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U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is in Jerusalem meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu in Jerusalem today, his fourth trip to the region to boost truce negotiations and to discuss how to provide additional humanitarian aid to Gaza. As part of the agreement, Hamas will release another eight Israeli hostages today, six women and two children who have been held captive in the Gaza Strip since they were kidnapped on October 7. Their families have been notified. They will also release the bodies of three Israelis. So far, 97 civilians have been released from Hamas captivity in Gaza. 145 hostages, including 15 women and children, still remain captive in the Gaza Strip by the terror organization. Meanwhile, three Israelis were killed and six were injured in a shooting attack at the entrance of Jerusalem this morning. Let's cross over to I-24 News. Senior Defense Correspondent Jonathan Aregheb, who's at the Schneider Children's Medical Center. Jonathan, tell us about the preparations the hospital is making to treat these women and children who have been held captive in unknown but I'm sure horrific circumstances. Yes, and especially what is important is the secluded area. No one has access to those coming back other than the families and the doctors, of course. It's a secluded area. We can say that four other people were brought here to Schneider Hospital. They arrived very late last night. Due to the fact, let's remember that the release yesterday was delayed by a few hours, but eventually it happened. They came here quite late. Preliminary reports on all the tests done on all of the four who arrived here last night say that their physical condition is good. And let's hope the further tests done later today will also continue to reveal this good condition they arrived in. And Jonathan, regarding the hostages that will be released today, do we have any indication part of their health? Do they have any injuries? We don't know. Names are circulating all the time, but it's not an official list. No one really knows. And therefore, who are the people? What are the conditions? We do not exactly know. Let's remember, even in previous days, Israel was sometimes surprised to see people coming on crutches or on wheelchairs. So their condition is not yet known. We'll have to wait a few hours until we find out. Jonathan, thank you for that update. And joining me now in studio is retired IDA, Colonel Amit Assa, former member of the Israeli Security Agency. Thank you very much for joining me today. I want to ask you firstly about this Karim attack in the Jordan Valley. What else can you tell us about that? Do you know anything at this moment? No, as we know from the press, it was some guy that ran over people at the place. But it's added to the event that we saw in the morning. They have the motivation. They have the motivation to do whatever they can to add to the war, to the Hamas handle another thing, another attack, another issue that we will have to handle. And this kind of terror attack is reminding us that if somebody is getting up in the morning without any warning, without any sign in the intelligence and decide to do something, there is very few chances that we will have the intelligence to stop it. So it's very... And to that point, I want to ask you, as part of this ceasefire deal, Israel has released some 210 Palestinian terror prisoners in exchange for the abducted Israeli hostages. How concerned is the IDF and the security apparatus about a possible escalation of violence as we've already seen this morning and now this afternoon? They are getting into the streets as murderers, as terrorist organization members, and getting back to work as they decided at the beginning. It's not that they are changing their mind and they will be peaceful. And this is something that Israel is taking into consideration. This is our calculation because we are giving back our hostages and this is what important now, but we know that this is the price for it. Absolutely. And I want to discuss also this morning's negotiations. There were various reports in Israeli media that before the ceasefire was extended, Hamas had provided a list of hostages that was unacceptable for Israel. What more can you tell us about that? We know that they will not do whatever they are supposed to do or their promise to do in this negotiation. It's not a surprise for us. What is on our mind now is to get as much as we can, as many as we can hostages back until we will start again the action and the war inside Gaza. I remind you that Hamas started to negotiate about hostages because he was with his back to the war. Because we entered a Gaza Strip and we started the war. And now we have to do another move, another move to put him in the decision that he have no choice to give us all the hostages back with a better deal for us, of course, and this is what we need to do. And to that point, I want to ask you, some Israeli and US officials are discussing the idea of expelling thousands of lower level Hamas terrorists from the enclave as a way to shorten the war similar to the U.S. broker deal that allowed Palestinians to flee Beirut during Israel's 1982 siege of the capital, the Lebanese capital. Is a plan like that in Gaza feasible when it comes to Hamas? I think when we are dealing with low-resistant members, maybe yes, maybe, but not the high. And when we are speaking about high-position terrorists like Sinwar and his members, there's two reasons why it will not work. First, Israel will not let it go. It's not like Arafat in Lebanon. They are dead walking persons. And the second is Sinwar is not going to give up and get out from Gaza. He will fight until his death because he calculated from the beginning that he is a dead man. Absolutely. And I want to stay with me. I want to turn quickly to Pierre Colotier and their I-24 news correspondent in Jerusalem. Pierre, what can you tell us about the fatal terror attack that took place this morning? Well, at 7.38 a.m., two terrorists came out of their car and shot at people that were waiting at the bus stop, which is just here. The luck or the miracle is that moments earlier, many people just went on one of the buses and thus there were less people inside the bus stop. But they managed to kill three people and to wound others. Four are in severe condition. One is in moderate condition and one is in light condition now. What's amazing is that there were two reservists and one civilian. The two reservists were on a 12-hour leave from the Gaza front. They were fighting in the Gaza Strip earlier before the ceasefire. They were on a 12-hour leave and they're here when the shooting attack occurs and they respond with fire killing the two terrorists. Now, all that is so intermingled because for the people here, especially these cool children that are part of an ultra-orthodox school which is just nearby, they heard the shooting. Some of them are walking here and some of them saw the victims and they were so in shock that when their teacher came to school at 8, they said, we don't want to learn, we want to come here and mobilize and offer our support and condolences to the victims and they've been here since then. Since then, the bus station has been decorated by them, by these cool kids and in one of the inscriptions it's written, in Gaza we will win and for the people here, there is no doubt that this shooting attack and the situation in the Gaza Strip are interrelated, especially that the two terrorists are affiliated to Hamas. One of them was convicted in jail between 2010 and 2020 for terror offenses and his relative, who is 30 years old, was convicted in 2014 to 8 months in jail because he assisted a terror operative. So all this in the people's mind is completely interrelated and what's also amazing is that two hours, barely two hours after the shooting attack, everything was clean here, the highway was already open, the buses were serving the people, people were still waiting at the bus stop and were waiting at the bus stop two hours later and within half an hour, first of all within seconds this shooting attack ended, but within half an hour all the wounded were already hospitalized in two hospitals. This is due to the fact that the rescue services of Magan Davidadom are just in these directions minutes away by car and then within moments they wash the blood, Zaka rescue workers are looking for pieces of flesh and blood to be cleansed from the scene of violence because in Judaism you cannot leave human remains without burying them because human remains are holy as human life and you have to bury them. So we saw literally rescue workers scrapping small tiny pieces of flesh and bone in order to bury them later on with the victims. The victims are going to be buried very quickly. One of them is being buried right now, another one at two o'clock local time and another one just a little bit later on because also in Judaism you bury the victims immediately as soon as possible and this is what's happening and so life is returning to normal, a normal abnormal you could say but it's like this two hours later everything is functioning, everything is clean and this is the reality in this country. Thank you very much for that update from Jerusalem. Joining me now is IDF spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner thank you very much for joining me today. Good afternoon. Firstly Peter I want to ask you about this car ramming attack in the Jordan Valley what more can you tell us? We just announced put out the initial announcement of indeed a car ramming near Bacot soldiers at the scene neutralized the assailant two soldiers lightly injured in the attack and evacuated to the hospital to hospital and the families have been notified it's just a breaking event. Peter Prime Minister Ndiniaho is vowed that the ceasefire will not exceed 10 days and that the fighting will resume in order to reach the main goal of this war which is to dismantle Hamas. How is the IDF preparing for the resumption of fighting against Hamas on the Gaza Strip? So we've taken the last seven days in order to learn our lessons from the battlefield from the seven weeks of fighting in order to regroup to restock and to make our operational plans ready. The IDF is on I would say on the