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Afortunadamente, lo que vas a ver es una notaridad en la respuesta a un argumento de idea que su operación en el hospital de chief incluye el staff médico y los speakers árabes para reducir el sufrimiento civil aquí. Un presenter de BBCTV dijo que la armada israelí fue targetando el staff médico y los speakers árabes en el hospital de chief. En respuesta a un avalanche de críticas, el servicio británico es muy raro en la apología. Ahora una apología de la BBC. La notación de BBC ha ocultado reportes iniciales que las fuerzas israelías han entrado en el hospital de chief. Decidimos que los teams médicos y los speakers árabes fueron targetados. Esto fue incorrecto y un reporte de Reuters debería haber dicho que las fuerzas IDF incluían los teams médicos y los speakers árabes para esta operación. Apologizamos para esta erradición que falla debajo de los estados editoriales. A continuación, a los correspondientes de la Unidad Unidas, Jonathan Sachadodi y Jonathan, seguramente, seguimos la BBC más cerca que yo. Pero no puedo recordar una apología inmediata de la armada de la armada israelía de la BBC. La BBC no quiere hacer apologías, especialmente cuando se siente la cobertura de Israel. Pero creo que en este momento, ¿qué podrían hacer? Llegó, literalmente, el oposito de la verdad. Un reto americano, confusionalmente, para la corporación británica ha escrito un reporte que decían la IDF que estaba en el hospital en Gaza targetando a las personas, incluyendo los teams médicos y los speakers árabes. El reto de la noticia repetió esa armada inmediatamente haciendo el mismo falso de las dos veces asistiendo a Reuters. Eso es importante porque, aparte de la BBC, Reuters es uno de el mundo más confusionado de la noticia. Así que dos de los mundos más confusionados de la noticia según la BBC decían que Israel estaba activamente targetando a los staff médicos en el hospital y a los speakers árabes. La BBC actualmente refería a un reporte de Reuters que dice nada de eso. El reporte de Reuters dice exactamente lo que Israel ha dicho que la militaria israelí dice, en la semana, que incluyeron incubatorias, comida baby y supply médicos traídos por las tanques de la IDF de Israel y que el hospital y los soldados médicos y árabes están en el grado para asegurar que las supply llegan a los necesarios. Así que, esto fue monumentalmente embarrasado no solo para la BBC pero creo que para el britán esto es la corporación británica de la BBC spreadiendo lo contrario de la verdad. Por supuesto, ellos tenían que hacer esa apología. Y, por supuesto, hay un discurso sobre la cobertura de la BBC durante este conflicto. He mencionado los reportes iniciales en el hospital de la BAPT. Y hemos visto algunas de las figuras en el gobierno británico complainando sobre esto. Yo me pregunto cómo este tipo de incidente es tan latente como dije antes, es casi más allá de la prioridad de la BBC que se produjo en un show de comodidad de Israel que puede afectar a los discursos que nadie en la BBC pensó y lo pide y dijo ¿cómo podría ser correcto? Bueno, como dices, no es la primera vez. Hace only a few weeks he had an actual correspondent John Doninson in Israel claiming on air that Israel was most likely to be responsible for the bombing of Ali Hospital in Gaza when the reality was that the car park at the hospital had been struck by a Palestinian Islamic G had rocket aimed for Israeli civilians but it fell short. He actually said that judging from the size of the impact and the scale of what had happened it was hard to believe anything else could have been responsible for an actual fact. That's the very clue that gave away that it wasn't an Israeli strike. It was most likely a Palestinian Islamic G had rocket that had misfire showing again not just incorrect information but a lack of knowledge of how these things look at anyone else who's reported on these issues for years and years and years can tell the difference between the two kinds of strike. The BBC I think is showing itself and this is how many are seeing it here in Britain especially in the Jewish community seeing increasingly misguided and ignorant when it comes to actually reporting what's going on in Israel. I think that the problem is that many people still don't realize that and so for many people in Britain and around the world it is still a highly trusted source for news. If it's said on the BBC they think it must be true and that of course means that they are partially responsible for the wave of anti-Semitism that's going on across Britain and elsewhere in the world because it has international reach. If the BBC is saying that Israel is responsible for acts which it is not responsible for it's understandable if well-meaning people around the world then go on to protest against Israel for these terrible things that it has been said to have done even when they're not true. So I think that there is rising pressure on the BBC to deal with this in a different way. They recently sent a top executive actually to meet members of the Jewish community in a sort of open forum and he admitted they'd made mistakes but they keep saying that these things are the result of the fog of war or reporting quickly and they're changed shortly afterwards. I think that is the sort of excuse that many people feel they can only get away with once. Once is a mistake. Twice looks like a habit. They've done it many more than once and twice. They recently had the situation that in an interview they broadcast with Katcha Adler their Europe correspondent interviewing Emmanuel Macron. They headlined it on their website as Macron telling Israel to stop bombing women and babies in Gaza. Macron actually phoned Isaac Herzog in Israel in order to say that he felt he'd been misrepresented by the BBC. Herzog himself has spoken out on I24 about how he felt he'd been misrepresented by the BBC. That's two presidents of western countries saying they're misrepresented by the BBC. Herzog said he spoke at length in an interview and it was edited down to six minutes with essential parts cut. The BBC definitely seems to have a recurring Israel problem to anyone who's looking at this cold and hard and doesn't necessarily have a dog in the fight. All right, and as you say there are consequences from that kind of reporting that we see on the streets of Britain and elsewhere unfortunately. Jonathan Satchodori thank you for joining us. And let's get back to the fighting in Gaza today which was focused mainly on and around the Shifa hospital but there are many other sites in the strip where IDF troops are engaged in active combat. Our senior defence correspondent Jonathan Regif has more on that in this report. It used to be a major terror hub but not anymore. This is the Palestine or Palestine outpost it was officially described as a training facility but various terror attacks emerged from this outpost in the northern Gaza strip. Those terror attacks will now come to an end. We are inside the Palestinian outpost a major Hamas outpost which we conquered we destroyed much of the infrastructure and killed many terrorists. The fighting here was intense like so many other outposts Hamas was well entrenched here mostly underground tens of terrorists along with dozens of anti-tank missiles and mortars were waiting for the incoming IDF soldiers They were all destroyed in a combined operation from the air and from the ground. Our entire battalion is dedicated to this mission. We finished our training and headed to battle. We found enemy infrastructure of every kind including ammunition and tunnels. We did whatever we needed to do here and now we are ready to head forward. This is one of the places where the army was rushing to In a world where symbols are meaningful Here is one symbol gone. This used to be the Gaza parliament building controlled by Hamas step by step every aspect of their control is going, going. Well joining us now is IDF Lieutenant Colonel Amnon Sheffler from the IDF International Spokesperson's Office and Colonel Sheffler thank you for joining us First of all let me just ask you about the situation in and around what you can tell us about the operations in and around Sheffler Hospital some reports about the IDF completing an operation withdrawing troops then a denial what can you tell us about the state of those operations Thanks for having us We are conducting a based intelligence operation that is targeted and a very precise area of the Sheffler Hospital that we know that Hamas has been using and that is what we also exposed today we again saw the pictures of how arms are found next to an MRI machine and next to it more guns and other weapons and tools that are used by Hamas now sadly this is not the first time as we have seen and as we have shared and as also our American counterparts have affirmed that this is the MO of Hamas we saw this in the Rantisi Hospital and we saw this in the El Kutz Hospital and we have seen how they use kindergarten, schools and other civilian infrastructure to hide their terrorist activity Right To talk about some of the operations we saw reports where we had red footage of IDF troops actually bringing metal equipment into the hospital and reports that the teams included I'll report this correctly unlike the BBC Arabic speakers and medical professionals to interact with the medical staff that is there Exactly Hospitals are of course a place that has a special protection but sadly Hamas has stripped it off from its special status and yet following our values and our rules of engagement we do everything in order to safeguard the civilians and the patients that are still inside and that is why we brought with us professional teams that speak Arabic medics that can help we brought in incubators from Israel that the babies can be dealt in the best way and I remind you also that for many many days we have been calling civilians to evacuate from that area we call the medical staff in the hospital to tell them use the eastern side of the hospital to evacuate people that are not part of Hamas and that's what we've been trying to do to safeguard those civilians and carry out the mission of stopping Hamas and dismantling it Alright now all this is happening in the northern Gaza Strip in the southern part of course much of the population has evacuated south there are reports Colonel Scheffler of the IDF dropping leaflets in Arabic cautioning people though in Hanyunis about possible military operations the IDF said it will conduct operations if there are military threats or targets in the area anything you could tell us about why these leaflets would drop down there in the southern path of the Gaza Strip So we have been calling for the civilians to move to the south which is a safer area because we focus first on Gaza City Sadly Hamas is using the whole Gaza Strip to carry out attacks against Israeli civilians I remind everyone that over 10,000 rockets have been fired from the Gaza Strip