 Tonight, 24 News at this hour as we broadcast the latest updates as the Israel-Hamas war enters day 46. Right now, Israeli troops engage in active combat across northern Gaza as the IDF pushes forward. IDF strikes ongoing. In fact, at this very moment, the IDF has announced that this morning, troops completed the encirclement of the Jabalia camp, a dense neighborhood, and a stronghold of Hamas battalions in the north, and the IDF has eliminated hundreds of terror targets overnight. The IDF this morning announcing two more soldiers, sadly, have died in battle against Hamas terrorists as well. Israeli media are reporting that a hostage deal that may see dozens of women and children, hostages freed, may be imminently announced by Qatar. We'll be on the lookout for any confirmation from Qatar on a deal. Meanwhile, tensions continue to rise in the north, where Hezbollah has fired several volleys of rockets and mortars into Israel today alone. With us now is I-24 News correspondent Zach Anders for the latest update as tensions heat up. Zach? Well, within the last hour, another red alert for another border community here in northern Israel. This after several reported launches this morning, the IDF says that they have struck the points of origin for where these launches took place, once again attributing them to Hezbollah. Of course, the last 24 hours saw over two dozen separate launches. These are coming from artillery, mortars, and including these ATGMs, the anti-tank guided missiles, which are manned by personnel, so they do involve troops coming close to the border and firing on Israeli positions from where we are in this location in the north. They are rather tense. The soldiers that are manning the checkpoints, of course, are continuing to urge some of the residents that haven't already fled, that call for evacuation is still in place, and they're asking more individuals to consider leaving if they haven't already. These border communities are, for the most part, over 10,000 have evacuated, so they are very quiet, not the normal pace of life that is expected here. The real question in the last week or so has been how much further can this escalation continue with Hezbollah continuing to fire on IDF positions and Israeli towns before this really erupts into something that can't really be contained. Now, Hezbollah has been staging on and reportedly staging on the Lebanon side with considerable forces, but they have restrained themselves in a sense to just firing these mortars and these rockets, which, of course, is no solace to anyone who lives here to hear that, to know that they're under that kind of threat. But at the moment, the ground presence, the troop presence, has been contained to the Lebanese towns on the other side of the border, and these small instances of poking out, trying to antagonize IDF forces, fire upon them, and then retreat further inland. Exactly. Clearly, this is not sustainable. I mean, even as some border towns in the south, homeowners are being allowed to return to the Gaza envelope in the south and go back home, they can't go back home in the north. What will it take for Israeli homeowners to be able to safely return back to their homes in these dozens of communities that have been evacuated? That's a great question. The Biden administration sent one of their officials yesterday to discuss just that. How are we going to manage the situation in the north with no real clear outcome yet as to how that meeting went? Now, the border communities have no timeline for return. They have no clarity as to when they can come back because this is a situation where you have no real answer from any of the leadership involved, and especially from Hezbollah itself continuing to ratchet up the dialogue and continue to say that it's okay to fire upon Israeli positions. They continue to use that kind of language without giving any sort of pace or walk back towards what it will take for them to de-escalate. Meanwhile, the IDF continues to operate on response rather than offensive action. They've been responding to the strikes from Hezbollah rather than trying to eliminate them before the large swells of forces attempt to put more pressure on this situation. Zach Angers for us live in the northern border where tensions continue to escalate. There continues to be rocket fire even today. Meanwhile, tensions and the ground campaign in the south continue to escalate. There have been attacks all morning long as the IDF tries to root out Hamas terror positions and destroy terror tunnels. The IDF has completed the encirclement of the Jabalia camp, and more than that, they have also been able to confirm that more than 250 terror targets from Hamas have been destroyed in the last day. With us now on the south, as I-24 News correspondent Pierre Kloshendler, Pierre, the intense activity, the flurry of targets that were destroyed today, is this an indication perhaps that there is some kind of clock on the IDF if there are reports of this hostage deal nearing? Well, you know, these reports are basically unconfirmed. What we hear is from unconfirmed sources to the Israeli media that it could happen within a couple of within a few hours. And the announcement will be made by the Qatari government. Although for the IDF, the answer is very simple. There won't be any pause in the fighting as long as there is no pause in the fighting. And thus, right now, since this morning, there's been an intensification of the pounding of the Gaza Strip of the northern sector, particularly behind me, Betchanoun, Betlahia, Sherzahed, Al-Atatra, all these neighborhoods that are north of the Jebalia refugee camp, whose encirclement has been completed overnight with the opening of accesses of penetration for the IDF ground forces. And in order to facilitate the conquest of one of the densest refugee camps in the Gaza Strip, the IDF is urging the tens of thousands of residents that are still in Jebalia refugee camp to join the cohort of displaced people that are moving from north to south on the Salahadin access east of Gaza City. Now, the problem really is those displaced, those people that are that have not yet evacuated the Jebalia refugee camp. Regarding Zeytun, the neighborhood south of Jebalia in Gaza City, Zeytun, the Zeytun takeover is almost completed, basically. The Hamas terrorists are, many of them are just taking off their fatigues, they're dressing as civilians, abandoning their weapons, according to the IDF, and moving south. Now, the fighting will go on as long as there is no break in the fighting. That's as simple as that. Here for us on the Israel-Gaza border. Thank you so much for that live update. With us now in studio still, Hayuta Goren, the CEO, the executive CEO of Birth Freedom Israel movement, amid these reports of a hostage deal that may be announced in the hours or days to come, according to both Israeli media and American media, there is a uniform consensus that any deal would focus primarily on women and children. But you've been speaking about your reaction, your horror, at the silence of so many prominent global women's rights and women's focused organizations that you personally had been a supporter of in the past, proudly in the past. And you have said that their silence is unforgivable. Tell me why. Because silence kills. Because to choose to be silent is to actually choose the side of evil. It's to allow evil to continue. Because to even to keep neutral in some situations is to be on the side of evil. And it doesn't mean that our hearts are not breaking for the citizens and the women and the children of Gaza, because it does. But you can't just talk about that without saying a thing about the raped and assaulted and murdered and butchered and mutilated Israeli women and babies and children on October 7th, and probably since in captivity, you to ignore that. And the UN, the UN and I think particular organizations that you shocked by shocked. I don't know that I'm shocked because I don't think it's surprising. But absolutely, the International Red Cross, cross ICRC absolutely useless in this whole thing. And that's their job to be there. It's been 46 days and we don't know what's going on. There are babies, there are grandmas, there are grandpas, there are teenage boys and girls, mothers. Where is the International Red Cross? You and women and Cedar. What is these those vanilla statements on your part? What is stopping you from saying from talking about Hamas is a terror organization and to say horrific acts were committed on Israeli citizens on October 7th? What is this? The Birth Rights Bar Association from my I'm a member of the Birth Rights Bar Association out of the US and Canada. Where are you? It's an association. It's a bar of lawyers talking about human rights in childbirth. Where are you? And on and on and on and on. But and and I mentioned before and I have to mention the International Confederation of Confederation of Midwives who were the first ones right when it started to come out and speak only of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. These are midwives from all over the world whose entire professional focus and personal is to help women and children and babies to come into the world. What about what about the Israeli women? What about them? Do you think that the Israeli government is equipped? Are they able to handle the needs of dozens of women and also minors, you know, children, female children who may have been brutalized by by Hamas in their captivity? Is the Israeli government equipped for their needs and what is your message to the government if there is a hostage deal perhaps coming? What do they need to focus on? Jeff, I'm so happy you asked me that. I don't. I don't think the government is equipped, but it's not a personal thing. I think governments are not equipped to take care of such mass need of the citizens. I think and it's been shown in the last 46 days that the government needs the civil society in Israel, all the nonprofit organizations and initiations that has had happened to to work with them and do it for them. And I need the government need to fund certain programs of our organization and other organizations and really commit to allow us to to together with the government hopefully help all those women. It's going to be a lot of work for a long term. Horror stories. It's going to break our collective souls, perhaps some of these stories from survivors that we hear. Yeah. Khaute Gorin with the Birth Freedom Israel Movement. Thank you so much for staying with us here. I'm not going for you. It's great to have you. And as the ground offensive continues in Gaza, Israel's allies still aiming to convince governments that this war is moral and necessary, the White House, National Security Council spokesman giving an impassioned answer about Hamas's ultimate goals regarding Jews. What Hamas wants make no mistake about it is genocide. They want to wipe Israel off the map. They've said so publicly, more than one occasion. In fact, just recently, and they've said that they're not going to stop. What happened on the 7th of October is going to happen again and again and again. And what happened on the 7th of October? Murder, slaughter of innocent people in their homes or at a music festival. That's genocidal intentions. Yes, there are too many civilian casualties in Gaza. Yes, the numbers are too high. Yes, too many