 News this morning as the Israel Hamas war enters day 48 already a violent morning Hamas firing a rocket barrage into Israel but our top story right now no hostages will be released today. Israeli authorities say that the deal with Hamas will not go into effect until tomorrow so hostages will not come home until Friday at some point there's a flurry of contradictory reports about what's going on some Israeli officials say the government still hasn't received and signed off on the list of women and children hostages to be freed other say Hamas leaders haven't yet formally signed on the dotted line of the Qatar broker deal all we know for sure now there is no truce there's no pause Hamas's fire and rockets and the IDF is still attacking last night Netanyahu held a press conference about the situation after his cabinet approved the deal I'm sure he will I'm sure he will I of course he'll try he'll try all sorts of tricks and there's other things that we think we are going to do what we said we're going to do we are committed to continue the fighting I'm not just saying it I just like the president of the United States he's a great friend and I told him Joe we are fighting we are having a truce in an agreement that he was a privy to he was a partner but we're going to continue this is a real commitment it's not just saying it writing it on paper this is like carved in our hearts we are committed to eliminate the Hamas we are committed to create a different reality in Gaza it shouldn't become a threat we are committed to bring all the hostages back and that of course compels us to continue to fight let's go live to I-24 News senior diplomatic correspondent Owen Alterman for us in Tel Aviv Owen this is on a personal level a gut punch here in Israel obviously Israel is now waking up and they went to bed expecting to see hostages coming home this morning now that will not happen yeah Jeff it's obviously a big surprise everyone was expecting hiccups in the implementation of the deal the expectations were set for that but the expectations is that they were that they would come in the implementation of the deal the understanding including from the prime minister last night Israel time at that press conference was that this was a done deal and it was set to be implemented today with the ceasefire the humanitarian pause the truce ever you want to term it set to come into effect two hours from now at 10 o'clock local time and then for the implementation to start again not without problems the expectation had been set for that but the problems weren't supposed to come before the deal even started to be rolled out so obviously this is something that was not expected we should say over the course of the last hour for what it's worth the cut of reform ministry has come out on twitter issuing a statement saying that the talks continue to progress and the statement said to also say that they will be announcing in the next few hours when the ceasefire will begin and presumably the implementation of the rest of the deal will begin so take that for what it's worth but look the reality is the prime minister has said time and time again wait for official statements from authorities in Israel the public got that last night now the public waiting for the next step do you think only that the press conference may have been a strategic mistake yes I mean listen the prime minister and again Daniel agar the idea of spokesperson has been telling the public for weeks wait to hear from us don't trust leaks don't trust information from other parties whether it be the United States even or certainly the cut of reform ministry don't listen to them don't listen to the media listen to us we are the trusted source we are the ones who provide authoritative trustworthy information and now that information is out there and the deal we wake up this morning or go to sleep last night and understand that the deal is not there look I don't think the Israeli public Jeff is going to blame the Israeli negotiators for this apparent breakdown people are going to blame Hamas and understand very very well what Israel's government is and what Hamas is so at that level there's no breakdown of trust but certainly there should have been more thought given to presenting the situation as it was and if the deal was not fully agreed to emphasize that the deal was not fully agreed frankly we in the media in retrospect should have been more suspicious in that we did not see a copy of the agreement there was never the agreement was never published it was never published by anyone it was attached to the government decision the decision of the full government late Wednesday night but it was a a classified annex an annex B to that document that was classified and not released so all we saw were the paragraphs of the decision of the government that required the approval of the entire government for the freeing of the prisoners so yes it was a mistake although again in terms of the reason for the breakdown of the negotiation the Israeli public is certainly much more likely to blame Hamas than it is Benjamin Netanyahu Owen thank you so much for that update let's go live now to our correspondent Pierre-Claude Schendler where the IDF and Hamas are both acting as if there is no truth today and explosions being reported there can you tell us Pierre a little bit more about what you're seeing I'm gonna show you what we're seeing with Igor Bazilenko you have now an explosion that occurred in the area of Betchanun or Betlahia in the northern Gaza Strip it's the second explosion in the same site the IDF is continuing destroying terror infrastructure in the area of Betchanun and Betlahia the noose around the Jebalia refugee camp has been tightened the refugee camp of 180,000 inhabitants before the war which by Hamas on Israel on October 7 is tightened in the Zaitun quarter of the center of Gaza city the operation is going on for a fifth continuing day and if the devil is in the details regarding the promise of a ceasefire and liberation of hostages here they're dealing with the devil so to speak on the ground pounding targets destroying infrastructure not just in the northern Gaza Strip where there is good presence but also in the southern part of the Gaza Strip near Hanyunas in the central sector and in Rafah at the southern tip of the Gaza Strip on the border with Egypt the offensive is going on both from the air from the artillery the navy and the ground troops and an Israeli official said not long ago that this operation is bound to continue as long as there is no humanitarian truth as long as there is no liberation of the hostages although the Qatari government just announced that an announcement a formal announcement with a signed agreement will be probably in the coming hours but again the devil is in the details Pierre Koshenl for us on the border thank you so much for that update here in studio I'm joined by Amir Owen, defense and government analyst and Ariel O'Sharan our Middle East correspondent thank you both for being with me Amir give me your thoughts on this morning no hostages coming home today So Jeff first of all happy Thanksgiving and this is because President Biden obviously hoped to time his announcement of the release so that it will be part of the holiday celebration apparently this is not going to happen anytime soon now a caveat none of us around the world anticipated October the 7th so it would be presumptuous to claim to know what's in Yahya Sinuars mind but having said that it seems and I'm hitchhiking on Pierre's metaphor the devil is not in the details the devil is calling the shots and the details the entire discussion here is who's the boss I Yahya Sinuars am going to tell you when the ceasefire and the deal are going to be on and just imagine that tomorrow Friday rather than today Thursday Thanksgiving during the mosque celebrations in Gaza Yahya Sinuars comes out of hiding and announces that Hamas has won a great public relations stunt so we shouldn't look at the logistics or the over flights or how many hostages for how many detainees and all of that the entire thing is to show who's boss and who's not I want to also note the war in the north continues as well against Hezbollah Hezbollah is now confirming that the son of its chairman in the Lebanese parliament was killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon again this is now involving the son family members of its representation in the legislative arm of Lebanon's formal government for other Hezbollah terrorists died in the strike as well for a look now at the northern border on Lebanon let's go live to our correspondent Nicole Tseget Nicole what impact tell us more about the strike and also perhaps what the ramifications of this could be well this Israeli airstrike took place yesterday in the southern Lebanese town of Beit Yahun it targeted a house where as you said five Hezbollah members were killed including the son of a senior lawmaker so him along with four others killed inside this house and that brings the total number of Hezbollah members that have been killed since October 7th up to at least 84 so these numbers are racking up day by day and by coming after one of these top leader sons the Israeli Air Force they're certainly coming after some of these Hezbollah members this is what we continue to see these this this daily retaliation both back and forth because this does come after Hezbollah and also claimed responsibility for at least 12 attacks on northern Israel yesterday alone now we haven't seen a strong response as far as the killing of that those those five members yesterday but this also comes after Hezbollah had previously told Arab media outlets that if and when this truce in the south does go into effect that they would also abide by terms of a truce and then stop firing on this northern border if Israel also stops firing on the northern border but they also said if Israel does not abide and we do see some firing then they are going to respond with an even heavier force according to some of these Hezbollah operatives so so as to exactly what's going to happen in these coming days it's going to be interesting taking a look on the north all of this news also comes as we saw some pretty senior officials visiting Beirut in Lebanon yesterday the Iranian foreign minister also talking about what to expect from the ceasefire happening in the south and he said that if the ceasefire between Israel and Gaza does not extend longer then it's likely that a regional war could escalate these are similar sentiments that we heard from from war cabinet member Benny Gantz also yesterday talking about the ramifications of what's happening here on the northern front sending a very stern warning a warning that we've heard multiple times might I add that that Israel has the capability of making exactly what they're doing in Gaza turning that and taking the same steps in Beirut so sending a clear warning for these Hezbollah attacks to stop and now by coming after some of these senior Hezbollah officials and their family members continuing with that very very strong because as we continue to see these major attacks on the north day by day they're adding up so day 48 now although it's been just a slight escalation day by day after 48 days these attacks certainly can cause some significant impact for the residents and the communities here in the north Nicole thank you so much for that report live for us on the Israel Lebanon border joining me now is Neta Haiman the daughter of a woman abducted by Hamas into Gaza Haiman still in Hamas captivity thank you so much Neta for being with me on this morning give me your thoughts your personal feelings what you're going through right now knowing there is no deal today with Hamas and the reasons why still very much in doubt we're getting over a psychological that's the sense it's they told that will be a list yesterday evening we don't know if there is a list we didn't see the list no one talk with us about the list to tell us if she's going out if she's not going out at midnight they said it won't be it won't happen today no release today it's horrible it's horrible hours it's horrible situation we are six weeks after the seven in October and it's continuing do you think that Hamas is playing Israel that they are manipulating the government that they are just trying to as you called it you know psychological terror that there will not be a deal that they don't it's not going to happen but they want to keep stringing Israel along or do you still believe in your heart that hostages maybe even your mother hostages will actually come back home I don't know I don't know what to think I don't know if it's just a delay if it's a cancelled if a we understand that the deal is closed and and then we heard it's not it doesn't close I don't know why I don't know why the Israeli government told us that the deal is closed and immediately we discovered it's not I don't know I don't know if it is the Hamas if it's the Israelis I don't know. Netanyahu just as someone whose mother is in Gaza kidnapped by Hamas or someone personally grieving and affected by this your thoughts on the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu holding a press conference and taking the chance before any hostages came home to talk about the war going on to talk about killing Hamas leaders to talk about tracking them down around the world wherever they are this was all across Israel's media last night across the world's media what were you thinking when you heard the Prime Minister speaking I was shouting on the TV because they must be now quiet give the give the deal to end and then to to shout what they what they need to shout it's it's horrible I need to a little bit the they can't shout now we will win we will kill we will destroy it's not the time it's not the time we need to be sit in quiet and get the people back and then do whatever we need. Netanyahu tell me what gives you comfort when you think about your mother now you're not able to hug her or speak to her but is there a memory that you even now holding tight to give you a little bit of peace about your mother even now something that you're cherishing always not today not today today I don't have nothing at the beginning I thought I know that she's a strong woman she's a she can a strong mentally strong she can hold it but six weeks after and today I have I don't know. Netanyahu we continue to grieve and pray for you and with you thank you so much for spending a few minutes with us and sharing your thoughts here and feelings on our channel great to have you. Thank you very much. Back here in studio I want to just start with you Amir kind of your reaction to that and also as Owen mentioned just reaction strong reaction to Netanyahu's let's call it aggressive press conference focusing on Hamas so your question was spot on and Neta's response too but it wouldn't have mattered if the press conference were held today tonight after the first batch were to be released and then Netanyahu would again boast that he is going to kill the very person who's authorizing the deal on the other side so what would have happened with the next batch of 10 that would have been delayed between Friday and Sunday and who knows what yes it's a silence is golden and while the other day Itama Benkvir was saying too much now Netanyahu is playing the Benkvir role and on this hostage there's so much confusion about the reasons why but again as was mentioned earlier today already an update from Qatar about the status of the negotiations about the timing of an announcement to be fair we are reporting that because this coming from official Qatari government sources but it's been five six days straight where they've basically said the same thing and there's nothing done well yesterday they did say that within hours they will publish a timeline and something more official and here we are again this morning here we are again look we no one has given an official and detailed answer as to why this delay happened all we're getting are pieces of information Hamas is saying technical issues others are saying logistical issues the fact of the matter is that this deal perhaps wasn't done before it was announced but even if it was these things are expected to happen I mean we're surprised that we were fooled the public was fooled by a terror organization but the families of the hostages continue to live the nightmare of October 7th till this day 48 days this nightmare has not stopped and that is the continuation of these terror tactics by this cruel terror organization that's one thing that needs to be said given that I do think though that the fact that this deal has many guarantors to it officially it has Qatar the U.S. unofficially also Egypt is in the mix I think at the end of the day that does increase the chances of implementation I think increase the positioning of Israel's negotiation the fact that the U.S. is on its side supporting it militarily and diplomatically I think in 2011 in the Shaleed deal we did not Israel did not have the U.S. on its side it did not have Egypt in a more kind of balanced role and that also was shown in the results what happened so when the more guarantors you have the smaller room for these kind of cheap shot maneuvers they will still happen and they're still happening before our eyes but I do think that the fact that there are many groups many parties involved here you don't think that there's too many cooks in the kitchen that we have Egypt involved we have Qatar involved the U.S. is involved leaders are talking politicians are talking you don't think that it's actually detrimental you think it's actually the reverse of that we have so many nation states involved it's likely to result in something positive we have a French president Macron talking about the postponement he is not connected to this there is a small core of countries that are involved I think that increases the chances of this deal actually coming through I think that if you look too many cooks in the kitchen you can say the same thing about the JCPOA the 2015 nuclear deal you had more cooks in the kitchen there but the reason you had those parties was because there is no trust between the sides and one of the key actors is a terror organization that you cannot trust in its essence Israel can't at least and so they cannot negotiate directly through directly with Hamas so they will do it through Qatar Israel does not want to negotiate directly with Qatar it wants the assistance of the U.S. that has sway that has pull and so I think the fact that you have these strong players cooperating working together whether there's good faith among all those players I cannot say that uncertainty but I do think the fact that the U.S. is on Israel's side and you have a serious country like Qatar serious in terms of how they perceive their global image then this is something that I do think that at the end of the day will increase the chances of implementation. Amir. One small group of Israelis should not be surprised by this turn of events and these are veterans and students of the Kissinger shuttle of 1974 with Hafez Assad and obviously Sinwar also studied how Assad manipulated the long sessions. Now what Sinwar wants delivered is not something of substance but something of value. This is the aura of victory and this is being built by the length of the negotiations by his stature and therefore the delay has nothing to do with how many fuel tankers would come into Gaza or how many hours the overflights would be suspended and so on. The delay is the point here. Right. I want to get your update here we talk about the violence and mass, the war going on with Hezbollah. We also have to keep an eye on the Iran financed, Iran trained terror group out of Yemen the Houthi rebel group. You were saying Iran trained and funded I was wondering who is it going to be because there are so many of those in the region. What's happening with the Houthis, the new developments? Well the new developments is that early in the morning U.S. Central Command is issuing a statement that one of its warships the U.S.S. Thomas intercepted multiple cruise missiles that were launched sorry one way drones cruise missiles were the strike before there's so many strikes that it kind of gets convoluted. But in the last strike multiple one way attack drones launched from Yemen intercepted in the Red Sea this is thanks to the increased deployment of the U.S. Navy in the Red Sea in the statement saying that the ship and its crew sustained no damage or injury and obviously this comes just hours after the Houthis military spokesperson claimed responsibility for launching cruise missiles at Israel's southern city of Elat yesterday the idea of saying that an Israeli Air Force fighter jet downed one cruise missile and at no point did it enter Israeli airspace or threaten residents of Elat this has been going on every few days in the southern tip I think for Israel this is not a strategic threat this is more of a nuisance a lot more than what's not the same way it's going on in the northern border because that's an active war even though it's not at full scale but we need to name it call it as it is what's going on between Israel and Hezbollah on the northern border is a war just at a lower scale than what is happening in Gaza that is not the case here with the Houthis in Yemen but indeed they're showing their capabilities of continuous missile launches at Israel missile launches at a time when half the country can't even as no food to sustain itself this is what they're engaged in but this is it's not just the Houthis I mean Iran is activating its tentacles as you said also it's just the past 48 hours there have been no fewer than five attacks on US bases and we're talking about dozens since October and so attacks keep going and the US involved there and also defending Israel in the Red Sea Thanks so much for that update and Amir Arun for joining us in studio more updates here on I-24 News on this day stay with us we'll be back after a short break Thanks for watching we have no idea where is she as our soldiers are fighting on the front line but the general perception is something that certainly needs to to be fought as well Thanks for joining us on I-24 News this morning as the Israel Hamas war enters day 48 already a violent morning Hamas firing a rocket barrage into Israel but our top story right now no hostages will be released today Israeli authorities say that the deal with Hamas will not go into effect until tomorrow so hostages will not come home until Friday at some point there's a flurry of contradictory reports about what's going on some Israeli officials say the government still hasn't received and signed off on the list of women and children hostages to be freed others say Hamas leaders haven't yet formally signed on the dotted line of the Qatar Broker deal all we know for sure now there's no truce there's no pause Hamas is firing rockets and the IDF is still attacking last night Netanyahu held a press conference about the situation after his cabinet approved the deal I'm sure he will I'm sure he will of course he'll try he'll try all sorts of tricks and there's other things that we think we