 Now, shocking images of four terrified Israeli hostages were published on the front page of a British publication this week. Pictures taken on the day they were abducted by Hamas terrorists more than three months ago now. Their families are calling for global action as more harrowing accounts from released hostages continue to emerge. More in this report. Four new photos of kidnapped Israeli women made the front page of a major foreign publication on Monday. Later that same day, a video of the four women was made public as well, showing them in a terrible state. Some of them bleeding and one of them crying uncontrollably. In more footage released from that black Sabbath, October 7th, the day they were kidnapped by Hamas, they can be seen in the back of a van in shock. While an angry chanting Ghazan mob surrounds the van. Earlier this week, one of the hostages who was released from Hamas captivity spoke of encountering some of the women still being held by the terrorist organization. On Tuesday, Aviva Segal, who returned from captivity, spoke in the Israeli parliament, disclosing more unsettling details about the condition of the young women. One of the girls returned from the bathroom, and I could tell that she was distraught. I got up and gave her a hug. I apologized for my language, but this mother ever touched her. Another time, a young woman that they thought was an IDF officer arrived, and they tortured her in front of me. I'm her witness. Ninety-five days after that brutal Hamas assault, fifteen women are still being held by Hamas. Israelis are demanding the international community intervene, amid growing concerns over the mental and physical well-being of the captives. Rape can never be accepted. It cannot be justified by the context over certain vacuums to which we've heard international community officials refer to. Some acts are purely evil and should always be denounced. Hamas, the group that committed such acts, has taken hostage ninety women. Fifteen are still held there in Gaza by Hamas. As of now, UN Women has failed to issue any message condemning this footage or the testimony. Pramila Padden, the special representative of the United Nations in matters of sexual violence in areas of conflicts, will visit Israel at the end of January. Welcome to I-24 News. I'm Siobhan Raviv, and these are the latest developments coming to you live from Tel Aviv. Today marks 100 days to the October 7th massacre, 100 days of Israel's war with Hamas, 100 days for 136 remaining hostages who are still in Hamas' captivity. Seventeen women, some as young as 18 years old, two children, 94 men, 15 elderly, some over the age of 80 years old, and eight foreigners. Many of these hostages are wounded. Some might have been sexually abused according to released hostage testimonies. All have not been seen by the Red Cross thus far, 100 days into their captivity. And time is running out as reports say their lives are now under serious risk. Over the weekend, the IDF announced the death of 21-year-old Sergeant Major in Reserves Andoualem Kaveda from Kiryat Ghat. He was part of the 603rd Combat Engineering Battalion of the 7th Armored Brigade and was killed fighting in southern Gaza yesterday. He is the 188th soldier killed in the IDF's ground offensive in Gaza. A terrorist cell crossed into Israeli territory from Lebanon overnight and fired up patrolling IDF soldiers in the Haldov area. The soldiers responded and the four terrorists who were killed. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last night that 100 days into the fighting the goals must be achieved and so the fighting will continue. Take a listen. 100 days of war, 100 days since the terrible day when our citizens were murdered and abducted. We are continuing the war until the end, until complete victory, until we achieve all our goals, eliminating Hamas, returning all our hostages and assuring that Gaza never again poses a threat to Israel. We will regain security both in the south and the north. No one will stop us, not the Hague, not the Axis of Evil and not anyone else. Something has changed in the history of our people. The anti-Semitism is the same, but the stature of the Jewish people has changed completely. For today we have a state, we have an army, we have the power to defend ourselves and we have heroic soldiers protecting our people. Joining us now in studio is former senior intelligence officer at the IDF and security analyst Rafa Ali Roshalmi. Thank you for coming in. 100 days into this war, 100 days since October 7th, 100 days of hostage captivity. What can we say that has been achieved thus far? Well, if we speak of the hostages we know what has been achieved. Fortunately, only one round of liberation of a few hostages with truth in the fight. And since then, nothing. On the contrary, it seems that Hamas is toughening its position, is demanding more and more some of the conditions being unacceptable and it's not looking very good for the future of the hostages, especially that the problem to be a hostage is not a nice thing, but in this particular case the conditions of detentions are horrendous and every day that passes by is critical for the very life of each hostage that is the main problem. The Hamas knows that, it's applying that pressure on the whole of the Israeli people and there's not one person Israel who doesn't have at least one day for the hostages and there's not one soldier now fighting that doesn't have in front of his eyes the image of the hostages, especially the children. And unfortunately, right now we do not see anything happening. I mean, the latest discussion is about sending medicine in a very intricate, complicated way through Qatar, the Red Cross, to be picked up here, to be given there. And this is taking days and days just for that, just for medicine. So as we proceed, it seems that still, even though it's not really working right now, still it's the military pressure that is our last option. No other pressure will work. The Hamas doesn't care about the conditions of living, of the Ghazan people, all these refugees in the south of Ghazan, they might starve, it doesn't move the Hamas in any way. The prisoners that we have in Israeli jails and the number of casualties we inflict on the military branch of the Hamas, that doesn't influence at all the high leaders of the Hamas. They just want to keep kicking, they just want to keep creating havoc in Israel. And so far as they do that, they are satisfied. And there's no leverage from our parts. They have lots of leverage, because we are willing by now, and it has been said to the Egyptians, to the Qatari, to the Americans, to apply a long truth to stop, not to cease completely the war, but to have a very extended truth, two, three weeks. It might be even a month of no warfare to liberate some prisoners that are in Israeli jails, to increase the humanitarian help into Ghazan. All these things, and it's still not working. So it's very, very difficult for us. We have to be strong. We have no choice. We have an enemy who understands that by the time it gives away to us the last hostage, it gives us leeway to exterminate him. So, of course, they're not going to give these hostages so easily. I don't think they will also not give all the hostages at all, meaning they will keep 30, 40, especially what they considered as the soldiers, until the very end, until the bitter end, because they are their life insurance. We know that some of them are now being used in Hanyunis, under Hanyunis, as a human shield for Mr. Sinois. We know more or less where he is by now, where the bunker is under Hanyunis. But we also know that. We know that he has been surrounded by hostages. We don't know the exact number. And that's the human shield. This is their life insurance. Why would they give it away? Life insurance for Sinois. Please stay with us. Raphael will be back to you in a few moments. But now, joining us live from the hostage square in Tel Aviv is our I-24 news correspondent Ariel Osaran. Ariel, today marks 100 days to the brutal kidnapping of 240 hostages. Some have been released. There are still another 136 and captivity, and their time is running out. You're at the square with families of hostages. This is a 24-hour rally protest. What is their main message today? Right, Steve, this is a weekly rally here at Hostage Square in the heart of Tel Aviv. Last night was a little different because it didn't end a couple hours after it began, but it continued. It's still ongoing. As you mentioned, it's a 24-hour rally in which hostages, released hostages, families of hostages, or still-in-home host captivity, as well as singers and other society leaders, are here with the same cause. Time is running out, and they need to be all the hostages, all 136, need to be brought back in now. On the stage right now, speaking in relief hostages, they're bearing very emotional messages, urging the government and the international community to release the hostages. And now, last night, one of the relief hostages, Agam Gunsten, has more to read a message, a letter that she wrote to her friends that remained in captivity yesterday. Let's take a listen to what she wrote. Last night, but this morning at 6.30 a.m., that was the exact time where everything began a hundred days ago on that October 7th, was the first garage of raqqis. So the DJ at the Nova Festival, the party in Kibbutz to the Iim just outside there that suffered a significant brunt of the massacre on October 7th. So throughout the evening, throughout the morning, the DJ recreated the playlist, and at 6.35, played the exact same track that was playing back then. And all the purpose of all these events are to raise awareness and to reiterate the call, to bring back all the hostages now. Thank you very much. Aliyah Lo-Saron. 100 days into the Gaza war, and some 80 days into the ground operation, there is a clear understanding there's still a long way to go before Hamas is completely defeated. All right, 24 News, senior defense correspondent Yonatan Regev looks at what has been achieved thus far and the challenges that are still ahead. Take a look. For more than a decade, Israel did everything it could in order not to carry out a ground operation in Gaza, despite thousands of rockets fired from the strip during that period. But the terrible events of October 7th left it no choice. I want to pass this alarm to each and every soldier. We will continue to the end, until victory, until Hamas is annihilated. Let there not be any doubt about it. This is the message I want to convey to all soldiers out there. There was no official statement marking the beginning of the ground operation. It began some three weeks after the October 7th attacks. The first stage included a massive advance into the northern Gaza Strip, including Gaza City and the terror enclaves around it, such as the neighborhoods of Jebalia, Sajaiya and Bedhanun, all three of them in the eastern outskirts of Gaza, very close to the Israeli border. The attack on the Israeli communities of Sderot, Kfar Azay and Akhaloz originated here. Weeks of fighting are now meant to ensure it never happens again. At the end of a stubborn and determined battle, we dismantled the military framework of Hamas and Jebalia. Hamas no longer operates in an organized manner in this area. We have deprived them from their main terror capabilities in this area. Following a week-long ceasefire in late November to facilitate the hostage deal, the second stage began, this time focusing on Gaza's second largest city, but its biggest terror headquarters. Chanyounis in the southern part of the Strip is a central terror base for Hamas. We have expanded our activity there, adding another brigade, and we are continuing to act there with the use of new military tactics above the ground and below. Chanyounis has been practically taken over, as is the case of the refugee camps just to the north. It means that above the ground, the Gaza Strip has been basically conquered, but under the ground, it's a different story. You can see inside here, deep down, a tunnel which was built for the last few months. You can see here the lift, heavy duty lift. You can see the phone there, with communication down to the tunnel. There are still plenty of tunnels all across the Strip, and Hamas terrorists operate from there. That is why the army acknowledges there is still a long way to go before a decisive victory can be announced. There are still terrorists in Jabalia, however, they operate without a framework and without commanders. We have encountered and will continue to encounter sporadic rocket fire from this area. We are deepening our achievements in these areas, but it takes time. There are no shortcuts in fighting terror. Shortcuts in fighting terror. This is exactly what Israel was doing for years as thousands of rockets were fired on it. Fixing that damage will be a long and grueling project. And back in studio with us is former Senior Intelligence Officer at the IDF and Security Analyst, Rafael Erochalmi. Rafael, we're watching this report by our correspondent, and we are indeed, like we said, 100 days into this war, and there's still a long way to go. But what can we say are the things that have been achieved, militarily speaking? A lot has been achieved much more than expected, actually. The north of the Gaza Strip is under our control, even though, as the IDF spokesman said, there might still be small pockets of resistance. We control the north of the Gaza Strip. We are now gaining control of the center of the south. We will continue applying pressure on Hanu'nis because we believe the high leaders of the Hamas are hidden under it in the tunnels. Otherwise, we might start a phase of more, if I may call it, that serene fighting in that sense that the new phase of fighting now will see a lot of reservists going home and the troops of the IDF retreating from many areas in the Strip, leaving them empty of military presence and only going back in when needed, if there is an intel that indicates that there's something there to strike. Otherwise, the troops will be deployed around the Strip, around the hot spots of the Strip, and not sitting inside, as is, of course, much more dangerous. The really last Taysiator operation to tackle, and it's a very important one, and I'm even a little surprised we've waited so long to tackle it, is Rafah, the border of Gaza with Egypt and the famous Philadelphia Road, because this is a very, very strategic point because of the tunnels under it leading into Sinai. It can be used in one way to bring weapons into the Strip, and in the other way, of course, for the leaders to escape, but probably to escape with the hostages, Israeli hostages. So this is something that has to be tackled. There are diplomatic problems about it because the Egyptians, they claim that they have sovereignty over this part of the border. We've told them that we will act anyway. We did control this border and this Philadelphia axis until 2005, when we decided to leave the Gaza Strip, so we can take control again. It's very important. So far, we are now entering, generally speaking, apart from Hanyunas, a phase that will last for weeks and months, and the Israeli public will have to brace itself, and you'll have to be patient and keep our cool, because this mission, what we want to achieve, is achievable, but only achievable if we take our time, and it will take a long time because we have really to dismantle a huge military force of still thousands of warriors on the Hamas side, but also after that, we also have to dismantle the political and civilian grip that the Hamas has on the Gaza Strip, meaning tens of thousands of civil servants, Hamas supporters, who are so many of them occupy key positions in Gaza that control the life, whether it's electricity, whether it's hospitals of Gaza. So this cannot be achieved in two minutes. We're going to have to brace ourselves and be strong and patient. Certainly a lot more to do. Let's talk about the Philadelphia corridor a little bit more. According to the Wall Street Journal, Israel has notified Egypt it's preparing to operate along the Philadelphia corridor on the border between Egypt and Gaza, which could potentially create tensions between Egypt and Israel, and we know Netanyahu is saying that we'll have to solve this issue one way or another before the end of the war. So what does that mean, solve this issue? Solve this issue with regain control of what is going on above and under the ground in Raffiach city and along the Philadelphia road, which is 14 kilometers long, that's such a huge problem, but you have to ensure complete control, because one tunnel is enough for Mr. Sinois, for instance, to escape to Sinai. So the problem is with the Egyptians, on the one that they're not really doing the job. Would they do the job? We wouldn't have to do it. They do have patrols. They do have like a kind of checking of this road and border, but it's far from enough. So we just offer to do it ourselves. The Egyptians are not very grateful because over the years, since the signing of the peace agreement with Egypt, there is a rule that's specified that in Sinai, Egyptian troops can only be deployed at a certain level. And above that, they have to ask permission from Israel. And Israel has given, I've been in that job myself, dozens of time permission to the Egyptians to increase the military presence in Sinai in order for them to fight, and they haven't succeeded over so many years when you see how long it takes to fight terrorism. Over all these years, the Egyptians haven't managed to suppress the terrorist threat in Sinai. Right. There have been many camps and many different factions, including al-Qaeda, operating in Sinai. And the Israelis have always been very lenient with a number of troops deployed, Egyptian troops deployed there. In spite of the agreement, we even had them with intel and with drones surveying the area. So I think they should be a little more grateful, especially that they're washing in the hands of Gaza. I mean, if there's one thing we know about the day now and the day after is the Egyptians want nothing to do with Gaza at all. They're not interested. They don't want Gazans to come as refugees to Egypt. They don't want to be involved in the security inside Gaza. They don't want to do anything. So let us at least do our job and do this, because as I said, this border with Egypt is extremely critical from the military point of view, from the political point of view. And really, it could be the last stronghold of the Hamas. The Hamas has been pushed south more and more to the south. And the last possible stand they can have and stronghold they could hold is Rafiq. Now you say, let Israel take care of this. And when you say take care of this, what do you mean? How to take care of it? I've heard about an underground kind of wall. Exactly. There are many solutions that have been taken into account. First of all, it will be detecting and destroying any tunnel that might still be there. That's the priority. Once this is done, one of the options is to build a wall. Flooding has been considered. The Egyptians have flooded tunnels in the past in that area. So flooding is considered building a wall, very deep wall and above like a sophisticated fence to prevent smuggling from Sinai into Gaza and weapons, etc., coming into Gaza. Of course, the military presence, the Israelis have even offered the Egyptian joint patrols, meaning that the Egyptian and the Israeli soldiers would patrol together either south or north of that border. The Egyptians also refused that offer. So many of the options are on the table. It will also depend, like everything actually in this war, as we've seen so far, it will depend on how we advance and what the situation is like at the moment that we feel we are in control. That's when you decide. A lot have been improvised or decided as we were moving since we started this war. There was a specific plan, but that on the ground, the reality on the ground, imposed all kinds of changes in the plan. So that's why all these options are on the table. And according to the military fight that will lead there, the result of it, I mean, we're going to pound first of all from the air as before. We're going to pound from the air or the artillery, which is much more complicated because right now it's very populated area. We're going to apply the military pressure, ground offensive, but we do not know what the result will be at the end. According to the result we get at the end, the way it looks, one of these options will be adopted, or all of them, meaning patrols and a wall and everything, it all depends of the final situation. Are there still pockets of resistance? Are we really totally in control, et cetera? Al-Fairi Al-Shalmi, thank you very much for your important input. That's all for this edition of I-24 News. We have rolling coverage providing you with the latest from Israel. We'll be back at the top of the hour for more news and updates. Be sure to follow us on our website, I-24News.tv and across our social media platforms. I'm Sivan Raveev. Thank you for watching. We're joining I-24 News for our special coverage on January 14th, marking 100 days since the massacre of October 7th. Follow us on the border with Gaza for first-hand accounts of eye witnesses, survivors and fighters. 100 days of war, January 14th, 9 p.m. local, only on I-24 News. I'm Sivan Raveev and these are the latest developments coming to you live from Tel Aviv. Today marks 100 days to the October 7th massacre, 100 days of Israel's war with Hamas, 100 days for 136 remaining hostages who are still in Hamas captivity, 17 women, some as young as 18 years old, 2 children, 94 men, 15 elderly, some over the age of 80 years old and 8 foreigners. Many of these hostages are wounded, some might have been sexually abused according to released hostage testimonies, all have not been seen by the Red Cross thus far, 100 days into their captivity. The time is running out as reports say their lives are now under serious risk. Over the weekend, the IDF announced the death of 21-year-old Sergeant Major in Reserves Andualem Cabeda from Kiryat Gathe who was part of the 603rd Combat Engineering Battalion of the 7th Armored Brigade and was killed fighting in southern Gaza yesterday. He is the 188th soldier killed in the IDF's ground offensive in Gaza. A terrorist cell crossed into Israeli territory from Lebanon overnight and fired up patrolling IDF soldiers in the Haldov area. The soldiers responded and the four terrorists who were killed. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last night that 100 days into the fighting the goals must be achieved and so the fighting will continue. Take a listen. 