 Thank you for tuning in, sorry for that delay, we had some technical issues here. The IDF has been attacking Hamas targets in Gaza overnight, specifically Hamas tunnels that have been built to smuggle terrorists and weapons from Gaza to Israel and to Egypt. US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will arrive in Israel today, and growing regional tensions in Washington's commitment to support Israel in defending itself from Hamas, Hezbollah and Iranian aggression. More and more families in Israel have been receiving notices about their missing family members. As of today, more than 1,200 Israelis have been confirmed murdered by Hamas, and more than 3,000 have been injured. Overnight there were no rockets fired at Israel from Gaza or from Syria or Lebanon. UN Secretary General Antonio Gutierrez has called Israel to allow humanitarian assistance to end Gaza that has suffered more than 900 deaths since Israel began its retaliatory attack. The Israeli parliament will today approve the entry of former Minister of Defense Mene Gans's opposition, National Unity Party into the war cabinet and the government. We are fighting with all our strengths on all fronts. We went on an offensive. Every Hamas member is a dead man. Hamas is ISIS, and it will be crushed and eliminated just as the world crushed and eliminated ISIS. The state of Israel will be the strongest state in the region. It has the most powerful army in the world. It has the best people in the world. We see it with one plane after another, full of young men coming back to defend their home. And they already feel this force in Gaza, and they will feel it in Lebanon if needed, and the whole world will see it. Robert Swift is our correspondent at the northern border between Israel and Lebanon. Our eyes are also on that front. Robert, what's the update this morning? Ariel, just in the last hour, the IDF has announced that it is sending reinforcements to this area, troops that it is drawing from its reserves. The IDF in the last few days called up the largest call-up of reserve forces in its history, and following the events of yesterday where tensions spiked on this northern border, many of those reinforcements are now being sent here. Now there was already a heavy troop presence, but in light of the security situation it appears that the IDF believes it needs additional forces here. It said that these numbers would be boosted over the coming week, so it's not clear that all of these will arrive immediately, but it's likely that troop numbers here on the ground will start to scale up in the coming days. And Robert, let's devote a minute or two to the incidents last night. One of them was a suspected drone entrance from Lebanese skies into Israel. I understand this morning we all do that this was false, but other than that, what's the latest from last night in that front? That's correct. Around the early evening there was an alarm went out that around 15 to 20 suspected drones had penetrated into Israel's northern skies. As you said, this was called off later, it was said to be a false alarm, but that didn't stop millions of Israelis being sent to their bomb shelter with a message flashing up on their phone of hostile aircraft above. Now that was not the only event which took place, it was not just a false alarm. It was also an anti-tank missile fired by Chizbola at IDF forces a little earlier in the day that happened around mid-afternoon with the IDF retaliating with aircraft and artillery fire in response to that attack. Also on one final point, there was around about the same time as the false alarm related to the drones, there was a rocket which landed in the northern area. That was actually a long range rocket fired from Gaza, which made it up into this area. Thank you, Rob. We'll be back with you later. And of course, keep us posted with any developments there. Felyr Rashami, former senior intelligence officer joins us now in studio. Thank you very much. Meanwhile, we're hearing of IDF activity in Janine in the refugee camp there. It's become almost a daily affair here in Israel in the last few months. Anything out of the ordinary that we should be alarmed about in that front? Well, strangely enough, we are reassured that it's the usual routine of getting into Janine or into Naples and arresting terrorists and fighting with them. But really, the situation is under control. The central command is holding the West Bank under control. We can be happy and surprised that there is not much happening there. The Hamas has been calling time and again on all the social networks, on all the radios wherever it could, for Palestinians to uprise. There is zero uprising. There's just a few guys demonstrating in the streets, but not even that much. So there is no, but that has been the failure of the Hamas for many years. They have called for a uprising in the West Bank that has never happened. I think by today a lot of Palestinians living in the West Bank who have cousins living in Gaza know exactly what the score is with the Hamas. They're not in a hurry to have the Hamas ruling them. Also we have to notice that Mr Abu Mazen and the PLO have a lot, a lot to gain from this war because they might recuperate the rule over Gaza. Once we have finished with the Hamas, who are we going to put in place? What are we going to do? So two questions there, Rafael. One of, first of all, Hamas is gaining power in the West Bank according to surveys. One of the reasons why Israel prevented and the Palestinian Authority prevented the election rounds from taking place in the West Bank is out of fear that Hamas will actually gain power in the West Bank. First question. Second question. Can Israel really topple the Hamas regime and change it with the PA, the Palestinian Authority from the West Bank, the Fatah? Yes. First of all, what we're talking about is polls, statistics, guesses about the Palestinian elections. I really disagree with the evaluation that the Hamas would win the elections in the West Bank. I think it's misreading of the social map and the psychological feeling of the Palestinian streets. But maybe, maybe. What I do believe to answer the second question is that once, if the objective of this operation of this war is to dismantle the Hamas once and for all, then we have to find somebody else to rule Gaza, even if the Hamas is not completely destroyed. It will not be in the States to rule Gaza. And you can, anyway, replace. You can do a coup and replace the regime. That's what we wanted to do in the First Lebanese War, right? We wanted to... Yeah, but we've seen how these attempts rolled out in Iraq and Afghanistan. Okay, but here the difference is that there is a Palestinian autonomy. There is a Palestinian autonomy ruled by capital in Ramallah and by government in Ramallah, who is supposed to, when it was, at one point after the Oslo agreements in charge of Gaza as well, Gaza was part of this Palestinian entity. So why not bring it back to square one, to what it was? I am sure the PLO would be very happy to do so. In Gaza today, there are many PLO members still there, PLO staff in a lot of the administration. There are PLO members who might cooperate with the IDF when we go in to dismantle the Hamas. It's their