at Israeli civilians and this includes coming from the southern part of the Gaza Strip and that is why we need to act wherever the terrorists are hiding and where they're carrying out their activity and that includes the southern part of the Gaza Strip So where I mean are there plans let me just looking forward where sort of there's been talk about safer corridors even within the south maybe along the coast are there any erasures because some of those people of course may could be in there there are civilians there that could be in Hamas way There are two corridors that we continuously show and tell the people of Gaza to use to move to that safer areas there's a humanitarian area that has been dedicated also in the southern part and yet Hamas does not stop itself on the contrary we know that it deliberately uses these civilians as its human shield and that is why Hamas has moved also to the southern part using these humanitarian routes and using these areas that are supposed to be safer for the civilians but Hamas again is deliberately using them to carry out its strikes and plan its activity to continuously target Israelis Alright now I don't know if you'll be able to answer this Colonel Sheffler there are reports in Israeli media they're talking about possible hostage deal but I think the security aspect is whether there would be a potential pause in the fighting or in operations you could call it a humanitarian pause or a short ceasefire the question is what impact that could have on ongoing operations there especially as I said before North Gaza and in and around Sheffler Hospital We have two very clear goals for this war one is to dismantle Hamas and two is to bring back 239 hostages that have been held in captivity by Hamas for 40 days babies children women elderly and we're doing everything we can in order to meet these two very important goals I of course cannot get into details how we're going to do that but we're going to do everything we can we do understand that Hamas will use any time that they have to regroup, rearm and we take that into consideration while carrying out our actions and while meeting in the best way our two goals Alright Colonel Lieutenant Colonel Amnon Sheffler from the IDF International Spokesperson's Office Thank you for joining us on I-24 News Thank you And there you see the dilemma Jonathan that whenever there is a safe corridor set up for civilians Hamas is going to utilize that as an attack base and of course putting in the IDF in which they're going to have to respond possibly at the cost of civilian lives We just heard the IDF spokesperson Daniel Agar is speaking about this an hour ago saying that they found Hamas uniforms on the floors in Shefa Hospital meaning some of the Hamas terrorists disguise themselves as patients in the hospital to flee as if they were patients as if they were regular civilians And flee to that southern into the so called safe zone in the south of the Exactly and there they could join the Hamas forces and act again This is a very big dilemma and Israel on the one hand does everything possible to prevent heating civilians On the other hand every concession that you make every conciliatory move is of course used by Hamas and this is a very big dilemma which the IDF forces operating there have to take into account Right and it certainly is going to be increasing a dilemma as the situation moves from the north to the south which at some point it certainly is going to have to be especially if it's as belief some of the hostages could be being held there in the south in places like Ganyunis Gentlemen stay with us I want to go back to the US for a moment they were as we mentioned before nearly 300,000 people gathered at Washington DC National Mall yesterday for the largest pro-israel rally ever in the United States the event brought together American Jewish groups and individuals from across the religious and political spectrum Also attending was Israel's ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Ardan who afterwards sat down with our senior US correspondent Mike Wagenheim to talk about the rally about his efforts at the UN and more let's take a listen Big thanks to Israeli ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Ardan for joining us from the capital following the rally out in DC for Israel Ambassador there's been talk for a long time about this growing divide this chasm between American Jewry and Israel some 290,000 people estimated to have turned out to the National Mall on Tuesday in support of the Jewish state what type of impact do you think that turnout will have on Israelis watching from afar I was there and it was moving to feel the love and to see hundreds of thousands of Jews coming to express their love support, solidarity with the state of Israel from all across the United States people were driving 10 hours a each side just to come there and express their love towards Israel and I think that yes we are united as a people to accomplish our goals now to eradicate Hamas to return our hostages and it's a tragedy what happened but we should maybe come stronger from this tragedy and all of us we should think now how to how to use the tragedy that occurs in order to make our future brighter you and other Israeli officials and you and watchers have been screaming from the rooftops for some time now about Hamas's actions in Gaza how they use civilians as shields how they use Gaza's resources for their own military purposes and the UN times has turned a blind eye in other ways has been somewhat complicit in these actions do you think now with Israel's military operation in Gaza exposing much of this that after this is all said and done this war is done that the UN will be held accountable in some way for its role in allowing Hamas to perpetrate these crimes against their own people I cannot agree more to what you just said that I mean the UN played a big role in allowing Hamas to turn the Gaza Strip into a war machine a terror machine against Israel and against the civilized world so I'm the ambassador it's up to the government Israeli government to decide but my recommendation is going to definitely be that we should hold a serious assessment regarding our relations with the UN my recommendations will be to expel and not to issue visas to some of the UN officials who are exploiting their position in order to spread lies in order to enable Hamas to embed themselves within an under-civilian population in Gaza and many other terrible things that Hamas have been doing for the last 16 years under the nose of UN agencies Presidente Ali Foreign Minister Ali Cohen told the media this week that he believes there's about a two to three week window left for Israel to complete its military operations in Gaza before western leaders start questioning publicly the legitimacy of the operation sitting from your perch there at the United Nations and talking to representatives of other countries do you get that same feeling that that window is closing down a bit here I cannot assess or predict how many weeks it will take for the international community to buy into Hamas's lies or obey by Hamas script but obviously we all understand that that's exactly Hamas' goal on the one hand to terrorize and murder Israeli civilians attack the Israeli home front and then because they cannot defeat our military to try to tie our hand by co-opting the international community to pressure Israel to stop they are the ones who are deteriorating the humanitarian situation in Gaza my goal, my role as ambassador is to try to strengthen, build the legitimacy for Israel's operation in Gaza and I'm sure that we won't stop before we achieve the two goals of the operation releasing the hostages eradicating Hamas I know you're not the ambassador to Washington but you're in the capital talking to congresspeople there now you're in touch constantly with Linda Thomas Greenfield the American ambassador to the UN who sits in the cabinet of US President Joe Biden what is your sense about the backing of the Biden administration about the congress at large here as this operation continues in the days and weeks and conceivably months to come here with a reconstruction effort how much of that backing that Israel has been getting do you think will remain in place we are grateful to President Biden for his support we are grateful to members of congress I'm grateful to the help that I receive inside the UN and we hope that it will continue because I think that President Biden expressed his deep deep understanding that we are fighting sheer evil so when you fight sheer evil you cannot stop in the middle before you eradicate this evil because Israel is the vanguard of civilization and if we fail the west is next you know when you're dealing with the Arab world and Arab government sometimes the things that are said publicly or expressed differently in private have you had any talks with the UN representatives from some of the Arab and Gulf countries about the possibility that's been floated by others that the Arab world will take some responsibility post Hamas for governing Gaza at least in the short term have those conversations got underway from your end? Not yet, I'm sure many of the Arab countries that you mentioned they know that Hamas is their enemies no less that it's that it's our enemy because it's like a subsidiary of the Muslim Brotherhood and they are the enemy of many moderate Muslim countries so we are doing the dirty work for many of these Arab countries and after we succeed God willing we'll be open to negotiate and speak and discuss with all of them regarding the future of Gaza Israeli ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Ardan joining us from Capitol Hill thanks so much for taking the time and just a bit of news out of the Prime Minister's office Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Brett McGurk he is the US National Security Council coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa they spoke about the Fringshi Hospital from control of the Hamas terrorist organization and they discussed a range of issues including the war y la liberación de los hosteges y como le decimos en el local israelí hay un movimiento en eso pero, por supuesto, no hay nada confirmado vamos a ir por un descanso en unos 3 minutos y vamos a volver con más en el broadcast de mi 24 noticias es la guerra contra el Hamas día 40 un número significativo en la luna jews y aquí estamos el día 40 la guerra de las familias completamente descanse en sus bares no tenemos ninguna idea como los soldados están combatiendo en la línea de frente pero la percepción general es algo que necesita ser bienvenido bienvenido a este especial broadcast en la media 24 ahora, entre los 48 soldados que murieron durante la guerra en Gaza es el mayor major Mosha Leiter fue muerto la semana pasada y se inspeccionó a un teratunnel de boobitrap ahora, la luna 39 no era extraña en la combate ha servido en la luna salida salida