote that goal terrible okay we hope for good news thank you very much for your input Yaakov Lapin that's all for this latest edition of i24 news be sure to follow us on our website i24news.tv and across our social media platforms I'm Sivan Raveev thank you for watching 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 scoop on what's going on only on i24 news past since October 7th the day Israel was brutally attacked by Hamas a month since the Black Sabbath when Hamas terrorists murdered over 1,400 Israelis wounded thousands of others and took 240 people captive a month since the IDF entered a war against the vicious terrorist organization a month later i24 news returns to the place where it all began join us on November 7th only on i24 news welcome to i24 news I'm Sivan Raveev and this is our latest edition coming to you live from Tel Aviv today is day 31 of Israel's war with Hamas a war which began with a horrific massacre of innocent Israeli civilians as 1,400 women children and elderly were brutally tortured and murdered on October 7th in southern Israel a short while ago a suspected terror attack was reported in the old city of Jerusalem according to police the suspect stabbed two border police officers they are both injured in critical and light conditions we will continue to update about this developing story a surprising announcement by the Pentagon the U.S. military said that one of its nuclear submarines arrived to the region on Sunday in the U.S. Central Command Area of Responsibility which covers the Middle East meanwhile the CIA chief reportedly arrived in Israel and will meet his Israeli counterparts later today this follows the U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken's visit to the region including a trip to Israel Jordan the Palestinian Authority Turkey and Iraq Blinken continued to stress the need for a humanitarian pause let's have a listen Israel's raised important questions about how humanitarian pauses would work we've got to answer those questions we're working on exactly that in fact we agreed that our teams would get together and they they're doing just that including today to work through the specifics the practicalities of these pauses second it's important that the pause advance a number of things one of them is hostages we are intensely focused the United States Israel every other country that has one of its citizens being held hostage by Hamas to bring them home there are 241 hostages currently held in captivity by Hamas in Gaza over 30 of them are children and babies following the humanitarian corridor which was provided for citizens of Gaza yesterday the IDF resumed operations and air strikes in Gaza striking more than 450 targets in Gaza overnight yesterday the IDF spokesman announced that the Gaza Strip is now divided into north and south urging again all citizens to evacuate safely to the south meanwhile a short while ago rocket fired resumed on Israel's southern cities and the Gaza border communities earlier the IDF announced the name of yet another Israeli soldier killed in battle first sergeant Shachar Cohen in the north Hezbollah launched a barrage of rockets into the city of Kiryat Shmona killing one Israeli civilian this followed an IDF strike on a vehicle on the Lebanese side of the border killing three people and Jordan has air-dropped medical assistance to the Jordanian field hospital in Gaza a move which was reportedly coordinated with Israel we move to our I-24 news correspondent in northern Israel Pia Stekelbach what's the latest on the northern border Pia we're hearing of a security incident where people are instructed to stay in their safe spaces and lock the doors do you know about this right Sivan we're talking about what seems to be an ongoing security incident a bit more than an hour ago the message was issued as for the residents in the upper very east Galilee region residents of Kibbutzim such as Margaliot or Kvar-Giladim Iskava and several other communities residents there were asked to enter their protected areas to enter their shelters we do know that several roads in that area were blocked off those Kibbutzim were asked to shut their gate you know these communities do have a gate at their entrances those gates were asked to get shut down we do not have any further information but these incidents do happen quite a lot on the israel Lebanon border we're speaking about communities that are very very close to the border we can assume that they are almost void of civilians as in a proximity of five kilometers communities have been evacuated of civilians but you always have people who decide to stay there we're also speaking about the security guards of these communities that occasionally do decide to stay there that comes of course as you mentioned after yesterday Hezbollah fired a barrage of rockets twice actually towards the area of Kiryat Shmoner that is very close to that area that was not asked to get into their protective areas here that really shows you how volatile the situation is that also coming after an airstrike that is attributed to Israel by Hezbollah killing four people for civilians there on the Lebanese side and Hezbollah threatening to increase the operations here towards Israel thank you P.H. Dekalbach on our northern border with us in studio is Yaakov Lapin military and strategic affairs analyst at Jewish News Syndicate and Miriam Institute thank you for joining us here we're hearing of a reported terrorist attack we're hearing of two injuries in the old city of Jerusalem should we be expecting more attacks of this kind originating from the West Bank unfortunately because of the overall regional war that is taking place first of all on the Gaza Strip and also on the northern border we have to expect terrorist attacks this is not a time of routine Palestinian terrorism is going to try and raise its head from the West Bank and of course you know the Shin Bet security agency is doing everything it can to prevent as many of these attacks that year-round prevents hundreds of them every year but absolutely I think we have to be on guard for more of these incidents because we are at war and the IDF can it what can it be doing about this is it even capable of you know monitoring yet another front in the West Bank well look the IDF has sent a lot of forces into the West Bank many backup battalions it's called up large numbers of reserves and not all of them have gone to the south or the north some of them have gone into the West Bank to act as backup and the Shin Bet is on you know it's highest alert in the West Bank it has good intelligence the problem is usually the lone attackers who are acting on incitement are not part of a hierarchical organized terrorist cell those are harder to spot they slip through the cracks through the intelligence net and those are always more difficult to pick up on time and so should we be expecting more terrorist attacks such as these of of loan of people who are not associated with one organization or another the threat of terrorism as is high at the moment there is no way you know to avoid that assessment and it's going to accompany us as long as this war continues to rage the Americans have announced about a nuclear submarine deployed into the Middle East what does what do you think this signifies the Americans are systematically moving more and more military hardware into the region this is part of their deterrent posture towards Iran and the Iranian access the target audience of these moves is the Iranian regime in Tehran and Hezbollah and they are saying that they are here to have Israel's back in case of additional fronts opening up they have promised to retaliate against the attacks on them as well their bases in Iraq and Syria have come under almost continuous attack dozens of attacks by Shiite militias that are acting clearly on Iranian orders so their own promise of deterrence is already coming under test under it's being tested and they will probably have to show how far they're willing to go to establish American deterrence re-establish American deterrence in this region we're seeing that the chief of the CIA has reportedly arrived to Israel and this comes after several official visits by the Americans so what's the significance of this why the CIA chief right now in Israel? Well the American defense and intelligence establishment want to have a continuous access to the decisions that are being taken here they want to hear from their Israeli counterparts there is very close coordination between the two intelligence communities between the two militaries I mean this is just another expression of that close coordination nothing can replace face-to-face meetings the sharing of very sensitive intelligence and this boosts the security of both countries going forward Biden made such a positive and supportive speech when he was here before and when he was here in Israel and we are seeing all of this support but it doesn't necessarily reflect the voice of the people because we're also seeing a lot of demonstrations in the United States in Europe for sure what can you what can you tell me about that? It's very interesting you know last night here in the studio a congressman from New York I believe was interviewed and he told these Israeli people don't mistake the loud fringe voice with the American support for the state of Israel he was very clear on that and he was speaking as a democrat but of course we have you know a very serious problem in the west this alliance that seems to be happening between Islamists and post-modernists and a whole host of other you know ultra progressive forces like neo-Marxists that have no business being allied to Islamist jihadists with genocidal intentions somehow they have managed to create this anti-Israel anti-Semitic movement it is loud it is influential and we're seeing them on the streets across western Europe and united states and it's a serious problem that you know has to be addressed once this war passes Yaakov Lapin thank you for your input thank you let's turn to the field for some updates this morning with us in southern Israel is our i-24 news correspondent Pierre Klushendler thank you Pierre we see Pierre that the IDF resumed strikes in the Gaza Strip overnight what can you tell us about that well the IDF has just published an announcement that over the past 24 hours 450 targets were eliminated by the by the Israeli air force as well as by the navy compounds, training grounds launching pads for rockets and for anti-tank guided missiles weapon storage etc etc and field commanders have been also eliminated during the past 24 hours now the pounding of the Gaza Strip is going on but right now at a slower pace maybe we don't hear the roar of the Israeli fighter jets what we hear mostly is the artillery and the ratata of the gunships from time to time but at this moment there is a sense that most of the intensive activity of the IDF over the northern part of the Gaza Strip was during the night now the IDF has announced that the northern part of the Gaza Strip is cut off from the southern part of it Gaza city which sits in between has been totally encircled that means that the IDF is actually progressing on two axes from north to south one on the coastal road with a Rashid axis and one on the oriental side of the Gaza Strip closer to the Israeli border on Salahadin axis at the same time the Golanian infantry brigade entered the Gaza Strip on October 27th through Sajaiya neighborhood facing south of Gaza city and managed to create a junction with the Mediterranean Sea which means that south of Gaza city is completely cut off from the northern part of the Gaza Strip and Gaza city as I said is totally encircled yesterday there was a humanitarian corridor do we expect another one coming up I think yes because that's the way of the IDF to try and deflect US pressure and western democracy's pressure to humanitarian pose the IDF's policy for the past two days has been to uniliterally open a safe passage on this Salahadin axis which cuts across the oriental part of the Gaza Strip from north to south the problem is it's a unilateral step Hamas is not committed to it and for the past couple of days when that passage was opened for about four hours Hamas terrorists targeted that safe passage with mortar fire and only a few thousand residents have managed to cross that axis toward the southern part of the Gaza Strip now it's very possible that there are as much as 500,000 Gaza residents still stuck in the battleground in the northern part of the Gaza Strip Beth Hanun that you can see behind me or even Gaza city and at the same time the estimate is that 800,000 Gaza residents from the north have entered the safe area designated by the IDF and the international community in Al-Muassi east of Rafa on the north on the Mediterranean coast in the southern tip of the Gaza Strip okay thank you Pierre and now let's hear from the IDF on this very issue I am currently standing on the Salahadin Road south of Zaitou neighborhood on Sunday we opened the Salahadin Road as a humanitarian corridor for civilians on the northern Gaza Strip I ask again that all civilians of the northern Gaza Strip move south of the Wadi Gaza the northern Gaza Strip and Gaza city are a war zone a very dangerous area the criminal Hamas terrorist organization are using you as human shields move south of Wadi Gaza we are facilitating humanitarian aid to the area of south of Wadi Gaza still with us in studio Ziyakov Lapin military and strategic affairs analyst what do you make of this the Gaza Strip has been announced divided into north and south what is the strategic meaning and significance of this so militarily Hamas' center of gravity its main operational military terrorist capabilities are in Gaza city are in northern Gaza and that's why the IDF chose to go and focus on that area first stripping away the human shielding tactics of Hamas is a key part of the IDF strategy so the fact that 800,000 people have reportedly already moved from north to south is also a collapse of a sign of the collapse of the Hamas regime because the Hamas regime has told those people don't move don't listen to Israel and they have moved and they have listened to Israel so that's a major crack and a sign of the future of this regime it's going to collapse and the more the civilians move south also you know tactically it's in Israel's interest because Hamas is much weaker without these human shields it's much harder for Hamas to hide from the Israeli air force from the ground forces that are closing in so this is a phased IDF plan we're seeing it move from one face to the other overnight there was a major advance as