 Welcome to the special broadcast here on I-24 News. We continue a rolling coverage day 31 of the war here in Israel. It was a month ago today that October 6th that is that we all lived in a certain world that existed with its downfalls and its strength, its horizon, its fog. None of us knew, none of us could even conceive that this world we lived in, just a matter of hours, will simply no longer exist. But a month later a new world is into making, it will take time. The road is still long, but in order to bring about its becoming, it's no blinking time. It is, to an extent, blinking time. The international clock is ticking, but the IDF continues to operate in full swing inside the Gaza Strip. You can see now on your screens the IDF footage of dozens of Gazaner residents moving through a safe corridor that was facilitated by the IDF for a third consecutive day to allow the safe passage from north to south as the operations there underground continue. Today's encirclement of Gaza City is a very significant step in creating pressure to dismantle Hamas. Hamas understands the implications of the splits between the north of the Strip and the south of the Strip. In the south of the Gaza Strip, by the way to your question about the humanitarian aid, there is a safer area. It is where food, water and medicine come in. Fuel will not come in. Crossing now live to the Israel-Gaza border at 24 news correspondent Robert Swift in the city of Stirot. What is left of it? First I would dare to say a ghost town, right, Robert, and as we speak, it's another round of red siren alerts being heard in southern communities. It seems like a heavy barrage of rockets from the Gaza Strip towards Israeli communities down south. Joining us in studio for this broadcast is at 24 news senior correspondent Guy, Israel. Guy, we've just seen footage of this humanitarian, rather, corridor that the IDF is facilitating. Again, third consecutive day and something we've been seeing since day one of the war essentially, with the IDF essentially begging our Gaza residents to move from north to south. Do we have any indication of what is happening right now when it comes to the civilian presence of Gazans there? Actually, just a few minutes ago we're getting information from the IDF assessing some 800 to 900,000 Palestinians have moved, in fact, from the northern part of the Gaza Strip to the southern part, just south of Wadi Gaza, that is the area that sort of separates geographically between the north and the southern part of the city. We know the IDF has used a lot of effort to convince and to inform those residents, including millions of messages of phone calls, recorded phone calls to them, urging them to leave that area. Sadly, as we saw, Hamas in many cases have stopped those people who wanted to make their way into the safe areas in some places, placing barricades. We have also seen footage of people being shot on the streets, we couldn't verify, but of course we know the IDF is not present in those areas of the Gaza Strip. People shot on the road as they were making their way down south. It's very clear to see how difficult it is for them. Yeah, this is how Hamas was, no surprise there. We're still there, unfortunately. Yeah, yeah, let's do cross back to the city of Sderot, that 24 years correspondent, Robert Swift, standing by there, Robert, we've just heard yet another round of Red Sirens in southern cities, including in the main city of Ashdod. What can you tell us? What do we know? That's right. So a launch there towards the port city, which is just to the north of the Gaza Strip, from where we are, we could hear several explosions. These were most likely interceptions, and you know, it's interesting, often these launches do seem to be coming at the top of the hour. Almost makes you wonder if Hamas are often launching these because they're aware of the news cycle. They know that news teams are generally hitting their launches at the top of the hour. Well, it will not come as a huge surprise, Hamas is investing a lot of efforts in its own PR, let's call it that way, yeah, terror PR. This is a thing, 2023. I-24 News correspondent, Robert Swift, thank you very much for this. We will get back to you, of course, later on in the day, much more from Robert later on in the day. And now we do want to cross to Dr. Eran Lam, and Vice President of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, former Department Director of Foreign Policy and International Affairs at the National Security Council, Prime Minister's office. Dr. Lemmon, thank you so very much for joining us. Well, as we speak, Dr. Lerman, there are reports of the Israeli Prime Minister is convening all the foreign diplomats stationed here in Israel, and it is of paramount importance, even though the Prime Minister, of course, has a direct line of communication with leaders of Western powers and other crucial nations here in the region. The international legitimacy, the international credit is a major factor in the success of this campaign. And the government has certain problems to get rid of itself of repercussions of things that should not have been said and unauthorized and unwise. That's probably part of the effort to ensure that what Israel is doing in Gaza is fighting Hamas, not the Palestinian population there. It is essentially liberating this region from the regime that has done nothing, brought nothing but grief to the people of Gaza for the 16 years of its rule. And there were some irresponsible things said that need to be cleared off. There's also the question of a humanitarian pause, which in the minds of a great majority of Israelis must, by necessity, be linked to progress for the release of hostages, children at the elderly, et cetera, and an almost impossible situation in which we are allowing nations to bring supplies to the people of Gaza where we know nothing of the fate of these people for months. And so that also needs to be made very clear. And of course, the question of a ceasefire, which is even, as you may have seen, even Bernie Sanders understands that the cause in the international community for a ceasefire would mean a very strong loss and a blow to the prospects of any future for this region. Yeah, Dr. Lehmann, do stay with us, please. But you've mentioned the issue of hostages, 31 days that over 240 civilians are being held hostage by Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip and Nikol Tzedek, a 24 years correspondent, is what the families of them right outside the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem families are saying, that's it, enough is enough, 31 days, they need to be brought back home now. Ellie, I'm going to keep this short because they just started one minute of silence and I want you to take a look and feel this moment that we're experiencing. Yes, of the 240 kidnapped, a one minute prayer, 31 days in this, this minute of silence, very powerful for everything that we've seen so far. All the families that are coming out here and the pain is so, so great, more than one month in and they've been without their loved ones for 31 days. They're showing the paces of all of these people, the 240 that have been kidnapped, bringing their voices straight to the Israeli parliament, to the government, urging the government to do everything they can to get their loved ones back as quickly as possible. Yes, literally, there are no words, 31 days in Nikol Tzedek, the silence perhaps speaks louder than all else, Nikol Tzedek, a 24 years correspondent in Jerusalem, thank you so very much for this, yes, inconceivable, 31 days being held hostage by Hamas, terrorists in the Gaza Strip, two, over 241 of them crossing now to Israel's northern border, the definition of what we call here an active scene at 24 News Correspondent, Zaka Anders is joining us from there, Zaka, thank you so very much for joining us. From the Israel Lebanon border there, we earlier today, some extreme instructions to the civilians of local communities right along the border there simply to lock the doors, stay in, until further notice, what can you tell us? Well, actually, while you were speaking to me just there, I was hearing what sounds like outgoing artillery fire in the last 5-10 minutes, that's what we've been hearing from our position about 5 miles from the border with Lebanon, now these are communities that have been asked to evacuate, they've been under evacuation orders for the past few weeks but that call continues instead of offering some sort of avenue to come back to their homes, in fact the Ministry of Tourism is now saying to residents here that they will find them permanent solutions, permanent places to live in the south away from the hostilities here on the northern border which does appear to be escalating and from what we see from the Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken's visit, he reiterated a call that the U.S. is willing to intervene, willing to step in if Hezbollah decides to interfere here in the north which is a part of, we've heard as a part of his visit was to again put pressure on Hezbollah to make sure that they know the consequences should they decide to escalate hostilities here further and right now of course we've seen the images, we've seen the reports of the deaths on both sides, this is a very tense situation here in the north but right now it does appear to be fairly quiet but that could change of course in a moment's notice. Yeah we're way too familiar with this deceiving quite up in the north but personally I'm not familiar with a bigger stick than a nuclear submarine and this is indeed backing at the U.S. rhetoric on the ground. Zach Anders, I-2040s correspondent on the Israel Lebanon border, thank you so very much for this, much more from Zach later on in our broadcast, thank you. Back with Dr. Lerman here, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken wrapping up his trip, emergency trip in the Middle East yet another one since the beginning of the war currently on his way to Japan but what is he bringing back home so to speak Dr. Lerman, what was achieved here in this current diplomatic tour? Well that's to some extent was meant to hold hands with the traditionally pro-American regimes in the region that were convened in Amman and he addressed them, I have to say he told them in a fairly straightforward way that Hamas must be dismantled and that a ceasefire and end to the fighting is not in the cards, he did however cater to their concern about humanitarian issue of humanitarian pause as I said Israel links this with necessity with the fate of the hostages but that was one aspect of his trip and the other was quite clearly to reinforce the message to Iran and its proxies which basically repeats this very very simple phrase by President Biden, don't, don't presume that you can safely join the fray not to mention attack American targets without consequences and the American presence is becoming more and more pronounced there are two carrier strike groups one in the Gulf the Eisenhower the other in the eastern Mediterranean the Gerald Ford now there's a nuclear submarine in the region with its capacities put all of this together and and this is a fairly straightforward message which at the end of the day the Iranians here loud and clear and so did Hezbollah for all its bravado and its blaster so what we are seeing in the north is a kind of mid to low intensity warfare it is certainly not peace and quiet but it is certainly very far from Hezbollah throwing in its full capacities into a battle with all its consequences and the American message very clear not just to American enemies but also to American allies or those who are to an extent still perhaps on defense showing what American friendship what's an alliance with them the U.S. looks like sounds like and smells like and this is perhaps a paramount importance when we're talking about the day after once once we will be there and speaking to that point Dr. Lehmann did Israel cross the the Rubicon when it comes to international backing is the clock ticking backwards now or or is there still time for Israel to complete the mission so far there's been a very clear support practically across the board with the exception of perhaps the squad they said even Bernie Sanders said clearly a ceasefire makes no sense when you have to eradicate Hamas there is no future for Israel or the Palestinians living side by side as long as Hamas exists as a governing and force and the military force in the Gaza Strip so that's that's I think still quite clearly understood both in Washington and in most European capitals not counting I don't know Dublin yeah and at the end of the day we still have that space but we have to use it wisely and we certainly have to be very very disciplined in the messages that are being pushed out by Israelis speaking and and I think we should be very and the prime minister should be very very clear about this whether he should fire or just a sensor of people who who who undermine our own clear message about our purpose that's an important aspect of what needs to be done yes indeed dr. Ron Lehmann vice president of the Jerusalem Institute for strategy and security thank you so very much dr. Lehmann for your time for your insight we appreciate it thank you back here in studio with i-24 news as senior correspondent guys real guy some sad news coming in the last few minutes after the stabbing attack this morning in Jerusalem one of the border police officers to come to her wounds yes a sad update we've heard this morning about that stabbing attack in the old city of a Jerusalem a Palestinian man stabbed police officer now we can see her picture her name she was pronounced as Shani Ross Elisheva Rose Ida Lubin she is the victim in this stabbing attack in the old city of Jerusalem and we are seeing more rocket alerts right now as well as we speak another officer was very lightly wounded in this attack she was very severely wounded in this stabbing and now has been pronounced dead and her name has been cleared for publication yeah a painful reminder that while thankfully we're not talking much about the West Bank and Jerusalem the situation there is as volatile as ever before and when it comes to the West Bank we do know of concrete plans that the rdf is making to a situation in which in which the lid on this boiling pot will not be able to to be kept so so tight for so many months we have been dealing mainly with Jerusalem in the West Bank this was the hub of terror that was the main idea of operation every night daily raids in the northern West Bank and Janine and Nablus in those refugee camps where we've seen so much terror activity throughout the past year and what an undesired blast from the past that the name of I had to me me that Israelis were very happy to forget in the spotlight yet again so in terms of the sentiment when it comes to the to the incitement and the rage in the West Bank still it exists we are not talking about it because the idea is operating there obviously much of the focus now is on Gaza and a lot of people are sitting and watching obviously Israel has and the Israeli police and border police and the idea for keeping their eye on the West Bank on Jerusalem there's also fear that we'll see more happening inside Israel as we saw during Guardian of the Walls from some of Israel's Arab population that did not take place fortunately it has been quiet the the Arab-Israeli civilians have been obedient and have not we have not seen many cases of of violence we certainly hope this continues of course but it also happens at a time where the Israeli police and the IDF are at such readiness all across Israel not just on the borders ready to prevent any such escalation yes and guide those uh red alerts we've seen shorter moments ago in the upper galley once again red siren alerts being heard up north we want to take a deep breath now and head to New York to speak to Afri Haguei she's the niece of of Gadi and Judith Haguei both kidnapped to Gaza 31 days ago you know Afri we've been saying those those numbers we've been counting the days and yet every time a new the mind cannot grasp it 31 days in in Hamas captivity how are you how's your family how are you all holding up well first of all thank you very much for hosting me and giving us that platform our honor and our pleasure thank you um we're devastated families but but we are very much dedicated to do anything we can to find my uncle and aunt Gadi and Judith Haguei I'm actually from Israel but I'm now here in New York City I came specifically to do anything I can to raise the awareness and make sure we we given any support to bring all of the hostage back home so I bought one way ticket I'm here in New York I already traveled to DC to meet senators and congressmen to make sure we do anything we can to bring them home if you can with your permission I just want to briefly share the story the horrible story about my family please my dearest uncle and aunt Gadi and Judith Haguei they live in Kibbutz Niroz for the past 30 years both retired on their 70s every day they go to the field on their daily walk same they did in this last horrible Saturday October 7th early in the morning they went out to the field to do the walk um around quarter to seven in the morning rocket started to be shot from Gaza my aunt managed to text with her kids letting them know that they are facing down on the field there is a lot of rockets she also managed to take some video showing all the rockets on the sky apparently a few minutes after a few minutes after seven in the morning she called the Kibbutz paramedic asking for help apparently they were ambushed both my uncle and aunt were ambushed by a group of terrorists on a motorcycle they've been shot they've been badly wounded and my aunt managed to call the paramedic in the Kibbutz ask for help I helped that never came ever since then we don't know what happened to them we lost contact with them we know they're badly wounded we have no idea what happened to them where they are we know they're badly wounded we don't know if anyone take care of them if they've been provided with the right medical aid we have no proof of life from them it's very hard very very hard couple go on their daily walk to the field like they do every morning and never come back and no one knows where they are and what's happened to them we believe that the terrorists met my uncle and aunt first before moving forward to do the horrible things the horrible massacre they did in euros they first made my uncle and aunt that's what we believe according to the timeline and we managed to to build so so what you've been trying to connect the dots on your own since this since this day to to try and trace their their steps yes we we established a family war room actually i'm not my own my own my own i have my entire family with us the kids of gadi and jody my cousin and the rest of the card and the entire hagi wanston family is working as one team to try to connect the dot dot try to understand what's happened to them some of us are in our conduct our daily contact with the israel authority and the army both my uncle and aunt are american both of them so we also in a daily contact with american uh sorry it is yes so as a family we do everything we can to find them to make sure they are okay and to bring them home we need to bring all the hostage home they are not part of anything of it and listen before you are now on a mission that you embarked on on your own um uh a diplomatic one woman diplomatic mission i'm not a diplomatic i'm a family member i love my uncle and aunt deeply they're like my parents for me and that's what i do that's my mission i left everything in israel and i come here to do anything i can to bring them and the rest of the heart back home hopefully hagi um i hope i you know that it's not just the hagi wanston family group working together it's this entire country this entire country's the nation's heart is not beating and will not be beating until they're all back home um we send you a big hug from here um thank you for speaking with us thank you for sharing with us um uh your journey and we do hope that your beloved uncle and aunt will be back um back home um as soon as possible and and i'm sure that they know how many efforts you all invest in bringing them back home thank you so very much thank you and best of luck on your journey there in the us 31 days and counting this is it from us for now but we will be back at the top of the hour as we continue our rolling coverage of the war here in israel thank you very much for watching Israel is at war make an investment in israel bonds it is the most powerful and direct way to stand with israel visit israel bonds dot com and invest now in rechargas de 8 dolares omas altis la red global de los dominicanos past since october 7th the day israel was brutally attacked by hamas a month since the black sabbath when hamas terrorists murdered over 1400 israelis wounded thousands of others and took 240 people captive a month since the idf entered a war against the vicious terrorist organization a month later i 24 news 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long but in order to bring about it's becoming it's no blinking time it is to an extent blinking time the international clock is ticking but the idf continues to operate in full swing inside the gaza strip you can see now on your screens the idf footage of dozens of gaza residents moving through a safe corridor that was facilitated by the idf for a third consecutive day to allow the safe passage from north to south as the operations there underground continue today's encirclement of gaza city is a very significant step in creating pressure to dismantle hamas hamas understands the implications of the splits between the north of the strip and the south of the strip in the south of the gaza strip by the way to your question about the humanitarian aid there is a safer area it is where food water and medicine come in fuel will not come in crossing now live to the israel gaza border at 24 news correspondent robert swift in the city of sterot what is left of it i would dare to say a ghost town right robert and as we speak it's another round of of red siren alerts being heard in southern communities it seems like a heavy barrage of rockets from the gaza strip towards israeli communities down down south joining us in studio for this broadcast is at 24 news senior correspondent guy israel guy we've just seen a footage of this human being a humanitarian rather a corridor that the idf is facilitating again third consecutive day and something we've been seeing since day one of the war essentially with the idf essentially begging our gaza residents to move from north to south do we have any any indication of what is happening right now when it comes to the to the civilian presence of of of gaza's there actually just a few minutes ago we're getting information from