arch-rival. I mean, they have a lot, a lot to gain from this war that we're wedging for them against the Hamas. It reinforces them. We're also counting on other resistance in a position in style. The Gaza Strip to help us in the underground. And the day after, people are always speaking of the day after. If the objective is to annihilate the Hamas, then we have to find some kind of somebody else to take hold of Gaza. And if the objective is not that, then this war is useless. Okay. Rafael, you're showing me. Thank you. I want to turn to Ariel Al-Saran in Sederot. Ariel, so far, no alarms this morning or shelling, as far as I understand. Give us the latest from that front. Ariel, well, about a half hour ago, there was a rocket launched towards the northern part of the West Bank. Hamas said they launched a Tel Aviv, but sirens and were sounded around Ariel in the northern part of the West Bank. Rocket did land in open territory, in open field, but according to emergency services, there were no injuries or no one was hurt from that rocket launch. This just illustrates the tense calm that's going on right now. As you can see around me, there are no locals here in Sederot, which is the biggest town in the community surrounding the Gaza Strip. A lot of security forces, all we see are either security trucks or logistics trucks. And the situation here on the ground, it has been cleaned up a bit more than the situation in recent days, but still everywhere I look around, you can see bullet casings and you can see sometimes dried up pools of blood. And so the city of Sederot is still reeling from what happened on Saturday. You do not see any pedestrians, people walking out on the streets. This is, I won't call it a ghost town, it looks more like a military base. And this is just one example in one community in this area surrounding the Gaza Strip. Ariel, what are the roads leading to Sederot look like? I know you came from the center of the country. According to reports by residents, the whole area surrounding Gaza has been scorched. Yeah, so I mean, first of all, empty streets. It takes about half the time to get here from the center part of Israel. All you see are security cars on the streets. Look, the situation used to be a lot worse. There were cars and bodies on the sides of the road. You didn't, you can really see that now. There were like two traffic circles and you could see a car in the middle, not clear why that car was there. But other than that, most of the horrific scenes have been cleared out. But still, it's the small things. It's the bullet casings. It's the small pools of blood that will take longer to find them all and to clear it up. And for this community to try and pick up the pieces and rebuild itself, it's not there yet because this is still an active war zone. There are still potentially terrorists in all these communities, in this area surrounding the Gaza Strip. The IDF has not ruled that out over the past 24 hours around, between 8 to 10 terrorists have been taken out. As time progresses, it emerges that there are fewer and fewer terrorists that still remain inside Israeli territory. And indeed, the big security presence indicates that that threat is not over. Thank you. Jonathan, reggae of senior defense correspondents, you know that area well surrounding Gaza. And I have to ask, because I've been seeing images of the fence and the 28, I think, entry points that Hamas made throughout the fence. How come this fence that separates Israel and the Gaza Strip is made of barbed wire that is cuttable through? It's something that many Israelis, like myself, that are not on the field, are just astonished by it. There are many questions. The army is currently fighting, but these questions can and should be raised because these communities, all of these cross-border communities have been promised by the army, have been promised by the army that all the defensive means, the best defensive means in the world, are there to protect them. There's an underground barrier, there's an overground barrier, there's iron dome. They've been promised that by the army, they've been promised that by people like me, defense correspondents, because we get the information from the army and we convey the information to the public, and we were wrong, because it is simply not true. How it happened, I don't know yet, but it happened. But again, just to make sure that I understand correctly, are there parts of the wall with Gaza that are concrete wall going down 10, 15 meters, 30 meters, and going up 10, 15 meters? The same way that they go up between Israel and the West Bank, whether you think that they should be there or not, they are concrete walls that are much harder to cut through. Or is it all fences and barbed wires? In parts, in small parts, it is concrete. In very long parts, it's a wall, which is meant to be. It's not just regular barbed wire, but if you put enough explosives, it eventually explodes. And the wall may be good, may be not good, but when paragliders go above it, they cross it. They should be detected, and they were not. And the results, we just stood a realo surround speaking from the South. I was there last night, seeing exactly what we spoke first. Yes, I was there last night and I was there Monday night. The scenes on the roads are different. On Monday night, lots of cars, burnt cars, upside-downs, dead bodies, debris along the road. We saw much less of that yesterday. Having said that, we were taken by the Army to Kibbutz, one of the worst-hit communities. And the scenes there are devastating. We heard Ariel saying that it is way too early for these communities to come back. In many places, for the moment, there's nowhere to come back, because houses are burnt, houses are bombarded. The smell is terrible. It will take, if things even going to get back to normal, and if there is going to be a level of trust between the citizens of those communities and the government and the citizens of those communities and the Army, because they feel no trust whatsoever, even if it happens, this is a process that will take not months, but years, because I saw just one community, the community of Barry, which is physically devastated. And this is just one community, yes, one of the hardest hit, but certainly not the only one. And it's a terrible, terrible scene, and it will take years to rebuild that, physically. I'm not even going to speak about the emotional and the trust level, because that's something that really you cannot measure in numbers. But rebuilding the physical infrastructures will take years and years. Jonathan, thank you. There was also a briefing this morning that you attended by the IDF. What is the latest from there? We do understand that the IDF admits that there was an alert a day before, or about some things, suspicious movements on the side of Hamas in Gaza, not enough to act on. And this, of course, comes after we've heard reports that Egyptian intelligence has worn in the Prime Minister's office. Yes, there were, I don't know if alert is the right word, but there were indications, which no one really picked up. It is clear there was an intelligence, I think failure is not the right word. It is much bigger than failure, a intelligence blackout, complete