salida salida before turning his talents to medicine and becoming a doctor ahora, el padre de los 6 ha also held US citizenship el padre de Yechiel es, creo que puede decir, un figura prominente en lo que llamamos la luna israelí de gobierno y de posiciones publicas incluyendo a su chico de staff de Benjamin Netanyahu en su término como ministro de financiamiento pero él nos está acompañando esta noche como el padre de Moshe Yechiel Leiter hablando de nosotros de Kibbutz y Soreem Yechiel Leiter, gracias por acompañarnos vamos a empezar con tu hijo nos dice sobre él porque suena que él era un hombre extraordinario y yo podía por empezar a decirle sobre él que necesitamos varias horas de tiempo de broadcast él era una muy especial persona que después de servir 15 años en especial una de Israelas más alivios comando unidades decidió ir a la escuela médica fue la primera escuela médica en la universidad de Arial y cuando él estaba estudiando continuó a dedicar tiempo a la armada, hizo 80-90 días y reservó el trabajo y también fue al colegio de batallón que terminó con honros también ganó un programa para integrar miembros de la comunidad de Chared en Israel en el Unión de Inteligencia de Israel en el Unión de Warfare él era una persona maravillosa escuchamos hablando de aquí, desde el 10 de su casa en Kibbutz en Surin donde su hija fue dejada a 6 niños tenía un niño de 3 meses en Greenaptan viste mi padre es el gran padre y ve la foto con el niño entonces estamos aquí en el tento hay un poco de nois en el backgrounds porque las personas vienen de todas las partes del país para pagar sus respuestas y para compartir y consolar y yo sé que hay miles en el funeral pero quiero ir a los comentarios que fueron reportados, lo hablaste personalmente pero también tuviste un mensaje para el presidente Biden y tal vez podras compartir con nosotros por qué hablaste ahí primero, quiero decir que tenemos una gran apreciación para los cariños de aeropuerto que la Unidad de Estados Unidos ha enviado a la región para los puestos de amunición y los materiales que recibimos para que podamos conducir la guerra pero hay rumores que hay presión del gobierno y del presidente para curtir la operación o para solucionar la operación y eso no es lo que las personas de Israel quieren, yo creo que tenía un voz para eso y pensé que fue apropiado al funeral de Moshe para hacer ese punto fue una gran parte de mi neulogy para mi hijo pero creo que fue una parte muy importante y me empezó la palabra para el presidente Biden que me ha mencionado el hecho que también he venido de Scranton en Tensilvania y también soy un padre que es el presidente y pensé que podía llevar la libertad de enviarle una lettera y despedirle para ignorar las presiones en su propia parte para la presión de Israel y completamente apoyar a nosotros porque realmente he dicho que es su batalla todas las fuerzas anti-liberales contra las fuerzas que nos tendrán a la middle-aged la barbaridad de la atacción de Hamas fue organizada mal que tiene que ser derrotada y si no, va a venir a los baños de los americanos right, ahora actualmente el presidente Netanyahu que creo que fue en Santa Ana en su publico, me ha mencionado la pasión de tu hijo y la pena que lo ha causado y también en el contexto de su relación personal así que tal vez me gustaría hablar sobre ese hecho de las decisiones difíciles que Israel está haciendo ahora a la costa de la sacrificia de algunos de sus finos incluyendo tu hijo Look I do for many years decision makers policy makers journalists and I'm just fascinated sometimes by the ignorance that people display regarding the IDF Look my son was killed because we proceeded gradually and with the intent of not causing unnecessary casualties it would have been much easier we could have spent another three months straff bombing gossips and when it comes to civilian deaths there is nobody, no country in the world that has a better record than we have one just takes a look at the US record in Afghanistan or in Iraq and there's just simply no comparison we're far more careful than any other country in the world despite the fact that in the case to be made that the civilians in Gaza participated in a very large way in a very potent way in Hamas terror there were civilians who came streaming across the border into the Kibbutzim to murder and kill people and our soldiers have found in almost every home in northern Gaza booby traps the entrances to tunnels that were used for the terrorists so I think everybody has to be first of all educate themselves about how Israel conducts itself and secondly it's to be far more circumspect when it comes to criticizing us All right, Jechiel Lider we say in the Jewish tradition may his memory be a blessing about one's past I think we could drop the may here and the say of Moshe Yadid Yelida Thank you so much for joining us on I-24 News Thank you for honoring his memory most appreciated No, our privilege Thank you for joining us Now earlier in the evening as I said or as we saw the IDF spokesperson we are Daniel Higari discussed the findings of the IDF troops who have already entered one of the buildings at least Chief Hospital in Gaza City and what they found there the army has also distributed a clip featuring Jonathan Conricis one of the IDF's spokespeople we now have that clip for you let's take a look at what the IDF has discovered and learned there at Chief Hospital Shalom everyone Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan from the IDF here I am in the Chief Hospital as you can clearly see from the building we are going to do a one shot video one shot no editing of all of the evidence that we have found just now in this building of the Chief Hospital we are inside the MRI center of the Chief Hospital Israeli troops reached here a few hours ago and we have cleared the area make sure that it's safe and a few of the most interesting things that we have found totally confirmed without any doubt that Hamas systematically uses hospitals in their military operations in violation of international law and what we have found I think is only the tip of the iceberg let me show a few examples security cameras have been obstructed all of the security cameras are covered and this isn't the only one you'll see the rest of them here follow me as we go in I see the weapons that Hamas has hidden inside this is where patients come in order to get MRI services we'll proceed into a more secluded area and the lighting here is out so we're using flashlights we're now as you can see in an MRI room I don't know when this was used the last time I don't know when it was used the last time this is basically an MRI machine and if you follow me behind the MRI machine I'll show you what our troops exposed just minutes ago in military terms this is a grab bag grab and go of a Hamas combatant and if you zoom in and we get some light over here what you'll be able to see is military equipment there is an AK-47 there are cartridges there are grenades of course uniformed and all of that this was hidden very conveniently secretly behind the MRI machine on the other side we found a backpack with what appears to be very important intelligence including a laptop and we'll show you that momentarily let's go see the next room so we're still in the MRI center the backpack was found in here the MRI machine as you can see the rest of the equipment here is proper hospital equipment bandages and medical gear it seems as if there is no real shortage because there is a lot of equipment here but we'll leave that for another discussion let's go see weapons and other prohibited items as we walk through the main corridor here our troops did a preliminary search of the area and we tried to uncover the cameras but all of the cameras have been obstructed you can see there's black tape covering it and when our troops opened this closet here which is in the main part of the clinic this is what they found these weapons have absolutely no business being inside a hospital the only reason they're here is because Hamas put them here because they use this place like many other hospitals and ambulances and sensitive facilities inside the Gaza Strip for their illicit military purposes so there's Kalashnikov rifles here even ammunition and let's go see the next part of the of what we have here another MRI machine another MRI machine where behind it we also found a contraband similar to what you saw in the other areas and let's go see the last thing which is more related to intelligence which I think we will be able to extract quite a lot of interesting intelligence from as you can see follow me up here on top of a spare part of the MRI department we found another grab bag this is empty because we emptied it and cleared it so that we could use and see it so this is where we found it and here are the contents of the bag the contents of the bag are full military kit for one Hamas terrorist a live grenade ammunition, fighting vest with insignia, boots and of course uniforms and last but not least standard AK-47 inside the hospital hidden in a secluded area take a look at this door here blastproof door which is part of the clinic of the hospital everything else looks like a hospital only this part doesn't last part hold on before we go on let's have a look at what we found inside the very same cabinet this is medical equipment you can see all kinds of standard medical stuff we found another go to bag this bag here and again we opened it up in order to make sure it's safe to touch so please don't give me any of that you open it up and you place it there this is the bag that we found and this is the stuff that was in it now there's insignia military insignia a knife and as always standard gear grab and go which they thought would be a good place to store inside a hospital and the last item which I'm sure will be very interesting to analyze is a laptop we found it in the MRI room this is how the laptop looks I don't know who it belongs to but now it is being analyzed by our Intel people tactical radio communications which we will analyze lots of disks which will be analyzed and a computer which at first glance already provides a lot of incriminating evidence and that was IDF spokesperson Tenecareau Jonathan Conric is giving us a tour of what we discovered in the MRI wing of a Shefa hospital a separate building gentlemen really quite extraordinary just a couple of things to point out unlike say what was done at the Rantisi hospital this was done at what is still an active war zone I mean only this part of Shefa hospital presumably has been taken control of by IDF troops just right beyond that building is still a battleground with Hamas terrorists there not just there but under their excuse me under their feet as well bravura performance by Jonathan Conric is doing it in one shot also just to show that this is something newly discovered and it's been found here I don't know Owen if this is going to have the impact that you think