the idf assessing some 800 to 900 000 palestinians have moved in fact from the northern part of the gaza strip to the southern part just south of wadi gaza that is the area that sort of separates geographically between the north and the southern part of the city we know the idf has used a lot of effort to convince and to inform those residents including millions of messages of phone calls recorded phone calls to them urging them to leave that area sadly as we saw hamas in many cases have stopped those people who wanted to their mate to make their way into the safe areas in some places placing a barricades we have also seen footage of people being shot on the streets we couldn't verify but of course we know the idf is not present in those areas of the gaza strip people shots shot on the road as they were making their way down south um yeah it's it's very clear to see how difficult it is for them yeah this is hamas no surprise there we're still there unfortunately yeah yeah yeah let's do cross back to the city of zealot at 24 news correspondent robert swift sending by there robert we've just heard yet another round of red sirens in southern cities including in the main city of ashtod what can you tell us what do we know that's right so a launch there towards the port city which is just to the north of the gaza strip from where we are we could hear several explosions these were most likely interceptions and you know it's interesting often these launches do seem to be coming at the top of the hour and it almost makes you wonder if hamas are often launching these because they're aware of the news cycle they know that news teams are generally hitting their launches at the top of the hour well it will not come as a huge surprise hamas is investing a lot of efforts and and you know in its own uh pr let's call it that way uh yeah uh terror pr now this is a thing 2023 at 24 news correspondent um robert swift thank you very much for this we will get back to you of course later on in the day much more from um robert um later on in the day and now we do want to cross to dr iran lem and vice president of the jerusalem institute for strategy and security former department director of foreign policy and international affairs at the national security council prime minister's office dr lemman thank you so very much for uh joining us well as we speak dr lerman um the there are reports of the israeli prime minister is convening all the foreign diplomats um stationed here now in israel and and it is of paramount importance even though that the prime minister of course has a direct line of communication with um with leaders of western powers and and other um crucial nations here in the region um the international legitimacy the international credit is a major factor in the in the success of this campaign and the government has certain um uh problems to to get to to read the itself of uh repercussions of things that should not have been said and unauthorized and unwise uh that's probably part of of the effort to ensure that what israeli is doing in gaza is fighting hamas not the palestinian population there uh it is essentially uh liberating this region from the uh regime that has done nothing brought nothing but grief to the people of gaza for the 16 years of its rule and uh and uh there were some irresponsible things said that need to be cleared off there's also the question of a humanitarian pause which in the minds of of uh the great majority of israelis must by necessity be linked to uh progress for the release of our hostages children at the elderly etc and uh and uh a a hard almost impossible situation in which we are allowing uh nations to bring uh supplies to the people of gaza where we know nothing of the fate of all these people for for uh month and so that also needs to be made very clear and of course the question of a ceasefire which is even you know as as you may have seen even bernie sanders understands that the cause in the international community for a ceasefire um would mean a victory for hamas and and a blow to the prospects of any future for this region yeah dr lerman do stay with us please but you've mentioned the issue of hostages 31 days that over uh 240 uh civilians uh are being held hostage by uh hamas terrorists in the gaza ship and the cool city at 24 news corresponded is what the families of of of them uh right outside the israeli parliament in jerusalem families are saying that's it enough is enough 31 days they need to they need to be brought back home now ellie i'm gonna keep this short because they just started one minute of silence and i want you to take a look and feel this moment that we're experiencing families of the 240 kidnapped a one minute prayer 31 days in this this minute of silence very powerful for everything that we've seen so far all of the families that are coming out here the pain is so so great more than one month in and they've been without their loved ones for 31 days they're showing the paces of all of these people the 240 that have been kidnapped bringing their voices straight to the israeli parliament the government urging the government to do everything they can to get their loved ones back as quickly as possible yes literally there are no words 31 days in uh nicole at zedek the silence perhaps speaks louder than than all else nicole at zedek i 24 news corresponded angel der wilhelm thank you so very much for this yes inconceivable 31 days um being held hostage by hamas terrorists in the gaza ship to over 241 of them crossing now to israel's northern border um the definition of what we call here an active scene at 24 news correspondent zaka zaka anders is joining us from there zack thank you so very much for joining us um from the israel-lebanon border there um we earlier today some uh uh some extreme instructions to the civilians of local communities right along the the border there simply to lock the doors stay in until further notice what can you tell us well actually while you were speaking to me just there i was uh hearing what sounds like outgoing artillery fire in the last five ten minutes that's what we've been hearing from our position about five miles from the border with lebanon now these are communities that have been asked to evacuate they've been under evacuation orders for the past few weeks but that call continues instead of offering some sort of avenue to come back to their homes in fact the ministry of tourism is now saying to residents here that they will find them permanent solutions permanent places to live in the south away from the hostilities here on the northern border which does appear to be escalating and from what we see from the secretary of state uh anthony blinkin's visit he reiterated a call that the us is willing to intervene willing to step in if hezbollah decides to interfere here in the north which is a part of we've heard as a part of his visit was to again put pressure on hezbollah to make sure that they know the consequences should they decide to escalate hostilities here further and right now of course we've seen the images we've we've seen the reports of the the deaths on both sides this is a very tense situation here in the north but right now it does appear to be fairly fairly quiet but that could change of course in a moment's notice yeah we're way too familiar with this deceiving quiet up in up in the north but personally i'm not familiar with bigger stick than a nuclear submarine and this is indeed backing at the u.s. rhetoric uh on the ground zack anders eye 2040s correspondents on days we live on border thank you so very much for this much more from zack later on in our broadcast thank you uh back with uh dr. lerman here um the u.s. secretary of state uh anthony blinkin wrapping up his uh trip emergency trip into middle east yet another one since the beginning of the war currently on his way to japan but but but what is he bringing back home so to speak doctor dr. lerman what what was achieved here in this current diplomatic tour well that's to some extent was meant to hold hands with the traditionally pro-american regimes in the region that were convened and in amman as and he addressed them i have to say he told them in a fairly straightforward forward way that uh hamas must be uh undisturbed dismantled and that as far and ends to the fighting is it's not in the cards he did however cater to their concern about humanitarian issue of the humanitarian pause as i said israel links this with the necessary by necessity with uh with the fate of the hostages but uh that was one aspect of his trip and the other was quite clearly to uh reinforce the message to iran and its proxies which basically repeats this very very simple phrase uh by president biden don't don't presume that you can safely uh join the fray uh not to mention attack american targets without consequences and the american presence is becoming more and more pronounced there are two carrier strike groups one in the gulf the eisenhower the other in the eastern editor in in the gerald afford now there's a nuclear submarine in the region with its capacities put all of this together and uh and this is a fairly straightforward message which at the end of the day the iranians uh hear loud and clear and so did hezbollah for all its bravado and and its blaster uh so what we are seeing in the north is a kind of mid to low intensity warfare it is certainly not peace and quiet but it is certainly very far from hezbollah throwing in its full capacities into a battle with all its consequences and the american message very clear not just to american enemies but also to american allies or those who are to an extent still perhaps on defense showing what american friendship what's an alliance with the u.s looks like sounds like and smells like and this is perhaps a paramount importance when we're talking about the day after uh once once we will be there and speaking to that point dr levin did israel cross the the rubicon when it comes to international backing is the clock taking backwards now or or is there still time for israel to complete the mission so far there's been a very clear uh uh support practically across the board with the exception of perhaps the squad as i said even bernie sanders uh said quite clearly as cisa makes no sense when you have to eradicate hamas uh there is no future for israel or the palestinians living side by side as long as hamas exists as a governing and a force and a military force in the gaza street so that's uh that's i think still quite clearly understood both in washington and in most european capitals not counting i don't know doubling yeah less and uh at the end of the day um we still have that space but we have to use it wisely and we certainly have to be very very disciplined in the messages that are being pushed out uh by israelis speaking and and i think we should be very and the prime minister should be very very clear about this whether he should fire or just a sensor of people who who uh who undermine our our own clear message about our purpose that's an important aspect of what needs to be done yes indeed dr ron lerman vice president of the jerusalem institute for strategy and security thank you so very much dr lerman for your time for your insight we appreciate it thank you back here in studio with i-24 news as senior correspondent guys real guy uh some sad news coming in the last few minutes after the stabbing attack this morning in jerusalem uh one of the border police officers to come to her woods yes a sad update we've heard this morning about that stabbing attack in the old city of a jerusalem a palestinian man stabbed police officer now we can see her picture her name she was pronounced as shani ross elisheva rose ida lubin she is the victim in this stabbing attack in the old city of jerusalem and we are seeing more rocket alerts right now as well as we speak another officer was very lightly wounded in this attack um she was very severely wounded in this stabbing and now has been pronounced dead and her name has been cleared for publication yeah a painful reminder that while thankfully we're not talking much about the west bank and and jerusalem the situation there is as volatile as ever before and when it comes to the west bank we do know of concrete plans that the rdf is making to a situation in which in which the lid on this boiling pot will not be able to um to be kept so so tight for so many months we have been dealing mainly with jerusalem in the west bank this was the hub of terror uh that was the main idea of operation every night daily raids in the northern west bank in janin and nablus in those refugee camps where we've seen so much terror activity throughout the past year um and what an undesired blast from the past at the name of i had to meet me that israelis were very happy to forget in the spotlight yet again so in terms of the sentiment when it comes to the to the incitement and the rage in the west bank still it exists we we are not talking about it because the idf is operating there obviously much of the focus now is on gaza and a lot of people are sitting and watching obviously israel has and the israeli police and border police and the idea for keeping their eye on the west bank on jerusalem there's also fear that we'll see more happening inside israel as we saw during guardian of the walls from some of israel's Arab population that did not take place fortunately it has been quiet the civility arabis very civilians have been obedient and have not we have not seen many cases of of violence we certainly hope this continues of course but it also happens at a time where the israeli police and the idf are at such um readiness all across israel not just on the borders ready to prevent any such escalation yes and uh guide those uh right alerts we've seen short moments ago in the upper galley um once again uh red siren alerts being heard up north we want to um take a deep breath now and head to new york um to speak to afli hagay she's the niece of of gadi and judas uh hagay both kidnapped to gaza 31 days ago um you know afli we've been saying those those numbers we've been counting the days and yet every time a new the mind cannot grasp it 31 days and and hamas captivity how are you how's your family how are you all holding up first of all thank you very much for hosting me and giving us that like our honor and our pleasure thank you um we're devastated families but but we are very much dedicated to do anything we can to find my uncle and aunt gadi and juda hagi i'm actually from israel but i'm now here in new york city i came specifically to do anything i can to raise the awareness and make sure we given any support to bring all of the hostage back home so i bought uh one way ticket i'm here in new york i already traveled to dc to meet senators and congressmen to make sure we do anything we can to bring them home if you can with your permission i just want to briefly share the story the horrible story about my family please my dearest uncle and aunt gadi and juda hagi they live in in kibbutz niroz for the past 30 years both retired on their 70s every day they go to the field on their daily walk same thing they did in this last horrible saturday october seven early in the morning they went out to the field to do their walk um around quarter to seven in the morning rocket started to be shot from gaza my aunt managed to text with her kids letting them know that they are facing down on the field there was a lot of rockets she also managed to take some video showing all the rockets on the sky apparently a few minutes after a few minutes after seven in the morning she called the kibbutz paramedic asking for help apparently they were ambushed both my uncle and aunt were ambushed by a group of terrorists on a motorcycle they've been shot they've been badly wounded and my aunt managed to call the paramedic in the kibbutz ask for help i helped that never came ever since then we don't know what happened to them we lost contact with them we know they're badly wounded we have no idea what happened to them where they are we know they're badly wounded we don't know if anyone take care of them if they've been provided with the right medical aid we have no proof of life from them it's very hard very very hard a couple go on their daily walk to the field like they do every morning and never come back and no one knows where they are and what's happened to them we believe that the terrorists met my uncle and aunt first before moving forward to do the horrible things the horrible massacre they did in euros they first met my uncle and aunt that's what we believe according to the timeline so we managed to to build so so what you've been trying to connect the dots on your own since this since this day to to try and trace their their steps yes we we established a family war room actually i'm not my own my own my own i have my entire family with us the kids of god and jody my cousin and the rest of the card and the entire hagi wanston family is working as one team to try to connect the dot dot try to understand what's happened to them some of us are in our conduct our daily contact with the israel authority and the army both my uncle and aunt are american both of them so we also in a daily contact with american authorities yes so as a family we do everything we can to find them to make sure they are okay and to bring them home we need to bring all the hostage home they are not part of anything of it and i'm sorry you're now on a mission that you embarked on on your own a diplomatic one woman diplomatic mission i'm not a diplomatic i'm a family member i love my uncle and aunt deeply they're like my parents for me and that's what i do that's my mission i left everything in israel and i come here to do anything i can to bring them and the rest of the heart is back home hopefully hagi um i hope i you know that it's not just the hagi wanston family group working together it's this entire country this entire country's the nation's heart is not beating and will not be beating until they're all back home we send you a big hug from here um thank you for speaking with us thank you for sharing with us your journey and we do hope that your beloved uncle and aunt will be back back home as soon as possible and and and i'm sure that they know how many efforts you all invest in bringing them back home thank you so very much thank you and best of luck on your journey there in the us 31 days and counting this is it uh from us for now but we will be back at the top of the hour as we continue our rolling coverage of the war here in israel thank you very much for watching 1300 people murdered and more than 3000 injured and the war with hamas continues we bring you first-hand testimonies from the front lines from those who survived and all the records of the atrocities by hamas follow us as israel fights terror from the south and north get the inside scoop on what's going on only on i-24 news to the special broadcast here on i-24 news as we continue our rolling coverage day 31 of the war here in israel in the north red siren alerts going off across multiple israeli city cities deep into israel while communities along the border with lebanon instructed to go into a self-imposed lockdown in jerusalem one of the two border police officers injured in a stabbing attack this morning in the old city succumbed to her wounds high alert across the west bank as well in the south idea forces completed the encirclement of god the city while facilitating yet another humanitarian corridor for the safe passage of gaza civilians from the northern part of the strip to the south today's encirclement of gaza city is a very significant step in creating pressure to dismantle hamas hamas understands the implications of the splits between the north of the strip and the south of the strip in the south of the gaza strip by the way to your question about the humanitarian aid there is a safer area it is where food water and medicine come in fuel will not come in and we want to begin this broadcast up north on the israel lebanon border i-24 news correspondent zack anders standing by there with the i-24 news team zack thank you so very much for joining us well this past hour red siren alerts her didn't many many israeli communities in the north but we're not talking about those border communities but deep into israel yeah that's right the last we spoke we were speaking about escalation and what is happening here on the northern border well within the last hour we have seen several interceptions we noticed them directly overhead this they were targeting hypha up to nabaliya these intercepts now are coming from lebanon from lebanese territory and as far as we can tell unconfirmed reports claiming from the hamas al-qasan brigade that they are claiming responsibility for the launches this is potentially some of the deepest launches from the lebanese border into israel since the 2006 war now these launches again were intercepted they appear to be rockets not drones that would be an important distinction as to who would be behind these these launches and who would be responsible but right now we are not seeing reports of damage here in the north which is the important part it does appear that they were intercepted and yet zack it seems that the hasbala state of mind for a while now was to an extent keeping the israeli forces busy quote-unquote but in the past couple of days we have seen a very notable escalation well they have been certainly plenty busy we are still hearing outgoing artillery fire north towards the lebanese border now our position is about five miles deep from the border but it does appear that the idf is actively engaging some sort of target on the other side or perhaps close to the border we can't say at this hour but they do appear to be actively working in this location just as they are in the south in gaza yeah um and zack the idea for spokesperson is now confirming that in the past hour about 30 rockets were launched towards the northern israel from lebanese territory this is again hamas lebanon as as you've uh you've acclaimed to us zack anders at 24 news correspondent on the israel-lebanon border thank you so very much for this much more from zack throughout our broadcast later on in the evening thank you thank you zack um and joining us now in studio colonel amita sa for a member of the israeli security agency thank you very much colonel asa rather for joining us here in studio i do want us to begin with what we're seeing up north because if a month ago it was till october 6th that there was this conception or or or notion that life could keep on going knowing that there are forces of the enemy right across the border this is not the notion nowadays and this is very much relevant when we're talking about hezbollah forces on the lebanese border the red one forces that is yeah we know that uh it could happen to us um simultaneously uh from the north and from the south at