families are grieving. And yes, we continue to urge the Israelis to be as careful and cautious as possible. That's not going to stop from the president right on down. But Israel is not trying to wipe the Palestinian people off the map. Israel's not trying to wipe Gaza off the map. Israel's trying to defend itself against a genocidal terrorist threat. So when we're going to start, if we're going to start using that word, fine, let's use it appropriately. With us in studio is retiring IDF Colonel Amit Asaf, former member also of the Israeli security agency. Thank you so much for being with me, Amit. I want to talk with you as we've talked earlier here on this broadcast, the reports of the hostage deal may happen soon. And even though we don't know the particulars and we can't report on the exact nature likely that if there is to be a deal, women and children, dozens of them might be part will be included in the deal in exchange for multi day pause in fighting a truce, humanitarian pause ceasefire, however, can be framed. It means the IDF campaign has to stop. Soldiers have to stop. I want to get your first reaction to these reports. First, we know that it's a play of the Hamas. They are playing with our heart with our soul, with our humanitarian motion. And they know that they are playing in that game, because they don't matter about the humanitarian and any exchange of people. And they are playing with us. And they know that the government of Israel need to do something because we want as much as we can do for the hostages to get out. But my opinion is the first, they are not a war hostages, is that it's not the soldiers, women, children doesn't have to be in this calculation of soldier exchange in war. Okay, this is first thing. And other thing I think Hamas doesn't know really where they are, everybody. So if they say the amount of 50, you can hear what they say also, it will take time to find this 50. Okay, meaning we need time. They are playing in that game to have the time to have the phrase for organization for organization, all all the equipment and arm of the forces a lot would happen between any kind of formal announcement and the actual return to Israeli territory of these of her citizens of these women and children. Even if there's a multi-day pause in fighting, and there is an agreement that Hamas would release a little bit each day, as part of the plan in batches, small batches. Who's to say that that ceasefire would last as long? And who's to say Hamas, this terror group would claim falsely that the ceasefire was broken by Israel, we're going to stop the release. I mean, there's a lot of, there's a lot of security in the wiggle room here. We know that we are on the hand of the Hamas in that case of hostages. We know it. And IDF have to move on with the plan of of determination of all the Hamas members in all the Gaza Strip. So it's, we can stop for a few days. But I think these few days of stopping off a ceasefire will will get the impression for all people in the world, who is we are talking with? Okay, that will not stick to this ceasefire. They will move on with the ammunition themselves on day. We will see that this ceasefire is just a camouflage. I want to ask about the the as the IDF turns now towards the south. We know today the IDF encircling Jabalia camp, a stronghold of Hamas, intense fighting expected there. There's a two neighborhood much of North Gaza now under IDF control. But the situation might be very different. Let's say the Khan units. I mean, what are your thoughts on that situation where we now have Hamas commanders, probably hostages and hundreds of thousands of civilians? How can the IDF screen and battle in an area like Khan units or in much of the south? I think it's a it's a very big problem for us. Especially when we are talking about one brigade of Hamas in the area of Gaza, and two other brigades are in Ham, in Khan units and Rafa. So we know that when we are facing ourselves to the south, it will be a problem because there is a lot of Hamas members will fight from there. And as you said, we are doing all these fights among civilians, civilians that we let them go out from the north to the south. We have to put them back, back to the south again, to move on with the plan of the IDF. But we have to do it. If the IDF, if there is a ceasefire of any kind, and the IDF can't continue, we have seen in Lebanon, the IDF having to be stagnant and not advancing. You know, there's the expression about a shark dies when it's not advancing forward without swimming. The idea of if it's not pushing forward or have a clear military goal, there's a chance of capture. There's a chance of ambush is a chance of killing. We've seen this in the north. We've seen this in Israeli history, whether from a security standpoint, how can the IDF negotiate the ceasefire and successfully make sure that their soldiers are safe deep inside I think it's one of the aim of the IDF. When we are talking about ceasefire is securing the forces. And they will deal with it, I think, very good. And the IDF knows what is the security problem. Most of it is getting in the back of you because there is tunnels that they can move out from that and attack from the back. So the IDF knows it and that they will secure all the forces during this period of time. I mean, I want to turn to the north a question for you about the situation in the north. There are conflicting reports about if not now, perhaps soon, the Israeli families who are forcibly evacuated from five or so kilometers away from the Gaza envelope and may soon be able to return home. There's indications that the situation in the south of the massive decrease in rocket fire indicates it may soon be safe for families to go back home in the south in the north. It's the opposite. When what will it take in your mind for families in the north to be safe to return to communities five, eight kilometers away from the Lebanon border, if ever? I think that the situation with Hezbollah is more sensitive. Hezbollah has to understand that they have to move to the north. We have to have the right area in the northern side of the border of Israel that no Hezbollah will be there. We know that they know that they will have to do it, but the IDF will have to ensure that they are doing it before we are doing anything about civilians, people getting back to their homes. And the Secretary for Defense said, for the people, we will not leave you until it will be safe. Difficult calculus. Hey, I've retired Colonel Amit as I thank you so much for being with us, giving us your analysis here in I-24 News. And Hamas terrorists on October 7th butchered entire families oftentimes as we have seen in Hamas video that included the family dog. In some cases, though, dogs and pets that were shot or burned survived. And as you see in the following report here in I-24 News, it's falling to volunteers to show them love and compassion again. A darling, right? Is he up for adoption? He's up for adoption, but he needs a family that knows what they're dealing with. Already at first glance, it's clear this is not another kennel. The expressions in the eyes, the scars on the body and the fur. Every dog here has his own horror story. Welcome to the home of the lost dogs of the residents of the Gaza envelope. And the families were kidnapped. Abducted. So they are here alone, no matter how many volunteers there are, and no matter how much warmth and love is given, no one will replace the real family. Pictures from other happier days. Rimon and Gev together with the dogs they loved so much. On the morning of October 7, terrorists raided Kibbutz Nireem, kidnapped Rimon, and gave to Gaza. The three dogs escaped and survived and were brought here. Tova, Rex and Sweet Gray, who were now left alone. These dogs were like the children they didn't have yet. Tova was like Rimon's baby. Rimon also had a special permission to go with Tova everywhere, just like a blind man and his guide dog. That's how Tova was for Rimon. While encountering the terrorists, a dog was suddenly discovered in one of the vehicles that was attacked and hauled with bullets. They couldn't get him out. He tried to bite everyone who came close until a volunteer came and managed to rescue him. How is he now? He still is. He has fears. You notice it's not that smooth, but much better than in the beginning. He already plays with us, plays with the dogs. From Nativ Haasura, she was hit by shrapnel. She was there for two weeks alone, hit by shrapnel. Even a small burn that she has on her back, what you see, you also see the signs she has. She was taken care of. She had a haircut. She was disinfected. What's her name? Chicha. We called him Novo. He doesn't have a name yet. That they find him in Gaza. Soldiers found him and brought him. Many of the owners of these dogs were murdered. Others were kidnapped. Dogs were also kidnapped to Gaza. Wow, dogs. Ibrahim, the dogs came from inside Israel. Maybe he bites. And there are also stories with a happy ending. Dogs that were frightened ran away and were found and are now reunited with their surviving families. Here, now she just realized. Pay attention. Only now did she realize it. Come on, come on, come on. Who's a good dog? Who's a good dog? Is this a home for These are different dogs in every respect because their owners are different because their families are different. On normal days, the shelter for the dogs of the evacuees and the murdered and kidnapped is used as a boarding house and a place for training. A bit like us, the dogs here are also still in shock from what they experience. They receive a lot of warm love and food here. We have a good nation and throughout this month, they take care of us and contact us about how to donate. For dogs, like for humans, it'll take some time for rehabilitation for a new beginning. In the meantime, they are here, perhaps also to remind us in the midst of infinite evil that there is also unconditional love, just waiting for us at the end of the road. Thanks for watching I-24 News at this hour. We're going to have more live team coverage, live updates from the Israel Lebanon border where Hezbollah attacks are continuing today and more live coverage from the Israel Gaza border where the IDF continues to advance in the northern Gaza Strip and more expert analysis from our guests in the studio and around the world. Stay with us. We'll be back soon and thanks for watching. I-24 News is in a state of war. Families completely gunned down in their beds. We have no idea where she is. Our soldiers are fighting on the front line, but the general perception is something that certainly needs to to be fought as well. In I-24, Israel's low attack. In I-24, in Spanish, it brings the analysis and the information of the events of the war, weapons of war. Exclusive interviews and reports from the war zone. The reaction of the Spanish-speaking countries. In I-24, the only medium in Spanish that keeps informed and connected with the Latin community in Israel. In I-24, only in I-24 News. Draw story to the world. Joining us on I-24 News at this hour as we broadcast the latest updates as the Israel Hamas war enters day 46, right now Israeli troops engage in active combat across northern Gaza as the IDF pushes forward. IDF strikes ongoing. In fact, at this very moment, the IDF has announced that this morning, troops completed the