blackout, because obviously this is not something that someone woke up on Friday afternoon and said, let's go with it. This is an operation that has been planned for months or even longer. Hamas says two years. Two years, and no one detected it. Not only that no one detected it during those two years, there were two operations in Gaza which were directed at the Islamic jihad in which Hamas did not involve itself. Israel interpreted this as Hamas does not want to get into an operation with Israel, thinking this went very well with the notion that Hamas is interested in the Qatari money, is interested in dealing with the Gaza population, and not interested in conflict with Israel. When we now know it's the other way around. They kept themselves from getting involved in these two operations to save all of their means for the major operation, which was launched eventually on Saturday. There were indications, yes, apparently no one really read them because the army was caught completely off guard on Saturday morning, and the army is saying now on many things, the army, not only the army, now it's time to fight, now it's time to win. It will be time to investigate this afterwards. It will be investigated afterwards, judging by the the precedent of the 1973 war with the agranat committee back then, which put all of the failures on the military echelon and not on the political echelon, will it be the same now? I don't know. Whoever did result in Golda Meir resigning. Resigning, not forced to resign, resigning herself. But what will the committees, which will certainly be set up after the war, what will they say? I don't know. But there was a failure, a massive, massive, massive failure. Things were there to happen, and the notion, the words from the army are there There wasn't an alert, there were indications which were not read, and yes, we were caught off guard. Jonathan, thank you. Dr. Elan Volkov is a psychiatrist and director of MindMe Medical Center. Thank you for joining us. I think we will talk more about psychology now, and less about psychiatry specifically, because a lot of children and a lot of parents are concerned for the well-being of their children. A lot of adults are also experiencing trauma, of course, but I want to first ask you for the parents watching us in these days of trauma, and in these days of social media, with so many horrific videos circulating, etc. What are some of your recommendations for families these days, when alarms are sounding and, of course, when the distribution of this type of content is really reaching everywhere? Thank you for having me. Please take a notice of the beautiful sky behind me. We also have nice things happening today, and we should all focus on that and also make sure our children are focusing on those. And I think this situation is kind of the best, worst situation we have ever been in, because the horrors that we see today, they're horrible, but also so many good things are happening right now. I myself have young children, so we are located in Tel Aviv. MindMe Clinic is in Tel Aviv, but we don't have a decent bump shelter, and my daughters have young daughters. They were having all this tension around them, so I took them here to my brothers-in-law, and just as I entered the building, a neighbor whom I never met before saw me with the becks and the mattresses, and he jumped at me and he told me, let me help you. What can we do? Whatever we can do, we will help. And I told him I'm not coming from the south, I'm from Tel Aviv, but he was so eager to help that it just warms your heart. And I think if we emphasize things on that and we show our children how being together makes us stronger and makes us work through those things, we will have a much better chance to grow out of this situation and not only sucking all the horrible, horrible things that are happening right now. Can you give us some tools for better conversations with children and also with ourselves, with our inner children, some better conversations that we can have around this? Because people are traumatized, people have fears. As you said, I see kids that are shaking and shaken by this, of course. So what are some tips for better conversations and grown-ups, of course? Cates and grown-ups, and I think we should gain control on the situation. That means we have to do the same things that we're doing daily, but we should do them better. We should control the amount of information that our children and also us are being forced onto it. Because there's so many information now going through so many channels, we have to limit that. Our children shouldn't sit and watch TV all day long. They shouldn't be on their phones, just like they shouldn't be on their phones on an everyday basis. But now we have limited that better. We should make sure to understand that right now, just like during COVID, they have so much free time. We have to look for different activities for them that will make sure they're not in front of the screens. Once you limit the amount of the information, of the terrible information that they're being receptive to, then you can try and control the information. And how you do that, by making sure what is that that they're looking at right now. You have to sit with your children and make sure that whatever they're doing on their phones, in the limits of what you allow them to do, it is balanced to their age, and it's responsible information and not all the fake news that have been around us lately, those few days, and that it's responsible. What can people do to help themselves? Often people go to sports, for example, in an effort to get some good hormones flowing in the blood and in the body, but beaches are closed, gyms are closed, people are afraid to go outside. What are some activities that people can do in the house to maintain their well-being? So those of you who can meditate, meditation is a perfect tool to lower anxiety. And if you have ADHD or meditation is not very natural for you, you can do active meditation. Active meditation might be a bunch of things. Some people smoke cigars. It's not that we're welcoming smoking, but just sitting an hour and a half with something in a quiet time helps lots of people. Other people run. You can run around your house and you can meditate actively by running. You can play games, you can cook. Whatever makes you stop thinking and just doing something automatically might serve that purpose. And also I would ask myself three questions. I would ask myself, what do I actually know? So because there's so many disinformation out there and there's so many speculations that it just crushes us. So I should ask myself, what do I know? I know right now that we're in war and I know right now that I have to keep working because I have all this responsibility on my patients and on my mid-med therapists. The second question I should ask myself is, what can I do about what I know? For me, it means taking my children to their cousins here in Modin to take the pressure down a bit. And the third question that I have to ask is, what can I do for someone else? OK, we'll have to part here. Helping others is definitely a great thing at any time and especially at a time like this. Thank you very much. We have to part Dr. Ilan Volko. Thank you. Thank you for joining us and thank you, our viewers, for watching. Israel is at war. Since the early hours of the morning, Israel has been facing infiltrations of terrorists, kidnapping of Israelis and a barrage of thousands of rockets emanating from the Gaza Strip, the biggest and bloodiest attack in years. 