 The I-24 News Channel, broadcasting from Israel, with dozens of correspondents throughout the world, brings the truth from Israel to hundreds of millions of people in scores of countries. They are completely sundown in their beds. De la frontière qui c'est pas Israël, the state of emergency and war in Israel. Bringing Israel's story to the world, I-24 News Channels, now on Hot. Good afternoon and welcome to I-24 News's ongoing coverage of Israel at war. I'm Ariel Levin Waldman. We are going to go immediately to the north, where we are now hearing reports of air raid sirens going off in Al Aramche and reports of two that were injured by an anti-tank rocket attack on a northern town. This comes after a very tense day of fire, hostile air infiltrations and likely Hezbollah drones after Hezbollah fired a rocket barrage overnight as well as anti-tank missiles on Kibbutzim throughout the morning. We are going to go now to our correspondent Zach Anders, who is on the northern border. Zach, walk us through what's just happened because there are not a lot of details on our end yet. It looks like Hezbollah is displaying just about everything they have in their arsenal this afternoon. We have a drone infiltration alert, rockets fired and apparently not just these ATGMs that we've seen so frequently here but also heavy rockets being launched as well. This I'm being told is largely in response to yesterday last night as the IDF picked up some very heavy strikes throughout southern Lebanon targeting these Hezbollah positions. Many of these were retaliatory strikes but there were also some preemptive strikes I'm told against Hezbollah positions. Some of these more than 20 kilometers north of the border prompting Hezbollah to respond with continued picked up attacks. That triggered a level of precaution that we have not seen very frequently here in the north with lockdowns across several communities. 15 communities went on lockdown this morning, closed roads, military checkpoints extended. This was a very cautious morning. We've even in Kira Shemona cancelled funeral services for the afternoon anticipating heavy levels of strikes which is so far what we've seen. One of these ATGMs apparently hitting a parking lot and causing some moderate injuries but at this point this is all we know. This is still going on. We are hearing some of the explosions off in the distance as well. This is a continued situation here and a very heavy day of attacks. Zach, we're hearing reports over the last couple of days that the IDF is no longer simply responding to Hezbollah fire anymore but actually going down a list of target banks and striking at specific targets rather than simply reactively. What do we know about this situation and what does it say about the escalation in the north? It's almost who you ask within the IDF. The soldiers that are on the ground that we speak to, they feel in a very exposed reactionary kind of stance the way that they're positioned along the border. They say that they look out over southern Lebanon and they see the activity and they have to wait. They're being told to wait to respond. So there's some uneasiness for them because they feel like there is more to be done. They're stationed there. They feel for a purpose but that they can't be in an offensive position. However, the air campaign has represented that of an offensive campaign. There's been strikes, like I said earlier, some 20 kilometers inside southern Lebanon for targets, positions belonging to Hezbollah that aren't directly along the border. The air campaign has been a bit more broad and it's extended into southern Syria as well. The ground campaign is just that. It's reactionary. It is stationed on the border. There's not been, to our knowledge, incursions into southern Lebanon. So there is a stark contrast between what's happening in the air and what's happening on the ground. For the soldiers on the ground, there is some stress because they have been positioned in what they feel are vulnerable places and they continue to be attacked and fired upon. And what takes place next is these responses that are happening at a distance. They're retaliating with artillery, sometimes with these airstrikes and the helicopters in the air as well. So it's a bit of a contrast. Well, thank you very much for that report, Zach. Keep yourself safe out there. We are going to discuss this more in studio with Colonel Jack Neria, former deputy head of assessment with Israeli military intelligence. Jack, north was your area of operations. And we are seeing what appears to be significant escalation. On one hand, has Bullah deploying sort of a combine arms assault with their entire arsenal of Birken, heavy rockets as well. Israel now possibly taking these preemptive actions, going down a target bank instead of simply reacting to rocket fire and drone crews. Does this mean that things are spiraling towards that direct confrontation? Well, we have been witnessing for the last 75 days low intensity conflict with Hezbollah. Well, it has changed. It is a high intensity conflict with Hezbollah today. And certainly Israel has gotten impatient with all the provocations of Hezbollah. And I would say the straw that broke the back of the camel was, in fact, firing at helicopter gunships that Hezbollah tried to down. And this was enough from Israel point of view. As you said earlier, it's no more retaliatory. It's always, it comes now out of an initiative to destroy the infrastructure of Hezbollah going from the Mediterranean coast to the Mount Hermon. So it's a belt of land about five kilometers. And to make it more serious for Hezbollah to understand the intention of Israel, we have attacked three different sites very far from the border in Sidon and in a place called the Klimet Tafah, which is more or less the hardcore of the Shi'a community. It comes from there and in the East also. So it means that Hezbollah has two choices here, either to accept the fact that he has to limit his actions against Israel. But as you say, he has employed all his equipment, all his arsenal. Except one, the long range missiles. And this is something that he'll have to discuss. Or he will have to say, OK, we will respond in kind. So if Israel hits us 20 kilometers inside, who will hit the 20 kilometers inside Israel? This is the equation that Hezbollah has established. And Hezbollah has said several times, he's not afraid of Israel. He's not afraid of the conflict with Israel. He's not afraid of America. I mean, he has, as he says, the mean in order to counter the situation. The only thing is that we have to be coordinated with the United States, because the United States has asked several times not to change the regional conflict with Hezbollah and to turn it into a regional conflict, which is the United States is not interested right now. It has enough already with its bases attacked in Iraq, with the Houthis in Yemen. So it doesn't need another front right now. And certainly the destruction that could endure Lebanon following Israeli attacks. This is where we are today. But I mean, that's definitely a flare up. Well, we're going to continue this more at length a little later in the show. That said, we are going to turn our attention to the southern front as well. This morning, rocket sirens going off around the border, Gaza border communities the second time after a 40 hour low. The IDF says it is now nearing the end of its offensive in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. And they've begun fighting in new areas adjacent to Shajia and Khan Yunus, where Hamas leadership is believed to be hiding. In the past day, Air Force has struck more than 230 Hamas targets over the Gaza Strip and discovered yet more weapons hidden inside civilian infrastructures and schools. Meanwhile, Hamas has reportedly rejected an Israeli offer to temporarily halt fighting in exchange for the release of 129 hostages still held captive in the war zone. According to the Wall Street Journal, the terror group wants Israel to implement a ceasefire before beginning any negotiations. Hamas reportedly saying they will not give up their hostages only to be bombed again. Families of the hostages are now suing the Red Cross as well for refusing to even try to bring life-saving medicines to the hostages held in Gaza, accusing the organization of an appalling dereliction of duty. We now turn to our correspondent in the south, Pierre Klosian. They're on the Israel-Gaza border right now. Pierre, walk us through the latest developments we have seen along that front. You've mentioned sporadic rocket fire in the southern community facing the south, the southern sector of the Gaza Strip earlier. Indeed, there were rocket fire probably on staging grounds near the communities facing Hanyunas by Hamas, but at the same time also, just lately, about an hour ago, there was rocket fire on communities facing the border town of Hamas with Egypt on the southern tip of the Gaza Strip. And that comes after a strike on nearby the Kerem Shalom crossing in which four people were killed. And according to Palestinian media affiliated to Hamas, the commander of the Kerem Shalom crossing on the Hamas side was killed in that strike. The IDF is not confirming, but what's interesting is that the Kerem Shalom crossing has reopened at the beginning of the week in order to facilitate the bringing of humanitarian trucks into the Gaza Strip because the Rafa terminal has a capacity of only 100 trucks. And nowadays, 200 humanitarian trucks are getting inside the Gaza Strip. At the same time, there are families of hostages that wanted to march toward the Kerem Shalom crossing in order to protest the fact that the hostages, which is a basic humanitarian issue, are not being released while the humanitarian trucks are crossing that passage into the Gaza Strip. The general in charge of the Southern Command, which oversees the operation in the Gaza Strip, closed the area, a military area, and prevented the families from going there. Now they're marching from a different side toward the crossing, but they will be stopped. But at the same time, maybe this unconfirmed by the IDF elimination of the commander of the Kerem Shalom crossing on the Hamas side. Thank you very much, Pierre, for that update of what's going on on the Southern Front. We are going to turn, for more analysis, back to Colonel Jack Neria in the studio right now, this time focusing on the South. We are hearing some new reports of what might be needed for a potential ceasefire deal for hostages between Israel and Hamas. And there's a lot of conflicting information right now. But right now, the Israelis are saying they could be willing to take a 10 for one Palestinian security prisoners convicted terrorist in exchange for roughly 40 women and children still being held. Women, children, elderly and infirm people still being held in Gaza. Is this sort of a practical deal, given that we're talking about the release of 400 hardened terrorists for people that we have no indication if they're still alive or even not? Well, I