encirclement of the Jabalia camp, a dense neighborhood and a stronghold of Hamas battalions in the north. And the IDF has eliminated hundreds of terror targets overnight. The IDF this morning announcing two more soldiers, sadly, have died in battle against Hamas terrorists as well. Israeli media reporting that a hostage deal that may see dozens of women and children hostages freed may be imminently announced by Qatar. We'll be on the lookout for any confirmation from Qatar on a deal. Meanwhile, tensions continue to rise in the north where Hezbollah has fired several volleys of rockets and mortars into Israel today alone. With us now is I-24 News correspondent Zach Anders for the latest update as tensions heat up. Zach. Well, within the last hour, another red alert for another border community here in northern Israel. This after several reported launches this morning, the IDF says that they have struck the points of origin for where these launches took place once again, attributing them to Hezbollah. Of course, the last 24 hours saw over two dozen separate launches. These are coming from artillery mortars and including these ATGMs, the anti-tank guided missiles, which are manned by personnel. So they do involve troops coming close to the border and firing on Israeli positions from where we are in this location in the north. It has been rather tense. The soldiers that are manning the checkpoints, of course, are continuing to urge some of the residents that haven't already fled that that call for evacuation is still in place and they're asking more individuals to consider leaving if they haven't already. These border communities are for the most part over 10,000 have evacuated, so they are very quiet, not the normal pace of life that is expected here. But the real question in the last week or so has been how much further can this escalation continue with Hezbollah continuing to fire on IDF positions and Israeli towns before this really erupts into something that can't really be contained. Now, Hezbollah has been staging on and reportedly staging on the Hezbollah side or the Lebanon side with considerable forces, but they have restrained themselves in a sense to just firing these mortars and these rockets, which of course is no solace to anyone who lives here to hear that to know that they're under that kind of threat. But at the moment the ground presence, the troop presence has been contained to the Lebanese towns on the other side of the border and these small instances of poking out, trying to antagonize IDF forces, fire upon them, and then retreat further inland. But that clearly this is not sustainable. I mean, even as some border towns in the south, homeowners are being allowed to return to the Gaza envelope in the south and go back home, they can't go back home in the north. What will it take for Israeli homeowners to be able to safely return back to their homes in these dozens of communities that have been evacuated? It's a great question. The Biden administration sent one of their officials yesterday to discuss just that. How are we going to manage the situation in the north with no real clear outcome yet as to how that meeting went? Now the border communities have no timeline for return. They have no clarity as to when they can come back because this is a situation where you have no real answer from any of the leadership involved and especially from Hezbollah itself continuing to ratchet up the dialogue and continue to say that, you know, it's okay to fire upon Israeli positions and they continue to use that kind of language without giving any sort of pace or walk back towards what it will take for them to de-escalate. Meanwhile, the IDF continues to operate on response rather than offensive action. They've been responding to the strikes from Hezbollah rather than trying to eliminate them before the large swells of forces attempts to put more pressure on this situation. All right, Jack Angersforce live in the northern border where tensions continue to escalate, there continues to be rocket fire even today. Meanwhile, tensions and the ground campaign in the south continue to escalate. There have been attacks all morning long as the IDF tries to root out Hamas terror positions and destroy terror tunnels. The IDF has completed the encirclement of the Jabalia camp and more than that they have also been able to confirm that more than 250 terror targets from Hamas have been destroyed in the last day. With us now on the south is I-24 News correspondent Pierre Kloshendler. Pierre, the intense activity, the flurry of targets that were destroyed today. Is this an indication perhaps that there is some kind of clock on the IDF if there are reports of this hostage deal nearing? Well, you know these reports are basically unconfirmed. What we hear is from unconfirmed sources to the Israeli media that it could happen within a couple of within a few hours and the announcement will be made by the Qatari government. Although for the IDF the answer is very simple. There won't be any pose in the fighting as long as there is no pose in the fighting and thus right now since this morning there's been an intensification of the pounding of the Gaza Strip of the northern sector, particularly behind me, Betchanun, Betlahia, Sherzahed, Alatatra, all these neighborhoods that are north of the Jebalia refugee camp whose encirclement has been completed overnight with the opening of accesses of penetration for the IDF ground forces and in order to facilitate the conquest of one of the densest refugee camps in the Gaza Strip the IDF is urging the tens of thousands of residents that are still in Jebalia refugee camp to join the cohort of displaced people that are moving from north to south on the Salahadin access east of Gaza City. Now the problem really is those displaced, those people that are that have not yet evacuated the Jebalia refugee camp. Regarding Zaitun, the neighborhood south of Jebalia in Gaza City, Zaitun the Zaitun takeover is almost completed basically. The Hamas terrorists are many of them are just taking off their fatigues, they're dressing as civilians, abandoning their weapons according to the IDF and moving south. Now the fighting will go on as long as there is no break in the fighting that's as simple as that. Here for us on the Israel-Gaza border thank you so much for that live update with us now in studio still Chayuta Goreng the CEO, the executive CEO of Birth Freedom Israel Movement amid these reports of a hostage deal that may be announced in the hours or days to come according to both Israeli media and American media there is a uniform consensus that any deal would focus primarily on women and children. But you've been speaking about your reaction, your horror at the silence of so many prominent global women's rights and women's focused organizations that you personally had been a supporter of in the past proudly in the past and you have said that what their silence is unforgivable tell me why. Because silence kills because to choose to be silent is to actually choose the side of evil it's to allow evil to continue because to even to keep neutral in some situations is to be on the side of evil and it doesn't mean that our hearts are not breaking for the citizens and the women and the children of Gaza because it does. But you can't just talk about that without saying a thing about the raped and assaulted and murdered and butchered and mutilated Israeli women and babies and children on October 7th and probably since in captivity you to ignore that and the UN the UN and I think particular organizations that you yes shocked by shocked I don't know that I'm shocked because I don't think it's surprising but absolutely the international red cross cross ICRC absolutely useless and this whole thing and that's their job to be there it's been 46 days and we don't know what's going on there are babies there are grandmas there are grandpas there are teenage boys and girls mothers where are where is the international red cross UN women and Cedar what is these those vanilla statements on your part what is stopping you from saying from talking about Hamas is a terror organization and to say horrific acts were committed on Israeli citizens on October 7th what is this the birthrights bar association from my I'm a member of the birthrights bar association out of the US and Canada where are you it's an association it's a bar of lawyers talking about human rights in childbirth where are you and on and on and on and on but and and I mentioned before and I have to mention the international confederate of confederation of midwives who were the first ones right when it started to come out and speak only of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza these are midwives from all over the world whose entire professional focus and personal is to help women and children and babies to come into the world what about what about the Israeli women what about them so do you think that the Israeli government is equipped are they able to handle the needs of dozens of women and also minors you know children female children who may have been brutalized by by Hamas in their captivity is the Israeli government equipped for their needs and what is your message to the government if there is a hostage deal perhaps coming what do they need to focus on Jeff I'm so happy you asked me that I don't I don't think the government is equipped but it's not a personal thing I think governments are not equipped to take care of such mass need of the citizens I think and it's been shown in the last 46 days that the government needs the civil society in Israel all the non-profit organizations and initiations that has had happened to to work with them and do it for them and I need the government need to fund certain programs of our organization and other organizations and and really commit to allow us to to together with the government hopefully help all those women it's going to be a lot of we're here for a long term horror we're going to hear horror stories I mean it's going to break our collective souls perhaps some of these stories from survivors that we hear kaiute gore with the birth freedom israel movement thank you so much for staying with us here I'm not going for you it's great to have you and as the ground offensive continues in Gaza israel's allies still aiming to convince governments that this war is moral and necessary the white house national security council spokesman giving an impassioned answer about Hamas's ultimate goals regarding Jews what Hamas wants make no mistake about it is genocide they want to wipe Israel off the map they've said so publicly more than one occasion in fact just recently and they've said that they're not going to stop what happened on the 7th of October is going to happen again and again and again and what happened on the 7th of October murder slaughter of innocent people in their homes or at a music festival that's genocidal intentions yes there are too many civilian casualties in Gaza yes the numbers are too high yes family too many families are grieving and yes we continue to urge the Israelis to be as careful and cautious as possible that's not going to stop from the president right on down but israel is not trying to wipe the Palestinian people off the map israel's not trying to wipe Gaza off the map israel's trying to defend itself against a genocidal terrorist