are going to do what we said we're going to do we are committed to continue the fighting I'm not just saying it I just spoke to the president of the United States he's a great friend and I told him Joe we are fighting we are having a truce in an agreement that he was a privy to he was a partner but we're going to continue this is a real commitment it's not just saying it writing it on paper this is like carved in our hearts we are committed to eliminate the Hamas we are committed to create a different reality in Gaza it shouldn't become a threat we are committed to bring all the hostages back and that of course compels us to continue to fight let's go live to I-24 News senior diplomatic correspondent Owen Alterman for us in Tel Aviv Owen this is on a personal level a gut punch here in Israel obviously Israel is now waking up and they went to bed expecting to see hostages coming home this morning now that will not happen. Yeah Jeff it's obviously a big surprise everyone was expecting hiccups in the implementation of the deal the expectations were set for that but the expectations is that they were that they would come in the implementation of the deal the understanding including from the prime minister last night Israel time at that press conference was going to be done deal and it was set to be implemented today with the ceasefire the humanitarian pause the truce ever you want to term it set to come into effect two hours from now at 10 o'clock local time and then for the implementation to start again not without problems the expectation had been set for that but the problems weren't supposed to come before the deal even started to be rolled out so obviously this is something that was not expected we should say over the course of the last hour for what it's worth the prime minister has come out on twitter issuing a statement saying that the talks continue to progress and the statement said to also say that they will be announcing in the next few hours when the ceasefire will begin and presumably the implementation of the rest of the deal will begin so take that for what it's worth but look the reality is the prime minister has said time and time again wait for official statements from authorities in Israel the public got that last night the public waiting for the next step do you think going that the press conference may have been a strategic mistake yes I mean listen the prime minister and again Daniel Agar the IDF spokesperson has been telling the public four weeks wait to hear from us don't trust leaks don't trust information from other parties whether it be the United States even or certainly the Qatari foreign ministry don't listen to them listen to the media listen to us we are the trusted source we are the ones who provide authoritative trustworthy information and now that information is out there and the deal we wake up this morning or go to sleep last night and understand that the deal is not there look I don't think the Israeli public Jeff is going to blame the Israeli negotiators for this apparent breakdown people are going to blame Hamas and understand very very well what Israel's government is and what Hamas is so at that level there's no breakdown of trust but certainly there should have been more thought given to presenting the situation as it was and if the deal was not fully agreed to emphasize that the deal was not fully agreed frankly we in the media in retrospect should have been more suspicious in that we did not see a copy of the agreement there was never the agreement was never published it was never published by anyone attached to the government decision the decision of the full government late Wednesday night but it was a classified annex an annex B to that document that was classified and not released so all we saw were the paragraphs of the decision of the government that required the approval of the entire government for the freeing of the prisoners so yes it was a mistake although again in terms of the reason for the breakdown of the negotiation the Israeli public is certainly much more likely to blame Hamas thank you so much for that update let's go live now to our correspondent Pierre Koshendler where the IDF and Hamas are both acting as if there is no truth today and explosions being reported can you tell us Pierre a little bit more about what you're seeing I'm going to show you what we're seeing with Igor Bazilenko you have now an explosion that occurred in the area of Betchanun or Betlahia in the northern Gaza Strip it's the second explosion in the same site the IDF is continuing destroying terror infrastructure in the area of Betchanun and Betlahia the news around the Jebalia refugee camp has been tightened the refugee camp of 180,000 inhabitants before the war which by Hamas on Israel on October 7 is tightened in the Zaitun quarter of the center of Gaza City the operation is going on for a fifth continuing day and if the devil is in the details regarding the promise of a ceasefire and liberation of hostages here they're dealing with the devil so to speak on the ground pounding targets destroying infrastructure not just in the northern Gaza Strip where there is good presence but also in the southern part of the Gaza Strip near Hamas in the central sector and in Rafah at the southern tip of the Gaza Strip on the border with Egypt the offensive is going on both from the air from the artillery the navy and the ground troops and an Israeli official said not long ago that this operation is bound to continue as long as there is no humanitarian truce as long as there is no liberation of the hostages although the Qatari government just announced that an announcement a formal announcement with the signed agreement will be probably in the coming hours but again the devil is in the details Thank you so much for that update here in studio I'm joined by Amir Arun Defense and Government Analyst and Ariel O'Sarran our Middle East correspondent thank you both for being with me Amir give me your thoughts on this morning no hostages coming home today So Jeff first of all happy Thanksgiving and this is because President Biden obviously hoped to time his death off the release so that it will be part of the holiday celebration apparently this is not going to happen anytime soon now a caveat none of us around the world anticipated October the 7th so it would be presumptuous to claim to know what's in Yahya Sinwara's mind but having said that it seems and I'm hitchhiking on Pierre's metaphor the devil is not in the details the devil is calling the shots and the details the entire discussion here is who's the boss I Yahya Sinwara am going to tell you when the ceasefire and the deal are going to be on and just imagine that tomorrow Friday rather than today Thursday Thanksgiving during the Mosque celebrations in Gaza Yahya Sinwara comes out of hiding and announces that Hamas has won great public relations stunt so we shouldn't look at the logistics or the overflights or how many hostages for how many detainees and all of that the entire thing is to show who's boss and who's not I want to also note the war in the north continues as well against Hezbollah Hezbollah is now confirming that the son of its chairman in the Lebanese parliament was killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon again this is now involving the son family members of its representation in the legislative arm of Lebanon's formal government for other Hezbollah terrorists died in the strike as well for now at the northern border on Lebanon let's go live to our correspondent Nicole Senek Nicole what impact tell us more about the strike and also perhaps what the ramifications of this could be well this Israeli airstrike took place yesterday in the southern Lebanese town of Beit Yahoon it targeted a house where as you said five Hezbollah members were killed including the son of a senior lawmaker so him along with four others killed inside this house and that brings the total number of Hezbollah members that have been killed since October 7th up to at least 84 so these numbers are racking up day by day and by coming after one of these top leader sons the Israeli Air Force they're certainly coming after some of these Hezbollah members this is what we continue to see these this this daily retaliation both back and forth because this does come after Hezbollah and also claimed responsibility for at least 12 attacks on northern Israel yesterday alone now we haven't seen a strong response as far as the killing of that those those five members yesterday but this also comes after Hezbollah had previously told Arab media outlets that if and when this truce in the south does go into effect that they would also abide by terms of a truce and then stop firing on this northern border if Israel also stops firing on the northern border but they also said if Israel does not abide and we do see some firing then then they are going to respond with an even heavier force according to some of these Hezbollah operatives so so as to exactly what's going to happen in these coming days it's going to be interesting taking a look on the north all of this news also comes as we saw some pretty senior officials visiting Beirut in Lebanon yesterday the Iranian foreign minister also talking about what to expect from the ceasefire happening in the south and he said that if the ceasefire between Israel and Gaza does not extend longer then it's likely that a regional war could escalate these are similar sentiments that we heard from war cabinet member Benny Gantz also yesterday talking about the ramifications of what's happening here on the northern front sending a very stern warning a warning that we heard multiple times might I add that Israel has the capability of making exactly what they're doing in Gaza turning that and taking the same steps in Beirut so sending a clear warning for these Hezbollah attacks to stop and now by coming after some of these senior Hezbollah officials and their family members continuing with that very very strong warning because as we continue to see these major attacks on the north day by day they're adding up so day 48 now although it's been just a slight escalation day by day after 48 days these attacks certainly can cause significant impact for the residents in the communities here in the north. Nicole thank you so much for that report live for us on the Israel Lebanon border joining me now is Netta Haiman the daughter of a woman abducted by Hamas into Gaza Dietza Haiman still in Hamas captivity thank you so much Netta for being with me on this morning give me your thoughts your personal feelings what you're going through right now knowing there is no deal today with Hamas and the reasons why still very much in doubt. We are getting over a psychologic terror that's the the sense it's horrible they told that will be a list yesterday evening we don't know if there is a list we didn't see the list no one to talk with us about the list to tell us if she's going out if she's not going out at midnight they said it won't be it won't happen to today no release today it's horrible it's horrible hours it's horrible situation and we are six weeks after the seven in October and it's continuing do you think that Hamas is playing Israel that they are manipulating the government that they are just trying to as you called it psychological terror here that there will not be a deal that they it's not going to happen but they want to keep stringing Israel along or do you still believe in your heart that they are leaving your mother? Hossages will actually come back home? I don't know I don't know what to think I don't know if it's just a delay if it's a cancelled if we understand that the deal is closed and and then we heard it doesn't close I don't know why the Israeli government told us that and immediately we discovered it's not I don't know I don't know if it is the Hamas if it's the Israelis I don't know Netanyahu just as someone whose mother is in Gaza kidnapped by Hamas or someone personally grieving and affected by this your thoughts on the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu holding a press conference and taking the chance before any hostages came home to talk about the war going on to talk about killing Hamas leaders to talk about tracking them down around the world wherever they are this was all across Israel's media last night across the world's media what were you thinking when you heard the Prime Minister speaking I was shouting on the TV because they must be now quiet and give the deal to end and then to shout what they need to shout it's horrible they need to a little bit they can't shout now we will kill, we will destroy it's not the time, it's not the time we need to sit in quiet and get the people back and then do whatever we need Netanyahu tell me what gives you comfort when you think about your mother now you're not able to hug her or speak to her but is there a memory that you even now holding tight to give you a little bit of peace about your mother even now something that you're cherishing always I don't have nothing at the beginning I thought I know that she's a strong woman mentally strong she can hold it but six weeks after and today I have Netanyahu we continue to thank you so much for spending a few minutes with us and sharing your thoughts here and feelings on our channel great to have you thank you very much back here in studio I want to just start with you Amir kind of your reaction to that and also as Owen mentioned just reaction strong reaction to Netanyahu's let's call it aggressive press conference focusing on Hamas so your question was spot on and Neta's response too but it wouldn't have mattered if the press conference well today tonight after the first batch were to be released and then Netanyahu would again boast that he's going to kill the very person who's authorizing the deal on the other side so what would have happened with the next batch of 10 that would have been delayed between Friday and Sunday and who knows what yes it's a silence is golden and while the other day Itama earlier was saying too much now Netanyahu is playing the Benghvi role on this hostage there's so much confusion about the reasons why but again as was mentioned earlier today already an update from Qatar about the status of the negotiations about the timing of an announcement to be fair we are reporting that because this coming from official Qatari government sources but it's been six days straight where they've basically said the same thing and there's nothing done well yesterday they did say that within hours they will publish a timeline and something more official here we are again look no one has given an official and detailed answer as to why this delay happened all we're getting are pieces of information Hamas is saying logistical issues the fact of the matter is that this deal perhaps wasn't done before it was announced but even if it was these things are expected to happen I mean we're surprised that we were fooled that the public was fooled by a terror organization but the families of the hostages continue to live the nightmare of October 7th till this day 48 days this has not stopped and that is the continuation of these terror tactics by this cruel terror organization that's one thing that needs to be said given that I do think though that the fact that this deal has many guarantors to it officially it has Qatar the US unofficially also Egypt is in the mix I think at the end of the day that does increase the chances of implementation I think it increased the positioning of Israel's negotiation the fact that the US is on its side supporting it militarily and diplomatically I think in 2011 in the shaleed deal we did not Israel did not have the US on its side it did not have Egypt in a more balanced role and that also was shown in the results what happened so when the more guarantors you have the smaller room for these kind of cheap shot maneuvers they will still happen and they're still happening before our eyes but I do think that the fact that there are many groups and many parties involved here you don't think that it's too many cooks in the kitchen that we have Egypt involved we have Qatar involved the US is involved leaders are talking politicians are talking you don't think that it's actually detrimental you think it's actually the reverse of that that we have so many nation states involved it's likely to therefore to result in something positive well look I mean you have French president Macron talking about the postponement he is not connected to this there is a small core of countries that are involved I think that increases the chances of this deal actually coming through I think that if you look too many cooks in the kitchen you can say the same thing about the JCPOA the 2015 nuclear deal you had more cooks in the kitchen there but the reason you had all those parties was because there is no trust between the sides and one of the key actors is a terror organization that you cannot trust in its essence Israel can't at least and so they cannot negotiate directly through directly with Hamas so they will do it through Qatar Israel does not want to negotiate directly with Qatar it wants the assistance of the US that has sway that has pull in Doha and so I think the fact that you have these strong players cooperating working together whether there's good faith among all those players I cannot say that uncertainty but I do think the fact that the US is on Israel side and you have a serious country like Qatar serious in terms of how they perceive their global image then this is something that I do think that at the end of the day will increase the chances of implementation Amir one small group of Israelis should not be surprised by this turn of events and these are veterans and students of the Kissinger shuttle of 1974 with Hafez Assad and obviously Sinwar also studied how Assad manipulated the long sessions now what Sinwar wants delivered is not something of substance it is something of value this is the aura of victory and this is being built by the length of the negotiations by his stature and therefore the delay has nothing to do with how many fuel tankers would come into Gaza or how many hours the over flights would be suspended and so on the delay is the point here right and I want to get your update here we talk about the violence with Hamas the war going on with Hezbollah we also have to keep an eye on the Iran financed Iran train terror group out of Yemen the Houthi rebel group you were saying Iran trained and funded I was wondering who was it going to be because there are so many of those in the region what's happening with the Houthis the new developments well the new developments is that early in the morning US Central Command Sencom issuing a statement that one of its warships the USS Thomas Hudner intercepted multiple cruise missiles that were launched sorry one-way drones cruise missiles were the strike before there's so many strikes that it kind of gets convoluted but in the last strike multiple one-way attack drones launched from Yemen intercepted in the Red Sea this is thanks to the increased deployment of the US Navy in the Red Sea in the statement by Sencom saying that the ship and its crew sustained no damage or injury and obviously this comes just hours after the Houthis military spokesperson explained responsibility for launching cruise missiles at Israel's southern city of Elat yesterday the idea of saying that an Israeli Air Force fighter jet downed one cruise missile and that at no point did it enter Israeli airspace or threaten residents of Elat this has been going on every few days in the southern tip I think for Israel this is not a strategic threat this is more of a nuisance a lot more than what's not the same way it's going on in the northern border because that's an active war even though it's not at full scale but we need to name it call it as it is what's going on between Israel and Hezbollah on the northern border is a war just at a lower scale than what we're seeing in Gaza that is not the case here with the Houthis in Yemen but indeed they're showing their capabilities of continuous missile launches at Israel missile launches at a time where when half the country can't even as no food to sustain itself this is what they're engaged in but this is it's not just the Houthis I mean Iran is activating its tentacles as you said also in Iraq just the past 48 hours there have been no fewer than 5 attacks on US bases and we're talking about dozens since October attacks keep going and the US involved there and also defending Israel in the Red Sea thanks so much for that update and a mirror for joining us in studio more updates here and I 24 news on this day stay with us we'll be back after a short break thanks for watching Israel is in a state of war families completely done down in their beds we have no idea where she has our soldiers are fighting on the front lines but the general perception is something that certainly needs to to be fought as well thanks for joining us and I 24 news this morning as the Israel Hamas war enters day 48 already a very violent morning Hamas firing a rocket barrage into Israel and Hezbollah firing rockets into Israel as well from the north over the Lebanon but our top story right now no hostages will be released today Israeli authorities say that the deal with Hamas will not go into effect until tomorrow so hostages will not come home until Friday at some point there's a flurry now of contradictory reports about what's going on some Israeli officials say the government still has not received the final list of women and children hostages that will be freed others say Hamas leaders haven't actually officially signed on the dotted line of this Qatar broker deal all we know for sure for now there's no truce the IDF is stepping up it strikes even right now in Gaza there's no pause the Hamas is firing more rockets Netanyahu held a press conference last night about the situation his comments after the cabinet approved the deal I'm sure he will I'm sure he will of course he'll try he'll try all sorts of tricks and there's other things that we think we are going to do what we said we're going to do we are committed to continue the fighting I'm not just saying it I just spoke to the president of the United States he's a great friend and I told him Joe we are fighting we are having a truce in an agreement that he was a privy to he was a partner but we're going to continue this is a real commitment it's not just saying it writing it on paper this is like carved in our hearts we are committed to eliminate the Hamas we are committed to create a different reality in Gaza it shouldn't become a threat we are committed to bring all the hostages back and that of course compels us to continue to fight let's go live now to the Israel-Gaza border where I'm drawing by eye 24 news correspondent Perkel Schoenler already this morning firing rockets into Israel and the IDF carrying out intensive strikes as well tell us Pierre what's going on there were a couple of salvos of rocket fire trying to strike at the Ashkelon area which is a sea town very close to the border with the Gaza Strip but no damage no casualty there was also another strike at