very highest level of preparedness at this stage from the day one of the operational pause we were saying and stating that when it's over we will continue our operation because this war has two goals bringing home every last hostage but also dismantling and destroying Hamas. So we have the operational plans are in place and we are ready to implement those as the situation develops. What is the biggest challenge the IDF faces in this next phase of the war in Gaza? So without going into obvious specifics I would say that the challenges of urban warfare the close contact door to door tunnel to tunnel engagement of terrorists that pop up from one place to another are the challenges that we are facing of course explosive devices in the streets anti-tank guided missiles of course the very densely populated areas so I would say when we combine all of those it's the battlefield that we acknowledge and realize is a huge challenge in itself. With saying that I still don't believe that there is anything that Hamas can actually do to prevent or foil the attacks and the force of the IDF from achieving our goal here's what we know we know that we have a good grasp of intelligence we know that Hamas are in hiding they have been in hiding for seven weeks we know that the tunnel systems while they may perceive them as a defensive system they can also become death traps and we know that our forces are very very highly motivated to achieve safety and security to the people of Israel of southern Israel specifically but of Israel in its entirety so the challenges I think are weighed out by the opportunities and definitely from our perspective there really is no other choice. Absolutely and to that point of urban warfare that you just mentioned there there's been immense pressure from the international community to not harm those gods and civilians in the southern part of the strip talk to us about the efforts the IDF is making in order to minimize civilian casualties. So the IDF goes to I would say unprecedented in the reality or in the operations of warfare in order to limit civilian casualties of course from evacuating or announcing where we are coming to conduct our activities sending text messages dropping leaflets and even in certain cases we divert our strikes when there are civilians in the vicinity so if you weigh up all of those activities it's a huge effort to try and keep civilians out of harm's way and we've said time and time again the people of Gaza are not the enemy of Israel it is Hamas that is the enemy of Israel and therefore Hamas have to go weighing up that challenge and I would say also the reality of the battleground is a battleground that Hamas has chosen a very interesting component is all of the propaganda videos that they're putting out of attacks against our forces all show very clearly that they're wearing jeans and sandals they're not in military attire they're not in uniforms so it goes to show that they are trying to increase and try and exemplify that civilians are being killed but no I would say we are targeting Hamas terrorists wherever they are and indeed they are hiding in schools, in mosques, beneath hospitals in residential areas and this is how they operate and that is they choose the battleground but we are determined to destroy them Are there any fears that Hamas is using this humanitarian aid to get its hands on more fuel and rockets? I think it needs to be a working assumption even though the fuel and the humanitarian assistance is controlled and is meant to reach the international humanitarian organizations from our perspective because there is no time limit on our ability to mobilize from the government's perspective we've not been said that there is a due date to finish the effort by it means that basically even if they do restock or regroup to a certain extent it won't really change the reality on the battleground so even if we understand that some of the fuel some of the supplies may have reached their hands despite our efforts and despite the fact that the international humanitarian organizations are supposed to be giving the food and the supplies and the medical supplies and to the people that are in dire need we understand that it may be a possibility There were reports that some of these Israeli hostages were held in UNRAT facilities Do you know anything about this? In what facilities? In UNRAT We saw some of the reports coming out yesterday from some of the hostages telling them themselves I think they said that it was an UNRAT teacher that held, facilitated or gave refuge or was being held in a home of an UNRAT teacher I can't confirm that of course there's UNRAT facilities throughout the Gaza Strip We have seen rocket launches from adjacent to UNRAT schools We've seen tunnels beneath UNRAT facilities and indeed there is a very serious question to be asked to the United Nations that have not condemned Hamas's abuse of the civilian arena not in the case of hospitals not in the case of the UN facilities themselves Is there a chance that a UN employee a Palestinian employee who is also a Hamas operative it's happened in the past IDF spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner Thank you very much for joining me today Good day Still with me in studio is Amit Asa IDF Colonel, pardon Retired IDF Colonel former member of the Israeli Security Agency I want to ask you about the ceasefire Does the ceasefire in terms of defense tactics on the ground Does it help the IDF? Does it hinder them? As we know as the principles of war you are not stopping You don't have to stop because we have the advantage of getting to the enemy area and pushing him pushing the enemy to the war It's not a thing that we want to do but of course if we are opposing, if we have time to rearrange to re-settle our battle for better action at the future, it's good for us it's better for us than to the Hamas We know that they are preparing themselves to the next and they know that we will get into action but still we can prepare ourselves better than Hamas prepare themselves And to that point because as the IDF is preparing for this continuation of fighting in the south at the same time we're also facing threats in the West Bank, in Jerusalem as we saw unfortunately today Tell me, tell us about the challenges Israel's security agency is facing here Yeah, I think that it's another kind of story in the West Bank because when we are there and we can handle a terrorist in their places, it's another story that what we had in the Gaza Strip before the 7th of October, we are there with our troops, with our force and we can get wherever we want to make sure that these terrorists we beat them on their houses and not waiting for them to beat us in our houses and we can see it also in Tulkarem Camp Refugees and in Jenin of course and other places IDF is working with the intelligence with the Shabak Intelligent IDF so they are working together to get the specific information intelligence to get them in their houses and it works We saw earlier this week videos of public hangings in the West Bank of supposed Palestinian collaborators, how does this hinder Israeli security when it comes to getting more information on possible attackers Again, I'm sorry for the question. That's okay. I want to ask you about these public hangings that have happened in the West Bank, Palestinians that have hanged, Palestinian collaborators who have given information to Israeli security How does this hinder? First, we don't know that they are They are just suspected the people that they want to show to other that if you will be cooperating with the Israeli we will hang you It doesn't mean that they are really cooperated with the Israelis This is another thing that we know and we saw that they are using that kind of un-humane action against people against their own people It's amazing. It's not just against us. It's against their own people. So this vicious activity showing their faces Absolutely. Today marks the 55th day of the war. We've been told to expect this war to go on until January, even as far as March Does that still hold true now? In your eyes, where do we stand here? I think that the battle in Gaza didn't end yet This is first we have to move on in Gaza area We understand that it's just 20% of the all Gaza Strip area and we have to move to the south and it will be easier and not fast as we did in the north side because of the population because of the big of the area and we had a lot more activists of Hamas because we know that there's two brigades and we deal until now with one brigade in the north. So it will take more time and more time it's weeks and maybe month until we will clean up every member of Hamas from the Gaza Strip. Right. And amid the ceasefire, there was a drone infiltration in the north earlier today Does that mean Hezbollah isn't adhering to the ceasefire and where does Hezbollah stand at this point? Hezbollah and Nassarallah especially is waving to the world, to the Arab world. We are here and we are helping the Hamas because they are part of us. But in other hand, he's not in the game. He doesn't want to get into a complex with the Israelis and from time to time he's sending a message to Gaza. It's not a message for us. For us, he knows that we will be able to handle it and it's part of his game not to cross the red line through the Israeli nerves but in another hand to do something to show the Arab world that he's not putting his hand behind his back. Right. Is the idea worried about Hezbollah joining into this war? Hezbollah has a much larger arsenal and a much more powerful arsenal. I think it's not a kind of worried. We are not surprised. We will not be surprised that Hezbollah will get into the action and we have to understand that we will have to do something in advance. Maybe we will not wait for Hezbollah to do something. We will do something in advance to put Hezbollah back from the border of Israel and not attempting to get into Israel in the future. And we do have live images of the Rafah crossing into Gaza fuel trucks being provided as part of the humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip as part of this truce agreement. You can see those images right there on your screens. Those trucks arriving with fuel and food as well for the Gaza civilians there in the Strip. Amit Assa, former member of the Israeli security agency and retired IDF Colonel I want to thank you very much for staying with me here in studio. We will continue our coverage right here on News 24 right after the break. Don't go anywhere. Two minutes. More updates on the temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. This is I-24 News. Is in a state of war families completely done 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. News 24 in Spanish brings the analysis and information about the events of the war with iron swords. Exclusive interviews and 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 on I-24 News. Welcome back and thanks for staying with us here on I-24 News as we continue our coverage here in Israel. If you're just joining us, the temporary six day ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has been extended by another day. As part of the agreement, the terror organization Hamas will release another eight Israeli hostages today. Six women and two children have been held captive in the Gaza Strip since they were kidnapped on October 7th. Their families have been notified. Hamas will also release the bodies of three Israelis. 