 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 lines, but the general perception is something that certainly needs to be fought as well. Welcome to our ongoing coverage of the war here in Israel now in day 46. I'm Nicole Zettick live in Tel Aviv. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says there is progress on a hostage deal and is meeting with the war cabinet, the expanded cabinet and the government this evening to discuss the latest developments and possibly approve the deal. Our reports say the deal includes at least 50 hostages, family children and their mothers released in exchange for a days long ceasefire and hundreds of Palestinian prisoners released. This news comes as Israel ramps up airstrikes in southern Lebanon following an increase in Hezbollah border attacks. With Israel reportedly killing the deputy head of Hamas's military wing in Lebanon, along with three other senior operatives. Arab media is reporting at least eight people were killed in airstrikes today, including two journalists from al-Mayadin, a Hezbollah affiliated news station. Day by day border clashes continue to ramp up and now the mayor of the northern Israeli town of Methulah has called for a security zone of five kilometers from the border similar to that of the south. Now meanwhile in the south, the IDF says they have completely encircled Jabalia in northern Gaza, carrying out heavy strikes will quote preparing the ground for battle. Netanyahu met with Israeli soldiers and laid out the three main objectives of the ongoing war. We are currently focusing on a very strong and active defense in the north in order to achieve a crushing victory in the south. Our first objective, annihilating Hamas, we will not stop until it is done. Second objective, bringing the hostages back. We're making progress, I don't think we should go into details at this time, but hopefully we'll have good news soon. The third objective, to ensure that what happened in Gaza will not happen again. We want to regain security and we will operate and restore security in the south and in the north. And the main instrument we have is the Israeli spirit that is manifested here through the soldiers and commanders coming from all parts of Israel and from all sectors of Israeli society. It's an amazing force and I salute you and tell you we will continue until we achieve victory. Now to discuss the latest developments happening in the south, let's cross live to our I-24 news correspondent Jonathan Oregev joining us from southern Israel with the border with Gaza. Jonathan, what can you tell us about the latest news that we're hearing about the fighting happening in Gaza right now? So you mentioned, Nicole, the Gaza neighborhood, a stronghold for terrorists, about a mile and a half to the west of us. It is right over there and we can see the clouds of smoke appearing in the last 15 minutes or so, which show the fighting there. In the area, also, about 10 minutes ago, as you can see, the fighting is going there. Also, some 10 minutes ago, sirens in the city of Ashkelon, which is just a little bit to the northwest of us, meaning the activity is still ongoing. Yes, there is talk of a possible ceasefire, possible hostage deal. That may be true, but on the ground we're seeing fighting if in the last hour. We spoke, perhaps, of quiet here, then in the last hour, so mainly in the last 15, 20 minutes, we are seeing sort of an uptick in activity, especially in Jebalah, as the Israeli forces who have encircled the Gaza Strip are now going deeper and deeper into those Gaza neighborhoods, Shajaiah, Jebalah, and Zaitun, large Gaza neighborhoods where Israel is working to eradicate Hamas capabilities altogether. Jonathan Regev, thank you for that update from Israel's southern border. Now, I want to bring in my guest in studio. I'm joined by former Shin Bet agent Gonen Ben Itzak. Thank you so much for joining us here. As we were listening to our correspondent in the south talking about we are still seeing this activity, but it all comes on the heels of a highly anticipated meeting with the war cabinet, the expanded cabinet and the Israeli government this evening to talk about a possible hostage deal. The report stating that it could be anywhere from 50 to more hostages released in exchange for possibly hundreds of Palestinian prisoners as well. Let's talk about the timing of this deal. Why is this happening now? It's very late. We are 46 days after the war started. We're talking about children and elderly that are being taken to Gaza. It took time. We hope, we all hope that we will see some hostages that will come back from the hell of Gaza. It's not all of them. Hamas now is talking about 210 hostages that they know or they're holding officially. We're talking about a deal that Israel is supposed to release three prisoners in exchange of any hostages that hostages is going to be released. So we're talking maybe about 150 women prisoner and youth that are held by Israel in the Israeli prison. And we're waiting to see what will happen. I know that some of the members of the coalition are going to meet. I know that the bank very cold is party to sit together and decide what their take about the deal. I hope it will happen. Operationally, what will it look like for 50 hostages to be released from the Gaza Strip? We need to talk about, you know, technically, I guess that Israel will let them do something or bring them to the southern entrance towards Egypt like what happened last time when they released a few hostages. But it also means that as much as we know that Israel is going to give them four, maybe five days of ceasefire. And also Israel is going to be committed to the fact that he is not going to use drones at least six hours a day. And if you ask yourself why the reason is because Hamas is trying to get back to the picture, meaning to get their force, the Hamas force in Gaza to be ready to the next stage of war. This is what it means because they're going to keep some of the hostages still in Gaza and are going to prepare to the next stage, maybe in the south. And is this going to put Israel at a disadvantage for when the fighting does resume after the ceasefire, specifically when it comes to the dozens of hostages that will still remain in Gaza? It's very problematic. You know, I have some intention to replace anybody in the cabinet when they are coming to decide something like this. But in the end, we need to remember. Now I'm saying my private point of view, but I'll say Israel in the end neglected those people and has an unwritten contract between the state of Israel and the people that were taken hostages into Gaza. And Israel has to bring them back. And when we're talking about women and children, I think this is a top priority. I heard Netanyahu just now in the sink, saying that the first priority is to destroy Hamas and then to bring back the hostages. I think he's wrong. The first priority is to bring back the people. And we have enough time in the end to destroy Hamas. But this is priority number one. And you talk about the children and women that are likely going to be released first. Hamas likely going to continue to keep their hands on men soldiers, be that male and female soldiers, might I add. What incentive would Hamas give to release these human shields? I guess the life of the leadership of Hamas in Gaza. I see no other thing. We were told today that Israel assassinated the top Hamas leader in Lebanon. From the military wing. And they understand that their life is now held by the hostages. So the hostages, unfortunately, are their shield right now. And this is the only thing they can hold for now. You mentioned what we saw happening on the Lebanon border today as well. I want to cross live to our I-24 News correspondent, Robert Swift, who's in northern Israel with the border with Lebanon. Robert, what can you tell us about this latest activity that we've seen today? Yeah, so it doesn't seem to be heating up here on the northern border. Once again, the most latest activity that we saw was about exactly one hour ago. We saw rockets being launched from the Lebanese side of the border and intercepted just to the north of where we were standing. And now that incident took place over Kiryat Shmona, which I'll step to the side so you can see the city. This is the biggest city in the area, Kiryat Shmona, which is directly to our front now. Our cameraman, Adam, is showing you those rockets exploded in the air near that city. And they were intercepted by the iron dome system. Now, the Israeli military said that in the last few hours, there's been a number of launches from the Lebanese side of the border and that the Israeli military has responded with rocket fire, mortar fire, and also with tanks. Now, this all comes off the back of the assassination of Khalil Karaz, who, as you were just referring to, he's the deputy commander of Hamas's Al-Qasamburgates in Lebanon. He, along with three other members of Hamas, were killed in an airstrike on their drone, which was carried out close to the Lebanese city of Tyre. That's one of several Israeli airstrikes to have taken place today. Israel stepping up its use of drone attacks. Now, this is also, is reportedly resulted in the deaths of two Lebanese journalists and a civilian who were working for the Hezbollah-linked or affiliated Al-Madin publication. And those are the events that have taken place so far today. Robert Swift reporting from the Northern border with Lebanon. Thank you for that update. Now, Gonen, as we heard from our correspondent about the latest activity, specifically the deputy head of Hamas's military wing in Lebanon, what's the significance of this? And what type of retaliation are we going to be expecting a response? Is it going to come from Hamas or is it going to come from Hezbollah? This guy was operating, especially in the western part of Lebanon. Right now, we saw retaliation in the eastern part of Lebanon towards the Kea'at-Shmona. So I guess that what we saw an hour ago is not retaliation because of his assassination. So we can expect that Hamas in Lebanon will try to launch missiles. His brother, Hassan, is also operating in the rocket project of Hamas in Lebanon. So I don't know who are the other people that were assassinated, if his brother is one of them or not. But I would expect that Hamas will try to retaliate towards the western part of Israel. In a situation like this, as we know and reports continue to state, it clearly Hamas and Hezbollah are working together and this is a clear example of that. So when we see whatever happens through the night or even in the next coming days, how are Hamas and Hezbollah working with this? And how does the Shin Bet and other IDF intelligence differentiate? Okay, so first we need to say that Hezbollah gives the ability to Hamas to launch missiles from South Lebanon or Lebanon, but they don't always share the same objectives. So right now Hezbollah will decide whether it's a benefit for them that Hamas will retaliate the situation. I would say that I guess they will give them to launch missiles or to retaliate after this assassination. Once because they can always say, this was Hamas and Hamas will take responsibility for the retaliation. Also because right now we see that Hezbollah is trying more and more to hit