 who say hello now to Shai and Nir Arad, brothers of missing Auryarad, was at the music festival turned massacre. Shai, Nir, how are you? This is the only one I can even think to begin our conversation. How are you? Hi Ali, as for us, the heart is broken and we are in completely darkness waiting for any clue, any information about the situation of our brother, only that just went to a party to be a bartender and to be, and to enjoy his, and to enjoy and to be happy with his friends and nothing else. To celebrate life, to celebrate peace. Celebrate life, definitely. Tell us about what you know, when was the last time you spoke to Auryarad, when was the last time you had any clue of his whereabouts? Okay, so the situation is following around six a.m. on Saturday, he called to our father and update that there is a missus alarm. He and his friends found the cover under the deck of the bar and they waited to hear the interception of the Iwon don't, so they'll be ready to go out. Few moments afterwards, he and his friends ran to the cows and started driving home in two vehicles and my brother was alone in his car. He saw in the side of the road two girls that tried to escape as well. They was very nervous and afraid. And our brother with his special self-control and nonchalant, he just told them with a smile, jumping girls, I will take you home, don't worry, it's on me. They started to drive, but in a moment, dozens of terrorists blocked the road from everywhere, from both sides and started to shoot on them. At that moment, Ory called again to our father. He told him that he's surrounded by dozens of terrorists. They are shooting them with machine guns, with Kalashnikovs, with hand grenades. He update my father that he must to take an action. He cannot stay in the car, he cannot leave the car and hide in the field or something like that because they're shooting the people like ducks. He said that he will confront them. He took a decision and speed up and tried to avoid them. Since it was the only choice to escape this horror massacre, my father told him, do what you need, I believe in you, I trust you, be strong and go ahead. So he speed up against them, but they shoot the car, he injured, he lost control on the car and that's the result, the car flipped twice and he lost his conscience. While the two girls had minor injuries, the girls pretended to be dead. But after 20 minutes, our brother Ory started to regain his conscience, but the terrorists noticed it and in act of a pure evil, shooting again in a scene taken from the Holocaust period. It's terrifying. We got the entire story early from the girls that he saved. We found them on Saturday noon and they told us about the story. They called him the angel that came from the sky to save them. And in the summer from Saturday in 7 a.m., we didn't hear nothing from our brother. In the end of the day, we don't have any official information about Ory. I don't know, we don't know if he's alive and in injured in hospital or he's still in the field. Is he dead? Is he kidnapped? Nothing, we are in completely darkness. So until this point, even now when it seems at least that authorities are starting to wake up, you have heard nothing official, no one contact you? Nothing, nothing, nothing. We don't know anything about the destiny of our brother. It's incomprehensible, really. Well, we do know that families such as yourselves, representatives met with the Israeli president today of so many people. Their whereabouts are unknown. Some we know are in the Gaza Strip. Others not quite yet. Then telling him that the world needs to wake up and help and this is what part of the reason that we're talking to today. The world is listening, people all across the globe are listening. What do you wanna tell them? How can we help? Yo, I want to introduce our brother because Ory is an extraordinary young man. He's full of life, he's happy, he's talent. He's always surrounded by friends and family. And he had the entire future ahead of him. He just came back after a long trip in Asia. He traveled there with his friends and he should start his university degree in psychology and economic in few days next week. He's very special. When he entered to a room, he had like an aura around him with a huge light. This is the definition of his name. Ory is my light. Because when he entered to a room, he bring light and happiness to people. He was the, he is, I don't want to speak in a fast. He is the most beautiful and charming young man, full of ideals, hearts, always willing to assist and help. He loves the life and knows how to leave them to the maximum. And we are praying for good news but expecting for the worst. And I think we are interviewing with you guys today because I think that in the end of the day, this is time that we need to be united against the few rival. Hamas is equal to ISIS and we need to eliminate it together. It's not something that Israel can do alone and we need everybody in the same group now because this is horror. I don't have any other war to explicit myself in this situation. You couldn't be any clearer. And in that spirit, you translated your brother's name and by the way, throughout our conversation, we're seeing pictures of your beautiful brother and his big, big smile, my light. And this is indeed a fight of light versus darkness. And we are sending a big, big hug to you and to your parents from here and hopefully sooner rather than later. Or his smile will illuminate the room once again. With you, I am sure that he cannot be any prouder to see how much his big brothers are fighting for him. Thank you so much. Thank you, Ali. Shai and Ilaqad for speaking with us. Thank you. Bye-bye. Bye, thank you. All right, we're taking a deep breath but staying very much on topic because we all live in this nightmare that no one's able to wake up from really. Everyone in this country and abroad, part of this sense of shock, of anger, of pain, of helplessness, but part of the way to win, so to speak, this vicious war is to stay resilient. And our mental health is paramount. It is not something to address later. There is such a thing as emotional first aid and there are tools that can help. So we want to turn now to Aiella Chmuel, director of the International Resilience Center. Aiella, thank you very much for joining us. And I think perhaps that we should open by saying that we are all in deep sorrow and great distress. These are uncharted emotional territories for every single one. And perhaps this validation is stage one. You could say that. You could say that it's stage one. So I just want to say something. I live in Ashkelon and I work in Sirot and right now I'm in my parent house just because we need to stay together. They just found five terrorists not far away from here that they portrayed in the city. So and they were caught. So if there's gonna be a siren, I just want to give you guys a heads up. Well, this is a crazy reality. You're talking about resilience and you're calming us down, yeah. Yes, I am. The idea is that in this situation, right? Nothing is safe and nothing is secure. So you have to go for the inside. You have to go for the strengths and the resources that you actually have. You don't focus on what you don't have. You focus on what you do have in this moment. This is a crazy reality for us. We've never seen anything like this. It is very, very sad. However, in order for us to go through this, right now we have to find how to get everybody back to functionality, to go into their role, find something where they can go back to this continuity of