Kerem Shalom which is a community just facing the extreme south of the Gaza Strip there no report of casualty no damage and at the same time the IDF is announcing that just in the past 24 hours as negotiations are going on for the liberation of children and women held hostage by Hamas Islamic jihad as well as possible criminal elements inside the Gaza Strip that the IDF has announced that over 300 airstrikes have targeted terror infrastructures including weapon caches and weapon warehouses weapons manufacturing sites anti-tank guided missiles launching pads and the pounding of the northern Gaza Strip goes on as Igor Bazilenko is showing you in the area of an important element of what's going on is the Indonesia hospital which is between Betranun and Jibalia where the news has been tightening by the IDF troops at the Indonesia hospital Palestinian media reports affiliated to Hamas of course emanating from Gaza saying that they've been given an ultimatum to leave the premises of the hospital complex within the next four hours Indonesia hospital has been encircled by the Israeli army for the past seven days and we've seen on Sunday already tanks rolling in the vicinity of the hospital. Another report from Palestinian media relaying the Palestinian ministry of health affiliated to Hamas as well is saying that the manager of the hospital sprawling complex where tunnels are being divulged to the Israeli media showing also evidence of hostages haven't been held since October 7 in the premises of the hospital. This director has been arrested as well as some doctors probably for questioning interrogation as the IDF has proven that the hospital complex was also used as human shield by the Hamas terrorists. Pierre thank you so much for being with us again it does seem like the IDF is preparing laying the groundwork for another offensive for more aggressive actions as there is no truce today at all. Already this morning we're speaking with family members of hostages who tell us they are outraged at the decision to hold a press conference and keep threatening Hamas before any Israeli was returned home. Here is Neta Haiman the daughter of kidnapped Israeli Ditzah Haiman We are getting over a psychological terror. That's the sense it's horrible I told that it will be a list yesterday evening. We don't know if there is a list. We didn't see the list. No one talk with us about the list to tell us if she's going out if she's not going out. It's horrible it's horrible hours it's horrible situations we are six weeks after the 7 in October it's continuing. The Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu holding a press conference and taking the chance before any hostages came home to talk about the war going on to talk about killing Hamas leaders to talk about tracking them down around the world wherever they are. This was all across Israel's media last night across the world's media. What were you thinking when you heard the Prime Minister speaking because they must be now quiet. Give the give the deal to shout what they need to shout. With us now is I-24 News Senior diplomatic correspondent Owen Alderman live for us in Tel Aviv. Owen already this morning family members of hostages speaking out against the press conference many shocked many outraged many confused because the press conference was to announce a deal. Yeah Jeff I mean listen there are two different lines of criticism first of all everyone sympathizes with the families and the horrific emotional roller coaster that they're on compounded by the press conference last night and of course everyone wants to bring them home by the way around me you can see the now famous 240 empty yellow chairs here in hostages square in central Tel Aviv across from Israel's military headquarters of course the 240 yellow chairs signifying the 240 hostages taken and the vast majority of them still in the tunnels of Gaza and again the hope being that 50 of them those children and mothers to be returned over the four day period the initial four day period of the agreement look Jeff there are two separate lines of criticism for the press conference the first we discussed in our broadcast an hour ago right how can it be that the prime minister the defense minister and Benny Gantz a third senior minister who have been saying and have been and where the Israeli military spokesperson Daniel Higari has been saying for weeks don't trust them on a hostages deal trust only us don't trust the media don't trust foreign governments certainly don't trust the Qatari foreign ministry obviously don't trust Hamas you can trust us we will give you authoritative information about where things stand and we are a source that you can trust and then you can trust those three the prime minister the defense minister you have got and Benny Gantz go to the podium last night to present authoritative information as they have committed and promised to do giving the obvious impression to all of us that this deal was done and that this was going to be implemented with many many hiccups over the process of implementation that expectation was set but at least that the implementation was set to start and the deal was in hand and obviously that was the reality and I think again in retrospect we in the media and for that matter maybe the families as well in a sense should have been more suspicious that we hadn't actually seen a published agreement it had been a classified annex to the government decision but it hadn't actually been published maybe that was a sign that there wasn't really a done deal but the press conference gave an erroneous impression and in that sense it was a mistake maybe a grievous mistake the other line of criticism that we heard in that interview Jeff is a little bit more complicated which is about the content of the press conference beyond the issue of the deal right continuing to talk about the second goal of the war again eliminating Hamas and ending Hamas's control over territory in the Gaza Strip and potentially targeting Hamas leaders abroad look I do think at that level it's important for Israel's leadership to go out and tell our public and for that matter tell international public opinion tell leaders around the world and put everyone on notice and set again correct expectations but Israel's determination to carry on with this war because again the feeling is that over the course of the humanitarian pause or ceasefire or truce there's going to be mounting pressure on Israel this is the expectation to stop the war entirely to leave Hamas in control of two-thirds of the Gaza Strip for that matter to leave Hamas in possession of 80% of the hostages you can argue that it is in the hostage families own interest that the prime minister continue to go out and explain to the Israeli public and more importantly to the whole world that Israel can going to continue to put pressure on Hamas until they're all brought home and then the Hamas is brought down so at that level I think the criticism is a bit more complicated even on the eve of a deal it seems to be reasonable and even important even essential strategically for the Israeli for Israel's leadership to continue going out there and making that very consistent and persistent case oh and thank you so much for that analysis of what is going on this certainly heartbreaking and confusing day here in Israel joining me now is IDF retired colonel Mary Eisen currently the director of the International Institute for Counter Terrorism at Reichman University thank you so much for being with me give me your reaction to the press conference last night where the Israeli leadership including the prime minister used repeatedly the word deal indicating certainly to the country and to to heartbroken family members that the deal was done now today there is no deal that we know of for today only progress what do you make of the press conference when we're looking at the different elements of the horrible situation we're in it's as if we're looking for something clear concise I want to say structured as I was listening to Owen into the different criticisms Jeff am I allowed for a moment to criticize the media at the end of the day there is an expectation of everybody that this part of this war is that you also come out and you talk and you discuss and everybody's talking about the hostage issue and not enough people are talking about all of the other elements of the war and in that case I have to say that I really do feel there's an expectation for me as a person as a human being as an Israeli that we only talk about the hostages but I'm sorry I'm also the director of a institute that focuses on counterterrorism and we are in a war against the worst kind of terrorism so out comes the prime minister and says the word deal it's a deal with a terror organization has anybody put up the idea that there was a deal when they were talking at 8pm and then you get into the logistics at 9 or 10pm and figure that oh it isn't as said as you think not because of Israel but because of the other side and this isn't to say that what happens in this case is good or bad we need to talk to the public we need to talk to the families of the hostages we need to talk to Israelis we need to talk to the international opinion and Jeff we also need to be very clear on what we're doing against homo's terrorism and the implications of that so to just cut it on and say we made a huge mistake as Owen said before I am going to add in that the media are an additional aspect here of the situation and that just adds into it and again this isn't to blame anybody that's how complex it is Mary what a truce if it happens if it's implemented would it harm Israel's military objectives in your mind in your analysis so what we're talking about the words do matter pause truce ceasefire in that sense Israel's military continues to exist Israel's intelligence community does not stop what we're talking about is a pause in the active fighting of the ground troops inside the Gaza Strip and of those different aerial attacks that are working hand in hand with intelligence and the ground troops it obviously has an impact we would prefer not to stop that but we also have the hostage issue to me at the moment the biggest challenge is that when you're looking at the pauses it's that it's 10 people and an additional 10 people and then another day another 10 people and none of us know who they are and my heart goes out before to the woman who was talking because as she said nobody's told us anything it's a terror organization they haven't told us so when the ground troops are on the ground and they're going to be looking in the Gaza Strip both in the northern Gaza Strip and we're already looking in the central and the south from the outside but we're looking in they're going to be looking at people coming out who are the people coming out are they just civilians who are trying to get to a safer place are they terrorists moving around trying to better their positions are the Hamas going to regroup because right now they are under pressure that's why they're willing to do the deal these are all going to be part of the calculations but there is no easy way out it isn't just pound them as Pierre likes to use that word pounding them and then they'll give up the hostages they haven't done that so you have to continue it because they're willing to negotiate with us is because we're pounding them but hand in hand with that it's going to be the negotiation so that situation is soldiers on the ground looking at what's going to be vastly different activities for them than what they saw in the three weeks of the ground operation staying safe staying defensive not hurting civilians but not feeling that they're now sitting ducks for terrorists you take their from your from where you're sitting university on on sin war personally because so much of this comes to his personal calculation his personal calculus acting rationally that a multi-day pause in fighting a multi-day break in exchange for hostages being released is in his mind a rational decision do you think sin war is going to be a rational actor here when it comes to signing on the agreement so Jeff that's the whole aspect in all the negotiations with terror organizations let alone with the terror leader and in this case he has seen ours is more or less my age boy talk about different trajectory of what we do in life I'll say the challenging thing for me he has a rationale that rationale includes the annihilation destruction of the state of Israel now what do I do with that because the actions that have been taken over the last six and a half almost seven weeks are part of his rationale he thought that he was going to destroy the fabric of Israeli society and he didn't he thought that he could take these hostages and that Israel would not attack him because of the hostages he was wrong so at this stage along the way the rationale for him is in survival mode but it's his rationale of survival mode he wants to be able to prove Hamas is the way for the Palestinians to achieve the goal that he calls for which is our annihilation we're not letting him do it that way but you have to understand that when you're negotiating he has a different rationale we still need to get the hostages back Jeff no matter what his rationale is and that makes it very difficult Mary thank you so much for being with us this morning and I 24 news great to have you and here in studio I'm joined by I 24 news correspondent Ariel Oceran and a one thing that came out of the press conference last night and as Mary mentioned you know words matter particularly about a hostage deal with a terror organization each word matters we have the National Security Council chairman saying that the negotiation now is progressing that word raising some eyebrows raising my eyebrow progressing that the deal is and also a similar words this one from Qatar and said it's moving forward so is there a deal was is it a deal that's done as the prime minister says or is his other parties these interested parties say it's only progressing because there is a gulf between those the impact of those words yeah I think the use of the word that it's progressing is to show that it's not moving backwards and that it's not stagnant but that there is there are there is some positive movements I think the fact that once you announce that it's happening that it doesn't happen by effect take a step back but I think what all sides are trying to show is they're trying to relay a sense of optimism trying to indicate that these hiccups at the beginning are not because there's a lack of agreement on the big issues on the essence on the existence of a deal but that there are I you know I think there are sometimes a broken clock is right twice a day so there's sometimes when Hamas says stuff that are accurate and when they say that it's due to technical issues I agree to that it does it does make sense given that you have so many moving pieces in the air you have under one hand you're stopping the fighting on the other hand the forces aren't leaving you have drone activity but it's limited and in some areas you don't have it at all so they're trying each side I think Hamas is trying mainly to perhaps better their position before it's implemented like they realized where things are where the chips have fallen and they said let's try and improve our positioning a little better and the reason I'm going with that assessment is because it's not the first time that Hamas has done stuff like this it's not the first time that even once a ceasefire agreement at least in the past once a ceasefire agreement has been implemented they broke it many times in 2014 they broke at least 13 ceasefires one of them one of those breaches included killing four soldiers and the kidnapping of Hadar Goldin and keeping his body in Gaza till this day by the way and so we shouldn't expand a little bit on that point Ariel I mean if there is going to be a multi-day truce Israeli soldiers are still inside Gaza deep inside Gaza and they're not going to leave the IDF if this is a multi-day truce perhaps even if it even if it gets extended to release more hostages possibly does that put troops in harm's way keeping them inside Gaza kind of on pause look just the fact that they're inside Gaza puts them in harm's way I don't think that the fact that there's a cessation of active fighting that they will lower their guard it is potentially unplanned effect that could happen as the day progresses as the truce progresses and I agree with you we're talking about a four-day truce but it has up to has the option to be extended up to five days so we're talking about a four to nine day ceasefire in Gaza depending on how long it is extended and also during if it is extended so there could also be tricks there I don't think that Israel does not fully aware of who it's dealing with I think Israel I agree with Miri Aizen Israel did not have an alternative but to hold that press conference because there's a phrase in Hebrew that it's accurate to the time of being said and that was the situation back then given when you're working with a terror organization everything that comes out of there you have to take with a grain of salt and that's why the fact that there are multiple guarantors to this deal should increase its chances of implementation and has it happened so far but I think it will clear up moving forward everything at this moment though certainly still in flux and again more as I mentioned at the top more rockets from the south today and from the north as well activity increasing this morning let's go live now to i-24 news correspondent Nicole Seneck what's the latest activity that you've seen already this morning in the north and perhaps what's the latest on the Israel-Hezbollah conflict well we have seen those red alerts siren out through multiple different places here in the north and I can tell you right after we get those alerts on our phone I hear very strong heavy outgoing Israeli artillery firing towards southern Lebanon and this is in line with what the IDF is stating they came out with a statement stating that following those warnings there were a number of launches detected coming from southern Lebanon and the IDF is responding to each of those launches with outgoing artillery now in addition to that an IDF aircraft also spotted a anti-tank squad trying to also fire towards northern Israel and they also eliminated that terror squad as well targeting them so we continue to see this and you can hear just the sounds of this heavy heavy outgoing artillery as as as Hezbollah continues to attack northern Israel now these latest warnings that we've seen also comes after the news that just yesterday Israeli airstrikes eliminated five Hezbollah members including the son of a senior Hezbollah lawmaker one of the heads of the parliamentary bloc in Lebanon so five members that brings the total death toll of Hezbollah members since October 7th to at least 84 that's the number that Hezbollah is claiming but it's likely following all of these different IDF airstrikes and what we continue to see that the number could be even higher than that so we are continuing to see this back and forth action especially as the delay ceasefire in the south that means that both sides both the IDF and Hezbollah now has at least another day to continue this back and forth retaliation that we have been seeing for the past several days now so it's still the early morning hours here and we have already had several different red alert warnings to people having to go into their shelters but that's for the people that haven't evacuated so far because right now the north continues to be a very heated and a very tense territory as well because we continue to see this type of back and forth retaliation Nicole there's no indication correct or that any truce in the south with Gaza would also lead to a lowering of the tension and the violence of Hezbollah in the north or could that also be a side impact of a temporary truce against Hamas as of yesterday Hezbollah was telling different Arab media outlets that if the truce in the south that they would abide by it as well as long as Israel doesn't attack them on this northern front so they said if Israel stops the firing on the northern front then they would abide by the temporary truce as well however we did hear from the Iranian foreign minister just yesterday in his visit to Beirut to the Lebanese capital stating that if this truce in the south does not extend further than maybe this four day brief pause that it's definitely the possibility of a regional escalation so that means that we're going to continue to possibly see these different Iranian proxies getting involved if we don't see the truce continued but I want to add that as far as the truce deal the deal that the IDF that Israel has signed off on and although it is delayed right now Hezbollah is not actually involved by it so all right now is we're hearing their word to different Arab media outlets but it remains to be seen exactly what happens when that truce does happen in the south what happens on this northern border if we do see a brief pause a brief pause in the fighting or if they also take it to attack the IDF forces here on the north we'll have to see the cold setting thank you so much for that report live for us on the border great to have you be safe going out for a break thanks so much for watching here on I-24 News more live team coverage from the north and the south on this on the Israel Hamas war stay with us we'll be right back Israel is in a state of war families completely done down in their beds we have no idea where she has our soldiers are fighting on the front line but the general perception is something that certainly needs to be fought as well. this morning as the Israel Hamas war enters day 48 already a very violent barrage into Israel and Hezbollah firing rockets into Israel as well from the north over the Lebanon border but our cop story right now no hostages will be released today Israeli authorities say that the deal with Hamas will not go into effect until tomorrow so hostages will not come home until Friday at some point there's a flurry now of contradictory reports about what's going on some Israeli officials say the government still has not received the final list of women and children hostages that will be freed others say Hamas leaders haven't actually officially signed on the dotted line of this Qatar broker deal all we know for sure for now there's no truce the IDF is stepping up it strikes even right now in Gaza there's no pause and Hamas is firing more rockets Netanyahu held a press conference last night about the situation his comments after the cabinet approved the deal. I'm sure he will of course he'll try he'll try all sorts of tricks and there's other things that we think we are going to do what we said we're going to do we are committed to continue the fighting I'm not just saying it I just spoke to the president of the United States he's a great friend and I told him Joe we are fighting we are having a truce in an agreement that he was a privy to he was a partner but we're going to continue this is a real commitment it's not just saying it writing it on paper