had to be grim on this issue. And only now the Hamas has declared very openly that there will be no deal until the end of the war. So, I mean, the conditions that the offer that Israel has proposed to Hamas doesn't even meet the preliminary conditions of Hamas. I mean, they want all in exchange of all, meaning all prisoners inside Israel. And this is one thing. And second thing is that they want total ceasefire. It's not a truth, not a pose in the war, but a ceasefire, meaning the ending of the war. And this is not a condition that Israel can meet right now. And beyond the fact that the families and the public is asking for the government to be more lenient in its negotiations with Hamas, there is no way we can bridge the differences between us and Hamas at this point in time, unless Hamas changes. And Hamas has said, as you said earlier, that why should we go on a deal if you want to kill me? So this is something that has no logic in itself. And in a way, they believe that if they exchange right now the hostages they have with them, and then afterwards Israel will continue. And we know we are seeing now on the ground the introduction of another division. And so we will have six divisions in this tiny area, which means that we are flooding the area with the IDF units, putting Hamas almost in an impossible situation of containing the attacks of Israel and pushing Hamas to hide in the underground. And this is where the real battle is going to happen in the next few days. We're seeing some reports now in Al-Arabiya citing sources inside Hamas itself that they're rejecting any truce of less than 14 days. But that sounds as if they have a negotiating position that's not quite absolute. What can they do with 14 days? Well, they want 14 days. As we have seen earlier in the first deal, it took them only seven days to reorganize to replenish their positions and their ammunition. And maybe they smuggle more things from the Sinai, from the Jihadists in Sinai, or from Iran. Who knows? I mean, this would be enough to reorganize themselves and to understand where is the actual deployment of all those units that they have lost contact with. And this is a lot to give to Hamas. And certainly, this is a condition that Israel would comply, only if Israel is convinced that the war is going to stop. Because what would happen in 14 days? They will begin giving us a list. And then at the end of the day 13, they will say, oh, we have another list to give you. But then let's have another 10 days. Let's have another five days. And this means practically the end of the war. And if the war ends in this position, then we are in a very bad shape. And it's also worth noting that this time they could buy to prepare these ambushes to re-establish chains of commands. Even after the first ceasefire of one week, we saw the losses Israel taking in the aftermath of that ceasefire would a much higher rate in the losses taken in the first month or so of the ground operation. Is that directly as a result of Hamas re-establishing their chains of command? Definitely. I mean, we thought at the time that the communication were lost between different units. And in fact, they still had this communication network that was functioning. Hamas was still in control of most of the positions that were surrounded and circled by the Israeli IDF. And I think that the pause in the war allowed finally Hamas to reorganize. And this is the most important thing. And it caused us a lot of victims. And that leads into the next question, because Israel has put a great deal of its national credibility. And in many ways, it's very purpose on the line with this war that the existential threat to Israel posed by Hamas must be defeated. If Israel backs down from that war via any sort of ceasefire, it seems that everything and all the losses Israel have taken have been in vain. And that the civilians that have died in this conflict, the 1,200 people butchered on October 7th, it's a disgrace to their memory. Well, exactly so. And this is why you keep on hearing our prime minister saying that the war will continue until the end of it, meaning until we eradicate Hamas, or at least we offer what think tank is in Saudi Arabia has been devising with the French, saying that maybe we would offer the Yahya Sinwar and Muhammad Dev to leave Gaza with the leadership to Algeria. This is one of the ideas. I mean, it joins back the ideas that we spoke in this studio about, like in 1982, with Arafat leaving Beirut on a ship to Tunis. This is a solution that might be considered. And if this happens, so even though, I mean, Sinwar is not killed and Muhammad Dev would be still living, it would be definitely a victory of Israel in this front. Well, we're going to discuss this at length a little bit more. But we are going to look actually on this very topic, well, what are Israeli soldiers fighting for? And what are they paying the ultimate cost for? Because three more Israeli soldiers have fallen in the heavy fighting in Gaza. Lieutenant Omri Schwartz, Sergeant Lavi Ghasi, and Lieutenant Yaakov Elien died fighting in the northern Gaza Strip. The fighting comes even as the military says that North Gaza operations are winding down and mostly concluded that the war against Hamas in Gaza has cost 137 lives of soldiers since the ground operation began in October. It's a heavy price and it seems to be one that's accelerated even as there is still much to do. This even as international and domestic pressure is mounting on Israel to negotiate a ceasefire. In Israel, that pressure is largely coming from the families of hostages that believe a ceasefire is the only avenue to rescue their loved ones. But the families of fallen soldiers are now saying that any such negotiation will mean their children died in vain. Well, joining us right now on the line is Galit Waldman, whose son fell in battle back on October 7th. She and many other mothers here in Israel are demanding the military finish the job that they started. Thank you very much, Galit, for being with us. There are no words of condolence I can give for your loss, but instead I want you to tell us what your son is fighting for and what your message to the rest of the country and the world is. Hello, Ariel. I'm not sure about my English, but I'm very definitely sure about my message. My son was Major Ariel Ben-Moshe from the elite service process of the idea. In the 7th of October, he was the Major, the Commander in Kibbutz Lane, not in the party, the Kibbutz. He fought there, he saved people there, and they saved all the Kibbutz, not to be at all cost like it was in Berry and the Neighbors. Ariel's son, Shabit Ben-Moshe, also officer, keep fighting, even he knew that his brother lost, even he lost his brother, that they play like this, all right? And he took a bolt-o and now it's all right. But the message is now, in Germany, before a lot of years, it didn't was just against the Jewish people. No, they start with the Jewish, after that they came to the gypsy, to the homosexual, to the sick men, or people, all right? It's also now, they coming for Israel, to destroy Israel. Suddenly, innocent people, young women, are dancing in the party in Reim. First, they took a camera film, so we have the food. First, they broke the woman's legs, not be able to run away. After that, they raised them, right, right? I say, just like this, after that they took a baby, nine months, baby, with his family, to the health jail of the ISIS Hamas. No, we don't know if they're alive. So it wasn't a war against soldier only, it was against innocent people in Israel. Then we must, must, must, again, must to destroy the ISIS Hamas, because we're going to do the worst of the world a favor. Imagine, it's became to be a holiday, a Christmas one now. All right, and you're going to eat a turkey, sitting near a table. I want to ask something. Close your eyes, imagine near your table, and picture, because the baby, the grandmother, the father, the partner, the friend, the neighbor, missing, missing to hell, missing to the jerk, all right? And now, enjoy from your turkey. That's what's going on in Israel. And you have to understand, the coming to know in your door, also, in all Europe, in all the worst of the world, in Berlin and Europe, in Paris and London, in Neverland, in Sweden, every place, it's not a human being. We're not talking the same language like normal people. We're talking with a madness, our mate, a celebration of murder, just like this. Say no more. So I sent my son, Major Ariel Ben Moshe, I used to have six sons, now I have five. To save our country, we don't have another plate to be with the support of the states. Remember, they're going to finish Israel, so-called, do they think? They come to you. No question about it. So you have your own business, one, yes, all the West must understand it, must understand it. Galit, you, among with dozens of other mothers of fallen soldiers, signed a letter to the government, telling them that they must not back down, they must not accept a ceasefire at this time. What was the rationale? What was the motivation behind this letter? We if, we if, and we if a power. So the letter means to be with strong end against the animals, ISIS Hamas. Remember before a couple of years, all right, ISIS took the head of the England Refugee. You remember this? This is ISIS Hamas. This is ISIS Hamas, just an evil ghost, all right? The letter means to say to our government, our prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to be very strong, to get our people with the jail back. Look, I have to tell you a story. Yesterday I seen the TV, a very TV, manager of the hospital of Ghana, looked like he slept at night, sitting with his clothes, and say, I'm a commander in the Hamas. I mean, in the hospital, they make, they base, care of base. The world can't understand this. We have to be strong. We have to stay. I don't have another place to be. I'm a mother for children, exactly like in Denmark, for example, we want to live in peace. Innocent people in Gaza itself want to live in peace, want to make money, when the children go up healthy, they doesn't let anybody to do it. So we have to be very, very strong. Even all the world say, oh, Israel is not right. They destroy our hospitals. They're not destroy our hospitals, we have to prove. They took the proof from, they filmed the camera. I want to jump in here, because we only have a minute left. So I want to get another answer from you. What do you say to many Israelis right now that believe an immediate ceasefire is the only way to get the hostages back? Bullshit. Bullshit. Bullshit. That's all, simple as that. Bullshit. No way. When we stop all the Arabic country near us, look at us and see how weak is Israel. Bullshit. Just with a strong army. I believe it. Well, Galit, thank you very much for telling your story, for sharing it, and your son's sacrifice must not be in vain, as you said. We're all praying for an end to this war, but an end to this war that yields a lasting peace and a defeat of these genocidal enemies. Galit, thank you very much for being with us. You're welcome. Thank you. And for everyone else though, we are about to go on a short break. So stay with us. We'll be back in three minutes to cover so much more, all the story and so many others when we get back from that break, so stay tuned. In a state of war, families completely gunned down in their beds. We have no idea where is she. As our soldiers are fighting on the front line, but the general perception is something that certainly needs to be fought as well. This week on News 24, Israel under attack. News 24 in Spanish brings the analysis and the information of the events of the war, Spades of Iron. 