Israel yesterday. They attacked a military base in the northern part of Israel with two missiles and destroyed much of this military base. We heard that the Minister of Defense Gallant told them don't make mistakes, but it looks like they're trying to tell him we're not going to listen. So retaliation in the north looks like something that is getting closer and closer to a war. And that's what we continue to see. We continue to see Hezbollah threatening Israel responding pretty much and just sending a pretty strong message. Don't escalate further. However, with an assassination like this, is this a strong step that Israel is taking their response one step further? Not exactly, because this assassination was against Hamas. And I would say from their point of view, they say, okay, as long as Israel is targeting Hamas members and not Hezbollah members, talking about leaders, okay, because Hezbollah members are being killed every time they are trying to launch missiles towards us, but not leaders. I would say the way they see it is that Israel doesn't want to deal with them. I don't want to say Israel is afraid to open another front, but we see what's going on. Everybody understands that Israel doesn't want to open another front in the north. I understand why, and I agree that we don't need right now to open another front in the north. But we have a problem. We have the Radoan force on the border of Israel. I don't see how people will get back here to Khrushchevona and Shlomi. And Israel needs to decide when to take the initiative and fight Hezbollah, because otherwise we have a big problem in the north. Now you're hearing from the mayor of Matula, another northern Israeli town saying that he wants to see this security zone expanded even further. How would that benefit the activity that the IDF can't accomplish with these residents evacuated? Unfortunately, it means that it will take time because I think, and I support what he said, people, citizens of the north cannot come back to their homes knowing that Hezbollah is waiting on their step doors. But right now Israel doesn't want to do it. It will happen. I hope it will happen because we understand after the 7th of October massacre that we have no other option. We can't deal in a different way but to do something, but it will take time. How much is outside pressure specifically that of the United States delaying this possible operation? It's hard to say. We understand that the United States brought lots of military power to the region to tell Hezbollah and Iran not to start another front in the north, meaning they don't want this kind of retaliation. I think the United States understands what will happen to Lebanon if this will happen. So probably they are pressuring, but in the end Israel has its own goals and maybe we don't have any other option and maybe the United States is waiting to give green light when it will be time. The United States certainly playing a factor into everything that is happening here in the Middle East even before the October 7th attacks. Iran has long provided support to militias seeking to dislodge the American presence in Iraq in Syria, which consists of roughly 3,500 troops. Now, since the Hamas massacre, U.S. forces have also been part of the circle of fire backed by Iran. As there were 64 attacks on U.S. forces in Syria and Iraq in less than five weeks, our Middle East correspondent Ariel Osiron has the report. A surge in attacks on U.S. forces in the Middle East as anger in the region over Washington's support of Israel's military campaign in Gaza increases. U.S. forces in the Anil Asad base in Western Iraq suffered another rocket attack on Tuesday. Iraqi security sources said there were no reports of injuries. Additional reports in Iraq of a drone strike on a truck convoy belonging to a Shiite militia west of Baghdad believed to be carried out by U.S. forces. These attacks must stop and if they don't stop then we won't hesitate to do what's necessary again to protect our troops. Since October 17th U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria have come under near daily rocket and drone attacks recording at least 64 incidents and about as many injuries in that time. U.S. forces have responded with a few rounds of airstrikes targeting sites used by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and affiliated groups. These strikes are intended to disrupt and degrade the freedom of action and capabilities of these groups which are directly responsible for attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria. Iran says that the latest attacks on U.S. forces in the region were a result of quote wrong American policies including support for Israel and its war against Hamas. America's aid to the Zionist regime is encouraging them to kill and commit cruel acts of neglect against the Palestinian people. And so as the number of attacks continues to mount so too has the frustration over Washington's limited response and it is only a matter of time before one of those claims the life of a U.S. service member. So as the United States continues to pressure Israel not to fully get engaged with a war in Lebanon targeting these Iranian proxies via Hezbollah they themselves are being targeted by Iranian proxies in the Middle East. So what kind of a leg does the United States have to stand on right now? You know the United States is trying to make new order in the Middle East and we were talking just before the massacre about Israel and Saudi Arabia to build a shield defense shield against Iran. Iran understand it and of course this is a big fear for Iran something like this and this is why we saw retaliation in Israel and why we see it all over the Middle East with the military bases. We see that in Yemen you know we see missiles flying from Yemen to Israel we saw just yesterday the the Yemen's taking over a vessel ship thinking that this is an Israeli ship but of course this affects all the trade in the world because much of the world trade international trade goes through the Suez Canal towards the Red Sea back and forth. So this is another front that you know just recently we didn't even think that we will deal or the Americans will need to deal with right now we didn't see anything that happened after them taking over the ship but I guess that the United States will have to do something in order to stop the attacks and Iran is playing you know a very tricky game trying to see when Biden will say enough towards them. It is all this is happening with the international context we have to remember exactly what is happening here in Israel specifically the news of a hostage negotiation which could be coming in the next several hours now I want to cross live to our I-24 news correspondent Owen Ultraman who's in Tel Aviv right now with some of the family members of those hostages. Owen what are you hearing on the ground from from some of these people here in Israel? Yeah Nicole the hour is fast approaching and just under an hour from now maybe about a half an hour from now it's six o'clock local time the narrow war cabinet set to convene and then those dominoes right of successive meetings on to the full government at eight o'clock to approve this pending hostage deal we're here in what's become known as hostages square if you will near the Israeli military headquarters by the Tel Aviv Art Museum and the main municipal library in the city I'll step back so you can take a look and try to take in some of the atmosphere here especially somber here tonight you can see the people assembled there's a kind of anxious tension in the air the usual somber and plaintive songs you can see the display of stars in the shape of the candles rather in the shape of the star of David panning on over the empty Shabbat dinner table which has become Nicole as you know and as our viewers know such an emblem and a symbol of this fight and of this effort to free the hostages and bring them home and then those yellow balloons uh the balloons just at less than an hour ago released up into the air over Tel Aviv as the sun was setting and you can see those balloons held there aloft and maybe getting set for a similar display the atmosphere here in Nicole is very distinctive I've been to these displays into the hostages square before but tonight is definitely a different atmosphere as I said there's more tension there's more of a somber sense of attitude there's also a sense of anticipation frankly as the minutes tick by towards those series of in crucial meetings towards this hostage deal potentially being okayed and then implemented 24 hours later obviously people here on tenterhooks waiting to see if their loved ones are about to be freed in some cases at least with again 50 hostages out of those estimated 240 who could be set to go free and again Nicole hoping to bring the rest of them home oh and as we continue to see from these family members they continue to put pressure on the government and we might be seeing some action from the government tonight but for the families of those who their loved ones are not released what are we expecting their message to be to the government the fight goes on Nicole we've seen over the course of the last 24 hours just how emotional that fight can be right with the reactions either within or even outside of that meeting last night with the work cabinet and we saw how the family members felt and how strongly they feel we saw the reactions in that meeting yesterday morning israel time in the israeli parliament so again we're seeing just how emotional this is and you're absolutely right in a best case from the perspective of the hostage families some 80 percent of the hostages will remain behind in gaza or in the tunnels of gaza even after the steel were to be implemented so the fight and the effort and the campaign will go on it's been an incredibly impressive campaign that has captured the attention of israel and not just in israel but around the world and as i always say this has been the strongest put for israeli diplomacy it feels it seems as if not a statement goes by from a foreign minister from a prime minister from a president without mentioning the plight of the hostages and of course we even saw a resolution get passed by the un security council that called not for a deal to free the hostages not for the hostages to be freed in exchange for a ceasefire in exchange for prisoners to be freed no but for the hostages to be freed unconditionally and not even the chinese and not even the russians went out and vetoed that resolution that's just how holy this cause has become and how un contested the claim to bring them home has become and again just how emotional this is and just how much the families have done so successfully including with the displays you see all around me those candles being lit just after the sunset the shabbat dinner table the empty shabbat dinner table with 240 places being set behind me there's even by the way a display of 240 empty yellow chairs still in the square and yes those balloons being released into the skies of televieve these displays are not just here in the heart of israel's commercial capital but they're at the four corners of the earth we've seen them and we've seen just how much attention has been brought to the hostages and their plight to the centers