 In news edition, I'm Benita Levine. Israel is intensifying its efforts to eliminate the Hamas threat from the Gaza Strip just over two months since the brutal terror rampage in southern Israel on the 7th of October. Nearly nine weeks later, these are the images of scores of Hamas operatives who surrendered to the IDF. The US is meanwhile saying it has not imposed a hard deadline on Israel to end its operation in Gaza, with a security adviser saying Hamas would continue to pose a threat to Israel if the war stopped today. The names of two more reservists killed in fighting have today been released, bringing the Israeli death toll in the ground operation to 90. They are 28-year-old Master Sergeant in the Reserves, Iyal Meir Berkevitz from Jerusalem, and 41-year-old Sergeant Major in the Reserves, Korbid Vash from Tiberius. Overnight, confirmation that 25-year-old Master Sergeant in the Reserves, Gal Meir Eisenkott, was killed in fighting in northern Gaza. He is the son of former IDF Chief of Staff, Gaddy Eisenkott, who is now an observer in the war cabinet. He received the news of his son's death while touring the southern command with war cabinet member Benny Gantz. At the moment, 138 hostages remain in Hamas captivity in Gaza, including babies and the elderly. The Red Cross has not yet seen any of the hostages. President Joe Biden reiterating the need for the Red Cross to be permitted to visit them, Hamas has so far not allowed that access. The US leader and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have spoken again. There's 16th call since the war started. The President agreeing that the recent truce fell apart because Hamas refused to release young women and civilian hostages. Here's the latest from National Security spokesperson John Kirby. Let's take a listen. We're not close to inking another deal on humanitarian pause and nor do I have any news to break here today about the return of hostages, either ours or those of many other countries that are being held hostage. We're still trying to get as much information as we can about the hostages that are being held. We have some information, as I said before, on some of the hostages because their families are talking to us and that's been a terrific source of information and context. Let's go live now to our correspondent, Ariel Levin-Waldman. He joins us from Southern Israel again. And Ariel, we saw plumes of smoke behind you the last hour when we last spoke. What is the latest say now? What can you tell us? I'll take a quick look behind me because those plumes of smoke are still there. In fact, that big one you see just on the left side has been burning quite merrily for at least two hours now, which means they hit something big. A lot of fuel there, a lot of secondary materials to burn, likely a warehouse of some sort because we don't usually see anything burn for quite that long. Now, the military operation in the north is nowhere near done yet. There's a lot of heavy fighting in the north, particularly around the Jabalaya refugee camp. That's not really a refugee camp in the traditional sense of the term. It's a fortified neighborhood with a warren of tunnels underneath it. That is a Hamas stronghold. Soldiers that have been fighting in that area have told local media that it is a warren of weaponized areas. Every single building, every single house, every single apartment they are finding Kalashnikovs. They are finding IEDs. They are finding RPGs, all matter of weapons, all matter of ambush points. And that means a need for heavy air power. Now that's puted out a little bit over the last hour or so. But originally earlier this morning, we were hearing strikes going off every few seconds, sometimes even faster as they attempted to level those ambush positions with air power that I have not seen in this war myself so far, like it was this morning. That said, there is still heavier fighters still in the south of Gaza. Remember, that's the battle for Khan Yunus, the IDF having to break at least four Hamas brigades that are in that area, plus however many Hamas terrorists managed to evacuate from the north and move their way and regroup to the south during the ceasefire. A lot of heavy fighting there that has to be done because Khan Yunus is one of the last primary Hamas strongholds left in Gaza. Once that's secured, they can start the operation of dismantling the terror infrastructure. Thank you so much, correspondent Ariel Levin Waldman, live from southern Israel. More to come from Ariel in the coming hours. Thank you. And now for more, we welcome to studio retired police commander, Merav Lapidot, the former spokesperson in the Israel Police and the CEO of Lapidot Communications and Strategy. Thank you so much for being here. More than two months now into this war, we are seeing the plumes of smoke. We know the activity that is underway right now inside the Gaza Strip. And yet the whole nation is waiting to find out about the fate of the 138 hostages still somewhere there in the Gaza Strip. Your take on what is unfolding right now. I think that the army and the state of Israel is doing everything they can to find them and bring them back home. Unfortunately, the truth collapsed and there is no any hope in the near future. We don't hear maybe there is and we don't know about it. But we don't hear about any other negotiations or any other contacts with the Qatar, Egypt, US Hamas in order to release more hostages. And by the time the time goes by and we are very worried. We think about them, you know, in the tunnels, no food. We know from the hostages who came back that they starved over there. They just lived over so tiny pita in a day. So we know that they're starving. And even if you can survive one or two months without proper food, what's going to be on the third month that they're over there? And the winter is here and no proper clothes, no medicine, no medical treatment, we're very worried about their lives. And we know that this is the the money time to bring them back because otherwise we will not bring them back alive. So I urge everybody who hears that and can do anything to help us bring them back and the Red Cross to pressure the Hamas to go and see them to see who is alive and who is dead and whatever they need. It's unbelievable that the Red Cross after 62 days didn't meet one of them and they couldn't reach them because in other places around the world, they do everything they can. I never heard about any other hostages all around the world that 62 days and no meeting with the Red Cross. So I believe the Red Cross could do more, definitely. We've had doctors and health professionals speaking to us here in studio saying that the files, the medical files of the hostages have been given to the Red Cross. They can take this information if they're given the access and at least find out how a baby in captivity is doing, how the elderly who are there, as you say, it's getting colder now. It's two months in captivity, it's unimaginable. What do you make of the reports that we're hearing the emerging details from the hostages who've been freed, the conditions under which they were held for the last two months? What is your sense of what is unfolding? As you said, even though the Red Cross didn't have direct access, they could have at least give them the medicine that they need, the elderly needs their medicine. We saw Elma Overham and other elderly women who came back, which they had very bad medical condition and they're hospitalized up until now, two weeks after they came back. So we know that the situation there is very, very bad. So at least we expect the Red Cross to give them the medicine, even if they don't let them get direct access and talk to the hostages, at least give them the medicine, give them the medical treatment throughout the Hamas operative. But still, they don't do that. We heard from the children who came back that they needed to be quiet all day. Some of them were in tunnels for 50 days without even having a shower for 50 days. Anyone who hears us around the world, just imagine you, your son, your mother, your family, 50 days without a shower, this only detail, besides the other, and imagine how bad it is there and how crucial it is that they will bring them now, just now, not tomorrow, not in the next week. We are celebrating Hanukkah. And this is the holiday of light. And miracles. And miracles. And we all hope for a miracle to bring the light in Israel and to bring the light, literally light, to those who are being held in tunnels and let them go back all around the world. We are hearing about people who are crying for freedom for the Palestinians. But they are in freedom in Gaza Strip. The army withdrew from Gaza Strip in 2005. There is no fight of freedom. It's just a fight to eliminate the state of Israel. It's genocide. What they did on October 7th, it's genocide to the Jewish people. And it's very sad that some people around the world doesn't understand that this is a massacre. It's not a freedom fight. It's not a war between two countries. It's between terrorists who wants to just kill, rape, and slaughter women, children, men, everybody. So please support us. Be with us. And do whatever you can to address this. Certainly is exactly the reason that we keep on hearing the IDF saying that its goal is to eliminate the Hamas threat and to make sure that all the hostages come home and they come home safely. And another thing that Benjamin Netanyahu has been saying is a clear message for Hezbollah up north. It's exactly two months into the war when he made this message. And he said that Israel will work to eliminate Hamas in the Gaza Strip. He has more from the prime minister about what he needs to say about what's developing in the northern part of the region. If Hezbollah decides to start an all-out war, they will turn with their own hands, Beirut and southern Lebanon, which is not located very far from here, into Gaza and Ranyunis. We are determined to bring victory. So for the latest up north, let's go back to our senior correspondent, Owen Ultiman. He joins us again from northern Israel. So Benjamin Netanyahu isn't missing his words there. What is the latest up north, Owen? What can you share this hour? Well, over the last hour, Benita, the Israeli military confirming both that a group of terrorists had crossed into what Israel calls the Hardov area near where Israel, Lebanon, and Syria meet and was attacked by a drone manned from afar and the terrorists were neutralized. Also overnight, rocket fire across the border of the Israeli Golan and the Syrian Golan. And following that, the Israeli military confirming that it struck targets inside Syria, reports earlier on in the night said that those targets were in Damascus. So Benita Netanyahu is certainly right that there's no out and out full-on war here on the northern border, and hence that warning to Hezbollah about how Israel would respond should Hezbollah decide, even let's be honest, at this relatively late hour to escalate the situation. But on the other hand, obviously, day in, day out, there is rocket fire across the border. We had an Israeli civilian killed not by a rocket, but by an anti-tank missile shot at him. He's a farmer. And again, Benita, even those civilian populations along the border have largely been evacuated. Farmers, in some cases, need to be there to tend to the fields and to tend to the crops, to their livelihoods and to their businesses. And of course, an Israeli, a 60-year-old Israeli civilian tragically killed, also in a separate incident, two soldiers lightly wounded. So again, day in, day out, there is this steady drumbeat of military activity, including targeting of civilians from across the Lebanon border in IDF responses, tens of thousands of Israelis who have evacuated their communities just on the border. So again, Benita, a very difficult situation here in the north, even if it certainly isn't on the magnitude of the situation in the Gaza Strip and in the Israeli communities on the Gaza border. And Owen, over and above the worries about Hezbollah's next moves, more broadly speaking across the Middle East, there have been continuous attacks on U.S. forces in Syria and Iraq, talk us through the concerns, through the lens of the Pentagon, and steps to make sure that a regional conflict doesn't escalate right now. Well, Benita, a sense of escalation, by the way, over the course of the last day. Earlier on this morning, at four o'clock in the morning, local time in Baghdad, inside that green zone that we all remember so well from the start of the Iraq War, 20 years ago, rockets were fired, not at a U.S. military base, as has happened so often over the course of the war in parallel to the war, but near the U.S. embassy in Baghdad to the point where sirens went off and those who were there were told to duck and cover. So obviously a scary situation for those in that green zone and in or near that embassy. So targeting a diplomatic mission is obviously an escalation over targeting a military base. We haven't had any group claim responsibility, but of course previous attacks have been done by coalitions of Shiite militias in Iraq and in Syria. Look, the U.S. military has responded to these attacks, which have caused dozens of injuries, some of them potentially very, very serious. We haven't heard all of the details, by the way, from the U.S. Defense Department. So the U.S. is responding to them, but not necessarily Benita escalating. Similar, I think, to the situation between Israel and Hezbollah. There is a sense in the American side that the U.S. military needs to defend itself and needs to respond, but doesn't wanna lead to a regional escalation and instead the U.S. is in, as we all know, a deterrence posture, right? With those two aircraft carrier strike groups that were moved in the opening days of the war, still in the Eastern Mediterranean and obviously the U.S. military across the region on high alert. And of course, we've also seen the U.S. activity in part in helping to shoot down missiles fired from Yemen at Israel over the Red Sea. So we haven't seen the U.S. military be active there as well, both protecting the U.S. military and also, of course, helping to protect Israel. Live from Northern Israel, that's our senior diplomatic correspondent, Owen Ultiman. More to come from Owen in the coming hours. Thank you so much. And now we change gears slightly as we welcome Avi Hartov, psychotherapy and group facilitator in trauma and emergency from one family. And he joins us from Tel Aviv. Thank you so much for your time right now, nearly nine weeks into this war. The nation's still processing the details of the rampage on the 7th of October, the brutality, the depravity. What are you seeing through your work with the one family organization? What can you share? Yeah, so first of all, good morning and thank you for hosting me and the opportunity to meet you here. We're seeing a certain slowdown, certain slowdown of the stress level, the anxiety level and the danger, the subjective way of experiencing this dramatic complex and cumulative and community event. I've been working with women who have become widows recently this war and I've been working with parents who are newly bereaved parents. And there's a lot of chaos and a lot of our wellness as to how do we get going on with life now? Particularly the women who became widows have big question marks as to how to run life without the partner and facing things that haven't seen before like having to go to the bank, having to deal with paperwork, with insurance paperwork, with the wheels and raising their children alone and comforting them. At the same time, there's a very, very beginning of new questions, questions of values and the questions of how to be in this society in these times, how to be as a human being, how to be as a family, how to be as a collective. So tell us more about that. What exactly do you mean? What are these values that you're talking about, the way the nation is responding collectively to this trauma it's nine weeks in now? Yeah, so I wanna go back to the first week of the war where I facilitated a men's circle among reserve duty soldiers in the south of Hebron Mountain and their commander asked me to please use some time to remind everybody of their humanity. Now to remember our humanity is a very broad question and what does exactly mean, but the sensitivity with which this man approached me and said they're about to enter war zone and at the same time remind them of their humanity speaks a lot about the human fiber that we have were made of. And we've seen tremendous engagement of people of do good things, help out families who have been evacuated from their homes, help soldiers collect money, food, clothing, Hanukkah menorahs sending gifts, the circles of sharing and listening in the Tel Aviv Museum area and everywhere this seems to be a new call for the spirit, the spirit will win. It's behind the body, it's behind the war, it's behind the ammunition, it's behind the territory, there's something about the spirit of human beings which is being given a little bit more attention now. Am I answering your question? You certainly are, we're talking about humanity, we know that people are united as they face an existential threat, but that threat has no humanity. And right now the nation is holding its breath for the 138 hostages still in captivity, we've been talking about it here in studio, an imaginable situation, babies, the elderly nearly nine weeks being held by a terror organization, talk to us about what it means, the psychological trauma over and about the physical trauma, not only from the hostages that have come out, but also from their families, the waiting must be beyond unbearable. Correct, correct. So when we look at the word trauma has been used very easily these days, everybody uses the word trauma 17 times a day. And scholars and therapists as well are addressing trauma in two aspects mainly, the event itself and the subjective response to trauma. And I wanna focus on the subjective response because the event we already know, it's a continuous event. The subjective response is on a big spectrum of total helplessness to total engagement in saying yes to life. The emotional aspect is behind words, we have no precedent to what people are experiencing now. The families or families of those people who are still held hostages, we don't have any precedent to that. We have a minor scale comparing to this and it requires a lot of patience, a lot of endurance, a lot of facing life in a different angle and not give up. And what we see is people don't give up. The life spirit is so powerful that people keep asking, wanting, praying, demonstrating, writing letters, making phone calls, making demonstrations. There's something very strong about the inner sense that this can be different and it's gonna be different. And you made mention earlier to the support that people are wanting to give. We see volunteers across the country trying to help people who have been evacuated. And as you say, people who are bereaved right now, people who are in so much pain, talk to us about what it does for the psyche of the nation, nine weeks in to be focused on helping, to be focused on rebuilding. Good, so one aspect of what we're experiencing now is collective trauma. Collective trauma puts a rift in trust, puts a break of trust. And it's a trust in oneself, the trust in our relationships, the trust in the government, the trust in the military leadership. What we've seen is an immediate rebuilding of trust in all the actions of generosity, compassion, the engagement that we see world nationwide, everywhere. There's hotlines everywhere. There's centers of collecting, clothing and food, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. It is a very active way of reestablishing and rehabilitating trust. And as the days go by and we are engaged with each other in a new way that we haven't seen in a long time in Israel, this trust that they've been broken on October 7th is healing, is rehabilitating, is being reconstructed in a new way, in a new form, a new fashion. And what a lot of people say is, let's hope that this remains after the war is over. And that's my prayer, that what we see now in the way that the collective Israeli society is gathering together around this war will remain alive after the war is over. And there is the hope that after this collective trauma that you are describing, there will be this collective recovery and collective healing. Thank you very much. It's a pleasure to have such a pleasure to hear your insights. Thank you very much for speaking to us live from Tel Aviv. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. May Rav, your thoughts, you can hear the pain, but there is a message of hope that together people will unite and stay focused and support one another, your sense of what we just heard. First of all, we can see that the better hour of the people of Israel with volunteering, with helping each other, with a lot of people who are volunteers to go to the reserve forces and other volunteer missions, even to go to the farms and be a farmer for one day. As Aviv said, that it's a collective trauma. And we use this word trauma even without working about the syndromes of proper trauma by the book. But I think that in order to recovery, as he said, we have to be united and also we have to believe in something. We have to have a belief in the future, to believe in and trust the army to recover his power and his force in this crazy neighborhood of the Middle East. And we have to trust the government to lead us for a new era in the Israeli, I don't know, history. So I think that after the October 7th, we all believe in the army again, even though they had the major collapse in this very sad day, in this cursed Shabbat. And we believe in them, we see. And I think that the idea of spokesperson, Daniel Agari, is doing very well by briefing every day about the military goes in and what he does and how successful operations we have to do inside the Gaza Strip. All of this makes us believe that there is a hope. There is a hope for the future. I think that less people in Israel now believe in peace, okay? After this, we understand that you cannot have peace with such beasts, I don't know how to call this, Hamas terrorists, but we do believe that we have to exist here with powerful army, powerful state, powerful government and continue to bring the light to the world because all of Israeli innovation is something that all the world is using in medical, in technology and we'll continue to do that for the world. But all we need from the world is continue to support us. There were some very stark images of all the suspects, the terrorist suspects who had surrendered to the IDF. And we know that those suspects are going to be brought into Israeli prisons. They will be interrogated and a certain amount of intelligence will potentially be garnered out of those interrogations. Talk to us about what it means for people inside Gaza to see the images that we're seeing on our screens right now. How does it change the way Palestinians inside Gaza perceive what is unfolding right now? I think the Palestinians in Gaza, even before but definitely after that, they believe and they see that there is, we're in business, okay? The army being business. It's not going to be like other operations that we had in Gaza Strip. This time we're in business. We want to eliminate Hamas. And this surrounding operative of Hamas is very important, not only for the morality in Israel, but also for the Palestinians in Gaza Strip. Retired police commander, Meirav Lapidor. Thank you so much for speaking to us. We always appreciate your insights and thank you so much for being here in studio. And that is where we wrap up this edition of our breaking news coverage. I'm Benisa Levine. Our rolling coverage continues shortly. Stay tuned. This is I-24 News, breaking news edition. Is in a state of war, families completely gunned down in their beds. We have no idea where is she. As our soldiers are fighting on the front lines, but the general perception is something that certainly needs to be fought as well. In news edition, I'm Benisa Levine. Israel is intensifying its efforts to eliminate the Hamas threat from the Gaza Strip. Just over two months since the brutal terror rampage in southern Israel on the 7th of October, nearly nine weeks later, these are the images of scores of Hamas operatives who surrendered to the IDF. The US is meanwhile saying it has not imposed a hard deadline on Israel to end its operation in Gaza with a security advisor saying Hamas would continue to pose a threat to Israel if the war stopped. Today, the names of two more reservists killed in fighting have today been released, bringing the Israeli death toll in the ground operation to 90. They are 28-year-old master sergeant in the reserves Eyal Meir Berkevitz from Jerusalem and 41-year-old sergeant major in the reserves Corby Dvush from Tiberius. Overnight, confirmation that 25-year-old master sergeant in the reserves Eyal Meir Isenkot was killed in fighting in northern Gaza. He is the son of former IDF chief of staff, Gadi Isenkot, who is now an observer in the war cabinet. He received the news of his son's death while touring the southern command with war cabinet member, Benny Gantz. Now at the moment, 138 hostages remain in Hamas captivity in Gaza, including babies and the elderly. The Red Cross has not yet seen any of the hostages. President Joe Biden reiterating the need for the Red Cross to be permitted to visit them, Hamas has so far not allowed that access. The US leader and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have spoken again. Their 16th call since the war started, the president agreeing that the recent truce fell apart because Hamas refused to release young women and civilian hostages. Here's the latest from national security spokesperson, John Kirby. Let's take a listen. Well, we're not close to inking another deal on humanitarian pause, and nor do I have any news to break here today about the return of hostages, either ours or those of many other countries that are being held hostage. We're still trying to get as much information as we can about the hostages that are being held. We have some information, as I said before, on some of the hostages because their families are talking to us, and that's been a terrific source of information and context. Let's go live now to our correspondent, Ariel Levin Waldman. He joins us from Southern Israel again. And Ariel, we saw plumes of smoke behind you the last hour when we last spoke. What is the latest say now? What can you tell us? I'll take a quick look behind me because those plumes of smoke are still there. In fact, that big one you see just on the left side has been burning quite merrily for at least two hours now, which means they hit something big. A lot of fuel there, a lot of secondary materials to burn, likely a warehouse of some sort because we don't usually see anything burn for quite that long. Now, the military operation in the north is nowhere near done yet. There's still a lot of heavy fighting in the north, particularly around the Jabalaya refugee camp. That's not really a refugee camp in the traditional sense of the term. It's a fortified neighborhood with a warren of tunnels underneath it. That is a Hamas stronghold. Soldiers that have been fighting in that area have told local media that it is a warren of weaponized areas. Every single building, every single house, every single apartment, they are finding Kalashnikovs, they are finding IEDs, they are finding RPGs, all matter of weapons, all matter of ambush points. And that means a need for heavy air power. Now that's puted out a little bit over the last hour or so, but originally earlier this morning, we were hearing strikes going off every few seconds, sometimes even faster as they attempted to level those ambush positions with air power that I have not seen in this war myself so far, like it was this morning. That said, there is still heavier fighters still in the south of Gaza. Remember, that's the battle for Khan Yunus, the IDF having to break at least four Hamas brigades that are in that area, plus however many Hamas terrorists managed to evacuate from the north and move their way and regroup to the south during the ceasefire. A lot of heavy fighting there that has to be done, because Khan Yunus is one of the last primary Hamas strongholds left in Gaza. Once that's secured, they can start the operation of dismantling the terror infrastructure. Thank you so much, correspondent Ariel Levin-Waldman, live from southern Israel. More to come from Ariel in the coming hours, thank you. And now for more, we welcome to studio retired police commander Merav Lapidot, the former spokesperson in the Israel Police and the CEO of Lapidot Communications and Strategy. Thank you so much for being here. More than two months now into this war, we are seeing the plumes of smoke. We know the activity that is underway right now inside the Gaza Strip. And yet the whole nation is waiting to find out about the fate of the 138 hostages still somewhere there in the Gaza Strip. Your take on what is unfolding right now. I think that the army and the state of Israel is doing everything they can to find them and bring them back home. Unfortunately, the truth's collapsed and there is no any hope in the near future. We don't hear, maybe there is and we don't know about it, but we don't hear about any other negotiations or any other contacts with the Qatar, Egypt, US, Hamas in order to release more hostages. And by the time the time goes by and we are very worried we think about them in the tunnels, no food. We know from the hostages who came back that they starved over there. They just lived over so tiny pita in a day. So we know that they're starving and even if you can survive one or two months without proper food, what's going to be on the third month that they're over there and the winter is here and no proper clothes, no medicine, no medical treatment. We're very worried about their lives and we know that this is the money time to bring them back because otherwise we'll not bring them back alive. So I urge everybody who hears that and can do anything to help us bring them back and the Red Cross to pressure the Hamas to go and see them, to see who is alive and who is dead and whatever they need. It's unbelievable that the Red Cross after 62 days didn't meet one of them and they couldn't reach them because in other places around the world, they do everything they can. I never heard about any other hostages all around the world that 62 days and no meeting with the Red Cross. So I believe the Red Cross could do more, definitely. We've had doctors and health professionals speaking to us here in studio saying that the files, the medical files of the hostages have been given to the Red Cross. They can take this information if they're given the access and at least find out how a baby in captivity is doing, how the elderly who are there, as you say, it's getting colder now. It's two months in captivity. It's unimaginable. What do you make of the reports that we're hearing, the emerging details from the hostages who've been free, the conditions under which they were held for the last two months? What is your sense of what is unfolding? As you said, even though the Red Cross didn't have direct access, they could have at least give them the medicine that they need, the elderly needs their medicine. We saw Elma Overham and other women who came back, which they had very bad medical condition and they're hospitalized up until now, two weeks after they came back. So we know that the situation there is very, very bad. So at least we expect the Red Cross to give them the medicine, even if they don't let them get direct access and talk to the hostages, at least give them the medicine, give them the medical treatment throughout the Hamas operation, but still they don't do that. We heard from the children who came back that they needed to be quiet all day. Some of them were in tunnels for 50 days without even having a shower for 50 days. Anyone who hears us around the world, just imagine you, your son, your mother, your family, 50 days without a shower, this only detail, besides the other, and imagine how bad it is there and how crucial it is that they're bringing, that they will bring them now, just now, not tomorrow, not in the next week. You know, we're celebrating Hanukkah and this is the holiday of light. And miracles. And miracles, and we all hope for a miracle to bring the light in Israel and to bring the light, literally light, those are being held in tunnels and let them go back all around the world. We're hearing about people who are crying for freedom for the Palestinians, but they are in freedom in Gaza Strip. The army withdraw from Gaza Strip in 2005. There is no fight of freedom. It's just a fight to eliminate the state of Israel. It's genocide. What they did on October 7th, it's genocide to the Jewish people. And it's very sad that some people around the world doesn't understand that this is a massacre. It's not a freedom fight. It's not a war between two countries. It's between terrorists who wants to just kill, rape, and slaughter women, children, men, everybody. So please support us, be with us, and do whatever you can to address this. Certainly is exactly the reason that we keep on hearing the IDF saying that its goal is to eliminate the Hamas threat and to make sure that all the hostages come home and they come home safely. And another thing that Benjamin Netanyahu has been saying is a clear message for Hezbollah up north. It's exactly two months into the war when he made this message. And he said that Israel will work to eliminate Hamas in the Gaza Strip. He has more from the prime minister about what he needs to say about what's developing in the northern part of the region. If Hezbollah decides to start an all-out war, they will turn with their own hands, Beirut and southern Lebanon, which is not located very far from here, into Gaza and Ranyunis. We are determined to bring victory. So for the latest up north, let's go back to our senior correspondent, Owen Ultiman. He joins us again from northern Israel. So Benjamin Netanyahu isn't mincing his words there. What is the latest up north, Owen? What can you share this hour? Well, over the last hour, Benita, the Israeli military were confirming, both that a group of terrorists had crossed into what Israel calls the Hardov area, near where Israel, Lebanon, and Syria meet, and was attacked by a drone manned from afar and the terrorists were neutralized. Also overnight, rocket fire across the border of the Israeli Golan and the Syrian Golan. And following that, the Israeli military confirming that it struck targets inside Syria, reports earlier on in the night said that those targets were in Damascus. So Benita Netanyahu is certainly right that there's no out and out full on war here on the northern border. And hence that warning to Hezbollah about how Israel would respond should Hezbollah decide. Even let's be honest at this relatively late hour to escalate the situation. But on the other hand, obviously day in, day out, there is rocket fire across the border. We had an Israeli civilian killed not by a rocket, but by an anti-tank missile shot at him. He's a farmer. And again, Benita, even though civilian populations along the border have largely been evacuated, farmers in some cases need to be there to tend to the fields and to tend to the crops, to their livelihoods and to their businesses. And of course in Israeli, a 60 year old Israeli civilian tragically killed, also in a separate incident, two soldiers lightly wounded. So again, day in, day out, there is this steady drumbeat of military activity, including targeting of civilians from across the Lebanon border in IDF responses. Tens of thousands of Israelis who have evacuated their communities just on the border. So again, Benita, a very difficult situation here in the North, even if it certainly isn't on the magnitude of the situation in the Gaza Strip and in the Israeli communities on the Gaza border. And Owen, over and above the worries about Hezbollah's next moves, more broadly speaking, across the Middle East, there have been continuous attacks on US forces in Syria and Iraq. Talk us through the concerns through the lens of the Pentagon and steps to make sure that a regional conflict doesn't escalate right now. Well, Benita, a sense of escalation, by the way, over the course of the last day, earlier on this morning at four o'clock in the morning, local time in Baghdad, inside that green zone that we all remember so well from the start of the Iraq war 20 years ago, rockets were fired, not at a US military base, as has happened so often over the course of the war in parallel to the war, but near the US embassy in Baghdad to the point where sirens went off and those who were there were told to duck and cover. So obviously a scary situation for those in that green zone and in or near that embassy. So targeting a diplomatic mission is obviously an escalation over targeting a military base. We haven't had any group claim responsibility, but of course, previous attacks have been done by coalitions of Shiite militias in Iraq and in Syria. Look, the US military has responded to these attacks, which have caused dozens of injuries, some of them potentially very, very serious. We haven't heard all of the details, by the way, from the US Defense Department. So the US is responding to them, but not necessarily Benita escalating. Similar, I think to the situation between Israel and Hezbollah. There is a sense in the American side that the US military needs to defend itself and needs to respond, but doesn't wanna lead to a regional escalation. And instead the US is in, as we all know, a deterrence posture, right? With those two aircraft carrier strike groups that were moved in the opening days of the war, still in the Eastern Mediterranean. And obviously the US military across the region on high alert. And of course, we've also seen the US activity in part in helping to shoot down missiles fired from Yemen at Israel over the Red Sea. So we haven't seen the US military be active there as well, both protecting the US military and also of course, helping to protect Israel. Live from Northern Israel, that's our senior diplomatic correspondent Owen Ultiman. More to come from Owen in the coming hours. Thank you so much. And now we change gears slightly as we welcome Avi Hartov, psychotherapy and group facilitator in trauma and emergency from one family. And he joins us from Tel Aviv. Thank you so much for your time right now. Nearly nine weeks into this war, the nation's still processing the details of the rampage on the 7th of October, the brutality, the depravity. What are you seeing through your work with the one family organization? What can you share? Yeah, so first of all, good morning. And thank you for hosting me and the opportunity to meet you here. We're seeing a certain slowdown, a certain slowdown of the stress level, the anxiety level and the danger, the subjective way of experiencing this dramatic, complex and cumulative and community event. I've been working with women who have become widows recently this war and I've been working with parents who are newly bereaved parents. And there's a lot of chaos and a lot of our wellness as to how do we get going on with life now? Particularly the women who became widows have big question marks as to how to run life without the partner and facing things that I haven't seen before like having to go to the bank, having to deal with paperwork, with insurance paperwork, with the wheels and raising their children alone and comforting them. At the same time, there's a very, very beginning of new questions, questions of values and the questions of how to be in this society in these times, how to be as a human being, how to be as a family, how to be as a collective. So tell us more about that. What exactly do you mean? What are these values that you're talking about, the way the nation is responding collectively to this trauma it's nine weeks in now? Yeah, so I wanna go back to the first week of the war where I facilitated a men's circle among reserve duty soldiers in the south of Hebron Mountain and their commander asked me to please use some time to remind everybody of their humanity. Now to remember our humanity is a very broad question and what does exactly mean, but the sensitivity with which this man approached me and said they're about to enter war zone and at the same time remind them of their humanity speaks a lot about the human fiber that we have, we're made of. And we've seen tremendous engagement of people of do good things, help out families who have been evacuated from their homes, help soldiers collect money, food, clothing, Hanukkah menorahs, sending gifts, the circles of sharing and listening in the Tel Aviv Museum area. And everywhere there seems to be a new call for the spirit, the spirit will win. It's behind the body, it's behind the war, it's behind the ammunition, it's behind the territory, there's something about the spirit of human beings which is being given a little bit more attention now. Am I answering your question? You certainly are, we're talking about humanity. We know that people are united as they face an existential threat, but that threat has no humanity. And right now the nation is holding its breath for the 138 hostages still in captivity. We've been talking about it here in studio, an imaginable situation, babies, the elderly nearly nine weeks being held by a terror organization. Talk to us about what it means the psychological trauma over and about the physical trauma, not only from the hostages that have come out, but also from their families, the waiting must be beyond unbearable. Correct, correct. So when we look at the word trauma has been used very easily these days. Everybody uses the word trauma 17 times a day. And scholars and therapists as well are addressing trauma in two aspects mainly. The event itself and the subjective response to trauma. And I wanna focus on the subjective response because the event we already know, it's a continuous event. The subjective response is on a big spectrum of total helplessness to total engagement in saying yes to life. The emotional aspect is behind words. We have no precedent to what people are experiencing now. The families or families of those people who are still held hostages, we don't have any precedent to that. We have a minor scale comparing to this. And it requires a lot of patience, a lot of endurance, a lot of facing life in a different angle and not give up. And what we see is people don't give up. The life spirit is so powerful that people keep asking, wanting, praying, demonstrating, writing letters, making phone calls, making demonstrations. There's something very strong about the inner sense that this can be different and it's gonna be different. And you made mention earlier to the support that people are wanting to give. We see volunteers across the country trying to help people who have been evacuated. And as you say, people who are bereaved right now, people who are in so much pain, talk to us about what it does for the psyche of the nation. Nine weeks in to be focused on helping, to be focused on rebuilding. Good, so one aspect of what we're experiencing now is collective trauma. Collective trauma puts a rift in trust, puts a break of trust. And it's a trust in oneself, the trust in our relationships, the trust in the government, the trust in the military leadership. What we've seen is an immediate rebuilding of trust and all the actions of generosity, compassion, the engagement that we see world nationwide, everywhere. There's hotlines everywhere. There's centers of collecting, clothing and food, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, is a very active way of re-establishing and rehabilitating trust. And as the days go by and we are engaged with each other in a new way that we haven't seen in a long time in Israel, this trust that they've been broken on October 7th is healing, is rehabilitating, is being reconstructed in a new way, in a new form, a new fashion. And what a lot of people say is, let's hope that this remains after the war is over. And that's my prayer, that what we see now in the way that the collective Israeli society is gathering together around this war will remain alive after the war is over. And there is the hope that after this collective trauma that you are describing, there will be this collective recovery and collective healing. Abihar Tuav, such a pleasure to hear your insights. Thank you very much for speaking to us live from Tel Aviv. Thank you. Thank you. Bye-bye. Thank you so much. May I have your thoughts? You can hear the pain, but there is a message of hope that together people will unite and stay focused and support one another, your sense of what we just heard. First of all, we can see the better hour of the people of Israel with volunteering, with solidarity, with helping each other, with a lot of people who are volunteers to go to the reserve forces and other volunteer missions, even to go to the farms and be a farmer for one day. As Abihar said, that it's a collective trauma. And we use this word trauma even without working about the syndromes of proper trauma by the book. But I think that in order to recovery, as he said, we have to be united and also we have to believe in something. We have to have a belief in the future, to believe in and trust the army to recover his power and his force in this crazy neighborhood of the Middle East. And we have to trust the government to lead us for a new era in the Israeli, I don't know, history. So I think that after the October 7th, we all believe in the army again, even though they had the major collapse in this very sad day, in this cursed Shabbat. And we believe in them, we see. And I think that the IDF spokesperson, Daniel Agari, is doing very well by briefing every day about the military goes in and what he does and how successful operations we have to do inside the Gaza Strip. All of this makes us believe that there is a hope, there is a hope for the future. I think that less people in Israel now believe in peace, okay? After this, we understand that you cannot have peace with such beasts, I don't know how to call these Hamas terrorists, but we do believe that we have to exist here with powerful army, powerful state, powerful government and continue to bring the light to the world because all of Israeli innovation is something that all the world is using in medical, in technology and we'll continue to do that for the world. But all we need from the world is continue to support us. There were some very stark images of all the suspects, the terrorist suspects who had surrendered to the IDF. And we know that those suspects are going to be brought into Israeli prisons. They will be interrogated and a certain amount of intelligence will potentially be garnered out of those interrogations. Talk to us about what it means for people inside Gaza to see the images that we're seeing on our screens right now. How does it change the way Palestinians inside Gaza perceive what is unfolding right now? I think the Palestinians in Gaza, even before, but definitely after that, they believe and they see that there is, we're in business, okay? The army been in business. It's not going to be like other operations that we had in Gaza Strip. This time we're in business. We want to eliminate Hamas. And this surrounding operative of Hamas is very important, not only for the morality in Israel, but also for the Palestinians in Gaza Strip. Retired police commander, May Rav Lapido, thank you so much for speaking to us. We always appreciate your insights and thank you so much for being here in studio. And that is where we wrap up this edition of our breaking news coverage. I'm Bernice Levine. Our rolling coverage continues shortly. Stay tuned. This is I-24 News Breaking News Edition. PEL is in a state of war. Families completely gunned down in their beds. We have no idea where is she. As our soldiers are fighting on the front line, but the general perception, it's something that certainly needs to be fought as well. This week on News 24, Israel under attack. News 24 in Spanish brings the analysis and the information of the events of the war, Spades of Iron. Exclusive interviews and reports from the war zone. The reaction of the Spanish-speaking countries. News 24, the only medium in Spanish that keeps you informed and connected with the Latin community in Israel. News 24, only on I-24 News. News edition, I'm Bernice Levine. Several developments on several fronts. From day 63 of the war as Israel intensifies its efforts to eliminate the Hamas threat from the Gaza Strip. Large plumes of smoke have been seen rising above the enclave on Friday morning, just over two months since the brutal terror rampage in southern Israel on the 7th of October. The number of Israeli soldiers killed in the retaliatory ground operation is now at 90. At the moment, 178 hostages remain in Hamas' captivity in Gaza, including babies and the elderly. Now these are the images of scores of Hamas operatives who have surrendered to the IDF. The U.S. is meanwhile saying it has not imposed a hard deadline on Israel to end its operation in Gaza with a security advisor saying Hamas would continue to pose a threat to Israel if the war stopped today. And a short while ago in the West Bank, five Palestinians killed in the village of Tubas near Nablus during a gun battle with IDF troops. And concerns remain up north. Benjamin Netanyahu issuing this message for Hezbollah in the northern part of the region. Let's take a listen. If Hezbollah decides to start an all-out war, they will turn with their own hands Beirut and southern Lebanon, which is not located very far from here into Gaza and Raniunis. We are determined to bring victory. So for the latest, let's go back to our senior correspondent, Owen Ultiman. He joins us again from northern Israel and we heard that message there from Benjamin Netanyahu. He's making his views very clear. We also know an Israeli farmer was killed in that missile strike on Thursday afternoon. The IDF responding, bring us up to speed. What is the latest way you are, Owen? Well, Benita, first of all, you're right on one hand that there's not the kind of all-out war on Israel's northern border, the same way there is on the border with the Gaza Strip. But certainly it's far from quiet here. You mentioned the murder, the killing, through an anti-tank missile of that 60-year-old Israeli farmer along the border. Again, as you know, these communities have largely been evacuated, but at least some of the farmers feel they still need to be there, to tend their crops in their fields and to protect their livelihoods because those fields and those crops won't tend themselves. So tragically, sadly, the farmer murdered by an anti-tank missile fired from across the Lebanese border. We also had two Israeli soldiers lightly injured. And an incident apparently overnight in the Hardove area, where Israel, Lebanon and Syria meet, the IDF confirming that a drone maned from afar neutralized a band of terrorists in that area, which has been over time disputed between Hezbollah and Israel. And where there's been constant tension there going back years. Benita, according to Walla News, the situation sounds much more serious than that, that this band of terrorists was spotted by those at an outpost nearby, with grenades, with rockets, and with Kalashnikov rifles, and was followed by those of the outpost and then the drone called in in order to neutralize them. But it shows, Benita, the continuing threat and the continuing activity coming in from Lebanon that could really pose a danger to lives here in Israel's North. So a fairly serious incident, it sounds like, in Hardove overnight last night. And also across the border of the Israeli Golan and the Syrian Golan, rockets fired, and then the Israeli military responding and confirming this morning that it had responded, attacking targets across the border in Syria, reportedly in Damascus, and reportedly potentially, Benita, even the Syrian military itself. Certainly major concerns looking more broadly across the region as well. So I'll give us another account of the US forces being targeted in Syria and Iraq, major concerns about what they could mean. The Pentagon also weighing in talk us through the concerns there on that front at this hour. Well, Benita, it's not just US forces, but an attack early this morning, potentially on the US embassy in the green zone in Baghdad, sirens were activated. This is not an attack on US military personnel, a potential escalation. No one is claiming responsibility, but again, attacks in the past have been attributed to Shi'ite militias in Iraq and Syria. So it stands to reason that they may well be behind this attack as well. Thank you so much, senior correspondent Owen Ultiman, live from Northern Israel, more to come from Owen, of course, in the coming hours, thank you. And now we welcome to studio Major Dave in the Reserves Operations Officer from the Southern Brigade of Gaza. Major Dave, thank you once again for being here in studio. And obviously just to clarify, we are only using your first name, of course. You have been involved in the Southern Brigades for a while now. Give us your sense, your take of this unfolding situation. We are more than two months into this war. Israeli soldiers, the death toll is at 90. There is a major risk to the operations unfolding right now as the IDF works to eliminate Hamas, your take on what is unfolding as we speak. So we are reaching the peak of the operation. Within the next two weeks, the pressure of everything is just an intersection. You saw the images of Han Yunis, you see the terrorists themselves submitting themselves, and then as well as humanitarian aid. So the humanitarian aid is an issue because Hamas is claiming the humanitarian aid to themselves. They're robbing the civilians of Gaza and not providing them the actual humanitarian aid. On top of that, the images of Hamas submitting themselves, their operatives are very important because you see combining the fact that people are outspoken about the fact that Hamas ruins their lives as well as the operatives are submitting themselves and not going to the direction of becoming a martyr is very important because it starts to show a break in their mentality. We're going to unpack that in a short while but I want to take a closer look to something you just mentioned, the humanitarian situation inside Gaza. Let's take a listen to these Palestinian civilians speaking out against Hamas on television, confirming that the terror group is taking aid for its own purposes. Let's take a listen. We're from Gaza, we're from Qanun, we're from Qanun, we're from Raffa'a. We left our parents, our children and our families. We're going to take the money that we have and we're going to take care of it and add it to the rent. We're not the people of Qanun. The situation is difficult. Don't take the aid. There's no need for the aid. We're going to go down. The aid doesn't come to the nation or to the people. There are a lot of things that can be delivered. What can be delivered is a small thing that can be delivered, that's what they're talking about. Tell the families, let them take it or take it or do what they want. Major Dave, you hear it loud and clear there. You can see it loud and clear your thoughts. Well, it's not surprising, unfortunately. We knew this is going to happen, which is why initially we wanted to postpone the fact that we're providing humanitarian aid because we knew it's just going to supply the tunnels in Hamas, but as we progress, we want to have the Gazan civilians living in proper conditions so we can continue the operation and eliminate Hamas entirely because we need to treat it as an infection. You need to get rid of it entirely. Otherwise, whatever remains, they'll just keep rebuilding it and coming back. Certainly something we're going to be discussing in more detail in a short while. But first, let's check back in with our correspondent, Ariel Levin Waldman. He joins us once again from southern Israel. And earlier, Ariel, we saw those plumes of smoke behind you. What is the latest there? What updates can you share? I mean, you could see it's still burning behind me. It's not just a plume of smoke. The IDF says they struck 450 targets across Gaza in the last 24 hours. If that sounds like a sizable number, it's roughly double what we saw over the last few days and certainly explains the intensity and the frequency of this morning's bombardment. But the reason for that is actually fairly simple. You've got to look at the ground operations and right now they're going to some of the densest of firefights they've seen in Gaza so far. There's the one in the south in Chanyunas as the IDF moves further and further into the center of that city. That's a Hamas stronghold, four Hamas battalions in that area, plus whatever fighters managed to scurry their way down south on the humanitarian aid corridors or during the truces. And of course, you have the Jabalia refugee camp. The word refugee camp brings to mind images of a tent city. It's anything but. It's a fortified neighborhood of bunkers and tunnels and the IDF soldiers in there are saying every single house, every single apartment, they're finding traps, they're finding explosives, they're finding Kalashnikovs, they're finding RPGs. Every last one of those windows that they're seeing is an ambush point. It's a sniper nest. It's a place to take a shot at an armored personnel carrier with 10 or more soldiers inside. And that means a need to actually level these ambush points, which explains, of course, the air power that we've been seeing all through the course of the morning to actually hit these points. You level them, you open up a path forward so your people can move forward safely and capture territory. Why? Because you cannot take out Hamas just on the ground operation. The bulk of their forces are still concentrated in the fortifications underground and the IDF cannot start to dismantle those until they have secured the ground above. We've seen some of the videos that Hamas has put out showing IDF forces on the ground and all these Hamasniks pop out of their tunnels, often in the middle of soldiers encampments. It just shows how much work there is to do on the ground before they can disable that threat and start breaking down symbols of Hamas's rule and start breaking them as an organization itself. That said, there are some indications that they're getting close. You just played in studio how people in the street are no longer afraid of Hamas's political control. There's the word that they're finally possibly closing in on Hamas's leadership. They found Ismail Hania's bank statements and bank materials not that long ago. Those went viral all over the internet to say the least. So there is a trail. They are going after their leaders, but there's still a lot of work to be done. But that's the reason you're seeing such intensity of fighting today. And of course, complicating the operations by the IDF, the military saying in recent days that the terror group has been launching projectiles from next to tense housing civilians inside Gaza. Tell us more. Absolutely. We saw that just the other day. Video drone footage showing that they were fighting from inside what's called a humanitarian area. The idea of the humanitarian area was the IDF would set locations that would be safe from bombardment. That way civilians can hide there. Of course, Hamas also gets the message when they're told that there's an area that will not be bombed. And that gives them impunity to set up their rocket launchers and fire on Israel from those locations. The one in question that you're talking about does fire on Bershava 12 projectiles from right next to a UN location right out of a humanitarian area. And Israel has to decide, well, do they strike these areas and risk international outrage? Or do they let Hamas continue to act with impunity? Remember, Hamas is an international terror organization. They don't have rules. They don't care. And they will violate any ceasefire, any sort of humanitarian pause, any sort of humanitarian conditions because it advantages them. It lets them then turn around and win a PR victory if Israel responds. And this is something we've seen throughout the entirety of the war. Hamas firing from hospitals, Hamas building infrastructure under hospitals, Hamas building it under schools. And again, this goes back to what I was saying about what the troops have been telling local media. RPGs in every single room, underneath children's beds, they are using the civilian population as human shields to ensure that Israel has reduced ability to operate against them. They know that in a standup fight, there are 40,000 closer to 33,000 armed people with Kalashnikovs against the modern military. They're not winning that one unless they can win the PR battle and force a ceasefire through international pressure. That is their goal right now. And the civilians that they have as human shields and as their own victims, well, they're only an ends to that goal. Thank you so much. Our correspondent Ariel Levin-Waldman, live from Southern Israel. More updates from Ariel on its way in the coming hours. Thank you for now. Major Dave, you heard Ariel's update there. 