 been hit, including rocket systems, command centers, strategic infrastructure sites, and underground targets. Hundreds of terrorists have also been eliminated. The retaliatory strikes come as Hamas continues its rocket launches on Israeli cities, with the Israeli death toll from their combined onslaught at over 900 people. More than 2,700 people have been wounded. The Israeli health ministry updating that 129 of whom are in serious and critical condition. Hamas terrorists saying on Monday that every strike on the strip without prior warning will be met with an Israeli hostage executed on film. Here's the IDF spokesperson providing an update on the intelligence and coordination efforts with Israel's staunchest supporters, namely the United States. The Chief of Staff spoke yesterday with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Brown. This is after another conversation he had yesterday with the head of the US Central Command. General Corrilla, we work with them in full operational coordination. This coordination has many expressions, operational expressions, and practical expressions. The Americans speak in actions. The American forces who have arrived in the Mediterranean are powerful forces with an aircraft carrier, with dozens of planes, with vessels, with thousands of missiles and weapons. And the coordination between us is very close. Joining me here in studio is Olivier Raffovitz, a senior security and military consultant and a fellow at the Jerusalem Institute of Strategy and Security, as well as Daniel Pomeranz, the CEO of Reality Check, and a legal expert, as well as political analyst. Gentlemen, thank you very much for being here with me this morning. Olivier, we are getting reports about an incident in the Upper Galilee, the IDF ordering residents to stay indoors. What more do we know? Good morning. First of all, today I'm also in the capacity of being the spokesman of the Israeli Army, as you see with my uniform. We are facing possible infiltration in the north. And since yesterday, it's more of intense. And we are getting for more information. But the northern border is still very, very tense. And we have a lot of forces along the border. And as a matter of security of the people, like you just mentioned, the population should be and stay safely in the safe room in the home for now. Dayana, I want to bring you into the conversation here because there's an issue, obviously, of course, on the southern border, now possibly a multifaceted one on the northern border. But it's not just Israelis that are facing the wrath of a terrorist organization like Hamas. There's been numerous reports from foreign embassies of their citizens in Israel who either are full citizens or have dual nationalities that are involved. Yes, that's true. We all know about the attack that happened. What a lot of people don't know about is the literally hundreds of attempted attacks that have been thwarted by sea, land, and air. This really is an attempt at an entire genocide and end to the state of Israel. Now, that's not going to happen. The IDF is working effectively and is quite strong. But it is the attempt, and it is the intention of Hamas to do that. In terms of the hostages, they include people from numerous countries around the world, including Americans, Europeans, people from Thailand, and other places as well, who all happened to be in Israel at the time. What's notable, though, is that, you know, I think Hamas came into this with the memories of Gilad Shalit and Israel willing to do anything and everything to bring back hostages. Now, Israel is acting. Hamas is threatening to kill hostages unless Israel stops, and Israel is continuing to act. That, I think, is not something Hamas expected, but it is something that the Israeli public supports. And it's an entirely new way of doing business by the IDF. Gentlemen, stay with us. I want to just update the audience that there has been strikes at the moment in the south of Israel, including in Starrot and along the Gaza border. Our correspondent, Nicole Siddik, was near the Israel-Gaza border, the Israeli military, currently moving her and the team down there as it is still an active military zone, with strikes now being reported as well. She filed this report for us just a short while, just a little short while before that, before she was being moved. Again, our correspondent's in the south having to carefully follow through the IDF, and I'll discuss that in a minute with Olivier Rafovitz here in studio as to how the media is reporting on the front lines, perhaps not as important as the army, but definitely right there. Take a look at her report. This is the scene here near the Gaza border of a desert party that was taking place into the early hours Saturday morning. Hundreds of festival goalers all in this field here before they were gunned down by dozens of Hamas terrorists who infiltrated through the Gaza border. You can see major scenes of destruction here. Cars completely burned to a crisp. Nothing left but them glass everywhere in the background. I see these festival tents. I see places where drinks were being distributed. All these people out here celebrating before we see these horrific scenes of them running through these fields behind me here, trying to run away from the active gunfire. Now these fields completely burned to a crisp. There is trash, there are bullet holes, there is glass aligning these fields now. More than 200 bodies have been found after this festival as people