the same time if they will cooperate and but we know now that they didn't um this is uh uh caused them less of uh of surprise lack of surprise and now when they have no surprise for us we can prepare ourselves for this kind of an action but um radwan forces is more than hamas trained more more a more soldiers more more specifically know what they want to do but as we can see hezbollah doesn't when nasa rallah specifically doesn't want to get involved in that kind of action and actually also because he knows that we're prepared for it and also all the places at the north all the villages are no no people in it now everybody was evacuate in another hand israel can't stay and not do nothing about it right and if it's escalating and we see that it's escalate uh and also hamas is launching uh missiles from this area of lebanon there will not be any choice for us we will have to get in and clean some kind of five kilometers from or 10 kilometers as much as we need to be sure that nobody is getting into this area at the future yeah i'm very much in accordance to uh international brokered agreements way back when that were simply uh bluntly uh breached time and time uh again um uh but now i do want to uh kernel asa to shift focus to what's happening in the south because we were seeing once again today for the third consecutive day uh and what we've essentially seen since day three i presume of of the war um in the fellowship that the idf is facilitating humanitarian corridors for the safe passage of civilians uh from the northern part to the south with the idf essentially begging uh um guys and residents uh to move south at some instances hamas proactively blocking them from doing so but not less alarming is uh hamas is unsurprising yet cynical use of any humanitarian gesture yeah of course um as a humanitarian uh a issue for us it's very natural that we don't want to um to have any uh civilians um casualties in that area and also for the world to see that we do the most that we can to move them out of the area of war but in another hand in the other side there is uh another uh culture another uh civilization that uh we can't call them civilization is barbarian a what's who is against us and they will use the the uh the people for for this war and it's not a problem for them yeah just this week and another we saw evidence of hamas trying to um smuggle its operatives through ambulance yeah this is the the other thing that we can see and this is a problem for idf idf can open a corridor but this corridor doesn't have to be so open because there are moving troops from inside gaza flying away from us to the south so colonel asso when you're dealing with an enemy uh with little care if any care at all and this is perhaps a very diplomatic way to put it to to the life of its own citizens what do you do how do you reach um at this breaking point of the enemy when again the the the consideration to human life is yeah we have to understand that it's not on the main issue that idf is dealing with yeah okay this is on the side as much as it's important it's on the side yeah what is in main course of idf now is to put down the hamas anywhere that he could and a lot of information have to get in and slowly slowly we're getting into the hardcore of hamas areas command and control areas and it's under hospitals it's anywhere that we can show the world but humanitarian is always at the side side by side but not not the important thing so idf knows what he's doing parallel for what he's doing he will try to do whatever he can about uh humanitarian and perhaps uh one of uh of the main challenges at this point i would adhere to call it uh stage two point five uh of of the operation on the ground is the is the underground is uh hamas's metro we're talking about over a decade of of investing in this terror infrastructure um to an extent especially when we're talking about gaza city one big booby trap yes but still we are not getting into it yet as you see last night started to use another ammunition it's the inside the bonkers ammunition for bombs that gets very deep in the ground and we started to do it yesterday night and you could you could feel it all over the south side of israel these bombs and they know that we are going step by step getting inside and we will do whatever we can to damage all these tunnels before we will deal with it actually face to face so on that note let's do cross to the south i-24 news correspond robert swift and uh the southern uh border city of us with the i-24 news team there uh robert thank you for joining us well the i-d-f uh continue to target the targeted assassination of of hamas leaders another name um added to this list uh this evening that's correct yeah and correct yeah another uh of humas's battalion commanders have been killed overnight by the israeli military uh the idea said that the airstrikes that it conducted last night were some of the heaviest that have taken place since it began operations on the ground and yeah as you say they've they've taken out this commander but also they've been targeting tunnels doing as much damage as they can of the underground infrastructure that humas has built and as much damage as they can from the air now this all comes as the civilian situation in gaza continues to look precarious uh just in the last 20 minutes the uh it's been reported that egyptian border officials have begun allowing um ambulances over the border with a number of wounded people being transported into egypt in six ambulances um there was a a border official who spoke with afp who suggested that it's possible that in the near future some foreign nationals may also be able to travel through that point but at so far that is unconfirmed this all comes as the the the death count within the gaza strip has gone past the 10 000 mark and this is according to the numbers coming from gaza's health ministry um which is really is tend to be somewhat skeptical of because it is a humas uh appointed organization um however these numbers are the numbers that most uh international organizations tend to go with for lack of any better numbers now it is worth bearing in mind that the gaza health ministry doesn't differentiate between civilians and combatants it just gives one round number uh 10 000 in this case though that being said there are 4 000 uh children are reported to be among those uh those fatalities obviously uh that has a direct impact on the international backing clock uh if you will when it comes to israel's ability to conclude its missions there on the ground i24 news correspondent robert swift thank you so very much for this uh now i24 news as senior uh defense correspondent jonathan reggaev explains more about what the idea forces underground uh are facing when we're talking about this humas metro this underground terror infrastructure or simply put the terror tunnels here's more this is the greatest danger awaiting the idea forces maneuvering deep inside the gaza strip humas terrorists rising from a tunnel dug under the ground firing anti-tank missiles or placing ids and quickly disappearing many of the israeli casualties in gaza were hit this way hundreds of such tunnels exist below the ground of the gaza strip and those terrorists can pop up practically everywhere and as is so common for humas the presence of civilians is never a consideration here you can see the idf soldiers exposing a tunnel opening this is part of a operation a ground operation that was conducted on the hospital then revealed a tunnel that was being used for terror infrastructures in the katari hospital as the forces now go deeper into gaza city more and more such tunnels are being exposed it is an extremely dangerous mission as you never know what awaits below the ground and those tunnels can rise up to the ground in every location this is the reason why heavy artillery is pounding on every area the army is advancing into especially when there is intelligence regarding tunnels that intelligence is superb but no one has the illusion that every tunnel will be detected and destroyed it means this threat will continue to roam on the forces operating in gaza for weeks or maybe even months to come and obviously the main objective of this war is to not to hear again about humas for the near future or ever and yet another objective not less important whatsoever bringing back over 241 Israeli hostages being held captive by vile humas terrorist for 31 days now and counting i-24 news correspondent Mary McAuliffe is currently in what is known as the hostage square in Tel Aviv Mary earlier in the day we've seen in Jerusalem in front of the Israeli parliament mass demonstration of the families family members of those being held hostage demanding that their loved ones will be brought back home not not today yesterday what can you absolutely at least within this massive demonstration taking part in Jerusalem of course it's part of a series of demonstrations calling on the Israeli government to do everything they can to bring the hostages home here in the hostage square this is an area that's been set up in Tel Aviv where families have been here for weeks now demanding the return of the relatives we're seeing not just the families of the hostages who've been taken but numerous people from throughout the country but also especially from Tel Aviv who've come here today to one show their solidarity and support and also come in here looking at the pictures of those hostages taken you can see behind me deal-cremor behind the camera will show you some of the different scenes here of course we have the Shabbat table that's been set up a seat for every single hostage that's been taken as you said 241 hostages still held in Gaza Strip for 31 days now today is the 31st day many different people coming out to see to show their support and solidarity there's large crowds gathered here behind me where the families have been speaking we've also seen a number of different youth groups who have also come here to participate to show their support lighting candles for the victims and just calling on the government to really do everything and to do especially more to bring home their family members to bring home the family members of those who are still held there so it's a massive demonstration of support tonight we're seeing prayer circles they're singing their celebrations also of life people celebrating together but also mourning together being together and just here all we can feel is just solidarity from among these families and from most Israelis who've just come out here to show their support yeah not just the family members cannot sleep cannot eat cannot think in the past 31 days but all all of the Israeli people it's our brothers our sisters our grandmothers our grandfathers our children yeah mary mccollif 524 news correspondent in the hostage square in Tel Aviv unbelievable words to use and yet this is their reality 31 days after october 7 thank you very much mary for this back here in studio with the colonel mitasa former member of the israeli security agency colonel asa this is a front that we're not talking so frequently about and thankfully this is the case and yet it does not mean that it is not volatile the west bank the idea is operating there forcefully in this afternoon hamas operatives are being eliminated and the west bank into a column yeah first we have to understand that the west bank is hamas bank okay it's not a secret that we are not doing they are not doing any lectures because they know that hamas will raise up against abumaz and and fatakh in in the area of west bank so west bank is hamas and hamas is west bank meaning we have to deal with them there before they will raise their head so there's a lot of activity a lot of activity of IDF inside the west bank um arresting a hamas members a dealing with the with groups that have a army in the west bank it's it's a kind of a strike before the strike because we know that they want to do it and they have the ability so we have to move all the the action inside the area and instead of them waiting for them to get into our place and we know that west bank is few kilometers from far sabah in the center of tel Aviv it's very easy to get it's like we saw at the south if there will be any strike like that in Gaza in the west bank it will be very very so Israeli forces are getting ready to the potential theoretical option of october 7th we are not we are not ready for it we are not waiting for it we are striking before right we are not waiting for the surprise anymore it's action to avoid this kind of action and as you can see there is a lot of activity and we are having the hand on them all the time it is not happening not because of the lack of will but merely because the idea of is making sure that there will be no ability and there is also um we have a chance to do it now we have the the right time to do it maybe we didn't do it uh enough before the seven or four yeah well it's a different world we live in uh post october 7th uh and as we speak uh yet another round of uh red siren alerts are being heard this time down south in the israeli southern communities uh just uh another part of the abnormal reality uh here in israel since october 7th and perhaps for too many years beforehand when we're talking about the rocket fire colonel amita former member of the israeli security agency thank you so very much for joining us on this broadcast uh we opened this broadcast with what's happening up north earlier today the residents of the main city along the israeli banan border the city of kiret shmuna were ordered to evacuate from there these are the remaining uh civilians there uh and in the city of matula uh the residents evacuated themselves in the earlier phases of uh of the war they stuck together as a community uh now in the city of tabiris and despite the fact that they're well versed uh with uh wartime this time it's a whole different ballgame let's take a look as we enter the fifth week of the war in israel the town of matula on the border of lebanon has turned into a military base matula is the northernmost town in israel we are surrounded by lebanon on three borders and our neighbors hisbola are the best and the most evil of all possible neighbors but when the proud robust matula community of about two thousand people had to evacuate after october 7th they didn't miss a beat matula community has experience in uh you know being harassed on the border for years and years you know matula is the only settlement in israel that is actually surrounded by hostile border and like 70 percent of our fence basically one road to come in and out so this is a part of who we are and it's a part of our choice to live there and to help define the strong borders of israel at this edges leot cohen reviv is a consultant by profession and a community leader who along with other municipal leaders have taken the helm to make sure the two thousand residents stick to a routine organizing activities and exercise all to keep people calm how is this an important way to not yeah just go down in a deep state of depression i will say it's even our responsibility as community leaders i think that at time of uncertainty and vagueness and uh situation when you have to deal with so much unknown factors and your sense of security uh and safety was deeply harmed it is super important to try to relate to that by creating as much as you can the majority of the residents are living in three hotels in tiberias the sophia hotel for the elderly residents and adult couples and next door at another hotel families and children are keeping to a routine something that is a top priority for many reasons we built units that fits for every age from zero till 18 here and in tiberias we made a connection we made we made everything that the children will get education and will have something to wake up for and not be all the time at the rooms and don't do nothing because it's a very difficult time for the children matulah is a small moshav built by pioneers and farmers about a century ago and many of the descendants of the original families still live in matulah a testament to their commitment even with an enemy on the other side of the fence they built matulah in 1896 and from since 1896 our family the lishansky family is in matulah and our family has a small hotel which is going generation after generation my grandfather built it and now it's empty i am the seventh generation my great great grandparents lived in the second house built in matulah it's my home and my life and even though we live next to a dangerous border it's not a scary life here it's a full life in the end we will return home and even though we're living in a terrifying war time the majority of matulah residents have no intention of moving away when the war is over what is the heart and soul of the matulah community that is choosing to really live right next to fez bala these are unique special people this is a internal dialogue that you are having with yourself and if the answer is yes i'm going to be there it makes you you know a unique person i want to think right because it's a it's a choice it's a daily choice to raise your children 100 meters from a whole style border you want to help define the borders of this country if crazy people like us will not exist we're gonna have a problem if 2000 people from a tula will not be able to go back into their homes feeling that they can you know go to sleep without fearing that someone will cut the fence and then cut their throats which is not an option they're not going to go back right would you go back Emily francis i24 news this is it from us for now at the top of the hour at the hour alora selia will continue our rolling coverage day 31 of the war here in israel thanks for watching israel is at war make an investment in israel bonds it is the most powerful and direct way to stand with israel visit israel bonds dot com and invest now 1300 people murdered and more than 3000 injured and the war with hamas continues we bring you firsthand testimonies from the front lines from those who survived and all the records of the atrocities by hamas follow us as israel fights terror from the south and north get the inside scoop on what's going on only on i24 news with dozens of correspondence throughout the world brings the truth from israel to hundreds of millions of people in scores of countries the state of emergency and war bringing israel's story to the world i24 news channels now on hot the special broadcast here in i24 news as we continue our rolling coverage day 31 of the war here in israel in the north red siren alerts going off across multiple israeli city cities deep into israel while communities along the border with lebanon instructed to go into a self-imposed lockdown in jerusalem one of the two border police officers injured in a stabbing attack this morning in the old city succumbed to her wounds high alert across the west bank as well in the south idea forces completed the encirclement of gaza city while facilitating yet another humanitarian corridor for the safe passage of gaza civilians from the northern part of the strip to the south today's encirclement of gaza city is a very significant step in creating pressure to dismantle hamas hamas understands the implications of the splits between the north of the strip and the south of the strip in the south of the gaza strip by the way to your question about the humanitarian aid there is a safer area it is where food water and medicine come in fuel will not come in and we want to begin this broadcast up north on the israel lebanon border i24 news correspondent zack anders standing by i24 news team zack thank you so very much for joining us well this past hour red siren alerts her did many many israeli communities in the north but we're not talking about those border communities but deep into israel yeah that's right the last we spoke we were speaking about escalation and what is happening here on the northern border well within the last hour we have seen several interceptions we noticed them directly overhead this they were targeting hypha up to nabalia these intercepts now are coming from lebanon from lebanese territory and as far as we can tell unconfirmed reports claiming from the hamas al-qasan brigade that they are claiming responsibility for the launches this is potentially some of the deepest launches from the lebanese border into israel since the 2006 war now these launches again were intercepted they appear to be rockets not drones that would be an important distinction as to who would be behind these these launches and who would be responsible but right now we are not seeing reports of damage here in the north which is the important part it does appear that they were intercepted and yet zack it seems that the hezbollah state of mind for a while now was to an extent keeping the israeli forces busy quote unquote but in the in the past couple of days we have seen a very notable escalation well they have been certainly plenty busy we are still hearing outgoing artillery fire north towards the lebanese border now our position is about five miles deep from the border but it does appear that the idf is actively engaging some sort of target on the other side or perhaps close to the border we can't say at this hour but they do appear to be actively working in this location just as they are in the south in gaza yeah um and zack the idf a spokesperson is now confirming that in the past hour about 30 rockets were launched towards northern israel from lebanese territory this is again hamas lebanon as as you've you've acclaimed to us zack handers at 24 news correspondent on the israel lebanon border thank you so very much for this much more from zack throughout our broadcast later on in the evening thank you thank you zack um and joining us now in studio colonel amita south former member of the israeli security agency thank you very much colonel asa rather for joining us here in studio i do want us to begin with what we're seeing up north because if a month ago it was till october 6th that there was this conception or or or notion that um life could keep on going knowing that there are forces of the enemy right across the border this is not the notion nowadays and this is very much relevant for when we're talking about hezbollah forces on the lebanese border the red one forces that is yeah we know that it could happen to us um simultaneously from the north and from the south in the same time if they will cooperate and but we know now that they didn't um this is um uh caused them less of uh of surprise lack of surprise and now when they have no surprise for us we can prepare ourselves for this kind of an action but um radwan forces is more than hamas trained more more a more soldiers more more specifically know what they want to do but uh as we can see hezbollah doesn't when nasa rallah specifically doesn't want to get involved in that kind of action and