100 days of war, 100 days since the terrible day when our citizens were murdered and abducted. We are continuing the war until the end, until complete victory, until we achieve all our goals, eliminating Hamas, returning all our hostages and assuring that Gaza never again poses a threat to Israel. We will regain security both in the south and the north. No one will stop us, not the Hague, not the Axis of Evil, and not anyone else. Something has changed in the history of our people. The anti-Semitism is the same, but the stature of the Jewish people has changed completely. For today we have a state, we have an army, we have the power to defend ourselves, and we have heroic soldiers protecting our people. And joining us now in studio is former senior intelligence officer at the IDF and security analyst Rafael Eroshalmi. Thank you for coming in. 100 days into this war, 100 days since October 7th, 100 days of hostage captivity. What can we say that has been achieved thus far? Well, if we speak of the hostages, we know what has been achieved, unfortunately, only one round of liberation of a few hostages with truth in the fight. And since then, nothing. On the contrary, it seems that the Hamas is toughening its position and demanding more and more some of the conditions being unacceptable, and it's not looking very good for the future of the hostages, especially that the problem to be a hostage is not a nice thing. But in this particular case, the conditions of detentions are horrendous, and every day that passes by is critical for the life, very life of each hostage that is the main problem. The Hamas knows that it's applying that pressure on the whole of the Israeli people, and there's not one person Israel who doesn't have at least one day for the hostages, and there's not one soldier now fighting that doesn't have in front of his eyes the image of the hostages, especially the children. And unfortunately, right now, we do not see anything happening. I mean, the latest discussion is about sending medicine in a very intricate, complicated way through Qatar, the Red Cross, to be picked up here, to be given there. And this is taking days and days, just for that, just for medicine. So as we proceed, it seems that still, even though it's not really working right now, still it's the military pressure that is our last option. No other pressure will work. The Hamas doesn't care about the conditions of living of the Ghazan people, all these refugees in the south of Gaza, they might starve, it doesn't move the Hamas in any way. The prisoners that we have in Israeli jails and the number of casualties we inflict on the military branch of the Hamas, that doesn't influence at all the high leaders of the Hamas. They just want to keep kicking, they just want to keep creating havoc in Israel. And so far as they do that, they are satisfied. And there's no leverage from our parts. They have lots of leverage because we are willing by now, and it has been said to the Egyptians, to the Qatari, to the Americans, to apply a long truth to stop not to cease completely the war, but to have a very extended truth two, three weeks, it might be even a month of no warfare, to liberate some prisoners that are in Israeli jails, to increase the humanitarian help into Gaza, all these things, and it's still not working. So it's very, very difficult for us. We have to be strong. We have no choice. We have an enemy who understands that by the time it gives a way to us, the last hostage, it gives us leeway to exterminate him. So of course, they're not going to give these hostages so easily. I don't think they will also not give all the hostages at all, meaning they will keep 30, 40, especially what they considered as the soldiers until the very end, until the bitter end, because they are their life insurance. We know that some of them are now being used in Hanyounis, under Hanyounis, as a human shield for Mr. Sinoir. We know more or less where he is by now, where the bunker is under Hanyounis, but we also know that. We know that he has been surrounded by hostages. We don't know the exact number. And that's the human shield. This is their life insurance. Why would they give it away? Life insurance for Sinoir. Please stay with us, Raphael. We'll be back to you in a few moments. But now, joining us live from the hostage square in Tel Aviv is our I-24 news correspondent, Ariel Osaran. Ariel, today marks 100 days to the brutal kidnapping of 240 hostages. Some have been released. There are still another 136 in captivity, and their time is running out. You're at the square with families of hostages. This is a 24-hour rally protest. What is their main message today? Right, Sivan. So the weekly rally here at Hostage Square in the heart of Tel Aviv last night was a little different, because it didn't end a couple hours after it began, but it continued, and it was still ongoing. As you mentioned, a 24-hour rally in which hostages, released hostages, families of hostages, who are still in our mass captivity, as well as singers and other society leaders, are here with the same cause. Time is running out, and they need to be... All the hostages, all 136, need to be brought back now. And on the stage right now, speaking in the relief hostages, they're bearing very emotional messages, urging the government and the international community to release the hostages. And now, last night, one of the relief hostages, Agam Gonston, I remember she read a message, a letter, that she wrote to her friends that remained in captivity yesterday. Let's take a listen to what she wrote. I am standing here, and now I will tell you the story of the hostages. My friends, what do you think? One of them is the hostages of your community, or the hostages who wanted to go, but they were left alone or left alone. And at the same time, they were left alone in captivity. What does it mean to be left alone in Gaza? And they were left alone in the middle of the night, and they were left alone in the middle of the night. They were left alone in the middle of the night. That was last night, but this morning at 6.30 a.m., that was the exact time where everything began 100 days ago, and that October 7th was the first garage of rockets. So the DJ at the Nova Festival, the party in Kibbutz, just outside there that suffered a significant brunt of the massacre on October 7th. So throughout the evening, or at the morning, the DJ recreated the playlist, and at 6.35 played the exact same track that was playing back then. And all the purpose of all these events are to raise awareness and to reiterate the call, to bring back all the hostages there. Thank you very much, Ariel Oceran. 100 days into the Gaza war and some 80 days into the ground operation, there is a clear understanding there's still a long way to go before Hamas is completely defeated. All right, 24 news. Senior defense correspondent Yonatan Regev looks at what has been achieved thus far and the challenges that are still ahead. For more than a decade, Israel did everything it could in order not to carry out a ground operation in Gaza, despite thousands of rockets fired from the strip during that period. But the terrible events of October 7th left it no choice. I want to pass this along to each and every soldier. We will continue to the end until victory, until Hamas is annihilated. Let there not be any doubt about it. This is the message I want to convey to all soldiers out there. There was no official statement marking the beginning of the ground operation. It began some three weeks after the October 7th attacks. The first stage included a massive advance into the northern Gaza Strip, including Gaza City and the terror enclaves around it, such as the neighborhoods of Jebalia, Sajaiya and Bed Hanun. All three of them in the eastern outskirts of Gaza, very close to the Israeli border. The attack on the Israeli communities of Sderot, Kfar Azayna Haloz, originated here. Weeks of fighting are now meant to ensure it never happens again. At the end of a stubborn and determined battle, we dismantled the military framework of Hamas and Jebalia. Hamas no longer operates in an organized manner in this area. We have deprived them from their main chair of capabilities in this area. Following a week-long ceasefire in late November to facilitate the hostage deal, the second stage began, this time focusing on Gaza's second-largest city, but its biggest terror headquarter. Hanun is in the southern part of the Strip is a central terror base for Hamas. We have expanded our activity there, adding another brigade, and we're continuing to act there with the use of new military tactics above the ground and below. Hanun has been practically taken over as is the case of the refugee camps just to the north. It means that above the ground, the Gaza Strip has been basically conquered, but under the ground, it's a different story. You can see inside here, deep down, a tunnel which was built for the last few months. You can see here the lift, heavy duty lift. You can see the phone there with communication down to the tunnel. There are still plenty of tunnels all across the Strip and Hamas terrorists operate from there. That is why the army acknowledges there is still a long way to go before a decisive victory can be announced. There are still terrorists in Jibalia, however they operate without a framework and without commanders. We have encountered and will continue to encounter sporadic rocket fire from this area. We are deepening our achievements in these areas, but it takes time. There are no shortcuts in fighting terror. This is exactly what Israel was doing for years as thousands of rockets were fired on it. Fixing that damage will be a long and grueling project. And back in studio with us is former senior intelligence officer at the IDF and security analyst, Rafael Erochami. Rafael, we're watching this report by our correspondent and we are indeed, like we said, a hundred days into this war and there's still a long way to go, but what can we say are the things that have been achieved, militarily speaking? A lot has been achieved much more than expected, actually. The north of the Gaza Strip is under our control, even though, as the IDF spokesman said, there might still be small pockets of resistance. We control the north of the Gaza Strip, we are now gaining control of the center of the south. We will continue applying pressure on Hanyounis because we believe the high leaders of the Hamas are hidden under it in the tunnels. Otherwise, we might start a phase of more, if I may call it that, serene fighting in that sense that the new phase of fighting now will see a lot of reservists going home and the troops of the IDF retreating from many areas in the Strip, leaving them empty of military presence and only going back in when needed if there is an intel that indicates that there's something there to strike. Otherwise, the troops will be deployed around the Strip, around the hotspots of the Strip and not sitting inside as is, of course, much more dangerous. There really is the last Taysiator of Operation to tackle and it's a very important one. I mean, even a little surprise we've waited so long to tackle it is Rafar, the border of Gaza with Egypt and the famous Philadelphia Road because this is a very, very strategic point because of the tunnels under it leading into Sinai. It can be used in one way to bring weapons into the Strip and in the other way, of course, for the leaders to escape but probably to escape with the hostages, Israeli hostages. So this is something that has to be tackled. There are diplomatic problems about it because the Egyptians, they claim that they have sovereignty over this part of the border. We've told them that we will act anyway. We did control this border and this Philadelphia axis until 2005 when we decided to leave the Gaza Strip so we can take control again. It's very important. So far, we are now going entering, generally speaking, apart from Hanyunas, a phase that will last for weeks and months and the Israeli public will have to brace itself and you'll have to be patient and keep our cool because this mission, what we want to achieve is achievable but only achievable if we take our time and it will take a long time because we have really to dismantle a huge military force of still thousands of warriors on the Hamas side but also after that, we also have to dismantle the political and civilian grip that the Hamas has on the Gaza Strip, meaning tens of thousands of civil servants, Hamas supporters who are so many of them occupy key positions in Gaza that control the life, whether it's electricity whether it's hospitals of Gaza. So this cannot be achieved in two minutes. We're going to have to brace ourselves and be strong and patient. Certainly a lot more to do. Let's talk about the Philadelphia corridor a little bit more according to the Wall Street Journal. Israel has notified Egypt it's preparing to operate along the Philadelphia corridor on the border between Egypt and Gaza which could potentially create tensions between Egypt and Israel and we know Netanyahu is saying that we'll have to solve this issue one way or another before the end of the war. So what does that mean solve this issue? Solve this issue is regain control of what is going on above and under the ground in Rafi'ah city and along the Philadelphia road which is 14 kilometers long that's such a huge problem but you have to ensure complete control because one tunnel is enough for Mr. Sinouar for instance to escape to Sinai. So the problem is with the Egyptians on the one that they're not really doing the job. Would they do the job? We wouldn't have to do it. They do have patrols. They do have like a kind of checking of this road and border but it's far from enough. So we just offer to do it ourselves. The Egyptians are not very grateful because over the years since the signing of the peace agreement with Egypt there is a rule that's specified that in Sinai Egyptian troops can only be deployed at a certain level and above that they have to ask permission from Israel and Israel has given, I've been in that job myself so dozens of time permission to the Egyptians to increase the military presence in Sinai in order for them to fight and they haven't succeeded over so many years when you see how long it takes to fight terrorism. Over all these years the Egyptians haven't managed to suppress the terrorist threat in Sinai and there are training camps and many different factions including Al-Qaeda operating in Sinai and these ways have always been very lenient with a number of troops deployed, Egyptian troops deployed there in spite of the agreement. We even held them with intel and with drones surveying the area. So I think they should be a little more grateful especially that they're washing in the hands of Gaza I mean if there's one thing we know about the day now and the day after is that Egyptians want nothing to do with Gaza at all they're not interested, they don't want Gazans to come as refugees to Egypt they don't want to be involved in the security inside Gaza, they don't want to do anything so let us at least do our job and do this because as I said this border with Egypt is extremely critical from the military point of view from the political point of view and really it could be the last stronghold of the Hamas the Hamas has been pushed south more and more to the south and the last possible stand they can have and stronghold they could hold is Rafiq. Now you say let Israel take care of this and when you say take care of this what do you mean how to take care of it? I've heard about an underground kind of wall. Exactly, there are many solutions that have been taken into account first of all it will be detecting and destroying any tunnel that might still be there that's the priority, once this is done one of the options is to build a wall the flooding has been considered and the Egyptians have flooded tunnels in the past in that area so flooding is considered building a wall a very deep wall and above like a sophisticated fence to prevent smuggling from Sinai into Gaza and weapons etc. coming into Gaza of course a military presence the Israelis have even offered the Egyptian joint patrols meaning that Egyptian and Israeli soldiers would patrol together either south or north of that border the Egyptians also refused that offer so many of the options are on the table it will also depend like everything actually in this war as we've seen so far it will depend on how we advance and what the situation is like at the moment that we feel we are in control that's when you decide a lot have been improvised or decided as we were moving since we started this war there was a specific plan but that on the ground, the reality on the ground imposed all kinds of changes in the plan so that's why all these options are on the table and according to the military fight that will lead there the result of it we're going to pound first of all from the air as before we're going to pound from the air or the artillery which is much more complicated because right now it's a very populated area we're going to apply the military pressure but we do not know what the result will be at the end according to the result we get at the end the way it looks one of these options will be adopted or all of them meaning patrols and a wall and everything it all depends on the final situation are there still pockets of resistance are we really totally in control et cetera Thank you very much for your important input that's all for this edition of I-24 News we have rolling coverage providing you with the latest from Israel we'll be back at the top of the hour for more news and updates be sure to follow us on our website I-24News.tv and across our social media platforms I'm Sivan Raviv, thank you for watching it's been 100 days since the trauma that rocked Israel more than 1200 dead more than 5000 wounded over 160,000 displaced join I-24 News for our special coverage on January 14th marking 100 days since the massacre of October 7th follow us on the border with Gaza for first-hand accounts of eyewitnesses, survivors and fighters 100 days of war January 14th 9 p.m. local only on I-24 News days since the trauma that rocked Israel more than 1200 dead more than 5000 wounded over 160,000 displaced join I-24 News for our special coverage on January 14th marking 100 days since the massacre of October 7th follow us on the border with Gaza for first-hand accounts of eyewitnesses, survivors and fighters 100 days of war January 14th 9 p.m. local only on I-24 News story to the world I-24 News channels 24 news I'm Sivan Raviv and these are the latest developments coming to you live from Tel Aviv today marks 100 days to the October 7th massacre 100 days of Israel's war with Hamas 100 days for 136 remaining hostages who are still in Hamas captivity 17 women, some as young as 18 years old 2 children, 94 men, 15 elderly some over the age of 80 years old and 8 foreigners many of these hostages are wounded some might have been sexually abused according to released hostage testimonies all have not been seen by the Red Cross thus far 24 were murdered and their bodies are held by Hamas 100 days into this horrendous hostage situation and time is running out as reports say hostage lives are now at serious risk over the weekend the IDF announced the death of 21-year-old Sergeant Major in Reserves Andualem Kaveda from Piratgat who was killed fighting in southern Gaza yesterday he's the 188th soldier killed in the IDF's ground offensive in Gaza a terrorist cell crossed into Israeli territory from Lebanon overnight and fired a patrolling IDF soldiers in the Hadov area the soldiers responded and the four terrorists were killed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last night that 100 days into the fighting the goals must be achieved and so the fighting will continue take a listen 100 days of war 100 days since the terrible day when our citizens were murdered and abducted we are continuing the war until the end until complete victory until we achieve all our goals eliminating Hamas, returning all our hostages and assuring that Gaza never again poses a threat to Israel we will regain security both in the south and the north no one will stop us not the Hague, not the Axis of Evil and not anyone else something has changed in the history of our people our Semitism is the same but the stature of the Jewish people has changed completely for today we have a state we have an army we have the power to defend ourselves and we have heroic soldiers protecting our people joining us now is Director of Diplomacy at Hostage and Missing Families Forum and former Israeli Ambassador to France, Daniel Sheik thank you for coming in Daniel it's 100 days into Hostage captivity into this whole war since October 7th today marks 24 hours of rallying protests at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv where families of hostages are calling out there is no more time what can be done looking forward? first of all I have to tell you that when I first walked into the premises of this amazing civil society mobilization organization called the Forum of Families that was I believe on the 11th of October together with many hundreds of other volunteers from different professional disciplines I don't think that any one of us thought that we'd be marking the 100th day with certain successes clearly over 100 hostages were freed but there are still 136 people which you detailed that are still in captivity so from our point of view it's very simple there's only one way to get them back and that is by a deal the numbers are cruelly clear over 100 people were freed through a negotiation just one was freed by a military operation and unfortunately others were killed during attempts to free them so I think the things are clear there has to be pressure to renew the negotiations seriously for as big, as large, as vast a deal as possible it might not be possible to do it in just all at once but you have to try and get a large chunk of people out of Gaza very soon and I think this 100th day I can't use the word celebration but the marking of the 100th day shows also the degree of solidarity in Israeli society and not just Israeli society all around the world there will be events today marking this sad day and in Israel in particular now I interview a lot of analysts about this hostage crisis and some say that it's only via military pressure that Israel will be able to somehow apply the pressure to enable the rescue of hostages and yet others such as yourself right now say no, it's only through diplomacy through negotiation, through a deal so which one is it? it's both nobody contests the importance of the military operations and the impact that they might have on the positions of Hamas and the willingness of Hamas to negotiate but it's not black and white and it's a question of dosage so yes, military operations have to continue but that doesn't mean that you neglect the efforts for negotiation so we keep hearing that there is no serious proposition there's no serious deal on the table from Hamas well maybe Israel should again and again and again put offers on the table try and kickstart these negotiations continue to pressure all the countries involved the United States and other allies to pressure Qatar, to pressure Hamas this is a game of billiards since we don't have direct negotiations with Hamas that is I think the expectation of the families probably the most important part of the events on hostage square all through these 24 hours starting yesterday night and ending tonight at 8 are the testimonies to listen to the testimonies both of the families of hostages still there and of the freed hostages there's nothing more powerful and more convincing than listening to these people and the families of these hostages are literally not able to breathe 100 days into this captivity please stay with us, we'll be back to discuss more but now joining us live from the hostage square in Tel Aviv with 24 news correspondent Ariel Osaran Ariel today marks 100 days the brutal kidnapping of 240 hostages some we know have been released there are still another 136 in captivity and their time as we've said is running out what can you tell us about what's happening at the square right Sivan so this is the 14th hour of the 24 hour rally here at hostage square in Tel Aviv with one soul and simple message to bring all the hostages back home now and throughout these past 14 hours we've heard speeches of released hostages of family members of hostages of political leaders we just heard a speech by Rafiq Khalabi the local council head of Dalit al-Karmel one of his largest Druze communities and that's just an indication to show how all of Israeli society is united behind this call to bring back the hostages now in addition you hear now songs throughout the event and let's take a listen to what we heard yesterday from one of the released hostages in an open letter she wrote to many of her friends who remain in captivity let's take a listen now hours after that this morning at 6.30 am the moment the same exact minute that the October 7th attack began with a barrage of rockets so one of the main sites of that horrific day was the Nova Music Festival so the DJ from that event recreated the playlist played it here and at exactly 6.30 played the exact song that was played at that party at that festival that 40 people were taken hostage from that party now the peak of the event today was going to be just under two hours at 11 am with a hundred minutes strike across the country in multiple businesses schools and government institutions all this to take part in the call that originates here but reverberates across the country and across the world with the call again to bring all the hostages back home now a general strike across Israel today thank you very much Israel's most momentous war in over 50 years was bound to affect how the country is seen as billions of people around the world pay attention and form opinions that could last a lifetime senior diplomatic correspondent Owen Alterman takes a look at the trajectory of the last 100 days and at what the coming months could bring take a look once upon a time back in October the Israeli flag lit up the arch of Titus a picture rich with resonance the arch built to celebrate ancient Rome's conquest of Jerusalem bearing the blue and white Jewish state three days after October 7th but by late October Israel's supporters were not alone at the monuments of Rome as more and more the Palestinian flag started to dominate the streets of Europe and the United States we are here because it's time to take a clear stand on the side of Palestinians to stop the massacre of people in Gaza the trajectory of the war should not be overstated there were pro-Palestinian protests in October there are pro-Israel protests now and most Americans at least have not changed their minds on the other hand polling does suggest a shift that Israel has lost some ground in western public opinion especially among the young especially in the United States we're taking Brooklyn Bridge where we are now Williamsburg Bridge, Manhattan Bridge and the Harlem Tuttle in solidarity with Palestine and against the war in Gaza western governments have felt the pressure French President Emmanuel Macron backing a full-on ceasefire the Biden administration changing tone if not always substance and of course in the Arab world where once again mass protests have challenged the government in Amman and potential dissent has at least upped the price of normalization for the rulers in Riyadh we affirm that Gaza is not alone and we affirm our standing by the Palestinian people and in loyalty to the martyrs and leaders and now the pictures from Gaza may well start to fade Donald Trump is campaigning Ukraine is still fighting and voters from Taiwan to South Africa to India are heading to the polls while Israel and its advocates start the