threat so when we're going to start if we're going to start using that word fine let's use it appropriately with us in studio is retiring idea of colonel Amit Asaf former member also of the Israeli security agency thank you so much for being with me Amit I want to talk with you as we've talked earlier here on this broadcast the reports of the hostage deal may happen soon and even though we don't know the particulars and we can't report on the the exact nature likely that if there is to be a deal women and children dozens of them might be part will be included in the deal in exchange for multi-day pause in fighting a truce humanitarian pause ceasefire however it can be framed it means the idea of campaign has to stop soldiers have to stop i want to get your first reaction to these reports first we we know that it's a play of the the Hamas they are playing with our heart with our soul with our humanitarian emotion and they know that they are playing in that game because they don't matter about the humanitarian and any exchange of of people and they are playing with us and they know that the government of israel need to do something because we want as much as we we can do for the hostages to get out but my opinion is the first they are not a war hostages it's not soldiers a women children doesn't have to be in this calculation of soldier exchange in war okay this is first thing another thing i think Hamas doesn't know really where they are everybody so if they say the amount of 50 you can hear what they say also it will take time to find this 50 okay meaning we need time they are playing in that game to have the time to have the phrase for organization for organization all all the equipment and the arm of the forces a lot would happen between any kind of formal announcement and the actual return to israeli territory of these of her citizens of these women and children even if there's a multi-day pause in fighting and there is an agreement that Hamas would release a little bit each day as a part of the plan in batches small batches who's to say that that ceasefire would last as long who's to say Hamas this terror group would claim falsely that the ceasefire was broken by israel we're going to stop the release i mean there's a lot of there's a lot of security in that wiggle room here we know that we are on the hand of the Hamas in that case of hostages we know it and the idea have to move on with the plan of of determination of all the Hamas members in all the Gaza Strip so it's we can stop for a few days but i think these few days of stopping of ceasefire will will get the impression for all people in the world who is we are we are talking with okay that will not stick to this ceasefire they will move on with the ammunition themselves on the day we will see that this ceasefire is just a conflage i want to ask about the the as the IDF turns now towards the south we know today the IDF in circling jubilee our camp a stronghold of Hamas intense fighting expected there there's a two neighborhood much of north Gaza now under IDF control but the situation might be very different let's say in khan units i mean what are your thoughts on that situation where we now have Hamas commanders probably hostages and hundreds of thousands of civilians how can the idea of screen and battle in an area of khan units or in much of the south i think it's a it's a very big problem for us especially when we are talking about one brigade of Hamas in the area of Gaza and two other brigades are in khan in khan units and rafa so we know that when we are facing ourselves to the south it will be a problem because there is a lot of Hamas members will fight from there and as you said we are doing all this fight among civilians civilians that we let them go out from the north to the south we have to put them back back to the south again to move on with the the plan of the idea but we have to do it if the idea if there is a ceasefire of any kind of the idea can't continue we have seen in Lebanon the idea happened to be stagnant and not advancing you know there's the expression about a shark dies when it's not advancing forward it's not swimming the idea if it's not pushing forward or have a clear military goal there's a chance of capture there's a chance of ambush there's a chance of killing we've seen this in the north we've seen this in israeli history whether from a security standpoint how can the idf negotiate the ceasefire and successfully make sure that their soldiers are safe deep inside i think it's one of the aim of the idea when we are talking about ceasefire is securing the forces and they will deal with it i think uh very good and the idf knows what is this the security problem most of it is getting in the back of you because there is tunnels that they can move out from that and attack from the back so the idf knows it and that they will secure all the forces during this period of time i mean i want to turn to the north a question for you about the situation in the north there are conflicting reports about if not now perhaps soon that israeli families who are forcibly evacuated from five or so kilometers away from the gaza envelope they may soon be able to return home there's indications that the situation in the south of the massive decrease in rocket fire uh indicates it may soon be safe for families to go back home in the south in the north it's the opposite when what will take in your mind for families in the north to be safe to return to communities five eight kilometers away from the lebanon border if ever i think that the situation with khizballah is more sensitive khizballah has to understand that they have to move to the north we have to have the the right area in the northern side of the border of israel that no khizballah will be there we we know the that they know that they will have to do it but the idea will have to ensure that they are doing it before we are doing anything about civilians people getting back to their homes and the secretary for defense said for the for the people we will not leave you until it will be safe difficult calculus hey i've retired colonel amit asa thank you so much for being with us giving us your analysis here in i-24 news and hamas terrorists on october 7th butchered entire families oftentimes as we have seen in hamas video that included the family dog in some cases though dogs and pets that were shot or burned survived and as you see in the following report here in i-24 news it's falling to volunteers to show them love and compassion again a darling right is he up for adoption he's up for adoption but he needs a family that knows what they're dealing with already at first glance it's clear this is not another kettle the expressions in the eyes the scars on the body and the fur every dog here has his own horror story welcome to the home of the lost dogs of the residents of the gaza envelope and the families were kidnapped abducted so they are here alone no matter how many volunteers there are and no matter how much warmth and love is given no one will replace the real family pictures from other happier days rimon and gev together with the dogs they loved so much on the morning of october 7 terrorists raided kibbutz nirim kidnapped rimon and gave to gaza the three dogs escaped and survived and were brought here tova rex and sweet gray who are now left alone these dogs were like the children they didn't have yet tova was like rimon's baby rimon also had a special permission to go with tova everywhere just like a blind man and his guide dog that's how tova was for rimon while encountering the terrorists a dog was suddenly discovered in one of the vehicles that was attacked and hauled with bullets they couldn't get him out he tried to bite everyone who came close until a volunteer came and managed to rescue him how is he now he still is he has fears you notice it's not that smooth but much better than in the beginning he already plays with us plays with the dogs from nativ haasura she was hit by shrapnel she was there for two weeks alone hit by shrapnel even a small burn that she has on her back what you see you also see the sign she has she was taken care of she had a haircut she was disinfected what's her name chicha we called him novo he doesn't have a name yet that they find him in gaza soldiers found him and brought him many of the owners of these dogs were murdered others were kidnapped dogs were also kidnapped to gaza wow dogs ibrahim the dogs came from inside israel maybe he bites and there are also stories with a happy ending dogs that were frightened ran away and were found and are now reunited with their surviving families here now she just realized pay attention only now did she realize it come on come on come on who's a good dog who's a good dog is this a home for lost dogs these are different dogs in every respect because their owners are different because their families are different on normal days the shelter for the dogs of the evacuees and the murder and kidnapped is used as a boarding house and a place for training a bit like us the dogs here are also still in shock from what they experience they receive a lot of warmth love and food here we have a good nation and throughout this month they take care of us and contact us about how to donate for dogs like for humans it'll take some time for rehabilitation for a new beginning in the meantime they are here perhaps also to remind us in the midst of infinite evil that there is also unconditional love just waiting for us at the end of the road thanks for watching i-twenty for news at this hour we're going to have more live team coverage live updates from the israel levin on border where hezbollah attacks are continuing today and more live coverage from the israel gaza border where the idf continues to advance in the northern gaza strip and more expert analysis from our guests in studio and around the world stay with us we'll be back soon and thanks for watching i-twenty for you in a state of war families completely done down in their beds we have no idea where is she as our soldiers are fighting on the front line but the general perception is something that certainly needs to to be fought as well drill story to the world i-twenty for news channels the four news is ongoing coverage of israel at war i'm ariel levin wallman on the southern front the idf says troops have completed the encirclement of the jabaliya sector of gaza city a known hamas hot spot the air force and artillery corps have already begun striking at tunnel entrances to close off hamas's underground fortress with at least three major shafts hit today all this is happening under heavy fire and moving battles with terrorist gunmen on the ground the 401st armored brigade and an akhal infantry brigade destroyed several hamas rocket emplacements on the outskirts of jabaliya during gunfights against hamas the air force says they have hit 250 hamas targets over the past day two more soldiers have fallen in the fight in northern gaza though bringing the total number there to 67 in the north hezbollah has fired more anti-tank missiles at the matula area the idf responded to the attack with artillery fire this comes after a morning drone infiltration from the same group the idf saying the incident there is over but it comes after a massive escalation yesterday hezbollah pounding an army base with rocket launched 500 pound bombs and