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The IDF has been attacking Hamas targets in Gaza overnight, specifically Hamas tunnels that have been built to smuggle terrorists and weapons from Gaza to Israel and to Egypt. U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will arrive in Israel today and growing regional tensions in Washington's commitment to support Israel in defending itself from Hamas, Hezbollah and Iranian aggression. More and more families in Israel have been receiving notices about their missing family members. As of today, more than 1,200 Israelis have been confirmed murdered by Hamas and more than 3,000 have been injured. Overnight, there were no rockets fired at Israel from Gaza or from Syria or Lebanon. U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called Israel to allow humanitarian assistance to enter Gaza that has suffered more than 900 deaths since Israel began its retaliatory attack. The Israeli parliament will today approve the entry of former Minister of Defense, Mene Gans' opposition, National Unity Party, into the war cabinet and the government. We are fighting with all our strengths on all fronts. We went on an offensive. Every Hamas member is a dead man. Hamas is ISIS and it will be crushed and eliminated just as the world crushed and eliminated ISIS. The State of Israel will be the strongest state in the region. It has the most powerful army in the world. It has the best people in the world. We see it with one plane after another, full of young men coming back to defend their home. And they already feel this force in Gaza and they will feel it in Lebanon if needed. And the whole world will see it. Robert Swift is our correspondent at the northern border between Israel and Lebanon. Our eyes are also on that front. Robert, what's the update this morning? Ariel, just in the last hour, the IDF has announced that it is sending reinforcements to this area, troops that it is drawing from its reserves. The IDF has, in the last few days, called up the largest call-up of reserve forces in its history and following the events of yesterday where tensions spiked on this northern border. Many of those reinforcements are now being sent here. Now, there was already a heavy troop presence, but in light of the security situation, it appears that the IDF believes it needs additional forces here. It said that these numbers would be boosted over the coming week, so it's not clear that all of these will arrive immediately, but it's likely that troop numbers here on the ground will start to scale up in the coming days. And Robert, let's devote a minute or two to the incidents last night. One of them was a suspected drone entrance from Lebanese skies into Israel. I understand this morning we all do that this was false, but other than that, what's the latest from last night in that front? That's correct. There was, around the early evening, there was an alarm went out that around 15 to 20 suspected drones had penetrated into Israel's northern skies. As you said, this was called off later. It was said to be a false alarm, but that didn't stop millions of Israelis being sent to their bomb shelter with a message flashing up on their phone of hostile aircraft above. Now, that was not the only event which took place. It was not just a false alarm. There was also an anti-tank missile fired by Hezbollah at IDF forces a little earlier in the day that happened around mid-afternoon with the IDF retaliating with aircraft and artillery fire in response to that attack. Also on one final point, there was around about the same time as the false alarm related to the drones, there was a rocket which landed in the northern area. That was actually a long range rocket fired from Gaza, which made it up into this area. Thank you, Rob. We'll be back with you later. And of course, keep us posted with any developments there. Ushami, former senior intelligence officer, joins us now in studio. Thank you very much. Meanwhile, we're hearing of IDF activity in Jenin in the refugee camp there. It's become almost a daily affair here in Israel in the last few months. Anything out of the ordinary that we should be alarmed about in that front? Well, strangely enough, we are reassured that it's the usual routine of getting into Jenin or into Naples and arresting terrorists and fighting with them. But really, the situation is under control. The central command is holding the West Bank under control. We can be happy and surprised that there is not much happening there. The Hamas has been calling time and again on all the social networks, on all the radios, wherever it could, for Palestinians to uprise. There is zero uprising. There's just a few guys demonstrating in the streets but not even that much. So there is no, but that has been the failure of the Hamas for many years. They have called for an uprising in the West Bank that has never happened. I think by today, a lot of Palestinians living in the West Bank who have cousins living in Gaza know exactly what the score is with the Hamas. They're not in a hurry to have the Hamas ruling them. Also, we have to notice that Mr. Abu Mazen and the PLO have a lot, a lot to gain from this war because they might recuperate the rule over Gaza. And once we have finished with the Hamas, who are we going to put in place? What are we going to do? So two questions there, Rafael. One of, first of all, a Hamas is gaining power in the West Bank according to surveys. One of the reasons why Israel prevented and the Palestinian Authority prevented the election rounds from taking place in the West Bank is out of fear that Hamas will actually gain power in the West Bank. First question. Second question. Can Israel really topple the Hamas regime and change it with the PA, the Palestinian Authority from the West Bank, the Fatah? Yes, first of all, what we're talking about is poll statistics, guesses about the Palestinian elections. I really disagree with the evaluation that the Hamas would win the elections in the West Bank. I think it's misreading of the social map and the psychological feeling of the Palestinian street. But maybe, maybe, what I do believe to answer the second question is that once, if the objective of this operation of this war is to dismantle the Hamas once and for all, then we have to find somebody else to rule Gaza. Even if the Hamas is not completely destroyed, it will not be in the states to rule Gaza. And you can, anyway, replace, you can do a coup and replace the regime. That's what we wanted to do in the First Lebanese War, right? We wanted to... Yeah, but we've seen how these attempts rolled out in Iraq and Afghanistan... OK, but here the difference is that there is a Palestinian autonomy. There is a Palestinian autonomy ruled by capital in Ramallah and by government in Ramallah who is supposed to, when it was, at one point after the Oslo agreements, in charge of Gaza as well. Gaza was