 Just dozens and obviously all of the staff here ran to the emergency room you see behind me which is a secured space which is a reinforced space as one would imagine an emergency room would be in a city such as this one and in another surreal kind of way just watch the television reports and the smoke outside of what we were experiencing ourselves with our own ears and with our own bodies and that's what happened. We are also hearing that sirens have gone off and see Kim Yad Mordechai other parts of the South as well we saw on our screen smoke blowing from around Ashkelon you are there yourself right now any idea and realize this is an unfolding situation any idea of the extent of injuries what are you seeing in terms of the movement again there are more sirens so I'll listen first let me get in front of the camera we're going inside right now yeah there's a siren I'll try to face you guys so you can see me but the short answer is no obviously we're too busy running from the sirens to know what's going on across the city outside but anyway we'll set up now that we're inside but you can see around us all of the staff medical staff members of the military here as well members the media of course others here to help volunteers who put food out but listen obviously it's an operation I can feel buzzes in my pocket obviously from the red alert sirens that and alerts that we get on our phones but look obviously Hamas has decided to target the city the city is I believe around 10 kilometers from not mistaken about six or seven miles from the Gaza border it's had bitter experiences with rockets and past rounds of conflict of course this one as we all know is quite different but the feeling I'm sure for those here much the same this hospital by the way is taken in hundreds of injured this is one of the closest hospitals to those frontline communities in Gaza where the massacres happened in the opening days of the war so the staff here has dealt with the patients with the families by the way what we can say on overall in terms of the situation at hospitals in the country Benita is there were 2800 injured or have been 2800 injured since the start of the war about 500 are still in hospitals only one in critical condition this according to Israel's Health Ministry about three hours ago and another hundred or so in serious condition so the numbers have gone down people have been thankfully released from the hospital of course there may be some who weren't able to to recover but the numbers are down but still obviously a lot of activity and as you see working under very difficult conditions of the sirens and of the running for shelter that have become sadly a part of the Israeli experience and even more part of the experience here in Ashkelon as well as you say Barry's Eli Hospital in Ashkelon has been exceptionally busy since the start of this war on Saturday what kind of facilities in terms of underground options or shelters are in place there not only for people around where you are back for patients as well in critical care well listen this emergency room is reinforced we're here during the siren because this is a safe space right this is the reinforced space and therefore we can we look I think we will start to head back out it's again surreal I'm looking at the television screen in Israeli media coverage with the blast sirens in Ashkelon in the picture of the city skyline of course we're here we just experienced it at any rate we'll walk backwards and get back to our position but listen the space we were just in is reinforced it's meant to be safe from rocket fire for obvious reasons obviously a hospital emergency room will be a priority Benita back to you fortified or not you take care out there senior correspondent Owen Ultiman at Barry's Eli Hospital in southern Israel we will be going back to him in Ashkelon for regular updates now we go to our correspondent Pierre Kloschendler he's in Kfar Azar and that is where we were going to be getting an update because not only did we see the most horrific images earlier on in the afternoon where the Israeli army has allowed foreign media to come in to get a sense of how severe the recent massacre was and we saw it and we saw it on our screens a little earlier we saw that 40 children and toddlers had been killed butchered in that gruesome attack and just a short while ago sirens also sounding in Kfar Azar so for more on this development we now welcome to studio again Abhi Pazner former Israeli ambassador to France and Italy and our correspondent guy Israel Abhi it is such a mortifying traumatizing time in the country right now over and above the fact that in Tel Aviv millions of people have risen to shelters have had to race there in the past few hours including just a short while ago talk to us about the images that we saw out of Kfar Azar the heartbreak the pain the horror the brutality you know Benita it doesn't happen to me often but I'm almost speechless when I saw the picture I mean we did not see the most gruesome pictures the pictures is stronger it reminded me of the poem of our national poet Haim Nachman Bialik who wrote a poem called Beir Haarega in the city of death after the pogrom in Kishinev when the poem shows the little bodies of the children and the women scattered in the streets what the Hamas has done is a deadly pogrom against not only against the people of Kfar Azar Beiri but against the Jewish people and this will not be forgiven and this will call for a revenge usually we don't use these words we do we use more moderate words more diplomatic words but here it calls for revenge and those in Gaza who danced in the streets and uploaded and gave all kinds of sweets and chocolate to the fighters who came back they will pay the price they will pay the price of what their leader did and what their terrorists did and this is my the only answer we can give to the horrifying scene of children and babies and women and men slaughtered slaughtered like sheep and like cattle these images were so horrific to digest so much pain let's find out more difficult as it is to discuss we go to our correspondent Pierre Kloschendl he is in Kfar Azar and Pierre the nation digesting what has been revealed these images of children who were slaughtered and butchered inside Kfar Azar on Saturday by Hamas terrorists tell us what is happening there right now we can't go inside because there's fighting going on there's ongoing fighting all around Kfar Azar between Kibbutz Kfar Azar and Kibbutz Saad so we cannot enter and the rescue workers from the Zaka humanitarian organization cannot enter in order to retrieve the corpse but what we're being told is that there are 200 corpse laying on the ground or burnt and out of them it seems faulty infants and children 200 corpse out of a population in this Kibbutz of 765 it's almost a third of the population of this Kibbutz now when the rescue operation will start again in order to retrieve the corpse they will be placed into those refrigerated trucks that Dean Bahrain Boymore cameraman is showing you I counted five there we're being told that it's dangerous to go here because it seems to be from here something happened all right okay what happened we don't know yet but if we want to be safe stay here okay we don't know yet okay all the time things happened here all right it's not a safety place to be there to be here okay okay thanks a lot thanks so you see the situation is very volatile there are trucks like this one and another one here I've counted five refrigerated trucks that are gonna go inside once the situation comes down and the fighting finishes and they will go inside the Kibbutz and they will start carrying the corpses inside it now they will be sent to the forensic Institute to for identification and then the family will be notified it's already three days since the onset of this war on the way to the entrance to Kfar Azar I've seen two corpses of terrorists with white ribbonets around them they're rotting but nobody wants to take them because they might be booby trapped that's why the bodies of the terrorists are still lying on the ground now for the residents who died they might be booby trapped as well so the evacuation of these victims is a very as hard as work it's a very very painful task and also very dangerous Benita it's difficult to comprehend the scale of what you are explaining to us 200 bodies out of a Kibbutz population of 765 incomprehensible and what we're hearing from our colleagues from earlier on in the day is the severity how gruesome how large scale the attack was in that Kibbutz is there any more detail on how it actually happened how did terrorists manage to access a Kibbutz and get to so many people what more is known about what unfolded Pierre well I only know from very general terms by soldiers who are keeping very laconic at this moment fighting is ongoing there were waves of terrorist squads that stormed the Kibbutz about 70 maybe more just for that Kibbutz for a population of 765 who is basically unarmed there is a storage room for weapons but those weapons were stored like in every other Kibbutz in the vicinity and as far as I understand when there were assault where they were under assault they had first to go to that storage in order to retrieve the weapons and then start fighting and I don't know really the details about what happened but the army as far as I know and took far as yesterday at around noon so there was ample time for the terrorists to slaughter the people I think but that's only the word of one soldier you know I don't know how true that is it's too much Pierre it's just too much to try and make sense of everything that is unfolding of the gruesome details that are coming out of far as there is a situation unfolding as you discovered right close to you please get to safety and we will come back to our correspondent Pierre Kloschendler for more updates from far as a thank you Pierre difficult to comprehend still with me in studio former ambassador Abhi Pazner and our correspondent guy Israel and as we share