450 targets hit in the past 24 hours. We were wondering what those plumes of smoke were all about. Your assessment of what we just heard, the IDF operation, day 63. So despite having various escalation as well as protective edge, there are areas in Gaza which we have not visited for a long time, meaning 10, 20 years that we've never been inside of them. So Hanyunis and all the areas around there are, like he said, they're the Hamas stronghold. And unfortunately, you cannot move through those dense populated areas unless you level the buildings because every single building is filled with traps, wires, claymores or mines, everything. They mine everything, including civilian Gazans, which I mean they would find the person that was unfortunately killed and they can even mine the bodies of the people in order to hurt our soldiers. So we need to move on the ground and also under the ground and that's why you see the intense fire power. Talk to us about the efforts that the IDF takes to make sure that while this operation is underway that civilians are not harmed in the process. So first of all, we have the leaflets, we have phone calls, we have people that are getting directions that we are actually pleading to the civilians that they would leave the area. We know that it's hard to leave and unfortunately Hamas is also not allowing them to evacuate, which is why we also had the corridor at Salahadin, which our own troops protected the Gaza civilians in order so that Hamas wouldn't attack them. And as much as we try and attempt, there's always gonna be unfortunately some damage because Hamas is not allowing people to evacuate and they're actually holding them captive whether it's schools or kindergartens, I remember seeing through observation that they would not allow the family to leave so that if we attack the missile silo next to it, they would be hurt and then they can do their regular PR circle. So what do you do in a case like that? How does a soldier in the middle of a battle see civilians, see a family? How do they respond in that moment? Talk to us about your experience. So it's very complicated because you suddenly see a person and then you need to quickly assess whether it's a civilian or whether it's a Hamas operative. You can see there's also many videos of them just wearing casual clothing and then holding an RPG just for that same purpose, that even if they are killed in action, it would seem like a regular civilian once you take away the weapon. So in terms of the families and things that you do, there are many videos that you see just people walking by and Israeli soldiers helping them out, whether it's to evacuate or get clear of the area. But it's very complicated because during intense warfare, if suddenly you have a civilian caught in between Hamas, they don't care for them. They are just interested in them getting hurt because then it's additional vicious circle of PR. Complicated situation indeed. Something you are also very familiar with is the Kerem Shalom border crossing and we're hearing a US official saying, Israel has agreed to open that crossing for the screening and inspection of humanitarian aid delivered into Gaza via the Rafa crossing. Given what we just heard a little bit earlier, the fact that a lot of this aid is landing up in the hands of the terror organization used for their own purposes. What kinds of checks and balances, so to speak, are there at the crossing? So we can do only so much in terms of getting it to the actual civilians. We can try and monitor it from the air and see what is actually happening. We've been seeing that people are stealing from the trucks before they're getting through in order to try to get some humanitarian aid before it falls into Hamas hands. On top of that, the reason that we want to screen the actual crossing is because they're also using it for smuggling, whether it's hiding in bags of rice, the fact that there's weapons or drones or anything that allows them to continue fighting. So getting it to our jurisdiction is obviously something that is very demanding and will have to take some of our attention. But it's very necessary to see that there's the least amount of weapons and military equipment passing through. Major Dave, thank you very much. Stay with us. We've got more to discuss. But right now we're changing gears slightly. I want to welcome Dr. Orfea Grossbard, clinical psychologist and author, the Cultural Code Series, published by Ben Gurion University. He joins us now from Haifa. Thank you so much for your time on this day. Nearly nine weeks into this war and this nation is still in pain. So many details are still emerging about what happened on the 7th of October. What are you seeing through your work? What are your insights right now about the psyche of the nation, so to speak? I think many people are quite depressed. I mean, and it's very natural to be depressed in such a situation. The point is that Hamas is very sadistic. So, you know, it's almost kind of a profession for them, the sadism. I'll explain what I mean. A professional sadist, he doesn't give you a blow because you will get used to it. But felt he raised aspirations. Felt he raised your hope that things are going to change and then the blow is coming. For example, he can say, okay, I'm going to release few hostages and then he changes the list with different names. So people are hoping and then the blow is coming, okay? So people here in Israel have to get used to this sadism because, you know, it's very difficult to handle it emotionally for people who are waiting for their families. And, okay, so at this time, for example, I try to think about all kinds of psychological tactics in order to help them to overcome it. For example, to think that their family members will be released no tomorrow or not in the next list, but in a month or two months, in this way they are not expecting every day for the release and this kind of expecting every day can, you know, it's so difficult and can many people can't stand it. So this is one aspect of the things I'm doing today, trying to think how to control sadism. It's looking in the face of evil when you're describing the psychological warfare over and above everything else that has been happening. And when we hear about the conditions of the hostages in captivity, the uncertainty, the lack of food, being in tunnels, being in homes, being moved around, being separated from their family members, how does this impact an already untenable situation for people in captivity, not knowing exactly what is going to happen in the next hour, never mind the next day? You are asking about this, about the Israelis or about the hostages. The hostages. Look. You know, all kinds of defense mechanisms that people are trying to use. But at the end of the day, it's very difficult to get out of it without a post trauma. I mean, think about living for a long time in a way that you are not controlling anything. Other people controlling your life, even when you are going to the toilet or if you have air or everything. So such a situation. I mean, it's a regressive situation. You are going back like, I mean, you may feel like a little child, very little child who depends on the captures and you have to adjust to it. And it's, I think it's almost impossible. And the damage is a long term damage, no doubt. And that brings me to the next point, exactly what you alluded to, the way the country is hoping, this collective holding of breath, waiting for news, the support that the hostages still being held captive have from around the country, everybody united in their wish that they should come home and they should come home safely. Your thoughts on what that means, that support, that unity that exists right now in times of unimaginable pain. Yes, that's true. You know, you see the Israelis are very united at this time. And it's really, it's surprised us that we are so united, you know, it's kind of, I don't know where does it come from, but it was hidden, you know, in our emotions. And it's not the first time is that it happens to us, but when it happens, the country is very, very united. It's amazing to see, it's really, you know, before October 7th, there were all kinds of split between all kinds of groups and suddenly nothing. So it's amazing and it gives you a lot of power, no doubt. And it's very difficult for us, you know, from one side we have to think about the hostages and to everything in order to release them. From the other side, you want to repress a little bit in order to breathe, because if you think about it the whole day, I mean, it's impossible. So you have to, from one side, do everything to try to release them and think about it. And from the other side, you want to handle a little bit of normal life or even in order to help them, you need to handle, to lead a normal life. So this split in our soul, it's very difficult. And talking about trying to lead a normal life, very difficult when as we're speaking, rocket sirens are sounding as we speak in some of the southern communities once again, also in Storot-e-Bim and near Am, as we speak. Day 63 of the war, Dr. Graspard, and this happens with increasing regularity. How does a nation get used to this scenario? Briefly, please, if you don't mind. You're speaking about the rockets. And I think the rockets now, it's ironic to say, but I think the rockets now, because most of them don't succeed to kill people. So it's the easiest part, maybe. The hostages, I think it's the imbearable part. Certainly is unbearable indeed. And as we keep on saying, the whole nation holding its breath, waiting for maybe the miracle of Chanukah, that festival that is underway right now for some light, for some good news. Dr. Orfea Graspard, thank you so much for speaking to us. So appreciate your time, live from Haifa. Thank you. Major Dave, as we're talking, Sirens are sounding. It's true what Dr. Graspard is saying. There isn't that threat that is the same that was in the early days of the war. People are used to running to shelters and for the most part, lots of the southern communities are evacuated. Nonetheless, it's still happening daily. How is that possible when this operation continues inside the Gaza Strip as we speak? Firstly, I want to address the sadism that you mentioned just to be very clear. They are causing casualties on purpose and then they are mining with bombs the casualties and the bodies of the Gazan civilians. That's the extent of their sadism. Now, regarding the missile attacks, well, what they're doing is one of the things in the ceasefire is that they allowed them to move various missile silos and they have some missile silos remaining in the southern part of Gaza. So while the amount of missiles is significantly reduced, we should not be behaving everyday life as if there are not going to be any more missiles. It will be significantly reduced, but they always keep a certain amount just for the last minute or just they're finishing all their reserves before we are coming in and just dismantling them. Major Dave, we have literally 10 seconds left. Are you confident that Israel can handle threats on all fronts at the same time, nearly nine weeks into this war, very briefly? Yes, so first of all, we need to keep in check all the fronts. Once we finish in Gaza, we are completely free to damage all the other fronts and all the other people that want to hurt us as well as right now, you can see it doing in parallel with a northern limit and that it is. Major Dave, in the reserve, thank you very much for being here in studio. I appreciate your insights. And that is a wrap for this edition of Our Breaking News Coverage. I'm Benita Levine, back in a bit. Stay tuned. In this edition, I'm Benita Levine. Several developments on several fronts. On day 63 of the war as Israel intensifies its efforts to eliminate the Hamas threat from the Gaza Strip. Large plumes of smoke have been seen rising above the enclave on Friday morning, just over two months since the brutal terror rampage in southern Israel on the 7th of October. The number of Israeli soldiers killed in the retaliatory ground operation is now at 90. At the moment, 138 hostages remain in Hamas captivity in Gaza, including babies and the elderly. Now these are the images of scores of Hamas operatives who have surrendered to the IDF. The U.S. is meanwhile saying it has not imposed a hard deadline on Israel to end its operation in Gaza with a security advisor saying Hamas would continue to pose a threat to Israel if the war stopped today. And a short while ago in the West Bank, five Palestinians killed in the village of Tubas near Nablus during a gun battle with IDF troops. And concerns remain up north. Benjamin Netanyahu issuing this message for Hezbollah in the northern part of the region. Let's take a listen. If Hezbollah decides to start an all-out war, they will turn with their own hands, Beirut and southern Lebanon, which is not located very far from here, into Gaza and Ranyunis. We are determined to bring victory. So for the latest, let's go back to our senior correspondent, Owen Ultiman. He joins us again from northern Israel and we heard that message there from Benjamin Netanyahu. He's making his views very clear. We also know an Israeli farmer was killed in that missile strike on Thursday afternoon. The IDF responding, bring us up to speed. What is the latest where you are, Owen? Well, Benita, first of all, you're right on one hand that there's not the kind of all-out war on Israel's northern border, the same way there is on the border with the Gaza Strip. But certainly it's far from quiet here. You mentioned the murder, the killing, through an anti-tank missile of that 60-year-old Israeli farmer along the border. Again, Benita, as you know, these communities have largely been evacuated, but at least some of the farmers feel they still need to be there, to tend their crops and their fields and to protect their livelihoods because those fields and those crops won't tend themselves. So tragically, sadly, the farmer murdered by an anti-tank missile fired from across the Lebanese border. We also had two Israeli soldiers lightly injured. And an incident apparently overnight in the Hardove area, where Israel, Lebanon, and Syria meet, the IDF confirming that a drone man from afar neutralized a band of terrorists in that area, which has been over time disputed between Hezbollah and Israel, and where there's been constant tension there going back years. Benita, according to Wala News, the situation sounds much more serious than that, that this band of terrorists was spotted by those at an outpost nearby with grenades, with rockets, and with Kalashnikov rifles, and was followed by those at the outpost, and then the drone called in in order to neutralize them, but it shows, Benita, the continuing threat and the continuing activity coming in from Lebanon that could really pose a danger to lives here in Israel's north. So a fairly serious incident, it sounds like, in Hardove overnight last night, and also across the border of the Israeli Golan and the Syrian Golan, rockets fired, and then the Israeli military responding and confirming this morning that it had responded, attacking targets across the border in Syria, reportedly in Damascus, and reportedly potentially, Benita, even the Syrian military itself. Certainly, major concerns looking more broadly across the region as well. Give us another account of the US forces being targeted in Syria and Iraq. Major concerns about what they could mean, the Pentagon also weighing in talk us through the concerns there on that front at this hour. Well, Benita, it's not just US forces, but an attack early this morning, potentially on the US embassy in the green zone in Baghdad. Sirens were activated. This is not an attack on US military personnel, a potential escalation. No one is claiming responsibility, but again, attacks in the past have been attributed to Shi'ite militias in Iraq and Syria. So it stands to reason that they may well be behind this attack as well. Thank you so much, senior correspondent Owen Ultiman, live from Northern Israel, more to come from Owen, of course, in the coming hours, thank you. And now we welcome to studio Major Dave in the reserves operations officer from the Southern Brigade of Gaza. Major Dave, thank you once again for being here in studio. And obviously just to clarify, we are only using your first name. Of course, you have been involved in the Southern Brigades for a while now. Give us your sense, your take of this unfolding situation. We are more than two months into this war. Israeli soldiers, the death toll is at 90. There is a major risk to the operations unfolding right now as the IDF works to eliminate Hamas, your take on what is unfolding as we speak. So we are reaching the peak of the operation. Within the next two weeks, the pressure of everything is just an intersection. You saw the images of Han Yunis. You see the terrorists themselves submitting themselves. And then as well as humanitarian aid. So the humanitarian aid is an issue because Hamas is claiming the humanitarian aid to themselves. They're robbing the civilians of Gaza and not providing them the actual humanitarian aid. On top of that, the images of Hamas submitting themselves, their operatives are very important because you see combining the fact that people are outspoken about the fact that Hamas ruins their lives as well as the operatives are submitting themselves and not going to the direction of becoming a martyr is very important because it starts to show a break in their mentality. We're going to unpack that in a short while, but I want to take a closer look to something you just mentioned, the humanitarian situation inside Gaza. Let's take a listen to these Palestinian civilians speaking out against Hamas on television, confirming that the terror group is taking aid for its own purposes. Let's take a listen. Major Dave, you hear it loud and clear there. You can see it loud and clear your thoughts. Well, it's not surprising, unfortunately. We knew this is going to happen, which is why initially we wanted to postpone the fact that we're providing humanitarian aid because we knew it's just going to supply the tunnels in Hamas. But as we progress, we want to have the Gaza civilians living in proper conditions so we can continue the operation and eliminate Hamas entirely because we need to treat it as an infection. You need to get rid of it entirely. Otherwise, whatever remains, it'll just keep rebuilding it and coming back. Certainly something we're going to be discussing in more detail in a short while. But first, let's check back in with our correspondent, Ariel Levin-Waldman. He joins us once again from southern Israel. And earlier, Ariel, we saw those plumes of smoke behind you. What is the latest there? What updates can you share? I mean, you can see it's still burning behind me. It's not just a plume of smoke. The IDF says they struck 450 targets across Gaza in the last 24 hours. If that sounds like a sizable number, it's roughly double what we saw over the last few days. And certainly explains the intensity and the frequency of this morning's bombardment. But the reason for that is actually fairly simple. You've got to look at the ground operations and right now they're going to some of the densest of firefights they've seen in Gaza so far. There's the one in the south in Hanyunas as the IDF moves further and further into the center of that city. That's a Hamas stronghold for Hamas battalions in that area. Plus whatever fighters managed to scurry their way down south on the humanitarian aid corridors or during the truces. And of course, you have the Jabalia refugee camp. The word refugee camp brings to mind images of a tent city. It's anything but, it's a fortified neighborhood of bunkers and tunnels. And the IDF soldiers in there are saying every single house, every single apartment, they're finding traps, they're finding explosives, they're finding Kalashnikovs, they're finding RPGs. Every last one of those windows that they're seeing is an ambush point. It's a sniper nest. It's a place to take a shot at an armored personnel carrier with 10 or more soldiers inside. And that means a need to actually level these ambush points, which explains of course the air power that we've been seeing all through the course of the morning. To actually hit these points, you level them, you open up a path forward so your people can move forward safely and capture territory. Why? Because you cannot take out Hamas just on the ground operation. The bulk of their forces are still concentrated in the fortifications underground and the IDF cannot start to dismantle those until they have secured the ground above. We've seen some of the videos that Hamas has put out showing IDF forces on the ground while these Hamasniks pop out of their tunnels often in the middle of soldiers encampments. It just shows how much work there is to do on the ground before they can disable that threat and start breaking down symbols of Hamas's rule and start breaking them as an organization itself. That said, there are some indications that they're getting close. You just played in studio how people in the street are no longer afraid of Hamas's political control. There's the word that they're finally possibly closing in on Hamas's leadership. They found Ismail Hania's bank statements and bank materials not that long ago. There's went viral all over the internet to say the least. So there is a trail, they are going after their leaders, but there's still a lot of work to be done. But that's the reason you're seeing such intensity of fighting today. And of course, complicating the operations by the IDF, the military saying in recent days that the terror group has been launching projectiles from next to tents housing civilians inside Gaza. Tell us more. Absolutely. We saw that just the other day, video drone footage showing that they were firing from inside what's called a humanitarian area. The idea of the humanitarian area was the IDF would set locations that would be safe from bombardment. That way civilians can hide there. Of course, Hamas also gets the message when they're told that there's an area that will not be bombed. And that gives them impunity to set up their rocket launchers and fire on Israel from those locations. The one in question that you're talking about does fire on Be'er Sheva 12 projectiles from right next to a UN location, right out of a humanitarian area. And Israel has to decide, well, do they strike these areas and risk international outrage? Or do they let Hamas continue to act with impunity? Remember, Hamas is an international terror organization. They don't have rules. They don't care. And they will violate any ceasefire, any sort of humanitarian pause, any sort of humanitarian conditions because it advantages them. It lets them then turn around and win a PR victory if Israel responds. And this is something we've seen throughout the entirety of the war. Hamas firing from hospitals. Hamas building infrastructure under hospitals. Hamas building out under schools. And again, this goes back to what I was saying about what the troops have been telling local media. RPGs in every single room underneath children's beds. They are using the civilian population as human shields to ensure that Israel has reduced ability to operate against them. They know that in a stand-up fight, there are 40,000, well closer to 33,000 armed people with Kalashnikovs against the modern military. They're not winning that one unless they can win the PR battle and force a ceasefire through international pressure. That is their goal right now. And the civilians that they have as human shields and as their own victims, well, they're only an ends to that goal. Thank you so much. Our correspondent, Ariel Levin Waldman, live from southern Israel. More updates from Ariel on its way in the coming hours. Thank you for now. Major Dave, you heard Ariel's update. Their 450 targets hit in the past 24 hours. We were wondering what those plumes of smoke were all about. Your assessment of what we just heard, the IDF operation day 63. So despite having various escalations as well as protective edge, there are areas in Gaza which we have not visited for a long time, meaning 10, 20 years that we've never been inside of them. So Hanyunis and all the areas around there are, like he said, they're the Hamas stronghold. And unfortunately, you cannot move through those dense populated areas unless you level the buildings because every single building is filled with traps, wires, claymores, or mines, everything. They mine everything, including civilian Gazans, which I mean, they would find the person that was unfortunately killed and they can even mine the bodies of the people in order to hurt our soldiers. So we need to move on the ground and also under the ground. And that's why you see the intense firepower. Talk to us about the efforts that the IDF takes to make sure that while this operation is underway that civilians are not harmed in the process. So first of all, we have the leaflets. We have phone calls. We have people that are getting directions that we're actually pleading to the civilians that they would leave the area. We know that it's hard to leave. And unfortunately Hamas is also not allowing them to evacuate, which is why we also had the corridor at Salahadin, which our own troops protected the Gaza civilians in order so that Hamas wouldn't attack them. And as much as we try and attempt, there's always going to be unfortunately some damage because Hamas is not allowing people to evacuate and they're actually holding them captive. Whether it's schools or kindergarten, I remember seeing through observation that they would not allow the family to leave in order so that if we attack the missile silo next to it, they would be hurt. And then they can do their regular PR circle. So what do you do in a case like that? How does a soldier in the middle of a battle see civilians, see a family? How do they respond in that moment? Talk to us about your experience. So it's very complicated because you suddenly see a person and then you need to quickly assess whether it's a civilian or whether it's a Hamas operative. You can see there's also many videos of them just wearing casual clothing. And then holding an RPG just for that same purpose, that even if they are killed in action, it would seem like a regular civilian once you take away the weapon. So in terms of the families and things that you do, there are many videos that you see just people walking by and Israeli soldiers helping them out, whether it's to evacuate or get clear of the area. But it's very complicated because during intense warfare, if suddenly you have a civilian caught in between Hamas, they don't care for them. They are just interested in them getting hurt because then it's additional vicious circle of PR. Complicated situation indeed. Something you are also very familiar with is the Kerim Shalom border crossing. And we're hearing a US official saying, Israel has agreed to open that crossing for the screening and inspection of humanitarian aid delivered into Gaza via the Rafa crossing, given what we just heard a little bit earlier, the fact that a lot of this aid is landing up in the hands of the terror organization used for their own purposes. What kinds of checks and balances, so to speak, are there at the crossing? So we can do only so much in terms of getting it to the actual civilians. We can try and monitor it from the air and see what is actually happening. We've been seeing that people are stealing from the trucks before they're getting through in order to try to get some humanitarian aid before it falls into Hamas hands. On top of that, the reason that we want to screen the actual crossing is because they're also using it for smuggling. Whether it's hiding in bags of rice, the fact that there's weapons or drones or anything that allows them to continue fighting. So getting it to our jurisdiction is obviously something that is very demanding and will have to take some of our attention, but it's very necessary to see that there is the least amount of weapons and military equipment passing through. Major Dave, thank you very much. Stay with us. We've got more to discuss, but right now we're changing gears slightly. I want to welcome Dr. Orfea Grossbard, clinical psychologist and author, the Cultural Code Series, published by Ben Gurion University. He joins us now from Haifa. Thank you so much for your time on this day. Nearly nine weeks into this war and this nation is still in pain. So many details are still emerging about what happened on the 7th of October. What are you seeing through your work? What are your insights right now about the psyche of the nation, so to speak? I think many people are quite depressed. I mean, and it's very natural to be depressed in such a situation. The point is that Hamas is very sadistic. So, you know, it's almost kind of a profession for them, the sadism. I'll explain what I mean. A professional sadist, he doesn't give you a blow because you will get used to it, but felt he raised aspirations, felt he raised your hope that things are going to change and then the blow is coming. For example, he can say, okay, I'm going to release a few hostages and then he changes the list with different names. So people are hoping and then the blow is coming, okay? So people here in Israel have to get used to this sadism because, you know, it's very difficult to handle it emotionally for people who are waiting for their families. And okay, so at this time, for example, I try to think about all kinds of psychological tactics in order to help them to overcome it. For example, to think that their family members will be released no tomorrow or not in the next list, but in a month or two months, in this way they are not expecting every day for the release and this kind of expecting every day can, you know, it's so difficult and can many people can't stand it. So this is one aspect of the things I'm doing today, trying to think how to control the sadism. It's looking in the face of evil when you're describing the psychological warfare over and above everything else that has been happening. And when we hear about the conditions of the hostages in captivity, the uncertainty, the lack of food, being in tunnels, being in homes, being moved around, being separated from their family members, how does this impact an already untenable situation for people in captivity, not knowing exactly what is going to happen in the next hour, never mind the next day? You are asking about this, about the Israelis or about the hostages? The hostages. Look, there are all kinds of defense mechanisms that people are trying to use, but at the end of the day, it's very difficult to get out of it without a post trauma. I mean, think about living for a long time in a way that you are not controlling anything. Other people controlling your life, even when you are going to the toilet or if you have air or everything. So such a situation, I mean, it's a regressive situation. You are going back, I mean, you may feel like a little child, very little child who depends on the captures, and you have to adjust to it. And it's, I think it's almost impossible. And the damage is a long-term damage, no doubt. And that brings me to the next point, exactly what you alluded to, the way the country is hoping, this collective holding of breath, waiting for news, the support that the hostages still being held captive have from around the country, everybody united in their wish that they should come home and they should come home safely. Your thoughts on what that means, that support, that unity that exists right now in times of unimaginable pain? Yes, that's true. You see, the Israelis are very united at this time. And it's really, it's surprising, even though it's surprising us that we are so united. It's kind of, I don't know whether it come from, but it was hidden in our emotions. And it's not the first time is that it happens to us, but when it happens, the country is very, very united. It's amazing to see, really. Before October 7th, there were all kinds of split between all kinds of groups and suddenly nothing. So it's amazing. It gives you a lot of power, no doubt. And it's very difficult for us. From one side, we have to think about the hostages and everything in order to relieve them. From the other side, you want to repress a little bit in order to breathe. Because if you think about it the whole day, I mean, it's impossible. So you have to, from one side, do everything to try to relieve them and think about it. And from the other side, you want to handle a little bit of normal life or even in order to help them, you need to handle, to lead a normal life. So this split in our soul, it's very difficult. And talking about trying to lead a normal life, it's very difficult when, as we're speaking, rocket sirens are sounding as we speak in some of the southern communities once again, also in Storot-e-Bim and near Am, as we speak. Day 63 of the war, Dr. Grospart, and this happens with increasing regularity. How does a nation get used to this scenario? Briefly, please, if you don't mind. You're speaking about the rockets. And I think the rockets now, it's ironic to say, but I think the rockets now, because most of them don't succeed to kill people. So it's the easiest part maybe. The hostages, I think it's the imbearable part. Certainly is unbearable indeed. And as we keep on saying, the whole nation holding its breath, waiting for maybe the miracle of Chanukah, that festival that is underway right now for some light, for some good news. Dr. Orfea Grospart, thank you so much for speaking to us. So appreciate your time, live from Haifa. Thank you. Major Dave, as we're talking sirens are sounding, it's true what Dr. Grospart is saying. There isn't that threat that is the same that was in the early days of the war. People are used to running to shelters and for the most part, lots of the southern communities are evacuated. Nonetheless, it's still happening daily. How is that possible when this operation continues inside the Gaza Strip as we speak? Firstly, I want to address the sadism that you mentioned, just to be very clear. They are causing casualties on purpose and then they are mining with bombs the casualties and the bodies of the Gazan civilians. That's the extent of their sadism. Now, regarding the missile attacks, well, what they're doing is one of the things in the ceasefire is that they allow them to move various missile silos and they have some missile silos remaining in the southern part of Gaza. So while the amount of missiles is significantly reduced, we should not be behaving everyday life as if there are not going to be any more missiles. It will be significantly reduced but they always keep a certain amount just for the last minute or just they're finishing all the reserves before we are coming in and just dismantling them. Major Dave, we have literally 10 seconds left. Are you confident that Israel can handle threats on all fronts at the same time nearly nine weeks into this war very briefly? Yes, so first of all, we need to keep in check all the fronts. Once we finish in Gaza, we are completely free to damage all the other fronts and all the other people that want to hurt us as well as right now, you can see it doing in parallel with a northern limit and that it is. Major Dave in the reserve, thank you very much for being here in studio. Appreciate your insights. And that is a wrap for this edition of our breaking news coverage. I'm Venita Levine, back in a bit. Stay tuned. Israel is in a state of war. Families completely done down in their beds. We have no idea where she is. Our soldiers are fighting on the front line but the general perception is something that certainly needs to be fought as well. Welcome to News 24, the magazine of analysis and news in Spanish The I-24 News. I'm Nicole Bichel. It's a new week of the Iron Spades War. After receiving, with the emotion, children and women kidnapped, now released along with their families, some of them are dead. The war continues in Israel. Eqfir, ten months old, his little brother, Ariel, four years old, and his parents, the family, live, are running through orange-coloured social networks with the hearts of those who care about humanity. More than 130 Reis of Israel are still in the hands of the terrorism of Hamas. Sometimes it seems that the shadow of the past persists and we wonder how advanced and retroceded the Palestinian society. Haq Ameen al-Jusayni, El Mufti de Jerusalem, se había reunido en 1941 con Adolf Hitler. El Mufti le pidió a Hitler que no expulsar a los judíos de Alemania ya que quería evitar que llegaran a Palestina, por lo que le recomendó a Hitler que hacer con los judíos, exterminarlos y quemarlos, quemarlos. En estos días, en el Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas, el embajador de Israel, Indicha Sede, Gilad Erdan, le recordó a los ministros de Relaciones Exteriores de los países musulmanes y árabes y a todos los presentes lo que la Dirección Palestina en aquellos tiempos incitó contra los judíos. This picture tells you everything you need to know about this conflict. This is Haq Ameen al-Jusayni, the grand Mufti of Jerusalem and one of the founding fathers of Palestinian nationalism. Al-Jusayni dedicated his life to ensuring that there would be no Jewish presence in Israel or in any Arab land. And it was the Mufti's ideology which sparked the expulsion of Jews from Arab countries and Iran. A century ago, council members, over one million Jews lived in Arab countries, one million Jews. Yet today, there are only a couple thousands. Where did all the Jews disappear to? The Jews of Lebanon, the Jews of Syria, Yemen, Iraq and Iran, they were expelled. So enough with the hypocrisy. Queren que podría haber sido la solución final musulmana para todos los judíos de la tierra, la palabra holocausto, quemar el cuerpo, posee un contenido más allá de la razón donde merge el dolor. El fuego implica respeto. Es la línea imaginaria entre la vida y la muerte que usado en malos términos daña la psique humana. Octubre 2023, cuerpos calcinados por Hamas, que para los especialistas forences israelíes les tomó casi un mes de averiguar a qué judío o judía pertenecía. Hamas utilizó este argumento, la ofrenda, perversa, en sacrificio para intentar crear probablemente una conexión en el mundo musulmán. Está claro que la gran mayoría de los musulmanes aborrecen Hamas. ¿Qué piensa el Islam sobre la vida? Dentro de sus premisas, se considera que quien salva una vida es como si salva la humanidad, el testimonio de la fe. Shahada, la oración, salad. Está claro que el Mufti de Jerusalén no representaba la esencia del Islam. Masabio puede ser un humilde panadero musulmán que un Mufti. Los palestinos de la generación, pof Mufti, pof Arafat, deberán soltar la mochila del pasado y construir una sociedad de avance. Y aquí, deberemos aquí en Israel, la Israel vital. Y ambos pueblos, cuando la pesadilla de la guerra culmine, reunirnos en Jerusalén. Y para analizar el escenario internacional israelí, tenemos Villasumma, la vicealcaldesa de Jerusalén, Fleur Hassan Nahun, quien se encuentra en estos momentos en Londres. Fleur, muchísimas gracias por estar con nosotros. Quiséramos saber, el presidente de Israel, Issaad Herzor, se reunió con el emir de Qatar como primer encuentro formal en los Emiratos Árabes Unidos. El emir, entre algunas repeticiones, le dijo a Herzor, evitar que el Mossad del servicio secreto israelí elimine a líderes de Hamas que estén fuera de Gaza, principalmente en Qatar. Veje esto como una condición del emir en el esquema de mediador que está haciendo de la guerra de Israel contra Hamas y, más que nada, por la liberación de rehenes. Es quizás una señal de Qatar para poder entrar algún día en los esquemas de los acuerdos a Brahms. Bueno, Qatar siempre está jugando un juego doble de la primera parte que ellos arman el fuego. Ellos empiezan el fuego y después se quieren hacer los bomberos del fuego que ellos empezaron. Ellos están subvencionando a Hamas muchos años. Ellos están recibiendo y teniendo a los líderes de Hamas que organizaron este ataque, este masacre y lo sabían. Y ahora se quieren hacer más con que yo no me fío de los de Qatar y nadie se tiene que fiar de ello. Si nos pueden ayudar a sacar renes, perfecto. Si no, que se quiten de medio. Vizal Caldeza, en la Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre el cambio climático 2023, la COP28, uno de sus asistentes fue el presidente de Colombia, Gustavo Petro, quien hizo un paralelo entre la situación en Gaza calificándolo de genocidio y barbárie desatada sobre el pueblo palestino. El cambio climático también y hasta terminó hablando de Hitler. ¿Qué opina usted sobre esto? Bueno, el presidente de Colombia ha salido como una persona que en vez de estar en el lado de la humanidad, en el lado de una democracia, en el lado de un país que hay libertad, se ha aliado con un grupo terrorista. Pero te digo una cosa, que yo ha hablado con muchos colombianos, me han entrevistado en radio y televisión de Colombia y la gente no está con él. El embajador de Israel en las Naciones Unidas en estos días ante el Consejo de Seguridad mostró la imagen del gran mufti de Jerusalén, reunido con Hitler, recordando las palabras de exterminación hacia los judíos. El líder palestino en 1941. ¿Qué olvidó el mundo? Misa Alcaldeza. Desafortunadamente, el mundo tiene una memoria muy corta, porque ya solo olvidaron lo que pasó hace dos meses. Un massacre que nosotros no empezamos. Una guerra que estamos en una guerra que no empezamos. Ellos empezaron, ellos no atacaron. Ellos mataron a nuestros bebe, violaron a nuestras mujeres. Se llevaron 240 renes. Nosotros llevábamos una época que habíamos dado 20,000 permisos de trabajo a la gente de Gaza para poder ayudarlo con su situación económica, que una situación que jamás mismo tienen la culpa de no haber desarrollado una economía, de no haber preocupado por su gente. Ellos recibían dinero del mundo entero y se ponían a construir una base de terror subterránea con que nosotros, era Israel, que estaba dando oportunidad de la gente de Gaza. Y mira cómo no lo agradecieron, mira lo que ocurrió. Ellos no metieron, nosotros no queríamos esta guerra, nosotros no empezamos esta guerra. Ellos la empezaron de la forma más barbarica y más cruel que ha existido en el territorio de Israel que el mundo judío ha visto desde el Holocaust. ¿Cómo debe Israel actualmente manejar la diplomacia en momentos tan convulsos donde el aumento del antisemitismo es bastante considerable? Yo creo que los países donde tienen comunidades grandes de judío se tienen que dar cuenta que aquí hay una amenaza, que ellos tienen que proteger a su comunidad judía y esto no tiene que ver con Israel. El antisemitismo siempre tiene alguna excusa. Hace 500 años era una excusa religiosa. Hace 100 años era una excusa étnica. Después una excusa ahora colectiva, el país de los judíos. Pero el mismo antisemitismo es un virus que va mutando y aquí estamos. ¿Por qué el mundo no se ha impactado como deberías ser ante el asesinato de israelíes civiles, el secuestro de civiles, niños por parte de un grupo terrorista? ¿En qué ha fallado la diplomacia israelí? No sé si un fallo de la diplomacia israelí, la verdad yo creo que es una discriminación que existe contra Israel. Un lavado de celebro que jamás irán y el mundo árabe, los radicales en el mundo árabe han hecho muy bien. No ahora, se veinte años inculcando a la gente que nosotros no pertenecemos en la tierra de Israel cuando el pueblo de Israel es de la tierra de Israel. Pero bueno, han inculcado una idea que hoy hace que la gente no nos vea ni como ser humano. Flero Hassan Ahun, vicealcaldesa de Jerusalén y confundadora del Consejo Espresarial de Emiratos Árabes Unidos a Israel, muchísimas gracias por haber estado con nosotros en News 24. Muchas gracias, Nicole, por invitarme al programa. Siempre es un placer hablar contigo. El César El Fuego y la entrega de rehenes israelíes en manos de jamás ha marcado la agenda en estos días de guerra. Jonathan Regev, nuestro corresponsal de guerra, nos trae este reportaje desde la Franja de Gaza. Estamos aquí en la ciudad de Sderot, muy cerca de la Franja de Gaza, menos de un kilómetro de lugar donde estoy. La ciudad de Sderot estaba bastante pacífica por una semana. La semana de César El Fuego, pero eso se acabó y ahora de nuevo hay alarmas aquí. Hay misiles cohetes que se lanzan hacia la ciudad. ¿Por qué todo esto pasó? Tuvimos una semana de César El Fuego durante esta semana más de 100 israelíes. Casi todos niños y mujeres volvieron a Israel. Fueron rehenes de jamás en la Franja de Gaza y volvieron. En Israel había bastante gente que quería que ese César El Fuego y el retorno de rehenes continuará. Aún tenemos mujeres y niños que están rehenes de jamás, pero los acuerdos que de los dos lados tuvieron, el retorno de mujeres y niños de Gaza y Israel que libera prisioneros, que también son mujeres y niños, ese fue el acuerdo. Pero en los últimos días del César El Fuego ya jamás quebraba, digamos así, estos acuerdos. Si al principio se hablaba de 10 rehenes por día, el último día, por ejemplo, volvieron 8. Y también mujeres y niños que tenían que estar en la lista, que jamás se daba cada día, al final no estaban ahí. Así que después de una semana ese César El Fuego terminó y estamos hablando de nuevo de combate al armas, como he dicho aquí en Sderot. Y detrás nuestro, en la ciudad de la Franja de Gaza, ya Bombardeos, Israelíes, la guerra volvió. Los dirigentes de Israelíes se creen que la presión militar es la que eventualmente podrá dar a un nuevo acuerdo sobre los rehenes, se creen que la presión puesta por Israel. Al principio fue la que condujo a jamás a aceptar un acuerdo, el primer acuerdo de los niños y las mujeres, un acuerdo que fue bastante beneficiar para Israel. Y ahora creen que con nueva presión de nuevo jamás quizás se accederá a una nueva propuesta. Esta vez quizás serán hombres. Hay que recordar más de 130 rehenes aún en manos de jamás. Muchos de ellos, ancianos, hombres, ancianos, enfermos, algunas mujeres y también algunos niños. Entonces lo que piensa Israel es que esta presión al final podrá dar a un nuevo acuerdo. Será así como muchas cosas en esta guerra tenemos que esperar y ver qué va a pasar. Para News 24, Jonathan Regev desde Zderot. El hijo de jamás, Mossad Hassan Yusif estuvo en Brasil, fue una estancia breve pero de gran significado para el país sudamericano que tiene unos 60,000 refugiados y descendientes palestinos, pero con más de 214 millones de habitantes. Mossad Hassan, de combatiente, de jamás, se convirtió a espía al servicio de la inteligencia israelí. La guerra está en curso aquí en Israel contra jamás. Hassan provocó otra guerra entre activistas de la causa palestina y defensores de Israel en las redes sociales. Es un ejemplo más de cómo el conflicto en medio oriente se ha ido extendiendo por el mundo. Afirmó en el club hebraica de Sao Paulo que quienes defienden la solución de dos estados, es decir, la convivencia de Israel y una posible nación palestina como solución al conflicto actual son perdedores que llegaron al momento equivocado y dijo que los activistas pro-palestinos que defienden a jamás deberían irse a vivir con los terroristas de Gaza. Es interesante, Mossad, de 45 años el se elijo primogénito de Hassan Yusif, uno de los fundadores de jamás, la facción terrorista. En Brasil le criticó a Lula da Silva por haber llamado terroristas por no haber llamado terroristas a jamás. You're the president of a great nation. You cannot compare a savage group that just committed a genocide to a democratic state that is defending itself. And the civilian casualties on the other side is because of the savages who are taking humanity as human shields. Pero no todas las víctimas fueron judías. En el siguiente reportaje del canal 12 Israelí, adaptado por Fabio Shapiro, cuenta el relato de Jamed, un veduino israelí víctima del terrorismo de jamás el 7 de octubre. Jamás no para. A los 47 años, Jamed Abu Arar se convertió en viudo con 9 hijos, el más pequeño de solo 7 meses. Aquela mañana su esposa Fatma lo llevó a trabajar en agricultura en el poblado de Miftahim. Cuando llegaron al cruce de Maón, ella redujo la velocidad para dejar pasar una fila de motocicletas que se acercaba. La primera motocicleta comenzó a dispararnos. Acerqué a mi esposa hacia mí. Dijimos, Dios nos proteja. ¿Qué es esto? ¿Quiénes son estos? Y vimos que los disparos no paraban. También la segunda moto, la tercera, la cuarta, la quinta, la sexta. Todos ocho motocicletas disparando hacia nosotros. Otro trabajador que estaba sentado atrás también fue asesinado y Jamed tenía por la vida de su bebé que estaba sentado al asiento detrás. El niño estaba ahí sin llorar, nada. Entonces dije, ¿qué? ¿Será que también él recibió una bala? Agarré al bebé, lo moví y lloró. Busqué, le levanté la ropa y todo y no solo esquirlas en el hombro. Durante cinco largas horas, Jamed se escondió con su bebé en el armario de servicios que estaba al lado de la ruta. Y cuando llegó el ejército, los terroristas del Jamaas se escaparon. Al final, corrió con el bebé hacia los soldados y los terroristas que estaban detrás fueron abatidos. Jamed, que él mismo nació y creció en Rafa, se quedó con el bebé y con rabia por la organización que usa el nombre del Islam. De qué religión son hijos de pecadores que disparan a quemarropa contra una mujer musulmana con la cabeza cubierta religiosa. Le dispararon al Islam mismo. La tragedia de Jamed es parte del precio que pagó la sociedad de Bedouina en esta guerra. 19 fueron asesinados y otros siete secuestrados y llevados a Gaza. A finales de noviembre tuvimos la oportunidad de compartir en la embajada de Argentina en Israel un emotivo encuentro con los familiares israelíes de origen argentino, víctimas del 7 de octubre, donde estuvieron presentes destacados líderes comunitarios argentinos que vinieron de visita a Israel para apoyarlos en momentos tan difíciles. Veamos el siguiente reportaje. La casa del encargado de negocios de la embajada de Argentina en Israel fue el lugar de encuentro entre los más importantes líderes judíos de Argentina y los familiares de los secuestrados y liberados de origen argentino. Que la comunidad judía conozca de primera mano los testimonios de la familia de los redes que lo sientan en persona que no es lo mismo que leerlos en el diario y que también le demuestren la cercanía en un ámbito como lo habíamos definido familiar en una casa, en un living. El objetivo era que las familias se sientan abrazadas, que se sientan que tienen el apoyo de la Argentina en su conjunto y que se sientan en casa. Jorge Knoblovich, presidente de la delegación de asociaciones israelitas argentinas, renueva los esfuerzos. La Daya se ocupa permanentemente de que esto es un recuerdo permanente en los subtes, en las canchas de fútbol, en los medios, en los partidos de fútbol, siempre se menciona el tema de renes, en el sentido argentina de la situación particular, porque además tenemos que controlar, mientras tanto, pedir por los renes y combatir el antisemitismo de líderes, pues somos la quinta comunidad judía del mundo de la primera de América, nos sirve para renovar el esfuerzo, escuchar los testimonios y saber lo que tenemos que hacer. Itzik Thor tiene dos hijos secuestrados en Gaza. Lo más importante, después de más de 50 días, es que hemos recibido una señal de que están vivos, que están juntos, y eso, después de tantas noches de sin dormir, de alguna manera, nos permite ver una lucecita al fondo de los túneles y, puntualmente, porque están en los túneles de Gaza. Amos Limnetsky, como presidente de la AMIA, no se quedó con los brazos cruzados. Estuvimos en lo que es el Maté Clalí de los Jatufímel, el comité central de los secuestrados, y le preguntábamos ahí a unos embajadores que están, ex-embajadores que están como voluntarios, le preguntábamos si servirá algo lo que se está haciendo, uno se siente muy impotente y uno no ve resultados, entonces ¿se sirve algo o no todo esto que está haciendo? Y me contestó algo que me hizo muy bien personalmente, que es que ante todo no te puedes quedar con los brazos cruzados, entonces, seguro que lo que estás haciendo algo ya es bueno. Para Silvio Joskovich, hay que luchar. El mundo hispano tiene que entender que es una obligación de todo el mundo, tanto judíos como no judíos, de unirse en un único mensaje. Somos las fuerzas del bien contra las fuerzas del mal. Tenemos que luchar, exigir la liberación de los secuestrados y no rehenes, secuestrados. Hoy, no mañana, no pasado mañana, hoy. Paola Frishta nos cuenta su experiencia como familiar de secuestrados. Bueno, lo más difícil para mi hermana fue no estar con sus hijas, estar en la oscuridad y durante casi dos meses comer solo pan, a veces no comer ni pan, tomar un poquito de agua, pan con hongos, eso no, eso volver muchos años atrás. Y de mis sobrinas en más, que no están con sus padres, de no saber dónde están sus padres, si están heridos, si están vivos, estuvieron solas. Solas engaza con terroristas y heridas. Yo solo pregunto al mundo si fuese en tu hijo, tu hermano, tu tío, tu abuelo, qué harías. Y ahora quiero darle la bienvenida, desde Buenos Aires a nuestros estudios en Tel Aviv a mi compañero, el periodista Carlos Urovich. Carlos, ¿cómo estás? Bienvenido aquí a nuestro programa, News 24. Hola, Nicole. Bueno, desde Buenos Aires debo decir que vengo siguiendo con interés todo lo que pasa en Israel, y también a través de la comunidad judía, está muy atenta a todo lo que ocurre en esta guerra. Como tú lo has mostrado, los dirigentes de la comunidad han estado en Israel, han demostrado apoyo, han participado en un encuentro con el presidente Herzog y en la embajada argentina. Y de alguna manera, lo que quiere decir es que la comunidad judía argentina da apoyo completo a lo que está pasando en Israel. Es más, ayer tuve la oportunidad de visitar uno de los grandes centros comunitarios judíos aquí en la Argentina, que es el club náutico ACOAS, donde tuve la oportunidad de conversar con todos los dirigentes y con muchos allegados que querían escuchar de alguna manera qué es lo que estaba pasando en Israel. Y sin duda, sin duda, todos siguen día a día. Muchos se preguntan qué fue lo que pasó, realmente, el 6 de octubre. Y, fundamentalmente, qué es lo que va a pasar al final cuando esta guerra termina. Exactamente, Carlos. Como bien dices, tanto los lugares donde has estado presentes, acompañando a la comunidad judía en Buenos Aires como aquí, ha sido importante. Decían quienes estuvieron presentes, líderes comunitarios argentinos, que era muy importante acompañar a los familiares de las víctimas. ¿Cómo se ha vivido también esa receptividad de intercambio, de ayuda, de apoyo entre Argentina e Israel? Debo decir que la comunidad judía argentina está muy movilizada. Es más, de adelante, cuando estábamos preparando este programa, que el próximo jueves 7 habrá un acto multitudinario en apoyo a Israel aquí, en el centro de la ciudad de Buenos Aires, de alguna manera, diciendo al mundo que no hay que comprar el famoso slogan from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free, porque eso significa que 10 millones de Israelis van a desaparecer. Y el mensaje tiene que ser, hay que terminar con jamás, hay que evitar que siga gobernando Gaza, hay que desmilitarizarlos y entonces poder entrar en un proceso en el cual a largo tiempo se pueda llegar a una regla de paz, uno, dos estados, la forma en que algunos se ocupen de manejar la franja de Gaza, pero si decirle a Israel, ustedes no están solos, es lo más importante, porque pareciera ser que alrededor del mundo, el único que combate a ejércitos como el externeadores, como el Hamas es Israel, mientras los otros ocupan de políticas internas que tienen que ver con quién vota o no vota en Europa o a quién apoyo o no apoyan el Partido Democrático Republicano en Estados Unidos. Y bien has mencionado la visita en Brasil de quienes, de alguna manera, vienen a contar una verdad que para la mayoría no es revelada, o sea, la gente no tiene en Latino América mayor idea exactamente de qué es lo que está pasando en Israel con Hamas y con Gisbola. Y de alguna manera, ese tipo de actividad, ese tipo de explicación que se le da a la gente, contribuye a tener una imagen mucho, mucho más clara. Bueno, Carlos, muchísimas gracias por todo lo que nos relatan desde Buenos Aires. Esperaremos ya a tu regreso. Gracias a todos ustedes por estar como siempre con nosotros. En News 24, en Magazine de noticias y análisis en español. De ahí, 24 News, síganos a través de las redes sociales. Hasta la próxima. Shrell is in a state of war, families completely done down in their beds. We have no idea where she as our soldiers are fighting on the front lines, but the general perception is something that certainly needs to to be fought as well. And Tel Aviv was painted orange this weekend as the heart of this entire nation is shattered into pieces because we're all waiting for those beautiful innocent red heads that got into into everyone's souls to come back home, the bebis family, the gut turning video of mother Shiri and her young boys four year old Ariel. And now 11 month old fear. He was nine month old when he was kidnapped. Now he's 11 month old being taken into the God's ship from their home more than eight weeks ago became one of the most tragic symbols of this war. And their father, Jordan is in captivity to Hamas playing a vicious, vicious game, releasing a video of him few days ago as part of the psychological warfare. The IDF cannot verify claims under well-being and the heart is simply torn. Take a look. Wow, this is crazy. That's a crazy week. Ups and downs. Many ups and downs. It's an emotional roller coaster. This last week is a real wind of emotions because every day we know not to hop too much so as not to be disappointed, but every day people return. And right now they are still not here with us. Unfortunately, even today, even in the sixth exchange, the Bebas family was not included. These were shaky days for the whole country and certainly for the Bebas family. A week of hope and disappointments while the whole country holds its breath and waits for the list. When will the names of Khvir, Ariel, and Shiri appear? No one will hurt her so that you know how human we are. You know she has children. Everything was said about this moment, which became the symbol of this war, evil versus purity, terror versus horror. Ariel is only four years old. Khvir is nine months old. I don't know how they spent the night there. It's hard to believe that more than 50 days have passed since then. The two red-haired brothers and their parents were kidnapped from Kibbutz near Oz. And Khvir received the dubious and terrible title of the youngest abductee. Last Friday when the kidnapped children started to come back, they were so hoping to see them. But it was not to be. I kept myself strong all the time to be strong, but this morning I cried because I couldn't hear. One more time, they're not on the list. It killed me this morning. I just can't take it anymore. That's it. I can't take it anymore. So the family decided it was time to further increase the pressure in Israel and especially in the world. Hamas claims that they are in the hands of another faction, but that does not change the message. They should return home. Are these your enemies? We will repeat this in both Hebrew and English. Are these the people threatening you, like this, with the pictures of the babies? In terms of posters, things, do you need something for us to complete? Yes, I need their pictures now. I only have the sign. They're getting ready for the statement they're going to give at 4 o'clock in hostages square. And we need posters of the family members. Let's make another bag, which, before the declaration, we will distribute to the people there to hold it during their declaration. In the logistics warehouse, in a horrifying order, according to the alphabet, the pictures are placed, coming to the Vibas pictures, a stack with high demand. Not a day goes by that we don't get questions. What about the redhead? The people with the balloons begin to gather in the abductees square. After midnight, the yellow changes to reddish-orange. Atem is paha, atem koa. All members of the extended family are already waiting in the family room. It's been everyone's effort for weeks. I know that our family, especially these two little ones, entered everyone's hearts deeply. And all of us together with the entire people of Israel, we're already expecting them to be here. We asked you here. Everyone is holding orange balloons. We will blow them all into the sky, hoping that they will reach, I don't know, wherever possible. Let's offer prayers. Let it reach Gaza for those who need it. The main thing is that they return. We want them home now. Now, now. You want a clap? All right. A lot of international media has arrived at the square, and the family enters the information battle. Terrified to death? Anyone willing to listen? Anyone willing to interview? Why the orange balloons? Is it because of their orange hair? I feel like some kind of soldier in some kind of war that I don't understand. They tell me, go to the expedition. I go. They tell me, get an interview. I do the interview. These little redheads, these two young redheads, really entered the hearts of everyone in Israel and also the whole world. Their photos appeared all over the world on newspaper covers. No one remained indifferent to these sweet faces. Isn't there some fear that precisely all these interviews and the exposure and the fact that everyone knows them increases their price? Because they are the strongest card? Did it cross our minds? Of course it did. Eventually, we have to make some kind of decision. Who do we trust and what our intuition says, and go for it. And your intuition tells you to shout loudly? Bring them back? Yes, today. We had a conversation in the family about this, whether we were wrong or not wrong all along. But the picture of Shiri and the kids was much bigger than us and it spread like wildfire. Even if we weren't interviewed even once, it just did its job. So I absolve myself of responsibility for this thing. What's going on? My thoughts are running about the night. About Los Angeles? The next morning they continued to the press. Yossi hesitates. He's supposed to leave tonight in a delegation to meet with politicians and celebrities in LA. In my opinion, your trip to Schwarzenegger is important. You will be able to use it to convey it in a meaningful way to the world. Let's give it a few minutes and figure out what we're doing here. The confusion becomes even more acute when a brutal push announced by Hamas arrives. Something's happening here. Let's give it a few minutes and figure out what we're doing here. At the moment there's a push on the Bebas family, on the two children, on Ariel and Kfir, and on their mother, Hamas announced that they were murdered. We're connecting them to the team now. The family does not know how to accept these news. It may be that these news have nothing to do with reality. Maybe this event... It is part of the psychological warfare. Hanak Azir, it was announced that she died and she returned on her own two legs in good health. I think everyone is holding on to it now. We take this message with limited liability at this stage, because we don't know. Hamas is playing a psychological game with us. Hamas didn't know where they were until a minute before this message. He didn't know. He lifted every rug. As soon as they run out, before they run out of time, they suddenly find them. In my opinion, this is a poor excuse for continuing negotiations. It's not just the shaky manipulation from Hamas that you have to deal with. There's also the palpitations before the list is published. Actually, this is the last one before the end of the ceasefire. In the last few days, I kept hoping. I'm trying to convince myself it's just to abuse us a little more. But they will release them. They will release. But it's scary because, hey, we've reached the day before the last day of the ceasefire. The last day of release, as far as I know now. And they're not here yet. There's a problem here. The last day has arrived. Today is the day that if you are not freed, there is one more day left. We don't have time to wait. We don't have time to wait. We are very worried. We are really afraid of the thing. Trying to pass the time until the situation clears up does no other way. But despite the expectation, a sense of despair comes. Kfir, Ariel and Shiri are not listed. A chilling sign of life comes in the evening precisely from their father, Jordan. A video that does not bode well for the fate of his family. This is an act of psychological terror. Hamas' claims about the Bebas family are still unverified. I repeat, they are still unverified. On Friday morning, the fighting resumed and with it the concern of the Bebas family and all the families of the abductees that their return is getting further away. And again, they oscillate between hope and despair, between ignorance and immense longing, the laughter of Kfir, the nonsense of Ariel, the smile of Shiri, the hug of Jordan. We want them back here, healthy and whole in body and soul. And the orange light we have in our hearts will continue to shine and shine until they are home. To hell and back, after over 50 days in Hamas' captivity, the Israeli hostages, the freed, are speaking. Some, not all, sharing some, not all of the horrors they experience in our Erika Jackson is bringing their stories. Nearly two months after Hamas' brutal attack in Israel on October 7th, freed Israeli hostages are now telling firsthand accounts of what it was like being kidnapped and taken into the Gaza Strip. Among those sharing stories of being taken captive and held under life-threatening conditions are 85-year-old Jochebed Lipschitz and 84-year-old Dietza Haiman. In the last few days of the war, I have been fighting in the new world for what has happened in the last few days. The food was not very good at the beginning, but as time passed, the food went bad. It was almost impossible to say. Those who have been freed also detailing the mental anguish of what it was like to be held against their will, including 44-year-old Danielle Eloni, who was kidnapped with her 5-year-old daughter, Amelia. There is no more today. There is no more. There are more, more lives. Every day is different, when it passes, it is a miracle that it will not end. I am afraid that every day there will be a lot of 85-year-old friends and more young people who will not be allowed to go to prison and to be released. And our main goal of this year is to bring them back to life without a home. Those who have been freed echoing the same message that time is running out. Every day is critical, also because of the hardships. And the hardships are very difficult. And the struggle in the future is going away. And people there in the police, people can die, because he just killed them. I am asking, I am asking, I am asking the police, I am asking the police to eliminate all of them. Get rid of the children, get rid of everyone. People should not get rid of the criminals there. If you do not get rid of them now, they will not be released. More details are likely to emerge about October 7th as more of those who were kidnapped are expected to share their stories as well. Now to the Organization of Angels, the ZAK organization is one of the most highly revered institutions in Israel. And rightfully so. We're talking about volunteers who help with the extremely difficult and painful process of collecting the remains of terror victims so they can be identified and laid to rest properly. And our Uri Shepira is reporting from Kibbutz Niroz, one of the community's hardest hit on October 7th on their work there. Nearly two months after Hamas onslaught in southern Israel, volunteers of the ZAK organization are still working hard to collect body parts from the Gaza border area. Here in Kibbutz Niroz, 38 people were murdered. Israel Khasid, a volunteer and the spokesman of Zaka Tel Aviv, recalls the horrific moments when his crew first arrived to Niroz. We found blood on the bed, so we had to cut off the sheet and bury it. This house looks exactly as it was when we arrived here. One of the bodies was laying on the bed. It had melted from the heat. We had another body here and another one of a 15-year-old, which was lying on the grass, half burnt. In one of the houses, the team found human tissue and remains of hair. Khasid tells us about the tough moments he and his crew faced after October 7th. One incident broke me and forced me to take some days off. I couldn't communicate with my family or anyone, actually. It was a baby, the same age and size of my daughter. Some of his body parts were removed. When I saw him, I was devastated. I said, that's it, I can't take it anymore. I'm 25 years old, someone else should do this job. I got home and hugged my daughter. My wife told me, Yisrael, this is your mission. If you feel that you can't do it, take some time off. But then after several days, I saw that there were still hundreds of bodies, which remained unidentified, and it's very urgent, because the bodies are decomposing and if we'll wait any more, it'll be very hard, if not impossible to identify the bodies. So I stood up and I said, that I'm willing to sacrifice my soul and body in order that we'll identify and bring as many people to burial in Israel as possible. As we walk inside one of the houses, we're greeted by evidence of the mental challenges that the crew faces. I had a conversation with a psychologist yesterday. He begged me to tell him what I've seen here. I asked him if he can handle it. He said, yes, we spoke for 15 minutes. I tried to hide some of the details from what I've seen here. I told him about one case which really touched my heart. I couldn't sleep after it. As I told him the story, he stops me and said, I need to take a break and drink something. I can't take it anymore. When I heard it, I understood that the psychologist is also a human being. We perform like machines, hours and hours, days and days, without sleeping, without any break for our souls. Israel says that there are still eight missing people from October 7th. Some of the bodies or body parts were transferred to the Abu Khabir Forensic Institute in Tel Aviv. We had one body that was classified as a terrorist body. It had weapons on it. The CT scan engineer told us that it was not a terrorist body, but an Israeli resident. But all the documents had shown that he is a Hamas terrorist. He showed our volunteer David a scan that showed that he had coronary artery bypass surgery. He said that this surgery was done in such a professional way, he doesn't believe that the body belonged to a terrorist. They checked the list of missing people and they found someone on the list who had the exact same surgery. Our ambulance went to Tel Heshomer Hospital and got his medical records. They cross-checked the information and came to the conclusion that the body belonged to him. They couldn't identify the body in any other way, because the body was totally burnt out. We went to Tel Heshomer Hospital and got the medical records from him. He showed us that it was the same person who had the exact same surgery, but it was the same person who had the exact same surgery, because this body belonged to him. Zakatel Aviv is a branch of the famous volunteer organization which has existed for nearly 30 years. It numbers around 400 volunteers. Its main goals are identification, extraction and rescue of bodies and body parts. Many of the volunteers here are ultra-orthodox who see their mission as a religious