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 I-24 News. Thanks for staying with us as we have a new breaking bit of news, a very heavy barrage of rockets out of Gaza. Now peppering even as we speak Israel's southern areas into the lower parts of the center of Israel. We do have reason to believe that they could be firing even further. Rocket sirens here now, goodbye. I'll see you when we're back from the shelter. And what we just returned from now is a very heavy barrage of rockets on central Israel. Between 15 and 20 rockets were just fired directly into Israel's center, including here in Tel Aviv where we had to evacuate these studios. We're hearing reports of 12 interceptions of that rocket barrage. There are no reports at this time of any casualties, direct impacts or damage yet. Let's hope there are none that come in and that everybody is okay in that latest round. We're gonna continue our broadcast as more information comes in. We're going to update on that. And we're gonna be discussing a chilling discovery following a military probe into the accidental killing of three escaped hostages in the Gaza Strip by Israeli soldiers. One of the captives was recorded days earlier shouting for help during a gun battle between troops and Hamas terrorists. During the clashes, a dog from the military's Oketz K9 unit was sent into the building. That dog was killed by the Hamas gunman, but the camera mounted on the dog, which would continue to record even after the animal was killed, caught the voice of a hostage, apparently alone at Shamri's calling for help. The feed from the dog's body camera was not being monitored live and was only discovered on December 18th after the body of the dog was recovered. Iris Chaim, the mother of Yutam Chaim, one of the three hostages accidentally shot by the IDF soldiers in that tragic event, sent a chilling recording in which she seeks to send a strengthening message to the soldiers from that very unit, an inspiring message of compassion from the bereaved mother. Let's listen. I know that everything that happened is absolutely not in your ears, and in the name of God, apart from the Hamas, with your name and memory on the ground, I ask you to listen to yourself and think all the time that you are doing the best thing in the world that can help us and the people of Israel and all of us are grateful to you and do not rush to a single moment when you see the crowd. Do not think that you are only feeling good in the crowd. You need to tell yourself because that's how you can protect us. And in the first place you have to come to us, everyone who is interested and we want to see you in our lives. And I will tell you, how much it is necessary to say such a thing and the crowd. That was the most true thing that I see at that moment. I am not afraid of you and not afraid and not afraid of me and not afraid of my son and not afraid of my sister and not afraid of me because I love you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you. And I also would like to say before I get into exactly what we do is that since the press doesn't give them enough credit we wanted to stay here that we fully support the IDF. We're very proud of the IDF and all their efforts. We send a state our enormous gratitude and thank you, due to them we're able to actually sit here in front of you and have this conversation. We're also supportive and it's continuing war against Hamas ISIS to eradicate them because we don't have any choice. And now coming to what we do so as I explained we're the mothers of Israeli combat soldiers and our message is very simple. What we want to do is to make sure that the lives of our Israeli soldiers are prioritized over the enemy civilians. We understand that a war is a dangerous thing. We understand that the soldiers are fighting in the fight in the front lines and that they are risking their lives and we accept that. But what we will not accept is for them to be put in harm's way for any other reason such as in order to protect the lives of the enemy civilians. Okay, the enemy civilians that is the job of Hamas Hamas is known to use them as protective shields and that's not our job. So what does that mean from where we stand? So there's a few things regarding Air Force. We'd like to see more Air Force protecting the combat soldiers at the beginning of this war. There were a lot more airplanes in the air. There was a lot more backup from the Air Force and that resulted in a lot less casualties on the ground. And unfortunately due to the pressure from the US, we see that is not the case right now. There's a lot less and unfortunately less casualties and we'd like that to stop. We'd like to have more Air Force in the air. That's one thing. The second thing is to do with humanitarian aid. It's basically a joke. The humanitarian aid is being hijacked by Hamas. It's a known fact. It's not getting to the civilians living in Gaza where that's where it's intended to go. And the means that it's basically Hamas, it's giving them more power, which is endangering the lives of our soldiers and prolonging this war. And by the way I checked regarding the humanitarian aid I'm just going to read it out here. Relief is supposed to be provided as an impartial manner and without adverse distinction. That means that Hamas is supposed to allow the International Red Cross to visit the people that they had horribly taken as hostage since October 7th to make sure that they have humanitarian aid and the medication that they so much need and that hasn't happened as of yet. So humanitarian to stop is again it's endangering the lives of our soldiers. The other thing is regarding the statement that was given by Gallant the Defense Ministry of Gallant when he had a statement with the your secretary Lloyd Austin regarding the return of Gaza civilians into the northern of Gaza. That again is going to endanger the lives of our soldiers and we object to that. Hamas has known again to embed themselves within the civilian territories they're going to use again the civilians as human shields. It's going to make the lives of our soldiers it's going to make it very difficult for them sorry to be able to distinguish between terrorists and the civilians and therefore and that again is going to endanger their lives and therefore we completely object to that idea they will be able to will be able to start thinking about when they're going to be turned when all our hostages are returned when the Israeli civilians are going to be able to go back to Otef Alta and up north then we can start discussing them going back at the moment they're going to endanger the lives so that soldiers need to be working on and concentrating on their mission which is to eliminate Hamas and the civilians going to be in their way is just going to endanger their lives and the last thing I want to discuss is regarding time we want to make sure that the ITF has all the time it needs in order to be able to eliminate Hamas this is not a short war unfortunately this is going to take time and we want to make sure there's no pressure coming from any outside forces like the US to give us a time limit here on this well thank you very much Marie for the message for the government and for the backing to the soldiers that right now need the moral support and the knowledge that the home has their backs in this conflict so we completely have their backs we completely have their backs and we're very very grateful for them absolutely and we are going to move on because there is still a great deal of international pressure on Israel to change how the operation is conducted in fact a demand for a ceasefire that has gone international at the UN well there's certainly some people that have taken notice and thanked much of the western world such as Hamas's senior leadership publicly and officially thanking the governments of Canada New Zealand and Australia for calling to preserve the terror groups existence through a permanent ceasefire in Gaza the outpouring of thanks from the terrorists to western nations comes after Canada and the others signed on to a non-binding UN resolution that called for a ceasefire and refused to condemn Hamas for the group's crimes against humanity on October 7th just what sort of message is the west sending to its allies and what to its enemies we continue to say that United States administration is totally responsible of those massacres and variation taking place at the hand of the Israeli occupation army in Gaza through the U.S. unconditional delivery of the weapons to call Palestinians without any form of accountability despite the United States position the Hamas movement is watching the growing cause by several western government to end the aggression on Gaza in addition to the other cause worldwide demanding immediate ceasefire in Gaza Strip the last of which was the statement by Canada Australia and the New Zealand backing sustainable ceasefire in Gaza we welcome these developments and consider them in the right direction toward isolation the fascist Israeli government globally and ending the longer ever occupation in our modern time and we are now joined by Halal Fould culture critic and Jewish activist joining us from Beit Shemesh in the Jerusalem District Halal, thanks for being with us I don't want to be too snarky here but I just feel the need to mention that this is Canada's government the same one that recently had a standing ovation for a member of the Nazi Waffen SS that the same government that a day after pro Hamas demonstrators in Toronto threatened to kill people Canada's finance minister host an event to discuss Islamophobia what's going on in Canada and the rest of the western world right now it's a moral decay it's a moral decay and it's the disintegration of all morality in western civilization this is not something that started yesterday we've been seeing this as a process for decades and when you teach your society not to use critical thinking and to call someone by whatever they want to be called at and identify as a dog then you tell a person don't use your critical thinking don't understand that everything you see in front of you is actually truth in fact there's no truth in the world and then you come to a war where there's a clear distinction between good and evil but we already told the world you don't need to use critical thinking anymore and so everything