of power into the streets and squares of cities not just here in israel but around the world it's certainly going to be an emotional and in the highly anticipated night tonight uh oh and ultimate thank you for that latest update now we're going out for a break here on i24 news but i'd also like to thank gonin then it's i thank you so much for joining us breaking down the latest developments on day 46 of the war here in israel uh truly an ever changing situation but we'll bring be bringing you all of the latest updates here on i24 news and i24 news dot tv thanks for tuning in in a state of war families completely done down in their beds we have no idea where is she as our soldiers are fighting on the front lines but the general perception is something that certainly needs to to be fought as well welcome to our ongoing coverage of the war here in israel now in day 46 i'm a causetic live in tell of eve prime minister benjamin netton yahoo says there is progress on a hostage deal and is meeting with the war cabinet the expanded cabinet and the government this evening to discuss the latest developments and possibly approve the deal our ports say the deal includes at least 50 hostages family children and their mothers released in exchange for a days long ceasefire and hundreds of palestinian prisoners released this news comes as israel ramps up air strikes in southern lebanon following an increase in hezbollah border attacks with israel reportedly killing the deputy head of hamas's military wing in lebanon along with three other senior operatives arab media is reporting at least eight people were killed in airstrikes today including two journalists from al mayadein a hezbollah affiliated new station day by day border clashes continue to ramp up and now the mayor of the northern israeli town of matulam has called for a security zone of five kilometers from the border similar to that of the south now meanwhile in the south the idea says they have completely encircled javalea in northern gaza carrying out heavy strikes will quote preparing the ground for battle banyahu met with israeli soldiers and laid out the three main objectives of the ongoing war we are currently focusing on a very strong and active defense in the north in order to achieve a crushing victory in the south our first objective annihilating hamas we will not stop until it is done second objective bringing the hostages back we're making progress i don't think we should go into details at this time but hopefully we'll have good news soon the third objective to ensure that what happened in gaza will not happen again we want to regain security and we will operate and restore security in the south and in the north and the main instrument we have is the israeli spirit that is manifested here through the soldiers and commanders coming from all parts of israel and from all sectors of israeli society it's an amazing force and i salute you and tell you we will continue until we achieve victory now to discuss the latest developments happening in the south let's cross live to our i-24 news correspondent jonathan reggae joining us from southern israel with the border with gaza jonathan what can you tell us about the latest news that we're hearing any about the fighting happening in gaza right now so you mentioned nicole javalea that gaza neighborhood a stronghold for terrorists about a mile and a half to the west of us it is right over there and we can see the clouds of smoke appearing in the last 15 minutes or so show the which show the fighting there in the area also about 10 minutes ago as you can see javalea the fighting is going there also some 10 minutes ago sirens in the city of ashkelon which is just a little bit to the north west of us meaning the activity is still ongoing yes there's talk of a possible ceasefire possible hostage deal that may be true but on the ground we're seeing fighting if in the last hour we spoke perhaps of quiet here then in the last hour so mainly the last 15 20 minutes we are seeing sort of an optic in activity especially in javalea as the israeli forces who have encircled the gaza strip are now going deeper and deeper into those gaza neighborhoods shajaiya javalea and zaytun large gaza neighborhoods where israel is working to eradicate hamas capabilities all together jonathan reggae thank you for that update from israel's southern border now i want to bring in my guest in studio i'm joined by former shin bet agent gonnen ben itzhak thank you so much for joining us here as we were listening to our correspondent in the south talking about we are still seeing this activity but it all comes on the heels of a highly anticipated meeting with the war cabinet the the expanded cabinet and the israeli government this evening to talk about a possible hostage deal the reports stating that it could be anywhere from 50 to to more hostages released in exchange for possibly hundreds of palestinian prisoners as well let's talk about the timing of this deal why is this happening now it's very late we are there are 46 days after the war started we're talking about children and elderly that are being taken to gaza it took time we hope we all hope that we will see some hostages that will come back from the hell of gaza it's not all of them a hamas now is talking about 210 hostages that they know or they're holding officially we're talking about a deal that israeli is supposed to release three prisoners in exchange of any hostages that hostages is going to be released so we're talking maybe about 150 women prisoner and youth that are held by israel in the israeli prison and we're waiting to see what will happen i know that some of the members of the coalition are going to meet i know that the bank very cold is party to sit together and decide what their take about the the deal i hope it will happen operationally what will it look like for 50 hostages to be released from the gaza strip we need to talk about you know technically i guess that israel will let them do something or bring them to the southern entrance towards egypt like what happened last time when they released a few hostages but it also means that as much as we know that israel is going to give them four maybe five days of ceasefire and also israel is going to be committed to the fact that he is not going to use drones at least six hours a day a day and if you ask yourself why the reason is because Hamas is trying to get back to the picture meaning to get their force the Hamas force in Gaza to be ready to the next stage of of war this is what it means because they're going to keep some of the hostages still in Gaza and are going to prepare it to the next stage maybe in the south and is this going to put israel at a disadvantage for when the fighting does resume after the ceasefire specifically when it comes to the dozens of hostages that will still remain in Gaza it's very problematic you know i have some intention to replace anybody in the cabinet when they're coming to decide something like this but in the end we need to remember now i'm saying my private point of view but i'll say israel in the end neglected those people and has an unwritten contract between the state of israel and the people that were taken hostages into a gaza and israel has to bring them back and when we're talking about women and children i think this is a top priority i heard netanyahu just now in the sink saying that the first priority is to destroy Hamas and then to bring back the hostages i think he's wrong the first priority is to bring back the people and we have enough time in the end to destroy Hamas but this is priority number one and you talk about the children and women that are likely going to be released first at Hamas likely going to continue to keep their hands on men soldiers be that male and female soldiers might i add what incentive would Hamas give to release these human shields i guess the life of the leadership of Hamas in Gaza i see no other thing we were told today that israel assassinated top Hamas leader in Lebanon from the military wing and they understand that their life is now held by the hostages so the hostages unfortunately are their shield right now and this is the only thing they can hold for now you mentioned what we saw happening on the lebanon border today as well i want to cross live to our i-24 news correspondent robert swift who's in northern israel with the border with lebanon robert what can you tell us about this this latest activity that we've seen today yeah so it doesn't seem to be heating up here on the northern border once again the most latest activity that we saw was about exactly one hour ago we saw rockets being launched from the lebanese side of the border and intercepted just to the north of where we were standing and now that incident took place over kiri at shmona which i'll step to the side so you can see the the city this is the the biggest city in the area carat shmona which is directly to our front now camera man adam is showing you those rockets exploded in the air near that city and they were intercepted by the iron dome system now the israeli military has said that in the last few hours there's been a number of launches from the lebanese side of the border and that the israeli military has responded with rocket fire mortar fire and also with tanks now this all comes off the back of the assassination of khalil karaz who as you were just referring to he's the deputy commander of chamas is al-qasamber gates in lebanon he along with three other members of chamas were killed in an airstrike on their drone which was carried out close to the the lebanese city of tyre that's one of several israeli airstrikes to have taken place today israel stepping up its use of drone attacks now this is also is reportedly resulted in the deaths of two lebanese journalists and a civilian who were working for the hezbollah linked or affiliated al-madin publication and those are the events that have taken place so far today robert swift reporting from the northern border with lebanon thank you for that update now gonan as we heard from our correspondent about the latest activity specifically the deputy head of hamas's military wing in lebanon what's the significance of this and what type of retaliation are we going to be expecting a response is it going to come from hamas or is it going to come from hezbollah this guy was operating especially in the western part of lebanon right now we saw a retaliation in the eastern part of lebanon towards the kiyotch monaso i guess that what we saw an hour ago is not retaliation because of his assassination so we can expect that hamas in lebanon will try to launch missiles his brother chasan is also operating in the rocket project of hamas in lebanon so i don't know who are the other people that were assassinated if his brother is one of them or not but i would expect that hamas will try to retaliate towards the western part of israel in a situation like this as we know when reports continue to state it clearly states that hamas and hezbollah are working together and this is a clear example of that so when we see whatever happens through the night or even in the next coming days how are hamas and hezbollah working with this and how does this embed another idf intelligence differentiate okay so first we need to say