this is like carved in our hearts we are committed to eliminate the Hamas we are committed to create a different reality in Gaza it shouldn't become a threat we are committed to bring all the hostages back and that of course compels us to continue to fight. Let's go live now to the Israel-Gaza border where I'm joined by I-24 News correspondent Pierre Koshenler, Pierre Hamas already this morning firing rockets into Israel and the idea of carrying out some pretty intensive strikes as well tell us Pierre what's going on right there were a couple of salvos of rocket fire trying to strike at the Ashkelon area which is a sea town very close to the border with the Gaza Strip but no damage no casualty there was also another strike at Kerem Shalom which is a community just facing the extreme south of the Gaza Strip there no report of casualty no damage and at the same time the IDF is announcing that just in the past 24 hours as negotiations are going on for the liberation of children and women held hostage by Hamas Islamic Jihad as well as possible criminal elements inside the Gaza Strip that the IDF has announced that over 300 airstrikes have targeted terror infrastructures including weapon caches and weapon warehouses weapons manufacturing sites anti-tank guided missiles launching pads and pounding of the northern Gaza Strip goes on as Igor Bazilenko is showing you in the area of Betchanun now an important element of what's going on in Betchanun is the Indonesia hospital which is between Betchanun and Jebalia where the news has been tightening by the IDF troops at the Indonesia hospital Palestinian media reports affiliated to Hamas of course emanating from Gaza are saying that they've been given an ultimatum to leave the premises of the hospital complex within the next four hours now Indonesia hospital has been encircled by the Israeli army for the past seven days and we've seen on Sunday already tanks rolling in the vicinity of the hospital another report from Palestinian media relaying the Palestinian ministry of health affiliated to Hamas as well is saying that the manager of the Shifa hospital sprawling complex where tunnels are being divulged to the Israeli media showing also evidence of hostages haven't been held in the in since October 7 in the premises of the hospital this director has been arrested as well as some doctors probably for questioning interrogation as the IDF has proven that the hospital complex was also used as human shield by the Hamas terrorists. Pierre thank you so much for being with us and again it does seem like the IDF is preparing laying the groundwork for another offensive for more aggressive actions as there is no truce today at all. Already this morning we're speaking with family members of hostages who tell us they are outraged at the decision to hold a press conference and keep threatening Hamas before any Israeli was returned home. Here is Neta Haiman the daughter of kidnapped Israeli Ditzah Haiman we are getting over a psychological terror that's the sense it's horrible they told that will be a list yesterday evening. We don't know if there is a list we didn't see the list no one talk with us about the list to tell us if she's going if she's not going out it's horrible it's horrible hours it's horrible situations we are six weeks after the October and it's continuing. The Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu holding a press conference and taking the chance before any hostages came home to talk about the war going on to talk about killing Hamas leaders to talk about tracking them down around the world wherever they are this was across Israel's media last night across the world's media what were you thinking when you heard the Prime Minister speaking I was shouting on the TV because they must be now quiet give them to shout what they need to shout again is a lot of them even already this morning family members are just speaking out against the press conference many shocked many outraged many confused because the press conference was to announce a deal yes jeff listen there are two different lines of criticism first of all everyone sympathizes with the families and the horrific emotional roller coaster that they're on compounded by the press conference last night and everyone wants to bring them home by the way around me you can see the now famous 240 empty yellow chairs here in hostages square in central Tel Aviv across from Israel's military headquarters. Of course, the 240 empty yellow chairs signifying the 240 hostages taken and the vast majority of them still in the tunnels of Gaza. And again, the hope being that 50 of them, those children and mothers, to be returned over the four-day period, the initial four-day period of the agreement. Look, Jeff, there are two separate lines of criticism for the press conference. The first we discussed in our broadcast an hour ago, right? How can it be that the prime minister, the defense minister, and Benny Gantz, a third senior minister, who have been saying, and where the Israeli military spokesperson Daniel Higari has been saying for weeks, don't trust them on a hostages deal. Trust only us. Don't trust the media. Don't trust foreign governments. Certainly don't trust the Qatari foreign ministry. Obviously don't trust Hamas. You can trust us. We will give you authoritative information about where things stand, and we are a source that you can trust. And then those three, the prime minister, the defense minister, you have Galant and Benny Gantz go to the podium last night to present authoritative information as they have committed and promised to do, giving the obvious impression to all of us that this deal was done and that this was going to be implemented with many, many hiccups over the process of implementation. That expectation was set, but at least that the implementation was set to start, and the deal was in hand. And obviously that impression was not in accord with reality. And I think again, in retrospect, we in the media, and for that matter maybe the families as well in a sense, should have been more suspicious that we hadn't actually seen a published agreement. It had been a classified annex to the government decision, but it hadn't actually been published. Maybe that was a sign that there wasn't really a done deal. But the press conference gave an erroneous impression. And in that sense it was a mistake, maybe a grievous mistake. The other line of criticism that we heard in that interview, Jeff, is a little bit more complicated, which is about the content of the press conference beyond the issue of the deal. Continuing to talk about the second goal of the war, again, eliminating Hamas and ending Hamas's control over territory in the Gaza Strip, and potentially targeting Hamas leaders abroad. Look, I do think at that level it's important for Israel's leadership to go out and tell our public, and for that matter tell international public opinion, tell leaders around the world and put everyone on notice, and set again correct expectations. But Israel's determination to carry on with this war, because again, the feeling is that over the course of the humanitarian pause or ceasefire or truce, there's going to be mounting pressure on Israel, this is the expectation, to stop the war entirely, to leave Hamas in control of two-thirds of the Gaza Strip. For that matter, to leave Hamas in possession of 80% of the hostages, you can argue that it is in the hostage family's own interest that the Prime Minister continue to go out and explain to the Israeli public, and more importantly, to the whole world, that Israel can continue to put pressure on Hamas until they're all brought home, and then Hamas is brought down. So at that level, I think the criticism is a bit more complicated. Even on the eve of a deal, it seems to be reasonable, and even important, even essential strategically for Israel's leadership to continue going out there and making that very consistent and persistent case. Oh, and thank you so much for that analysis of what is going on on this certainly heartbreaking and confusing day here in Israel. Joining me now is IDF retired Colonel Mary Eisen, currently the Director of the International Institute for Counterterrorism at Reichman University. Thank you so much, Mayor, for being with me. Give me your reaction to the press conference last night where the Israeli leadership, including the Prime Minister, used repeatedly the word deal, indicating certainly to the country and to heartbroken family members that the deal was done. Now today there is no deal that we know of for today only progress. What do you make of the press conference? When we're looking at the different elements of the horrible situation we're in, it's if we're looking for something clear, concise, I want to say structured as I was listening to Owen and to the different criticisms, Jeff, am I allowed for a moment to criticize the media? At the end of the day, there is an expectation of everybody that this part of this war is that you also come out and you talk and you discuss and everybody's talking about the hostage issue and not enough people are talking about all of the other elements of the war. And in that case, I have to say that I really do feel there's an expectation for me as a person, as a human being, as an Israeli, that we only talk about the hostages, but I'm sorry, I'm also the director of an institute that focuses on counterterrorism and we are in a war against the worst kind of terrorism. So out comes the Prime Minister and says the word deal. It's a deal with a terror organization. Has anybody put up the idea that there was a deal when they were talking at 8pm and then you get into the logistics at 9 or 10pm and figure that, oh, it isn't as set as you think, not because of Israel, but because of the other side. And this isn't to say that what happens in this case is good or bad. We need to talk to the public. We need to talk to the families of the hostages. We need to talk to Israelis. We need to talk to the international opinion. And Jeff, we also need to be very clear on what we're doing against homosterrorism and the implications of that. So to just cut it on and in and say, we made a huge mistake, as Owen said before, I am going to add in that the media are an additional aspect here. They've been hyping the whole hostage situation and that just adds into it. And again, this isn't to blame anybody. That's how complex it is. Mary, what a truce if it happens, if it's implemented. Did harm Israel's military objectives in your mind, in your analysis? So what we're talking about, the words do matter, pause, true, ceasefire in that sense. Israel's military continues to exist. Israel's intelligence community does not stop. What we're talking about is a pause in the active fighting of the ground troops inside the Gaza Strip and of those different aerial attacks that are working hand in hand with intelligence and the ground troops. It obviously has an impact. We would prefer not to stop that, but we also have the hostage issue. To me, at the moment, the biggest challenge is that when you're looking at the pauses, it's that it's 10 people and an additional 10 people and then another day and other 10 people. And none of us know who they are. And my heart goes out before to the woman who was talking because as she said, nobody's told us anything. It's a terror organization. They haven't told us. So when the ground troops are on the ground and they're going to be looking in the Gaza Strip, both in the northern Gaza Strip, and we're already looking in the central and the south from the outside, but we're looking in, they're going to be looking at people coming out. Who are the people coming out? Are they just civilians who are trying to get to a safer place? Are they terrorists moving around, trying to better their positions? Are the Hamas going to regroup? Because right now they are under pressure. That's why they're willing to do the deal. These are all going to be part of the calculations, but there is no easy way out. It isn't just pound them as Pierre likes to use that word, pounding them, and then they'll give up the hostages. They haven't done that. So you have to continue it. The only reason they're willing to negotiate with us is because we're pounding them. But hand in hand with that, it's going to be the negotiation. So that situation is soldiers on the ground looking at what's going to be vastly different activities for them than what they saw in the three weeks of the ground operation, staying safe, staying defensive, not hurting civilians, but not feeling that they're now sitting ducks for terrorists. Mary, I want to get your take there from where you're sitting at Reckman University on Sin War personally, because so much of this comes to his personal calculation, his personal calculus and acting rationally, that a multi-day pause in fighting, a multi-day break in exchange for hostages being released is, in his mind, a rational decision. Do you think Sin War is going to be a rational actor here when it comes to signing on the agreement? So, Jeff, that's the whole aspect in all the negotiations with terror organizations, let alone with the terror leader, and in this case, Ichea Sin War. Ichea Sin War is more or less my age. Boy, talk about different trajectory of what we do in life. I'll say the challenging thing for me. He has a rationale. That rationale includes the annihilation, destruction of the state of Israel. Now, what do I do with that? Because the actions that have been taken over the last six and a half, almost seven weeks, are part of his rationale. He thought that he was going to destroy the fabric of Israeli society, and he didn't. He thought that he could take these hostages and that Israel would not attack him because of the hostages. He was wrong. So at this stage along the way, the rationale for him is in survival mode, but it's his rationale of survival mode. He wants to be able to prove that Hamas is the way for the Palestinians to achieve the goal that he calls for, which is our annihilation. We're not letting him do it that way, but you have to understand that when you're negotiating, he has a different rationale. We still need to get the hostages back, Jeff, no matter what his rationale is, and that makes it very difficult. Mary, thank you so much for being with us this morning, and I-24 News, great to have you. Absolutely. And here in studio, I'm joined by I-24 News, Middle East correspondent Ariel Oceran. And one thing that came out of the press conference last night, and as Mary mentioned, words matter particularly about a hostage deal with a terror organization. Each word matters. We have the National Security Council chairman saying that the negotiation now is progressing that word, raising some eyebrows, raising my eyebrow, progressing that the deal is also a similar word, this one from Qatar. And White House said it's moving forward. So is there a deal, is it a deal that's done, as the Prime Minister says, or is his other parties, these interested parties, say it's only progressing? Because there is a gulf between the impact of those words. Yeah, I think the use of the word that it's progressing is to show that it's not moving backwards and that it's not stagnant, but that there is some positive movements. I think the fact that once you announce that it's happening, that it doesn't happen, you, by effect, take a step back. But I think what all sides are trying to show is they're trying to relay a sense of optimism, trying to indicate that these hiccups at the beginning are not because there's a lack of agreement on the big issues, on the essence, on the existence of a deal, but that there are, you know, I think there are sometimes a broken clock is right twice a day. So there are sometimes when Hamas says stuff that are accurate and when they say that it's due to technical issues, I agree to that. It does make sense given that you have so many moving pieces in the air. You have, on the one hand, you're stopping the fighting. On the other hand, the forces aren't leaving. You have drone activity, but it's limited. And in some areas, you don't have it at all. And so they're trying each side. I think Hamas is trying mainly to perhaps better their position before it's implemented. Like, they realized where things are, where the chips have fallen. And they said, let's try and improve our positioning a little better. And the reason I'm going with that assessment is because it's not the first time that Hamas has done stuff like this. It's not the first time that even once a ceasefire agreement, at least in the past, once a ceasefire agreement has been implemented, they broke it many times. In 2014, they broke at least 13 ceasefires. One of them, one of those breaches included killing four soldiers and the kidnapping of Hadar Goldin and keeping his body in Gaza till this day, by the way. And so we shouldn't, on the one hand... He's trying to expand a little bit on that point, Ariel. I mean, if there is going to be a multi-day truce, Israeli soldiers are still inside Gaza, deep inside Gaza. And they're not going to leave. The IDF, if this is a multi-day truce, perhaps even if it gets extended to releasing more hostages possibly, does that put troops in harm's way? Is that keeping them inside Gaza kind of on pause? Look, just the fact that they're inside Gaza puts them in harm's way. I don't think that the fact that there's a cessation of active fighting, that they will lower their guard, it is potentially unplanned effect that could happen as the day progresses, as the truce progresses. And I agree with you. We're talking about a four-day truce, but it has the option to be extended up to five days. So we're talking about a four to nine-day ceasefire in Gaza, depending on how long it is extended. And also, if it is extended, so there could also be tricks there. I don't think that Israel is not fully aware of who it's dealing with. I think Israel, I agree with Miri Aizen. Israel did not have an alternative but to hold that press conference because there's a phrase in Hebrew that it's accurate to the time of being said. And that was the situation back then. And so given when you're working with a terror organization, everything that comes out of there, you have to take with a grain of salt. And that's why the fact that there are multiple guarantors to this deal should increase its chances of implementation. It hasn't happened so far, but I think that we'll clear up moving forward. Everything at this moment, though, certainly still in flux. And again, as I mentioned at the top, more rockets from the south today and from the north as well. Hezbollah activity increasing this morning, let's go live now to I-24 News correspondent Nicole Sinek. What's the latest activity that you've seen already this morning in the north? And perhaps what's the latest on the Israel-Hezbollah conflict? Well, we have seen those red alerts sirening out through multiple different places here in the north. And I can tell you, right after we get those alerts on our phone, I hear very strong, heavy, outgoing Israeli artillery firing towards southern Lebanon. And this is in line with what the IDF is stating. They came out with a statement stating that following those warnings, there were a number of launches detected coming from southern Lebanon. And the IDF is responding to each of those launches with outgoing artillery. Now, in addition to that, an IDF aircraft also spotted an anti-tank squad preparing to also fire towards northern Israel. And they also eliminated that terror squad as well, targeting them. So we continue to see this, and you could hear just the sounds of this heavy, heavy, outgoing artillery as Hezbollah continues to attack northern Israel. Now, these latest warnings that we've seen also comes after the news that just yesterday Israeli airstrikes eliminated five Hezbollah members, including the son of a senior Hezbollah lawmaker, one of the heads of the parliamentary bloc in Lebanon. So five members, that brings the total death toll of Hezbollah members since October 7th to at least 84. That's the number that Hezbollah is claiming. But it's likely following all of these different IDF airstrikes. And what we continue to see that the number could be even higher than that. So we are continuing to see this back and forth action, especially as the delay of a ceasefire in the south. That means that both sides, both the IDF and Hezbollah, now has at least another day to continue this back and forth retaliation that we have been seeing for the past several days now. So it's still the early morning hours here, and we have already had several different red alert warnings to people having to go into their shelters. But that's for the people that haven't evacuated so far because right now, the north continues to be a very heated and a very tense, tense territory as well, because we continue to see this type of back and forth retaliation. Nicole, there's no indication, correct, that any truce in the south with Gaza would also lead to a lowering of the tension and the violence of Hezbollah in the north? Or could that also be a side impact of a temporary truce against Hamas? As of yesterday, Hezbollah was telling different Arab media outlets that if the truce in the south, that they would abide by it as well, as long as Israel doesn't attack them on this northern front. So they said if Israel stops the firing on the northern front, then they would abide by the temporary truce as well. However, we did hear from the Iranian Foreign Minister just yesterday in his visit to Beirut to the Lebanese capital, stating that if this truce in the south does not extend further than maybe this four-day brief pause, that it's definitely the possibility of a regional escalation. So that means that we're going to continue to possibly see these different Iranian proxies getting involved if we don't see the truce continued. But I want to add that as far as the truce deal, the deal that the IDF that Israel has signed off on, and although it is delayed right now, Hezbollah is not actually involved by it. So all right now is we're hearing their word to different Arab media outlets, but it remains to be seen exactly what happens when that truce does happen in the south. What happens on this northern border if we do see a brief pause, a brief pause in the fighting, or if they also take it to attack the IDF forces here on the north? Well, I have to say, Nicole Sethick, thank you so much for that report live for us on the board. It's great to have you. Be safe. Going out for a break. Thanks so much for watching here on iTunes for News. More live team coverage from the north and the south on the Israel Hamas War. Stay with us. We'll be right back. Israel is in a state of war. Families completely done down in their beds. We have no idea where is she. As our soldiers are fighting on the front line, but the general perception is something that certainly needs to be fought as well. This week on News 24, Israel under attack. 