the Rantisi hospital video didn't but it's hard to see how much more I'm not acting for that the IDF can do clearly they maybe even took some of the criticism the issues you raised and said this is how we're going to do this particular well I think what's important here I suspect this is the warm up act this is the opening act this isn't the main event I suspect that they are waiting I think Daniel Ligari said just as much until after the full investigation and the full process of all the entire complex they received Jonathan Conric again by the way I know a frequent guest on I24 News not necessarily and has had in the military but commenting on the military and security issues in general even political issues sometimes at any rate I suspect they are waiting until the end of the full process in Chief of Hospital to come out with their main event I do think that in order to meet the standard that the military and the Israeli government have set for themselves in terms of the scale of activity in and under that hospital including from that briefing by Daniel Ligari with the 3D graphics they are going to need to find more than this as explosive no pun intended as this was but of course all that could only come when for example the underground complex on the niche far is breached and made clear look the idea says that not only has the operation not ended it is ongoing and it is with no end in sight right now they are not planning to limit the operation there I will note that it is interesting you could see in the entrance of the building it is a Prince Knife Prince Knife is a former Saudi Crown Prince and add to that the Qatari Hospital that was donated to them by the Qatari that is also being used by Hamas with an underground tunnel there it raises the question of this foreign support going in and these countries need to know what their money is funding by the way right now on the screen this I found quite interesting these were bags showing of medical supplies laying there just bags and bags of medical supplies they were now chief of hospital and we have been told repeatedly that they are almost out of medical supply which could be true in certain subjects but still clearly sort of just left there so the idea spokesperson has commented on this saying that given the sensitive nature of the hospitals operating there they are following very very closely the situation in each one of these hospitals mainly Shifa of course in terms of how much fuel they have how much medical supplies they have and how many incubators that they brought in today 3 incubators and they were asked the first leg in additional material that is going to be brought in because they are in close contact we are not guessing this the IDF shares every few days phone calls that its liaison officers hold with the director the manager of Shifa hospitals they know from the best source with most knowledge as to the current situation of the hospital what is the situation there earlier we talked about Hamas official he said out of 35 hospitals 25 are out of commission given to different given different whether they were bomb no electricity or stuff like that I think this shows how they are also trying to present the assault on hospitals as a more egregious assault in addition to just the regular operation in the northern part of the Gaza Strip calling on international organizations to come to the hospitals because their human shields have left and gone down south so they want new ones but they know the sensitivity of these exposures I agree with Owen that this isn't the smoking gun of course not this is one building on the very edge of the complex by the way we might be the first network in the world to show this to broadcast this footage but as I said this is just one building on the outskirts of the Shifa hospital complex Jonathan and you see how it was set up to be used by Hamas terrorists at the fence shows you the scope of what the idea is going to have to deal with as it penetrates deeper into this complex including underground yes this is above the ground you don't know what's expecting underground and regarding what you spoke here we've heard for days and days since the aerial campaign began that electricity in the hospitals is going to run out in 24 hours in 48 hours miraculously the electricity still goes on I thought it's about to end but it's still ongoing same as fuel same as water same as medicine and you know what maybe in the Shifa hospital maybe in the RTC hospital maybe in other hospitals maybe medicine and medical equipment does run out for the patients no for Hamas, they have enough of it and we've just seen it bags and bags and bags of medical equipment is it given to the patients upstairs who need it probably no it's waiting there for Hamas terrorists they have enough more than enough, way more than enough right, well definitely was really striking to see that piece of footage from the IDF and yes someone as your right I'm sure this was a preview or coming attraction a trailer for the main feature but unfortunately that's going to have to cut may come at a heavy price for IDF soldiers and even unfortunately for others and civilians there as well Ariel Osoar, Owen Altman, Jonathan Reggae thank you for joining us now as IDF soldiers fight the war on the battlefield it's firefighters and medical first responders who are handling other everyday emergencies on the home front this now includes dozens of American soldiers who have rolled up their sleeves and he did the call to volunteer and help Israel's fire and rescue departments it's all part of a non profit initiative called emergency volunteers project and our Emily Francis caught up with one of them at the Ashkelon fire department let's take a look even during times of peace the job of a firefighter is risky business but Israel's fire and rescue men and women are prepared for everything but the terror attack on October 7 caught everyone by surprise I woke up, I live in the south to massive rocket barrages that hit the city that I live in I responded to several of them they seem to be direct hits quite devastating in terms of both scale and quantity more than I've seen in any other conflict I found myself shortly after that treating people where I ended up seeing more blood than I've seen in my entire life firefighters here at the Ashkelon fire department and all around Israel have seen it all since the war started but what's made this bittersweet job less bitter is the bravery and heroism of American volunteer firefighters the simplicity of how this pump works is amazing like firefighter and EMT Derek Barksdale of St. George fire department in Baton Rouge Louisiana who left his wife and four children to heed the call why did you feel that call when you saw what happened on October 7 personally I'm a Christian I get tired of all the hate there's a lot of negativity in the United States towards the whole entire situation and honestly it's a little embarrassing and I want to let the guys know that they're supported and we're here to help we have over 60 American firefighters and 100 more on a waiting list who have come to volunteer in Israel since October 7 as part of an NGO called the emergency volunteers project which has also sent dozens of American medical workers to help with emergency services in Israel we don't just have international support in terms of words but we have dozens and dozens of Americans willing to come here and get into the trenches with us in the sense and fight these fires and spend a day with our American firefighters here in these fire stations I walk around with goosebumps the whole day because I feel like we're not alone you have bulletproof vests because there are calls that we've experienced close to the Gaza border Derek has himself been through many natural disasters including Hurricane Katrina in 2005 but he says this is like nothing he's ever experienced before the difference is you're dealing with a local community with people from Louisiana you don't have rocket attacks you don't have to run to a bunker here is just a you're in a different country you're helping people steal but this is war and the craziness about the whole thing is people here are used to it and it shouldn't be that way in addition Derek is impressed at the efficiency of Israel's fire and rescue teams and also the warm embrace of brotherhood firefighters are a brotherhood no matter where you go but this is a completely different level I don't even really know how to explain it from the bottom of my heart how welcoming how they've taken care of us and we're trying to reverse the situation to take care of them is it hard to process something so awful that we didn't think would ever happen my honest answer about processing what happened on October 7th since then is ask me when the war is over I'm busy right now I just don't know we don't have time to think about that between search and rescue, routine emergencies rocket attacks, there's plenty to do here plenty to keep us busy, morale is high morale is even higher knowing that there are Americans here with us and we'll cross that bridge after the war is over in Ashkelon Emily Francis I-24 News I think you call that heating the coal where we welcome them to Israel this particular broadcast on I-24 News State 40 of Israel's war against Hamas begins to draw to a close but do stay with us I'll continue in coverage I believe you'll be here at the top of the hour to continue thank you for joining us on I-24 News Schedule your appointment at www.madeforme.co.il Made for me Official dresser of I-24 News Good evening ladies and gentlemen Israel is at war make an investment in Israel bonds it is the most powerful and direct way to stand with Israel Visit israelbonds.com and invest now Israel is 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 lines but the general perception is something that certainly needs to to be fought as well Esta semana en I-24 Israel bajo ataque I-24 en español trae el análisis y la información de los acontecimientos de la guerra, espadas de hierro entrevistas exclusivas de los países hispanoparlantes News 24 el único medio en español que te mantiene informado y conectado con la comunidad latina en Israel News 24 únicamente en I-24 News This breaking news edition I'm Denise Levine coming to you live from Tel Aviv Israeli troops are conducting a targeted operation inside the Shifa Medical Center in the northern Gaza Strip the largest hospital in Gaza located above a Terra Command Center the Hamas underground headquarters troops have found weapons inside the complex further evidence that Hamas has been using civilian sites for terror purposes the IDF also opening a corridor for civilians to flee and to allow the transfer of medical equipment to the premises Day 40 of the war fighting intensifying as the IDF works to eliminate Hamas following the terror onslaught in southern Israel on the 7th of October in which more than 1200 people were killed Earlier