that more sirens are sounding in the region of Ashkelon we know about the barrage earlier on I want to get your reaction Abhi Pazner to what we just heard and to what we have just seen coming out of par as a the scale of the situation and the temperature on the ground how angry people are how much pain and how you understand the international community is likely to respond to those images that we just saw the pain is real the pain is real and I must say that until now the international community shows understanding to what we have suffered and what we are going through you know I am used many years I'm on this kind of operation and I have never felt such sympathy towards Israel like we have now I know that it can change I know that if images from Gaza difficult it may change but for the time being and I'm over flooded by calls from people and I see on foreign television everybody loves Israel but we do not love we do not like that kind of love I don't want to be love because we are killed okay and Benita we have now an opportunity to get rid of the Hamas and whatever it takes to get rid of them you know that for years now we went through five walls with the Hamas in 2008 in 2011 in 2014 in 2021 and now stop it I mean we have now the possibility because of what they did because of this cruelty this horrible cruelty that they showed we have now the possibility to get rid of them and the world will understand well the world understand of it because we're just hearing that the UN human rights chief is condemning wait for it the siege of Gaza you should go to hell I mean who is he to condemn what does he know you know this committee has been an anti-Israeli forum for years and years and years and we cannot expect anything for them no but you have to look at the reaction of the United States of President Biden of France President Macron of Sunach in English of Schultz in Germany so this commission is completely non-important don't expect anything from them we have now to do what we have to do and again I repeat it and I will repeat it now we have to get rid of the leadership of the Hamas of the whole leadership of the Hamas and dismantle the heads of the Hamas so that we can live in peace and security in this country certainly difficult to make sense not only of the images that we're seeing but also the range of reactions as you are describing we wait to see if the Human Rights Council from the UN condemns the images or the slaughtering and butchering of civilians the bottom line if I may is that Israel needs to focus on what it needs to do and not on what the world says of course I'm going to stop you right there and let's find out what Israelis can do right now we go to Rabbi Dov Lipman the founder and CEO of Yad Loh Lim thank you so much for joining us also a former Israeli Parliament member in the Yesha Ted party he joins us from Efrat so Rabbi thank you very much for joining us at this traumatic and difficult time in the country we are seeing these gruesome images sirens are sounding in several parts firstly your take on exactly what is unfolding right now your thoughts that the first thing that strikes me is how Israelis and all of us I've included we're all still in a state of absolute shock the the scope of what happened that the degree of the savagery is so beyond our comprehension the lack of understanding of how we we've relied so heavily on intelligence on security apparatus and how it failed us and you see streets of Israel relatively empty cafes and and marketplaces that are usually hustling and bustling with people and everyone still seems to be very much holed up in in their homes I went to a gym this morning in Efrat and I thought people for sure would be there and people are still in that state of shock but add to it the fact that all the men you know from basically 42 years and below are out in the front are out guarding cities so there's this quiet there's this shock and there's also a bracing ourselves because we know that we're in this for the long haul and at a certain level we haven't even started yet in terms of the military operation so it's a very tense and anxious time on the street in Israel I have a few seconds left very briefly what can people who want to help do what can people yard low limb do very briefly please absolutely I'll just make it very brief reach out to us at yadlolim.org yadlolim.org and contact us you can ask us what you can do both in terms of hands-on volunteering contributing financially people all around the world are able to do so as well there's been an unbelievable outpouring of people wanting to do something we are helping both the Olim community and the diaspora community to do so yadlolim.org contact us and we will do our best to guide you and direct you in terms of playing your role in this effort thank you so much Rabbi Dov Lipman from Efrat we appreciate you speaking to us and as we're speaking to you right now breaking news just in we are hearing out of Ashkelon from that rocket fire there has been a direct hit guy as real what can you tell us very briefly it's a very heavy barrage on the city of Ashkelon we're hearing reports and seeing some images of plumes of smoke at the Ashkelon Marina no word of casualties at this stage this is just tip and of the marina if this is what we're seeing hopefully everyone went to shelter guy as real abhi Pazner thank you for being here on this breaking news edition our rolling coverage continues we ended for now but do stay tuned I'm beneath it have been in Tel Aviv and this is I-24 news breaking news edition of shows in Israel and on my own or your message to be retenir qu'un seul souvenir marquand de ma carrière de journalist et bien ce serait cette intervio exclusive que j'ai réussi à décrocher avec nasser burrita chef de la diplomatie marocaine le jour même où israel est le maroc signé ta rabah les accords d'abra d'asservato est un merci d'abord de nos accueils et d'avoir choisi I-24 news on est en décembre 2020 comme à son amitude donald print annonce le deal sur les réseaux et quelques semaines plus tard un avion va décollez de Tel Aviv destination à rabah à son bord du beau monde jaret kushner aviver kovic et le conseiller à la sécurité nationale israelien maire ben 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talking within 100 soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped we just don't know anything entire families including babies and children and elderly were butchered in their beds awaken the giant and we are ready and we are strong everyone is showing up this is the unity this is breaking news edition i'm venice coming to you live from tel aviv and it's breaking news siren sounding yet again in tel aviv a short while ago the third time a barrage of rockets has been sent towards central israel in the past few hours you're looking at live images on your screen right now out of gaza in tel aviv millions racing to shelters red alert sirens also sounding and hollown hurts lia petatikva and benay brak earlier in the day in the south starot ibn niram and mufasim also hearing sirens as the war intensifies on day four now earlier in the day heartbreaking heart-wrenching images the release of horrifying footage images of 40 children and toddlers slaughtered in the kibbutz of far alza on saturday the israeli military is allowing foreign journalists to cover the scenes of the large-scale massacres by hamas in towns on the border with gaza our correspondent nicole zedek was there and filed this difficult report here in far alza they continue to remove some of the israeli bodies that were killed during the massacre saturday morning you can see as four days later they're still continuing to go through some of these houses in this very very southern israeli community and remove the israeli citizens that were killed inside their homes gun down stabbed different grenades thrown off as well as we're walking through this community we're told that we have to stay away from certain areas certain houses because there could still be mines incident and they could go off at any moment so all the israeli soldiers who are down here want to make sure that we're staying safe as well but as you walk through this community which we've been doing just to pan around and kind of give you an example of exactly where we are surrounded by all of these soldiers many of them called from reserve duty leaving their own families behind as well you can see some of these houses that people were in meanwhile the dead bodies of terrorists also continue to line the different grounds and parks in this surrounding area truly the scene of a massacre as many of these people were just inside their homes families one of the commanders here said said at least 40 babies were killed some of them their their heads got off he said he's never seen acts of brutality like this and as i said many of the soldiers were called from reserve duties coming down here to the scene of a massacre none of them knowing exactly what to expect and no one expecting that it could be something like this even as i'm walking around right now shell casings continue to line the grounds here the community uh signs of daily life also children's bikes parked right here meanwhile bodies lie right next to them it's truly the scene of a massacre um the commander said this is not a battleground this was Hamas terrorists coming into the community and and killing all of the citizens that that they could see and so it's been a devastating cleanup effort as as these these soldiers continue to go through and they're still an active threat from some terrorists in the area as well in fact gunfights and fighting between uh terrorists and and the Israeli soldiers here just recently ended and that's why they're continuing to go house to house and and rescue and and get all of the civilians that they can reporting for i24 news i'm Nicole Zedek too horrific to comprehend too horrific for more in studio we welcome ambassador abhi puzner former Israeli ambassador to france and italy and former world chairman of caron