well they captured a Hamas stronghold on the ground and the movement of these civilians is a major military goal for Israel as well as the other considerations that were mentioned in the report so this indeed does serve the IDF both militarily speaking and also diplomatically speaking in terms of the US absolutely because look without the human shields Hamas is exposed you know they have set up their nerve centers we know this under hospitals under medical centers under mosques under these tall residential buildings inside these buildings you know every other residential building in this area of northern Gaza is a lookout post is a firing post there's an anti-tank cell hiding on a certain floor the more civilians move out of those areas the freer the IDF is going to be to use its firepower and use its intelligence to strike to locate those targets and to strike so it's absolutely in Israel's interest to move these people south and it's in Hamas's interest to keep them there as hostages and human shields and that's why we're seeing such desperate efforts by this evil Hamas regime to keep its people in the line of fire evil indeed thank you very much Jacob Lapin for your input there are 241 hostages currently held in captivity by Hamas in Gaza one of them al-Mogmeir a 21-year-old young man was kidnapped from the Nova Dance Festival his family is currently in Greece after meeting with the local Jewish community yesterday today his mother and uncle are expected to meet with the Greek president and with the head of parliament we are joined now by Aviram Meir the uncle of al-Mogmeir who was kidnapped joining us now from Athens hi Aviram Aviram your family is going through an ordeal that no family should go through please tell me about the sentiments of these past few weeks since the kidnapping I can summarize it in two words roller coaster this is what I feel lots of sentimental moments lots of worries and lots of moments of seeing how the people of Israel are wrapping us with love so it's ups and downs all the time I'm sure it's been a month since the kidnapping what are your hopes now they'll come back the Talimoog will come back and all the others this is what we do we don't do anything else we meet with everyone who can help us press on decision makers on the meditaniens of Qatar and Egypt everyone who can help we will be there to talk with them for example in 20 minutes we're going to meet the representative of the Red Cross and it's going to be conversation that we're going to mend from him some things so we are working with everybody with everyone who can help us and willing to talk with us you're going to be meeting with the Greek president and the head of parliament what is your message to them the same message the message that we need their help to press Qatar and Egypt to to bring more press on everybody who can help this is what we want this is what we wish we all the time say that it's not a political issue it's not we are having difficulties in hearing you humanitarian sorry yes please continue we had some difficulty it's not a political issue it's humanitarian every mother it sends her son to a festival wanting back it's humanitarian totally humanitarian this is the message people who's going to a festival or people who are sleeping in their beds should have been kidnapped shouldn't be passed this horror that happened in the 7th of October so this is the message the message generally is humanitarian and pressing everyone everybody who can we can press do you know what is the next move for you and for other families of hostages and there are so many what is the next move we are part of the family forum we are working together so there are people who are going to interviews people who are going to the square to the kidnap square people who are sleeping in tents in Tel Aviv there are delegations in the states there are more delegations of kidnap families in Europe we are working in the media we are working in explain the situation yesterday we had a very nice meeting with the Jewish community here in Athens and I believe that in the end it will help I don't know when I don't know how that I believe it will help now what do you say to those pressing for humanitarian pause on the fighting against Hamas while your loved ones are still in there without any humanitarian assistance this is going to be the conversation now in I believe it will be in five minutes this is the issue it can't be that the kidnap didn't add a visit we don't know the medical situation and the Red Cross demands Israel to take care of the prisoners in Israel I can't understand it absolutely Avira Meir the uncle of Alamor Meir one of the hostages held in Gaza thank you very much for speaking to us about this sensitive topic thank you very much Yvonne bye-bye in studio with us is Zyako Vlapin the hostage situation it's such a big situation for Israel we have our military on the one hand trying to annihilate Hamas and on the other hand we also want the military wants to you know keep the hostages safe and not have them hurt in the process how you navigate that it's extremely difficult you know I think that once the military builds up a picture of where it thinks these hostages are being held it's obviously going to try and you know most importantly avoid fire power strikes in those areas while at the same time systematically dismantling Hamas putting the pressure on them and making it clear to them that there are no position to use the hostage situation to slow down Israel's momentum I think that's the balancing act that Israel is looking for and it and it feels that the more pressure Hamas comes under the leadership the more open it will be to a real deal to a real hostage exchange deal you know I think that that's one thing that's being explored while at the same time of course looking for any operational opportunity to rescue them alongside and whatever comes up first I think you know they're going to examine you know as it occurs it's such a fluid situation you know it's a strategic nightmare it's an operational nightmare it's an extremely difficult situation it's unprecedented but the IDF has shown that it's able to dismantle Hamas and to promote the pressure on Hamas that will eventually it hopes translate into some good news finally for some of these families and hostages when speaking of the hostages is there a difference do you think between hostages who are soldiers and hostages who are innocent civilians who were taken out of their homes or from a music festival is there a difference there well I mean from Israel's perspective you know these are all you know all of its sons and daughters from Hamas's perspective they may decide that they will be willing to release in a deal the civilians first there was some attempt by Hamas to do some damage control and you know they drip dropped this sort of slow release of hostages and you know at that pace it would have taken two years to release all of those hostages and I think that that was an attempt by Hamas to slow down Israel's momentum and to divide Israel and then that has failed so I don't think you know that Israel's going to be making a huge distinguishment here it's after the release of as many hostages as it can and whatever you know whatever opportunity arises first I think that's what they're going to go for whether it's operational whether it's a deal an actual deal and not an attempt to slow Israel down because I think it's important to point out that Hamas views these hostages not only as bargaining chips to secure the release of its security prisoners but also and maybe primarily an attempt to slow Israel down Hamas's entire strategy right now is aimed at the idea of let's hold Israel off long enough for something else to happen to stop this war whether it's a northern escalation whether it's international pressure they want to survive this war as a regime and a terror army and the hostages in my opinion have become a tool in Hamas's toolkit it's awful toolkit to promote that goal terrible okay we hope for good news thank you very much for your input Yaakov Lapin that's all for this latest edition of i24 news be sure to follow us on our website i24news.tv and across our social media platforms I'm Sivan Raveev thank you for watching past since October 7th the day Israel was brutally attacked by Hamas a month since the black Sabbath when Hamas terrorists murdered over 1400 Israelis wounded thousands of others and took 240 people captive a month since the IDF entered a war against the vicious terrorist organization a month later i24news returns to the place where it all began join us on November 7th only on i24news welcome to i24news I'm Sivan Raveev and this is our latest edition coming to you live from Tel Aviv today is day 31 of Israel's war with Hamas a war which began with a horrific massacre of innocent Israeli civilians as 1400 women men children and elderly were brutally tortured and murdered on October 7th in southern Israel a short while ago a suspected terror attack was reported in the old city of Jerusalem according to police the suspects stabbed two border police officers they are both injured in critical and light conditions we will continue to update about this developing story a surprising announcement by the Pentagon the U.S. military said that one of its nuclear submarines arrived to the region on Sunday in the U.S. Central Command Area of Responsibility which covers the Middle East meanwhile the CIA chief reportedly arrived in Israel and will meet his Israeli counterparts later today this follows the U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken's visit to the region including a trip to Israel Jordan the Palestinian Authority Turkey and Iraq Blinken continued to stress the need for a humanitarian pause let's have a listen Israel's raised important questions about how humanitarian pauses would work we've got to answer those questions we're working on exactly that in fact we agreed that our teams would get together and they're doing just that including today to work through the specifics the practicalities of these pauses second it's important that the pause advance a number of things one of them is hostages we are intensely focused the United States Israel every other country that has one of its citizens being held hostage by Hamas to bring them home there are 241 hostages currently held in captivity by Hamas and Gaza over 30 of them are children including babies following the humanitarian corridor which was provided for citizens of Gaza yesterday the IDF resumed operations and airstrikes in Gaza striking more than 450 targets in Gaza overnight yesterday the IDF spokesman announced that the Gaza strip is now divided into north and south urging again all citizens to evacuate safely to the south meanwhile a short while ago rocket fire resumed on Israel's southern cities and the Gaza border communities earlier the IDF announced the name of yet another Israeli soldier killed in battle first sergeant in the north Hezbollah launched a barrage of rockets into the city of Kiryat Shmona killing one Israeli civilian this followed an IDF strike on a vehicle on the Lebanese side of the border killing three people and Jordan has airdropped medical assistance to the Jordanian field hospital in Gaza a move which was reportedly coordinated with Israel in studio with us is our i24 news correspondent Yonatan Regev Jonathan what can you tell us about what's going on now on the ground basically the Gaza strip is now cut to two IDF forces have reached have entered the Gaza strip in a few locations one of them the just to the south of Gaza city and have advanced all the way to the Mediterranean coast thus cutting Gaza the Gaza strip into two the northern and the Gaza and the southern Gaza strip that is why there were messages to the civilian population even yesterday there's that corridor between 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock to go south because the vast the big the fighting will now take place in the northern Gaza strip especially around the city of Gaza and Israel as cynical as it may sound Israel is the one who is trying to preserve the life of the Palestinian Palestinian civilians telling them to leave the area where fighting will take place as much as possible it is Hamas preventing them from going threatening them not to going Hamas is using these Palestinian civilians as human shields preventing them to go to safety this is their strategy hiding behind their citizens I see thank you Jonathan let's turn to the field for some updates this morning with us in southern Israel as our I-24 news correspondent Pierre Kloschendler Pierre we see the idea we see the idea for Zoom strikes in the Gaza strip what can you tell us about that well the IDF has just said an hour ago that 450 targets were struck by the Israeli Air Force and the Navy during the past 24 hours but I can tell you that it's adding up as we're speaking because there was just a few moments ago maybe 10 minutes ago an Air Force strike on a target inside the Gaza strip where we are in that sector which is the sector of Beth Hanun in the northern Gaza strip and that's only one of the examples we hear the slamming door of the explosions from the artillery outgoing shells that are striking also targets in the northern Gaza strip and the front is quite active now as I'm talking to you I can hear clearly the roar of an Israeli fighter jet so the operation or the ground invasion is deepening as Jonathan said the Gaza strip is cut into two parts one party south of Wadi Raza which is the river that runs south of the Gaza strip of Gaza city from west to from east to west there is a junction by those forces south of the Gaza strip with the Mediterranean Sea here behind me the forces are still progressing on two axes one of the east side of the northern strip and one on the western side along the Mediterranean Sea coast on the western part of the northern strip so this is more or less what's going on now what can we say about this division between the north and the south of Gaza what's the significance of the division first of all it shows that the IDF is trying to advance inside the Gaza strip and eliminate Hamas as the order of mission was stated clearly by the political and the military echelon measured in the sense that they're going step by step in a very controlled way on one hand in order to spare the lives of the Israeli soldier there was an announcement this morning that another Israeli soldier was killed in the fighting that brings about 337 and 47 sorry Israeli soldiers killed since October 7 the majority during the massacres but it also shows that the IDF is intent on