decree. Bringing complete bodies to burial is a custom in Judaism. We'll continue to work and we won't give up until the last murdered person will be buried. We still have several missing people. Many corpses still need more evidence that we need to collect. We'll continue to come here. We'll search inside the horrors time after time. Going back to these places where the horrors occurred is the hardest thing. But we'll continue to do it. We'll go back here and everywhere we need to go, any time, any moment, so we can find every small piece of information which can help us identify the bodies of those who are considered missing and who are not fully identified. Zaka Tel Aviv also operates a special center in Tel Aviv with special facilities for cases of mass casualties. This place is called the Reading Center. It is available for times of emergency to receive and to treat hundreds of bodies. We have family rooms, rooms to purify the bodies and to clean them. We have dozens of morgue freezers. We have a big space which can allow us to accept bodies from hospitals from all over Israel. Zaka volunteers say that despite the difficulties and challenges, they are proud to be a part of this organization which brings a final justice to the deceased. Perhaps another example of Israeli solidarity in the last few weeks. The business climate in the Middle East looks murky these days, as you know. But still, in the spirit of the Abraham Accords, business people meet in Dubai. Our Bastien Bore reports from there. Jordan has withdrawn from a major water and energy partnership that included the UAE in Israel. Saudi Arabia has suspended negotiations on its entry to the Abraham Accords. Bahrain has announced that it is breaking off economic relations with the Israelis. But despite the war in Gaza, Middle Eastern entrepreneurs want to keep looking at each other, regardless of origin or religion. I think it's a temporary moment of history, what is extremely sad. Of course, our biggest wish, like everybody in Israel, is we want to get free our hostages. No question about it. We want to stop the situation. To be really honest, at the beginning we had ourself the idea, are we really making this event? Are we postponing it? What are we doing? Finally, we decided seeing the relationship between Israel and the UAE and how friendly everything is going on and staying on at the moment. We decided we should event now more than ever because I think it's more important now than ever to build bridges, to build communication. In 2022, trade between Israel and the UAE jumped 109% to $2.5 billion, as compared to $1.2 billion in the previous year, making the Emirates the 16th largest trade partners of the Israelis. But the situation remains fragile for investors who prefer not to give in to the siren calls of political haggling. I was just talking yesterday to someone very prominent here in the UAE, and he was telling me that he says, I know this, he says to me, I know what's going on in the Arab media, and I don't listen to it, and I don't follow it, and I won't listen to it because I know it's propaganda, it's built on politics, it's built on money situations, trying to influence the people, and it's a sad reality that we have to deal with. I'm not saying that Israel's perfect either, no one's very well-trying, but always just to say the truth, and that's very, very important. What happened is an earthquake. It has to be said. We're not just talking about a war between two states involving only soldiers. Bad things did happen, barbarity, everyone was shocked. But Dubai, and the region as a whole, is a platform for business, and that's what counts. Today, we're not talking too much about politics. We hope that things will calm down for everyone's benefit. We're keeping our heads down, and things will pass. It's a very turbulent time, but I'm confident things will settle down. We're in a whirlwind today, which unfortunately is considerably slowing down our business. But we're quite optimistic for the next few months. We hope that the situation will calm down in the interest of universal values. While the impact of the war in Gaza is already being felt on world energy prices, it is not yet possible to assess the consequences for bilateral trade between Israel and Arab countries. Israelis and Emirates are still hoping to break the $10 billion trade barrier in the years to come. Yemen's Houthis are escalating attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea, raising concern for the safety of key trade routes. The naval forces of the Yemeni armed forces, with the help of Allah Almighty, carried out this morning a targeting operation against two Israeli ships in the Bab Al-Mandeb Strait. The targeted ships were the Unity Explorer and ship No. 9. The first ship was targeted with a naval missile, and the second ship was targeted with a naval drone. The Iranian-backed militia said attacks like those on Sunday would continue until Israel ends its strikes on Gaza. But the IDF denied the ships had any connection to Israel and accused the Houthis of endangering the freedom of navigation in the region. One of the ships was damaged in a very serious way, and it seems that it could be in danger of sinking and other one was lightly damaged. This is an event stemming from negative sabotage of the Houthis. We need to see how the world will answer this issue. This past weekend saw four attacks against three separate commercial vessels operating in international waters in the southern Red Sea. Three vessels that are connected to 14 different nations, which goes to show you the extent to which this is truly a source of global concern and a threat to international peace and stability. The Bahamas flagged Unity Explorer bulk carrier was attacked in the morning and then again in the afternoon by anti-ship missiles. Then the Panamanian flagged No. 9 reported damage but no casualties caused by a missile from Yemen. A third ship, the Sophie II, which also sails under Panama's flag, said it was struck as well but suffered no significant harm. The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Carney responded to the distress calls from these ships and provided assistance. In doing so, it detected three UAVs at three different times heading in its direction and it took action against all three of those UAVs. We have every reason to believe that these attacks, while they were launched by the Houthis in Yemen, were fully enabled by Iran. This is also one of those allegations aimed at projections which are made in line with efforts to deviate public opinion of nations and to cover up crimes by the Zionist regime and the US government. The US says it will consider all appropriate responses in full coordination with its international partners. But in the absence of significant action, such attacks off the coast of Yemen will only increase in frequency and severity. Back to you, Ben, I'm so the US is sending an envoy to the Gulf. Will that be enough? Again, I believe it's necessary but nowhere near sufficient, particularly at a time when some of the GCC countries are going to be receiving a call from Vladimir Putin. It certainly behooves Washington who wants to keep these countries in its orbit and actually has the capability to help patrol both the Red Sea and Babel Mendeb with a broader international maritime coalition that it is committed to freedom of navigation there and also committed to pushing back on the Iranian threat. So here is where action and not just words is going to be key from Washington. Israel is in a state of war. Families completely done down in their beds. We have no idea where is she as our soldiers are fighting on the front line. But the general perception is something that certainly needs to to be fought as well. In news edition, I'm Benisa Levine, several developments on several fronts on day 63 of the war. As Israel intensifies its efforts to eliminate the Hamas threat from the Gaza Strip. Red Alert sirens sounding right now at this minute in Storot, Ibn An-Niram. That is happening right now as we speak. The IDF hitting 450 Hamas sites in the past 24 hours. Large plumes of smoke have been seen rising above the enclave on Friday morning just over two months since the brutal terror rampage in southern Israel on the 7th of October at the moment. One hundred and thirty seven hostages remain in Hamas captivity in Gaza, including babies and the elderly. And these are the images of scores of Hamas operatives who have surrendered to the IDF. You can see those images on your screen right now. Now, the US is saying it has not imposed a hard deadline on Israel to end its operation in Gaza with a security adviser saying Hamas would continue to pose a threat to Israel if the war stopped today. So for the latest, let's go straight to our correspondent, Ariel Levin-Waldman in southern Israel. And as we started this broadcast just moments ago, Ariel Rocket Red Alert sirens sounding in parts of the south. What is the latest there? What can you tell us right now? And unfortunately, we seem to have lost that line to Ariel. We will go back to him very shortly later on in this broadcast. Meanwhile, the number of Israeli soldiers killed in the IDF retaliatory ground operation in Gaza is now at 90, including Master Sergeant in the Reserves, Gull Eisencott, the son of War Cabinet Minister and former IDF chief of staff, Gadi Eisencott. The 25 year old died while fighting in northern Gaza. He was laid to rest in Herzlier on Friday morning. The mourners included President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who hears more from War Cabinet member Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisencott himself at the moving service just a short while ago. Gull, my beloved son, I promise you that we will continue to be a loving, united and happy family so that your sacrifice and that of other falling soldiers will not be in vain and we will be worthy of it. I salute you, my beloved son. We love you forever, father, mother and all the family. Gadi, Gadi, we approved military plans and we knew the meaning. We know that the Elves and the maps can become Elves in the hearts of good and dear families. And you, my brother, my friend, my partner, you and your family are the embodiment of a personal example of placing the national interest above all personal considerations. You understood the meaning very well. Moving words, indeed. And now let's go to our senior correspondent, Owen Ultiman. He joins us from northern Israel. We know Benjamin Netanyahu isn't mincing his words when he talks about the concerns up north, specifically from Hezbollah. What is the latest where you are, Owen? And what can you tell us? Yeah, well, you're right, Pete. Of course, just in the last few minutes, as we know, those sirens and stirrups and some of the southern communities across from the Gaza Strip, and just over the course of the last few hours that move those moving eulogies for the son of Gadi Eisencote. So obviously the all out war in the South continues. Here on the northern border, not the same level of all out conflict, but certainly a steady drum beat of news and a steady drum beat of fire from across the Lebanese borders towards Israelis. We had an Israeli civilian killed yesterday, a 60-year-old farmer. Again, as you know, a lot of these communities have been evacuated, but farmers in some cases need to be there to tend their crops, to tend their fields. We had two Israeli soldiers lightly wounded. And what seems to have been a relatively serious incident in the Hardove region were Israel, Lebanon, and Syria meet, a band of terrorists spotted by IDF soldiers at an outpost in the Air Force, brought in with a drone man from afar. And those terrorists were neutralized. It appears that according to Wallinus, they had on them grenades, rockets, and Kalashnikov rifles. So an infiltration attempt that really could, of course, put Israeli lives at risk. We had rocket fire across the border from the Syrian Golan into the Israeli Golan and the IDF confirming earlier on this morning Israel time at the Air Force responded by hitting targets in Syria, reportedly in Damascus. In the meantime yesterday, Prime Minister Netanyahu, as you mentioned, Benita, coming up to the north for a situational assessment at Northern Command, then going out into the field to see some of the equipment and to meet some of the troops. And had this message for Hezbollah across the border, as he put it, not far from where he stood. If Hezbollah decides to start an all-out war, they will turn with their own hands, Beirut and southern Lebanon, which is not located very far from here, into Gaza and Hanyunis. We are determined to bring victory. A clear message there from Benjamin Netanyahu, but talk to us about the broad and Middle East. There have been continuous attacks on US forces in Syria and Iraq, talk us through the concerns, through the lens of the Pentagon, and steps to make sure that a regional conflict doesn't escalate in the coming days and weeks. Well, you're right, Benita, here, of course, on the northern border, but you're right. Looking beyond Lebanon, beyond Israel's immediate north to developments across the region, and you're right, they mostly have involved the US military. About 70 US soldiers having been injured in attacks on US military bases over the course of October and November, and a potential escalation overnight, four o'clock in the morning, this morning, in Baghdad, in the green zone in Baghdad, a rocket fired near the US embassy, so potentially targeting Benita, this time not US military personnel, but a US diplomatic mission. Sirens were activated, people there were told to duck and cover. No claim of responsibility, but again, given that Sheikh militias have been, those who have been involved in Syria and Iraq, it stands to reason that those at least loosely affected with those groups in with Iran were potentially responsible for this potential escalation on a US diplomatic mission on the US embassy to Iraq itself. So obviously the United States still on guard, the Pentagon still on guard, and a reminder of the huge US military presence around the region, of course, with those troops on those bases, but also the two aircraft carrier strike groups in the Mediterranean parked here in the opening days of the war, and the US military activity that's also been, that has also been involved in shooting down missiles fired from Yemen towards Israel. Thank you so much, senior correspondent, Owen Ultiman, live from Northern Israel, more to come from Owen in the coming hours, thank you. And now from the north, we go back to the south, and we try again with our correspondent, Ariel Levin-Waldman, in southern Israel. Ariel, as we were coming to you at the top of this broadcast, red alert siren sounding, I understand, you had to dash to a shelter, bring us up to speed, what is the latest there, right now? Yes, that's the second barrage we got targeting near us just over the course of this day. As you probably were aware, we do not have very good reception for our equipment while hiding in a bunker, but that's where we were when we were supposed to go live just a moment ago. But you do see there is a response. If we zoom in, Dean, you can see those four plumes of smoke that were not there before, the IDF counterfire missions, likely from the artillery crews that we've heard throughout the day. That's been a very constant presence near our position, is a sort of tooth-shaking boom of the outbound artillery heading towards Mount Promley, something that definitely deserved it, given what just got fired at us only a few minutes ago. But that's been the normal case over the day. It has been a heavier day of strikes, though. 450 air strikes is what the IDF said took place in the last day, last 24 hours or so, which is roughly double what we saw earlier in the week. It's been averaging about 200 a day, but that's because it's a very significant fighting going on on the ground right now. Two major battles that we're seeing just in this exact set of hours here, we have the Battle for Jabalia. That's the so-called refugee camp, refugee camp in name only. That makes you think of tents. It's not tents. It's a fortified neighborhood with bunkers and tunnel networks underneath. That is one of Hamas' strongholds. I'm not sure if you heard that. That was another outbound artillery just behind us. A maze of Hamas strongholds that Israel is trying to get into to break Hamas' presence in the north. Also, there's the Battle of Chanyunas. That's the last major Hamas-held city in Israel. Over the course of the past few days, you did in Gaza. Israeli forces over the course of the past few days did surround Chanyunas and have penetrated deeper into that territory to try to get to the center, to neutralize the battles on the ground so they could start getting at the tunnel network underneath. But there were at least four battalions of Hamas gunmen, Hamas terrorists in Chanyunas, plus whatever else filtered down from the north of Gaza during the ceasefire and using the humanitarian corridors. So very heavy resistance there, which explains the heavy airpower that we've seen over the course of the day. And of course, it shows that Hamas is not out yet, just given what we've seen, still being able to bombard Israel south as well as Israel center on a very regular basis with that rocket artillery they have. And while that all unfolds, Ariel, a US official saying Israel has agreed to open the Karim Shalom border crossing for screening and inspection of that humanitarian aid delivered into Gaza via the Rafa crossing. Bring us up to speed on that front. So that's largely the case right now. Remember that the crossing was closed after Hamas initiated the war. Israel doesn't want anything passing through Karim Shalom. They don't want to have to let anything through that they don't know what it's going to be, given that Hamas will use virtually any material passed into the strip for the purposes of war and terrorism. Now Israel is not opening the strip, not opening the crossing, I should say, just yet for good transfer. The idea right now is to allow the screening of anything that goes through to make sure it's not a dual use material. Remember that almost anything you could think of, fertilizer, 100% of dual use material, they use that to make bombs. When you're talking about concrete, 100% a dual use material, you could be able to make buildings and make bunkers and underground tunnel networks. I mean, if you know what you're doing, they could even turn salt into a low-yield explosive. So it's definitely something that screening means you don't know what's going to get through, but they're going to have to check almost everything to make sure it's not going to get into the hands of Hamas. But it's important because the United States is demanding Israel allow more humanitarian aid in. They've been criticizing Israel because ever since the ceasefire, the temporary ceasefire ended, it's gone from 200 aid trucks a day to about 70 aid trucks a day. And the United States says this is not good for the civilians in Gaza, and the US has put the protection of civilian life in Gaza as one of the highest American goals in this conflict. The Americans want to see Israel win, but they don't want to see it happen at the cost of untold human misery and suffering in Gaza. And Israel knows they need the United States and they need to buy time to finish the operation with the United States. So they're going to allow just about any terms the United States wants so long as it does not jeopardize the war goals of defeating Hamas. Allowing more humanitarian aid in does allow Israel to have more time to work with as long as they inspect literally everything that passes through to make sure it can't be used for the purposes of warfare. You stay safe. Thank you so much for now, correspondent Ariel Levin Waldman, live from Southern Israel. Thanks, Ariel. And now it's a pleasure to welcome to studio retired Colonel Richard Kemp, former commander in the British forces in Afghanistan. Thank you so much for being here in studio. Many developments on many fronts, as we just heard right now. Your take on what is unfolding right now inside the Gaza Strip, it is nearly nine weeks into this war. There are 137 hostages still being held captive inside the Gaza Strip as this fighting all unfolds. Talk to us about the concerns around the safety of those hostages while fighting continues and intensifies at this hour. Yeah, I mean, I think we're beginning now to see the collapse of Hamas. And we saw this in yesterday, a large number of Hamas terrorists surrendered. And I've heard reports also of civilians in Gaza turning on Hamas in some cases. So I think that they're identifying that Hamas is weakening, otherwise they wouldn't be able to do that. And these Hamas terrorists are getting severely hammered by the IDF and have been for a number of weeks. And they're tough enough when it comes to getting into a community inside Israel, gunning down, raping, hacking to death, innocent civilians. They're not so tough when they come up against one of the world's greatest fighting armies. And I think we're seeing that. And it's not over. There's gonna be some hard fighting. More Israelis, unfortunately, are gonna be killed, IDF soldiers. But nevertheless, I think the end is in sight for Hamas. And they knew this, which is why they pressed for a ceasefire themselves, and were willing to release some of the hostages. They knew that the only way they could avoid their own destruction was by Israel, not continuing to attack. As far as the hostages are concerned, of course, that is a huge concern. And it wouldn't surprise me. I don't know how many are left alive of that 137, but I hope all of them or many of them. But it will still be a really tough task for the IDF to be able to rescue them, unless there is some other maybe short-term ceasefire with a hostage release deal as a part of that. There has been so much outrage in this part of the world about the fact that the Red Cross has not been able to get access to these hostages, as far as we know, 137 of them. Given your experience on the war front, does it surprise you that they haven't been able to get the basic details, including proof of life? Never mind getting medicine to elderly hostages. Never mind getting medicine or help or formula to babies in captivity for nine weeks. It doesn't surprise me, to be honest. And that's because they, as the IDF having to deal with a brutal, merciless terrorist organization, the Red Cross have got to do the same if they're going to get that sort of information or provide any kind of assistance. And Hamas are not, they're not an army as we would recognize. They're not reasonable people. They don't have any interest in humanitarian assistance or human values. They just don't. And they won't cooperate with the Red Cross. And if they don't cooperate, then the Red Cross simply can't do their job. Let's not forget as well that the Red Cross inside Gaza is not necessarily like the Red Cross everywhere else. Many of these are controlled by Hamas. They're intimidated by Hamas. And in many cases, they're supporters of Hamas. And if Qatar is able to a host Hamas leaders in great luxury from what we understand in Doha, and if Qatar is able to apparently try and broker a second hostage release deal still in the works, so to speak, then shouldn't it be able to put pressure on the Red Cross to do its job? Yeah, I think the pressure that they can exert is probably more on Hamas than the Red Cross. And I think, as I mentioned before, Hamas is not interested in doing something to alleviate the suffering of the people that they dragged into Gaza. They're only interested. And the only way they can be influenced is if there's some way for them to maybe survive or escape from Gaza. So I don't think that other than a hostage release deal to buy time for them, I don't think there's anything that even Qatar can do to influence the welfare of these hostages inside Gaza. There've been a range of potential options for Israel inside Gaza right now. Obviously, time is of the essence, and there is pressure from the US and elsewhere for things to wrap up, so to speak, as soon as possible. Flushing out terror tunnels with sea water. What do you make of that option? Obviously, there's a massive risk around it, but given, again, your experience in this field, is it a viable option? It's a very viable option, and it's a very good option. But of course, and there are other options as well, including destroying tunnels from the air, blowing them up from the ground, using sponge bombs to block them. But of course, with all of these different options, the IDF has to have in mind not just the destruction of the terrorists within them, but the hostages that are held perhaps within those tunnels. So I think that the idea of using sea water to flush them out is a good one. Obviously, the hostages have to be born in mine, but also the potential that that will lead to collapse of large elements of these tunnels, which could bring down apartment buildings and other things overhead. And the IDF, of course, have an interest in trying to avoid civilian casualties as much as they possibly can. Talk to us a bit more about exactly that because there is much scrutiny and much criticism of Israel, despite the fact that it is releasing pamphlets to warn people in advance to get to safe areas, and huge steps that are being taken to try and make sure that Palestinians, civilians are not harmed, yet that isn't the perception on the global arena largely. Talk to us about what you understand, the efforts that are being made to make sure that civilians are not hurt as this war intensifies. Well, the global position on the IDF's military operations is that they're war criminals from the start, whatever they do. That's the way it's seen. Despite these efforts. Despite these efforts. There has been a huge propaganda campaign which has turned so much of the world, including the United Nations on Israel. But Israel, I was over here a few years back with a delegation of senior officers, retired senior officers from around the world, many, many countries. And they all felt that their own armies could not achieve anything like the kind of standards that the IDF achieve in minimizing civilian casualties on the battlefield. And the IDF still use the same techniques today and they do everything they can to to minimize civilian casualties, far more than the laws of war require. And just by way of illustration, comparing to other conflicts, the UN figures say that since the Second World War, the ratio of civilian to combatant deaths in conflicts has been nine to one, nine civilians for every combatant killed. In Iraq, it was three to one, around three to one. In Afghanistan, it was between three and five to one. Israel in previous conflicts has had a ratio between zero point six and two to one, far better than even some of the American and allied armies that take great care. I think in this conflict, from what I understand so far, we may be looking at a civilian combatant couchy rate of two to one or less. That's terribly bad, of course, because two civilians killed for every combatant, but it's much better than most other armies, including Western Democratic armies, have been able to achieve because of the immense efforts Israel does put into this. One wonders why the rest of the world isn't seeing exactly what you are describing, but as you say, this is an unfolding situation. Many more days, potentially weeks, potentially months still to come, which brings me to my final question. The day after in Gaza, there is much speculation as to what that looks like. Obviously, no one can tell at this stage, but there are many scenarios that are being discussed, much speculation. Your thoughts on what, from a security perspective, it needs to look like in Gaza for this region to be safe again, for people to feel safe again. Well, once Hamas has been neutralized as a threat, and that can be brought about by either killing them all or most of them, forcing their surrender, as we've already seen, forcing them to flee, but in some way, with huge military force, as we've seen, persuading them that they've lost, and that will bring them down. But that is not the end of the problem, even if and when, as needs to happen, Israel manages to eliminate the leadership in Qatar and elsewhere, in Turkey and other countries. Even after that's happened, the threat hasn't gone. There will be a successor to Hamas among a population that is so opposed and has been indoctrinated since birth to hate Israel. So that problem's gonna exist, and the IDF, therefore, will have to maintain overall security control inside Gaza for the foreseeable future, perhaps forever. There may be some form of local security force put together of guards and citizens, but the IDF will have to maintain a direct presence inside Gaza, possibly establishing a buffer zone inside the Gaza borders, which it can control and monitor directly to prevent a repetition of the 7th of October. Well, one thing is for sure, what happened on the 7th of October can never be allowed to happen again in any part of the region, frankly, in any part of the world. Pure evil, nearly nine weeks ago. Retired Colonel Richard Kim, former commander in the British forces in Afghanistan. Always appreciate your insights. Thank you for being here in studio. And on a more personal note now, earlier, I spoke to Avi Har Tuv, psychotherapy and group facilitator in trauma and emergency from the Group One family about the collective trauma and the collective recovery in the country right now, just over two months into this war. Let's take a listen. I've been working with women who have become widows recently, this war, and I've been working with parents who are newly bereaved parents. And there's a lot of chaos and a lot of overwhelming as to how do we get going on with life now? Particularly the women who became widows have big question marks as to how to run life without the partner and facing things that haven't seen before like having to go to the bank, having to deal with paperwork, with insurance paperwork, with the wheels and raising their children alone and comforting them. At the same time, there's a very, very beginning of new questions, questions of values and the questions of how to be in this society in these times, how to be as a human being, how to be as a family, how to be as a collective. Talking of trauma, the haunting tales of Hamas captivity continue to emerge more in this report. Ken and the children are back, the grandchildren. Wow, it was hard. Everything mixed with everything. The sadness and the joy. They returned from a black place. They returned to no home. They returned to no father. They returned to no sister. But they returned alive. Ten days after Ken Goldstein Amok and her three children, Agam 17, Tal 11 and Gal 9, were released from Hamas captivity. They're trying to cope with life after the nightmare in Gaza. First of all, they are very afraid of every movement, of every peep that happens around them. From every peep they heard, they went straight with the collection of the children. They went straight with the collection of. He even laughed that one of them once went with the collection of upside down. I've been sleeping next to them for the past few nights. The whole family sleeps together now. This is the first time they've asked to sleep with you, probably since they were little, right? Yes. There was a friend here with two small dogs and they played with them here. They ran around. And right down here, they took down the cushions of the sofas and they built a tunnel for them, for the dogs. A few minutes earlier, Gal's teacher was here and she asked him, were you in the tunnel? So he told her, yes. He told her, it's like an Arab house and he did that with it. And you could stand? Did you have to crawl? No, no, I didn't crawl. I stood. They're talking about the army's bombs which scared the children terribly. The children less, but it finished them. Yes, it finished them completely. The bombings? Yeah, it destroys our soul. How were they treated? Kept as bargaining chips. In the end, they came back and they are healthy and everything is fine. On the morning of the abduction from Kfar Azar, Chen, her husband, Ndav and their four children entered the safe room. Chen said that the terrorists felt at home in the kibbutz. Everything was completely quiet. Slowly, they chose a car, drove, crossed the border, opened the trunk, loaded the bodies they saw. The terrorists continued to drive. Agam said to the boys, look forward, just not back. Seven minutes and you're inside Gaza. When the army arrived in the evening, they discovered that Ndav, the father and Yam, the eldest daughter, had been murdered. One of the things that preoccupied us during the 51 days that they were gone is whether they even knew that there is no longer a father and eldest daughter. They knew Ndav was badly injured and as for Yam, Chen saw that she was not alive. No words, absolutely no words. And with that, we wrap up this edition of Our Breaking News Coverage. I'm Benita Levine, back in a bit. Stay tuned, our rolling coverage continues shortly. This is I-24 News Breaking News Edition. Israel is in a state of war. Families completely gunned down in their beds. We have no idea where she is. Our soldiers are fighting on the front line, but the general perception is something that certainly needs to be fought as well. This week on News 24, Israel under attack. News 24 in Spanish brings the analysis and the information of the events of the war, Iron Spades. Exclusive interviews and reports from the war zone, the reaction of Spanish-speaking countries. News 24, the only Spanish media that keeps you informed and connected with the Latin community in Israel. News 24, only on I-24 News. And I'm Benita Levine, several developments on several fronts on day 63 of the war. The Gaza Strip read a last minute in Storot, Ibim and near Amn. That is happening right now as we speak. The IDF hitting 450 Hamas sites in the past 24 hours. Large plumes of smoke have been seen rising above the enclave on Friday morning, just over two months since the brutal terror rampage in southern Israel on the 7th of October. At the moment, 137 hostages remain in Hamas captivity in Gaza, including babies and the elderly. And these are the images of scores of Hamas operatives who have surrendered to the IDF. You can see those images on your screen right now. Now the US is saying it has not imposed a hard deadline on Israel to end its operation in Gaza with a security advisor saying Hamas would continue to pose a threat to Israel if the war stopped today. So for the latest, let's go straight to our correspondent, Ariel Levin-Waldman in southern Israel. And as we started this broadcast just moments ago, Ariel rocket red alert siren sounding in parts of the south. What is the latest there? What can you tell us right now? And unfortunately, we seem to have lost that line to Ariel. We will go back to him very shortly later on in this broadcast. Meanwhile, the number of Israeli soldiers killed in the IDF retaliatory ground operation in Gaza is now at 90, including master sergeant in the reserves, Gull Eisenkott, the son of war cabinet minister and former IDF chief of staff, Gadi Eisenkott. The 25-year-old died while fighting in northern Gaza. He was laid to rest in Herzliya on Friday morning. The mourners included President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Here's more from war cabinet member Benny Gans and Gadi Eisenkott himself at the moving service just a short while ago. Gull, my beloved son, I promise you that we will continue to be a loving, united, and happy family so that your sacrifice and that of other falling soldiers will not be in vain. And we will be worthy of it. I salute you, my beloved son. We love you forever, father, mother, and all the family. Gadi. Gadi, we approved military plans and we knew the remaining. We know that the Elves and the maps can become Elves in the hearts of good and dear families. And you, my brother, my friend, my partner, you and your family are the embodiment of a personal example of placing the national interest above all personal considerations. You understood the meaning very well. Moving words, indeed. And now let's go to our senior correspondent, Owen Ultiman. He joins us from northern Israel. We know Benjamin Netanyahu isn't missing his words when he talks about the concerns up north, specifically from Hezbollah. What is the latest where you are, Owen? What can you tell us? Yeah, well, you're right, Neat. Of course, just in the last few minutes, as we know those sirens in Steroot and some of the southern communities across from the Gaza Strip. And just over the course of the last few hours, those moving eulogies for the son of Gadi Eisencote. So obviously, the all out war in the South continues here on the northern border, not the same level of all out conflict, but certainly a steady drumbeat of news and a steady drumbeat of fire from across the Lebanese borders towards Israelis. We had an Israeli civilian killed yesterday, a 60 year old farmer. Again, Benitez, you know a lot of these communities have been evacuated, but farmers, in some cases, need to be there to tend their crops, to tend their fields. We had two Israeli soldiers lightly wounded. And what seems to have been a relatively serious incident in the hard dove region were Israel, Lebanon, and Syria meet a band of terrorists spotted by IDF soldiers at an outpost in the Air Force, brought in with a drone man from afar. And those terrorists were neutralized. It appears that, according to Wala News, they had on them grenades, rockets, and Kalashnikov rifles. So an infiltration attempt that really could, of course, put Israeli lives at risk. We had rocket fire across the border from the Syrian Golan into the Israeli Golan and the IDF confirming earlier on this morning Israel time at the Air Force responded by hitting targets in Syria, reportedly in Damascus. In the meantime yesterday, Prime Minister Netanyahu, as you mentioned, Benitez, coming up to the north for a situational assessment at Northern Command, then going out into the field to see some of the equipment and to meet some of the troops. And had this message for Hezbollah across the border, as he put it, not far from where he stood. If Hezbollah decides to start an all-out war, they will turn with their own hands, Beirut and southern Lebanon, which is not located very far from here, into Gaza and Ranyunis. We are determined to bring victory. A clear message there from Benjamin Netanyahu, but talk to us, Owen, about the broader Middle East. There have been continuous attacks on US forces in Syria and Iraq. Talk us through the concerns, through the lens of the Pentagon and steps to make sure that a regional conflict doesn't escalate in the coming days and weeks. Well, you're right, Benitez, here, of course, on the northern border. But you're right, looking beyond Lebanon, beyond Israel's immediate north to developments across the region. And you're right, they mostly have involved the US military, about 70 US soldiers having been injured in attacks on US military bases over the course of October and November, and a potential escalation overnight, four o'clock in the morning, this morning, in Baghdad, in the green zone in Baghdad, a rocket fired near the US embassy, so potentially targeting Benitez, this time not US military personnel, but a US diplomatic mission. Sirens were activated. People there were told to duck and cover. No claim of responsibility, but again, given that Sheikh militias have been those who have been involved in Syria and Iraq, it stands to reason that those at least loosely affected with those groups and with Iran were potentially responsible for this potential escalation on a US diplomatic mission, on the US embassy to Iraq itself. So obviously the United States still on guard, the Pentagon still on guard, and a reminder of the huge US military presence around the region, of course, with those troops on those bases, but also the two aircraft carrier strike groups in the Mediterranean, parked here in the opening days of the war. And the US military activity that has also been involved in shooting down missiles fired from Yemen towards Israel. Thank you so much, senior correspondent Owen Ultiman, live from Northern Israel. More to come from Owen in the coming hours. Thank you. And now from the north, we go back to the south. And we try again with our correspondent Arielle Levin Waldman in southern Israel. Arielle, as we were coming to you at the top of this broadcast, red alert siren sounding. I understand you had to dash to a shelter. Bring us up to speed. What is the latest there right now? Yes, that's the second barrage we got targeting near us just over the course of this day. As you probably were aware, we do not have very good reception for our equipment while hiding in a bunker. But that's where we were when we were supposed to go live just a moment ago. But you do see there is a response. If we zoom in, Dean, you can see those four plumes of smoke that were not there before the IDF counterfire missions, likely from the artillery crews that we've heard throughout the day. That's been a very constant presence near our position is a sort of tooth shaking boom of the outbound artillery heading towards Mount Promley, something that definitely deserved it, given what just got fired at us only a few minutes ago. But that's been the normal case over the day. It has been a heavier day of strikes, though. 450 air strikes is what the IDF said took place in the last day, last 24 hours or so, which is roughly double what we saw earlier in the week. It's been averaging about 200 a day, but that's because it's a very significant fighting going on on the ground right now. Two major battles that we're seeing just in this exact set of hours here. We have the Battle for Jabalia. That's the so-called refugee camp, refugee camp in name only. That makes you think of tents. It's not tents. It's a fortified neighborhood with bunkers and tunnel networks underneath. That is one of Hamas' strongholds. I'm not sure if you heard that. That was another outbound artillery just behind us. A maze of Hamas' strongholds that Israel is trying to get into to break Hamas' presence in the north. Also, there's the Battle of Khanunis. That's the last major Hamas-held city in Israel. Over the course of the past few days, you did in Gaza. Israeli forces over the course of the past few days did surround Khanunis and have penetrated deeper into that territory to try to get to the center, to neutralize the battles on the ground so they can start getting at the tunnel network underneath. But there were at least four battalions of Hamas gunmen, Hamas terrorists in Khanunis, plus whatever else filtered down from the north of Gaza during the ceasefire and using the humanitarian corridors. So very heavy resistance there, which explains the heavy air power that we've seen over the course of the day. And of course, it shows that Hamas is not out yet, just given what we've seen, still being able to bombard Israel's south as well as Israel's center on a very regular basis with that rocket artillery they have. And while that all unfolds, Ariel, a US official saying Israel has agreed to open the Karim Shalom border crossing for screening and inspection of that humanitarian aid delivered into Gaza via the Rafa crossing. Bring us up to speed on that front. So that's largely the case right now. Remember that the crossing was closed after Hamas initiated the war. Israel doesn't want anything passing through Karim Shalom. They don't want to have to let anything through that they don't know what it's going to be given that Hamas will use virtually any material passed into the strip for the purposes of war and terrorism. Now Israel is not opening the strip, not opening the crossing as you say, just yet for good transfer. The idea right now is to allow the screening of anything that goes through to make sure it's not a dual use material. Remember that almost anything you could think of, fertilizer, 100% of dual use material, they use that to make bombs. When you're talking about concrete, 100% a dual use material, you could be able to make buildings or you could make bunkers and underground tunnel networks. I mean, if you know what you're doing, they could even turn salt into a low yield explosive. So it's definitely something that screening means you don't know what's gonna get through, but they're gonna have to check almost everything to make sure it's not going to get into the hands of Hamas. But it's important because the United States is demanding Israel allow more humanitarian aid in. They've been criticizing Israel because ever since the ceasefire, the temporary ceasefire ended, it's gone from 200 aid trucks a day to about 70 aid trucks a day. And the United States says this is not good for the civilians in Gaza. And the US has put the protection of civilian life in Gaza as one of the highest American goals in this conflict. The Americans want to see Israel win, but they don't wanna see it happen at the cost of untold human misery and suffering in Gaza. And Israel knows they need the United States and they don't need to buy time to finish the operation with the United States. So they're going to allow just about any terms the United States wants, so long as it does not jeopardize the war goals of defeating Hamas. Allowing more humanitarian aid in does allow Israel to have more time to work with as long as they inspect literally everything that passes through to make sure it can't be used for the purposes of warfare. You stay safe. Thank you so much for now, correspondent Ariel Levin Waldman, live from southern Israel. Thanks, Ariel. And now it's a pleasure to welcome to studio retired Colonel Richard Kemp, former commander in the British forces in Afghanistan. Thank you so much for being here in studio. Many developments on many fronts, as we just heard right now. Your take on what is unfolding right now inside the Gaza Strip. It is nearly nine weeks into this war. There are 137 hostages still being held captive inside the Gaza Strip as this fighting all unfolds. Talk to us about the concerns around the safety of those hostages while fighting continues and intensifies at this hour. Yeah, I mean, I think we're beginning now to see the collapse of Hamas. And we saw this in yesterday, a large number of Hamas terrorists surrendered. And I've heard reports also of civilians in Gaza turning on Hamas in some cases. So I think that they're identifying that Hamas is weakening. Otherwise they wouldn't be able to do that. And these Hamas terrorists are getting severely hammered by the IDF and have been for a number of weeks. And they're tough enough when it comes to getting into a community inside Israel, gunning down, raping, hacking to death, innocent civilians. They're not so tough when they come up against one of the world's greatest fighting armies. And I think we're seeing that. And it's not over. There's going to be some hard fighting. More Israelis, unfortunately, are going to be killed, IDF soldiers. But nevertheless, I think the end is in sight for Hamas. And they knew this, which is why they pressed for a ceasefire themselves, and were willing to release some of the hostages. They knew that the only way they could avoid their own destruction was by Israel not continuing to attack. As far as the hostages are concerned, of course, that is a huge concern. And it wouldn't surprise me. I don't know how many are left alive of that 137. But I hope all of them, or many of them. But it will still be a really tough task for the IDF to be able to rescue them unless there is some other maybe short term ceasefire with a hostage release deal as a part of that. There has been so much outrage in this part of the world about the fact that the Red Cross has not been able to get access to these hostages as far as we know 137 of them. Given your experience on the war front, does it surprise you that they haven't been able to get the basic details, including proof of life? Never mind getting medicine to elderly hostages. Never mind getting medicine or help or formula to babies in captivity for nine weeks. It doesn't surprise me, to be honest. And that's because they, as the IDF having to deal with a brutal merciless terrorist organization, the Red Cross have got to do the same if they're going to get that sort of information or provide any kind of assistance. And Hamas are not an army as we would recognize it. They're not reasonable people. They don't have any interest in humanitarian assistance or human values. They just don't. And they won't cooperate with the Red Cross. And if they don't cooperate, then the Red Cross simply can't do their job. Let's not forget as well that the Red Cross inside Gaza is not necessarily like the Red Cross everywhere else. Many of these are controlled by Hamas. They're intimidated by Hamas. And in many cases, they're supporters of Hamas. And if Qatar is able to a host Hamas leaders in great luxury from what we understand in Doha, and if Qatar is able to apparently try and broker a second hostage release deal still in the works, so to speak, then shouldn't it be able to put pressure on the Red Cross to do its job? Yeah, I think the pressure that they can exert is probably more on Hamas than the Red Cross. And I think, as I mentioned before, Hamas is not interested in doing something to alleviate the suffering of the people that they dragged into Gaza. Their only interest and the only way they can be influenced is if there's some way for them to maybe survive or escape from Gaza. So I don't think that other than a hostage release deal to buy time for them, I don't think there's anything that even Qatar can do to influence the welfare of these hostages inside Gaza. There have been a range of potential options for Israel inside Gaza right now. Obviously, time is of the essence, and there is pressure from the US and elsewhere for things to wrap up, so to speak, as soon as possible. Flushing out terror tunnels with sea water, what do you make of that option? Obviously, there's a massive risk around it, but given, again, your experience in this field, is it a viable option? It's a very viable option, and it's a very good option. But of course, and there are other options as well, including destroying tunnels from the air, blowing them up from the ground, using sponge bombs to block them. But of course, with all of these different options, the IDF has to have in mind not just the destruction of the terrorists within them, but the hostages that are held perhaps within those tunnels. So I think that the idea of using sea water to flush them out is a good one. Obviously, the hostages have been born in mine, but also the potential that that will lead to collapse of large elements of these tunnels, which could bring down apartment buildings and other things overhead. And the IDF, of course, have an interest in trying to avoid civilian casualties as much as they possibly can. Talk to us a bit more about exactly that, because there is much scrutiny and much criticism of Israel, despite the fact that it is releasing pamphlets to warn people in advance to get to safe areas, and huge steps that are being taken to try and make sure that Palestinians, civilians are not harmed, yet that isn't the perception on the global arena largely. Talk to us about what you understand, the efforts that are being made to make sure that civilians are not hurt as this war intensifies. Well, the global position on the IDF's military operations is that they're war criminals. From the start, whatever they do, that's the way it's seen. Despite these efforts. Despite these efforts. There has been a huge propaganda campaign which has turned so much of the world, including the United Nations on Israel. But Israel, I was over here a few years back with a delegation of senior officers, retired senior officers from around the world, many, many countries. And they all felt that their own armies could not achieve anything like the kind of standards that the IDF achieve in minimizing civilian casualties on the battlefield. And the IDF still use the same techniques today, and they do everything they can to minimize civilian casualties, far more than the laws of war require. And just by way of illustration, comparing to other conflicts, the UN figures say that since the Second World War, the ratio of civilian to combatant deaths in conflicts has been nine to one, nine civilians for every combatant killed. In Iraq, it was three to one, around three to one. In Afghanistan, it was between three and five to one. Israel in previous conflicts has had a ratio between zero point six and two to one, far better than even some of the American and Allied armies that take great care. I think in this conflict, from what I understand so far, we may be looking at a civilian combatant casualty rate of two to one or less. That's terribly bad, of course, because two civilians killed for every combatant, but it's much better than most other armies, including Western Democratic armies, have been able to achieve because of the immense efforts Israel does put into this. One wonders why the rest of the world isn't seeing exactly what you are describing, but as you say, this is an unfolding situation. Many more days, potentially weeks, potentially months still to come, which brings me to my final question. The day after in Gaza, there is much speculation as to what that looks like. Obviously, no one can tell at this stage, but there are many scenarios that are being discussed, much speculation. Your thoughts on what, from a security perspective, it needs to look like in Gaza for this region to be safe again, for people to feel safe again? Well, once Hamas has been neutralized as a threat, and that can be brought about by either killing them all or most of them, forcing their surrender, as we've already seen, forcing them to flee, but in some way, with a huge military force, as we've seen, persuading them that they've lost, and that will bring them down. But that is not the end of the problem, even if and when, as needs to happen, Israel manages to eliminate the leadership in Qatar and elsewhere and Turkey and other countries. Even after that's happened, the threat hasn't gone. There will be a successor to Hamas among a population that is so opposed and has been indoctrinated since birth to hate Israel. So that problem's gonna exist, and the IDF therefore will have to maintain overall security control inside Gaza for the foreseeable future, perhaps forever. There may be some form of local security force put together of guards and citizens, but the IDF will have to maintain a direct presence inside Gaza, possibly establishing a buffer zone inside the Gaza borders, which it can control and monitor directly to prevent a repetition of the 7th of October. Well, one thing is for sure, what happened on the 7th of October can never be allowed to happen again in any part of the region, frankly in any part of the world. Pure evil nearly nine weeks ago, retired colonel Richard Kim, former commander in the British forces in Afghanistan, always appreciate your insights. Thank you for being here in studio. And on a more personal note now, earlier I spoke to Avi Hartu of psychotherapy and group facilitator in trauma and emergency from the Group One family about the collective trauma and the collective recovery in the country right now just over two months into this war. Let's take a listen. I've been working with women who have become widows recently, this war, and I've been working with parents who are newly bereaved parents. And there's a lot of chaos and a lot of our wellness as to how do we get going on with life now? Particularly the women who became widows have big question marks as to how to run life without the partner and facing things that haven't seen before like having to go to the bank, having to deal with paperwork, with insurance paperwork, with the wills and raising their children alone and comforting them. At the same time, there's a very, very beginning of new questions, questions of values and the questions of how to be in this society in these times, how to be as a human being, how to be as a family, how to be as a collective. Talking of trauma, the haunting tales of Hamas captivity continue to emerge more in this report. Ken and the children are back, the grandchildren. Wow, it was hard. Everything mixed with everything. The sadness and the joy. They returned from a black place. They returned to no home. They returned to no father. They returned to no sister. But they returned alive. Ten days after Ken Goldstein Amok and her three children, Agam 17, Tal 11, and Gal 9, were released from Hamas captivity. They're trying to cope with life after the nightmare in Gaza. First of all, they are very afraid of every movement, of every peep that happens around them. From every peep they heard, they went straight with the Kalashnikov, even laughed that one of them once went with the Kalashnikov upside down. I've been sleeping next to them for the past few nights. The whole family sleeps together now. This is the first time they've asked to sleep with you, probably since they were little, right? Yes. There was a friend here with two small dogs, and they played with them here. They ran around. And right down here, they took down the cushions of the sofas, and they built a tunnel for them for the dogs. A few minutes earlier, Gal's teacher was here, and she asked him, were you in the tunnel? So he told her, yes. He told her, it's like an Arab house, and he did that with it. And you could stand? Did you have to crawl? No, no, I didn't crawl. I stood. They're talking about the army's bombs, which scared the children terribly. The children less, but it finished them. It finished them completely. The bombings? Yeah, it destroys our soul. How were they treated? Kept us bargaining chips. In the end, they came back, and they are healthy, and everything is fine. On the morning of the abduction from Kfar Azar, Chen, her husband, Nadav, and their four children entered the safe room. Chen said that the terrorists felt at home in the kibbutz. Everything was completely quiet. Slowly, they chose a car, drove, crossed the border, opened the trunk, loaded the bodies they saw. The terrorists continued to drive. Agam said to the boys, look forward, just not back. Seven minutes, and you're inside Gaza. When the army arrived in the evening, they discovered that Nadav, the father, and Yam, the eldest daughter, had been murdered. One of the things that preoccupied us during the 51 days that they were gone, is whether they even knew that there is no longer a father and eldest daughter. They knew Nadav was badly injured, and as for Yam, Chen saw that she was not alive. No words, absolutely no words. And with that, we wrap up this edition of our Breaking News coverage. I'm Bernice Levine, back in a bit. Stay tuned, our rolling coverage continues shortly. This is I-24 News, Breaking News Edition. There are phrases that you know from where you come from. Look here, and the package for when. And loads that you already know where you're going. On international loads, Altiz, your people at NRD, access our website, Recargas.altiz.com.co, select loads and type the number you want to place the load. In addition, they receive the double of balance in loads of eight dollars or more. Altiz, the global network of the Dominicans. A state of war. Families completely gunned down in their beds. We have no idea where she is. Our soldiers are fighting on the front lines, but the general perception is something that certainly needs to be fought as well. Breaking News Edition, I'm Bernice Levine. Several developments on several fronts on day 63 of the war as Israel intensifies its efforts to eliminate the Hamas threat from the Gaza Strip. At the same time, Red Alert sirens sounding in the last hour in parts of the south, warning of rocket fire from the Gaza Strip. The IDF saying earlier it had hit 455 sites in the past 24 hours inside Gaza. Large plumes of smoke have been seen rising above the enclave on Friday morning just over two months since the brutal terror rampage in southern Israel on the 7th of October. At the moment, 137 hostages remain in Hamas captivity in Gaza, including babies and the elderly. Sad news just in right now. The municipality of Bat-Yam has just announced that 53-year-old resident Aitan Levi, who was kidnapped by Hamas on October 7th, has been murdered in captivity. It says he was a taxi driver taking a client from the center of the country to Kibbutzbury just at the time of the terror assault. It was believed he was still being held captive, but the army has just confirmed he was in fact killed and that Hamas still has his body. Meanwhile, these are the images of scores of Hamas operatives who have surrendered to the IDF. The US is meanwhile saying it has not imposed a hard deadline on Israel to end its operation in Gaza with a security adviser saying Hamas would continue to pose a threat to Israel if the war stopped today. So for the latest, let's start with our team in the north. We go live to our senior correspondent, Owen Ultiman. He joins us again from northern Israel. So many developments. Owen, the Israeli army confirming it's responding to rocket launches from Syrian territory by hitting targets in Syria, also striking a terrorist squad near the Hardov area. What is the latest up north? What can you share? It continues to be a relatively quiet Friday with little or no attacks along Israel's northern border. We have his bullet come out just over the last few hours and announce another of its fighters killed, the 94th. So showing that the Israeli military continues to enact to exact a toll on his bullet for its violations of Israel's sovereignty and for its attacks on Israel on civilians and on the military. You'll write two incidents overnight. The one in the heart, what Israel called the Hardov region where Israel, the Israeli, Lebanese and Syrian territories meet a band of terrorists spotted by those in an IDF outpost reportedly carrying rockets, grenades and Kalashnikov rifles then neutralized by a drone man from afar by the Israeli Air Force and that threat neutralized. But again, Benita had that infiltration squad gotten through. Again, we've seen already the kind of damage and the kind of death it could cause. Again, most of those Israeli communities largely evacuated along the border, but it's important to emphasize not entirely evacuated. So there well could have been local residents there or of course Israeli soldiers as well. And across the border in the Israeli Golan and the Syrian Golan, rockets fired into the territory of the Israeli Golan the Israeli military responding and confirming this morning that it had responded by attacking targets in Syria reportedly in Damascus and Benita reportedly from among the Syrian military itself. So showing if that report is true that this isn't in only about Shia militias and Iranian proxies that it is also about the Syrian military itself as well. Thank you so much. That's our senior correspondent Owen Ultiman live from Northern Israel. Thank you so much for that update. More to come from our team on the ground in the coming hours. Thank you, Owen. Now, still with security developments earlier, I asked Major Dave in the Reserves and Operations Officer in the Southern Brigade of Gaza for his take on the current IDF ground operation inside the Gaza Strip nearly nine weeks in. Let's take a listen. Despite having various escalations as well as protective edge, there are areas in Gaza which we have not visited for a long time, meaning 10, 20 years that we've never been inside of them. So Hanyunis and all the areas around there are, like he said, they're the Hamas stronghold and unfortunately you cannot move through those dense populated areas unless you level the buildings because every single building is filled with traps, wires, claymores or mines, everything. They mine everything including civilian ghazans, which I mean they would find the person that was unfortunately killed and they can even mine the bodies of the people in order to hurt our soldiers. So we need to move on the ground and also under the ground and that's why you see the intense fire power. Talk to us about the efforts that the IDF takes to make sure that while this operation is underway that civilians are not harmed in the process. So first of all, we have the leaflets. We have phone calls. We have people that are getting directions that we are actually pleading to the civilians that they would leave the area. We know that it's hard to leave and unfortunately Hamas is also not allowing them to evacuate which is why we also had the corridor at Salahadin which our own troops protected the Gaza civilians in order so that Hamas wouldn't attack them and as much as we try and attempt there's always going to be unfortunately some damage because Hamas is not allowing people to evacuate and they're actually holding them captive. Whether it's schools or kindergarten I remember seeing through observation that they would not allow the family to leave in order so that if we attack the missile silo next to it they would be hurt and then they can do their regular PR circle. So what do you do in a case like that? How does a soldier in the middle of a battle see civilians, see a family? How do they respond in that moment? Talk to us about your experience. So it's very complicated because you suddenly see a person and then you need to quickly assess whether it's a civilian or whether it's a Hamas operative. You can see there's also many videos of them just wearing casual clothing and then holding an RPG just for that same purpose that even if they are killed in action it would seem like a regular civilian once you take away the weapon. So in terms of the families and things that you do there are many videos that you see just people walking by and Israeli soldiers helping them out whether it's to evacuate or get clear of the area but it's very complicated because during intense warfare if suddenly you have a civilian caught in between Hamas they don't care for them. They are just interested in them getting hurt because then it's additional vicious circle of PR. Major Dave in studio a little earlier here at I-24 News now let's find out exactly what is happening on the ground. We go back to our correspondent R.L. Levin Waldman he's still in southern Israel and we know Sirens was sounding in parts of the south earlier including where you were