part of this Palestinian entity. So why not bring it back to square one, to what it was? I am sure the PLO would be very happy to do so. In Gaza today, there are many PLO members still there, PLO staff in a lot of the administration. There are PLO members who might cooperate with the IDF when we go in to dismantle the Hamas. It's their arch-rival. I mean, they have a lot, a lot to gain from this war that we're wedging for them against the Hamas. It reinforces them. We're also counting on other resistance on the opposition in Stein, the Gaza Strip, to help us on the ground. But the day after, people are always speaking of the day after, if the objective is to annihilate the Hamas, then we'll have to find somebody else to take hold of Gaza. And if the objective is not that, then this war is useless. OK, Rafael, you're telling me thank you. I want to turn to Ariel Al-Saran into the road. Ariel, so far no alarms this morning or shelling, as far as I understand. Give us the latest from that front. Right, Ariel. Well, about a half hour ago, there was a rocket launched towards the northern part of the West Bank. Hamas said they launched a Tel Aviv. But sirens were sounded around Ariel and the northern part of the West Bank. Rocket did land in open territory, in open field. But according to emergency services, there were no injuries or no one was hurt from that rocket launch. But this just illustrates the tense calm that's going on right now. As you can see around me, there are no locals here in Stilot, which is the biggest town in the community surrounding the Gaza Strip. A lot of security forces, all we see are either security trucks or logistics trucks. And the situation here on the ground, it has been cleaned up a bit more than the situation in recent days. But still everywhere I look around, you can see bullet casings. And you can see sometimes dried up pools of blood. And so the city of Stilot is still reeling from what happened on Saturday. You do not see any pedestrians, people walking out on the streets. I won't call it a ghost town. It looks more like a military base. But this is just one example in one community in this area surrounding the Gaza Strip. Ariel, what are the roads leading to Stilot look like? I know you came from the center of the country. According to reports by residents, the whole area surrounding Gaza has been scorched. Yeah, so I mean, first of all, empty streets. It takes about half the time to get here from the center part of Israel. All you see are security cars on the streets. Look, the situation used to be a lot worse. There were cars and bodies on the sides of the road. You couldn't really see that now. There were like two traffic circles. And you could see a car in the middle, not clear why that car was there. But other than that, most of the horrific scenes have been cleared out. But still, it's the small things. It's the bullet casings. It's the small pools of blood that that will take longer to find them all and to clear it up. And for this community to try and pick up the pieces and rebuild itself, it's not there yet because this is still an active war zone. There are still potentially terrorists in this area surrounding the Gaza Strip. The IDF has not ruled that out over the past 24 hours. Between 8 to 10 terrorists have been taken out. As time progresses, it emerges that there are fewer and fewer terrorists that still remain inside Israeli territory. But indeed, the big security presence indicates that that threat is not over. Thank you. Jonathan, reggae of senior defense correspondent, you know that area well surrounding Gaza. And I have to ask, because I've been seeing images of the fence and the 28, I think, entry points that Hamas made throughout the fence, how come this fence that separates Israel and the Gaza Strip is made of barbed wire that is cuttable through? It's something that many Israelis, like myself, that are not on the field, are just astonished by. There are many questions. The army is currently fighting, but these questions can and should be raised because these communities, all of these cross-border communities have been promised by the army, have been promised by the army that all the defensive means, the best defensive means in the world are there to protect them. There is an underground barrier. There is an overground barrier. There is iron dome. They have been promised that by the army. They have been promised that by people like me. Defense correspondence, because we get the information from the army and we convey the information to the public. And we were wrong, because it is simply not true. How it happened, I don't know yet, but it happened. But again, just to make sure that I understand correctly, are there parts of the wall with Gaza that are concrete wall going down 10, 15 meters, 30 meters and going up 10, 15 meters? The same way that they go up between Israel and the West Bank, whether you think that there should be there or not, they are concrete walls that are much harder to cut through. Or is it all fences and barbed wire? In small parts, it is concrete. In very long parts, it's a wall, which is meant to be. It's not just regular barbed wire. But if you put enough explosives, it eventually explodes. And the wall may be good, maybe not good. But when paragliders go above it, they cross it. They should be detected. And they were not. And the results, we just heard Ariello Saran speaking from the South. I was there last night, seeing exactly what he spoke first. Yes, I was there last night and I was there Monday night. The scenes on the roads are different. On Monday night, lots of cars, burnt cars, upside-downs, dead bodies, debris along the road. We saw much less of that yesterday. Having said that, we were taken by the Army to Kibbutzbury, one of the worst-hit communities. And the scenes there are devastating. We heard Ariello saying that it is way too early for these communities to come back. In many places, for the moment, there's nowhere to come back because houses are burnt. Houses are bombarded. The smell is terrible. It will take, if things even going to get back to normal. And if there is going to be a level of trust between the citizens of those communities and the government and the citizens of those communities and the army because they feel no trust whatsoever, even if it happens, this is a process that will take not months, but years because I saw just one community. The community of Berry, which is physically devastated. And this is just one community, yes, one of the hardest hit, but certainly not the only one. And it's a terrible, terrible scene. And it will take years to rebuild that. Physically, I'm not even going to speak about the emotional and the trust level because that's something that really you cannot measure in numbers. But rebuilding the physical infrastructures will take years and years. Jonathan, thank you. There was also a briefing this morning that you attended by the IDF. What is the latest from there? We do understand that the IDF admits that there was an alert a day before or about some things, suspicious movements on the side of Hamas in Gaza, not enough to act on. And this, of course, comes after we've heard reports that Egyptian intelligence has worn the