today the IDF destroying the empty Hamas parliament building in Gaza take a look at this footage The current IDF operation complicated by the fact that 239 hostages are still being held by the terror group inside the strip Unconfirmed reports that a hostage deal is in the pipeline one that would reportedly see 50 hostages released during a 3 day ceasefire and would involve the release of Palestinian prisoners Again these are unconfirmed reports Earlier on Wednesday evening rockets sent from the Gaza Strip to Israeli southern communities Rocket fire sent out of Lebanon towards northern Israeli communities and the United States intercepting a drone from Yemen over the Red Sea Lots on the go Let's start on the ground We go straight to our correspondent Mary Makalov She joins us from southern Israel and Mary Red Alert Siren sounding in several border communities just a short while ago in the south including Farazza and Saad and a short while ago we heard the IDF spokesman Daniel Higari de los hostages que están haciendo todo para llevarlos a casa y el combate continúa en Gaza ¿Qué es lo más reciente en los frances? Así es, Benita Empecemos con las Sirenas En las comunidades de la Borda continuamos viendo las Sirenas hambre por las Sirenas desde el día de la mañana hasta las partes del sur de Israel En Ashkelon había un reporte de un reporte que estuvo en el que no había reportes de inocencia de las inocencias Y en muchas de las áreas que están llevando a las comunidades que ya han sido evacuadas y nadie se supone estaría viviendo En Sarot, hemos sentado un poco de vida volviendo a la ciudad con algunos residentes también pero en general, por la mayoría nadie se supone estar en estas áreas muchos de ellos son los equipos militares pero dentro de la Gaza continuamos a escuchar los sonidos en el norte de la Gaza La Israelia armó hoy diciendo que se han llevado a un poste de Hamas que fue usado para lanzar ataques contra Israel, pero hemos escuchado los sonidos de batallones, incluidos batallones muy cerca de la Borda la IDF también está tomando panfletes en San Yunus, así que esta es una área más hacia el sur dentro de la Gaza que podría ser una indicación que están intentando expandir su operación, como las fuerzas continúan a operar en el grado de El Shifa Hospital donde la IDF dice que se han encontrado armas, munición, munición y granades y otras evidencias que hubo operaciones de Hamas en ese complexo hospital estamos todavía esperando más detalles como la operación continúa no parece que se han encontrado ese gran tren de armas o de escuadras dentro de ese complexo hospital pero también no parece que se han llevado a un desplazamiento que es donde creen que es donde Hamas y otros palestinianos se han encontrado en ese complexo pero estamos todavía esperando y la IDF dice que la operación va a continuar desde el palestiniano y nosotros continuamos a escuchar reportes de combate en el área alrededor del complexo El Shifa Israeli Tanks, armas, vehículos alrededor de ese complexo como las fuerzas continúan a mover su camino por el área Live from Southern Israel Thank you so much Correspondent Mary Makalov, thanks Mary Eitan Dangot, former military secretary to three ministers of defense and former coordinator of government activities in the palestinian territories in the IDF. Eitan thank you so much for being here on this day. Shifa hospital is the location all eyes watching what is unfolding right now a hospital above ground a terror command center underground what is your latest assessment of the fighting there? I think that first above all Shifa hospital is staying on the main place on the square area while you can point on it as the main control and command center for the Hamas it has a lot of information for years what's going there how it used in a scenic way like an hospital together with a lot of terrorists that are moving here and there working very freely on the area where are the all the illness people the sick people are lying in the departments they are presented there and the underground tunnels which are leading to many places according to what they built for years so according to my expectations and what we say first of all it's a symbol like the Hamas parliament it's very important to say now that we are controlling all the north part of Gaza the main and symbol places secondly this hospital is not just an hospital it's used as a command and control we have to understand that it's a complex a complex of eight to ten buildings that there is a lot under the ground and on the ground so we have to take patient and to see the soldiers the unit has to work slowly as I say many times professionality the expectation always of us it's like a movie no it's not a movie it's people life you have to work slowly you have to take care on yourself you have to take care on the people who are not involved that didn't leave the hospital and you have to take care because what is what pre make for accept you I say down under the tunnels in the tunnels it's very dangerous so everything and you have also a real time intelligence while you have to adopt to analyze it immediately and to change your effort so it will take few days we have to clean this place and above all Benita many hospitals are deployed in this area are using in such a scenic way we have to go one after the other we have to move the people who are sick to another places that they will go medical treatment and we have to fight and to kill the terrorists and to destroy this brain of structure and to prevent it be freely in the future for them a complicated operation as you are describing and as you say it is going to take time Eitan stay with us lots more to discuss right now let's go to our correspondent Zach Anders he joins us from northern Israel where Zach sirens were sounding earlier also close to the northern border a hostile aircraft above and then we heard the idea of spokesman saying that Israel has been targeting his bullet sites in response to activity out of Lebanon so what more is confirmed what can you tell us this hour right well unlike in the south where Mary is when you can hear the action at a really consistent pace here is spaced out it's a lot quieter and then these quiet moments are punctured either by the outgoing Israeli artillery or the hum of something in the sky and earlier this afternoon it was that noise of what sounded like a drone for us the IDF says the four o'clock hour they were able to intercept hostile aircraft they're calling it but from what we've been able to understand these when they call these hostile aircrafts these are the Iranian made drones supplied to Hezbollah that are continuing to test the Israeli air defenses here in the north and continuing really to distract the IDF and keep this front at a luke warm temperature keep things continuously moving along this expansive northern border of course you've got mountainous terrain and quite a lot of different access points to have to keep cornered off or to keep your eyes on there are large structures here with the border with Lebanon set in place now temporary structures that are becoming more permanent to try and keep those roads closed and this border secure. Thank you so much correspondents Zach Anders live from northern Israel appreciate the update thank you and still with me in studio major general in the reserves at Tantangot so we heard my colleague Zach talking about efforts to keep that front luke warm that was the exact quote there there are certain remains around the potential for Hezbollah and Hassan Asrallah to get fully involved where do things stand there 40 days into this war I think it will go on ahead now it will continue till the fighting in Gaza will take place under very two important principles first of all the Hezbollah is deployed in a very high alert so it can change and we have to be in readiness the second that we are deployed a very high readiness for defense and a very high readiness from the air of attacking if we need to change the concept it will be done but the but is very important as more as the time is passing and there is such continuing between Israel Hezbollah Iran and above all the American United States umbrella which is closing this circle and have a very clear policy to prevent a big war escalation in this area it means that it's more or less balanced today as more it is passing it continues in such a way the chance for a war will be down but what is the problem that the Israeli government has to face now the issue of moving ahead thousands of people in the first time when it was such a lot on the October in two days 48 Hours almost 70,000 people were moved to the south area to other places evocuate from this area they have a very clear the population not to return under the same circumstances that Hezbollah create in the border and the question will be what will be Israel policy if the day after Gaza we will come to the north there is no answer yet the Israeli government and it can be between you are coming to the area while will be a very clear ceasefire or you will come to the area while Hezbollah will respect the 1701 resolution but how to reach it whether it will be under escalation between the both sides or under kind of international involvement I cannot know for sure but one thing is true it's not the last word for the north now thank you so much stay with us it's not the last word from you either please wake with us we're going to now go back to the latest out of Gaza Israeli special forces backed by additional troops entered Gaza city she for hospital overnight to carry out a precise and targeted operation against Hamas terror infrastructure at that site the IDF and officials in Gaza said there was no friction between troops and patients and medical staff while inside the forces also delivered incubators for newborns baby food and medical supplies our Middle East correspondent Ariel Oceran has more in this report the limited raid began at 2 a.m. local time as dozens of IDF troops began searching inside the hospital uncovering Hamas weapons explosives and assets the army said prior to their entry the forces came under fire and eliminated at least 20% of the armed forces in Gaza and in Gaza and in Gaza and in Gaza the forces came under fire and eliminated at least 5 terrorists no soldiers were hurt the IDF forces include medical teams and Arabic speakers who have undergone specified training to prepare for this complex and sensitive environment with the intent that no harm is caused to the civilians being used by Hamas as human shields once inside Gaza's biggest hospital the forces also delivered incubators for newborns baby food and medical supplies to the hospital according to Gaza's director general of hospitals not a single bullet was fired inside the hospital since the operation began despite widespread fear from Hamas some criticism could be heard from inside the hospital in recent days even in an interview to Qatar's Al Jazeera TV we do