actually also because he knows that we're prepared for it and uh also all the um places at the north all the villages are no no people in it now everybody was uh evacuate in another hand israel can't stay and not do nothing about it right and if it's escalating and we see that it's escalate uh and also hamas is launching uh missiles from this area of lebanon there will not be any choice for us we will have to get in and clean some kind of uh five kilometers from or 10 kilometers as much as we need to be sure that nobody is getting into this area at the future yeah i'm very much in accordance to uh international uh brokered agreements way back when that were simply uh bluntly breached uh time and time uh again um uh but now i do want to uh kernel also to to shift focus to what's happening in the south because uh we were seeing once again today for the third consecutive day uh and what what we've essentially seen since day three i presume of of the war um in the fellowship that the idf is facilitating humanitarian corridors for the safe passage of civilians uh from the northern part of the south with the idf essentially begging uh um guards and residents uh to move south at some instances hamas proactively blocking them from doing so but not less alarming is uh hamas is unsurprising yet cynical use of any humanitarian gesture yeah of course um as a humanitarian uh a um issue for us it's very natural that we don't want to um to have any uh civilians casualties in that area and also for the world to see that we do the most that we can to move them out of the area of war but in another hand in the other side there is another culture another uh civilization that uh we can't call them civilization is barbarian a what's who's against us and they will use the the uh the people for for this war and it's not a problem for them just this weekend and another we saw evidence of hamas trying to smuggle its operatives through ambulance yeah this is the the other thing that we can see and this is a problem for idf idf can open a corridor but this corridor doesn't have to be so open because there are moving troops from inside gaza flying away from us to the south so colonel asso when you're dealing with an enemy uh with little care if any care at all and this is perhaps a very diplomatic way to put it to to the life of its own citizens what do you do how do you reach um at this breaking point of the enemy when again the the the consideration to human life is minor to we have to understand that it's not on the main issue that idf is dealing with yeah okay this is on the side as much as it's important it's on the side yeah what is in main course of idf now is to put down the hamas anywhere that he could and a lot of information have to get in and slowly slowly we're getting into the hardcore of hamas areas uh command and control areas and it's under a hospitals it's anywhere that we can show the world but humanitarian is always at the side side by side but not not the important thing so idf knows what he's doing parallel for what he's doing he will try to do whatever he can about uh humanitarian and perhaps one of uh of the main challenges at this point i would adhere to call it uh stage 2.5 uh of of the operation underground is the is the underground is uh hamas's metro we're talking about over a decade of of investing in this terror infrastructure um to an extent especially when we're talking with the gaza on gaza about gaza city one big booby trap yes but still we are not getting into it yet as you see last night started to use another ammunition it's the inside the bonkers ammunition for bombs that gets very deep in the ground and we started to do it yesterday night and you could you could feel it all over the south side of israel these bombs and they know that we are going step by step getting inside and we will do whatever we can to damage all these tunnels before we will deal with it actually face to face so on that note let's do cross uh to the south i24 news correspond robert swift and uh the southern uh border city of us with the i24 news team there robert thank you for joining us while the idf uh continues to target the targeted assassination of of hamas leaders another name um added to this list uh this evening that's correct yeah correct yeah another uh of hamas's battalion commanders have been killed overnight by the israeli military uh the idf said that the airstrikes that it conducted last night were some of the heaviest that have taken place since it began operations on the ground and yeah as you say they've they've taken out this commander but also they've been targeting tunnels doing as much damage as they can of the underground infrastructure that hamas has built and as much damage as they can from the air now this all comes as the civilian situation in gaza continues to look precarious uh just in the last 20 minutes the uh it's been reported that egyptian border officials have begun allowing um ambulances over the border with a number of wounded people being transported into egypt in six ambulances um there was a a border official who spoke with afp who suggested that it's possible in the near future some foreign nationals may also be able to travel through that point but at so far that is unconfirmed this all comes as the the the death count within the gaza strip has gone past the 10 000 mark and this is uh according to the numbers coming from gaza's health ministry um which israelis tend to be somewhat skeptical of because it is a hamas uh appointed organization um however these numbers are the numbers that most international organizations tend to go with for lack of any better numbers now it is worth bearing in mind that the gaza health ministry doesn't differentiate between civilians and combatants it just gives one round number 10 000 in this case though that being said there are 4 000 children are reported to be among those uh those fatalities obviously that has a direct impact on the international backing clock if you will when it comes to israel's ability to conclude its missions there on the ground i24 news correspondent robert swift thank you so very much for this uh now i24 news as senior defense correspondent jonathan reggaev explains more about what the idf forces underground are facing when we're talking about this hamas metro this underground terror infrastructure or simply put the terror tunnels here's more this is the greatest danger awaiting the idf forces maneuvering deep inside the gaza strip hamas terrorists rising from a tunnel dug under the ground firing anti-tank missiles or placing ids and quickly disappearing many of the israeli casualties in gaza were hit this way hundreds of such tunnels exist below the ground of the gaza strip and those terrorists can pop up practically everywhere and as is so common for hamas the presence of civilians is never a consideration here you can see the idf soldiers exposing a tunnel opening this is part of an operation a ground operation that was conducted on the hospital then revealed a tunnel that was being used for terror infrastructures in the katari hospital as the forces now go deeper into gaza city more and more such tunnels are being exposed it is an extremely dangerous mission as you never know what awaits below the ground and those tunnels can rise up to the ground in every location this is the reason why heavy artillery is pounding on every area the army is advancing into especially when there is intelligence regarding tunnels that intelligence is superb but no one has the illusion that every tunnel will be detected and destroyed it means the threat will continue to loom on the forces operating in gaza for weeks or maybe even months to come and obviously main objective of this war is to not to hear again about hamas for the near future or ever and yet another objective not less important whatsoever bringing back over 241 Israeli hostages being held captive by vile hamas terrorists for 31 days now and counting i-24 news correspondent mary mccollif is currently in what is known as the hostage square in Tel Aviv mary earlier in the day we we've seen in jerusalem in front of the Israeli parliament mass demonstration of the families family members of those being held hostage demanding that their loved ones will be brought back home not not today yesterday what can you tell us absolutely at least within this massive demonstration taking part in jerusalem of course it's part of a series of demonstrations calling on the Israeli government to do everything they can to bring the hostages home here in the hostage square this is an area that's been set up in Tel Aviv where families have been here for weeks now demanding the return of the relatives we're seeing not just the families of the hostages who've been taken but numerous people from throughout the country but also especially from Tel Aviv who've come here today to one show their solidarity and support and also come in here looking at the pictures of those hostages taken you can see behind me deal kip cremer behind the camera will show you some of the different scenes here of course we have this shabbat table that's been set up a seat for every single hostage that's been taken as you said 241 hostages still held in Gaza Strip for 31 days now today is the 31st day many different people coming out to see to show their support and solidarity there's large crowds gathered here behind me where the families have been speaking we've also seen a number of different youth groups who have also come here to participate to show their support lighting candles for the victims and just calling on the government to really do everything and to do especially more to bring home their family members to bring home the family members of those who are still held there so it's a massive demonstration of support tonight we've seen prayer circles they're singing their celebrations also of life people celebrating together but also mourning together being together and just here all we can feel is just solidarity from among these families and from most Israelis who've just come out here to show their support yeah not just the family members cannot sleep cannot eat cannot think in the past 31 days but all all of the Israeli people it's our brothers our sisters our grandmothers our grandfathers our children yeah Mary McCollough 524 news correspondent in the hostage square in Tel Aviv unbelievable words to use and yet this is the reality 31 days after October 7th thank you very much Mary for this back here in studio with our Colonel Mita former member of the Israeli Security Agency Colonel Assa this is a front that we're not talking so frequently about and thankfully this is the case and yet it does not mean that it is not volatile the West Bank the IDF is operating there forcefully in this afternoon Hamas operatives are being eliminated in the West Bank in Turkan yeah first we have to understand that West Bank is Hamas Bank okay it's not a secret that we are not doing they are not doing any lectures because they know that Hamas will raise up against Abu Mazen and Fatah in in the area of West Bank so West Bank is Hamas and Hamas is West Bank meaning we have to deal with them there before they will raise their head so there's a lot of activity a lot of activity of IDF inside the West Bank arresting Hamas members a dealing with the with groups that have a army in the West Bank it's it's a kind of a strike before the strike because we know that they want to do it and they have the ability so we have to move all the action inside the area and instead of them waiting for them to get into our place and we know that West Bank is few kilometers from Farsaba and the center of Tel Aviv it's very easy to get it's like we saw at the south if there will be any strike like that in Gaza in the West Bank it will be very very helpful so Israeli forces are getting ready to the potential theoretical option of October 7th we are not we are not ready for it we are not waiting for it we are striking before right we are not waiting for the surprise anymore it's action to avoid this kind of action and as you can see there is a lot of activity yeah and we are having the hand on them all the time it is not happening not because of the lack of will but merely because the idea of is making sure that there will be no ability and there is also and we have a chance to do it now we have the the right time to do it maybe we didn't do it enough before the seven or four yeah well it's a different world we live in post October 7th and as we speak yet another round of red siren alerts are being heard this time down south in Israeli southern communities just another part of the abnormal reality here in Israel since October 7th and perhaps for too many years beforehand when we're talking about the rocket fire colonel Amita former member of the Israeli security agency thank you so very much for joining us on this broadcast we opened this broadcast with what's happening up north earlier today the residents of the main city along the israel-ebanan border the city of kirek were ordered to evacuate from there these are the remaining civilians there and in the city of matula the residents evacuated themselves in the earlier phases of of the war they stuck together as a community now in the city of tabiris and despite the fact that they're well versed with wartime this time it's a whole different ballgame let's take a look as we enter the fifth week of the war in israel the town of matula on the border of lebanon has turned into a military base matula is the northernmost town in israel we are surrounded by lebanon on three borders and our neighbors isbullah are the best and the most evil of all possible neighbors but when the proud robust matula community of about 2 000 people had to evacuate after october 7th they didn't miss a beat matula community has experience in uh you know being harassed on the border for years and years you know matula is the only settlement in israel that is actually surrounded by hostile border and like 70 percent of our fence basically one road to come in and out so this is a part of who we are and it's a part of our choice to live there and to help define the strong borders of israel at this edges leot cohen reviv is a consultant by profession and a community leader who along with other municipal leaders have taken the helm to make sure the 2000 residents stick to a routine organizing activities and exercise all to keep people calm how is this an important way to not yeah just go down in a deep state of depression i will say it's even our responsibility as community leaders i think that a time of uncertainty and vagueness and uh situation when you have to deal with so much unknown factors and your sense of security uh and safety was deeply harmed it is super important to try to relate to that by creating as much as you can the majority of the residents are living in three hotels in tiberias the sofia hotel for the elderly residents and adult couples and next door at another hotel families and children are keeping to a routine something that is a top priority for many reasons we built units that fit for every age from zero till 18 here and in tiberias we made the connection we made everything that the children will get education and will have something to wake up for and not be all the time at the rooms and don't do nothing because it's a very difficult time for the children matula is a small moshav built by pioneers and farmers about a century ago and many of the descendants of the original families still live in matula a testament to their commitment even with an enemy on the other side of the fence they built matula in 1896 and from since 1896 our family the lisanski family is in matula and our family has a small hotel which is going generation after generation my grandfather built it and now it's empty i am the seventh generation my great-great grandparents lived in the second house built in matula it's my home and my life and even though we live next to a dangerous border it's not a scary life here it's a full life in the end we will return home and even though we're living in a terrifying wartime the majority of matula residents have no intention of moving away when the war is over what is the heart and soul of the matula community that is choosing to really live right next to fez bala these are unique special people this is an internal dialogue that you are having with yourself and if the answer is yes i'm going to be there it makes you you know a unique person i want to think right because it's a it's a choice it's a daily choice to raise your children 100 meters from a whole style border you want to help define the borders of this country if crazy people like us will not exist we're going to have a problem if 2000 people from matula will not be able to go back into their homes feeling that they can you know go to sleep without fearing that someone will cut the fence and then cut their throats which is not an option they're not going to go back right would you go back emily francis i24 news this is it uh from us for now at the top of the hour at the hour alora cellar will continue our rolling coverage day 31 of the war here in israel thanks for watching a month has passed since october 7th the day israel was brutally attacked by hamas a month since the black Sabbath when hamas terrorists murdered over 1400 israelis wounded thousands of others and took 240 people captive a month since the idf entered a war against the vicious terrorist organization a month later i24 news returns to the place where it all began join us on november 7th only on i24 news come here watching i24 news we're coming to you live from televiv on this day 31 of israel's war with hamas and hamas has claimed responsibility for a barrage of rockets fired at northern israel from lebanon in the last hour one of them reached as far as crayot near hypha that's the farthest a rocket from lebanon has reached so far a female police officer has died after she was stabbed by a palestinian terrorist in the old city of jerusalem another police officer was wounded and inside gaza idf troops are moving deeper into gaza city the idf says it killed the commander of hamas's day al balah battalion in an overnight airstrike on the street uh coming up with our correspondents but first let me introduce our studio guest this hour lieutenant colonel doron avital is the former commander of the special forces in the idf thanks for being with us uh colonel and yehuda lancrie former israeli ambassador to france and the united nations and the co-founder of the morocco israel chamber of commerce and industry and doron uh let's start with the latest rockets that have been fired from lebanon this does look like a a serious escalation doesn't it yeah sure i mean it's not hezbollah rockets it's hamas but still it's of course an escalation the northern border is very tense we are lucky that the citizens are evacuated and uh yes the tension is rising in the north that and uh another record for hamas that is the farthest it's managed to fire off from lebanon yeah yeah in 2006 the krayot were the target of the hezbollah missiles i want to remind you to remind you on haifa and krayot of course this is the soft belly of israel and to reach this haifa this is real this is serious what do you make of the latest escalation in the north the situation is very tense we are trying successfully i believe to contain the provocations of hezbollah but the fact that we have our population evacuated all along the line is not a happy situation and we have to find solutions uh we hope that hezbollah is understanding that it would be a big mistake for hezbollah and lebanon to wage a war against israel they have been warned both by president joe biden and by our war cabinet prime minister and so on and i hope that they are attentive to this message we are not right now in a position to launch a preemptive preemptive attack but there are certain limits that they can't cross okay all right we'll return to the situation in the north in a moment but first let's go to southern israel to find out more about the operation inside gaza our correspondent robert is near the gaza border for us now and a rob we just had a barrage of rockets fired from gaza at central israel as well didn't we yeah so there's been two launches of rockets in about the last hour the first one of those was towards communities in the far south of israel a bit closer to the egyptian border and the second one as you say was in towards central israel but those actually did not trigger alarm warnings because the idfs detection systems noted that those were going to land in the sea now due to the cost of firing one of these interception missiles they aren't fired every single time when the radar system sees that the incoming rocket is likely to land in a populated area then one of these expensive interceptors is fired and that's why in that case there wasn't a launch yeah i can confirm we heard them from jaffa very loud noises those rockets fell into the sea and talk us through what's happening inside gaza tonight rob so where we're standing is actually a little bit quieter than what we're used to so it's almost eerie we can still hear the sounds of battle and there's the occasional airstrike the occasional bit of artillery or even some small arms and machine gun fire but compared to other times that i've been here it's actually quieter and that is likely due to the fact that the israeli military are deeper inside gaza than they were this time a week ago um there are distant operations taking place from where we're standing over my shoulder um over the the gazon city of jubilee jubilee there are flares that are going up into the air so that's most likely is really infantry or armor operating in that area using those flares to illuminate their positions to see what they're seeing um and in some of the other locations behind us we've seen flashes on the horizon as you know as explosions are taking place there but like i say it's a bit deeper into the gaza strip than it has been previously and rob as you've pointed out before the idf is looking at a very complex battle they've been preparing the terrain with airstrikes and they're now going into gaza city you've got these tunnels underneath it is a very complex situation facing the troops isn't it absolutely is i mean the military are doing as much as they can to destroy these tunnels from the air but i think the jury's still out on how effective it is to attack these tunnels in that way at the end of the day uh the infantry are you know their job is to go in on the ground and to do the damage and to take to hold that ground essentially and the israeli military is to a certain extent having to do that that's why they cut off gaza city they've essentially isolated it from the rest of the gaza strip so that they can control the movement of khamas fighters in and out of that area and then piece by piece street