 This breaking news edition, I'm Bati Eleventh, all coming July from Tel Aviv. Thanks for joining me. It is day 24 of war here in Israel. Rocket Alert Sirens have been going off in the Gaza border communities as well as cities in the south of Israel this Monday morning. Overnight, Rocket Alert Sirens will also heard throughout Israel's northern communities as the IDF ramped up its attacks on Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip. Israeli fighter jets also struck a number of sites in southern Syria in response to rocket fire on the Golan Heights late Sunday evening. In the West Bank, an exchange of fire broke out between the Israeli military and armed Palestinians in the Janine refugee camp. Palestinian sources have reported at least four killed during that exchange, including one Palestinian terror leader. Meanwhile, missiles fired from Yemen toward the Red Sea Israeli city of Elat were intercepted. The US Marine Rapid Response Force is now said to be moving toward the eastern Mediterranean Sea and concerns over the war broadening into a regional conflict. All this as Israel still continues to count it's dead. Thus far, 823 civilian victims have been identified. That's around 85% of the total. Many burnt and abused so badly that identifying them has been near impossible. Let's go now to our defense correspondent Jonathan Rigab, who is standing by for us in southern Israel. Jonathan, Rocket Alerts have been going off in the southern communities. And I believe that a home in Netivot was also hit this morning. Yes, we could see the interceptions about an hour ago, a little bit more than that. It was quite a heavy barrage, some up to 20 rockets or so. Three of them, as far as we're hearing, made a landfall. One of them hit a home in Netivot, which was quite badly quiet. There's quite a lot of damage there. No injuries as far as we understand. And Hamas still proving that it has the ability to fire large amounts of rockets, especially to the areas close to the Gaza border. But not only there, I would expect to see rockets later in the day flying to places as far away as central Israel. Jonathan, for some of the international community that's watching us at the moment, I'd want to break down the reason that perhaps there were no civilian casualties with this rocket strike. Isn't perhaps that when Hamas fires rockets, they don't have precision missiles? And as you mentioned, they just send a large barrage of 20-something rockets over into Israel. Is it the fact that we have an iron dome that is more than 90% effective? Or the fact that civilians have currently been evacuated from the south into the center? Both, and I'd add a third layer, perhaps the most important one. Citizens that hear the sirens, they go to protected shelters to their protected shelter within their home or in their building. And we heard the head of the Home Front Command last night speaking about the responsibility that civilians are exercising, which is helping to prevent large amounts of casualties within Israel despite the fact that Hamas, as they always do, and this is also something that the international community should hear, they fire at civilians with the purpose of hitting civilians. We're hearing the international media, international community speaking about the humanitarian corridor to Gaza. No one is speaking about any humanitarian corridor to Israel despite the fact that thousands and thousands of rockets are deliberately aimed at civilian centers, hospitals were hit, and so on. And of course there was no humanitarian corridor on that morning of October 7th, but the civilian casualties within Israel from these rockets, the numbers are not big due to the iron dome, due to the fact that at least in the communities here in southern Israel, most of the people have been evacuated, and those who are here, they do what they have to do when sirens sound. They run to the protected shelter and that saves lives, literally. Al-Singhi Defense Correspondent Jonathan Rey gave giving us an update from the south of Israel. Thank you very much for that. On your screen you are currently looking at live images of the Gaza Strip that does appear to be Israeli artillery that was fired onto precision, probably Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip, which is where that smoke is emanating from at the moment. With me here in studio is Al-Singhi editor Guy Azrael. Guy, to touch on what Jonathan was saying, and again, because this involves Israel and the Jews, and it has to be said, obviously media attention, world support, not on Israel's side. But he mentions a very valuable point there. The Hamas terrorists are committing not only a war crime, but a double war crime, that they fire at civilians from behind civilians. Yeah, this is something that Israel has been, first of all, well aware of, but also telling the world for so long the fact that Hamas is using civilian infrastructure for such a long time, using hospitals, using schools, basically risking not just the lives of Israelis because Hamas, as a goal, wants to eliminate the state of Israel wanting to hurt Israeli civilians, also using the civilians in Gaza to their advantage. We saw multiple testimonies of Hamas terrorists interrogated by the Shin Bet, admitting and detailing how they escape into the tunnels that are under the hospitals. We've also seen information and visuals from the IDF on that activity. The human toll here is immense. You mentioned in your lead the fact that more bodies are being identified. 823 civilians already identified. And that still leaves us with hundreds of bodies that have yet to be identified. And that is just incredible. 24 days since this attack and just to emphasize the brutality, the inhumane treatment of those victims, even after they were slaughtered, what these animals did to these Israelis on Israeli soil and also after being abducted into Gaza. We're hearing more names coming out, more victims that are being identified at that Shura camp in Central Israel. I was there last week. It is extremely painful to speak to the personnel there, to the doctors, to the volunteers. We have to do this extremely difficult to say the least work of having to identify bodies that were torched, that are burnt completely, very often impossible to get DNA, trying to use teeth samples, any other means that they would get from the families. And in the worst cases, there are no families to bring those testimonies because very often entire families were eliminated, were murdered at the hands of these terrorists. And I'll say another thing as we speak about the Israeli for now limited operation inside Gaza. Well, part of that operation is also to locate the kidnap, but also to locate bodies of Israelis who may be there on the ground. And as we're getting more names of those Israeli victims, some of them have been located on Gaza soil. And as you mentioned, one of the big complexities here is the fact that not only have they been located on Gaza soil, but actually beneath the soil because there's an entire city and network of tunnels. And I'd like to bring in our next guest joining me now is Dr. Daphne Richmond Barak, the head of the International Law Desk at the Institute for Counterterrorism at Reichman University. She is also an expert on subterranean warfare. Welcome to the Breaking News Edition here on the I-24 News Desk. And thanks for being with us this morning. It's seen an uptick in modern and urban warfare, but usually this kind of warfare includes two types, naturally made like caves or artificially made like subway systems. But how often are these manually engineered for the purpose that Hamas is using them in Gaza? Thank you. There is no doubt that Hamas has perfected the art of subterranean warfare to levels that are unprecedented, both in contemporary warfare, even if you compare to the tunnels that were used by ISIS in Syria and Iraq, or if you compare to the Viet Cong tunnels in Vietnam. Hamas has perfected the art of tunnel warfare because it's been part of its strategy as a terrorist group for the last two decades, almost 20 years that Hamas has innovated and discovered new ways in which to use the underground in offensive and defensive ways to weaken its opponent in the Israeli military. And now this places the idea in a very significant operational challenge as it has to release or rescue the hostages that are being held in the Gaza Strip, but also fight in an urban terrain where civilians are located in the vicinity of tunnels and around tunnels as well. Adafne, are they accounted to direct airstrikes? You mentioned that there's a challenge at the moment for the idea of how much of them can actually be penetrated or even destroyed with targeted airstrikes and if it's not that effective, what other measures can be used to dismantle them? The main problem that underground warfare raises is that it neutralizes the military advantage that a sophisticated military like the IDF really possesses. It really neutralizes all of the capabilities in intelligence, gathering and surveillance, and it makes it very difficult for the IDF to assess how many rockets does Hamas have, what does it plan to do, what kind of operations is it planning. All of this becomes very complicated when this is really the main strategic appeal of tunnels, that they allow its users to operate undetected far away from the eyes of a much more sophisticated army that is fighting. So what we see now is that the IDF again is facing this operational challenge. The methods that the IDF must use at this time are methods that will ensure the full destruction, what we call a hard kill, the collapse of the walls and the roofs of all of these subterranean structures. Neutralizing, merely neutralizing the structures is no longer an option. This is what Israel did in 2014 and in 2021, no longer on the table. Right now what is needed is a destruction of this military underground infrastructure, which includes in it or integrates below ground in immense networks of tunnels, everything that you'd expect a military to have, from ammunition factory to ammunition depots to command and control centers and everything else that might be supporting the Hamas military enterprise against Israel. Not to mention the flow of running water and constant electricity, although they claim not to have any fuel in the Gaza Strip. From the perspective of international law and rules of law, do they apply to this kind of warfare because no doubt Israel is going to be facing the rules of war crimes and not abiding by international law? We're already seeing it as the offensive enters what it's being called a limited operation and not a full-scale incursion into the Gaza Strip. So how do these rules apply here? These rules, definitely what we call the laws of war, the laws of armed conflict, they apply to any belligerent in any conflict pretty much. So definitely they apply to Hamas and Hamas has violated them first and foremost the very act of digging this subterranean network under homes and mosques and hospitals which are the most protected objects under international humanitarian law. And these tunnels, this subterranean network of kilometers of tunnels and different stories of tunnels and rooms, first and foremost, and dangers. The Gaza population itself, the people who are living in Gaza, it exposes them to explosions and to accidents and to collapses and to the weakening of the entire civilian infrastructure there. And of course to the anti-tunnel strikes that the