functioning. And in order to do that, you have to go to the inside. You cannot anymore think, oh, I have a bone shelter, I'm gonna be okay. Because our reality has changed. You could go to the bone shelter but someone is gonna wait for you with a gun. Right. So you have to find the resilient mode in you on the inside. And this is what I do, this is what I've been doing for the past few days. I've been training hundreds of psychotherapists, mental health interventionists, and mental health professionalists in this country that know how to do therapy but don't know how to do mental health intervention in order for us to be able to reach anyone that needs the support because Israel is resilient. We are hurting and this is very hard for us but make no mistakes. This country is resilient. We are gonna come back from this and you would wish that you never missed with us. Honest to God, this is a tough time for us and a lot of people are wounded. We are mentally bleeding, we're emotionally bleeding but at the same time, be resilient means you take the difficult times and you function while this is happening. Crying. And this is what this country knows how to do. Crying and fighting, right? Crying and shooting as the phrase goes. You know, just before we began our conversation we spoke to brothers of one of many missing persons that there are so many who are waiting for the smallest clue of their loved one. So many who've been through hell and back down south, the survivors that is, so many who have already lost their beloved. How do you cope with the not knowing and how do you deal with the knowing of the terrible reality? So the uncertainty is the biggest enemy that we have, right? The biggest thing that will take someone and will shake their mental health is the fact that we don't have control. Really in crisis mode, we do not have control. And right now, uncertainty is the key. And you feel helpless, waiting to hear what's happening with our loved ones can drive a person mad. The key to handling these kind of situations is to stay in action, to do something about it. To not just stay, stay in your emotions, feel them a little bit and then go into an action mode. Constantly switch from feeling it to doing something about it. And something about it can mean I wanna talk to anybody that I know. I wanna see if I can write stuff. I wanna go to the media. I wanna, whatever it is that you can do to stay on topic and in action, it's probably better for you in the end. Now, what you're talking about is God forbid if the end result is that we get the worst news. And when you switch into the worst news, you're already moving into grief and loss. And grief and loss is a different reality. Grief and loss is something that needs to be processed. However, we are in a national emergency, in a national crisis. There are fighting everywhere. You still need people as they grieve to stay functional, to take care of their families and whoever is still left. These brothers have each other. They cannot fall completely apart. They have to have a meeting and the meaning that they have is to take care of each other, even when they're grieving. So finding a meeting will keep you resilient. Getting a role will keep you resilient. Staying in active and in action will keep you more resilient and probably less prone to PTSD. Even though, again, I'm gonna say that because the side note here is that the sites are horrific. And people are being exposed to these images all the time. And it's getting worse because the images are coming in. So this exposure can do a lot of damage to a lot of people. I really encourage people not to stay glued to the TV. Because what it does is it does a lot of psychological damage at this point. Well, if there's any piece of TV you had to watch today is this conversation with Ayala Chmuel, who gave all of us a second wind and some tools to deal with the tough days that we've been through in the tough days ahead. Ayala Chmuel, director of the International Resilience Center, down south, first and foremost, stay safe physically and mentally. Thank you for this. And hopefully we'll talk at better times yet again. Thank you. All right. We wanna circle back to what is currently unfolding on the ground and across now to IDF International Spokesperson Jonathan Conricus. Hey, Mr. Conricus, good to see you. Yeah, I will ask you to try and help us map the current state of affairs. So many different arenas, so many different threats. And yet there is a certain sense of a changing momentum. Well, the situation is extremely dynamic. As we speak, there are live firefights in various locations in southern Israel still, reports coming out of Ashkelon. And just a few hours ago, Israeli troops were able to kill four terrorists who tried to approach an Israeli community, Mefalsim, luckily without significant casualties. And the border area is active with attempts by Hamas and other terrorists to infiltrate, despite the fact that we have reinforced the area heavily and have done extensive activities on the border in order to plug the openings that were created by Hamas some three days ago as they invaded into Israel. So, Lieutenant Colonel Conricus, I just wanna make sure that I understand there is still a threat of a active Hamas terrorist within Israeli territory and the fear of fresh infiltration into Israeli territory down south. Yeah, the reports I'm getting are of Hamas terrorist using aerial means, type of gliders or buckeyes that we saw them use on Sunday morning as well. Those are the reports that I have now. And yes, there are also reports of terrorists that have laid low and stayed inside Israel and then engaged with Israeli troops. The bottom line is what we know. This is a war, the realm of uncertainty and there are many, many things happening at the same time in the south, along the border inside Israel. I am happy to say that most of the communities in southern Israel in the Gaza envelope have been evacuated. There's a few Israelis still there, but by and large, no civilians left. This allows the IDF with a much more flexibility to operate and less risk for additional loss of life. And as we speak, the IDF is striking targets in Gaza. We have been striking targets in Gaza over the last day at a very high pace. Hundreds of tons of ordnance have been dropped at Hamas targets in Gaza, all of them, of course, military targets. I've heard the misnomers and the absurd claims not necessarily on this network, but elsewhere that we're striking civilian buildings. That is not the case. We are striking military targets. Of course, Hamas doesn't advertise them being the cowards that they are. They never advertise which buildings they use and there's no sign of this is the Hamas headquarters for developing weapons or projecting terrorism. And the buildings may look like civilian, but they're not, they're military targets. We're striking them. We have mobilized more than 300,000 Israeli soldiers that are now deployed along the border in southern Israel, getting ready, getting their kit adjusting, preparing and getting battle ready. These are troops from infantry, armor, artillery, combat engineers and intelligence, and they are getting ready to execute the mission. And the objective that we are focused on doing is to take away all of Hamas's military capabilities and to make sure that the day after this war ends, Hamas does not possess any military capabilities. Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Conricus, thank you, IDF International spokesperson. Thank you so very much for this. And we'll obviously tune back in with you later on and this war, what seems to be a prolonged war still ahead. Thank you very much, Lieutenant Colonel Conricus. And before we get here in studio to try and analyze what is happening and what is still to come, we want to head now to I-24 News Senior Diplomatic correspondent Owen Alterman down south at the Barcelona Hospital. Owen, I do want to begin with something that I keep on stressing in recent days because it is important to frame this discussion properly, has nothing to do with politics, but rather an issue of national security. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meeting with Benny Gantz, one of the leaders of the opposition today, but still this hour as day four of the war is coming to an end, no unity, government, what are they waiting for? What could possibly be the sticking things? Yeah, Ellie, it's obviously been taking a while. We're promised it's going to be happening soon. The state of play is this, the heads of the parties in the current coalition essentially gave Netanyahu a green light to go ahead and sign whatever deal he feels is appropriate with Benny Gantz. What's the holdup again? The expectation is Netanyahu and Gantz are going to meet and finalize this, but Gantz of course wants influence in decision making. That's one of the reasons he wants to join the government so that he of course will bear responsibility for the results, but in exchange for bearing responsibility for the results, he obviously wants real influence over decision making, but decision making influences in a sense a zero sum game. So Benny Gantz and Gaddy Eisenkott also from his party, two former heads of the Israeli military, so obviously people with lots and lots of experience and knowledge and presumably wisdom, if they get more power around the decision making table, they're going to be losers as well within the coalition, right? Especially Betel, Smotric, Netamar, Ben Beir, with their two far right parties, potentially inside the Likutu, so Benjamin Netanyahu presumably trying to work that balancing act, but Ellie, again, viewers can understand from your question just how much pressure there is on Netanyahu from all directions within the coalition, outside the coalition, from across the spectrum in the society to get this deal done and to get some kind of unity government with Gantz and Gaddy Eisenkott's expertise around the cabinet table. By the way, here in Ashkelon, we should mention just over the course of the last hour, reports, substantiated reports of at least one terrorist infiltrating from Gaza with a parachute, Ellie, by air, right? The land border presumably closed off at this point, at least, closed off by the military, the sea heavily guarded, so the air is the last way in. This terrorist reportedly entered by air and has been neutralized, we understand, in the southern part of this city. The incident may not have been completed at least at this hour. There are sweeps being done to see if there were other infiltrations as well. Caused a moment of concern, I should say, here at the hospital while it was ongoing, but that seems to have subsided. Beyond that, I have to say, we cannot count, literally, I've lost track of how many rounds of sirens there have been, the biggest at the five o'clock hour, just about five hours ago, a huge barrage from Gaza with very, very loud booms. I, like all of us, have been through plenty of these at this point, the loudest and most numerous that I can remember. Everybody went into the hospital emergency room behind me, which is heavily fortified, as one would imagine in a place like this. So it was a safe place to be. But obviously, as always with these, we barrage the rocket fire, disruptive, it takes a psychological toll. And by the way, we should say, Ali, there was a direct hit on a building not far from the hospital. 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Whether the Southern Front is sealed or whether we can say that all Israeli territory, and again, no matter how many times that we'll use those terms, have been liberated. And while this is happening, what is the state of affairs of the Israeli offense in the Gaza Strip? Well, I'll try to analyze the complicated situation. It's not easy for everyone. The IDF has, I would say, a few main goals. Without priority, I would say. First, is to bring back the Israeli control on the ground completely, 100% till the end of the last centimeter, if you want. A lot of the Kibbutzim and so on. It's a complicated mission, but it's a question of time. Till the last, I would say, territories will bring back to our control, but in order to kill the last terrorist, and you never know what you don't know. Right. And to analyze everything, to analyze the topographic, to analyze the data, the sensors, and so on. Let's simplify it to the last terrorist who is hiding in an attic. Hiding inside a forest, right? It's a complicated issue. To locate everyone, you have to use the old, I would say, digital instrument, boots on the ground, combat units, special units, and so on. Step by step, stage after stage, and so on. You have, I would say, the Western Negev, or the Southern Negev on the, or North end. Right. It's a wide area, and it takes time. Right. This is the first mission, high priority in order, of course, to bring back also the self-confidence to every Israeli, which is live over there or not in the other areas. This is the first mission. The second mission, in a parallel time, is to continue, achieve the, I would say, the military goals and the other goals, targets, if you want, inside that strip. And Colonel Evitar, I want to ask what many of our viewers are asking themselves in human language, not in a military language. Are we seeing anything different than the scope and scale or the intensity of attack that we've seen so far in those rounds of fighting with Gaza? You know, you know how you start. You don't know how it will be continued, and of course, until the, I would say, the final. Right. But there is a frame. In this frame, you can include or, let's say, speak about a few main targets. The one, or the first one, is the leadership of Hamas. When you say leadership, you don't mean about, you don't mean about, I would say, dozens. Hundreds, thousands. Because there is no differences. No gap, no distance, nothing, between the military branch, political branch, economic branch, and so on. They're all the same section, under the same umbrella, right? So you have to achieve to reach to every one of them. We know, for sure, that hundreds of those senior commanders, soldiers, and so on, of Hamas movement are underground. The basement of Gaza. Yeah. Dozens of meters underground, which calls the metro of Gaza. For sure, this group knows for sure that in the end of the day, they have to see the sun, right? They will go out. It could be months, it could be months, it could be years, okay? But in the end of the day, the Israeli mission is to reach to everyone, right? In creative ways, you can just imagine. It's not a simple target, it's not a simple, I would say, ways, but in the end of the day, it will be. You have to consider priorities. You cannot kill everyone, right? But you have to consider priorities. So I would say the elite of the Hamas, this is the first or the second target. Second or third is to create or to bring, I would say, a huge damage to the military capabilities. Yes. Which means rockets. And yet we're seeing today, rockets continuing to be launched. Of course. But Colonel, they want to show that, they want to show that they continue to control