were out here celebrating together. We're hearing horrific scenes, all of the cars. So lining parking lots for meters away from here is really soldiers continue to patrol the scene because as you can see throughout all of this destruction here near the Gaza border, there remains active terrorists in the area. So this is one of the deadliest massacre scenes that we have here at the Gaza border, truly sickening. But you can see exactly what happened these early, early hours of the morning when people were coming together, still tense in the background. Cars completely burned to a crisp, nothing left of them. Truly a scene of destruction. And from overhearing from the festival goers that were out here, they say it happened all so quickly. All of them trying to flee through these fields, some of them taken hostage. We're still trying to find updates as to exactly how many people remain, as I said, 260 bodies, 260 people killed right here. And we're told that number could continue to rise as the situation is ever developing here near the Gaza border. Reporting for I-24 News, I'm Nicole Zettick. Reporting near the southern border, we're now gonna cross live to the northern border where our correspondent, Hamda Selkut, is standing by for us. Hamda reports coming out now of a possible incident in the North residents told to stay inside their homes or to shelter indoors with the doors and the windows sealed and locked. What's happening on the ground at the moment? Is there any updates from where you're standing? Right, Bajesa, the internal ministry in towns in the eastern sector of the border with Lebanon are asked to stay in shelters, stay far away from their windows and their doors as suspected infiltrations continue to happen here along the northern border, also happening in the Galilee, suspected infiltrations there. The Israeli army is extremely cautious about the possibility of more militants coming in from southern Lebanon to wreak havoc on a new front that they're wanting to start. The Palestinian factions operating out of southern Lebanon have been continuously saying that they are ready to fight. If Hezbollah leads the mission here in the north, the Israeli army has continuously asked us to move, which is why every hour we are at a different location. It's because they're really trying to seal off parts of the northern border where there could be infiltrators. Yesterday, an Israeli soldier killed several others severely wounded after two members of Palestinian Islamic jihad opened fire on them, continuous exchanges of fire between Hezbollah militants and Israeli forces throughout the night. But here now, the Israeli military urging caution to residents to stay indoors as the front for this war expands. Correspondent Hamdas Al-Khud there in Israel's north. Thank you very much for that update. Still with me in studio is Olivier Rafovitz and Daniel Pomerance, gentlemen. I wanna touch a little bit on at least what's happening with journalists in the field. And Olivier, perhaps you can shed some light on this. The military, no doubt, has a difficult job ahead of them with regards to the defensive operations. However, the media at this point, in particular with the atrocities that are happening, needs to be on the ground to be able to broadcast to the world what's happening. But are they, for lack of a better word, a hindrance in the army trying to clear out active scenes versus them also doing the important work that they're doing in terms of filming this footage to get out to the world? I would tell that there is a tension between the willingness to show the atrocities to the world that make them understand what we are facing right now from Hamas and from the other side because we are a democracy, because we are a country of respect for a human being and for humanity. It's very difficult for us to promote this image to be shown. So it's a mix. But right now what we are talking, hundreds of journalists are coming to Israel from all over the world to cover this situation. It's between sideration and between interest to see what's going on and what will be the next step, of course, against Hamas in the North. I've just mentioned now with such, I would say, fragile situation, but the press is open to see wherever they want to go. And the army is open also. I'm now a part of a unit trying to help the journalists to do their job, also to secure the people because there is a problem of security. And we also ask people to be careful to keep safe, even if there is a first goal to see and to show what's going on in the North and the South. Because I think the issue of the atrocities, as you know, hundreds of videos are circulating on the social network mostly from the Hamas side at the beginning. And we deal with that, we don't react, but it shows that the Hamas wanted just to show what they are doing when they killed, when they were decapitated people, when they were, so it's also very difficult to understand when you have 1,000 terrorists happy to show when they kill. And it's the first time I think, if I remember, where terrorists want to show what they are doing to the world, proud to show these atrocities when they kill women, children, elders. For us as a state of Israel, we don't know such a behavior. But right now we are facing this behavior and I'm telling you, we are going to destroy this Hamas regime. We are going to destroy the semi-jad groups in the Gaza Strip. It will take time. It won't be easy. As you see, there are still rockets