military will take to destroy them. So first and foremost Hamas has committed here a major war crime. And then in terms of whether these rules apply to Israel as well, absolutely. Even though Israel has been the victim of an absolutely horrendous attack, the rules continue to apply. These basic rules are targeting only military targets and not targeting intentionally civilians, which is something that you were discussing just before I came on. These are rules that apply across the board and Israel will for sure try to minimize as much as possible in accordance with the laws of war, the civilian casualties that will, which are inevitable as a result of the strike against these targets if the population is not fully evacuated. But the laws of war, they do not unfortunately contemplate a zero casualty type of warfare. This is the reality of war and civilians will unfortunately be killed on both sides. The question is from the point of view of international humanitarian law, whether the collateral damage that will be caused to civilian infrastructure and civilian life will be excessive in comparison to the military advantage that Israel can anticipate from the said strike. And if you do this balancing act, which is what IDF commanders do all the time, it is very difficult in urban warfare. It is very difficult, even more difficult in subterranean warfare. And it becomes almost impossible to overcome in the context of having hostages over 200 of them used as human shields inside those military tunnels. Well, Doctor, let me ask you this. Perhaps there is no reasoning with those who so staunchly hold to the Hamas narrative in Gaza. But as an expert on this topic, how would you explain that this is not assisting the prospects of peace in the region and that this is a tactic of terror? And also on that point, why then if these tunnels are so sophisticated and so deep underground, does Hamas not allow innocent Palestinian civilians to use the tunnels as shelter from Israeli airstrikes the same way that Israel has bomb shelters and bunkers on its territory? It would be an absolute disaster if Palestinian civilians would get into these tunnels at the moment. These tunnels, they are a military infrastructure, and they must remain so. This is actually a much preferred course of action for Palestinian civilians because they will be otherwise killed in the anti-eternal strikes. So there is no doubt that Hamas should have built shelters for its civilians, but they should be civilian shelters and not these tunnels that are military in nature and constitute legitimate targets. I want to tell you that in Ukraine in 2022, there were Ukrainian soldiers that used an underground structure as part of a steel plant in Azerbaijan. And the fighters, the Ukrainian fighters and soldiers were inside the structure and so came civilians. And this became a humanitarian disaster because the civilians ended up being in major danger from this military infrastructure that the Ukrainian soldiers were using. So the civilians must stay away from the tunnels and this is why we would hope that the hostages would also be taken out of those tunnels so that this can be struck as a military target exclusively while minimizing the collateral damage to civilians. Dr. Dathne Richmond-Borak, the head of the International Law Desk at the Institute for Counterterrorism at Reichmann University and an expert on subterranean warfare. I want to thank you so very much for your analysis and your expertise here on the I-24 News Breaking News Edition. Thank you for having me. Let's go now to our correspondent, Pia Stek, who is standing by for us in northern Israel. Pia, we've been discussing the subterranean warfare and obviously the main point of focus at the moment being the border area between Israel and the Gaza Strip as that is the main point of fighting. But there is much anxiety and concern over the fact that the northern border can soon turn into a major front of war as well. Right, Bacchia, this is also very volatile from throughout the night the Israeli military has been striking targets both in southern Lebanon and in Syria as from both places rockets have been sent towards Israel yesterday. We are speaking about a couple of rockets being sent from Syria late yesterday night falling into open areas in the Golan Heights region that Israel is striking back. And before that, several barrages of rockets being fired towards Israel from southern Lebanon beginning in the late afternoon with the barrage being sent towards Rojpina, which is a city that is usually not part of the confrontation line quite far away from the Lebanese border, there one being intercepted, one falling into open territory. The next barrage of rockets was fired towards the area of Kiryat Shmone, a town in the eastern part of the Galilee region that was only last week evacuated as it is only five kilometers away from the Lebanese border. There one rocket falling into a house and setting that house on fire. No casualties reported there as people had evacuated that house early on which really shows you how important these precocious measures are in fact. And then later in the evening another barrage of rockets towards the western Galilee region where we are at right now triggering sirens in Nahria and the Shlomi areas closer to the border as well there. Hamas claiming responsibility for that last barrage of rockets the Hamas military wing in southern Lebanon saying that they fired 16 rockets towards the western Galilee region the Israeli military confirming that they indeed sent 10 rockets there again striking back towards these targets. And in addition to that we've seen constant mortar shelling and also infiltration attempts of squads trying to infiltrate into Israeli territory and launch those mortar shells. There also a drone was shot down in the airspace above the city of Aker last night as well there and also I want to bring to your attention Batya that one Israeli soldier was killed in the north as a tank overturned also injuring three that were transported to hospital after that the reservists to 30 year old man from Jerusalem was killed by that tank an incident accident last night. Correspondent Piaz Dekalbach giving us a thorough breakdown of all the updates on the northern front. Thank you so much for that. Still with me in studio my 24 new senior editor Guy Azrael. Guy we keep talking about the fact that this is a for the time being a localized war between Israel and Hamas and I stress that there's not an Israel Gaza war this is Israel versus Hamas who happens to be in the Gaza Strip with that being said there's concern over the fact that a regional war is about to break out but I think we can quote on quote talk about the global war that is breaking out against Jews all over the globe with many saying that they are not against Jews or they are not anti Semites they are simply anti Israel and they portraying that but how does that then explain the targets on the Jewish communities around the world? It's a sad reality and it's an absolute scary reality for Jews all over the world these days and it's backed by numbers we're seeing a huge rise in anti Semitic incidents across the world just to give you some numbers over 240% rise in anti Semitic incidents in Germany over 600 anti Semitic incidents in the UK since October 7th over 320 such attacks in France and anti Semitic discourse in Russia and of course what we saw last night in Dagestan that what you can see some of the visuals I think this is from a protest in the UK and these are just a few of so many protests that target Israel but more than that target the Jews there the Jews feel unsafe we've seen swastikas on Jewish homes in Germany takes you back many years and really emphasizes again how many things have not changed in Europe and around the world in the UK the government is going to convene a meeting of the Cobra Emergency Response Committee to discuss the domestic security risk the MI5 is now regarding the threat to the country from terrorism as substantial meaning an attack is likely the minister of higher education in the UK saying we have to make sure that British systems are safe and secure from the threat of terrorism as the government always does this is a true risk for Israelis and for Jews around the world as we saw in Russia yesterday it is not about Israelis there were seeking Jewish blood this is what it is about an incentive this war an incentive to search for Jews in these places the war is just an excuse as we've been talking about and it's still on that topic of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism rhetoric that has been on the rise worldwide as Gaia alluded to on Sunday hundreds of people stormed into the main airport in Russia's Dagestan region in an attempt to confront Jewish passengers aboard a flight from Israel these videos show the protesters many of them chanting al-Aqbar God is great and waving palestinian flags breaking through doors and barriers with some of them even running onto the actual runway itself the violence is in the mostly Muslim region as a response to Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza Strip but it's prompted Jerusalem to call on Russia to protect its citizens these pogrom-like incidents are not from the 1800s or World War II this was this weekend October 2023 and it was both preceded and succeeded by more shocking incidents in the country take a look a pogrom attempt in the 21st century over 100 men gathered outside a hotel in Russia's majority Muslim region of Dagestan demanding to know whether Israeli refugees were staying in the building the anti-Semitic riots were spurred by a video making rounds on social media claiming to show an Israeli strolling outside the Flamingo Hotel in the southern city of Khasavut the mob demanded all the guests look out the windows so they could make sure they weren't Jewish when the demand wasn't met the men started throwing rocks to chance of Alahu Akbar clamouring to be let into the hotel to check the sellers the police came and allowed a couple of writers to go into the hotel in search of Jews luckily they couldn't find anyone since then the hotel reportedly put up a sign saying that Israelis and Jews are forbidden from entering the premises an anti-Semitic rally also gathered outside a government building in the northern city in North Caucasus at first the citizens of Chokesk demanded officials guarantee no Israeli refugees will be let into the republic but the demands grew and a Jewish centre under construction in a neighbouring republic was set on fire and death to Jews was scrawled officials and religious leaders have been scrambling to quell the wave of anti-Semitism in the region forbidding pro-Palestinian rallies but so far it seems like there is no end to the hatred I'm still with me here in studio our guy Azrael and guy I believe that rocket sirens are going off near the Gaza border as we speak earlier we were speaking about the fact that we have to hold to account some of the Jewish settlers in the west bank for the violence that they've been perpetrating as a response to the ongoing war at the moment cannot really be compared however with that also being said surely the Muslim communities worldwide also need to step up and be very careful that attacks are not being perpetrated because otherwise it's going to paint the entire Muslim community as terror supporters as well I have no expectations of any communities anywhere with regards to how the world perceives them to