prime minister's office. Yes, there were. I don't know if alert is the right word, but there were indications, which no one really picked up. It is clear there was an intelligence, I think failure is not the right word. It is much bigger than failure, a intelligence blackout, complete blackout. Because obviously, this is not something that someone woke up on Friday afternoon and said, let's go with it. This is an operation that has been planned for months or even longer. Hamas says two years. Two years, and no one detected it. Not only that no one detected it, during those two years, there were two operations in Gaza which were directed at the Islamic Jihad in which Hamas did not involve itself. Israel interpreted this as Hamas does not want to get into an operation with Israel, thinking this went very well with the notion that Hamas is interested in the Qatari money, is interested in dealing with the Gaza population, and not interested in conflict with Israel when we now know it's the other way around. They kept themselves from getting involved in these two operations to save all of their means for the major operation, which was launched eventually on Saturday. There were indications, yes, apparently no one really read them because the army was caught completely off guard on Saturday morning. And the army is saying now, on many things, the army, not only the army, now it's time to fight, now it's time to win. It will be time to investigate this afterwards. It will be investigated afterwards, judging by the precedent of the 1973 war with the agranat committee back then, which put all of the failures on the military echelon and not on the political echelon. Will it be the same now? I don't know. However, it did result in Golda Meir resigning. Resigning, not forced to resign, resigning herself. But what will the committees which will certainly be set up after the war, what will they say? I don't know. But there was a failure, a massive, massive, massive failure. Things were there to happen. And the notion, the words from the army are there wasn't an alert. There were indications which were not read. And yes, we were caught off guard. Jonathan, thank you. Dr. Elan Volkov is a psychiatrist and director of MindMe Medical Center. Thank you for joining us. I think we will talk more about psychology now and less about psychiatry specifically because a lot of children and a lot of parents are concerned for the well-being of their children. A lot of adults are also experiencing trauma, of course. But I want to first ask you for the parents watching us in these days of trauma and in these days of social media, with so many horrific videos circulating, et cetera. What are some of your recommendations for families these days when alarms are sounding and, of course, when the distribution of this type of content is really reaching everywhere? Thank you for having me. Please take a notice of the beautiful sky behind me. We also have nice things happening today. And we should all focus on that and also make sure our children are focusing on those. And I think this situation is kind of the best worst situation we've ever been in because the horrors that we see today, they're horrible. But also so many good things are happening right now. I myself have young children. So we are located in Tel Aviv. My clinic is in Tel Aviv. But we don't have a decent bump shelter. And my daughters have young daughters. They were having all this tension around them. So I took them here to Modine, to my brothers-in-law. And just as I entered the building, a neighbor whom I never met before saw me with the backs and the mattresses. And he jumped at me. And he told me, let me help you. What can we do? Whatever we can do, we will help. And I told him, I'm not coming from the south. I'm coming from Tel Aviv. But he was so eager to help that it just warms your heart. And I think if we emphasize things on that and we show our children how being together makes us stronger and makes us work through those things, we will have a much better chance to grow out of this situation and not only sucking all the horrible things that are happening right now. Can you give us some tools for better conversations with children and also with ourselves, with our inner children? Some better conversations that we can have around this, because people are traumatized. People have fears. As you said, I see kids that are shaking and shaken by this, of course. So what are some tips for better conversations? And grown-ups, of course. Kids and grown-ups. And I think we should gain control on the situation. That means we have to do the same things that we're doing daily, but we should do them better. We should control the amount of information that our children and also us are being forced onto it. Because there's so many information now, going through so many channels, we have to limit that. Our children shouldn't sit and watch TV all day long. They shouldn't be on their phones, just like they shouldn't be on their phones on an everyday basis. But now we have limited that better. We should make sure to understand that right now, just like during COVID, they have so much free time, we have to look for different activities for them that will make sure they're not in front of the screens. Once you limit the amount of the information, of the terrible information that they're being receptive to, then you can try and control the information. And how you do that by making sure what is that that they're looking at right now. You have to sit with your children and make sure that whatever they're doing on their phones in the limits of what you allow them to do, it is balanced to their age. And it's responsible information and not all the fake news that have been around us lately, those few days, and that it's responsible. What can people do to help themselves? Often people go to sports, for example, in an effort to get some good hormones flowing in the blood and in the body, but beaches are closed, gyms are closed, people are afraid to go outside. What are some activities that people can do in the house and to maintain their wellbeing? So, those of you who can meditate, meditation is a perfect tool to lower anxiety. And if you have ADHD or meditation is not very natural for you, you can do active meditation. Active meditation might be a bunch of things. Some people smoke cigars. It's not that we're welcoming smoking, but just sitting an hour and a half with something in a quiet time helps lots of people. Other people run, you can run around your house and you can meditate actively by running. You can play games, you can cook. Whatever makes you stop thinking and just doing something automatically might serve that purpose. And also, I would ask myself three questions. I would ask myself, what do I actually know? So, because there's so many disinformation out there and there's so many speculations that it just crushes us. So I should ask myself, what do I know? I know right now that we're in war and I know right now that I have to keep working because I have all this responsibility on my patients and might be therapists. The second question I should ask myself is what can I do about what I know? And for me, it means taking my children to their