during our last broadcast rocket fire coming your way talk us through the latest on the ground. The war is far from over and the situation on the ground only proves that just twice today our position was getting pounded by rockets aimed in this general area that just shows that they still have the ability to fire that ability to fire has been restricted somewhat as people in the center of Israel such as where you are in the studio are well aware those three times a day like clockwork that we saw at the earlier parts of the war has dropped to maybe every three days at a random interval when they got the opportunity that's because Hamas is losing ground on the ground as of today we are seeing those Israeli forces make significant moves in the Jabaliya refugee camp it's not a refugee camp with tents or anything we're talking about a fortified neighborhood with positions, tunnel networks and everything soldiers described as finding RPGs, Kalashnikovs, IEDs in every single home they come across but despite the heavy fighting there also heavy fighting in the south of Gaza in the Khan units Israeli forces saying they're moving ever closer through the center of that city today we are seeing signs importantly that Hamas is losing control on the ground and of the people in Gaza remember that this is a dictatorial terrorist regime if you speak out against them you generally disappear but people are now saying in fact to international media in many cases and accounts going viral on social media as well that they are blaming Hamas for the calamity that's befallen upon them we can't verify each and every account that we hear but there is a swarm of these accounts now let's take a listen to some of that this all of course raising questions about exactly what happens to that aid that comes into the Gaza Strip I know as well a US official saying Israel has agreed to open the Karim Shalom border crossing but it's also going to screen and inspect all the aid coming through via the Rafa crossing tell us more so what I'm talking about the Karim Shalom is not quite opening it for the transfer of goods at least not yet but opening it for a screening process that's because everything that has to go through has to be checked very thoroughly before it goes through to make sure that Hamas can't use it remember almost anything you can think of is classified as a dual use material that means it could be used for civilian purposes or it could be used for military purposes think about concrete it's necessary for construction but it's also used to build tunnels and bunkers and underground locations what about fertilizer for crops well that's also used for high explosives or for rocket fuel I mean even salt and sugar can be used in rocket fuels and low yield explosives themselves so for it to go through it has to be checked first to make sure that Hamas can't use it and even if it goes through if Hamas can't use it directly for military purposes make sure it's not going to be used by Hamas even after that point you can do some sort of system put in place to make sure that if food is going through it's going to humanitarian purposes and not going into tunnels to supply Hamas fighters who are running out of food in the tunnels because their stockpiles have been cut off and if we saw those pictures of the Hamas fighters that surrendered they're clearly not sure on food just yet so everything has to be checked to make sure it can't be used everything has to be checked to make sure it's not going to the wrong place it's going to take time it's going to take a lot of infrastructure to set up but Israel needs to do it to maintain American support because the Americans are very very concerned about the humanitarian crisis brewing in the Gaza Strip behind me and talking about the US support the US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaking to Yov Galant on Friday urging increased efforts to protect civilians in Gaza increased delivery of humanitarian assistance and also curbing settler violence in the West Bank breakdown the latest developments in terms of the US stance on the unfolding situation here on the ground Well people might be forgiven for being uncertain what the US stance is because we've seen a lot of stuff come out over the past week or so where the messages have seemed almost schizophrenic and how far they're going back and forth we had Kirby last week saying that Israel only has a matter of weeks to finish the war but also we have the American administration officials saying that no no no Hamas has to be defeated and just the other day just last night actually until this morning we had the Americans saying no no no there's no time frame for finishing this war that said there are conditions the United States has and one of those is to reduce civilian casualties and the Americans do not like what they're seeing on the ground right now from Israeli data the ratio of target to collateral damage is about 1 to 1.5 maybe 1 to 2 depending on which figures you're citing that's better than the NATO average probably better than the average of conflicts over the last 40 years the UN has that at about 1 to 9 but the Americans want to see better numbers because it still yields a result of between 5,000 and 7,000 dead terrorists and a 15,000 dead total those aren't numbers that look good particularly when the United States is helping to bankroll the war and particularly when the United States is offering arms there's a lot of the American electorate that's very upset by that particularly in the Democratic Party particularly progressive wing of the Democratic Party that are directly accusing Joe Biden of those civilian deaths so he needs to do something to show his base that no the United States does take progressive concern seriously but at the same time he has to make sure that a key ally in the Middle East that's Israel here does win the war against a terrorist regime that is set for the destruction of this country so he's caught between a rock and a hard place between Israel and America's strategic goals as well as his very short-term electoral goals and he thinks and the American administration believes that by ensuring they can get civilian and humanitarian aid in they can more or less modify both sides while the war continues Thank you so much live from southern Israel our correspondent Ariel Levin-Waldman thank you so much Meanwhile the number of Israeli soldiers killed in the IDF retaliatory ground operation in Gaza is now at 90 including master sergeant in the reserves Gull Eisenkott the son of war cabinet minister and former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkott the 25-year-old died while fighting in northern Gaza he was laid to rest in Herzliya on Friday morning the mourners included President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu here's more from war cabinet member Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkott himself at the moving service Gull my beloved son I promise you that we will continue to be a loving, united and happy family so that your sacrifice and that of other falling soldiers will not be in vain and we will be worthy of it I salute you my beloved son we love you forever father, mother and all the family Gadi Gadi we approved military plans and we knew the meaning we know that the arrows and the maps can become arrows in the hearts of good and new families and you my brother, my friend, my partner you and your family are the embodiment of a personal example of placing the national interest above all personal considerations you understood the meaning very well Israeli soldiers policemen and planes closed civilians took up arms and went out to defend their communities knowing that they were the last line of defense on the 7th of October more in this report I miss him so much my heart is dead my son my son my father why couldn't he be more careful how how could they not save him stay strong like you are you cheer me up all the time it's true it's so painful it's impossible I can't believe that Yossi was taken from me in fact I went there with the feeling that this wouldn't happen to me for what purpose why is he part of it Yossi, the good lord protects him but no one defended him until October 7th Mazal and Elitar knew nothing about them not what they looked like or what their real names were these are the friends of her son Yossi killed on October 7th who remained in the shadow I never knew them and I said to myself what a shame that Yossi never came home with them for dinner now when they come here they give me a little bit of strength but I miss Yossi a lot we spoke on Thursday morning maybe now is the time to show what he wrote to me it was Thursday you read it, I can't that I want to tell you how much I love you and really appreciate that you're here by my side you give me strength when I need it always thinking, always thoughtful warm, friendly with logic and always sincere it is important for me that you know how dear you are to me I love you, Yossi I love you those are three of the most valiant elite fighters in the secret and very special unit of the internal intelligence service the Shin Bet they are here to meet Yossi's parents and tell them about the side of Yossi they knew less about he had a strong personality those who knew him got attached to him in seconds at all levels the day before to the IDF chief of staff he knew how to connect with people just like that he gave so much of himself he would meet someone and two days later is invited over for a barbecue dinner we don't wear our ranks we don't treat people based on their position people follow us because of the leadership because of the personality of whoever leads the unit and Yossi was all of the above big time he knew how to speak to people we cannot show Yossi's photo and his face will probably never be known to the public our slogan is protect and not be seen in 99% of cases we were the ones to surprise the enemy we are the initiators those who direct the situation on October 7th we were surprised by the intensity of the attack the way it was done the numbers and that was what put us in great difficulty and that is what brought us in the first few hours in many ways, Yossi is like Emmanuel Moreno the heroic fighter of the famous special forces commando Syred Maktal but in the ranks of Shin Bet tales of his bravery and everything he did on October 7th will remain secret except for what the censors allow us to reveal it was half past six in the morning of the 7th of October I received the first phone call from Yossi he told me to believe it there's something weird going on here he was talking to me from his shelter and told me that he will call me back when he's on the road to decide what we're going to do as we drove south we realized that one of our fighters was hit and Yossi with another small team of fighters responded driving towards the terrorists under heavy fire he was in an area he didn't know and we could not yet understand the scale and the number of terrorists he was able to reach our struggling fighter after a few minutes and Yossi actually saved his life outside violent fighting was taking place on all sides and Yossi realized that the evacuation is well managed it's under control he analyzed the situation perfectly and said to himself that he is the first closest to the Kibbutz Mefal Sim and decided to support the fighters in the area Yossi is an experienced fighter with a lot of hours of combat and his belt he comes from Shate Shaloshesri the Marine Commanders Yossi was in a different level than the rest of us he often faced terrorists participated in many operations against them and had a lot of experience pretty early in the fighting he was able to get hold of one of the terrorists' tactical radios at first he listened to what they were saying trying to figure out where the terrorists are they killed two terrorists in a van they saw another group of about ten terrorists up the road he ran to an open area and the terrorists were hiding behind a concrete shelter at the entrance of the Kibbutz at this point he had been hit and that's where he died I heard on the radio that Yossi was wounded and the next call I got was not from Yossi it was from our medic he came by here he told me man, I can't keep fighting to save Yossi it's done and I know both of them very well I know about the commitment we have towards each other here however, when he told me that he did everything he could but could not save him and that was the end I realized that we're dealing with a totally different situation here did he suffer? no he didn't suffer? no, he didn't suffer first few days after Yossi died I didn't want to deal with it I tried to keep busy, don't think about it I tried to erase it sometimes I'd wake up at night saying to myself it can't be, can't be true but after about four days he stopped on the side of the road and said, I can't put it away anymore just like that I wanted a moment to process and I got on WhatsApp and listened to some of the messages he has sent me and the last one was a song this song suddenly hit me it cut off half my heart and I just stopped this repression disappeared all of a sudden emotions came pouring out it overwhelmed me because you hear Yossi in his own voice it was a prophecy Yossi was the son of every parent here in Israel he defended them all by himself all of them he protected the state of Israel he even told us once if not me, then who would do the job? I don't know I don't know he's not here it's just the body physical matter here materiality, I respect the cemetery and the burial which is important in Judaism in our heritage but for me, this is just a stone like you said it's not him, it's a stone I think that if there's, as they say a world beyond this one I am sure that he's up there giving it all he's got I have no doubt grief hit Eli three times during his life his brother, Lieutenant Colonel Yossi Tahar a senior officer at the paratroopers brigade was killed in July of 1981 fighting in Lebanon it was a huge crisis in my life a very, very difficult crisis I've carried it around for a long time 20 years later when Roy was killed then they asked me they told me you must be used to it but I said that that was not the case now I understand what my parents felt Roy, Eli's son fighter in the Nahal brigade was killed in a motorcycle accident on October 2001 when Roy died a part of me died it didn't hurt it was just that a part of me was dead at a significant price that Yossi, despite serving as a fighter who in the Navy commando and later in the Shin Bet would not be harmed that's what almost everyone thought those who knew Yossi at one point I said that's it I have the impression that that's it he's safe there with this protective layer around him I thought he was safe another unsung hero who died protecting this country and that's where we wrap up this edition of our breaking news coverage I'm Benita Levine, our rolling coverage continues shortly, stay tuned this is I-24 News breaking news edition thank you for watching is in a state of war families completely done down in their beds we have no idea where is she as our soldiers are fighting on the front line but the general perception is something to be fought as well breaking news edition I'm Benita Levine, several developments on several fronts on day 63 of the war as Israel intensifies its efforts to eliminate the Hamas threat from the Gaza Strip at the same time Red Alert sirens sounding in the last hour in parts of the south warning of rocket fire from the Gaza Strip the IDF saying earlier it had hit 450 Hamas sites in the past 24 hours inside Gaza large plumes of smoke have been seen rising above the enclave on Friday morning just over two months since the brutal terror rampage in southern Israel on the 7th of October at the moment 137 hostages remain in Hamas captivity in Gaza including babies and the elderly sad news just in right now the city of Batiam has just announced that 53 year old resident Aitan Levy who was kidnapped by Hamas on October 7th has been murdered in captivity it says he was a taxi driver taking a client from the center of the country to Kibbutz Bairi just at the time of the terror assault it was believed he was still being held captive but the army has just confirmed he was in fact killed and that Hamas still has his body meanwhile these are the images of scores of Hamas operatives who have surrendered to the IDF the US is meanwhile saying it has not imposed a hard deadline on Israel to end its operation in Gaza with a security advisor saying Hamas would continue to pose a threat to Israel if the war stopped today so for the latest let's start with our team in the north we go live to our senior correspondent Owen Ultiman he joins us again from northern Israel so many developments Owen the Israeli army confirming it's responding to rocket launches from Syrian territory by hitting targets in Syria also striking a terrorist squad near the Hadov area what is the latest up north there will be a relatively quiet Friday with little or no attacks along Israel's northern border we have his Bala come out just over the last few hours and announce another of its fighters killed the 94th showing that the Israeli military continues to enact to exact a toll on his Bala for its violations of Israel's sovereignty and for its attacks on Israel on civilians and on the military you'll write two incidents overnight the one in the heart what Israel called the Hadov region where Israel and Syrian territories meet a band of terrorists spotted by those in an IDF outpost reportedly carrying rockets grenades and Kalashnikov rifles then neutralized by a drone man from afar by the Israeli air force and that threat neutralized but again Benita had that infiltration squad gotten through again we've seen already the kind of damage and the kind of death it could cause again most of those Israeli communities largely evacuated along the border it's important to emphasize not entirely evacuated so there well could have been local residents there or of course Israeli soldiers as well and across the border the Israeli Golan and the Syrian Golan rockets fired into the territory of the Israeli Golan the Israeli military responding and confirming this morning that it had responded by attacking targets in Syria reportedly in Damascus and Benita reportedly from among the Syrian military itself so showing if that report is true that this isn't in only about Shia militias and Iranian proxies that it is also about the Syrian military itself as well Thank you so much that's our senior correspondent Owen Ultiman live from northern Israel thank you so much for that update more to come from our team on the ground in the coming hours thank you Owen now still with security developments earlier I asked major Dave in the reserves and operations officer and Brigade of Gaza for his take on the current IDF ground operation inside the Gaza Strip nearly nine weeks in let's take a listen despite having various escalation as well as protective edge there are areas in Gaza which we have not visited for a long time meaning 10, 20 years that we've never been inside of them so Hanyunis and all the areas around there are like he said they're the Hamas stronghold unfortunately you cannot move through those dense populated areas unless you level the buildings because every single building is filled with traps wires, claymores or mines, everything they mine everything including civilian Gazans which I mean they would find the person that was unfortunately killed and they can even mine the bodies of the people in order to hurt our soldiers so we need to move on the ground and also under the ground and that's why you see the intense fire power talk to us about the efforts that the IDF takes to make sure that while this operation is underway that civilians are not harmed in the process so first of all we have the leaflets we have phone calls we have people that are getting directions that we are actually pleading to the civilians that they would leave the area we know that it's hard to leave unfortunately Hamas is also not allowing them to evacuate which is why we also had a corridor at Salahadin which our own troops protected the Gaza civilians in order so that Hamas wouldn't attack them and as much as we try and attempt there's always going to be unfortunately some damage because Hamas is not allowing people to evacuate and they're actually holding them captive whether it's schools or kindergarten we remember seeing through observation that they would not allow the family to leave in order so that if we attack the missile silo next to it they would be hurt and then they can do their regular PR circle so what do you do in a case like that how does a soldier in the middle of a battle see civilians see a family how do they respond in that moment talk to us about your experience so it's very complicated because you suddenly see a person and then you need to quickly assess whether it's a civilian or whether it's a Hamas operative you can see there's also many videos of them just wearing casual clothing and then holding an RPG just for that same purpose that even if they are killed in action it would seem like a regular civilian once you take away the weapon so in terms of the families and things that you do there are many videos that you see people walking by and Israeli soldiers helping them out whether it's to evacuate or get clear of the area but it's very complicated because during intense warfare if suddenly you have a civilian caught in between Hamas they don't care for them they are just interested in them getting hurt because then it's additional vicious circle of PR Major Dave in studio a little earlier here at I-24 news now let's find out exactly what is happening on the ground we go back to our correspondent Ariel Levin Waldman he's still in southern Israel and we know Sirens was sounding in parts of the south earlier including where you were during our last broadcast rocket fire coming your way talk us through the latest on the ground yeah the war is far from over and the situation on the ground only proves that just twice today our position aimed in this general area that just shows that they still have the ability to fire that said that ability to fire has been restricted somewhat as people in the center of Israel such as where you are in the studio are well aware those three times a day like clockwork that we saw at the earlier parts of the war is dropped to maybe every three days at a random interval when they got the opportunity that's because Hamas is losing ground on the ground as of today we are seeing those Israeli forces significant moves in the Jabali refugee camp it's not a refugee camp with tents or anything we're talking about a fortified neighborhood with positions, tunnel networks and everything soldiers described as finding RPGs Kalashnikov's IEDs in every single home they come across but despite the heavy fighting there also heavy fighting in the south of Gaza and the Khan units Israeli forces saying they're moving ever closer through the center of that city today we are seeing signs that Hamas is losing control on the ground and of the people in Gaza remember that this is a dictatorial terrorist regime if you speak out against them you generally disappear but people are now saying in fact to international media in many cases and accounts going viral on social media as well that they are blaming Hamas for the calamity that's befallen upon them we can't verify each and every account that we hear but there is a swarm of these accounts now let's take a listen to some of that this all of course raising questions about exactly what happens to that aid that comes into the Gaza Strip we know as well a US official saying Israel has agreed to open the Karim Shalom border crossing but it's also going to screen and inspect all the aid coming through via the Rafa crossing tell us more so with the talk about the Karim Shalom is not quite opening it for the transfer of goods at least not yet but it's still a screening process that's because everything that has to go through has to be checked very thoroughly before it goes through to make sure that Hamas can't use it remember almost anything you can think of is classified as a dual use material that means it could be used for civilian purposes or it could be used for military purposes think about concrete it's necessary for construction but it's also used to build tunnels and bunkers and underground locations what about fertilizer for crops well that's also used for high explosives or for rocket fuel and rocket fuels and low-yield explosives themselves so for it to go through it has to be checked first to make sure that Hamas can't use it and even if it goes through if Hamas can't use it directly for military purposes you have to make sure it's not going to be used by Hamas even after that point you need some sort of system put in place to make sure that if food's going through it's going to humanitarian purposes and not going into tunnels to supply Hamas fighters who are running out of food in the tunnels because their stockpiles have been cut off we saw those pictures of the Hamas fighters that surrendered they're clearly not sure on food just yet so everything has to be checked to make sure it can't be used everything has to be checked to make sure it's not going to the wrong place and that's a process it's going to take time it's going to take a lot of infrastructure to set up but Israel needs to do it to maintain American support because the Americans are very very concerned about the humanitarian crisis brewing in the Gaza Strip behind me and talking about the US support the US defense secretary Lloyd Austin speaking to you I've got a call on Friday urging increased efforts to protect civilians in Gaza increased delivery of humanitarian assistance and also curbing settler violence in the West Bank breakdown the latest developments in terms of the US stance on the unfolding situation here on the ground well people might be forgiven for being uncertain what the US stance is because we've seen a lot of stuff come out over the past week or so where messages have seemed almost schizophrenic and how far they're going back and forth we had Kirby last week saying that Israel only has a matter of weeks to finish the war but also we have American administration officials saying that no no no Hamas has to be defeated and just the other day just last night actually until this morning we had the Americans saying no no no there's no time frame for finishing this war that said there are conditions the United States as and one of those is to reduce civilian casualties and the Americans do not like what they're seeing on the ground right now from Israeli data the ratio of target to collateral damage is about one to one point five maybe one to two depending on which figures you're citing that's better than the NATO average it's certainly better than the average of conflicts over the last 40 years the UN has that about one to nine but the Americans want to see better numbers because it still yields a result of between five and seven thousand dead terrorists and a fifteen thousand dead total those aren't numbers that look good particularly when the United States is helping to bankroll the war and particularly when the United States is offering arms there's a lot of the American electorate that's very upset by that particularly in the Democratic Party particularly progressive wing of the Democratic Party that are directly accusing Joe Biden of those civilian deaths so he needs to do something to show his base that no the United States does take progressive concern seriously but at the same time he has to make sure that a key ally in the Middle East that's Israel here does win the war against a terrorist regime that is set for the destruction of this country so he's caught between a rock and a hard place between Israel and America's strategic goals as well as his very short-term electoral goals and he thinks and the American administration believes that by ensuring they can get civilian and humanitarian aid in they can more or less modify both sides while the war continues. Thank you so much live from southern Israel our correspondent Ariel Levin Waldman thank you so much Meanwhile the number of Israeli soldiers killed in the IDF retaliatory ground operation in Gaza is now at 90 including master sergeant in the reserves Gull Eisenkott the son of war cabinet minister and former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkott the 25-year-old died while fighting in northern Gaza he was laid to rest in Herzlia on Friday morning the mourners included president Isaac Herzog and prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu he has more from war cabinet member Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkott himself at the moving service Gull my beloved son I promise you that we will continue to be a loving, united and happy family so that your sacrifice and that of other falling soldiers will not be in vain and we will be worthy of it I salute you my beloved son we love you forever father, mother and all the family Gadi Gadi we approved military plans and we knew the meaning we know that the elves and the maps can become elves in the hearts of good and dear families and you my brother my friend my partner you and your family are the embodiment of a personal example of placing the national interest above all personal considerations you understood the meaning very well Israeli soldiers policemen and planes closed civilians took up arms and went out to defend their communities knowing that they were the last line of defense on the 7th of October more on this report I miss him so much my heart is dead why couldn't he be more careful how, how could they not save him stay strong like you are you cheer me up all the time it's true it's so painful it's impossible I can't believe that Yossi was taken from me in fact I went there with the feeling that this wouldn't happen to me for what purpose why is he part of it Yossi the good lord protects him but no one defended him until October 7th Mazal and Elitar knew nothing about them not what they look like or what their real names were these are the friends of her son Yossi killed on October 7th who remained in the shadow I never knew them I've never seen them and I said to myself what a shame that Yossi never came home with them for dinner now when they come here they give me a little bit of strength but I miss Yossi a lot we spoke on Thursday morning maybe now is the time to show what he wrote to me it was Thursday you read it, I can't that I want to tell you how much I love you and really appreciate that you're here by my side you give me strength when I need it always thinking, always thoughtful with logic and always sincere it is important for me that you know how dear you are to me I love you, Yossi those are three of the most valiant elite fighters in the secret and very special unit of the internal intelligence service, the Shin Bet they are here to meet Yossi's parents and tell them about the side of Yossi they knew less about he had a strong personality those who knew him got attached to him in seconds at all levels from the simple soldier arriving at the unit the day before to the IDF chief of staff he knew how to connect with people just like that, he gave so much of himself he would meet someone and two days later is invited over for a barbecue dinner we don't wear our ranks we don't treat people based on their position people follow us because of the leadership because of the personality of whoever leads the unit and Yossi was all of the above, big time he knew how to speak to people and touch their hearts we cannot show Yossi's photo and his face will probably never be known to the public our slogan is protect and not be seen in 99% of cases we were the ones to surprise the enemy we are the initiators those who direct the situation on October 7th, we were surprised by the intensity of the attack the way it was done, the numbers and that was what put us in great difficulty in the first hours of the attack in many ways, Yossi is like Emmanuel Moreno the heroic fighter of the famous special forces commando Syred Maktal but in the ranks of Shin Bet his bravery and everything he did on October 7th will remain secret except for what the sensors allow us to reveal it was half past six in the morning of the 7th of October I received the first phone call from Yossi he told me, you're not going to believe it there's something weird going on here he was talking to me from his shelter and told me that he will call me back when he's on the road to decide what we're going to do as we drove south we realized that one of our fighters was hit and Yossi, with another small team of fighters, responded driving towards the terrace under heavy fire he was in an area he didn't know and we could not yet understand the scale and complexity of the attack and the number of terrorists he was able to reach our struggling fighter after a few minutes and Yossi actually saved his life outside, violent fighting taking place on all sides and Yossi realized that the evacuation is well managed it's under control he analyzed the situation perfectly and said to himself that he is the first closest to the Kibbutz Mefalzim and decided to support the fighters in the area Yossi is an experienced fighter with a lot of hours of combat on his belt he comes from Shethe Shaloshesre the Marine Commanders Yossi was in a different level than the rest of us he often faced terrorists participated in many operations against them and had a lot of experience pretty early in the fighting he was able to get hold of one of the terrorists tactical radios at first he listened to what they were saying trying to figure out where the terrorists are they killed two terrorists in the van they saw another group of about ten terrorists up the road he ran to an open area and the terrorists were hiding behind a concrete shelter the entrance of the Kibbutz at this point he had been hit and that's where he died I heard on the radio that Yossi was wounded and the next call I got was not from Yossi it was from our medic he told me man, I can't keep fighting to save Yossi it's done and I know both of them very well and I know about the commitment we have towards each other here however, when he told me that he did everything he could but could not save him and that was the end I realized that we're dealing with a totally different situation here did he suffer? no he didn't suffer the first few days after Yossi died I didn't want to deal with it I tried to keep busy don't think about it I tried to erase it sometimes I'd wake up at night saying to myself it can't be but after about four days I stopped on the side of the road and said I can't put it away anymore just like that I wanted a moment to process and I got on WhatsApp and listened to some of the messages he has sent me the last one was a song this song suddenly hit me it cut off half my heart and I just stopped this repression disappeared all of a sudden emotions came pouring out it overwhelmed me because you hear Yossi in his own voice singing a song that is almost like a prophecy Yossi was the son of every parent here in Israel he defended them all by himself all of them he protected the state of Israel he even told us once if not me then who would do the job he's not here it's just the body physical matter here materiality I respect the cemetery and the burial which is important in Judaism it's a stone like you said it's not him it's a stone I think that if there's as they say a world beyond this one I am sure that he's up there giving it all he's got I have no doubt grief hit Ellie three times during his life his brother Lieutenant Colonel Yossi Tahar a senior officer at the paratroopers brigade of 1981 fighting in Lebanon it was a huge crisis in my life a very very difficult crisis I've carried it around for a long time 20 years later when Roy was killed then they asked me they told me you must be used to it but I said that that was not the case now I understand what my parents felt Roy, Ellie's son fighter in the Nahal brigade was killed in a motorcycle accident on October 2001 when Roy died a part of me died it didn't hurt it was just that a part of me was dead Ellie was sure he had already paid the ultimate price and that Yossi despite serving as a fighter who in the Navy commando and later in the Shin Bet would not be harmed that's what almost everyone thought those who knew Yossi at one point I said that's it I have the impression that that's it he's safe there with this protective layer around him I thought he was safe another unsung hero who died protecting his country and that's where we wrap up this edition of our breaking news coverage and Benita Levine our rolling coverage continues shortly stay tuned this is I-24 News Breaking News edition, thank you for watching custom made men's fashion to your measurements made for me designer of all your events schedule your appointment at www.madeforme.co.il made for me official dresser of I-24 News rd access our website www.recargas.tis.com.b select the number you want to place the charge also they receive the double of balance in charges of 8 dollars more Altis, the global network of the dominicans a bicycle attack in Spanish it has the analysis and the information of the events of the war, iron swords the reaction of the Spanish-speaking countries news 24 the only medium in Spanish that keeps you informed and connected with the Latin community in Israel news 24 only on I-24 News news edition I'm Benita Levine several developments on several fronts on day 63 of the war as Israel intensifies its efforts to eliminate the Hamas threat from the Gaza Strip at the same time red alert sirens sounding earlier in some southern communities warning of rocket fire from the Strip towards Israel the idea of saying earlier it had hit 450 Hamas sites in the past 24 hours in Gaza large clumes of smoke have been seen rising above the enclave on Friday morning just over two months since the brutal terror rampage in southern Israel on the 7th of October at the moment 137 hostages remain in Hamas captivity in Gaza including babies and the elderly now the municipality of Bagian has announced earlier that 53-year-old resident Eitan Levi was murdered in captivity it says the taxi driver was driving a client from the center of the country to Kibbutz Berry at the time of the terror assault nearly nine weeks ago now it was believed he was still being held captive but the army has now confirmed he was killed and Hamas still has his body meanwhile these are the images of scores of Hamas operatives who have surrendered to the IDF they will be brought to Israel for questioning the US is meanwhile saying it has not imposed a hard deadline on Israel to surrender its operation in Gaza with a security advisor saying Hamas would continue to pose a threat to Israel if the war stopped today meanwhile the number of Israeli soldiers killed in the IDF retaliatory ground operation in Gaza is now at 90 including master sergeant in the reserves Gal Eisenkot the son of war cabinet minister and former IDF chief Gadi Eisenkot the 25 year old died while fighting in northern Gaza he was laid to rest in Herzlia on Friday morning the morning included president Isaac Herzog and prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu he has more from war cabinet member Benny Gantz and from Gadi Eisenkot himself at the moving service let's take a listen Gal my beloved son I promise you that we will continue to be a loving united and happy family so that your sacrifice and that of other falling soldiers will not be in vain and we will be worthy of it I salute you my beloved son we love you forever father mother and all the family Gadi we approve military plans and we know their meaning we know that the arrows and the maps can become arrows in the hearts of good and dear families and you my brother, my friend, my partner you and your family are the embodiment of a personal example of placing the national interest above all personal considerations you understood the meaning very well so for more insight we now welcome journalist Neri Zilber a junked fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy to Studio Neri thank you so much for your time 90 Israeli soldiers have been killed in this ground operation so far and you heard right now the pain in the voice of Gadi Eisenkot unimaginable for him to be burying his 25 year old son fighting in northern Gaza the pain is so raw it is so real and it impacts people across this nation right now so it should be said that funeral for Gadi Eisenkot's son Gal was carried live on all the TV channels here in Israel and for a long time and all the eulogies not only of the father Gadi and Benny Gantz his political running mate were carried live but also Gal's brother in law and so that was beamed out to the entire country who was watching it live on this Friday afternoon and encapsulates the loss and the price the heavy price a lot of families are paying right now for the offensive in the Gaza Strip like you said 90 IDF soldiers killed since the start really of the ground operation inside the Gaza Strip and it was just a reminder number one that this isn't cost free that like Benny Gantz said the map that they send out to go fight are real people with real lives and real families back home but number two and to that point families are back home the soldiers are there in Gaza in this operation trying to protect the house as Gadi Eisenkot said and so we have to keep that in mind as we all follow this war the real people on both sides as Benny Gantz says we know the arrows on the maps and the hearts of good families and so many families impacted by what is unfolding right now over and above which the pain of the nation with 137 hostages still being held captive nearly nine weeks captive at the hands of a terrorist organization and now of course we know more and more details about the conditions in captivity given your experience in this field your understanding of what it's going to take for the fighting to continue and for Israel to do its very best to make sure that the hostages can come home safely and be reunited with their families here in Israel so it's a very tough dilemma balancing those two objectives and they are the two objectives of this war eliminating and destroying Hamas really as a military and governing force in the Gaza Strip and also retrieving the hostages who were seized on October 7th a deal that lasted about seven days that required a halt in the fighting a temporary pause a truce and so that worked that worked over 100 hostages not only Israelis also foreign nationals were able to come back home and get out of captivity now a similar bargain will likely have to be struck if more hostages are to be released it's going to be very difficult number one the ground offensive like we said in the northern now southern Gaza Strip and so that would require the IDF to stop the IDF does not want to stop once again and also Hamas it takes two to tango Hamas has to also make a decision that it's willing to release more hostages from its point of view though it might not be a bad thing to halt fighting for another week we can have two weeks because that also extends the clock or limits the clock rather that Israel has to prosecute the war as we know it's not all happening at a vacuum there is a lot of international pressure on Israel something we're going to talk about in a short while but right now let's go to our correspondent Ariel Levin Waldman he joins us from southern Israel and Ariel the IDF may be making strong gains in its ground operation but that hasn't stopped rocket fire from the Strip being sent towards some southern parts in recent hours no injuries but what is the latest this hour where you are what can you share well you have to understand just how widespread Hamas's rocket capabilities are people like to think oh maybe there's a warehouse here or a warehouse there and you hit the warehouse you take out the rockets that's not the case you see rocket deployments and rocket factories all across the Gaza Strip often in the least likely of places we've seen videos of them set up near refugee tents and humanitarian areas and firing from them we've seen video evidence of them set up underneath mosques and now the IDF actually just found a major rocket warehouse factory at the plant and launch sites at the Al-Azhar University in Rimal they said that underneath the university in addition to tunnels to connect them to the larger tunnel network of Hamas they found all sorts of rockets, rocket parts guidance systems, detonation devices explosives manufacturing warehouses and the like so while there is a lot of ground activity a lot of ground that has been secured already you don't actually realize how widespread the operation is how disparate the upwards of 20,000 rockets Hamas had in their arsenal was until you really see those pictures coming out of Gaza because it's not just a few storage facilities it's distributed across almost every inch of the Gaza Strip and it's not just their rockets either we saw testimonies from soldiers and local media saying that when they were going through Jabalaya as well as other parts of Gaza every single room every single house, every single apartment across had a weapon in it whether or not it was an IED whether or not it was an RPG whether or not it was a Kalashnikov rifle or something they were finding them in beds in kitchens under the children's playpen every place you can imagine has a weapon hidden and just because a large number of them have been fired and another large number have been destroyed doesn't mean Hamas is anywhere near the end of their military capabilities yet quite an unusual sight for a university and institution that the IDF will unfold we know Ariel the IDF targeting 455 sites in the past 24 hours earlier we saw those plumes behind you what is the latest specificity when it comes to movements in and around Khan Yunus what can you share this hour look the IDF has been fairly consistent about its statements they're not going to give you their exact locations but they're saying that they are moving deeper and deeper into the center of that city but it's a long and hard path ahead because each step they take in the Khan Yunus which is a Hamas stronghold Hamas stronghold by the way that does have four brigades of Hamas fighters inside plus all the people that managed to flee to that area and regroup during the ceasefire or when they were just scuttling down the road during the humanitarian pauses in the earlier stages of the war so a very stiff amount of opposition ahead for the IDF that they are overcoming is not quite as easily as you might think that's because there is a lot to do on the ground it is slow going as I mentioned before those reports from Jabali are just as true as Khan Yunus where you do have that urban warfare nightmare scenario where every single window is a sniper position it's an ambush site it's an RPG launching location so every day while they say they're moving closer to the center or they're moving through the center it doesn't mean they've secured the area yet so I'm just going to go ahead. Thank you so much live from southern Israel that's our correspondent R.L. Levin Waldman thank you for your coverage today Ariel and still with me in studio Neri Zilber and we're hearing weapons being uncovered at a university perhaps not surprising when we know the other sites where so many rockets and other forms of ammunition have been stored across the Gaza Strip your thoughts. It's not surprising at all the US military bunker Hamas has been ruling the coastal enclave to Israel Southwest for 16 years and it's used those 16 years to essentially turn schools, universities hospitals as we know and even civilian homes into weapons caches rocket launching sites command centers and the like this isn't a secret it shouldn't be a controversial point it's just a matter of the reality inside the Gaza Strip and so if an army like the idea goes in with the stated intention of dismantling the Hamas military apparatus and eliminating the threat of Hamas from the Gaza Strip to Israel especially to southern Israel this is what it will require and so we're seeing now as Ariel mentioned very deliberate house to house street to street neighborhood to neighborhood fighting and searches for precisely those weapons what do you make of the images that we saw in recent days of the Hamas operatives who surrendered to the IDF we know the images we've seen them now and those people are going to be brought to Israel and interrogated what kind of information could Israel possibly glean out of them there are a lot of suspects who are putting their hands up and saying we surrender right now so I'll caveat what I say by saying the information in the videos obviously came from the Israeli side from the IDF we don't necessarily know who these individuals are they all look like fairly young military age males but we don't know if they necessarily surrendered or if they were brought in from a different place we'll leave it at that but if they were actually dozens of Hamas militants and fighters or other fighters from other factions right it's not just Hamas and the Gaza Strip then it would be a sign that perhaps Israel has found a way to crack the underground tunnels again talking about Hamas infrastructure in the Gaza Strip 500 kilometers bigger than the London underground underneath the Gaza Strip used again as fortified military positions and so perhaps if a dozens of fighters like we say in the video were taken without really a fight and surrendered perhaps that means the tunnels at least in northern Gaza Strip have been cracked and then they're brought back to a camp near the frontier between Israel and Gaza and interrogated for all kinds of information whether tactical or strategic you made mention earlier of the pressure that the US may or may not be putting on Israel right now the most recent comments we heard an official saying if the war was stopped today Hamas would still pose a threat to Israel so that deadline so to speak has been pushed out it doesn't exist as a hard deadline right now what does that mean for the IDF operation currently underway so we should be very clear the there hasn't been an American request to stop the war and to ceasefire especially not from President Biden perhaps some of his aides think otherwise so there is still road for the IDF to run as it were but we're talking maybe a few weeks perhaps a month or two it's not going to be a month long or years long campaign like perhaps some Israeli generals and some senior ministers would like it to be so there is still time what the US is asking is a more more of an emphasis on Israel to limit civilian casualties especially in southern Gaza and to facilitate more increased humanitarian aid again to southern Gaza so that remains to be seen whether Israel is able to to acquiesce to those American demands while still fighting a very tough urban war and so look there's still time left there's still a few weeks left but Israel has to take into account that there is a diplomatic clock on this operation. Neri stay with us we've got more to discuss other friends but right now let's take a look at the latest developments in the north of the country our senior correspondent Owen Ultiman was there earlier and filed this report a short while ago. Tensions continue on Israel's northern borders with the steady drumbeat day to day of security incidents overnight from Thursday to Friday night infiltration in the hard dove region on Israel's northern border where Lebanon and Syria and Israel meet where IDF soldiers in an outpost reportedly spotted a band of terrorists entering that area who reportedly had rockets grenades and Kalashnikov rifles once they were spotted the Israeli Air Force coming in with a drone man from a far neutralizing those terrorists but it just shows how attempts like these day in and day out present a potential threat to Israeli lives and livelihoods across the border and in fact earlier on on Thursday a 60 year old Israeli civilian was killed by an IDF soldier who had been fired from Lebanon he was a farmer and in many cases the communities along the Israel-Lebanon border and the Israeli side have been evacuated but in some cases farmers feel they need to stay or at least come back in order to tend to their crops and their fields and to save their businesses and sadly one of those civilians losing his life in the meantime in a separate incident two IDF soldiers lightly injured on Thursday and also on the border between the Israeli Golan and the Syrian Golan rockets fired into Israeli territory and the Israeli military responding it confirmed this morning responding overnight with attacks on targets inside Syria reportedly in Damascus in the meantime the Israeli government continues to warn Hezbollah about potentially deciding to escalate on this northern front and as always as I continue to be focused on action and activity in the Israel-Gaza border certainly tensions here continue to simmer and keep of course in mind that tens of thousands of Israelis are not in their homes on the northern border and are scattered throughout the country in hotels and hostels without a clear horizon about when they'll be able to return and under what conditions. Owen Alterman, I-24 News And still in studio Neri Zilber and talk to us about Benjamin Netanyahu's warning to Hezbollah we saw him going up north yesterday and issuing quite a stern warning to stay out of the phrase so to speak what do you make of that given the tensions that have been simmering throughout this war it's nearly nine weeks now. That's right Prime Minister Netanyahu said if Hezbollah chose to escalate then Beirut would look like Hanyunas in the Gaza Strip and we've seen this from day one very strong statements by Netanyahu and other senior Israeli political leaders to the extent that Hezbollah should not escalate further than what it already has done since day one of the Gaza war on Israel's northern border with Lebanon and so it's a threat meant to deter Hezbollah from taking further action firing rockets deeper into Israel and extending what it's already been doing now like you said for nine weeks and combined with that you also have a wholehearted preparations shall we say by the Israeli air force in particular to strike back hard not only in southern Lebanon like the IDF has been doing but further field into Beirut and even northern and eastern Lebanon if Hezbollah chooses to escalate and so it's a very direct warning to Hezbollah chief Hassan Asrallah that he needs to be very very careful in terms of everything going on in the Israel-Lebanon frontier. It's quite fascinating when one looks at the size of Israel the different fronts that it is facing in terms of threats and sometimes at the same time talking of which let's take a look at the West Bank because seven Palestinians were killed in the village of Tubas near Nablus that was during a gun battle with IDF troops talk to us about the concerns around tensions there boiling over spilling over can Israel handle that kind of pressure right now so it's a major concern all eyes rightfully so on the Gaza Strip and also Lebanon but the West Bank now for over two months has been anything but quiet anything but stable in normal times what was happening what's been happening now in the West Bank would be the biggest news not only in Israel but also internationally we've seen a wholehearted IDF operation going after Hamas and other militants in the West Bank very very hard like nothing we have we've seen really since the 2nd and early 2000s over 200 Palestinians killed a lot in clashes like we saw last night with the IDF not only they also had extremist Israeli settlers take matters into their own hands completely unacceptable so that combined with the overall weak state of the Palestinian Authority autonomous rule in parts of the West Bank politically financially also in terms of security in its own areas combined with the fact that Hamas and Gaza would love nothing less than the PA becoming unstable and collapsing all of it makes for a very very fraught region very very fraught situation and like you said the last thing Israel can afford right now is yet another front talking about Hamas and Gaza again let's take a look at some new images that are coming through of some of the humanitarian aid that has been brought into the area you can take a look on your screen right now this is a truck of humanitarian aid and you can see that is keeps moving and these are people Gazans watching that aid go by talk to us about the concerns about where this aid is going and the worry that it lands up in Hamas hands and not for the civilian population so desperately needing it right now it's a major concern it's also concerned by the way for Gaza civilians the actual population inside Gaza we've seen videos now in recent days and also the past few weeks of near total breakdown especially in the southern Gaza Strip where 80 90% of the population is now located inside Gaza massive scenes of desperation mobs trying to secure any kind of humanitarian aid and food good they can from UN warehouses and we've also seen videos of those convoys being hijacked by Hamas and also local Gazans regular people apparently throwing rocks at the Hamas gunmen who were stopped and then tried to loot those humanitarian convoys actually all told we have seen near total breakdown in social order in internal security inside the Gaza Strip the Hamas regime that like we said has been ruling the Strip for now 16 years it's all mostly below ground it's all mostly below ground there is no law in order to speak of above ground and really the UN and other international bodies are trying to do their utmost to provide some kind of humanitarian assistance to those people in dire need in the southern Gaza Strip the nominal government and the rulers of the Gaza Strip have shall we say different priorities apparently more for their own fighters that are now engaging with the IDF different priorities indeed Neri Zilber always appreciate your insights on all these developing security situations at the same time thank you as always for being here in studio now on October the 7th Israel's border police units fought in more than 35 different locations eliminating around 500 Hamas terrorists more in this next report this body cam footage of a border policeman was taken at the Yad Mordecai intersection a half an hour after a series of missile alert sirens blasted across Israel on October 7th two months ago recently the border police conducted a preliminary investigation of all battles fought by their units the investigation revealed 37 fierce battles took place in different locations officers confronting Hamas terrorists and in particular the terror groups Nakba unit this map drawn as a part of the investigation follows the fighting trail showing combat zones spreading across all surrounding communities including Sterot, Ofakim and Netivot in these locations the border police fighters eliminated more than 500 Hamas terrorists most of them from the Nakba unit who infiltrated the southern communities kroi the border police captured dozens of terrorists and handed them over to the Shin bet to the IDF's 504 unit and to the police interrogation unit interrogations that yielded quality intelligence aiding IDF maneuvers the Gaza Strip. Additionally, the investigation revealed that the border police fighters rescued thousands of local residents and revelers from the Nova Music Festival. This video is from the body camera of a border police raider, a tactical brigade which rescued the Galani brigade soldiers trapped inside this APC in Kibbutz near Aam. And that's a wrap for now. I'm Vinita Levine. Thank you for watching. Stay tuned. The one that stands out the most was the first time that I had ever personally heard a rocket siren sounding in Tel Aviv. And at that moment, we were live on air in studio. I will never forget the moment our senior producer said to me in my ear, the sirens are sounding in Tel Aviv. The control room is going to the shelter. With me in studio at the time were Michael Herzog, a former Brigadier General. Today, the Israeli ambassador to the United States. And Arsene Ostrowski, an international human rights lawyer. And their responses were completely different. Michael Herzog was calm and composed. And on the other hand, Arsene Ostrowski was trying to get his family and check in to make sure that his loved ones were OK. The camera that normally faces us was hoisted from above. There was an overhead shot of the three of us in the studio. You could see colleagues going to the shelter if you looked at the glass behind the studio. And obviously we lost contact with our team on the ground, our reporters in Ashkelon and all the witnesses that we were speaking to during that time. When rockets are coming towards a residential area, they don't distinguish between race, religion, political views, cultural views. They just intend to harm civilians. And that moment, being in studio, hearing those interceptions overhead was the most real coverage I have ever been involved in. Breaking News Edition, I'm Benisa Levine. Several developments on several fronts on day 63 of the war as Israel intensifies its efforts to eliminate the Hamas threat from the Gaza Strip. At the same time, Red Alert sirens sounding earlier in some southern communities warning of rocket fire from the Strip towards Israel. The IDF saying earlier it had hit 450 Hamas sites in the past 24 hours in Gaza. Large clumes of smoke have been seen rising above the enclave on Friday morning just over two months since the brutal terror rampage in southern Israel on the 7th of October. At the moment, 137 hostages remain in Hamas captivity in Gaza including babies and the elderly. Now the municipality of Bat-Yam has announced earlier that 53-year-old resident Eitan Levi was murdered in captivity. It says the taxi driver was driving a client from the centre of the country to Kibbutz Bairi at the time of the terror assault nearly nine weeks ago now. It was believed he was still being held captive but the army has now confirmed he was killed and Hamas still has his body. Meanwhile, these are the images of scores of Hamas operatives who have surrendered to the IDF. They will be brought to Israel for questioning. The US is meanwhile saying it has not imposed a hard deadline on Israel to end its operation in Gaza with a security adviser saying Hamas would continue to pose a threat to Israel if the war starts today. Meanwhile, the number of Israeli soldiers killed in the IDF retaliatory ground operation in Gaza is now at 90 including master sergeant in the reserve's Gull Eisencott, the son of war cabinet minister and former IDF chief of staff, Gadi Eisencott. The 25-year-old died while fighting in northern Gaza. He was laid to rest in Herzlier on Friday morning. The morners included President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He has more from war cabinet member Benny Gantz and from Gadi Eisencott himself at the moving service. Let's take a listen. Gull, my beloved son, I promise you that we will continue to be a loving, united and happy family so that your sacrifice and that of other falling soldiers will not be in vain and we will be worthy of it. I salute you, my beloved son, we love you forever, father, mother and all the family. Gadi. Gadi, we approved military plans and we knew their meaning. We know that the Elbs and the maps can become Elbs in the hearts of good and dear families. And you, my brother, my friend, my partner, you and your family are the embodiment of a personal example of placing the national interest above all personal considerations. You understood the meaning very well. So for more insight, we now welcome journalist Neri Zilber, a junked fellow at the Washington Institute of Near East Policy to studio. Neri, thank you so much for your time. Ninety Israeli soldiers have been killed in this ground operation so far and you heard right now the pain in the voice of Gadi Eisencott, unimaginable for him to be burying his 25-year-old son who died fighting in northern Gaza. The pain is so raw, it is so real and it impacts people across this nation right now. So it should be said that funeral for Gadi Eisencott's son, Gal, was carried live on all the TV channels here in Israel and for a long time and all the eulogies not only of the father, Gadi and Benny Gantz, his political running mate, were carried live but also Gal's brother-in-law, his sister, his friends and so that was beamed out to the entire country who was watching it live on this Friday afternoon. It encapsulates the loss and the price, the heavy price a lot of families are paying right now for the offensive in the Gaza Strip. Like you said, 90 IDF soldiers killed since the start really of the ground operation inside the Gaza Strip and it was just a reminder, number one, that this isn't cost-free, that like Benny Gantz said, all those arrows on a map that they send out to go fight are real people with real lives and real families back home, but number two, and to that point families are back home, the soldiers are there in Gaza in this operation trying to protect the house, as Gadi Eisencott said and so we have to keep that in mind as we all follow this war, the real people on both sides. As Benny Gantz says, we know the arrows on the maps can become arrows in the hearts of good families and so many families impacted by what is unfolding right now over and above which the pain of the nation with 137 hostages still being held captive nearly nine weeks, captive at the hands of a terrorist organization and now of course we know more and more details about the conditions in captivity. Given your experience in this field, your understanding of what it's going to take for the fighting to continue and for Israel to do its very best to make sure that the hostages can come home safely and be reunited with their families here in Israel. So it's a very tough dilemma balancing those two objectives and they are the two objectives of this war, eliminating and destroying Hamas really as a military and governing force in the Gaza Strip and also retrieving the hostages who were seized on October 7th. We do know that two weeks ago there was a hostage deal that lasted about seven days that required a halt in the fighting, a temporary pause, a truce, and so that worked. That worked over 100 hostages, not only Israelis, also foreign nationals were able to come back home and get out of captivity. Now a similar bargain will