hyersword the united israel appeal and our correspondent guy israel and before we get to the horrors that unfolded out of far asa we have new breaking new siren sounding and ashkelon and guy israel that comes on the back of a vow from Hamas that that's exactly what happened at this hour as you expect i think Israeli civilians who are very well trained already with both these threats and the actions of Hamas are are aware are used to to this impossible reality well you could say the Israeli government the policy of the Israeli government that enabled it for such a long time has made the Israeli civilians so used to it so a barrage right now of rockets towards the ashkelon area also towards shower negative karmia zikim nativa sirah we are seeing the skyline just over gaza right now sir area that is in the city of ashkelon in fact so with the smoke i assume that is a smoke that is coming from a gaza seen from the city of ashkelon of course less than 20 kilometers north of the gaza strip so yet another barrage we've seen two barrages of rockets into central israel including tel aviv just over the past hour more rockets towards ashkelon right now the hamas is attempting to target the city of ashkelon the residents are used to running to the shelters hopefully they all follow the instructions as they say well let's see exactly what is happening in the south we go live to our senior correspondent owen ultiman he joins us from bayou zilai hospital owen hamas promised that there would be a barrage of rockets at this hour they are delivering what are you seeing and hearing there what do we experience here uh bonita we're not only at barzai hospital barzai hospital is in ashkelon so we obviously experienced it ourselves exactly at five o'clock as had been forecast as had been promised if you will we just heard loud booms one after another we we couldn't we lost track dozens just dozens and obviously all of the staff here ran to the emergency room you see behind me which is a secured space which is a reinforced space as one would imagine emergency room would be in a city such as this one and in a another surreal kind of way just watch the television reports and the smoke outside of what we were experiencing ourselves with our own years and with our own bodies and that's what happened owen we are also hearing that sirens have gone off in zikim yad mordechai other parts of the south as well we saw on our screen smoke billowing from around ashkelon you are there your breaking news edition i'm bonita levine coming to you live in tel aviv and sirens sounding yet again in israel warning of incoming rockets this time though it's breaking news those sirens are sounding in the western galley in the north of the country close to the border communities of mudsuba and betzet this happening just moments ago sirens sounding in the northern communities up close to the border between israel and lebanon with me in studio correspondent guy asrael the location here is significant breakdown what's going on absolutely for such a long time now well at least since the start of this escalation and start of this war as well as fearing the northern front to escalate as well we've seen some rockets prior now it seems like a a barrage of some sort towards the northern galley an area that is in very close proximity to the border with lebanon and before we even finish reporting on that already some unconfirmed reported this stage in arabic media about an israeli strike in lebanon we do not know whether it's an airstrike or artillery or some sort but that would mean an immediate reaction to the source of fire israel is not going to let more rockets fly into israeli territory without a response and at the same time a massive barrage of rockets towards the south particularly towards the city of ashkelon some hits there one next to a building no reports of any serious damages in terms of casualties also some rockets in the northern samaria and the northern west bank also emanating from gaza as far as we understand so hamas is obviously feeling rushed is hamas is feeling the pressure the idf has really upped its bombardment of hamas sites all over the gaza strip really israel is serving hamas very quick and powerful reaction to the atrocities that we just saw in these reports out of far asa from our reporters and nicole sedek and pierr clauch handler reports of gruesome killings slaughtering of 200 residents from the same kibbutz community of just 750 people including 40 children and babies this is uncomprehensible this is something that israel cannot allow to happen israel is allowed hamas to thrive on its southern border for too many years it paid a very heavy price israel is not going to be the same in israel is not going to allow this to happen anymore be the costs as they may be when it comes to a ground invasion of the gaza strip dismantling hamas not allowing this threat to complete to continue to thrive on its border also risking the possibility of an escalation with hezbollah in lebanon but that is a very similar threat that is another terror group much stronger than hamas unfortunately with much more sophisticated missiles that could hurt serious infrastructure in israel precision missiles directly given by iran sponsored by iran to hezbollah that is the concern now on the northern borders israel is already engaged in this war against hamas and just for some context in recent hours siren sounding in the south yet again people racing to cover and then just a short while ago in tel aviv as well in central tel aviv in cities including herzlia and cholon as well millions of people from the city racing to shelter those rockets were intercepted by the iron dome missile defense system what do we know guy about the kind of defense systems in place up north well israel has an array of missile defense systems starting from the iron dome patrick missiles and and and some other systems as well look at the israeli systems particularly the iron dome has been saving thousands of israeli lives literally on a daily basis this week but also for the past 10 years at least since it became operational obviously the threat from hamas is from hezbollah is more severe as it possesses much more sophisticated missiles ones that are more difficult to intercept also hearing now that the israeli security cabinet is said to convene this evening at 7 30 local time just less than two hours from now major decisions to make both about the progress of the war and the expansion of this government bringing in more partners in order to create this emergency unity government that would allow much greater backing for this government as it is engaged in the most serious escalation that these has seen since the yom kippur war exactly 50 years ago and in a new development just in we are getting reports that there has been a hit in that rocket fire in the western galley we obviously are going to be clarifying firsthand and to that end let's go straight to our middle east correspondent ariel osaran he's been up north in nacharia and now ariel what update have you got about the developments we're hearing at the moment about siren sounding in the western galley what can you tell us right benita so sirens were sounded in multiple border communities in the western galley such as hanita shlomi reports of impact no reports yet of how many impacts there were if there were any injuries obviously we're following this very closely in the moment they're updates we will share that with you and also the in response to that rocket launch israeli the israeli air force is striking in southern lebanon according to arab media the lockets the rockets were launched indeed it's confirmed that they were launched from southern lebanon from the el khalila region which is near the southern lebanese city of tire and so while while we know where the rockets came from where they landed we still don't know the damage that was caused given this rocket barrage towards northern israel the first rocket barrage taking place today we're here at the nacharia hospital actually in the underground nacharia hospital that has been relocating itself from since saturday until now they've been transferring different divisions different departments and patients down here expecting to be joined into the line of fire this these expectations obviously proving true yesterday and today by tomorrow about 80 percent of all hospital patients are expected to be relocated down here and currently at the hospital there are still four soldiers who are being treated four soldiers who were injured in yesterday's border clashes with palestine islamic jihad fighters one of them is in critical condition he is in the icu in non-stable one is in moderate condition and two are lightly injured that is the current situation here in the northwest part of israel ariel the communities in the south of the country have been evacuated from many parts certain contingency plans have been in place for those communities who have been at the brunt of the rocket fire from hamas in the gaza strip since the start of this war however at north tell us more about the contingency plans right now with those sirens have sounded in parts of the west in galilee what plans are in place for those communities close to the border with lebanon look benito one of the main reasons these communities were evacuated is because many of this there is substantial damage in many of these border communities along the southern border surrounding the gaza strip i mean you could see our our reporters today in the cold said they can pierc wash and like showing the the the massive damage that has been taken that took place there and so it is very difficult for the residents to go back to those communities but also yes indeed given the fighting given the massive barrages of rockets that are constantly being launched towards those border communities that decision was made that is not however the situation currently in the northern part of israel and the border communities here indeed two days of rocket launches but it is not