goes it's absolute disintegration of morality there's no other way to explain it when we look at the situation right here what sort of message is this sending to the western world the western leaders and on the flip side what message is this sending to people like Hamas on western world the people that would love to see nothing more than the collapse of the current order you can't make this stuff up I mean it's truly hard to believe hearing Hamas a known terrorist who literally the same man declared that they're going to keep doing the same thing that they did in October 7th over and over and over again that same man is thinking western governments I mean show me who your friends are and I'll show you who you are he doesn't fill many of us with confidence especially knowing that we're simply days away possibly even less from the UN Security Council resolution that is going to be backing up this call for a ceasefire or not where do you think this is going to go I mean again the UN listen they just finished their annual resolutions 2023 14 resolutions against Israel 7 resolutions against the rest of the world combined so you know does the UN is there any relevance there does anybody have any debate about the fact that the UN is the most immoral body I mean you know from my perspective they did one thing good in their history and that is declare the independence of the state of Israel and so I don't think anybody takes the UN seriously anymore and they've done that to themselves let them call for anything they want to call for Israel is not stopping no matter what until we achieve our objectives which is obviously the destruction complete obliteration of Hamas and the return of our hostages nothing is going to stop us and you know the UN could say whatever they want it won't change anything when you see this level of support in the west for terror organizations and the fact you see these terror organizations thanking western governments as a Jewish activist do you feel there's even a future left for Jews in the western world at this point oh man now we're opening a can of worms I mean listen you know I thought there that the western world is not home you know for Jews for for a very long time I think this is maybe the final straw that broke the families back but you know when I grew up asking myself how did the German Jews not see the writing on the wall well how are the American Jews or the European Jews not seeing the writing on the wall right now what has to happen I say to my friends in the states like you know is there any event I mean if you know there are anti-Semites in Congress and Jews are being beaten in the streets and and NBA players wearing kafias and pop stars declaring their love for Hitler what on earth has to happen for you to get on a plane unless you're going to tell me that you're so comfortable there that even if someone holds a gun to your head you're not getting on a plane okay in that case then at least own that but the reality is that you know it's clear as day to anyone paying attention that you know there's only one place today where Jews can feel safe and that is in Israel given despite what we've been through and I'm not belittling that but at the end of the day we protect ourselves here we define our strategy we decide how we retaliate versus being at the you know at the at the mercy of some random government we've seen how that that's gone throughout our history so people have to open a history book and realize that the script is already written and America's with another empire you know that's going to turn against the Jews just like the Greek empire the Roman empire the Egyptian empire the Nazi empire it's the same script now you know I don't think there's going to be concentration camps in the United States but the reality is I give it a few weeks max two months before Biden completely turns against Israel and demands that we ceasefire at which point I want to believe and I want to hope that our leaders will respectfully decline that offer and that demand and then you know and then that that that relationship that we've had for so long as the United States disintegrates and you know on the one hand I don't want that to happen but the script is written it keeps repeating itself over and over and every generation if the script is written is there even a point to trying to win hearts and minds back in the Western world I mean the point you know we're not we're not going to outnumber our enemies we're not going to you know if you're looking at the numbers game we're never going to win that game but the reality is that we are a people of compassion of people of truth and in our world there still is a need there still is a virtue of truth it's important and you know the Western world has thrown that out the window truth doesn't matter anymore cause it does and so we have to speak the truth whether or not people are listening and there are people listening you know you know the Internet I like to categorize into three people it's our people right who don't need convincing it's the other group that won't be convinced about what you say to them and then I think the majority which is the middle they're less vocal they're less loud but they are people of integrity who are willing to listen and willing to learn and maybe even willing to admit their mistakes but you know that that other group that third group you could show them you know facts that you're blue in the face they just won't they won't change their narrative because that's what they believe in it is the it is the you know it is the modern mask of anti-semitism every generation it changes masks today's mask is anti-zionism but now it's back hello as you've noticed ultimately there's a price to speaking the truth in an age of narratives that said we are out of time for this part of the segment so I thank you very much for coming on to talk about it for us though we're going to go on a short three minute break and we'll be back just after that with so much more you is the 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 and welcome back to i-24 news ongoing coverage of Israel at war just within the last 30 minutes about 30 rockets fired towards central Israel in a very heavy barrage targets included Tel Aviv as well as many other central cities 12 of those were intercepted there was also a massive barrage on southern Israel as well the cities of Ashkelon and Ashdod the IDF says though it is still nearing the end of the offensive in the northern part of the Gaza Strip and they began fighting in new areas adjacent the Shejaia and Chanyounes where Hamas's leadership is believed to be in hiding over the course of the past day the air force has struck over 230 Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip and discovered yet more weapons hidden inside civilian locations such as schools meanwhile Hamas has reportedly rejected an Israeli offer to temporarily halt fighting in exchange for the release of 129 hostages still held captive in the war zone according to the Wall Street Journal the terror group once is about to first implement a lasting ceasefire before even beginning any negotiations they reportedly said they will not give up their hostages only to be bombed again families of the hostages now suing the Red Cross for refusing to even try to bring life-saving medicines to the hostages held in Gaza accusing the organization of an appalling dereliction of their duty we now turn to the studio where we have Daron Avital Lieutenant Colonel Daron Avital, former commander of the Special Forces in the IDF I want to talk about what we're doing actually before we have this discussion we have just established connection with our correspondent in the south let's bring him in first correspondent Pierre Kloschenler is on the border with Gaza Pierre we have seen an extraordinarily heavy barrage just in the last half hour coming out of Gaza walk us through the latest developments we're seeing on that front well we saw the launching of the rocket salvo actually we saw two rocket salvos one towards Ashkelon and Ashdod the southern seashore cities of Israel and then the large rocket salvo towards Tel Aviv it came from where Ego Basilenko our cameraman is pointing at you might see some smoke black smoke in the gray sky I'm not sure it's visible but it came from there it came from the from the central refugee camps of the Gaza Strip which have not been invested by the Israeli army there's only pounding of a presumed terror target in Direl Balak El Borej Nusserat and it seems that those rocket salvos came from either Nusserat or Direl Borej El Borej now that's something that we could clearly see and now I'm going to show you another part of the front which is the front of Shtejaïa and Almurgata which are two towns in the southeastern outskirts of Gaza city where there is pounding by artillery, air force and gunships throughout the day and it shows that the operation there is not over Shtejaïa has not been taken over there is no announcement by the IDF that it's under full operational command of the IDF in Shtejaïa and it's a bloody battle it's a battle between the Shtejaïa battalion of Hamas which is battle hardened and the IDF forces and just to the left is Almurgata which is a town a strategic town because it controls the access to Hanyunes in the south where the thrust of the ground offensive is going on since December 2nd and the Israeli forces are trying to take control over that segment of the access road to Hanyunes because obviously this is very important it could allow the forces that are on the northern part of the Gaza Strip to give support to Hanyunes to the forces in Hanyunes by driving on that access but right now it's still battled it's a site of a battle and that's why we see from time to time airstrikes and artillery strikes on those two places right now earlier on there was strike near the Kerem Shalom crossing and according to Palestinian media affiliated to Hamas the head the Hamas head of the Kerem Shalom crossing is a military guy he has I think he's a colonel in Hamas was eliminated there were four dead in that strike but he was the primary target it seems not confirmed by the Israeli army it's only confirmed by Palestinian media affiliated to Hamas and just after that there were some rocket fire on the communities next to Kerem Shalom now Kerem Shalom crossing has reopened at the beginning of the week to allow more humanitarian aid to cross into the Gaza Strip because with the volume of 200 humanitarian trucks carrying food water cooking gas fuel and material to erect tents the capacity of the Rafakh terminal is not enough the capacity is only for 100 trucks and now we're talking about 200 trucks a day Kerem Shalom crossing catch you up with some of those a little bit later though because we do have many things to cover today thank you very much Pierre for that report from the south we are now going to turn to Lieutenant Colonel Avital to discuss further some of the things we just saw there in Israel south some of them we just