trying to spare the lives of the Gaza residents as much as it can thank you very much Pierre on our southern border in studio with me now is our i-24 news defense correspondent Jonathan Regev and Shirefine Grossman foreign policy national security expert and member of forum forum Dvorah Jonathan we're seeing a terrorist attack in the old city of Jerusalem are we expected to be seeing more of these kind of attacks yes the answer is yes because the fact that there is a war in Gaza doesn't mean that everything that we've seen before October 7th the the the optic and violence in in the West Bank in Jerusalem that is that is not that has not gone anywhere if anything there's even more more fire into that because the the terrible a terror attack on October 7th and everything that has happened since then has perhaps fueled the sentiments of all those who want to engage in these kind of activities and and therefore yes we can expect more terrorism especially in Jerusalem and in the West Bank yes these are things that are happening the Israeli army while operating in Gaza and and having a very extensive presence on the Lebanon border is also very active in the West Bank killing many many terrorists arresting many terrorists all all the time and and yes these are things that are happening we're looking at live pictures from Gaza right now we see smoke and I'll continue with the West Bank the IDF is it is it meant to deter these kind of these kind of potential attacks and how deter yes but can you if if we're speaking of lone wolves lone wolves meaning someone picking a knife from the kitchen someone just taking his car and driving to to run over the first Israeli person that he sees can you deter every single person the answer is no and especially at a time when when when sentiments are rising on both sides and and the tensions are very high as it is so so can you deter each and every person trying to trying to carry out a terror a terror attack the answer is no I think that that Israel was was perhaps fearing that at this time the situation in the West Bank and in Jerusalem would be far worse than it is we're not seeing many attacks but these attacks are here they're not going to go anywhere they've been present way before this October 7th a terror attack happening happening and and it will continue to happen is it fair to say that people in the West Bank right now are on the fence watching observing what's going on yes and there also is activity by first the Israeli armies present everywhere in in the West Bank the fact that tens of terrorists are arrested every night every night is helping perhaps to calm the situation a little bit not really calm it but at least put the problematic elements behind the bars the Palestinian authorities also a little bit active there not as much as Israel would like it to be but the potential is the potential is there in the West Bank and in East Jerusalem the Israeli eye is watching there all the time even though most of the attention is of course diverted to Gaza and to the Lebanon border Sherry thank you for joining us we're seeing an American nuclear submarine in the Middle East we're seeing Blinken traveling and having a trip here in the Middle East a whole regional trip Jordan and Palestinian Authority and Israel of course and Turkey and Iraq what does all of this mean well there's it really means how important Israel and the Middle East is to the United States and we what we're really seeing we're saying intense fighting in every front basically and right now the goal of the Israeli government and I think the U.S. agrees with that is mainly to fight Hamas and they don't want to have another intense war on another front and border we are seeing fighting both in Lebanon there's a war going on there but the intensity is not as severe as we're seeing live images of Gaza yeah so for us to do for Israel to have the best operation in Gaza we have to try to keep all the other fronts as quiet as possible and when we can't when if I think the what the U.S. is most fear fearing about is Iran stepping in either by its proxies or by itself Iran has militias well we already see the Khutim in Tehran in Yemen we're seeing it from Iraq there's hundreds and thousands of militias that Iran is sponsoring in Iraq there are presence in Syria and Western Syria near the Israeli border in Daraa there's also in Lebanon itself there's of course what Hamas is trying to trigger in the West Bank and its Jerusalem and I think Hamas is probably disappointed that thousands of Palestinian haven't gone on and tried to to kill Israelis and I think that's also to the IDF but also says something about the mood most Palestinians feel right now about being part of this war so this is at least one one positive light in everything that we're seeing thank you Sharia we'll be back to speak to the two of you in a bit we move to our I-24 news correspondent in northern Israel Piyash Tekelbach what's the latest on the northern border Piyash we heard of a security incident earlier where people were instructed to stay in their safe spaces any updates on this right so when we still don't have any details about what that security incident entails but you're right in the early morning hours a number of communities located in the Upper East and Gele Lee were requested to remain close to their shelters even inside of their shelters we do know that the gates to those communities were closed off as well as roads in that area were closed off there now a new message was issued there that the residents can leave their shelters but should still stay close to their homes there now that area received a similar message yesterday evening right after rockets were fired from southern Lebanon we're talking about an area that has gotten under constant shelling of anti-tank missiles and mortar shells as well yesterday two barrages of rockets fired from southern Lebanon by his bala towards that area also including the city of Kiryat Shmona where 12 rockets in total came down not causing any injuries but of course causing damage to property there to infrastructure we have seen images of cars being torched as a result of those direct rocket impacts but that is one of those cities that have been evacuated so there are really only a small number of civilians remaining there that barrages of rockets fired towards northern Israel as a result of an airstrike inside the Lebanon that is attributed to Israel by his bala an airstrike in which four people for four civilians were killed three children and their grandmother there reportedly a family of a journalist but we do not have received any statement of the Israeli military on that incident yet it is apparently under an investigation there but that comes after yesterday afternoon another Israeli civilian was killed on the Israeli side here in the community of Yiftah which is located right underneath the area of Kiryat Shmona again we're talking about the upper east Tengali area very close to the Lebanese border as well a civilian that was killed while an anti-tank missile launched by his bala hit his truck that was announced yesterday evening by the Israeli military then that really shows you how these scumishes between Israel and his bala and also other proxies that have Lebanon do increase in their pace and also in their intensity Sivan. Now the British embassy in Lebanon announced it's evacuating some of their staff in Lebanon and advised its citizens to leave as well what is the significance of all this? Well the British embassy is not the only one we have also been receiving these messages at the very beginning of the war from the American embassy that also called upon its citizens to leave Lebanon immediately we do know that the atmosphere towards international organizations such as embassies when it comes to western countries is quite dangerous than these countries as of course the united states and also countries such as Britain, Rishi Sunak the British prime minister showing a large amount of solidarity with Israel there which makes these institutions they're representing them come under attack by Iranian proxies there by militias there on the ground and this is of course a precautious measure that the British embassy as one of those countries that represented in Lebanon are taking not only Lebanon but also in other countries that we know of have Iranian proxy militia stationed there on the ground that are not making it a secret that they do see the united states as and also these other western countries such as now Britain as the helpers of Israel as those who are also responsible for Israel's war there in Gaza and that they are also as well as Israel responsible for what is going on now and that they should also pay the price P.H.Tekalbacher I-24 news correspondent in northern Israel thank you back in studio here we have Jonathan Regiv and Shiri I'd like to ask you Shiri about what's going on now with the border with Lebanon we see that embassies are evacuating have called to before and now we see with the British embassy what does this mean we're seeing an escalation it's very it's very clear assessment is that Hezbollah is trying to keep things under the threshold of an out an out war but the escalation we're seeing a firing of more rockets we're seeing the fire intensify and this is what we feared that we spoke a few days ago about this and we worried from Nasrallah speech that many in Israel viewed as not not a very clear message that is going in all in for in the war but it's definitely we're seeing an escalation so yes we did hear Nasrallah speech on Friday people were afraid of that speech what's he going to say in the end it didn't seem as bad or as awful as as Israeli is expected and and yet still there is a threat and there is an escalation in the violence on that border yeah Nasrallah left all options on the table and and the fact that he's not throwing a whole and an entire escalation and and a threshold of war is probably due to the fact that still in Gaza we have to remember there are 40,000 50,000 terrorists of Hamas and when we're seeing an intensification in in the Gaza front we're probably going to see Hezbollah intensify it's it's efforts as well so he's waiting for for for the you know escalation in in Gaza to be even worse now with with the embassies in Lebanon evacuating some of its embassies and and telling its citizens to to also leave the country should Israel be evacuating more villages more towns close to the border right now I don't think so if if it's it's an immense toll on people's life so I think right now the evacuation is is enough but you know we have to listen to what the IDF tells us and and this is the situation right now Jonathan what do you think about that I think that those those communities right on the border fence including the city of Kiarachmuna which is quite a big city that they've been evacuated so you don't need to evacuate more you can't evacuate half the country Israel has already evacuated enough people who are who are immigrants in their country or who are refugees we're constantly speaking about Palestinian refugees that's what the the global community is constantly speaking about let's see if anyone brings up the fact that there are Israeli refugees at the moment for more than a month now so so that's something that has to be said should we clear more people I think no regarding Hasan Asrallah first if if if I'm aware of his intentions the answer is no he has not consulted me I don't know what he's going to do I don't know if he knows what he's going to do but what I do know is that Hasan Asrallah had enough options to go all in so far there was the October 7th attack if if you want to catch Israel by surprise that was the time because things may escalate now but Israel will not be caught by surprise because Israel is on on a very high alert and yesterday allegedly a woman and three and three of her kids were killed in an Israeli strike that's also perhaps a reason to go in and it has not happened does that mean that it will not happen that he's about I will not go all in I don't know it might happen everything might happen the only thing that I am sure of is that if it happens Israel will not be caught by surprise which would have happened on October 7th thank you Israel's Druze citizens are stuck between a rock and a hard place they are among most motivated fighters to join the IDF while not always being treated with the deserved respect and equality more in this report in the heart of this valley daily life for the 7,000 inhabitants of the Druze village of Khorfesh seems unchanged despite the war stores are open places of worship are still active and restaurants are full yet the village is in the heart of a military zone the border with Lebanon is less than 3 kilometers away opposite us are all the villages whose names you've heard of on the news from which Hezbollah launches missiles into Israel is just a few hundred meters as the crow flies and from here to Khorfesh it must be 500 meters as the crow flies while all the surrounding villages have been evacuated on army orders the Druze of Khorfesh refuse to leave local officials have carried out a survey of residents the vast majority prefer to stay a few words with the villagers are all it takes to understand their determination there's nothing to be afraid of in the past the head of Hezbollah wanted to attack the Galilee our message is that we are waiting for him in Khorfesh all the inhabitants of the region are together just let him come we're not afraid we're here protecting our northern border I will not move or evacuate we're staying right here I was born here I'm staying here and I will fight here we're keeping our land those who want to leave should leave we're not going anywhere Shaqib Shanaan lives in Khorfesh and was a member of the Israeli parliament for him too leaving is out of the question this is not the first time there have been attacks and rockets in the region we've been through a dozen wars already but our roots are deep here we are not moving we protect our land and our lives with the army we are an integral part of this country if Israel is in danger we are in danger when Israel wins we win too the village of Khorfesh is also known as the city of commanders because it has produced proportionally the most commanders in the Israeli army since 1948 the Druze community of Galilee has been fully integrated into Israeli society many girls do civilian service at the age of 18 and boys do compulsory military service Arabs speaking the Druze have their own religion beliefs that reinforce their decision not to leave their homeland Khorfesh lies below a hill on which the