37 hostages have been released from Hamas captivity as part of this ceasefire deal. And we can now confirm the names of two Israeli citizens who will be released tonight as part of the hostage exchange between Hamas and Israel's siblings Bilal al-Ziadna, 21 years old and Aisha al-Ziadna, 17 years old. Meanwhile, a handful of Israeli villages including Mushabnave were miraculously spared during the Hamas massacre of October 7th. But their harrowing or deal-hiding and shelters for hours, followed by a subsequent military escorted evacuation in the direction of the Egyptian border, no doubt left a mark on the community of over 1,000 people. I-24 News' Emily Francis went with a community leader to visit their Moshev in the days before, and they're hoping to move back home for good. It's been nearly two months since the Hamas terror massacre in Israel's south. But here on road 232 which only recently reopened there is still an eerie feeling. Terrorists were all over the place and this gas station in the woods, in the fields running all over the place and just killing whoever they see. And a lingering smell of hell. You can still smell the burned out trees. We can see the damage of the battles that took place on this road. I shot at cars on this road, civilian cars. Fort Siouan Leshem, who is now preparing his community to return home, stopping along the way at this gas station and convenience store is a painful reminder of the nightmare they all endured on October 7th. This yellow gas station was completely taken over by the terrorists. They actually looted the yellow store. Thankfully no one was there. They went on a murder rampage and then got the munchies. Refrigerator is completely smashed and shot at. See the bullet holes. Terrorists, terrorists like Ben and Jerry's as well. Siouan is from Moshev Nave, located just a few kilometers from two enemy borders. We're right in the corner of both Gaza and Egypt borders. We enjoy the benefits of both borders. The terrorists have been on the way to us and thankfully thank God they didn't come. They didn't make it. An army group kind of tackled them before they made it here. On October 7th, the playgrounds that are usually a source of joy for over 700 children who live here became a place of sheer terror for up to 20 people in a tiny shelter. Wow, this is not a fun place to have to run into. No. I'm possibly going to be free of us. 6.30 a.m. the men are in the synagogue during the holiday prayers. Women and kids are in bed sleeping and 6.30 a.m. the siren goes off and we're used to that. We know what needs to be done. Everyone needs to run to the sheltered rooms. Unfortunately, not all the families actually have sheltered rooms and unlike what we're used to one siren, maybe two a vague boom outside. This is going on for hours and tens and tens of rockets being fired at us and children have to get out of their bed and run to the streets, out to the playground to the sheltered rooms in the playground and this time we're being locked inside for hours and hours no door, no window no electricity and literally waiting for terrorists to come. Yes, this is a giant miracle not only for the residents and security team but also for those of us from the Moshav who were called to fight. Even Moshav Navey's head of security, Omri Cohen says it was a gift of God that they were spared. On October 7th at 6.30 a.m. there were many red alerts and dozens of missiles landing on and near our Moshav. After a while I started to understand there was a major infiltration of terrorists men who had weapons left their wives and children to protect the residents of the Moshav. This bedroom community you see now also became ground zero for ambulances and helicopters bringing the wounded to get medical attention. And now there's a collection of the most unwanted reminders of the horrors of October 7th. Obviously we know what this is but it's unbelievable that we're sitting here and holding this like a souvenir. Not normal. This is the remaining of a rocket that was shot at us together with our rocket collection and one of thousands. But Sion says they will no doubt turn this disturbing piece of trash into treasure. We're taking these rockets cleaning them up painting them and putting them in our yard planting flowers and I guess that's just one little thing that we can do to show the world that life is going on. Our enemies are seeking death and we are seeking life. And Moshav Navey is also known for their prized agricultural fields. In fact, Navey and other Moshavs near the Gaza border provide up to 70% of the produce consumed in Israel. And now it's up to volunteers to save the agriculture. What has it been like to be here volunteering? It's a very hard work because most of the time we're doing like four or five people we're doing the work of 15 to 20 Thai workers that left and it's daylight to sunset. Truckloads of young local volunteers are lending a hand as well as this enthusiastic group of Americans from Clifton and Paseik, New Jersey. We actually landed on Sunday night and we came, we're coming for four or five days really just to help where we can in the land. You know, a lot of us 6,000 miles away and we feel like our hearts are here, but we need to actually bring it to action. And these Jersey guys were even rolling up their sleeves and planting chives no less. And not only doing work but you're doing work with onions and you're not crying. Exactly, I don't, please make sure that my wife doesn't see this because then I'll have to do things in the kitchen. Over the next two weeks, residents of Moshav Nave are expecting to finally return to their homes and the kids will get to go back to school but they will be living in a new reality. As soon as the army give us the green light we will be returning back. We must take care of our security needs. We have sheltered rooms that we need to build for families that don't have them. We're purchasing equipment for our security team. We need to be prepared for the worst but regardless, Nave and the nearby communities have a mission to keep Israeli agriculture thriving and flourishing. This area is destined to grow dramatically and the amazing communities that live here, that have been here for the past 17, 18 years are going to be here for the next 100 years and 200 years and we're just getting warmed up, we're just getting started. We have humongous projects of farming and of tourism and of high-tech coming up. I want to invite everyone, you, Emily and all of our viewers and listeners please come visit us here in the towns of Nave in the area, in the region. We'll show you around. It's beautiful. In Moshev, Nave, Emily Francis I-24 News Let's cross over to I-24 News correspondent Pierre Clauchandler who's in Jerusalem where Hamas has taken responsibility for the fatal terror attack that took place this morning. Pierre, what more can you tell us about the identity of the terrorists and what happened there this morning? Right, about the identity of the terrorists the two are relatives at least, I don't know if they're brothers but they're relatives they have the same family name Murad Nimmer and Ibrahim Nimmer one is 38 and he was already convicted of terror offenses and jailed between 2010 and 2020. The other one is 30 years old. He was convicted for assisting a terrorist and he was convicted for 8 months in jail in 2014. Now regarding what happened here let's hear first what one of the eye witnesses saw and also let's hear what Itamar Ben-Gvir the Minister of Internal Security had to say, he argues all the time about Israelis being able to carry weapons in the country to protect themselves. Let's hear them. I passed by here every morning at this exact bus stop I stood here like every day I saw the car stopping by the station it seemed suspicious from the start the driver got out of the vehicle and pulled out a weapon I realized immediately that this is a terror attack miraculously moments before the shooting a large crowd that was in the bus stop went into a bus that drove away so many lives were saved. Today I regret not doing military service I'm still in shock, I'm still shaking, I'm tired and I just want to get back home It is a difficult morning for all of us condolences to the families speedy recovery for the wounded to the heroes who saved lives here this event proves once again why we must not show weakness why it is only possible to talk with Hamas through rifle sights only through war in Hamas we fight this event illustrates another thing how important is the policy of delivering weapons despite the criticism I will continue with the policy of handing out weapons everywhere including to emergency units and civilians a weapon saves lives we see it time and time again wherever there are weapons citizens, policemen, soldiers save the situation all that happened very quickly within seconds the two terrorists came out armed with M16 assault rifle and a gun and they started spraying bullets indiscriminately resulting in the loss of life of three victims five were severely wounded one moderately wounded and one lightly wounded now the thing is within seconds there were two reservists and one civilian the two reservists were on a 