we're actually showing you on screen so some live images from gaza so we're going to take our eye directly to the southern front where our correspondent pierre clausianler is standing by live pierre walk us through what exactly we're seeing on screen right now what you're seeing on screen on screen is an a strike ariel and it's quite close to the israeli border with the gaza strip it's in the bethanun area although that area is under israeli control there are still um bombing pounding of hamas and palestin islamic giar targets possibly tunnels or tunnel shafts possibly we weapon depots the interlacing of the tunnel system inside the gaza strip be it in the northern sector which is being fought for by the idf or in the southern sector which is being only which is being bombed since october 7 this interlacing of tunnel is very complex and it will require a lot a lot of time to neutralize to understand the depth of the of the hamas defense lines inside the gaza strip now as you mentioned in jebalia right now there is a tolu and circlement of the refugee camp which is probably the most dense in the gaza strip there are still tens of thousands of palestinians that are not involved in the fighting and the idf is urging them to move away from the battleground join the salahadin access on the east which is open from 9 a.m until 4 p.m possibly with a possible extension like yesterday and uh and just move south zaitun the neighborhood inside the gaza inside gaza city which is just south of jebalia this has the the takeover is almost completed they were three days of very close range combat between the idf and the terrorists what the idf did first was after the bombing campaign was to neutralize all the observation points all the snipers nests in zaitun and in order for to disorient the terrorists what we understand is that only group of five to ten terrorists were coming out of tunnel shafts but they were only relying on the noise of the armored vehicles coming to them and not from their observation points where they could see the the the broad movement of the idf in zaitun now the next effort is jebalia and then the idf has also urged the residents of three other neighborhoods on the gaza outskirts al-darash to fah and shijaya to move away to move south using the humanitarian corridor unit actually opened by the idf and these are probably the next targets of the idf ground offensive which started on october 27 well it's a long road ahead but looks like israel is making some inroads there pierre thank you very much for that update from the ground we are though going to turn our eye to the northern border before we continue any discussion of the south our correspondent zack anders is standing by we saw some anti-tank missile fire at israeli positions earlier today walk us through the latest developments on the northern front zack yeah the the latest at this hour is the headline being circulated in lebanon media that two journalists were killed sometime this morning in a blast this hasn't been independently confirmed but they're reporting that two journalists were struck in some kind of strike and and killed now the idf activity over the last 24 hours has been retaliatory strikes at these points of origin they say from where these atgm's the anti-tank guided missiles that need to be launched by personnel hezbollah fighters inside lebanon need to man these pieces of equipment to be able to fire them just as the mortars in the artillery has also a personnel element to it these mortar launches this morning once again targeting idf activity inside northern israel yesterday was a big day for activity here as well with heavy rocket launches purportedly launched from communities populated areas inside lebanon targeting an idf base where there was extensive damage but no reports of casualty of course this is just another day in a continued a barrage of a back and forth rockets hezbollah will launch and then the idf without fail will initiate some sort of response with their air air superiority here striking targets from where these launches began well thank you very much zack for that update from the northern front we're going to be coming back to you as that situation develops but for anything else we are going to return to the studio for some discussion we have sitting with us right now brigadier general on mir avivi former deputy commander of the gaza strip division with the idf and currently the director of israel's defense and securities forum the idsf we're going to be discussing a lot of these issues in a brief moment before we do that to give our audience some sense of what the ground fighting in gaza is looking like we are going to turn to our middle east correspondent ariel osaron who's going to explain just what the troop positions are right now and what's going on in the gaza strip right ariel so first of all at the bat it's important to note that everything that we're about to explain and show visually has been approved by the israeli military censor now as we can see this is a map of northern gaza the areas in green are areas under idf control and so you can see when the idf says that it completed the encirclement of gaza city this is gaza city including its branches this is what it looks like now we're still as pier mentioned we're still seeing fighting in bet hanun that's in the northeastern part just because it's under idf control does not mean that there aren't pockets of fighting there but as the forces are completing nearly four weeks inside gaza the gaza strip you can see that the circling in over around the central part of gaza strip has been completed here shifa hospital which was a main focal point now moving in let's take a closer look at the jibalia camp where the most significant fighting has been taking place also the idf saying that the encirclement of jibalia has been completed the areas in light green are areas of increased fighting now over the past few days there have been reports coming from gaza as to the evacuation of the indonesian hospital which is the largest hospital in this area the northeastern part of gaza city and if we're talking about gaza the gaza strip the most densely populated strip of land jibalia the most densely populated area inside the gaza strip and so that makes illustrates the complexity of fighting in jibalia also significance for hamas jibalia is also a hub for hamas activity military activity it's a a main headquarters of hamas activity in the northern part of the gaza strip throughout these four weeks of fighting there has been significant damage caused to command and control of hamas forces mainly in the northern part also surrounding the jibalia camp and so as the clock ticks for idf within the back of mind perhaps timetables may be shifting revolving a prison or hostage deal with with hamas the goal the race to conquer completely conquer the jibalia camp is indeed ticking down and idf forces continuing their sweep down these densely populated roads and alleys as they continue to move deeper in jibalia camp a significant hub of hamas in northern gaza well thank you for helping our audience understand just what the situation on the ground looks like right now now before we continue this discussion in studio we are going to take a quick look at the larger region even before the october 7th attack iran had been providing support to militias seeking to dislodge the american presence in iraq and syria roughly 3,500 troops but since then us forces have also been part of this circle of fire backed by iran as attacks on us forces in syria and iraq reached 64 in less than five weeks and the middle east correspondent arya el saran has this a surge in attacks on us forces in the middle east as anger in the region over washington's support of israel's military campaign in gaza increases us forces in the in el asad base in western iraq suffered another rocket attack on tuesday iraqi security sources said there were no reports of injuries additional reports in iraq of a drone strike on a truck convoy belonging to a shia militia west of bag dead believed to be carried out by us forces these attacks must stop and if they don't stop then we won't hesitate to do what's necessary again to to protect our troops since october 17th us troops in iraq and syria have come under near daily rocket and drone attacks recording at least 61 incidents and about as many injuries in that time us forces have responded with a few rounds of airstrikes targeting sites used by iran's islamic revolutionary guards corps and affiliated groups these strikes are intended to disrupt and degrade the freedom of action and capabilities of these groups which are directly responsible for attacks on us forces in iraq and syria iran says that the latest attacks on us forces in the region were a result of quote wrong american policies including support for israel and its war against samas america's aid to the zionist regime is encouraging them to kill and commit cruel acts of neglect against the palestinian people and so as the number of attacks continues to mount so too has the frustration over washington's limited response and it is only a matter of time before one of those claims the life of a us service member and to discuss all this in further we have in studio with us still brigadier general amir avivi avivi amir thank you for being with us i want to discuss some of what aria was just explaining about that map showing gaza city for what it looks like israel has encircled gaza city itself but there's no actual ground-fishing yet in that core that center of gaza city so most of the terrorists retreated to jibalia and to sadjaya which is in the east which we have in touch we mainly dealt with the western part along the beach but not with with the east of gaza and this is the real stronghold now the real fighting starts until now they were fighting but also retreating into these centers and now this is the moment and it's crucial to understand that because talking about the hostages if there is a ceasefire now this is going to be devastating for our soldiers this is not the moment to stop we have to decisively win in the northern part of the gaza strip and then once we do that while we are organizing our troops to move south to the center of gaza and south there will have a window of opportunity to try to release hostages it's interesting to see that both khamas and his bala believe that khamas will survive they're not realizing yet that there is really a real intent to completely destroy khamas meaning taking over the whole gaza strip and destroying khamas and his bala is saying to khamas if you survive what we are doing now this is what needs to be done we are helping you a lot there are many many Israeli forces in the north our citizens have been evacuated so his bala is assisting a lot khamas in this sense but if we finish taking over the northern part and then they'll see the idf moving south and it will be clear both to khamas and his bala that this is going to complete destruction of khamas this is going to be the moment when his bala will have to decide are they all in in a full-scale war or not and probably in the next coming weeks we'll see where all this is going that means the fight in jabalia is going to be critical for determining the outcome of this war what do we know about the concentration of khamas forces there what sort of manpower weapons stockpiles