tomb of the Druze prophet Sabalan we believe it protects us Khorfesh remains at the heart of the Israeli army's northern front soldiers go there to buy supplies and regain their strength they are welcomed by the local population since I've retired I've opened a business at home I host workshops and events focusing on Druze food for almost 10 years now people have been coming here every day Jews, Druze, Muslims now I cook for the soldiers who are in the area despite their determination the people of Khorfesh remain realistic they know they won't all be able to stay if the situation becomes more difficult on the northern front local officials are preparing for an emergency situation in a situation where we are in danger or the army tells us there's a real emergency we evacuate everyone who can fight usually the men and the medical staff stay behind to help defend the village women and children and the elderly will leave but once again only under certain conditions we refuse to let them be housed in poor conditions if that's the case I don't think they'll leave having lived in this village for several hundred years the inhabitants are proud of their attachment to their land and their resilience in times of crisis one thing's for sure the Khorfesh Druze aren't going anywhere and in studio with us are still like 24 news correspondent Jonathan Leggev and Shiri Fine-Golsmann foreign policy and national security expert Shiri we're seeing that Jordan over the last 24 hours parachuted in medical assistance into Gaza into a field hospital what does this mean yeah it's a Jordanian field hospital and Jordan is very concerned of the humanitarian situation and it's efforts to stand with its brothers and sisters and it's coordinated with the IDF which tells us a lot about the security relationship that is still cooperation that is still ongoing with the IDF and the Jordanian army which is crucial for Israel's security Jonathan what do you see Jordan of course there's the official Jordan and the under the ground Jordan and of course above the ground the Jordanians they need to show their support and their solidarity for the Palestinians and here they can come and say and the message the message this morning from Jordan was our courageous Air Force our courageous Air Force parachuted materials and medicine and food and assistance for our Palestinian brothers that message did not say the separation was coordinated with the Israelis that remains underground Jordan is I'll say as concerned is from Hamas Israel Jordan and the same side for Egypt they do not need a strong Hamas so on the ground they support their Palestinian brothers but under the ground they're keeping close ties with Israel thank you to the both of you that's all for this latest edition of i24 news be sure to follow us on our website i24news.tv and across our social media platforms I'm Sivan Raveev thank you for watching past since October 7th the day Israel was brutally attacked by Hamas a month since the Black Sabbath when Hamas terrorists murdered over 1,400 Israelis wounded thousands of others and took 240 people captive a month since the IDF entered a war against the vicious terrorist organization a month later i24 news returns to the place where it all began join us on November 7th only on i24 news Welcome to i24 news I'm Sivan Raveev and this is our latest edition coming to you live from Tel Aviv today is day 31 of Israel's war with Hamas a war which began with a horrific massacre of innocent Israeli civilians as 1,400 women men children and elderly were brutally tortured and murdered on October 7th in southern Israel a short while ago a suspected terror attack was reported in the old city of Jerusalem according to police the suspects stabbed two border police officers they are both injured in critical and light conditions we will continue to update about this developing story a surprising announcement by the Pentagon the U.S. military said that one of its nuclear submarines arrived to the region on Sunday in the U.S. central command area of responsibility which covers the Middle East meanwhile the CIA chief reportedly arrived in Israel and will meet his Israeli counterparts later today this follows the U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken's visit to the region including a trip to Israel Jordan the Palestinian Authority Turkey and Iraq Blinken continued to stress the need for a humanitarian pause let's have a listen Israel's raised important questions about how humanitarian pauses would work we've got to answer those questions we're working on exactly that in fact we agreed that our teams would get together and they're doing just that including today to work through the specifics the practicalities of these pauses second it's important that the pause advance a number of things one of them is hostages we are intensely focused the United States Israel every other country that has one of its citizens being held hostage by Hamas to bring them home there are 241 hostages currently held in captivity by Hamas and Gaza over 30 of them are children including babies following the humanitarian corridor which was provided for citizens of Gaza yesterday the IDF resumed operations and airstrikes in Gaza striking more than 450 targets in Gaza overnight yesterday the IDF spokesman announced that the Gaza Strip is now divided into north and south urging again all citizens to evacuate safely to the south meanwhile a short while ago rocket fire resumed on Israel's southern cities and the Gaza border communities earlier the IDF announced the name of yet another Israeli soldier killed in battle for Sergeant Shachar Cohen in the north Hezbollah launched a barrage of rockets into the city of Kiryat Shmona killing one Israeli civilian this followed an IDF strike on a vehicle on the Lebanese side of the border killing three people and Jordan has airdropped medical assistance to the Jordanian field hospital in Gaza a move which was reportedly coordinated with Israel in studio with us is our i24 news correspondent Yonatan Regev Jonathan what can you tell us about what's going on now on the ground basically the Gaza Strip is now cut to two IDF forces have reached have entered the Gaza Strip in a few locations one of them the just to the south of Gaza city and have advanced all the way to the Mediterranean coast thus cutting Gaza the Gaza Strip into two the northern and the Gaza and the southern Gaza Strip that is why there were messages to the civilian population even yesterday there's that corridor between 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock to go south because the vast the big the fighting will now take place in the northern Gaza Strip especially around the city of Gaza and Israel as cynical as it may sound Israel is the one who is trying to preserve the life of the Palestinian Palestinian civilians telling them to leave the area where fighting will take place as much as possible it is Hamas preventing them from going threatening them not to going Hamas is using these Palestinian civilians as human shields preventing them to go to safety this is their strategy hiding behind their citizens I see thank you one of them let's turn to the field for some updates this morning with us in southern Israel as our I-24 news correspondent Pierre Kloschendler Pierre we see the idea we see the idea for Zoom strikes in the Gaza Strip what can you tell us about that? well the IDF has just said an hour ago that 450 targets were struck by the Israeli Air Force and the Navy during the past 24 hours but I can tell you that it's adding up as we're speaking because there was just a few moments ago maybe 10 minutes ago an air force strike on a target inside the Gaza Strip where we are in that sector which is the sector of Beth Hanun in the northern Gaza Strip and that's only one of the examples we hear the slamming door of the explosions from the artillery outgoing shells that are striking also targets in the northern Gaza Strip and the front is quite active now as I'm talking to you I can hear clearly the roar of an Israeli fighter jet so the operation or the ground invasion is deepening as Jonathan said the Gaza Strip is cut into two parts one party south of Wadi Raza which is the river that runs south of the Gaza Strip of Gaza City from east to west there is a junction by those forces south of the Gaza Strip with the Mediterranean Sea here behind me the forces are still progressing on two axes one of the east side of the northern Strip and one on the western side along the Mediterranean Sea Coast on the western part of the northern Strip so this is more or less what's going on now what can we say about this division between the north and the south of Gaza what's the significance of the division first of all it shows that the IDF is trying to advance inside the Gaza Strip and eliminate Hamas as the order of mission was stated clearly by the political and the military echelon measured in the sense that they're going step by step in a very controlled way on one hand in order to spare the lives of the Israeli soldier there was an announcement this morning that another Israeli soldier was killed in the fighting that brings about 337 and 47 sorry Israeli soldiers killed since October 7 the majority during the massacres but it also shows that the IDF is intent on trying to spare the lives of the Gaza residents as much as it can thank you very much Pierre on our southern border in studio with me now is our I-24 news correspondent Jonathan Regev and Shiri Fine Grossman foreign policy national security expert and member of Forum Dvorah Jonathan we're seeing a terrorist attack in the old city of Jerusalem are we expected to be seeing more of these kind of attacks yes the answer is yes because the fact that there is a war in Gaza doesn't mean that everything that we've seen before October 7th the the optic in violence in the West Bank in Jerusalem that is the that is not that has not gone anywhere if anything there's even more more fire into that because the terrible terror attack on October 7th and everything that has happened since then has perhaps fueled the sentiments of all those who want to engage in these kind of activities and therefore yes we can expect more terrorism especially in Jerusalem and the West Bank yes these are things that are happening the Israeli army operating in Gaza and and having a very extensive presence on the Lebanon border is also very active in the West Bank killing many many terrorists arresting many terrorists all the time and yes these are things that are happening we're looking at live pictures from Gaza right now we see smoke and I'll continue with the West Bank the IDF is it meant to deter these kind of these kind of potential attacks and how deter yes but can you if if we're speaking of lone wolves lone wolves meaning someone picking a knife from the kitchen someone just taking his car and driving to to run over the first Israeli person that he sees can you deter every single person the answer is no and especially at a time when when when sentiments are rising on both sides and and the tensions are very high as it is so so can you deter each and every person trying to trying to carry out a a terror attack the answer is no I think that that Israel was was perhaps fearing that at this time the situation in the West Bank and in Jerusalem would be far worse than it is we're not seeing many attacks but these attacks are here they're not going to go anywhere they've been present way before this October 7th a terror attack happening happening and and it will continue to happen is it fair to say that people in the West Bank right now are on the fence watching observing what's going on yes and there also is activity by first the Israeli army is present everywhere in in the West Bank the fact that tens of terrorists are arrested every night every night is helping perhaps to to to calm the situation a little bit not not really calm it but at least put the the the problematic elements behind the bars the Palestinian authorities also a little bit active there not as much as Israel would would like it to be but but the the the potential is the potential is there in the West Bank and in East Jerusalem the the Israeli eye is watching there all the time even though most of the attention is of course diverted to Gaza and to the Lebanon border Sherry thank you for joining us we're seeing an American nuclear submarine in the Middle East we're seeing Blinken traveling and having a trip here in the Middle East a whole regional trip Jordan and Palestinian Authority and Israel of course and Turkey and Iraq what does all of this mean well there's a it really means how important Israel and the Middle East is to the United States and we what we're really seeing we're saying intense fighting in every front basically and right now the goal of of the Israeli government and I think the U.S. agrees with that is mainly to fight Hamas and they don't want to have another intense war on another front and border we are seeing fighting both in Lebanon there's a war going on there but the intensity is not as severe as we're seeing live images of Gaza just pointing that out so for us to do for Israel to have the best operation in Gaza we have to try to keep all the other fronts as quiet as possible and when we can't when if I think the what the U.S. is most fear fear the fearing about is Iran stepping in either by its proxies or by itself Iran has militias well we already see the Khutim in Tehran in Yemen we we're seeing it from Iraq there's hundreds and thousands of militias that Iran is sponsoring in Iraq there are presence in Syria and Western Syria near the Israeli border in Daraa there's also in Lebanon itself there's of course what Hamas is trying to trigger in the West Bank and is Jerusalem and I think Hamas is probably disappointed that thousands of Palestinian haven't gone on and tried to to kill Israelis and I think that's also to the IDF but also say something about the mood most Palestinians feel right now about being part of this war so this is at least one positive light in everything that we're seeing thank you Sharia we'll be back to speak to the two of you in a bit we move to our I-24 news correspondent in Northern Israel Pia Stekelbach what's the latest on the Northern border Pia we heard of a security incident earlier where people were instructed to stay in their safe spaces any updates on this right so when we still don't have any details about what that security incident entails but you're right in the early morning hours a number of communities located in the upper east and Geli Lee were requested to remain close to their shelters even inside of