the events, right? Yeah, we do want to jump to the northern front because what yesterday, yesterday we said that the north front is waking up. Today we can say it is up and running. I-24 News, Middle East correspondent, Ariel Asaron up there in the north. Some, several incidents today, incidents perhaps an understatement. And also some civilian ordered to evacuate, to evacuate themselves on border community. So let's try to understand what is happening on the northern front with Lebanon today. Right, Ellie. So before we touch on the border with Lebanon, let's jump a little further east to the border with Syria where not too long ago, the IDF issued a statement saying that a number of launches, probably mortars were launched towards Israel. Some of them crossed the border. Others landed inside Syria. The ones that crossed into Israeli territory landed in open fields. There were no injuries as a response of this, but it sounds like Israel's neighbors on its northern border listened to, or at least heard US President Biden's warning not for any organization or state to join in, take advantage of the situation. So neither Hezbollah listened to it today and it appears that certain elements in Syria, again, it's hard to tell at this point who is behind this mortar launch towards Israel from southern Syria. But indeed, as you mentioned, the northern border is indeed awake and this has Israeli forces on high alert with thousands, tens of thousands of reserve duty already deployed across the border. They are prepared and they are looking vigilantly as the different developments take place. Well, Ariel Osiron, if the Israeli mobilization and presence there wasn't enough, message from Washington that not leaving any room for doubt. So we will thank you at this point in time. My 24 news Middle East correspondent, Ariel Osiron, up north, thank you for this. And we will turn to Terri Newman here with us. In studio, Mr. Newman, you probably would the rest of us listen to at least a part of the speech of American president, US Biden. If I may, a speech that will easily go in the history books, a remarkable speech. No doubt that the US is standing by Israel, not just in rhetoric, but in action. What's your take on what we've heard from the American president? Well, I think the president's speech was an immensely strong speech. And I think what he did appropriately was not just to frame this as the worst day in Israeli history, but he also referred to the Holocaust. He said, this is in effect the worst day in the Jewish world since the Holocaust. And we should all stop for a moment and think about the meaning of that. What that means is not just for Israel, but for Jewish communities all around the world. You know, there are obviously US citizens who are among those who are murdered, but I can tell you that anti-Semitic incidents have already started in London, in France, in the United States. And as this develops, I think we're going to see a crisis, not just worsening here, but also around the world, and we need to be ready for that. And knowing that America has our back is massively important. I think it sends a message to the Israeli population that we are not alone, that we are on the front line against this war, against the evil world of terror, but it also sends a message to our enemies, not to try anything. And I think it also sends a message to all of the Western world that Jews, wherever you are, you are safe, and that is so important. But you know what, Mr. Newman, I beg to differ in the sense that at least this is the way I heard it. Maybe I am far from partial at this point in time. And yet, the American president did not just send a message to Jews, but to every Westner, every enlightened human being in this day and age, that this is the fight between light and darkness. I fully agree with you. And in doing that, he said, Israel is on the side of light, right? That's a massive statement because I can tell you there are people marching through the streets of London who are claiming the exact opposite. So when the president and the leader of the free world is saying Israel is on the side of light, that carries huge weight. And let's do address the glass half empty. No other way to put it. As you've mentioned, Mr. Newman, we're already seeing the pro-Hamas anti-Israeli sentiment, anti-Semitic sentiment raising its head with all its glory. And in this respect, also generally speaking about Western support at this point in time, definitely unprecedented when it comes to Israel, but history shows that it tends to fade away at a certain time. That's right. So alongside the military war, there's obviously a media war, a psychological war that's going on. At the moment, the numbers are such that there's approximately the same amount of Jews that have been murdered as Palestinians. And the world has always loved Jews that are dead. They always have problems with Jews that are strong, Jews that are alive. And my big concern, and we are discussing this in various circles around the world, is how on the one hand do we get the message out that Hamas is ISIS, right? And show the barbaric acts of people being beheaded with axes. We haven't seen anything like this since the orange suits, which I'm sure, right? This hasn't been seen since then, whilst at the same time showing respect for the families of those beloved ones who are no longer with us. It's so difficult to find the balance. But I do know that in a week's time, the narrative, the numbers will be different. I know that the pictures will be of the wailing Palestinian mother with the baby, right? We need to be ready for that. And just like after 9-11, no one was asking why is America bombing all of the Taliban in Afghanistan? It's not asking questions. It's bombing because it needs to find where Osama bin Laden is and take him out and they will do whatever. That is what Israel needs to do now. And it needs to do that actually to stop further murder. Obviously, we have to get back the hostages, but there are a lot of paramilitary organizations from Hezbollah and other smaller ones that you haven't heard of in Syria that are looking what's going on. If Israel does not strike back immensely hard, there will be far more murders. Iran is controlling this. I'm sure you're aware there was a meeting just before Rosh Hashanah in Beirut of the leaders of top Iranian officials with top Hezbollah officials and top Hamas officials discussing what gifts they were preparing for Rosh Hashanah. We have to fight back hard to stop further murder. And Colonel Aviatari, in disrespect, Biden's words, again, are backed with actions because we're not just saying the USS Gerald Ford arriving here, but potential talk of obviously more munition, et cetera, but perhaps other massive American presence here in the region and it has an impact on the fighting on the ground. I agree. And I can add that we have to challenge with a few fronts if you want, not just the southern. The southern is now emergency important and so on, but the strategic front, if you want, above everything is the northern. And I think that the consideration and the common interest between Israel and USA is intended to, or the purpose is the northern front. Right. And for that, or therefore, America is so important element or factor that I would say push forward the Israeli interest also. It's a common interest, for sure, no doubt about it. To deal with Hezbollah, Syria, and Iran all together, it is not just an Israeli business or Israeli issues. So I think that the speech, it is not just a speech, it's a policy. We