long slog to do what's possible to rebuild support and back in studio with us as Director of Diplomacy at Hostage and Missing Families Forum and former Israeli Ambassador to France Danielle Sheik so we're seeing these images, this video of voices around the world where are the voices for the hostages? Last night we saw President Emmanuel Macron voice he made a video where he said that he will do everything that he can to help release the hostages as we all know there are some French citizens among those hostages but where are the other leaders where is the international community? Well to be honest it's not that they are completely missing there are many allies that are doing amazing stuff first and foremost the US administration clearly and the American people we should never stop mentioning and with recognition the degree of involvement of the US administration and of President Biden personally in defense of Israel from the very beginning be it militarily diplomatically and also on the issue of the hostages they are a very important player in every negotiation that has and will take place for their liberation and there are many other leaders Chancellor Schultz German government and many others not enough of course not it's never enough and it's not enough because in the bottom line there are still 136 people detained in Gaza and public opinion also it's a little bit complicated because it's true obviously what Owen just showed in his report there are mass demonstrations and the media are often critical of Israel but often polls show that the mainstream public opinion in many of these countries still shows solidarity with Israel and understands the need of this war so it's a complex it's a complex image I'll say just one thing that on this 100th day we've felt a lot of solidarity you mentioned President Macron who agreed to show his solidarity in a video the American ambassador was there yesterday other ambassadors are still to come and other messages are still to come I don't think that the families feel that they are alone and I have to say one thing the fact that after 100 days and I don't have to teach you the fast movement of the news cycle the fact that after 100 days in many many countries in the world the issue of the hostages is still present in the media doesn't happen spontaneously there are a lot of people both in government but also in our forum there's a huge press division very creative people who every day think of a new angle a new person, a new event something to attract the attention of the media so that we don't let the story die okay let's talk about the medication there is currently a deal underway for certain medication to be handed over to hostages this is brokered through Qatar and in exchange Israel will allow more aid more meds into Gaza as well to the hands of Hamas, to the hands of civilians that's yet to be we have yet to find out but how likely is this to go through and how can we actually make sure that the hostages indeed get their medication well that's the problem I can tell you without breaking too much secrecy that the negotiations for this have been going on for weeks many weeks through the Red Cross through Qatar through many organizations official and unofficial, mostly unofficial and we're close, I mean there is a deal underway and I'm very hopeful that it will help because the next most important target to hit beyond obviously the liberation of all 136 hostages is this it's the medical access and if it's not medical access by the Red Cross because that we won't have most probably the Red Cross will not be the Red Cross personnel will not be the people who will actually deliver to the individual hostages their medication but it will be through Hamas but it's as close as we can get to medical access it's to you have to understand we're not talking about aspirin and you know quality of life medication we're talking about medication for people who if they are denied that medication are in life threatening condition we have insulin injections we have glucometers we have medication for diabetes we have serious illnesses for chronic diseases as a matter of fact the medical division of the forum after the first week after October 7th had already compiled a very detailed list of the medical needs of each and every one of the hostages through medical records discussions with the families etc so the the data is here for a long time and I truly hope that it's going to reach the people when I'll see it I'll believe it we will believe it once we see it there are several of those hostages who were shot, who were wounded there are elderly over the age of 80 who rely on these types of medication thank you very much Daniel Sheik the Kibbutz movement is a socialist society which became an Israeli symbol in the early days of the country but declined over time our I-24 news correspondent Uri Shapirope to visit to Kibbutz Baeri and met one of its members Dr. Alon Pauker a historian who researched the history of this movement he also discussed October 7th and how this traumatic event will likely affect Baeri and the Kibbutz movement at large let's take a look few other people can currently be identified more with the word Kibbutz than Dr. Alon Pauker he is a historian who researched the history of this unique Israeli socialist phenomenon he's also a member of Kibbutz Baeri the son of one of the founders two of the main sites which were attacked in the Hamas onslaught on October 7 we know everybody I mean 94 members and children and all people from our eldest from our community were murdered I know them all think about the 9-11 in the United States nobody knows 94 of the people that were killed they managed to survive since the terrorist didn't attack his home but he's still broken at the devastation of Baeri nonetheless he sees this event as a turning point which may change the image of the Kibbutz movement among Israelis the government in the 19th decided that there is no need to build any more rural settlements and now are we old at this point of settlement until all the feminists will be able to come back maybe we have to do a semi army soldiers like it was we call it in Hebrew the history of the Kibbutz movement goes back to the early 20th century Jewish pioneers who fled the pogroms in Eastern Europe came to the land of Israel with a revolutionary idea a socialist village where everyone is equal no private income or possession and most of the decisions are taken by all members this utopian society flourished in the years to come people all over the world came to see how pure socialism was accomplished in the land of Israel but Dr. Pauker says that the independence of Israel in 1948 also worked against the Kibbutz movement Kibbutz Baeri is one of the 11 point operation and it was the biggest operation until the establishment of the state of Israel after the establishment of the state of Israel you don't need basically pioneering because you have the state bureaucracy beginning in the 1960s people from all over the world came to Israel to volunteer at Kibbutz even celebrities like Italian actress Sofia Lorraine paid a visit Pauker says that the 1977 elections which brought the right-wing liquid party under Menachem Begging to power was one of the turning points when the Kibbutz became less popular and started to fade the Kibbutz started to be like a target for everybody to be against them they don't work the ground and make agriculture and cultivate the desert no, they stole or like they took the ground other developments such as internal conflicts and international events like the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s led to the decline of the Kibbutz movement today only 10% of the Kibbutz remain collective communities and other features such as the collective children's house have completely disappeared ironically, most of the Kibbutz which kept their collective nature remained wealthy but October 7 returned the Kibbutz movement to the headlines in Israel and worldwide community and equal community or a collective community double the meaning of community I mean we are not better than the people of Akim from the towns, from the road but when you see them in the hotels they are not communities everyone stand among this disaster a terrible event they stand alone and we have the power of the togetherness Dr. Parker also thinks the coronavirus pandemic was a turning point in the way people see what he defines as renewal Kibbutzim a new type of semi-collective community which has some elements of privatization I have a paper about it in the Kibbutz newspaper that they wrote the Kibbutz movement is finished the renewal Kibbutzim will be just a point in the way of being a totally regular settlement and so again especially after the COVID-19 crisis that this soft social democrat way of life is working as we walk in the broken Kibbutz we see some of the sites which became symbols of this horrific attack such as the house of the Bachar family where two members were murdered this place called the Founder's House is the local club where members of the Kibbutz gather and celebrate special events the night before October 7 residents of Berry marked 77 years since the foundation of the Kibbutz among the participants was Ronnie Levy who died in the Hamas onslaught anniversary celebration of 7-7 anniversary of Berry from 46 to 2023 to celebrate what was childhood in the Kibbutz there were songs and stories and we went to sleep at night so proud about what we are and then wake on the morning to this disaster walking inside the rubble raises questions about the future of Kibbutz Berry and its ability to rebuild this beautiful site other questions on the table are how to commemorate the tragedy of October 7 and we can get help and we can have discussions with other we don't know everything but the decision it's of Berry members the decision who will live here we had some clues about ok we will bring others to live here or something like that Kibbutz Berry belongs to its members and the members will decide and we didn't have yet this discussion Kibbutz Berry became one of the strongest icons of October 7 and remains a symbol for the many tragedies and loss but also of the resilience and strength of its members Kibbutz is now walking on a permanent residency for its community it is still too soon to see the long-term impact of October 7 on the Kibbutz movement but there is no doubt that those events will change the course of its history forever that's all for this edition of i24 news we'll be back at the top of the hour for more news and updates thank you for watching today marks 100 days to the October 7th massacre 100 days of Israel's war with Hamas 100 days for 136 remaining hostages who are still in Hamas captivity 17 women, some as young as 18 years old 2 children, 94 men 15 elderly, some over the age of 80 years old and 8 foreigners many of these hostages are wounded some might have been sexually abused some might have been sexually abused some might have been sexually abused some might have been sexually abused some might have been sexually abused some might have been sexually abused according to released hostage testimonies all have not been seen by the Red Cross thus far 24 were murdered and their bodies are held by Hamas 100 days into this horrendous hostage situation and time is running out as reports say hostage lives are now at serious risk over the weekend the IDF announced the death of 21-year-old sergeant major in reserves Andualem Cabeda from Kyriat Gat who was killed fighting Hamas yesterday he's the 188th soldier killed in the IDF's ground offensive in Gaza a terrorist cell crossed into Israeli territory from Lebanon overnight and fired at patrolling IDF soldiers in the hard-of-area the soldiers responded and the four terrorists were killed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last night that 100 days into the fighting the goals must be achieved and so the fighting will continue take a listen 100 days of war 100 days since the terrible day when our citizens were murdered and abducted we are continuing the war until the end until complete victory until we achieve all our goals eliminating Hamas returning all our hostages and assuring that Gaza never again poses a threat to Israel we will regain security both in the south and the north no one will stop us and not anyone else something has changed in the history of our people the anti-Semitism is the same but the stature of the Jewish people has changed completely for today we have a state we have an army we have the power to defend ourselves and we have heroic soldiers protecting our people joining us now is Director of Diplomacy at Hostage and Missing Families Forum and former Israeli Ambassador to France thank you for coming in Daniel it's 100 days into hostage captivity into this whole war since October 7 today marks 24 hours of rallying protests at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv where families of hostages are calling out there is no more time what can be done looking forward first of all I have to tell you that when I first walked into the premises of this amazing civil society mobilization organization called the Forum of Families that was I believe on the 11th of October together with many hundreds of other volunteers from different professional disciplines I don't think that any one of us thought that we'd be marking the 100th day with certain successes clearly over 100 hostages were freed but there are still 136 people which you which you detailed that are still in captivity so from our point of view it's very simple there's only one way to get them back and that is by a deal the numbers are cruelly clear over 100 people were freed through a negotiation was freed by a military operation and unfortunately others were killed during attempts to free them so I think the things are clear there has to be pressure to renew the negotiations seriously for as big, as large as vast a deal is possible might not be possible to do it in you know just once but you have to try and get a large chunk of people out of Gaza very soon and I think this 100th day I can't use the word celebration but the marking of the 100th day shows also the degree of solidarity in Israeli society and not just Israeli society all around the world there will be events today marking this sad day and in Israel in particular now I interview a lot of analysts about this hostage crisis and some say that it's only via military pressure that Israel will be able to somehow apply the pressure to enable the rescue of hostages and yet others such as yourself right now say no it's only through diplomacy, through negotiation through a deal so which one is it both nobody contests the importance of the military operations and the impact that they might have on the positions of Hamas and the willingness of Hamas to negotiate but it's not black and white and it's a question of dosage so yes military operations have to continue but that doesn't mean that you neglect the efforts for negotiation we keep hearing that there is no serious proposition, there's no serious deal on the table from Hamas well maybe Israel should again and again and again put offers on the table try and kickstart these negotiations, continue to pressure all the countries involved the United States and other allies to pressure Qatar, to pressure Hamas, this is a game of billiards since we don't have direct negotiations with Hamas that is I think the expectation of the families probably the most important part of the events on Hostage Square all through these 24 hours starting yesterday night and ending tonight at 8 are the testimonies to listen to the testimonies both of the families of hostages still there and of the freed hostages there's nothing more powerful and more convincing than listening to these people and the families of these hostages are literally not able to breathe 100 days into this captivity please stay with us, we'll be back to discuss more but now joining us live from the Hostage Square in Tel Aviv is our I-24 news correspondent Ariel Oceran Ariel today marks 100 days the brutal kidnapping of 240 hostages some we know have been released there are still another 136 in captivity and their time as we've said is running out what can you tell us about what's happening at the square right Sivan, so this is the 14th hour of the 24 hour rally here at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv with one simple message to bring all the hostages back home now and throughout these past 14 hours we've heard speeches of released hostages of family members of hostages of political leaders we just heard a speech by Rafiq Khalabi the local council head of Dalit al-Karmel one of Israel's largest Druze communities and that's just an indication to show how all of Israeli society is united behind this call to bring back the hostages now in addition you hear now songs throughout the event and let's take a listen to what we heard yesterday from one of the released hostages a Gam Golsten Almog in an open letter she wrote to many of her friends who remain in captivity let's take a listen now now hours after that this morning at 6.30 the moment the same exact minute that the October 7 attack began with a barrage of rockets so one of the main sites of that horrific day was the Nova Music Festival so the DJ from that event recreated the playlist played it here and at exactly 6.30 played the exact song that was played at that party that festival that 40 people were taking hostage from that party now the peak of the event today was going to be in just under two hours at 11am with a hundred minutes strike across the country in multiple businesses schools and government institutions all this to take part in the call that originates here but reverberates across the country and across the world with the call again to bring all the hostages back home now a general strike across Israel today thank you very much Israel's most momentous war in over 50 years was bound to affect how the country is seen as billions of people around the world pay attention and form opinions that could last a lifetime when alterman takes a look at the trajectory of the last 100 days and at what the coming months could bring take a look once upon a time back in October the Israeli flag lit up the arch of Titus a picture rich with resonance the arch built to celebrate ancient Rome's conquest of Jerusalem bearing the blue and white in solidarity with the Jewish state three days after October 7th but by late October Israel supporters were not alone at the monuments of Rome as more and more the Palestinian flag started to dominate the streets of Europe and the United States we are here because it's time to take a clear stand on the side of Palestinians to stop the massacre of people in Gaza the trajectory of the war should not be overstated there were pro-Palestinian protests in October there are pro-Israel pro-Israel protests now and most Americans at least have not changed their minds on the other hand polling does suggest a shift that Israel has lost some ground in western public opinion especially among the young especially in the united states we're taking Brooklyn Bridge where we are now Williamsburg Bridge, Manhattan Bridge and the Harlem Tuttle in solidarity with Palestine Western governments have felt the pressure French President Emmanuel Macron backing a full-on ceasefire the Biden administration changing tone if not always substance and of course in the Arab world where once again mass protests have challenged the government in Amman and potential dissent has at least upped the price of normalization for the rulers in Riyadh we affirm that Gaza is not alone and we affirm our standing for Palestinian people and in loyalty to the martyrs and leaders and now the pictures from Gaza may well start to fade Donald Trump is campaigning Ukraine is still fighting and voters from Taiwan to South Africa to India are heading to the polls while Israel and its advocates start the long slog to do what's possible to rebuild support and back in studio with us is director of diplomacy at hostage ambassador to France so we're seeing these images this video of voices around the world where are the voices for the hostages last night we saw president Emmanuel Macron voice he made a video where he said that he will do everything that he can to help release the hostages as we all know there are some French citizens among those hostages where are the other leaders where is the international community well to be honest it's not that they are completely missing there are many allies that are doing amazing stuff first and foremost the US administration clearly and the American people we should never stop mentioning and with recognition the degree of involvement of the US administration president Biden personally in defense of Israel from the very beginning be it militarily diplomatically and also on the issue of the hostages they are a very very important player in every negotiation that has and will take place for their liberation and there are many other leaders chancellor Schultz and the German government and many others not enough of course not it's never enough and it's not enough because in the bottom line there are still 136 people detained in Gaza and public opinion also it's a little bit complicated because it's true obviously what Owen just showed in his report there are mass demonstrations and the media are often critical of Israel but often polls show that the mainstream public opinion in many of these countries is still shows solidarity with Israel and understands the need of this war so it's a complex it's a complex image I'll say just one thing that on this 100th day we've felt a lot of solidarity you mentioned President Macron who agreed to show his solidarity in a video the American ambassador was there yesterday other ambassadors are still to come and other messages are still to come I don't think that the families feel that they are alone and I have to say one thing the fact that after 100 days and I don't have to teach you the the fast movement of the news cycle the fact that after 100 days in many many countries in the world the issue of the hostages is still present in the media doesn't happen spontaneously there are a lot of people both in government but also in our forum there's a huge press division very creative people who every day think of a new angle a new person a new event something to attract the attention of the media so that we don't let the story die okay let's talk about the medication there is currently a deal underway for certain medication to be handed over to hostages this is brokered through Qatar and in exchange Israel will allow more aid more meds into Gaza as well to the hands of Hamas to the hands of civilians that's yet to be we have yet to find out but how likely is this to go through and how can we actually make sure that the hostages indeed get their medication well that's the problem I can tell you without breaking too much secrecy that the negotiations for this have been going on for weeks many weeks through the Red Cross through Qatar through many organizations official and unofficial mostly unofficial and we're close I mean there is a deal underway and I'm very hopeful that it will help because the next most important target to hit beyond obviously the liberation of all 136 hostages is this it's the medical access and if it's not medical access by the Red Cross because that we won't have most probably the Red Cross will not be the Red Cross personnel will not be the people who will actually deliver to the individual hostages their medication but it will be through Hamas but it's as close as we can get to medical access it's to you have to understand we're not talking about aspirin and you know quality of life medication we're talking about medication for people who if they are denied that medication are in life-threatening condition we have insulin injections we have glucometers we have medication for diabetes we have serious illnesses for chronic diseases as a matter of fact the medical division of the forum after the first week of after October 7th we held a very detailed list of the medical needs of each and every one of the hostages through medical records discussions with the families etc so the the data is here for a long time and I truly hope that it's going to reach the people when I'll see it I'll believe it we will believe it once we see it and I just want to remind that there are several of those hostages who were shot who were wounded and who rely on these types of medication thank you very much the kibbutz movement is a socialist society which became an Israeli symbol in the early days of the country but declined over time our i-24 news correspondent Uri Shapiro paid a visit to kibbutz Baeri and met one of its members Dr. Alon Pauker a historian who focuses on the history of this movement he also discussed October 7th and how this traumatic event and the kibbutz movement at large let's take a look few other people can currently be identified more with the word kibbutz than Dr. Alon Pauker he is a historian who researched the history of this unique Israeli socialist phenomenon he is also a member of kibbutz Baeri the son of one of the founders of kibbutz near Oz two of the main sites which were attacked in the