have information that Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad uses some hospitals in the Gaza Strip including the Al Shifa hospital as a way to conceal and support their military operations and hold hostages during a visit to the Zikim IDF training base near Gaza Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated that Israeli forces will reach every Hamas operative en every corner of the Gaza Strip do you remember when they said we wouldn't invade Gaza we invaded they said we wouldn't get to the outskirts of Gaza city and we did they said we wouldn't go into Shifa hospital we went in it is in this spirit that we say something simple there is no place in Gaza that we won't reach there is no hideout, no shelter no refuge for the Hamas murderers and so as the IDF's ground operation deepens into Gaza's hospitals it gets closer to its final goal of defeating Hamas but as the situation in the hospitals continues to deteriorate the task will become even more challenging so for more insight it's a pleasure to welcome international law expert Natasha Hausdorf the director at UK Lawyers for Israel and she's joining us from London Thank you so much Natasha for your time All eyes on Shifa hospital in Gaza as the IDF forces work to eliminate the Hamas threat so let's get some legal clarity here talk us through the laws of war so to speak when there is a terror command centre below a hospital and troops have to navigate their way past civilian sites to get to these terror sites well let's start if I may with the war crime of using a protected building like a hospital the most protected building in the context of the laws of armed conflict so much so that even a military hospital is considered to be protected under the laws of war the war crime that Hamas commits by using institutions like that as command and control centres is the first issue to pick up in terms of the laws of armed conflict and it's deeply disappointing that we're not hearing a greater condemnation or in some quarters any condemnation of these breaches of the laws of armed conflict by Hamas but certainly in terms of Israel's response we have seen careful operations around not just El Shifa but other hospitals in the Gaza Strip despite the fact that these are legitimate military targets that is as a matter of national law but it's also reflected in additional protocol 1 to the Geneva Conventions that when these protected buildings are being used for military purposes after warnings they become legitimate military targets that Israel is now going in into El Shifa with military personnel along with medical personnel Arabic speakers as you've just been reporting and not targeting the hospitals themselves with airstrikes is testament to the proportionality assessment that the IDF conducts even though the hospitals become a legitimate military target Israel seeks to prevent civilian casualties wherever it can and its approach and the military strategy that it has adopted with respect to hospitals across Gaza is reflective of its compliance with international law and in particular with that principle of proportionality Over and above that Natasha we're seeing these extraordinary images of IDF forces delivering incubators baby food, medical supplies for garrs and patients what is your take on the efforts Israel is taking to try to protect Palestinian civilians and how unprecedented is this during a war but it certainly goes over and above the requirements in the laws of armed conflict and the requirement I should state under article 23 of the 4th Geneva Convention is simply that a law abiding military facilitate the supply by third parties of humanitarian provisions subject to the caveat if that can be done without diversion to the opposing military forces to the Hamas or other Palestinian terrorist groups in this case now the difficulty from the outset in terms of the provision of humanitarian aid by third parties has been the long documented evidenced history that Hamas has of diverting those resources to its own terrorist infrastructure and its military efforts and therefore the requirement on Israel to facilitate third parties providing materials is obviated arguably or at least extremely limited having said that what Israel is now doing and I see this as particularly coming out of the fact that so much of the provision by third parties is undoubtedly aburred to Hamas purposes Israel's initiative in providing directly aid to civilians and indeed as you've described incubators which I for one think is unprecedented in the context of the history of armed conflict is all about the idea of going over and above the provisions of international law and practically seeking to help civilians in this extremely difícil, strategically complex scenario where Hamas, quite apart from breaking the rules of international law, is seeking to profit from its breaches of international law and its harm to the civilians in Gaza and generating civilian casualties as it can. So then talk us through the impact of the media coverage of exactly what you're describing this highly complex operation, the BBC you're in London apologizing for reporting incorrect information it said medical teams and Arab speakers were being targeted by Israeli forces as you alluded to earlier instead of saying in fact IDF forces included these medical teams and Arabic speakers for the operation the BBC did say this error fell below their usual editorial standards but emotions are high how damaging are mistakes like this right now. Well their usual editorial standard seem to be very low indeed don't they we've seen a consistent misrepresentation of international law and of the facts on the ground across their coverage for well over a month what is utterly extraordinary in the context of their misrepresentation of this Reuters report in the way that you described is that the only conclusion it can lead us with is that the BBC as others unfortunately appear to operate from a position where they attribute an evil intent to Israel and that leads their reporting it also appears to lead their decision to accept so much of what Hamas puts out as propaganda so much so that they have been called a mouse piece of Hamas this reflects also their coverage of casualty figures that are put out by the Hamas controlled health ministry so unfortunately even though they've apologised for the grotesque misreporting today they haven't rode back on so much to the extent that they are still reporting the casualty figures that Hamas has put out from the Ali hospital car park strike without any verification and unfortunately that looks likely to continue certainly is staggering especially coming from the BBC itself Natasha, the fate of the hostages being held by Hamas inside Gaza is obviously top of mind here abducting civilians, babies women, the elderly from their homes from a music festival you mentioned war crimes earlier how exactly is all of this classified under international law not to mention the conditions they are being held under, the lack of information the filming of hostages obviously part of the psychological warfare talk us through the war crimes and the crimes against humanity perpetuated by Hamas on the 7th of October and since then I think there are reasonable people and legal and military commentators who have been clear that this is amongst the worst atrocities that we have ever seen certainly war crimes against humanity in light of the intent that Hamas has been playing that it continues to seek to replicate the 7th of October atrocities that it continues to fire missiles onto Israeli civilians, let's not forget every single one of those missiles is also a war crime because they are targeting civilians with those strikes all of that is informed by what they say which is to annihilate the Jews and wipe Israel off of the map and that leaves us with the conclusion that what we witnessed on the 7th of October and subsequently are also crimes of genocide in that respect there is a responsibility on the international community on all states parties to the convention for the punishment and prevention of genocide to act not just on Israel a legal obligation to respond appropriately but also I would argue on the international community at large the fact that Hamas have documented their atrocities have celebrated their atrocities posted about their atrocities and videoed them of course and put these appalling images out on social media that is all undeniable evidence of the crimes that have been committed and the moral equivalence that we have seen in terms of the commentary around Hamas blatant war crimes and what is being alleged against Israel is deeply deeply troubling and it seeks to warp the situation that Israel finds itself in and makes it very hard indeed for the general public around the world to properly appreciate and understand the position that Israel finds itself in as the bulwark against this radical islamist extremism terror that seeks to annihilate let's face it the west and it's not true as well and as you say even though Hamas filmed these brutal attacks on the 7th of October there are still many questioning what actually happened when they themselves wanted to film it and make it go viral as it has we need to leave it there but we so appreciate your insight international law expert Natasha Harisdorf live from London thank you so much for being with us on i24 news we will be watching to see how things unfold well we're taking a quick break but when we get back our breaking news coverage continues two minutes and we're back this is i24 news breaking news edition stay tuned Israel is in a state of war families completely done down in their beds we have no idea where is she now months no no no bendicados en Israel. Israel bajo ataque, News 24 en español trae el análisis y la información de los acontecimientos de la guerra, espadas de hierro. Entrevistas exclusivas reportes desde la zona de guerra, la reacción de los países hispanoparlantes. News 24, el único medio en español que te mantiene informado y conectado con la comunidad latina en Israel. News 24, únicamente en I24 News. News coverage continues. I'm Benita Levine, live in Tel Aviv. The fighting in Gaza focused mainly on the Shifa Hospital today. The hospital located above a Hamas Terra Command Center. But there were plenty of developments in other arenas around the Gaza Strip. Senior defense correspondent Jonathan Reggaev has the details in this report. It used to be a major terror hub, but not anymore. This is the Palestine outpost. It was officially described as a training facility, but various terror attacks emerged from this outpost in the northern Gaza Strip. Those terror attacks will now come to an end. We are inside the Palestinian outpost, a major Hamas outpost, which we conquered. We destroyed much of the infrastructure and killed many terrorists. The fighting here was intense. Like so many other outposts, Hamas was well entrenched here, mostly