their shelters we do know that the gates to those communities were closed off as well as roads in that area were closed off there now a new message was issued there that the residents can leave their shelters but should still stay close to their homes there now that area received a similar message yesterday evening Lebanon we're talking about an area that has gotten under constant shelling of anti-tank missiles and mortar shells as well yesterday two barrages of rockets fired from southern Lebanon by his bala towards that area also including the city of Kiryat Shmoona where 12 rockets in total came down not causing any injuries but of course causing damage to property there to infrastructure we've seen images of cars being torched as a result of those direct rocket impacts but that is one of those cities that have been evacuated so they're really only a small number of civilians remaining there that barrages of rockets fired towards northern Israel as a result of an airstrike in southern Lebanon that is attributed to Israel by his bala an airstrike in which four people four civilians were killed three children and their grandmother there reportedly a family of a journalist but we do not have received any statement of the Israeli military on that incident yet it is apparently under an investigation there but that comes after yesterday afternoon another Israeli civilian was killed on the Israeli side here in the community of Yiftah which is located right underneath the area of Kiryat Shmone again where we're talking about the Upper Eastern Galilee area very close to the Lebanese border as well a civilian that was killed while an anti-tank missile launched by his bala hit his truck that was announced yesterday evening by the Israeli military then that really shows you how these scumishes between Israel and his bala and also other proxies than southern Lebanon do increase in their pace and also in their intensity Sivan now the British Embassy in Lebanon announced it's evacuating some of their staff in Lebanon and advised its citizens to leave as well what is the significance of all this well the British Embassy is not the only one where we've also been receiving these messages at the very beginning of the war from the American Embassy that also called upon its citizens to leave Lebanon immediately we do know that the atmosphere towards international organizations such as embassies when it comes to western countries is quite dangerous than these countries as of course the United States and also countries such as Britain, Rishi Sunak the British Prime Minister showing a large amount of solidarity with Israel there which makes these institutions they're representing them come under attack by Iranian proxies there by militias there on the ground and this is of course a precautious measure that the British Embassy as one of those countries that represented in Lebanon are taking not only Lebanon but also in other countries there that we know of have Iranian proxy militia station there on the ground that are not making it a secret that they do see the United States as and also these other western countries such as now Britain as the helpers of Israel as those who also responsibility the responsible for Israel's war there in Gaza and that they are also as well as Israel responsible for what is going on now and that they should also pay the price P. H. Tekelbacher I-24 news correspondent in northern Israel thank you back in studio here we have Jonathan Regev and Shiri I'd like to ask you Shiri about what's going on now with the border with Lebanon we see that embassies are evacuating have called to before and now we see with the British embassy what does this mean we're seeing an escalation it's very it's very clear assessment is that Hezbollah is trying to keep things under the threshold of an out an out war but that an escalation we're seeing firing of more rockets we're seeing the fire intensify and this is what we fear that we spoke a few days ago about this we worried from Nasrallah speech that many in Israel viewed as not not a very clear message that is going in all in for in the war but it's definitely we're seeing an escalation so yes we did hear Nasrallah speech on Friday people were afraid of that speech what's he gonna say in the end it didn't seem as bad or as awful as as Israeli is expected and and yet still there is a threat and there is an escalation in the violence on that board yeah Nasrallah left all options on the table and and the fact that he's not throwing a whole on an entire escalation and a threshold of war is probably due to the fact that still in Gaza we have to remember there are 40,000 50,000 a terrace of Hamas and when we're seeing an intensification in in the Gaza front we're probably going to see Hezbollah intensify its efforts as well so he's waiting for for for the escalation in Gaza to be even worse now with the embassies in Lebanon evacuating some of its embassies and telling its citizens to also leave the country should Israel be evacuating more villages more towns close to the border right now I don't think so if it's an immense toll on people's life so I think right now the evacuation is is enough but you know we have to listen to what the IDF tells us and and this is the situation right now Jonathan what do you think about that I think that those those communities right on the border fence including the city of Kierachmuna which is quite a big city that they've been evacuated so you don't need to evacuate more you can't evacuate half the country Israel has already evacuated enough people who are who are immigrants in their country refugees we're constantly speaking about Palestinian refugees that's what the the global community is constantly speaking about let's see if anyone brings up the fact that there are Israeli refugees at the moment for more than a month now so that's something that has to be said should we clear more people I think no regarding Hasan Asrallah first if if if I'm aware of his intentions the answer is no he has not consulted me I don't know what he's going to do I don't know if he knows what he's going to do but what I do know is that Hasan Asrallah had enough options to go all in so far there was the October 7th attack if if you want to catch Israel by surprise that was the time because things may escalate now but Israel will not be caught by surprise because Israel is is on a very high alert yesterday allegedly a woman and three and three of her kids were killed in an Israeli strike that's also perhaps a reason to go in and it has not happened does that mean that it will not happen that Hizballah will not go all in I don't know it might happen everything might happen the only thing that I am sure of is that if it happens Israel will not be caught by surprise which would have happened on October 7th thank you Israel's Druze citizens are stuck between a rock in a hard place they are among most motivated fighters to join the IDF while not always being treated with the deserved respect and equality more in this report in the heart of this valley daily life for the 7,000 inhabitants of the Druze village of Khorfesh seems unchanged despite the war stores are open places of worship are still active and restaurants are full yet the village is in the heart of a military zone the border with Lebanon is less than three kilometers away opposite us are all the villages whose names you've heard of on the news from which Hizballah launches missiles into Israel is just a few hundred meters as the crow flies and from here to Khorfesh it must be 500 meters as the crow flies while all the surrounding villages have been evacuated on army orders the Druze of Khorfesh refuse to leave local officials have carried out a survey of residents the vast majority prefer to stay a few words with the villagers are all it takes to understand their determination there's nothing to be afraid of in the past the head of Hizballah wanted to attack the Galilee our message is that we are waiting for him in Khorfesh all the inhabitants of the region are together just let him come we're not afraid we're here protecting our northern border I will not move or evacuate we're staying right here I was born here I'm staying here and I will fight here we're keeping our land those who want to live we're not going anywhere Shaqib Shanaan lives in Khorfesh and was a member of the Israeli parliament for him too leaving is out of the question this is not the first time there have been attacks and rockets in the region we've been through a dozen wars already but our roots are deep here we are not moving we protect our land and our lives with the army we are an integral part of this country if Israel is in danger we are in danger when Israel wins we win too the village of Khorfesh is also known as the city of commanders because it has produced proportionally the most commanders in the Israeli army since 1948 the Druze community of Galilee has been fully integrated into Israeli society many girls do civilian service at the age of 18 and boys do compulsory military service Arabs speaking the Druze have their own religion beliefs that reinforce their decision not to leave their homeland Khorfesh lies below a hill on which the tomb of the Druze prophet Sabalan we believe it protects us Khorfesh remains at the heart of the Israeli army's northern front soldiers go there to buy supplies and regain their strength they are welcomed by the local population since I've retired I've opened a business at home I host workshops and events focusing on Druze food for almost 10 years now people have been coming here every day Druze, Druze, Muslims now I cook for the soldiers who are in the area despite their determination the people of Khorfesh remain realistic they know they won't all be able to stay if the situation becomes more difficult on the northern front local officials are preparing for an emergency situation in a situation where we are in danger or the army tells us there's a real emergency we evacuate everyone who can fight usually the men and the medical staff stay behind to help defend the village women and children and the elderly will leave but once again only under certain conditions we refuse to let them be housed in poor conditions if that's the case I don't think they'll leave having lived in this village for several hundred years the inhabitants are proud of their attachment to their land and their resilience in times of crisis one thing's for sure the Khorfesh Druze aren't going anywhere and in studio with us are still like 24 news correspondent Jonathan Legev and Shiri Fine-Golsmann foreign policy and national security expert Shiri we're seeing that Jordan over the last 24 hours parachuted in medical assistance into Gaza into a field hospital what does this mean? yeah it says Jordanian field hospital and Jordan is very concerned of the humanitarian situation and it's efforts to stand with its brothers and sisters and it's coordinated with the IDF which tells us a lot about the security relationship that is still cooperation that is still ongoing with the IDF and the Jordanian army which is crucial for Israel's security Jonathan what do you see? Jordan of course is there's the official Jordan and the under the ground Jordan of course above the ground the Jordanians they need to show their support and their solidarity for the Palestinians and here they can come and say and the message the message this morning from Jordan was our courageous air force our courageous air force parachuted materials and medicine and food and assistance for our Palestinian brothers that message did not say this operation was coordinated with the Israelis that remains underground Jordan is I'll say as concerned is from Hamas Israel Jordan and the same side for Egypt they do not need a strong Hamas so on the ground they support their Palestinian brothers but under the ground they're keeping close ties with Israel thank you to the both of you that's all for this latest edition of I-24 News be sure to follow us on our website I-24 news.tv and across our social media platforms I'm Sivan Raveev thank you for watching 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 come to I-24 News I'm Sivan Raveev and this is our latest edition coming to you live from Tel Aviv today is day 31 of Israel's war with Hamas a war which began with a horrific massacre of innocent Israeli civilians as 1400 women men children and elderly were brutally tortured and murdered on October 7th in southern Israel earlier today a terror attack was reported in the old city of Jerusalem according to police the suspects stabbed two border police officers they are both injured in critical and light conditions we will continue to update about this developing story a surprising announcement by the U.S. the U.S. Central Command said Sunday that one of its nuclear capable submarines was deployed to the Middle East meanwhile the CIA chief reportedly arrived in Israel and will meet his Israeli counterparts later today this follows the U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken's visit to the region including a trip to Israel Jordan the Palestinian Authority Turkey and Iraq there are 241 hostages currently held in captivity by Hamas and Gaza over 30 of them are children and babies following the humanitarian corridor which was provided for citizens of Gaza yesterday and today the IDF resumed operations and airstrikes and Gaza striking more than 450 targets in Gaza overnight yesterday the IDF spokesperson announced into north and south urging again all citizens to evacuate safely to the south meanwhile a short while ago rocket fire resumed on Israel's southern cities and the Gaza border communities earlier the IDF announced the name of yet another Israeli soldier killed in battle for Sergeant Shachar Cohen in the north Hisvala launched a barrage of rockets last night into the city of Kiryat Shmona killing one Israeli civilian this followed an IDF strike on a vehicle on the Lebanese side of the border killing three people and Jordan has airdropped medical assistant to the Jordanian field hospital in Gaza a move which was reportedly coordinated with Israel we move to our I-24 news correspondent in northern Israel P.S. Dekalbach we're hearing Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei met with Iraq's foreign minister Pia what do you make of this well this is definitely a meeting that wants to send a message that it comes a day after Blinken the U.S. Secretary of State was in Baghdad to meet with the Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Jia Sudani talking about those threats U.S. bases there U.S. presence in Iraq is facing now a day later