by street they're they're going through um those neighborhoods and trying to you know kill as much of khamas as they can and a lot of the time that involves um finding these tunnels and sealing them off because they don't want to take the risk of putting israeli infantry into these tunnels because that's the enemy's homeland and that is a an extreme danger for the troops if they were to go down that route all right well thank you very much robert swift there uh at the border with gaza uh so don't want to tell if i could ask you a bit about that then um because the IDF says um that it has destroyed um it has caused significant damage it says to the uh underground tunnels um at the same time you've got troops going in to to destroy them as well just talk us through the first of all i think there's a a very serious engineering dimension to this campaign and in fact israel was preparing the last 10 years or more to this kind of tunnel warfare also in terms of how to destroy them so the engineering aspect is uh is is uh extended it's also to do the explosive that they're waiting for us and it's not to destroy this infrastructure you need to be on the ground in the end because it's a combination of intel and of course getting these tunnels are booby trapped inside yeah you have to find the pierce first of all the entry point or the exit point so this is the tricky side so this is where intelligence engineering and sometimes using uh air power combined you know to tackle this problem i want to add of course that the hostage issue is an issue so it's not like we could have gone all full blown and just destroy those tunnels so we are very limited as we enter gaza city where we think the hostages are situated the IDF also says it's killed uh more than a dozen Hamas field commanders since the start of fighting another one overnight will that be disrupting their chain of command for sure and of course they have the every chain of command it's a chain of command so people can go up the chain but of course there's a lot of competency and knowledge that is being destroyed and of course also fear that you put into those commanders but still they're there they're still strong and it's a big and it's a it's an enemy that we still have to tackle and then the next phase is going to be dramatic because entering gaza street a gaza city this is a new phase of the war this is stage three yeah yahoo delan quid the um the agonizing dilemma for israel of course is that there are more than 240 hostages being held somewhere in gaza uh so as dawn points out the the idea can't go all out and and destroy everything um this is a unique challenge isn't it it's really a big challenge we should go further in our military activity in order to dismantle the humas in infrastructure but at the same time we know that we have international pressure and even here and there some friendly pressure coming from the united states except for the remarkable statement of senator bernie sanders yeah that was unexpected wasn't it yeah he says a ceasefire with how much is not yeah it was completely unexpected coming from him we know that he is a sharp critic of of israel and its policy and this time he is rejecting any call for ceasefire in order to allow israel to pursue its legitimate right of defense so we are exerting this right we are trying and working very hard in order to minimize civilian casualties but uh at the level of the public opinion not on at the level of governments or parliaments in the uh western world we have problems with the protesters well right i wanted to ask you about the french because the french foreign minister yesterday um she said that too many civilians were being killed in gaza and she asked for an urgent uh pause in the fighting do you see a shift there from the french i'm not aware of the statement of the french foreign minister but i know that the french president of the republic is supporting israel he came here he visited us he even offered to rebuild the the coalition that defeated isis in order to defeat hamas which is very significant this shows that the western governments are worried about about hamas and its repercussions in in europe and in other parts of the western governments reflect public opinion do you think because for example in in the united kingdom 75 percent according to a local poll want a ceasefire both the british prime minister and the leader of the opposition have said a ceasefire with hamas is not there is a gap between the governments and the public opinion in the same countries that is what is amazing but i'm pleased with the french stance that forbid the praise of the terrorism of hamas they can here and the protesters have the right to protest but in the limits of french uh french law and french rule uh which is not the same case in in washington uh in the face of the white howl they uh you see a difference they praised in the european cities compared to american cities yes pardon me uh european cities and american cities yeah because freedom of speech is a is a founding principle yes freedom of speech constitution whereas in france for example it's illegal to cast doubt on the holocaust but there should be i think in times like what we are crossing right now some limits even to the sacred right of freedom of speech because to call for the murder and the death of israel it's unacceptable and some politicians in israel in france did condemn the call to the death of israel by protesters of course it is it is illegal in by the uk and france to express support for terrorist groups it's it's a bit more complicated in the united states isn't it that's different yeah um the one that we tell i mean um and and this just kind of emphasizes the point that israel as always has a window yeah exactly in which it can uh continue its campaign the question of ceasefire would be completely implicated with the question of any sign of the hostages i'm thinking as well will not be willing to go to any ceasefire it is no sign of life and some progress in the question of the hostages and of course there's no rationale to go to ceasefire unless we have some progress in this venue the other thing of course is the pressure from outside but i think right now the u.s is behind us as it's pretty uh pretty supportive of us continuing this and expanding this window of operation but once there will be some significant progress with the hostages we can talk about ceasefire okay all right uh let's go to the north of israel now to get the very latest what's happening there our correspondent zack anders joins us and zack another record for Hamas this evening uh it's fired a rocket uh the furthest distance from lebanon since the conflict began this escalation on the north is quite a remarkable development tonight especially like you mentioned that launch that has now reached farther into israel than any rocket before it since 2006 now we are seeing confirmed reports now that hamas cells inside lebanon claiming responsibility for the launch tonight as many as 30 intercepted according to the idf now they claim the hamas cells inside lebanon claiming that it was somewhere between 15 to 20 but the idf again saying that it was 30 that had to be intercepted here in the north we also continue to hear outgoing artillery fire from this position north toward lebanon so clearly there's some active engagement tonight continuing on the north in these areas that they have pushed people out they've evacuated many of these towns and asked for folks to continue to move south and to do so for an extended period of time there is no window of return yet as these hostilities continue to escalate here and of course unlike in the south zack where you've got an idf campaign underway to destroy hamas the conflict with hezbollah has been very much reaction and then counter reaction hasn't it it has and it's been very complicated to understand that there are potentially a hundred thousand plus hezbollah fighters and other cells that are beyond our border this border over my shoulder that at any moment given any direction could begin to envelop themselves in a much larger conflict and turn this into a much broader campaign that would be required in the north it's also worth noting that tonight jordan says that it intercepted a missile inbound from iraq so the the north is going to capture our attention for many many weeks to come as this tension here is so thick and and the potential for this powder keg to erupt at any moment is obviously there all right zack thank you very much zack anders there in the north of israel well with us now with more on the threat from hezbollah david doubt is a hezbollah and lebanon research analyst at the foundation for the defense of democracies the fd d devy thank you very much for being with us and since we last spoke this is a significant escalation isn't it from hezbollah thank you for having me on again um i mean it it it's par for the course i think what hezbollah is doing uh is trying to escalate um in stages as israel gets more committed to uh the ground invasion in gaza and as the ground invasion continues to naturally take a toll on israel's on the idf's manpower on the uh the mobilization continues to take effects on israel's economy um and as it senses that perhaps international support for the continued campaign in gaza is beginning to erode hezbollah probably feels there that it has the ability to up the ante gradually to meet israel's continued investment in gaza and you know symmetrically the impact of those other factors we just spoke about and david this does seem to contradict somewhat with what nasrallah himself said on saturday um a lot of people were relieved that nasrallah kind of stopped short of committing himself to a broader war with israel he seemed to be saying well hamas did this operation on their own they're on their own now do you see a contradiction there well i don't think that's exactly what nasrallah said i think what nasrallah is trying to do is walk a very fine line between full commitment to his resistance access obligations to his ideological obligations to fight israel to destroy israel and his domestic situation and that's a fine rope that you can to a certain degree cover with propaganda that's what he tried to do when he said that october 8th was hezbollah's commitment to the war but he also left open the possibility of some escalation right he said we are not going to content ourselves with the current level now that was deliberately vague it does not necessarily mean that he is going to open a second war front fully or that he intends to but it does leave open the possibility of what we're seeing continued escalating harassment now that does you know that that it is a certain degree of brinksmanship that is kind of to some degree what we saw in 2006 this this brinksmanship that hezbollah engaged in not expecting a full war when they ended up with a full war so whatever his intentions the continued escalation may test israeli patients to the breaking point yeah nasrallah's expressed regret hasn't he for for the destruction that israel wrote on lebanon in the past and we've got the khamas chief ismael hanye set to visit beirut shortly from tehran he's currently in tehran what do you read into that this is par for the course i look i think there's coordination that's been going on well first let's start the fact that there's been coordination going on between the resistance axis and that beirut has become a hub of that coordination has been a known fact for some years now i think with the current conflict there's perhaps even more coordination this isn't the first person to kind of come from tehran including iranian officials ismail ghani was there just about last week before before nasrallah's speech there's reports that he was there from october 7th on with a brief respite in fact nasrallah has met with salih harouri and ziyad al nakhala khamas and pidge officials respectively and you know i think there was coordination on next steps on what each faction needs from the other faction in the resistance axis i think this is probably more you know more of the same that ismail hanye was in tehran to convey his you know hamas's domestic situation as he sees it to see what guidance he could get from iran from assistance he get from here if he could get from iran and then to continue on to coordinate with with hasbulla which is the point on the israeli border for the iranian regime and i just wanted to get your take i mean we heard um a senior uh well a saudi prince a senior saudi official um really laying into hasbulla saying the so-called axis of resistance and the hasbulla missiles had done nothing for the palestinians we know that the saudis have all but completely withdrawn their interests from lebanon um your interpretation of that again par for the course i think saudi patients with hasbulla ran out not just you know the past decade but as far as back as 2006 there were reports that hasbulla was sorry that my my part but saudi arabia was trying to buy time for the israeli war effort in lebanon to finish off hasbulla uh saudi arabia since then has taken its own measures against the group um yes there has been this uh cosmetic reconciliation with iran but i think that's more of a change of of of tactics for the saudis rather than a change of objectives i think they would still like to see the resistance axis weakened they still understand that as a threat um and hasbulla is the tip of the spear i think them for the saudis uh putting hasbulla on the spot trying to show that you know they are all all threats and no action um it's an attempt by saudi arabia to damage the credibility that hasbulla has built for itself as a as viable resistance organization as they call themselves as an organization capable of confronting the israelis i think the saudis are trying to show this is this is an organization that really can't deliver on what it what it promises um and perhaps people the lebanese themselves should reconsider their support for it david dowd thank you very much indeed we appreciate it thank you uh yehuda lancrie um we were just listening they had the Saudis have really criticized our hasbulla um and once again israel and saudi arabia very much on the same side when it comes to defeating hasbulla or wanting to defeat hasbulla i believe that both israel and saudi arabia and the guidance of the united states of america have converging interest in the area at all and they do know that hasbulla is a major impediment to normalization between israel and moderate arab countries and they want like hamas to put at risk the achievements that we got with other countries in north africa for example morocco or the emirates so the stem scene goes for the united for the saudi arabia country and we have to be very careful at this stage in order to preserve the achievements that has uh that have been done till now even at the visible level we have no tangible results in the israeli saudi track but but the Saudis have a signal that they want that they want to continue with cooperation uh yeah i think the saudi remarks goes to show that this hasbulla doesn't represent the palestinian cause it's like to undermine the fact that the hasbulla or iran represents some palestinian cause and this is the and the context that you mentioned of the saudi initiative or the u.s. saudi initiative which i think looms in the in the future i mean after hamas is defeated and maybe this i think this is the idea that runs in the heads of blinken and biden with the saudi so this the the plan is still there but and hamas the campaign of hamas is a campaign in order to make it possible in some sense but i mean what do you make of ismah and the end of hamas leader being able to jet from catar to terran to to lebanon um freely while this war is going on i think the separation between the the the policy makers that are outside and the people that fight in the street and then in the air the gazon citizen this is really alarming it shows something about the cohesiveness of this organization but that's the way they operate for years this is why we tried many years ago if you remember to kill lechaled marshal in jordan a big scandal if you remember in the late 90s for which we had the in the king of jordan yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah like this james bond scenario that uh went wrong were you involved in this no no no i wasn't luckily for me he could tell us when he helped a killer but a good friend of mine was indeed so um but i think this is a failed assassination assassination exactly so but still i think there would be targeting they would be targeted in the future i mean after this horrendous attack i don't think the israeli israel can let those people off the hook and i'm not sure when and where i think they would be found right because it's fascinating because yes in war and he kind of replaced ismail honey as the chief of hamas inside gaza didn't know no he's a very he's really a sort of a a military enemy in the sense in many respects if we fought within gaza that there's a separation between the political echelon the military echelon there's no longer some separation and every one of them is a target and they sit in gaza in those tunnels and we are after them yeah we'll have to talk after the break about catars long-term plans for hamas as well whether they want to continue their generous invitation for them to stay in their country all right we'll take a short break do stay with us we'll have all the very latest for you after the break we'll go back to the south to find out what's happening there and we'll also talk about the latest diplomatic developments after the u.s. secretary of state antony blinkin visited both turkey and iraq in the last 48 hours all of that coming up next day with us past since october 7th the day israel was brutally attacked by hamas a month since the black Sabbath when hamas terrorists murdered over 1400 israelis wounded thousands of others and took 240 people captive a month since the idf entered a war against the vicious terrorist organization a month later i-24 news returns to the place where it all began join us on november 7 only on i-24 news in israel bonds visit israel bonds dot com made for me a unique concept in israel custom made men's fashion to your measurements made for me designer of all your events schedule your appointment at www dot made for me dot co dot il made for me official dresser of i-24 news good evening ladies and gentlemen back idf troops are moving deeper into gaza city tonight the idf says it killed another senior commander in airstrikes yesterday 34 israeli soldiers have now been confirmed killed in the fighting so far well overnight jordan in coordination with israel air-dropped urgent medical supplies into gaza egypt meanwhile has announced that the evacuation of foreigners and injured palestinians inside gaza will resume tomorrow and the us secretary of state ansley blinken visited both turkey and iraq on the final stops of his whirlwind tour of the region well as those israeli forces move deeper into gaza city they will have to deal with an enemy hiding many many meters below the ground in concrete tunnels the tunnels run for hundreds of kilometers presenting a unique threat for idf troops our senior defense correspondent jonathan regev has more this is the greatest danger awaiting the idf forces maneuvering deep inside the gaza strip hamas terrorists rising from a tunnel dug under the ground firing anti-tank missiles or placing ids and quickly disappearing many of the israeli casualties in gaza were hit this way hundreds of such tunnels exist below the ground of the gaza strip and those terrorists can pop up practically everywhere and as is so common for hamas the presence of civilians is never a consideration here you can see the idf soldiers exposing a tunnel opening this is part of our operation a ground operation that was conducted on the hospital then revealed a tunnel that was being used for terror infrastructures in the kathari hospital as the forces now go deeper into gaza city more and more such tunnels are being exposed it is an extremely dangerous mission as you never know what awaits below the ground and those tunnels can rise up to the ground in every location this is the reason why heavy artillery is pounding on every area the army is advancing into especially when there is intelligence regarding tunnels that intelligence is superb but no one has the illusion that every tunnel will be detected and destroyed it means this threat will continue to loom on the forces operating in gaza for weeks or maybe even months to come well today the israeli prime minister bedouin netanyahu held a meeting with the ambassadors of dozens of countries based in israel we can take a listen to what he had to say earlier if they go strong if they're not defeated they will derail this process they will imperil the entire middle east if the middle east falls to the axis of terror europe will be next and no one will be safe this is not a local battle this is a global battle the paramount need is to defeat this axis that battle is now being waged by us against hamas in gaza there is no substitute for victory we will defeat hamas we will dismantle hamas we will offer the people of gaza and the entire peoples of the middle east a real future a future of promise and hope but this requires victory we have the will and we have the power to do so we will win and we believe that all civilized powers should back us in this effort because this battle is your battle and our victory is your victory the prime minister speaking earlier today to foreign ambassadors well with me in the studio lieutenant colonel dohan avital he's the former commander of the special forces in the idf and dohan i want to talk about some news that's coming in the last hour or so this is a druse leader the the the druse community in israel moa fag tariff he's calling on the government to amend the law passed by the netanyahu government in 2018 which designates israel as the nation state of the jewish people and just i mentioned that 34 israeli soldiers had been killed in the fighting so far two of those soldiers were druse lieutenant colonel salman habaka and lieutenant colonel aline abdallah and he's saying that he's not trying to exploit the situation but he thinks that now is the time that israel should reconsider that law what what do you make of it i think first of all i was a deputy and mk a member of parliament of kadima party and kadima party had a very strong hold of druse because there was something very israeli about this party this is the real sharon's party and in many respects with this initiative of the nation law as it was formalized was not an innocent movement we were very much against it and we understood the pain of those druse for example that fight with us shoulder to shoulder with respect to this law and this law must be i think and he has a point be