 bus terminal that you're looking at live images of now, the second in the city of remote. Now, let's take a look at the moments of the first explosion that brought Jerusalem early this morning, Israeli police investigating the incidents as terror attacks and authorities say that the blast at the bus stop was thought to be an explosive device that had been left in a bag containing nails and was likely controlled remotely. So far, one person has been killed and 18 others wounded from both attacks, three of those in critical condition. A senior security official says the attacks indicate significant infrastructure behind them, including intelligence, obtainment, and preparation of explosives. Israeli police chief Kobi Shabdai speaking at the scene of one of the blasts and saying that every bus now in Jerusalem will be searched by police and that bomb sniffing dogs will go throughout the city to search for additional explosives. Defense minister Benny Gantz holding a situational briefing this morning with all the heads of Israel's security services, including the IDF, the Shin Bet and the Ministry of Defense. Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid will also hold a security assessment at 12 p.m. local time. Let's take a listen now to far right leader Itamar Ben-Vir at the site of one of the attacks this morning speaking to the press. I say explicitly, we need to back our soldiers, our policemen, to return to targeted assassinations, to return to rule the state of Israel, to return to deterring terrorism and to exact the price from terrorists. Terrorism is organized, but it can and must be dealt with. It can and should be fought. Let's head now to I-24 news correspondent Ariel Levin, Waldman in Jerusalem. Good morning to you. Talk to us about the latest from this. You've been following this with us for the last several hours. Talk to us about the latest. Well, you mentioned literally every one of the latest details in your lead. We now have one dead. We have the 18 confirmed wounded and three critically. But very interesting is the analysis and the assessment we now have of the explosives used in the attack. Now, they mentioned that multiple charges were placed and detonated remotely. They had been packed with nails, bolts, and other forms of shrapnel in a shaped spray that was used in the attack itself. And from that, you can actually start to get some idea of possibly tracking down the culprits behind the terror attack that happened just a few hours ago today. You pointed out the video. You showed the detonation there and you could see in the explosion it was a fairly low yield explosion. There was no flash of flame, which is characteristic of higher tier explosive exothermic reactions. You saw a lot of white smoke showing that this is unburnt and unreacted chemicals, meaning that this is almost certainly done with repurposed dual use agricultural materials, almost certainly either ammonia nitrate or potassium nitrate. Now, that means you're talking about a homegrown operation rather than smuggling or importing high explosives from Iran through Gaza. Now, we do know that Hamas and other terror groups in the area have produced their own explosives in the past and usually the culprits are repurposed ammonia nitrate fertilizer. That or they use TATP, which is made of fairly standard materials, but that would have been a much more dramatic image or much more dramatic video than the one we saw with the sort of unreacted chemicals. Despite that, it does show the power that these dual use materials have in the hands of terrorists. But it also gives an opportunity for law enforcement and security forces to track down where these come from. If we are talking about the use of industrial chemicals in the attack, well, there are very limited procurement opportunities in this country and in the surrounding territories to get your hands on those materials because they are controlled materials due to the security situation here. That means you can start sending police or military units to track down all of the dealers of these chemicals, all of these compounds and find out who they've been dealing to in the past few months and track down from there, which will allow security services to understand if they're dealing with the traditional suspects or if they're dealing with a new group that wasn't on anybody's radar before. It could go either way right now because the bombs used in the attack did not look like the characteristic explosives we've seen used by traditional groups here before, but did look like something that was sort of wired pretty much ad hoc with the materials at hand and repurposed. So that is an interesting angle that we're going to see security forces getting into as the day goes on. Now you mentioned that they're going to have bomb-sniffing dogs on all of the buses. That's a very important development, but it depends once again on what's being used. If they're using repurposed materials like those agricultural ones, those dogs are going to be able to find them simply because all the agricultural materials are nitrate-based. The overall majority of explosives out there are nitrate-based, but if they were using something like TATP, there's no nitrogen involved in the reaction, which means explosive dogs are not going to be able to detect that. So one of the big questions that has to be answered is what was used. Once you have that, you can A, find your suspects, B, deploy proper countermeasures to find potential copycats or undetected packages so far, but also C, on the detection front, if it was detonated remotely, very likely a repurposed cell phone detonator, which means the cell towers will have the exact moment definition all communications going in all directions. From