Hamas onslaught October 7th we know everybody 94 members and children and all people from our eldest from our community were murdered I know them all think about the 9-11 in the United States nobody knows 94 of the people that were killed Pauker himself managed to survive since the terrorist didn't attack his home he is still broken at the devastation of Baeri nonetheless he sees this event as a turning point which may change the image of the kibbutz movement among Israelis the government in the 19th decided that there is no need to build any more rural settlements and now are we old these points of settlement until all the families will be able to come back maybe we have to do a semi-arm soldiers like it was we call it in Hebrew the history of the kibbutz movement goes back to the early 20th century Jewish pioneers who fled the pogroms in Eastern Europe came to the land of Israel with a revolutionary idea a socialist village where everyone is equal there is no private income or possession these utopian society flourished in the years to come people all over the world came to see how pure socialism was accomplished in the land of Israel but Dr. Pauker says that the independence of Israel in 1948 also worked against the kibbutz movement kibbutz is one of the 11 point operation and it was the biggest operation of the Zionist movement until the establishment of the state of Israel you don't need basically pioneering because you have the state bureaucracy beginning in the 1960s people from all over the world came to Israel to volunteer at kibbutz even celebrities like Italian actress Sofia Lorraine paid a visit Pauker says that the 1977 elections which brought the right-wing liquid party under Menachem Beggin to power was one of the turning points when the kibbutz became less popular and started to fade the kibbutz started to be like a target for everybody to be against them they don't work the ground and make agriculture and cultivate the desert they stole or took the ground other developments such as internal conflicts and international events like the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s the Kibbutz movement today only 10% of the kibbutz remained collective communities and other features such as the collective children's house have completely disappeared ironically most of the kibbutz which kept their collective nature remained wealthy there is one of them but October 7 returned the kibbutz movement to the headlines in Israel and worldwide it's one word, community double the meaning of community I mean we are not better than the people from from the towns, from the road but when you see them in the hotels they are not communities everyone stand among this disaster terrible event, they stand alone and we have the power of the togetherness Dr. Parker also thinks the coronavirus pandemic was a turning point in the way that people see what he defines as renewal kibbutzim a new type of semi-collective community which has some elements of privatization I have a paper about it in the kibbutz a newspaper that they wrote the kibbutz movement is finished totally, that the renewal kibbutzim will be just pointing the way of being a totally regular settlement and then so again especially after the COVID-19 crisis that this soft social democrat way of life is working as we walk in the broken kibbutz we see some of the sites which became symbols of this horrific attack such as the house of the Bachar family where two members were murdered this place called the Founder's House is the local club where members of the kibbutz gather and celebrate special events the night before October 7 residents of Bayeri marked 77 years since the foundation of the kibbutz among the participants was Roni Levy who died in the Hamas onslaught anniversary celebration of 77 anniversary of Bayeri from 46 to 2023 to celebrate what was childhood in the kibbutz there were songs and stories and we went to sleep at night so proud about what we are and then wake up in the morning to this disaster walking inside the rubble raises questions about the future of kibbutz Bayeri and its ability to rebuild this beautiful site other questions on the table are how to commemorate the tragedy of October 7 and we can get help and we can have discussions with other we don't know everything but the decisions it's of very members who will live here we had some clues about we will bring others to live here or something like that kibbutz Bayeri belongs to its members and the members will decide and we didn't have this discussion kibbutz Bayeri became one of the strongest icons of October 7 and remains a symbol not just for the many tragedies and loss but also of the resilience of its members the kibbutz is now walking on a permanent residency for its community it is still too soon to see the long-term impact of October 7 on the kibbutz movement but there is no doubt that those events will change the course of its history forever that's all for this edition of i24 news we'll be back at the top of the hour for more news and updates I'm Steve Anuraviv, thank you for watching Israel, more than 1200 dead more than 5000 wounded over 160 thousand displaced, join i24 news for our special coverage on January 14 marking 100 days since the massacre of October 7 follow us on the border with Gaza for first-hand accounts of eye witnesses, survivors and fighters, 100 days of war January 14 9 p.m. local, only on i24 news i24 news i24 news i24 news i'm Steve Anuraviv and these are the latest developments coming to you live from Tel Aviv to the news i24 news i24 news i24 news i24 news i24 news i24 news i24 news i24 news i24 news i24 news i24 news i24 news i24 news i24 news i24 news i24 news i24 news i24 news i24 news i24 news i24 news hostage testimonies all have not been seen by the Red Cross thus far. 24 were murdered and their bodies are held by Hamas 100 days into this horrendous hostage situation and time is running out. As reports say, hostage lives are now at serious risk. Over the weekend the IDF announced the death of 21 year old Sergeant Major in Reserves Anduale M. Cabeda from Kiryat Gat who was killed fighting in the Southern Gaza Strip. He is the 188th soldier killed in the IDF's ground offensive in Gaza. A terrorist cell crossed into Israeli territory from Lebanon overnight and fired at patrolling IDF soldiers in the Haldov area. The soldiers responded and the four terrorists were killed. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last night that 100 days into the fighting the goals must be achieved and so the fighting will continue. Take a listen. 100 days of war, 100 days since the terrible day when our citizens were murdered and abducted. We are continuing the war until the end, until complete victory, until we achieve all our goals, eliminating Hamas, returning all our hostages, and assuring that Gaza never again poses a threat to Israel. We will regain security both in the south and the north. No one will stop us, not the Hague, not the Axis of Evil, and not anyone else. Something has changed in the history of our people. The anti-Semitism is the same, but the stature of the Jewish people has changed completely. For today we have a state, we have an army, we have the power to defend ourselves, and we have heroic soldiers protecting our people. And joining us in studios Lieutenant Colonel in Reserves Dr. Shai Haltz, a senior fellow at the Institute for Policy and Strategy at Reichman University, and former Acting Director General at Ministry of Strategic Affairs, thank you for coming in, good morning. So we are 100 days into this fiasco. Where are we heading, where are we heading with this? And have the goals been achieved, can they be achieved? So far the goals have not been achieved, it's not a secret of course. And actually we are facing, we have three main goals. First to bring back all the hostages ASAP, second to eliminate Hamas, and third, it's also very important to bring back the security in the north, to allow all the citizens to go back to their homes. But there is a difference regarding the timeline. What I mean, there are a few clocks that are actually operating against us. The most important one is the same clock of the hostages, because it is running out of time. By nature, same clock is running out of time, and they don't have any more time. We cannot reach the 200 days and hope that they will be released. We must release them now, alive. This is very important, bring them home alive, because the state abandoned them on the 7th of October, on the horrible Saturday. So this is our obligation, our duty, our moral duty to bring them back. Regarding the second goal, to eliminate Hamas, so we have time. We can do it in a month, in two, in three months, in four months, we can do it. So there is a difference regarding the clocks. So this is why I'm saying there is no contradiction between those two goals. We must bring back the hostages, then continue with the goal to eliminate Hamas, furthermore. We cannot finish the war without actually achieving those two goals, because it will be a strategic defeat, even a strategic defeat from our point of view, not bringing them back and actually allow Hamas to stay in Gaza after the war, and as I said before, the third goal in the north. So I do believe that if I may say, at the first stage, bringing back the hostages, eliminate Hamas, and then make sure that the citizens in the north can go back home after we make some kind of a regiment, a political arrangement, or by using force, forcing the Red One forces to withdraw north of the Litani. So you're saying prioritize the hostage situation and then take care of Hamas. No doubt about it, no doubt. Many will disagree that you shouldn't postpone taking care of Hamas to later. This is something that is vital. This is something that is very important to be doing right now, as we speak, and they are doing. The IDF is doing it all the time. But you're saying that there needs to be a prioritization. Of course, because I'm not sure. Unfortunately, I'm not sure that the hostages have the time to wait. Absolutely. We heard all the testimonies or all about the hostages that came back a few weeks ago, what they are describing, what they've gone through when they were in Gaza. I'm not sure, absolutely, unfortunately, I'm quite sure they don't have another 100 days. So I'm sure that from my point of view, the Israeli government must prioritize between those two goals. And as I said, we can eliminate Hamas in a month, two or three months. We can do it. We're not going anywhere. Okay, Dr. Shai Haltzvi, please stay with us. We'll be back in a minute. But our I-24 news correspondent, Ariel Orseran, is at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv and has this report. Take a look. A hundred days in Hamas captivity being marked with events across the country and around the world. But the main event here in Tel Aviv's Hostage Square with a 24-hour rally that began last night at 8 p.m., showcasing released hostages, families of hostages and victims of that horrific October 7th, as well as social leaders, singers, as you can hear, being sung right now live performance to the attendees here. Now all the while, all sharing the same call to bring back the hostages home and to bring them back now. We've also seen video messages being sent in, for instance, from Gal Gadot and Hollywood or U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer all reiterating that call, a hundred days since the captivity began, 136 Israelis remain in captivity. Now throughout the event, we've heard some released hostages and relatives of Israelis who remain in Hamas captivity speaking to the crowds here, reiterating the call to do everything in the power of leaders of Israel to bring them back as fast as possible. Let's take a listen. Now, a special moment was marked this morning. At 6.30 a.m., the exact same moment that the October 7th attacks began with the same DJ at the Nova Music Festival, one of the most horrific sites of the massacre on October 7th, playing the exact same playlist, the exact same song was playing at 6.30 a.m. as it was on that day and the peak of today's event, a nationwide strike, a hundred minutes, state institutions, schools, companies, all taking part in a call to bring back the hostages home and to bring them now. For I-24 News, I'm Ariel Osaran, Hostage Square, Tel Aviv. And still with us in studio is Dr. Shai Helsney. We're discussing the hostage crisis, the hostage situation. It's a hundred days into this fiasco. What should we do? What should Israel do in order to get these hostages back as soon as possible? I think we must put an offer on the table using the Qatari Channel, maybe the Egyptian Channel. I don't know which channel is the best, because I really don't know what is going on in the closed rooms, but there is no doubt that we must put an offer on the table to negotiate, because it seems at the moment, as far as I know, we should be very modest, as far as we know, there are no real negotiations between Israel and Qatar and or Egypt to list the hostages. And there is no doubt that at the end of the day, for the time being, we will be forced to pay every price. There is no doubt about it. If we want to get them back, because as far as I understand, from a small point of view, it will be ready to list the hostages only if Israel will be ready to stop the war completely. And as I said before, we must prioritize between those two options, and because I do believe that in the future we can, and in the future I'm not talking about years, I'm talking about months, we will be able to achieve the other goals to eliminate Hamas, and I'm not sure what will be the situation of the hostages. And I do believe that we must prioritize, as I said before, and release the hostages and get some kind of a deal right now using the Qatar, the China, the Egyptian, the American to put pressure on Qatar, everything that we can to make a new deal, or I don't like the world deal, but to bring them back home. To negotiate. And we know that Hamas is, like you say, interested in a complete withdrawal, a complete ceasefire. We shall see how this continues. And pans out, Dr. Shai. There is no doubt that there are tough decisions to make, cruel decisions to make. There is no easy one, but it's something unbelievable, the situation that we're in since the October 7th is something, I think no country ever actually faced this kind of a situation, not only the attack, but also more than 200 hostages and something unique. And we must be very smart to see how to negotiate, how to continue the war, because there is no other alternative from our point of view. No country has been in this situation. We know even psychologists say they've never been in a situation where they have to address so many hostages, you know, the over 100 who have returned, their psychological well-being, you know, how to deal with this. This is an unprecedented. This is our actual moral obligation to bring them back. Dr. Shai helps me. Thank you very much. And joining us now is Deputy Director General at the Shiba Medical Center, Professor Arnon Afek. Professor Afek, since October 7th, all Israeli hospitals, including yours, were bombarded with so many patients. How has your hospital turned the facilities around in order to enable so many patients with various types of injuries? First, you were so right about describing what the Israeli healthcare system has to face right now, because it's not just the people returned as hostages. The rest of the people from the Kibbutzim around Gaza and many of the Israelis themselves suffer from the aftermath effects of this terrible Saturday. Apart from what we are saying is that the Israeli healthcare system is now facing with a huge challenge. I spoke just about the, I would say, the mental health issue, which are very, very important, but apart from that, we take care of many wounded soldiers. And we treat them both at the acute cases, as well as the rehabilitation. For example, with us at Shiba Medical Center, we have like 40 patients at the acute care of the general hospital, as well as more than 200 being rehabilitated here. And that's apart from they are dealing with the winter that started very luckily about a week ago. And all of that is being threatened by the new budget that the government put on the table, which unfortunately means cuts in the budget of the hospitals. And I don't know how we can continue to do all of these things with budget constriction and taxing the money we are being allocated. So speaking of the IDF soldiers, what are the common injuries right now that you're dealing with and how long is the rehabilitation process for such injuries, usually? So we are very, very lucky as a country. The fact that the IDF medical corps with senior people that treat both paramedics and physicians that are there with the fighting forces that give them even all blood, which is new to this war. And then the wonderful staff of the evacuation team bring them to the hospital very, very soon. We are speaking something like an hour up to 70 minutes. Something unprecedented means that we receive very, very severely injured patients who have to use our wonderful intensive care units at my hospital at Shiba, but also in the other hospitals, of course, they do wonderful job over the Israeli healthcare system and we treat them there. Now from there, they have to pass through trauma many times to the rehabilitation. Now the rehabilitation takes a very, very long time. Think of that. We think that on the average, each patient, each wounded soldier, we need around five surgeries. So it's a huge addition to our overall medical burden. We do it with love because these people are heroes and we should do our utmost to take care of them and to give them the best treatment. That's why, by the way, we opened new departments of rehabilitation and we have more than 160 wounded soldiers who are with us being rehabilitated. We are honored to treat them and we will continue to do so as long as we will be needed. And from what you know, how are the soldiers coping? Well, you know, first, they're truly heroes and of course, the fact that they are together gives them a huge benefit in their healing process. You find in a certain room two people from the parachute brigade and the other from Golan or Givati and they're all together, sits and speak about what was there. There are so many volunteers who come and try to help them. The fact that they are there together is a huge part of the healing process we see, both the mental. We take care of the physical, it would take time, as I said before. But I'm very confident, you know, each one of the senior people, politicians, other people who come to them, for example, we had Seinfeld coming to Shiba and Mary Douglas and many others who came to say, we came to to strengthen these wounded soldiers and we end up being threatened ourselves, feeling such such fortunate is the people of Israel that we have such heroes. So the guests are strengthened by the soldiers who are injured and dealing with such injuries. Can you speak? What are some of the psychological repercussions to these soldiers? Okay, so, I mean, it was very, very prominent during the Black Sabbath, the Black Saturday. There people had to face huge situations. They even didn't know how to take care of it. Remember, they weren't prepared for that and they fought, they fought like heroes. There were people with two or three bandages and they continue to fight with all their forces. So there we saw it much more the, I would say, the stress reactions. So we are trying to take care of the acute stress reactions so they will not become chronic stress reaction, most trauma. So when we are doing all of that, of course, we add people from our psychiatry units and also psychologists and social workers. So we try to give them the overall envelope, professional envelope that we can enable our wounded soldiers as well as civilians from the, when the war started, of course, to try to help and assist them. We are doing it. We understand that this is not less important than the physical treatment of the people and taking care of their injuries. There is a long pathway in front of us and the mental health care services of Israel should be very, very threatened and get more and more positions, money that we need to improve the services because, I said before, many of the Israelis suffer from the after event of this Black Saturday. So taking into that to the fact that now we are going to speak about budget cuts in the Israeli health care system. I don't know how we can do that, though. You know, we are not magicians. We are just simple physicians and health care professionals. Professor Al-Monafiq, thank you very much for discussing this with us. Thank you, Sivan. And I'm sure that if Israel will continue to be all of us together, then we can overcome all our enemies. God willing. Thank you. Like many others who attended the Nova Rave for Aviv Balchanin, the happiest day of his life turned into the worst day of all. A day in which his luck and resourcefulness stood by him and saved him first from a death trap in a shelter and later from terrorists who were after him. While running for his life, Aviv managed to rescue another couple from the inferno. Here's his story. The most terrible thing that can happen is that people are beautiful and just beautiful, and the most beautiful in the world. Suddenly, at one point, I couldn't help but hear the sounds of the sky. At one point, the army and the people found the music, and we realized that we had to stop. I was worried that everything would be fine with us, so I had to leave. I was in a hurry. I left about a hundred meters away from the right side of all the land that was created. I went to Behrin, I went in there to the shelter, and gradually they started to, we started to stop there, they started to come up to the people, we started to stop there, there were 30 or 40 people in the shelter. And in the middle of the night, they didn't have to pass, and I had to leave the shelter for a while. So I left the shelter, what happens? As soon as I saw that people wanted to come to us, and we were hungry, they left. And as soon as they left, I could already hear the sounds of the trees, of the trees, of the trees. Oh, I heard it. At that moment, I went back to the shelter, I went to everyone who had the shelter that they left, and I ran to him. I went to the author, I started in the shelter, and really at the beginning of the shelter, I knew that it was a group that was also in the shelter, I asked them who I was to the shelter. We passed through the shelter, I see in such a way, the shelter of the shelter, it's like the kind of food that makes you feel more comfortable. I saw that all the shelters that come to this shelter are safe, and the first shelter is safe, he went back to the shelter and he went back to the shelter, he went back to the shelter, he was without any worries, he went to the shelters, and I saw everyone, like, in a car in stress. At that moment I realized that I couldn't keep going, I was sure he would be there. I went back to the shelter, to the shelter too. I almost reached the shelter in the shelter, and there I heard the sounds of the trees, and I already saw the shelters coming from the back of the shelter, and at that moment, again, I crossed the road, I went to the shelter in the shelter, and at that time I was trying to figure out what I was doing, that I was standing between the shelter that I don't know if it's a shelter or a shelter, between the shelters that I know that they are sheltering, and I almost reached the shelter again, and at that moment I crossed the road again, to the shelter, to the shelter, just to figure out what I was going to do, and I told my wife that I was in the shelter, and I looked through the shelter, and it also means that I was going to touch it, and they told me, no problem, we are with you. I went to the shelter that was also trying to reach the shelter, and we were really close, and I saw that there was no shelter in my hand, and I understood that it was Jewish, I gave it to him, and you are a friend of people to the shelter, he treats everyone, and he tells me that there will also be shelter in the house. What I had to do was to say what Israel is, and to start trying to continue. I understood that I had to leave the shelter, to the shelter that I was not trying to reach, and we crossed a very heavy road, and we almost three hours to get home, with the heavy rain on the road, and heavy rain in the street, the windows of the shelter were broken, and it felt like the state was taking over. All of this makes the place really good, the energy, the people, the citizens here really appreciate it. I don't know how we lived through this time, but with all these places that are really beautiful, and they make a lot of money. The situation is very bad, and we are really trying to see how good it is, what happened, and how good it is in the good things that I made, and that I really managed to get out of there. Everything they did to us, we did not give up, and we did not give up, and we did not give up, and we are really trying to survive. Welcome to I-24 News. I'm Steve Van Raveef, and these are the latest developments coming to you live from Tel Aviv. Today marks 100 days to the October 7th. Follow us on the border with Gaza for first-hand accounts of eye witnesses, survivors, and fighters. 