experienced here in the center these rocket barrages on the center we had one two days ago as well before that had been about a week since we got a rocket barrage on Israel center is this a message from Hamas so they are saying they still have rockets in the arsenal are they in a desperate use it or lose it mode right now I'm not sure the the desperate analysis is right I think it's a signaling I mean they have the capabilities and in the context of those negotiations that we've been discussing there was a new hope about some prospect of some hostage deal of course the terms that Hamas offers which is basically cessation of all military activity which means for us to surrender and which is not an acceptable terms they wanted to indicate that they have the power that they can hit Tel Aviv this is the Hamas this is the enemy the war is still going on I mean it certainly seems that if signaling is still hit Tel Aviv which they've just shown very very well then Israel has more incentive not to accept any ceasefire and this is working against Hamas to do so Israel cannot accept a ceasefire as a precondition for a hostage deal Israel can accept a hostage deal which would contain some pose in the fighting or some kind of a ceasefire so it can't be that we stop the fire now we wait for Hamas to negotiate with us so this is I think it's clear and I think Hamas should understand it of course and also the mediators Egypt and Khadam and of course the U.S. that helps us must understand it we have a lot to do still in Gaza I mean as we see giving their capabilities and we have Kanyones which is our main target now the leadership is there and many of our hostages might be there so we are still in the midst of the fighting and the dilemma of the hostages is still looming in the background of everything that we do right now north of Gaza the IDF is now saying that combat operations are wrapping up there the situation is mostly under control is it not premature to say that given that we just lost three soldiers there this morning? I trust the IDF I mean the fact that you lose soldiers means that there's still fighting going on there's still Hamas terrorists that can sneak from some tunnel I think Saadjiah is really a hard battle ground I mean we really lost the memories the hard fighting the Tredegolani Brigade had to go through so it's a tough area but when you say you control the territory it means that you are in command of it to react it means that you are more in the mode of cleaning up and looking for searching looking for weaponry but you are in command of the territory so I think I would take the IDF in its words this is it so where does Israel not have command where is the heaviest front next? Yes of course the south there are places like Rafah or near the Egyptian border basically because of this connection with the Egyptian we really are limited how to act and we would only use very targeted the mission there but there are tunnels there that may be crossed to Egypt we have to work it out with the Egyptian but Khan Yunus right now this is the main target we want to believe we think that the leadership is there and we want to do it I mean our priorities are still hostages infrastructure and targeting leadership leadership of Hamas of course when opportunity comes you don't follow the priorities when there is an opportunity to target the Hamas leader we will and when there is an opportunity to release hostages maybe with some rescue operation we didn't lose hope for this either though until now it didn't work well for us If the operations in Khan Yunus are successful and Hamas leadership is starting to stop them from fleeing through Rafah into Egypt The question is their strategy I'm not sure some of them it's hard to think about the motivation and the psychology of those leaders of terror they might think some of them might think that they want to die on their command post and some of them might run away the same way Bin Laden or Saddam Hussein the head of Iraq was running for his life so it's hard for me to analyze in the end what kind of strategy they would pick hopefully it's not clear yet to be seen whether there will be some scenario when we will be really forced to have some scenario of letting them go for the return of our hostages and then finding them in some other day in some other country and hitting them there so it's still open Before we continue this discussion I want to bring the northern front into the discussion there were some serious hostile air infiltrations earlier in the day many rocket barrages in Peresbola and reports of multiple people injured in an anti-tank missile launch on Kibbutzim in the north this all coming after Hezbollah fired massive barrages overnight with more missile strikes throughout the morning this as the IDF conducts deep air strikes inside Lebanon itself against Hezbollah targets now for more on the situation on the northern border we're going to go to our correspondent Zach Anders who is standing by on that borders Zach walk us through the latest developments there last night was a heavy a barrage of attacks from Hezbollah in southern Lebanon so the IDF followed that with heavy striking in some communities in southern Lebanon which apparently resulted in both Hezbollah militants killed and civilians wounded this was reported in Lebanese media channel it was quick then that Hezbollah claimed they would attack conduct heavy attacks today and so far throughout the day there have been that of attacks not these large barrages like we saw this afternoon the multiple rockets coming out of Gaza these have been still more limited but throughout the morning hours we did see two communities come under fire from ATGM's the anti-tank guided missiles that are fired by personnel wounding two Israelis apparently as at least two Israelis in one of those attacks the rocket appeared to hit some parked cars the Israelis here have all been under somewhat of a lockdown 15 communities have been told by the upper galley regional council to lock the gates to limit the road traffic more checkpoints have been spotted across the roads so it is a much different state of a business here in the this today versus other days when we've been here a heightened state of readiness we've seen some cameras pointing north showing heavy plumes of smoke out of southern Lebanon suggesting that the IDF has been hitting these targets again in southern Lebanon fairly hard what's interesting to know is that earlier on in the war every strike we heard about the IDF was in retaliation or in response to any Hezbollah activity we saw on the border now we're seeing these strikes 20 kilometers about 14-ish miles inside Lebanon statements about preemptive strikes on imminent Hezbollah activity what do we make of this change in doctrine potentially this is in tandem with the diplomatic talks that are taking place that for at least what we can tell in the last 48 hours hasn't produced any meaningful progress the IDF has come into these talks that they are initiating the US France the UK the United Nations have been pushing strong on different factions in Lebanon meanwhile the IDF and the Israeli government is someone on the sidelines and just putting the very clear statements together that they are prepared to remove Hezbollah from this southern this zone in southern Lebanon by any means necessary the language is getting stronger and stronger we've seen military exercises taking place here does not mean that offensive action is immediate but the amount of military activity and particularly with what's happening in the air these air strikes that as you mentioned are reaching further into southern Lebanon now we don't know exactly what the targets are the IDF has not like in recent strikes said if they were targeting senior commanders in the field but they have been stepping up that amount of action which perhaps again in tandem with what's happening with the diplomatic talks is being used as not only a show of force but a stronger reminder of the deterrence here and that the IDF's resolve is to push Hezbollah back out of this southern zone of southern Lebanon back beyond the Lutani river the US, the UK, France are apparently starting these negotiations with six miles a six mile buffer which would be significant because that puts these ATGMs out of range does not have all of their weapons out of range they still have large arsenal of heavy rockets that could reach even central Israel still a major threat posed by the group's act thank you very much for those updates in the north we're going to return now to Colonel Adiron Avital in the studio I want to talk about the northern front here because there is that change we've seen in IDF activity no longer waiting until they see Hezbollah operatives in the open and striking them but choosing this inside Lebanon and hitting that are we seeing the IDF start to open a new front I wouldn't put it in this bold words I would say that we take the initiatives we are conducting the war as we see fit we are looking for weaponry that they have near our borders of course we are trying to prevent those them sneaking in and shooting those missiles those anti-tank missiles so I think we have the upper hand we are told that Hezbollah is paying is considerable and of course if you go to a diplomatic campaign you need to have a credible military threat and that's what we shape right now we show them that we're in command of the area that we know we have the capabilities we know where they are not always and we are willing to react and we are willing to initiate an offensive campaign if it would be necessary in order to push them to the litany but right now this is the strategy so you're saying this is more of a negotiation year than it is an escalation yeah we call it in the language in the lingo of military men and intelligence men this is a dialogue in fire so you're signaling in fire what's your intention you say listen up we know where you we are we are willing to take the risk we are there and we take the initiative we are not afraid don't provoke us and if there will be some provocation or some threshold that will be crossed we are willing to go on the offensive see our exercises we are ready to do it and everything is said watch out and if the enemy takes this as a chance to escalate rather than a form of dialogue in fire what happens next yeah so this is the risk we have to take and we would not have taken it unless we felt that we can handle it that we have the forces we have the reserve don't forget that we have the civilians evacuated so it's not like a long term thing we can't have such a big number of civilians out of the places where they live place and so on so there's a time limit to this game the diplomatic campaign is in the background if it worked for the best for us as well as even willing to some concession minor concession somewhere in the Dove mountain as we call it and so on but we have to and any diplomatic campaign must come with a credible military threat and this is what we this is what