there, they can find where it was sent from, which means almost certainly a burner phone, but they could potentially track that to a culprit. I-24 News is Arielle Levin-Waldman with your extensive detailing there. Thank you. Let's bring in our in-studio panel. I-24 News, International Political Affairs Correspondent, Batya Levinthal, and Middle East correspondent, Arielle Osirin. Batya, I want to start with you. We saw far-right leader Ismar Benvir, the head of the Jewish Power Party, arriving at one of the scenes, saying that they need to break this wave. They need to change. People who are involved in this need to pay a heavy price. We need to go back to controlling Israel, and we can do it very clearly, concisively, simply, and practically. Talk to us a little bit about what it means for government officials from the incoming government to arrive at the scene during this situation. Right, and just before touching on that, what is quite interesting is when you look at an attack like this with, you know, the motive is not necessarily clear as we haven't had any group coming out and taking responsibility. And as Arielle mentioned earlier in the broadcast, it's unlikely that they will if they want to keep, you know, the Israeli security personnel guessing and obviously on their toes. But what is quite interesting is the fact that, you know, in a city like Jerusalem that is used to terror attacks like this, that's so close to the West Bank where tensions have been rising since the break the wave operation as well. It's just remarkable that this explosive device went off the way that it did. As you even mentioned earlier, something that's reminiscent of, you know, the Interfader days. This is really quite unbelievable. And I think that, you know, in a war as well as in the situations like this, the initial reactions on what speak the most. And from the initial reaction point of view, the fact that far right leader from the Jewish power party, Itamar Ben Gver, was on the scene as one of the first ministers from the incoming cabinet really speaks volumes about the fact that also he is vying for the position of public security minister. He was even on the scene before Omer Baralev, who currently heads that ministry, was even on scene. And so that really does speak volumes to that. I think that the words that he used are just, you know, reminiscent and evident of the type of narrative that Itamar Ben Gver gives out. He, nothing new was being said and what he's been saying before in terms of, you know, cutting the pay to terrorists, stopping our taxpayer money going towards the Palestinian Authority. But the fact that he was there boots on the ground on the actual scene speaks volumes. And I think what's also quite interesting here is, regardless of the motive as it stands right now, it seems like the perpetrators may have actually sort of aided and abetted the incoming government because I think that this is going to propel the negotiations to the point that we may very well see the likes of a 37th government being formed and being sworn in this week to avoid further issues like this taking place where the government itself is sort of in an organized state. Let's bring in Ariel Ostaran. Ariel, no group claiming responsibility for this, but Hamas coming out hailing the attack, saying quote, also the coming days will be intense and more difficult for the enemy. The time has come for a creation of cells that are spreading all over Palestine and already for confrontation. We do understand that Palestinian Islamic jihad has also come out with words about this attack. What do you think, based on your assessment, covering these different Palestinian factions, these different militants, these different resistance groups, the new ones that have been emerging? Talk to us a little bit about what they feel, what they think when doing acts like this. Well, the groups that you mentioned are obviously hailing this attack. This is exactly what they would like to see attacks, bearing the hallmark or reminding not only Jerusalemites of the deadly attacks during the first and second Intifada. And in fact, on Palestinian social media, you already see pictures hailing the Jerusalem attack, what it's called. And the picture that they show to share is a bus riddled with holes from the bolts and nails that were inside these explosive devices, not the bus stop itself. And I think that kind of shows what narrative they're trying to set here, that this is an attack that bears the hallmarks of those bus bombings, mass casualty attacks that happened nearly daily a few, a couple decades ago. And this is something that Israeli security forces have been working very hard in recent months to try and uproot in some of the recent raids against the Lions Den in Nablus, that local terror group, they uncovered a local explosive kind of workshop in one of their raids. And this is one course of action that has Israeli security officials very concerned. This is not your, it's hard to say, your typical lone wolf attack, but in recent months, in this latest wave of attacks, we have been accustomed to see either stabbing attacks or limited shootings. This, not just one, two explosive devices with Israeli authorities saying that both were similar in design, indicating that it was perpetrated by the same individual. This does outline or show that this attack is different from the previous attacks that we've gotten, unfortunately, gotten used to seeing in recent days. And also the Israeli officials are saying that the nature of the attack indicates a significant terror infrastructure. And so this is something that is still under investigation. There's these immediate minutes and hours following the attack. Still a manhunt to find the perpetrators with