100 days of war, January 14th. 9 p.m. local, only on I-24 News. Welcome to I-24 News. I'm Steve Van Raveef, and these are the latest developments coming to you live from Tel Aviv. Today marks 100 days to the October 7th massacre. 100 days of Israel's war with Hamas. 100 days for 136 remaining hostages who are still in Hamas captivity. 17 women, some as young as 18 years old. 2 children, 94 men, 15 elderly, some over the age of 80 years old, and 8 foreigners. Many of these hostages are wounded. Some might have been sexually abused according to released hostage testimonies. All have not been seen by the Red Cross thus far. 24 were murdered, and their bodies are held by Hamas. 100 days into this horrendous hostage situation, and time is running out. As reports say, hostage lives are now at serious risk. Over the weekend, the IDF announced the death of 21-year-old Sergeant Major in Reserves, Anduel M. Cabeda from Kiryat Ghat, who was killed fighting in the southern Gaza Strip. He is the 188th soldier killed in the IDF's ground offensive in Gaza. A terrorist cell crossed into Israeli territory from Lebanon overnight and fired at patrolling IDF soldiers in the Haldov area. The soldiers responded, and the four terrorists were killed. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last night that 100 days into the fighting, the goals must be achieved, and so the fighting will continue. Take a listen. 100 days of war. 100 days since the terrible day when our citizens were murdered and abducted. We are continuing the war until the end, until complete victory, until we achieve all our goals, eliminating Hamas, returning all our hostages, and assuring that Gaza never again poses a threat to Israel. We will regain security both in the south and the north. No one will stop us, not the Hague, not the Axis of Evil, and not anyone else. Something has changed in the history of our people. Antisemitism is the same, but the stature of the Jewish people has changed completely. For today we have a state, we have an army, we have the power to defend ourselves, and we have heroic soldiers protecting our people. And joining us in studios, Lieutenant Colonel and Reserves, Dr. Shai Haltz, the senior fellow at the Institute for Policy and Strategy at Reichman University and former acting director general at Ministry of Strategic Affairs. Thank you for coming in. Good morning. We are 100 days into this fiasco. Where are we heading? Where are we heading with this? And have the goals been achieved? Can they be achieved? So far, the goals have not been achieved. It's not a secret, of course. That's right. And actually, we are facing, we have three main goals. First, to bring back all the hostages, ASAP. Second, to eliminate Hamas. It's also very important to bring back the security in the north to allow all the citizens to go back to their homes. But there is a difference regarding the timeline. What I mean? There are a few clocks that are actually operating against us. The most important one is the same clock of the hostages because it is running out of time. By nature, same clock is running out of time and we don't have any more time. We cannot reach the 200 days and hope that there will be a release. We must release them now, alive. This is very important. Bring them home alive because the state abandoned them on the 7th of October, on the horrible Saturday. So this is our obligation, our duty, our moral duty to bring them back. Regarding the second goal, to eliminate Hamas. So we have time. We can do it in a month, in two, in three months, in four months. We can do it. So there is a difference regarding the clocks. So this is why I'm saying there is no contradiction between those two goals. First, bringing back the hostages, then continuing with the goal to eliminate Hamas. Furthermore, we cannot finish the war without actually achieving those two goals because it will be a strategic defeat, even a strategic defeat from our point of view, not bringing them back and actually allow Hamas to stay in Gaza after the war. And as I said before, the third goal in the north. So I do believe that if I may say at the first stage, bringing back the hostages, eliminate Hamas and then make sure that the citizens in the north can go back home after we make some kind of arrangement, political arrangement, or by using force, forcing the Red One forces to withdraw north of the Litani. So you're saying prioritize the hostages and then take care of Hamas. No doubt about it, no doubt. Many will disagree that you shouldn't postpone taking care of Hamas till later. This is something that is vital. This is something that is very important to be doing right now as we speak, and they are doing. The IDF is doing it all the time. But you're saying that there needs to be a prioritization. Of course, because I'm not sure. Unfortunately, I'm not sure that the hostages have the time to wait. We heard all the testimonies all about the hostages that came back a few weeks ago, what they're describing, what they've gone through when they were in Gaza. I'm not sure, absolutely, unfortunately, I'm quite sure they don't have another 100 days. So I'm sure that from my point of view, the Israeli government must prioritize between those two goals. And as I said, we can eliminate Hamas in a month, two or three months. We can do it. Okay, Dr. Shai Haltzi, please stay with us. We'll be back in a minute. But our I-24 news correspondent Ariel Ossaran is at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv and has this report. Take a look. 100 days in Hamas captivity being marked with events across the country and around the world. But the main event here in Tel Aviv's Hostage Square with a 24-hour rally that began last night at 8 p.m. showcasing released hostages, families of hostages and victims of that horrific October 7th, as well as social leaders, singers, as you can hear being sung right now, live performance to the attendees here. Now, all the while, all sharing the same call to bring back the hostages home and to bring them back now. We've also seen video messages being sent in, for instance, from Gal Gadot and Hollywood or U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer all reiterating that call 100 days since the captivity began. 136 Israelis remain in captivity. Now, throughout the event, we've heard some released hostages and relatives of Israelis who remain in Hamas captivity speaking to the crowds here, reiterating the call to do everything in the power of leaders of Israel to bring them back as fast as possible. Let's take a listen. I'd like to thank you for joining us today. Thank you very much. Thank you. Now, a special moment was marked this morning at 6.30 a.m. the exact same moment that the October 7th attacks began with the same DJ at the Nova Music Festival, one of the most horrific sites of the massacre on October 7th, playing the exact same playlist, the exact same song was playing at 6.30 a.m. as it was on that day and the peak of today's event, a nationwide strike, 100 minutes state institutions, schools, companies, all taking part in a call to bring back the hostages home and to bring them now. For I-24 News, I'm Ariel Osaran, Hostage Square, Tel Aviv. And still with us in studio is Dr. Shai Helsny. We're discussing the hostage crisis, the hostage situation. It's 100 days into this fiasco. What should we do? What should Israel do in order to get these hostages back as soon as possible? I think we must put an offer on the table using the Qatari Channel, maybe the Egyptian Channel. I don't know which channel is the best because I really don't know what is going on in the closed rooms. But there is no doubt that we must put an offer on the table to negotiate because it seems at the moment, as far as I know, we should be very modest, as far as we know, there are no real negotiations between Israel and Qatar and or Egypt to list the hostages. And there is no doubt that at the end of the day, for the time being, we will be forced to pay every price. There is no doubt about it if we want to get them back because as far as I understand from a small point of view, it will be ready to release the hostages only if Israel will be ready to stop the war completely. And as I said before, we must prioritize between those two options and because I do believe that in the future we can and in the future I'm not talking about years, I'm talking about months, we will be able to achieve the other goals to eliminate Hamas and I'm not sure what will be the situation of the hostages, then I do believe that we must prioritize, as I said before, and release the hostages and get some kind of a deal right now using the Qatar issue on the Egyptian, the Americans to put pressure on Qatar, everything that we can to make a new deal or I don't like the word deal, and new arrangements to bring them back home. To negotiate and we know that Hamas is, like you say, interested in a complete withdrawal, a complete ceasefire. We shall see how this continues and pans out Dr. Shai. There is no doubt that there are tough decisions to make, cruel decisions to make. There is no easy one, but it's something unbelievable, the situation that we are in since October the 7th is something, I think no country ever actually faced this kind of a situation, not only the attack but also more than 200 hostages and something unique and we must be very smart to see how to negotiate, how to continue the war because there is no other alternative from our point of view. No country has been in this situation. We know even psychologists say they've never been in a situation where they have to address so many hostages, the over 100 who have returned their psychological well-being, how to deal with this. This is an unprecedented. This is our actual moral obligation to bring them back. Dr. Shai helps me, thank you very much. And joining us now is Deputy Director General at the Shiba Medical Center, Professor Arnon Affek. Professor Affek, since October 7th, all Israeli hospitals, including yours, were bombarded with so many patients. How has your hospital turned the facilities around in order to enable so many patients with various types of injuries? First, you were so right about describing what the Israeli healthcare system has to face right now because it's not just the people who returned as hostages, the rest of the people from the... he would see them around Gaza and many of the Israelis themselves suffer from the aftermath effects of this terrible Saturday. Apart from what we are saying is that the Israeli healthcare system is now facing with a huge challenge. I spoke just about the... I would say the mental health issue which are very, very important, but apart from that, we take care of many wounded soldiers and we treat them both in the acute cases as well as the rehabilitation. For example, with us at Shiba Medical Center, we have like 40 patients in the acute care of the general hospital, as well as more than 200 being rehabilitated here. And that's apart from they are dealing with the winter that started very luckily about a week ago and all of that is being threatened by the new budget that the government put on the table which unfortunately means cuts in the budget of the hospitals and I don't know how we can continue to do all of these things with budget constriction and cuts in the money we are being allocated. So speaking of the IDF soldiers, what are the common injuries right now that you're dealing with and how long is the rehabilitation process for such injuries usually? So we are very, very lucky as a country. The fact that the IDF Medical Corps with senior people that treat both paramedics and physicians that are there with the fighting forces that give them even all blood which is new to this war and then the wonderful staff of the evacuation team bring them to the hospital very, very soon. We are speaking something like an hour up to 70 minutes. Something unprecedented means that we receive very, very severely injured patients who have to use our wonderful intensive care units at my hospital at Chiba but also in the other hospitals of course with a wonderful job over the Israeli healthcare system and we treat them there. Now from there, they have to pass through trauma many times to the rehabilitation. Now that rehabilitation takes a very, very long time. Think of that. We think that on the average each patient, each wounded soldier will need around five surgeries. So it's a huge addition to our overall medical burden. We do it with love because these people are heroes and we should do our utmost to take care of them and to give them the best treatment. That's why, by the way, we opened new departments of rehabilitation and we have more than 160 wounded soldiers who are with us being rehabilitated. We are honored to treat them and we will continue to do so as long as we will be needed. And from what you know how are the soldiers coping? Well, you know first they are truly heroes and they are and of course the fact that they are together gives them a huge benefit in their healing process. You know, you find in a certain room two people from the parachute brigade and the other from Golani or Givati and they are all together, sits and speak about what was there. There are so many volunteers who come and try to help them. The fact that they are there together is a huge part of the healing process we see, both the mental. We take care of the physical. We take time, as I said before but I'm very confident, you know each one of the senior people, politicians other people who come to them, for example we had Seinfeld coming to Shiba and Mary Douglas and many others who came say we came to to threaten these wounded soldiers and we end up being threatened ourselves feeling such such fortunate is the people of Israel that we have such heroes. So the guests are strengthened by the soldiers who are injured and dealing with such injuries. Can you speak, what are some of the repercussions to these soldiers? So I mean, it was very, very prominent during the Black Sabbath Black Saturday. People had to face huge situation. They even didn't know how to take care of it. Remember, they weren't prepared for that and they fought like heroes. There were people with or three bandages and they continued to fight with all their forces. So there we saw it much more the I would say the stress reactions. So we are trying to take care of the acute stress reactions so they will not become chronic stress reaction with trauma. So when we are doing all of that, of course we add people from our psychiatry units and also psychologists and social workers. So we try to give them the overall envelope, professional envelope that we can enable our wounded soldiers as well as civilians from the when the war started, of course, to try to help in the system. We are doing it. We understand that this is not less important than the physical treatment of the people and taking care of their injuries. There is a long a long pathway in front of us and the mental healthcare services of Israel should be very, very threatened and get more and more positions, money that we need to improve the services because I said before many of the Israelis suffer from the after event of this Black Saturday. So taking into that to the fact that now we are going to speak about budget cuts in the Israeli healthcare system, I don't know how we can do that though, we are not magicians, we are just simple physicians and healthcare professionals. Professor Al-Nunafiq, thank you very much for discussing this with us. You Siban and I'm sure that if Israel will continue to be all of us together, then we can overcome all our enemies. God willing. Thank you. Like many others who attended this event, we are very grateful for Aviv Balchanin, the happiest day of his life, turned into the worst day of all, a day in which his luck and resourcefulness stood by him and saved him first from a death trap in a shelter and later from terrorists who were after him while running for his life, Aviv managed to rescue another couple from the inferno. Here's the story. And later we began to get there, we began to reach people, we started to rescue about 30 or 40 people from the shelter. And in the end, it was not going to end. And I had to get out of the shelter. So I found out what was happening behind the shelter, and as soon as I saw that people wanted to be with us and were crying, they cried. So I went to the shelter of the terrorists. In that moment, I went back to the shelter, I went to everyone who was crying and I ran to him. I went to him, I started in the shelter, and really at the beginning of the shelter, I noticed a group of people who were also in the shelter. I asked them who I was to the shelter. And I saw a group of people crying. And I saw that all the people who came to the shelter were angry. The first person who was angry, who came back to the shelter, he tried to get back to the shelter, he was angry, he tried to get out of the shelter. And I saw everyone in stress. At that moment I realized that I was really angry with them. I went back to the shelter for the same reason. I almost reached the shelter in the church, and there I heard the cries, really loud, really loud. And I already saw the people coming from behind the building. And at that moment, once again, I closed the door, I went back to the shelter. And at that time, I tried to think about what to do. That I was angry with the shelter that I don't know if it's a shelter or a shelter. Between the shelters that I know that are sheltered. And at that moment, I reached the shelter almost twice before the shelter. Once again, I went back to the shelter, to the shelter. Just to give you a moment of thinking, of what I was going to do. And I said to the woman, I was in the shelter and I saw through the shelter that it also means that I am going to touch it. And they said, no problem, we are with you. I went to the shelter that also went to the shelter. We were really close, and I saw that he was not angry at all. I realized that it was Jewish, I took him, you are a friend of people to the shelter. He is angry with everyone. And he tells me that there will be a shelter. I realized that I have to go back to the shelter, to the shelter that I am not going to touch. And we went through a very heavy journey, almost three hours to get home. A lot of sand on the road and rocks in the road. It feels like the state is taking over. The energy of the place. The people are really helping here. I don't know how we lived this time. Without all these places that are really nervous and do nothing. The time is very short. We are really trying to see as much as possible good in what happened and to embrace good things and that I really managed to get out from there. Everything they did to us, we didn't give up. And we didn't give up. We are very proud. That's all for this edition of I-24 News. We have rolling coverage providing you with the latest from Israel. We'll be back at the top of the hour for more news and updates. Be sure to follow us on our website I'm Sivana Rave. Thank you for watching. 100 days since the trauma that rocked Israel. More than 1200 dead. More than 5000 wounded. Over 160,000 displaced. Join I-24 News for our special coverage on January 14 marking 100 days since the massacre of October 7. Follow us on the border with Gaza for first-hand accounts of eye weaknesses, survivors and fighters. 100 days of war. 14, 9 p.m. local. Only on I-24 News. Welcome to I-24 News. I'm Sivana Rave. And these are the latest developments coming to you live from Tel Aviv. Today marks 100 days to the October 7th massacre. 100 days of Israel's war with Hamas. 100 days for 136 remaining hostages who are still in Hamas captivity. 17 women, some as young as 18 years old, 2 children, 94 men, 15 elderly women over the age of 80 years old and 8 foreigners. Many of these hostages are wounded. Some might have been sexually abused according to released hostage testimonies. All have not been seen by the Red Cross that thus far. 24 were murdered and their bodies are held by Hamas. 100 days into this horrendous hostage situation and time is running out. As reports say, hostage lives are now at serious risk. Over the weekend the idea of an IDF Sergeant Major in Reserves, Andual M. Cabeda from Kiryat Gat, who was killed fighting in the Southern Gaza Strip. He is the 188th soldier killed in the IDF's ground offensive in Gaza. A terrorist cell crossed into Israeli territory from Lebanon overnight and fired at patrolling IDF soldiers in the Hardov area. The soldiers responded and the four terrorists were killed. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last night that we should continue. Take a listen. 100 days of war, 100 days since the terrible day when our citizens were murdered and abducted. We are continuing the war until the end, until complete victory, until we achieve all our goals, eliminating Hamas, returning all our hostages and assuring that Gaza never again poses a threat to Israel. We will regain security both in the south and the north. No one will stop us, not the Hague, not the axis of evil and not anyone else. Something has changed in the history of our people. The anti-Semitism is the same, but the stature of the Jewish people has changed completely. For today we have a state, we have an army, we have the power to defend ourselves, and we have heroic soldiers protecting our people. Joining us in studio is Kareem. We are 100 days into this war. Can Israel still achieve the two initial goals it set out to achieve destroying Hamas and returning the hostages? I think that from the beginning the goals that Israel set for the war is lacking something very essential, and this is what will happen in Gaza afterwards, and this affects the way that Israel and the IDF in Gaza. Right now and I said it from the beginning, destroying Hamas is not achievable. It's not achievable because we can make sure that Hamas will not rule Gaza in the next close or far future, but we cannot destroy Hamas, Hamas is an idea, and anyway we cannot destroy it in the near future. Bringing back the hostages Israel needs to pay and it doesn't seem that Israel wants to pay the price, and the price is known to everybody. Maybe we don't talk about it a lot but we know what is the price. The price is 6,000 terrorist murderers that sit in Israeli prisons and Iro Sinwa would not agree to release hostages without releasing those prisoners. Now, whether it's the right solution or not is an important debate but we don't even enter this debate for now. We see, IDF said and also the Prime Minister said that the military pressure will bring back the hostages. We are 100 days into the war. We still have 136 hostages in Gaza. We don't see them coming back. They don't have time. Time is not running out. We don't have time anymore. We need to decide what to do in this situation which is new. We never had a situation like this that civilians are kept in captivity in hostages by the enemy while we are fighting. It's a very complicated situation but it seems like we have a cabinet that is more interested in doing fighting between Prime Minister and Minister of Defense during the meetings of the cabinet. This is something that we never had in the past. Never. And it's very disturbing and we need to ask ourselves what are the real goals of the war. And this is certainly an unprecedented situation. So many civilians so many civilians who are held hostage does not have experience with such a situation. We'll be back to discussing more of this in a minute. Our I-24 news correspondent Ariel Osaran is at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv and has this report. Take a look. A hundred days in Hamas captivity being marked with events across the country and around the world but the main event here in Tel Aviv's Hostage Square with a 24-hour rally that began last night at 8pm showcasing released hostages families of hostages and victims of that horrific October 7th as well as social leaders, singers as you can hear being sung right now live performance to the attendees here. Now all the while all sharing the same call to bring back the hostages home back now. We've also seen video messages being sent in for instance from Gal Gadot and Hollywood or US Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer all reiterating that call a hundred days since the captivity began. 