at the same scope and so i think while there is the option of evacuation depending on the the development of the reality and on the ground currently that is not the situation and currently the border is still filled with tons of reservists thousands tens of thousands that have been called up in recent days many have been sent down south many sent up north and so i my understanding is that at the moment that is not the decision that is being taken middle east correspondent ariel o saran live from naharia at the underground hospital we will be coming back to you of course for more updates in the coming hours here on breaking news edition thank you very much for now to ariel and a little bit earlier on in the day in tel aviv american families chose to speak out asking for answers because they want to know what happened that gruesome gruesome attack at the music festival on saturday not only were 260 people at that festival gun down massacred by terrorists but scores of people were taken across kidnapped and are being held hostage in gaza and those families want answers let's take a listen to their message earlier on in the day from tel aviv sagy is the father as you can see 35 years old the father of two beautiful daughters and his wife is now pregnant with their third daughter and sagy is exactly the kind of son that every father would want to have a leader a friend a loving man such young men on the kibbutz are now missing after having tried to repulse the attack by evidently hundreds of Hamas terrorists and leaders many died in the process and sagy was not found and we have heard or seen no trace of him since then formal indication that we received from the idf is that he is defined as missing in action what does that mean it means that nobody since saturday morning has been able to physically locate him identify him and see and say that he saw him it also means that he's not in the hospital it also means that he's not on the deceased list that has been identified he would think it would be a good assumption to say that after 70 hours if he's not in the state of israel he might be some other place i normally don't use my phone on the jewish sabbath but it was an emergency and i needed to know where my son was so i turned my phone on i believe at 8 23 in the morning and when i turned it on there were two texts in a row from hirsh at 8 11 the first one said i love you and immediately at 8 11 also it said i'm sorry my mom used the little bit of arabic that she picked up working as a nurse in the hospital in saroka for 20 years to calm down the tourist and it is our hope which is a little bit ridiculous at this stage to say that the optimistic scenario is that she's held unimaginable pain families waiting for word on their loved ones and now breaking news just in the death toll from the hamas terror rampage in southern israel which started on saturday morning is now officially at more than 1000 breaking news the death toll from the hamas terror rampage in southern israel all starting at 6 30 on saturday morning the 7th of october is now at more than 1000 corresponding guy israel what details can you share insane numbers this is the biggest tragedy in israel's history i can say now more than the yom kippur war one of the worst tragedies of the jewish people since the holocaust um entire communities civilians families mothers children elderly slaughtered in their homes innocent civilians slaughtered by this murderous islamist radical isis nazi-like group of hamas and also right now heavy exchanges of fire outside the city of sterot next to the kibbutz of mefal sim uh idea forces are facing off against terrorists right there so many other things that are happening at the same time the rockets uh on the north on the northern border from lebanon we can report between seven and nine launches from that those launches all of them hitting actually open areas also hits in ashkelon and a security incident in jewishlam that we're still waiting to hear about some 300 000 reservists have been told in recent days to get prepared for the eventuality of a large-scale operation as we started this broadcast a development up north as we're speaking right now sirens in ashkelon what exactly is the next move likely to be out of israel what are the options look there's no other option for israel other than dismantling hamas that is the first priority now because the reality cannot remain the same israel it will not be the same after what has been inspired on saturday and in the following days hamas has declared a war on israel hamas cannot israel cannot allow hamas to continue to exist a threat on israel's border just a mile away from israeli communities that has thrived for so many years after israel disengaged i can remind our viewers there is no occupation no occupation zero occupation in the gaza strip israel withdrew disengaged from gaza back in 2005 taking thousands of israeli settlers out of their homes in hope for a better future for gaza what did the people of gaza do they elected hamas and this is the result hamas a terror group that has invested all of the resources millions hundreds of millions of dollars that hamas has been getting from international aid from european countries from them from america all these european countries need to rethink a lot their aid to gaza because all or most of that money went to funnel this attack of hamas all of that money went into sponsoring of terror into rockets into all the equipment that we saw in saturday's attack the result over a thousand israelis killed and that is just the beginning israel will have to put an end to this egypt has officially closed the rougher border crossing with gaza it means that the enclave is officially now sealed off what impact does that have very briefly to what is likely to unfold in the coming hours and days let's be very clear israel will not allow any aid to come into gaza whether the egyptians want to do that whether the geordanians want to do that no aid is coming into gaza hamas is 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is where we are four days after the worst atrocities perpetrated against the jewish people since the holocaust our reporter nicole zedek was among the members of the press taken to the village earlier today here is her here in kfar aza they continue to remove some of the israeli bodies that were killed during the massacre saturday morning you can see as four days later they're still continuing to go through some of these houses in this very very southern israeli community and remove the israeli citizens that were killed inside their homes gun down stabbed different grenades thrown off as well as we're walking through this community we're told that we have to stay away from certain areas certain houses because there could still be mines instant and they could go off at any moment so all the israeli soldiers who are down here want to make sure that we're staying safe as well but as you walk through this community which we've been doing just to pan around and kind of give you an example of exactly where we are surrounded by all of these soldiers many of them called from reserve duty leaving their own families behind as well you can see some of these houses that people were in meanwhile the dead bodies of terrorists also continue to line the different grounds and parks in this surrounding area truly the scene of a massacre as many of these people were just inside their homes families one of the commanders here said said at least 40 babies were killed some of them their their heads got off he said he's never seen acts of brutality like this and as i said many of the soldiers were called from reserve duties coming down here to the scene of a massacre none of them knowing exactly what to expect and no one expecting that it could be something like this even as i'm walking around right now shell casings continue to line the grounds here the community uh signs of daily life also children's bikes parked right here meanwhile bodies lie right next to them it's truly the scene of a massacre the commander said this is not a battleground this was Hamas terrorists coming into the community and and killing all of the citizens that that they could see and so it's been a devastating cleanup effort as as these these soldiers continue to go through and they're still an active threat from some terrorists in the area as well in fact gunfights and fighting between uh terrorists and and the Israeli soldiers here just recently ended and that's why they're continuing to go house to house and and rescue and and get all of the civilians that they can reporting for i-24 news i'm Nicole Zedek Nicole Zedek there and yes you can believe your ears babies were beheaded 40 babies were murdered by Hamas terrorists during a massacre in that village many many civilians killed entire families burned alive there have not been atrocities like this since the holocaust i'm joined in the studio by i-24 new senior editor Guy Azrael and uh guy it is surreal it's shocking it's very difficult for for people to comprehend what happened uh in in the village of uh kvar azar i don't think it's a an understatement to say that this changes everything in israel forever israel will not be the same laura uh this is a watershed moment not just in israel's conflict with humas in gaza it's a watershed moment in israel's uh history uh entire communities erased i personally know the kibbutz of kvar azar very well very lively wonderful community peace loving people wonderful people so many young families beautiful children slaughtered by in the hands of these animals it is uncomprehensible for anyone 40 children over 200 people in the kibbutz that's in a kibbutz that has just 765 residents it's an unbelievable number a third of the population there and a thousand israelis killed this is another number that we never thought we'll see uh it's a number that we saw maybe in the young people war during a day of battle but not civilians not so many civilians it it is incredible and and and it hasn't stopped we're