worry about the safety of Jews around the world those governments need to be held accountable Russia should ensure the safety of Jews and Israelis who are in those regions as do the governments of the rest of the world the comments that we're hearing from the Americans about settler's violence with all due respect is nothing that comes even close to the atrocities that we've seen in Gaza yeah that any violence against innocent civilians whatsoever should be condemned and Israel does so on a regular basis Israelis who commit crimes against Palestinians are held in Israeli prisons whereas Palestinian authority pays salaries to terrorists who slaughter Israelis and that is the difference and not to mention one of them actually being held on administrative detention as well and so very much both sides here Guy Azrael thank you for joining me Israel is officially in a state of war this is a very active scene and we need to get in the car as we're talking within a hundred soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped help us we don't want to do it we just don't know anything including babies and children and elderly were butchered in their beds awaken the giant and we are ready and we are strong everyone is showing up this is the unity to this breaking news edition I'm Matthew Leventhal coming July from Tel Aviv thanks for joining me it is day 24 of war here in Israel rocket alert sirens have been going off in the Gaza border communities as well as cities in the south of Israel this morning overnight rocket alert sirens will also heard throughout Israel's northern communities as the IDF ramped up its attacks on Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip Israeli fighter jets also struck a number of sites in southern Syria in response to rocket fire on the Golan Heights late Sunday evening in the West Bank an exchange of fire broke out between the Israeli military and armed Palestinians in the Janine refugee camp that exchanged including one Palestinian terror leader meanwhile missiles fired from Yemen toward the Red Sea Israeli city of a lot were intercepted a US Marine rapid response force is now said to be moving toward the eastern Mediterranean Sea and concerns over the war broadening into a regional conflict now all this is Israel still continues to count it's dead thus far 823 civilian victims have been identified that's around 85% of the total many burnt and abused so badly that identifying them has been near impossible let's go now to our defense correspondent Jonathan Reagan who is standing by for us in southern Israel Jonathan rocket alerts have been going off in the southern communities and I believe that a home in the Tivot was also hit this morning yes we could see the interceptions about an hour ago it would be more than that was quite a heavy barrage some up to 20 rockets or so three of them as far as we're hearing made landfall one of them hit a home in a Tivot which was quite a badly quite there's quite a lot of damage there no injuries as far as we understand and Hamas still proving that it has the ability to fire large amounts of rockets especially to the areas close to the Gaza border but only there I would expect to see rockets later in the day flying to places as far away central Israel. Jonathan for some of the international community that's watching us at the moment I'd want to break down the reason that perhaps there were no civilian casualties with this rocket strike isn't perhaps that when Hamas fires rockets they don't have precision missiles and as you mentioned they just send a large barrage of 20 something rockets over into Israel we have an iron dome that is more than 90% effective all the fact that civilians have currently been evacuated from the south into the center. Both and then add a third layer perhaps the most important one citizens that hear the sirens they go to protected shelters to their protected shelter within their home or in their building and we heard the head of the home front command last night speaking about the responsibility that civilians are exercising which is helping to prevent large amounts of casualties within Israel despite the fact that Hamas as always as they always do and this is also something that the international community should hear they fire at civilians with the purpose of hitting civilians we're hearing the international media international community speaking about the humanitarian corridor to Gaza no one is speaking about any humanitarian corridor to Israel despite the fact that thousands and thousands of rockets are deliberately aimed at the civilian centers hospitals were hit and so on and of course there was no humanitarian corridor on that morning of October 7th but the civilian casualties within Israel from these rockets the numbers are not big due to the iron dome, due to the fact that at least in the communities here in southern Israel most of the people have been evacuated and those over here they do what they have to do when sirens sound they run to to protect the shelter and that saves lives literally Al-Singhi Defense Correspondent Jonathan Rey gave us an update from the south of Israel thank you very much for that on your screen you're currently looking at live images of the Gaza Strip that does appear to be Israeli artillery that was fired onto precision probably Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip which is where that smoke is emanating from at the moment with me here in studio is Al-Singhi editor Guy Azrael Guy to touch on what Jonathan was saying and again because this involves Israel and the Jews and it has to be said obviously media attention world support not on Israel's side but he mentions a very valuable point there the Hamas terrorists are committing not only a war crime but a double war crime that they fire at civilians from behind civilians yeah this is something that Israel has been first of all well aware of but also telling the world for so long the fact that Hamas is using for civilian infrastructure for such a long time using hospitals using schools basically risking not just the lives of Israelis because Hamas as a goal wants to eliminate the state of Israel wanting to hurt Israeli civilians also using the civilians in Gaza to to their advantage we saw multiple testimonies of Hamas terrorists interrogated by the Shin Bet admitting and detailing how they escape into the tunnels that are under the hospitals we've also seen information and visuals from the IDF on that activity the human toll here is immense you mentioned in your lead the fact that more bodies are being identified 823 civilians already identified and that still leaves us with hundreds of bodies that have yet to be identified and that is just incredible 24 days since this attack and just to emphasize the brutality the inhumane treatment of those victims even after they were slaughtered what these animals did to these Israelis on Israeli soil and also after being abducted into Gaza we're hearing more names coming out more victims that are being identified at that Shura camp in central Israel I was there last week it is extremely painful to speak to the personnel there to the doctors to the volunteers we have to do this extremely difficult to say the least work of having to identify bodies that were torch that are burnt completely very often impossible to get DNA trying to use teeth samples any other means that they would get from the families and in the worst cases there are no families to bring those testimonies because very often entire families were eliminated were murdered at the hands of these terrorists and I'll say another thing as we speak about the Israeli for now limited operation inside Gaza well part of that operation is also to locate the kidnap but also to locate bodies of Israelis who may be there on the ground and as we're getting more names of those Israeli victims some of them have been located on Gaza soil and as you mentioned one of the big complexities here is the fact that not only have they been located on Gaza soil but actually beneath the soil because there's an entire city and network of tunnels and I'd like to bring in our next guest joining me now is Dr. Daphne Richmond Barak the head of the International Law Desk at the Institute for Counterterrorism at Reichman University she is also an expert on subterranean warfare welcome to the breaking news edition here on the I-24 news desk and thanks for being with us this morning it's seen an uptick in modern and urban warfare but usually this kind of warfare includes two types naturally made like caves or caves. How often are these manually engineered for the purpose that Hamas is using them in Gaza. Thank you there is no doubt that Hamas has perfected the art of subterranean warfare to levels that are unprecedented both in contemporary warfare even if you compare to the tunnels that were used by ISIS in Syria and Iraq or if you compare to the Viet Cong tunnels in Vietnam Hamas has perfected the art of tunnel warfare because it's been part of its strategy as a terrorist group for the last two decades almost 20 years that Hamas has innovated and discovered new ways in which to use the underground in offensive and defensive ways to weaken its opponent the Israeli military and now this places the idea in a very significant operational challenge as it has to release or get rescue the hostages that are being held in the Gaza Strip but also fight in an urban terrain where civilians are located in the vicinity of tunnels and around tunnels as well. Adafne are they accounted to direct airstrikes. You mentioned that there's a challenge at the moment for the IDF how much of them can actually be penetrated or even destroyed with targeted airstrikes and if it's not that effective what other measures can be used to dismantle them. The main problem that underground warfare raises is that it neutralizes the advantage, the military advantage that a sophisticated military like the IDF really possess possesses. It really neutralizes all of the capabilities in intelligence gathering and surveillance and it makes it very difficult for the IDF to assess how much rockets, how many rockets does Hamas have what does it plan to do what kind of operations is it planning. All of this becomes very complicated when this is really the main strategic appeal of tunnels right that they allow its users to operate undetected far away from the eyes of a much more sophisticated army that is fighting. So what we see now is that the IDF again is facing this operational challenge the methods that the IDF must use at this time are methods that will ensure the full destruction what we call a heart kill the collapse of the walls and the roofs of all of these subterranean structures neutralizing, merely neutralizing the structures is no longer an option. This is what Israel did in 2014 and in 2021 no longer on the table right now what is needed is a destruction of this military underground infrastructure which includes in it or integrates below ground in immense networks of tunnels everything that you'd expect a military to have from ammunition factory to ammunition depots to command and control centers and everything else that might be supporting. Come back to this breaking news edition IDF spokesperson Rear Admiral Dango Hagarri is giving a press briefing let's dip in. Every squad sent by Hezbollah to the fence will be killed any squad that attempts to fire at our territory will be killed it will continue to do so to maintain high-ratedness in the