likely have to be struck if more hostages are to be released. It's going to be very difficult. Number one, the ground offensive, like we said, in the northern, now southern Gaza Strip, proceeding very heavily and so that would require the IDF to stop. The IDF does not want to stop once again. And also Hamas. It takes two to tango. Hamas has to also make a decision that it's willing to release more hostages. From its point of view, though, it might not be a bad thing to halt fighting for another week, a week and a half, two weeks, because that also extends the clock or limits the clock, rather, that Israel has to prosecute the war. As we know, it's not all happening at a vacuum. There is a lot of international pressure on Israel to cease fire. Something we're going to talk about in a short while, but right now, let's go to our correspondent, Ariel Levin-Waldman. He joins us from southern Israel. And Ariel, the IDF may be making strong gains in its ground operation, but that hasn't stopped rocket fire from the Strip being sent towards some southern parts in recent hours. No injuries, but what is the latest this hour where you are? What can you share? Well, you have to understand just how widespread Hamas's rocket capabilities are. People like to think, oh, maybe there's a warehouse here and you hit the warehouse, you take out the rockets. That's not the case. You see rocket deployments and rocket factories all across the Gaza Strip, often in the least likely of places. We've seen videos of them set up near refugee tents in humanitarian areas and firing from them. We've seen video evidence of them set up underneath mosques, and now the IDF actually just found a major rocket warehouse factory manufacturing plant and launch sites at the Al-Azhar University in Rimal. They said that underneath the university, in addition to tunnels to connect them to the larger tunnel network of Hamas, they found all sorts of rockets, rocket parts, guidance systems, detonation devices, explosives manufacturing, warehouses and the like. So while there is a lot of ground activity, a lot of ground that has been secured already, you don't actually realize how widespread the operation is and how disparate the upwards of 20,000 rockets Hamas had in their arsenal was until you really see those pictures coming out of Gaza because it's not just a few storage facilities, it's distributed across almost every inch of the Gaza Strip, and it's not just their rockets either. We saw testimonies from soldiers and local media saying that when they were going through Javalea as well as other parts of Gaza, every single room, every single house, every single apartment they came across had a weapon in it, whether or not it was an IED, whether or not it was an RPG, whether or not it was a Kalashnikov rifle or something, they were finding them in beds, in kitchens, under the children's playpen. Every place you can imagine has a weapon hidden and just because a large number of them had been fired and another large number had been destroyed doesn't mean Hamas is anywhere near the end of their military capabilities yet. Quite an unusual sight for a university, an institution of learning. We wait and see what else will unfold. We know Ariel, the idea of targeting 450 Hamas sites in the past 24 hours. Earlier we saw those plumes behind you. What is the latest, specifically when it comes to movements in and around Khan Yunus? What can you share this hour? Look, the IDF has been fairly consistent about its statements. They're not going to give you their exact locations, but they're saying that they are moving deeper and deeper into the center of that city. What that actually means is anybody's gas, but it's a long and hard path ahead because each step they take in the Khan Yunus, which is a Hamas stronghold, by the way, that does have four brigades of Hamas fighters inside, plus all the people that managed to flee to that area and regroup during the ceasefire or when they were just scuttling down the road during the humanitarian pauses in the earlier stages of the war. So a very stiff amount of opposition ahead for the IDF that they are overcoming, but not quite as easily as you might think. That's because there is a lot to do on the ground. It is slow going. As I mentioned before, those reports from Jabali are just as true as Khan Yunus, where you do have that urban warfare nightmare scenario where every single window is a sniper position. It's an ambush site. It's an RPG launching location. So every day they're moving closer to the center or they're moving through the center. It doesn't mean they've secured the area yet. There's going to be a lot of fierce gun battles ahead. Thank you so much. Live from southern Israel. That's our correspondent, Arielle Levin-Waldman. Thank you for your coverage today, Arielle. And still with me in studio, Neri Zilber, and we're hearing weapons being uncovered at a university, perhaps not surprising when we know the other sites where so many rockets and other forms of ammunition have been stored across the Gaza Strip. Your thoughts? It's not surprising at all. The entire Gaza Strip is a militarized fortress, a militarized bunker. Hamas has been ruling the coastal enclave to Israel southwest for 16 years. And it's used those 16 years to essentially turn schools, universities, hospitals as we know, and even civilian homes into weapons caches, rocket launching sites, command centers, and the like. This isn't a secret. It shouldn't be a controversial point. It's just a matter of the reality inside the Gaza Strip. And so if an army like the IDF goes in with the stated intention of dismantling the Hamas military apparatus and eliminating the threat of Hamas from the Gaza Strip to Israel, especially to southern Israel, this is what it will require. And so we're seeing now as Ariel mentioned, very deliberate house to house, street to street, neighborhood to neighborhood fighting and searches for precisely those weapons. What do you make of the images that we saw in recent days of the Hamas operatives who surrendered to the IDF? We know the images. We've seen them now. And those people are going to be brought to Israel and interrogated. What kind of information could Israel possibly glean out of them? There are a lot of suspects who are putting their hands up and saying we surrender right now. So I'll caveat what I say by saying the information in the videos obviously came from the Israeli side from the IDF. We don't necessarily know who these individuals are. They all look like fairly young military soldiers, but we don't know if they necessarily surrendered or if they were brought in from a different place, we'll leave it at that. But if they were actually dozens of Hamas militants and fighters or other fighters from other factions, right, it's not just Hamas and the Gaza Strip, then it would be a sign that perhaps Israel has found a way to crack the underground tunnels. Again, talking about Hamas infrastructure of the Gaza Strip, 500 kilometers, 500 kilometers, bigger than the London Strip, underneath the Gaza Strip used again as fortified military positions and so perhaps if dozens of fighters like we say in the video were taken without really a fight and surrendered, perhaps that means the tunnels at least in northern Gaza Strip have been cracked and then they're brought back to a camp near the frontier between Israel and Gaza and interrogated for all kinds of information whether tactical or strategic. You made mention earlier of the pressure that the U.S. may or may not be putting on Israel right now. The most recent comments we heard an official saying, if the war was stopped today, Hamas would still pose a threat to Israel. So that deadline, so to speak, has been pushed out. It doesn't exist as a hard deadline right now. What does that mean for the IDF operation currently underway? So we should be very clear. There hasn't been an American request to stop the war and to cease fire, especially not from President Biden, perhaps some of his aides think otherwise. So there is still road for the IDF to run, as it were. But we're talking maybe a few weeks, perhaps a month or two. It's not going to be a month-long or years-long campaign like perhaps some Israeli generals and some senior ministers would like it to be. So there is still time. What the U.S. is asking is more of an emphasis on Israel to limit civilian casualties especially in southern Gaza and to facilitate more increased humanitarian aid again to southern Gaza. So that remains to be seen whether Israel is able to acquiesce to those American demands while still fighting a very tough urban war. And so look, there's still time left. There's still a few weeks left. But Israel has to take into account that there is a diplomatic clock on this operation. Neri, stay with us. We've got more to discuss on other fronts. But right now the greatest developments in the north of the country, our senior correspondent Owen Ultiman was there earlier and filed this report a short while ago. Tensions continue on Israel's northern borders with the steady drumbeat day-to-day of security incidents overnight from Thursday to Friday night infiltration in the hard-dove region, an Israel's northern border where Lebanon and Syria and Israel meet where IDF soldiers in an outpost reportedly spotted a band of terrorists entering that area who reportedly had rockets, grenades and Kalashnikov rifles. Once they were spotted, the Israeli Air Force coming in with a drone man from afar neutralizing those terrorists. But it just shows how attempts like these day in and day out present a potential threat to Israeli lives and livelihoods across the border. And in fact, earlier on on Thursday a 60-year-old Israeli civilian was killed by an anti-tank missile fired from Lebanon. He was a farmer and in many cases the communities along the Israel-Lebanon border on the Israeli side have been evacuated but in some cases farmers feel they need to stay or at least come back in order to tend to their crops and their fields and to save their businesses. And sadly one of those civilians losing his life. In the meantime, in a separate incident two IDF soldiers lightly injured on Thursday and also overnight Thursday to Friday night along Israel's other northern border the border between the Israeli Golan and the Syrian Golan rockets fired into Israeli territory and the Israeli military responding it confirmed this morning responding overnight with attacks on targets inside Syria reportedly in Damascus. In the meantime the Israeli government continues to warn Hezbollah about potentially deciding to escalate on this northern front and as always as eyes continue to be focused on action and activity in the Gaza Strip and on the Israel-Gaza border certainly tensions here continue to simmer and keep of course in mind that tens of thousands of Israelis are not in their homes on the northern border and are scattered throughout the country in hotels and hostels without a clear horizon about when they'll be able to return and under what conditions. Owen Alterman I-24 News. And still in studio Neri Zilber and talk to us about Benjamin Netanyahu's warning to Hezbollah we saw him walk north yesterday and issuing quite a stern warning to stay out of the fray so to speak what do you make of that given the tensions that have been simmering throughout this war it's nearly nine weeks now. That's right. Prime Minister Netanyahu said if Hezbollah chose to escalate then Beirut would look like Hanyunas in the Gaza Strip and we've seen this from day one very strong statements by Netanyahu and other senior Israeli political and military leaders to the extent that Hezbollah should not escalate further than what it already has done since day one of the Gaza war on Israel's northern border with Lebanon and so it's a threat meant to deter Hezbollah from taking further action firing rockets deeper into Israel and extending what it's already been doing now like you said for nine weeks and combined with that you also have a whole hearted preparations shall we say by the Israeli Air Force in particular to strike back hard not only in southern Lebanon like the IDF has been doing but further field into Beirut and even northern and eastern Lebanon if Hezbollah chooses to escalate and so it's a very direct warning to Hezbollah Chief Hassan Nasrallah that he needs to be very very careful in terms of everything going on in the Israel Lebanon frontier. It's quite fascinating when one looks at the size of Israel the different fronts that it is facing in terms of threats at different times and sometimes at the same time talking of which let's take a look at the West Bank because seven Palestinians were killed in the village of Tubas near Nablus that was during a gun battle with IDF troops talk to us about the concerns around tensions there boiling over spilling over can Israel handle that kind of pressure right now. So it's a major concern all eyes rightfully so on the Gaza Strip and also Lebanon but the West Bank now for over two months has been anything but quiet anything but stable in normal times what was happening what's been happening now in the West Bank would be the biggest news not only in Israel but also internationally we've seen a wholehearted IDF operation going after Hamas and other militants in the West Bank very very hard like nothing we have we've seen really since the second in Tefada in the early 2000s over 200 Palestinians killed a lot in clashes like we saw last night with the IDF they also had extremist Israeli settlers take matters into their own hands completely unacceptable so that combined with the overall weak state of the Palestinian Authority autonomous rule in parts of the West Bank politically financially also in terms of security in its own areas combined with the fact that Hamas and Gaza would love nothing less than the PA becoming unstable and collapsing all of it makes for a very very fraught region very fraught situation and like you said the last thing Israel can afford right now is yet another front talking about Hamas and Gaza again let's take a look at some new images that are coming through of some of the humanitarian aid that has been brought into the area you can take a look on your screen right now this is a truck of humanitarian aid and you can see that keeps moving and these are people, Gazans watching that aid go by tell us about the concerns about where this aid is going and the worry that it lands up in Hamas hands and not for the civilian population so desperately needing it right now it's a major concern it's also concerned by the way for Gaza civilians the actual population inside Gaza we've seen videos now in recent days and also over the past few weeks of near total breakdown especially in the southern Gaza Strip where 80-90% of the population is now located inside Gaza massive scenes of desperation mobs trying to secure any kind of humanitarian aid and food good they can from UN warehouses and we've also seen videos of those convoys being hijacked by Hamas and also local Gazans, regular people apparently throwing rocks at the Hamas gunmen who were stopped and then tried to loot those humanitarian convoys so really all told we have seen near total breakdown in social order, in internal security inside the Gaza Strip the Hamas regime that like we said has been ruling the Strip for now 16 years it's all mostly below ground it's all mostly below ground there is no law and order to speak of above ground and really the UN and other international bodies are trying to do their utmost to provide some kind of humanitarian assistance to those people in dire need in the southern Gaza Strip the nominal government and the rulers of the Gaza Strip have different priorities apparently more for their own fighters that are now engaging with the IDF different priorities indeed but always appreciate your insights on all these developing security situations at the same time thank you as always for being here in studio now on October the 7th Israel's border police units fought in more than 35 different locations eliminating around 500 Hamas terrorists more in this next report this body cam footage of a border policeman was taken at the Yad Mordecai intersection a half an hour after a series of alert sirens blasted across Israel on October 7th two months ago recently the border police conducted a preliminary investigation of all battles fought by their units the investigation revealed 37 fierce battles took place in different locations officers confronting Hamas terrorists and in particular the terror groups in Mekba unit this map drawn as a part of the investigation follows the fighting trail showing combat zones spreading across all surrounding communities including Steyrot, Ofakim, and Nettivot we understand that they are still following his direction but we are still in the best possible they are fighting we are the other four In these locations, the border police fighters eliminated more than 500 Hamas terrorists, most of them from the Nakba unit who infiltrated the southern communities. The border police captured dozens of terrorists and handed them over to the Shin Bet, to the IDF's 504 unit, and to the police interrogation unit, interrogations that yielded quality intelligence, aiding IDF maneuvers inside the Gaza Strip. Additionally the investigation revealed that the border police fighters rescued thousands of local residents and revelers from the Nova Music Festival. This video is from the body camera of a border police raider, a tactical brigade which rescued the Galani brigade soldiers trapped inside this APC in Kibbutz near Om. And that's a wrap for now, I'm Vanessa Levine, thank you for watching, stay tuned. Some of these soldiers, the policemen and plain civilians who took up arms to defend their communities on October 7th, knowing that they were simply the last line of defense for their families, their friends and their communities. This story tells the story of Yossi Tahaar, an accomplished fighter in the IDF as well as Israel's internal security service who lost his life fighting to defend his community. Here is his story. I miss him, so much my heart is dead. Why couldn't he be more careful? How? How could they not save him? Stay strong like you are, you cheer me up all the time. It's true, it's so painful, it's impossible, I can't believe that Yossi was taken from me. In fact, I went there with the feeling that this wouldn't happen to me. For what purpose? Why is he part of it? Yossi, the good Lord protects him. But no one defended him. Until October 7th, Mazal and Elie Tahaar knew nothing about them, not what they looked like or what their real names were. These are the friends of her son, Yossi, killed on October 7th, who remained in the shadow. I never knew them. I've never seen them, and I said to myself, what a shame that Yossi never came home with them for dinner. Now when they come here they give me a little bit of strength, but I miss Yossi a lot. We spoke on Thursday morning, maybe now is the time to show what he wrote to me. It was Thursday. You read it, I can't. Dad, I want to tell you how much I love you and really appreciate that you're here by my side. You give me strength when I need it. Always thinking, always thoughtful, warm, friendly, with logic and always sincere. It is important for me that you know how dear you are to me. I love you, Yossi. Those are three of the most valiant elite fighters in the secret and very special unit of the internal intelligence service, the Shin Bet. They are here to meet Yossi's parents and tell them about the side of Yossi they knew less about. He had a strong personality. Those who knew him got attached to him in seconds, at all levels, from the simple soldier arriving at the unit the day before to the IDF chief of staff. He knew how to connect with people. Just like that, he gave so much of himself. He would meet someone and two days later is invited over for a barbecue dinner. We don't wear our ranks. We don't treat people based on their position. People follow us because of the leadership, because of the personality of whoever leads the unit. And Yossi was all of the above, big time. He knew how to speak to people and touch their hearts. But we cannot show Yossi's photo and his face will probably never be known to the public. Our slogan is protect and not be seen. In 99% of cases, we were the ones to surprise the enemy. We are the initiators, those who direct the situation. On October 7th, we were surprised by the intensity of the attack, the way it was done, the numbers. And that was what put us in great difficulty in the first hours of the attack. In many ways, Yossi is like Immanuel Moreno, the heroic fighter of the famous Special Forces Commando, Sayyarat Maktal, but in the ranks of Shin Bet, tales of his bravery and everything he did on October 7th will remain secret, except for what the sensors allow us to reveal. It was half past six in the morning of the 7th of October. I received the first phone call from Yossi. He told me, you're not going to believe it. There's something weird going on here. He was talking to me from his shelter and told me that he will call me back when he's on the road to decide what we're going to do. As we drove south, we realized that one of our fighters was hit, and Yossi, with another small team of fighters, responded driving towards the terrace under heavy fire. He was in an area he didn't know, and we could not yet understand the scale and complexity of the attack and the number of terrorists. He was able to reach our struggling fighter after a few minutes, and Yossi actually saved his life. Outside, violent fighting was taking place on all sides, and Yossi realized that the evacuation is well managed. It's under control. He analyzed the situation perfectly, and said to himself that he is the force closest to the Kibbutz Mefalsim, and decided to support the fighters in the area. Yossi is an experienced fighter, with a lot of hours of combat under his belt. He comes from Sheta Shaloshesre, the Marine Commanders. Yossi was in a different level than the rest of us. He often faced terrorists, participated in many operations against them, and had a lot of experience. Pretty early in the fighting, he was able to get hold of one of the terrorist tactical radios. At first, he listened to what they were saying, trying to figure out where the terrorists are. They killed two terrorists in a van. They saw another group of about ten terrorists up the road. He ran to an open area, and the terrorists were hiding behind a concrete shelter at the entrance of the Kibbutz. At this point, he had been hit, and that's where he died. I heard on the radio that Yossi was wounded, and the next call I got was not from Yossi. It was from our medic. He came by here. He told me, man, I can't keep fighting to save Yossi. It's done. And I know both of them very well. I know about the commitment we have towards each other here. However, when he told me that he did everything he could but could not save him, and that was the end, I realized that we're dealing with a totally different situation here. Did he suffer? No. He didn't suffer? No. He didn't suffer. First few days after Yossi died, I didn't want to deal with it. I tried to keep busy, don't think about it. I tried to erase it. Sometimes I'd wake up at night saying to myself, it can't be. It can't be true. But after about four days, I stopped on the side of the road and said, I can't put it away anymore. Just like that. I wanted a moment to process, and I got on WhatsApp and listened to some of the messages he had sent me. And the last one was a song. This song suddenly hit me. It cut off half my heart, and I just stopped. This repression disappeared all of a sudden. Emotions came pouring out. It overwhelmed me because you hear Yossi in his own voice, singing a song that is almost like a prophecy. Yossi was the son of every parent here in Israel. He defended them all by himself, all of them. He protected the state of Israel. He even told us once, if not me, then who would do the job? He's not here. It's just the body. Physical matter here, materiality. I respect the cemetery and the burial, which is important in Judaism, in our heritage. But for me, this is just a stone. Like you said, it's not him. It's a stone. I think that if there is, as they say, a world beyond this one, I am sure that he's up there giving it all he's got. I have no doubt. Grief hit Eli three times during his life. His brother, Lieutenant Colonel Yossi Tahar, a senior officer at the paratroopers brigade, was killed in July of 1981 fighting in Lebanon. It was a huge crisis in my life, a very, very difficult crisis. I've carried it around for a long time, 20 years later when Roy was killed. Then they asked me, they told me, you must be used to it. But I said that that was not the case. Now I understand what my parents felt. Roy, Eli's son, fighter in the Nahal brigade, was killed in a motorcycle accident on October 2001. When Roy died, a part of me died. It didn't hurt. It was just that a part of me was dead. Roy was sure he had already paid the ultimate price and that Yossi, despite serving as a fighter who in the Navy commando and later in the Shin Bet, would not be harmed. That's what almost everyone thought, those who knew Yossi. At one point I said, that's it. I have the impression that that's it. He's safe there with this protective layer around him. I thought he was safe. Yossi had something immortal about him. In the eulogy his commander said that when Yossi would stare death in the eyes, death would back down. Many Israelis owe their life to Yossi and they don't even know it. Beyond the fact that October 7th, his actions stopped terrorists from entering in the kibbutz of Mefal Seem. He is responsible for hundreds of foiled attacks over the years, in service, and only a handful of which we were allowed to mention. The departure of most of Israel's foreign workers in the wake of the October 7th terror attack, Israeli farmers are struggling to harvest their crop due to a severe lack of manpower. Now, several private initiatives are bringing in volunteers from across the country to help fill in that gap. Roy Shapiro went to check out one of those in the coastal community of Rishbone and he found that they were joined there by a very special volunteer from a country all the way around the world in East Asia that in some ways identifies itself with Israel. More than 8,000 kilometers separates Israel and Taiwan, but today it seems that the two countries are closer than ever. Officials from Taiwan have decided to join the current Israeli war effort and volunteered to work in the fields of the coastal village of Rishbone. Since the whole world looked at October 7th's Hamas terrorizing harrow, Taiwan was one of the first countries to express our solidarity with Israel and express our condolence to the perished people. And political support is very strong and over the past 30 years, the social foundation between the two societies and people are also very deep rooted. So we feel it's important to come more support with the civilian sectors including the agricultural sectors. This is a part of a project led by Hashomer Hadas for the new guard, an Israeli organization which helps farmers across the country. Its co-founder says that walking in the field is a prime goal in Israel today, as there is a lack of tens of thousands of workers. The power of this nation, the power of the people, the power of the society inside Israel, this is the strongest power that we have. And to tell you the truth, I spoke with the Minister of Education and I told him please let the students come to the field for a few months to the field, stop the learning and come to the field and work because people all over Israel need to eat. Among the volunteers we found Yanir and Maayan, two students and a couple who decided to take time off university and contribute to local industry. It's a tough job, but it is very rewarding. Exactly. It is nice to see the container getting full of fruit. I think that working in the field really binds us as a couple. Yes. The Taiwanese representative in Israel says that despite the different cultures, Israel and Taiwan have a lot in common. Like Israel, Taiwan has been under constant threat from our neighbor, country, China. We understand the commitment to defend the homeland and we understand the commitment to exercise the right of our defense. Despite the hot weather, volunteers are not worried by the hard work and continue their contribution, one of many since October 7th. Let's go to Kibbutz na Halos. This is one of the places which were most severely damaged on October 7th. Our correspondent Yuri Shapiro takes us there. October 7th caught the entire country by surprise. In Kibbutz na Halos, one of the places closest to the Gaza border, the surprise was even bigger. We woke up around 6 a.m. My partner told me that there is a red alert. I wasn't very excited about it. I said, okay, we've experienced these situations, we'll walk it out so we enter the safe room. The first message I got was from a friend who texted me that his wife was injured. Eventually, she died from her wounds. The door was closed, but I suppose that it wouldn't matter to them. I guess that they realized that we are old people, there is not much to do with us. So they went to other places. Yechiel Chelnov is one of the founders of na Halos. He is close to his 90s, but still very active. When we established the Kibbutz, we concentrated on agriculture. And indeed, we had very good agriculture. We have one of the best dairy industries, at least it was until the war, but it is still working. It's the first time I'm living the Kibbutz. We had security issues when you evacuated young families with the kids or whoever wanted to go, but never like this. Na Halos was the first Na Hal settlement. A collective community of veterans of the IDF's Na Hal Brigade who combined military service and building communities across the country. In the early days, the Kibbutz was considered one of the most famous in Israel, as leaders and officials visited it. One of the most famous incidents occurred in 1956 when a member of the Kibbutz, Roy Rotenberg, was brutally killed by Egyptian forces. The eulogy of Moshe Dayan, then chief of staff, became one of the most iconic speeches in the history of Israel. Early yesterday morning, Roy was murdered. The quiet of the spring morning dazzled him, and he did not see those waiting in ambush for him at the edge of the furrow. Let us not cast the blame on the murderers today. Why should we declare their burning hatred for us? For eight years they have been sitting in the refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we have been transforming the land and the villages where they and their fathers dwelt into our state. It is not among the Arabs in Gaza, but in our own midst that we must seek Roy's blood. How did we shut our eyes and refuse to look squarely at our fate and see, in all its brutality, the destiny of our generation? In 2014, another traumatic event happened when four-year-old Daniel Tragman died from a missile sent from Gaza. The Kibbutz was about to celebrate 70 years since its founding with a special ceremony. Ironically, the main show was a play which shows two women's spotters who were cut off from their cameras. We were supposed to have a big celebration marking 70 years of the Kibbutz. On Friday we had rehearsals for the show. The plot where the spotters are disconnected, it seems like a crazy story for me, but this is what happened eventually. Around 35 people were murdered in Nakhaloz on October 7th. Today, residents of the Kibbutz are staying in another Kibbutz in the north, Mishmar Hayamec, and are waiting to decide on their next step as Nakhaloz remains a closed military zone. Israeli hostages released from captivity in Gaza have been recounting harrowing experiences of abuse and psychological terror. As we've been saying, there are still 138 hostages, young and old, being held in dire conditions. More in this next report. Is everything okay? My mother was kept in a one-and-a-half room apartment. She was in one small closed room, and the couple lived in the other room, in a small window in the room, which they closed. And she couldn't see if it was there or not. As soon as she realized she was alone, she simply told us, listen, I decided, I read, I studied all the stories from the Holocaust, I will keep a diary. I read that Gilad Shalit used to do some sports, and that's what kept her going. She realized very quickly that they prayed five times a day, and she would simply count prayers. She would record it in a journal, and the prayers and sound of the muazzin, all these things gave her a complex of understanding what day it was, what night, what hour, and she revolved around that. When I come to them, they see the distress. You see the distress. Yola, Yael, all the time by their mother's side, she never leaves Adi. Until two days ago, she whispered, she didn't speak at all, not out loud. Now they're a little more, but you know, he's right away from the moment they were kidnapped, what happened. He saw everything, he doesn't speak at all, not asking, not about the father, not about the grandfather. As far as we know, all six of them were in one place. Tal was not with them, no. We saw some of the children who came with our orthopedic injuries. There is a girl who needed surgery. Injuries to the legs, injuries to the hands, scars that were on children, a burn on a child's leg, which he said was a burn from a motorcycle. We saw very low hygiene conditions, at levels I don't remember encountering on children, stories you hear from other areas, lice, rashes, skin infections. Some of them lost weight in a very, very significant way. What does that mean? Ten kilos in children, a lot. They arrived and after the first meeting with the family, what is the first thing they want to give children who meet them? We let them eat and at some point we found ourselves taking food from the children's rooms so that they wouldn't eat too much when they arrived. That's why I pulled yogurts and rolls out of the children's hands so that it wouldn't be too much. We will have to continue to support them and give them everything they need, both now and in the future. But they are amazing. We've received an inspiring group of children. We know that she did not know, for example, what happened to her father. She was very pleasantly surprised to see her father in that famous video that she actually ran quickly, at the speed of light, into her mother's embrace and suddenly she saw her father and she was sure that her father had been kidnapped. She did not know that her father was saved and got out of it. The first thing she asked after looking around her and suddenly didn't see Lior, her brother, she asked about her brother and the parents had to tell her. This is actually the first thing they told her after she returned about her brother, that her brother was murdered. From what I know, and this is almost the first thing I heard from her when I saw her, this whole time she was without shoes. For almost two months, this girl was without shoes. She says that she was humiliated very much, that she had a very difficult experience, that she was treated badly and this is now engraved in her heart. I think she does, she remembers the experience from there. Was she there alone? She's very scared for the abductees who remained behind. They're still in danger. She was literally brainwashed there, really, and she doesn't live in our world right now, she's still there. It's impossible to cope there, it's impossible. We have to get the abductees out of there. If they don't get them out now, they won't get out alive. How did she keep her sanity? What did she do all day? She says that most of the time she just looked at the wall. That's what she had to do and only occupied herself with thoughts of my daughters are fine, my daughters are fine, my daughters are fine, my daughters are fine. She kept trying to convince herself. Are there things that we don't see but you can say that something has changed? Her enthusiasm for every little thing, from the most basic thing she had before, I don't know, maybe a towel for the shower or some chocolate or something to drink, you suddenly see the light in her eyes that she accepts such things. Or used to, she was always, we'd waste our dinner, throw away food as usual. Today we're forbidden to throw away food, there's no such thing, save everything, put it in the fridge, find a place. We were privileged to take care of 29 returnees, now the 30th Returnee. Almost all of them without exception. The first thing they wanted to do when they met their families was to talk. We heard a lot from them about the psychological games that they played with them, as part of the psychological abuse they went through. So it's also related to information that they share and don't share. As part of the psychology of the captive, of creating dependence on the captives, but by my feeling from what I hear from the people is that it has been refined at very high levels. What do you mean elaborate psychological chair? My feeling is that it was sophisticated, not random or unplanned, orchestrated, not some kind of relationship that develops by chance between a certain captor and a certain abductee. But to create the psychological infrastructure to play on their minds in a way that would achieve their goal. Was there also evidence of abuse? Yes. But I won't go into details. As I said, I can say it's about the whole range of things that a person can dream of. Israel is in a state of war. Families completely gone down in their beds. We have no idea where is she as our soldiers are fighting on the front lines. But the general perception is something that certainly needs to be fought as well. Hundreds of millions of people in scores of countries. Completely gone down in their beds. The state of emergency and war in Israel. Bringing Israel's story to the world. 24 News Channels. Now on Hot. Hintel Aviv was painted orange this weekend. The heart of this entire nation is shattered into pieces because we're all waiting for those beautiful, innocent redheads that got into everyone's souls to come back home. The Bebas family. The gut-turning video of Mother Shiri and her young boys four-year-old Ariel. Now 11-month-old Kfir. He was nine-month-old when he was kidnapped. Now he's 11-month-old. Being taken into the Gaza Strip from their home more than eight weeks ago became one of the most tragic symbols of this war. And their father, Yerdan, is in captivity to Hamas playing a vicious, vicious game, releasing a video of him a few days ago as part of the psychological warfare. The IDF cannot verify claims under well-being and the heart has simply torn. Take a look. Wow, this is crazy. That's a crazy week. Ups and downs. Many ups and downs. It's an emotional roller coaster. This last week is a real win for motions because every day we know not to hop too much so as not to be disappointed. But every day people return. Right now they are still not here with us. Unfortunately, even today, even in the sixth exchange, the Bebas family was not included. These were shaky days for the whole country and certainly for the Bebas family. A week of hope and disappointments while the whole country holds its breath and waits for the list. When will the names of Kfir, Ariel and Shiri appear? No one will hurt her so that you know how human we are. You know she has children. Everything was said about this moment which became the symbol of this war, evil versus purity, terror versus horror. Ariel is only four years old. Kfir is nine months old. I don't know how they spent the night there. It's hard to believe that more than 50 days have passed since then. The two red-haired brothers and their parents were kidnapped from Kibbutz near Oz and Kfir received the dubious and terrible title of the youngest abductee. Last Friday when the kidnapped children started to come back, they were so hoping to see them, but it was not to be. I kept myself strong all the time to be strong, but this morning I cried because I couldn't hear. One more time, they're not on the list. It killed me this morning. I just can't take it anymore. That's it. I can't take it anymore. So the family decided it was time to further increase the pressure in Israel and especially in the world. Hamas claims that they are in the hands of another faction, but that does not change the message. They should return home. Are these your enemies? We will repeat this in both Hebrew and English. Are these the people threatening you? Like this, with the pictures of the babies? In terms of posters, things, do you need something for us to complete? Yes, I need their pictures now. I only have the sign. They're getting ready for the statement they're going to give at four o'clock to the hostages square. And we need posters of the family members. Let's make another bet, which before the declaration, we will distribute to the people there to hold it during their declaration. In the logistics warehouse, in a horrifying order, according to the alphabet, the pictures are placed, coming to the bebust pictures, a stack with high demand. Not a day goes by that we don't get questions. What about the redhead? We're in the abductees square. After midnight, the yellow changes to reddish-orange. All members of the extended family are already waiting in the family room. It's been everyone's effort for weeks. I know that our family, especially these two little ones, entered everyone's hearts deeply. And all of us together with the entire people of Israel, we're already expecting them to be here. We asked you here. We're holding orange balloons. We will blow them all into the sky, hoping that they will reach, I don't know, wherever possible. Let's offer prayers. Let it reach Gaza for those who need it. The main thing is that they return. We want them home now. Now, now. You want a clap? All right. A lot of international media has arrived at the square. And the family enters the information battle. Terrified to death? Anyone willing to listen? Anyone willing to interview? Why the orange balloons? Is it because of their orange hair? I feel like some kind of soldier in some kind of war that I don't understand. They tell me, go to the expedition. I go. They tell me, get an interview. I do the interview. These little redheads, these two young redheads, really entered the hearts of everyone in Israel. And also the whole world. Their photos appeared all over the world on newspaper covers. No one remained indifferent to these sweet faces. Isn't there some fear that precisely all these interviews and the exposure and the fact that everyone knows them increases their price? Because they are the strongest card? Did it cross our minds? Of course it did. Eventually, we have to make some kind of decision who do it for us and what our intuition says. And go for it. And your intuition tells you to shout loudly. Bring them back? Yes, today. We had a conversation in the family about this. Whether we were wrong or not wrong all along. But the picture of Shiri and the kids was much bigger than us. And it spread like wildfire. Even if we weren't interviewed even once, it just did its job. So I absolve myself of responsibility for this thing. What's going on? What? My thoughts are running about the night. About Los Angeles? The next morning they continued to the press. Yossi hesitates. He's supposed to leave tonight in a delegation to meet with politicians and celebrities in LA. In my opinion, your trip to Schwarzenegger is important. You will be able to use it to convey it in a meaningful way to the world. Let's give it a few minutes and figure out what we're doing here. The confusion becomes even more acute when a brutal push announced by Hamas arrives. Something's happening here. Let's give it a few minutes and figure out what we're doing here. At the moment, there is a push on the Bebas family, on the two children, on Ariel and Kfir, and on their mother. Hamas announced that they were murdered. We're connecting them to the team now. The family does not know what's going on here. The family doesn't know what's going on here. Okay. The family does not know how to accept these news. It may be that these news have nothing to do with reality. Maybe this event... It is part of the psychological warfare. It was announced that she died and she returned on her own two legs in good health. I think everyone is holding on to it now. We take this message with limited liability at this stage because we don't know. Hamas is playing a psychological game with us. Hamas didn't know where they were until a minute before this message. He did not know. He lifted every rug as soon as they run out. Before they run out of time, they suddenly find them. In my opinion, this is a poor excuse for continuing negotiations. It's not just the shaky manipulation from Hamas that you have to deal with. There's also the palpitations before the list is published. Actually, this is the last one before the end of the ceasefire. In the last few days, I kept hoping. I'm trying to convince myself it's just to abuse us a little more. But they will release them. They will release. But it's scary because, hey, we've reached the day before the last day of the ceasefire, the last day of release, as far as I know now. And they're not here yet. There's a problem here. The last day has arrived. If you are not freed, there is one more day left. We don't have time to wait. We don't have time to wait. We are very worried. We are really afraid of the thing. Trying to pass the time until the situation clears up does no other way. But despite the expectation, a sense of despair comes. Kfir, Ariel and Shiri are not listed. A chilling sign of life comes in the evening precisely from their father, Jordan, a video that does not bode well for the fate of his family. This is an act of psychological terror. Hamas' claims about the Bebas family are still unverified. I repeat, they are still unverified. On Friday morning the fighting resumed and with it the concern of the Bebas family and all the families of the abductees that their return is getting further away. And again, they oscillate between hope and despair, between ignorance and immense longing, the laughter of Kfir, the nonsense of Ariel, the smile of Shiri, the hug of Jordan. We want them back here healthy and whole in body and soul, and the orange light we have in our hearts will continue to shine and shine until they are home. To hell and back after over 50 days in Hamas' captivity, the Israeli hostages, the freed are speaking. Some not all sharing some not all of the horrors they experience in our Erica Jackson is bringing their stories. Nearly two months after Hamas' brutal attack in Israel on October 7th, freed Israeli hostages are now telling their first-hand accounts of what it was like being kidnapped and taken into the Gaza Strip. Among those sharing stories of being taken captive and held under life-threatening conditions are 85-year-old Yulchavid Lipschitz and 84-year-old Dietza Hyman. I was born in the new age I was born in the old age of the mother. The food was not a slave to the beginning but as time passed the food went away it was basically a slave. Those who have been freed also detailing the mental anguish of what it was like to be held against their will including 44-year-old Yulchavid Lipschitz who was kidnapped with her 5-year-old daughter, Amelia. Those who have been freed echoing the same message that time is running out that time is running out more details are likely to emerge about October 7th as more of those who were kidnapped are expected to share their stories as well. Now to the organization of angels the ZAKA organization is one of the most highly revered institutions in Israel and rightfully so. We're talking about volunteers who have been involved in the ZAKA organization so we're talking about volunteers who help with the extremely difficult and painful process of collecting the remains of terror victims so they can be identified and laid to rest properly and our Orishapira is reporting from Kibbutz Niro is one of the community's hardest hit on October 7th on their work there. Nearly two months after Hamas onslaught in southern Israel volunteers of the ZAKA organization are still working hard to collect body parts from the Gaza border area here in Kibbutz Niro's 38 people were murdered Yisrael Khasid a volunteer and the spokesman of ZAKA Tel Aviv recalls the horrific moments when his crew first arrived to Niroz We found blood on the bed so we had to cut off the sheet this house looks exactly as it was when we arrived here one of the bodies was laying on the bed it had melted from the heat we had another body here and another one of a 15 year old which was lying on the grass half burnt In one of the houses the team found human tissue and remains of hair Khasid tells us about the tough moments he and his crew faced in episode 7 one incident broke me and forced me to take some days off I couldn't communicate with my family or anyone actually it was a baby the same age and size of my daughter some of his body parts were removed when I saw him I was devastated I said that's it I can't take it anymore I'm 25 years old someone else should do this job Yisrael, this is your mission if you feel that you can't do it take some time off but then after several days I saw that there were still hundreds of bodies which remained unidentified and it's very urgent because the bodies are decomposing and if we'll wait any more it will be very hard if not impossible to identify the bodies so I stood up and I said that I'm willing to sacrifice my soul and body in order that will identify to burial in Israel as possible as we walk inside one of the houses we're greeted by evidence of the mental challenges that the crew faces I had a conversation with a psychologist yesterday he begged me to tell him what I've seen here I asked him if he can handle it he said yes we spoke for 15 minutes I tried to hide some of the details from what I've seen here which really touched my heart I couldn't sleep after it as I told him the story he stops me and said I need to take a break and drink something I can't take it anymore when I heard it I understood that the psychologist is also a human being we performed like machines hours and hours days and days without sleeping with our souls Israel says that there are still 8 missing people from October 7 some of the bodies or body parts were transferred to the Abu Khabir Forensic Institute in Tel Aviv identifying them may be a difficult and complex procedure which may use different methods such as DNA tests and scans we had one body that was classified as a terrorist body the CT scan engineer told us that it was not a terrorist body but an Israeli resident but all the documents had shown that he is a Hamas terrorist he showed our volunteer David a scan that showed that he had coronary artery bypass surgery he said that this surgery was done in such a professional way he doesn't believe that the body belonged to a terrorist they checked the list of missing people and they found someone on the list who had the exact same surgery our ambulance went to tell his Shomer hospital and got his medical records they cross checked the information and came to the conclusion that the body belonged to him they couldn't identify the body in any other way because the body was totally burnt out Zaka Tel Aviv is a branch of the famous volunteer organization which has existed for nearly 30 years in numbers around 400 volunteers its main goals are identification, extraction and rescue of bodies and body parts many of the volunteers here are ultra orthodox who see their mission as a religious decree bringing complete bodies to burial is a custom in Judaism we'll continue to work and we won't give up until the last murdered person will be buried we still have several missing people many corpses still need more evidence that we need to collect we'll continue to come here we'll search inside the horrors time after time going back to these places where the horrors occurred is the hardest thing but we'll continue to do it we'll go back here and everywhere we need to go anytime, any moment every small piece of information which can help us identify the bodies of those who are considered missing and who are not fully identified Zaka Tel Aviv also operates a special center in Tel Aviv with special facilities for cases of mass casualties this place is called the reading center it is available for times of emergency to receive and to treat hundreds of bodies we have family rooms rooms to purify the bodies and to clean them we have dozens of morgue freezers we have a big space which can allow us to accept bodies from hospitals from all over Israel Zaka volunteers say that despite the difficulties and challenges they are proud to be a part of this organization which brings a final justice to the deceased perhaps another example of Israeli solidarity in the last few weeks business climate in the Middle East looks murky these days as you know but still in the spirit of the Abraham Accords business people meet in Dubai our Bastien Borey reports from there Jordan has withdrawn from a major water and energy partnership that included the UAE and Israel Saudi Arabia has spent negotiations on its entry to the Abraham Accords Bahrain has announced that it is breaking off economic relations with the Israelis but despite the war in Gaza Middle Eastern entrepreneurs want to keep looking at each other regardless of origin or religion I think it's a temporary moment of history what is extremely sad of course our biggest wish like everybody in Israel is we want to get free our hostages no question about it we want to stop the situation to be really honest at the beginning we had ourself the idea I'll be postponing it what are we doing finally we decided seeing the relationship between Israel and the UAE and how friendly everything is going on and staying on at the moment we decided we should event now more than ever because I think it's more important now than ever to build bridges to build communication in 2022 trade between Israel and the UAE jumped 109% to 2.5 billion dollars as compared to 1.2 billion in the previous year making the Emirates the 16th largest trade partners of the Israelis but the situation remains fragile for investors who prefer not to give into the siren calls of political haggling I was just talking yesterday to someone very prominent here in the UAE and he was telling me that he he says I know this I know what's going on in the Arab media and I don't listen to it and I don't follow it and I won't listen to it because I know it's propaganda politics it's built on money situations trying to influence the the people and it's a said reality that we have to deal with I'm not saying that Israel's perfect either no one's very well trying but always just to say the truth and that's very very important what happened is an earthquake it has to be said we're not just talking about a war between two states involving only soldiers bad things did happen barbarity everyone was shocked but Dubai and the region as a whole is a platform for business and that's what counts today we're not talking too much about politics we hope that things will calm down for everyone's benefit we're keeping our heads down and things will pass it's a very turbulent time but I'm confident things will settle down we're in a whirlwind today which unfortunately is considerably slowing down our business but we're quite optimistic for the next few months we hope that the situation will calm down in the interest of universal values while the impact of the war in Gaza is already being felt on world energy prices it is not yet possible to assess the consequences for bilateral trade between Israel and Arab countries Israelis and Emirates are still hoping to break the $10 billion trade barrier in the years to come Yemen's Houthis are escalating attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea raising concern for the safety of key trade routes the naval forces of the Yemeni armed forces with the help of Allah Almighty carried out this morning a targeting operation against two Israeli ships in the Bab Al-Mandeb Strait the targeted ships were the Unity Explorer and ship number 9 the first ship was targeted with a naval missile and the second ship was targeted with a naval drone the running back militia said attacks like those on Sunday would continue until Israel ends its strikes on Gaza but the IDF denied the ships had any connection to Israel and accused the Houthis of endangering the freedom of navigation in the region one of the ships was damaged in a very serious way and it seems that it could be in danger of sinking and other one was lightly damaged this is an event stemming from negative sabotage of the Houthis we need to see how the world will answer this issue we saw four attacks against three separate commercial vessels operating in international waters in the southern red sea three vessels that are connected to 14 different nations which goes to show you the extent to which this is truly a source of global concern and a threat to international peace and stability the Bahamas flagged Unity Explorer bulk carrier was attacked in the morning and then again in the afternoon by anti-ship missiles then the Panamanian flag number 9 reported damage but no casualties caused by a missile from Yemen a third ship the Sophie 2 which also sails under Panama's flag said it was struck as well but suffered no significant harm the Arleigh Burke class destroyer USS Carney responded to the distress calls from these ships and provided assistance in doing so it detected three UAVs at three different times heading in its direction and it took action against all three of those UAVs we have every reason to believe that these attacks while they were launched by the Houthis in Yemen were fully enabled by Iran this is also one of those allegations aimed at projections which are made in line with efforts to deviate public opinion of nations and to cover up crimes by the Zionist regime and the US government the US says it will consider all appropriate responses with full coordination with its international partners but in the absence of significant action such attacks off the coast of Yemen will only increase in frequency and severity back to you Ben I'm so the US is sending an envoy to the Gulf will that be enough again I believe it's necessary but nowhere near sufficient particularly at a time when some of the GCC countries are going to be receiving their Putin it's certainly behooves Washington who wants to keep these countries in its orbit and actually has the capability to help patrol both the Red Sea and Babel Mandeb with a broader international maritime coalition that it is committed to freedom of navigation there and also committed to pushing back on the Iranian threat so here is where action and not just words is going to be key from Washington. Thank you for joining us here on this episode of the war continues as Israel intensifies its efforts to eliminate the Hamas terror group in Gaza several rockets fired towards Tel Aviv and central Israel this afternoon causing minor damage inside the city at the same time hostile aircraft alert sirens sounded in northern Israel in addition to multiple launches towards the Gaza border as well as this very moment the IDF saying earlier it had hit 450 Hamas sites in the past 24 hours at the moment 137 hostages remain in Hamas captivity in Gaza including babies and the elderly meanwhile these are the images of scores of Hamas operatives who have surrendered to the IDF they will be brought to Israel for questioning the U.S. is meanwhile saying it has not imposed a hard deadline on Israel to end its operation in Gaza with a security advisor saying Hamas would continue to pose a threat to Israel if the war stopped today let's take you live now to southern Israel where our very own Pierre Kloshander is standing by in the city of Sterot, Pierre more rocket alerts at this very hour right more rocket alerts on the southern communities of facing the Gaza Strip there's been two rocket alerts just in the city of Sterot where we are located and it seems that it goes on relentlessly with also rocket alerts as you mentioned in Tel Aviv in the central areas of Israel and some also crushing on the sea nearby Tel Aviv but this is something that will go on for a while the IDF has already said a couple of days ago that Hamas has launched something like 11,000 rockets on Israeli territory since the onset of the war which by Hamas on Israel on October 7 and Pierre as we speak the IDF of course continues to operate in all parts of the Gaza Strip what can we expect in terms of the time frame to take over those Hamas strongholds in the north of the Strip and also in the south you know just 10 minutes ago there were two extremely loud explosions in Bed Hanun and this is something we see almost on a daily basis this is the northern sector of the Gaza Strip and it's under Israeli operational control and yet there's still from time to time there's a lot of structures with terrorist squads or sometimes it's one single terrorist armed with an RPG rocket launcher coming out of a tunnel shaft that hasn't been identified and trying to launch the rocket onto an Israeli tank or onto a group of soldiers patrolling but here what we just saw earlier was the destruction of infrastructure by probably by the engineering corps because we didn't hear the roar of the planes we saw really large explosions one after the other in the same sector and it could be a tunnel for instance because we know that the lines of defense of Hamas especially the tunnel network is very dense in this area as it is very dense in Hanun as now regarding the time frame nobody will tell you exactly how long it will take but there is something which is in a sense showing you the direction of the ground offensive which started in two stages one on October 27 and the second one in the southern sector of the Gaza Strip on December 1st after the end of the Lull in the fighting and this is the fact that now you have one chunk of territory the northern Gaza Strip under Israeli operational control Gaza City is going to soon fall probably because the two remaining quarters that where there is ferocious fighting the Jebalia refugee camp north of Gaza City and the Sejaia town which is on the south-east outskirts of Gaza City for a fifth day there are ferocious battles and they will fall that's obvious at some point and then you have an area which is the central refugee camps south of El Nucera, Direl Balach El Burej south of it is Hanyunes which is completely encircled so the central sector is already cut and then you have the southern sector with Rafah on the Egyptian Gaza border so Israel controls more or less the center the north cuts the center the central refugee camps and cuts the southern sector so that shows you that the IDF is slowly but surely establishing control on the Gaza Strip and Hanyunes in of itself is probably the most important stronghold that needs to fall and is probably also the make or break of Hamas control over Gaza Yes and as we speak more rocket alerts here being heard right now in Kibbutz Kisoufim and yes much work still to be done for the IDF in Gaza thank you for that update more from Pierre throughout the evening here on I-24 news and now for more I want to welcome in studio Dr. David Shimoni a former intelligence official and member of commanders for Israel's security thank you for coming on the show so the White House says there is no concrete deadline to end the combat against Hamas that is surely good news for Israel but is that enough it's very good news for Israel and it's quite enough because if we have the backing of the United States we're in relatively a good position we know that many other major western governments support Israel I believe even people that you will consider maybe important to allow us more time like Egypt Saudi Arabia I think all of them will applaud should we be able to eliminate the Hamas military ability so but yes the support we're getting from the United States is good it's worthwhile time we need the time to expand operations to Pierre gave a very accurate description of what's happening in the field I think for Israel the question of time is also valuable because our leadership needs time to make decisions about the future and they're kind of reluctant to do that so for the time being we are all united we are defining military objectives but we are trying to dodge to avoid the real tough questions of what's going to happen later and then we will have our differences with the United States so United States is giving us leeway giving us an opportunity to continue with our military operations but eventually we'll be negotiating with the United States or debating with the United States what is the big picture what's going to happen after the hostilities end and before we even get to what happens after the war let's review some images of what is happening right now in Gaza several images footage on social media has captured several instances where armed individuals believed to be related to Hamas were seen looting humanitarian aid trucks arriving from Rafa and in a rare display of anger residents of Gaza are daring to appear on local media and openly condemn the terror group let's take a listen . . . . . . So Dr. Shimoni, very rare public statements there of these Gaza residents against Hamas. What do you make of that? Is Hamas losing the support of the people in Gaza? Is it losing control of the Gaza Strip? I believe so. I believe if I try to interpret what we see here and what we're listening to, if people lost their fear to speak like that against Hamas, that means that Hamas is losing its ability to frighten, to terrorize its own people. I think even two weeks ago it would be unthinkable for people in Gaza to speak like that so openly against Hamas. So yes, I believe they sense that Hamas is losing its grip, losing its power, and they're using this opportunity to express their anger, their fury against Hamas. We see also the civilian population in Gaza, most of them are really, I believe, innocent victims of the Hamas regime and now of our retaliation. I didn't want to ask you about that because right after this massacre, this onslaught of Hamas, the survey was held by a Palestinian university in the West Bank and it found incredible support for this massacre, mainly in the West Bank but also in Gaza. The people of Gaza, when they supported this massacre, did not envision what is about to