136 Israelis remain in captivity. Now throughout the event we've heard some released hostages and relatives of Israelis who remain in a mosque activity speaking to the crowds here reiterating the call to do everything in the power of leaders of Israel to bring them back as fast as possible. Let's take a listen. Now a special moment was marked this morning at 6 30 a.m. the exact same moment that the October 7th attacks began with the same DJ at the Nova Music Festival one of the most horrific sites of the massacre on October 7th playing the exact same playlist the exact same song was playing at 6 30 a.m. as it was on that day and the peak of today's event a nationwide strike a hundred minutes state institutions, schools companies all taking part in a call to bring back the hostages home and to bring them back now. For I-24 News, I'm Ariel Osran Hostage Square, Tel Aviv And still with us here in studios for machine bed agent Gunan Ben-Itschak. Gunan, we're hearing about what's happening at the Hostage Square. There is a rally going on for 24 hours since last night until tonight families are crying out they can barely breathe it's been a hundred days a little bit a lot too long and I want to ask you about the Philadelphia Corridor where some are concerned that some of these hostages might be smuggled through this corridor outside of the Gaza Strip how likely is that to happen and what is the situation does Israel have a hold on this situation? It's a very good question because for now we don't have a hold on the Philadelphia Corridor it means that basically they can smuggle hostages out of out of the Gaza Strip and another problem is that we can also get or they can get Hamas can get ammunition through the Philadelphia Corridor unfortunately the fact that Israel found Chinese weapon in Gaza Iranian weapon in Gaza means that Philadelphia Corridor was actually open wide or actually we need to emphasize the tunnels underneath the Philadelphia Corridor and it means also that Egypt didn't do its part to secure the Egyptian side and make sure that this would not happen now after October 7th massacre we understand that we cannot rely on anybody we cannot rely on Egypt to make sure that they are not going to smuggle hostages and I think that the fact that the Israeli government is announcing that Israel will take over Philadelphia I don't know why they waited 100 days to do it but this is something they have to do now because maybe it's too late maybe it's too late now how long has Hamas been using this corridor it's right we see it on the map there's a border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt how long have they been using this corridor and for which purposes before October 7th yeah so I'll say that Hamas used this area to smuggle ammunition and whatever not only ammunition also goods from Egypt into the Gaza Strip even before the withdrawal of Israel from Gaza but after the withdrawal they actually used it as a big passage to bring in ammunition and we see what's going on now in Gaza weapons this numbers of weapons missiles anti aircraft missiles things that you would never believe that they can bring into Gaza now the Marine passage is closed basically I think that Navy and I serve the Navy I know that Navy wouldn't let much of this ammunition to get into Gaza most of it came through the Philadelphia corridor and it's a big big concern even today when we're fighting and they can use a weapon that comes now from the Philadelphia corridor in order to try and target our soldiers and where was Egypt in all of this throughout all these years Egypt didn't do much I know that Egypt now is warning that she would not allow Israel to take over the Philadelphia but I think that we need to emphasize and you know I think that the peace with Egypt is very important but let me remind our audience that when Egypt had problems with the ISIS in the Sinai desert Israel let them enter an army into the Sinai desert against this was against the peace agreement between Israel and Egypt and Egypt now needs to understand that Israel is in the same same place we have a problem we see that for many reasons Egypt failed to secure this border and Israel needs to secure this border in any price absolutely thank you thank you very much joining us now is major in reserves and political military analyst thanks for joining I pleasure Elliot we're hearing about an infiltration of a terrorist cell on the border with Lebanon in the north in northern Israel the terrorists were killed in this instance but what does this tell us about this kind of threat on Israel's northern border well the attack was on hard dove which has always been a hot spot what Kisbala calls the Shaba farms area that's where the tents Kisbala tents were set up a number of months ago that we ultimately removed that's always been a hot spot the Israeli position up there on hard dove is reachable only by armored vehicle in other words this has been a battle zone now for a very long period of time so this particular infiltration isn't new the fact that it was countered directly and with our ground forces from a reserve unit killing four of the terrorists is still within the range of what's been going on it could have turned out badly it turned out well from our point of view now Kisbala does not seem to be deterred as we can see Kisbala is not deterred as we saw that Hamas was not deterred deterring these kind of organizations terrorist organizations there's always a short-term kind of tactical situation you only need to understand that both Kisbala and Hamas have as their primary goals the destruction of Israel that hasn't changed so we may be moving them down a little bit on the scale obviously it's not launching all of its massive capability against Israel at the moment so you can call that some maybe some form of deterrence but we're not really deterring them now now is it not a sort of victory for Kisbala just the fact that 60,000 residents Israeli residents have been displaced internally displaced and moved away from the north from the northern border absolutely victory for Kisbala it's a recognition of the power that they have that we move our population away from the border to protect them but in war you have to make bad choices better than worse choices leaving the population along the border and having them vulnerable to ground attack by Kisbala similar to what happened on October 7th on the Gaza border is a worst case situation than having them not there but certainly a victory for Kisbala and a recognition of its power well Israel certainly can't keep the situation going on like this with a serious threat to Israeli citizens lives and no residents will go back to the north knowing that that threat exists rightfully so here I think it's important to remember with all of the horror of what happened on the 7th on the Gaza border Kisbala's capabilities are far greater than Hamas's much more concerned of a ground attack taking Israeli towns and villages Kibbutzimosh Avim along the northern border than we were on the southern border it actually happened in the south but Kisbala certainly has the capability of driving across the border and doing something on a grander scale than actually what happened on the 7th which would be extremely extremely severe and we know that the US is pushing for a diplomatic solution to this but I believe that for many residents of the north Israelis a diplomatic solution isn't even an option because they don't believe you can come to an agreement with Kisbala it's a terrorist organization they're absolutely correct you can come to an agreement but they're not going to keep it so it doesn't do any good we've had many agreements with Kisbala backed by the UN utterly useless going back even before the war in they simply do whatever they want and nobody's going to stop them unless we do it so what's the solution then the solution is ultimately I think we're going to have to go in and push them back physically they're not getting the message the international community isn't going to do it and that just leaves as usual the defense and protection of Israel in the hands of the IDF now I want to speak to you about the Houthis the Houthis we know have targeted ships in the Red Sea for a couple of months now many many attacks and the US did decide that it is time to attack the Houthis back where does this stand right now the Houthis are part of the Grand Iranian strategy for the region and for the world and the US finally understands that what the Houthis are doing is global piracy shutting off a major artery of maritime commerce namely the streets of Babel Mandeb which lead to the Suez Canal and this is more than simply a local issue by some local militia trying to stop a couple of ships it's clear that with all respect to the US Navy and its allies there they're not going to be able to simply protect shipping by taking out an occasional drone or missile being fired ships or taking out an occasional boat the Houthis are going to have to be stopped physically and that's what America has come to that conclusion is starting to do the Houthis drilled an attack so called attack on Israeli towns over the weekend that was spoken of as well Elliot Shadoff thank you very much for joining us thank you for joining us as well the Kibbutz movement is a socialist society which became an Israeli symbol in the early days of the country but declined over time alright 24 news correspondent Uri Shapiro paid a visit to Kibbutz-Bairi and met one of its members Dr. Alon Pauker a historian who focuses on the history of this movement he also discussed October 7th a dramatic event will likely affect Bairi and the Kibbutz movement at large take a look few other people can currently be identified more with the word Kibbutz than Dr. Alon Pauker he is a historian who researched the history of this unique Israeli socialist phenomenon he's also a member of Kibbutz-Bairi the son of one of the founders of Kibbutz near Oz two of the main sites which were attacked in the Hamas onslaught on October 7th we know everybody I mean 94 members and children and all people from our eldest from our community were murdered I know them all think about the 9-11 in the United States nobody knows 94 of the people that were killed Pauker himself managed to survive since the terrorist didn't attack his home but is still broken at the devastation of Bairi nonetheless he sees this event as a turning point which may change the image of the Kibbutz movement among Israelis the government in the 19th decided that there is no need to build anymore rural settlements and now are we old these points of settlement until all the families will be able to come back maybe we have to do a semi army soldiers like it was we call it in Hebrew the history of the Kibbutz movement goes back to the early 20th century Jewish pioneers who fled the pogroms in Eastern Europe came to the land of Israel the revolutionary idea a socialist village where everyone is equal there is no private income or possession but it is taken by all members this utopian society flourished in the years to come people all over the world came to see how pure socialism was accomplished in the land of Israel but Dr. Pauker says that the independence of Israel in 1948 also worked against the Kibbutz movement Kibbutz Bairi is one of the 11 point operation and it was the biggest operation of the Zionist movement until the establishment of the state of Israel after the establishment of the state of Israel you don't need basically pioneering because you have the state bureaucracy beginning in the 1960s people from all over the world came to Israel to volunteer at Kibbutz even celebrities like Italian actress Sofia Lorraine paid a visit Pauker says that the 1977 elections which brought the right-wing liquid party under Menachem Beggin to power was one of the turning points when the Kibbutz became less popular and started to fade the Kibbutz started to be like a target for everybody to be against them they don't work the ground and make agriculture and cultivate the desert no, they stole or like they took the ground other developments such as internal conflicts and international events like the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s the decline of the Kibbutz movement today only 10% of the Kibbutz remain collective communities and other features such as the collective children's house have completely disappeared ironically most of the Kibbutz which kept their collective nature remained wealthy there is one of them by October 7 returned the Kibbutz movement to the headlines in Israel and Worldwide it's one word, community and equal community collective community double the meaning of community I mean we are not better than the people from from the towns, from the road but when you see them in the hotels they are not communities everyone stand among this disaster terrible event, they stand alone and we have the power of the togetherness Dr. Parker also thinks the coronavirus pandemic was a turning point in the way people see what he defines as renewal Kibbutzim, a new type of semi-collective community which has some elements of privatization I have a paper about it in the Kibbutz newspaper that they wrote the Kibbutz movement is finished totally that the renewal Kibbutzim will be just pointing the way of being a totally regular settlement and then especially after the COVID-19 crisis that this soft social democrat way of life is working as we walk in the broken Kibbutz we see some of the sites which became symbols of this horrific attack such as the house of the Bachar family where two members were murdered this place called the Founder's House is the local club where members of the Kibbutz gather and celebrate special events the night before October 7 we have marked 77 years since the foundation of the Kibbutz among the participants was Ronnie Levy who died in the Hamas onslaught anniversary celebration of 7th to 7th anniversary of Berry from 46 to 2023 to celebrate what was childhood in the Kibbutz there were songs and stories and we went to sleep at night what we are and then wake on the morning to this disaster walking inside the rubble raises questions about the future of Kibbutz Berry and its ability to rebuild this beautiful site other questions on the table are how to commemorate the tragedy of October 7 and we can get help and we can have discussions with others we don't know everything but the decisions the decision who will live here we had some clues about ok we will bring others to live here or something like that Kibbutz Berry belongs to its members and the members will decide and we didn't have yet this discussion Kibbutz Berry became one of the strongest icons of October 7 and remains a symbol not just for the many tragedies and loss but also of the resilience and strength of its members the Kibbutz is now walking on a permanent residency for its community it is still too soon to see the long-term impact of October 7 on the Kibbutz movement but there is no doubt that those events will change the course of its history forever that's all for this edition of i24 news we have rolling coverage providing you with the latest from Israel we'll be back at the top of the hour for more news and updates be sure to follow us on our website on IG and across our social media platforms I'm Steve under review thank you for watching it's been 100 days since the trauma that rocked Israel more than 1200 dead more than 5000 wounded over 160,000 displaced join i24 news for our special coverage on January 14 marking 100 days since the massacre of October 7 follow us on the border with Gaza for first-hand accounts survivors and fighters 100 days of war January 14 9pm local only on i24 news if the plastic particles breaks up it does not stop at the micron size it can actually go even smaller so once the size goes below one micron, people call it nano plastics because now its size is in the nano range to elephants we are most beautiful on the elephants and we should leave them on the elephants every tusk you see today represents an animal that has been killed welcome to i24 news I'm Sivana Raviv and these are the latest developments coming to you live from Tel Aviv today marks 100 days to the October 7 massacre 100 days of Israel's war with Hamas 100 days for 136 remaining hostages who are still in Hamas captivity 17 women 18 years old 2 children 94 men 15 elderly many of these hostages are wounded some might have been sexually abused according to released hostage testimonies all have not been seen by the Red Cross that thus far 24 were murdered and their bodies are held by Hamas 100 days into this horrendous hostage situation and time is running out as reports say hostage lives are now at serious risk over the weekend the IDF announced the death of 21 year old sergeant major in reserves Andual M. Cabeda from Kiryat Ghat who was killed fighting in the southern Gaza Strip he is the 188th soldier killed in the IDF's ground offensive in Gaza a terrorist cell crossed into Israeli territory from Lebanon overnight and fired at patrolling IDF soldiers in the Hardov area the soldiers responded and the four terrorists were killed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last night that 100 days into the fighting the goals must be achieved and so the fighting will continue take a listen 100 days of war 100 days since the terrible day when our citizens were murdered and abducted we are continuing the war until the end until complete victory until we achieve all our goals eliminating Hamas returning all our hostages and assuring that Gaza never again return to Israel we will regain security both in the south and the north no one will stop us not the Hague not the axis of evil and not anyone else something has changed in the history of our people the anti-semitism is the same but the stature of the Jewish people has changed completely for today we have a state we have an army we have the power to defend ourselves joining us in studios former Shin Bet agent thank you for coming we are 100 days into this war can Israel still achieve the two initial goals it set out to achieve destroying Hamas and returning the hostages I think that from the beginning the goals that Israel set for the war is lacking something very essential and this is what will happen in Gaza afterwards and this affects the way that Israel and the IDF is working in Gaza right now and I said it from the beginning destroying Hamas is not achievable it's not achievable because we can make sure that Hamas will not rule Gaza in the next close or far future but we cannot destroy Hamas Hamas is an idea and anyway we cannot destroy it bringing back the hostages Israel needs to pay and it doesn't seem that Israel wants to pay the price and the price is known to everybody maybe we don't talk about it a lot but we know what is the price the price is 6,000 terrorist murderers that sit in Israeli prisons and Iro Sinwa will not agree to release hostages without releasing those prisoners now whether it's the right solution or not it's a very important debate but we don't even entering this debate for now so we see IDF said and also the Prime Minister said that the military pressure will bring back the hostages we are 100 days into the war we still have 136 hostages in Gaza we don't see them coming back they don't have time they have no time anymore and we need to decide what to do in this situation which is new we never had a situation like this civilians are kept in captivity hostages by the enemy while we are fighting it's a very complicated situation but it seems like that is more interested in doing you know fighting between Prime Minister and Minister of Defense during the meetings of the cabinet this is something that we never had in the past, never and it's very disturbing and we need to ask ourselves what are the real goals of the war and this is certainly an unprecedented situation so many civilians who are held hostage Israel does not have experience with such a situation we'll be back to discussing more of this in a minute our I-24 news correspondent Ariel Osaran is at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv and has this report take a look 100 days in Hamas captivity being marked with events across the country and around the world the main event here in Tel Aviv's Hostage Square with a 24 hour rally that began last night at 8pm showcasing released hostages families of hostages and victims of that horrific October 7th as well as social leaders singers as you can hear being sung right now live performance to the attendees here all sharing the same call to bring back the hostages home and to bring them back now we've also seen video messages being sent in for instance from Gal Gadot Hollywood or US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer all reiterating that call 100 days since the captivity began 136 Israelis remain in captivity now throughout the event released hostages and relatives of Israelis who remain in Hamas captivity speaking to the crowds here reiterating the call to do everything in the power of leaders of Israel to bring them back as fast as possible let's take a listen No do so so so so so so so so so so Now, a special moment was marked this morning at 6.30 a.m., the exact same moment that the October 7th attacks began with the same DJ at the Nova Music Festival, one of the most horrific sites of the massacre on October 7th, playing the exact same playlist, the exact same song was playing at 6.30 a.m. as it was on that day, and the peak of today's event, a nationwide strike, 100 minutes state institutions, schools, companies, all taking part in a call to bring back the hostages home and to bring them now. For I-24 News, I'm Ariel Osirin, Hostage Square, Tel Aviv. And still with us here in studio is former Shin Bet agent Gunan Ben-Itschak. Gunan, we're hearing about what's happening at the Hostage Square. There is a rally going on for 24 hours since last night until tonight. Families are crying out. They can barely breathe. It's been a hundred days, a little bit, a lot, too long. And I want to ask you about the Philadelphia Corridor, where some are concerned that some of these hostages might be smuggled through this corridor outside of the Gaza Strip. How likely is that to happen, and what is the situation, does Israel have a hold on this situation? Sivan, it's a very good question, because for now we don't have a hold on the Philadelphia Corridor. It means that basically they can smuggle hostages out of the Gaza Strip. And another problem is that we can also get, or they can get, Hamas can get, ammunition through the Philadelphia Corridor. Unfortunately, the fact that Israel found a Chinese weapon in Gaza, Iranian weapon in Gaza, means that the Philadelphia Corridor was actually open wide, or actually we need to emphasize the tunnels underneath the Philadelphia Corridor, and it means also that Egypt didn't do its part to secure the Egyptian side and make sure that this would not happen. Now, after October 7th massacre, we understand that we cannot rely on anybody, okay? We cannot rely on Egypt to make sure that they are not going to smuggle hostages. And I think that the fact that the Israeli government is announcing that Israel will take over Philadelphia, I don't know why they waited 100 days to do it, but this is something they have to do now, because maybe it's too late. Maybe it's too late. Now, how long has Hamas been using this corridor? It's right, we see it on the map. There's a border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. How long have they been using this corridor, and for which purposes before October 7th? Yeah, so I'll say that Hamas used this area to smuggle ammunition and whatever, and not only ammunition, also goods from Egypt into the Gaza Strip, even before the withdrawal of Israel from Gaza. But after the withdrawal, they actually used it as a big passage to bring in ammunition, and we see what's going on now in Gaza. We see endless numbers of weapons, missiles, anti-aircraft missiles, things that you would never believe that they can bring into Gaza. Now, the Marine passage is closed. Basically, I think that the Navy, and I served the Navy, I know that the Navy wouldn't let much of this ammunition to get into Gaza. Most of it came through the Philadelphia corridor, and it's a big, big concern, even today when we're fighting, and they can use a weapon that comes now from the Philadelphia corridor in order to try and target our soldiers. And where was Egypt in all of this throughout all these years? Egypt didn't do much. I know that Egypt now is warning that she would not allow Israel to take over Philadelphia. But I think that we need to emphasize, and I think that the peace with Egypt is very important. Let me remind our audience that when Egypt had problems with the ISIS in the Sinai Desert, Israel let them enter an army into the Sinai Desert against, this was against, the peace agreement between Israel and Egypt. And Egypt now needs to understand that Israel is in the same place. We have a problem. We see that for many reasons, Egypt failed to secure this border, and Israel needs to secure this border in any price. Absolutely. Good evening, thank you. Thank you very much. Joining us now is Major in Reserves and Political Military Analyst, Elliot Shodoff. Thanks for joining, Elliot. My pleasure. Elliot, we're hearing about an infiltration of a terrorist cell on the border with Lebanon in the north in northern Israel. The terrorists were killed in this instance, but what does this tell us about this kind of threat on Israel's northern border? Well, the attack was on Hardove, which has always been a hot spot with what Chisbal calls the Shaba Farms area. That's where the tent, the Chisbal offensive set up a number of months ago that we ultimately removed. That's always been a hot spot. The Israeli position up there on Hardove is reachable only by armored vehicle. In other words, this has been a battle zone now for a very long period of time. So this particular infiltration isn't new. The fact that it was countered directly and with our ground forces from a reserve unit killing four of the terrorists