heavy weapons systems do they have in jabalia so of course they have a whole underground infrastructure like all other places thousands of anti-tank missiles and they're going to fight they're going to fight firstly but as we saw until now everywhere the idf maneuvers they have the upper hand and we learned a lot about this kind of warfare the idf is getting better and better all the time in this kind of fighting but it's a densely urban area so it's going to be very complicated and our soldiers will need a lot of air cover artillery and to really be able to move as safely as possible in this very very complex environment leveraging the air power in such a dense location is going to be very difficult from the perspective of american pressure you're going to see tens of thousands and they said there's still tens of thousands of supposedly non-combatants in that vicinity how is israel going to leverage its air power without the united states the un the entire international community screaming bloody murder well when it comes to the life of our soldiers we are operating without taking risk we're doing everything according to international law we have given plenty of time to citizens to move south we are keeping all the time humanitarian roads open for them and we see tens of thousands moving all the time to the south so this would be a good time for them to leave jibalia area the ones who are left there i don't think that's that many at this stage and really get out of war zone because any place that will be a military site we see shooting will be destroyed and this is according to international law not doing anything different from any other army in the western world and once jibalia falls what about the rest of gaza city hamas has their tunnel network underneath the entirety of the gaza strip they can easily retreat from one area to regroup and another which means that any ground victory we see there is far from the end of the fighting yeah we still have stagia and and eventually the forces will move into the whole city but the real strongholds at the moment are around the main city not inside the city and if we destroy jibalia and stagia we pretty much took the the whole north there will still be a need to clean up the area but we are on the verge of destroying hamas in the north of gaza and from there already the chief of staff has given orders to the divisions to get ready to maneuver to the south i'm going to jump to ariel osir on our middle east correspondent for a little bit because you did just break down that map for us showing the region and the rough general not specific deployment of troops in the area ultimately what are the challenges ahead when it comes down to closing that noose around gaza city well um indeed the challenge is those eastern neighborhoods that have not been touched yet um you have jibalia in the north stagia and uh and to far to the east and then zaytun to the south those areas are considered to be the where the idf is preparing for the fiercest resistance because those areas are really the the main strongholds of hamas we talk if in 2014 the most severe clashes and fights were in sardzaya also that's where the largest amount of idf troops who lost their lives in the last conflict that's where that took place if we're looking at the the threats the threats are remain the same i mean first of all fighting in urban population dense dense areas narrow streets out of every window could be a potential sniper every building could potentially be booby trapped and add to that the existence of tunnel shafts all around that and at any moment uh two or three anti tank uh anti tank operatives could come out fire at a armored vehicle and then come back down although those are are the main threats that are challenging the advancement of the forces and that's why you see a very tight knit coordination between ground forces air force as well as the navy as far as the the forces on the ground they're saying that they have never seen such coordination and cooperation working together that also explains a lot of the military achievements on the ground but indeed all the areas that are in green that are on under idf control there are still hamas terrorists roaming the area whether above ground or below ground and this threat is only going to continue and exacerbate as the forces move deeper and deeper into the terror hubs that are surrounding gaza city but there are one of the most effective weapons of the idf on the ground is the armored bulldozer it's also almost 80 of the problems that the soldiers are encountering they are dealing with opening the roads bringing down the houses on the tunnels dealing with the booby traps and ids along the way so as we are operating with hundreds of armored bulldozers inside gaza just to understand how many we have been compared to other armies in the first iraqi war we landed the american army 12 armored bulldozers and this is all they had in all of iraq we are operating hundreds of armored bulldozers and now the ministry of defense is buying hundreds more as we speak this is the the biggest demand on the ground is for armored bulldozers that are doing a great job combat engineers well they are going to be determining this war it's urban warfare it's not these normal standard operating procedure of a military you have to shape the battlefield not simply operate within it i want to talk to you a little bit more because you had mentioned before that as this high intensity fighting is becoming the event on the horizon the next step in israel's battle we're also looking at that hostage situation and you said any agreement now would be devastating to our soldiers on the ground walk us through what the operational challenge is for the soldiers on the ground right now are in light of a potential hostage deal that they're saying is imminent imminent so the real issue us the terrorists are retreating is not to let them organize if we give them in this moment this decisive moment when we are about to win time to organize encounter attack this is going to be a huge problem for the soldiers you cannot stop a ground maneuver what's while it's happening especially not when it arrived to its climax the moment where this is the now the first fight and of course come us once the ceasefire now they're about to be destroyed you know in the northern part so giving them giving them this price now it's going to be devastating for the the units of course we want to bring our hostages back but this needs to happen if it happens after we destroy jibalia and sahaja and break all these strongholds and then while we're organizing to move to the south without a window to deal also with the hostages i hope the cabinet is not going to do this mistake now the big challenge is getting our people back without granting hamas a stay of execution we're going to turn our focus though to the israeli side of the border kibbutz near a quarter of the community there was either killed or abducted on the 7th of october six weeks later some of those residents have come back to take a look at what's left of their home our orisha piera shows us what that was this is the cup collection of my parents they brought it from different places a month and a half after the hamas onslaught residents of southern israel are picking up the pieces this house in kibbutz near us belong to the rubin family who managed to escape the horrific attack and survived here four people of our family were hiding they hid here for two hours my mother was born during the holocaust her family hid she got here when she was a child it all comes back several residents of near us came back to the kibbutz to collect their belonging among them was avi zichri whose wife and nine-year-old son were kidnapped to gaza ahad karen grandma and grandpa all of them were here in the safe room the terrorist came here and took them without any fight the grandfather is very weak and can barely see they didn't have a choice at 9 a.m we got a message from the grandfather we can't speak that was it 38 members of the kibbutz were murdered on october 7 and 75 were abducted around quarter of the population of this small community here in the kibbutz dining room the tribute to the hostages and fallen was laid the empty mailboxes have stickers red for those who were murdered black for those who were abducted a few blue ones for the hostages who were released we met the son of one of them you have it leaf sheets was one of the few hostages set free his father or dad is still being held in gaza it's very hard to return here it's my childhood home every house tells a story here we can see three houses of abducted people here here we see the house of someone i've known for my entire life a classmate his father was murdered kibbutz near us was established in 1955 and was a collective community until recent years in the center of the kibbutz we can find the beautiful ecosystem garden this garden called the green point contains rare trees which were brought from australia and designed to grow in desert conditions designer of this place called the green spot is ron pawker who lost his brother in the massacre during the winter the garden will survive also without special care and i hope that till the spring we'll reclaim all this the garden i am not worried about the garden though some residents say they are willing to return to the kibbutz adar who left the kibbutz 27 years ago says that she doesn't think all the residents will come back but she is fully committed to her home i think that this harsh event that we all went through proved to all of us how much we all belong to the same place we speak the same language we are a community even if we don't live here anymore in the last month i became really proud to be a part of this place it is such a beautiful place we are not tired from the long road we are paving the way this slogan is written on the huge flag outside of the dining room but only time will tell what the future of kibbutz near us will be the aftermath of a peaceful community utterly destroyed now we are about to go on breaks i'm going to thank the two of you for being in here to offer the analysis and the descriptions of the situations that you had but we are going to go on a break now and when we get back we're going to be analyzing this war in more of its aspects so stay with us Israel is in a state of war families completely gunned down in their beds we have no idea where is she as our soldiers are fighting on the front line but the general perception is something that certainly needs to to be fought as well this week on the 24th Israel under attack news 24 in spanish brings the analysis and the information of the events of the war swords of iron exclusive interviews reports from the war zone the reaction of the spanish-speaking countries news 24 the only medium in spanish that keeps you informed and connected with the latin community in israel news 24 only in i-24 news the question that's been hanging over israel for days now is is a hostage deal finally imminent international parties say one is closer than ever and now palestinian sources are leaking some possible details between 50 to 100 civilian women and children in exchange for 300 terrorist security prisoners some including women and minors a five-day ceasefire and 300 aid trucks into gaza but there are at least 236 hostages held by hamas and