12 hour leave from the Gaza front because of the ceasefire and they were here when it happened they neutralized the two terrorists and I saw one M16 assault rifle and since then within half an hour all the wounded were quickly hospitalized after receiving first aid on the ground within half an hour because the Magan David Adon rescue services are just nearby a few minutes away by car the headquarters now this has already been decorated six hours later this is decorated by from an ultra orthodox school which is nearby some of the school children were here when it happened and they decided to come and offer their support now you have here inscriptions such as this one which is a play of word in Hebrew don't be afraid shoot it's almost the same word and you see a gun and a bomb there was a terror attack exactly a year ago with explosives which killed two people a year and a week ago now here it says revenge you have the Israeli flag and here also is a play of word and it shows you how intermingled the whole situation here between here and the Gaza front in Gaza we shall win but at the same time because of the inverted comma it says with the help of God we shall win it's a play of word in Hebrew now here you see the whole bus station is servicing people two hours after the shooting attack everything was back to some sort of normalcy abnormal normalcy you see there's a bus people are climbing onto the bus moments before the attack as the eyewitness said a lot of people came on the bus and thus were saved from the terror attack here you have again people who died in this place and what's amazing also within two hours the rescue workers of Zaka and Hidatsala two organizations, two NGOs scrapped every piece of bone of flesh belonging to the victims because in Judaism you have to clean a scene of violence from every piece of flesh and blood and bone because human remains are holy and they have to be buried with the people that lost their lives so it happened so quickly that the people that have been victim to that terror attack, two women and one man are already being buried this afternoon one was buried at Tehran one o'clock, another one is going to be buried at two o'clock local time and another one just later on everything goes very fast in Judaism because you cannot leave a body not to rest, it has to find its final rest now you have here a lot of people that are ultra orthodox because this is an ultra orthodox neighborhood and the school children who are here now have gone they've gone back to class or maybe they ended their class, they spend the whole day here in order to offer their support, in order to mobilize and in order also to show that what happened in Jerusalem is very much connected to what's happening in Gaza right now Piaf Kloeschandler in Jerusalem thank you very much for that update still with me here in studio is retired IDF Colonel Amit Asaf, former member of the Israeli security agency we just spoke earlier about Hamas and the responsibility for the attack that took place in Jerusalem today where is the Palestinian Authority in all of this? there is no Palestinian Authority in that case because Palestinian Authority has the same goals as the Hamas there's not a change from this idea or ideology the Palestinian Authority is leading the population from this kind of actions to hatred, to violence it's not it's the same as the Hamas they can't say nothing about the Hamas acting and also Palestinian Authority knows that the Hamas is ruling on the streets and this is another thing that they can't ignore I want to speak two words about these two not young but a terrorist from Tsoobahal Tsoobahal is inside Israel it's a neighborhood in the east Jerusalem they have a blue what we call blue identity they are Israelis they can move freely from place to place Israeli ID card they moved from Tsoobahal all the way through Jerusalem and they pick up this a junction to do the attack and immediately you can see that they are running to the car to move on their aim was inside Israel maybe Tel Aviv they have no problem to go whatever they can and they have M16 and a pistol in their hand to do this kind of attack and we know that the control of the people that we arrested them is the motivation and we have to kill the motivation the motivation to hit us have to be low and to that point though how do you kill that motivation when we know that Israel is releasing some 210 Palestinian terror prisoners we are getting low the motivation just in one aim we do something that terrorist more than he is doing to us so it's not something that worth to do a terror attack it's not that they don't want to but they have no motivation to do it because they know that they will be hit much more than what they did so this is the lowest possibility that we can do it's very concerning indeed as we mentioned earlier the terror attack that happened this morning in Jerusalem where three Israelis unfortunately were killed was stopped by armed soldiers that were off-duty and also an armed civilian we heard earlier National Security Minister Eithem al-Banjil calling for the population to be armed he's already facilitated making it easier of a process for people to get a hold on guns, pardon and weapons what's your thought on that is that the solution here in Israel is that you can't put policemen and a guard or maybe a soldier in every place in Israel, okay we are not a military state, okay so in any place you can find public that they are not guarding with police or army that means that they have to protect that from this kind of an action meaning you have to give guns to the public it's not just spreading guns without any control of course it's better in the process of course there is a process there is a checking for people that getting permission to get a gun but it's important that in every place in the country will be somebody that will be able to react immediately when this kind of an action takes place absolutely, I mean to ask us to stay with me here in studio the police station in Zilat was attacked by dozens of terrorists on October 7th the fierce battle lasted for hours and one of the difficult decisions made was to bulldoze it and the terrorists hid inside the body of one of them was even found in rubble seven weeks after the attack and this week the police forces are celebrating the inauguration of a new station in the city more in the next report like other Israelis I heard the sirens at home at 6.30 a.m I put my wife and children in the shelter I realized that if I was hearing sirens at my home in Bershiba chances were high there were also sirens in Sderot Madi Sephardi drove through the heavy rocket barrage trying to reach the police station as fast as possible while I was on my way to the police station I saw a terrorist in front of me he was in uniform and carrying an AK-47 he shot at me five times at this point I realized it was an exceptional situation Madi met several of the placement from his team, assessed the situation and got ready for the battle I took an assault rifle I was not armed at all I had just returned for my vacation even my gun was in the office with all my other stuff so I took an automatic weapon checked the magazine did two shots to check if the gun was working three more magazines I just tucked into my shirt as I had no other place to put it and continued on my way to the station on the road leading to the police station we neutralized approximately four terrorists one of them after we neutralized him fell and tried to get at his weapon so I shot again in the direction of the head eliminated at this point a sniper who was standing in the roof shot me in the chest I fell backwards and got another bullet in the leg his fellow policemen grabbed Madi and hid him behind a megunit a concrete protective barrier I called my wife and told her that I was injured in the chest and in the leg I told her that I love her and I love our children and I'm not willing to die the battle at Sterot police station lasted for around 20 hours the station lost 10 of its officers both men and women but if not for the heroism of the unit the whole city of Sterot could have suffered heavier losses at least 40 terrorists came here whose goal was to take control of the police station to kill all the policemen and after that to move on to slaughtering civilians in Sterot and Sterot is only one example the terrorists planned the same thing for Ofakim, Netivot, Ashkelon Ashdod Madi fought not only for the city of Sterot but also for his own life he bled for several hours before the police were able to evacuate him but on the way they again came under fire Madi was moved to a private car and only then was he able to get to an ambulance Madi survived but he was hospitalized for weeks and is still receiving treatment nevertheless he couldn't stay home on the day of the inauguration one of the reasons why it was so important for me to come and to meet my team is that we are very strong and we are always keeping our heads up people who understand battle tactics know that police should join only in the third circle but my policeman fought in the first circle the inauguration of the station is a historic day for the policemen and for the whole city of Sterot inaugurating the police station in Sterot is a sign of pride for the police and its strength and its ability on the one hand to shut down the station and destroy it with the dozens of terrorists hiding inside and on the other hand to decide and to work so that within four days we would build a new one that could help civilians to receive their complaints to give a sense of security to the residents not all the residents of Sterot are left and they need this sense of security and this is what we will do here at the Sterot police station though today policemen from Sterot station stay strong and try to smile their thoughts are with the friends that they lost to alleviate their grief at least for one night the Gad dairy company joined the event with their special project called secret dinner the project was created seven years ago and lets people buy a ticket to the dinner without knowing in advanced where they'll be going or what they'll eat since the start of the war the project has changed years and these days organizes surprise dinners for security forces and medical teams when we thought about the project