representative there visiting Khamenei the Iranian Supreme Leader there in a meeting that was announced on Khamenei's own Twitter account there that comes also after two or three days later that the Hamas political leader Ismail Hania has had a meeting with Khamenei as well there that was announced over the weekend by an Iranian-affiliated channel Khamenei claimed that this was indeed the case yesterday so we are seeing that those visits that those meetings are taking place despite the U.S. trying to establish their presence and trying to establish talks there this is the axis of resistance as the Iranian approaches are often called or calling themselves as well showcasing that talks are continuing even beyond the presence of the U.S. or even despite the U.S. attempts to negotiate or to calm down the atmosphere there and this is really showcasing how the Iranians are involved and again keep in mind that this comes right after it was announced that the U.S. have deployed a nuclear capable submarine there this might also have been the topic of their conversation although there are not a lot of details about what the two have spoken about it was just that announcement there on Twitter but of course sending a message that talks are continuing between Iran-friendly nations then the region and also militias as we've seen also over the weekend with Hamas political leader himself traveling to Iran and speaking with Khamenei Any updates on the security incident which drove Israelis in the north to see it to into their shelters we see roads have been closed any updates on this? Right Sivan well early in the morning those communities then the Upper East and Galilee received a message to remain in their shelters then several different communities we did not receive any update on what that security incident entailed but there was a warning that residents should remain close to their homes close to their houses we do also know that roads were blocked there also gates leading towards these communities there we have seen this yesterday as well these alerts are triggered when there is an imminent threat of either anti-tank missiles on water shells or even rockets being launched from southern Lebanon as we've seen yesterday that was the case right before those two barrages of rockets were sent towards the Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona that was also the case after or before the anti-tank missile was launched towards the community of Yiftah killing that one Israeli citizen there and we do know that the tensions are very high after that a strike attributed to Israel yesterday evening killing four Lebanese citizens at the Lebanese side of the border there three children and one woman and Hezbollah after that has warned that it would escalate the situation further so the situation here indeed is very volatile and these warnings are issued quite a lot when Israeli forces do see and launch attempt or do see some suspicious movement there on the Lebanese side of the border because we're speaking about those communities there are only a few kilometers away from the border so in case anything happens in case a rocket or an anti-tank missile or a mortar shell is being fired there's really no time to get into shelter to get into a safe zone there that is why also these communities have been widely evacuated also one of the reasons why there was no reports of injuries of casualties yesterday after these rockets have been fired onto the city of Kiryat Shmona 12 rockets hitting also impacting in the city no casualties there as these areas and under constant fire from Saddle Lebanon have been widely evacuated there thank you Pia on our northern border here with us in studio we have Rafael Yerushalmi former senior intelligence officer in the IDF thank you for joining us what do you make of this security incident in the north that we just heard about from our correspondent well it might be an infiltration of terrorists in any case whatever is happening now is just showing us how impossible the situation has become in the north how it's not possible to expect from 70 000 displaced Israeli citizens to come back to their homes if the Hezbollah will still be sitting on the fence meaning we have to strike that is the only solution we are being held hostage by the Hezbollah in the north but really if we do not strike now with the whole of Israel will be held hostage of the Hezbollah because they have missiles that can reach any place in Israel so the fact that we are not striking is I hope is because we are preparing to strike otherwise it will be to commit the same mistake as was committed in the south in the south we let go we let the Hamas strengthen itself Hamas threaten our borders the inhabitants of the south of Israel wear the hostages of the Hamas for 20 years so are we going to make the same mistake up north I sincerely hope not I do not see any other solution the minimum we should obtain is for the Hezbollah to withdraw a few kilometers back inside Lebanon and let the UNIFIL the blue helmet peacekeepers of UNIFIL have like a zone and demilitarized zone as is the job to do there are sirens currently in southern Israel citizens are advised to take shelter going on with the northern border there are so many communities which have already been evacuated in the north and obviously in the south and so in an earlier interview that we mentioned there are Israeli refugees as well people who are not in their homes for quite some time now you feel like an attack on the north in the north is inevitable not inevitable but it's every day that passes by makes it more and more possible because the tension is mounting up and even though the parties at stake might not want it the situation might just explode because it's so explosive and the spark might just start this way yesterday where the person killed an innocent civilian just killed for nothing this could have been more than one it could have been a few it could have been a school bus it could have been so the situation is extremely urgent that's why we should have the initiative and as you rightly mentioned we have our own refugees we have our own humanitarian crisis here in Israel not to speak of the hundreds and thousands of people who are traumatized mentally, psychologically but what is happening here and we forget you know we always speak about the refugees the Palestinian refugees in in Jebelia or in the south of Lebanon the biggest refugee camp in the world is Israel we've got here six million refugees one million and a half from the programs of the 19th century one million and a half from the Holocaust one million and a half from the Arabic nation that expelled them and one million and a half from former USSR you're talking six million refugees here that's a little more than in Jebelia camp and if we do not now take the security in our hands and strike Hezbollah we will regret it bitterly afterwards the Americans are asking us not to extend the conflict not to destabilize the region I think by striking Hezbollah we can only stabilize the region by doing so and I also think that if we strike it's our own decision and the Americans will not let us down they have no choice they need us and if they want stability in the Middle East they cannot have it without Israel thank you Raphael Yerushalmi please keep with us while we turn to the field for some updates this morning with us in southern Israel is our I-24 news correspondent Pierre Klochendler Pierre we're hearing some rocket fire into Israel can you tell me about this yes just a few moments ago rocket fire was launched toward the community of Netiva Asara which is a couple of kilometers away by bird eye view from where we are we don't know yet of reports of damage or casualties but we know that Netiva Asara has been abandoned by its residents after the October 7 massacre in which many of the residents were killed now I want to show you with Oren Schmeiser our cameraman what's going on right now in the Gaza Strip the northern Gaza Strip is pounded relentlessly by the Israeli Air Force what you can see right now is the result of one of the bombings toward I would say in the direction of the Jebalia refugee camp and Beth Hanun in the northern Gaza Strip and now you can see Beth Hanun and on the right toward Netiva Asara you'll see maybe some black smoke emanating from the ground it's probably also another target because as the Israeli armies progressing southward the terrain in the northern Gaza Strip is not completely cleansed of terrorists and the IDF is working in a very measured way but also methodically to try and neutralize all the launching pads of rockets all the launching pads of anti-tank guided missiles the tunnels the warehouses the ammunition and weapons depot the command outposts etc etc and this is what they've been doing for already 31 days but there is a very dense line of defense protecting Gaza City and although Gaza City has been totally encircled now according to the IDF there are still many pockets of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad's resistance in the territories in which the Israeli army has been progressing since October 27 Here yesterday there was a humanitarian corridor and now we're hearing there is currently an additional one please tell us about this Yes there's been three consecutive days of an opening for four hours of a humanitarian corridor installed by the Israeli army along the Salahadin access road which cuts the central east of the Gaza Strip from north to south the problem is this is a unilateral measure by the IDF in order probably also to deflect international pressure for a humanitarian pose while Israel argues that there can't be any humanitarian pose without the release of the 241 hostages that the IDF knows about now this is going to be the third day from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. already an hour and a quarter of past urging the residents of the northern Gaza Strip to move south of Wadi Raza which is the river that cuts from west to east south of Gaza city but not so many people are moving southwards yesterday the estimate was about a few thousand of people and probably maybe a few hundred thousand people still remain on the battleground thank you Pierre Kloschendler in our southern border joining us now is Dr. Haril Khorev Palestinian Affairs Expert in the Moshe Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University what are the relations between Palestinians in the West Bank and in Gaza right now as all of this is happening well I would say relatively it's under control I would say they are quite reserved it's not that you don't see here and there all sorts of violence and attempts to you know to show solidarity but generally speaking and by the ways if I'm not at the first time you don't see any participant on a large scale of the West Bankers with the Gaza Strip it's not surprising to I would say Palestinian researchers who knows the differences in terms of identity and regional identity and it's also derived from the measures that Israel and the IDF are taking and the ISA of course are taking these days in order to prevent any spread of violence or turbulent in the West Bank we're seeing several nightly raids and arrests and Janine and Nabilis is this the right approach to be handling threats on this front? Yes but you need to keep in mind that it's not only this it's also because it is an opportunity we should say it loud and clear it is an opportunity to to take advantage of the the attention that is given to the Gaza Strip in terms of dealing with some continuous threats coming from the West Bank like the Irons Den and other militants groups of course Hamas as well which is of course also relevant to what is happening in Gaza but it is an opportunity to to take or to deal with with those threats which did not started yesterday I remind all our viewers that before October 7th the West Bank took the major force or and and men power and from the IDF including dozens of battalions that were stationed there so it it didn't go anywhere the threats didn't go anywhere it's just that it's it's a good opportunity to take care of it now Now let me ask you Muhammad Dahlan is known to be a political rival of Palestinian president Abbas and he's widely involved in relief efforts in Gaza Is he looking to eventually take over after Abbas? My feeling is that definitely I think that what happens in the Gaza Strip as far as Israel will conclude it with the full occupation of the Gaza Strip eventually including the Southern part I think Dahlan would be a a key person there you know Israelis you know you know the Americans is highly supported by the the United Arab Emirates which we should say is currently is the best friends of Israel in the Arab world and showing a much more balanced approach to what is happening so he has I think all the you know the advantages to take a key role in the reconstruction of the post Hamas era hopefully that's what will happen I don't want to to sound too optimistic but I think this is definitely something that we should strive on no no stop at the middle will serve justified cause of this war after what we went through Thank you very much for this important input joining us in Jerusalem near the site of today's terrorist attack is our I-24 news correspondent Nicole Zedek Nicole what do we know about what happened in this terror attack today well Sivan right here where I'm standing behind me is a police station and we know that two officers were stabbed right here now the suspect was shot dead at the scene turns out he's a 16-year-old boy from east Jerusalem now I'm going to step out of the frame so you can see exactly what we're talking about right here you can see some of these officers standing in front of the entrance this is exactly where those two officers were stabbed earlier today one of them is in critical condition the other in light to moderate condition both of them being treated for their injuries now along with the suspect who was shot dead here there's also another suspect who was detained not far from here and is currently being questioned as far as his involvement in today's attack as well now this is not the first attack to happen at this exact police station within the past month just last month there was a shooting attack right here also injuring two police officers and so following this increase this uptake and attacks were right across from the old city of Jerusalem now officers are coming in and bringing some of these concrete barriers to to add some increased security to the area surrounding this police station east Jerusalem unfortunately is a hot spot for many of these