hearing of more exchange of fire happening right now just outside the city of dorot next to kibbutz so there are still there are still terrorists inside israel there are still terrorists uh it's difficult to say whether these were terrorists who are hiding or terrorists are using the holes in the fence that still are still there um there's also possible tunnels that we don't know of um the scale of this attack was immense in many of these kibbutzes there are dozens of hummus terrorists on trucks loaded with so many heavy weapons the residents in most of these communities had no chance uh entire families young families meeting a group of armed terrorists breaking into their homes shooting at them grenade throwing grenades in the very few cases where the families were able to lock themselves in the shelter to set the houses on fire entire families i'm said to say this on air but but i will say it i'm hearing testimonies from barzillai hospital of a couple a mother and a father who were found burned attached to each other in one of those safe rooms in in kfaraza this is the reality people were burned alive those who were not slaughtered by gunshots or by grenades or other means as we heard from nicole said some of their heads were caught off as well the brutality something that i mean isis didn't even do that i i would compare this to the nazi style hatred and and brutality this is not something that anyone in the western world can and should understand it's not something you would ever expect or or comprehend this is this is unimaginable and these communities have lived next to gaza for so many years wanting better life for the people of gaza and and and this is the insane thing laura because just a week ago two weeks ago israel wanted to expand the number gaza to enter israel i had a gaza man in my home working in my home we want to give them work we wanted to give them a better life what we received from gaza was the greatest massacre on israeli civilians in in history it's a something that israel will not allow to ever happen again and israel will have to dismantle hamas whatever the price may be and let's talk about the idea from what is happening now the idea is carrying out the worst airstrikes ever on the strip right now the territory is also without water or electricity has been now i think for 24 hours nothing getting in nothing getting out this is the the response that continues yes if israel wants to dismantle hamas there's no other way to do this and at maximum pressure is the tactic closing off all the crossings of course not entering any fuel cutting off power and water and bombardment of all these major hamas sides this terror group that continued to thrive for so many years next to israel's border israel wrongfully thought that it could manage this conflict with occasional escalations with gaza with rocket fire that israel contained israel used the iron dome that protected israeli civilians well that whole concept has proven to be a major mistake because that monster only continued to grow with its power and with its appetite to you for jewish blood and we saw the results right now guys stay with us we're going to go now live to kfar alza where that massacre took place where those babies were beheaded where those families were burned alive our pierre clauschendler is there pierre i mean you're a reporter you've been working for many many years in journalism have you ever seen anything like this in your life well unfortunately yes but not to that extent we're speaking about according to the zaka rescue organization we're talking about 200 corpse in kfar alza in different states some charred some with limbs cut off heads cut off that's what we're hearing from the zaka rescue organization and an officer from the israeli army told us that this is a realistic number there's a whiff of death emanating from the kibbutz when the breeze comes from the kibbutz to that direction from the sea to here right now there is a whiff of death on the way to the entrance to kfar alza there are two hamas terrorist bodies that are signaled with ribbons from the israeli police they're still rotting under the sun but it's not because of revenge it's simply because there's a fear that their booby trapped and the sappers are busy with also checking the bodies that the bodies of the victims are not booby trapped it's going to be an excruciating work to retrieve those bodies you have you have fridge trucks i've counted five of them that are going to go in retrieve the bodies and then sent to the forensic institute for identification it's going to be hard families are going to have to see the bodies somehow beyond recognition probably their chart uh the situation is still very volatile there's still clashes soldiers are telling us that clashes are ongoing in and around kfar alza not inside kfar alza but around it just an hour ago soldiers were rushed for me four kilometers away from here because there were such terrorists roaming the fields and they went to to try and eliminate them now it's very difficult to evacuate those bodies and the fire but this is what they're being tasked to do soldiers and rescue workers many of the soldiers here belong to the reservist paratrooper brigade they are also members of family they also have children they've been called up on Saturday they came in yesterday so the shock is immense these are family members family man now imagine on Saturday when it all started families were gathered together because the evening before on Friday evening there was a holiday supper and all the families were together and they slept together in the same apartment it was so easy to kill them so easy now there is a storage with weapon but it's in the storage nobody anticipated such a massacre so when the 70 or so terrorists stormed when the 70 or so terrorists stormed kfar alza they had first to retrieve the weapons for the storage room and the fire here it was very difficult they called the police of course i know personally a woman she lost two of her parents she lives here she lived she lost two of her parents here she's remain she's remained here with her little brother batia unbearable yeah thank you very much yeah there in kfar alza and uh very hard for for everyone today really it's very hard over a thousand Israelis have been killed many of the victims were slaughtered at a rave party close to close to the border with Gaza when the Hamas terrorists came across the border we're joined now by gal bushman gal you were at that rave party thank goodness you managed to escape with your life can you tell us what happened hi i'm miracle just a miracle so many dead it's it's it's unexplained it's you know just a minute before you you wrote down your babies beheaded think who can who can think that is possible in 2023 um just devastating so certainly medieval barbarity that we're saying there's there's no other words for it gal um can you describe for us i mean this must be really hard to to bring up these memories just a few short days ago you were with your friends you were with hundreds of young people just looking to to have a party have a good time uh you were there uh the hang gliders came in the terrorists came in how did you know what was happening what what was going through your mind did you did you understand what was happening yeah i was just explaining like my perspective we were we went to the party around uh we arrived around five uh five in the morning uh it was amazing it was amazing festival it was a known one and everybody was happy you know peace love enjoying the last day of uh holidays at shabbat and um around six and a half um we just saw a bombardment of around 250 missiles coming in now sadly due to being in israel you are a regular uh to that kind day today then bombs coming in so the chaos didn't start there it was it was um there were no uh policemen telling us what to do because the thing is the police thought there was only the bombings and they didn't know about the terrorists so that was uh one of the problems afterwards uh so we decided to stay uh around the parking lot just lay down that's what you supposed to do when there's bombs lay down with your hands on the head uh just waiting off to calm down and uh afterwards you understand this is where your fate uh was decided the people who left first the people who were in panic and thought the bombs were going to hit us in the party that are the ones who are dead on the roads where terrorists just killed everyone all the cars you can see uh with bullets and and just bodies on the way the ones who stay last are the ones who got murdered and raped and kidnapped into Gaza um and luckily it's just a miracle it's it's the decision between friends on when are we going to head back to the center of israel and and leave the party um it's it's just it's insane there's no other word to describe how fate is decided by when do you go out of a party yeah because it is attacked by terrorists yeah um that was the first part uh huh god no i just want to i mean this is really hard to ask you this but there are some uh you know europeans americans who are trying to people from around the world i should say who are on social media they're trying to play down the rape uh aspect of this they're trying to deny that there was any rape at the festival you were there you know you know i don't i don't know a hundred percent but when you write babies beheaded i think rape is is less that's like how horrible it is but if you be if you beheaded a baby what else can you do it's like it's a worst thing i think people can do in in this uh planet um after after around an hour when after an hour from the missiles we're starting to hear gunshots um we are all soldiers we're all we're all been in the army i'm a combat soldier as well i know that is an ak-47 coming in um we started to understand we need to choose um if we're gonna leave the car and start running um there is a a video running in the internet where you see people just starting to run and people are getting out of the cars and