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Here is Netanyahu last night after his cabinet approved the deal saying that the war to kill Hamas leaders, including Ayesen War, will continue. I'm sure he will, I'm sure he will. Of course he'll try, he'll try all sorts of tricks and there's other things that we think. We are going to do what we said we're going to do. We are committed to continue the fighting. I'm not just saying it. I just spoke to the President of the United States. He's a great friend and I told him, Joe, we are fighting. We are having a truce in an agreement that he was a privy to, he was a partner, but we're going to continue. This is a real commitment. It's not just saying it, writing it on paper. This is like carved in our hearts. We are committed to eliminate the Hamas. We are committed to create a different reality in Gaza. It shouldn't become a threat. We are committed to bring all the hostages back and that of course compels us to continue to fight. Family members of the kidnap are outraged at the decision to hold a press conference before hostages were returned. We are getting over a psychological terror. That's the sense. It's horrible. They told that it will be a list yesterday evening. We don't know if there is a list. We didn't see the list. No one talk with us about the list to tell us if she's not going out. It's horrible. It's horrible hours. It's horrible situations. We are six weeks after the seven in October and it's continuing. What were you thinking when you heard the prime minister speaking? I was shouting on the TV because they must be now quiet. Give the deal to shout what they need to shout. With me now is I just wanted to see your diplomatic correspondent, Owen Altman, who was live for us in Tel Aviv. Owen, as you've mentioned before, there have been many repeated calls from the prime minister, from the defense minister, asking the media, asking grieving family members to wait until you hear from us that we are the authoritative voice on what's happening. Don't listen to leaks. Don't listen to anonymous sources. Don't listen to Qatar. Don't even listen to the White House. Listen to us only. Then they had a press conference. What might the fallout be of what was said last night? Look, obviously, Jeff, there's an element of breach of trust here. Obviously the Israeli public, and I would imagine the families themselves, are not going to blame Israel or brain Benjamin Netanyahu for the breakdown or the apparent breakdown of this pending agreement. People are gonna blame Hamas. It's Hamas that is holding the hostages. It's Hamas that's the terrorist organization. And people, I think, by and large in Israeli public opinion, are not going to blame the Israeli government for the breakdown. People are going to blame Hamas. That said, certainly in retrospect, I think a serious mistake by Israel's leadership to go out and go to the podium and describe the agreement as in agreement, give the distinct impression that the deal was done for exactly the reason that we've laid out over the course of this morning here in Israel, that again, the government and the leadership have continually, repeatedly asked people to trust them and only them. And I think that that's an important instruction. And to say that they're providing authoritative information, so obviously this punctures that theory, this eats at that request. And even if the public is not going to blame the government and Israel's leadership for the breakdown of the agreement, I think people are going to be unhappy to the very least that this press conference happened and gave a mistaken impression. By the way, Jeff, as you mentioned, there are conflicting reports about exactly what's still at issue and exactly what's outstanding and what exactly what hasn't been decided. Keep in mind that depending on the changes, one wonders whether this has to go back for additional approvals at the war cabinet and potentially even at the security cabinet. Presumably does not have to go back to the full government because there the approval was only needed for the release of the Palestinian prisoners, for their number and for the names and identities of those prisoners. So unless there's a change to that, one would imagine it doesn't have to go back to the full government, but it does raise the question of whether the agreement at some level has to go back certainly to the war cabinet and maybe also to the security cabinet. Again, not that this would present a major delay. These forms can be convened quickly and can have a discussion relatively quickly as we saw with those first two stages of the process on Tuesday night. But at any rate, it does raise the question of what other procedures might be needed as this gets to the finish line. All right, all for us in Tel Aviv. Thanks for that update. We'll go live now to I-25 News correspondent, Pierre Kloeschengler for us near the Israel Gaza border. Pierre, there is no truce of any kind. Is the IDF taking advantage of that opportunity to continue their strikes on terror targets? Are there more terror targets remaining in the northern part of the strip to take out and destroy? Absolutely. The defense lines of Hamas, including launching parts for rockets, launching parts for anti-tank guided missiles, weapons warehouses, manufacturing of weapons, tunnels, tunnel networks, all that is still existing in the northern Gaza Strip. The lines of defense were so dense, you know, they've been preparing for the past 15 years or 16 years since Hamas took over the Gaza Strip in 2007 that the infrastructure, the military infrastructure, the terror infrastructure of Hamas is extremely dense and it will take a lot of time to complete the task by the IDF forces just over the past 24 hours. The IDF has announced that over 300 terror targets belonging to Hamas have been annihilated, be it weapons warehouses and caches, be it manufacturing of weapons, launching parts, et cetera, et cetera. And at the same time, the IDF, according to Palestinian reports, affiliated to Hamas, obviously emanating from Gaza, have issued an ultimatum to the Indonesia Hospital, which is in Bethanun, just behind me, a few kilometers away from here, a hospital that has been encircled basically for the past week. They've issued an ultimatum for the medical personnel to immediately evacuate the premises within four hours. Now, these are media affiliated to Hamas, but at the same time, they're also explaining that the director of the Shifa Hospital, a sprawling complex in which there is proof of an interlacing of bunkers and tunnels in the basement as well as evidence that hostages were kept and denies the hospital after the October 7 massacre, according to the IDF. This, the director general of this hospital, Mohammad Abu Shalmiah, as well as some doctors were picked up on their way to the southern part of the Gaza Strip using the unilateral humanitarian corridor that has been opened by the IDF since November 5th. And that means that he was, is probably arrested for interrogation, questioned by the IDF and by the Shin Bet and it seems that sources in Israel are confirming the arrest of the director general of the Shifa Hospital. So the impetus of the ground offensive is going on with tight collaboration between the ground forces, the Israeli Air Force, the artillery, the Navy and at the same time, they're trying to in a sense neutralize the administration of Hamas because without neutralizing the administration of Hamas hand in hand with the offensive, Hamas will always be able to reorganize and probably targeting the Indonesia Hospital, trying to take over the hospital on one hand. At the same time, arresting personnel of hospital that have already been invested by the Israeli Army goes into that direction. Pierre for us on the Israel-Gaza border in Stay Road. Thank you, Pierre for that report. Here in studio, I'm joined by Dr. Avi Bitsor, the head of national security studies at Big Berl Academic College and Yaqui Dayan, the former Israeli consul in Los Angeles. Yaqui, I wanna start with you with a question just about the atmosphere and your analysis to what is clearly kind of a gut punch of a morning that millions of Israelis went to bed last night being told that there's gonna be a hostage deal. Kids will be returned home, they wake up this morning and there's no deal and it's unclear why. So a few facts that we have to bear in mind. The first one is that we are dealing with the Hamas, the terrorist organization that is manipulating, that is not hesitating to use any psychological warfare. So this is the first point that we have to take into consideration. The second one is that what is different in this deal than any other deal that we can compare is the crucial involvement of the United States. This deal wouldn't have happened without the involvement, without the direct involvement of the United States. Two phone calls between President Biden and the Emir of Qatar, three phone calls with Assisi from Egypt, 15 phone calls with Netanyahu and negotiating team that is located in Doha, Qatar and American negotiating team, obviously. So the leverages of the United States on Qatar are enormous. So concluding that, I sincerely hope that this delay is a tactical one and not a strategic one and this is what I'm figuring out from what is going on to now. Could there be another delay and another delay and another delay? Sure, but in the meantime, the war is continuing. Nobody stopped the war, there is no interim ceasefire, there is nothing, I mean, it can be delayed again and again and again. This is part of the psychological warfare that the Hamas is conducting. So we should expect that, but at the same time, so if you ask me about the press conference and I heard all kinds of comments about the press conference, I agree, I would skip this press conference, but this is a tactical failure. It's not a strategic one. This is not something that would revert the deal on the hostages. Avi, I want to ask about the war, as we're talking about the war is going on, but what about South Gaza? I mean, can the IDF at this point begin a major offensive that's in Ghaniunas? Do they have to wait? Do they plan on going deeper into South Gaza? From my first point of view, yes, we can do everything. You can send the air force to Ghaniunas, you can do everything in these minutes and believe me, the Hamas and us are using every minute of this time that they gain by surprise or not surprise, I don't know, because I have and I will speak about it, connect between the press conference and the delay of the deal. Every minute Hamas will fire, until let's say the deal will be tomorrow 10 o'clock, one minute or 10, or 10 o'clock they will fire. Believe it or not, there it will be. And Israel will do it. But I want to go again to the press conference. Look, you need this press conference, we have needed it for internal affairs, but when you see it in objective eyes, what is this? You are speaking to people that you are now dealing with them without using of proxies like Qatar, et cetera, or under the umbrella of USA, and you say what? You are people of that, I will kill every one of you. You know what? I'm not surprised, I'm not a prophet, I did not know that today there will be no deal, but the other side is watching and you have to understand and realize what Yaki said and it was correct. This is a psychological war, of course, first. Second, they are giving us back answers about what we are saying. This conference was something to say, come on, show me, see me, okay? No deal, what you will do and about what you have said, it's important. Yaki was saying and he was right. Israel will go on and the Hamas will go on with fighting, but there will be another thing, there will be a ceasefire, I believe, and then they will say, you know what? We have another 20, let's say hostages, very good for us, but they will gain two or three more days ahead. The important thing is to think about two things. First, does the Israeli army, our army, can raise again and going to the attack eight or 10 days from today after such delays? Yes, about the Israeli on-front, about what he said, you know, resilience and immunity and stability of a nation, we must realize, please, political people, stop your mouths, close it, close it. And we've heard some family members today, I believe. You have to count the money after you leave the bank, wait. And do the people, leave aside everything, wait. The little patients that the Israeli, I'm included, okay? Doesn't have. We haven't heard, you know, we talk about the importance of the US involvement and the Qatari involvement and the team of mediators, a talented team of mediators here, but, you know, even if there's a list of names, do we have any idea the condition of these passages? Are they alive? Can Hamas deliver these passages alive? Are they going to be able to, even if they sign on a deal, deliver, be able to follow through all the way to the moment that Israeli soldiers escort these hostages back into Israeli territory? Alive, yes, this is part of the deal. This is what was agreed with the Qataris and Hamas. They have to be alive. There are specific conditions. I don't believe so. I think that we will know that only after they will reach our hands and the hostages will come to the hospitals, will be examined, checked, and only afterwards we'll know exactly their conditions. But alive, the answer is yes. I want to note here that as I'm speaking right now, a big flurry of rocket attacks from Hezbollah in the North, the war against Hezbollah continuing. Of course, today these are live images now looking into the Lebanon border in the North. Hezbollah this morning has confirmed that the son of its chairman within the Lebanese parliament in the legislative wing of the official government, the son of its chairman was killed in an Israeli airstrike along with four other Hezbollah terrorists in that same strike. And already this morning, now there's rocket strikes and this follows earlier rocket strikes as well. We have a reporter on the Israel-Lebanon border. We'll try to set up a connection with her in the minutes to come. Your reaction here today. This is not surprising. I mean, as we said, the war is going on as well as in the North, not only in Gaza. It is going on. And we had specific intelligence as we see now. High official, Hezbollah official with other four was taken. And this is the Hezbollah response. And we'll see it again and again. But we have to bear in mind that everything all this escalation and it's going on all the time, all the time. Still, there is no interest by no one, including the United States of America, that this war will escalate, that this war will expand. So this is a huge challenge, I think, by the Americans, by the Israelis and also Hezbollah. All of them do not want this war to expand, but we see the dynamic of war here. So it might expand. Do you think that the war was expanded, the multi-week effort of keeping this at a low boil between Hezbollah and the United States? Is it going to boil over in your mind? I agree with Mike. For the first day, OK, with Jackie, sorry. For the first day, Hezbollah is playing with us and we're playing with them. Look on the places that are firing it. They are trying to do whatever they can, not to come to strategic places in Israel that they can reach. They are not doing it. We are doing the same. I believe, really believe, that both sides, Israel and Hezbollah, doesn't want no use, nobody to escalate the situation, OK? And Hezbollah understands very well it is not the position he wants to find himself against Israel. Half of our army is in the North. Everywhere you are stepping, you are stepping on a tank or on a whatever, brigade of paratroopers. I am laughing. OK, so they will not do nothing that escalate this war. But something is bothering me about the combine they have done yesterday when they spoke about the ceasefire with Hamas. This is a ceasefire for us with Israelis. So they combined both of the five things. I'm a little worried about it. Let's say what Israel will do. Let's say, let's hope, from tomorrow ahead, we'll have a ceasefire and bring it back of the hostages. Does it mean that we will stop acting against Hezbollah at the North? I believe we will stop. We are not doing nothing. They are firing. We are answering back. Do you agree, Yagi, could this be, even if there is a deal with Hamas, could the consequence of that deal, multi-day deal be a lowering of attention in the North as well, or the opposite? That it may be a reason for either Israel or Hezbollah to take the advantage of that. I'll tell you two things. I mean, Hezbollah is trying to look like if it is coordinating with the Hamas, as if they are bothering the Israeli army up in the North, but as we know, they don't have any interest to escalate it into an overall war up in the North. But there is a big but here. Israel understands, and Hezbollah understands as well, that the situation up in the North cannot get back to the place it was on October 6th before the war started with Hamas. There is an understanding already. The foreign minister, Eli Cohen, sent a request to the Security Council, demanding that the Resolution 1701, after the Second Lebanon War in 2006, was taken that Hezbollah will keep its forces North to the Lytani River and not South as they are keeping it now. So there is an understanding and beginning of an effort to change the status quo that existed up in the North before October 7th. And I want to bring into the conversation, Nicole Cedric, our correspondent for us on the Israel-Lebanon border. Moments ago, big rocket barrage. Nicole, what's the latest? We did see that rocket barrage with Red Alerts targeting about at least 12 different, more than a dozen different communities here in Northern Israel. And I want to note that that is pretty significant because usually when we do see some of these Red Alerts sirening throughout some of these different Northern border communities, it's just a handful. So more than a dozen is pretty significant. I can tell you from where I am, I saw at least three pretty big plumes of smoke in the air that to my eye at least looked like some of the Israeli air defense intercepting possibly some of these rockets. So this was in the past about 10 minutes now. And this is in line with the continued escalations that we have continued to see. Now we haven't had a statement from the IDF yet as this is just happening right now. But earlier today, we did hear from the IDF about some activity that happened earlier with some other Red Alerts and different launches coming from Southern Lebanon targeting Northern Israel. The IDF said they responded to each of those launches without going artillery. And we have been hearing that artillery throughout the morning here in Northern Israel. Now, in addition to this activity that we have seen throughout the morning, the IDF also in a statement stating that there was plenty of activity overnight as well, specifically in missile targeting an Israeli air system that was in Lebanese territory. However, the Israeli air defense was able to intercept that missile and then also target the area that it was launched from and as well as a weapons depot as well. So that's what we've been seeing overnight and into these ongoing morning hours. And it's still the early morning here as we continue to see these different launches coming from Southern Lebanon into Israeli territory. So it's definitely quite a bit of action here. And we should be expecting, especially after some of those that large, it seems barrage of rockets fired towards these Northern border towns, possibly some more responses throughout the day, just continued back and forth between Hezbollah and Israel. All right, a call for us. Thank you so much. Stay safe. Ava, do you think this might be a day of intense action uniquely in the North now, perhaps because of these rocket barrages and the killing of it? Not only with the note, with the salt at the note until the day and asked that everybody will decide about the deal and when it will be gone. Until then, the situation, which seems to be like escalation in the South, in the North, but in the North, it's the same. We are playing. I think it's a lousy word, but as well as playing, they can touch every place in Israel. We can do the same. We are not doing it. They are not doing it. It will stop when we have the ceasefire. So in the Hamas, the ceasefire, we have to be ready from the side of the army. You remember the thing that happened when they kidnapped two soldiers during ceasefire and for the on-front again, the Israeli on-front that was not ready and is not ready yet. We have to build something about national resilience. We have to do it. We're almost out of time, but Naki, it does sound like ultimately, you are still optimistic in the hours to come, the days to come, but the deal will come to fruition. I am, I am because as I told you, the role that the United States played here in this deal was crucial. And when President Biden is saying with his own words, that this deal is going to happen, you don't want to embarrass the American president. Especially if you're not the emir of Qatar or Assisi. I mean, Hamas can do whatever they want. Eventually they're playing according to the Iranian flute, but when the president is saying this deal is going to happen, I believe him. So we have to go out for a break here. I want to thank our guest in studio, Dr. Avi Bitsor and Yaki Dayan. Great to have you for this discussion and our live reporters across Israel, including in the South and the North, where there had been rocket barrages from Hamas and Hezbollah already this morning. We're going out but stay with us here on the channel for more live updates and live reporting and analysis as we continue to cover the ongoing war and reports of a deal that may be closed, may be signed in the hours to come for the way it's updates. Keep it right here on the channel. Thanks for watching. Is in a state of war, families completely done down in their beds. We have no idea where is she as our soldiers are fighting on the front line, but the general perception is something that certainly needs to be fought as well. Morning, Austin. I, 24 news this morning as the Israel Hamas war enters day 48, already a violent morning rocket attacks into Israel from Hamas in the South and Hezbollah in the North. With our top story, no hostages will be released today. Israeli authorities say that the deal with Hamas will not go into effect until tomorrow. There's a flurry already of contradictory reports about the reason why it remains unclear exactly what went wrong in the hours between Netanyahu announcing a deal and then confirmation that it was delayed. Here's Netanyahu last night after his cabinet approved the deal saying that the war to kill Hamas leaders including Ayesen Wad will continue. I'm sure he will. I'm sure he will. Of course he'll try. He'll try all sorts of tricks. And there's other things that we think we are going to do what we said we're going to do. We are committed to continue the fighting. I'm not just saying it. I just spoke to the president of the United States. He's a great friend. And I told him, Joe, we are fighting. We are having a truce in an agreement that he was a privy to. He was a partner, but we're going to continue. This is a real commitment. It's not just saying it, writing it on paper. This is like carved in