underground. Tens of terrorists, along with dozens of anti-tank missiles and mortars, were waiting for the incoming IDF soldiers. They were all destroyed in a combined operation from the air and from the ground. Our entire battalion is dedicated to this mission. We finished our training and headed to battle. We found enemy infrastructure of every kind, including ammunition and tunnels. We did whatever we needed to do here, and now we are ready to head forward. This is one of the places where the army was rushing to. In a world where symbols are meaningful, here is one symbol gone. This used to be the Gaza parliament building controlled by Hamas. By step, every aspect of their control is going, going. Still in studio, a major general in the reserves, Etan Dungart. And we're also joined by our senior diplomatic correspondent, Owen Ultiman. But, Etan, I want to come back to you and specifically about the latest developments inside Shefa Hospital, outside Shefa Hospital and underneath Shefa Hospital. I would like to emphasize about Shefa, that we have been surrounded en Shefa from the weekend, from Friday, Saturday. And why we have been around it and didn't go inside is because of the fact that Israel built the illegitimation for entering and make the contact with the medical crew inside in order to see what is the situation. Not to damage it in a way that there is still people who are getting the medical treatment and to achieve things instead of it like the incubator you reported about it. Secondly, inside Shefa, after four to three to five days of waiting, it's very clear that the terrorist escape downstairs inside the deep tunnels and also took some of the equipment. But inside the department, you have a technological structure. You have technical items, what they need for control and command. Secondly, around this area is the heart of the north part of Gaza by Hamas. Just to add what you brought from your reporter about the achievement in the what we call Palestine post in a very large place that was used for organize the activities of the terrorism to organize the luncheering of rockets, to organize their training and everything. It's step by step. And as we are all the days passing, you have to understand that all over this area, the fighting continues. And each tree to four soldiers has to see what's going around them, whether coming terrorists from the tunnels, whether they have the luncheering of the anti-tank missiles, whether they have the observation post around them. It's a very complicated fighting for urban area. I may say again, it is the complicated area that has been such a war in the last 30 years that is going step by step to such well organized by Hamas on the other ground. It's not a guerrilla movement. It's an army that belong to the state of Hamas. Last but not least, you just saw the explosion on the parliament. It's on the day that the Arafat declared the independence day of the Palestinian state and what has been done there after it declared on 1988, came Hamas in 2007 and made it very clear that throw the fatach divided West Bank and Gaza to different entities and such a cruel, a murderers are controlling Gaza and built from 2007, it's Hamas state. So we're seeing that dramatic image on our screen right now of that parliament building when it was destroyed. Certainly that symbol is no longer Owen. Actually a couple of questions at the Eitan with your permission. The first one is especially drawing in your experience as the head of the coordinator of government activities in the territory. So viewers understand responsible for civilian and humanitarian elements right in the West Bank and for that matter in principle in before the disengagement in Gaza. How do you feel the military is doing in terms of managing the humanitarian situation in the hospital? And what would worry you the most going forward? And then the other question, what are the chances going back to something you said that the military really will be able to find something meaningful en terms of evidence of a meaningful Hamas command presence inside or below the hospital to be able to show it to the world and to demonstrate why the operational hospital took place? I will start with the first one as the coordinator of the government activities as a military. I rank officer. My job or my responsibility was, first of all, to join such operational activities and make it clear and giving all the information, all the advices, all the plans that the operational will work on one end and on the other end, we will know exactly where are the sensitive area for that the civilians are holding, what you can risk civilian, how you manage to supply the needs of the civilian. By the way, the North area now is under the control of Israel because we are there. The moment we will leave it. I don't know where they are well. To each commander of battalion, there is a senior officer that is aware about the area that they are operating. What is the what's going there for how many people are there? He speaks the language, he knows the culture, he knows the sensitive places from the area, he knows immediately to tell the commander be aware, don't take this direction or the other direction because there is a mask or hospital. What is the cynicism that Hamas is using, this civilian area for hiding, for making the civilians their first line of protective, so it's very complicated area. And even by the war, when you have to move people who are wounded from the civilian from a place to place, these people under the responsibility of the commander of the battalion or the commander of the brigade, has to see and to build the picture how and where to do it. Very complicated, very high sensitivity because such a picture under a battlefield without getting to the human issues that you have to supply, you can build a picture like we are cruel. We are not Hamas, we are not animals of human. We are coming to defend the children that were murdered dramatically like a butcher's by those, those people who came to their homes to their beds and we have to return only after we will fulfill the goal of breaking Hamas structure. Eitan, there's another major goal and that's obviously the hostages. This is become in my I'm sorry to interrupt, but this goal has been jumped to be much more urgent and much more important. We will beat Hamas, doesn't matter if we will do it tomorrow or a month from now or even after a year from now. We will control the area. Hamas ended the story to be the controller of Gaza, but instead of it, it's our own to our civilian. After the major failure of the country to defend them inside their homes, inside their beds, we have to bring them home. This is the contract between the country, the state and its civilian. And from my point of view, we have to do it for the future of Israel. Besides, what those people are suffering or suffered or were murdered and their families, this is our future. We have to build the trust again and make it very clear to our people. We will not let it happen anymore. We thought it's ended in the Holocaust. We didn't imagine it will be after the establishment of our state. It will be for generations, the 7th of October. One thing, we have to look to our civilians to their eyes and tell them we will protect you. Never will come such murderers again to your villages and make such a massacre. What do you make then of these reports around a potential hostage deal that is said to involve the release of 50 hostages in exchange for a three day ceasefire of sorts and potentially Palestinian prisoners as well. This is just a report. Nonetheless, it is raising the very important question about whether some kind of negotiation can exist around or hostages or some of the hostages. It's complicated. Your thoughts. It's a very important question, Benita. And I will start from my point of view. I'm not in uniform now. I'm not holding a state official post, but I would demand to make the end game first. It means how we save or make it very clear that the 240 people will be released if it will take under three stages and each one will be three ceasefire days. We have to accept it. I'm very concerned about the situation of releasing of 50 people. And then what is Hamas? Hamas is a murderer, a group of murderers that has built a state of murderers. And what does it mean? It means, listen, Hamas needs ceasefire days. ¿Por qué? Para llevar a la gente que puede llevar en una o dos horas. They need it to create again the rest, organize themselves, organize attack on the Israeli battalions that are in the field. They need it for their mood, for their spirit, for their feeling they are controlling the area. They demanded at the beginning it was on the press five days. Why they need it? They would like to return back to a stage we didn't complete the mission. They are in the north part of Gaza. You have something like three battalions that didn't damage yet. They are surround, but they didn't damage, they will be damaged. Only if we keep it very strongly surrounding. So, first of all, we have to give the host, bring hostages back if it's 50 under a big agreement for releasing everybody, soldiers, female, elders, babies. My opinion is to give or to return back prisoners. Doesn't matter. First of all, fulfill our duty to our civilian after such a tragedy that happened in their places they are living. Owen, I want to bring you in on this discussion around this potential deal to get the release of the hostages. It is just a report. Nonetheless, we're hearing the Qataris obviously are heavily involved in this. These are people who host Hamas leaders are now the ones brokering some kind of deal also reports each potentially the US. We know Benjamin Netanyahu is regularly speaking as well to Joe Biden from an international perspective. Give us an understanding of the kind of input to make a deal like this actually come to fruition. Right. Well, obviously a negotiation. Israel and Hamas let a negotiation between Israel and Hamas in the middle of a war where Israel has declared that its goal is to one way or another, destroy Hamas. I like to say to end Hamas control over the territory of the Gaza Strip. Won't be so straightforward and is going to require mediators. But what I think is interesting about the dynamic is the mediators are not only mediators, they're themselves players. They're countries with their own national interests. Exacto. And their own vulnerabilities. Right. So one of the themes over the course of the negotiation has not about been putting pressure on Hamas. Although, of course, that's been a theme. How many Israeli leaders have come to the podium and said, trust us, the best way to get to a deal is by putting military pressure on Hamas. So there's that. But there's also this theme of putting pressure on Qatar. Right. And using the United States and the American relationship with Qatar as a point of leverage to get the cutteries to put pressure on Hamas. For Hamas to then