amended in order to give expression to the fact that we are all israelis and we are fighting in those wars together and those are two high rank officers one of them had a roic battle in the first day of the war in the 7th of october and then died in gaza tank commander tank regiment commander and deputy brigadier general colonel in fact died in the north in the in the first few days of the war so those people they fought with us they are part of the cohesiveness israeli identity of the society and to dismantle it and to undermine it was a terrible terrible mistake and it goes it really goes even to the heart of the divide that we had in israel in the last year or so this is a real issue about whether israel is in the end israel a free democratic state for all its citizens of course with a jewish identity but i'm not sure you need this law in the way it was formalized in order to reinforce the jewish yes people were upset the way it was phrased because i mean israel is the the world's only jewish state it runs on the jewish calendar it's uh on this holiday everybody speaks but quite we've got bedwinds and we've got drus and other communities dying for israel now as a patrooper officer i would go every morning and and along the path of the border with my bedwind guy this was part of our heritage we grew up in this way and i think it was a real mistake to try to break this cohesiveness and we saw even the bedwinds supporting and saving kids or youth from the party taking huge risk upon themselves and saving up to 30 people also bedwinds got assassinated and killed in this terrible rampage of of hamas so i think israel has to come back to itself and to its true israeli spirit not worried so it's a it's the home of the jewish people but it's an israeli state and we all israelis and we fight together shoulder to shoulder and the law should express it well right and quite i mean that is one of israel's strengths isn't it it's that it is multicultural it is multi-ethnic and when you look around other countries in the region when you've seen the persecution of minorities in other countries across the region that is one of israel's strengths whenever our arab israeli says to me how proud it is to be part of this society here in jaffa we live in jaffa it really excites me this is the way it should be and it doesn't undermine anything of the history of the jewish people in this context and israel has to come back to its own israeli spirit and i think he has a really strong point here all right well we'll have to wait and see whether that call uh by moa haq tariff goes anywhere but it's an interesting uh interesting angle isn't it all right well last night jordan and israel announced the airdrop of urgent medical supplies to a field hospital in the gaza strip the jordanian air force airdropped a medical supplies a bypassing egypt's efforts to get aid into gaza via the raffa crossing jordan's prime minister meanwhile has warned that any attempt by israel to displace gardens permanently will be seen as he put it as a declaration of war and we'll to talk more about that we're joined by dr nasir alamari he's an independent writer and political commentator great to see you nasir let's start with the aid then um would you say this is a sign of a man's frustration with the slow pace of aid that is getting into gaza via raffa well nearly the jordanian people are frustrated and angry because of what's happening to the civilians in gaza however this move of you know the jordanian air force dropping medical aid is coordinated was coordinated with the idf and therefore it's symbolic it's important but it's symbolic i think it's part of blinkin's vision for the region after october 7th and that is not to make israel look like it's fighting civilians and it's fighting the the arabs it's actually the arabs and israel against hamas and terrorism so it's symbolic but it's important and it serves the king of jordan very well because he wants to appear like he's doing something for the palestinians and he's doing something to alleviate the suffering so it's important and i think it's an important step that the us and israel are taken not to make this look like it's israel versus palestinians rather it's israel versus terrorism nevertheless jordan is one of the country's calling most strongly for a ceasefire which israel argues would hold it back from destroying hamas yes and they have to say that but you know listening to the queen of jordan talking about human rights you would think that jordan is a haven of human rights when it when it was in fact condemned by a human rights watch for for curtailing freedoms the same thing you know with all these arab regimes dictatorial regimes criticizing israel for their human rights when in fact they run police states including jordan so it's really rich to hear the queen of jordan talking about apartheid and injustice when in fact palestinians in jordan don't have full rights so it's uh you know listening to these arab regimes talking about how you know how horrible israel is is really rich because you look at syria and what's happening to the people you look at lebanon iran and all these people are actually oppressing people and minorities and human rights but it's open season and it's easy for these dictatorial regimes to look like they are for human rights when in fact they are the biggest abusers of human rights and as you've pointed out to us before nassiri and hashamite monarchy is in a very vulnerable position right now an angry population furious at what they see in gaza and a monarchy very much propped up by american aid exactly and this is the you know these regimes don't talk frankly to their people king of jordan is obviously a friend of israel his father was a close ally of the israelis their grandparents were very close to the state of israel so instead of you know telling people the truth about the situation they prefer to you know these sound bites sounding like they are condemning israel when in fact the king of jordan and at some point and rightly so when he says this is a fight against iran and against iranian backed militias he's right however they they don't talk to their people frankly they don't say listen we need a piece away from iran and away from jihadi mindsets they don't talk like that they just go with the flow and pretend that they are with the palestinians when in fact they are they coordinated very closely with the americans and israelis well what about those comments then nesir by prime minister hasa ulna today he says that any permanent displacement of people in gaza jordan would consider that a declaration of war do you think that the the peace treaty could be at risk well as far as the king is concerned the peace treaty is critical for his regime however the i i agree that displacing palestinians would destabilize jordan and egypt too displacing ghazans i think that would destabilize egypt because they will no longer be an independent state and they will just receive millions of people from another state so it's the you know the king of jordan and the cc fear most that moment when hamas does something crazy to the point where israel will have to displace people i think that is that that is their nightmare and the fear was going on and the west bank too the west bank is very critical for jordan if abbas can't keep a lid on things jordan will find itself in a in a very critical situation especially if the scenes that we see in ghaza start to be played in the streets and then the west bank so the king of jordan and the cc are playing along with the americans and the israelis but i think the bottom line is breaching their borders and displacing people i think this will be very difficult for them to contain internally dr nasir alamari we appreciate it thank you very much thank you and israel continues to urge civilians in northern ghaza to head south away from the conflict zone the idf has released drone footage which shows that some in northern ghaza are heeding that advice to move along a humanitarian corridor that's been established by the israeli army so there the idf says it has evidence that civilians are moving south from the conflict zone in in northern ghaza just to pick up a door hold on something that nasir alamari was talking about about the situation in the west bank there have been hundreds of arrests israeli security forces have arrested hundreds of people for suspected links to terrorism it's not entirely clear what's going on all across the west bank but how worried are you about a a conflagration now i am worried and i want to remind everyone that we had a constant mini war for the last year in the in the west bank we had a very weak palestinian authority we had the northern samaria janin tulkar i'm picking up with terror acts and today we had a lady soldier a knife in joselem so the the area is a this is a front we don't want to open and this is why we moved into those those preventive arrests for 500 or 700 of those 700 arrests now i mean how sustainable is that i mean how long as long as the ghaza campaign as long as the ghaza campaign in terms of the legalities we cannot arrange it but as long as the ghaza campaign continues i mean we won't let them go on full blown because we don't want the west bank to wake up and i don't think you talked about jordan and and what i call our allies in this context egypt jordan and the pa i think it works also for their benefit and we want this front to be calm and contained and in the meantime we succeed though there are few terror attacks there was even an incident in which a special forces had to hit a three terrorist in i think new janin so it's alive the whole those attempts to instigate terror acts out of the the west bank not only in the northern samaria but also in khebron in other places and we have to be very careful and i think we put a lot of forces down right now not only police but border patrol idf everybody and so i mean a long term looking at the the palestinian leadership do you think that mahmoud abbas is lining himself up for some kind of role in ghaza i think what we see it wouldn't be easy for him because after the the outcome and the death of ghaza and civilians to come and just get the ghaza and command ghaza it wouldn't be easy but i think what blinken is trying to create is this in this shuttle diplomacy some kind of future to the area in which the palestinian cause is being served under some title of the so the initiative or whatever and i think in the price of this bloody terrible price of blood that we are paying will have to create some kind of a new infrastructure in which the palestinian case gets some expression are you worried at all that once the campaign to defeat ghaza is over the world is going to lose interest in this part of the world and move away and once again i think the u.s. i think there was a change in the way the u.s. looks at the area and the access that they're trying to create remember india saudi arabia israel mediterranean into europe i mean this i think this this vision the strategic vision in which israel and the arab states saudi arabia egypt jordan israel palestinians are part of it this vision does exist and i'd see the u.s. making a serious attempt with us and with the either neighborhood and the other state to create such a vision well you might be interested in this there is a jordanian report that the jordanian army shot down a missile over the northwest of the country coming from iraq presumably towards yeah because in iraq so that's saudi arabia and jordan exactly so there's a new kind of emergence of a new kind of alliance that we have to be very perceptive to which is which is encouraging in this sense however terrible of the events taking place well quite and on that note the united states has dispatched a guided missile nuclear submarine to the region it's being seen as a show of force designed to curb iran's attempts to spark a wider war and in comes of the u.s. Secretary of State Anthony blinkin wraps up his tour of the region terran has warned the what has warned washington that the united states will be hit hard if it doesn't push for a ceasefire in gaza iranian proxies have already attacked us interests in iraq and syria well for more on the threat from terran we're joined now by ben and ben talla blue he's a senior fellow at the ftd thank you for being with us at benham and how do you think iran will react to that deployment of the u.s. nuclear submarine will that give it some pause for thought or or not at all i'm pleasure to be with you well it certainly should but we've seen in the in the medium to long term in the past meeting in the past five to ten years that the islamic republic has not been deterred by the moving in a more military hardware in the region and if there have been you know attempts to restore deterrence there've been blips the islamic republic is likely writing a high right now the fact that it takes two carriers to deter a non-state group the fact that it takes a nuclear arms submarine to have deter a non-nuclear state these are things that the islamic republic is using as a win to ride a kind of confidence high and it's precisely why the same day it might be at least that the announcement about the submarine being dispatched was made was when the iranian minister of defense made that threat against more u.s. forces in the region using open source reporting both through media and social media our traditional media and social media u.s. positions in iraq and syria have been attacked over 40 times so you would say the u.s. deterrence is is not working what about that last minute surprise visit by antony blinkin to iraq and and does bagdads have the capacity to control the iranian proxies on its territory deterrence is certainly not a monadic thing let me just add that by the way it's not present or absent it's really scale or volume so it's not just the u.s. assets in the region is the willingness to use those assets and until that mentality has changed this format the overwhelming conventional capabilities will not necessarily deter an actor like the islamic republic which is risk tolerant what will as if the response ratio against the strikes changes so far there's only been one kinetic response against those 40 plus attacks in iraq and syria and with the antony blinkin trip this in a picture is worth a thousand words the fact that you have to have the secretary of state you know coming into iraq wearing essentially that large bulletproof vest and then taking it off when he's sitting with iraqi politicians and then putting it back on to move the protests around the green zone in solder city in particular use of you know massive pro-shia militia demonstrations as well as pro-police the demonstrations designed to drown out the diplomatic outreach that the u.s. is trying to do with our partners in the region plus you have some of the diplomatic pushback from other our partners totally divorced from iran such as the messages you've heard from jordan about the disease fire issue against the u.s. Do you think that you know at the end of the day Tehran knows that there is no domestic appetite whatsoever in the united states for any kind of conflicts in the in the middle east and so they know any effort at deterrence isn't backed up that and they're quite cognizant of the the risk aversion that you know multiple parties for over a decade have shown towards the iran threat in the region every time everyone talks about great power competition or pivot to asia or foreign policy for the middle class that's cold word for Tehran to continue to push ahead to continue to fire at americans you know you've heard unnamed u.s. defense officials say that the reason americans haven't died is essentially luck it's not because of adequate air and missile defense is protecting that infrastructure unless we forget the reason that infrastructure is being attacked is part of a deliberate strategy by Tehran to write up those political peers to divide washington from jewsland to prevent america from standing next to israel and supporting israel in word and indeed separately better wonder if i could ask you about the iranian Nobel prize winner nardis mohamad who is in prison she's announced that she's going on hunger strike in protest at the regime's oppression of the iranian people i'm just wondering about the threat to the regime from inside iran is that still a significant threat do you think that the anti-regime protest movement has run out of steam what what do you see happening there it certainly remains the most existential threat to the government of the islamic republic is the will and ideas and values the iranian people being acted on you know you couldn't have a greater divide between state and society in the middle east than iran since 2009 iranian protests have been chanting not gaza not lebanon my life for iran yet israel yet the us force posture in the region yet pro-american and moderate sunni arab states in the region live on the front lines of that threat and live on the threat of an iranian government that does not reflect the views values and interests of the iranian nation which is literally 180 degrees opposite the foreign policy coming out of tehran today the protest movement is continuing it's admittedly much lesser smaller scale scope breadth and depth and we saw this time last year and again it really is up to really american foreign policy european west the european at western policy how much they want to amplify the fact that the most existential threat to the molas is not from outside but do you see a change in us policy with regards to iran one would certainly hope that after the october 7 attacks washington it would be more willing to connect the dots i don't see that yet i see some very helpful signs i see some very appropriate very calibrated military planning but i don't see them connecting the political dots just yet even russia which is hedging more china the iran issue is not moving into the the larger non-partisan china space cracking down on oil exports it's not just the fact that 10 billion via iraq 6 billion via south korea the katar it's the fact that this regime was permitted to generate over 95 billion dollars worth of oil revenues inspired an entered office and until the willingness to enforce those penalties change and force this regime to fight with one arm tied behind its back we're going to continue most unfortunately to see this boom and bust cycle of violence against the jewish state and against other american partners in the region and against american interests and assets itself because of tehran's risk tolerance and overconfidence ben and ben teller blue at the fdd thank you and daron just just really quick i mean that does say it all doesn't it that picture of antony blink and the u.s. sector estate having to wear a bulletproof vest and arrive in the middle of the night those are the consequences of the iraq waters the shia the shiite proxy or the iranian proxy or the shiite militia getting a stronghold in iraq and then trying to move even galvanized forces into syria we call it the the fourth floor the fourth front in some sense the fifth would be the hootim so there's a regional landscape here yeah yeah and we go up another scale you have a global scale here and let's hope it contains in the first floor and doesn't blow up all right okay thank you very much don't have any time great to talk to you as always we're going to take a short break we'll have more diplomacy and more developments in the north and the south as well plus a female police officer has died after she was stabbed by a terrorist in east european today all of that coming up next day with this 1,300 people murdered and more than 3,000 injured and the war with hamas continues we bring you firsthand testimonies from the front lines from those who survived and all the records of the atrocities by hamas follow us as israel fights terror from the south and north get the inside scoop on what's going on only on i24 news made for me a unique concept in israel 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 i24 news please and gentlemen come here watching i24 news coming to you live from televieve on this day 31 of israel's war with hamas and hamas has claimed responsibility for a barrage of some 30 rockets fired at northern israel from lebanon earlier one of them reaching as far as krayat near hypha the farthest a rocket from lebanon has reached so far a female police officer has died after she was stabbed by a palestinian terrorist in the old city of jerusalem another police officer was wounded in that attack in gaza idf troops are moving deeper into gaza city the idf says it killed another senior commander in an overnight airstrike on the strip the u.s. sector of st. antony blinkin has been in turkey and iraq on the last stops of his whirlwind tour of the region well before we go on let's go to the south of israel our correspondent robert swift is close to the gaza border rob what is the latest this hour the airstrikes and israeli artillery are continuing here and just a short while ago about half an hour ago the israeli military released some images it taken earlier during the day video and some stills of the the source of equipment that it was coming across as they moved deeper into the gaza strip they released these images of what were rocket launchers one of them built close to a mosque another one built in what apparently appeared to be some sort of youth club for a gazon scouts group the israeli military commander on the ground noted that these rocket launch sites and the the spare rockets that were around these weapon systems appeared to have been used towards the cities to the north of gaza the launchers were pointing towards ash gala and ash dawds and in the direction of tel aviv this is the sorts of equipment that the israeli military is coming across as it moves deeper into there into the the gaza strip and it is part of the the sort of the the infrastructure that they're pointing to as the difference between how they operate and how hamas operates you know mixing up its military equipment in and amongst the civilian parts of life in the gaza strip and of course hamas is still holding at least 242 hostages in including women and young children and even babies inside the strip israel says that 34 soldiers have now been killed in the fighting and of course israel is still identifying the victims of the october 7 terrorist attacks hamas has come out with its own death toll figure today rob that's right the gazon health ministry which is of course administered from the top by by hamas they've come out with the the figure of 10 000 people have been killed since the start of this war now they don't differentiate between combatants and civilians when they release these numbers but among those figures 4 000 of them are understood to be children so at least that many obviously can be considered non-combatants now israeli