happen? I think Hamas didn't envision what's going to happen. I think there was, we were deeply surprised on October 7th but I believe Hamas was also surprised after October 7th. I can understand Gaza citizens rejoicing when they saw the, or when they heard about... It's hard to understand. Okay, but they had a, what they would call the pictures of victory against the big Israeli Zionist war machine but I think nobody on Hamas' side imagined that this would be the Israeli reaction. By the way, I think Israel is also surprised because if we remember the days before the attack on October 7th, the notion was that the IDF is becoming weaker. Well, of course. They will not fly their aircraft and the special units will not show up when they're called and I think we're seeing the young generation, I'm not there anymore but the younger generation, in the protest, they said to the government, you are facing the wrong generation and I think the same surprise is also now happening to Hamas. They didn't envisage the mobilization from free will of all of our reservists and all of the country to support this, the war effort and the families of the victims. So Hamas has many, many disappointments. They also have, of course, disappointments with Chisbalah. They were counting on aid from Chisbalah, another front opening in the north. They were hoping that the West Bank will ignite and will draw a lot of our forces to deal with the West Bank. They were even relying that the Arab, Israeli Arabs will revolt and they have a lot of disappointment. Perhaps the extent of the success so-called of Hamas and slaughtering so many Israeli civilians was also the reason for the demise of Hamas and hopefully for the end of this terror group in Gaza. Stay with me because we want to check out the situation in the Israel's northern border, our Middle East correspondent Ariel Al-Saran is there. Ariel, incoming rocket alerts, incoming hostile aircrafts. It's all happening. What is the latest? Right, guys. So about an hour and a half ago also rocket alert sirens, but also hostile infiltration from the air alerts on the, in the northern border in the central, central sector, the north of the Upper Galilee, the area of Qiyach-Mona, but also Kfar Blum, now the IDF issuing a statement a few minutes ago saying that the IDF forces intercepted what they called a suspicious aerial target across from Lebanon into Israel. There were no injuries as a result of that infiltration, but also as a result of the interception. And also multiple rockets were identified and IDF in the statement saying that they responded to the sources of the fire and indeed over the past few minutes we can hear the constant rumble of IDF artillery in the background firing towards Lebanon on the Lebanese side. They're reporting of Israeli shelling all across the central sector of the border and the area of Ramesh, but also in El Qiyam and Edesa to the east. And really also as we've been speaking, Hezbollah claiming responsibility for its third attack on IDF forces today saying that about 45 minutes ago they attacked IDF border posts with two bull can rockets. Those are heavy payload rockets that we have seen significant attacks on similar border posts along the Israel-Lebanon border in these recent weeks of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. And indeed we see that Hezbollah is picking up the pace as it usually does towards the later hours of the day in their continuous attacks on IDF border posts along the Israel-Lebanon border. And Ariel meanwhile also reports out of Syria of a drone strike. Who's the target and who's behind the attack? Well, who's behind the attack? It's a little soon to say if we will ever know because even if it is Israel and the fingers are pointed to Israel automatically, there obviously is no official confirmation and they probably won't be even if it is. But what we're talking about Syrian media reporting of a targeted car strike from the air in Kunetra that's fairly close to the Israel-Syria border as a result of this attack, four people who are connected to Hezbollah's Golan file, that is the file that they use to recruit and also manage the terror activity, I should say, against Israel originating from Syria. So according to a sham radio in Syria, which is close to the Assad regime, we should say four people connected to Hezbollah's activity in southern Syria have been eliminated in this drone strike attributed to Israel. But again, Israel is probably not going to confirm even if it is behind it. So much going on in the north and in the south. Ariel Osiron reporting from the northern border. Thank you for that. More updates from Ariel throughout the evening. Thank you very much for joining me, Dr. David Shimoni. We heard from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday saying, if Hezbollah chooses to start an all-out war, then it will single-handedly turn Beirut, south Lebanon, not far from here, into Gaza and Hanyunas. How concerning is this threat in Lebanon? We saw what happened in Gaza after that Hamas attack. Is Lebanon really aware of what could be the ramifications of the ongoing Hezbollah attacks? I'm sure Lebanon is fully aware of the consequences of them supporting or allowing Hezbollah to launch a major attack against Israel. I believe that the Prime Minister's announcement was more directed to the Israeli audience than to the Lebanese, because the Lebanese and the Hezbollah know exactly what our IDF can do, our Air Force can do. And I think we're seeing in the north a shift in the way Israel is operating, because until now, since the beginning of the war, Israel was retaliating. The Hezbollah would fire something, we would retaliate. I think in the past few days, you see something changing there and you see initiative attacks by Israel trying to drive the Hezbollah to the north, trying to enforce the old 1701 UN resolution, and trying to drive the Hezbollah to the north. So I believe the war in the north is now intensifying because of Israeli initiatives, and not only because of Hezbollah. We also are aware of political efforts, international efforts to try to enforce 1701 again and try to get the Hezbollah away from the border. Since the beginning of the war, we've been debating and trying to guess when will Nasrallah give the order to launch his major attack in Israel. We know that Hezbollah is very powerful. They have a lot, a lot of rocket fire. They can cause a lot of damage in Israel. And since the beginning of the war, we've been saying if the air force attacks Gaza, Hezbollah will interfere. It didn't. If the ground forces will invade Gaza, if we take over the city of Gaza, if we take over the Shefa Hospital, all kinds of symbols. And for the time being, Hezbollah is not launching its full capability. We have to bear in mind Hezbollah was installed in Lebanon by Iran not to defend the Hamas, not to defend Iran. To support Iran in case Israel decides to attack it, to deter Israel from attacking Iran. So for the time being, I think the situation in the north is very tense. I think it's also very pitiful for the many, many Israelis who've been evacuated over two months now evacuated from the home. So there's a very, very heavy cost to this situation in the north, but it's still not the full-scale war. And I hope it will not develop to a full-scale. Yes. The Defense Minister of Gala said the government will not urge the residents to return before Hezbollah is driven back to north of the Litani River. But how likely is that to really happen without a military intervention? I think our politicians are now starting to drip messages that will enable some announcement that says, now it is safe to go back home even without a major Israeli operation. More rocket alerts now in the south in Nahalos. Please continue. We've heard, apart from what you said about the Defense Minister, we heard, I think, himself saying that when you go back to your homes in the north, you'll find the IDF there. It will be defending your towns and your settlements. So they're trying to create the atmosphere that will enable an order that the civilians can go back even without us destroying the Hezbollah abilities in the north. Dr. Davitrimoni, thank you very much for your insight. Sure. Now, two months into the war, the haunting tales of Hamas' captivity continue to emerge, unveiling the unimaginable struggles faced by Henn, Goldstein Almog, and her three children, Agam, Gal, and Tal. Here's more in the next report. Henn and the children are back, the grandchildren. Wow, it was hard. Everything mixed with everything. The sadness and the joy. They returned from a black place. They returned to no home. They returned to no father. They returned to no sister. But they returned alive. Ten days after Henn, Goldstein Almog and her three children, Agam, 17, Tal, 11, and Gal, 9, were released from Hamas' captivity. They're trying to cope with life after the nightmare in Gaza. First of all, they are very afraid of every movement, of every peep that happens around them. From every peep they heard, they went straight with the Kalashnikov. He even laughed that one of them once went with the Kalashnikov upside down. I've been sleeping next to them for the past few nights. The whole family sleeps together now. This is the first time they've asked to sleep with you, probably since they were little, right? Yes. There was a friend here with two small dogs, and they played with them here. They ran around, and right down here they took down the cushions of the sofas, and they built a tunnel for them, for the dogs. A few minutes earlier, Gal's teacher was here, and she asked him, were you in the tunnel? So he told her, yes. He told her, it's like an Arab house, and he did that with it. And you could stand? Did you have to crawl? No, no, I didn't crawl. I stood. They're talking about the army's bombs, which scared the children terribly. The children less, but it finished them. It finished them completely. The bombings? Yeah, it destroys our soul. How were they treated? Kept as bargaining chips. In the end they came back, and they are healthy, and everything is fine. On the morning of the abduction from Kfar Azar, Chen, her husband, Nadav, and their four children entered the safe room. Chen said that the terrorists felt at home in the kibbutz. Everything was completely quiet. Slowly they chose a car, drove, crossed the border, opened the trunk, loaded the bodies they saw. The terrorists continued to drive. Agam said to the boys, look forward, just not back. Seven minutes, and you're inside Gaza. When the army arrived in the evening, they discovered that Nadav, the father, and Yam, the eldest daughter, had been murdered. One of the things that preoccupied us during the 51 days that they were gone is whether they even knew that there is no longer a father and eldest daughter. They knew Nadav was badly injured, and as for Yam, Chen saw that she was not alive. The way they finally found out in Gaza that Nadav and Yam were murdered is unimaginable. From time to time they let them listen to a transistor for a limited period, so they heard Giora say that Yam and Nadav were no longer alive. Every morning I come here to the pictures in the room which were given to us to Sitchiva, and I shed my tears in front of Nadav and Yam. They heard in Gaza their grandfather. In Gaza, yes. On the last day in captivity, when they were finally on their way back from Gaza to Israel, they went through some very difficult hours. Agam said she was more afraid with the Red Cross than in captivity, because the Red Cross is like, you know, there are no weapons, there's nothing, they travel in a car because of the crowd around them, and no one was watching over them. When Chen came to the hospital, she said, how long did it take you? They also had a phase where they thought they were being sacrificed for the war. Chen, Agam, Tal and Gao returned home and discovered that they had no home, and Kibbutz-Kfar-Aza was almost completely destroyed. The injustices and the pain will be with us as long as there is a soul in us, and it will not be forgotten. If we know how to direct our lives between embracing and helping, and between finding the moment for ourselves to process our grief, yes, then we will have, I think, reasonable good lives. But first, this. The return of all the abductees. Until the last one. Just some of the many testimonies of the horrors of Hamas on October 7th. With that, we wrap up this bulletin of the I-24 Newsdesk. More rolling coverage continues throughout the evening. Thank you for watching. Israel is in a state of war. Families completely gunned down in their beds. We have no idea where she is. Our soldiers are fighting on the front line, but the general perception is something that certainly needs to be fought as well. In News 24, Israel under attack. News 24 in Spanish brings the analysis and the information of the events of the war, sword of iron. Exclusive interviews and reports from the war zone. The reaction of Spanish-speaking countries. News 24, the only media in Spanish that keeps you informed and connected with the Latin community in Israel. News 24, only on I-24 News. Bringing us here on I-24 News, our rolling coverage of day 63 of the war continues. As Israel intensifies its efforts to eliminate the Hamas terror group in Gaza. Several rockets were fired towards Tel Aviv and central Israel. This afternoon, causing minor damage inside this city. At the same time, hostile aircraft alert sirens sounded in northern Israel in addition to multiple launches towards the Gaza border communities as well as this very moment. The idea of saying earlier, it had hit 450 Hamas sites in the past 24 hours. At the moment, 137 hostages remain in Hamas captivity in Gaza, including babies and the elderly. Meanwhile, these are the images of scores of Hamas operatives who have surrendered to the IDF. They will be brought to Israel for questioning. The US is meanwhile saying it has not imposed a hard deadline on Israel to end its operation in Gaza with a security adviser saying Hamas would continue to pose a threat to Israel if the war stopped today. Let's take you live now to southern Israel, where our very own Pierre Kloschender is standing by in the city of Zderot. Pierre, more rocket alerts at this very hour. Right, more rocket alerts on the southern communities of facing the Gaza Strip. There's been two rocket alerts just in the city of Zderot where we are located and it seems that it goes on relentlessly There's also rocket alerts as you mentioned in Tel Aviv in the central areas of Israel and some also crushing on the sea nearby Tel Aviv. But this is something that will go on for a while. The IDF has already said a couple of days ago that Hamas has launched something like 11,000 rockets on Israeli territory since the onset of the war which by Hamas on Israel on October 7. And Pierre, as we speak, the IDF of course continues to operate in all parts of the Gaza Strip. What can we expect in terms of the time frame to take over those Hamas strongholds in the north of the Strip and also in the south? You know, just ten minutes ago there were two extremely loud explosions in Beth Hanun. And this is something we see almost on a daily basis. This is the northern sector of the Gaza Strip and it's under Israeli operational control. And yet there's still from time to time clashes with terrorist squads or sometimes it's one single terrorist armed with an RPG rocket launcher coming out of a tunnel shaft that hasn't been identified and trying to launch the rocket onto an Israeli tank or onto a group of soldiers patrolling. But here what we just saw earlier was the destruction of infrastructure probably by the engineering corps because we didn't see any planes in the air, we didn't hear the roar of the planes. We saw really large explosions one after the other in the same sector and it could be a tunnel for instance because we know that the lines of defense of Hamas especially the tunnel network is very dense in this area as it is very dense in Hanun. Now regarding the time frame nobody will tell you exactly how long it will take but there is something which is in a sense showing you the direction of the ground offensive which started in two stages. One on October 27 and the second one in the southern sector of the Gaza Strip on December 1 after the end of the lull in the fighting. And this is the fact that now you have one chunk of territory, the northern Gaza Strip under Israeli operational control. Gaza City is going to soon fall probably because the two remaining quarters that where there is ferocious fighting the Jebaliyah refugee camp north of Gaza City and the Sejaïa town which is on the southeast outskirts of Gaza City for a fifth day there are ferocious battles and they will fall. That's obvious at some point. And then you have an area which is the central refugee camps of El Nusera, Direl Balach, El Borej. South of it is Hanunes which is completely encircled so the central sector is already cut and then you have the southern sector with Rafah on the Egyptian Gaza border. So Israel controls more or less the center, the north cuts the center, the central refugee camps and cuts the southern sector. So that shows you that the IDF is slowly but surely establishing control on the Gaza Strip and Hanunes in of itself is probably the most important stronghold that needs to fall and is probably also the make or break of Hamas control of the Gaza. Yes, and as we speak, more rocket alerts here being heard right now in Kibbutz Kisufim and yes, so much work still to be done for the IDF in Gaza. Pierre Klauschandler, thank you for that update more from Pierre throughout the evening here on I-24 News. And now for more, I want to welcome in studio Dr. David Shimoni, a former intelligence official and member of Commanders for Israel's security. Thank you for coming on the show. So the White House says there is no concrete deadline to end the combat against Hamas. That is surely good news for Israel, but is that enough? It's very good news for Israel and it's quite enough because if we have the backing of the United States, we're in a relatively good position. We know that many other major western governments support Israel. I believe even people that you will consider maybe reluctant to allow us more time like Egypt, like Saudi Arabia, I think all of them will applaud should we be able to eliminate the Hamas military ability. But yes, the support we're getting from the United States is good. It's worthwhile time. We need the time. We need the time to expand the operations to appear, gave a very accurate description of what's happening in the field. I think for Israel, the question of time is also valuable because our leadership needs time to make decisions about the future and they're kind of reluctant to do that. So for the time being, we are all united. We are defining military objectives, we are trying to dodge or to avoid the real tough questions of what's going to happen later and then we will have our differences with the United States. So United States is giving us leeway, giving us an opportunity to continue with our military operations, but eventually we'll be negotiating with the United States or debating with the United States. What is the big picture, what's going to happen after the hostilities end? And before we even get to what happens after the war, let's show you some images of what is happening right now in Gaza. Several images, footage on social media has captured several instances where armed individuals believed to be related to Hamas were seen looting humanitarian aid trucks arriving from Rafa and in a rare display of anger, residents of Gaza are daring to appear on local media and openly condemn the terror group. Let's take a listen. So Dr. Shimoni, very rare public statements there, is a Gaza residence. So Dr. Shimoni, very rare public statements there of these Gaza residents against Hamas, what do you make of that? Is Hamas losing the support of the people in Gaza? Is it losing control of the Gaza Strip? I believe so, I believe. If I try to interpret what we see here and what we're listening to, if people lost their fear to speak like that against Hamas, that means that Hamas is losing its ability to frighten, to terrorize its own people. I think even two weeks ago it would be unthinkable for people in Gaza to speak like that so openly against Hamas, so yes, I believe. They sense that Hamas is losing its grip, losing its power, and they're using this opportunity to express their anger, their fury against Hamas. We see also the civilian population in Gaza, most of them are really, I believe, innocent victims of the Hamas regime and now of our retaliation. I didn't want to ask you about that because right after this massacre, this onslaught of Hamas, the survey was held by a Palestinian university in the West Bank, and it found incredible support for this massacre, mainly in the West Bank, but also in Gaza. People of Gaza, when they supported this massacre, did not envision what is about to happen? I think Hamas didn't envision what's going to happen. I think we were deeply surprised on October 7th, but I believe Hamas was also surprised after October 7th. I can understand Gaza citizens rejoicing when they hear it about... It's hard to understand. Okay, but they had what they would call the pictures of victory against the big Israeli Zionist war machine, but I think nobody on Hamas' side imagined that this would be the Israeli reaction. By the way, I think Israel is also surprised because if we remember the days before the attack on October 7th, the notion was that the IDF is becoming weaker. Well, of course. And the pilots will not fly their aircraft and the special units will not show up when they're called. And I think we're saying at the young generation, I'm not there anymore, but the younger generation, in the protests they said to the government, you are facing the wrong generation. And I think the same surprise is also now happening to Hamas. They didn't envisage the mobilization from free will of all of our reservists and all of the country to support the war effort and the families of the victims. So Hamas has many, many disappointments. They also have, of course, disappointment with Hezbollah. They were counting on aid from Hezbollah, another front opening in the north. They were hoping that the West Bank will ignite and will draw a lot of our forces to deal with the West Bank. They were even relying that the Arab, Israeli Arabs will revolt and they have a lot of disappointment. Perhaps the extent of the success so-called of Hamas and slaughtering so many Israeli civilians was also the reason for the demise of Hamas and hopefully for the end of this terror group in Gaza. Stay with me because we want to check out the situation in the Israel's northern border, our Middle East correspondent Ariel Al-Sarani is there. Ariel incoming rocket alerts, incoming hostile aircrafts. It's all happening. What is the latest? Right, guys. So about an hour and a half ago, also rocket alert sirens, but also hostile infiltration from the air alerts in the northern border in the central, central sector, the north of the Upper Galilee, the area of Kyat Shmona, but also Kfar Blum. Now, the IDF issued a statement a few months ago saying that the IDF forces intercepted what they called a suspicious aerial target across from Lebanon into Israel. There were no injuries as a result of that infiltration, but also as a result of the interception. And also multiple rockets were identified and IDF in the statement saying that they responded to the sources of the fire and indeed over the past few minutes we can hear the constant rumble of IDF artillery in the background firing towards Lebanon on the Lebanese side. They're reporting of Israeli shelling all across the central sector of the border and the area of Ramesh, but also in El Chiam and Adesa to the east and really also as we've been speaking Hezbollah claiming responsibility for its third attack on IDF forces today saying that about 45 minutes ago they attacked IDF border post with two Bulkhan rockets. Those are heavy payload rockets that we have seen significant attacks on similar border posts along the Israel-Lebanon border in these recent weeks of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah and indeed we see that Hezbollah's picking up the pace as it usually does towards the later hours of the day in their continuous attacks on IDF border posts along the Israel-Lebanon border. And Ariel meanwhile also reports out of Syria of a drone strike who's the target and who's behind the attack? Well who's behind the attack it's a little soon to say if we will ever know because even if it is Israel and the fingers are pointed to Israel automatically there obviously will be no official confirmation and they probably won't be even if it is but what we're talking about Syrian media reporting of a targeted car strike from the air in Kounetra that's fairly close to the Israel-Syria border as a result of this attack four people who are connected to Hezbollah's Golan file that is the file that they use to recruit and also manage the terror activity I should say against Israel originating from Syria so according to a sham radio in Syria which is close to the Assad regime we should say four people connected to Hezbollah's activity in southern Syria have been eliminated in this drone strike attributed to Israel but again Israel's probably not going to get rid of this behind it so much going on in the north and in the south Ariel Osaran reporting from the northern border thank you for that more updates from Ariel throughout the evening still with me Dr. David Shimani we heard from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday saying if Hezbollah chooses to start an all out war then it will single handedly turn Beirut south Lebanon not far from here into Gaza and Hanyunas how concerning is this threat in Lebanon we saw what happened in Gaza after that Hamas attack is Lebanon really aware of what could be the ramifications of the ongoing Hezbollah attacks I'm sure Lebanon is fully aware of consequences of them supporting or allowing Hezbollah to launch a major attack against Israel I believe that the prime minister's announcement was more directed to the Israeli audience than to the Lebanese because the Lebanese and the Hezbollah know exactly what our idea can do our air force can do and I think we're seeing in the north a shift in the way Israel is operating because until now since the beginning of the war Israel was retaliating the Hezbollah would fire something we would retaliate I think in the past few days you see something changing there and you see initiative attacks by Israel trying to drive the Hezbollah to the north trying to enforce the old 1701 UN resolution and trying to drive the Hezbollah to the north so I believe the war in the north is now intensifying because of Israeli initiatives and not only because of Hezbollah we also are aware of political efforts international efforts to try to enforce 1701 again and try to get the Hezbollah away from the border since the beginning of the war we've been debating and trying to guess when will Nasrallah give the order to launch his major attack in Israel we know that Hezbollah is very powerful they have a lot of rocket fire they can cause a lot of damage in Israel and since the beginning of the war we've been saying if the air force attacks Gaza Hezbollah will interfere it didn't if the ground forces will invade Gaza if we take over the city of Gaza if we take over the Shefa hospital all kinds of symbols and for the time being Hezbollah is not launching its full capability we have to bear in mind Hezbollah was installed in Lebanon by Iran not to defend the Hamas but to defend Iran to support Iran in case Israel decides to attack it to deter Israel from attacking Iran so for the time being I think the situation in the north is very tense I think it's also very pitiful for the many many Israelis who've been evacuated over two months now evacuated from the home so there's a very very heavy cost to this situation in the north the full scale war and I hope it will not develop to a full scale war Yes the defense minister said the government will not urge the residents to return before Hezbollah is driven back to north of the Litani river but how likely is that to really happen without a military intervention? I think our politicians are now starting to drip messages that will enable some announcement that says now it is safe to go back home even without a major Israeli operation More rocket alerts now in the south in Nahalos, please continue Apart from what you said about the defense minister we heard I think himself saying that when you go back to your homes in the north you'll find the IDF there will be defending your towns and your settlements so they're trying to create the atmosphere in order that the civilians can go back even without us destroying the Hezbollah abilities in the north Dr. David Shumoni, thank you very much for your insight Now two months into the war the haunting tales of Hamas captivity continue to emerge unveiling the unimaginable struggles faced by Chen, Goldstein Almog and her three children Agam, Gal and Tal Here's more in the next report Wow Wow, it was hard everything mixed with everything the sadness and the joy they returned from a black place they returned to know home they returned to know father they returned to know sister but they returned alive 10 days after Chen, Goldstein Almog and her three children Agam, Seventeen, Tal, Eleven and Gal, Nine were released from Hamas captivity they're trying to cope with life after the nightmare in Gaza first of all they are very afraid of every movement of every peep that happens around them from every peep they heard, they went straight with the Koleshnikov he even laughed that one of them once went with the Koleshnikov upside down I've been sleeping next to them for the past few nights the whole family sleeps together now this is the first time they've asked to sleep with you probably since they were little, right? yes there was a friend here with two small dogs and they played with them here they ran around and right down here they took down the cushions of the sofas and they built a tunnel for them for the dogs a few minutes earlier Gal's teacher was here were you in the tunnel? so he told her yes it's like an Arab house and he did that with it and you could stand? did you have to crawl? no, no, I didn't crawl I stood they're talking about the army's bombs which scared the children terribly the children less but it finished them it finished them completely the bombings? yeah, it destroys our soul they were treated kept as bargaining chips in the end they came back and they are healthy and everything is fine on the morning of the abduction from Kfar Azar Chen, her husband, Nadav and their four children entered the safe room Chen said that the terrorists felt at home in the kibbutz everything was completely quiet slowly they chose a car drove, crossed the border the terrorists continued to drive Agam said to the boys look forward, just not back seven minutes and you're inside Gaza when the army arrived in the evening they discovered that Nadav, the father and Yam, the eldest daughter had been murdered one of the things that preoccupied us during the 51 days that they were gone is whether they even knew that there is no longer a father and eldest daughter was badly injured and as for Yam Chen saw that she was not alive the way they finally found out in Gaza that Nadav and Yam were murdered is unimaginable from time to time they let them listen to a transistor for a limited period so they heard Giora say that Yam and Nadav were no longer alive every morning I come here to the pictures in the room to ask Sechiva and I shed my tears in front of Nadav and Yam they heard in Gaza their grandfather in Gaza, yes on the last day in captivity when they were finally on their way back from Gaza to Israel they went through some very difficult hours Agam said she was more afraid with the Red Cross than in captivity because the Red Cross is like you know there are no weapons there's nothing they travel in a car because of the crowd around them and no one was watching over them when Chen came to the hospital she said, how long did it take you they also had a phase where they thought they were being sacrificed for the war Chen, Agam, Tal and Gal returned home and discovered that they had no home and Kibbutz Kfar Azad was almost completely destroyed the injustices and the pain will be with us as long as there is a soul in us and it will not be forgotten if we know how to direct our lives between embracing and helping and between finding the moment for ourselves to process our grief, yes then we will have I think reasonable good lives but first this all the abductees until the last one until the last one just some of the many testimonies of the horrors of Hamas on October 7th with that we wrap up this bulletin of the I-24 News Desk more rolling coverage continues throughout the evening thank you for watching there are phrases that you know from where they come from look here and the package for when and recharges that you already know where they go on International Recharges Altiz your people in rd access our website rechargas.altiz.com.b select recharges and type the number that you want to place the recharges they also receive the double balance in recharges of 8 dollars or more Altiz, the global network of the dominicans is in a state of war families completely done down in their beds we have no idea where is she as our soldiers are fighting on the front line but the general perception is something that certainly needs to be fought as well thank you for joining us here on I-24 News our rolling coverage of day 63 of the war continues as Israel intensifies its efforts to eliminate the Hamas terror group in Gaza rocket fire on Israeli communities continue in recent hours several projectiles were fired towards Tel Aviv and Central Israel this afternoon causing minor damage inside the city as well as multiple attacks on southern communities the idea of saying earlier it had hit 450 Hamas sites in the past 24 hours as we speak 137 hostages remain in Hamas captivity in Gaza including babies and the elderly yesterday scores of Hamas operatives have surrendered to the IDF and will be brought to Israel for questioning the US is meanwhile saying it has not imposed a hard deadline on Israel to end its operation in Gaza with a security advisor saying Hamas would continue to pose a threat to Israel if the war stopped today meanwhile more heavy fighting is taking place on Israel's northern border I-24 news correspondent Ariel Osirani is there Ariel we spoke less than an hour ago and there are already more developments indeed Guy a couple hours of substantial cross-border fire between Israel and Hezbollah and the Israel Lebanon border last time we spoke there were Hezbollah 8 attacks so it's been 5 more so far 8 attacks carried out by Hezbollah on IDF border posts along the border Israel saying that it is responding with artillery we can hear the booms of artillery and fighter jets above our heads for a while now over these past few hours and in Lebanon indeed reports just coming out of the past few minutes of Israeli artillery strikes in the area of Belida and Robothalofin that's in the central sector of the Israel Lebanon border coinciding with the Hezbollah statement that they targeted the border community of Matat and so these are just developments over the past hour or so and so you can see a clear indication to the fast pace the rapid escalation which we've seen on a daily basis here on the Israel Lebanon border between Israel and Hezbollah the IDF for the past for weeks now but indeed today the campaign is intensifying over the past couple of hours Yes and to that point exactly a real Prime Minister Netanyahu yesterday warning Lebanon that Beirut could become Gaza or Hanyunis should Hezbollah choose to start an all out war with Israel are there any forces in Lebanon to prevent Hezbollah from doing so and is it even deterred in any shape or form Well for deterrence you have to go into the minds of the leaders and that's kind of hard to do but in terms of the acts on the ground we are indeed seeing while indeed Israel is at war with Hezbollah on the border that's where it's limited to so far these past couple months cross border fire every once in a while the rocket barrages make it a little deeper into also Israeli responses make it all the way up to the cities of Tyre and Sidon but the question remains whether what Hezbollah is doing is simply for as it claims to be a show of solidarity for with Hamas in Gaza or they are setting the stage preparing for the next stage because indeed this is also something that Israeli leaders have been indicating that eventually after Gaza Lebanon will be next and this is something that also the northern border residents are saying that indeed at some point the threat needs to be taken care of Yes we certainly already saw what sort of damage Hamas has brought on Gaza with its onslaught and we can just expect or fear what sort of damage will be caused to Lebanon as we initiate something similar on the northern border thank you for that update as we speak the UN Security Council is meeting right now to discuss the violence here in Israel and Gaza more updates coming up throughout the evening here on I-24 news Today's newspaper has arrived here more hostages have been released it's all from the party at Reim he wasn't at the Reim party at all he ties in Gaza yes he might get lucky right right let's hope he gets lucky tough questions if I know everything gets mixed up what can I do it's been 8 weeks since she was brought here on the black Sabbath she sits in fake tranquility of one of her children in Kohav Yair grieving over the destruction of the kibbutz and the death of her loved ones grandma Aviva has only one hope left to celebrate a birthday next month with her grandson Itai who is a prisoner of Hamas you have to tell me what you will ask me how old I am I think I'm 97 years old I don't believe it I was born in 1927 do the math I think that it's true yes soon I have no complaints about my age I have no complaints not about health not even about the mind it's hard for the mind to contain everything what happened to Aviva that Saturday how did she manage to get out on her own from the Baeri massacre I remember Arabs came they said it was actually their house I told them welcome come visit come visit I thought we could talk to them but they were by my balcony I know that sure but what happened then I no longer remember well that's history the truth is that mom remembers it but Gracie the nanny was there at our house Gracie the devoted caregiver she even managed to send a picture of herself in Aviva cuddled under the blanket in the safe room until her last post help people are entering the house at around 12 she wrote for the first time that the terrorists have entered this is her last message and at some point Gracie disappeared and was murdered the full picture was completely by the family members eyewitnesses who survived to tell their story they say that mother's house the balcony was the war room and all your lawn mother was actually their ops room full of weapons and that's where their activity was concentrated and where was mom at the time on the swing that's what they say that mom was on the swing on the porch a plate full of fruit was placed in front of her which Gracie the nanny must have prepared for her to the war room that opened on Aviva's balcony the terrorists brought more people from the kibbutz some were kidnapped later some injured like a kibbutz member who arrived there seriously injured with their two remaining children this woman is mother's neighbor and she herself her husband was murdered and her baby was murdered and brought her there she says that thanks to mom she survived because mom kept talking to her and that's how she didn't lose consciousness she also says that her son vomited and got a smoke and she told him it's okay everything is fine she also said that the mother kept talking and they kept telling her to shut up but she talked I hear I'm listening nothing ringing? this is what we were told about you people who were with you what? you're a hero and you don't even remember? probably the bad things I don't remember memory is deceptive the fog of the senses the bar of consciousness only with what the soul can bear I only remember one thing about myself I can't believe it was like that I decided I was going that I was leaving the kibbutz Aviva decided to go walking slowly alone from her house toward the parking lot with the walker without the glasses and without a hearing aid she remembers complete silence a bubble of silence from around the fighting at its peak there were still many terrorists in the kibbutz there were many battles it was half past five five in the afternoon fortunately for me there was a ride and I got on this ride and he was on his way to Tel Aviv and on the way I called my daughter she didn't agree to go until she knew where Orit was she asked what happened to Gracie and she said how can it be that I went without her ten days later they got bitter news Orit, Aviva's daughter and son in law Rafi were murdered their son, Itai the grandson who came to visit Aviva was taken hostage to Gaza it's okay it's just I can't hide it this is our family truth grandma knows it that both parents were murdered each in his own home and that Itai was kidnapped we actually talked about it they talk about it every day there are three of us left out of a family of six Mirav Itai's sister the only one from the family who doesn't live in the south received the first sign of life in recent days through one of the hostages who was released save me now he wants to tell me that he is alive and that he asks us to do what is necessary to get him out and today we know that he was simply taken when he knows that mom he saw her murdered in front of his eyes he doesn't know what happened to my father because the connection went out 15 minutes earlier he's just sensitive and gentle and we take great care of him it's very hard to think about him there and now that we know for a fact that the fighting continues it is unbearable because he's 38 years old and without children he is suddenly without rights a person who is in what could be the prime of his life currently becoming the bottom of the list now if he has no children but I have children who need their uncle they haven't talked about the men yet it's like it's not something that is it perhaps a victim of the war? tell you about Itai a handsome, smart and kind-hearted guy the thing that was most important to him was coming to visit you yes always for him the most important was being at grandma's last friday Aviva decided for the first time to leave the protected house with her measured steps she walked to the hostages square and Tel Aviv when did you put the picture of Itai? we placed it now we organized it as a child I remember we were always in the shadow of events but here it comes in this way at such an old age in a much more brutal way even I must be optimistic we have no other choice this is our place you know I tell the kids that what happened will never happen again so that they have faith that it's possible to live here that's right because when you go through something like that it's really hard to believe israeli survivors of the october 7 terror onslaught activists and the ambassador to the united nations have held a special session at the UN condemning the world's silence on the brutal sexual assaults and rapes committed by Hamas terrorists something we've just been discussing here in studio now they share testimonies and evidence while calling out the hypocrisy around the world when it comes to the rape of Jewish women here's more from the UN session but a warning that these images are graphic and disturbing on october 7 Hamas committed crimes against humanity they raped, murdered and violated Israeli women usually the united nations is a place where Israelis have to defend their actions but this time they had center stage calling out the brutal violence against women on october 7 Hamas had committed rapes morgue workers say the bodies show trauma consistent with rape they bent someone down and I realized he was raping her and then he shot her in the head her pants are pulled down and she is half naked and women's organizations chose to be silent against Hamas violence and calling out the deafening silence denial and vocal vitriol against Jewish people that ensued the world has to decide who to believe do we believe the Hamas spokesperson who said that rape is forbidden therefore it couldn't have possibly happened on october 7 or do we believe the women whose bodies tell us how they spent the last minutes of their lives who are we going to believe we found a woman's body dumped outside without pants without underpants burn barely any hair left on her they even displayed horrific eyewitness testimonies I thought at the beginning that we were scared that we wouldn't be able to believe that a lot of young women also young women in the community and we believe that a lot there was a time when we believed that women and women people who came to us to help us are still alive only in the years I'm just going to cut the other side and go to the next she's not angry he's angry he's angry he's angry he's angry at the body who's talking about it and if it goes like this they'll see that he's angry and then that he's angry and then he's angry and then he's angry and we don't come around the world especially when it's taking so many decades and centuries for women to find a voice and speak out against rape and violence people use the language of the gender-based violence because of the victims they are sending a clear hypocrisy. It is a betrayal of all women because when our agency can be traded away, none of us are safe. Israeli authorities also called out the propaganda of Hamas and the fact that Hamas uses rape as a weapon of war while the world watches. Israel suffered the most brutal massacre since the Holocaust. The atrocities committed by Hamas were more barbaric than ISIS. Some say more cruel and barbaric than the Nazis. Babies were murdered and beheaded. Families were bound together and burnt alive. Children were executed in front of their parents and parents in front of their children. Israeli hostages released from captivity in Gaza have been recounting harrowing experiences of abuse and psychological terror. As we've been saying, there are 138 hostages, young and old, being held in dire conditions. More in this next report. Is everything okay? My mother was kept in a one-and-a-half room apartment. She was in one small closed room, and the couple lived in the other. It was a small window in the room, which they closed, and she couldn't see if it was day or night. As soon as she realized she was alone, she simply told us, listen, I decided, I read, I studied all the stories from the Holocaust. I will keep a diary. I read that Gilad Shalit used to do some sports, and that's what kept her going. She realized very quickly that they prayed five times a day, and she would simply count prayers. She would record it in a journal, and the prayers and sound of the muazzin, all these things gave her a complex of understanding what day it was, what night, what hour, and she revolved around that. When I come to them, they see the distress. You see the distress. Yola, Yael, all the time by their mother's side, she never leaves Adi. Until two days ago, she whispered. She didn't speak at all, not out loud. Naveh a little more, but, you know, he's right away from the moment they were kidnapped. What happened? He saw everything. He doesn't speak at all. Not asking. Not about the father, not about the grandfather. As far as we know, all six of them were in one place. Tell us not with them. No. We saw some of the children who came with arthopedic injuries. There is a girl who needed surgery. Injuries to the legs, injuries to the hands, scars that were on children, a burn on a child's leg, which he said was a burn from a motorcycle. We saw very low hygiene conditions, at levels I don't remember encountering on children. Stories you hear from other areas, lice, rashes, skin infections. Some of them lost weight in a very, very significant way. What does that mean? 10 kilos in children a lot. They arrived and after the first meeting with the family, what is the first thing they want to give children who meet them? We let them eat and at some point we found ourselves taking food from the children's rooms so that they wouldn't eat too much when they arrived. That's why I pulled yogurts and rolls out of the children's hands so that it wouldn't be too much. We will have to continue to support them and give them everything they need, both now and in the future, but they are amazing. We've received an inspiring group of children. We know that she did not know, for example, what happened to her father. She was very pleasantly surprised to see her father in that famous video that she actually ran quickly at the speed of light into her mother's embrace and suddenly she saw her father and she was sure that her father had been kidnapped. She did not know that her father was saved and got out of it. The first thing she asked after looking around her and suddenly didn't see Lior, her brother, she asked about her brother and the parents had to tell her this is actually the first thing they told her after she returned about her brother, that her brother was murdered. From what I know, and this is almost the first thing I heard from her when I saw her, this whole time she was without shoes for almost two months, this girl was without shoes. She says that she was humiliated very much, that she had a very difficult experience, that she was treated badly and this is now engraved in her heart. Everything she does, she remembers the experience from there. Was she there alone? She's very scared for the abductees who remained behind. They are still in danger. She was literally brainwashed there, really, and she doesn't live in our world right now. She's still there. It's impossible to cope there. It's impossible. We have to get the abductees out of there. If we don't get them out now, they won't get out alive. How did she keep her sanity? What did she do all day? She says that most of the time she just looked at the wall. That's what she had to do and only occupied herself with thoughts of my daughters are fine, my daughters are fine, my daughters are fine, my daughters are fine. She kept trying to convince herself. Are there things that we don't see but you can say that something has changed? Her enthusiasm for every little thing from the most basic things she had before, I don't know, maybe a towel for the shower or some chocolate or something to drink, you suddenly see the light in her eyes that she accepts such things or used to. She was always, we'd waste our dinner, throw away food as usual. Today we're forbidden to throw away food. There's no such thing. Save everything, put it in the fridge, find a place. We were privileged to take care of 29 returnies, now the 30th returnie, almost all of them without exception. The first thing they wanted to do when they met their families was to talk. We heard a lot from them about the psychological games that were played with them as part of the psychological abuse they went through. So it's also related to information that they share and don't share. As part of the psychology of the captive of creating dependence on the captives, but by my feeling from what I hear from the people is that it has been refined at very high levels. What do you mean elaborate psychological terror? The feeling is that it was sophisticated, not random or unplanned, orchestrated, not some kind of relationship that develops by chance between a certain captor and a certain abductee. But to create the psychological infrastructure to play on their minds in a way that would achieve their goal. Was there also evidence of abuse? Yes. But I won't go into details. As I said, it's I can say it's about the whole range of abuse that a person can dream of. I want to hear some of the returnies who just want to talk. And I found myself sitting by their bedsides for hours and listening to their stories. It's no different from testimonies of people who survived the ghettos or concentration camps. It feels it sounds the same. I think we can't sleep at night because of those who have returned and the stories that they have to tell. And I say again, we'll take time for it to come out. And we still have a lot of people there who are being held in bad conditions. And as the days go by, they're still there. Is in a state of war. Families completely done down in their beds. We have no idea where he's seen as our soldiers are fighting on the front line. But the general perception is something that certainly needs to to be fought as well. Bienvenidos a news 24 el magazine de análisis y noticias en español de 24 news. Yo soy Nicole Bichel. Se cumple una semana de la guerra espadas de hierro. Después de recibir con la emoción a niños y mujeres secuestrados ahora liberados junto a sus familiares algunos de ellos huérfanos. La guerra continúa en Israel. Eqfir de diez meses de edad su hermanito Ariel de cuatro años y sus padres, la familia vivas recorren de color naranja las redes sociales con los corazones de quienes les importa la humanidad. Más de ciento treinta rehenes israelíes siguen en manos del terrorismo de jamás. A veces pareciera que la sombra del pasado nos persigue y nos preguntamos en qué avanzado y retrocedido la sociedad Palestina. Amen. Al Husaini. El Mufti de Jerusalén se había reunido en mil novecientos cuarenta y uno con Adolf Hitler. El Mufti le pidió a Hitler que no expulsar a los judíos de Alemania ya que quería evitar que llegaran a Palestina. Por lo que le recomendó a Hitler qué hacer con los judíos. Exterminarlos y quemarlos. Que marlos. En estos días en el Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas, el embajador de Israel en dicha sede, Guiladerdan, le recordó a los ministros de Relaciones Exteriores de los países musulmanes y árabes y a todos los presentes lo que la dirección palestina en aquellos tiempos incitó contra los judíos. This picture tells you everything you need to know about this conflict. This is Hajamin El Husaini, the grand Mufti of Jerusalem and one of the founding fathers of Palestinian nationalism. Al Husaini dedicated his life to ensuring that there would be no Jewish presence in Israel or in any Arab land. And it was the Mufti's ideology which sparked the expulsion of Jews from Arab countries and Iran. A century ago, council members, over one million Jews lived in Arab countries, one million Jews. Yet today there are only a couple thousands. Where did all the Jews disappear to? The Jews of Lebanon, the Jews of Syria, Yemen, Iraq and Iran, they were expelled. So enough with the hypocrisy. in malos términos daña la psique humana. Octubre 2023, cuerpos calcinados por Hamas, que para los especialistas forenses israelíes les tomó casi un mes de averiguar a qué judío o judía pertenecía. Hamas utilizó este argumento, la ofrenda perversa en sacrificio para intentar crear probablemente una conexión en el mundo musulmán. Está claro que la gran mayoría de los musulmanes aborrecen Hamas. ¿Qué piensa el Islam sobre la vida? Dentro de sus premisas se considera que quien salva una vida es como si salva la humanidad. El testimonio de la fe. Yajada, la oración, salad. Está claro que el Mufti de Jerusalén no representaba la esencia del Islam. Más sabio puede ser un humilde panadero musulmán que mufti. Los palestinos de la generación, pof mufti, pof arafad, deberán soltar la mochila del pasado y construir una sociedad de avance. Y aquí deberemos aquí en Israel la Israel vital. Y ambos pueblos cuando la pesadilla de la guerra culmina reunirnos en Jerusalén. Y para analizar el escenario internacional israelí tenemos Villasuma la vicealcaldesa de Jerusalén, Fleur Hassan Nahun, quien se encuentra en estos momentos en Londres. Fleur, muchísimas gracias por estar con nosotros. Quiséramos saber, el presidente de Israel, Issaad Herzor, se reunió con el emir de Qatar como primer encuentro formal en los Emiratos Árabes Unidos. El emir, entre algunas repeticiones, le dijo a Herzor, evitar que el Mossad del Servicio Secreto Israel y elimine a líderes de Hamas que estén fuera de Gaza. Principalmente en Qatar. Veis esto como una condición del emir en el esquema de mediador que está haciendo de la guerra de Israel contra Hamas y más que nada por la liberación de rehenes? Es quizás una señal de Qatar para poder entrar algún día en los esquemas de los acuerdos a Brams? Bueno, Qatar siempre está jugando un juego doble de la primera, la primera parte que yo arman el fuego, ellos empiezan el fuego y después se quieren hacer los bomberos del fuego que ellos empezaron. Ellos están subvencionando a Hamas muchos años, ellos están recibiendo y teniendo a los líderes de Hamas que organizaron este ataque, este masacre y los sabían. Y ahora se quieren hacer con que yo no me fío de los de Qatar y nadie se tiene que fiar de ello. Si nos pueden ayudar a sacar rene, perfecto. Sino que se quiten de medio. Visa alcaldesa en la Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre el cambio climático 2023, la COP28, uno de sus asistentes fue el presidente de Colombia, Gustavo Petro, quien hizo un paralelo entre la situación en Gaza, calificándolo de genocidio y barbarié desatada sobre el pueblo palestino, el cambio climático también y hasta terminó hablando de Hitler. ¿Qué opina usted sobre esto? Bueno, el presidente de Colombia se ha ha salido como una persona que en vez de estar en el lado de la humanidad, el lado de una democracia, el lado de un país que hay libertades se ha aliado con un grupo terrorista. Pero te digo una cosa, que yo ha hablado con muchos colombianos me han entrevistado en radio y televisión de Colombia y la gente no está con él. El embajador de Israel en las Naciones Unidas en estos días ante el Consejo de Seguridad mostró la imagen del gran Mufti de Jerusalén reunido con Hitler recordando las palabras de exterminación hacia los judíos, el líder palestino en 1941. ¿Qué olvidó el mundo? Visa alcaldesa. Desafortunadamente el mundo tiene una memoria muy corta porque ya solo olvidaron lo que pasó hace dos meses. Un massacre que nosotros no empezamos. Una una guerra que estamos en una guerra que no empezamos. Ellos empezaron, ellos no atacaron. Y ellos mataron a nuestros bebes y violaron a nuestras mujeres. Se llevaron 240 renes. Nosotros llevábamos una época que habíamos dado 20.000 permisos de trabajo a la gente de Gaza para poder ayudarlo con su situación económica que una situación que jamás mismo tienen la culpa de no haber desarrollado una economía, de no haber preocupado por su gente. Ellos recibían dinero del mundo entero y se ponían a construir una base de terror subterránea. Con que nosotros era Israel que estaba dando oportunidad de la gente de Gaza. Y mira cómo no lo agradecieron, mira lo que ocurrió. Ellos no metieron. Nosotros no queríamos esta guerra. Nosotros no empezamos esta guerra. Ellos la empezaron de la forma más barbarica y más cruel que ha existido en el territorio de Israel, que el mundo judío ha visto desde el Holocaust. ¿Cómo debe Israel actualmente manejar la diplomacia en momentos tan convulsos donde el aumento del antisemitismo es bastante considerable? Yo creo que los países a donde tienen comunidades grandes de judío se tienen que dar cuenta que aquí hay una amenaza que ellos tienen que proteger a su comunidad judía. Y esto no tiene que ver con Israel. El antisemitismo siempre tiene alguna excusa. Hace 500 años era una excusa religiosa. Hace 100 años era una excusa étnica. Después una excusa ahora colectiva, el país de los judíos. Pero el mismo antisemitismo es un virus que va mutando. Y aquí estamos. ¿Por qué el mundo no se ha impactado como deberías ser ante el asesinato de israelíes civiles, el secuestro de civiles, niños por parte de un grupo terrorista? ¿En qué ha fallado la diplomacia israelí? No sé si un fallo de la diplomacia israelí la verdad yo creo que es una discriminación que existe contra Israel. Un lavado de celebro que jamás irán. Y el mundo árabe de los radicales en el mundo árabe han hecho muy bien. No ahora. Se veinte años inculcando a la gente que nosotros no pertenecemos en la tierra de Israel cuando el pueblo de Israel es de la tierra de Israel. Pero bueno han inculcado una idea que hoy hace que la gente no nos vea ni como ser humano. Fler Hassan Ahun, vicealcaldesa de Jerusalén y confundadora del Consejo Espresarial de Miratos Árabes Unidos Israel. Muchísimas gracias por haber estado con nosotros en News 24. Muchas gracias Nicole por invitarme al programa. Siempre es un placer hablar contigo. Él cese al fuego y la entrega de rehenes israelíes en manos de jamás ha marcado la agenda en estos días de guerra. Jonathan Regev, nuestro corresponsal de guerra, nos trae este reportable desde la franja de Gaza. Estamos aquí en la ciudad de Esderot, muy cerca de la franja de Gaza, menos de un kilómetro del lugar donde estoy. La ciudad de Esderot estaba bastante pacífica por una semana. La semana de le cese del fuego, pero eso se acabó y ahora de nuevo hay alarmas aquí, hay misiles cohetes que se lanzan hacia la ciudad. ¿Por qué todo esto pasó? Tuvimos una semana de cese del fuego durante esta semana más de 100 israelíes, casi todos niños y mujeres volvieron a Israel. Fueron rehenes de jamás en la franja de Gaza y volvieron. En Israel había bastante gente que quería que ese cese del fuego y el retorno de rehenes continuará. Aún tenemos mujeres y niños que están a rehenes de jamás, pero los acuerdos que de los dos lados tuvieron el retorno de mujeres y niños de Gaza y Israel que libera prisioneros que también son mujeres y niños. Ese fue el acuerdo, pero en los últimos días del cese del fuego ya jamás quebraba, digamos así, estos acuerdos. Si al principio se hablaba de 10 rehenes por día, el último día, por ejemplo, volvieron ocho y también mujeres y niños que tenían que estar en la lista que jamás se daba cada día. Al final no estaban ahí, así que después de una semana ese cese del fuego terminó y estamos hablando de nuevo de combate, alarmas, como he dicho, aquí en Sderot y detrás nuestro en la ciudad de la Franja de Gaza ya bombardeos Israelíes, la guerra volvió. Los dirigentes israelíes se creen que la presión militar es la que eventualmente podrá dar a un nuevo acuerdo sobre los rehenes, se creen que la presión puesta por Israel al principio fue la que condujo a jamás a aceptar un acuerdo, el primer acuerdo de los niños y las mujeres un acuerdo que fue bastante beneficiar para Israel y ahora creen que nueva presión de nuevo jamás quizás se accederá a una nueva propuesta esta vez quizás serán hombres hay que recordar más de 130 rehenes aún en manos de jamás muchos de ellos ancianos, hombres, ancianos enfermos algunas mujeres y también algunos niños entonces lo que piensa Israel es que esta presión al final podrá dar a un nuevo acuerdo será así como muchas cosas en esta guerra tenemos que esperar y ver qué va a pasar para News 24 Jonathan Regev desde Zderot Hassan provocó otra guerra entre activistas de la causa palestina y defensores de Israel en las redes sociales es un ejemplo más de cómo el conflicto en medio oriente se ha ido extendiendo por el mundo afirmó en el club hebraica de Sao Paulo que quienes defienden la solución de dos estados es decir la convivencia de Israel y una posible nación palestina como solución al conflicto actual son perdedores que llegaron al momento equivocado y dijo que los activistas pro-palestinos que defienden ahamas deberían irse a vivir con los terroristas de Gaza es interesante Mossad de 45 años es el hijo primogenito de Hassan Yusef uro de los fundadores de Hamas la facción terrorista en Brasil criticó Alula da Silva por haber llamado terroristas por no haber llamado terroristas ahamas you have intelligence service you have a government and with all its institutions you have advisors you should be well informed on the problem before you make a statement as an official representing a nation of 200 million you're the president of a great nation you cannot compare a savage group that just committed a genocide to a democratic state that is defending itself and the civilian casualties on the other side is the cause of the savages who are taking humanity as human shields Hamas el 7 octubre a los 47 años Hamad Abu Arar se convertió en viudo con 9 hijos el más pequeño de sólo 7 meses aquella mañana su esposa Fatma lo llevó a trabajar en agricultura en el poblado de Miftahim cuando llegaron al cruce de Maon ella redujo la velocidad para dejar pasar una fila de motocicletas que se acercaba la primera motocicleta comenzó a dispararnos acerque a mi esposa hacia mí dijimos dios nos proteja que es esto quienes son estos y vimos que los disparos no paraban también la segunda moto la tercera la cuarta la quinta la sexta todos ocho motocicletas disparando hacia nosotros otro trabajador que estaba sentado atrás también fue asesionado y Hamad tenía por la vida de su bebé que estaba sentado al asiento detrás el niño estaba ahí sin llorar nada entonces dije que será que también él recibió una bala agarré al bebé lo moví y lloró busqué le levanté la ropa y todo y no sólo esquirlas en el hombro durante cinco largas horas Hamad se escondió con su bebé en el armario de servicios que estaba al lado de la ruta y cuando llegó el ejército los terroristas del Hamad se escaparon al final corrió con el bebé hace los soldados y los terroristas que estaban detrás fueron abatidos Hamad que él mismo nació y creció en Rafa se quedó con un enorme perdía y con rabia por la organización que usa el nombre del Islam de qué religión son hijos de pecadores que disparan a quemarropa contra una mujer musulmana con la cabeza cubierta religiosa le dispararon al Islam mismo la tragedia de Hamad es parte del precio que pagó la sociedad de Bedouina en esta guerra 19 fueron asesinados y otros 7 secuestrados y llevados a Gaza a finales de noviembre tuvimos la oportunidad de compartir en la embajada de argentina en israel un emotivo encuentro con los familiares israelíes de origen argentino víctimas del 7 de octubre donde estuvieron presentes destacados líderes comunitarios argentinos que vinieron de visita a Israel para apoyarlos en momentos tan difíciles veamos el siguiente reportaje la casa del encargado de negocios de la embajada de argentina en israel fue