in wartime the first thought we had was about the policemen from the Sterot station they survived a tragedy only now have they finished the morning period for their friends we owe them this after the whole station was destroyed we're raising a new police station together with them this time the dinner was cooked by renowned Israeli chef Ayal Shani who was recently awarded a Michelin star never in my life have I been so proud to belong to this people as I am now this is the most amazing people we see it in our warriors and our parents we have become one body each one a cell that contributes to the life of our country I believe we are here today right now in large part thanks to you indeed being united supporting one another and the ability to start from scratch even in the darkest of days is one of Israel's biggest strengths I want to thank my guest here in studio retired IDF Colonel Amit thank you very much for joining us today we are going out for a quick break don't go anywhere this is I-24 news Ayal made for me official dresser of I-24 news good evening ladies and gentlemen 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 interviews exclusive reports from the war zone the reaction of the Spanish-speaking countries news 24 the only Spanish media that keeps you informed and connected with the Latin community in Israel news 24 only in I-24 news welcome back and thanks for staying with us here on I-24 news if you are just joining us Israel has confirmed that the temporary 6 day ceasefire has been extended by another day which began on Friday and was set to expire Wednesday evening at midnight was extended after mediation efforts by the US, Israel, Egypt and Qatar carried on until just before 7am this morning as part of the agreement Hamas will release another 8 Israeli hostages today 6 women and 2 children who have been held captive in the Gaza Strip since they were kidnapped on October 7th Hamas will also release the bodies so far 97 civilians have been released from Hamas captivity in Gaza 145 hostages including 15 women and children still remain captive by the terror organization in exchange Israel has released some 210 Palestinian terror prisoners that's 3 Palestinian prisoners for one Israeli hostage US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken arrived in Israel this morning his fourth trip to the region since the war broke out to boost true negotiations and to discuss how to provide additional humanitarian aid to Gaza earlier today he met with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu as well as Israeli President Isaac Herzog take a listen to what he had to say during his meeting with the president we are working and praying and demanding the immediate release of all the hostages and I thank the United States of America for the immense work it is devoting to the release of the hostages there are still around 150 hostages who are there in Hamas hands in Gaza I would like to raise the plight of the Bebas family the two young children 10 months old baby four years old girl and of course her parents where their whereabouts are unknown to us and we are demanding their immediate release it was obvious that little toddlers would be released with their mother and hopefully with their father as soon as possible from day one we have been focused relentlessly on trying to secure the release of hostages from Gaza and from Hamas and we have seen over the last week the very positive development of hostages coming home being reunited with their families and that should continue today it's also enabled an increase in humanitarian assistance to go to innocent civilians in Gaza who need it desperately so this process is producing results it's important and we hope that it can continue at the same time I look forward to detailed conversations with the government of Israel about the way ahead in Gaza and the United States firmly supports Israel and it's right to defend itself and to try to ensure that October 7th never happens again and joining me now in studio is Ambassador Danny Ayalon, former Israeli ambassador to the United States and former Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister thank you very much for joining me here talk to us about the role that Anthony Blinken and the United States in general has played in these diplomatic efforts to bring these hostages home I think the United States has brought itself again to be the indispensable country for the world for global security but specifically for the region and the United States understanding that this war is not just between Israel and the Hamas ISIS like it's between the global jihadists who really have sworn on the demise of western civilization basically unfortunately they have powerful allies and perpetrators like Iran mostly which is backed by China economically and by Russia militarily and and politically with the release of the hostages I think the United States was the one the only one that could really bring together in Doha Qatar the heads of the intelligence services of Israel, of Qatar of Egypt and sitting together and trying to bring to bear an immense pressure on Hamas Hamas basically could not be what it is without the aid of Qatar so Qatar has a big stick and hopefully they will continue to use it because now it seems to be floundering and speaking of those diplomatic efforts between the US, Israel, Egypt and Qatar tell us about what goes on behind the scenes negotiations given your experience well it's hard to call it it's trading blood and this is what Sinwar and Hamas they are human traffickers they are blood traders they are despicable in their crimes against humanity so unfortunately there is a tag now of every day of continued pause of ceasefire there are such and such number of hostages it started with the 10 now it seems to be going down to 8 and the tactic of Hamas is to drag on the negotiations and the pause as long as possible in order for them to rearm regroup and maybe maybe they think that they can bring about a permanent pause of ceasefire like a ceasefire or maybe even armistice which will keep them in power this is the strategic goal now of Hamas to keep power in Gaza and of course we must not allow that to happen we should not fall into the tricks and manipulation of Hamas and for this the visit of Secretary Blinken is very important so Israel and the United States can coordinate the steps ahead do you believe we can expect the same level of US support in this next phase of the war? I believe so I certainly believe so because the American interest is very much aligned with Israel the demise of Hamas ISIS because with Hamas there was never going to be an opening to the American vision and President Biden said it quite clearly from day 1, 7th of October until now that Hamas will no longer be in power and control Gaza the second thing that the president is talking about is the vision of a two-state solution I would add two states for two people in order to get that Hamas is the major obstacle so this is why I believe the American will continue to support Israel's act in order to house Hamas out of Gaza Ambassador, stay with me I want to bring in I-24 News Senior Defense Correspondent Regev who is at Schneider's Children Medical Center Jonathan tell us what's happening over there Yes, Sarah and overnight at a very late hour due to the delay that we saw yesterday a group of four hostages arrived here one of them is the Ophir Engel from Kibbutz right next to Jerusalem and with us is Yael Engelichy his aunt first how are you feeling today what an emotional day Yeah, it's sure emotional we don't have any emotion left so I don't know what to say but I just wanted to see or feel here and with his parents and his family and that was the aim of all of it and we expect to go on with everything we do to get everyone home and after 54 days in captivity a lot of them of course they ate terrible concern not knowing what's going on how did you see him, how was he feeling I don't know he looks okay but you have to look into his eyes I think he had a terrible time it was very hard he's so thin I see fear in his eyes but everyone tells me he's okay he looks very good he has such a beautiful green eyes and he's tall he's young but I think if you look inside his eyes and I didn't talk to him so much yet only for 10 or 15 minutes because it's important for us to give him the space he just came this morning I don't want anyone to go through such things not what he is going through went through and that was what we went through and his parents he's so out of everything that he said is there anything that you can share with us any feelings, any emotions that he was expressing I know that he thought his girlfriend and all her family were murdered or kidnapped that's what he thought for 54 days I know that he was kept not under the ground so he was in some apartments moved from one to each other with covering his eyes so he won't see where he is he's very, very much want to be in the fresh air he haven't been in the fresh air for 54 days I suppose they had very little food because he's very thin he said to me they said to him all the time you'll never get home your government doesn't care about you your family doesn't care about you you will be with us forever you know like psychological pressure all the time and we'll talk to him more so fresh air there is you said he thought that his girlfriend was killed she's alive but her father I understand is still in captivity her father is in captivity his brother also her aunt and two nieces were murdered and found only after three weeks her house her house when they were taken from is burned to ashes so but she's alive and two sisters and mother is alive and they're okay they stay in a hotel in the Dead Sea now and Yuval her name and she's on the way here to meet him so it's a small light in a big darkness but it will be light again we hope there will be a small light on the way to a big light thank you very much thank you so there is and there will be a small light out of the big light ahead back to you Sarah thank you very much for that update of a little light in darkness thank you still with me here in studio is ambassador the truest will not exceed and what's next in terms of diplomatic efforts well I will leave they will exhaust at some point the diplomatic efforts in order to