come to the table in a more serious way. Again, this is an idea that's come out of Israel. I don't know to what extent the United States is fully on board because the United States, of course, needs Qatar as well. There's a major American air base there. I would imagine it's not so easy to pick up and move an air base. Right. That's so important in such an unstable part of the world. But be that as it may, all of these players have their own interests. They're not simply mediators. So it is obviously very complicated, but by all accounts seems to be progressing. Of course, what's new about the last few days, Benita, is that the leaks are not coming from the side of the other guys. They're not coming from Qatar or only from Qatar or from Egypt, for that matter, or from Hamas itself sometimes, where especially it's seen as a psychological warfare. These are leaks coming out of Israel and being given to Israeli media, either because the Israeli government wants to lay the groundwork politically for the deal to be put out there and prepare the public for the kinds of terms that are there. And maybe as a kind of child balloon to see how people en television studios y en social media and in conversations outside grocery stores, how they feel about it. And maybe the other motive is to essentially be able, if the talks break down to go to the families, especially in, say, we try. Benita, one thing to add and I agree for what was told you that Israel should demand all the list of the hostages that Hamas is keeping. Secondly, a visit of Red Cross to everybody, just to keep that they saw him in life, because you are dealing with murders and not believe to a word about what they are telling now or what they will tell tomorrow. We know these people are human animals, so we need insurance of steps by Red Cross, international community, and Qatar is another story. With Qatar, United States, Israel is stuck because Qatar is the fuel station that built what we are fighting now for Hamas. And Qatar is not doing it only for itself. It's doing it for itself in order to improve its position in the world because always Qatar hold the stick from both sides. But Qatar is doing it under Hamas requested, requested Qatar to do it or ask Hamas to do it because the situation of Hamas. Don't forget, the achievements of the IDF is step by step. When we will show symbols or things after, I think that Israel should make a lot of efforts to kill Sinwar, to kill Issa, to kill Muhammad, those leaders as a lot of psychological meaning. It's very difficult because from the first minute they are under the ground, well protected, maybe it will take months. But secondly, it will take time to achieve what you are fighting now, achieve step by step. This is the real and the main achievements. And it will take time. Why you say it will take time? Even under ceasefire, even now stopping it, Israel should keep its right to operate offensively everywhere that we identify, Hamas, people, organization that will stay there even of a time that Gaza will continue to bring its life again. We have to be like in the West Bank, active and we will not leave this organization till we will bring it to a very low level and destroying its main structure. One very, very quick point. The idea of getting a list of the hostages. Eitan has been part of the reporting on the potential deal as in the Reuters report as an Israeli demand. The Red Cross visit, no, it sounds to me like a terrific idea. Of course, Ellie Cohen, a foreign minister met in Geneva with the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross. I have not been able to find, I've seen what we, what the Israeli government said to the Red Cross in that meeting, not been able to find what the ICRC said to the Israeli government. It is beyond staggering to think that more than five weeks later, we're still waiting to see if the Red Cross can get access to even, as you say, proof of life to know that the families... We don't know whether they are alive. We don't know whether Hamas is controlling all of them. We don't know how many people the Jihadist slumming is holding. So everything for us is one thing, one goal we are controlling. You have to bring out all the list, all the evidence. This is our main demand. Stay with us because as we've been discussing, obviously it's been an agonizing few weeks for the families, the relatives of the 239 hostages being held by Hamas are still waiting for word out of Gaza as we've been discussing. Families have been marching to Jerusalem with a message for local authorities and for the world. Our correspondent Nicole Zedek was there and she filed this update. Dozens of family members are getting ready to spend the second night sleeping in tents as they're marching all the way from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, taking their concern, their desperation, their heartache, really, all the way to the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu's face and every step of the way, they continue to show the faces of their loved ones, the 239 hostages who remain captive in Gaza 40 days. For 40 days now, all of these family members have not been able to sleep. They haven't been able to eat or drink or think about anything, except for their family members who are still hostage. Y eso es por eso que están haciendo este marcho todo el camino de Tel Aviv a Jerusalem para continuar a dar una voz a sus familiares y a sus amantes que no han tenido una voz durante los últimos 40 días. Así que es por eso que veas estos docentes de tentos aquí para todos los diferentes personas en la comunidad que vienen aquí y continúan a creer sus preocupaciones. Ahora están diciendo que se sienten abandonados por el gobierno israelí. Y así están llamando ahora, como están marchando esta gran distancia a través del centro de Israel, están llamando a los ciudadanos israelíos a estar con ellos ahora mismo, a venir juntos, porque han sido abandonados por el gobierno israelí, así que no quieren ser abandonados por los ciudadanos israelíos también. Y puedo decirles que no es el caso, porque continuamos a ver a las personas que vienen a apoyar a ellos, a los docentes de personas que vienen, a las preguntas que han estado preguntando durante los últimos 40 días, como por qué no es el gobierno israelí haciendo todo lo que pueden, para darles su amor a las personas ahora mismo. Eso es la principal mensaje que continuamos a escuchar, llevarlos a casa ahora mismo. Y así, como continúan a hacer su suerte a Jerusalem, a estos familiares, a estos amigos, van a continuar a decir ese mismo mensaje ahora mismo, porque eso es lo que necesita pasar por estos hostes que todavía están capturados en Gaza. Repóranme desde el Centro de Israel. I'm Nicole Zedek for I24 News. So the families feel understandably abandoned, Eitan, your thoughts. I think this is the story of this tragedy and this is the main thing that the Israeli nation should not leave support and hug these people, not leave them, bring them the support. More and more people has to join them and to remind our leaders that this is the first duty of the country for them and we have to help them because I think that when you see all the demonstrations against Israel in the world, it's very general to forget what the Israelis are facing. After a few hours, you see it disappear. After the first sadness of what happened to us. And we have to remind to us first of all and then to the world what was going here. And we have to make and to support the effort. As I said, the first duty of the state to its civilian is first of all, bring back from the children till the elders, soldiers, females, everybody should return back home. Right. Also, just to round this out to correct something I said before that we didn't know exactly what the ICRC said after it's meeting with Eli Cohen. This part of a tweet from the ICRC president, ICRC will not stop working to gain access to the hostages and we need agreements to be reached that allow us to work. Her response from the meeting after the meeting with the families and of course also meeting with Israel's foreign minister, Eli Cohen. It certainly sounds, however, that there is a very, very long road ahead and to be a parent and not know whether your child is alive or not, to not have proof of life, to not know what condition there are. Reports, of course, of a woman who was there, who was pregnant, reports that one of the people in captivity was expecting a baby and we're hearing updates which we're going to go into later on in this broadcast. It is heartbreaking and it's unacceptable. And it's astounding to think that this isn't top of mind across the globe, that 239 people are being held hostage for more than five weeks and their families don't even know their health condition. What's the baby, that nine months old? Now ten months. Ten months. Who is touching her head? Who is replace her clothes? Who is giving her a huge or a kiss when she's going to sleep or crying? And to live in the underground tunnels that this is what we estimate that all of them are facing, whether moving from a place to place. Elders, the lady that is 85 years old, o soldiers, female, that were in a tragic war, beaten in a lot of violence and raped, etc. What's going here? Whether we are a farm of human animals? It certainly is so devastating to think that this isn't top of mind across the globe, that world leaders across the globe aren't discussing. These should actually fill out on that as well. Just over the last time, the UN Security Council passing a resolution, meaning the United States did not veto it, that included two important provisions. One, supporting the idea or insisting on humanitarian pauses that are urgent and continuous, I think are the exact words. And second, calling for the unconditional release of the hostages, which again goes to the point, Benita, that of course we are all extremely frustrated by this situation. But it remains the case that this is the strongest part of Israeli diplomacy and public diplomacy abroad. This issue of the hostages is in statements from every government, from every foreign minister, from every president, from every prime minister. And now from the UN Security Council itself, right? The Russians and the Chinese did not veto that. They will not veto it also. But I expect from the Western world, France, UK, United States to return every week to remind their civilians about what happened here, what was with the hostages and why they have to support and to remember from what everything has been started. Devastating situation. We wait to see how things unfold. We wait for answers. Our hearts are with the families of the 239 hostages and with the hostages as they are held for more than five weeks inside Gaza by a terror group. Major General in the Reserves, Eitan Dungart. Senior Diplomatic Correspondent Owen Altman. Thank you both very much for being here in studio. 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