the idea does under the command of a very good commander or a guardian also commander in my unit I commanded him once and I think we are doing well in the north we are prepared is there a belief that this sort of dialogue might actually convince Hezbollah to retreat or is the general prevailing belief that this will require an all out war against them it's hard to see them really willing to withdraw without it's hard for me to see without any military campaign of course we have to put our hopes there I mean Lebanon is not in a great shape and of course we are also limited after what the devastation of Gaza we can't really when we attack Hezbollah attacking Beirut would be we'll have a lot of a lot of I mean our coalition the US will try to prevent attacking so far in the north as we did in previous wars in Lebanon the 2006 Beirut the commanding post of Hezbollah was attacked by the idea so we also have limits to what we can have doing but I hope I hope the political pressure in Lebanon which exists against Hezbollah going to a full blown escalation against Israel I hope it will work I'm not sure in that case because it seems like you're leaning more heavily towards a direct action being necessary where does the United States fall because they've directly said they don't want to say it they have to be a real casus play for us to go to the war I mean there has to be a scenario in which our coalition would feel that we were forced to do it there was no other way and for this to happen either a scenario on the ground it can be an attack of Hezbollah that went out of the scale that we are willing to admit to contain I mean it can be some tacit agreement with the US that it's necessary it's very much connected also to the southern front if the southern front is contained we know what's up there and some kind of I'm not sure ceasefire but some kind of game then we can think of the north it's going to be a very complicated dance there to navigate especially because the smallest misstep is going to be a possible catastrophe. Jerome thank you very much for breaking that down for us we are going to turn back to the events of October 7th the question that's been on everyone's mind since how did Israeli military intelligence agencies fail so poorly to read the signs of Hamas' imminent attack and how it was carried out so easily Israel's channel 12 reveals new details of the attack on the Nahal-O's IDF post on Israel's Gaza border more in this adaptation the results of the Hamas terrorist invasion of the Nahal-O's outpost will continue to echo as the IDF investigates the events of the dark Saturday October 7th today we can reveal what the IDF already knows about what happened at the base during the battle in which terrorists killed 66 soldiers most of them field observers and soldiers of the brigade's 13th battalion The general data on the invasion presented to the families barely begins to convey the magnitude of the attack at half past 5 a.m. IDF southern command assessment shows no unusual warnings the forces which were sent to Israel they were sent to Israel they were sent to Israel they were sent to Israel they were sent to Israel they were sent to Israel they were sent to Israel they were sent to Israel there were no unusual warnings the forces which are already in limited capacity do not prepare for anything out of the ordinary at 6.29 siren sound across Israel as intense rocket fire begins from the Gaza Strip at 6.54 the first invasion of the outpost by 70 terrorists commences 6 minutes later at 7 a.m. a second invasion by about 50 more terrorists 3.5 hours later at 10.30 about 50 more terrorists invade the outpost. By this time, a total of about 170 terrorists have entered the Nakhaloz base. Saturday morning at half past six, they have already identified a swarm of terrorists on the fence and they asked for help. To be precise, it was at 6.29 a.m. And they were told, deal with it. We have other priorities. In that situation, the commander on duty needs to make a decision. Make a decision. Get them on a Hummer. Get them out of there. Then they would be here with us today. According to the IDF investigation, this is what happened on the ground at the moment the barrier was breached. At 6.29, field observers had identified two armed men running towards the fence, the beginning of the infiltration. At 6.30, identification of additional terrorists blowing up the fence. At 6.31, the deputy battalion commander announces what he defines as a complex event. Seven minutes later, at 6.38 a.m., terrorists from Hamas's elite Nakhuba unit have fully crossed the fence. At 6.40 a.m., the procedure for dealing with an infiltration from the Gaza Strip was officially declared. Two minutes later, the platoon commander activates sentry tech systems that automatically identify threats and open fire, hitting some of the terrorists. But two minutes later, at 6.44, the system stopped working. The cameras did as well. At 6.51, a situation assessment finally made it through to IDF's southern command. Terrorists have entered the outpost. The battle inside the outpost lasted for many hours. The investigation shows that the amount of weapons the terrorists carried with them was much greater than the amount of weapons the IDF soldiers had at their disposal, both in quantity and in quality. During intense fighting, some of the soldiers took cover in shelters that turned into death traps. The majority of them were murdered or taken hostage. Some soldiers managed to hide in their dorms. Some locked themselves inside the war room. Hours of being barricaded and terrified inside the war room are as if taken from horror movie. This is what happened. The terrorists did not enter the war room at any stage. They carried out the attacks from the hallway. They threw hand grenades within an incendiary substance that releases toxic gases. The goal? To asphyxiate everyone in the war room within minutes. The smoke that came into the closed room began to suffocate the 22 people who were locked inside. The soldiers could not open the burning door of the war room. Seven managed to make it through the window. One field observer and six fighters. We know that the explosion at the war room occurred between 11.30 and 12, meaning that they were alive for five hours and no one came to rescue them. In this report by Yonit Levy two weeks ago, the parents of the field observers detailed how they conducted their own investigation into the events of that day, putting together fragments of information they collected. Even today, after the IDF representatives shared with them the initial findings, the full picture remains unclear. While the parents are waiting for a full and comprehensive investigation to take place, they are still insisting on viewing the remaining security camera footage themselves, all so they can fully understand the chain of events that led to the bloody battle of the Nakhal Oz outpost. There will, of course, be so many more investigations to follow investigating the greatest failure of Israeli military intelligence in 50 years and perhaps the darkest mark on Israel's entire history with the greatest cost civilian of any conflict in Israel's history since its existence began. That said, that is a question that will probably be answered in the days after the war, which means the war still has to be concluded well before that can happen. We are, though, at the end of our show, but you can catch so much more at our three o'clock broadcast in just about a half hour. For more, you can follow us online at i24news.tv slash en for stories you're not going to catch anywhere else. Until then, thanks for watching. What I saw today was unbelievable. The devastation on the homes, the destruction, the scenes still that you could imagine of what happened. It was like something out of a movie and still also the smell, the overpowering. It was an important day for me and to show the viewers of i24news, but it was a difficult challenging day. This was the home of Yanniv Ohana to see basically a modern day pogrom and to feel the vulnerability. We live in Israel. We are so dependent on the army and the government and authorities to provide security. See how all of that can be overturned in the course of one day. I think it really makes us understand how fragile our lives are and how much we're going to have to fight for our existence. Our very existence in this corner of the world. Welcome to this special broadcast on i24news, I'm Khaled Bendevi. This month marks the 38 years since I started as a journalist in Israel and nothing was like the last two months. This has been the most challenging, most emotional, most heartbreaking and in some ways most complex story that I've had to cover during that time and never I felt the kind of responsibility that I had to present this story to the world in the right context with the right facts and to really speak truth to power in this situation. Back to i24news' ongoing coverage of Israel at war. Just within the last 30 minutes, about 30 rockets fired towards central Israel in a very heavy barrage. This included Tel Aviv as well as many other central cities. 12 of those were intercepted. There was also a massive barrage on southern Israel as well, the cities of Ashkelon and Ashdod. The IDF says though it is still nearing the end of the offensive in the northern part of the Gaza Strip and they've begun fighting in new areas adjacent to Shezaiyah and Chanyunas where Hamas' leadership is believed to be in hiding. Over the course of the past day, the air force has struck over 230 Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip and discovered yet more weapons hidden inside civilian locations such as schools. Meanwhile, Hamas has reportedly rejected an Israeli offer to temporarily halt fighting in exchange for the release of 129 hostages still held captive in the war zone. According to the Wall Street Journal, the terror group once is about to first implement a lasting ceasefire before even beginning any negotiations. They reportedly said they will not give up their hostages only to be bombed again. Families of the hostages now suing the Red Cross for refusing to even try to bring life-saving medicines to the hostages held in Gaza, accusing the organization of an appalling dereliction of their duty. We now turn to the studio where we have Daron Avital, Lieutenant Colonel Daron Avital, former commander of the Special Forces in the IDF. I want to talk about what we're doing. Actually, before we have this discussion, we have just established connection with our correspondent in the South, let's bring him in first. I-24 News correspondent Pierre Kloschenler is on the border with Gaza. Pierre, we have seen an extraordinarily heavy barrage just in the last half hour coming out of Gaza. Walk us through the latest developments we're seeing on that front. Well, we saw the launching of the rocket salvo. Actually, we saw two rocket salvos, one towards Ashkelon and Ashdod, the southern seashore cities of Israel, and then the large rocket salvo towards Tel