Israeli officials saying that this is a cell, now saying that it's an infrastructure. This definitely indicates that we're heading towards a large scale, not necessarily pinpoint operation, but a lot of different security activity going on to try and indicate exactly what this infrastructure, what is its nature, is it receiving support from the better-established Palestinian groups, what kind of assistance did it receive? And so these are key questions that Israeli officials are looking into at these hours following these twin attacks in Jerusalem. Arielle Osaran and Abatia Leventhal staying with me here in studio. We're gonna cross now to the West Bank where Mohammad Najib is standing by for us, the Palestinian security analyst. Mohammad, good morning to you. Following a security assessment by the minister of defense, they made the decision to close the checkpoints in and around Janine. Talk to us about the story that developed overnight in which Palestinians took the body of an Israeli individual from the hospital, all of this happening simultaneously while the police are investigating these series of attacks in Jerusalem. Talk to us a little bit about this. Yes, yesterday evening, used in Druze, Israel, a Arab who passed away in a car accident inside Janine and while in the intensive care room at Janine Hospital, then a group of the Janine battalion armed a group came and they shot in the air, kidnapped his body and they take him as a hostage and they called for the release of the bodies of the Palestinians and killed by the IDF and deceased by Israel right now. The Palestinian Authority tried to convince these groups to take over the body because he was 18 years old, he's a school student, he wasn't in the IDF, he's not involved in any activities against Janine. But right now they refused and the Palestinian Authority received a security warning from Israel that the IDF will not negotiate this group and they closed the crossing to Janine, Jalami and Salem crossing borders and no Palestinians are allowed to leave Janine at the moment, Israeli drones roaming the skies of Janine. So the situation is intense and there's deep concern that the IDF could conduct attacks or invasion of the Janine camp, the groups that are closed the interests of the refugee camps and they prepared and deployed their gunmen around. So we are going to witness a situation in Janine in the coming hours beside what's going in Jerusalem this morning. And Hamad, talk to us a little bit about reaction from the West Bank following these series of bombings in Jerusalem. We do understand that Habas has come out and released a statement, Palestinian Islamic Jihad also hailing this Intifada style attack. But talk to us about perhaps the Palestinian Authority. We haven't heard from them directly just yet. What kind of response might we hear from them and some other factions in the West Bank, like the Lyons and like the Al-Aqsa martyrs brigade the military wing of Fadir? The Balasian forces has no control over Jerusalem. I don't think it's about any kind of violence escalation because these attacks could increase violence, escalate violence and weaken its control over the West Bank. But for sure the military groups in Gaza, Hamad, the Islamic Jihad as well as the Lyons then and the military group in the West Bank will embrace and bless such attacks and be happy for that because also Hamad and the Islamic Jihad are calling for a third Intifada, the eruption of the third Intifada in the West Bank since a long time. They want to create the chaos in the West Bank and they're calling with them. So what I thought, it's any clear who's standing behind but I think in the investigations confirmed that Hamas or the Islamic Jihad are standing behind Jerusalem double attack, then the IDF will have a crackdown on Hamas either in the West Bank or in Gaza or the Islamic Jihad or the group that stand behind those attacks. Mohamed Daji, the Palestinian Security Analyst joining us live from Ramallah this morning. Thank you. I want to bring back in our in-studio panel Batya Leventhal and Adiyel Osaran. Batya, I want to start with you, Prime Minister Yair Lapid will update Opposition Leader Benjamin Netanyahu who was also the incoming Prime Minister after assessing the security situation and the incidents. This conversation is scheduled for the end of the assessment that Yair Lapid will have at 12 p.m. local time talk to us about the coordination within both the current governing body in Israel and the opposition and how Benjamin Netanyahu will have to deal with this when he forms his government. Israel is very good, unfortunately, with putting personal and political issues aside when something like this happens, like such a mass casualty terror attack. And they are very good at coordinating between the two of them, mind you, even being from polar opposites of the political spectrum. And so while it still stands that until the 37th government gets sworn in and as we keep saying Prime Minister Alex as well as incoming Prime Minister, he is not officially in that post. And so technically Yair Lapid does need to be attending these assessments and these meetings, but it is seen as sort of a formality and in a sense of a handing over of power for him to address and to actually speak with the incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This is not a requirement currently as it stands, the government that is in place right now, although they are the incumbent government and the outgoing government at the same time, they are still currently in place. So I think that this could also be seen from the perpetrators point of view as almost a weakness or a gap in the lines of maybe coordination between the fact that we have an outgoing administration and