starting to run i'm in one of those videos you can see me starting to run um and that i think is where the chaos started we just heard thousands of bullets coming around us you you feel people are shooting on you i i know that feeling um and it just felt like we're ducks and people just fell down and uh we ran around i know two miles without looking back we just looked for our friends it was not each one for himself but each one for his people he came with to the party that is how it looked like each like group of people um we walked around five five hours until we went we got to safety safety um it's just horrible you can't describe the understand the understanding of me after an hour that the people who are left behind are probably massacred because you're starting to understand from the internet and from the policeman who did survive and went with us what is going on back there yeah and people getting shot my sister's husband was shot in his leg i have friends who left the party in the beginning who are dead as people who i know who are kidnapped girls it's it's just unbelievable i'm sorry i don't think i it's not even 9 11 i'm i'm american it's me i remember 9 11 it's not even 9 11 gal i'm so sorry i'm so sorry it we're all trying to get our heads around it it's it's absolutely abhorrent uh gal bushman i'm glad at least that you're back with your family in your safe thank you for talking to us thank you all right just an update there more than a thousand uh people were murdered by Hamas terrorists uh four days ago and there's been a a massacre uncovered at a village uh kvah aza uh babies beheaded uh i don't think i need to say more families burned alive atrocities uh not seen certainly since uh holocaust our country very much in shock uh and trying to cope um let's talk about how israel's fighting back major general itan dango is dango is here with me he's the former village secretary to three ministers of defense thanks for being with us uh major general what is happening now what is the idea of strategy first of all i think it's the first day that i think there is a very clear direction that is well stabilize the situation inside israel what is surrounding gaza and continues with its strike heavy strikes on gaza in a change of doctrine that we know from the past the principles has been changed no more divided between hamas and gaza as a population of living today we are fighting against the state of hamas that it will be very clear to the international community secondly there is increasing tense that is continue to climb up what's going in the north part of israel and while we are sitting here was a tech of rockets on the west area of the galeel mountains from libanon towards israel as i know thousands of rockets has been launched it means we that the narrow corridor that we entered concerning coming to escalation with chisbala as a libanon state also to make it clear is bringing us to a very sensitive i may say last two or three steps that will entered to a renas of escalations between israel and state of hamas between israel chisbala and libanon besides don't forget that we have all the time a very strong terror activity in the west bank and there is efforts to move it towards jerusalem and also in the interior in israel meanwhile israel as declare we are in a war and what i describe you it's a really war i think that as the time is running we see more and more things that shows us that what happened the new mentioned as a massacre what happened in gaza it's one of the worst terrible things that happened in this century by what was done by and gaza civilian to israeli civilian soldiers boys and girls as well yeah absolutely we haven't even spoken about the hostages please stay with us anytime because uh we're going to go to central televieve um we've been under a barrage of rockets here all afternoon our robert swift is there robert what's happening where you are laura we've come down here to document the blood drive which is going on behind me people have come together in order to do what they can really to help out with the situation which has unfolded over the last four days but whilst we've been here on at least three occasions we've people have had to stop what they're doing put down their put down what it is that they're involved in the blood transfusion and make their way to the bomb shelter as as rocket alarms have gone off across televieve and other surrounding areas and we have heard at least one interception thank you robert thank you robert thanks robert we've got a bit of a sound problem there we are people israeli is turning out and israelis have really come together like never before people are donating blood they're donating money clothes toys for children everything taking people into their homes this country this country is at war and this country is coming together let's go that's correct and that's correct and people are coming together and just attempting to do what they can and a little bit earlier we spoke with the director of the hospital who told us two things one was the fact that the the hospital has a large underground bunker in it and it's just been reported that the hospital has now for the first time in its history moved towards it started putting patients into the underground uh the underground bunker essentially and the other thing that he told us is the fact that the hospital is collecting blood not just for the injuries that are sustained but it is essentially looking forward preparing for additional casualties that it expects and the fact that patients are now being put into the bunker it indicates how seriously the situation is and that people are expecting it to get worse now israelis and tel Aviv and in other locations are accustomed to dealing with rocket alerts the fact that patients are now being placed underground suggests that something something a lot something larger is is on the horizon all right well thanks very much for the swift death major general it's in dangot is with me about the rocket i mean israel has been carrying out strikes on Gaza for 48 hours now it's more yes we're already in 72 72 hours i apologize they must have destroyed a great deal of harmless rocket capabilities how many more rockets can they fire first of all it is the beginning and i really very serious what you mean for israel they're launching rockets yes yes because in the past we've had i think in 2021 it was 10 that was what we called a quick rounds that it was clear that both sides are not coming to escalation here we are coming to the end game end game i cannot say forever but for many years israel cannot continue survive has independent state with what happened on saturday during saturday during the simchatura holiday because we lost the safe and the insurance that we oblige to the civilian who are living around Gaza and this is something all israel observe secondly the suffering that was around Gaza it's something i belong to a family which is roots coming from the holocaust and things that are done there bring us very close to the memories that not our generation but the generation before my father is a holocaust survivor has been faced you can never compare it these are animals you cannot live as a state while state of ramas is beside you we cannot accept it secondly it's coming and moving down the deterrence from israel towards the area so we are coming to a very deep moments that we have to signal again israel will stay and we will win as a state but not under conditions of increasing terror that it's very clear who is the master behind it it's iran and who prepared ramas for it it's iran and his bala together it's something we have to cut it much more danger now than the nuclear activities by iran but some some analysts are warning some people are warning that this is exactly what iran wants it wants israel to get bogged down in Gaza we don't know if a ground offensive is a possibility it will be fighting on one front and as you say opening up another front from from the north i worried about that you are right i heard it as well and always telling us they're right we have all the time to think what's the enemy has planned because we were surprised once that we paid even to say heavy price it's a light thing to describe it secondly we have to think all the time every day again and assess what is the circumstances around us that's the way why on the military side we are walking in a different way there is no any division between Hamas and Gaza and the civilian Gaza there is no anymore using the words humanitarian policy cut off electricity cut off water cut off goods cut off everything you have to close Gaza and to bring Hamas besides what we are trying and destroying the state of Hamas around us it means infrastructure bankers arms as a Hamas terrorist and concerning maneuvering i didn't say when and how it is one thing very clear it will take time we will have maybe to move efforts from area to area but on the end of this story Hamas we lose its capacity and we cannot stay now forever the entity in Gaza and we have to leave it to the side the feelings of pity towards anybody in Gaza we have to live to decide the humanitarian threat while they are raped and killed and destroy small babies it's something unacceptable no no so there is no forgiveness forever to what has been done and for it you have to manage it's not something that we know it's very difficult will be if we are entering to a second arena but i think that the umbrella of the united states that message signals to Lebanon to Iran because Lebanon is supported by the states if there is something you will also a lot price of lost lost of price for Lebanon his bala and Iran will be very heavy and now for now they are behaving very carefully and calculating their steps yeah yeah okay thank you thank you thank you very much well we can go up to northern israel now our area loss around is in the town of now area are you hearing about rocket fire from the north one more can you tell us right loris so we're just about one hour since the latest