that hezbollah gives the ability to hamas to launch missiles from south lebanon or lebanon but they don't always share the same objectives so right now hezbollah will decide whether it's benefit for them that hamas will retaliate the situation i would say that i guess they will give them to launch missiles or to retaliate after this assassination once because they can always say you know this was hamas and hamas will take responsibility for the retaliation also because right now we see that hezbollah is trying more and more to hit israel yesterday they attacked a military base in the northern part of israel with two missiles and destroyed much of of this military base we heard that the minister of defense gallant told them don't make mistakes but it looks like they are trying to tell him we're not going to listen so retaliation in the north looks like something that is getting closer and closer to to a war and that's what we continue to see we continue to see hezbollah threatening is real responding pretty much and and just sending a pretty strong message don't escalate further however with an assassination like this is this a strong step that is real is taking their response one step further not exactly because this assassination was against hamas and i would say from their point of view they say okay as long as israel is targeting hamas members and not hezbollah members talking about leaders okay because hezbollah members are being killed every time they are trying to launch missiles towards us but not leaders i would say the the way they see it is that israel it doesn't want you know to deal with them i don't want to say israel is afraid to open another front but you know we see what's going on everybody understands that israel doesn't want to open another front in the north i understand why and i agree that we don't need right now to open another front in in the north but we have a problem we have the raduan force on the border of israel i don't see how people will get back here to crutch one and shlomi and either israel needs to decide when to take the initiative and and and fight hezbollah because otherwise we have a big problem in the north now you're hearing from the mayor of matula another northern israeli town saying that he wants to see this security zone expanded even further how would that benefit the activity that the idf can't accomplish with these residents evacuated unfortunately unfortunately it means that it will take time because i think and i support what he said people citizens of the north cannot come back to their homes knowing that hezbollah is waiting on on their step doors but right now israel doesn't want to to do it it it will happen i i hope it will happen because we understand after the seven seventh october massacre that we have no other option we can't deal in a different way but to to do something but it will take time how much is outside pressure specifically that of the united states delaying this possible operation it's hard to how to say uh we understand that the united states brought lots of military power to the the region to tell hezbollah and iran and not to start another front in the north meaning they don't want this kind of retaliation i think the united states understand what will happen to lebanon if this will happen um so probably they're pressuring but in the end israel has its own goals and maybe we don't have any other option and maybe the united states is waiting you know to give green light when when it will be time well the united states certainly playing a factor into everything that is happening here in the middle east even before the october seventh attacks iran has long provided support to militia seeking to dislodge the american presence in iraq in syria which consists of roughly 3,500 troops now since the hamas massacre us forces have also been part of the circle of fire backed by iran as there were 64 attacks on us forces in syria and iraq in less than five weeks our middle east correspondent ariel osron has the report a surgeon attacks on us forces in the middle east as anger in the region over washington's support of israel's military campaign in gaza increases us forces in the anilasa base in western iraq suffered another rocket attack on tuesday iraqi security sources said there were no reports of injuries additional reports in iraq of a drone strike on a truck convoy belonging to a shia militia west of bagdad believed to be carried out by us forces these attacks must stop uh and if they don't stop then we won't hesitate to do what's necessary again to to protect our troops since october 17th us troops in iraq and syria have come under near daily rocket and drone attacks recording at least 64 incidents and about as many injuries in that time us forces have responded with a few rounds of airstrikes targeting sites used by iran's islamic revolutionary guards corps and affiliated groups these strikes are intended to disrupt and degrade the freedom of action and capabilities of these groups which are directly responsible for attacks on us forces in iraq and syria iran says that the latest attacks on us forces in the region were a result of quote wrong american policies including support for israel and its war against amas america's aid to the zionist regime is encouraging them to kill and commit cruel acts of neglect against the palestinian people and so as the number of attacks continues to mount so too has the frustration over washington's limited response and it is only a matter of time before one of those claims the life of a us service member so as the united states continues to pressure israel not to fully get engaged with a war in lebanon targeting these iranian proxies via hezbollah they themselves are being targeted by iranian proxies in the middle east so what kind of a leg does the united states have to stand on right now you know the united states is trying to make new order in the middle east and we were talking just before the massacre about israel and saudi arabia to build a shield defense shield against iran iran understand it and of course this is a big fear for iran something like this and this is why we saw retaliation in israel and why we see it all over the middle east with the military bases we see that in yemen you know we see missiles flying from yemen to israel we saw just yesterday the the yemen's taking over a vessel ship and thinking that this is an israeli ship but of course this affects all the trade in the world because much of the the world trade international trade goes through the suedez canal towards the red sea back and forth so this is another front that you know just recently we didn't even think that we will deal or the americans will need to deal with right now we didn't see any anything that happened after them taking over the ship but i guess that the united states will have to do something in order to stop the attacks and iran is playing you know a very tricky game trying to see when biden will say enough towards them it is all this is happening with the international context we have to remember exactly what is happening here in israel specifically the news of a hostage negotiation which could be coming in the next several hours now i want to cross live to our i-24 news correspondent oan ultraman who's in televieve right now with some of the family members of those hostages oan what are you hearing on the ground from from some of these people here in israel yeah nicole the hour is fast approaching and just under an hour from now maybe about a half an hour from now at six o'clock local time the narrow war cabinet set to convene and then those dominoes right of successive meetings on to the full government at eight o'clock to approve this pending hostage deal we're here in what's become known as hostages square if you will near the israeli military headquarters by the televieve art museum in the main municipal library in the city i'll step back so you can take a look and try to take in some of the atmosphere here especially somber here tonight you can see the people assembled there's a kind of anxious tension in the air the usual somber and plaintive songs you can see the display of stars in the shape of the of candles rather in the shape of the star of david panning on over the empty shabbat dinner table which has become nicole as you know and as our viewers know such an emblem and a symbol of this fight and of this effort to free the hostages and bring them home and then those yellow balloons uh the balloons just did less than an hour ago released up into the air over televieve as the sun was setting and you can see those balloons held there aloft and maybe getting set for a similar display the atmosphere here in nicole is very distinctive i've been to these displays into the hostages square before but tonight is definitely a different atmosphere as i said there's more tension there's more of a somber sense of attitude there's also a sense of anticipation frankly as the minutes tick by towards those series of in crucial meetings towards this hostage deal potentially being okayed and then implemented 24 hours later obviously people here on tenterhooks waiting to see if their loved ones are about to be freed in some cases at least with again 50 hostages out of those estimated 240 who could be set to go free and again nicole hoping to bring the rest of them home oh and as we continue to see from these family members they continue to put pressure on the government and we might be seeing some action from the government tonight but for the families of those who their loved ones are not released what are we expecting their message to be to the government the fight goes on nicole we've seen over the course of the last 24 hours just how emotional that fight can be right with the reactions either within or even outside of that meeting last night with the war cabinet and we saw how the family members felt and how strongly they feel we saw the reactions in that meeting yesterday morning israel time in the israeli parliament so again we're seeing just how emotional this is and you're absolutely right in a best case from the perspective of the hostage families some 80 percent of the hostages will remain behind in gaza or in the tunnels of gaza even after the steel were to be implemented so the fight and the effort and the campaign will go on it's been incredibly impressive campaign that has captured the attention of israel and not just in israel but around the world and as i always say this has been the strongest put for israeli it feels it seems as if not a statement goes by from a foreign minister from a prime minister from a president without mentioning the plight of the hostages and of course we even saw a resolution get passed by the un security council that called not for a deal to free the hostages not for the hostages to be freed in exchange for a ceasefire in exchange for prisoners to be freed no but for the hostages to be freed unconditionally and not even the chinese and not even the russians went out and vetoed that resolution that's just how wholly this cause has become and how un contested the claim to bring them home has become and again just how emotional this is and just how much the families have done so successfully including with the displays you see all around me those candles