north that is our mission. In the West Bank in the early hours of the morning an Israeli drone took down several terrorists in the Jinnin refugee camp armed terrorists were taken down from the air tonight we stopped activity of dozens of terror operatives up to 700 Hamas terrorists arrested since the start of the war in the West Bank will continue to secure the West Bank, Judea and Samaria and the residents must maintain the orders of the Central Command in the home front we continue to hold assessments we need to allow routine alongside the war from institutes will continue to update the information on our website to maintain as long as the civilians continue to follow the orders so far we have informed the families of 312 fallen IDF soldiers and 239 kidnapped returning the kidnapped is a primary our operation in the Gaza Strip serves this goal the issue of the kidnapped is not just a national issue it is a world global issue children elderly and women Israelis and other nationalities are being held by a murderous group that has committed a war crime a crime against humanity in unimaginable scale therefore the effort of the IDF in the state of Israel the world and its international institutions also has a moral obligation to ensure the safety and well-being of the kidnapped and do whatever he takes to bring them back safely questions information about IDF tanks on the outskirts of Gaza city we have expanded our activity the armored activity the ground activity around the Gaza Strip in order to achieve our two goals one is to eliminate Hamas's ability and to bring back the kidnapped to both of these goals are being achieved through our missions I will not go into details the main thing for the IDF is the safety of our troops we will continue to move and operate from air and sea in order to protect our ground troops with maximum damage to the enemy to our troops it will be a long operation and will continue to operate this way and to expand the ground operation that was the IDF spokesperson Admiral Dangle Hagari giving a breast briefing with me in studio is our senior editor Guy Azriel Guy another breast briefing and at times these are simply updates for the Israeli public but then at times there are also updates for the international media in terms of coming out and providing proof and evidence to provide for many overseas whether it's media or viewers watching what's going on in Israel that this is the reasons behind why the IDF targets certain targets in the Gaza Strip and pertaining to Hamas were there any main takeaways from what he had to say today I think this is important to get we do this twice a day reiterating both the goals of the IDF and as much detail as he can give about the operational progress with regards to the war against Hamas updating the numbers of the casualties of the fallen and unfortunately those numbers do rise occasionally we have yet to receive an updated number on the civilian casualties the fatalities we know that number is expected to rise for now still going with 1400 and a very important question there about the presence of IDF troops, IDF tanks of the outskirts of Gaza city those images that have been coming in over just over the past half hour and I think we will be able to see them soon therefore he does not go into detail but really makes it very clear to the Israeli public that the safety of the Israeli troops is a primary goal as Israel moves very slowly in this operation to ensure their safety once again, Guy, thank you very much for translating the rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, the IDF spokesperson giving as he mentioned twice a day an update to both the Israeli public and the international media in terms of both the IDF's goals in the Gaza Strip but also its operations will be right back with more breaking news usually not part of the confrontation line quite far away from the Lebanese border there one being intercepted, one falling into open territory the next barrage of rockets was fired towards the area of Kiryat Shmone a town in the eastern part of the Gadili region that was only last week evacuated as it is only 5 kilometers away from the Lebanese border there one rocket falling into a house and setting that house on fire no casualties reported there as it shows you how important these precocious measures are in fact and then later in the evening another barrage of rockets towards the western Gadili region where we are at right now, triggering sirens in Naaria and the Shlomi areas closer to the border as well there, Hamas claiming responsibility for that last barrage of rockets the Hamas military wing in southern Lebanon saying that they fired 16 rockets towards the western Gadili region the Israeli military confirming that they indeed sent 10 rockets there again striking back towards these targets and in addition to that we have seen constant mortar shelling and also infiltration attempts of squads trying to infiltrate into Israeli territory and launch those mortar shells there also a drone was shot down in the airspace above the city of Aker last night as well there and also I want to bring to your attention that one Israeli soldier was killed in the north as a tank overturned also injuring three that were transported to hospital after that 30 year old man from Jerusalem was killed by that tank an incident accident last night correspondent Piaz Dekalbach giving us a thorough breakdown of all the updates on the northern front thank you so much for that still with me in studio my 24 new senior editor Gai Israel Gai we keep talking about the fact that this is a for the time being localized war between Israel and Hamas and I stress that this is not an Israel Gaza war this is Israel versus Hamas in the Gaza Strip with that being said there's concern over the fact that a regional war is about to break out but I think we can quote unquote talk about the global war that is breaking out against Jews all over the globe with many saying that they are not against Jews or they are not anti semites they are simply anti Israel and they portraying that but how does that then explain the targets on the Jewish communities around the world it's a sad reality and it's an absolute scary reality for Jews all over the world these days and it's backed by numbers we're seeing a huge rise in anti-semitic incidents across the world just to give you some numbers over 240% rise in anti-semitic incidents in Germany over 600 anti-semitic incidents in the UK since October 7th over 320 such attacks in France an anti-semitic discourse in Russia and of course what we saw last night in Dagestan that we can see some of the visuals I think this is from a protest in the UK and these are just a few of so many protests that target Israel but more than that target the Jews there the Jews feel unsafe we've seen swastikas on Jewish homes in Germany takes you back many years and really emphasizes again how many things have not changed in Europe and around the world in the UK the government is going to convene a meeting of the Cobra Emergency Response committee to discuss the domestic security risk the MI5 and now regarding the threat to the country from terrorism as substantial meaning an attack is likely the minister of higher education in the UK saying we have to make sure that British systems are safe and secure from the threat of terrorism as government always does this is a true risk for Israelis and for Jews around the world as we saw in Russia yesterday there were seeking Jewish blood this is what it is about an incentive this war an incentive to search for Jews in these places the war is just an excuse as we've been talking about and it's still on that topic of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism rhetoric that has been on the rise worldwide as Guy alluded to on Sunday hundreds of people stormed into the main airport in Russia's Dagestan region in an attempt to confront Jewish passengers aboard a flight from Israel these videos show the protestors many of them chanting al-Aqbar God is great and waving palestinian flags breaking through doors and barriers with some of them even running onto the actual runway itself the violence is in the mostly Muslim region as a response to Israel's war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip but it's prompted Jerusalem to call on Russia to protect its citizens these pogrom-like incidents are not from the 1900s or World War II this was this weekend October 2023 and it was both proceeded and succeeded by more shocking incidents in the country take a look pogrom attempts in the 21st century over 100 men gathered outside a hotel in Russia's majority Muslim region of Dagestan demanding to know whether Israeli refugees were staying in the building the anti-Semitic riots were spurred by a video making rounds on social media claiming to show an Israeli strolling outside the Flamingo Hotel in the southern city of Khasa Vyut the mob demanded all the guests look out the windows so they could make sure they weren't Jewish when the demand wasn't met the men started throwing rocks to chance of al-Aqbar clamoring to be let into the hotel to check the sellers the police came and allowed a couple of writers to go into the hotel in search of Jews luckily they couldn't find anyone since then the hotel reportedly put up a sign saying that Israelis and Jews are forbidden from entering the premises an anti-Semitic rally also gathered outside a government building in another city in North Caucasus at first the citizens of Chokesk demanded officials guarantee no Israeli refugees will be let into the Republic but the demands grew and the Jewish centre under construction in a neighbouring republic was set on fire and death to Jews was scrawled on the walls officials and religious leaders have been scrambling to quell the wave of anti-Semitism in the region forbidding pro-Palestinian rallies but so far it seems that there is no end to the hatred still with me here in studio our guy is real and guy I believe that rocket sirens are going off in the room we are not talking about the border as we speak earlier we were speaking about the fact that we have to hold to account some of the Jewish settlers in the West Bank for the violence that they have been perpetrating as a response to the ongoing war at the moment cannot really be compared however with that also being said surely the Muslim communities worldwide also need to step up and be very careful that attacks are not being perpetrated because otherwise it is going to paint the entire Muslim community as terror supporters as well I have no expectations of any communities anywhere with regards to how the world perceives them Israel needs to worry about the safety of Jews around the world those governments need to be held accountable Russia should ensure the safety of Jews and Israelis who are in those regions as do the governments of the rest of the world the comments that we are hearing from the Americans about settler violence with all due respect that is nothing that comes even close to the atrocities that we have seen in Gaza that any violence against innocent civilians whatsoever should be condemned and Israel does so on a regular basis Israelis who commit crimes against Palestinians are held in Israeli prisons whereas Palestinian authority pays salaries to terrorists who slaughter Israelis and that is the difference and not to mention one of them actually being held on administrative detention as well and so very much both sides here Gai Israel