falling on Israel. And we have a lot of casualties, a lot of wounded from the beginning, more than 1,000. Even if the figures are not finalized, but the state of Israel is really determined to go to this war, to win the war and to change radically the situation. Daniel, it's difficult to listen to what Rafale is saying in terms of annihilating the Hamas terror organization in the Gaza Strip. An organization that was elected by the people decades ago in order to be able to rule the Strip, obviously, with whatever terror means that entailed. But my worry is that once Israel starts their retaliation, the international media that I have not seen in the years that I have been a journalist, in particular CNN, BBC, slowly starting to come to the table of being a little bit more kind, if you will, to Israel, that that is going to flip on its head with words of what Rafale is saying. And again, I'll point out, Rafale was not speaking about the citizens of Gaza that are undoubtedly going to be used as human shields. They have no way to hide. And Hamas doesn't want them to hide because they need them there for collateral damage. But what do you suspect is going to happen with the media? Do we, as Jews, as Israelis, as human beings, have a right to turn around and say, we need to annihilate Hamas? And is that going to fire back at us? We're also currently looking at live visuals in Gaza. We can see airstrikes happening in the center of the Strip there. What are your thoughts here? Well, we already have some hints of what are happening. I've seen reports in the Associated Press and in Reuters using statements over 1,000 people have been killed on both sides. That's like saying that on 9-11, over 3,000 people were killed on both sides, including the hijackers. I've seen interviews with Hamas representatives saying, of course, we don't kill civilians. That's against our values. And those statements went entirely unchallenged. I've seen op-eds that have been accusing Israel of creating the conditions that caused this, as if Israeli somehow deserved it. And those have also gone unchallenged. So that already gives us a clue as to what may be coming in the international press. But that said, I don't think Israel should be shy about expressing its intentions. Both Hamas, the Arab world, and the international governments of the world need to know what Israel is prepared to do. And ultimately, Israel's goal needs to be just creating the appropriate messaging around why destroying the Hamas organization is necessary. And part of that messaging, I want to make a point here. You mentioned that Hamas was elected, and they were. And the Palestinian people do have some responsibility to that. But they were elected to be one power in a government with other parties. They then murdered the opposition parties in Gaza and then didn't hold elections for almost 20 years. The reason I point this out is not to reduce responsibility from anyone who may have voted for them, but to point out that Hamas does not have the legitimacy of a true government that actually represents anyone other than themselves and their genocidal ideology. Gentlemen, stay with me. I want to continue this conversation. But I do want an update from our senior defense correspondent Jonathan Regiff, who is in Shafayim in central Israel. Jonathan reports are coming out now ahead of a coalition meeting. The Justice Minister calling for a unity government. Get on, sir, an opposition member of parliament. Also calling for what is undoubtedly a unified war cabinet. What are we expecting to see unfold from the political point of view being day four into this war? I think, I don't know if we can, but at least we should expect from our politicians to form a government altogether. We heard from Benny Gantz yesterday saying that they're ready to go into a coalition, a war coalition, war government, as long as he and his party are given a real leverage in decision making. And let's remember, in Benny Gantz's party, there are two former chiefs of staff. It's Benny Gantz himself. And he got the Eisencote, both two former chiefs of staff. So whether it will really happen or not will have to wait and see. The notion is that it will happen, especially now that we're hearing calling from the coup itself. You mentioned Yarev Levine, probably one of the first voices that we hear from within the government other than the defense minister and the prime minister who's actually speaking because all of the rest of them are completely quiet. And I think that we can perhaps expect some kind of a wartime government. Having said all that, if we've learned anything from the past year, is that in the Israeli political spectrum, we cannot really be sure of anything. And Jonathan, staying on the topic of unity, the Health Ministry is calling on doctors to possibly help with burials and burial certificates. The Iqilov Hospital in the center of the country is calling for those who can donate type O blood to come down to the clinic to be able to do that. I believe you're in the center at the moment at a hotel that is housing residents from the South. Talk to us a little bit about the coming together of Israelis, particularly in the center of the country, to assist their brothers and sisters in the South. You mentioned blood donating, and on Sunday I was in the center of donations of blood at the Shiba Hospital. People were waiting in lines for up to three hours to donate blood. It got to such a point that at a certain point, all the