our hearts. We are committed to eliminate the Hamas. We are committed to create a different reality in Gaza. It shouldn't become a threat. We are committed to bring all the hostages back. And that, of course, compels us to continue to fight. Family members of the kidnap are outraged at the decision to hold a press conference before hostages were returned. We are getting over a psychological terror. That's the sense. It's horrible. They told that it will be a list yesterday evening. We don't know if there is a list. We didn't see the list. No one talked with us about the list to tell us if she's going out, if she's not going out. It's horrible. It's horrible hours. It's horrible situations. We are six weeks after the 7th of October, and it's continuing. What were you thinking when you heard the prime minister speaking? I was shouting on the TV, because they must be now quiet. Give the deal to end, and then to shout what they need to shout. With me now, as I've already seen your diplomatic correspondent, Owen Altman, who is live for us in Tel Aviv. Owen, as you've mentioned before, there have been many repeated calls from the prime minister, from the defense minister, asking the media, asking grieving family members to wait until you hear from us that we are the authoritative voice on what's happening. Don't listen to leaks. Don't listen to anonymous sources. Don't listen to Qatar. Don't even listen to the White House. Listen to us only. Then they had a press conference. What might the fallout be of what was said last night? Look, obviously, Jeff, there is an element of breach of trust here. Obviously, the Israeli public, and I would imagine the families themselves, are not going to blame Israel or bring Benjamin Netanyahu for the breakdown, or the apparent breakdown, of this pending agreement. People are going to blame Hamas. It's Hamas that is holding the hostages. It's Hamas that's the terrorist organization. And people, I think, by and large, in Israeli public opinion, are not going to blame the Israeli government for the breakdown. People are going to blame Hamas. That said, certainly, in retrospect, I think a serious mistake by Israel's leadership is to go out and go to the podium and describe the agreement as an agreement, give the distinct impression that the deal was done for exactly the reason that we've laid out over the course of this morning here in Israel. That, again, the government and the leadership have continually, repeatedly asked people to trust them and only them. And I think that that's an important instruction, and to say that they're providing authoritative information. So obviously, this punctures that theory, this eats at that request. And even if the public is not going to blame the government and Israel's leadership for the breakdown of the agreement, I think people are going to be unhappy at the very least that this press conference happened and gave a mistaken impression. By the way, Jeff, as you mentioned, there are conflicting reports about exactly what's still at issue and exactly what's outstanding and exactly what hasn't been decided. Keep in mind that, depending on the changes, one wonders whether this has to go back for additional approvals at the war cabinet and potentially even at the security cabinet. Presumably does not have to go back to the full government because there, the approval was only needed for the release of the Palestinian prisoners, for their number and for the names and identities of those prisoners. So unless there's a change to that, one would imagine it doesn't have to go back to the full government, but it does raise the question of whether the agreement at some level has to go back, certainly to the war cabinet that may be also to the security cabinet, again, not that this would present a major delay. These forms can be convened quickly and can have a discussion relatively quickly, as we saw with those first two stages of the process on Tuesday night, but at any rate, it does raise the question of what other procedures might be needed as this gets to the finish line. All right, all for us in Tel Aviv. Thanks for that update. We'll go live now to I-25 News correspondent, Pierre Colchengler, for us near the Israel Gaza border. There is no truce of any kind. Is the IDF taking advantage of that opportunity to continue their strikes on terror targets? Are there more terror targets remaining in the northern part of the strip to take out and destroy? Absolutely. The defense lines of Hamas, including launching parts for rockets, launching parts for anti-tank guided missiles, weapons warehouses, manufacturing of weapons, tunnels, tunnel networks, all that is still existing in the northern Gaza Strip. The lines of defense were so dense, they've been preparing for the past 15 years or 16 years since Hamas took over the Gaza Strip in 2007 that the infrastructure, the military infrastructure, the terror infrastructure of Hamas is extremely dense and it will take a lot of time to complete the task by the IDF forces just over the past 24 hours. The IDF has announced that over 300 terror targets belonging to Hamas have been annihilated, be it weapons warehouses and caches, be it manufacturing of weapons, launching pads, et cetera, et cetera. And at the same time, the IDF, according to Palestinian reports affiliated to Hamas, obviously, emanating from Gaza, have issued an ultimatum to the Indonesia hospital, which is in Bethanun just behind me a few kilometers away from here. A hospital that has been uncircled basically for the past week, they've issued an ultimatum for the medical personnel to immediately evacuate the premises within four hours. Now, these are media affiliated to Hamas, but at the same time, they're also explaining that the director of the Shifa hospital, a sprawling complex in which there is proof of an interlacing of bunkers and tunnels in the basement, as well as evidence that hostages were kept and denies the hospital after the October 7 massacre, according to the IDF. This, the director general of this hospital, Muhammad Abu Shalmiah, as well as some doctors were picked up on their way to the southern part of the Gaza Strip using the unilateral humanitarian corridor that has been opened by the IDF since November 5th. And that means that he was, is probably arrested for interrogation, questioned by the IDF and by the Shin Bet. And it seems that sources in Israel are confirming the arrest of the director general of the Shifa hospital. So the impetus of the ground offensive is going on with tight collaboration between the ground forces, the Israeli Air Force, the artillery, the Navy, and at the same time, they're trying to, in a sense, neutralize the administration of Hamas because without neutralizing the administration of Hamas, hand in hand with the offensive, Hamas will always be able to reorganize and probably targeting the Indonesia hospital, trying to take over the hospital on one hand. At the same time, arresting personnel of hospital that have already been invested by the Israeli Army goes into that direction. Here for us, Army Israel Gaza border in Stay Road. Thank you, Pierre, for that report. Here in studio, I'm joined by Dr. R. V. Bitsor, the head of national security studies at Big Bird Academic College and Yaqui Dayan, the former Israeli consul in Los Angeles. Yaqui, I want to start with you with a question just about the atmosphere and your analysis to what is clearly kind of a gut punch of a morning that millions of Israelis went to bed last night being told that there's going to be a hostage deal, kids will be returned home, they wake up this morning and there's no deal and it's unclear why. So a few facts that we have to bear in mind. The first one is that we are dealing with the Hamas, a terrorist organization that is manipulating, that is not hesitating to use any psychological warfare. So this is the first point that we have to take into consideration. The second one is that what is different in this deal than any other deal that we can compare is the crucial involvement of the United States. This deal wouldn't have happened without the involvement, without the direct involvement of the United States. Two phone calls between President Biden and the mayor of Qatar, three phone calls with Assisi from Egypt, 15 phone calls with Netanyahu and negotiating team that is located in Doha, Qatar and American negotiating team, obviously. So the leverages of the United States on Qatar are enormous. So concluding that, I sincerely hope that this delay is a tactical one and not a strategic one and this is what I'm figuring out from what is going on to now. Could there be another delay and another delay and another delay? Sure, but in the meantime, the war is continuing. Nobody stopped the war. There is no interim ceasefire. There is nothing. I mean, it can be delayed again and again and again. This is part of the psychological warfare that the Hamas is conducting. So we should expect that, but at the same time. So if you asked me about the press conference and I heard all kinds of comments about the press conference, I agree, I would skip this press conference, but this is a tactical failure. It's not a strategic one. This is not something that would revert the deal on the hostages. Avi, I wanna ask about the war as we're talking about the war is going on, but what about South Gaza? I mean, can the IDF at this point begin a major offensive at the Hanunas? Do they have to wait? Do they plan on going deeper into South Gaza? From the first point of view, yes, we can do everything. You can send the air force to Hanunas. You can do everything in these minutes and believe me, the Hamas and us are using every minute of this time that they gain by surprise or not surprised, I don't know, because I have and I will speak about it, connect between the press conference and the delay of the deal. Every minute Hamas will fire until, let's say the deal will be tomorrow 10 o'clock, one minute to 10, or 10 o'clock they will fire, believe it or not, the rate will be. And he will do it, but I want to go again to the press conference. Look, you need this press conference, we have needed it for internal affairs. But when you see it in objective eyes, what is this? You are speaking to people that you are now dealing with them without using of proxies like Qatar, et cetera, or under the umbrella of USA, and you say what? You are people of that, I will kill every one of you. You know what? I'm not surprised, I'm not a prophet, I did not know that today there will be no deal, but the other side is watching and you have to understand and realize what Yaki said and it was correct. This is, like horology, it's like horology, this is like horological wall, of course, first, second, they are giving us back answers about what we are saying. This conference was something to say, come on, show me, see me, okay? No deal, what you will do, and about what you have said, it's important. Yaki, it's saying and it was right. Israel will go on and the Hamas will go on with fighting, but there will be another thing, there will be a ceasefire, I believe, and then they will say, you know what? We have another 20, let's say, hostages, very good for us, but they will gain two or three more days ahead. The important thing is to think about two things. First, does the Israeli army, our army, can raise again and going to the attack eight or 10 days from today after such delays? Yes. About the Israeli on front, about what we say, you know, resilience and immunity and stability of a nation, we must realize, please, the political people, stop your mouth, close it, close it. And we've heard some family members today already. You have to count the money after you leave the bank. Wait, and do the people leave aside everything? Wait, the little patients that the Israeli, I'm included, okay, doesn't have. We haven't heard, you know, we talk about the importance of the U.S. involvement and the Qatari involvement and the team of mediators, a talented team of mediators here, but you know, even if there's a list of names, do we have any idea the condition of these hostages? Are they alive? Can Hamas deliver these hostages alive? Are they going to be able to, even if they sign on a deal, deliver, be able to follow through all the way to the moment that Israeli soldiers escort these hostages back into Israeli territory? Alive, yes, this is part of the deal. This is what was agreed with the Qataris and Hamas. They have to be alive. There are specific conditions. I don't believe so. I think that we will know that only after they will reach our hands and the hostages will come to the hospitals, will be examined checked, and only afterwards we'll know exactly their conditions. But alive, the answer is yes. I wanna note here that as I'm speaking right now, a big flurry of rocket attacks from Hezbollah in the North, the war against Hezbollah continue. Of course, today these are live images now looking into the Lebanon border in the North. Hezbollah this morning has confirmed that the son of its, the son of its chairman within the Lebanese parliament in the legislative wing of the official government, the son of its chairman was killed in an Israeli airstrike along with four other Hezbollah terrorists in that same strike and already this morning, now there's rocket strikes and this follows earlier rocket strikes as well. We have a reporter on the Israel-Lebanon border. We'll try to set up a connection with her in the minutes to come. Your reaction here today. This is not surprising. I mean, as we said, the war is going on as well as in the North, not only in Gaza. It is going on and we had specific intelligence. As we see now, high official Hezbollah official with other four was taken and this is the Hezbollah response and we'll see it again and again. But we have to bear in mind that everything, all this escalation and it's going on all the time, still there is no interest by no one, including the United States of America, that this war will escalate, that this war will expand. So this is a huge challenge, I think by the Americans, by the Israelis and also Hezbollah. All of them do not want this war to expand but we see the dynamic of war here. So it might expand. Do you think that the war was expanded, the multi-week effort of keeping this at a low boil between Hezbollah and the United States? Is it going to boil over in your mind? I agree with Mike. For the first day, okay, with Yaki, sorry. For the first day, Hezbollah is playing with us and we're playing with them. Look on the places that are firing it. They're trying to do whatever they can not to come to strategic places in Israel that they can reach. They are not doing it. We are doing the same. I believe, really believe that both sides, Israel and Hezbollah, doesn't want no use, nobody to escalate the situation, okay? And Hezbollah understand very well it is not the position he wants to find himself against Israel. Half of our armies in the North, everywhere you are stepping, you are stepping on a tank or on a whatever, whatever brigade of paratroopers, I am laughing. Okay, so they will not do nothing that escalate this war, but something is bothering me about the combine they have done yesterday when they spoke about the ceasefire with Hamas. This is a ceasefire for us with Israelis. So they combined both of the fight since I'm a little worried about it. Let's say what Israel will do. Let's say, let's hope that from tomorrow ahead, we'll have a ceasefire and bringing back of the hostages. Does it mean that we will stop acting against Hezbollah in the North? I believe we will stop. We are not doing nothing. They are firing, we are answering back. Do you agree, Yagi, could this be, even if there's a deal with Hamas, could the consequence of that deal, multi-day deal be a lowering of the tension in the North as well, or the opposite, that it may be a reason for either Israel or Hezbollah to take the advantage of that? I'll tell you two things. I mean, Hezbollah is trying to look like, if it is coordinating with the Hamas, as if they are bothering the Israeli army up in the North, but as we know, they don't have any interest to escalate it into an overall war up in the North. But there is a big but here. Israel understands, and Hezbollah understands as well, that the situation up in the North cannot get back to the place it was on October 6th before the war started with Hamas. There is an understanding already. The foreign minister, Eli Cohen, sent a request to the Security Council, demanding that the Resolution 1701, after the Second Lebanon War in 2006, was taken that Hezbollah will keep its forces North to the Lytani River and not South as they are keeping it now. So there is an understanding and beginning of an effort to change the status quo that existed up in the North before October 7th. And I want to bring into the conversation, Nicole Setic, our correspondent for us on the Israel Lebanon border moments ago, big rocket barrage, Nicole, what's the latest? We did see that rocket barrage with Red Alerts targeting about at least 12 different, more than a dozen different communities here in Northern Israel. And I want to note that that is pretty significant because usually when we do see some of these Red Alerts sirening throughout some of these different Northern border communities, it's just a handful. So more than a dozen is pretty significant. I can tell you from where I am, I saw at least three pretty big plumes of smoke in the air that to my eye, at least looked like some of the Israeli air defense intercepting possibly some of these rockets. So this was in the past about 10 minutes now. And this is in line with the continued escalations that we have continued to see. Now we haven't had a statement from the IDF yet as this is just happening right now. But earlier today, we did hear from the IDF about some activity that happened earlier with some other Red Alerts and different launches coming from Southern Lebanon targeting Northern Israel. The IDF said they responded to each of those launches without going artillery. And we have been hearing that artillery throughout the morning here in Northern Israel. Now, in addition to this activity that we have seen throughout the morning, the IDF also in a statement stating that there was plenty of activity overnight as well, specifically in missile targeting an Israeli air system that was in Lebanese territory. However, the Israeli air defense was able to intercept that missile and then also target the area that it was launched from as well as a weapons depot as well. So that's what we've been seeing overnight and into these ongoing morning hours. And it's still the early morning here as we continue to see these different launches coming from Southern Lebanon into Israeli territory. So it's definitely quite a bit of action here. And we should be expecting, especially after some of those that large, it seems, barrage of rockets fired towards these Northern border towns, possibly some more responses throughout the day, just this continued back and forth between Hezbollah and Israel. All right, a call for us. Thank you so much. Stay safe. Ava, do you think this might be a day of intense action uniquely in the North now, perhaps because of these rocket barrages and the killing of- Not only with the note. With the note until the day and us and everybody will decide about the deal and when it will be done. Until then, the situation, which seems to be like escalation in the South, in the North, but in the North, it's the same. We are playing. I think it's a lousy world, but Hezbollah is playing. They can touch every place in Israel. We can do the same. We are not doing it. They are not doing it. It will stop when we have the ceasefire. So in the Hamas, the ceasefire, we have to be ready from the side of the army. You remember the thing that happened when the kidnapped two soldiers during ceasefire and for the on-front again, the Israeli on-front that was not ready and is not ready yet. We have to build something about national resilience. We have to do it. We're almost out of time, but Naki, it does sound like ultimately you are still optimistic in the hours to come, the days to come, but the deal will come to fruition. I am, I am because as I told you, the role that the United States played here in this deal was crucial. And when President Biden is saying with his own words, that this deal is going to happen, you know, you don't want to embarrass the American president, especially if you are not the Emir of Qatar or Assisi. I mean, Hamas can do whatever they want. Eventually they are playing according to the Iranian flute, but when the president is saying this deal is going to happen, I believe him. We have to go out for a break here. I want to thank our guest in the studio, Dr. Avi Bitsour and Yaki Dayan. Great to have you for this discussion and our live reporters across Israel, including in the South and the North, where there have been rocket barrages from Hamas and Kazbala already this morning. We're going out and stay with us here on the channel for more live updates and live reporting and analysis as we continue to cover the ongoing war and reports of a deal that may be closed, may be signed in the hours to come. For the way it's updates, keep it right here on the channel. Thanks for watching. Is in a state of war, families completely done down in their beds. We have no idea where is she as our soldiers are fighting on the front line, but the general perception is something that certainly needs to be fought as well. Thanks for joining us tonight. 