thank you for joining me over 1300 people murdered and more than 3000 injured Hamas continues we bring you first hand testimonies from the front lines from those who survived and all the records of the atrocities by Hamas follow us as Israel fights terror from the south and north get the inside scoop on what's going on only on i24 news the breaking news edition i'm batch 11th all coming to you live from Tel Aviv thanks for joining me it is day 24 of war here in Israel rocket alert sirens have been going off in the Gaza border communities as well as cities in the south of Israel this Monday morning overnight rocket alert sirens were also heard throughout Israel's northern communities as the IDF ramped up its attacks on Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip Israeli fighter jets also struck a number of sites in southern Syria in response to rocket fire on the Golan Heights late Sunday evening in the west bank an exchange of fire broke out between the Israeli military and our Palestinians in the Janine refugee camp in the areas north Palestinian sources have reported at least four kills during that exchange including one Palestinian terror leader meanwhile missiles fired from Yemen toward the Red Sea Israeli city of Elat were intercepted as a US Marine rapid response force is now said to be moving toward the eastern Mediterranean sea with concerns over the war broadening into a regional conflict all this as Israel still continues to count it's dead thus far 823 civilian victims have been identified out of the currently 1400 that number expected to rise that's about 85% many burnt and abused so badly that identifying them has become near impossible let's go now to our correspondent Danny by for us in northern Israel for an update Pierre there has been rocket sirens going off in the south of the country but the north of the country also experienced that overnight what is the situation like late into this morning right but your last evening last night barrages of rockets were fired into northern Israel in different areas there from southern Lebanon and Syria the Israeli air force has been striking back towards the origin of these targets that 49 of its fighters were killed since the beginning of the war Palestinian Islamic jihad also announcing the Palestinian Islamic jihad in Lebanon there saying that two more of its fighters were killed by the Israeli army last night and I want to bring to your attention that we've been seeing here smoke behind me it seems to be in Lebanese territory what we're seeing is towards the location of Ayat Shab a location that has been targeted also or in this war this comes after last night 10 rockets were fired into the western Galilee region here where we're at right now the Hamas wing in Lebanon claiming responsibility for those rockets saying it launched 16 rockets and also surface to air missile targeting an Israeli aircraft and that is really a significant increase and possibly the largest barrage of rockets we have seen from southern Lebanon so far and really the northern front remains to be tense in the shelling of Isballah and the Israeli military continues also it has been also at about 530 local time alert sounded in Kiryat Shmona at least 6 rockets were launched there one of those rockets directly impacting a house there setting that house on fire Kiryat Shmona an area that had been evacuated casualties were reported there city that is a few kilometers away from the border not part of the confrontation line alongside the border has been targeted by rockets there so we do see that the range of those rockets is increasing also tonight and drone was intercepted above the city of Aker so you do see that more localities are added to the locations of those skirmishes between Israel and Hezbollah and Palestinian factions there in southern Lebanon now Hassan Nasrallah the leader of Hezbollah announcing that he will give a speech the first speech since the beginning of the war this Friday afternoon announcing that now keeping the tensions high as Hezbollah and also the regime has over and over emphasized that they would make their actions dependent on the Israeli procedure in Gaza there the decision whether to escalate their fund or not would depend on whether Israel continues to cross red lines there in Gaza so the northern fund remains to be volatile as it has been volatile since the beginning of the war you can see also police forces patrolling in those localities close to the border we also do hear the constant sounds of Israeli possibly surveillance drones here in the area. Correspondent Pia Stechelbach giving us an update on the northern front thank you very much for that and still with me here in studio as I'll see it it's a guy Israel guy the warnings that are coming out of not just the United States but most of Israel's Western partners as well are the same narrative we support Israel's right to defend itself but make sure that you are hitting Hamas terror targets in the Gaza Strip civilians however I would like to bring to the attention of the audience and ask you if I may the hostages that were kidnapped and as we kept saying in terms of the rhetoric that many Palestinian civilians in Gaza joined in on the party on October 7th but also coming into Israel through the broken fences and barriers that also ended up taking part in the rampage and kidnapping and mind you some of those kidnapped appear to be in civilian hands in the Gaza Strip so how does one identify between a person that engages in terror activities versus an actual terrorist because there could be some blurry lines here with that as well look we certainly saw in the visuals from that onslaught on October 7th many civilians who joined the fighting once the fences were open were broken up dozens hundreds and thousands of terrorists infiltrated into Israel both taking part in the burning and torching of homes but also in the killing and kidnapping of Israeli civilians as far as the IDF it is searching for the Israeli kidnapped wherever they may be obviously it is much more difficult in terms of the intelligence once these Israelis are just held in someone's home rather than in a group inside a tunnel of Hamas that is part of the ongoing effort of the IDF right now and this is what the IDF spokesperson Daniel Higari was alluding to saying that the ground operation right now that we're seeing is serving that goal of reaching all those Israelis who were kidnapped and killed and we're seeing more and more names of Israelis who have been identified over the past several hours we can assume that some of them at least have been located inside Gaza territory I do have another update separate update for you right now we are getting initial reports about possible terror attack in Jerusalem in the center of the city next to the rail we're getting reports of gunfire in that area there's some reports of stabbing near that train station that light rail station anyone who's been to Jerusalem knows how central their light rail is throughout the city center and not just central but busy absolutely and as we speak about empty streets in southern Israel northern Israel even here in Tel Aviv Jerusalem for the most part has been spared from the rocket fire allowing some more normalcy in the Israeli capital but of course Jerusalem has been a hub of terror targets in the recent months and years of course always is a sensitive spot always a danger there as well obviously with its close proximity to the West Bank with East Jerusalem that sometimes emanate from East Jerusalem with an Israeli ID making it very difficult very easy for them rather to get into Israeli territory we're seeing reports of at least one terrorist who was neutralized there no word yet on any injuries or fatalities in this event but just goes to emphasize the highly volatile situation in which Israel is engaged in a fight in a war with Hamas in Gaza while maintaining so many other fronts including the northern front with Lebanon rocket fire out of Syria and the West Bank and Jerusalem the Israeli security forces are trying to be very vigilant about any possible outburst of terror from that front as obviously the forces want to keep their focus on what's happening in Gaza right now and that threat always exists the public and the police need to stay vigilant for now it seems like this specific attack has been thwarted we'll be getting more information in the coming minutes and we'll update you on what we hear from there from Jerusalem let's go now to our Senior Defense Correspondent Jonathan Regev who's standing by for us in southern Israel Jonathan in the last couple of hours reports coming out of Israeli tanks entering into the Gaza Strip in fact into a Gaza city that is key in the battleground at the moment what more do we know about this yes we're speaking of a major road in Gaza it was known as Tantia Road back when Israel controlled the Gaza Strip before 2005 and it shows the incursion depth inside this is not some small small incursion as perhaps seen in previous times this road roughly three kilometers from the border itself and on the eastern and southern outskirts of Gaza City meaning Israeli forces are getting deeper and deeper into the Gaza Strip as part of the Israeli operation basically to increase the pressure on Gaza this time not only from the air and Jonathan there's been rocket alert sirens all throughout the morning blaring where you are normally as we've spoken about there's an 11 or 12 hour low overnight but that wasn't the case this time around as rocket alert sirens sounding overnight not just in the south of Israel but in the north as well yes true we've seen we've seen quite a lot of reports especially down here in the south and 9am which is usually a earlier than what we usually see there's a heavy barrage towards the city of Nativot a little bit to the east of us and yes the scene has been active Hamas proving that it still has the ability to fire rockets and we'll probably see them trying also to fire them further away maybe to central Israel later on to prove that the ability is still there our Senior Defence Correspondent Jonathan Regev giving us an update from the south thank you so much for that I do want to bring to the attention to the audience an update that we are getting about the family of German Israeli Shani look they have given an update saying that their 22 year old daughter who was believed to have been abducted to the Gaza Strip during Hamas's October 7th onslaught is now being confirmed dead I'll remind the viewers that the video in which Shani appears in is the one in which it showed a half naked woman lying seemingly unconscious faced down in the back of a pickup truck where she was surrounded by Hamas terrorists and paraded through the streets she was taken by the terrorists after they attacked a rave party in the desert near the border with the Gaza Strip we've been talking about that famous desert rave party and although she has been declared dead her body has still not been returned from Gaza I want to go now to the central Israeli city of Rana on to a different topic where I am joined by dual Israeli British citizen Elliot Smuss Elliot you left for London with your wife and toddler was that to get away from the war was this a pre-planned trip hey buddy good morning no so we were actually traveling to London for the holidays the Jewish holidays of Sukkot we were supposed to return on the Tuesday after the holidays unfortunately obviously things broke out on the Sabbath