people who do not have the O blood type were told to leave simply because there was too much of it. And even those people with O blood type eventually were told to leave because there's too much of that as well. So that's quite encouraging. It's the same story as far as I heard at the blood. It was the same story at the Blood Donation Center in Jerusalem. The private sector, both institutions and private people have come together in every sense donating everything possible from blood to blankets to clothes to anything to food to anything you mentioned. Private institutions, private people are donating practically everything. The governmental institutions are now beginning also to pick up the pace. But just like anything, it took governmental institutions a lot of time to start and act. Private people, private institutions were much quicker. Our senior defense correspondent Jonathan Regev reporting from the center of the country. Thank you for that update. Still with me in studio, Olivier Rafferwitz, as well as Daniel Pomeranz. Olivier, we've been covering quite a bit the fact that 300,000 reservists, of which yourself is included, have now been called out. There has been reports of Israeli, well, at least, Air Force planes taking off in order to go and bring back reservists and on duty commanders that were on vacation for the Sukhoth holidays in Europe. Are we capable? I understand that there has been sort of a confidence shutter to the Israeli army. Are we capable of facing a war similar to 1967, similar to 1973 on all our borders? I think your question is very important. I would like to answer it. First, we have to be very humble and we have to be very focused. We're not going to be too enthusiastic about our capabilities. We're not going to say a thing that we don't stand behind them. We are the army of the state of Israel, the only army that the state of Israel has. And right now, beside the regular army, the standing army, 300,000 people have been mobilized, women and men, in all the units, much more on the way to join the army. We are facing a war. It will be a long war. It will be a war that we have never faced before. We are going to destroy. I'm just saying that just was mentioned by the prime minister and minister of defense. We are going to destroy Hamas, not just to attack Hamas, to destroy Hamas regime and people from Hamas in the Gaza Strip. And wherever we are going to face them. We have also the goal to face any threat from the north in the case that Hezbollah will have the bad intention, bad decision to attack or to do something, we will also destroy them. Now, other countries are looking and watching very carefully what's going on in Israel. I'm talking about the Iranian, about the Syrians on other countries like that. So it is a war. All the forces of the country are right now mobilized for it. The Jewish people abroad is also joining the force, meaning that if they want to support, to help, they will help and they will support. I would say that it's also a timing of togetherness with one and only one goal. To protect and defend the Jewish state and to win the war. The price will be high. We have already paid a very high price. Our most around 1,000 people have been killed. Many youngsters, women, kids, elders, thousands have been wounded among them in a very critical condition. The art of the people in Israel now are in a bad situation, bad, demoral, and demotivation. Move all of us to do what we have to do. So to your question, yes, we're going to do what we have to do and we're going to win. It's not a 6-day war. It's not a people war. It's another war. It's another challenge for the state of Israel. But as you know, when we are together, and when the army is mobilized like it is today, like I am, like my brothers, my sons, like all of us, there is nothing that can just stop the state of Israel. And I just came now from Tel Aviv, the center. I met people. People just saw me. I don't know them. And they wanted to talk to me. They wanted just to give me like a hug. And they told me, please convey to the soldiers, to the youngsters, in the army and the field, good luck. And I'm not now just talking about just words. I'm talking about the relatives of the state of Israel. When we're in war, so we understand that there is no choice to win the war. And the enemies understand that when the state of Israel is in war, nothing can really prevent us to win. And again, it will be a long war. It will be a war with tears. It will be a war with a complex situation like we are just facing in the last days. But we have the capability, and we have the willingness, and we will win the war. There is no other choice for us. And Daniel, one of the complex issues that media organizations, the IDF spokesperson's unit is facing at the moment, is to get these videos out, the atrocities. There's always a distinction at the moment between Palestinians versus the terror organization of Hamas. There are not one in the same. There's also been critics coming out and saying that we cannot put Jews and Israelis in the same bracket either. Yet, Jews in the diaspora are currently facing targets. People that think that they can come out and make use of this situation and support the Palestinian cause, as they're calling it, and attack Jews. Does this put to rest the claim that anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism are not one in the same? Evidently, they must be. Well, I think the claim should have been put to rest a long time