heard today, this evening, the policy of America in order to prevent. And as you're saying, it's not just a support for Israel, but an American interest, an American policy. Above everything. And I think that America is so needed for the Israeli policy or the Israeli needs security terms that we got this evening more than full support, more than full support in order. My friend translating the president telling Hezbollah and I wrote it, but out. We heard, you know, in the subtext, I think the language or terms that we need to hear in the Middle East, against power, you use power, right? And to, we need to treat, this is the language, this is the terms, not everything, and not anything else in power terms on the Nasrallah head, if you want, or Assad on the same level. They speak a different language. It's a different language. It's a unique language, but they understand this language. But gentlemen, before we wrap up about this part of the broadcast, I want to join both your fields of expertise and to one, if you will, because the international leeway will at some point be narrowing down with all the support of the Americans. Even as we speak, the EU is saying that the cooperation with the Palestinians should persist. So the quote, unquote, legitimacy window of action will be narrowing down as well. So we got full legitimacy this evening. And for, and guarantee if you want. After Israel used this window of legitimacy in operational means, and when it comes to the offense in Gaza. Practically, while you are dealing with Gaza Strip, you need for the long run, you can never know what will be and when will be the last day of this war in Gaza. You need wide and stability and support legitimacy without any breaks, without any, I would say, that nobody will stop you in the middle of the way, right? And the way is complicated, as we mentioned before, and wide, but I think that to implement the Israeli declaration, what will be the end of the day in Gaza Strip, you need the Western legitimacy, especially USA. So Mr. Newman, before we hear from you, how to maintain this legitimacy? We want to jump down south, Pierre Colchandler, I-24 News correspondent, standing by their pier. Another tough day down there in the south. The fighting continues as we've heard. Not all Israeli territory has been conquered back, if you will, and the border not yet fully sealed and all this while rocket fire and many active scenes, so to speak. So try to wrap it up for us. Yeah, right. There is indeed quite a lot of terrorist squads that are still activated in his own Israeli territory. And these are probably terrorists that infiltrated already on Saturday and that have hidden in the orchards and are still trying to harm Israelis. For instance, in Kfarazah itself, there were a few clashes today. The latest one a couple of hours ago, a Palestinian armed with a knife, came and was liquidated, eliminated by the Israeli soldiers. Another one fled back to Gaza in Mefalsim. Just four kilometers away from Kfarazah, two terrorists were killed in Zikim. There's been three infiltration attempts today in which a number of terrorists were killed. The latest incident we hear reports that three terrorists were killed just a few moments ago by a tank battalion. We hear the nonstop shooting of Israeli tanks in the vicinity. We hear the roaring of the planes. They are bombing in Gaza. There's no alert right now. It's been quiet since they're out for the past hour and a half. But the extraction of the bodies in the 20 localities where Hamas and Islamic jihad operated are under fire very often. And thus the extraction of the bodies is a very not only gruesome task, but also very dangerous task under these circumstances. That's the situation right now. And Pierre, just to understand, there are not many if any civilians left in most of those areas. These are practically full military zones. In the villages near the security fence that separates Israel from the Gaza Strip, almost nobody stayed, but many of them died. In Kfaraza, for instance, we hear that there are 200 dead out of a population of 765. It's almost a third of the population that was butchered. There are some residents who, with the agreement of the army, have decided to stay in their village. And the army has invested, obviously, these villages, so they're basically secure. In Zderot itself, there is no mass evacuation. It's basically impossible, probably, to evacuate 30,000 people just in one go. But all the handicapped, the elderly, those who are traumatized are evacuated, and those who can afford to evacuate themselves do evacuate themselves to safer places. Yeah, and perhaps the silver lining of it all, and we'll get back to that in the second hour of our broadcast, is the fact that so many Israelis are opening up their homes and their wallets, their hearts to so many of the southern residents to help during those terrible times. Pierkel Schender, wrapping up another tough day down south. Thank you very much for this, to you and the rest of the I-24 news team there, on the ground. Terry Newman, in the short time we have left before, we conclude this broadcast. We were talking about international legitimacy, and that Pierre mentioned in his report, the hostages, those who are being held captive that were kidnapped into the Gaza Strip. As we speak, there are over 100 Israelis. They're civilians and soldiers alike. What is, what should be the focus of the way Israel is fighting on the front lines, quote unquote, of the international community? Regarding hostages, hostages need to be dealt with by professionals in hostage situations, and that should be done separately. I think that the Abraham Accords afford us a really unique opportunity here. What we've seen for the first time ever is Hamas has lined itself up with the Sunni elements in Hezbollah and with Iran, and the Arab world is actually partially lined up with Israel. I'm getting telephone calls from colleagues, senior officials in the UAE, telling us, you know what needs to be done with the Muslim Brotherhood. This is who they are. The Egyptians understand it. As my colleague here said, in the Middle East, you have to speak force. I'm seeing Palestinians around the world who are now actually saying, you know, Israeli Palestinians. I was once a Palestinian Israeli. I'm now an Israeli Palestinian. They're identifying. We need to leverage the Arab world for the first time ever. I think the Arab world is now with Israel against the Sunni world, and that is going to be so important because this is going to be a long battle. It's going to be a long fight. We've just seen the start of it. And we need obviously support of Western countries, but for the first time ever, I think we actually have the Arab world with us. They understand what's going on. The leadership of most moderate Arab countries have been fighting against ISIS. They understand this is who our real enemy is. And I think that together, we can make sure that we win this battle, as you said, forces of light against the forces of dark. Well, we shall see if they indeed rise to the challenge or choose to pursue a different path. Colonel Levitar, what should we expect as we are entering? It's another day of war tomorrow morning. I cannot tell you that it will be the same routine. It's not a routine. Every day has his own missions and improvement and development, if you want, and so on. But I think that, oh, I hope that tomorrow, we shall feel that the self-confidence of the Israeli residents in the southern area will be full, will be go back to the last week, I would say. I mean that the military mission or the military task will be implement in full terms. And I think that tomorrow, we shall see or we shall hear another target in Gaza, which is needed to damage, needed to hit. And it will be, I would say, in a wide perspective, not just infrastructure, building, and so on, but also seniors in the headquarter of Hamas. They are on our purpose. But I think that we have to be ready for a challenge and a strong conflict. All right, yeah, another day of fighting ahead of us. And as you've said earlier in the broadcast, Colonel Evitar, step by step, this is all we need to stay focused on these times. Mr. Terry Newman, Colonel Aloni-Vitar, thank you very much for joining us. 