cousins, here in Modine to take the pressure down a bit. And the third question that I have to ask is what can I do for someone else? Okay, we'll have to part here. Helping others is definitely a great thing at any time and especially at a time like this. Thank you very much. We have to part Dr. Elan Volko. Thank you. Thank you for joining us and thank you, our viewers, for watching. It's of war. This is a very active scene and we need to get in the car as we're talking. More than 100 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. Thank you for joining our ongoing coverage here on I-24 News with events unfolding and the sixth day of Israel's war with Hamas. These are some of the latest updates. Alarms have been sounding around the Gaza Strip in towns and kibbutzes and cities from Sderot to Mefalsim and other areas in the surrounding areas. There have no, so far, no direct hits or reports of damage. Another rocket was fired earlier today all the way from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank close to the city of Ariel in the northern West Bank. There have been no injuries, apparently, that landed in an open area. And that comes after yesterday, Hamas launched a rocket from Gaza to the Carmel near Haifa in the first most distant attack on that city all the way from Gaza. The IDF has been attacking in Hamas, hitting targets overnight, especially Hamas tunnels that have been built to smuggle terrorists and weapons from Gaza to Israel and to Egypt. U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will arrive in Israel today amid growing regional tensions in Washington's commitment to support Israel in defending itself from Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian aggression. More and more families in Israel have been receiving notices about their missing family members. As of today, more than 1,300 Israelis have been confirmed murdered by Hamas and more than 3,000 have been injured. Overnight, there were no rockets fired into Israel from Gaza or from Syria or Lebanon. U.N. Secretary General Antonio Gutierrez has called Israel to allow humanitarian assistance to enter Gaza that has suffered more than 900 deaths since Israel began its retaliatory attack. The Israeli parliament will today approve the entry of former Minister of Defense Benny Gantz's Opposition National Unity Party into the war cabinet and the government. We are fighting with all our strength on all fronts. We went on an offensive. Every Hamas member is a dead man. Hamas is ISIS. And it will be crushed and eliminated, just as the world crushed and eliminated ISIS. The State of Israel will be the strongest state in the region. It has the most powerful army in the world. It has the best people in the world. We see it with one plane after another, full of young men coming back to defend their home. And they already feel this force in Gaza. And they will feel it in Lebanon if needed. And the whole world will see it. With me in studio are Avi Pazner, a former Israeli ambassador to France and Italy and the former world chairman of Karen Hayesot, the United Israel Appeal, and our Jonathan Rega of Senior Defense Correspondent. Thank you very much for being with us, Jonathan. I want to start with you and some updates from the last hour or so. The home command, the chief of the home command is saying that Hamas is narrowing down the scale of attack on Israel by rockets, through rockets, understanding that this is going to be a longer campaign. Yes, that's what Rafi Milo, the chief of the home front command is saying. Hamas understanding we're in for a long campaign is narrowing its daily shootings, understanding that it will be a long campaign and it will need those rockets for the continuation. The rockets are a real menace. They harass Israel, they're a problem, but Israel has found a way to mostly deal with them. Most of the rockets, we have to say, are sent to the southern communities which are practically deserted by now. The problem is, of course, the ground offensive, which may or may not take place. And the fact that there are 200 Israelis trapped somewhere in Gaza, which is a huge problem. Jonathan, we're seeing this morning, a rocket launched all the way to Ariel in the Northern West Bank. And we're seeing a rocket yesterday evening launched at the Carmel in Haifa. We always thought that Haifa was in danger, under danger from Hezbollah. And we've seen that, of course, in the war in Lebanon, the last one, but from Gaza, these are capabilities that Hamas has? I think if the one, I'll call it a sin that the Israeli state and the Israeli security establishment in was underestimate Hamas, I'm sorry. But if they're able to carry out such an attack, which was very successful for them, a very precise attack, then yes, we've underestimated their abilities. And yes, they also have the abilities to send long-range rockets, yes, to the northern part of the areas of Wadi Arra and so, which are roughly about 100 miles to the north of the Gaza Strip. Yes, they do have longer range rockets. Again, it is a menace and it is a problem, but of course, far less of an issue than the fact that 2,000 of their terrorists were able to infiltrate into Israel, killed massacre by now more than 1,000 Israelis, kidnapped hundreds of Israelis to Gaza. That's the main issue. And yes, I think that everybody understands that this will not be something that will end very quickly. Javi Pazna, there seems to be a consensus in Israeli leadership over the fact that Israel should enter with its troops to the Gaza Strip and seriously damage the capabilities of Hamas to govern. Sounds like dismantling Hamas completely is currently the idea. Is there a diplomatic or a military alternative to our soldiers going by foot and in tanks into Gaza, which would mean, as we know, more Israeli casualties? Yes, and the question is if the aim of the war is to dismantle Hamas, to destroy Hamas, so that there is no more Hamas, no more military leadership, no more political leadership, no more economical leadership, no more terrorists of the Hamas. How do you do that? You have to enter. At one point or another, you will have to enter. It may be that after the very heavy bombing going on against Gaza, they will be so tired and their morale so low that some will surrender, many will surrender, or maybe they will surrender, or maybe they will ask to be permitted to leave. I don't know. But at least the threat of land operation in Gaza must be there because we have tried many times. We have tried in 2008 and 2009 and we have tried in 2014 and two years ago. We've tried somehow to leave with them. It's impossible. But what would feel the void? Excuse me? What would feel the void is the idea to help the Palestinian Authority reinstate itself? Fatah? Or Israel? I don't think that Israel wants to occupy Gaza and rule two million Palestinians. I don't think so. One of the options, certainly the Palestinian Authority, another option, maybe an international force of Arab countries who are friendly with Israel like the Emirates, like Egypt, maybe Saudi Arabia. Yes, there is an alternative to Hamas. It doesn't have to be Israel. I don't want Israel to conduct daily life in Gaza. No, absolutely not. But for the time being, we are not yet