hundreds of broken families in israel begging for the return of their loved ones and as the war goes on another battle is being waged around the world by israeli advocates and diplomats a war to convince global governments that this ongoing war is justified moral and necessary i-24 news senior u.s correspondent mike wagonheim reported from the united nations after a special screening of a video of hamas's atrocities alongside the military war between israel and hamas there's also a war of narratives about the conflict and it's especially prevalent here at the united nations in new york where israel has been battered due to its response to hamas's october 7 massacre and the high civilian casualty toll in gaza israeli ambassador to the united nations gilad erdan presented diplomats ambassadors and u n officials with an opportunity here on monday to view 45 minutes of footage of the massacre itself including footage from hamas gopro and phone cameras along with closed captioned footage in the several of the massacre sites erdan afterward said that he wasn't surprised by the reactions of those in attendance in hopes it will have some impact diplomatically going forward people are either shocked or very sad uh because it as human beings it's very sad to see children screaming one minute after they lost their dad i know this building very well i understand international politics i know that many of these countries they play by their internal political interests but we are all human beings and you can never know who of the ambassadors who watched this terrible footage might wake up and and and tell his country and tell his leaders what he what he saw here today earlier on on monday israeli supporters together with families of hostages being held in gaza protested outside the united nations children's fund building unicef monday is international children's day they say that the unicef and the u n in general not doing enough to protect those children being held hostage in gaza those same supporters have protested outside the home of united nations secretary general antonio gutaris two fridays in a row urging him to do more to bring the hostages home they say they will continue to do so on a weekly basis until those hostages return to israel reporting here from the united nations in new york city mike wagonheim i-24 news and staying on the topic of narratives since this war has begun israel's enemies and their useful idiots in the west have tried to downplay or equivocate the atrocities and the crimes against humanity hamas perpetrator on october 7th some have even denied these crimes entirely attempting to dismiss hd videos filmed by the murderers themselves and live streamed to the world as the work of ai but now there's a new and most vile blood libel that's going viral the odious claim that israel itself was behind the massacre it began with a claim in the local haaretz newspaper which cited a police officer said it was possible that a helicopter gunship firing on fleeing terrorist vehicles could have possibly hit hostages but then palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas a proud holocaust denier said that israeli helicopter gunships killed 367 of hamas's victims at the nova music festival despite their murders being caught on camera now social media is filled with the claim that israel was responsible for all of october 7th just how can truth fight back against narratives like this when people are happy to invent their own reality well we're joined in studio by dan parry international affairs analyst and former europe and middle east editor at the associated press dan it's good to have you with us sadly the topic is utterly preposterous dangerous nonsensical tragic and in a way tragic comic look uh all kinds of people around the world are given to conspiracy theories um in the arab middle east it is especially prevalent for a lot of reasons some of them perhaps cultural mainly i think to do with the fact that governments and the media in a region have not historically been particularly credible so people seek their truth elsewhere the capacity to believe things that are clearly fantastical and absurd from uh from a different type of mindset uh is is always fascinating in this particular case it really is exasperating because of course in the current era it gets uh manipulated on social media it's also dangerous um for the day after scenario in israel because uh i i think probably uh the security establishment and many reasonable people around uh israelis and palestinians and arabs around the region want the pa to have a role in governing gaza after hamas is hopefully eradicated and for the pa to discredit itself by signing on to uh such malicious fictions is a sign uh that not everything as well with the pa basically now from israeli's perspective they're not surprised that the pa might say something that's i mean again mahmud abbas wrote his phd thesis on denying the holocaust it's not a surprise he'd deny another attack and massacre of jewish civilians but to see the lie repeat a large scale by westerners and young people in the west who you think have access to the information have access to the internet where they've seen the videos in many cases it's mind boggling i mean you call them yourself use useful idiots i i they're either idiots or ignoramuses or anti-semites it's one of the three uh i think most of the social media impact probably comes from the muslim world remember there's a billion muslims so if every every person in north america and western europe were tweeting for israel they they might still get beaten in terms of pure numbers and virality not much you can do about that the the danger is if um important people thought leaders um uh political leaders uh sign on to it and i think they're the problem is lesser i do not think that among the people that currently are running the west uh this type of nonsense has currency i really don't uh nonetheless you certainly see some university leaderships uh and and other centers of power and influence clearly being fearful to um sign on fully to the israeli narrative or to appear to be supporting israel uh because of the zeitgeist that you rightly point out is is something that has dangerous and one of the things that you mentioned yes the current leaders of the west might not be signing on to this sort of idiocy unfortunately if you look five down five years down the line a lot of these voters are going to be electing a new crop of western leaders we already have large swaths of congress that are enamored with crazy conspiracy theories um some of which such as the radical progressive wing of the squad already endorsing the palestinian side in this is that only going to grow or it's not it's not wide swaths it's we see the beginnings of it as i've said before there is absolutely a problem with gen z in u.s in particular but also in uk and other parts of europe people who are 18 to 24 who in poll after poll reflect not only an opposition to israel not only an inclination towards some positions that could be seen as anti-semitic but also indifference towards democracy and capitalism and liberalism and and all the things all the aspects of western civilization that have benefited them and have given them the freedom to hold ridiculous and offensive views um you can you can hope that it is simply the the folly of youth and that they'll get over it um but it's also possible that's uh the nature of societal disruptions of the past 20 30 40 years and in particular uh this generation is exposure to social media may have scrambled their brains to such an extent that some form of re-education may be needed i i i agree with you that it is cause for alarm i only say perhaps not yet despair in many ways we cannot only blame youthful ignorance and youthful stupidity we also have enemies of the western world enemies of israel using these very platforms to manipulate people on the younger generation getting the news from tiktok which is more or less an outpost of the chinese communist party and a tool to destabilize the west we have major powers attempting to push these narratives too at the end of the day um we have a choice of whether to try to regulate these platforms uh we have a choice of potentially banning some of them tiktok is a candidate for sure uh but there's also another way of looking at this which is that if you are a liberal democracy and if you do believe in freedom of speech freedom of speech is tested precisely when it is used by the offensive and the malicious um there are certain ways for democracy to protect itself against that obviously not all speech is free hate speech perhaps is not uh but these are difficult topics and there's no we're not going to resolve it here there's no easy answer and we're going to take a quick break from this topic because we have to turn our attention to the north where correspondent zach anders is standing by because there has been a significant development confirmed on the northern front zach walk us through what we're hearing out there yeah this morning media and lebanon is circulating that two journalists died in what they're calling an idf strike now we can't corroborate some of the details based on the timing because neither has been able to uh post or release any media uh regarding the uh timing of when these strikes took place there were red alerts throughout the morning and then the idf did come out and publish that they were responding on hezbollah launches now media and lebanon is saying that these two journalists were in their vehicle and near uh lebanese settlement inside one of the towns when their vehicle was hit killing both of them we don't know much more than that at this hour but it has already taken the social media spaces inside lebanon by storm very uh many people are exclaiming their frustration and their anger at the deaths of these two journalists and you'll remember in the very early days of this conflict there was uh several journalists killed and wounded uh by what later came out to be uh idf uh striking hezbollah targets there as well so a lot of bad blood and um of people inside lebanon um claiming that the idf is targeting journalists specifically um obviously they're very frustrated upset by these events but again that's the the the breaking news of this hour is that two journalists have been confirmed killed inside lebanon now zach you're just mentioning these really strikes in lebanon on these various positions what do we know about these strikes themselves well we know that the hezbollah forces have been launching mortars we've seen them ourselves mortars and uh uh heavy rocket launches that they've then published later on social media and these heavy rocket launches are what's interesting because they do appear to be coming from communities inside lebanon they they are taking place in a suburban area around other homes you see the rocket launch leave frame for just a moment and then come back down and strike an idf position just across the border so it is a similar situation to what the idf is facing in gaza with populated areas civilians journalists other people around these areas where hezbollah is operating and trying to fire upon idf forces making this a very big challenge well thank you very much zack for that update from the north we'll be coming back to you as we can get some confirmation from any independent