release the hostages I think the hard core issue will be release of Israeli soldiers these are the last ones Hamas wants to let go and I'm not sure that Israel will have the time for the Hamas and allow them with their games so I think we're getting here to see the second phase of the ground operation meaning the continuation on the north part of Gaza and also not waiting to finish the job in the north but also start in the south as well basically where Sinwar and death all the leaders of Hamas are thinking of this next phase of the war some Israeli and U.S. officials are discussing the idea of expelling thousands of lower level Hamas terrorists from the enclave as a way to shorten the war the idea is reminiscent of the U.S. broker deal that allowed Yasser Arafat to flee Beirut in 1982 is a plan like that feasible for Gaza? I'm not sure the model of Beirut 82 was actually allowing Arafat of his cronies to leave Beirut and actually they set a sale to Tunisia where they set their new headquarters with the Palestinians Hamas terrorists I don't see any appetite by any country to receive them list of all are the Arab countries because they know the danger of the Hamas the Islamic Brotherhood ideology they are a threat Sarah not just to Israel and the west more so even to the Arab moderate regimes whether it's in Egypt, Jordan and the Gulf countries so I'm not sure this is feasible we'll have to wait and see the idea is fighting Hamas in Gaza it's fighting Hezbollah in the north both Iranian proxies can we expect the IDF to take a direct hit at the main operator behind this whole operation which is Iran? Well that remains to be seen but I would say what can trigger any direct confrontation with Iran will be on the nuclear field if Iran will continue and they are relentless in their efforts to get nuclear technology but this could be something that can ignite a war between Israel and Iran if we see that the Iranians are very close to getting the bomb Ambassador stay with me as part of the agreement Hamas will release another 8 Israeli hostages today 6 women and 2 children who have been held captive in the Gaza Strip since they were kidnapped on October 7 their families have been notified so far 97 hostages have been released from Hamas captivity as part of the ceasefire deal but still 145 hostages still remain in captivity and joining me now is Jonathan Dekalchen father of Sagi Dekalchen who was kidnapped by Hamas from Kibbutz Nile Oz on October 7th. Thank you very much for joining me today Jonathan. Thanks for having me. Jonathan I can't imagine the torment you and your family have been going through tell me a little bit of what the past 55 days have been like for you Well I would divide the time into two the moment when significance numbers of hostages began to be released by Hamas and that was excruciating also because we really still have no idea of the significance exact condition and how he's doing it like many other hostage families but of course once the hostages began to be released that kind of pain and worry mixed with some hope then merged with joy because obviously with the release of these mostly as we know women children and some elderly ladies and couldn't be happier for their reunion with their families we'd add to that that many of them were members of my Kibbutz Kibbutz Nile Oz which was destroyed by the Hamas attack on October 7th and initially we had around 80 hostages taken from the Kibbutz in addition to 29 of our members being murdered so for the last week or so since the hostages began coming out it's true joy I know all of these people are part of my extended family they are my friends my kids friends, my grandkids friends and so that is the light that we hope will continue to shine and grow for the rest of the hostages Jonathan has the government the IDF been in touch with you until now do you have any idea do they have any idea of Siggy's whereabouts in his condition are there any sort of information that's being brought to you bits and pieces but nothing that is a game changer with all of that I would say Jonathan if you may take me back to that day of October 7th and what happened to your family and Siggy well I start with the fact that it's a small community Kibbutz Narrows on a good day it's about 440 people on that day that morning October 7th there were probably around 400 people the Kibbutz Siggy is 35 years old he's the father of two and his wife expecting any minute he started that morning outside of the house and went to our agricultural machine shop on the Kibbutz where he kind of grew up as a kid working and playing alongside me to pursue one of his pet projects which is making old buses into usable objects early that morning, spare time and around 630 in the morning he was one of the first people to spot terrorists who had infiltrated the Kibbutz groups of terrorists put out the alarm to the rest of the Kibbutz and to our first responders and for the next two hours he and a small group of men mostly young but not just did what they could completely outnumbered by terrorists to try and hold them off and intervene where they believed that they could save lives all the while the terrorists are murdering anyone they can find or taking them captive those people who had successfully locked themselves inside of their safe house their safe rooms in their homes were their homes were set on fire in order to either choke them to death in their safe rooms or cause these people to leave the safe rooms to save their lives then execute them or take them into a group of terrorists who had already left so that our Kibbutz was left totally on its own in the face of this massacre Sagi and the rest of the first responders team were operational until around 8.30 that morning after which time most of them were already wounded or out of contact for the next 45 minutes or so he did battle with terrorists in and around his home in the process of saving his wife and two little girls from either death or captivity and from 9.30 in the morning we lost all contact with them on October 7th and have heard nothing from him Jonathan Dek El-Khan I sincerely hope that you will be reunited with your son very soon our thoughts and prayers are with you thank you very much over 50 days after Hamas's brutal massacres in Israel left some 200 dead and over 240 kidnapped and after weeks of criticism over the United Nations silence about evidence of rape and sexual violence during the attack a UN commission will finally investigate those acts and launch an appeal for evidence our I-24 news senior US correspondent Mike Wagenheim pressured the UN spokesperson as to why the international body has failed to condemn the rape of Israeli women on October 7th take a listen the secretary general parroted words from the head of UN women today saying that there are reports of gender based violence on October 7th there must be of rigorous full investigation what is this problem that the UN despite the forensic evidence, despite the eyewitness accounts, despite video that I'm sure the Israeli government would share in a closed setting Hamas raped women committed sexual assault on October 7th it opines on all sorts of war crimes without full investigations what is the problem with the same man Mike you and I have a different interpretation of what the secretary general said he condemned the actions of Hamas on October 7th within that he talked about the issue of sexual violence which is clear from all the press reports that we've seen that is of course included in his condemnation those are two he hasn't linked those two I think I think he I think he has if you look at the way it's written I think it's clearly it's clearly linked UN secretary general Antonio Guterres who is yet to see the footage of the October 7th massacre videos of Hamas provided by Hamas he took to X shortly after that soundbite that you just heard to acknowledge that Hamas terrorists performed acts of sexual violence against Israelis and that those attacks quote must be vigorously investigated and prosecuted Guterres added gender-based violence must be condemned Joining me now from Jerusalem is Jewish activist and social media influencer Hayat Lev Hayat thank you for joining me today Hi how are you Hayat I want to get your reaction it's taken 55 days for the UN to acknowledge that the rapes happened what message does that send to Israeli women and Jewish women in general the message that I get from that is that we don't matter our lives don't matter what we say doesn't matter we're not believed there has been not many women it's organizations who speak up all of the time and I personally haven't seen any speaking up but the head of the UN 50 plus days into this war and now just now he speaks up it speaks volumes his silence spoke volumes and it's disgusting I'm here to tell you it's disgusting and I just think it's really sad because when it's Jewish women Israeli women all of a sudden we have to prove when we see by these sadistic barbaric human beings I will call them animals I won't even call them animals because animals do not even do this so savages when you wait this long to acknowledge your silence in my opinion is compliance Hi, you're a social media activist I'm sure you've had your fair share of social media fights online in the past 55 days people refusing to accept that this happened refusing to believe this even happened it's shocking really what has it been like for you what do you say to people like that who continue to deny that these these kidnappings occurred and that these rapes occurred I believe we've lost Haya do you hear me okay we'll come back to Haya still with me here in studio is ambassador Dania Elan former Israeli ambassador to the United States and former Israeli deputy foreign minister to the United Nations silence for over 55 days to address this sexual violence against Israeli women I want to get your take on this what do you attribute to this well I think the United States has lost its credibility long ago it's a hypocritical cynical organization which is really run by corrupt politicians nothing less than that you spoke to Haya about the you know based crimes UNICEF you know the United Nations child organization never mentioned anything about the toddlers the children the babies which are under captivity in the most brutal way just 10 days ago there