rocket launch or barrage of rockets more accurately launched from southern lebanon just south of the city of tire towards this area towards the northern west part of israel the border communities according to the idf in a statement released just minutes ago saying that 15 rockets were launched in that latest barrage four of them were intercepted 10 landed in open areas not quite sure what have the the statement did not mention what happened to the 15th rocket but indeed in response to that idf responded with artillery shelling towards the origin of the fire now it is believed that it is a palestinian militia that is a palestinian terror group that is behind this rocket launch again it's a very tense situation here up north given that every slight movement of his bala could change could affect the entire campaign that's going on right now mainly focusing on south but basically since saturday morning in anticipation of what uh of the fight extending also to the northern border the galilee medical center here in aria where i'm standing right now has begun transferring its most of its departments and patients to an underground bunker basically an underground hospital by the end of tomorrow 80 percent of all patients are to be transferred down there and of this of these patients are included four soldiers who were wounded yesterday in the fierce firefight along the border with the palestinian samu jihad terrorists who infiltrated the northern border one is in critical condition one is in moderate condition and the other two are lightly wounded and so in our since the barrage of rockets it's quiet over here but indeed a tense quiet as is in across the israel's northern border this evening and we are hearing reports uh from inside lebanon uh ariel that civilians have been moving north in anticipation of some kind of action from the idf or the iaf not just moving north there's uh caravans of people evacuating southern lebanon because the residents of southern lebanon have a very clear recollection memory of what happened uh back in 2006 the second lebanon war a lot of many parts of southern lebanon completely destroyed and uh not only israel's anticipating the fighting reaching here with relocating the hospital down to underground bunker but obviously also on the other side of the border the residents of southern lebanon expecting anticipating that the situation will only uh escalate from here moving on all right ariel thank you very much arielos around there is in neharia close to the border with lebanon and major general etan dan got still with me in the studio yeah i would like to add something for the evacuation of the population in lebanon in lebanon and also in gaza you see that in gaza one of the results that israel is completely destroying areas while it's clear that hamas used them as a center of preparing the activities for say saturday like bethanon that is very close to the border to the fence and like in rimal neighborhood in gaza a very rich area this is the beveley hill yes of gaza and besides there is living of the area of gaza to another areas by population it's assigned to hamas i think by the population what will be in about 48 hours because no one from the international community is planned now to come gaza as usual to save them and it will not be allowed this is kind of a pressure for a test for the population in gaza towards hamas secondly in lebanon this is the second on on that because um we know the iaf bond the rafa crossing which is the border with egypt nearby not rafa on the other side belonged to egypt and of course with egypt is another kind of on the gaza's egyptian trucks with aid were trying and they had to go back because of that because israel doesn't want that obviously to break the siege yes this is what israel declared one of the tools we are telling now in these circumstances there is no entering to gaza to support for giving hamas economy this is hamas state and civilians were entered as i told you thousands of them cross the border and murder also participate in this massacre and so don't be nice for the life that families lost their their all a unit of the family cabin secondly with egypt will be it's a challenge how egypt will accept it how egypt is moving ahead and there is a partner that almost it's like a snake it calls katar katar which is will allow them to come and to support katar which is home of the hamas leadership of course of course in katar you have ania in esteem who is the outside main leadership of hamas beside hamas leadership in gaza and beside aruri in beirut and katar on the other end is using israel for supporting gaza for economy to support thousand now it's ended sorry now it's ended also so what is going with the population it become a player player i mean on unsurances that we have to tell it but it's a part that we are not give any more any pittiness any duty anything by law in libanon many years it is it's become a sign to the pressure of the population on the south of libanon the situation inside libanon is sensitive the country is shocking it's very close to a crash and and by moving them khizballah has a challenge to decide wherever it's going and the permanent permanent government in libanon now we left to calculate even it's a government that behind it it's hamas they have to calculate whether to do or not to do something by khizballah because they lose all the united states support which is the only source that now holding libanon as a state and just to go back to gaza there are american citizens among the hostages in gaza we know that president biden is already under pressure from the families to rescue them the united states has moved huge fleet of aircraft carriers to the eastern mediterranean and we're not seeing calls for a ceasefire from the americans at this stage are you encouraged that the americans are letting israel handle this and in how it sees fit i think that united states step shows three things first of all it's a message for tehran that united state is worried from what's going in the middle east not also towards israel towards all the moderate arab blocks in the gulf saudi arabia bacharen and other countries from that secondly it's kind of warning iran from the continuing going concerning the nuclear agreement and release of money or instructions that were done against iran they just gave six billion dollars to free five of americans but there are much more also to release now the third issue is to give a a warrant to iran by the operative level of what the carrier and others what's going on the cooperation between idf and sent kum in kata that is the headquarters there which is an ally of the united states exactly so how is this kind is coming there is i can promise you and i know it a very close coordination and and what's going and i think i iran his bala understand it's very well on the other last point please last but not least is the issue with the american hostages the tev the american civil passports that call it the hostages in gaza so 100 just to recap 150 people are being this is the ss in hamas not just israelis but many other nationalities nationalities including 10 americans and i think in this case hamas has to decide very quick whether they are going to make a quick first step of exchanging or releasing these the babies the the woman the mothers the elders it's unbelievable what's going down and the foreign of course that elding a foreign passport and coming to another state because the hamas has a lot to lose in these circumstances i cannot assess whether it will be or not but i think it is more chance to be done and hamas probably will get on a special channels a one from the united states and others that will be done by the united nation representative for the middle east and are you surprised that the international community isn't pushing harder for a ceasefire right now i mean understandably and inevitably they are pushing normally when these when israeli striking gaza israel finds itself very quickly under pressure from the international community to stop the bombing that would you say it's not now the situation i think that it reminds me when i was the military secretary of the minister of defense in the second liban on war while we israel now let's say now on the hamas state war with israel we have a full legitimation from the international community to reach our goals and our revenge before you go major general can you say something reassuring to the many people around the world and here in israel who are watching this situation unfold their worst nightmares coming true i think that israel coming to a real a very sensitive moments that we has not faced only at 48 on the establishment of israel as a state in 73 on the yom kippur war when i was a child but we are coming to the different world that is divided between terrorism and democratism in in the way israel is a part is a flag for it even what's going internally in israel and what israel is facing and going to face in the coming days it's another war for its independence and future a living here and make our next and next generation to live here without being murdering or facing a massacre like this we will have to be very patient we will have to be very strong there will be up and downs but as i told you and the way i'm sure israel will win all right major general eight and thank you thank you well we can go now to southern israel our oen ultimate is at the barzillai hospital oen what is happening where you are well laura about 500 injured still here at the hospital and hospitalized 2800 have been injured since the start of the war and of those about 500 are still in israeli hospitals so i should say 500 over the course of the war have been here at barzillai hospital one of the closest hospitals in israel to the border communities in gaza over the course of the last few hours here four huge rounds of rocket fire with very very loud booms that we heard and a direct hit that's visible from just outside the hospital i put a picture on my twitter feed if anyone would like