officials and also some u.s. officials have sort of cast doubts on these numbers but they are also generally the numbers that international organizations and even some media outlets tend to use for want of a better number yeah we know that lots of media outlets are going with those figures thank you rob robber swift there down at the border with gaza all right well with me in the studio this hour daniel scherke is the former israeli ambassador to france and a political commentator welcome to you daniel and we're also joined by our very own middle east correspondent ariel osiran so ariel let's let's start with the the campaign in gaza it's a it's a long slog isn't it night after night the idea of troops gradually moving closer into gaza they have to deal with tunnels they have to bear in mind that there are still dozens of hostages being held just talk us through some of the complexities of this battle well you outlined a few of them laura others are the fact that this is an urban setting and there are still many many roughly estimates between 100 and 250 000 residents in northern gaza above the line that the idea has established to call on residents to make their way down south to a safe area so roughly 150 to 250 000 palestinians have remained in the area that they've been requested to exit so that is one challenge another challenge obviously is not only fighting in the tunnels but also these tunnels located tunnel shafts located pretty much all across the gaza strip that can enable um hamas terrorists to just exit the ground for one or two minutes to be exposed fire rpgs on the on the advancing forces and then make their way down obviously the main complexity in fighting in whether it's urban or destroyed urban warfare is the presence of of unrelated of innocent civilians this is an issue that is uh already the idea said that it had adjusted its uh its its combat strategy to enable these humanitarian corridors to allow the residents to head south but not enough have uh have listened to the call and that presents a significant challenge among many other challenges in the field top of mind obviously also the over 240 hostages that make that makes israel's military advance in gaza all the more complicated all right and daniel's check i mean we know that israel is is doing as much as it can to get civilians out of northern gaza they don't want them there hamas on the other side on the other hand wants them to stay we just heard our reporter saying that the idf have discovered rocket rocket launches um in in mosques in uh youth centers that kind of thing this is a unique challenge isn't it it is although it's not a new one i think the idf has an unhappy experience with this tactics of hamas before you know hamas is not really operating at the service of the gaza population to begin with launching the massacre of october 7th had to you know it should have crossed the minds of everybody in hamas that this is going to be the result and yet they went ahead with it without flinching and they continue to um you know to discourage uh gaza residents from going south in i mean emptying northern gaza it's again it's no secret that they as ariel said they don't have the habit of walking the streets when fighting goes on they leave that to the civilians they are well hidden underground all right uh yes it's a i think it's the only enemy in the world that uh tries to kill as many of its own civilians as possible i can't think of a um yeah i mean i it works in its favor because it i don't know if they want to kill as many as possible but they certainly use uh the deaths of their of their compatriots as a as a tool in the media war that's uh no doubt at all absolutely well let's uh talk about uh diplomacy now because the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken uh met with his Turkish counterpart in Ankara earlier today wrapping up a whirlwind tour of the region president Erdogan who has slammed israel and said it is wrong to call her mass terrorists did not meet with blinkin our own ottoman has this report they'll give a warm handshake and pose for the cameras but relations between the united states and turkey are as tangled as ever with us secretary of state Antony Blinken sweeping through Ankara monday meeting with his Turkish counterpart and capping his trip through the middle east and of course we discussed uh the crisis in Gaza and including the efforts to significantly expand humanitarian assistance to people in need effort and the conflict from spreading to other parts of the region in turkey that's a hard sell outside the Turkish foreign ministry dozens came to protest blinkin's visit and a day earlier many more converged on the interlick airbase in turkey south where us troops are stationed both the police and soldiers would want to go to Gaza and fight and they will go when the time comes Turkish military to Gaza meanwhile Turkish president recep Tayyip Erdogan was notably not in Ankara for blinkin's visit perceived by many as an intentional snub it is our responsibility for our Palestinian brothers to be saved from Israeli cruelty and for the massacres happening in Gaza in front of the world's eyes to be stopped turkey continues to host a number of Hamas leaders and has withdrawn its ambassador to Israel but Erdogan has said he will not break ties with Israel fully he has a muslim world to try to win over but also an american ally to keep on side Well joining us now for more on that Mehmet Ogutu is a former Turkish diplomat and the chairman of the global resources partnership thank you very much indeed for for being with us why do you think the president Erdogan refused to meet with Anthony blinkin well i think Anthony blinkin was given a very cold welcome in Ankara he was met by a deputy governor totally out of protocol turkey normally applies to a strategical eyes for a minister and then Anthony blinkin wanted to hug for a minister Hakan Fidan he carefully pushed back and just shook hands with him and then was there was also a maquette of a masjid aksa during the meeting next to blinkin and Erdogan was in the black sea in the highlands with the villagers so it was a clear message symbolic message to blinkin that so long as the US is ignoring Turkey and not taking into account what it wants in Gaza but also in bilateral relations we had lots of problems as you remember one of the Turkish military drones were downed by the US military over Syria and also PYD and there are so many issues bilateral issues but most importantly of course now the Gaza issue where Ankara wants a immediate sea square and opening the humanitarian corridor right away and Turkey wants to be one of the guarantors as well if there's going to be a settlement which will satisfy all parties so there are many issues but clearly more than the substance initially in terms of protocol and formality and i think you can see also from blinkin's buggy language he was definitely rebuffed in Ankara and i don't think that there was any substantial mass the substantial outcome emerging from that except both sides express their well-known positions well and it's interesting isn't it because of course Turkey and the United States are allies inside NATO not so long ago we were talking about America selling Turkey's f-16 jets i mean are there going to be real world consequences for Turkey in its efforts to kind of give America the cold shoulder well i think there will be some consequences for both parties and Ankara clearly understood that US will not be listening to his concerns especially with regard to PYD in Syria where US is supporting extension of PKK and the YPG you're talking about yes YPG and then of course we also had this this with regard to Black Sea where US wants to send this navy where Ankara wants to keep the quietness and peace balance of power there and is supporting Ukraine but also cooperating with Russia and US is not selling Turkey the air defense systems and Ankara wanted to buy it from Chinese and Russians finally with Russia and there are so many other issues trade issues and also sanctions against certain Turkish political and bureaucratic figures and on top of this came the Gaza crisis where US I don't think put Turkey in the list of countries that they have to consult from the very beginning instead the building can you remember in the first tour of his Middle East it went to all the capitals in the Gulf and the Middle East except Turkey now after visiting so many other countries including South Cyprus and Gaza in and also West Bank and back that he came to Ankara he just listened and probably he pushed for a couple of conditions including how Hamas should be treated by Ankara which doesn't see it as a terrorist organization and this is a big problem of course I'm sure Blinken brought also some messages from Tel Aviv to Ankara but Erdogan although he's very harsh critic of Israel protesting playing to the domestic audience as well and he made it clear that he's not going to disrupt the relations with Israel not cut off although both countries withdrew their ambassadors mutually for consultations so I hope that this crisis will be brought to a satisfactory solution for Israel Palestinians and so that both Israel and Turkey because well quite because Turkey and Israel have built up substantial economic ties over the years haven't they they have had a rocky road diplomatic wise especially with Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Erdogan but do you think Israel will be interested in restoring ties with Turkey after what President Erdogan has said he's been the strongest supporters or strongest supporter of Hamas in the region in recent days I think it's going to be difficult because it took already such a great pain to restore the relations just before the Hamas attack there was a hope that both nations and also in the region through Abrahamic course and peace with Turkey and Turkey's relations improving all the both countries and Middle Eastern countries but now going back to where we were I think would be quite difficult because for Israel I understand that this also very emotional issue and as it is for the Palestinians and the trust is key now I don't think that both sides will trust each other for some time to come and it's a pity all right Mehmet I've got too great to talk to you we appreciate it thank you very much indeed my pleasure well Ambassador Daniel Shek is with me in the studio do you think that ties between Israel and Turkey can be repaired after this well to be honest Laura trust is really the last word I would ever use to describe the relations between Turkey and Israel it has been the most volatile and unreliable relationship that you can imagine there have been so many ups and downs I can't count the number of times that ambassadors were withdrawn and then there was a big celebration of reunification and falling into each other's arms and we're allies again etc and just a few months later things look like they do now so I suspect that in Israel after the experience of the last few decades that's as long as it has gone on the last renewal of relations which was celebrated rightly so it's a good thing I was not the only one sitting in the studio saying you know don't hold your breath be cautious I'm thinking back to the summer when the authorities in Istanbul helped to thwart a terrorist attack against Israelis I mean that's how close the security cooperation yeah absolutely by the way I'm not sure that the security cooperation is going to end these corporations that serve both sides have a tendency to survive even the most tumultuous diplomatic umbrolios so it might happen I don't know for sure but this might might go on but in general I think of course it's a pity because Turkey is an important player in the region but currently it is just not tenable this relationship well it seems personal as well doesn't it between President Erdogan everything is personal for Erdogan you know I'm not shame we we don't have contact with your commentator in in Istanbul but everything is personal it's very personal it started the first big fight was between Shimon Peres and Erdogan believe me Shimon Peres is not somebody very abrasive it's he was he was universally like yeah quite quite a likable personality and yet things went sour what do you think Erdogan's long-term strategies then is because he has alienated quite a lot of countries in the region is he just deciding with Qatar I mean is this about his own political survival what to be honest I you know I don't know I'm I I'm not sure there is a long-term a long-term strategy or maybe there is one but it keeps changing so you never know exactly what the certainly his political survival is constant but how to achieve it is is a changing affair as far as Israel's concerned the damage has been done to that relationship yes until it decides otherwise I mean that is the current situation now if we're talking about personal grievances that have tarnished relations between Israel and other partner countries that we don't have to go as far as as Turkey we can see it on our own borders with Jordan the relations between Netanyahu and King Abdul the second are are virtually non-existent and the same with a cc of Egypt that since Netanyahu came back into power if you haven't heard the cc praise Hamas and say it's wrong to call them terrorists no you haven't but if we're talking about the personal element in relations between the countries obviously and we have heard we we have indeed heard condemnations on behalf of both countries that Israel has peace agreement peace agreements with regarding its current policies in the Gaza Strip but nothing as forceful even not from Jordan as what we're hearing coming out from Ankara and that is a source of concern for Israel moving forward diplomatically when it tries to reassess its relations with Turkey all right well another very complicated relation is between the United States and Iraq and as you've been reporting the US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken showed up late last night in Baghdad wearing a bulletproof vest take a look at Ariel's report as pro-Palestinian rallies continue to spread across the west and the middle east there's one country where anti-israel protests have gone one step farther than anyone our main demand is to allow us to go to Palestine to help the Palestinians let them open the borders and I will head there to fight or to provide moral or material aid we are ready for anything for more than two weeks now thousands of Iraqis have been amassing along the border with Jordan in addition to showing support for Hamas's October 7th massacre they demand free passage to reach the Gaza Strip following a call by Iraq's influential Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr to hold sit-in protests along Israel's borders until it stops bombing Gaza and Jordan which has been one of the most vocal countries opposing Israel's strikes on Gaza is worried that pro-Iranian militias in Iraq will try to take advantage of the situation we will not allow you to desecrate Jordan and we warn the people of the popular mobilization forces on the Iraqi border if you come close Jordan will be your graveyard Iraq's support of the Hamas-Iran axis comes as Tehran's proxies amplify their strikes against U.S. forces in Syria and Iraq on Sunday U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken visited Baghdad and met with Iraq's prime minister to try and prevent the conflict from spreading further across the region the following day however Prime Minister al-Sudani visited Tehran reaffirming with whom Baghdad's real allegiance lies those who want the conflict to be contained and not to spread to the entire region should pressure the Zionist regime to stop its military aggression and systematic slaughter and we've learned that Jordan intercepted a missile that was fired at Israel from Iraq just moving on from what you were saying there that is interesting as well isn't it indeed Laura this is a manifestation of the Jordanian fear coming from its border with Iraq the Jordanian military saying that it downed a missile launched from Iraq Iraqi territory it was downed on its northwestern part of the country and that it adds Jordan to Saudi Arabia that has downed missiles aimed at Israel and of course the the U.S. this is already emerging as a regional war before our eyes whether the sides involved want to or not right we even know that they have the hardware to do this to the technological capacity their their their friends with the Americans I imagine they have at least one patriot battery and so yes they have the capabilities well the Americans have said that they do not want this to turn into a regional war and that is why U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken turned up in Baghdad last night let's talk more about that now with Entifad Kanbar he's the former spokesperson for the Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq great to see you as always Entifad and I mean what what what did you get from that picture of the U.S. Secretary of State of the world's most powerful country showing up in Baghdad in the middle of the night wearing a bulletproof vest what was the image that you got there well when they say a picture better than thousand works that explain what we have been warning about for the past two years that the Biden administration policy was completely off the target completely erroneous because the Biden administration promoted Baghdad as a democratic stable country and they sided with Baghdad against for the example the best allies or the only allies to the United States in Iraq are the Kurds when Baghdad strangled the Kurds the United States and the White House too with Baghdad against Kurdistan standing with the enemies of the United States against the friends and the allies of the United States and that policy clearly proven wrong as we heard that Mr. Jack Sullivan said a few days before the 7th of October massacre that Middle East has not been quieter than that was their policy basically submit to Iran appease Iran give you on everything you want appease Iranian allies and hopefully the Middle East will be quiet guess what the mafia will not be quiet if you give them money and if you submit to them is they'll quite the opposite well I'm very worrying development on Iraq's border with Jordan anti-fad I mean we've seen as we just saw in that report thousands of protesters pro-Palestinian protesters trying to to move towards Jordan Jordan intercepting missile fired from Iraq towards Israel I mean is this Iran again behind all of this of course the Iraqi government is a major coalition of the what's called the coordination framework which is basically a group of Shia militias directly proxy Iran they don't hide it they say we are allies we are answerable to Khamenei and many of the people in the Iraqi government now main people are on U.S. treasury sanctions lists as terrorists like a age like it has been a lot of Iraq like a new job and all those people are getting paid salaries by the Iraqi government while they are attacking Israel attacking Saudi Arabia threatening Kuwait and threatening now Jordan so welcome to the reality versus the fiction or the fancy world that the Biden administration tried to convince the world that Baghdad is an ally Baghdad is not an ally by all means I think Prime Minister Hamid Shia and Sudan he tried very hard to hold the stick from the middle but it's very difficult with Iranian pressure on him and I don't feel he's in a good position in that regard just very quickly anti-fad do you see a shift in U.S. policy has this been a wake-up call for the Americans absolutely it's a it's a shock call not a wake-up call it's basically they we kept trying to convince them appeasing Iran is not going to work we tried in the past we we talked to the Iranians we are neighbors with Iran we never tried to do any aggression as Iraqis against Iran now you know I talked to young Iraqi activist every day inside Iraq they care nothing about Gaza or about what's happening they don't have money to feed their kids they don't have money to put on the table the dollar versus the Dinar has reached another spike to date 168 which is basically you have 40% inflation in Iraq now within few weeks so but the Iraqi government is basically maneuvered and and by Iran and their proxy of Iran thank you very much and if ever we appreciate it anti-fad can bar their former spokesman for the deputy prime minister of Iraq we're taking a short break stay with us past since october 7th the day israel was brutally attacked by Hamas a month since the black Sabbath when Hamas terrorists murdered over 1400 Israelis wounded thousands of others and took 240 people captive a month since the IDF entered a war against the vicious terrorist organization a month later i24 news returns to the place where it all began join us on November 7th only on i24 news back Hamas has claimed responsibility for a barrage of rockets fired northern Israel from Lebanon including one which reached close to Haifa the farthest a rocket from Lebanon has reached during this conflict a female police officer has died after she was stabbed by a Palestinian terrorist in the old city of Jerusalem another police officer was wounded and in Gaza IDF troops are moving deeper into Gaza city the IDF says it killed another senior Hamas commander during overnight airstrikes and in diplomacy the UN security council holding talks tonight ahead of an expected vote on a resolution for Gaza that's been put forward by the United Arab Emirates we'll get the latest from New York in just a few moments first though uh reports that the IDF is striking targets inside Lebanon following a barrage of some 30 rockets which were claimed by Hamas which were fired from Lebanon at northern Israel earlier this evening our correspondent Zach Anders is in northern Israel for us now Zach what's the latest well as you mentioned the IDF has made clear that at this hour they are striking Hezbollah targets once again in Lebanon there's a red alert for one of the border community Shatoula and that is ongoing in the seven o'clock hour here right about now at about seven ten we were able to count roughly 20 just over 20 artillery outgoing artillery fire in the span of about five minutes and that's outgoing towards the territory with Lebanon now our question at this hour are they striking in retaliation to those rocket strikes or those rocket launches that were earlier this afternoon one of those rocket launches made it a roughly 20 plus miles into northern Israel which would be one of the furthest launches since the 2006 war here a lot of questions on the border tonight as to what the level of engagement is if these are continued small skirmishes or if what we're hearing with the artillery this is combined with large ground operations as well yeah this tit for tat has been going on for a month now hasn't it Zach and as you've