was the celebrating child's day UNICEF was celebrating the child's rights day they did that without mentioning the children I want to continue this conversation right after the break stay with me we're going off for a quick break but don't go anywhere we'll be right here two minutes with more updates on the temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas this is I-24 news stay with us 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 line but the general perception is something that certainly needs to to be fought as well there have been countless memorable moments broadcasting with I-24 news in the past six years but for me the one that stands out the most was the first time that I had ever personally heard a rocket siren sounding in Tel Aviv and at that moment we were live on air in studio I will never forget the moment our senior producer said to me in my ear the sirens are sounding in Tel Aviv the control room is going to the shelter with me in studio at the time were Michael Herzog a former Brigadier General today the Israeli ambassador to the United States and Austin Ostrowski an international human rights lawyer and their responses were completely different Michael Herzog was calm and composed and on the other hand Austin Ostrowski was trying to phone his family and check in to make sure that his loved ones were okay the camera that normally faces us was hoisted from above there was an overhead shot of the three of us in studio you could see colleagues going to the shelter if you looked at the glass behind the studio and obviously we lost contact with our team on the ground our reporters in Ashkelon and all the witnesses that we were speaking to during that time when rockets are coming towards a residential area they don't distinguish between race, religion, political views, cultural views they just intend to harm civilians and that moment being in studio hearing those civilians overhead was the most real coverage I have ever been involved in welcome back and thanks for staying with us here on I-24 news before the break we spoke about the United Nations silence over the past 55 days when it comes to Hamas terrorists performing acts of sexual violence against Israelis and joining me now is Jewish activist Haya Lev thanks so much for having me again Haya, tell me a little bit about what it's been like for you as a social media activist online fighting these people who deny that these acts of terror these acts of sexual violence happened I just want to say I'm not really an activist I'm just the regular girl on the internet who dances and tries to bring joy and I've been forced into this versus that B but it's been really hard because there is this idea I think the UN Mr. Guterres I can never say his name came two months in and said please believe women it really shows that Jewish women it doesn't show it gives the message that Israeli women, Jewish women we don't matter it's actually pretty shocking and the silence for me is compliance these terrorists took videos of their pain disgusting horrible crimes and here we are two months in leader of the UN is just now saying something and many women's groups hear nothing but cricket disgusting and it's a travesty and these human rights abuses to women should not go unpunished and that is my opinion on this matter absolutely well I think that many of us share that opinion and there's been a new hashtag that Jewish activists has put out online hashtag me too unless you're a Jew tell me the silence of the United Nations tell me about the damage that that does online specifically I mean listen if you follow my content or my life is content it's my life what I say you know that I keep it utterly real and the idea that we have two kind of lives we have a life on the ground my life where I live in society and then we have an internet world it's like the nature just a brand of the green pill and online you know it's coming like for me in a lot of ways a fairy tale world that kind of trickles in right into this real world because what happens online depending on the person and depending on the world kind of affects what happens in the real world and what online if I have to think about people behind their computers it's it's insane it doesn't make sense that you have photos of people doing atrocious committing atrocious acts boom what's so hard to say what's sensational about what because it's where somebody is from oh that's interesting that's really interesting Canada, America with their own histories I cannot and for me it's very very frustrating trying to make sense of something that makes no sense okay great these savages went in and murdered and raped women until their bones were broken but where is the responsibility why is no one holding them to a standard because they don't think they're human either because there's no reason for you to be silent if you thought they were human being you should have all of the women's acts all of the presidents of the UN which you know he's got his own issues going on whatever but first day, second day we didn't film but online people are saying we filmed it but okay whatever we didn't film ourselves raping people they did so why are we not holding them responsibility for their actions we're coddling them coddling rapists and murderers never in my 50 years would I have thought so never in my 50 years so this is something new for me and apparently this is where our world is going to this place where if it's a woman only if she's unless she's Jewish unless she's Israeli because well we shouldn't be here anyway so just rape us we deserve it well if we want to keep if we want to keep tabs on people let's pull up America's history let's pull up Canada's history and the rest of the entire world so then everybody needs to get raped and not held accountable for it let's make it a trend not just for us that's anti submitting that's anti-chew and that if you want to call me an activist that might make me an activist because I'm not going to stand for it I'm going to treat people like I would want myself and my parents to be treated and this is unacceptable on the other side and not say it's unacceptable it's not cute and I'm not coddling a rapist who's raping people in life absolutely I'm sorry hi you're American Israeli no absolutely I agree hi you're American and Israeli we've seen looking back to the US I just came back from the US four days ago we look at the rate of anti-Semitic attacks gone up ex exponentially what are you hearing from your Jewish friends back home we're hearing people who are afraid to show signs of their Judaism they're taking down their Mezuzot they're taking down their Kipotz they're afraid to even celebrate Hanukkah in some places where do we go from here let me be very very very let me be very very clear I am Jews we are warriors our Israel has not survived this long because of fear I'm going to say specifically to my Jews in the diaspora keep up your Mezuzot wear that Kipah wear that Talit celebrate who we are we're not going to let these outsiders who don't know who we are who don't know how magical we are who don't know that we are warriors change our course of action that's why we've been here for thousands of years and we're going nowhere I worry for my friends and family but my biggest biggest thing that I will say to my friends and family is be vigilant keep your eyes open keep your toes in the ground keep your head up and don't change what you are because this issue that's going on isn't about us it's about them and their hatred and we're not going to change me who we are listen I'm a black woman because of people that absolutely not and would I do it absolutely dead in your power trust me we've been here a long time they'll be talking they'll be books about them they'll be books about their failures we'll still be here hi I love Jewish activist and social media influencer it was a pleasure having you on today thank you Shabbat Shalom looking abroad anti-Semitism as we've just mentioned has reached alarming levels around the world since the beginning of the war between Israel and Hamas entire communities now fear to put up signs of their Jewish duties and pardon for going wearing religious signs like their kippa taking down their mezuzot off their front doors and in the United Kingdom where anti-Semitic attacks have tripled in the last 55 days an East London Council has now canceled plans to put up a Hanukkah menorah outside its town hall for quote fears a further inflaming tensions and joining me now is journalist and broadcaster Josh Rahm from London thank you very much for joining me Josh thank you so much for having me I just think it's so sad to be having to come on and talk about this usually I would come on the channel to talk about the world of celebrity the world of royals and yet here we are the world is in an incredibly sad state and I hate having to do this quite frankly Josh I want to speak about specifically the reasons why the London Council decided to cancel the public menorah it wasn't out of fear for its Jewish community it says it was quote out of fear it would inflame tensions somehow the lighting of a menorah in a democratic country would make other religious communities uncomfortable how are British Jews reacting I mean rightly so there is utter outrage to this story I mean this is a council that also commemorated other religious holidays such as Diwali and other holidays and a lot of people are saying well if this was a Muslim holiday we ought to outrage at this and that's the thing this council effectively is victim blaming the Jewish community for a wider scale problem a wider problem here in their statement they're saying to accuse this of being an anti-Semitic sort of motive that would incite further unrest and further tensions within the community therefore also admitting that there is a problem but also this is also again kind of denying the right for Jews to say what anti-Semitism actually is it's kind of almost taking away the right for Jewish people to define what affects them so quite rightly so there is utter outrage at this and again this isn't an Israel problem this isn't saying something like oh you can't protest what's happening to the hostages or you can't protest what's happening in Israel or the Palestinian territories this is specifically a Jewish religious event