is still within the range of what's been going on. It could have turned out badly. It turned out well from our point of view. Now Hezbollah does not seem to be deterred, as we can see. No. Chisbalah is not deterred, just as we saw that Hamas was not deterred. Deterring these kinds of organizations, terrorist organizations, there's always a short term kind of tactical situation. You only need to understand that both Hezbollah and Hamas have as their primary goals the destruction of Israel. That hasn't changed. So we may be moving them down a little bit on the scale. Hezbollah obviously is not launching all of its massive capability against Israel at the moment. So you can call that maybe some form of deterrence, but we're not really deterring them now. Now is it not a sort of victory for Hezbollah? Just the fact that 60,000 Israeli residents have been displaced, internally displaced and moved away from the north, from the northern border? Absolutely a victory for Hezbollah. It's a recognition of the power that they have that we move our population away from the border to protect them. But in war, you have to make bad choices, better than worse choices, leaving the population along the border and having them vulnerable to ground attack by Hezbollah, similar to what happened on October 7th on the Gaza border, is a worse case situation than having them not there. But certainly a victory for Hezbollah and a recognition of its power. Well, Israel certainly can't keep the situation going on like this, with a serious threat to Israeli citizens' lives. And no residents will go back to the north knowing that that threat exists. Rightfully so. I think it's important to remember, with all of the horror of what happened on the 7th on the Gaza border, Hezbollah's capabilities are far greater than Hamas's. We were always much more concerned of a ground attack taking Israeli towns and villages, Kibbutz and Moshebim along the northern border than we were about on the southern border. It actually happened in the south, but Hezbollah has certainly has the capability of driving across the border and doing something on a grander scale than actually what happened on the 7th. Which would be extremely, extremely severe and we know that the US is pushing for a diplomatic solution to this. But I believe that for many residents of the north, Israelis, a diplomatic solution isn't even an option because they don't believe you can come to an agreement with Hezbollah. It's a terrorist organization. You're absolutely correct. You can come to an agreement, but they're not going to keep it so it doesn't do any good. We've had many agreements with Hezbollah backed by the UN, utterly useless going back even before the war in 06. They simply do whatever they want and nobody's going to stop them unless we do it. So what's the solution then? The solution is ultimately I think we're going to have to go in and push them back physically. They're not getting the message. The international community isn't going to do it and that just leaves as usual the defense and protection of Israel in the hands of the IDF. Now, I want to speak to you about the Houthis. The Houthis, right, we know have targeted ships in the Red Sea for a couple of months now. Many, many attacks and the US did decide that it is time to attack the Houthis back. What's the sound right now? The Houthis are part of the Grand Iranian strategy for the region and for the world. And the US finally understands that what the Houthis are doing is global piracy, shutting off a major artery of maritime commerce, namely the Straits of Babel Mandeb, which lead to the Suez Canal. And this is more than simply a local issue by some local militia trying to stop a couple of ships. It's clear that with all due respect to the US Navy and its allies there, they're not going to be able to simply protect shipping by taking out an occasional drone or missile being fire the ships or taking out an occasional boat. The Houthis are going to have to be stopped physically, and that's what America has come to, has come to that conclusion is starting to do. Right. And we know that the Houthis drilled an attack, a so-called attack on Israeli towns over the weekend that was spoken of as well. Elliot Shadoff, thank you very much for joining us. Gonen Ben-Itschak, thank you for joining us as well. The Kibbutz Movement is a socialist society, which became an Israeli symbol in the early days of the country, but declined over time. All right, 24 News correspondent Uri Shapira paid a visit to Kibbutz-Bairi and met one of its members, Dr. Alon Pauker, a historian who focuses on the history of this movement. He also discussed October 7th and how this traumatic event will likely affect Bairi and the Kibbutz movement at large. Take a look. A few other people can currently be identified more with the word Kibbutz than Dr. Alon Pauker. He is a historian who researched the history of this unique Israeli socialist phenomenon. He is also a member of Kibbutz-Bairi, the son of one of the founders of Kibbutz near Oz, two of the main sites which were attacked in the Hamas onslaught on October 7th. We know everybody. I mean, 94 members and children and all people from our, eldest from our community were murdered. I know them all. Think about the 9-11 in the United States. Nobody knows 94 of the people that were killed. Pauker himself managed to survive since the terrorist didn't attack his home, but he is still broken at the devastation of Bairi. Nonetheless, he sees this event as a turning point which may change the image of the Kibbutz movement among Israelis. The government in the 19th decided that there is no need to build any more rural settlements. And now, are we old at this point of settlement until all the families will be able to come back? Maybe we have to do a semi-armist soldiers like it was, you know, we call it in Hebrew, a chzut nachal. The history of the Kibbutz movement goes back to the early 20th century. Jewish pioneers who fled the pogroms in Eastern Europe came to the land of Israel with a revolutionary idea. A socialist village where everyone is equal, there is no private income or possession, and most of the decisions are taken by all members. This utopian society flourished in the years to come. People all over the world came to see how pure socialism was accomplished in the land of Israel. But Dr. Pauker says that the independence of Israel in 1948 also worked against the Kibbutz movement. Kibbutz is one of the 11-point operation, and it was the biggest operation of the Zionist movement until the establishment of the state of Israel. After the establishment of the state of Israel, you don't need basically pioneering because you have the state bureaucracy. Beginning in the 1960s, people from all over the world came to Israel to volunteer at Kibbutzim. Even celebrities like Italian actress Sofia Lorraine paid a visit. Pauker says that the 1977 elections, which brought the right-wing Likud Party under Menachem Begging to Power, was one of the turning points when the Kibbutz became less popular and started to fade. The Kibbutzim started to be like a target for everybody, to be against them. They don't work the ground and make agriculture and cultivate the desert, no? They stole or took the ground. Other developments, such as internal conflicts and international events like the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, led to the decline of the Kibbutzim movement. Today, only 10% of the Kibbutzim remain collective communities, and other features such as the collective children's house have completely disappeared. Ironically, most of the Kibbutzim, which kept their collective nature, remained wealthy. Bari is one of them. But October 7 returned the Kibbutz movement to the headlines in Israel and worldwide. It's one world, community. And equal community or a collective community, double the meaning of community. I mean, we are not better than the people from Ophakim, from the town, from Sderot. But when you see them in the hotels, they are not communities. Everyone stands among this disaster, terrible event. They stand alone. And we have the power of the togetherness. Dr. Parker also thinks the coronavirus pandemic was a turning point in the way people see what he defines as renewal Kibbutzim, a new type of semi-collective community, which has some elements of privatization. I have a paper about it in the Kibbutz newspaper that they wrote. The Kibbutz movement is finished, totally, that the renewal Kibbutzim will be just a point in the way of being a totally regular settlement. And then, again, especially after the COVID-19 crisis, that this soft social democrat way of life is working. As we walk in the broken Kibbutz, we see some of the sites which became symbols of this horrific attack, such as the house of the Bachar family, where two members were murdered. This place, called the Founder's House, is the local club where members of the Kibbutz gather and celebrate special events. The night before October 7, residents of Be'eri marked 77 years since the foundation of the Kibbutz. Among the participants was Ronnie Levy, who died in the Hamas onslaught. The anniversary celebration of 77 anniversary of Be'eri, from 46 to 2023, to celebrate what was childhood in the Kibbutz, where there were songs and stories, and we went to sleep at night so proud about what we are, and then we wake up in the morning to this disaster. Walking inside the rubble raises questions about the future of Kibbutz Be'eri and its ability to rebuild this beautiful site. Other questions on the table are how to commemorate the tragedy of October 7. And we can get help, and we can have discussions with others. We don't know everything. But the decisions, it's of very members. The decision, who will live here? We had some clues about, okay, we will bring others to live here, or something like that. Kibbutz Be'eri belongs to its members, and the members will decide, and we didn't have yet this discussion. Kibbutz Be'eri became one of the strongest icons of October 7 and remains a symbol not just for the many tragedies and loss, but also of the resilience and strength of its members. The Kibbutz is now walking on a permanent residency for its community. It is still too soon to see the long-term impact of October 7 on the Kibbutz movement. But there is no doubt that those events will change the course of its history forever. That's all for this edition of I-24 News. We have rolling coverage providing you with the latest from Israel. We'll be back at the top of the hour for more news and updates. Be sure to follow us on our website i-24news.tv and across our social media platforms. It's been 100 days since the trauma that rocked Israel. More than 1,200 dead, more than 5,000 wounded, over 160,000 displaced. Join I-24 News for our special coverage on January 14, marking 100 days since the massacre of October 7. Follow us on the border with Gaza for first-hand accounts of eyewitnesses, survivors, and fighters. 100 days of war, January 14, 9 p.m. local, only on I-24 News. I'm going to take you inside the Nightmarish forensics labs where they are still trying to piece together remains and identifying what's left of people to provide some measure of closure for desperate families. I just never thought or imagined that I would ever face the situation. It's really not a simple decision, and it's not a decision to be taken lightly at all. It has enormous significance. Dr. Hagar Mizrachi did not learn this in medical school to make one of the most shocking decisions of her career, to pronounce death without first seeing a body. The event is foreign to the world in general and to the world of medicine in particular because we have very strict rules on how to determine death. There is a pulse and an ECG should be done. We still look for all the signs and all the doubts to resolve them in order to give the family an answer that is clear and unambiguous. Until the harsh news about Judy were received, she had been thought kidnapped. The last time she made contact was during the morning walk with her husband near Niroz. Last week, the family was informed of Gadi's death. Now, it's Judy. One of the open cases that Dr. Mizrachi and the committee of which she is a member for many weeks. One of the very complex cases, we received a description of the circumstances of the incident, but we also heard the phone call she made to the Magandavida Dome hotline. We read WhatsApp messages with friends and family and watched relevant videos. We understood that there was a very, very serious injury here. We sat more than once to try to understand what happened. That black Sabbath raised many dramatic issues, one of which is whether it is possible to declare the death of a hostage while in captivity. Some were murdered and taken to the Gaza Strip. Some were taken there wounded and did not survive the injury. Others were murdered in Gaza. The Ministry of Health has established a committee to assess the situation of the hostages headed by Dr. Hagar Mizrachi, a committee of experts trying to decide what happened to kidnapped citizens, collecting every scrap of information, watching hours of video. We are on this committee by virtue of our position as doctors. We want evidence whose essence is a medical basis. It's not just watching videos. It's literally sitting and analyzing and looking for breathing movements. You look for movements of the eyelids, movements of the body, a reaction to pain, simply analyzing the movies frame by frame. We also deal mainly with analyzing gunshot wounds, where they hit, where organs were hit, and everything together with the fact that there is no medical treatment leads us to our conclusions. This is how they came to determine that Aviva Tzili, Ofra Kedar, and Inbar Haiman were murdered. Unlike legal matters where reasonable doubt is enough, here the three doctors on the committee, Dr. Mizrachi, Dr. Kugel, and Dr. Marine, CEO of Shahretz at a hospital, need to be completely convinced before they tell the family. We sit and if we don't come to a conclusion, then we say we haven't yet decided. Additional material will arrive. Hamas will release something, some additional information will be received. We will incorporate the new bits and watch one more time from beginning to end, and then we'll make a decision. Each decision is made unanimously. How much certainty do you need to determine? Is 99% enough? We wait and check the points until we are all convinced. For me, it is 100%. 100%. As far as I'm concerned, not knowing is the worst thing. I can't stay up in the air, I need to know. Danny Engel was informed that his brother Ronin was kidnapped with his family from their home in Irooz, but his gut feeling said he was probably killed. After all, Ronin was armed, fighting the terrorists who entered the apartment, and no one has seen him since. It was very alarming. Me too, in this whole situation, I hung on to some kind of optimism and forced myself not to eulogize him or to talk about him in the past tense, so not to create, you know, this situation that there is no Ronin. Four days after his wife and daughters returned from captivity, the news was received. Ronin was murdered and the body was snatched. The death was determined according to a video and other findings that were in the house. Karina said that there was a large pool of blood where Ronin was standing. Other people who returned said that they saw his body being dragged outside out of the house. I have this kind of closure, they told me, and beyond any doubt, Ronin is gone. It's the better option than not knowing and continuing to hope. The message the eulogist family received about the death of Guy, the 26-year-old musician who was at the party in Reim, was a little different. In his case, there was no video. Only the knowledge that he was injured and kidnapped. But about a month ago, they were informed that Mayareghev, who returned from captivity, gave detailed testimony about their son. I asked them, tell me, are you really serious? You want me to state as an axiom that my son died in light of the fact that she was a prisoner who was in the room with Guy, that she saw him through the curtain and she was full of drugs and I have no idea what, and in light of all the psychological warfare they are doing. Listen, I'm not ready to accept it, but I would love to meet with Mayareghev. They rarely tried to give him CPR, and he died from his wounds. And at first, I refused to believe it. And after they took him, I said that I had to see that it was really him. I have this duty to go and talk to his family. In the end, I'm the only person who knows what really happened. So I moved the curtain and saw that he really wasn't with us, that he was gone. After the parents heard Mayareghev, the subtleties, the details, how she described how they put him in a white bag for the dead, they were convinced. They sat Shiva and said goodbye to their boy. Saying goodbye is hard to bear. It's not goodbye when you can say I'm saying goodbye because I saw that he died. We didn't see. We didn't see that Guy is indeed no longer with us. We separated from him based on testimony, based on information. The returning hostages brought with them a lot of new information to the committee about the fate and condition of those who were left behind. But they say they are not satisfied with this evidence as a sole parameter. For example, we knew that someone had been shot and we saw the type of injury and we understood that in this condition he was taken to the Gaza Strip. And in this condition, we know that in order to treat the gunshot, we need very intensive, very advanced treatment, if at all, and over time and on and on. It's a culmination of things, especially if one of the abductees later states that he has passed away. As long as this body does not arrive in Israel, it's not doubt. Really, it's not a question of doubt. He won't be knocking on the door tomorrow and entering the house. But for me, the story hasn't ended. The bodies of the hostages who did return to Israel were thoroughly examined by Dr. Mizrachi's committee to confirm the circumstances of their death. The CT scan shows us whether there are bullets, whether there are clots. So far, bodies have arrived, and apparently Hamas said they were killed because of an IDF attack. This is not true. These are not the conclusions. It is difficult in some cases to determine the exact cause of death, but it does not appear that people were injured and the injuries match injuries from shelling. The committee deals not only with the dead, but also with those who return alive from captivity. As a doctor, Hagar Mizrachi also tries to understand something about the medical treatment they received. To her surprise, she discovered that they were not given only prescription drugs, but also dangerous ones. Apparently, they were given treatment, not exactly known in Israel, which among other things causes some kind of sedation. There was also ketamine in some of the cases. Ketamine is a drug that is given under anesthesia for surgery, and today it is a drug that is used, of course illegally, and indeed there was testimony of people who came, received ketamine unnecessarily as a form of sedation. I'm not sure you want to emerge from captivity as a drug addict. There was a prior claim that the terrorists had been given drugs before. I don't have any proof of this, but I can tell you honestly, I can't understand from what I've seen how they did it without it. I say they are not animals because it is unimaginable. For many years, the fear of a multi-front war has been hovering over Israel's society. The high numbers of casualties, the damage to the economy, and an entire array of prices. Many here in Israel were convinced we as a society are not ready to pay. October 7th charged that notion and revealed a stronger civil society and a much stronger military. I sit down with Dr. Meir El-Ran, head of the Homeland Security Program at the Institute for National Security Studies here in Israel to hear more about Israel's national resilience. Brigadier General retired Meir El-Ran, Dr. Ines S. Thank you so much for joining us today. Thanks for having me. So usually we're speaking about the war, vis-à-vis the enemy, achievements, losses, etc. Let's speak about the Israeli home front, about resilience. You've been following that for many years, but mainly during this campaign. What do you find out? Well, if I may, first of all, I want to say a few words about what resilience really is. I mean, many people use it because it's supposed to be some kind of a buzzword, but basically it's a well-defined kind of a concept or framework for understanding social situations or changing social situations in any given system. It can be personal, tribe, community, society, or even a nation as a whole. So we're talking about resilience within a context, always within a context of a major disruption or catastrophe, if you wish, man-made, like war or major terrorist activities, or also natural, like tsunamis, earthquakes, earthquakes, the thing of that sort. So we have a disruption. Unfortunately, it happens to every system quite frequently, also to us, unfortunately. And the big question is, okay, so what happens to the system following a major disruption? Usually the concept says that following a major disruption, there is a very, very clear kind of a downscale of the functionality of the system. And then one of two things happened. Some systems just collapse from that and vanish, disappear. But quite a few of the systems actually bounce back or recover in a certain trajectory. And what we do is we measure the level of resilience of the system by its bouncing back to the point of departure of the disaster. Or we're talking also about bouncing forward to a higher position, meaning growth, because it usually happens. If the system is resilient sufficiently, it doesn't just come back or bounce back to the prior position of functionality. But to a better situation. Yeah, to a better situation, qualitatively, but also qualitatively. So before we touch on the current campaign, since you've touched on what resilience is, so let's give me examples for the two possibilities, the two situations. I'll give you, I'll talk about positive scenarios. And let me say the following. The Jewish people is proven or has been proven for years for generations to be a very, very resilient society. This is mostly unfortunately because of the major disruptions that we had throughout our history, before the state was established and also after the state was established. Let's touch the current campaign and later on I'll ask you what should be done in order to improve the exit point. Please do. But currently, where do we stand? Well, currently we stand in a very, very interesting situation where we measure the resilience. And we see that despite of the horrific events of what happened to us on October 7th, and despite of the huge failures of the military, both in terms of the intelligence failure and also the operational major failure, the public here in Israel give a major credit to the IDF for its own bouncing quick bouncing back, which means that the military is considered by the civilian public to be very resilient. In other words, they really recovered after three, four days and started the actual ground maneuver. What was it like three weeks later, which is considered by the Israelis to be a successful maneuver. Okay, we'll talk later on to what extent this is really the case. But this is the overall perception of the Israelis, which also reflects on their own level of resilience, because trust in the systems is a major component of resilience. This is the one and the other one, which is very important. This is the solidarity. So solidarity and trust are the most important leading components of resilience. And we see that in terms of the trust in the military, mind you, is very high. We're talking about around 90% of the people give the IDF a very, very higher level of 90%. If you hear the right number 90% consistently in 11 polls that we have made since the beginning of the war, despite of the failures on October. But Mayor, at the same time, the Israeli public feels less attached or believeless in the government, in the decision makers. And that's part of the resilience as well. Well, this is a very, very major issue here. Despite, I mean, we made the same, we make the same polls also with regard to the other agencies. One of them is, of course, the government as such. The government gets about 23 to 25 or 6% of approval or confidence from the public throughout these weeks. So we see a huge gap between the trust in the military and the distrust in the government. And that's why? Well, let me just give you one other example and then I'll explain why, because this is a very interesting question. It gives room to different interpretations, but I'll give you mine in a minute. At the same time, we also gauged the level of support of the public at large as far as the objectives of the war as declared by the government, you know, the dismantling of Hamas, et cetera, et cetera. Here we see an average of 78% approval. So the same government that gets only 28, you know, the best times, 28%, its major decision regarding the war is being approved by the public at large. So why is this the