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So far in the count, continuous elderly children, babies, officers are describing the scene as a modern-day Babi'ar. Take a look. I was unbelievable the casualties that we saw. And then we thought that everything, we saw everything, but then it came to yesterday when we went into Kibbutz, Baeri, and we saw what was done to the families, to the children. There was 33 years in this position, and I was everything. I saw everything. I thought I saw everything, but something like that I never saw. Yeah, more and more such images are flooding us in recent days and rightfully so, not getting used to seeing those horrors. And now we want to head now to New York. I-24 News Senior US correspondent Mike Wagenheim with, I would dare to say, a silver lining in the form of a historic, remarkable speech by the American president this evening, not just aligning himself by Israel conveying the unwavering support, but framing this entire war as a war of light versus darkness. And yeah, Mike, what are your main takeaways from US President Joe Biden's truly historic speech? Well, we always try to read between the lines with these type of speeches and statements and look for the little hints, the little messages. There are no lines to read between with this speech. This is about a solid, a pro-Israel speech, as you can imagine from a US president or any other world leader. It is complete 100% support for Israel in a desperate time of need. A few things stood out at me. Number one, the emotion coming from Joe Biden. Forget the actual words, the content behind them, the pure emotion from an American president choking up at times, the anger, the dismay in his voice. That's what stood out at me most. Number two, in terms of the actual content, no direct mention of Iran specifically. The US has tried to separate Iran from this operation by Hamas as much as they could, but a very, very clear message to actors in the region, including Iran and its proxies like Hezbollah, like the Houthi rebels who threatened to get involved. If you get involved here, if you stick your nose, there's gonna be consequences to pay. Number three, there was a message in there about democracies and how they need to follow the rule of law in order to maintain their strength. Some people may read into that a little bit much and do traditional reform. It had nothing to do with that. It was Biden saying, hey, do what you gotta do, abide by international law, but do what you gotta do. There was no talk about a ceasefire, no talk about anything related to that. This was a green light to Benjamin Netanyahu and to Defense Minister Yov Galat to carry out this operation to the end. Basically, as long as it takes in the US, we'll back up Israel in this operation. And Mike, echoing or backing those sentiments in action, the Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, might be arriving here in Israel? Yeah, Tony Blinken is actually gonna come on Thursday. We understand from the State Department and a solidarity of visit. This is all about showing solidarity at this point in time. Well, let's actually listen to the message earlier here from US President Joe Biden. This is nothing but solidarity with Israel coming from him. Here's the president from earlier on today. The brutality of Amos, these bloodthirstiness brings to mind the worst rampages of ISIS. This is terrorism, but sadly for the Jewish people, it's not new. This attack is brought to the surface painful memories and the scars left by a millennia of anti-Semitism and genocide of the Jewish people. So in this moment, we must be crystal clear, we stand with Israel. I had 24 news in the US. And Ellie, please. I was gonna mention there was rumors earlier, reports earlier in the month that Tony Blinken was going to make a normalization related trip to Israel. It doesn't appear that will be a component this time around. However, possibly a prospect down the street when things quiet down just a little bit. Well, if we're speaking of quote unquote victory, if we can even speaking those terms after what we were seeing in recent days, normalization with the most important Arab player here in the region might be just that. But until then, I, 24 news in your rescue response, Mike Wagenheim, thank you very much for this. And joining us now in studio, Michael Dixon, Executive Director of Stand With Us here in Israel. Mr. Dixon, thank you very much for joining us. You know, as we were just talking international, backing is key. And you know, throughout the recent hours, we've been trying to map the different front lines that are currently being fought and there's another. And like in any other battlefield, there's offense and defense. And when we're talking about the online arena, battlefield, frontline, you name it as you wish. Let's begin with the first psychological warfare that this is where I'm going through. Lots of fake news and disinformation and misinformation. How can it be fought? Well, it has to be fought. And you know, Ellie, today I learned a new phrase when I'd never heard and when I never wished to hear again, baby beheading. What an incredible, awful term to what the describes, unfortunately, the reality of what this Hamas massacre represented and it was illustrated so powerfully in the I-20 field and news reporting from the scene in Israel's South. These are pauling images that we're seeing. So first of all, it's important that we have credible information to trust sources that you can then share from. And secondly, it's so important to share. We have to get the word out to the world. Right now, much of the world is supporting Israel and seeing these brutal scenes that show an appalling massacre by Islamists intent on killing every Jew they can find and every person they can find. And of course, the awful reality of those who are kidnapped right now in Hamas captivity doesn't bear thinking about right now as we speak in Gaza. So we have to make sure that we are sharing the news, the accurate news and putting out this information in a sensitive way, but not shying away. The world has to see the brutal face of Hamas. Right now, the mask has slipped. This is who they are. And not only will those communities that they wreak havoc on never be the same again. Israel will never be the same again. And the cause of the Palestinian terrorism will never be the same again. The world has seen it, but we have to remind them of it. Yeah, because there's the dilemma. And even us here, not just for users online, that there was this initial dilemma of whether to distribute such horrendous visuals, disturbing might not even start to describe how disturbing to the very core what we're seeing is happening. But yet, there is significance of showing and seeing. Absolutely. So no one will be able to say, we didn't know. Absolutely. And at Stand With Us, we have