el lugar de encuentro entre los más importantes líderes judíos de argentina y los familiares de los secuestrados y liberados de origen argentino que la comunidad judía conozca de primera mano los testimonios de la familia de los redenes que los sientan en persona que no es lo mismo que leerlos en el diario y que también le demuestren la cercanía en un ámbito y como lo habíamos definido familiar en una casa en un living el objetivo era que que las familias se sientan abrazadas que se sientan que tienen el apoyo de la argentina en su conjunto y que se sientan en casa Jorge Knoblovich presidente de la delegación de asociaciones israelitas argentinas renueva los esfuerzos la daya se ocupa permanentemente de que esto sea un recuerdo permanente en los subtes en las canchas de fútbol en los medios en los partidos de fútbol siempre se menciona el tema de los redenes en el sentido argentina de la asociación particular porque además tenemos que controlar mientras tanto pedir por los redenes y combatir el antisemitismo de líderes pues vamos a la quinta como la judía del mundo y la primera de América nos sirve para renovar el esfuerzo escuchar los testimonios y saber lo que tenemos que hacer Itzik Thor tiene dos hijos secuestrados en casa lo más importante después de más de 50 días es que hemos recibido una señal de que están vivos que están juntos y eso después de tantas noches de sin dormir de alguna manera nos permite ver una lucecita al fondo de los túneles y es puntualmente porque están en los túneles de Gaza Amos Limnetski como presidente de la AMIA no se quedó con los brazos cruzados Tuvimos en el lo que es el mate Clalí de los Jatufim el comité central de los de los secuestrados y le preguntábamos ahí unos embajadores que están ex-embajadores que están como voluntarios le preguntábamos si servirá algo lo que se está haciendo uno se siente muy impotente y uno no ve resultados entonces se sirve algo no todo esto que está haciendo y me contestó algo que me hizo muy bien personalmente que es que ante todo no te puedes quedar con los brazos cruzados entonces seguro que lo que estás que estés haciendo algo ya es bueno para Silvio Joskovich hay que luchar el mundo hispano tiene que entender que es una obligación de todo el mundo tanto judíos como no judíos de unirse en un único mensaje somos las fuerzas del bien contra las fuerzas del mal tenemos que luchar exigir la liberación de los secuestrados y no rehenes secuestrados hoy no mañana no pasado mañana hoy Paola Frishta nos cuenta su experiencia como familiar de secuestrados bueno lo más difícil para mi hermana fue no estar con sus hijas estar en la oscuridad y durante casi dos meses comer solo pan a veces no comer ni pan tomar un poquito de agua pan con hongos eso no es eso volver muchos años atrás y de mis sobrinas en más que no están con sus padres de no saber donde están sus padres si están heridos si están vivos estuvieron solas solas en Gaza con terroristas y heridas esto le pregunto al mundo que fuese en tu hijo tu hermano tu tío tu abuelo que harías y ahora quiero darle la bienvenida desde Buenos Aires a nuestros estudios en Tel Aviv a mi compañero el periodista Carlos Urovich como estás bienvenido aquí a nuestro programa News 24 hola Nicole bueno desde Buenos Aires que vengo siguiendo con interés todo lo que pasa en Israel y también a través de la comunidad judía está muy atenta a todo lo que ocurre en esta guerra como tú lo has mostrado los dirigentes de la comunidad han estado en Israel han demostrado apoyo han participado en un encuentro con el presidente Herzog y en la embajada argentina y de alguna manera lo que quiere decir es que la comunidad tiene un apoyo completo a lo que está pasando en Israel es más, ayer tuve la oportunidad de visitar unos de los grandes centros comunitarios judíos aquí en la argentina que es el club náutico ACOAS donde tuve la oportunidad de conversar con todos los dirigentes y con muchos allegados que querían escuchar de alguna manera es lo que estaba pasando en Israel y sin duda no se preguntan qué fue lo que pasó realmente desde octubre y fundamentalmente qué es lo que va a pasar al final cuando esta guerra termina exactamente Carlos como bien dices tanto los lugares donde has estado presentes acompañando a la comunidad judía en Buenos Aires como aquí ha sido importante decían quienes estuvieron presentes líderes comunitarios argentinos es importante acompañar a los familiares de las víctimas como se ha vivido también esa receptividad de intercambio de ayuda, de apoyo entre Argentina e Israel debo decirle que la comunidad judía argentina está muy movilizada es más adelante cuando estamos preparando este programa que el próximo jueves 7 habrá un acto multitudinario de apoyo Israel aquí en el centro de la ciudad de Buenos Aires de alguna manera diciendo al mundo que no hay que comprar el famoso slogan from the river to the sea Palestine will be free porque eso significa que 10 millones de Israelis van a desaparecer y el mensaje tiene que ser hay que terminar con jamás hay que evitar que siga gobernando Gaza hay que desmilitarizarlos y entonces poder entrar en un proceso que a largo tiempo se pueda llegar a un arreglo de paz 1, 2 estados la forma en que algunos se ocupen de manejar la franja de Gaza pero si decirle Israel, ustedes no están solos es lo más importante porque pareciera ser que alrededor del mundo el único que combate a ejércitos como el externiadores como el Kamaz es Israel, mientras los otros ocupan de políticas internas que tienen que ver con quien vota o no vota en Europa o no apoyen el partido democrático republicano en Estados Unidos y bien has mencionado la visita en Brasil de quienes de alguna manera vienen a contar una verdad que para la mayoría no es revelada la gente no tiene en Latinoamérica mayor idea exactamente de que es lo que está pasando en Israel con jamás y con jizbolá y de alguna manera ese tipo de actividad, ese tipo de explicación que se le da que la gente contribuye a tener una imagen mucho, mucho más clara Bueno Carlos, muchísimas gracias por todo lo que nos relata desde Buenos Aires, esperaremos ya a tu regreso gracias a todos ustedes por estar como siempre con nosotros, en News 24 en Magazine de noticias y análisis en español de ahí 24 News, síganos a través de las redes sociales, hasta la próxima Good evening ladies and gentlemen the world brings the truth from Israel to hundreds of millions of people in scores of countries completely gun down in their beds de la frontière de sépar Israel the state of emergency and war in Israel bringing Israel's story to the world by 24 news channels now on hot Israel is in a state of war families completely gun down in their beds we have no idea where is she as our soldiers are fighting but the general perception is something that certainly needs to be fought as well Hintel Aviv was a painted orange this weekend as the heart of this entire nation is shattered into pieces because we're all waiting for those beautiful innocent red heads that got into everyone's souls to come back home, the bebis family the gut turning video of mother Shiri and her young boys 4 year old Ariel and now 11 month old Kfir he was 9 month old when he was kidnapped now he's 11 month old being taken into the God's ship from their home more than 8 weeks ago became one of the most tragic symbols of this war and their father Yerdan is in captivity to Hamas playing a vicious game releasing a video of him a few days ago as part of the psychological warfare the IDF cannot verify claims under well-being and the heart is simply torn take a look wow this is crazy that's a crazy week ups and downs many ups and downs it's an emotional roller coaster this last week is a real wind of emotions because every day we know not to hop too much so as not to be disappointed but every day people return and right now they are still lost here with us unfortunately even today even in the sixth exchange the Bebas family was not included these were shaky days for the whole country and certainly for the Bebas family a week of hope and disappointments while the whole country holds its breath and waits for the list when will the names of Kfir, Ariel and Shiri appear no one will hurt her so that you know how human we are you know she has children everything was said about this moment which became the symbol of this war evil versus purity terror versus horror Ariel is only four years old Kfir is nine months old I don't know how they spent the night there it's hard to believe that more than 50 days have passed since then the two red haired brothers and their parents were kidnapped from Kibbutz near Oz and Kfir received the dubious and terrible title of the youngest abductee last Friday when the kidnapped children started to come back they were so hoping to see them but it was not to be I kept myself strong all the time to be strong but this morning I cried because I couldn't hear one more time they are not on the list it killed me this morning I just can't take it anymore that's it I can't take it anymore so the family decided it was time for the pressure in Israel and especially in the world Hamas claims that they are in the hands of another faction but that does not change the message they should return home are these your enemies we will repeat this in both Hebrew and English are these the people threatening you like this with the pictures of the babies in terms of posters, things do you need something for us to complete yes I need their pictures now I only have the sign they are getting ready for the statement they are going to give at 4 o'clock in hostages square and we need posters of the family members let's make another bag which before the declaration we will distribute to the people there to hold it during their declaration in the logistics warehouse in a horrifying order according to the alphabet the pictures are placed coming to the Vibas pictures a stack with high demand not a day goes by that we don't get questions the people with the balloons begin to gather in the abductees square after midnight the yellow changes to reddish orange all members of the extended family are already waiting in the family room it's been everyone's effort for weeks I know that our family especially these two little ones entered everyone's hearts deeply and all of us together with the entire people of Israel were already expecting them to be here we asked you here everyone is holding orange balloons we will blow them all into the sky hoping that they will reach I don't know, wherever possible let's offer prayers let it reach Gaza for those who need it the main thing is that they return we want them home now now, now a lot of international media has arrived at the square and the family enters the information battle anyone willing to listen anyone willing to interview why the orange balloons? is it because of their orange hair? I feel like some kind of soldier in some kind of war that I don't understand they tell me go to the expedition I go they tell me get an interview I do the interview these little red heads these two young red heads really entered the hearts of everyone in Israel and also the whole world their photos appeared all over the world on newspaper covers no one remained indifferent to these sweet faces isn't there some fear that precisely all these interviews and the exposure and the fact that everyone knows them increases their price because they are the strongest card? did it cross our minds? of course it did eventually we have to make some kind of decision who do we trust and what our intuition says and go for it we had a conversation in the family about this whether we were wrong or not wrong all along but the picture of Shiri and the kids was much bigger than us and it spread like wildfire even if we weren't interviewed even once it just did its job so I absolve myself of responsibility for this thing what? my thoughts are running about the night about Los Angeles? the next morning they continued to the press Yossi hesitates he's supposed to leave tonight in a delegation to meet with politicians and celebrities in LA in my opinion your trip to Schwarzenegger is important you will be able to use it to convey it in a meaningful way to the world let's give it a few minutes and figure out what we're doing here the confusion becomes even more acute when it's announced by Hamas arrives something's happening here let's give it a few minutes and figure out what we're doing here at the moment there is a push on the Bebas family on the two children on Ariel and Kfir and on their mother Hamas announced that they were murdered we're connecting them to the team now now? yes the family does not know how to accept these news it may be that these news have nothing to do with reality maybe this event it is part of the psychological warfare Hanak Azir it was announced that she died and she returned on her own two legs in good health I think everyone is holding on to it now we take this message with limited liability at this stage because we don't know we're playing a psychological game with us Hamas didn't know where they were until a minute before this message did not know he lifted every rug as soon as they run out before they run out of time they suddenly find them in my opinion this is a poor excuse for continuing negotiations it's not just the shaky manipulation from Hamas that you have to deal with there's also the palpitations before the list is published actually this is the last one for the end of the ceasefire in the last few days I kept hoping I'm trying to convince myself it's just to abuse us a little more but they will release them they will release but it's scary because we've reached the day before the last day of the ceasefire the last day of release as far as I know now and they're not here yet there's a problem here the last day has arrived today is the day that if you are not freed there is one more day left we don't have time to wait we don't have time to wait we are very worried we are really afraid of the thing trying to pass the time until the situation clears up there's no other way but despite the expectation a sense of despair comes Kfir, Ariel and Shiri are not listed a chilling sign of life comes in the evening precisely with their father Jordan a video that does not bode well for the fate of his family this is an act of psychological terror Hamas's claims about the Bibas family are still unverified I repeat they are still unverified on Friday morning the fighting resumed and with it the concern of the Bibas family and all the families of the abductees Jordan is getting further away and again they oscillate between hope and despair between ignorance and immense longing the laughter of Kfir, the nonsense of Ariel the smile of Shiri the hug of Jordan we want them back here healthy and whole and body and soul and the orange light we have in our hearts will continue to shine and shine until they are home after over 50 days in Hamas captivity the Israeli hostages the freed are speaking some not all sharing some not all of the horrors they experience in our Erika Jackson is bringing their stories nearly two months after Hamas's brutal attack in Israel on October 7th freed Israeli hostages are now telling firsthand accounts of what it was like being kidnapped and taken into the Gaza Strip among those sharing stories of being taken captive and held under life-threatening conditions are 85-year-old Jochebed Lipschitz and 84-year-old Dica Hyman I was kidnapped in a new city near Magy-e-sha in the middle of the city the food was not a slave from the beginning but as time passed the food was gone it was almost a slave you can say those who have been freed also detailing the mental anguish of what it was like to be held against their will 84-year-old Danielle Eloni who was kidnapped with her 5-year-old daughter, Amelia every single day that passes is a miracle those who have been freed the same message that time is running out I must not leave those who have been kidnapped I must not leave these kids they will not live more details are likely to emerge about October 7th as more of those who were kidnapped are expected to share their stories as well We're talking about volunteers who help with the extremely difficult and painful process of collecting the remains of terror victims so they can be identified and laid to rest properly. And our Orishapira is reporting from Kibbutz Niroz, one of the community's hardest hit on October 7th, on their work there. Nearly two months after Hamas' onslaught in southern Israel, volunteers of the Zaka organization are still working hard to collect body parts from the Gaza border area. Here in Kibbutz Niroz, 38 people were murdered. Israel Khasid, a volunteer and the spokesman of Zaka Tel Aviv, recalls the horrific moments when his crew first arrived to Niroz. We found blood on the bed, so we had to cut off the sheet and bury it. This house looks exactly as it was when we arrived here. One of the bodies was laying on the bed. It had melted from the heat. We had another body here and another one of a 15-year-old, which was lying on the grass, half burnt. In one of the houses, the team found human tissue and remains of hair. Khasid tells us about the tough moments he and his crew faced after October 7. One incident broke me and forced me to take some days off. I couldn't communicate with my family or anyone, actually. It was a baby, the same age and size of my daughter. Some of his body parts were removed. When I saw him, I was devastated. I said, that's it. I can't take it anymore. I'm 25 years old. Someone else should do this job. I got home and hugged my daughter. My wife told me, Yisrael, this is your mission. If you feel that you can't do it, take some time off. But then after several days, I saw that there were still hundreds of bodies which remained unidentified and it's very urgent because the bodies are decomposing and if we'll wait any more, it will be very hard, if not impossible to identify the bodies. So I stood up and I said that I'm willing to sacrifice my soul and body in order that we'll identify and bring as many people to burial in Israel as possible. As we walk inside one of the houses, we're greeted by evidence of the mental challenges that the crew faces. I had a conversation with a psychologist yesterday. He begged me to tell him what I've seen here. I asked him if he can handle it. He said, yes, we spoke for 15 minutes. I tried to hide some of the details from what I've seen here. I told him about one case which really touched my heart. I couldn't sleep after it. As I told him the story, he stops me and said, I need to take a break and drink something. I can't take it anymore. When I heard it, I understood that the psychologist is also a human being. We perform like machines, hours and hours, days and days, without sleeping, without any break for our souls. Israel says that there are still eight missing people from October 7th. Some of the bodies or body parts were transferred to the Abu Khabir Forensic Institute in Tel Aviv. Identifying them may be a difficult and complex procedure which may use different methods such as DNA tests and scans. We had one body that was classified as a terrorist body. It had weapons on it. The CT scan engineer told us that it was not a terrorist body, but an Israeli resident. But all the documents had shown that he is a Hamas terrorist. He showed our volunteer David a scan that showed that he had coronary artery bypass surgery. He said that this surgery was done in such a professional way, he doesn't believe that the body belonged to a terrorist. They checked the list of missing people and they found someone on the list who had the exact same surgery. Our ambulance went to tell his Shomer hospital and got his medical records. They cross-checked the information and came to the conclusion that the body belonged to him. They couldn't identify the body in any other way because the body was totally burnt out. Zaka Tel Aviv is a branch of the famous volunteer organization which has existed for nearly 30 years. It numbers around 400 volunteers. Its main goals are identification, extraction and rescue of bodies and body parts. Many of the volunteers here are ultra-orthodox who see their mission as a religious decree. Bringing complete bodies to burial is a custom in Judaism. We'll continue to work and we won't give up until the last murdered person will be buried. We still have several missing people. Many corpses still need more evidence that we need to collect. We'll continue to come here. We'll search inside the horrors time after time. Going back to these places where the horrors occurred is the hardest thing. But we'll continue to do it. We'll go back here and everywhere we need to go, anytime, any moment, so we can find every small piece of information which can help us identify the bodies of those who are considered missing and who are not fully identified. Zaka Tel Aviv also operates a special center in Tel Aviv with special facilities for cases of mass casualties. This place is called the Reading Center. It is available for times of emergency to receive and to treat hundreds of bodies. We have family rooms, rooms to purify the bodies and to clean them. We have dozens of morgue freezers, we have a big space which can allow us to accept bodies from hospitals from all over Israel. Zaka volunteers say that despite the difficulties and challenges, they are proud to be a part of this organization which brings a final justice to the deceased. Perhaps another example of Israeli solidarity in the last few weeks. Business climate in the Middle East looks murky these days, as you know. But still, in the spirit of the Abraham Accords, business people meet in Dubai, our Bastian Bari reports from there. Jordan has withdrawn from a major water and energy partnership that included the UAE in Israel. Saudi Arabia has suspended negotiations on its entry to the Abraham Accords. Bahrain has announced that it is breaking off economic relations with the Israelis. But despite the war in Gaza, Middle Eastern entrepreneurs want to keep looking at each other, regardless of origin or religion. I think it's a temporary moment of history, what is extremely sad. Of course, our biggest wish, like everybody in Israel, is we want to get free our hostages. No question about it. We want to stop the situation. To be really honest, at the beginning we had ourself the idea, are we really making this event? Are we postponing it? What are we doing? Finally, we decided seeing the relationship between Israel and the UAE and how friendly everything is going on and staying on at the moment. We decided we should event now more than ever because I think it's more important now than ever to build bridges, to build communication. In 2022, trade between Israel and the UAE jumped 109% to $2.5 billion as compared to $1.2 billion in the previous year, making the Emirates the 16th largest trade partners of the Israelis. But the situation remains fragile for investors who prefer not to give in to the siren calls of political haggling. I was just talking yesterday to someone very prominent here in the UAE and he was telling me that he says, I know this, he says to me, I know what's going on in the Arab media and I don't listen to it and I don't follow it and I won't listen to it because I know it's propaganda, it's built on politics, it's built on money situations, trying to influence the people and it's a sad reality that we have to deal with. I'm not saying that Israel is perfect either, no one's very well trying and we all, but always just to say the truth and that's very, very important. What happened is an earthquake, it has to be said. We're not just talking about a war between two states involving only soldiers, bad things did happen, barbarity, everyone was shocked. But Dubai and the region as a whole is a platform for business and that's what counts. Today we're not talking too much about politics. We hope that things will calm down for everyone's benefit. We're keeping our heads down and things will pass. It's a very turbulent time but I'm confident things will settle down. We're in a whirlwind today which unfortunately is considerably slowing down our business but we're quite optimistic for the next few months. We hope that the situation will calm down in the interest of universal values. While the impact of the war in Gaza is already being felt on world energy prices, it is not yet possible to assess the consequences for bilateral trade between Israel and Arab countries. Israelis and Emirates are still hoping to break the $10 billion trade barrier in the years to come. Yemen's Houthis are escalating attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea, raising concern for the safety of key trade routes. The naval forces of the Yemeni armed forces, with the help of Allah Almighty, carried out this morning a targeting operation against two Israeli ships in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. The targeted ships were the Unity Explorer and ship number nine. The first ship was targeted with a naval missile and the second ship was targeted with a naval drone. The Iranian-backed militia said attacks like those on Sunday would continue until Israel ends its strikes on Gaza. But the IDF denied the ships had any connection to Israel and accused the Houthis of endangering the freedom of navigation in the region. One of the ships was damaged in a very serious way and it seems that it could be in danger of sinking and other one was lightly damaged. This is an event stemming from negative sabotage of the Houthis. We need to see how the world will answer this issue. This past weekend saw four attacks against three separate commercial vessels operating in international waters in the Southern Red Sea. Three vessels that are connected to 14 different nations which goes to show you the extent to which this is truly a source of global concern and a threat to international peace and stability. The Bahamas flagged Unity Explorer bulk carrier was attacked in the morning and then again in the afternoon by anti-ship missiles. Then the Panamanian flagged No. 9 reported damage but no casualties caused by a missile from Yemen. A third ship, the Sophie II, which also sails under Panama's flag, said it was struck as well but suffered no significant harm. The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Carney responded to the distress calls from these ships and provided assistance. In doing so, it detected three UAVs at three different times heading in its direction and it took action against all three of those UAVs. We have every reason to believe that these attacks while they were launched by the Houthis in Yemen were fully enabled by Iran. This is also one of those allegations aimed at projections which are made in line with efforts to deviate public opinion of nations and to cover up crimes by the Zionist regime and the US government. The US says it will consider all appropriate responses in full coordination with its international partners but in the absence of significant action, such attacks off the coast of Yemen will only increase in frequency and severity. Back to you, Benham. So the US is sending an envoy to the Gulf, will that be enough? Again, I believe it's necessary but nowhere near sufficient, particularly at a time when some of the GCC countries are going to be receiving Vladimir Putin. It certainly behooves Washington who wants to keep these countries in its orbit and actually has the capability to help patrol both the Red Sea and Babel-Mendem with a broader international maritime coalition that it is committed to freedom of navigation there and also committed to pushing back on the Iranian threat. So here is where action and not just words is going to be key from Washington. Is in a state of war, families completely done down in their beds. We have no idea where is she as our soldiers are fighting on the front lines but the general perception is something that certainly needs to be fought as well. Of these soldiers, the policemen and plain civilians who took up arms to defend their communities on October 7th, knowing that they were simply the last line of defense for their families, their friends and their communities. This story tells the story of Yossi Tahr, an accomplished fighter in the IDF as well as Israel's internal security service, who lost his life fighting to defend his community. Here is his story. I miss him so much my heart is dead. Why couldn't he be more careful? How? How could they not save him? Stay strong like you are. You cheer me up all the time. It's true. It's so painful. It's impossible. I can't believe that Yossi was taken from me. In fact, I went there with the feeling that this wouldn't happen to me. For what purpose? Why is he part of it? Yossi, the good Lord protects him. But no one defended him. Until October 7th, Mazal and Elie Tahr knew nothing about them, not what they looked like or what their real names were. These are the friends of her son, Yossi, killed on October 7th, who remained in the shadow. I never knew them. I've never seen them. And I said to myself, what a shame that Yossi never came home with them for dinner. Now when they come here, they give me a little bit of strength. But I miss Yossi a lot. We spoke on Thursday morning. Maybe now is the time to show what he wrote to me. It was Thursday. You read it. I can't. That I want to tell you how much I love you and really appreciate that you're here by my side. You give me strength when I need it. Always thinking, always thoughtful, warm, friendly, with logic and always sincere. It is important for me that you know how dear you are to me. I love you, Yossi. Are three of the most valiant elite fighters in the secret and very special unit of the internal intelligence service, the Shin Bet. They are here to meet Yossi's parents and tell them about the side of Yossi they knew less about. He had a strong personality. Those who knew him got attached to him in seconds at all levels from the simple soldier arriving at the unit the day before to the IDF chief of staff. He knew how to connect with people. Just like that, he gave so much of himself. He would meet someone and two days later is invited over for barbecue dinner. We don't wear our ranks. We don't treat people based on their position. People follow us because of the leadership, because of the personality of whoever leads the unit. And Yossi was all of the above big time. He knew how to speak to people and touch their hearts. We cannot show Yossi's photo and his face will probably never be known to the public. Our slogan is protect and not be seen. In 99% of cases, we were the ones to surprise the enemy. We are the initiators, those who direct the situation. On October 7th, we were surprised by the intensity of the attack, the way it was done, the numbers. And that was what put us in great difficulty in the first hours of the attack. In many ways, Yossi is like Emmanuel Moreno, the heroic fighter of the famous Special Forces Commando, Sayyarad Maktal. But in the ranks of Shin Bet, tales of his bravery and everything he did on October 7th will remain secret, except for what the censors allow us to reveal. It was half past six in the morning of the 7th of October. I received the first phone call from Yossi. He told me, you're not going to believe it. There's something weird going on here. He was talking to me from his shelter and told me that he will call me back when he's on the road to decide what we're going to do. As we drove south, we realized that one of our fighters was hit. And Yossi, with another small team of fighters, responded driving towards the terrorists under heavy fire. He was in an area he didn't know, and we could not yet understand the scale and complexity of the attack and the number of terrorists. We was able to reach our struggling fighter after a few minutes, and Yossi actually saved his life. Outside, violent fighting was taking place on all sides. And Yossi realized that the evacuation is well managed. It's under control. He analyzed the situation perfectly and said to himself that he's the first, closest to the Kibbutz Mefalzim, and decided to support the fighters in the area. Yossi is an experienced fighter with a lot of hours of combat under his belt. He comes from Sheta Shaloshesri, the Marine Commanders. Yossi was in a different level than the rest of us. He often faced terrorists, participated in many operations against them, and had a lot of experience. Pretty early in the fighting, he was able to get hold of one of the terrorists' tactical radios. At first, he listened to what they were saying, trying to figure out where the terrorists are. They killed two terrorists in a van. They saw another group of about 10 terrorists up the road. He ran to an open area, and the terrorists were hiding behind a concrete shelter at the entrance of the Kibbutz. At this point, he had been hit, and that's where he died. I heard on the radio that Yossi was wounded, and the next call I got was not from Yossi. It was from our medic. He came by here. He told me, Man, I can't keep fighting to save Yossi. It's done. And I know both of them very well. I know about the commitment we have towards each other here. However, when he told me that he did everything he could but could not save him, and that was the end, I realized that we're dealing with a totally different situation here. Did he suffer? No. He didn't suffer? No, he didn't suffer. The first few days after Yossi died, I didn't want to deal with it. I tried to keep busy. Don't think about it. I tried to erase it. Sometimes I'd wake up at night saying to myself, it can't be. It can't be true. But after about four days, I stopped on the side of the road and said, I can't put it away anymore. Just like that. I wanted a moment to process. And I got on WhatsApp and listened to some of the messages he has sent me. And the last one was a song. This song suddenly hit me. It cut off half my heart. And I just stopped. This repression disappeared all of a sudden. Emotions came pouring out. It overwhelmed me, because you hear Yossi in his own voice singing a song that is almost like a prophecy. Yossi was the son of every parent here in Israel. He defended them all by himself. All of them. He protected the state of Israel. He even told us once, if not me, then who would do the job? He's not here. It's just the body. Physical matter here. Materiality. I respect the cemetery and the burial, which is important in Judaism, in our heritage. But for me, this is just a stone. Like you said, it's not him. It's a stone. I think that if there is, as they say, a world beyond this one, I am sure that he's up there giving it all he's got. I have no doubt. Grief hit Eli three times during his life. His brother, Lieutenant Colonel Yossi Tahar, a senior officer at the paratroopers brigade, was killed in July of 1981 fighting in Lebanon. It was a huge crisis in my life, a very, very difficult crisis. I've carried it around for a long time. Twenty years later, when Roy was killed, then they asked me, they told me, you must be used to it. But I said that that was not the case. Now I understand what my parents felt. Roy, Eli's son, fighter in the Nahal brigade, was killed in a motorcycle accident on October 2001. When Roy died, a part of me died. It didn't hurt. It was just that a part of me was dead. Eli was sure he had already paid the ultimate price and that Yossi, despite serving as a fighter who in the Navy commando and later in the Shin Bet would not be harmed, that's what almost everyone thought, those who knew Yossi. At one point I said, that's it. I have the impression that that's it. He's safe there with this protective layer around him. I thought he was safe. Yossi had something immortal about him. In the eulogy his commander said that when Yossi would stare death in the eyes, death would back down. Many Israelis owe their life to Yossi and they don't even know it. Beyond the fact that October 7th, his actions stopped terrorists from entering in the kibbutz of Mefal Sin. He is responsible for hundreds of foiled attacks over the years in service and only a handful of which we were allowed to mention. The departure of most of Israel's foreign workers in the wake of the October 7th terror attack, Israeli farmers are struggling to harvest their crop due to a severe lack of manpower. Now several private initiatives are bringing in volunteers from across the country to help fill in that gap. Arohi Shapiro went to check out one of those in the coastal community of Rishbone and he found that they were joined there by a very special volunteer from a country halfway around the world in East Asia that in some ways identifies itself with Israel. More than 8,000 kilometers separates Israel and Taiwan, but today it seems that the two countries are closer than ever. Officials from Taiwan have decided to join the current Israeli war effort and volunteer to work in the fields of the coastal village of Rishbone. Since the whole world looked at October 7th Hamas terrorist in Harro, Taiwan was one of the first countries to express our solidarity with Israel and express our condolence to the perished people and the political support is very strong and over the past 30 years the social foundation between the two societies and people are also very deep rooted. So we feel it's important to come more support with the civilian sectors including the aquaculture sectors. This is a part of a project led by Hashomer Hadash for the new guard, an Israeli organization which helps farmers across the country. Its co-founder says that walking in the field is a prime goal in Israel today as there is a lack of tens of thousands of workers. The power of this nation, the power of the people, the power of the society inside Israel, this is the strongest power that we have and to tell you the truth I spoke with the minister of education and I told him please let the students come to the field for a few months to the field, stop the learning and come to the field and work because people all over Israel need to eat. Among the volunteers we found Yanir and Maayan two students and a couple who decided to take time off university and contribute to local industry. It's a tough job but it is very rewarding. Exactly. It is nice to see the container getting full of fruit. I think that working in the field really binds us as a couple. Yes. The Taiwanese representative in Israel says that despite the different cultures Israel and Taiwan have a lot in common. Like Israel, Taiwan has been under constant threat from our neighbor, country, China. We understand the commitment to defend the homeland and we understand the commitment to exercise the right of our defense. Despite the hot weather volunteers are not worried by the hard work and continue their contribution one of many since October 7th. Let's go to Kibbutz na Halos. This is one of the places which were most severely damaged on October 7th. Our correspondent Yuri Shapiro takes us there. October 7th caught the entire country by surprise. In Kibbutz na Halos, one of the places closest to the Gaza border, the surprise was even bigger. We woke up around 6 a.m. My partner told me that there is a red alert. I wasn't very excited about it. I said, okay, we've experienced these situations. We'll walk it out so we enter the safe room. The first message I got was from a friend who texted me that his wife was injured. Eventually, she died from her wounds. The door was closed, but I suppose that it wouldn't matter to them. I guess that they realized that we are old people. There is not much to do with us. So they went to other places. Yechiel Chelnov is one of the founders of na Halos. He is close to his 90s, but still very active. When we established the Kibbutz, we concentrated on agriculture. And indeed, we had very good agriculture. We have one of the best dairy industries. At least it was until the war. But it is still working. It's the first time I'm living the Kibbutz. We had security issues when you evacuated young families with the kids, or whoever wanted to go. Kibbutz na Halos was the first na Hal settlement. A collective community of veterans of the IDF's na Hal brigade who combined military service and building communities across the country. In the early days, the Kibbutz was considered one of the most famous in Israel, as leaders and officials visited it. One of the most famous incidents occurred in 1956 when a member of the Kibbutz, Roy Rotenberg, was brutally killed by Egyptian forces. The eulogy of Moshe Dayan, then chief of staff, became one of the most iconic speeches in the history of Israel. Early yesterday morning, Roy was murdered. The quiet of the spring morning dazzled him, and he did not see those waiting in ambush for him at the edge of the furrow. Let us not cast the blame on the murderers today. Why should we declare their burning hatred for us? For eight years they have been sitting in the refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we have been transforming the land and the villages where they and their fathers dwelt into our state. It is not among the Arabs in Gaza, but in our own midst that we must seek Roy's blood. How did we shut our eyes and refuse to look squarely at our fate and see in all its brutality the destiny of our generation? In 2014, another traumatic event happened when four-year-old Daniel Tragman died from a missile sent from Gaza. The Kibbutz was about to celebrate 70 years since its founding with a special ceremony. Ironically, the main show was a play which shows two women spotters who were cut off from their cameras. We were supposed to have a big celebration marking 70 years of the Kibbutz. On Friday we had rehearsals for the show, the plot where the spotters are disconnected. It seems like a crazy story for me, but this is what happened eventually. Around 35 people were murdered in Nakhaloz on October 7th. Today residents of the Kibbutz are staying in another Kibbutz in the north, Mishmar Hayamek, and are waiting to decide on their next step as Nakhaloz remains a closed military zone. Israeli hostages released from captivity in Gaza have been recounting harrowing experiences of abuse and psychological terror. As we've been saying, there are still 138 hostages young and old being held in dire conditions. More in this next report. Is everything okay? My mother was kept in a one-and-a-half room apartment. She was in one small closed room, and the couple lived in the other room. There was a small window in the room, which they closed, and she couldn't see if it was there or not. As soon as she realized she was alone, she simply told us, listen, I decided, I read, I studied. All the stories from the Holocaust. I will keep a diary. I read that Gilad Shalit used to do some sports, and that's what kept her going. She realized very quickly that they prayed five times a day, and she would simply count prayers. She would record it in a journal, and the prayers and sound of the muazzin, all these things gave her a complex of understanding what day it was, what night, what hour, and she revolved around that. When I come to them, they see the distress. You see the distress. Yole, Yael. All the time by their mother's side, she never leaves Adi. Until two days ago, she whispered. She didn't speak at all, not out loud. Now they're a little more, but you know, he's right away from the moment they were kidnapped. What happened? He saw everything. He doesn't speak at all. Not asking, not about the father, not about the grandfather. As far as we know, all six of them were in one place. Tal was not with them, no. We saw some of the children who came with arthopedic injuries. There is a girl who needed surgery. Injuries to the legs, injuries to the hands, scars that were on children, a burn on a child's leg, which he said was a burn from a motorcycle. We saw very low hygiene conditions, at levels I don't remember encountering on children. Stories you hear from other areas, lice, rashes, skin infections. Some of them lost weight in a very, very significant accident. Some of them lost weight in a very, very significant way. What does that mean? Ten kilos in children, a lot. They arrived and after the first meeting with the family, what is the first thing they want to give children who meet them? We let them eat and at some point we found ourselves taking food from the children's rooms so that they wouldn't eat too much when they arrived. That's why I pulled yogurts and rolls out of the children's hands so that it wouldn't be too much. We will have to continue to support them and give them everything they need, both now and in the future, but they are amazing. We've received an inspiring group of children. We know that she did not know, for example, what happened to her father. She was very pleasantly surprised to see her father in that famous video that she actually ran quickly at the speed of light into her mother's embrace and suddenly she saw her father and she was sure that her father had been kidnapped. She did not know that her father was saved and got out of it. The first thing she asked after looking around her and suddenly didn't see Lior, her brother, she asked about her brother and the parents had to tell her this is actually the first thing they told her after she returned about her brother, that her brother was murdered. From what I know, and this is almost the first thing I heard from her when I saw her, this whole time she was without shoes, for almost two months, this girl was without shoes. She says that she was humiliated very much, that she had a very difficult experience, that she was treated badly and this is now engraved in her heart. Everything she does, she remembers the experience from there. Was she there alone? She's very scared for the abductees who remained behind. They're still in danger. She was literally brainwashed there, really, and she doesn't live in our world right now. She's still there. It's impossible to cope there. It's impossible. We have to get the abductees out of there. If we don't get them out now, they won't get out alive. How did she keep her sanity? What did she do all day? She says that most of the time she just looked at the wall. That's what she had to do and only occupied herself with thoughts of my daughters are fine, my daughters are fine, my daughters are fine, my daughters are fine. She kept trying to convince herself. Are there things that we don't see but you can say that something has changed? Her enthusiasm for every little thing from the most basic things she had before, I don't know, maybe a towel for the shower or some chocolate or something to drink, you suddenly see the light in her eyes that she accepts such things. Or used to, she was always, we'd waste our dinner, throw away food as usual. Today we're forbidden to throw away food. There's no such thing. Save everything, put it in the fridge, find a place. We were privileged to take care of 29 returnees, now the 30th returnee. Almost all of them without exception. The first thing they wanted to do when they met their families was to talk. We heard a lot from them about the psychological games that were played with them as part of the psychological abuse they went through. So it's also related to information that they share and don't share. As part of the psychology of the captive, of creating dependence on the captives. But by my feeling, from what I hear from the people, is that it has been refined at very high level. As part of the psychology of the captive, of creating dependence on the captives, but by my feeling, from what I hear from the people, that it has been refined at very high levels. What do you mean elaborate psychological tariff? The feeling is that it was sophisticated, not random or unplanned, orchestrated. Not some kind of relationship that develops by chance between a certain captor and a certain abductee. But to create the psychological infrastructure, to play on their minds in a way that would achieve their goal. Was there also evidence of abuse? Yes. But I won't go into details. As I said, I can say it's about the whole range of abuse that a person can dream of. Official Dresser of I-24 News. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Israel is at war. Make an investment in Israel bonds. It is the most powerful and direct way to stand with Israel. Visit israelbonds.com and invest now. Is in a state of war. Families completely done down in their beds. We have no idea where she is. Our soldiers are fighting on the front lines. But the general perception is something that certainly needs to be fought as well. Thank you for joining us here on I-24 News. Our rolling coverage of day 63 of the war continues. Over the past hour, attacks of terror groups on Israelis continued in Israel's south, center and north. A barrage of Hamas rockets was fired towards Tel Aviv and central Israel for the second time this afternoon, causing some minor damages from successful interceptions of Israel's iron dome system. In the West Bank, an Israeli soldier was injured by live fire at an IDF post near the town of Yadavad. Forces are searching for the terrorists setting roadblocks in the area. In the north, live fire was carried out from Lebanon on an IDF post with Israeli military striking the source of the fire in response. The IDF, saying earlier, it had hit 450 Hamas sites in the past 24 hours. At the moment, 137 hostages remain in Hamas captivity in Gaza, including babies and elderly. Meanwhile, these are the images of scores of Hamas operatives who have surrendered to the IDF they will be brought to Israel for questioning. And the UN Security Council is set to vote on a ceasefire resolution with UN Chief Antonio Guterres claiming civilians in Gaza were told to move like human pinballs. Also, let's hear from Israeli Ambassador Elad El-Orda. Everything I just described represents an unprecedented situation that led to my unprecedented decision to invoke Article 99, urging the members of the Security Council to press to avert a humanitarian catastrophe and the appealing for a humanitarian ceasefire to be declared. Mr. President, we are all aware that Israel began its military operations in response to the brutal terror attacks unleashed by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups on 7 October. I unreservedly condemn those attacks and I am appalled by the reports of sexual violence. There is no possible justification for deliberately killing some 1,200 people, including 33 children, injuring thousands more and taking hundreds of hostages. Some 130 hostages are still held captive and I call for their immediate and unconditional release as well as their humane treatment and visits from the international community of the Red Cross until they are freed. At the same time, the brutality perpetrated by Hamas can never justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people. The true path to ensure peace is only through supporting Israel's mission, absolutely not to call for a ceasefire. And secondly, distinguished colleagues, for those of you calling for a ceasefire, it is crucial that you remember the facts. On October 6, there was a ceasefire in place. But on October 7, Hamas broke the ceasefire with an unprovoked invasion of thousands of Hamas Nazis into Israel. And calling for a ceasefire is precisely what ensures that this will continue. A ceasefire means that the suffering of all will carry on. The ceasefire cements Hamas's control of Gaza. But even more than that, calling for a ceasefire sends a clear message that Hamas is forgiven for their deliberate atrocities. And Hamas's oppression of Gazans is given a green light by the international community. For more, let's go straight to New York now. Our senior year's correspondent, Mike Wagenheim, is there for us. Mike, thank you for joining us. When do we expect this vote? And will we see a veto of the U.S. on this decision? Well, I think one goes without the other in this case. I don't think at this point that the Security Council is going to bring this to a vote unless they have some way of passing it, unless they have some way of going around a U.S. veto on this, unless they can get the U.S. to agree to new terminology within this graph. The U.S. has been quite clear that the Arab Emirates drafted resolution is in no go with them. In fact, Deputy Ambassador Robert Wood addressed the Security Council this afternoon. He made quite clear that Washington is not on board. Let's give it a listen. This Council's failure to condemn Hamas's October 7th terrorist attacks, including its acts of sexual violence and other unthinkable evils, is a serious moral failure. In fact, the U.S. has been quite clear that the Arab Emirates must not disconnect between the discussions that we have been having in this chamber and the realities on the ground. An undeniable part of that reality is that if Israel unilaterally laid down its weapons today, as some member states have called for, Hamas would continue to hold hostages. Women and children, who can live in peace and security, we do not support calls for an immediate ceasefire. Now, this resolution calls for the immediate release of all the hostages, and it also calls for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire. That second clause is what the U.S. says is unacceptable at this point. The United Kingdom has also expressed some reservations with it. The French Ambassador to the U.N. Nicola de Riviere said to journalist earlier today, that it's not worth rushing a vote with some agreement here. It's not worth rushing a vote. Now, a vote was supposed to take place this morning, New York time. It's already been pushed back to 5.30 p.m. Eastern time. Meanwhile, about an hour prior to that, Arab ministers are gathered in D.C. They want to speak and have a meeting set up with Secretary of State Blinken to try to convince him not to veto the resolution according to the Deputy Ambassador to cut out for them this afternoon if they want to reverse Washington's stance on this resolution that's been floated. And Mike, another hot topic between Israel and the U.S. are these conflicting reports over the past day over that possible U.S. deadline for Israel's war in Gaza, some suggesting the Americans are pushing to end this war by the end of this month, something that Israel obviously will not be able to accept. Who's right? Who's right here? I think it's a mix of both things. I don't think anybody's right or wrong here. I think the Americans have an interest in seeing this military operation wind down as efficiently and as quickly as possible. It also has an interest of limiting the civilian casualties in Gaza. Those two things don't directly correlate. Essentially, what you're saying to the Israeli government and the IDF is if you want to wrap up things quickly, if we're setting a deadline, that means that Israel has to then quickly try to obtain all of its objectives there in Gaza. Well, what do you do if you're doing things quickly? Well, you're not doing them with concern. You're not doing them with preciseness. You're just kind of doing what the United States criticized Israel for doing in northern Gaza, which is not protecting the civilian population there because they wanted to take out so many Hamas targets in such a quick amount of time. That really doesn't make a whole lot of sense just on its face for the United States to really be setting some sort of hard deadline here. So it's somewhere in between. The US is saying, listen, this can't go on forever, but I don't think they're setting any sort of hard deadline here. It's not in their interest. It's not in the Palestinians' interest and for that matter, probably not in Israel's interest either. Certainly, at least by the official statements of the Americans, they know what it needs to do in order to eliminate this threat. Mike Wagenham, senior US correspondent, thank you very much for that update. And now for more, I'm joined in studio by Rafael Urshami, a security analyst and former senior intelligence officer in the IDF. So much talk about the deadline or how much time will Israel have at least according to its allies, but how much time does it really need in order to eliminate Hamas at this moment? Listen, the deadline that by the administration may have set at the end of the year, at the end of this month is not such a big problem because we have to see what we defined by war, full-fledged war. If we're speaking of full-fledged war and the huge intense assault that we are witnessing right now, the Israelis themselves consider that they might achieve that around the mid- or end of January. So there's not such a big difference in the timing and I'm sure the Americans will let us pass the deadline a little and maybe we'll shorten by a few days, but this very intense fighting cannot be led endlessly even by the IDF troops. So at some point it will have to bring results. We actually are noticing right now that things are going much better and faster than expected in Hanyounis, which is a very harsh place and is the main bastion of the Hamas and we are doing quite well. We're also controlling a lot of areas that we thought would take more time to control. So hopefully we will end this very major assault in months or two at the most. After that, the war is not over. After that, and I think even the Americans understand that and the international community you have to do the cleanup. It's weeks and weeks of low-level combat, which is like going everywhere into Gaza to suppress the last pockets of armed resistance but also to clean Gaza of the white-collar terrorists of all those civil servants like the director of the Shifa hospital who were holding key jobs in Gaza who are holding Gaza through the civil administration. They also have to be neutralized for Gaza to become free. What the Secretary General of the United Nations doesn't realize is that what he wants as a humanitarian move sees fire is actually against the interests of the people of Gaza who are freeing the people of Gaza for the most humanitarian plague they were ever suffered, which is the rule of the Hamas. They themselves already are saying it to the people of Gaza that they are fed up with the Hamas regime. So we are freeing them. And by the way, just a little note. The speech of Mr. Gutierrez is canceled immediately by one word when he says unprecedented. So either Mr. Gutierrez doesn't know history or he's a liar but unprecedented the last time close 99 was called was like 30 years ago and during the 30 years there was no civil war in Syria there was no war against Ukraine there was nothing happened. It's unprecedented. So that shows how serious this Mr. Gutierrez is the fact that he doesn't understand that we are doing this fight not only for us but for the stability of the region and to have a terrorist faction chased away from holding hostage 2 million Palestinians who want a better life shows that he's on the wrong camp he has chosen the wrong camp that's his problem but it's a danger for the rest of the world because there are so many other places in the world where the United Nations and international community should intervene should do something but they are so focused on the Middle East that they are not doing anything else they are busy with us and that's very regrettable for all the other people who suffer in the rest of the world. Yes I think there's a lot of talk about moral relativism and in his case perhaps a case of historical relativism forgetting what is unprecedented in this conflict Rafael stay with me because I want to take our viewers now to the north of Israel rocket attacks continue over the past hour and the IDF is already responding and is there for us what's the latest? Right guys so just a short while ago reports of sirens in the western Galilee still there was no official siren or alert in the IDF's home front app but if indeed this was rockets launched from Lebanon it would be the second such attack in the past hour a short hour ago siren sounded in the northern upper Galilee in the area of Malot Tarshicha Israel's emergency services Mada saying that there were no injuries as a result of this barrage of rockets the IDF also said that live fire was opened in the vicinity of the area of Matat along the border IDF responded with artillery and indeed on the Lebanese side we're hearing reports of artillery firing on the western part of southern Lebanon but also an interesting statement from the Lebanese army claiming that one of Israel's strikes didn't specify if it was airstrike or artillery hit military medical clinic in that's in the central sector of the border there were no injuries but damage was caused to the structure and this just shows the extent of exchange of fire along the Lebanon border Hezbollah so far today claiming responsibility for eight attacks along the border on IDF posts there have been no reports of injuries as a result of any of these attacks but indeed the situation another day of fighting another evening of exchange of fire on the Israel Lebanon border Ariella this fighting goes on both in the north but also in the south I myself was in the road for several days this week a town that has become literally a ghost town all the residents there were evacuated very few people do make their way into that area how is that like when it comes to the north how much movement are you seeing what are you hearing from the residents there it's pretty much a mirror image the border communities the situation there except for the destruction obviously and the border with Gaza border up to four kilometers all the communities have been evacuated we're here in one of the kibbutz up north that has absorbed nearly an entire kibbutz along the border this is one example the children of are running here in the background and this is an example as to the tens of thousands of Israelis who have found themselves uprooted as a result of this war along Israel's border with Lebanon and unlike the situation in the south where they're seeing the military progress and advance a military solution to the threat they don't see that happening so far along the northern border Israel they see the IDF mainly responding to attacks but not taking any sort of substantial initiative or steps to remove the threat of Hisbalan it's elite non-forces who are spread all across the border they're saying that until the residents who have been evacuated are saying that until that threat is removed they are reluctant to go back home and they do not feel safe to do so as of now they're still formally evacuated but the situation can change as long as the longer this war progresses yes at least 80,000 northern residents evacuated from their homes and that's just the south a lot more of them in the sorry that's only in the north a lot of them in the south as well I realize Ron thank you for that report stay safe over there in the northern border still with me Rafael de Ruchalmi let's talk about the what would it take for these residents to return to their homes we've seen some conflicting statements I think from the government especially from Gallant earlier this week saying the deterrent seems to be enough or we will make sure that what we're doing in the south will deter Hezbollah in the north but yesterday perhaps changing its tone being saying that Hezbollah will have to retreat back to the north north of the Littani river do you see that happening no but first of all we have to remember that the objective strategically speaking in the south and in the north is completely different in the south we're speaking of destroying dismantling the Hamas we are not speaking of that objective in the north we're not speaking of dismantling and destroying the Hezbollah it would be nice to have such an objective I think we're busy enough like that so the objective is less ambitious in the north we do want the threat that is on the border to disappear so if this threat has to disappear the presence of a terrorist faction like the Hezbollah has to disappear from the border it has to be pushed back so maybe we are giving now a chance to the diplomatic level to the ballet of diplomats and secret service representatives from France from the United States from other places trying to convince the Lebanese government to put pressure on the Hezbollah just forgetting that there is no Lebanese government right now and the Lebanese government even when there was one could never put pressure on the Hezbollah was putting pressure on the Lebanese but we are giving this a chance give peace a chance we know that it will probably not work we would like the Hezbollah to respect the resolution of the United Nations and to retreat above the Litany River meaning at least of around 25 kilometers away from the border but we know it won't work we are hoping that there might be another resolution voted maybe with less kilometers and if not we're gonna have to do the job we will have to do it militarily we will have to push the Hezbollah back at least 10 kilometers the minimum that can guarantee some kind of safety for the Israeli people to return to their home is a distance of 10 kilometers between the Hezbollah and the border obviously the results of this war will have great ramifications both for the residents and for Israel's enemies but let's take our viewers now to Israel's southern border up here Kloschenler is there and Pierre much of the action is happening right now not on the border communities but rather in the center of Israel you're talking about rocket fire yes there was a heavy salvo of rocket fire on Tel Aviv and the central areas but no casualties no damage so it's one of these rocket salvos that happen once every two days on Tel Aviv earlier on there was another attempt at Tel Aviv but it fell in the sea so there was no alerts in the Tel Aviv area and here in the central sector of the Gaza Strip there has been a rocket strike for the past two and a half hours since 4.20 p.m. local time to be exact and Pierre it seems Hamas is working on its PR with this rocket fire obviously sending a message to Israel that it is still holding strong still able to to threaten the major cities in Israel to our viewers how is it that after two months of war Hamas is still able to execute such long range attacks well first of all because many of those rockets are ignited by remote control by terrorists that are hiding in tunnels and just punch on the button and launch the rockets the lines and the dance and the military infrastructure of Hamas is such pride to the war that it's so dense that it's going to take a long time to demilitarize Hamas or demilitarize the Gaza Strip totally they're very busy doing that I you know here in the northern sector which has been under full operational control by the IDF actualizing tunnels provoking huge