Aviv. It came from where Ego Bazilenko, our cameraman, is pointing at. You might see some smoke, black smoke in the gray sky. I'm not sure it's visible, but it came from there. It came from the central refugee camps of the Gaza Strip, which have not been invested by the Israeli army. There's only bounding of presumed terror targets in Direl Balak, El Borej, Nusrat, and it seems that those rocket salvos came from either Nusrat or Direl Borej, or El Borej. Now that's something that we could clearly see, and now I'm going to show you another part of the front, which is the front of Shtejaia and Almurgata, which are two towns in the southeastern outskirts of Gaza City, where there is bounding by artillery, air force, and gunships throughout the day, and it shows that the operation there is not over. Shtejaia has not been taken over. There is no announcement by the IDF that it's under full operational command of the IDF in Shtejaia, and it's a bloody battle. It's a battle between the Shtejaia battalion of Hamas, which is battle-hardened, and the IDF forces, and just to the left is Almurgata, which is a town, a strategic town, because it controls the access to Hanyunas in the south, where the thrust of the ground offensive is going on since December 2nd. And the Israeli forces are trying to take control over that segment of the access road to Hanyunas, because obviously this is very important. It could allow the forces that are on the northern part of the Gaza Strip to give support to Hanyunas, to the forces in Hanyunas, by driving on that axis, but right now it's still battled, it's a site of a battle, and that's why we see from time to time airstrikes and artillery strikes on those two places right now. Earlier on there was a strike near the Kerem Shalom crossing, and according to Palestinian media affiliated to Hamas, the head, the Hamas head, of the Kerem Shalom crossing is a military guy, he has, I think he's a colonel in Hamas, was eliminated, they were four dead in that strike, but he was the primary target, it seems. It's not confirmed by the Israeli army, it's only confirmed by Palestinian media affiliated to Hamas, and just after that there were some rocket fire on the communities next to Kerem Shalom. Now Kerem Shalom crossing has reopened at the beginning of the week to allow more humanitarian aid to cross into the Gaza Strip, because with the volume of 200 humanitarian trucks carrying food, water, cooking gas, fuel, and material to erect tents, the capacity of the Rafakh terminal is not enough, the capacity is only for 100 trucks, and now we're talking about 200 trucks a day. A lot of development here, we're going to catch you up with some of those a little bit later though, because we do have many things to cover today. Thank you very much Pierre for that report from the South. We are now going to turn to Lieutenant Colonel Daron Avital to discuss further some of the things we just saw there in Israel South, something we've just experienced here in the center. These rocket barrages on the center, we had one two days ago as well, before that had been about a week since we got a rocket barrage on Israel Center. Is this a message from Hamas, so they are saying they still have rockets in the arsenal? Are they in a desperate use it or lose it mode right now? I'm not sure the desperate analysis is right, I think that's a signaling. I mean they have the capabilities, they say we have the capabilities, and in the context of those negotiations that we've been discussing, there was a new hope about some prospect of some hostage deal. Of course the terms that Hamas offers, which is basically cessation of all military activity, which means for us to surrender and which is not an acceptable terms, they wanted to indicate that they have the power that they can hit Tel Aviv. This is the Hamas, this is the enemy, the war is still going on. I mean it certainly seems that if their signaling has still hit Tel Aviv, which they just shown very very well, then Israel has more incentive not to accept any ceasefire and this is working against Hamas to do so. Israel cannot accept a ceasefire as a precondition for a hostage deal. Israel can accept a hostage deal which would contain some pose in the fighting or some kind of a ceasefire. So it can't be that we stop the fire and now we wait for Hamas to negotiate with us. So this is I think is clear and I think Hamas should understand it of course and also the mediators, Egypt and Qatar and of course the U.S. that helps us must understand it. We have a lot of to do still in Gaza, I mean as we see giving their capabilities and we have Chanyones, which is our main target now, where the leadership is there and many of our hostages might be there. So we're still in the midst of the fighting and the dilemma of the hostages is still looming in the background of everything that we do right now. In the north of Gaza the IDF is now saying that combat operations are wrapping up there. The situation is mostly under control. Is it not premature to say that given that we just lost three soldiers there this morning? No, I trust the IDF. I mean the fact that you lose soldiers means that there's still fighting going on. There's still Hamas terrorists that can sneak from some tunnel. I think Sa'ajia is really a hard battleground. I mean we really lost the memories of 2014 and right now the hard fighting that the Golan brigade had to go through. So it's a tough area but when you say you control a territory it means that you are in command of it. To react it means that you are more in the mode of cleaning up and looking for searching, looking for weaponry but you are in command of the territory. So I think that I would take the IDF in its words. This is it. So where does Israel not have command in Gaza? Where is the heaviest front next? Yes, of course the south. There are places like Rafah or near the Egyptian border which were basically because of this connection with the Egyptian we really are limited how to act and we would only use very targeted mission there. But there are tunnels there that may be crossed to Egypt. We have to work it out with the Egyptian Bathan units. Right now this is the main target we want to believe or we think that the leadership is there. We hope that Sinwa is there and we can get to him. I mean our priorities are still hostages, infrastructure and targeting leadership of Hamas. Of course when opportunity comes you don't follow the priorities. When there's opportunity to target the Hamas leader we will and when there's opportunity to release hostages maybe with some rescue operation we didn't lose hope for this either though until now it didn't work well for us. If the operations in Khan units are successful and Hamas leadership is starting to feel the pressure what is stopping them from fleeing through Iraq into Egypt? The question is their strategy. I'm not sure some of them. It's hard to think about the motivation and the psychology of those leaders of terror. They might think some of them might think that they want to die on their command post and some of them might run away the same way Bin Laden or Saddam Hussein the head of Iraq was running for his life. So it's hard for me to analyze in the end what kind of strategy they would pick whether to fight to the end or to flee. It's not clear yet to be seen whether there will be some scenario when we will be really forced to have some scenario of letting them go for the return of our hostages and then finding another finding them some other day in some other country and eating them there. So it's still open. Before we continue this discussion I want to bring the northern front into the discussion. There were some serious hostile air infiltrations earlier in the day. Many rocket barrages of Hezbollah and reports of multiple people injured in an anti-tank missile launch on Kibbutzim in the north. This all coming after Hezbollah fired massive barrages overnight with more missile strikes throughout the morning. This as the IDF conducts deep air strikes inside Lebanon itself against Hezbollah targets. Now for more on the situation on the northern border we're going to go to our correspondent Zach Anders who is standing by on that borders. Zach walk us through the latest developments there. Well last night was a heavy a barrage of attacks from Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. So the IDF followed that with heavy striking in some communities in southern Lebanon which apparently resulted in both Hezbollah militants killed and civilians wounded. This was reported in Lebanese media channel. It was quick then that Hezbollah claimed they would attack conduct heavy attacks today and so far throughout the day. There have been a spat of attacks not these large barrages like we saw this afternoon. The multiple rockets coming out of Gaza these have been still more limited but throughout the morning hours we did see two communities come under fire from ATGMs the anti-tank guided missiles that are fired by personnel. Wounding two Israelis apparently as at least two Israelis in one of those attacks the rocket appeared to hit some parked cars. The communities here have all been under somewhat of a lockdown. 15 communities have been told by the upper galley regional council to lock the gates to limit the road traffic. More checkpoints have been spotted across the roads so it is a much different state of business here in the this today versus other days when we've been here a heightened state of readiness. We've seen some cameras pointing north showing heavy plumes of smoke out of southern Lebanon suggesting that the IDF has been hitting these targets again in southern Lebanon fairly hard. What's interesting to know is that earlier on in the war every strike we heard about the IDF was in retaliation or in response to any Hezbollah activity we saw on the border. Now we're seeing these strikes 20 kilometers about 14-ish miles inside Lebanon. Statements about pre-emptive strikes on imminent Hezbollah activity. What do we make of this change in doctrine? Potentially this is in tandem with the diplomatic talks that are taking place that for at least what we can tell in the last 48 hours hasn't produced any meaningful progress. The IDF has come into these talks that they are initiating. The US, France, the UK, the United Nations have been pushing strong on different factions in Lebanon. Meanwhile the IDF and the Israeli government is someone on the sidelines and just putting the very clear statements together that they are prepared to remove Hezbollah from this southern this zone in southern Lebanon by any means necessary. The language is getting stronger and stronger. We've seen military exercises taking place here. It does not mean that offensive action is immediate but the amount of military activity and particularly with what's happening in the air these airstrikes that as you mentioned are reaching further into southern Lebanon now. We don't know exactly what the targets are. The IDF has not, like in recent strikes, said if they were targeting