being lit just after the sunset the shabbat dinner table the empty shabbat dinner table with 240 places being set behind me there's even by the way a display of 240 empty yellow chairs still in the square and yes those balloons being released to the skies of televieve these displays are not just here in the heart of israel's commercial capital but they're at the four corners of the earth we've seen them and we've seen just how much attention has been brought to the hostages and their plight to the centers of power into the streets and squares of cities not just here in israel but around the world it's certainly going to be an emotional and in the highly anticipated night tonight oh and ultimate thank you for that latest update now we're going out for a break here on i24 news but i'd also like to thank gonan ben itzak thank you so much for joining us breaking down the latest developments on day 46 of the war here in israel a truly an ever-changing situation but we'll bring be bringing you all of the latest updates here on i24 news and i24 news dot tv thanks for tuning in my 24 news channel broadcasting from israel with dozens of correspondence throughout the world brings the truth from israel to hundreds of millions of people in scores of countries bringing israel's story to the world i24 news channels now on hot 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 special coverage here on i24 news day 46 since israel was attacked by hamas and tonight a partial deal to release hostages is closer than ever israeli cabinet is sitting right now to vote on the deal that many see as tricky and risky but they will support it anyway the proposed deal calls for the release of 53 israeli children and mothers in exchange for 150 women and youngsters who are imprisoned in israel for committing terror acts also israel will hold fire in gaza for four days if that works there will be more phases later this is on the table we are monitoring the cabinet meeting and now we'll go to the northern border of israel the israeli-lebanese border i24 news robert swift is there with the latest robert yes so in the last two hours there's been two sets of rocket attacks from the lebanese territory into the israeli border one took place here in the far eastern end of israel's northern border we saw that taking place with explosions over the town of karyat shmona and what looked like interceptions from the israeli iron dome system there was a second launch from the far western end of israel's northern border and the idf have said that they've responded to these attacks and other attacks using mortar fire artillery and tank fire now there have been a series of israeli airstrikes mostly carried out by drones conducted in the south of lebanon today with the israeli military apparently killing a senior commander a commander who was responsible for hamas operations in the south of lebanon and and it also being reported by al-madin news site from lebanon which has connections to khizbullah that two of its journalists and a civilian were killed in airstrikes how is the day there robert in terms of fire exchange on the border at the moment it's been quiet for the last two hours but you know these things sometimes it's quiet moments and then those are broken quite rapidly by exchanges of fire for the time being it's quiet but you know the community is here along the border they're accustomed to that quiet only lasting for so long we're actually filming right now in a druse village and just in the the last half an hour i think it was being the israeli liqud minister mary regev has said that israel should consider changing the nation state law based on the contribution of members of the druse community to israel and to the israeli armed forces this comes after there's been six druse soldiers soldiers serving with the idf who've been killed and and that party considering changing the the law that it passed in 2018 as a response to this with many of the villages along israel's northern border being druse okay yeah thank you very much robert swift up there in the northern border of israel as we have just said there is a deal on the table at 24 news senior correspondent alterman many details you'll keep us updated with breaking news this evening what's on the table well jacob by according to reports in israeli media what seems to be on the table is a deal that would free children and mothers around 50 hostages in five uh installments if you will 10 a day and for each 10 hostages that will be released 30 palestinian prisoners women and juveniles would be released from israeli jails at least one report in israeli media jacob says that none of the palestinian prisoners set to be released will be those who have been convicted for of murder so obviously a very sensitive point in israeli society in terms of freeing prisoners we've seen palestinian prisoners in the past freed in hostage deals only to go back to terrorism and to killing and murdering israelis in this case if that report is true those palestinian prisoners set to be released as part of this pending although of course not yet approved hostage deal would not be those with blood on their hands if you will but again this would lead to essentially a five-day ceasefire uh in hostilities in the gaza strip so the israeli military would be committing to stop its attacks and to stop its forward momentum if you will in the gaza strip for five days in order to enable this deal to go through so hamas would get both that breathing breathing room and the prisoners released from palestinian prisons of course a very sensitive issue in palestinian society and jacob we should say a gohama says for itself on october 7th itself in its very first announcement uh after what it called the al aqsa flood had been released of course referring to the murder and the rape and the kidnapping of israelis on that fateful day of course a sore point for israeli society of course the the campaign in here in israel around the world to bring them home a very very holy cause for israelis to bring those hostages home and jacob at least for some of those hostages at 20 percent of those hostages if you will it seems that they're the date of their release is nearing as again we start to see the meeting of the narrow war cabinet then the larger security cabinet and then the full government set to meet at eight o'clock local time in less than two hours from now right that's an important point we are talking about roughly 50 people there are almost 240 hostages in gaza right now so this is a far from a whole big deal now the defense security establishment in israel is standing behind the deal i'm i'm seeing headlines in the past few minutes right yeah that's right you have gallant the defense minister cryptically going out and saying just over the course of the last hour that there are fateful decisions to be made in the coming hours and talking about the fact that bringing home our hostages and again that pronoun is important i'll get to that in a moment it is closer than ever just as israelis he said go step after step in terms of eliminating hamas so that goal as you have gallant sees it still very much underway and still very much on its way to being achieved there is of course some opposition that's popping up avi maoz a far right now minister or deputy minister from the noam party coming out and saying he will oppose the deal seeing it as stopping the military's forward momentum and believing that the most important move for israel would be to occupy the strip and put military pressure on hamas to of course bring back all and in his state and he highlights that word all the hostages so check if there may well be ministers of course in that full government right the full government meeting the full cabinet if you will there are 30 plus ministers with a wide range of views and a wide range of issues and there i think we can expect this not to pass unanimously there will be some opposition and it has to be said for all of the justified focus here in israel on freeing the hostages on freeing women and children particularly uh there may well be some ministers who oppose it who oppose the idea of freeing palestinian prisoners and as avi maoz emphasized who oppose what could be the military taking a risk that could cost the that could could harm the ability of the campaign to realize the goal of eliminating hamas and as he put it put soldiers in danger so there will be at least some public debate also should say jacob reports israeli media that there will be a 24-hour period for appeals to be made to the israeli court system against the release of of palestinian prisoners one would imagine this will not stop a deal certainly a deal that i think we can expect we'll enjoy wide support among the public and certainly wide support if not unanimous support among the ministers so it won't stop the deal but it will give some space for a public debate over it before it's the ultimate implementation right they expect um some hostages to be freed as soon as thursday that's uh what we're hearing so far oh and thank you very much stand by please for more breaking news as israeli cabinet is considering this deal right now as we speak uh with me in the studio uh now our ruth uh wasterman landa our former israeli uh knesset member and also nary arconi former uh air force pilot and also formerly in charge of israel's air traffic management we'll talk about that later because it's not air traffic management civil aviation authorization yeah well you're in charge of that yeah uh in any case let's talk about this uh deal very risky uh but seems like no other choice yes i have no question i mean from i i think that my personal view from around eight of october is that the the main uh i would say a main mission of israel now is to get all the hostages back and then to take care of the hamas later this could be taken care of in months or years it shouldn't be right at this moment but uh life of the hostages is uh is much more crucial and my personal view is you have to prefer uh life on death anyhow ruth how do you see this deal you know we in israel sanctify life whereas um the hamas in the gaza strip you can't even say sanctifies death but they're all about death and destruction that's why i'm wearing um this as many of the citizens of israel um we are basically mostly all united to bring our hostages back we're talking about you mentioned 240 um elderly babies women uh disgustingly and hypocritically the world um forgets very quickly and uh we never forget we never forget uh our people and this is the beauty of israeli society and i'm proud of that and i'm here to say that we will do everything in our power and i believe that the military will do everything in its power to get our hostages back and then we'll take care of the hamas i agree with you okay but this is a very partial deal it's not yes it is it's not going to be over of course it's not going to be over and it's very partial and it's very unfortunate that it's partial and sin war and his people who sanctify death a reminder again are playing a very dirty game they began on october 7th but they continue to play with the minds of the civilian family members of the civilian hostages and they use psychological warfare all the time manipulating the public opinion in israel knowingly