24 news this morning as the Israel Hamas war enters day 48 minutes ago, a major rocket barrage from Lebanon into Israel on the Northern border. The IDF confirms dozens of rockets have been fired, perhaps as many as 50 in this barrage. No reports yet of any injuries or damage. This comes after Hezbollah confirmed this morning that the son of its chairman inside the Lebanese parliament was killed in a major Israeli airstrike targeting Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon. IDF can confirm that this is the most significant rocket barrage from Lebanon since the war began back in October 7th. Let's go straight away to IDF's correspondent Nicole Setic who was live for us near the Israel Lebanon border for an update. Nicole, what's going on? Well, when we saw that heavy barrage of rockets, as you said, anywhere from 30 to even upwards of 50 rockets fired from Lebanon, absolutely making it the most significant barrage of rockets that we've seen from Lebanon targeting Northern Israel since the start of this war, since October 7th. We saw those red alert warnings blangering through more than a dozen Northern Israeli border towns. So, although even with this significant barrage of rockets, there have not been any reports of damage or injuries, which is a very impressive feat. I know the Iron Dome or other Israeli air defense systems were able to intercept at least a few of those, those rockets as we can see the plumes of smoke with our own eyes from where we are here with the on the Northern border. Now, as well as that, we heard plenty of outgoing Israeli artillery firing towards Southern Lebanon as this continued increases across the border. We continue to see just heavy, heavy firing, really. And this also comes, I wanna tell you, as we heard this morning, there was a meeting between Hezbollah Chief Hassan Nasrullah and the Iranian Foreign Minister. Not only talking about this security situation that we're seeing here in Lebanon, but of course also discussing the ongoing situation in Gaza. And in their words, how to prevent this continued escalation and the Israeli occupation for Palestinian citizens in Gaza. So that is really where all of this increased tension stems from, along with, as you mentioned, that significant Israeli airstrike yesterday targeting not only the son of a major Hezbollah lawmaker, but also killing four other Hezbollah operatives. So we know at least 84 different Hezbollah terrorists have been killed since October 7th so far. Now that's the number that Hezbollah claims, but it's likely that number could even be more than that. So we are seeing a very, very tense period and the fact that we've seen possibly upwards of 50 rockets targeting Northern Israel today alone in these morning hours. It's definitely something that we'll be keeping our eye on when we do look at this. It's something that Israel says they are continuing to keep an eye on. We heard from War Cabinet member Benny Gantz yesterday in that press conference with the different members of the War Cabinet, stating that they're continuing to keep an eye on this Northern front and continuing to threaten Lebanon as well, stating that exactly what they're doing in Gaza right now, they are willing and capable to do that same activity in Beirut. So sending a clear warning to Hezbollah, but at this time it doesn't seem Hezbollah is heeding that warning because we continue to see a significant increase in their retaliation. Thank you Nicole for that report. Also this morning more Hamas rockets from Gaza into Israel as well. And today, unfortunately, we now know that no hostages will be released today. Israeli authorities say that the deal with Hamas will not go into effect until tomorrow. There's a flurry of contradictory reports about the reason. It remains, though, unclear exactly what went wrong in the hours between Prime Minister Netanyahu announcing a deal and then confirmation that it was delayed. With us now is I, 24 News, senior diplomatic correspondent, oh, and there's a lot of reports out there. The impact perhaps of the press conference last night to announce a deal and use that word deal. And what this means moving forward, if there is going to be some kind of truce only going into effect tomorrow, how that could impact the deal, how that could impact the need perhaps for further review or even revision among lawmakers. Right, Jeff. And of course, if it will actually even go into effect tomorrow, as for what exactly is holding it up, again, there are so many reports out there that I think it's not worth our speculating. I think that by and large Israeli public opinion will hold Hamas responsible for the delay and not the Israeli government, even if there's some discomfort or worse about the press conference last night and the impression given that this was a done deal and maybe some concern about how the Israeli government approached the giving and passing along of the information and the explanation that was given. And anyway, I think the public is gonna blame Hamas for the breakdown or at least temporary breakdown in talks and not the Israeli government. And of course, the public continues to hope that those hostages come home. And Jeff, of course, that includes children and you see behind me the display here in what's become known as hostages square and Tel Aviv near the city's main art museum and main public library across the street from Israel's military headquarters, Israel's Kiryaw or Pentagon, if you will. You see the display behind me, meant to dramatize the fact that some 40 children of various ages as young as 10 months, although nine months when taken into captivity, now 10 months are being held in the tunnels of Gaza and that these are the children who are meant to be released as part of this deal during that four day ceasefire or truce or humanitarian pause that's called for in this deal at whatever point it will start, whether it'll be tomorrow or some later date. Obviously the public wants to see these hostages home as soon as possible. But look, in the meantime, Jeff, given that there's no truce, given that there's no pause, given that there's no ceasefire, the Israeli military continues to fight and we've seen that with the report about overnight airstrikes and with the reports continuing to come out of Gaza. So the war continues to go on, even as the talks from the public's perspective, I think, hopefully are about to be wrapped up even with all of the risks that this deal involves. Again, it will bring home some 50 hostages and I think the public, let alone the families, again, who have been camped out in this square at various points in time are hoping that this comes to fruition. We know, of course, that the US is involved. They have a team of negotiators who have been working on this in Qatar as well. Their government has been deeply involved in the negotiations. But you mentioned dozens of kids, including young babies, toddlers. Do we know of any information about their condition? Has the Red Cross, at this point, been able to visit them? Do we have confirmation even that they will be able to be delivered alive as part of a deal? Well, a couple of points. We don't have information about their condition because Hamas, on top of the war crime of taking civilian hostages in the first place, committed another crime, which is not allowing the Red Cross to come in and to visit them. By the way, Prime Minister Netanyahu made it very clear in the press conference last night that a provision of this agreement, of this pending agreement, I think we need to say at this point, is that the Red Cross will be able to visit all of the hostages who will not be released and give needed medicine to those who are needed. Netanyahu even read from what he said was the text of the agreement that explained exactly the fact that this is a commitment by Hamas to allow the Red Cross to be there. I think it's wonderful that the Israeli government negotiated for this. It hadn't been part of the public debate about this. Loay Tendongo, as you know, Jeff, a senior former member of the Israeli military, major general, explained this on our air and spoke about this a week ago. The first one to why, as far as my knowledge, to do that, talk about how this could be something Israel could negotiate for an agreement and according to Prime Minister Netanyahu, that's what happened. As for the hostages and their condition, one of the terms of the deal that was approved by the full Israeli government. This is in the text of the government's decision and it is out there as the part of the text that's made public to the public. This is what the ministers voted for. It calls for 50 living hostages, 50 living hostages. So if there had been speculation ahead of this deal, that the number 50 could include not actual living breathing hostages, but bodies of hostages, that's not what the government voted on and presumably that's not what Hamas has promised. All right, Owen Alterman, breaking it down for us. Thanks so much for that report. The IDF, as Owen mentioned, continues to press forward since there is no deal today. The IDF announced that it's destroyed hundreds of terror targets in Gaza overnight. As the IDF continues its offensive, the chief of staff held an assessment in Gaza with commanders about the need to destroy Hamas. We are trying to connect the goals of the war and the pressure in the maneuver is the one that will bring the ability to achieve this goal of the war as well, to create the conditions for the release of the kidnapped. We do not end the war, we continue until victory and go forward and continue in other areas of Hamas. With me now in studio is Sherry Fine Grossman, member of Forum de Vora and Jonathan Rega, by 24 News Defense Correspondent. Thanks so much for being with us. Sherry, I wanna start with you about the fact that these 50 hostages that will be released, women and children primarily, as Owen mentioned, we know that there are dozens of young kids, maybe toddlers who may be released as well as mothers. What kind of care and will these hostages need? What kind of support will they need? Is real ready, I guess, for this treatment that will last perhaps psychologically, even perhaps a lifetime? Well, there are certainly teams working on that and there's been a plan laid out to take care of them. I just wanna say, I mean, it's not really my expertise, but what I want to stress is I just heard Katal, representative speak about and compare between both groups, like the prisoners that are released from prison in exchange of the civilian hostages taking from the home and their relatives killed before their eyes are similar to maybe minors throwing rocks, stabbing soldiers and women, older women in their 30s and the 20s that actually tried to kill. We say there's no blood on their hands, but they just, once they weren't successful in killing on some of their victims. So I think it's just horrible. And I think on a larger, just like a strategic scale, there's an interest of Hamas and Katar to keep these negotiations going. Everybody knows that. We're just trying, this deal is not a good deal for Israel, it's trying to get the most out of it. But we have to remember, we knew they were gonna play with our patients and this is a part of their psychological war front. And also, there may be likely been some sort of miscommunication between the sides. It's very hard, it's not like, I mean, in routine times, it's just what's up exchanges and sometimes classified lines that are taking place. But here we're having connection, negotiation with people that are underground, that are not in regular communication. And sometimes that message, you know, we always, we know how we say something to each other and then someone, you tell that to the other person and to the other person and to the other person and what you end up is a totally different thing than what you agree on. The high-speed scheme of telephone here. Yeah, exactly. And there's a lot of room here for miscommunication and misunderstandings. Do you think that if there is a truce, a multi-day pause in the South, what impact of any would it have on the ongoing idea of fighting in the North against Hezbollah? Well, it's really the most damage is the lack of momentum. The momentum is being stopped and that will have to resume after the pause. But there's also room for surprises by the military and some intelligence gathering. And that's what Hamas most fear of that he's probably trying to guarantee what's gonna happen after and just working the way through it. And that's why this is so complicated because there's really an inherent interest of Hamas just to keep the hostages going. And the challenge for IDF is to keep the momentum going, to keep fighting, but not too much, not across some kind of line that will break down the negotiations. Jonathan, this, as I mentioned, the most intense rocket barrage since the war began, dozens of rockets fired, Hezbollah now taking responsibility for this. Why now? What does it mean? Do we know what Hezbollah was trying to even target with such an intense single barrage? We don't know, but two things regarding this barrage. One, as you mentioned in your lead, Israel killed, I think it's six Hezbollah operatives last night, including one who comes from the elite Red One Force, another one who's the son of a prominent Hezbollah parliament leader, meaning rather more senior figures than the regular anti-tank squad people that were killed before. So maybe take revenge on that. Another thing that's- Hey, I'm sorry for cutting you off, Jonathan. We're gonna talk more about the North in a second. Big explosions, big strikes, it seems, in the South again. Let's go to Pierre Kohl Schemmler, a reporter there where we can see, of course, huge plume of smoke rising into the air in Gaza. Pierre, if you're with me, can you tell us and update what you're seeing even now in the South as well? What you're seeing on your screen, Jeff, a huge explosion in the Beth-Hannon area as the Israeli army, according to Palestinian media, affiliated to Hamas in the Gaza Strip, have said two hours ago already that the medical personnel of the Indonesia Hospital, which is around that area in Beth-Hannon, have been given an ultimatum to leave. That ultimatum would expire in about one hour and three quarters of an hour. So there could be terrorist targets in the vicinity of the hospital. This is something that has been going on for the past week or so. We've even seen tanks rolling close to the hospital inside the hospital complex already on Sunday when it was aired by the Qatari television Al Jazeera. And it seems that there is an impetus to take over the Indonesia Hospital before any sign of a ceasefire. Hospitals are administrative buildings, but they are also, and beneath this hospital, a web of Hamas hub, bead basements, manufacturing of weapons, an interlacing of tunnels. It's been shown already at the Rantisi Hospital and then at the Shifa Hospital just even yesterday. And as a result, one of the efforts, one of the focus of the Israeli army is the hospitals for two reasons. First of all, to show the world that these hospitals are legitimate targets because they are used as human shield by Hamas. And that's for public diplomacy, obviously. But also because of the interlacing of tunnels and infrastructures that Israel wants to study, wants to dismantle, and wants also to gain knowledge of any kind of intelligence they can receive about the hostages. For instance, in Shifa Hospital, a reporter from the public television Khan in Israel who was at the Shifa Hospital yesterday explained that they found a little backpack from Kibbutz Bayeri, which was the site of one of the most gruesome massacres on October 7th. They also found sandals. So these are evidences that the hostages were held after October 7th in the underground of Shifa Hospital. And this is very important maybe to try to extract some intelligence about the whereabouts of these hostages, their health condition, et cetera. And in addition to dismantle any sign of Hamas infrastructure in the Gaza Strip, because if you want to dismantle Hamas, it's not only militarily, but also anything that shows a grip of power by Hamas on the Gaza Strip must also be eliminated. And hence, they've arrested the director general of the Shifa Hospital, Mohamed Abu Salmiah, according to Palestinian reports in Gaza, but also confirmed by Israel. It seems he was picked up as he was traveling south using the humanitarian unilateral corridor that the IDF has opened since November 5th. And he was just picked up with a few other doctors for interrogation. And also to show that any personnel that has been, or any structure that has been permeated by Hamas, and it's basically a 100% permeation of civil infrastructure, all that is part of the Israeli military drive to dismantle Hamas. A lot of updates and again, a very intensive day of IDF activity already. Pierre Koshiena for us along the border in Steyrout. Thank you, Pierre. Back in studio, Jonathan, we were talking before now, again, the intense activity in the north as well, and the IDF strike that killed several Hamas terrorists operating in a car in south Lebanon, Khazbala, that were including the son of a commander of the representative in the parliament, which would be a high-profile fatality. And you were mentioning that perhaps in lieu of this huge barrage that Khazbala has taken credit for. That's true. That is why they're firing a rocket. And they're also, if in previous days, we spoke mostly, not entirely, but mostly of those rockets being fired towards the border area, places that we've heard a lot, Margaliot, Manara, Kiryat Shimonah. These are all on the border fence. These rockets today were fired further into Israel to the city of Tzfat, which is roughly 20 miles or so from the border. So not on the border itself. It's also where the headquarters of the Israeli Northern Command is. So Khazbala also expanding its response. And yet, are they shooting towards a big population center such as Haifa, for example? The answer is at least for the moment, no. So I think it's this eye for an eye thing, but still under a limited geographical sphere. Of course, things have always have the potential of escalating a bit more. If Israel would have wanted things to escalate, it would already have done it. If Khazbala would want to escalate things, it would have already done it. Does that mean that we'll not see a major escalation? Absolutely not. It does not mean that. The potential is there. But at least for now, there's still, at least for the moment, certain rules of the game. Of course, it can change at any minute. Sherry, if there is a deal announced, perhaps according to reports out of Qatar, that a deal, the exact hour of a deal will be announced in the coming hours, which I will be, to be fair, is almost word for word what we heard yesterday from Qatar spokesman as well. But there does seem to be some kind of progress. Obviously Israel specifically mentioned that there is a deal. Will there be, do you think, like we've seen in the past, a big increase of attacks, both on the IDF side, to droot out terror targets until the minute before ceasefire takes hold, but also on Hamas' side? Would we see something unexpected before there's some kind of truce with Hamas' try and get a last barrage or something even new or unusual as well? Yeah, so we're seeing escalation basically on both fronts, right? On the Gaza and Lebanon. And that could be one of what you just mentioned, a sign of an imminent pause in the military operation and going into that such a deal. The other option is the, the sides are sensing the deal is gonna fall, it's gonna fail. And then they're escalating their fire just to show the other side, hey, I'm still fighting both sides. So you should better reach a deal. So... What's your sense though? What's your... It's really hard to judge. I mean, I really, really, again, wanna go back to the, what are really the interests? Because it's very hard to try to get into the heads of the sadists and the bearers that are on the ground in Gaza. And also us, we have to say very frankly, there is a fog of war. It gets, we have a few days of kind of a gap between what's going really on the field until we actually know what's going on. We don't have the clearest picture. And you have to have that in order to make such a credible assessment. Sherry, in that press conference last night, Prime Minister Netanyahu was saying that if there is a truce, a multilateral truce, it could actually, on the contrary, not hurting IDF military preparedness or objectives, it could actually benefit the IDF. A truce, so much coverage and analysis has focused on how Hamas could benefit or take advantage of a truce. Netanyahu was saying on our side, on the Israeli side, as the war will go on, we may also benefit from a truce. Why could that be, do you think, and is there any examples where that could come to fruition? Well, I think, first of all, we have to say on how is the IDF right now and how is Hamas. Let's just look at the reality, right? The IDF is in a quite good position. We're very strong. We have a lot of more, you know. Yeah, we have achievements. We have ammunition. We're much stronger. Hamas has lost a lot of operative. It could be an opportunity for both the IDF to rest and also plan to think back, maybe have some creative ideas. How do we get a momentum back that is surprising? I mean, you want to be the one that actually initiates things and not in a proactive way. But there's the major ground offensive, let's say, in the South, that hasn't started yet, and that is different preparation. I think it started from the air. No, not the ground operation. That will take, it will be very, very complicated and it's a good time to plan that, because there's a lot of civilians in the area. Most of the Gaza population is there right now. It's going to be very, very hard. And I think we have to sit back and plan a strategic move following the pause in the ceasefire and how do we surprise the enemy? Maybe come from a different direction, maybe get, you know, and it's a good time to like step back and plan that, I think. I think that's the major opportunity. Opportunity for a quick reset to refocus on the next goal. And as you've mentioned in the past, Jonathan, you know, the South of Gaza, which is already so densely packed now with hundreds of thousands of more civilians from the North in the South. But let's say in the area of Khan Yunus, where even not just civilians, but even hostages maybe, and Hamas leadership, it's a unique challenge for the IDF. Yes, first, where are the hostages? I do not know, but this is something that I do know. About a third of the hostages came from Kibbutz near Oz. Kibbutz near Oz is just in front of Khan Yunus. So you can assume that the people were taken there in some kind of tunnels in the area of the Southern Gaza Strip, especially considering the fact that in the Northern Gaza Strip, Israeli forces are already digging deep into the tunnels. The Northern part was difficult as well. The Southern part with hundreds of thousands of people living there originally, hundreds of thousands coming from Northern Gaza. The Hamas leadership, Icheh Sinwar originally from Khan Yunus as well, may be returning to their birthplace, their native place. It will be a very difficult challenge, one that the IDF can do, but it will be a difficult task. It's a difficult war, the IDF having superiority, absolutely, but far from being in an easy deal. We have to go on for a break here. Jonathan Regev, I find Grossman with Forum DeVora. Thank you so much for being with us in the studio, giving us your analysis. Again, a day of IDF strikes and violence in both the North and the Southern Fronts here. Husband of firing, dozens of rockets, Hamas firing rockets as well. No truce today, no deal. Sadly, no hostages coming home today, but more live updates and more reporting and expert analysis here throughout the day. Keep it right here on I-24 News. Thanks for watching. Is in a state of war, families completely done down in their beds. We have no idea where is she as our soldiers are fighting on the front line, but the general perception is something that certainly needs to be fought as well. Yes, the Israel-Hamas war enters day 48 minutes ago, a major rocket barrage from Lebanon into Israel on the Northern border. The IDF confirms dozens of rockets have been fired, perhaps as many as 50 in this barrage. No reports yet of any injuries or damage. This comes after Hezbollah confirmed this morning that the son of its chairman inside the Lebanese parliament was killed in a major Israeli airstrike targeting Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. I-24 News can confirm that this is the most significant rocket barrage from Lebanon since the war began back in October 7th. Let's go straight away to