and kept going so all flights were cancelled at that time so you've arrived back in Israel after seemingly being stuck in London and there's a major contemplation among many in Israel especially those with dual citizenship of whether they should stay or go what is your take on this from your own personal experience having been there and now coming back to Israel I think it's a really difficult question obviously every person every family needs to make decisions based on their own situation for us we were definitely I think contemplating it from day one do we stay do we go the general agreement was that if we were here in Israel we wouldn't have left but now that we're here do we put ourselves back into what is very well dangerous situation in the end we weighed up the pros and cons and we decided there's a saying in Hebrew say I have no other country even if my land is burning there were definitely you know worries about coming back putting ourselves into a situation we have a eight month old baby boy did we want to kind of bring him back into that I think one of the biggest things that helped us to realize that as well as that being in London in quote-unquote safe areas it wasn't as safe as one would expect or assume right and given the fact that there's been a massive uptick in anti-Semitic and also anti-Zionist sentiment not just in London but throughout Europe and the world I hope you don't mind me asking you a personal question you mentioned you have an eight month old do you not worry about the mental or even physical effects that this may have on your child Israelis have become used to this way of life unfortunately but children should not have to know what a bomb shelter or a safe room is nor what to do when a rocket is coming toward you or the infiltration of armed terrorists in the form here is still even too early to properly tell its effects yeah there's no shadow of doubt that that is the case that is definitely one of the things that we spoke about my wife and I before we made the decision to return to Israel as soon as we could what it came down to is that whilst yes there are rockets there are terrorists it's horrific the news the images the videos that were coming out of which obviously made its way to London but there's also a similar ideology in London right being in a situation where in the Jewish areas there's a palpable level of stress and anxiety with regards to what's going on every Saturday there's protests in Central London with hundreds of thousands of pro-Palestinians partaking in this where every single week there are threats being put out where they're going to drive through Golders Green which is the area that my family lives where we were staying on a weekly base and this has happened before in the last conflict there was a motorcade that drove through the Jewish areas screaming horrific obscenities at anyone and everyone going past when weighing up the pros and cons of those two things at least here in Israel I'm very thankful we have a bombshell to here I'm thankful for the IDF for the Israeli police force whereby for the most part they are there to protect its citizens in the UK we have a lot of support from the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak which is greatly appreciated as well as from the opposition leader in the Labour Party however the police are not armed you can have a police presence you can have a security presence and there was outside every synagogue every street corner pretty much throughout the Sabbath and most evenings but when you have that conversation where my 17 year old sister is being asked not to walk on her own down the main road because there's a potential for an issue those pros and cons start becoming I want to be home I want to be safe and I want to be in Israel and Elliot if I may people obviously still struggling all across the board not just dual citizens but Israelis themselves as to whether they should leave at least temporarily to go somewhere you know outside of the war it's a very personal decision but if you could speak from your experience what advice would you give to people that are grappling with such a challenging decision to make at the moment I think that from a psychological perspective the strain is going to be different but the strain is still there I can only speak for myself my parents home in London which is very comfortable and we're very thankful for that but the strain of not being here the amount of guilt that comes in about not being able to support not being able to help again everyone needs to make their own decision and to this day Monday the 30th of October 24 days after the war broke out I still have no idea if we made the right decision only time will tell and hindsight is when to absolutely well we so appreciate you being back in Israel to be able to speak with us and also just make sure that your family stay safe eliot smas Israeli British citizen thank you so very much for joining me here this morning thank you and as we enter the fourth week of war here in Israel we continue to analyze the situation on the ground currently and predict and debate what is likely to come next it's important that we keep how all this started on the very four public consciousness some 2,500 Hamas terrorists stormed from Gaza into southern Israel rampaging through communities and abusing and killing some 1,400 people that's all likely to go up most of them civilians they also abducted hundreds one of the communities hardest hit was Kibbutz near Oz in one such horrific kidnapping story Reynanna Goma Yaakov's two sons Orr and Yagil who were alone at home to raise awareness of their fate she asked for the help of an animator Yoni Goodman who worked on the famous docu-drama animated film Waltz with Bashir again this next report does not show graphic or explicit images but is emotional to watch Saturday morning October 7th at 6.30 in the morning the red alert went off and a barrage of missiles fell on our house in Kibbutz near Oz my sons 12 and 16 were alone in my house sleeping they got into the safe room they called me scared to death they said they hear someone breaking into our home over the phone I heard voices speaking in Arabic even though my son was trying hard to hold it closed the door to the safe room was pushed open last I heard was my youngest saying don't take me I'm too young 70 people were kidnapped from their home in Eroz I think of them alone in a pit or a dark tunnel with no sense of time I hope that they are together keeping each other strong and that they are with other children who were also kidnapped until I see them again waiting to hug them again soon in the latest news one has been seriously injured in a stabbing on a Jerusalem light rail still with me in studio to break this down as I'll see an editor guy as a real guy medics were responding to a stabbing attack near the Shifte Israel light rail station in Jerusalem essential and busy area what do we know about both the victim the suspect and the incident in general right so confirmation coming from the police just a short while ago that a police officer was the victim of this stabbing attack according to Mada emergency services he is in a serious stable condition initial reporting said the incident actually took place in two different arenas the police forces nearby have managed to identify the terrorist the stabber and have managed to shoot him he's neutralized no confirmation yet on his condition this is happening just north of the old city of Jerusalem near Nablus Road or as Israelis know it very close to the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah an area that has seen so many attacks in recent months and years where both Israelis and East Jerusalem Palestinians are are walking around this is a contentious area in that sense he is being evacuated to a hospital that placement in a stable but serious condition just emphasizes again the highly volatile situation as Israelis engage in this war against Hamas in Gaza how other fronts like the north and like the West Bank and Jerusalem are still very active the Israeli police is on very high alert ahead of possible disturbances about ahead of more terror attacks and unfortunately in this case a police officer is seriously wounded as we were speaking about earlier Jerusalem has been largely spared from a lot of the rocket alerts obviously having that one major one being on October 7th when rocket alert sirens were blaring throughout the country as a cover for the infiltrations that occurred in the south but Jerusalem as you mentioned is still a flash point it is still a volatile area and obviously no doubt there are resources security personnel and can the Israeli military afford right now to deal with a war on three fronts because the majority of the finding that we've been talking about has been on the southern and the northern front and now we have the complexities of the eastern area sort of ramping up as well look obviously Jerusalem is a mixed city that houses many Palestinians and Jews and obviously in that sense always a risk for an escalation because these two populations are together but beyond that when you mentioned that Jerusalem has not been a hub of these rocket fire the result is that there is more life in Jerusalem and I think it's important to emphasize to our viewers that it's not only the southern communities next to the Gaza Strip that are literally abandoned the Kibbutz and Zidraud but also a city like Ashkelon but even here in Tel Aviv one of the most busy and lively cities around the world is now literally a ghost town restaurants are closed bars are closed people are afraid to go out to the streets educational system is also shut down so parents have to stay with their families the ramifications of this Hamas onslaught of this slaughter of Israeli civilians and the war that they have waged on Israel is having major effects on millions of Israeli civilians not just on the border communities and of course not just in the north as for the IDF well in regular days that is a very difficult task to deal with so many different fronts but what has happened since that onslaught is a wide reservists draft we've seen hundreds of thousands of reservists that enable now the IDF and the Israeli police the border police to deal with all these fronts in that sense while Israel is so stretched out the turnout of reservists is assisting greatly to the possibility of being there on the ground what would not be so easy in regular times. We are seeing rocket alert sirens in the guards of border communities but also as far up that coastline as Ashkelon and Ashdaud as you pointed out as well and guys obviously some of the areas that are not being looked at right now because they take a back seat is also like the economy for example just this morning major economic major economists rather are urging the government to cut spending in certain areas and as you mentioned Tel Aviv a vibrant city is also taking a knock at this from the economic perspective how can the government sort of I mean it just seems to me impossible to really steer the economy right now in pressing issues. Look Israel is a strong economy one of the strongest economies in the world and that is a great benefit as Israel enters this wide war with Hamas and possibly other arenas as well with the security officials the prime minister warning that we're heading to a long operation to a long war with Hamas fearing a much greater escalation and therefore the Israeli economy the Israeli