senior commanders in the field but they have been stepping up that amount of action which perhaps again in tandem with what's happening with the diplomatic talks is being used as not only a show of force but a stronger reminder of the deterrence here and that the IDF's resolve is to push Hezbollah back out of the this southern zone of southern Lebanon back beyond the Lutani River. The US, the UK, France are apparently starting these negotiations with six miles a six mile buffer which would be significant because that puts these ATGMs out of range. It does not put all of their weapons out of range. They still have a large arsenal of heavy rockets that could reach even central Israel. Yeah still a major threat posed by the Groups Act. Thank you very much for those updates in the north. We're going to return now to Colonel Adorno-Avital in the studio. I want to talk about the northern front here because there is that change we've seen in IDF activity no longer waiting until they see Hezbollah operators in the open and striking them but choosing targets inside Lebanon and hitting that. Are we seeing the IDF start to open a new front? I wouldn't put it in this bold words. I would say that we take the initiatives. We are conducting the war as we see fit. We're looking for weaponry that they have near our borders. Of course we're trying to prevent those them sneaking in and shooting those missiles or those anti-tank missiles. So I think we have the upper hand. I mean the toll that Hezbollah is paying is considerable and of course if you go to diplomatic campaign you need to have a credible military threat and that's what we shape right now. We show them that we're in command of the area that we know we have the capabilities. We know where they are not always and we are willing to react and we are willing to initiate an offensive campaign if it would be necessary in order to push them to deletani. But right now this is the strategy. So you're saying this is more of a negotiation here than it is an escalation. Yeah we call it in the language in the lingo of military men and intelligence men this is a dialogue in fire. So you're signaling in fire what's your intention you say listen up we know where you we are we are willing to take the risk we are there and we take the initiative we are not afraid don't provoke us and if there will be some provocation or some threshold that would be crossed we are willing to go on the offensive see our exercises we are ready to do it we have the plans everything is said watch out. And if the enemy takes this as a chance to escalate rather than a form of dialogue in fire what happens next. Yeah so this is the risk we have to take and we would not have taken it unless we felt that we can handle it that we have the forces we have the reserve don't forget that we have the civilians evacuated so it's not like a long term thing we can't have such a big number of civilians out of the places where they they live their workplace and so on. So there's a time limit to this game the diplomatic campaign is in is in the background if it worked for the best for us as well as even willing to some concession minor concession somewhere in the the Dove mountain as we call it and so on but we have to and any diplomatic campaign must come with a credible military threat and this is why we this is what the idea does under the command of a very good commander or a guard and also commander in my unit I commanded him once and I think we are doing well in the north we are prepared. Is there a belief that this sort of dialogue might actually convince Hezbollah to retreat or is the general prevailing belief that this will require an all-out war against them. I think it's hard to see them really willing to withdraw without it's hard for me to see without any military campaign of course we have to put our hopes there I mean Lebanon is not in a great shape and of course we are also limited after what the devastation of Gaza we can't really when we attack Hezbollah attacking Beirut would be we'll have a lot of I mean our coalition the US will try to prevent attacking so far in the north as we did in previous wars in Lebanon the 2006 Beirut the commanding post of Hezbollah was attacked by the idea so we also have limits to what we can are capable of doing but I hope I have the political pressure in Lebanon which exists against Hezbollah going to a full blown escalation against Israel I hope it will work I'm not sure. In that case because it seems like you're leaning more heavily towards a direct action being necessary where does the United States fall because they've directly said they don't want to say it. They have to be a real casus play for us to go to the war I mean there has to be a scenario in which our coalition would feel that we were forced to do it okay there was no other way and for this to happen either a scenario on the ground it can be an attack of Hezbollah that went out of the scale that we are willing to admit to contain and then it can be some tacit agreement with the US that it's necessary it's very much connected also to the southern front if the southern front is contained we know what's up there in some kind of a natural ceasefire but some kind of endgame then we can think of the north. It's going to be a very complicated dance there to navigate especially because the smallest misstep is going to be a possible catastrophe. Jerome thank you very much for breaking that down for us we are going to turn back to the events of October 7th the question that's been on everyone's mindsets how did Israeli military intelligence agencies fail so poorly to read the signs of Hamas' imminent attack and how it was carried out so easily. Israel's channel 12 reveals new details of the attack on the Nahal-O's IDF post on Israel's Gaza border more in this adaptation. The results of the Hamas terrorist invasion of the Nahal-O's outpost will continue to echo as the IDF investigates the events of the dark Saturday October 7th. Today we can reveal what the IDF already knows about what happened at the base during the battle in which terrorists killed 66 soldiers most of them field observers and soldiers of Golanig Brigade's 13th battalion. We have to say that in the Nahal-O's IDF we have terrorists, we have terrorists, there is a large number of terrorists who killed. The IDF that entered the Nahal-O's IDF is much more important than any other IDF in the whole field but that's the IDF that came in three cases. The first one came in about 70 soldiers and the IDF that entered the Nahal-O's IDF is the IDF that in the whole field came in about 150 soldiers. The general data on the invasion presented to the families barely begins to convey the magnitude of the attack. At half past five a.m. IDF Southern Command Assessment shows no unusual warnings. The forces which are already in limited capacity do not prepare for anything out of the ordinary. At six twenty-nine sirens sound across Israel as intense rocket fire begins from the Gaza Strip. At six fifty-four the first invasion of the outpost by seventy terrorists commences. Six minutes later at seven a.m. a second invasion by about fifty more terrorists. Three and a half hours later at ten thirty a third group of about fifty more terrorists invade the outpost. By this time a total of about 170 terrorists have entered the Nahal-O's base. Saturday morning at half past six they have already identified a swarm of terrorists on the fence and they asked for help. To be precise it was at six twenty-nine a.m. And they were told deal with it we have other priorities. In that situation the commander on duty needs to make a decision. Make a decision. Get them on a Hummer. Get them out of there. Then they would be here with us today. According to the IDF investigation this is what happened on the ground at the moment the barrier was breached. At six twenty-nine field observers had identified two armed men running towards the fence the beginning of the infiltration. At six thirty identification of additional terrorists blowing up the fence. At six thirty-one the deputy battalion commander announces what he defines as a complex event. Seven minutes later at six thirty-eight a.m. terrorists from Hamas's elite Nukh Bayounet have fully crossed the fence. At six forty a.m. the procedure for dealing with an infiltration from the Gaza Strip was officially declared. Two minutes later the platoon commander activates sentry tech systems that automatically identify threats and open fire hitting some of the terrorists. But two minutes later at six forty-four the system stopped working. The cameras did as well. At six fifty-one a situation assessment finally made it through to IDF southern command. Terrorists have entered the outpost. The battle inside the outpost lasted for many hours. The investigation shows that the amount of weapons the terrorists carried with them was much greater than the amount of weapons the IDF soldiers had at their disposal. Both in quantity and in quality. During intense fighting some of the soldiers took cover in shelters that turned into death traps. The majority of them were murdered or taken hostage. Some soldiers managed to hide in their dorms. Some locked themselves inside the war room. The hours of being barricaded and terrified inside the war room are as if taken from a horror movie. This is what happened. The terrorists did not enter the war room at any stage. They carried out the attacks from the hallway. They threw hand grenades with an incendiary substance that releases toxic gases. The goal? To asphyxiate everyone in the war room within minutes. The smoke that came into the closed room began to suffocate the 22 people who were locked inside. The soldiers could not open the burning door of the war room. Seven managed to make it through the window. One field observer and six fighters. We know that the explosion at the war room occurred between eleven thirty and twelve, meaning that they were alive for five hours and no one came to rescue them. In this report by Yonit Levy two weeks ago, the parents of the field observers detailed how they conducted their own investigation into the events of that day, putting together fragments of information they collected. Even today after the IDF representatives shared with them the initial findings, the full picture remains unclear. While the parents are waiting for a full and comprehensive investigation to take place, they are still insisting on viewing the remaining security camera footage themselves, all so they can fully understand the chain of events that led to the bloody battle of the Nakh al-Oz outpost. There will of course be so many more investigations to follow, investigating the greatest failure of Israeli military intelligence in 50 years and perhaps the darkest mark on Israel's entire history with the greatest cost of civilian of any conflict in Israel's history since its existence began. That said that it is a question that will probably be answered in the days after the war, which means the war still has to be concluded.