fact? And how does it show our present resilience? Our interpretation is that since we are in the war and the people in Israel are very, very mobilized, think also about the media in Israel, how mobilized and mobilizing it is in terms of support the military effort, because of what happened to us, the huge trauma, the collective trauma of October 7th. So the people say we have to be reassured. And the only one that we can really trust is the military that is doing the job for us. This is the spirit presently. As far as the government is concerned, its failure is clear. No denial of that. No forgiveness. It's very steady. But there is a very interesting differentiation between the military and the objectives of the war and the military doing the job in getting those results. But the government is really in a very, very bad situation. Can I offer another explanation? Please do. The army is us. It's our children. It's our enemies. Unlike the government, whereas it might be them. I agree with you completely. I agree with you. It's not only us, but we through the army, by the army, are making a difference for us despite of what happened in October 7th. So all that, and like getting back to resilience, all that shows to my understanding a very high level of resilience. There are other indications as well, but we don't get into that. We don't have enough time to discuss all the details. But let me just give you another idea to consider. This might be a temporary phenomenon. And we in our analysis think we're not sure about that. That this level, a very high level of support and this very high level of solidarity will not necessarily hold for a longer period of time or much longer. It depends to a large extent on the public's sense or interpretation or understanding of what's happening really in the field. To an extent the military is capable to sustain the thrust against the Hamas, which is a problem. What do we do with the hostages, of course, is another major question. And again, how are we doing in general terms in terms of running this major war? So what Israel needs to do in order to enlarge its possibilities to get out of this campaign stronger, taking the current situation? Well, let me put it this way. First of all, I'm now expressing my own opinion. We have to stand up to our obligation to the Israeli public, which means that we have to frame a situation in which at the end of the war, be it in the next weeks or in the next months. And time should not be a major issue in this respect. We have to be in a position that we know and interpret the final situation of the war as a victory for us. How we frame this picture is another question. And the government can do different things in order to construct such a perception. But this is very important. If we do not manage, and again, time is a lesser, to my understanding, is a lesser significance here. But if we can frame a picture or a perception within most of the public, that we have done what we have promised or the government has promised through the military to the people following what happened to us in October 7th, this, I think, will be accepted as a major victory for Israel. If we do not, if we do not, we have a problem. Not only in terms of our resilience, but also in terms of our position domestically, externally, in the region and in the world. National security in its larger, largest extent. Exactly. But furthermore, you said to be seen victorious. I think the hostages that you've mentioned is a major aspect. And to see those who are evacuated, evacuees, refugees, whatever we call them, back to their homes. Absolutely. And also, we would probably also need sort of pictures of victory in the other side. We need to see at least part of the Hamas leadership getting out of the homes with white flags. Or dead. Or dead, yeah. Correct. What is better for us? It's a matter of personal judgment. One more thing, Mary. You've mentioned earlier that looking at the achievements on the ground, the Israeli public feels that the army is doing its job vis-à-vis Hamas. Is that actually case, or that's the case that is being portrayed to us? Let me say two things. When we talk about resilience, which is a matter of perception, it does not matter so much. But for our own curiosity and understanding of the situation, we have to remember we do not know much about what's going on in the gun strip right now. We see the pictures. Most of them we do not see, by the way. We don't see the destruction. We have to switch to CNN or to Fox to realize what's really happening. But basically what we do is we have to follow the daily interviews of the IDF spokesperson. And that's what we know. I mean, we don't know too much. And the media, I must add, is not really, you know, helping in terms of giving us the right picture, whatever it is. What are the chances that this time will come out? You know, everybody supports the war and its causes, etc. And it will come more and more bitter. Two things I want to say about that. Number one, we have to remember that this is really a unique case. Never before we had such an opening of this catastrophe. Exactly. So we are very, very, as I said before, we are still under a traumatic, a collective traumatic experience. And it really impacts our perceptions in many ways. So that's why it will take longer. Our solidarity will hold longer. But an unfortunate thing that as the time lingers, and especially if the achievements on the ground and on the ground are not really seen very, very clearly. And also, if the toxic discourse in this country will rise to the extent of October 6, and there are very, very hard, harsh signs that this is happening, it will be sooner than later. So I think that we still have time in this respect. And mind you, this is really very, very important because time is of essence in terms of enabling the IDF to do the job. So we don't want, I mean, when you look at it in a state perception, in the war we need to give the military the time and the support. But mostly the time to do what they need to do. And that's why we have to keep up with this perception. We can, we have the materials or components to make this happen. But we have to be very, very careful about that. So if to sum it all up, the Israeli public is resilient and it gives the strength to the army. But in order for it to be kept, the army needs to win. We have to be victorious. If we do, the resilience will remain and Israel will come out stronger. If it doesn't, God forbids. This is a good, a very correct and I appreciate your summary because it really summarizes better than I said what I needed to say. Dr. Mayor Erdogan, thank you so much for your time. And thank you for being here with me. It's been 100 days since the trauma that rocked Israel. More than 1200 dead, more than 5000 wounded, over 160,000 displaced. Join I-24 News for our special coverage on January 14, marking 100 days since the massacre of October 7. Follow us on the border with Gaza for first-hand accounts of eyewitnesses, survivors and fighters. 100 days of war, January 14, 9 p.m. local, only on I-24 News. News 24, Israel Bajo Ataque. News 24 en Español trae el análisis y la información de los acontecimientos de la guerra, espadas de hierro. Entrevistas exclusivas, reportes desde la zona de guerra, la reacción de los países hispanoparlantes. News 24, el único medio en español que te mantiene informado y conectado con la comunidad latina en Israel. News 24, únicamente en I-24 News. News 24, historia del mundo. There is disturbing new footage from the 7th of October. The atrocities that unfolded on that Saturday in southern Israel caught on film by Hamas terrorists themselves. Body cam footage taken by the elite Nukba forces. Now these images may be difficult to watch. More in this report from Channel 12 News. Early morning, October 7, Hamas's Nukba force still in their lairs, turn on the cameras that will record their attack and the massacre to follow. Along with a tea and trail mix, the terrorist on the left lays out this bag. That looks like drugs to me. Captain gone. Speed drugs. See? This is the symbol of the Muslim Brotherhood. Allah Wahid, one God. Islamist text. Now the terrorists face the Israeli obstacle. Four layers of fences, barbed wire, the old fence, earth mounds and the $3 billion smart fence. After the second blast, they make their way through the old fence and proceed to the smart fence. The terrorists have now invaded Israel. A stopwatch counting from the first explosion until the moment terrorist squad number one crosses into Israel shows seven and a half minutes. In that time, they meet no Israeli resistance. It's very well timed based on extensive exercises. There is a surprise factor here and their numbers. Their numbers is what tip the scales in the crucial first minutes. On a different route in the Gaza envelope, Nukh Basquad number three ambushes civilian cars. The radio is on. An ecstatic song is calling bomb, burn. Leave no Zionist alive. It seems you're even more upset when you see the terrorists. Because I see the vacuum. I say this with humility. We could have had hundreds waiting for them at the border. Most often, they knew exactly where to go. And when on site, they knew which places. Here, the terrorists come into view of Kibbutz Sufa. They also encounter fire from the adjacent military base, which stalls them. Having crossed the orchard, they are within reach of the army stronghold. What we hearing is only AK-47 fire. You can tell that there's no IDF fire at this time. The outer fence of the base is breached. 15 minutes. That's how long it took this squad from the moment they crossed the fence till they charged the Sufa military base. The fight at the main gate of the base lasted several hours, thanks to the resistance of Israel's nachal forces. This terrorist seems in charge of the attack on the base. He gives the orders, although no one calls him by rank. You see a commander sending his men forward. You won't see that in the IDF. The supposed commander catches up. The terrorists enter the barracks. There's almost no one there. Most soldiers in the base are fighting in the mess hall. Many of them are wounded, some seriously. Here, a terrorist films himself in the mirror. Fussing around documentation and the apparent orders from commanders inside Gaza for propaganda footage keep stirring quarrels. This is the Hamas' military radio. Simple walkie-talkies with few miles range. They've used them for years. According to reports, especially in the foreign media, 8,200 IDF signal intelligence units stopped listening to those radios, which are probably the ones Hamas used in their exercise. Despite their injuries and lack of ammunition, those IDF soldiers still alive managed to hold back the terrorists. After hours of Hamas controlling the base, Shayetet Navy commandos arrive and clear the base from terrorists. Meanwhile, in nearby Kibbutzoufa, terrorist squad number four manages to enter. They struggle to open the gate, but they eventually succeed. In the attempt to hold the terrorists, Kibbutz security team member Oz Khubara is killed. On their killing spree, these two will kill two civilians, Bernard Cohen and Ofir Erez. Then, finally, they are eliminated. Now, shocking images of four terrified Israeli hostages were published on the front page of a British publication this week. Pictures taken on the day they were abducted by Hamas terrorists more than three months ago now. Their families are calling for global action as more harrowing accounts from released hostages continue to emerge. More in this report. Four new photos of kidnapped Israeli women made the front page of a major foreign publication on Monday. Later that same day, a video of the four women was made public as well, showing them in a terrible state. Some of them bleeding and one of them crying, uncontrollably. In more footage released from that Black Sabbath, October 7th, the day they were kidnapped by Hamas, they can be seen in the back of a van in shock, while an angry chanting Ghazan mob surrounds the van. Earlier this week, one of the hostages who was released from Hamas captivity spoke of encountering some of the women still being held by the terrorist organization. On Tuesday, Aviva Siegel, who returned from captivity, spoke in the Israeli parliament, disclosing more unsettling details about the condition of the young women. One of the girls returned from the bathroom and I could tell that she was distraught. I got up and gave her a hug. I apologize for my language, but this mother effort touched her. Another time, a young woman that they thought was an IDF officer arrived and they tortured her in front of me. I'm her witness. 95 days after that brutal Hamas assault, 15 women are still being held by Hamas. Israelis are demanding the international community intervene amid growing concerns over the mental and physical well-being of the captives. Rape can never be accepted. It cannot be justified by the context over certain vacuums to which we've heard international community officials refer to. Some acts are purely evil and should always be denounced. Hamas, the group that committed such acts, has taken hostage 90 women. 15 are still held there in Gaza by Hamas. As of now, UN Women has failed to issue any message condemning this footage or the testimony. Pramila Padden, the special representative of the United Nations in matters of sexual violence in areas of conflicts, will visit Israel at the end of January, at the invitation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It will be her first visit since the events of October 7th. She has been granted full investigative powers in hopes that the stories of the victims will finally be heard and recognized around the world. Meanwhile, former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence is visiting Israel to show his support. He stirred Kibbutz Kfar Azar and the city of Storot meeting with the families of hostages, promising he would act to pressure the Red Cross to visit those still held captive. He was also given a full update on the atrocities that unfolded on the 7th of October and insisted that the Biden administration should support decision makers in Israel, more in this report adapted from Channel 12 News. Let's take a look. Sir, we're standing right very close as close as we can right now to the Gaza Strip. Over 90 days have passed since the terrible Black Saturday. Ever since, dozens of world leaders have arrived to show support and solidarity with Israel, but only a few of them have reached this point. Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence stood here overlooking the Gaza Strip. This is a safe room. Her brother and sister, Mithra and Amali, were hiding inside this cupboard for 14 hours. Not far from here was the house of the Idan family. The parents, Roy and Smodar, were murdered. The older brother and sister hid in a closet, and Zlitalavi Gael was kidnapped to Gaza and later released. Pence, who received a full update about what happens that morning, has one clear message to the world regarding the abductees. I think the time has come for the United States of America to send a very clear message, not just to Hamas, but to Iran. The United States and our allies will hold Iran accountable until the hostages are released. Pence served as Vice President of Donald Trump, a conservative Republican, a great friend of Israel. He came here not only to express his support, but also to offer help. It's not a secret that there are some disagreements between the Israeli government and the Biden administration. Do you think it would have been different if it would have been a Republican administration? I'm pleased that our administration has continued to provide resources to Israel, but I think any message other than that we will support the decisions that are made by the elected leadership and by the military here in Israel to secure this nation, to end the terrorist threat of Hamas from Gaza. That needs to be the message from the United States. The tour in Sterot started at the destroyed police station, where the battle that took place became one of the city's symbols of heroism. Pence lit a candle in the memory of the victims. Accompanied by the speaker of the Israeli parliament, he met with the abductees' families. They asked him for help to put pressure on the Red Cross. Hamas came through that fence line to kill Jews. I know of no other definition of genocide than to target a people because of who they are. Next week we are being drugged by South Africa to the International Court of Justice, blaming us for committing genocide over Palestinian. I think Israel and the United States should denounce any action to use the international Court of Justice, the United Nations, to equate the unprovoked genocidal attack of Hamas on the Jewish people with Israel's actions in self-defense. If Israel was in the business of genocide on October 8th, there was not a single person in the Gaza Strip. So what we do now is to eradicate Hamas, eradicate Hamas's military and governmental capabilities. This is what the IDF is doing. Pence also called on the international community to stop using a double standard regarding Israel. Many hostages still inside Gaza were abducted from that Nova Music Festival near Rehim on the 7th of October, exactly three months ago. The hostages and the missing family forum members arranging an event at the site of that massacre. Our Middle East correspondent, Ariel Oceran, was there speaking to relatives of the hostages. Let's take a listen to his report. I tried to imagine the feeling that I'll have when I'll be here. I thought it would be different. I thought it would be easier because I feel like I know everything here. I saw so many videos and so many pictures and had so many stories that it almost felt like I know everything. But the second I just stepped into this area felt different. Visiting this beautiful woods outside Kibbutz Rehim near the Gaza border is an emotional roller coaster. It's the site of the deadly Nova Music Festival. And on October 7th, his brother Ol and sister-in-law Enav arrived just minutes before it was stormed by dozens of Hamas terrorists. Part of his need to know everything as he describes it led him to find a video that depicts Ol and Enav's last moments together. They stood close to the wall inside a bomb shelter. I didn't see what happened inside when those monsters threw the grenades and sprayed bullets into the shelter. But I can imagine. I can understand from the stories. He was in front of him. He saw it. He saw his wife being murdered in front of him. And then taken to Gaza. And then taken to Gaza. Michail has not heard a word regarding his brother's condition since that day exactly three months ago. All he knows is that Ol was taken alive and uninjured. The reason Ol and Enav arrived in the morning of the party and not the night before when it began was because they wanted to spend the night with their two-year-old son, Almog, who they left at his grandparents before heading out to Rahim at dawn. Now, Almog is essentially an orphan, not knowing if and when his father will return. He misses them. He calls them all the time. He wants to go home. He starts crying when someone mentioned the words, the words, dad or mom. It's as simple as that. He can understand that they are not here. I'm not sure how much of this he can understand, but he understands that they are not here with him. Michail is just one sibling of a kidnapped hostage who came to this now hollowed ground for an event arranged by the Hostage Family Forum. This was the dance floor at the Nova Music Festival where 364 partygoers were murdered, raped and mutilated by Hamas terrorists and Gaza locals on a dreadful October 7th. The air here is thicker. It's genuinely harder to breathe walking through here. Now, these are their faces. Most of them are gone for good, but for some, there's still hope to return home, but time is running out. Besides a mock bar, bullet shells on the ground and the playlist from that day blaring in the background, the event also included a speech by 18-year-old Itai Regev, who was taken hostage with his sister Maya from the festival. Both were freed after more than 50 days in the tunnels of Gaza. Some of his friends, who were taken from the party, remain in captivity. I was in captivity for 45 days, and every day there is like forever. The conditions there are very, very hard to survive. The hostages cannot stay there for one more second. They all have to return home now. Asaf Pozniak lost two of his relatives at the Nova Festival. His sister-in-law's two sisters, Hoda'ya and Tahir, were initially believed missing following October 7th. Their burnt bodies were found six days later in the nearby woods. Since then, Asaf has been very active in the family's forum. From the first week, I've been working like crazy to try and bring Hoda'ya and Tahir. They were at my wedding in June, and I remember thinking how amazing it would be to attend their weddings. Unfortunately, that dream has died. With negotiations over a second phase of hostage release faltering, both Asaf and Mikhail remain optimistic that the hostages will return and soon. I'm hopeful. I wake up every morning with that hope, even when there are more difficult days, in which we hear the terrible news of another hostage killed in captivity. Close to 20 hostages murdered by Hamas, and the brave soldiers who risked their lives to bring back the hostages. We expect from the government to present an Israeli initiative to bring back all of the hostages, and not to play by Hamas' dune. It's not hope. I know he will be back. It's just a matter of time. That's it. I know he'll be back, and I can sled on stage. I will do everything to bring him back, even if it means to turn the world upside down. As we are talking about right now, Israelis are highlighting the plight of the hostages who have been in captivity in Gaza since that Hamas rampage and abduction on the 7th of October. However, there is a lesser known Ethiopian Israeli hostage who has been in the hands of Hamas since 2014, Avera Mingistu. For several years now, an Ethiopian artist has dedicated her life to painting Mingistu and is visiting Hostage Square regularly to make sure his name is never forgotten. More from our Emily Francis. I was born in Ethiopia and was brought here during Operation Moses. I arrived when I was two years old. Artist Michal Wurka has had a passion for painting her entire life. I think that I started to paint from when I was nine years old. It was something that occupied my mind and brought me quiet. One of only 170,000 Ethiopian Jews living in Israel, Michal turned her paintbrush into a purpose bigger than herself. I started to paint Avera in 2017. During the years, I thought about him a lot. Now I'm thinking about him and his family even more. After October 7th, Avera occupies my mind all the time. In 2014, after his brother died, a grieving Avera Mingistu crossed into northern Gaza on his own and was later taken hostage by Hamas terrorists. I am the captive Avera Mingistu. How much longer will I have to be here in captivity, me and my friends? Last year, Hamas released this video of a mumbling Mingistu, who is one of two Israeli hostages held by Hamas since 2014, along with the remains of two IDF soldiers who were killed. My family and I decided to be patient, to allow the Israeli government to give the time to work to bring my brother home. I think that Avera is interesting, also in a visual way. Many years have passed since he was kidnapped. So we can see a difference between the pictures of him, his face changes. Also, his mother and father interest me. We can see their changes. We can see their mental state just by looking at their faces because it's like getting inside their pain. Since October 7th, Michal has gone several times a week to hostage square to raise awareness that Avera has been in Hamas captivity since 2014. And even though there are a few posters of Avera in hostage square, Michal is saddened that the government of Israel has not done enough to bring him home. I think there's something racist here. I see the way they treat Avera. It's not something that I'm not familiar with. I know how the authorities treat Ethiopian Jews, but I don't want to concentrate on this. I think his life is the most important thing. Now this is the most important thing. Later we'll discuss racism. Michal, who traveled to Ethiopia and South Africa to gain inspiration, fine-tuned her use of color and realism, and spends as long as a month on her bigger paintings. And she shares her work on her Instagram page. But until the hostages come home, Michal will continue to give a voice to Avera and hopes to have an exhibition of her work. I didn't know if they knew about it, and I know that they know that many people care about him. It's important that they'll know that people care about him and say his name. Emily Francis, I-24 News. It's been 100 days since the trauma that rocked Israel. More than 1200 dead, more than 5,000 wounded, over 160,000 displaced. Join I-24 News for our special coverage on January 14, marking 100 days since the massacre of October 7. Follow us on the border with Gaza for first-hand accounts of eye witnesses, survivors, and fighters. 100 days of war, January 14, 9 p.m. local, only on I-24 News.