explosions with the engineering corps booby trapping those tunnels in order to collapse them there are so many weapons depots sites that manufacture rockets that are underground that it seems it seems I say that the source of rocket fire is inextinguishable sorry according to the IDF 3 days ago they said that about 11,000 rockets were launched on Israel I think that the estimation of the IDF was that Hamas holds about 15 to 20,000 rockets but it's very possible that the rockets are underground the IDF is in operational control above ground not underground that's going to take much more time what the IDF is busy doing right now is bisecting the Gaza Strip into different areas of control by the IDF in order to cut any way for Hamas on the expense of another they've cut the northern Gaza Strip from the central refugee camps they've cut Hanyunes which is south of the central refugee camps from the refugee camps and they've cut the Rafah area in the extreme south of the Gaza Strip from Hanyunes so that way by bisecting the Gaza Strip in such a way it allows the IDF to impose its control at least above ground but underground is another story it will take much more time yes, a lot of work to be done for the IDF Pierre Klosschandler and the I-24 news team there on the southern border stay safe, thank you for that update and still with me in studios Rafael Hiroshami the IDF is operating such a large extent with so many troops attempting to force Hamas out of their tunnels to impose so much pressure on Hamas at the same time it allows so much fuel in recent days to enter the Gaza Strip we know that that fuel continues to flow into the hands of Hamas how do these two things go together this flow of fuel is a problem it is a fuel for the Hamas but I don't think it's as huge a problem as some people tend to make it it bothersome it's being imposed upon us by the American administration on humanitarian grounds would it be very nice if it would reach the humanitarian target it is hijacked by the Hamas but still we are coping with it I don't think it's such a big big problem we've been mentioning the missiles that Hamas still has and is still throwing at us these missiles they will be thrown at us for a long time yet for one simple reason is that each time long range missiles are shot we know from where they are shot we destroy immediately after the launching parts the problem is that there are many launching parts hidden sometimes even inside the house or in a school of the concrete launching parts because they are also mobile a truck can be a launching part but that's for medium range missiles for the missiles that reach Tel Aviv you need really built launching parts and they are hidden here and there so why are they being shot at us now it's just that Hamas wants to prove it's still in control it's still there, it's still holding on Hamas it can be said very safely from today more or less at the landing point in the war Hamas has lost Gaza Hamas will continue fighting Hamas will make problems will threaten us with missiles with booby traps they have lost Gaza Gaza is not there anymore so whatever they shoot at us it's just a show off and one can only regret the fact that we've allowed Hamas to arm himself to this extent Rafael Urshami thank you for your time of the hour, our rolling coverage continues here on I-24 Israel is in a state of war families completely gun down in their beds we have no idea where is she as our soldiers are fighting on the front line but the general perception is something that certainly needs to to be fought as well this week on news 24 Israel's low attack news 24 in Spanish news 24 on I-24 news thank you for joining us here on I-24 news our rolling coverage of Day 63 of the war continues over the past hour attacks of terrorgroups the г tightening of zie know it's not thanks for your time attacks of terror groups on Israelis continued in Israel's south, center and north. A barrage of Hamas rockets was fired towards Tel Aviv and central Israel for the second time this afternoon causing some minor minor damages from successful interceptions of Israel's iron dome system. In the West Bank an Israeli soldier was injured by live fire at an IDF post near the town of Yabad. Forces are searching for the terrorists setting roadblocks in the area. In the north live fire was carried out from Lebanon on an IDF post with Israeli military striking the source of the fire in response. The IDF saying earlier it had hit 450 Hamas sites in the past 24 hours. At the moment 137 hostages remain in Hamas captivity in Gaza including babies and elderly. Meanwhile these are the images of scores of Hamas operatives who have surrendered to the IDF they will be brought to Israel for questioning. And the UN Security Council is set to vote on a ceasefire resolution with UN chief Antonio Guterres claiming civilians in Gaza were told to move like human pinballs also that's here from Israeli ambassador Elad Elad. Everything I just described represents an unprecedented situation that led to my unprecedented decision to invoke article 99 urging the members of the Security Council to press to avert a humanitarian catastrophe and appealing for a humanitarian ceasefire to be declared. Mr. President we are all aware that Israel began its military operations in response to the brutal terror attacks unleashed by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups on 7 October. I unreservedly condemn those attacks and I'm appalled by the reports of sexual violence. There is no possible justification for deliberately killing some 100,000 some 1,200 people including 33 children enduring thousands more and taking hundreds of hostages. Some 130 hostages are still captive and I call for their immediate and unconditional release as there was their humane treatment and visits from the international community of the Red Cross until they are feed. At the same time the brutality perpetrated by Hamas can never justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people. The true path to ensure peace is only through supporting Israel's mission absolutely not to call for a ceasefire and secondly distinguish colleagues for those of you calling for a ceasefire it is crucial that you remember the facts. On October 6th there was a ceasefire in place but on October 7th Hamas broke the ceasefire with an unprovoked invasion of thousands of Hamas Nazis into Israel and calling for a ceasefire is precisely what ensures that this will continue. A ceasefire means that the suffering of all will carry on. A ceasefire cements Hamas's control of Gaza but even more than that calling for a ceasefire sends a clear message that Hamas is forgiven for their deliberate atrocities and Hamas's oppression of Gazans is given a green light by the international community. For more let's go straight to New York now our senior U.S. correspondent Mike Wagenheim is there for us. Mike thank you for joining us. When do we expect this vote and will we see a veto of the U.S. on this decision. Well I think one goes without the other in this case guy I don't think at this point that the Security Council is going to bring this to a vote unless they have some way of passing it unless they have some way of going around a U.S. veto on this unless they can get the U.S. to agree to new terminology within this graph. The U.S. has been quite clear that this united Arab Emirates a drafted resolution is in no go with them. In fact Deputy Ambassador Robert would address the Security Council this afternoon. He may quite clear that Washington is not on board. Let's give it a listen. This council's failure to condemn Hamas's October 7 terrorist attacks including its acts of sexual violence and other unthinkable evils is a serious moral failure. And it underscores the fundamental disconnect between the discussions that we have been having in this chamber and the realities on the ground. An undeniable part of that reality is that if Israel unilaterally laid down its weapons today as some member states have called for Hamas would continue to hold hostages women and children elderly men while the United States strongly supports a durable peace in which both Israelis and Palestinians can live in peace and security. We do not support calls for an immediate ceasefire. Now this resolution calls for the immediate release of all the hostages and it also calls for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire. That second clause is what the U.S. says is unacceptable. At this point the United Kingdom has also expressed some reservations with it. The French ambassador to the U.N. Nicola de Riviere said to journalist earlier today listen unless we can come up with some agreement here. It's not worth rushing a vote. Now a vote was supposed to take place this morning. New York time. It's already been pushed back to 5 30 p.m. Eastern time. Meanwhile about an hour prior to that Arab ministers are gathered in DC. They want to speak and have a meeting set up with Secretary of State Tony Blinken to try to convince him not to veto the resolution. According to the deputy ambassador there they're in the United Nations. Those ministers have a lot of work cut out for them this afternoon if they want to reverse Washington's stance on this resolution that's been floated. And Mike another hot topic between Israel and the U.S. are these conflicting reports over the past day over that possible U.S. deadline for Israel's war in Gaza. Some suggesting the Americans are pushing to end this war by the end of this month. Something that Israel obviously will not be able to accept. What what is right? Who's right here? You know I think it's a mix of both things. I don't think anybody's right or wrong here. I think the Americans have an interest in seeing this military operation wind down as efficiently and as quickly as possible. It also has an interest of limiting the civilian casualties in Gaza. Those two things don't directly correlate. Essentially what you're saying to the Israeli government and the IDF is if you want to wrap up things quickly if we're setting a deadline OK that means that Israel has to then quickly try to obtain all of its objectives there in Gaza. Well what do you do if you're doing things quickly? Well you're not doing them with concern. You're not doing them with precise preciseness. You're just kind of doing what the United States criticized Israel for doing in northern Gaza which is not protecting the civilian population there because they wanted to take out so many Hamas targets in such a quick amount of time. So it really doesn't make a whole lot of sense just on its face for the United States to really be setting some sort of hard deadline here. So it's somewhere in between. The US is saying listen this can't go on forever. But I don't think they're setting any sort of hard deadline here. It's not in their interest. It's not in the Palestinians interest and for that matter probably not in Israel's interest either. Yes certainly at least by the official statements of the Americans they know very well what Israel is dealing with and also what it needs to do in order to eliminate this threat. Mike Wagenham senior US correspondent. Thank you very much for that update. And now for more I'm joined in studio by Rafael Urshami a security analyst and former senior intelligence officer in the IDF. So so much talk about the deadline or how much time will Israel have at least according to its allies. But how much time does it really need in order to eliminate Hamas at this moment? Listen the deadline that by the administration may have set at the end of the year at the end of this month is not such a big problem because we have to see what we will find by a war full fledged war. If we're speaking of full fledged war and the huge intense assault that we are witnessing right now the Israelis themselves consider that they might achieve that around mid or end of January. So there's not such a big difference in the timing and I'm sure the Americans will let us you know pass the deadline a little and maybe we'll shorten by a few days. But most this very intense fighting cannot be led in endlessly even by the IDF troops. So at some point it will have to bring results. We actually are noticing right now that things are going much better and faster than expected in Hanyounis which is a very harsh place and is the main bastion of the Hamas. And we're doing quite well and we're also controlling a lot of areas that we thought would take more time to control. So hopefully we will end this very major assault in months or two at the most. After that the war is not over after that. And I think even the Americans understand that and the international community you have to do the cleanup. It's weeks and weeks of low level combat which is like going everywhere into Gaza to suppress the last pockets of armed resistance but also to clean Gaza of the white color terrorist of all those civil servants like the director of the Shiva hospital who were holding key jobs in Gaza who are holding Gaza through the civil administration. They also have to be neutralized for Gaza to become free. What the Secretary General of the United Nations doesn't realize is that what he wants as a humanitarian move sees fire is actually against the interest of the people of Gaza. We are freeing the people of Gaza for the most humanitarian plague they were ever suffered which is the rule of the Hamas. They themselves already are saying it the people of Gaza that they are fed up with the Hamas regime. So we are freeing them. And by the way just a little note the speech of Mr. Gutierrez is counseled immediately by one word when he says unprecedented. So either Mr. Gutierrez doesn't know history or he's a liar but unprecedented. The last time close 99 was called was like 30 years ago and during the 30s there was no civil war in Syria. There was no war against Ukraine. There was nothing. Nothing happened. It's unprecedented. So that shows how serious this Mr. Gutierrez is. The fact that he doesn't understand that we are doing this fight not only for us but for the stability of the region and to have a terrorist faction chased away from holding hostage two million Palestinians who want a better life shows that he's on the wrong camp. He has chosen the wrong camp. That's his problem. But it's a danger for the rest of the world because there are so many other places in the world where the United Nations and international community should intervene, should do something. But they are so focused on the Middle East that they are not doing anything else. They are only busy with us. And that's very regrettable for all the other people who suffer in the rest of the world. Yes. I think there's a lot of talk about moral relativism and this in his case, perhaps a case of historical relativism, forgetting what is unprecedented in this conflict. Rafael, stay with me because I want to take our viewers now to the north of Israel. Rocket attacks continue over the past hour. And the IDF is already responding. Ariel Osaran is there for us. What's the latest? Right, guys. So just a short while ago, reports of sirens in the Western Galilee still, there was no official siren or alert in the IDF's home front app. But if indeed this was a rocket launched from Lebanon, it would be the second such attack in the past hour, a short hour ago siren sounded in the northern upper Galilee in the area of Malot Tarshicha, as well as Kfar Vradiim, Israel's emergency services. Mada saying that there were no injuries as a result of this barrage of rockets. The IDF also said that live fire was opened in the vicinity of the area of Matat along the border. IDF responded with artillery. And indeed, on the Lebanese side, we're hearing reports of artillery shelling on the western part of southern Lebanon and Zabikin. But also an interesting statement from the Lebanese Army claiming that one of Israel's strikes didn't specify if it was air strike or artillery hit military medical clinic in Ain Abel. That's in the central sector of the border. There were no injuries, but damage was caused to the structure. And this just shows the extent of exchange of fire along the Israel-Lebanan border. Hezbollah so far today claiming responsibility for eight attacks along the border on IDF posts. There have been no reports of injuries as a result of any of these attacks, but indeed the situation. Another day of fighting, another evening of exchange of fire on the Israel-Lebanan border. Ariella, this fighting goes on both in the north, but also in the south. I myself was in Zderot for several days this week, a town that has become literally a ghost town. All the residents there were evacuated. Very few people do make their way into that area. How is that like when it comes to the north? How much movement are you seeing? What are you hearing from the residents there? It's pretty much a mirror image. The border community is the situation there, except for the destruction, obviously. And the border with Gaza and on the northern border, up to four kilometers, all the communities have been evacuated. We're here in one of the kibbutzes up north that has absorbed nearly an entire kibbutz along the border kibbutz near. This is one example. The children of Snir are running here in the background. And this just is an example as to the tens of thousands of Israelis who have found themselves uprooted as a result of this war along Israel's border with Lebanon. And unlike the situation in the south where they're seeing the military progress and advance a military solution to the threat, they don't see that happening so far along the northern border. Israel, they see the IDF mainly responding to attacks, but not taking any sort of substantial initiative or steps to remove the threat of Hezbollah and its elite Red Juan forces who are spread all across the border. They're saying that until that the residents who have been evacuated are saying that until that threat is removed, they are reluctant to go back home and they do not feel safe to do so. As of now they're still formally evacuated, but the situation can change as long as the longer this war progresses. Yes, at least 80,000 northern residents evacuated, uprooted from their homes. And that's just the south, a lot more of them in the, sorry, that's only in the north, a lot of them in the south as well. I realize, Ron, thank you for that report. Stay safe over there in the northern border. Still with me, Rafael de Ruchalmi, let's talk about the, what would it take for these residents to return to their homes? We've seen some conflicting statements, I think, from the government, especially from Gallant earlier this week, saying the deterrence seems to be enough, or we would make sure that what we're doing in the south will deter Hezbollah in the north. But yesterday, perhaps changing its tone, being saying that Hezbollah will have to retreat back to the north, north of the Littani River. Do you see that happening? No, but first of all, we have to remember that the objective strategically speaking in the south and in the north is completely different. In the south, we're speaking of destroying, dismantling the Hamas. We are not speaking of that objective in the north. We're not speaking of dismantling and destroying the Hezbollah. It would be nice to have such an objective. I think we're busy enough like that. So the objective is less ambitious. In the north, we do want the threat that is on the border to disappear. So if this threat has to disappear, the presence of terrorist faction like the Hezbollah has to disappear from the border. It has to be pushed back. So maybe we are giving now a chance to the diplomatic level, to the ballet of diplomats and secret service representatives from France, from the United States, from other places, trying to convince the Lebanese government to put pressure under Hezbollah. They're just forgetting that there is no Lebanese government right now. And the Lebanese government, even when there was one, could never put pressure on the Hezbollah. The Hezbollah was putting pressure on the Lebanese. But we are giving this a chance, give peace a chance. We know that it will probably not work. We would like the Hezbollah to respect the resolution of the United Nations and to retreat above the Litany River, meaning at least of around 25 kilometers away from the border. But we know it won't work. We are hoping that there might be another resolution voted maybe with less kilometers. And if not, we're going to have to do the job. We will have to do it militarily. We will have to push the Hezbollah back at least 10 kilometers. The minimum that can guarantee some kind of safety for the Israeli people to return to their home is a distance of 10 kilometers buffer zone between the Hezbollah and the border. Obviously the results of this war will have great ramifications both for the residents and for Israel's enemies. But let's take our viewers now to Israel's southern border up here. Kloschenler is there. And Pierre, much of the action is happening right now, not on the border communities, but rather in the center of Israel. You're talking about rocket fire. Yes, there was a salvo, a heavy salvo of rocket fire on Tel Aviv and the central areas, but no casualties, no damage. So it's one of these rocket salvos that happened one once every two days on Tel Aviv. Early around there was another attempt at Tel Aviv, but it fell in the sea, so there was no alert in the Tel Aviv area. And here in the central sector of the Gaza Strip, there haven't been a rocket strike for the past two and a half hours, since 4.20 p.m. local time to be exact. And Pierre, it seems Hamas is working on its PR with this rocket fire, obviously sending a message to Israel that it is still holding strong, still able to threaten the major cities in Israel, try to break down to our viewers. How is it that after two months of war, Hamas is still able to execute such long range attacks? Well, first of all, because many of those rockets are ignited by remote control by terrorists that are hiding in tunnels and just punch on the button and launch the rockets. The lines of defense and the military infrastructure of Hamas is such pride to the war that it's so dense that it's going to take a long time to demilitarize Hamas or demilitarize the Gaza Strip totally. They're very busy doing that. I, you know, here in the northern sector, which has been under full operational control by the IDF, there are still neutralizing tunnels, provoking huge explosions with the engineering corps, booby trapping those tunnels in order to collapse them. There are so many weapons depots, sites that manufacture rockets that are underground that it seems, it seems, I say, that the source of rocket fire is inextinguishable, sorry. According to the IDF three days ago, they said that about 11,000 rockets were launched on Israel. I think that the estimation of the IDF was that Hamas holds about 15 to 20,000 rockets, but it's very possible that they're manufacturing rockets in underground. The IDF is in operational control above ground, not underground. That's going to take much more time. What the IDF is busy doing right now is bisecting the Gaza Strip into different areas of control by the IDF in order to cut any way for Hamas to buttress one position or one sector on the expense of another. They've cut the northern Gaza Strip from the central refugee camps. They've cut Hanyunes, which is south of the central refugee camps, from the refugee camps and they've cut the Rafah area in the extreme south of the Gaza Strip from Hanyunes. So that way, by bisecting the Gaza Strip in such a way, it allows the IDF to impose its control at least above ground, but underground is another story. It'll take much more time. Yes, a lot of work to be done for the IDF. Pierre Klosschendler and the I-24 news team there on the southern border. Stay safe. Thank you for that update and still it means Studios, Rafael Yoroshalmi. You know, the IDF is operating on such a large extent with so many troops attempting to force Hamas out of their tunnels to impose so much pressure on Hamas. At the same time, it allows so much fuel in recent days to enter the Gaza Strip. We know that that fuel continues to flow into the hands of Hamas. How do these things go together? Okay, this flow of fuel is a problem. Okay, it is a fuel for the Hamas. It is fuel for the missiles, but I don't think it's as huge a problem as some people tend to make it. It bothers some. It's being imposed upon us by the American administration on humanitarian grounds. Would it be very nice if it would reach the humanitarian target? It is hijacked by the Hamas, but still we are coping with it. I don't think it's such a big, big problem. We've been mentioning the missiles that the Hamas still has and is still throwing at us. These missiles, they will be thrown at us for a long time yet. For one simple reason is that each time long-range missiles are shot, we know from where they are shot. We destroy immediately after the launching pads. The problem meaning that there are many, many launching pads hidden, sometimes even inside the house or in a school, I'm speaking of the concrete launching pads because they're also mobile. A truck can be a launching pad, but that's for medium-range missiles. For the missiles that reach Tel Aviv, you need really built launching pads and they're hidden here and there. So why are they being shot at us now? It's just that Hamas wants to prove it's still in control. It's still there. He's still holding on. Hamas, he can be said very safely today. From today, more or less it's a turning point in the war. Hamas has lost Gaza. Hamas will continue fighting. Hamas will make problems, will threaten us with missiles, with booby traps. They have lost Gaza. Gaza is not there anymore. So whatever they shoot at us is just a show-off. And one can only regret the fact that we've allowed Hamas to arm itself to this extent. Rafael, you're showing me. Thank you for that. More updates coming up at the top of the hour. Our rolling coverage continues here on I-20. Is in a state of war. Families completely done down in their beds. We have no idea where is she. As our soldiers are fighting on the front line, but the general perception is something that certainly needs to to be fought as well. And thank you for joining us here on I-24 News. Our rolling coverage of day 63 of the war continues over the past hours. Attacks of terror groups on Israeli has continued in Israel's south, center, and north. A barrage of Hamas rockets was fired towards Tel Aviv and central Israel for the second time this afternoon, causing some minor minor damages from successful interceptions of Israel's iron dome system. In the West Bank, an Israeli soldier was injured by live fire at an IDF post near the town of Yabad. Forces are searching for the terrorists setting roadblocks in the area. In the north, live fire was carried out from Lebanon on an IDF post with the Israeli military striking the source of the fire in response. The IDF saying earlier it had hit 450 Hamas sites in the past 24 hours. At the moment, 137 hostages remain in Hamas captivity in Gaza, including babies and the elderly. At the as the fighting continues, scores of Hamas operatives have surrendered themselves to the IDF. As you can see on your screens here, they will be brought to Israel for questioning. Let's take your live now to Israel's north. Ariel Osaran standing by for us there. Ariel more rocket fire in the past hours and the IDF is responding. Right guys, so just about an hour ago rockets fired towards the upper Galilee. There were no injuries as a result of this rocket launch. The IDF saying that it responded with artillery shelling towards the source of the fire. And in this in an additional statement, the IDF saying that throughout the day Israeli fighter jets have been carrying out strikes against Hezbollah infrastructure across southern Lebanon and obviously with Israeli artillery responding to any of these attacks. Now we're talking about no fewer than 8 Hezbollah attacks on IDF border posts along the Israel-Lebanon border all across from west to east. The latest one was in addition to an attack on one of the border posts. Another one opened with live fire on it. IDF also saying that it responded with artillery to the sources of that fire. Now on the Lebanese side saying that in the central area of the border there have been significant artillery shelling like in the areas of Jabir Batam and Zabekin. And this comes following another day of fighting of cross-border fire on the Israel-Lebanon border. Alright, I'll also run on the I-24 news team in the north. Thank you for that update. Stay safe over there. Now I want to welcome our guests in studio. Brigadier General in Reserves, Amir Avivi, Director at Israel's Defense and Security Forum, IDSF and former Deputy Commander at the IDF Gaza Strip Division. Also with us is Ambassador Daniel Scheck, Director of Diplomacy at the Hostages and Missing Families Forum. And of course the former Israeli Ambassador to France. Gentlemen, thank you both for joining us. Amir, I'm going to start with you. We're seeing this rocket fire continuing. Even on Tel Aviv in so many areas across Israel, we're two months into this war already. Try to break down to our viewers. How is it possible that Hamas still has this ability as the IDF is spread out all across the Gaza Strip? Well, the IDF is not spread out all across the Gaza Strip. The IDF is operating in north of Gaza and in Hanyunas. In north of Gaza, the IDF is closing on Sajair and Jibalia. This is the defining, I would say, moment in the north. Once the IDF destroys Hamas in Jibalia and Sajair, the IDF will control the northern part of Gaza. There will still be terrorists around, but basically will break Hamas capabilities. The IDF is also operating in Hanyunas. This is the center of gravity of Hamas in the south. But having said that, we're not operating in the center of Gaza. We haven't gone in yet. There is a lot to do, also not in Rafa or along the shore in Muassi and therefore they have the capability to still shoot from places like Kildir El-Balach, Rafah, Muassi, El-Burej, different places where the IDF hasn't gone in yet and hasn't started attacking these places. We've seen this week, for example, forces moving forward and 200 meters from them. Terrorists shooting the last time from a rocket launcher and escaping. So this is a very complicated world. There are thousands of sites with rocket launchers and you really need to get control on the ground to prevent completely the ability to shoot rockets. I'll just tell our viewers that we are awaiting the daily briefing of IDF spokesperson, Daniel Igari. Ambassador Shek, as we speak about the progress of the war, there is still already a lot of conversation about what happens the day after. Well, today, the Palestinian Authority Prime Minister, Mohamed Ashtaye, is arguing that Israel's aim to fully defeat Hamas is unrealistic and that the militant group should instead join in under the new government structure. Is he delusional thinking that Israel would allow Hamas to be part of any future Palestinian government that Israel enables to control the Gaza Strip? Guy, with all due respect, why would you expect him to express Israeli views? He's a Palestinian leader and he speaks to a Palestinian audience and he expresses Palestinian interests. Yeah, well, it doesn't matter, but, you know, he doesn't care so much about people who will listen to him in India, Pakistan or southern Argentina. He speaks to his audience and, of course, he will speak about the need for unity. It's not an old, it's not a new story. There's always been this theoretical idea of uniting the Palestinian authority with Hamas, Fatah and Hamas. Of course, it's never worked. It's been on the table for many, many years and there are reasons why it doesn't work because they are profoundly different. Hamas, I think it was demonstrated on October 7th, doesn't care about the Palestinian issue. Hamas is not fighting a Palestinian war. It's fighting an Islamic war and the Palestinians serve as a vehicle like others in other parts of the world serve as a vehicle for this same kind of war. If, now maybe Mr. Steyer knows this just as well as you and I, but clearly he is not in a position currently to speak against Hamas. It's just not feasible politically. So what will happen in the day after is a different story? Will the Palestinian authority really want to have a strong and powerful Hamas under its wing? I don't think so. Amir, how do you see Israel treating the day after? Obviously someone will have to rule the Gaza Strip. IDF would want to maintain some sort of security control over the Strip. Nonetheless, I don't believe that Israel wants to control Gaza fully to manage it in terms of this civilian population. Do you see a situation in which the Palestinian authority decides who is part of that government? Well, there is the day after and there is the day after the day after. And then there is the day after the day after the day after. It's not one day after. From a military point of view, if we want to make sure that never again there will be a terror army in Gaza, we need to control the Egyptian border and this is not just the border. We need to control the whole area of Rafah and we need full freedom of operation of the IDF everywhere in Gaza, just as we have in Judean Samaria and the West Bank. Without that, we cannot really ensure that there will be no terror infrastructure. I want to remind you that in Oslo, long before this engagement, it was enough that we didn't operate in the cities. Gaza went from the stone age, literally, to shooting rockets. They started shooting in 2001, rockets on Israel. So you need freedom of operation. From a civilian point of view, I think that the way this is going to end, for quite a long time there might be a situation where Israel really manage everyday life. It will take a long time to gain some kind of control. And then Israel is saying clearly, we're not going to have Hamas, not Palestinian Islamic jihad, but also not the Palestinian Authority. Palestinian Authority is paying billions to terrorists, is inciting in the education system. It's very unpopular even in its only area in the West Bank. Everything you look at the day after, I'm not sure there will be a Palestinian Authority from the Palestinian side. They don't want them. So how can they control Gaza? And Ambassador, those who are popular in Gaza are Hamas, their recent surveys conducted by Palestinian universities show the immense support Hamas receives in the Palestinian public, even more so in the West Bank than in Gaza, especially with regards to the support of that massacre committed by Hamas. How do you manage that? I don't want to manage that. That's the whole point. I think somebody else should manage that, but under different circumstances than in the past. I can't influence Palestinian public opinion and make them choose a Zionist organization to govern them. I don't have that ability. I also can't make millions of Palestinians go away, simply evaporate. So we'll have to find some kind of solution. And even in Gaza, after we destroy Hamas and after we find freedom of operation and after all of that, somebody has to govern there. And I don't think that it should be Israel. As a matter of fact, not I don't think I'm absolutely certain that it shouldn't be Israel. So I know it shouldn't be Israel. I know it shouldn't be Hamas doesn't leave a whole lot of choices. I will adopt President Biden's formula, a reformed or a different Palestinian authority. How different, how to get there just as Mr. Avivi just said, there are many days after it's probably not going to happen on the first day after, maybe on the third on the fourth or on the fifth. Gentlemen, stay with me. We want to go now to Israel's southern border up here. Klosch Endler is there with the I-24 news team up here. The fighting continues both in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, close to where you are. And of course in Hanyunas in the south. Right. In the Jebalia refugee camp at the entrance of Gaza City, there are fierce fighting for a fifth consecutive day as well as in the town of Srijaya in the northeast in the southeast of Gaza City. And then you have fighting around Hanyunas and inside Hanyunas since December 1st or 2nd. The Division 98, which gather all the elite units, all the commando units, are fighting in the heart of Hanyunas and the other divisions are encircling Hanyunas, taking control of the Salahadin axis, which goes from south to north, crosses the Gaza Strip east of Gaza City. Fierce fighting there as well and strikes, aerial strikes on the central sector of the refugee camps, such as Diral-Ballach, El-Burej or Nussayrat. But the tactic of the IDF becomes more precise in spite of the fog of war. There's now three different or four different sections in the Gaza Strip. You have the northern part of the Gaza Strip, which is under Israeli operational control, at least above ground. And then you have the middle ground of the refugee camps, which is hammered with aerial strikes, but there is no IDF presence, per se, inside those camps. And then you have Hanyunas, which is the focal point of the fighting now, because that could be the make or break of Hamas, since the leadership, both political and militarily, could be there, according to the IDF estimates. And then you have the southern part of Rafah. Now, sectioning these parts of the Gaza Strip allows the IDF, obviously, more control, more tactical control. And at the same time, we understand that Hamas is starting to break apart a little bit from a well-organized military structure with man in uniform and a lot of weapon. Now, you see from videos that you see emanating from media affiliated to Hamas, you see fighters that are switching back to, I would say, the Stone Age, to urban guerrilla fighting with very small groups. They cannot operate as a battalion, per se, or as a company. They operate like squads. And most of the time, they are in civilian uniform. They're not even in their outfit, in their military outfit. And they carry very little weapon, an AK-47 or an RPG rocket launcher. This is what you see on videos. And at the same time, we hear Thomas White, the representative on UNRWA in the Gaza Strip, saying that there is a sense of chaos, especially at night, with looting, with a lack of security. And then you hear the Israeli defense minister saying that Hamas is on the verge of the start of breaking up. So we're at a critical phase. And maybe this is the start of the make or break of Hamas. If Hanyunas is taken over, that would be a very important stage in the war against Hamas. A highly complicated battlefield there for the Israeli troops. Beir Kloschendler on the southern border. Thank you for that update. Stay safe there with the team. Going back to our panel, Amir, we spoke about, or Pierre just mentioned, that possible break point of Hamas. We've seen some Gaza residents even showing their displeased, to say the least, of the fact that Hamas is still Oh, let's take a listen to IDF spokesperson Amir Aghari. Two IDF troops more seriously wounded overnight in activity in the Gaza Strip while trying to evacuate wounded. They eliminated terrorists and families were notified about troops that have lost their lives. We will continue to operate in various ways. Intelligence and operational together with the Shin Bet will operate in every form to return all the hostages back home and to obtaining information about them. IDF representatives are in touch with the families of the hostages and update them about every credible information about the loved ones. We are at the most extensive form of the ground operation in north and south parts of the Strip in Jabali and Sajayi and in the Khan Yunis area. The troops are operating professionally and bravely. We operate heavy fighting against Hamas terrorists that are operating underground and then meeting our forces. We eliminate many terrorists and see more and more terrorists that are giving in and handing them to themselves to the IDF troops. We have arrested over 250 troops or suspects over the past 24 hours have been transferred to the Shin Bet for investigation in Israel. Among them commanders of the Hamas and Nukba fighters their investigation assists the operation of the forces. In the north we took out a terror squad in the early morning. We identified an armed squad and a drone has managed to attack that squad. We struck Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon and returned fire against the areas where the fire emanated. Shots were fired towards an Israeli post. This evening the evening of the ninth week of the war and the second candle of Hanukkah IDF troops will operate will commemorate the Shabbat in the field. They fight bravely in Gaza and defending in all borders in order for us to live in safety. I wish to send all the fighters on the ground Shabbat Shalom and happy holiday. That was an IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari in his nightly or weekly or daily briefing. Back to our studio we spoke about the operation and the efforts to take down Hamas. We hear those voices from Palestinians voicing their discontent with what Hamas did on October 7th that has led to this but beyond that also the fact that Hamas is looting all the or much of the aid that is taken into Gaza. Yeah, we've seen this week Gazans complaining that the food that is going in Hamas is taking it for itself. So yes, there is a lot of discontent. We saw the photos in Derel Balak with tens of thousands of people standing waiting for food. And as the Minister of Defense Galan said it seems like there is a start of a breaking point. At a state it will take a long time and to clean the Gaza Strip will take years. In Operation Defensive Shield it took us a month and a half to conquer the cities. It took us five years to bring the area into some kind of balance. So this is going to be long but it's definitely a moment where we see more and more people surrendering. But I think the most interesting thing that Agar is said was that they attempted to rescue hostages. We'll know that while the IDF is operating and maneuvering there will be opportunities. It's complicated. It's difficult. But there will be operational opportunities to rescue hostages while we are moving forward in the different areas. This is of course very interesting and very important showing that the IDF has information about the whereabouts of some of these hostages if troops were wounded trying to save them. At least some information is being obtained from these investigations and from the mere presence of the IDF troops. Ambassador, you're involved of course with the hostages and families forum. To this day still no visits of the Red Cross. No information about the well-being of all those 137 Israeli hostages. Many of them in need of urgent medical care. Correct. There's no better way to describe it than you did. This is Hamas. They will not allow access although it is it's supposed to be the automatic first right of an abducted person of a hostage and even of a prisoner of war which they are not. They are not considered prisoners of war because Hamas is not an army and Gaza is not a state. They are abducted people. They are hostages and the first human right of these people is visitation by the Red Cross. Now I know that people are very angry at the Red Cross and believe that the Red Cross is not doing enough. I don't know if they're doing enough or not enough. I know for a fact that they don't have any way to enforce that right. They don't. They're not an army. They don't represent a state. They don't have a diplomatic power. When they talk to Hamas and they do talk to Hamas both inside Gaza and in Doha in Qatar they can insist but in the end of the day it's Hamas that is holding the hostages that is holding all the information and if they refuse to give it then there is not much that the Red Cross can do. Meanwhile there are other international organizations that are operating this evening. The UN Security Council is set to vote this evening on a resolution for a ceasefire. Let's take a listen to UN Chief Antonin Guterres and then Israeli Ambassador Gilado Dan. Over 60% of Gaza's housing has reportedly been destroyed or damaged some 300,000 houses and apartments. Some 85% of the population have been forced from their homes. The people of Gaza are being told to move like human pinballs ricocheting between ever smaller slivers of the source without any of the basics for survival but nowhere in Gaza is safe. The brutality perpetrated by Hamas can never justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people. The true path to ensure peace is only through supporting Israel's mission absolutely not to call for a ceasefire. And secondly, distinguished colleagues for those of you calling for a ceasefire it is crucial that you remember the facts. On October 6th there was a ceasefire in place but on October 7th Hamas broke the ceasefire with an unprovoked invasion of thousands of Hamas Nazis into Israel. And calling for a ceasefire is precisely what ensures that this will continue. A ceasefire means that the suffering of all will carry on. A ceasefire cements Hamas's control of Gaza but even more than that calling for a ceasefire sends a clear message that Hamas is forgiven for their deliberate atrocities and Hamas's oppression of Gazans is given a green light by the international community. And we also heard a short while ago from the USM representative there at the UN Security Council let's take a listen. This council's failure to condemn Hamas's October 7th terrorist attacks including its acts of sexual violence and other unthinkable evils is a serious moral failure. And it underscores the fundamental disconnect between the discussions that we have been having in this chamber and the realities on the ground. An undeniable part of that reality is that if Israel unilaterally laid down its weapons today as some member states have called for Hamas would continue to hold hostages. Women and children, elderly men while the United States strongly supports a durable peace in which both Israelis and Palestinians can live in peace and security we do not support calls for an immediate ceasefire. Gentlemen, so it does seem like the Americans at least understand what Israel is dealing with and also what it takes to take down Hamas despite the civilian suffering as a result. That is correct for the moment not that I think that the US any US administration would agree to what you suggested earlier that we might have to stay in Gaza for five years I don't think that will be an option. This is what happened in Operation Defense. Yeah, no, no, I mean you said it was going to be a long process and I'm not sure that Israel will enjoy the freedom to do this. I'm not saying that it's good or bad but I think that's a fact of life. I think the diplomatic window that the Americans see is bigger, longer than the rest of the world and currently what is happening at the UN is that they have postponed the vote and they're going to negotiate the text try to avoid an American veto or the Americans I suspect will want not to have a resolution at all but to have some kind of statement by the President of the Security Council or some other kind of announcement which needs, it necessitates a unanimous vote by the 15 members. And Amir, there's a lot of talk about what the Americans want in terms of a deadline for the Israeli operation. There's some reports saying America, Israel should end this operation by the end of this month. Something that is completely unrealistic, obviously, for the Israeli operation. What do you see as realistic in terms of the IDF ability to take over Hamas completely in Gaza? How long will that take? I want to say that Gutierrez is at this grace from day one and talking about the UN because all of Gaza is a war zone. All of Gaza has tunnels, other explosives, IEDs everywhere. The only way to secure the Gazans is to open the Egyptian border and let them at least for a certain period of time to go out to another part of the Sanai Peninsula. I don't recall any place in the world where you have a war. You have refugees and they are locked in the area. Nobody lets them out. In Ukraine, 40 million people left to Ukraine. In Syria, 11 million people left Syria. The Gazans are the only ones that nobody cares about the fact that they are locked inside the war zone and they cannot go out and nobody is pressuring Egypt, saying open the border and let the women, the children go out and get humanitarian aid. So I think the whole approach globally is wrong. Now talking about the IDF, I think it will take at least at least two months more to really take control of the whole Gaza Strip and then it might take at least a year. This is the army's assessment to clean the Gaza Strip from all this terror infrastructure. And even then, you'll have to remain even if Israel then goes out not from the Egyptian border but from the other areas that we'll have to operate, go in and out just as we do in the West Bank. So many problems for Israel to solve unfortunately both militarily and politically in Gaza at the end of this war, Daniel and Sheikh Amir thank you both very much for being with us on this Shabbat night and that's it for now from that 24 News Desk more updates at the top of the hour. She stands at the entrance to the military base in Tel Aviv opposite the Israeli center alone with her sign or with her daughter Noam holding the picture passes by do not know how to deal with the difficult caption. Usually, they try not to meet her gaze make a small detour or pass her by as if they didn't see sometimes, someone stops. Her father and son were killed 50 years apart. So now it's a small family of only women from Moshev Agot in southern Israel. The grandmother sits on the balcony chain smoking. I see him all the time. I don't know. I can't get it out of my eyes. He can't talk to me but I'm constantly talking to him. He really loved me, this grandson. I loved him. I remember they came to pick him up with an open truck. Yum Kippur? A Yum Kippur. A Yum Kippur. A Yum Kippur. A Yum Kippur. A Yum Kippur. A Yum Kippur. Probably afternoon and that's it. I haven't seen him since. I've been an orphan since the age of seven. What did it do to your little family? Dismantled it. Made that family very sad. My father was a very happy man with a sense of humor. I always say I lost a father but I also lost a mother because after something like that it was very difficult for her and there was a farm here that needed managing and she had to continue to manage it somehow. As a child I learned that to leave my mother because it's hard for her anyway and not to bother her with my difficulties with my affairs. Yael, a social worker remained on the same farm as her mother Mina and father Yitzchak. She gave birth to a son door after two daughters. Door grew up to be a child of values focused a quiet leader very compassionate towards the weak and vulnerable he identified around him. After the morning period Yael began rummaging through the notebooks that Door had written for himself. I am naturally endowed with a desire for excellence. I came into the world to work and not waste time. I'm going to do something great with this life I have been given and do as much good as possible in the world. Grandpa Yitzchak who fell in battle was always there in the background. We grow at home and in the land that was here. There are trees here in the farm that he planted 60 years ago and they're here so it is so present it is here here in the Moshev there is a tombstone with his name on it we as small grandchildren from age zero I remember laying a reef together with Door when I was an officer and when Door was an officer last year we also saluted grandfather and the flag on Memorial Day he was a Quran He wrote Why am I going to fight? He writes I want to contribute in the best way possible to the country as my grandfather Yitzchak contributed and my family after him He enlisted in the Egoz unit Were you anxious? Of course I was anxious I mean as far as I am concerned there are three possibilities either he will be killed or he will be wounded or he will get PTSD like there was no way he was going to come out of it okay How could you send a child to the army like this? I worked on myself to calm down all the time but these were my thoughts On Wednesday night at 10 o'clock I left home for a moment and suddenly I saw two officers in uniform I understood it once but still wait maybe it wasn't for me and I asked who are you working for? He asked me are you Yael? I said yes and then I collapsed I heard her screaming screams of terror and I was sure there were terrorists here and that I was going to see them shoot my mother that's the thought I had so I ran outside with the phone and I saw two officers and you don't need more than that to understand And this is the same news that my mother received 50 years ago on the same sidewalk more or less in the same yard my father was killed on the 23rd of the Hebrew month of Tishrei Dor was killed in the night between the 23rd and the 24th I mean I don't know a creepy coincidence and how did your mother react? She is in shock she's been in shock ever since she doesn't talk too much depression barely eats barely functions he's in front of my eyes the child he does not leave me immediately after the morning period she started her protest why? because I think the failure could have been avoided this disgrace could have been avoided whoever fights to be in power is responsible a week ago we stood with a sign on Caspi Street in Jerusalem near the billionaire's houses where Benjamin Netanyahu has lived since the beginning of the war she and that agent started coming out and they didn't know what to do with me they looked lowered their heads left came back at some point you would have to come out they tried to move me away I didn't agree they don't know how to behave in front of me they don't know what to do with me I come to them with the truth in their faces hey weren't you concerned that you were mixing bereavement with politics but in the end it is related it's connected my bereavement is related to politics and I come out with a sign not to shock and okay the price I paid there will be more prices for more people if this government continues to exist because it does not see the citizens even today no one came during the morning period no member of the government nor the funerals the prime minister's convoy enters the headquarters I hope he saw me if it was him you are a social worker so you know the stages of grief so maybe this is one of the stages anger you need to take it out on someone but it's beyond that I can be angry at door who went against me I can be angry with myself for allowing him for not fighting it I can be angry at the army I can be angry as a child I was angry at the army that my father was killed and stuff like that but I think there is something much bigger here it's anger out of concern for our future here my mother grew up in a tragic home and she told me our home will not be sad we will live and these are words that came during the morning period during this initial shock and I take them with me and I think this whole struggle is so that we will live we'll live in security unity and peace with whomever lives with us here at least people live in this country and we'll strive to make it good this is a war to make it good here in the Reutri habitation hospital in Tel Aviv Eyal Yonk from Kibbutz Al-Umim continues his battle battle which started on October 7 and is still not ended that day began with a missile attack just like many other residents of the south Eyal rushed to the safe room it was too quiet for me so I checked my phone again and I saw about 20 messages on the same group and one of the messages was clearly one of my neighbor that is also in the immediately respond group said terrorist inside the Kibbutz on motorcycles everyone to go to the armory to take their weapons and gear so I told my wife there's something unusual inside the Kibbutz going inside the Kibbutz and I need to go out Eyal found out that the terrorist infiltrated the Kibbutz and killed some of the Thai and Nepali workers when he came out to rescue his neighbor who was shot by terrorists he realized that the situation was even worse than he thought I saw about 16 terrorists running like soldiers like we are trained in basic training in pairs with distances between each pair so if we shoot them we won't hit everyone and I could count about 16 terrorists running towards us and with the other three it was about at least 20 terrorists coming to the Kibbutz when my friend got back we said to each other we need to go to a better place and just when we went on the high ground over the stairs the stones one terrorist saw us we didn't know he was already there he shot us first he shot my friend in his leg and I got a ricochet from the bullet inside my cheek here and it went down under the ear and stayed there I shot him back I killed him he lay down there was another terrorist there a few seconds later I got shot in an I felt pain in my back luckily Ayal was not killed he was evacuated to Soroka Hospital in Bersheva where he stayed in intensive care his next stop was Rehut Hospital Ayal came with an amazing motivation to improve he was working more than he had to work every day so it's a rehabilitation process is really a story of success because in rehabilitation we don't aim only to function for me Ayal is a true story of a successful rehabilitation process the Ayal and his family moved to a hotel in the coastal city of Natania he says he misses the life in the Kibbutz in the meantime he's focused on healing himself and watching his favorite football team Tottenham Hotspur he even got special videos from Manor Solomon the Israeli who plays in the team I want to say thank you for everything he does for Israel that is not afraid to be active and publish things and take a stand for Israel I felt it was very good for me in my soul and my head to see what's happening and be a bit running away for two hours running away from the news from my injury because when I watch football even though we don't always play well for the last three games still it's very good for me because that's normal for me to watch the games to be happy to be disappointed to feel like normal more than 50 days after October 7 Real continues his treatment and hope to be fully recovered soon he is still expected to have more surgery to remove one of the bullets in his back this is just another story of courage and survival out of many we heard since the Hamas onslaught this is not the Super Mars I'm putting a date on Gauz 18 okay but it's a super important volunteer job that could mean the difference between life and death so we do what they say and it gets done and we save a life everything saves a life that's why we're here during times of peace and even more so during war the Tela Shomer IDF base is the hub where all the medical supplies and other non-combat support tasks fuel the entire IDF I love seeing all these people volunteering for Israel they are coming from out of the country and don't really holy work here which is why this place exists so the fatigues came with the ticket what brings me here is that after October 7th we all I think everyone here felt the need to be here just where we had to be for myself I was doing a whole bunch of work fighting against the insane explosion of anti-Semitism that's happening everywhere even in our little city of Winnipeg but it didn't feel like it was enough I wanted to do something physical really to help on Israel after October 7th lawyer Lawrence Pinsky of Winnipeg and dozens of other volunteers he did the call and hopped on the first plane to Israel that they could to participate in SARL volunteers for Israel a robust non-profit with an international reputation well I've been packing not right now but earlier morphine and ketamine and amputation bandages and serious stuff and it gives you a sense especially when you see how many we're packing what our hyaline are really facing like everyone else that is here our desire to help Israel in any way we can in addition to donations and pardon my emotion and we're here to physically help Israel in this time of special need my zady came to fight in the war of independence in 48 and if I get to do a 10th of what he did for the state of Israel and he did it for all of us and he did it so it would be here for me if I could do a 10th of what he did I'll be very proud I have two sons right now who are in Miloim one of them up north one of them in the Merkaz and uh you know I have a son-in-law who's up north SARL which is a Hebrew acronym meaning service for Israel has recruited over 150,000 volunteers from over 30 countries since its inception 40 years ago I graduated college at the time of the Six Day War in 67 I wanted to come then my family was not zionistic I knew they wouldn't they would probably commit me if I came I heard about Surrell when I was visiting my son in Tineck, New Jersey and I said oh my god I can do today but I couldn't do 50 years ago this is now Rochelle Kimmel of Borough Park, Brooklyn's fourth SARL volunteer mission and for Dina Wolfe who's originally from Manchester, England SARL volunteers have already become her family this is your first day volunteering do you feel like you've known her forever already? I just think she is just amazing she's an inspiration and I'm just in admiration everybody is doing as much as they can but you some of us have that feeling it's just not enough so when my sister decided to come from Manchester to do SARL I jumped on the bound with the hate and vitriol against Jewish people hitting a critical juncture around the world the existential fear is paralyzing we've been through an awful lot in the United Kingdom being Jewish there is an awful lot of antisemitism I had been racially hounded on social media I had had eggs thrown at my car Jenny Sadeh who was active on social media has been nearly silenced to the point that she's had to change her profile name and she even feels safer in Israel during wartime than in the UK I walk in the streets I hide my star of David what I'm trying to say is usually I'm very proud I'm very happy to wear my flag this time it's very scary I feel like I needed to be here and I'm very glad I am it's been very rewarding as you can see men and women of all ages and nationalities are united for a common cause fulfilling our soldier's medical needs while also filling their souls in the Jewish homeland it's very disturbing my son said to me you're not going to want to listen to the news stations that you've been listening to when you come home and it's it's very depressing anybody who has the ability to be here should definitely take the plunge and come and this is where we need to be it's our country at the Tello Shomer IDF base Emily Francis, I-24 News when Avikai received the news that the hostage release deal was under way he finally found a reason to shave last time I got a haircut I was 16 you know now I allow myself to have a beard and such but generally a guy doesn't let me so I said in her honor at least I'll look normal I want it to be good let's hope I don't grow another beard by the time they come home a moment before he received the first phone call from the army representative accompanying him yes good we'll hold on good thanks that was the officer company and what did she say that they're not on the list what should we do well there'll be another day what can I do since the nightmare that overtook the Brodech family on that black Sabbath October 7th Avikai has fought in every way he could to return his wife and his three young children from captivity in the first two days of the war he already began to grieve he was sure that his entire family had been murdered he confronted members of the Knesset in the studios spoke in Tel Aviv's hostages square and was interviewed by every media outlet in the world who wanted to hear his story it was a different day compared to the last few days everyone is tense these are new kind of days until now I was very active and suddenly I'm only with myself it's a case of waiting for the news that should come from Hamas at the end of the day I'm somewhat lucky to be included in the category of women and children some people are jealous of me that's horrible and it's horrible to think such a thought I'm happy and I berate myself Mikhai aren't you ashamed to be happy have you had the chance to think about what you would say to them I experienced a lot and discovered a lot of things about myself who can I tell these things to if not to Hagar I'm dying to hold her to tell her listen you do not believe my wife is with Hamas I have three children there because what business does Hagar have being with Hamas my wife with Hamas it's not Hagar I see her coming to me and saying listen Avichai you don't believe where I was I've been with Hamas for two months you won't believe it but then I think again and realize this will probably be a slightly different conversation I don't know the truth is I'm very afraid that's the truth when they return we'll have completed the first phase as far as I'm concerned the second phase I still worry about yesterday evening the social worker called me she said to me listen Avichai there are studies on people who have returned from captivity and there may be all kinds of things that they they won't respond and won't want to take a shower maybe and they'll have a hard time being around other people and maybe they'll even avoid contact suddenly in that one moment it all became clear we still have another long process ahead of us and I don't even know how we'll end maybe I'll collapse maybe I won't be able to bear it and maybe they will be different from what they were before I don't even know what I'm getting I'm getting some maybe a new family there's a song by Leonard Cohen which he wrote during the Yom Kippur war lover, lover, lover and in the song he turns to God and tells God I want to start all over again please let me God tells him listen I gave you everything you chose what to do with it you had all the tools and you chose to screw everything up that's your problem you know maybe now that I think about it it's possible I got another chance they told me listen Avichai you start from scratch you took away your family and now you're getting them back come show us what you plan to do Avichai fought in the stand-by unit of Pfar Azad and came across a terrorist squad who fired at him with RPGs and threw grenades he would