sources on just what happened north of the border before that narrative goes entirely around the world actually i want to turn back to you dan because we were just discussing how narratives make it around the world and the one trying to frame israel for attacking journalists or attacking hospitals or attacking civilians has been the most popular one on the enemy side of the conflict since this began ultimately what can we make of what's going on now is just more fuel on the fire or just routine at this point well we don't know at least i don't know the facts of what happened with the journalists in lebanon but i have grave doubts about whether israel specifically targeted journalists i i think we see something similar in lebanon to what we see in gaza just well less dire because it's not very packed areas we these are suburban areas nonetheless hezbollah like hamas is firing from around civilian areas and so civilians are hurt do they blame israel undoubtedly in situations so emotional perhaps some do but i'm pretty sure that many lebanese know enough what's going on here to blame hezbollah thing is though in lebanon you're not taking your life in hand by blaming israel but you'd have to be very brave lebanese to openly blame hezbollah what we know is that tens of thousands of lebanese sign petitions urging hezbollah begging hezbollah not to join the fight against israel they have no real fighting against israel unless they're doing the bidding of verand that is the current tragedy of lebanon and i can only hope i can only hope that that country which has such potential to be a positive player in the world such a high quality populace i can only hope they find a way to be rid of hezbollah which is basically criminal mafia not unlike what we have in gauze unfortunately it's a criminal mafia that's stronger than the government there thank you very much and then we'll pass this for the army yeah certainly thank you very much for the analysis of the various narratives spinning around the world right now we are going to take a look at some of the aftermath of that october 7th massacre one again this is the story of ben beniamini and galeel sigel they got engaged just days before the massacre when hamas's terror attack on the nova festival began they ran to the nearest shelter but each of them there ended up losing a right leg in between the long days of rehabilitation in the hospital galley and ben have shared their thoughts and their memories from that black saturday alongside their plans for the future let's watch a man gets to know a woman she gets to know him he pulls out a ring she's happy this is how the story of galley and ben begins he loves her she loves him they're going to a party when morning comes they find themselves in a shelter crammed full of people shooting outside and then someone shouts grenade a man and a woman opening their eyes after losing consciousness they have a missing chapter in their memory a few seconds maybe a few minutes they are between life and death from the inferno they pray for someone to come and then they look down at their feet i remember feeling my body and screaming i don't have a leg i don't have a leg it's not normal that we lost the same leg we have more or less the same injury and we both came back from there we met galley and ben six weeks ago since then we've been accompanying them we were with them in surgery the doctors did not believe we would survive we were there during the long nights when they lay down bed by bed i don't know how i would cope if she wasn't here with me we also saw moments of joy and small victories out of the darkness of october the seventh we found great love and a chilling shared destiny we both have the same injury we are both right leg amputees it's unbelievable how did you meet we were sitting in a bar me and a friend then ben came with his friend and then the next day he asked for my phone number and we were both after a breakup and it was like we want it we don't want it but then after a few months we said well let's commit they have been together for seven years galley is an interior design student and ben works in real estate but above all he is a soccer player football is my whole life i played a lot in the national league if it's natsrat elit kvarkasem with whom i went up to the national league irani ashdod in league one what position did you play on the field defender and what type of player are you very aggressive they have been together for seven years at the end of may they flew to italy for a vacation and ben prepared a little surprise for galley i took her to venice we took a gondola with a singer and romantic i also brought a bunch of roses you know you don't hear the italian sing that much in the video at the end we put a song that she wanted and that's it and we got engaged and a week later it happened that saturday they went to a party to celebrate ben's birthday they were there together with members of family and also with shani a close friend we were starting to see the murders we just started running towards the car ben and i are traveling with shani in the car and people do this to you no don't come here don't continue and we see from the side of the road a shelter and a policeman signaling us to go inside this is the shelter at the alumim junction several dozen people were crammed inside this is how it looked in those minutes galley ben and shani were inside and then we started hearing gunshots hearing them slowly getting closer and closer then they started shooting at the entrance to the shelter at the people who were at the entrance to the shelter i actually pulled ben and shani down so they don't get hit by a bullet and we're under pressure and we after a few minutes of them shooting we saw the grenade come in there was a very loud boom i told myself that's it there's no way we're getting out of this we must have lost consciousness it is not clear how much time passed until they lost consciousness after the grenades exploded when they opened their eyes everything was black i remember seeing shani actually coming out of the shelter and she's talking on the phone and she says galley and ben are injured i don't know i think they're dead i don't know whether to run or to stay and i can't call her i can't speak there is a video of the shelter in those minutes we decided not to broadcast it the scenes in it are unbearable i remember i was literally feeling my body and i started to go into shock and i screamed i don't have a leg i don't have a leg and ben is next to me and he said to me keep your strength stop screaming keep your strength and he said to me if this is our destiny if this is what has to happen at least we're together and i gave her a kiss and it felt like the end his name is danis he was part of the party security force he arrived in directed fire at a terrorist who shot at the shelter and then went inside i yelled inside is there anyone alive there many people were shouting some people didn't shout anymore they were panicked scared thanks to him we are here 100 percent if he hadn't arrived at this time and handled things the way he did we wouldn't be here denis stopped vehicles that were fleeing the party he asked the drivers to take the injured to the ambulances that were waiting at the entrance to the area they pulled me out of the shelter first and put me in a car they took me out and i saw a girl lying outside the shelter at the entrance with black hair a tank top like galley was wearing and i was sure that galley was the girl because they had brought her out that she was dead that's what i thought at that moment i arrived at soloka hospital and i had really really low readings and they thought i wouldn't survive when do you meet they took me out of bed towards the room and then i noticed that two beds away from me was ben and i yelled to him and i just saw her too she passed and i looked at the bed and just realized that it was galley that moment when we both realized that we're alive it was like a weight had lifted off of my heart there are moments when i don't even want my family to see me but i don't have a problem with ben because the pain i'm going through is also the pain he's going through and you look at him differently after all of this yes ben and i are very different in our behavior i'm more emotional and he's more reserved and his reservation turned out to be a source of strength for me and it seems to me that even if he is in pain he doesn't say anything right so that you don't he doesn't say anything at all that's the thing i remember that at first i asked the doctors here i told them why am i in pain and he's not but they said galley he's in pain he just doesn't say it suffering in silence i think he's protecting me maybe something like that did you choose well yes it seems to me that i did not that i had any doubt before it wasn't your plan to be here in the middle of life was it's we didn't even think that something like this could happen five weeks it feels like it was yesterday there are moments when i'm optimistic and say it will be fine and it's small and it's only a leg but there are also moments when i say this is not me they still have a long way to go but they are the only couple in the rehabilitation department that has dozens of wounded from the war they have something that no one else has they have each other and it's true they don't have a wedding hall yet and they're also debating the song as they walk to the bridal canopy but they already know exactly what the path to it will look like we want to come to the wedding with our prostheses walking together that's the goal this is the goal you both walk to the canopy already imagining it at night i am she already knows which prosthetics she wants and everything with white glitter of course in this darkness that is happening here now there's the point of light that i have that i see something that i want to celebrate this is our little victory and a quick recap of the current situation in the war before we go on a break that's on the southern front the IDF saying troops have completed the encirclement of the Jabalia sector of Gaza city which is a known Hamas hotspot in fact one of their top headquarters the air force and artillery corps have already begun striking at tunnel entrances to close off access to Hamas's underground fortress at least three major shafts have been hit so far by that bombardment all this is happening under heavy fire and moving battles with terrorist gunmen on the ground now on that ground front the 401st armoured brigade and the Nahal infantry brigade have destroyed several Hamas rocket emplacements on the outskirts of Jabalia during gunfights against Hamas the air force saying they have had about 250 Hamas targets over at the course of the past day that said it has come at a cost two more soldiers have fallen in the fight in northern Gaza it brings the total number there to 67 moving to the north now Hezbollah has fired more anti-tank missiles at the Matula area the IDF responded to that with artillery fire but it comes after a morning drone infiltration from the same group the IDF said that incident is over but it comes just after a massive escalation yesterday with Hezbollah pounding army bases with rocket launched 500 pound bombs and their biggest exchange of fire in the war to date now we are going on a break right now we come back we're going to be