had a reach since Sunday since this weekend massacre of 200 million people. So we take that consideration much in mind when we're thinking about how to be sensitive, but also how to make sure that the world understands what's happened here. This was the most brutal day in Jewish history since the Holocaust. And that's no overstatement. There is literally no one untouched in this country by the effects of this massacre. We all know people, brothers and sisters, men and women, sons and daughters who've been affected by this. And we're so worried for the elderly, for the disabled, for the young people, for the babies that are now in Hamas captivity in Gaza. What an unbelievable circumstance. So yes, we have to show these images. We must be strong in telling the world. And one of the things that we try to do is leverage that reach all these people around the world so that they will share those images and reach out to networks, to friends, and relatives, and neighbors, and networks so that they can understand what is happening here and speak up against it. And Mr. Dixon, on the flip side, lots of misinformation and disinformation. From the other side of this war, still we're seeing many Hamas protests on the ground. And for Hamas content online, for our viewers watching us, how can this arena be fought? What should they be doing? What are you doing? Absolutely. And unfortunately, justifications as well. How appalling that after such a massacre, you could see justifications. But that's what we've seen online and on the streets. We set up a situation room immediately. It can be found at stanwithus.com slash situation room, where we're housing all the fact sheets that we have. We're giving signs for people to take to rallies, credible information that they can share so that they can get the word out in a factual way. And we must all be active in this. When you see disinformation, call it out. If you see anti-Semitic or violent posts against Jews, report them to the social media networks and share the content that you need to share in order to get this message across. This must not stand. And in the days that Wayne and this will probably be a long campaign, we will see this constant drip drip of misinformation and attack towards Israel. We must constantly remind people why this has happened. This was not a war that Israel launched. This was a war launched on Israel. It is a war of survival. And Israel must win. And Mr. Dixon, earlier in the broadcast, we spoke to an expert on resilience. And she was talking about how to not try and avoid feeling what we're feeling or distract herself with something else. But to utilize those terrible emotions we're all sharing into action. And this, perhaps, is an action that can be pursued to be proactive about the rage, the anger, the pain that many of our viewers must be feeling. It's right to have rage. It's right to have anger. But we can channel it. And we can make our voices heard. And that's how we'll get through this. I wrote a book called Is Resilience, Israeli Resilience. And we have always risen above. And we haven't just survived. We thrived. And we will continue to do so today. We will prevail. And that note, Michael Dixon, Executive Director of the Center with us Israel, thank you very much for what you're doing and for speaking to us tonight. And still very much on topic. We're crossing now to speak with Mr. Egal Marcus from Republicans Overseas here in Israel. Mr. Marcus, usually we speak under very different circumstances. And tonight, in a matter of hours, you are able recently to recruit thousands of medical staff. We're talking doctors and nurses to come here and help from abroad. Egal, how did it all begin? And how did it metastasize into what we're seeing now? Well, it was a pretty amazing story. This past week, I was celebrating my father's 80th birthday when my entire family came in to celebrate on the black sheep in the family in that everybody in my family is in medicine for six generations. So I turned to my brothers and said, you know, if this situation escalates, Israel may be in need for volunteer physicians and medical personnel. And is that something you'd be interested in? Of course, they said yes. Turns out that my wife listened to that conversation and sent a WhatsApp to a friend that said, you know, if anybody's any medical personnel that you know is interested in volunteering, speak to my husband and here's his phone number. Oh, wow. That turned into a globally viral WhatsApp. And today, which is a little more than 48 hours later, we have 4,500 physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, psychologists, therapists from 40 countries around the world who want and are willing to come here right now to serve our people in this state that is hurting, which to me was just, you know, it was accidental. But I'm not such a big believer in coincidence or accidents. I think this was, as they would say in our language, but shared it happened. And we're now in the process of assisting them with licensing and credentialing with the Ministry of Health here. So really amazing. Wow, it gives me goosebumps and in a good way for once during those dark days. So Mr. Marcus, what is the current status as we understand so many are willing to come, but obviously the way here is not easy. Many flights canceled, et cetera. So what can people who are watching do to help? What we here can do to help? That's a great question. So first of all, everyone should realize that today the health care system in Israel is properly staffed. The hospitals, I am on the board of Hadassah International. Hadassah and others are properly staffed, very well staffed. They've prepared for things like this. What they haven't prepared for necessarily, none of the hospitals, is a health care system that is overwhelmed by God forbid another front opening up that could cause many, many people to flood the hospitals. So we're preparing for that kind of situation. So what we're telling people is, be patient. We're going to get you through the licensing process. We're going to work with the Ministry of Health. We're going to get you emergency licenses so that when and if that situation that we all dread comes to fruition, we'll be able to very quickly activate and get physicians and other medical personnel into our country. Yes, there's foreign carriers are not flying into Israel, but El Al does. And I read the story this morning, the Ministry of Health creating hubs where people who want to volunteer or Israelis want to return go to four hubs around the globe. And El Al will then shuttle them to the Jewish state and hopefully enable them to really do a great service. It's a very quick story today that I spoke to a physician who called me from the Midwest and he said, look, my parents were survivors. In my entire life, I've wanted to figure out how do I give back to the Jewish state? And he says, now for the first time in my life I really can. He's on the list and he's anxious to come. He says, we'll have to come tonight if we need him. We don't need him yet. Hopefully we will never need him. Right. But we know that if the need comes, the global community, the global Jewish community are there and will support us and literally risk their lives to save our lives. The spirit, the spirit, hopefully we will not need him to actually practice, but the spirit, we need so very much. All of us, one, no doubt about it. Eagle, Marcus, thank you for what you are doing and for speaking to us. I'm really happy. We didn't talk about politics this time. Oh, we'll get to that sooner rather