uh we understand our enemy we understand against whom we are worrying and we understand the challenges and the challenges are both spiritual and also militaristic right i i would add just one more point i think that a very important issue now is the momentum once we started it there is a momentum of negotiations of transactions of give and take it it was not due until now and this is very important because of the military action i believe yes and and we can we and then i think it's very important and uh it's it's even more important when you see your counterpart which is untrustable very crucial and i mean it's it's not it's not to deal with somebody who can take his word as true and then every single life that you can save now in my opinion is important you might you might lose it if you wait months or even two weeks so just go on with it and i hope i hope that it will keep on going i believe it will keep on going yeah as we speak there are sirens in the northern part of israel where apparently some rockets are being fired and we'll have to wait and see and go to our reporter there in a moment to check what happened this is an area very uh becomes almost a political argument within israel this deal or release of hostages and families of hostages and those who say first we have to go and destroy Hamas and so on so it's part of israeli politics now in a way it's very bad but that's what happened and what we've seen yesterday in the israeli parliament is a debate between the right wing the very uh let's say a radical right wing of israeli knesset and the families of the hostages and uh it's a pity we reached that point it shouldn't be it shouldn't have been like that but but this is a fact and uh i would say very carefully that uh it might serve some politicians and and even the the the most important of them everything is political in israel no i i i apologize but i feel and i i beg to disagree there are very few um quite extreme right wing politicians in this government they do not represent the majority of the people the majority of israelis are united thanks to the Hamas left and right specifically about bringing back the hostages which is amazing and humanistic and yes there are challenges obviously we are paying a price to a terrible um horrific atrocious enemy uh no words will be enough to describe what they had done on october 7th and yet there is a unity basically again apart from a very few that says we sanctify life and we will pay a price yet we will reach our mission our militaristic mission low and behold what they had done on october 7th is not done i just want to clarify my words i agree with her maybe i didn't say it very clear but i i i would i was talking about the the extreme right wing of the israeli politicians not not the right wing as a general right i i i i said radical i mean extreme absolutely and there are a few like that but the majority is united to bring back that's great another big question who will get control of gaza after Hamas is gone president biden talks about the palestinian authority but a new one what does it mean here's i24 news or an ultraman israeli media made this the headline a 50 minute press conference saturday night with israel's top leaders with the prime minister saying this about the gaza strip on the day after the palestinian authority in its current form cannot get control cannot get control of gaza after we fought and done all this to give it to them israeli prime minister benjamin itanyahu choosing his words carefully a week after commentators wrongly said he had closed the door on the palestinian authority ruling a post war gaza i will not allow any party into gaza that supports terrorism and paste terrorists and terrorist families and educates their children to murder jews and to eliminate the state of israel and putting netanyahu just maybe in line with us president joe biden whose op ed in the washington post came out just as netanyahu was speaking as we strive for peace gaza and the west bank should be reunited under a single governance structure ultimately under a revitalized palestinian authority as we all work towards a two-state solution a potential meeting of the minds at least on a post war gaza is important for israel making it more likely israel will achieve its core goals and israelis should also pay attention to the rest of biden's op ed normalization between israel and saudi arabia implicitly is still on the red marker corridor from india through the middle east is still on and israel and ukraine are for biden a common cause of defending american allies israel can think not only of what to take from that u.s grand strategy but also how to help it with us now is a summer sinij lawi a fatah activist from jewsland thank you very much for joining us um what will have to happen with the pa which no one seems to be happy with neither the palestinians in order for the pa to take control of gaza well the palestinians are not satisfied from abbas himself as a leader palestinians want him to leave the scene actually the palestinian can accuse abbas on on the responsibility of all the destruction that is happening to gaza now he has brought corruption to the west bank and he has brought destruction to gaza because he has cancelled the elections in 2021 if he has allowed this election to happen most probably there would have been a different leadership in gaza and all of us could have avoided the 7th of october and what has happened after it but he insisted to keep the division between palestinian he insisted to kill the democracy he insisted to keep protecting himself and his authoritarian regime in the west bank so changing changing the leadership of the palestinian authority that's that's the way to make it a new one as president biden calls it well more important of what does president biden he has said very important remarks and i think it came too late but it's better too late than never it is also what the palestinian world the palestinian want abbas to leave the scene unfortunately now with the current situation in gaza we cannot have national elections so we need to have some kind of an uncorrupt government by decent politicians by reformers by pragmatists you have names people who are some of you have names there are there are a lot of good palestinians to to take this lead i mean you you can i can mention nasa kudua i can mention salam fayad i can mention lots of palestinians inside fatih there are young leadership that is working hard to get the opportunity to to participate in the political life to make changes new blood should come and now and now it's the time we can work into a unifying government that brings back the west bank and gaza and then work towards providing the option of construction replacing corruption and destruction with construction that's what the palestinian want now they they want hope they want to collaborate with everybody but how to control and who is going to control those armed groups who are out to perform terrorist acts almost every day going inside israel and around the west bank who's going to control it well let me tell you something do you know why did hamas succeed in its strategy it's it's a violent using violent resistance against israel because they don't need a partner in this option and they accumulated a lot of public support frankly speaking why did fatih did not succeed in its strategy because fatih choosing the option of diplomacy and political path it needs a partner it cannot succeed alone so now apparently we have some hope that there will be a change in leadership in israel if this happens parallel to a change in leadership in the palestinian side a leadership that really puts the palestinian on the track of progress on the track of development and and can show the palestinians that we have now a partner and the partner from the israeli side is working with us and not against us so in a way or another this will help to guarantee the security that israeli's need security on the israeli side and palestinian dignity and progress and hope comply each other and will result to each other instead of keeping our self prisoners of this cycle of violence we need all of us to go out of this cycle of violence and start offering what both nations want israeli's want security and they deserve security and they need it no israeli is allowed to be hurt but also palestinians need dignity and they need rights and we can offer this to the palestinians and at the same time offer security to the israeli's and work in moving together in one direction towards whatever pathways are open in the diplomatic horizons we shouldn't now maybe dictate the end results but we should now dictate some kind of cooperation palestinians and israelis should start seeing some themselves as a solution to each other not a problem to each other i know that these are hard days i know that there is a lot of pain there is a lot of suffer there is a lot of anger on both sides but we need both to overcome this together samar saini jilawi i thank you very much for that thank you by the way as we speak there was another barrage of rockets towards the center of israel about eight rockets at least were detected we'll see about that so ruth any good news can emerge out of that in you palestinian authority more security for israel is this in the cards i can analyze it to the best of my ability which would be a tad different than samar whom i know and respect there is a lot of disappointment from abou masan giving a lot of criticism amidst his own people that it is a corrupt government however we need to understand that in 2005 when the hamas when we left when the idf left and there was not one single soldier left israeli soldier in the gaza strip not one jew left in fact the jews who were buried in the gaza strip were dug out and brought to israel so there was not even a jewish bone in the gaza strip what happened next was that the hamas took power after elections in the gaza strip and they proceeded to shoot in the kneecaps the fatah operatives and throw them out of the way that was a history let's talk about the future this is very important to understand because this is the relationship the existing relationship whether politically correct or incorrect comfortable to watch or uncomfortable to watch this is in existence today the enmity between hamas and the islamic jihad and if we are assuming there's no hamas anymore that's at least we're assuming so one second there is a lot of hamas in the west bank as well the hamas has been infiltrating with the help of iran the west bank as well as the islamic jihad israeli idf has been making a rest in the west bank of hamas operatives as well it is an absolute a misinterpretation of the reality to think that only 30 40 000 hamas operatives within the gaza strip are actually the hamas no it is the hamas in the gaza strip it is in the west bank it is in the north where the khizballah is these also hamas but not only that it is an ideology and therefore in order for there to be a teeny tiny ray of hope the first thing that needs to happen is the complete and utter change of the entire educational system which is full of incitement and indoctrination both in the gaza strip and in the west bank without that the hate the indoctrination the incitement is that same hamas but it's not