public is suffering not just the security cost but certainly the economy as well brings us back to the days of the coronavirus of course where the government had to compensate so many businesses nowadays the government is providing more incentives for the small businesses to maintain their viability allowing more compensations and it's going to be a long way to go Asing a editor guy Israel thank you very much for those updates and joining me here in studio and as we end this current broadcast rocket and load sirens are still blaring in Gaza border communities with those rockets being shot by Hamas and other terror factions in the Gaza strip into Israeli southern communities stay with us we'll have more updates at the top of the hour we bring you firsthand testimonies from the front lines from those who survived and all the records of the atrocities by Hamas follow us as Israel fights terror from the south and north get the inside scoop on what's going on only on i24 news another breaking news edition I'm batch 11th all coming to you live from Tel Aviv thanks for joining me it is day 24 of war here in Israel rocket alert sirens have been going off in the Gaza border communities as well as cities in the south of Israel this Monday morning overnight rocket alert sirens will also heard throughout Israel's northern communities as the IDF ramped up its attacks on Hamas targets in the Gaza strip Israeli fighter jets also struck a number of sites in southern Syria in response to rocket fire on the Golan Heights late Sunday evening in the west bank in exchange of fire broke out between the Israeli military and Palestinians in the Janine refugee camp in the areas north Palestinian sources have reported at least four killed during that exchange including one Palestinian terror leader meanwhile missiles fired from Yemen toward the red sea Israeli city of a lot were intercepted as a US Marine rapid response force is now said to be moving toward the eastern Mediterranean sea and concerns over the war broadening international conflict all this is Israel still continues to count it's dead thus far 823 civilian victims have been identified out of the currently 1400 that number expected to rise that's about 85% many burnt and abused so badly that identifying them has become near impossible let's go now to our correspondent Pierre Stechelbach who is standing by for us in northern Israel for an entire year there has been rocket sirens going off in the south of the country but the north of the country also experienced that overnight what is the situation like late into this morning right but your last evening last night barrages of rockets were fired into northern Israel in different areas there from southern Lebanon and Syria the Israeli air force has been striking back towards the origin of these targets the Hezbollah group saying that in the morning of the war Palestinian Islamic Jihad also announcing the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Lebanon they're saying that two more of its fighters were killed by the Israeli army last night and I want to bring to your attention that we've been seeing here smoke behind me it seems to be in Lebanese territory what we're seeing is towards the location of Ayatashab a location that has been targeted also or in this war this comes after last night 10 rockets now the Hamas wing in Lebanon claiming responsibility for those rockets saying it launched 16 rockets and also surface to air missile targeting in Israeli aircraft and that is really a significant increase and possibly the largest barrage of rockets we have seen from southern Lebanon so far and really the northern front remains to be tense in the shelling of Hezbollah and the Israeli military continues also it has continued throughout the night yesterday evening also at the moment the alert sounded in Kiryat Shmona at least six rockets were launched there one of those rockets directly impacting a house there setting that house on fire Kiryat Shmona area that had been evacuated casualties were reported there city that is few kilometers away from the border not part of the confrontation line alongside the border has been targeted by rockets there so we do see that the range of those rockets is very large and the drone was intercepted above the city of Aker so you do see that more and more localities are added to the locations of those skirmishes between Israel and Hezbollah and Palestinian factions there in southern Lebanon now Hassan Asrallah the leader of Hezbollah announcing that he will give a speech the first speech since the beginning of the war this Friday afternoon announcing that now keeping the tensions high as Hezbollah and their actions depended on the Israeli procedure in Gaza there the decision whether to escalate that fund or not would depend on whether Israel continues to cross red lines there in Gaza so the northern fund remains to be volatile as it has been volatile since the beginning of the war you can see also police forces patrolling in those localities close to the border we also do hear the constant sounds of Israeli possibly surveillance drones here in the northern front and update on the northern front thank you very much for that and still with me here in studio is I'll see you editor guy Israel guy the warnings that are coming out of not just the United States but most of Israel's western partners as well are the same narrative we support Israel's right to defend itself but make sure that you are hitting Hamas terror targets in the Gaza Strip and not civilians however I would like to point out the attention of the audience and ask you if I may the hostages that were kidnapped and as we kept saying in terms of the rhetoric that many Palestinian civilians in Gaza joined in on the party on October 7th but also coming into Israel through the broken fences and barriers that also ended up taking part in the rampage and kidnapping and mind you some of those kidnapped appear to be in civilian hands in the Gaza Strip so it engages in terror activities versus an actual terrorist because there could be some blurry lines here with that as well look we certainly saw in the visuals on from that onslaught on October 7th many civilians who joined the fighting once the fences were open were broken up dozens hundreds and thousands of terrorists infiltrated into Israel both taking part in the burning and torching of homes but also in the killing and kidnapping of Israeli civilians as far as the IDF it is searching for the Israeli kidnapped wherever they may be obviously it is much more difficult in terms of the intelligence once these Israelis are just held in someone's home rather than in a group inside a tunnel of Hamas that is part of the ongoing effort of the IDF right now and this is what the IDF spokesperson Daniel Higari was alluding to saying that the ground operation right now that we're seeing is serving that goal of reaching all those Israelis who were kidnapped and killed and we're seeing more and more names of Israelis who have been identified over the past several hours we can assume that some of them at least have been located inside Gaza territory I do have another update separate update for you right now we are getting initial reports about a possible terror attack in Jerusalem in the center of the city next to the rail we're getting reports of gunfire in that area there's some reports of stabbing near that train station that light rail station anyone who's been to Jerusalem knows how central their light rail is throughout the city center and not just central but busy absolutely and as we speak about empty streets in southern Israel northern Israel even here in Tel Aviv Jerusalem for the most part has been sparked from the rocket fire allowing some more normalcy in the Israeli capital but of course Jerusalem has been a hub of terror targets in the recent months and years of course always is a sensitive spot always a danger there as well obviously with its close proximity to the West Bank with East Jerusalem terrorists that sometimes eliminate from East Jerusalem with an Israeli idea making it very difficult very easy for them rather to get into Israeli territory we're seeing reports of at least one terrorist who was neutralized there no word yet on any injuries or fatalities in this event but just goes to emphasize the highly volatile situation in which Israel is engaged in a fight in a war with Hamas in Gaza while maintaining so many other fronts including the northern front with Lebanon, rocket fire out of Syria and the West Bank and Jerusalem the Israeli security forces are trying to be very vigilant about any possible outburst of terror from that front as obviously the forces want to keep their focus on what's happening in Gaza right now and that threat always exists the public and the police need to stay vigilant for now it seems like this specific attack has been thwarted we'll be getting more information in the coming minutes and we'll update you on what we hear from there from Jerusalem. Let's go now to our senior defense correspondent Jonathan Regev who's standing by for us in southern Israel Jonathan in the last couple of hours reports coming out of Israeli tanks entering into the Gaza Strip in fact into a Gaza city that is key in the battleground at the moment what more do we know about this? Yes, we're speaking of a major road in Gaza it was known as Tantia Road back when Israel controlled the Gaza Strip before 2005 and chose the incursion depth inside this is not some small small incursion as perhaps seen in previous times this road roughly three kilometers from the border itself and on the eastern and southern outskirts of Gaza City meaning Israeli forces are getting deeper and deeper into the Gaza Strip as part of the Israeli operation basically to increase the pressure on Gaza this time not only from the air. And Jonathan there's been rocket alert sirens all throughout the morning blaring where you are normally as we've spoken about there's an 11 or 12 hour lull overnight but that wasn't the case this time round rocket alert sirens sounding overnight not just in the south of Israel but in the north as well. Yes true we've seen quite a lot of reports especially down here in the south and 9 a.m. which is usually earlier than what we usually see there's a heavy barrage towards the city of Nativot a little bit to the east of us and yes the scene has been active Hamas proving that it still has the ability to fire rockets and we'll probably see them trying also to fire them further away maybe to central Israel later on to prove that the ability is still there. Our Senior Defence Correspondent Jonathan Regev giving us an update from the south thank you so much for that. I do want to bring to the attention to the audience an update that we are getting about the family of German-Israeli Shanee Locke they have given an update saying that their 22 year old is believed to have been abducted to the Gaza Strip during Hamas's October 7th onslaught is now being confirmed dead I'll remind the viewers that the video in which Shanee appears in is the one in which it showed a half-naked woman lying seemingly unconscious faced down in the back of a pickup truck where she was surrounded by Hamas terrorists and paraded through the streets she was taken by the terrorists after they attacked a rave party in the desert border with the Gaza Strip we've been talking about that famous desert rave party and although she has been declared dead her body has still not been returned