I-24 News correspondent, Nicole Setic, who was live for us near the Israel-Lebanon border for an update. Nicole, what's going on? When we saw that heavy barrage of rockets, as you said, anywhere from 30 to even upwards of 50 rockets fired from Lebanon, absolutely making it the most significant barrage of rockets that we've seen from Lebanon targeting northern Israel since the start of this war, since October 7th. We saw those red alert warnings blangering through more than a dozen northern Israeli border towns. So, although even with this significant barrage of rockets, there have not been any reports of damage or injuries, which is a very impressive feat. I know the Iron Dome or other Israeli air defense systems were able to intercept at least a few of those rockets, as we can see, the plumes of smoke with our own eyes from where we are here on the northern border. Now, as well as that, we heard plenty of outgoing Israeli artillery firing toward southern Lebanon as this continued increases across the border. We continue to see just heavy, heavy firing, really. And this also comes, I wanna tell you, as we heard this morning, there was a meeting between Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrullah and the Iranian foreign minister, not only talking about this security situation that we're seeing here in Lebanon, but, of course, also discussing the ongoing situation in Gaza and in their words, how to prevent this continued escalation and the Israeli occupation for Palestinian citizens in Gaza. So that is really where all of this increased tension stems from, along with, as you mentioned, that significant Israeli airstrike yesterday, targeting not only the son of a major Hezbollah lawmaker, but also killing four other Hezbollah operatives. So we know at least 84 different Hezbollah terrorists have been killed since October 7th so far. Now, that's the number that Hezbollah claims, but it's likely that number could even be more than that. So we are seeing a very, very tense period and the fact that we've seen possibly upwards of 50 rockets targeting northern Israel today alone in these morning hours. It's definitely something that we'll be keeping our eye on when we do look at this. It's something that Israel says they are continuing to keep an eye on. We heard from war cabinet member, Rene Gantz, yesterday in that press conference with the different members of the war cabinet stating that they're continuing to keep an eye on this northern front and continuing to threaten Lebanon as well, stating that exactly what they're doing in Gaza right now, they are willing and capable to do that same activity in Beirut. So sending a clear warning to Hezbollah, but at this time it doesn't seem Hezbollah is heeding that warning because we continue to see a significant increase in their retaliation. Thank you, Nicole, for that report. Also this morning, more Hamas rockets from Gaza into Israel as well. And today, unfortunately, we now know that no hostages will be released today. Israeli authorities say that the deal with Hamas will not go into effect until tomorrow. There's a flurry of contradictory reports about the reason. It remains, though, unclear exactly what went wrong in the hours between Prime Minister Netanyahu announcing a deal and then confirmation that it was delayed. With us now is I-24 News, senior diplomatic correspondent, oh, and there's a lot of reports out there. The impact perhaps of the press conference last night to announce a deal and use that word deal. And what this means moving forward, if there is going to be some kind of truce only going into effect tomorrow, how that could impact the deal, how that could impact the need perhaps for further review, even revision among lawmakers. You're right, Jeff. And of course, if it will actually even go into effect tomorrow, as to what exactly is holding it up, again, there are so many reports out there that I think it's not worth our speculating. I think that by and large, Israeli public opinion will hold Hamas responsible for the delay and not the Israeli government, even if there's some discomfort or worse about the press conference last night and the impression given that this was a done deal and maybe some concern about how the Israeli government approached the giving and passing along of the information and the explanation that was given. And anyway, I think the public is gonna blame Hamas for the breakdown or at least temporary breakdown in talks and not the Israeli government. And of course, the public continues to hope that those hostages come home. And Jeff, of course, that includes children and you see behind me the display here in what's become known as Hostages Square and Tel Aviv near the city's main art museum and main public library across the street from Israel's military headquarters, Israel's Kiryaw or Pentagon, if you will. You see the display behind me, meant to dramatize the fact that some 40 children of various ages as young as 10 months, by the way, nine months when taken into captivity now 10 months are being held in the tunnels of Gaza. And that these are the children who are meant to be released as part of this deal during that four day ceasefire or truce or humanitarian pause that's called for in this deal at whatever point it will start, whether it be tomorrow or some later date. Obviously the public wants to see these hostages home as soon as possible. But look, in the meantime, Jeff, given that there's no truce, given that there's no pause, given that there's no ceasefire, the Israeli military continues to fight. And we've seen that with the report about overnight air strikes and with the reports continuing to come out of Gaza. So the war continues to go on, even as the talks from the public's perspective, I think hopefully are about to be wrapped up even with all of the risks that this deal involves. Again, it will bring home some 50 hostages. And I think the public, let alone the families, again who have been camped out in this square at various points in time are hoping that this comes to fruition. So we know, of course, that the US is involved. They have a team of negotiators who have been working on this in Qatar as well. Their government has been deeply involved in the negotiations. But you mentioned dozens of kids, including young babies, toddlers. Do we know of any information about their condition? Has the Red Cross at this point been able to visit them? Do we have confirmation even that they will be able to be delivered alive as part of a deal? Well, a couple of points. We don't have information about their condition because it's a mass on top of the war crime of taking civilian hostages in the first place, but in another crime, which is not allowing the Red Cross to come in and to visit them. By the way, Prime Minister Netanyahu made it very clear in the press conference last night that a provision of this agreement, of this pending agreement, I think we need to say at this point, is that the Red Cross will be able to visit all of the hostages who will not be released and give needed medicine to those who are needed. Netanyahu even read from what he said was the text of the agreement that explained exactly the fact that this is a commitment by Hamas to allow the Red Cross to be there. I think it's wonderful that the Israeli government negotiated for this. It hadn't been part of the public debate about this. Loay Tendongo, as you know, Jeff, a senior former member of the Israeli military, major general, explained this on our air and spoke about this a week ago. The first one, as far as my knowledge to do that, talk about how this could be something Israel could negotiate for an agreement and according to Prime Minister Netanyahu, that's what happened. As for the hostages and their condition, one of the terms of the deal that was approved by the full Israeli government. This is in the text of the government's decision and it is out there as the part of the text that's made public to the public and this is what the ministers voted for. It calls for 50 living hostages, 50 living hostages. So if there had been speculation ahead of this deal, that the number 50 could include not actual living breathing hostages, but bodies of hostages, that's not what the government voted on and presumably that's not what Hamas has promised. Owen Alterman, breaking it down for us. Thanks so much for that report. The IDF, as Owen mentioned, continues to press forward since there is no deal today. The IDF announced that it's destroyed hundreds of terror targets in Gaza overnight. As the IDF continues, it's offensive. The chief of staff held an assessment in Gaza with commanders about the need to destroy Hamas. We are trying to connect the goals of the war and the pressure in the maneuver is the one that will bring the ability to achieve this goal of the war as well, to create the conditions for the release of the kidnapped. We do not end the war, we continue until victory and go forward and continue in other areas of Hamas. With me now in the studio is Sherry Fine Grossman, member of Forum de Vora, and Jonathan Regive, high 24 news defense correspondent. Thanks so much for being with us. Sherry, I want to start with you about the fact that these 50 hostages that will be released, women and children primarily, as Owen mentioned, we know that there are dozens of young kids, maybe toddlers who may be released as well as mothers. What kind of care and will these hostages need? What kind of support will they need? Is real ready, I guess, for this treatment that will last perhaps psychologically, even perhaps a lifetime? Well, there are certainly teams working on that and there's been a plan laid out to take care of them. I just wanna say, I mean, it's not really my expertise, but what I want to stress is, I just heard Qatar representatives speak about and compare between both groups, like the prisoners that are released from prison in exchange of the civilian hostages taking from the home and their relatives killed before their eyes are similar to maybe minors throwing rocks, stabbing soldiers and women, older women that in their 30s and the 20s that actually tried to kill. We say there's no blood on their hands, but they just, once they weren't successful in killing on some of their victims. So I think it's just horrible. And I think on a larger, just like a strategic scale, there's an interest of Hamas and Qatar to keep these negotiations going. Everybody knows that. We're just trying, this deal is not a good deal for Israelis, it's trying to get the most out of it. But we have to remember, we knew they were gonna play with our patients and they're gonna, and this is a part of their psychological warfare. And also, there may be likely been some sort of miscommunication between the sides. It's very hard. It's not like, I mean, in routine times, it's just what's up exchanges and sometimes classified lines that are taking place. But here we're having connection negotiation with people that are underground, that are not in regular communication. And sometimes that message, we always, we know how we say something to each other and then someone, you tell that to the other person and to the other person and to the other person and what you end up is a totally different thing than what you agree on. Yeah, exactly. And there's a lot of room here for miscommunication and misunderstandings. Do you think that if there is a truth, a multi-day pause in the South, what impact would it have on the ongoing idea of fighting in the North against Khezbo? Well, it's really the most damage is the lack of momentum. The momentum is being stopped and that will have to resume after the pause. But there's also room for surprises by the military and some intelligence gathering. And that's what Hamas most fear of that he's probably trying to guarantee what's gonna happen after and just working the way through it. And that's why this is so complicated because there's really an inherent interest of Hamas just to keep the hostages going. And the challenge for IDF is to keep the momentum going, to keep fighting, but not too much, not across some kind of line that will break down the negotiations. Jonathan, this, as I mentioned, the most intense rocket barrage since the war began, dozens of rockets fired. Khezbo is now taking responsibility for this. Why now? What does it mean? Do we know what Khezbo was trying to even target with such an intense single barrage? We don't know, but two things regarding this barrage. One, as you mentioned in your lead, Israel killed, I think it's six Khezbo operatives last night, including one who comes from the elite Red One Force, another one who's the son of a prominent Khezbo-la, parliament leader, meaning rather more senior figures than the regular anti-tank squad people that were killed before. So maybe take revenge on that. Another thing that's- Hey, I want to talk more about the North in a second. Big explosions, big strikes, it seems, in the South again. Let's go to Pierre Kohlschemmler, our reporter there, where we can see, of course, huge plume of smoke rising into the air in Gaza. Pierre, if you're with me, can you tell us and update what you're seeing even now in the South as well? What you're seeing on your screen, Jeff, a huge explosion in the Bethanoon area as the Israeli army, according to Palestinian media affiliated to Hamas in the Gaza Strip, have said two hours ago already that the medical personnel of the Indonesia Hospital, which is around that area in Bethanoon, have been given an ultimatum to leave. That ultimatum would expire in about one hour and three quarters of an hour. So there could be terrorist targets in the vicinity of the hospital. This is something that has been going on for the past week or so. We've even seen tanks rolling close to the hospital inside the hospital complex already on Sunday when it was aired by the Qatari television Al Jazeera. And it seems that there is an impetus to take over the Indonesia Hospital before any sign of a ceasefire. Hospitals are administrative buildings, but they are also, underneath this hospital, a web of Hamas hub, bead basements, manufacturing of weapons, an interlacing of tunnels. It's been shown already at the Rantisi Hospital and then at the Shifa Hospital just even yesterday. And as a result, one of the efforts, one of the focus of the Israeli army is the hospitals. For two reasons. First of all, to show the world that these hospitals are legitimate targets because they are used as human shields by Hamas. And that's for public diplomacy, obviously. But also because of the interlacing of tunnels and infrastructures that Israel wants to study, wants to dismantle, and wants also to gain knowledge of any kind of intelligence they can receive about the hostages. For instance, in Shifa Hospital, a reporter from the public television Khan in Israel who was at the Shifa Hospital yesterday explained that they found a little backpack from Kibbutz Bayeri, which was the site of one of the most gruesome massacres on October 7. They also found sandals. So these are evidences that the hostages were held after October 7 in the underground of Shifa Hospital. And this is very important maybe to try to extract some intelligence about the whereabouts of these hostages, their health condition, et cetera. And in addition to dismantle any sign of Hamas infrastructure in the Gaza Strip, because if you want to dismantle Hamas, it's not only militarily, but also anything that shows a grip of power by Hamas on the Gaza Strip must also be eliminated. And hence, they've arrested the director general of the Shifa Hospital, Hamad Abu Salmiah, according to Palestinian reports in Gaza, but also confirmed by Israel. It seems he was picked up as he was traveling south using the humanitarian unilateral corridor that the IDF has opened since November 5. And he was just picked up with a few other doctors for interrogation, and also to show that any personnel or any structure that has been permeated by Hamas, and it's basically a 100% permeation of civil infrastructure. All that is part of the Israeli military drive to dismantle Hamas. A lot of updates, and again, a very intensive day of IDF activity already. Pierre Koshchenov for us along the border in Steyrout. Thank you, Pierre. Back in the studio, Jonathan, we were talking before now again the intense activity in the North as well, and the IDF strike that killed several Hamas terrorists operating in a car in south Lebanon, Hezbollah, that were including the son of a commander of the representative in the parliament, which would be a high-profile fatality. And you were mentioning that perhaps in lieu of this huge barrage that Hezbollah has taken credit for. That's true. That is why they're firing rockets. And they're also, if in previous days we spoke mostly not entirely, but mostly, of those rockets being fired towards the border area, places that we've heard a lot, Margaliot, Manara, Kiryat Shimonah. These are all on the border fence. These rockets, they were fired further into Israel to the city of Tzfat, which is roughly 20 miles or so from the border, so not on the border itself. It's also where the headquarters of the Israeli Northern Command is. So Hezbollah also expanding its response. And yet, are they shooting towards big population centers such as Haifa, for example? The answer is, at least for the moment, no. So I think it's this eye for an eye thing, but still under a limited geographical sphere. Of course, things have always had the potential of escalating a bit more. If Israel would have wanted things to escalate, it would already have done it. If Hezbollah would want to escalate things, it would have already done it. Does that mean that we'll not see a major escalation? Absolutely not. It does not mean that. The potential is there. But at least for now, there's still, at least for the moment, certain rules of the game. Of course, it can change at any minute. Sherry, if there is a deal announced, perhaps, according to reports out of Qatar, that a deal, the exact hour of a deal will be announced in the coming hours, which, to be fair, is almost word for word what we heard yesterday from Qatar spokesman as well. But there does seem to be some kind of progress. Obviously, Israel specifically mentioned that there is a deal. Will there be, do you think, like we've seen in the past, a big increase of attacks, both on the IDF side, to root out terror targets until the minute before ceasefire takes hold, but also on Hamas' side? Would we see something unexpected before there's some kind of truce? Would Hamas try and get a last barrage, or something even new or unusual as well? Yeah, so we're seeing escalation basically on both fronts, right, on the Gaza and Lebanon. And that could be one of what you just mentioned, a sign of an imminent pause in the military operation and going into that such a deal. The other option is the size of our sensing the deal is going to fall, is going to fail. And then they're escalating their fire just to show the other side, hey, I'm still fighting, both sides. So you should better reach a deal. So what's your sense, though? It's really hard to judge. I mean, I really, really, again, want to go back to what are really the interests, because it's very hard to try to get into the heads of the sadists and the bearers that are on the ground in Gaza. And also us, we have to say very frankly, there is a fog of war. We have a few days of kind of a gap between what's going really on the field until we actually know what's going on. We don't have the clearest picture. And you have to have that in order to make such a credible assessment. Sherry, in that press conference last night, Prime Minister Netanyahu was saying that if there is a truce, a multilateral truce, it could actually, on the contrary, be not hurting IDF military preparedness or objectives. It could actually benefit the IDF, a truce. So much coverage and analysis has focused on how Hamas could benefit or take advantage of a truce. Netanyahu was saying, on our side, on the Israeli side, as the war will go on, we may also benefit from a truce. Why could that be, do you think? And is there any examples that could come to fruition? Well, I think, first of all, we have to say on how is the IDF right now and how is Hamas. So let's just look at the reality, right? The IDF is in a quite good position. We're very strong. We have a lot of more, you know. Yeah, we have achievements. We have ammunition. We're much stronger. Hamas has lost a lot of operative. It could be an opportunity for both the IDF to rest and also plan to think back, maybe have some creative ideas. How do we get a momentum back that is surprising? I mean, you want to be the one that actually initiates things and not in a proactive way. There's the major ground offensive, let's say, in the South, that hasn't started yet. And that is different preparation. I think it started from the air. So it's got the ground. No, not the ground operation. It would be very, very complicated. And it's a good time to plan that because there's a lot of civilians in the area. Most of the Gaza population is there right now. It's going to be very, very hard. And I think we have to sit back and plan a strategic move following the pause in the ceasefire. And how do we surprise the enemy? Maybe come from a different direction. Maybe get, you know. And it's a good time to step back and plan that, I think. That's the major opportunity. Opportunity for a quick reset to refocus on the next goal. And as you've mentioned in the past, Jonathan, you know the south of Gaza, which is already so densely packed now with hundreds of thousands of more civilians from the north in the south. But let's say in the area of Khan Yunus, where even not just civilians, but even hostages maybe, and Hamas leadership, it's a unique challenge for the IDF. Yes. First, where are the hostages? I do not know. But this is something that I do know. About a third of the hostages came from Kibbutz near Oz. Kibbutz near Oz is just in front of Khan Yunus. So you can assume that the people were taken there in some kind of tunnels in the area of the southern Gaza Strip, especially considering the fact that in the northern Gaza Strip, Israeli forces are already digging deep into the tunnels. The northern part was difficult as well. The southern part with hundreds of thousands of people living there originally. Hundreds of thousands coming from northern Gaza. The Hamas leadership, Icheh Sinwar originally from Khan Yunus as well, may be returning to their birthplace, their native place. It will be a very difficult challenge, one that the IDF can do. But it will be a difficult task. It's a difficult war. The IDF having superiority, absolutely. But far from being in an easy deal. We have to go out for a break here. Jonathan Regev, I find Grossman with Forum DeVora. Thank you so much for being with us in the studio, giving us your analysis. Again, a day of IDF strikes and violence in both the north and the southern front here. Husband of firing, dozens of rockets, Hamas firing rockets as well. And no truce today, no deal. Sadly, no hostages coming home today. But more live updates and more reporting and expert analysis here throughout the day.