to see the smoke coming up it's odd laura and you understand this well living here but you drive into the city you see the thin blue strip of the mediterranean in the distance there are no cars on the road it's a beautiful day i'm just looking out the beautiful dusk as the sunset ends and it's just such so mind-boggling and such an enormous tragedy and such and such an enormous human catastrophe that just being here just brings it all into focus yeah it's really hard oen it's really hard for everyone in israel but also the people around the world who love israel and israel has many friends around the world who who are sending support and i mean the the report that our own nicole zedek brought to us today from kvar aza the atrocities which are really shocking people around the world i mean oh in in recent days we've seen you know american news anchors weeping on air we saw american admirals weeping on air i mean this is unprecedented isn't it yeah israel's hidden strength in international public opinion or who imagined that sentence was going to come out of my mouth has just just come out from under and surfaced everywhere i never understood how meaningful it was for buildings to be lit up until this week and you see one after another in one world capital after another buildings and monuments lit up including the stunning scene from paris of what looked like tens of thousands of people singing the israeli national anthem atikva and looking out at the eiffel tower lit up i never understood how meaningful that was until this week but you're certainly seeing that come from from every quarter i by the way a rough estimate that that video and that that broadcast by nicole as probably tens of millions of views it's not even more all over the world people are seeing what this country is faced they're seeing what this country is doing to face it by the way around me are volunteers who have come to help at this hospital over the course of the last few days volunteers who have brought food to the staff and the volunteers here over the last few days so just another place where israelis are stepping up and doing what they can to help the war effort in every way possible yeah this is a this is a country very much at war and it's just the beginning as people keep telling us oh and thank you oh and ultiman there dana bryzela i think we can go to the us now to talk more about international support nope we cannot uh so let's just do a recap then of what we know so far um hamas terrorists beheaded babies that's a headline i never thought i would have to say uh during my career but that is where we are uh hamas terrorist beheaded babies they murdered 40 babies uh during a bloody massacre in the southern israeli village of kfar asa our own reporter nicole zedek saw for herself um the the results entire families were burned alive in their homes they were sheltering in the bomb shelters that israeli homes have to deal with rocket fire they were there they were homes were built alive uh children shot old people shot people together um murdered um and i haven't even spoken very much about um one of the most painful things for for israelis right now and that is uh that 150 hostages including many children are being held right now in gaza of course their families don't know if they're alive or dead how they're being treated it is an unfathomable nightmare for any human being around the world uh to to imagine that not knowing what has happened uh to your family uh 260 young people at least uh murdered while they were at a music festival uh that is uh contributing to a large part of the death toll uh this uh country is really going through something now that it has never been through before and as everyone knows this is a country that has had to fight for its survival every step of the way terrorism wars uh invasions by its neighbors this though is something else on a whole new level psychologically uh that people are having to deal with um but this country is very much coming together uh to uh to to to stay together to be resilient uh to face what is uh in front of us and uh that is the situation and i'm here in in tel Aviv i can tell you we've been running to the the shelters throughout the day uh rockets fired constantly um and it's uh it's it's it's very difficult and there is uh you know a lot to deal with and we uh we understand that people are really having to go through a great deal right now um let's talk a bit more about military strategy uh etan dangot uh in terms of wiping out hamas what does that look like we know that they've killed the two top hamas commanders i believe they have confirmation of that we we succeeded we killed they said minister of economy yes and one of the members that is very close to the committee around sin war the leader of gaza but it's a sign that we are in a circle around the leadership of hamas leadership of civilian the head is sin war which is deep involved in what happened and also those who are the main murderer that are responsible for sending these terrorists and also in my opinion and as i know the system here those who are not living in israel in gaza as well like aruri ania in katar has to be and they're worried that's the reason that the ania escaped to libanon it just to remind you katar is a uh a non nato member u.s ally uh joe biden president biden recently upgraded that country's status katar is home to the hamas leadership is mehanie lives in luxury in katar uh while his people are in gaza this is this is a question that the americans must be looking at i think that it's not the first time this is a country that hosted the world cup it's of course but i would like to share with you my experience i when i was in in my function as a military secretary to three ministers of defense and was there responsible for the coordination of the coordinator of the government activities in west bank and around gaza i would share with you that a lot of meetings that i had with eye officials from the states united states very close to the fact that katar policy always has two head of the the snakes from both sides and they are playing with it but above all no one is there has doubt that katar is a radical country which support with money their radical movements like hamas and i don't like and i didn't like at the past to be to play the game with katar as the israeli government played here i would not allow katar to come here with suitcase full with cash money to give each civilian in gaza they will try to be like the coordinator between gaza sometimes hamas and israel and on the other as you mentioned ania is there from there they are letting him to take a plane to move to libanon to meet his bala and iranian the policy of united states is much more sensitive and careful because they have to hold katar close to them by understanding that katar is always under suspicious israel own nothing to katar and israel also when he changed the policy towards hamas after happened has to make clear to katar on the same time i would tell you that israel should not now not immediately with emotion test its policy towards activities against hamas figures in libanon and in katar as well in my opinion those who are living in katar like ania and the others are a death figures they should be find themselves in the timing that we will choose not belong to this earth they are not have the rights to be considered as a human being and katar should decide where they are even if israel pay to katar reducing of the relationship i don't care for it turkey of course also has turkey has already changed besides the relationship turkey is making more official active towards the pa the palestinian authorities turkey the president is talking with israel i think that with turkey there is a move on 60 degrees to another direction and arduan has announced is came to conclusion very quick that its policy bring turkey to a problems and one of the thing is in a process of changing but katar is still the sponsor of hamas state hamas movement hamas killers and we cannot accept it anymore absolutely um i wanted to ask you um uh as well we've just got a bit of news on uh news in from uh idea spoke saying that tanks attacked observation posts of the terrorist group hezbollah um in response to i think two posts were tech on the west area that's right it shows you what i just described before israel and hamas are entering to narrow corridor but still they are not running inside they are moving step by step towards maybe escalation but carefully we give each side the opportunity to come down ground from the leader uh much more quicker than it looks in the field so even hamas 14 rockets in the west as a reaction to what israel made yesterday or attack hamas and now israel as a respond attack to hamas post it's symbols of numbers uh sorry to hezbollah's uh post on the bat by choosing these uh targets israel make message also to hamas you are responsible for anything that's going in this area we are not looking to find whether it's palestinian cabin or hamas cabin in uh libanon or hezbollah everything will be respond towards hezbollah okay can i ask you very very quickly so we're running out of time uh the palestinians are divided hamas and the palestinian authority would this bring them together no i think you heard the statement of uh mahmoud abbas abu mazen that on the coran there is no doubt that murdering uh babies families it's not something that the cork coran is supported no i mean also abu mazen i read the mansoor abbas said it today but yesterday was the pa statement and i think that israel is to come back to the palestinian authority thank you we're taking short break stay with us our coverage continues here on i20 point strictly security your weekly look into security intelligence and strategic affairs our team brings the latest on the major international conflicts analysis of the major security issues right here in the middle east and around the globe join us for a close look at innovative military technology and get up to speed with what's happening in cyberspace