so what this council have said is they've said that there will be a temporary structure and there will be an event to mark the beginning of Kanaqa but quite frankly that is not enough and that is pure cowardice In the United Kingdom especially we've seen incitement from pro-Palestinian protesters against Jews calling for violence against them what is the government doing to tackle this anti-Semitism? Well quite frankly I don't see the government doing enough we had a home secretary Suella Braverman who vowed to enact new legislation to kind of you know to tackle the rise in terrorism and terrorism sympathies and she was ousted so you know that's why a lot of the Jewish community in their hundreds of thousands 105,000 people took to the streets to protest the rise of anti-Semitism and to ask the government to do more to tackle that that's the whole point you know 7 out of 10 Jews in the UK are afraid to wear a star of David or a high necklace to show their Jewish identity the community security trust has reported over 1,300 I believe cases of anti-Semitism the police have said there's been a rise of over 1,300 percent cases of anti-Semitic incidents you know the Jewish community is scared right now and quite frankly you know just after this history making march attended by celebrities and politicians bearing in mind no senior leadership no Lord Cameron, no James Beverly, no Rishi Sunak attended no Sikia Stammer attendant of that march but you know we are seeing a huge rise in anti-Semitism and that's the thing we can we can't we're seeing in London anti-Semitic placards anti-Semitic imagery at these pro-Palestinian protests and quite frankly you know the police are saying well they've put out appeals to try and identify some of these individuals after these marches but the Jewish community is seeing in activity and we are getting more and more angry but it's also a reminder that whatever Israel does does have an effect on the wider diaspora it's a very concerning indeed for the Jewish community in the United Kingdom, Josh Roem, journalist and broadcaster in London thank you very much for your insight today thank you very much for having me turning back here to Israel we could have prepared Imre Bonim a member of Kibbutz Reim security squad for the Black Saturday which changed his life and the lives of Kibbutz Reim civilians forever for long hours Imre and five other security squad members fought bravely accompanied by a couple of policemen only preventing dozens of Hamas terrorists from committing pardon a complete massacre now Imre returns to the Kibbutz and walks us through every step to make sure his loved ones remain safe Giri Ladz brings us the story at 6.30 we woke up to explosions from another world only this time, 20 minutes later we heard small arms fire coming from very close and that's something we're not used to I started organizing my equipment and I received the following voice message on the Kibbutz security squad and whatsapp group here on this road we see vans loaded with equipment and rpg with a machine gun on top ready to kill anyone terrible chaos and above all the realization that we are alone that it's just me and my friend Tuvia who need to stop all them from entering the Kibbutz and committing a complete massacre here we began to move forward through the animal grove towards the community centers where our first through sixth grade kids were located we heard them come in, break down the door we knew the first thing they'll see is miniature Sukkot and other artworks that were made by our children we knew they were going to go room to room not to find any children but to destroy all the childhood things belonging to the people from the Kibbutz for around two hours digging this swamp we shot at them from the outside so they would be afraid on their way out so they would believe there are many more forces around them that they can't even see at 9.17 Oran sent this voice message here we are with the police here in the back of the building I think there's a caracal of the police that's trying to get this as soon as we heard this we left the neighborhood and ran to another one there was a caracal vehicle outside the fence which opened fire on the terrorists here there's a descent into a parking lot we hid and we shot the terrorists from behind we hid and we shot the terrorists from behind at this point we begin to see large fires inside the Kibbutz it's clear to us that something bad was happening on the other side of the Kibbutz so we ran to a house at the end of the Kibbutz in this safe room there was a family and the door was already starting to melt they were suffocating but with a final effort they managed to lift their girl who was in a wheelchair we got her out us and the policemen while the two parents with great courage came out as well after the first family was rescued we arrived here we knocked and told them they could get out when the mother came out and I wanted to tell her how important that was to her she immediately asked if we knew what was going on with Asaf, her son who had been out of touch I had a very bad feeling about that Asaf wasn't with them at the time in the Kibbutz it's common that at the age of 18 you get your own small apartment everything that happened was happening in the young person's neighborhood of the Kibbutz because that neighborhood is the one closest to the main gate from where most and the best equipped terrorists had arrived they planned to conquer Reim and stay here to enter the houses the fighting in this neighborhood was led main IVF forces that came after her out the Kibbutz security chief managed to stand on the sidewalk he stopped them in this neighborhood this was the point when my role as the Kibbutz's protector ended and then I started helping the IDF forces find their way through the neighborhoods we went to pick up another security squad member on the way some safe room window was opened and someone who didn't live there came out he told us that the father and two children who were in a safe room the father and his girlfriend were murdered in front of the children's eyes then he showed us what the terrorists wrote on the wall we do not kill children they stand there and I look around right next to all of that there was a children's gate with lots of bullets in it and the father's hammock made that in other places things were even worse but not everyone had two minutes to get organized and make decisions like the ones we made by the very heroic people out here it was an understanding that we are the last line of defense to the people who chose to live here who chose to plant a tree here to join the beautiful culture of this place and we must do our best to protect that roughly 200,000 Israelis have been internally displaced from their homes because of the war this includes entire families children elderly who have had to flee their communities along the Gaza border as well as the northern border with Lebanon many have been put up by the Israeli government in temporary housing and hotels in the center of the country and we expect to only return home by Passover one organization is helping those families and their young children joining me now in studio is Leah Rosenberg she's the chairwoman of the association Yadid Lakhinoch thank you very much for joining me in studio thank you for having me here today tell me a little bit about the work that your organization does Yadid Lakhinoch I'll just give the framework of the whole thing framework of volunteers senior volunteers the names into three different populations students, teachers and the seniors themselves that is we have the same focus on all three of them and the major objectives are to be where we are needed to be where we feel that we can help we are not supposed to supervise what is done in schools and the other things we have around 3,000 now today it's difficult to say the exact figures but we have around 3,000 volunteers usual in different about 50 cities and villages around the country and we have a certain framework that we stick to or we used to stick to up to the war what happened now is the whole thing, the whole concept has changed because the needs have changed and those needs Yadid Lakhinoch immediately immediately transformed into action to do what we think that is needed not what we thought it was needed what is needed right now that is if once we thought that every volunteer should be should come every week or is every week today if they need us for half an hour we'll be there if they need us for a whole week we'll be there and your organization has also set up temporary schools for children around the country we joined temporary schools around the country again in the same thing that I was just telling you if they need help in mathematics if they need help in for any other language we are there if they need help talking to them being there just like a little bit of a grandmother or grandfather talking to them and be there for them if they need to play so we are there to make them play if they need now for instance science lessons we don't have to send science teachers all over but we do this through Zoom lectures and it's working wonderful because we have so many volunteers that want to be there Yadid Lachinuch today can change from one minute to another according to the needs that we face the problem is right now that we don't know what's going to happen to Yadid Lachinuch with the budget because we are helped by the Ministry of Education and the needs today are so different so we don't know so anybody who can be in any kind of help please go into Yadid Lachinuch site and see what you can do and become a friend of ours what are your volunteers hearing from these families that have been evacuated sorry I didn't hear from these families these little children what are they hearing from them what has their experience been like for them in different ways I'm telling you what before and now that is before we had a very strict thing that we said that we don't go special homes we don't go at home today we have changed it if they need help at home some of them special education children that is we have special kind of teachers who explain and say things to our volunteers how to do it and how to be ready for the new students parents, teachers that they meet today after what happened to them which was