ago. Zionism is the idea that Jewish people have the same rights as everybody else to self-determination, which means anti-Zionism is the idea that Jews do not have the same rights as everybody else. Now, how you can say that Jews don't have the same rights as other humans and say that that isn't anti-Semitism is simply incomprehensible. But there are Arabs in Israel, these attacks in Israel were motivated by the fact that Israel is a Jewish state. That's why the attacks happened. At the same time, there are Arabs in Israel who are donating blood, donating money, serving in the IDF. There are also Arabs who are supporting Hamas. There's a range of people. Israel was attacked because it's a Jewish country, but Israel's defense is going to be a defense of all of the people of Israel. That said, Jews abroad are facing incredible challenges. It's, there are protests in Times Square where people are waving Palestinian flags alongside Swastikas. And the anti-Semitic, Nazi-based ideology is very much a part of the current conversation. And definitely something we're going to speak about and find Olivier Rapovich, Daniel Pomerance, thank you very much for being with us on this breaking news edition of the I-24 News Disc. Since the beginning of my work here in the I-24 News channel, I've been involved with a lot of work in the channel. I haven't been involved in the content of the channel or in the studio, but in the streets of Morocco. I visited Morocco a year ago to open a channel office in Arribat. I was surprised by the number of people who personally know me and follow me on the channel. When I was traveling in the capital of Arribat and the White House, and the city of Fas and Marrakesh, many of the people came to me and talked to me about the I-24 News channel. There was a person who told me that he is always following me on the channel's screen and some of them were trying to help us in our work in the channel and what I'm presenting to them. These moments were very influential for me and in the scope of my dream, especially when I found that I loved people working in the I-24 News channel. After my return from this special trip, I recommended the channel's management to make a special program related to the country's issues in Morocco. And indeed, since the most famous ones, we started with the Sahara Al-Kubra program, the program that explains and discusses the most important issues and details related to the North of Africa. The great love that I had for Morocco made me pray for more and more people to get involved in this region. And then a hundred soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped. Help us, we don't want to do it. We just don't know anything. Entire families, including babies and children and elderly were butchered in their beds. Awaken the giant and we are ready and we are strong. Everyone is showing up. This is the unity. Welcome to another Breaking News edition here on the I-24 News Desk. I'm Ati Leventhal. Thanks for joining me as we continue to report on the unfolding details of Hamas' surprise attack on Israel as the war enters its fourth day. Israel is continuing its airstrikes in the Gaza Strip as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that its response to Hamas' massacre on Saturday will reverberate with them for generations. Thousands of terror targets have been hit, including rocket systems, command centers, strategic infrastructure sites and underground targets. Hundreds of terrorists have also been eliminated. The retaliatory strikes come as Hamas continues its rocket launches on Israeli cities with the Israeli death toll from their combined onslaught at over 900 people. More than 2,700 people have been wounded. The Israeli health ministry updating that 129 of whom are in serious and critical condition. Hamas' terrorists saying on Monday that every strike on the Strip without prior warning will be met with an Israeli hostage executed on film. Here's the IDF spokesperson providing an update on the intelligence and coordination efforts with Israel's staunchest supporters, namely the United States. The chief of staff spoke yesterday with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Brown. This is after another conversation he had yesterday with the head of the US Central Command, General Karilla. We work with them in full operational coordination. This coordination has many expressions, operational expressions, and practical expressions. The Americans speak in actions. The American forces who have arrived in Mediterranean are powerful forces with an aircraft carrier, with dozens of planes, with vessels, with thousands of missiles and weapons. And the coordination between us is very close. Joining me here in studio is Olivier Raffovitz, a senior security and military consultant and a fellow at the Jerusalem Institute of Strategy and Security, as well as Daniel Pomerance, the CEO of Reality Check and a legal expert, as well as political analyst. Gentlemen, thank you very much for being here with me this morning. Olivier, we are getting reports about an incident in the Upper Galilee, the IDF ordering residents to stay indoors. What more do we know? Good morning. First of all, today I'm also in the capacity of being the spokesman of the Israeli Army, as you see with my uniform. We are facing possible infiltration in the North. And since yesterday, it's more intense. And we are getting for more information. But the northern border is still very, very tense. And we have a lot of forces.