tensions that we're seeing this comes even before the October 7th massacre and the ensuing the ensuing war that has followed but east Jerusalem has always been a hot spot for some of these tensions so police officers border officers they've always been on high alert I want to note that even within since October 7th these daily nightly arrest raids within the west bank continue throughout this this area IDF continuing to tackle the the terror cells that continue to pop up since October 7th about 2,000 Palestinians in the west bank have been arrested more than 700 of them affiliated with Hamas now along with those nightly arrest raids that we're seeing we also know that just recently Israel has arrested 23 suspects in east Jerusalem there's suspects for inciting different violent activities for protests and even the inciting violence on social media as well one of them had posted on his social media that he wanted to see settler blood on his hands so this this is some of the the tensions that we're seeing in the area and unfortunately the the terror attack that we saw earlier today is just just a continuation of some of the the attacks that we've seen on these officers within the past months so far now about this specific attack from today do we know anything about the terrorists who perpetrated this attack well the terrorists who perpetrated this attack is a 16 year old boy from east Jerusalem we don't know much other than that as far as his motives as far as his involvement but we do know as I said he was shot dead at the scene as far as the other suspect who is involved we don't have a name or an age on him he's currently being detained right now and questioned as far as if he had any involvement into planning the attack as well or planning other attacks but even as I'm talking now we continue to see more of these concrete barriers brought in this is still a closed area because they they really do want to increase the security for these officers so that they're not at risk for something like this happening again a 16 year old boy coming up to the entrance of this police officer stabbing two border police officers right here while they were at their job so they're trying to do everything they can to monitor the situation there is a very heavy police presence in the area as well monitoring who's allowed in who's allowed out and there is a red tape blocking everyone who can come in and so that that's the latest that we're seeing on the ground thank you very much Nicole Cedek in Jerusalem near the site of the terrorist attack from today in studio with us is Raphael Roussalmi former senior intelligence officer in the IDF this terrorist attack was perpetrated by a 16 year old boy you can say who is a terrorist and who is probably a lone wolf and if not him there will probably be other lone wolves coming out coming out and trying to target Israelis what can be done about this not much I'm afraid it is the result of years of propaganda and brainwashing aiming mostly at youngsters some of them are influenceable you can manipulate their souls if you will easily especially when the propaganda is of a religious nature a mystical nature calling to martyrdom this kind of incident of course was easy to perpetrate because from East Jerusalem into modern Jerusalem and West Jerusalem it's very easy to to go it's a few minutes walk you don't need a car you don't need that so it's not the same as a terrorist who has to infiltrate from the West Bank into Jerusalem you have to understand that this kind of lone wolf attack we had one the day before yesterday in France meaning this propaganda is worldwide it's on the net everywhere influencing mostly young Muslims but sometimes not even Muslims imprecisers to the cause I would say and this could happen anywhere in the world with this flow of hatred that's being that's being put on the web it could happen in any other capital of the world that a young person takes a knife and goes and kill a Jew because today killing a Jew is sexy today to be pro-Palestinian is to think that the Hamas people were entitled because of the occupation because of God knows what all the cliches that we are not going to come back upon it was okay and justified to kill babies and rape women so that's it and this is something that with all our best will and our best means we cannot fight we're fighting it the way we can one way of fighting it would be a dilemma because we should show the world what I personally and some journalists have seen so far we should show these pictures to the world unfortunately we have to do it in a secure environment because the big fright and that's why I think we shouldn't do it is children children shouldn't be exposed but would we show what's going be going on we will understand exactly what we're dealing with here a big dilemma that is Dr. Haril Khorev Palestinian affairs expert we see Itamar Ben-Gvir has visited the site in Jerusalem of this terrorist attack from today does this does this whole incident does it does it increase motivation on behalf of Palestinians to go out as lone walls and to perpetrate more attacks like this first of all I fully agree with the analysis of Mr. Hirushalmi I think he gave a very detailed explanation of this phenomena which is not regular phenomena I would just add one thing which is usually lone wolf attacks and I'm following all the lone wolves attacks I wrote several research about it are a combination of both personal motivations namely mainly suicidal usually you find that they suffer from some sort of personal issue whether it is social family personal all kinds of things that are basically personal and has nothing to do with the Israeli Palestinian conflict and the other side of it that the other side of the combination is of course the circumstances or the framework of the Palestinian Israeli conflict and they are opportunitist okay we can put it this way they are opportunitist do you have a certain circumstances Dr. Khalib we have to wrap up last line so that's it basically we need to understand it is a combination of personal and and political circumstances thank you very much to the both of you for I-24 news this is our latest edition keep watching 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 survive 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 for news I'm Sivan Raviv and this is our latest edition coming to you live from Tel Aviv today is day 31 of Israel's war with Hamas a war which began with a horrific massacre of innocent Israeli civilians as 1,400 women men children and elderly were brutally tortured and murdered on October 7th in southern Israel earlier today a terror attack was reported in the old city of Jerusalem according to police the suspects stabbed two border police officers they are both injured in critical and light conditions we will continue to update about this developing story a surprising surprising announcement by the U.S. the U.S. Central Command said Sunday that one of its nuclear-capable submarines was deployed to the Middle East meanwhile the CIA chief reportedly arrived in Israel and will meet his Israeli counterparts later today this follows the U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken's visit to the region including a trip to Israel Jordan the Palestinian Authority Turkey and Iraq there are 241 hostages currently held in captivity by Hamas and Gaza over 30 of them are children and babies following the humanitarian corridor which was provided for citizens of Gaza yesterday and today the IDF resumed operations and air strikes in Gaza striking more than 450 targets in Gaza overnight yesterday the IDF spokesperson announced that the Gaza Strip is now divided into north and south urging again all citizens to evacuate safely to the south meanwhile a short while ago rocket fire resumed on Israel's southern cities and the Gaza border communities earlier the IDF announced the name of yet another Israeli soldier killed in battle for Sergeant Shachar Cohen in the north Hezbollah launched a barrage of rockets last night into the city of Kiryat Shmonak killing one Israeli civilian this followed an IDF strike on a vehicle on the Lebanese side of the border killing three people and Jordan has airdropped medical assistant to the Jordanian field hospital in Gaza a move which was reportedly coordinated with Israel we move to our I-24 news correspondent in northern Israel P.S. Dekalbach we're hearing Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei met with Iraq's foreign minister Pia what do you make of this well this is definitely a meeting that wants to send a message that it comes the day after Blinken the U.S. Secretary of State was in Baghdad to meet with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Jia Sudani talking about those threats that U.S. bases their U.S. presence in Iraq is facing now a day later representative there visiting Khamenei the Iranian supreme leader there in a meeting that was announced in Khamenei's own Twitter account there that comes also after two or three days later that the Hamas political leader Ismail Hania has had a meeting with Khamenei as well there that was announced over the weekend by an Iranian affiliated channel Khamenei claimed that this was indeed the case yesterday so we are seeing that those visits that those meetings are taking place despite the U.S. trying to establish their presence and trying to establish talks there this is the axis of resistance as the Iranian proxies are often called or calling themselves as well showcasing that talks are continuing even beyond the presence of the U.S. or even despite the U.S. attempts to negotiate or to calm down the atmosphere there and this is really showcasing how the Iranians are involved and again keep in mind that this comes right after it was announced that the U.S. have deployed a nuclear capable submarine there this might also have been the topic of their conversation although there are not a lot of details about what the two have spoken about it was just that announcement there on twitter but of course sending a message that talks are continuing between Iran friendly nations then the region also militias as we've seen also over the weekend with Hamas political leader the himself traveling to Iran and speaking with Khamenei any updates on the security incident which drove Israelis in the north to see it to into their shelters we see roads have been closed any updates on this right Sivan well early in the morning those communities then the Upper East and Galilee received a message to remain in their shelters then several different communities we did not receive any update on what that security incident entailed but there was a warning that residents should remain close to their homes close to their houses we do also know that roads were blocked there also gates leading towards these communities there we have seen this yesterday as well these alerts are triggered when there is an imminent threat of either anti-tank missiles or mortar shells or even rockets being launched from said Lebanon as we've seen yesterday that was the case right before those two barrages of rockets were sent towards the Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona that was also the case after or before the anti-tank missile was launched towards the community of Yiftakh killing that one Israeli citizen there and we do know that the tensions are very high after that a strike attributed to Israel yesterday evening killing four Lebanese citizens at the Lebanese side of the border there three children and one woman and Hezbollah after that has warned that it would escalate the situation further indeed is very volatile and these warnings are issued quite a lot when Israeli forces do see and launch attempt or do see some suspicious movement there on the Lebanese side of the border because we're speaking about those communities that are the only few kilometers away from the border so in case anything happens in case a rocket or an anti-tank missile or mortar shells being fired there's really no time to get into shelter to get into a safe zone there that is why also these communities have been widely evacuated also one of the reasons why there was no reports of injuries of casualties yesterday after these rockets have been fired onto the city of Kiryat Shmona 12 rockets hitting also impacting in the city no casualties there as these areas that have gotten under constant fire from Saddle Lebanon have been widely evacuated there thank you Pia on our northern border here with us in studio we have Rafael Yerushalmi former senior intelligence officer in the IDF thank you for joining us what do you make of this security incident in the north that we just heard about from our correspondent well it might be an infiltration of terrorists in any case whatever is happening now is just showing us how impossible the situation has become in the north how it's not possible to expect from 70,000 displaced Israeli citizens to come back to their homes if the Hezbollah will still be sitting on the fence meaning we have to strike that is the only solution we are being held hostage by the Hezbollah in the north but really if we do not strike now when the whole of Israel will be held hostage of the Hezbollah because they have missiles that can reach any place in Israel so the fact that we are not striking yes is I hope is because we're preparing to strike otherwise it will be to commit the same mistake as was committed in the south in the south we let go we let the Hamas strengthen itself Hamas threaten our borders the inhabitants of the south of Israel wear the hostages of the Hamas for 20 years so are we going to make the same mistake up north I sincerely hope not I do not see any other solution the minimum we should obtain is for the Hezbollah to withdraw a few kilometers back inside Lebanon and that's the uni field the blue helmet peacekeepers of uni field have like a zone and demilitarized zone as is the job to do there are sirens currently in southern Israel citizens are advised to take shelter going on with the northern border there are so many communities which have already been evacuated in the north and obviously in the south and so in an earlier interview that we mentioned there are Israeli refugees as well people who are not in their homes for quite some time now you feel like an attack on the north in the north is inevitable not inevitable but it's every day that passes by makes it more and more possible because the tension is mounting up and even though the parties at stake might not want it the situation might just explode because it's so explosive and the spark might just start this way yesterday where