tangible it's an idea and it cannot allow for anybody to live next to anybody else therefore in the day after before we discuss who will take over the gaza strip or the leadership of the palestinians and it's up to the palestinians to decide who will take over the palestinian authority we need to understand that a whole remake of the psyche of the education needs to take place okay we'll continue with this discussion in a moment we'll take a short break and we'll be right back with more special coverage here tonight 24 news each of war families completely done down in their beds we have no idea where as our soldiers are fighting on the front line but the general perception is something that certainly needs to to be fought as well rockets and a possible hostage deal i-24 news jonathan reggae is near the israeli gaza border with the update from there jonathan yes we could actually see some 15 minutes ago the rockets that were launched from gaza from the northern part of the gaza strip towards the central israel reaching as far as russia let's see on just a little bit to the south of tel aviv so the ability to fire rockets even from the northern west bank is still there as long as israel does not conquer every piece of land as it is slowly doing that ability is still there on the other hand of course the main headline being the possible hostage deal which may be reached later today apparently there is a deal on the table and now the israeli government in convening is convening in various forums to approve that deal this afternoon here on the ground being began rather quiet but around five p.m things began to pick up both in the form of israeli artillery towards the gaza strip and in the form of rockets towards israel first towards ashkelon the largest big city to the gaza border and as we mentioned about 15 minutes ago further deeper into israel reaching central israel so yes the talk of a hostage deal which may come along with five days of ceasefire that's on the table but on the ground fighting is still raging jonathan what's exactly the idf position regarding the deal as far as we understand all of the security establishment being both the idf and these the shabak internal security agency and the musad are both going for this deal this is as far as we understand of course no one no one in the security establishment would voluntarily go for an option of a five day ceasefire as things are on the ground with israel having a very big leverage but of course when you're speaking of 50 maybe even 53 hostages a number that's circulating that's of course a consideration something that you have to take into consideration and and about this clause in the deal which says that for six hours every day israeli uavs will not fly above the skies of northern gaza sources in the israeli army say we have other means of seeing what's going on generally speaking the israeli security establishment is for the deal okay jonathan reggae 24 news defense correspondent thank you very much back to oen alterman with the more updates on the discussions around the deal to israeli right wing parties are already saying we're against it right jacob that's the big news this hour just to fill out the picture though over the course of the last half hour a suspicion of a hostile aircraft in i think two places along the israeli lebanon border as well as a number of red alerts across the length of the border we don't yet know fully how that's all been resolved should say that there has been a series of false alarms thankfully false alarms of hostile aircraft over the last number of days and weeks but obviously has to be very we have to be very very careful about every single one so obviously we'll stay on top of that but you're right jacob the big political news is what shaping up to be a meaningful amount of opposition in the full government to the pending hostage deal right too far right parties betsel smotrich's religious zionism party and itamar ben gavir's uh uh jewish power party as well as avi maoz of the one man show if you will know i'm party at least one man within the government all coming out against the deal and that's significant jacob not because it endangers a majority in the government for the deal and that's that's a foregone conclusion but there will be a meaningful number of no votes and so it shows that there is a part of the public and there are parties who feel their constituents will back them up on this which is not in favor of the deal that will not sink this deal but i do think it raises questions about potential future deals right where potentially the type of palestinian prisoners released will be those who may have committed more serious crimes for example and for that matter every hostage who is in the tunnels of gaza is a holy cause for the israeli public but jacob of course it's particularly true when you're talking about children who are the focus of this particular deal so i do think there is at least some question about potential future deals which might be more sensitive which might be more difficult for parts of the israeli public to accept so the headline at this hour is that there will be meaningful opposition although by no means close to majority but meaningful opposition to this deal when it comes to the full government which again we're expecting in just about a half an a one an hour and a half from now at eight o'clock local time all right oh and thank you very much keep updating us on breaking news as the government sits down to decide it's it's hard for me to see the political benefit of opposing this deal it's not entirely clear why would they oppose this deal but still there's a significant opposition in the government maybe even from other right-wing members such as from the liquid party possibly i would compare it to with all i mean i apologize for that but you know in football games when the the the referee takes a yellow card all the players are arguing with him i've never seen in the last dozens of years one referee that will put the yellow card back in his pocket but they still go on doing it and the reason is like he said is for the next card and that's exactly what happens now they know the the the extreme right wing opposition they know that they don't have any majority in the government but they do it first for the voters and secondly as he said they do it for the next steps i guess of the of the next deals let's say i'm still trying to understand why would even right wing supporters be against the deal to rescue 50 Israelis i will try to understand although i disagree with them on this particular issue the right wing have an ideology that is supported by their own voters and their own constituencies that basically says that one one cannot negotiate with the enemy two that the enemy is not to be trusted and therefore is manipulating or playing with the minds of the Israeli public three one cannot compromise the IDF soldiers that are on the ground and basically giving the enemy the time that they need so called to be reorganized and obviously they will use it to not only reorganize but also to move southwards and to infiltrate themselves into areas that are basically civilian yeah this is all fine but the idea says we're okay with it so right but the right wing things differently and very often one sees in the last years and this is a dilemma it's a moral dilemma do we give to the enemy which we know seeks death you know went to huge lengths to do horrifying things to Israeli civilians cutting limbs of live people gang raping women they say we cannot possibly give them anything in return for anything because they seek to kill more of us and i can in some way i don't agree with that but i can somehow try to explain that point of view it's not something that is completely irrelevant or unlogical or illogical you know that during the last let's say from from the minute that the this war began or let's say from the day of the massacre there was a debate in Israel what is the the aim of the war and at the first days it was quite clear to everybody that the first aim of the first purpose of this war and the higher highest option is just to to crash the Hamas and then you know slowly slowly it takes time and the Israeli people realized that there is a big issue big very important issue with the hostages and then on the last let's say last week or two there was a debate in the cabinet which which purpose of this which mission of the war is is above the other one the crushing the Hamas or bring back home the hostages and i think that this at this point and this point we see that those who said that that it more it is more important to bring back the hostages are on the upper side now and since we we can see if it works we see fire and and the meaning of seizing fire is very very clear to everybody we stop we stop at least for far days crashing the Hamas give them time to get organized we even we even we will not be able to to to to get intelligence with drones and we bring back the hostages and i think that this this debate between those two missions of the of the war that's becoming we'll keep we'll keep on we'll keep on going in israel and i'm not sure that it's a left or right debate it's a huge and very difficult and challenging debate that exists but but in general i think that the relationship as you had said you've just seen the two major right-wing parties opposing this this is a left and right but there no because there are many right wingers who support the deal and this is a very important point to make a lot of right wingers in israel support the deal it's not a left and right what the Hamas wants us to understand is that it's a left and right the very small parties on the very far right that oppose this deal do not represent at least even half of the israeli public i waited netanyahu prime minister said today again after meeting the families last night today he said again first goal is to crush the Hamas and secondly to return the hostages what is he thinking about you know i i would not talk about mr. netanyahu now because for for netanyahu it is not very very it doesn't have these doesn't have to be a very important reason to say one day one thing and the other day another thing but so so i'm not i'm not surprised by it he said yesterday something one and now we said different but what is more important is the records of the cabinet in the cabinet i think two or three days ago a mr. guns and mr. eisencourt said that they prefer to ceasefire and to get hostages back and then minister smothridge said no we we decided that will not be the the way we we we will handle the the war in in gaza and then netanyahu said all right it will go simultaneously together in a synergic way some way but as we see today as we see today it's hypothetical it doesn't work you get to the point that you'll have to decide one way or the other even for one week but for this week we will have to decide which way you go and i think that we decided yeah in a way uh when will the united states seriously react to attacks on its forces in the middle east tonight the pentagon official confirmed a couple of airstrikes in iraq there are reports that the pentagon is getting increasingly frustrated about not reacting enough i 24 years already lost around is more than that a surgeon attacks on us forces