pointed out many Israeli civilians who live in the northern border communities have had to leave their homes and they've got no idea of when they'll be able to go back and they haven't been provided any sort of timeline as to how long this could last the ministry of tourism has been providing resources for people that live in these communities for long term housing in the south in communities that they consider safer so that might speak to what the at least some of the different ministries believe could be the situation here on the north for days if not weeks to come if this should continue and obviously they are communicating to the residents that it is not safe here that they are asking people to continue to evacuate to the south and in situations where they stay even to remain indoors in certain communities they've even been expressing that you should lock your doors and secure your property which is another new message that is being communicated to people that live here that hasn't been communicated as frequently in the past it's becoming more and more frequently now today. Zach thank you very much indeed and as they're reporting from Israel's northern border where there has been a significant escalation today well our senior editor Guy Azrael is with me in the studio and Guy we were just talking about thousands of Israeli civilians having to move away from the northern border with Lebanon in Gaza we're seeing efforts to move ghazan civilians south away from the conflict zone in northern Gaza yes we're talking about hundreds of thousands of Israelis and a lot more of them of course in Gaza being displaced the IDF is saying that between 800 to 900 thousand Palestinians have already moved from the northern part of the of the Gaza Strip to the southern part this is as the IDF and Israel has been pushing them for so long for over three weeks now reiterating that they have a safe zone in the southern part of the Gaza Strip and they should there as the IDF continues its ground operation against Hamas in the northern part of the Gaza Strip and as part of that ground operation the IDF exposes more and more launch sites of Hamas including in civilian areas in civilian infrastructure we spoke about hospitals and today the IDF is also also showing us footage of rocket launchers this time in a scout club maybe let's take a listen to what the IDF has to show we are in a scout club of the northern Gaza Strip you can see here all the nice paintings of the nice scouts and within the same room you can see here come with me you can see rocket launchers aimed at the Ashkelon area or the northern region right inside the scout club yes so the IDF destroying today 50 rocket launchers in those sites including that scout club and as we mentioned that's humanitarian corridor well today the IDF has also revealed footage aerial footage of Gaza residents making their way from the north to the south of the Gaza Strip we know that for quite a long time Hamas has been making it very difficult for the residents there to make their way into the safe zone well the IDF today at least the showing footage of residents doing that today many of them are able to do so and that is essential if the IDF wants to reduce the number of civilians that are being hurt by this ground operation because Israel is controlling the road which goes south the south right and the IDF basically separated Gaza into two the northern and the southern part and this main street in Gaza is that safe zone that allows Gazans in certain hours that the IDF declares about to make their way safely into where they can get shelter food water and medicine all right guys thank you very much guys we are there and of course the big challenge for Israel is Daniel Shek getting to the 240 plus hostages who are being held by terrorists inside Gaza Prime Minister Netanyahu met with the foreign ambassador's foreign envoy today and he says that they should get together and pressure the Red Cross to demand access to the hostages we of course haven't had proof of life of the hostages at all well that is the right thing to do and that is what we are doing also in the civil society part of this operation the forum of the families of hostages you know it's not that we don't believe the Red Cross that they're doing what they can in order to gain access in order to gain access Hamas has to give them access which clearly isn't the case for now but we certainly think that it's a good thing to remind the Red Cross any way and any day it's possible that that is what they were created for humankind created the Red Cross to intervene in extreme humanitarian crises and this definitely qualifies as one do you think there's any kind of diplomatic track with regard to Qatar which has always tried to position itself as some kind of mediator well I don't know for sure I want to be honest here I'm not in the secret of things but clearly Qatar is one of the conduits by the way for the Red Cross too the Red Cross tells us that they have contact with Hamas both locally in Gaza through their local personnel they're not many people but there are a few and in Doha in Qatar so they are talking to Hamas but clearly to no avail for the moment yeah and 31 days now that those yes and yeah and obviously things are getting more and more difficult for the families especially those of the more fragile hostages the elderly the the young children there are people with chronic illnesses even banal things in everyday life like diabetes or asthma suddenly become a life-threatening issue a baby away from its mother for a month of course unthinkable okay well um a police officer a female police officer has died after she was stabbed by a Palestinian terrorist in Jerusalem's old city this morning a second officer was wounded our correspondent Nicole Zedek has this report police officers here at the Shalom police station in Jerusalem they are still on high alert as this is exactly where two border officers were stabbed right at the entrance to this police station earlier today now the suspected terrorist was shot dead here at the scene he was a 16 year old boy from east Jerusalem now not far from here another suspect was detained and being questioned for his involvement into this terror attack but unfortunately this is not the first terror attack that this exact police station has seen within the past month just last month two officers here were shot from another suspected terrorist and because of all of this activity you're seeing these police officers are on high alert and they're adding security as well some of these concrete blocks these were not here earlier in the day throughout the day officers have been increasing security not only adding concrete blocks to exactly where they are in front of the entrance but also all along here none of these concrete barriers were here earlier in the day but throughout the day they've been adding some of this increased security to add a small barrier between some of the residents and the police station now I want to add it's not just the security that we're seeing adding here as well they're not just adding these concrete barriers they're also adding dozens of Israeli flags none of these were here at the beginning of the day earlier but throughout the day they've been adding dozens of these lining both sides of the police station as a symbol of of the Israeli pride that continues to be here so even following a terror attack at this police station not the first one and likely not the last even though police officers are on high alert they say they'll continue to wave the Israeli flag and protect the community here in East Jerusalem against any other suspected terror attacks reporting in Jerusalem for I-24 News I'm Nicole Zedek there we are a deadly terrorist attack in Jerusalem claimed the life of a female police officer today and Guy we're we're saying aren't we you know a lot of concern about what's happening in in Jerusalem and the west bank and you've got some news on an operation that took place today in the west bank town of Tulkaram yes a combined operation of the IDF and the Shin Bet in Tulkaram in the west bank taking down four terror operatives in that city according to the IDF those four were responsible for a series of terror attacks including shooting attacks and explosives and also sending terrorists into Israeli territory and what's interesting perhaps is they included operatives terror operatives both from Hamas and from Tach and from Fatah and this operation in broad daylight shooting at the car of those four terrorists in broad daylight and I hope we can see the footage very soon of this idea of operation well we'll get it for you later on in any case just another demonstration of the really extensive activity of the IDF and the Shin Bet in the west bank trying to keep that front under control as of course the IDF forces are highly active around the Gaza of course and the northern front wanting to at least keep that arena of the west bank and and Jerusalem under control and this requires daily operations arrest raids we've seen hundreds of such arrests over the past four weeks and also taking down what is happening guy we know that lots of Palestinians who live in the west bank have permits to come and work in Israel during normal times I'm presuming that all of that has been suspended well that initially was the case as of course they had the attack on that Saturday caught so many Israelis unprepared and also traumatized by the fact that so many of these Palestinians who worked in Israeli homes in the southern communities well many of them used that opportunity to provide information to Hamas about that attack giving them very detailed maps and information about each house how many residents in each in each house where is there a dog etc etc so there was quite a big fear about bringing in workers from the west bank but we know that some of them have definitely have come in because Israel is eager for working hands but that is more the case for industrial areas in the west bank and not so much for inside Israel as in this time of emergency all right we're good to get an update on that guy thank you very much indeed guy and Daniel check I just want to draw your attention to a report impact say it's called the group they say that on Ra this is the UN agency dedicated to Palestinian refugees and their descendants some of their members have expressed praise for the Hamas terrorist attacks one teacher calling it an unforgettable glorious morning another one saying what a splendid site I mean this is part of the problem isn't it this um relentless incitement of the Palestinian people you know sadly I can't say I'm totally surprised or shocked by the by this information it's not UNRA as an organization obviously that's making such statements but there are many Gazans who are who are employed by by UNRA some of them are teachers as you say and some of them are other relief workers but teachers you know you you can't but feel shocked by the sense that this is the kind of education that they're trying to provide to their to their pupils and their students um what can you say it's uh you imagine a person devoting itself to educating children as somebody who wants to instill in them you know all sorts of values that are not necessarily hatred and and brutality but it is what it is yeah okay well the UN Security Council has been holding a meeting tonight this is ahead of a vote that's supposed to take place tomorrow on the situation in Gaza the United Arab Emirates has called for a vote but all previous resolutions on Gaza have failed our senior US correspondent Mike Wagenheim joins us now from New York Mike tell us what was the purpose of today's meeting what was said well it's not going to take place for a few more hours lower the security council meeting which was called for not only by the UAE but also China and it'll be in the closed consultations format which means there's a lot of discussion that needs to be had ahead of any potential vote on what would be the fifth resolution on this particular issue as you mentioned all four two by Russia one by the US one by Brazil have failed for one reason or another Malta has presented a new resolution on behalf of the 10 unelected members of the security council but there is still language that needs to be adjusted in both directions which is very difficult to do for this to have any momentum carrying forward whether there is an actual vote on this newest resolution still yet to be determined it might happen tomorrow might not happen at all much to be discussed in these closed consultations later on today in the meantime secretary general Antonio Gutierrez gave a statement here at the UN a few moments ago calling the situation right now in this particular war not just a humanitarian crisis but a crisis of humanity he mentioned without qualification for the first time the the massacre perpetrated by Hamas and the inhumanity behind it there was no qualification there was no but there was no it didn't happen in a vacuum first time he's mentioned it in and of itself which I probably too little too late for Israeli authorities at this time he also did go into detail about his meetings with the families of Israeli hostages being held by Hamas and mention some specific quotes from those meetings let's give a listen this is moment ago UN secretary general Antonio Gutierrez I think of all those tortured and killed in Israel nearly one months ago and the hostages abducted from their homes their families their friends while simply living their lives 10 days ago I met with some of the family members of those hostages I heard their stories felt their anguish and was deeply moved by their compassion I will never relent in working for their immediate release this is essential in itself and central to solving many other challenges one mother movingly shared with me her desolation over her abducted son she also spoke outside the Security Council and on the subject of confronting hatred she said and I quote when you only get outraged when one side's babies are killed then your moral compass is broken and your humanity is broken and quote I guess a question at this point in time Laura is is is that moral compass really being shown by the other side at this point in time rather than just the Israeli side still plenty to talk about here in the coming hours and days at the United Nations all right and if you would we know the US Secretary of State Tony Blinken's wrapped up his at whirlwind tour of the region including that surprise visit to Iraq do you think he managed to get any assurances about protecting US assets in the region listen it's an it's a imperative of the Iraqi Prime Minister to make sure those attacks don't count forward he's gone public many times even though there's obviously an alliance there with Iran to say that attacks on Iraq regardless of who they're against go against the premise of Iraqi sovereignty however much he actually means that in practice it hasn't really held up in the past I'm not really sure it will in the future but at least Blinken trying to get on the same page as the Iraqis they're going for also by the way a meeting with the the Turkish foreign minister before Blinken took off for Tokyo it was noticeable though he met with the foreign minister Erdogan nowhere to be found he was hanging out in a in a resort outside of Ankara not meeting with with Anthony Blinken it's such a perilous time here for the region and just before you go Mike I mean there's a new US poll out it says that overall support for Israel among the public in the United States stands at 65 percent but if you look within that it does change dramatically by age that's right and it's it's quite frightening here and I think it's a wake-up call not only for the pro-Israel community but the global diaspora as to the losing battle that's been waged on college campuses even down to the the high school and the the primary education level in terms of Israel in terms of a global Jewry there was just a briefing held here earlier this morning I attended by the Israeli mission to the United Nations talking with ambassadors from around the globe about the current rise of anti-Semitism since Hamas's massacre on on October 7th what it means in principle what it means in practice there were a lot of stunned faces in the room again what it actually translates to when those ambassadors go back to their capitals and talk to their governments it obviously hasn't much had an impact yet but this is not an immediate concern Lord this is a long-term concern this has happened this sea change over many many years now it's not going to change overnight after this war is over the Israeli you know a hasbro community global diaspora leaders are really going to have to get together and think about a long-term change in how they approach this issue those numbers we're seeing it out on the streets they don't lie all right Mike thanks very much Mike Wagenheim there all right well you heard the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres there talking about how he was deeply moved when he met with the families of some of the hostages and those people absolutely desperate now 31 days their loved ones their children their parents brothers sisters partners being held by terrorists in Gaza and our Mary McCauliffe is at an event tonight in Tel Aviv Mary what's happening that's right Laura so this is one of those many exhibitions here throughout Tel Aviv we were just in a different location of hostage square that's taken over this area and central Tel Aviv or many of the hostage families but also people who just live in the city have come to show their support for the families of these hostages here in Habima Square there's due to be a performance shortly there's going to be a hundred different people who are all speaking taking part in this storytelling to tell some of the stories of the victims of some of the hostages who remain in captivity over 30 days now inside the Gaza Strip we'll see here many different exhibitions shut up we have these empty beds Gil Kremmer behind the camera will show you some of the different scenes that we have here but many people have coming out here and if you notice there are a number of different people in black these are all going to be part of the performance that's due to begin shortly but here in Habima we also have the countdown of how many hours days minutes that these hostages have been held inside the Gaza Strip down to the amount of seconds that they are still inside and just one of many different ways that people here in Tel Aviv have been coming out to not just support the families but also to stand together as one to say that we are all together we're all here calling to bring the hostages home this exhibition is one of these events that's been organized by these families in this association whose mission was created solely to bring back these hostages yeah it's yet another one of those kind of visuals that shows you just how many people are being held in Gaza and I mean when you talk to the the families it's unthinkable what they're going through but do you think that they get some kind of comfort from the fact that they are in it together that they you know they can only understand each other and understand what the other is going through absolutely it's really incredible scenes just to feel the solidarity that are among some of these families to be together again not just the families were coming out but also just all kinds of Israelis were coming out to be with them we spoke just a few moments ago to the cousin of one of the hostages who he was taken from the nova festival and they're still they're coming every day he said their families are doing shifts coming out so every single day they have somebody from the family representing them here and I asked them how they felt about the government response if they felt they were being taken care of because the primary mission of this group is calling to bring the hostages home to put pressure on the government and he said we've heard from them they've expressed their support but really we don't need help from the government what we need help from and what we've been receiving is the solidarity and the support from all the different Israelis who've just come out to be with them we've seen there's empty beds here over there they also had empty chairs as well as a Shabbat table that was laid out with a seat for every single one of those hostages every single night they have performances music shows prayer circles so it's really is it's quite an emotional atmosphere you know many people coming not even related to the hostages just tears on the faces of many of them you can just see the pain in their eyes but also seeing the comfort that they're getting just being together all right mary thank you mary mcculliff there and daniel shek it is the hardest part of this horrible war isn't it yeah i'd just like to say um what we heard from antonio with cherish just uh underlines the power of these personal meetings with the families and at the forum of the families we really put an emphasis on this and i can't say enough praise and admiration for these families members who tell their story again and again but it's very powerful this same good cherish who was very much under attack a few a week and a half ago because of a statement that was uh considered to be at best clumsy here he tells the story of a mother that he that he met personally so it's really something that we do again and again we have to meet foreign representatives here and we send delegations overseas to meet people and you have to put a human face on what is a very abstract story and yeah just to add to it antonio she's also getting a lot of fire right at this hour after uh also saying gaza is becoming a graveyard for children hundreds of girls and boys are reportedly being killed or injured every day uh obviously giving his uh both sides of the story but getting a lot of fire from israel for uh the way he describes what is happening in gaza whereas other world leaders have been both vocal about israel's right to defend itself right and we've seen a lot of marches in global capitals demanding a ceasefire we haven't seen very many people demanding the hostages be released of course but certainly a change in tone i think from antonio guterish tonight after he met with the the families of some of the hostages uh and as you say you have to really admire them to keep going after 31 days with the the absolute agony that they're going through all right well Daniels check thank you to you thanks guy uh do stay with us uh on i24 news kelev bendavid uh will be with you next we'll have all the very latest on the operation inside gaza there have also been developments in the north after a barrage of some 30 rockets were fired at northern israel israel has been striking back tonight we'll have the latest on that as well so don't go anywhere