the person killed an innocent civilian just killed for nothing this could have been more than one it could have been a few it could have been a school bus it could have been so the situation is extremely urgent that's why we should have the initiative and as you rightly mentioned we have our own refugees we have our own humanitarian crisis here in Israel not to speak of the hundreds and thousands of people who are traumatized mentally psychologically but what is happening here and we forget you know we always speak about the refugees the Palestinian refugees in in Jibalia or in the south of Lebanon the biggest refugee camp in the world is Israel we've got here six million refugees one million and a half from the programs of the 19th century one million and a half from the holocaust one million and a half from the Arabic nation that expelled them and one million and a half from former USSR you're talking six million refugees here that's a little more than in Jibalia camp and if we do not now take the security in our hands and strike Hezbollah we will regret it bitterly afterwards the Americans are asking us not to extend the conflict not to destabilize the region I think by striking Hezbollah we can only stabilize the region by doing so and I also think that if we strike it's our own decision and the Americans will not let us down they have no choice they need us and if they want stability in the Middle East they cannot have it without Israel thank you Raphael Yerushalmi please keep with us while we turn to the field for some updates this morning with us in southern Israel is our I-24 news correspondent Pierre Kloshendler Pierre we're hearing some rocket fire into Israel can you tell me about this yes just a few moments ago rocket fire was launched toward the community of Netiva Asara which is a couple of kilometers away by bird eye view from where we are we don't know yet of reports of damage or casualties but we know that Netiva Asara has been abandoned by its residents after the October 7 massacre in which many of the residents were killed now I want to show you with Oran Shmizer our cameraman what's going on right now in the Gaza Strip the northern Gaza Strip is pounded relentlessly by the Israeli Air Force what you can see right now is the result of one of the bombings toward I would say in the direction of the Jebalia refugee camp and Beth Hanun in the northern Gaza Strip and now you can see Beth Hanun and on the right toward Netiva Asara you'll see maybe some black smoke emanating from the ground it's probably also another target because as the Israeli armies progressing southward the terrain in the northern Gaza Strip is not completely cleansed of terrorists and the IDF is working in a very measured way but also methodically to try and neutralize all the launching pads of rockets all the launching pads of anti-tank guided missiles the tunnels the warehouses the ammunition and weapons depot the command outposts etc etc and this is what they've been doing for already 31 days but there is a very dense line of defense protecting Gaza city and although Gaza city has been totally encircled now according to the IDF there are still many pockets of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic jihad's resistance in the territories in which the Israeli army has been progressing since October 27 here yesterday there was a humanitarian corridor and now we're hearing there is currently an additional one please tell us about this yes there's been three consecutive days of an opening for four hours of a humanitarian corridor installed by the Israeli army along the Salahadin access road which cuts the central center east of the Gaza Strip from north to south the problem is this is a unilateral measure by the IDF in order probably also to deflect international pressure for a humanitarian pose while Israel argues that there can't be any humanitarian pose without the release of the 241 hostages that the IDF knows about now this is going to be the third day from 10 am until 2 pm already an hour and a quarter of past urging the residents of the northern Gaza Strip to move south of Wadi Raza which is the river that cuts from west to east south of Gaza city but not so many people are moving southwards yesterday the estimate was about a few thousand of people and probably maybe a few hundred thousand people still remain on the battleground thank you Pierre Kloschendler in our southern border joining us now is Dr. Haril Khorev Palestinian Affairs expert in the Moshe Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University what are the relations between Palestinians in the West Bank and in Gaza right now as all of this is happening well I would say relatively it's under control I would say they are quite reserved it's not that you don't see here and there all sorts of violence and attempts to you know to show solidarity but generally speaking and by the ways if I'm not at the first time you don't see any participant on a large scale of the West Bankers with the Gaza Strip it's not surprising to if I would say Palestinian researchers who knows the differences in terms of identity and regional identity and it's also derived from the measures that Israel and the IDF are taking and the ISA of course are taking these days in order to prevent any spread of violence or turbulent in the West Bank we're seeing several nightly raids and arrests and Janine and in Nablus is this the right approach to be handling threats on this front? Yes but you need to keep in mind that it's not only this it's also because it is an opportunity we should say it loud and clear it is an opportunity to take advantage of the attention that is given to the Gaza Strip in terms of dealing with some continuous threats coming from the West Bank like the Irons Den and other militants groups of course Hamas as well which is of course also relevant to what is happening in Gaza but it is an opportunity or to deal with those threats which did not start yesterday I remind all our viewers that before October 7th the West Bank took the major force or and then manpower and from the IDF including dozens of battalions that were stationed there so it didn't go anywhere the threats didn't go anywhere it's just that it's a good opportunity to take care of it now Now let me ask you Mohammed Dahlan is known to be a political rival of Palestinian president Abbas and he's widely involved in relief efforts in Gaza is he looking to eventually take over after Abbas? My feeling is that definitely I think that what happens in the Gaza Strip as far as Israel will conclude it with the full occupation of the Gaza Strip eventually including the southern part I think Dahlan would be a key person there you know Israelis you know Americans is highly supported by the United Arab Emirates which we should say is currently is the best friends of Israel in the Arab world and showing a much more balanced approach to what is happening so he has I think all the advantages to take a key role in the reconstruction of the post Hamas era hopefully that's what will happen I don't want to sound too optimistic but I think this is definitely something that we should strive on no stop at the middle will serve justified cause of this war after what we went through Thank you very much for this important input joining us in Jerusalem near the site of today's terrorist attack is our I-24 news correspondent Nikol Sedek Nikol what do we know about what happened in this terror attack today Savan right here where I'm standing behind me is a police station and we know that two officers were stabbed right here now the suspect was shot dead at the scene turns out he's a 16-year-old boy from east Jerusalem now I'm going to step out of the frame so you can see exactly what we're talking about right here you can see some of these officers standing in front of the entrance this is exactly where those two officers were stabbed earlier today one of them is in critical condition the other in light to moderate condition both of them being treated for their injuries now along with the suspect who was shot dead here there's also another suspect who was detained not far from here and is currently being questioned as far as his involvement in today's attack as well now this is not the first attack to happen at this exact police station within the past month just last month there was a shooting attack right here also injuring two police officers and so following this increase this uptick in attacks we're right across from the old city of Jerusalem now officers are coming in and bringing some of these concrete barriers to add some increased security to the area surrounding this police station east Jerusalem unfortunately is a hot spot for many of these tensions that we're seeing this comes even before the October 7th massacre and the ensuing the ensuing war that has followed but east Jerusalem has always been a hot spot for some of these tensions so police officers border officers they've always been on high alert I want to note that even within since October 7th these daily nightly arrests raids within the West Bank continue throughout this this area IDF continuing to tackle the terror cells that continue to pop up since October 7th about 2,000 Palestinians in the West Bank have been arrested more than 700 of them affiliated with Hamas now along with those nightly arrest rates that we're seeing we also know that just recently Israel has arrested 23 suspects in east Jerusalem their suspects for inciting different violent activities for protests and even in the inciting violence on social media as well one of them had posted on his social media that he wanted to see settler blood on his hands so this this is some of the the tensions that we're seeing in the area and unfortunately the the terror attack that we saw earlier today is just just a continuation of some of the the attacks that we've seen on these officers within the past months of on now about this specific attack from today do we know anything about the terrorists who perpetrated this attack well the terrorists who perpetrated this attack is a 16-year-old boy from east Jerusalem we don't know much other than that as far as his motives as far as his involvement but we do know as I said he was shot dead at the scene as far as the other suspect who is involved we don't have a name or an age on him he's currently being detained right now and questioned as far as if he had any involvement into planning the attack as well or planning other attacks but even as I'm talking now we continue to see more of these concrete barriers brain brought in this is still a closed area because they they really do want to increase the security for these officers so that they're not at risk for something like this happening again a 16-year-old boy coming up to the entrance of this police officer stabbing two border police officers right here while they were at their job so they're they're trying to do everything they can to monitor the situation there is a very heavy police presence in the area as well monitoring who's allowed in who's allowed out and there is a red tape blocking everyone who can come in and so that that's the latest that we're seeing on the ground thank you very much Nicole Cedek in Jerusalem near the site of the terrorist attack from today in studio with us is Rafaela Roshalmi former senior intelligence officer in the IDF this terrorist attack was perpetrated by a 16-year-old boy you can say who is a terrorist and who is probably a lone wolf and if not him there will probably be other lone wolves coming out coming out and trying to target Israelis what can be done about this not much I'm afraid it is the result of years of propaganda and brainwashing aiming mostly at youngsters some of them are influenceable you can manipulate their souls if you will easily especially when the propaganda is of a religious nature a mystical nature calling to martyrdom this kind of incident of course was easy to perpetrate because from East Jerusalem into modern Jerusalem and West Jerusalem it's very easy to to go it's a few minutes walk you don't need a car you don't need that so it's not the same as a terrorist who has to infiltrate from the West Bank into Jerusalem you have to understand that this kind of lone wolf attack we had one the day before yesterday in France meaning this propaganda is worldwide it's on the net everywhere influencing mostly young Muslims but sometimes not even Muslims sympathizers to the cause I would say and this could happen anywhere in the world with this flow of hatred that's being put on the web it could happen in any other capital of the world that a young person takes a knife and goes and kills a Jew because today killing a Jew is sexy today to be pro-Palestinian is to think that the Hamas people were entitled because of the occupation because of God knows what on the cliches that we are not going to come back upon it was okay and justified to kill babies and rape women so that's it and this is something with all our best will and our best means we cannot fight we are fighting it the way we can one way of fighting it would be a dilemma because we should show the world what I personally and some journalists have seen so far we should show these pictures to the world unfortunately we have to do it in a secure environment because the big fright and that's why I think we shouldn't do it is children children shouldn't be exposed to this but would we show what's going on we wouldn't understand exactly what we're doing with here a big dilemma that is Dr. Haril Khorev Palestinian affairs expert we see Itamar Ben-Gvir has visited the site in Jerusalem of this terrorist attack from today does this does this whole incident does it does it increase motivation on behalf of Palestinians to go out as lone wolves and to perpetrate more attacks like this first of all I fully agree with the analysis of Mr. Hirushalmi I think he gave a very detailed explanation of this phenomena which is not regular phenomena I would just add one thing which is usually lone wolf attacks and I'm following all the lone wolves attacks I wrote several research about it are a combination of both personal motivations namely mainly suicidal usually you find that they suffer from some sort of a personal issue whether it is social family personal all kinds of things that are basically personal and has nothing to do with the Israeli Palestinian conflict and the other side of it that the other side of the combination is of course the circumstances or the framework of the Palestinian Israeli conflict and they are opportunitist okay we can put it this way they are opportunitist you have a certain