an incoming administration and that seems to be sparking chaos. I think however, given the assessments of this incident that while they maybe thought that this was a weakness which corrects, there weren't necessarily early warning signs from a security point of view. But in terms of a political point of view that there was this gap that they could have exposed or kind of used, I think they did. But I think what's likely to happen now is that they're gonna end up propelling the negotiations with the incoming administration, with incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to organize a government as quickly as possible. And so policies can be put in place. And so if events should happen again like this, there is far better coordination because there's an actual stable government in place to be able to make that happen. Let's bring in our Middle East correspondent, Adeel Osiron Adeel. I wanna speak to you about Israel. Israel has quite impressive intelligence and surveillance all across their country in the Palestinian territories and even outside of the country. Let's talk about how something like this could not only skip, flip through the cracks, but what kind of damage control will they be doing now? And what type of effort will be put into the manhunt for these individuals that they're describing as the cell in this coordinated joint effort for these two blasts within Jerusalem? Right, Hamda. The intelligence network of Israel, its capabilities are widespread. And it would indicate that such an attack could have been thwarted in advance, but we're talking about an open bus terminal that anyone off the street can pass by, can come and go without, you know, any prior alert or indication that something could go on. As to prior knowledge of such intent to carry out an attack, that is these new geographic infrastructures that we've seen such as the Janine Brigade or the Lion's Den have posed challenging, have posed a large challenge to Israeli forces because they're fairly new, they're fairly independent, and if that is challenging for Israeli forces, lone wolf attacks are even harder because a lot of these attacks are carried out by individuals who indeed some of them have succumbed to incitement, others have personal grievances, mental issues that at the end of the day are channeled towards attacks against Israelis, and those are very, very difficult to uncover in advance and thwart and stop attacks before they are carried out. So first, Israeli authorities are gonna try and look into this infrastructure who it has its backing from, if at all, and how many people are we talking about, where is this another one of those geographic-based infrastructures? This is, these are questions that are being investigated as we speak, given the nature of this morning's coordinated attack, two explosives remotely activated by telephone, similar in design with charges that included marbles on nails to increase the spray and maximize casualties. This is a significant step up of capabilities that we have seen until now, and so this is something that Israeli security officials are gonna try and get a handle on as soon as possible to try and prevent similar attacks from being carried out. Ariel Oceran, thank you. Let's bring in Dr. Idan Lerman, the Vice President for the Jerusalem Institute of Strategy and Security, and also the former Deputy Director of Foreign Policy and International Affairs at the National Security Council for the Prime Minister's Office. Good morning to you. Thank you for joining us on the program. As a security expert, I want your take and your assessment on the developing situation in Jerusalem this morning. Well, we clearly need to let the security forces, the Shinbets, police, military intelligence do their work and come to the root of who's behind it. This does not look like a lone wolf operation, or this reminds us actually not of the early years of the century, the years of the so-called Second Intifada, which was not an Intifada at all, but a terror campaign organized from above. It reminds me of the kind of bombings that we witnessed in the late 60s and 70s, not heroic suicide bombers walking into a crowd, but devices operated from a distance or timed devices. The knowledge of how to put such things together is not rocket science. It can come from a relatively makeshift group, but we have also reasons to suspect that both Hamas and Palestinian Islamic jihad, particularly the latter, have an ongoing interest in increasing pressure on Israel at this time, not just because of the Israeli political situation, which is volatile, but also for two other reasons. One is that the Palestinian authorities getting increasingly weaker, and they are exploiting this weakness. And the second is that they are both, in one way or the other, associated with the Iranians. A Palestinian Islamic jihad works for the Iranians, Hamas works with the Iranians, a different proposition literally, but they both, let's say, have reasons to do Iran's bidding at this time. And Iran has a supreme interest in turning the world attention away from what's happening in Iran and from what's happening with the nuclear program, which is surging forward and was centered by the IAEA, and now they have responded by stepping it up. So we are moving into an era of extreme tension, but potentially even the need for military action and any distraction that can drag Israel into us, what they would consider an effective distraction from the main issue, which is Iran, is a useful one for these two organizations. Right, Dr. Idan Alerman, the Vice President of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security. That's it for us here from this breaking news edition of the I-24 News Desk. I'm Hamza Selhout in Tel Aviv.