from Gaza I want to go now to the Central Israeli city of Rana on to a different topic where I am joined by dual Israeli British citizen Elliot Smuss Elliot you left for London with your wife and toddler was that to get away from the war was this a pre-planned trip hey buddy good morning no so we were actually traveling to London for the holidays the Jewish holidays of Sukkot we were supposed to return on the Tuesday after the holidays unfortunately obviously things broke out on the Sabbath and kept going so all flights were cancelled at that time so you've arrived back in Israel after seemingly being stuck in London and there's a major contemplation among many in Israel especially those with dual citizenship of whether they should stay or go what is your take on this from your own personal experience having been there and now coming back to Israel I think it's a really difficult question obviously every person every family needs to make decisions based on you know their own situation for us we were definitely contemplating it from day one do we stay do we go the general agreement was that if we were here in Israel we wouldn't have left but now that we're here do we put ourselves back into what is very well dangerous situation in the end we weighed up the pros and cons and we decided you know there's a saying of in Hebrew we say I have no other country even if my land is burning there were definitely you know worries about coming back putting ourselves into a situation we have an eight month old baby boy did we want to kind of bring him back into that I think one of the biggest things that helped us to realize that as well is that being in London in quote unquote safe areas it wasn't as safe as one would expect or assume right and given the fact that there's been a massive uptick in the Semitic and also anti-Zionist sentiment not just in London but throughout Europe and the world I hope you remind me asking you a personal question you mentioned you have an eight month old do you not worry about the mental even physical effects that this may have on your child Israelis have become used to this way of life unfortunately but children should not have to know what a bomb shelter or a safe room is nor what to do when a rocket is coming toward you or the infiltration of armed terrorists the psychological trauma here is still even too early to properly tell its effects yeah there's no shadow of doubt that that is the case that is definitely one of the things that we spoke about my wife and I before we made the decision to return to Israel as soon as we could what it came down to is that whilst yes there are rockets there are terrorists it's horrific the news the images the videos that were coming out of Israel obviously made it's way to London but there's also a similar ideology in London right being in a situation where in the Jewish areas there's a palpable level of stress and anxiety with regards to what's going on every Saturday there's protests in central London with hundreds of thousands of pro-Palestinians partaking in this where every single week there are threats being put out to drive through Goldersgreen which is the area that my family lives where we were staying on a weekly basis and this has happened before in the last conflict there was a motorcade that drove through the Jewish areas screaming horrific obscenities at anyone and everyone going past when weighing up the pros and cons of those two things at least here in Israel I'm very thankful we have a bombshell to hit I'm thankful for the IDF for the Israeli police force whereby for the most part they are there to protect its citizens in the UK we have a lot of support from the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak which is greatly appreciated as well as from the opposition leader in the Labour Party however the police are not armed you can have a police presence you can have a security presence and there was outside every synagogue every street corner throughout the Sabbath and most evenings but when you have that conversation where my 17 year old sister is being asked not to walk on her own down the main road because there is a potential for an issue those pros and cons start becoming I want to be home I want to be safe and I want to be in Israel and Elliot if I may people obviously still struggling all across the board not just dual citizens but Israelis themselves but they should leave at least temporarily to go somewhere outside of the war it's a very personal decision but if you could speak from your experience what advice would you give to people that are grappling with such a challenging decision to make at the moment I think that from a psychological perspective the strain is going to be different but the strain is still there I can only speak for myself we were in my parents' home in London which is very comfortable very thankful for that but the strain of not being here the amount of guilt that comes in about not being here not being able to support not being able to help again everyone needs to make their own decision and to this day Monday the 30th of October 24 days after the war broke out I still have no idea if we made the right decision only time will tell absolutely we so appreciate you A being back in Israel to be able to speak with us and also just make sure that your family stay safe, Eliyitz, Mass Israeli British citizen thank you so very much for joining me this morning as we enter the fourth week of war here in Israel we continue to analyse the situation on the ground currently and predict and debate what is likely to come next it's important that we keep how all this started on the very four public consciousness on October 7th some 500 Hamas terrorist storm from Gaza into southern Israel rampaging through communities and abusing and killing some 1400 people that's all likely to go up most of them civilians they also abducted hundreds one of the communities hardest hit was Kibbutz near Oz in one such horrific kidnapping story Reynanna Goma Jakov's two sons Orr and Yagil who were alone at home to raise awareness of their fate she asked for the help of an animator Amy Goodman who worked on the famous docu-drama animated film Waltz with Bashir again this next report does not show graphic or explicit images but is emotional to watch On Saturday morning October 7th at 6.30 in the morning the red alert went off and a barrage of missiles fell on our house in Kibbutz near Oz my sons 12 and 16 were alone in my house sleeping they got into the safe room they called me scared to death they said they hear someone breaking into our home over the phone I heard voices speaking in Arabic even though my son was trying hard to hold it closed the door to the safe room was pushed open last I heard was my youngest saying don't take me I'm too young 70 people were kidnapped in our home near Oz I think of them alone in a pit or a dark tunnel with no sense of time I hope that they are together keeping each other strong and that they are with other children who were also kidnapped until I see them again waiting to hug them again soon in the latest news one has been seriously injured in a stabbing on a Jerusalem light rail in the studio to break this down as I'll see an editor guy as a real guy medics were responding to a stabbing attack near the Shifte Israel light rail station in Jerusalem, essential and busy area what do we know about both the victim the suspect and the incident in general right so confirmation coming from the police just a short while ago that police officer was the victim of this stabbing attack according to Mada emergency services he is in a serious condition, initial reporting said the incident actually took place in two different arenas the police forces nearby have managed to identify the terrorist, the stabber and have managed to shoot him he is neutralized no confirmation yet on his condition this is happening just north of the old city of Jerusalem near Nablus Road as Israelis know it very close to the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah an area that has seen so many attacks in recent months and years where both Israelis and East Jerusalem Palestinians are walking around this is a contentious area in that sense he is being evacuated to a hospital that policemen in a stable but serious condition just emphasizes again the highly volatile situation as Israelis engage in this war against Hamas in Gaza how other fronts like the north and like the West Bank and Jerusalem are still very active the Israeli police is on very high alert ahead of possible disturbances ahead of more terror attacks and unfortunately in this case a police officer is seriously wounded as we were speaking about earlier Jerusalem has been largely spared from a lot of the rocket alerts obviously having that one major one being on October 7th when rocket alert sirens were blaring throughout the country as a cover for the infiltrations that occurred in the south but Jerusalem as you mentioned is still a flash point it is still a volatile area and obviously no doubt there are resources security personnel in the area of both Jerusalem and the West Bank monitoring the situation can the Israeli military afford right now to deal with a war on three fronts because the majority of the finding that we've been talking about has been on the southern and the northern front and now we have the complexities of the eastern area sort of ramping up as well look obviously Jerusalem is a mixed city that houses many Palestinians and Jews and obviously in that sense always a risk for an escalation because these two populations are together but beyond that when you mentioned that Jerusalem has not been a hub of these rocket fire the result is that there is more life in Jerusalem and I think it's important to emphasize to our viewers that it's not only the southern communities next to the Gaza Strip that are literally abandoned the Kibbutzes and Sderot but also a city like Ashkelon but even here in Tel Aviv one of the most busy and lively cities around the world is now literally a ghost town restaurants are closed, bars are closed people are afraid to go out to the streets, educational system is also shut down so parents have to stay with their families the ramifications of this Hamas onslaught of this slaughter of Israeli civilians and the war that as they have waged on Israel is having major effects on millions of Israeli civilians not just on the border communities and of course not just in the north as for the IDF well in regular days that is a very difficult task to deal with so many different fronts but what has happened since that onslaught is a wide reservists draft we've seen hundreds of thousands of reservists that enable now the IDF and the Israeli police the border police to deal with all these fronts so in that sense while Israel is so stretched out the turnout of reservists is assisting greatly to the possibility of being there on the ground what would not be so easy in regular times we are seeing rocket alert sirens in the Gaza border communities but also as far up that coastline as Ashkelon and Ashdod as you pointed out as well obviously some of the areas that are not being looked at right now because they take a back seat is also like the economy for example just this morning major economic major economists rather are urging the government to cut spending in certain areas and as you mentioned Tel Aviv a vibrant city is also taking a knock at this from the economic perspective how can the government