in the middle east as anger in the region over washington's support of israel's military campaign in gaza increases us forces in the anilasa base in western iraq suffered another rocket attack on tuesday iraqi security sources said there were no reports of injuries additional reports in iraq of a drone strike on a truck convoy belonging to a shia militia west of bagdad believed to be carried out by us forces these attacks must stop and if they don't stop then we won't hesitate to do what's necessary again to to protect our troops since october 17th us troops in iraq and syria have come under near daily rocket and drone attacks recording at least 64 incidents and about as many injuries in that time us forces have responded with a few rounds of airstrikes targeting sites used by iran's islamic revolutionary guards corps and affiliated groups these strikes are intended to disrupt and degrade the freedom of action and capabilities of these groups which are directly responsible for attacks on us forces in iraq and syria iran says that the latest attacks on us forces in the region were a result of quote wrong american policies including support for israel and its war against some us america's aid to the zionist regime is encouraging them to kill and commit cruel acts of neglect against the palestinian people and so as the number of attacks continues to mount so too has the frustration over washington's limited response and it is only a matter of time before one of those claims the life of a us service member with us now is shukria bratshot an expert on the middle east and iran thank you very much for joining us thank you for having me so anyway you look at it all roads lead to iran you can call it hamas or he's bala or hooties whatever so what to do with iran that's the big question we're talking about the country that iran's foreign policy is a basin destroying israel and forcing america to withdraw from middle east so if the country's the government says the policy is based on that goal for sure they will do everything to achieve that goal so that's the reason when we're talking about the hamas in the south of israel is a one of the wing of islamic regimes to attack israel surrounding israel from the northeast and south so now they're worrying about okay with the war in laza with the destroying hamas power in the laza now iran's losing one of these wings so what's they trying to do trying to put more pressure on the us now in iraq through their proxy groups to forcing the us to stop supporting israel in this war this is one of the they actually go on another one we know they're trying to force us to withdraw from iraq too we know more than two hundred five two thousand five hundred forces u.s. forces staying in iraq as a trainer for the u.s. for the iraq forces they're trying to force even that force to withdraw so now what what's your report about it is a first time even for me is a surprise that we're hearing that u.s. reacting in a final asset than bar that militia groups attacks because since the starting of 17 of october last month until now u.s. base has been been attacked for more than 60 times and what u.s. has reacted attacking the bases in in syria not even inside the right the border side of the syria so what is telling us is even by the administration is really hesitated or they don't want to attack the iran-backed militia group in iraq which they know if they attack these militia groups that they allow this militia group to achieve power after the change of 2003 this militia group is not we're not talking about that there's some proxy group we're talking about this kind of similar to the hammers group in in bar that they have the iran created another irgc inside of iraq so it's not the easy issue for the u.s. to deal with and this is come as an outcome or consequences of the u.s. policy in iraq after the collapse of the dam regime now as a result of what's happening right now in the middle east and with the nuclear iran looming behind should the united states change its course definitely you know whenever they not just u.s. a western country friends in germany when they talk about iran they always put the priority for iran nuclear program they saw this program as the only issue that they need to be to handle to prevent any security crisis in the region in the middle east why they say okay if iran achieved that nuclear bomb then the other countries in the region like Saudi Arabia other country will want to have this bomb or if iran has that bomb it may attack israel so i don't think having that bombs attacking israel with rewards than what happened in seven october when the hammers attack so it tells them now that you see how iran can use another element that they have the proxy groups can already turn the middle east not just middle east even can turn the global global problem in the economy security and humanitarian crisis why i'm saying that it is global issues not just middle east issue hoses attack on these shipping vessels telling us if one of these shipping vessels been attacked by hoses muscles that been they received that muscle from iran's telling us here that the red sea that the that's a part of the global economy route will be under attack which is how this it will impact a global economy and we're talking about the other countries that involve in the region like china like russia that not just the u.s. now is a decision maker in this region we know after the syrians uprising after 2015 when russia came to the middle east to protect as i said now russia is another actors and the china when they they they open their business the economy in this region there are another actor in the region they have to decide they came together to how protect their own interests too okay shukria brados thank you very much for that thank you back to the studio here thank you for having so uh the question of iran it all comes from there how will israel react now that we've seen what's going on i would divide the problem of israel now to military issues and internal political issues and they're not necessarily attached they are in some way they touch each other but they are not fully connected to each other and as we've seen on 7th of october the first one to go first reserve soldiers to go to the units with the protesters and that is a sign to our enemy from the other side do not build on the internal problems in israel it will affect the future of israel internally but as regards to our power military power don't try us and this is something that should be very well clarified now to khamas to khizballah to iran to everybody israel military is not under existential risk period very far from it even if khamas and the hoods and khizballah in syria and everybody together will start a war simultaneously against israel it won't work and therefore i'm not hesitating now to talk here about the internal political issues in israel because they should be solved because you know in a month or two or three months the war will end and we'll have to overcome the the all the the damages that we suffered here not only material damages but also other damages will israel become stronger out of this i believe yes by the way i believe yes i think it takes time we'll have difficult times i think in the coming months or two maybe even more difficult than we had not not regarding the massacre but internal problems but eventually we will be stronger i believe so i do agree i feel that the most important thing for the resilience of this country is the unity amidst its people and i thank khamas for bringing our people together both the right wing and the left wing apart from very few exceptions and i do believe that the military is strong enough to overcome the challenges both in the south the west bank and in the north and you believe israeli society will come back to itself i will do everything in my power to help that happen that's a good answer i think i think that we will face something different here it's not it's not overcoming the unit the unity is you know it is limited even now but i think that once we face and this is this is the historic of of the jewish people and the israeli people yeah once we face one way for one we face an enemy one more we get united just one i'll even go overboard and say i thank you ron because after this will be over not only will the abraham accords be stronger but there will be a south israeli peace agreement that's a good point to say thank you very much thank you thank you and now this the 40 minutes video documenting the horrors of october the seventh was screened at the un i24 news mike wegenheim was there with the reaction alongside the military war between israel and hamas there's also a war of narratives about the conflict and it's especially prevalent here at the united nations in new york where israel has been battered due to its response to hamas's october seventh massacre and the high civilian casualty toll in gaza the israeli ambassador to the united nations gilad erdan presented diplomats ambassadors and u n officials with an opportunity here on monday to view 45 minutes of footage of the massacre itself including footage from hamas gopro and phone cameras along with closed caption footage in the several of the massacre sites erdan afterward said that he wasn't surprised by the reactions of those in attendance in hopes it will have some impact diplomatically going forward people are either shocked or very sad uh because it's as human beings it's very sad to see children screaming uh one minute after they lost their dad i know this building very well i understand international politics i know that many of these countries they play by their internal political interests but we are all human beings and you can never know who of the ambassadors who watched this terrible footage might wake up and and and tell his country and tell his leaders what he what he saw here today earlier on on monday israeli supporters together with families of hostages being held in gaza protested outside the united nations children's fund building unicef monday is international children's day they say that the unicef and the un in general not doing enough to protect those children being held hostage in gaza those same supporters have protested outside the home of united nations secretary general antonio gutaris two fridays in a row urging him to do more to bring the hostages home they say they will continue to do so on a weekly basis until those hostages return to israel reporting here from the united nations in new york city mike wagonheim i-24 news thank you mike in new york uh ruth you you've watched this uh film the whatever you want to call it very very difficult decision i decided to watch it um i must say that it was horrifying uh very uh emotionally difficult uh to deal with it's horrific it's horrific it's like almost um it's snuff material and the more horrific reality is that the perpetrators themselves are the ones who filmed these horrors these gang rapes and the cutting of bodies while people were alive and burning it's it's inhumane what these people were indoctrinated to do um all i can say is that at the end of the day um we have never fought a more justified war ruth waslam anlanda and nary al corny thank you very much both of you uh we'll take a short break now and uh