than later. We know how things go. Thank you so very much for this and yeah. We will keep tabs with you on this and obviously available here to help with whatever is needed. And we're staying with, again, the light in all this darkness and these are the people, the resilience of Israelis, Israeli residents of the communities near Gaza's border are now evacuating. Many of them already did two hotels across Israel after the nightmares they faced comes relief and exhaustion and the start of a long and uncertain road ahead. But in Israel, the country is unifying to help in any way possible, including hotels, which are hosting thousands of evacuees and people who are letting those sisters and brothers reside in their homes. And our very own Hannah Rifkin went to one of these hotels near Jerusalem and filed this report. At first glance, this scene looks like a happy occasion. But this is what Israeli hotels and volunteers across the country have been doing over the last 24 hours, opening their doors and their hearts to evacuees of Israel's Gaza envelope communities. In the meantime, it's a chaos. A lot of people are still coming and there is still no formal organization of this event. So it's still more spontaneous. I just reach out to kids or, by the way, like old kids, even adults that are in trauma and you're just like, hey, what are you doing? Do you want to play? Do you want to talk? Do you want to hug? An estimated 9,000 hotel rooms are currently reserved for these families. The Arium Hotel alone is hosting 600 people. We still feel safer here. But as you know, nobody's safe anywhere in this country. So it's all relative. We're happy to have a place to go. We appreciate having a place to go. And indeed, heavy barrages of rockets reached over Jerusalem as well on Monday afternoon and early evening. But Monday's relative relief for these families comes after a weekend of horrors and an evacuation beyond worst nightmares. It's not our first time being evacuated, but it's different from all the others we've experienced. In addition to the rockets flying at us, we understood that there were terrorists roaming the Mushaf just looking to murder people. I think at that moment, the blood drained from my body. Just like that, we went in automatic, doing what needed to protect the house, the neighbors, the children, and my in-laws who live with us. The electricity went out five minutes after. For 12 hours, we were in the bomb shelter in complete darkness with no air, with the sounds of shooting all around us. On occasion, messages made it through on our phones about people who said the terrorists were knocking on their doors, and then after, no more replies. Terrifying moments. I don't know where we can go from here. I just don't know where we go from here. Trauma, that is not easy to relive, but necessary to share. We didn't know what was happening. We kept trying to find information and understand what was happening. We were told to stay inside the shelter, and in any case, not to go outside, but we were not told why. In the afternoon, I heard the neighbors dog barking. I didn't understand why he was barking. There was no one outside. After a few minutes, I heard gunshots, and it seemed to me that there were gunshots, because until now, we had heard bursts from automatic weapons. It turned out that at this time, they had murdered three people in a house less than 100 feet away from us. Shielding their children from what nightmares they can, their biggest priority. After 10 hours of being locked in the bomb shelter with our neighbors and everything, soldiers began to arrive. My husband and our neighbor called them from the window and asked them to get two jeeps ready. We would get cars ready to take the women and children from here. They would come later. The soldiers told us we have 10 minutes. We ran to dump whatever we could into a bag and left. The entire time, I told the children to look at the phones and not to look around. Bodies were lying on the sides of the roads. I didn't know if they were terrorists or civilians or both, burned cars. Giving them safety that others were not lucky to afford a miracle. The emergency department came to escort us out, and I asked them, what's going on? They only said that a terrible disaster had happened. In the evening, in the dark, around about 9 or 10 o'clock, we were told that it was possible to evacuate the village in a convoy. We left because if you stay, you are like a duck in the range. Only later did we really understand what had happened. In our village, at least 18 people, including one child, were murdered. A rocket that was fired hit the house of one family and burned the house down and they burned alive. At one point, the residents took charge of the situation while waiting for the army. We had to try to get rid of the terrorists who came to us. Surrounding my house, there are five others, and just three or four of them families murdered. One of my neighbors noticed the terrorists were getting closer. He had an M16 and fired it into the air. By some miracle, it scared them away. Monday, watching their children and neighbors smile, paint and play with friends, not taken for granted. Residents close by, doing what they can to help, as brothers and sisters, hand in hand. And before we wrap up this broadcast, we want to go back to the south. Another tough day, day four of the war here between Israel and Hamas terror group. And Israel's south has yet to have been completely liberated. We turn now back to our very old 924 News Correspondent Pierre. Klaus Schendler, Pierre. There's still an active fear of active Hamas terrorists lurking around in some communities down south. So this is one arena or one objective that has yet to be completed. What can you tell us? Yeah, we're having some technical difficulties in reaching our Pierre Klaus Schendler, but we'll just again recap the events today. Today, rather in the south, the barrages of rockets continue all throughout from south and north. Only short hours ago, also rockets being fired, not just from Israel's border with Lebanon, from the Lebanese side, of course, so from the border with Syria. So we're talking about three different fronts where we've seen rockets being launched towards Israeli territory today. And as mentioned, still a fear of active Hamas terrorists in Gaza communities. This attempt to quote-unquote liberate all Israeli territory still underway there. We're seeing many soldiers, many forces down south, all of this, all of this while the offensive continues. The Israeli Air Force continues to pound Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip. And yes, it's day four of the war that is coming to an end now, a day that began with the revelation of a tiny portion of the horrors that happened during long hours, long days in communities down south. We are seeing now images from Gaza that's turned into a complete town of massacre with babies being beheaded. With elderly being burnt out alive, with women being raped, and then butchered. You're seeing, again, some of the devastation down there. But all this while, the IDF continues to fight on the ground. The airstrikes, the Gaza Strip continue, the fight to regain control over Israeli territory continues as well. And the Israelis, the Israeli nation, the Israeli resilience is raising its head with numerous ventures of volunteering and blood donations. And all sorts of civil organizations that are helping the fight on the ground. We are leaving you with phones of emergency, organizations from mental health to hospitals to other entities.