there. We are not yet there. We have not yet decided really to go ahead with the land operation. Maybe in a week or so when we talk, we will be within a land operation already. For the time being, what is going on is that we are weak. I dread that, Avi Paznell, I dread that moment and so many other Israelis dread that as well because we all have friends and relatives who are in reserves and also in duty in military service and we know what the consequences will be for Israel. I dreaded more than you, Ariel. I have three grandchildren, three grandchildren in the tank corps around Gaza. But we must look at the strategic situation of Israel. Maybe we can weaken them to such an extent in a week or two of bombardment that it will be easier to go in or maybe they will surrender somehow and say, okay, we are ready to leave, let us leave. For the time being, I think we have to pound and pound mercilessly. And with all what we have, we have to pound Gaza and, first of all, to destroy their morale. Then if there is a need for a land operation, it will be. And maybe we won't have to. But one thing is sure, we cannot go back to the situation where the Hamas is our neighbor. We cannot live with the Hamas. It now has been, we have tried for 17 years since they took over the Gaza Strip. It doesn't work. Abib Azna, thank you. Let's turn to Ariel Al-Saran. Insidirot, Ariel, I understand some alarms sounding there in the last hour or so. What is the outcome? Right, so after 12 hours of tense quiet here in the area surrounding the Gaza Strip. Shostowitz, Lebanon. Area that's been targeted multiple times pretty much constantly since Saturday morning. So after 12 hours of a lull, the sirens here in the area surrounding the Gaza Strip are once again blaring. There have been two launches over the past half hour, a little more south where we're standing now. All the while we're hearing reports, but also hearing with our own ears, Israeli continuous strikes in the Gaza Strip. Now earlier we were talking about how this community is still trying to reel from the devastation that took over it, and we talked about how the streets here are still littered with bullets. So I mean, we moved a bit from the last time, from our last hit, just to show that anywhere you walk on the sidewalk here, you see bullet casings, you see broken glass. You see, I mean, this still looks like a war zone that hasn't completely been cleared up. And with a massive military presence here, police, as you can see behind me, forces come, forces go, and this, I mean, this is the biggest town in the area surrounding the Gaza Strip, but it's a ghost town. Not because people don't live here, people are here. There are just, many of them are at home. Yes, many have left to other areas in the country, but everyone, the only people you see here are security forces. The only vehicles you see are emergency vehicles, and this best illustrates the current situation here that these frontline communities are still in a situation of war, given that the area hasn't still been completely cleared of terrorists. There are no indications, specific indications as to where these terrorists might be, but the working assessment is that not all the terrorists who infiltrated Israel through the land border with Gaza on Saturday, not all of them are back in Gaza or dead. There still may be some of them walking around here, waiting for the right time to carry out an operation of whatever sort. We have seen dozens of these terrorists being killed, picked off one by one by Israeli forces who are searching the area, and so the threat still remains, and that's why all we see here are bullet shells, security forces, and emergency vehicles. Arielle, thank you. We now wanna turn to Eyal Waldman. His daughter, Daniella Waldman, was killed at the Nova Music Festival, and I understand that she was there with her boyfriend as well. Eyal, my and our deepest condolences to your family, knowing words can express. How difficult even this is for me at the moment to speak to you. I see your grief, and I'm with you 100%. Do you wanna tell us what happened? So Daniella and Noam went to the festival of peace and love in the South District in Israel. They went with thousands of kids to celebrate life, celebrate love. On Saturday morning, they were attacked and murdered and slaughtered and raped and burned by the Islamic jihad by the Hamas and by the civilians of Gaza who entered Israel and penetrated more than 24 villages and cities in the South District of Israel. We have now regained control, actually a few days ago over the whole area. And now Israel is acting in defense, acting in defense to protect the borders of Israel, to protect the citizens of Israel against those animals who have done those horrible, horrifying acts of hatred. You know, we're seeing pictures before we continue to talk about Gaza, we're seeing pictures of them on screen and they look so beautiful and so happy and traveling the world and going on adventures together. I understand that they were trying to save themselves and God in the car, managed to get in the car when this happened. Yes, before going to that, you know, Danielle was born in California in the United States. She was the happiest kid ever and everybody really loved it. And she grew up as an amazing young girl and woman where everybody loved and she loved everybody. Noam grew here in Israel and he's a real man. They met in the army and have planned to spend all of their lives together. Yes, we have found, I went down south with my friend, Israel Ziv, and we have found the car that they were in. What happened, they were in the music festival and I guess Missal starts meeting the location. There were a group of seven kids that fled with their cars. Noam and Danielle with their friends turned south and I've seen a tract with three terrorists up north coming and we've saw the trails of at least three Kalashnikov guns from the back of the car, ripping the car and two, at least one came with a motorcycle from the front and we've seen the vicious inhuman attack of four or five kids that were in the car, that had no chance to defend themselves. They have done nothing to hurt anyone except to come and celebrate life and love and peace. I'm so sorry, I cannot imagine how difficult these days are for you and for your family and I know the anger and I share the anger and the unfathomable cruelty of Hamas with the images and the stories that we're hearing about what was done to innocent people on Saturday all over that area in Kibbutz, at that party in towns. I wanna ask you about the situation since Saturday. You said you went down south with Israel Ziv have you heard anything from the government? Was the military there with you to try and understand what had happened to your daughter and to her boyfriend? Are you being accompanied since you received the news? No, we're not accompanied but I came back from abroad where we were on vacation and two or three hours after I landed I went down south and was able to find the car that they were in. What happened is we were surprised. If you hadn't gone yourself, it may have taken even longer before you even knew what happened to them. You know, we did not know what happened is we found the car and we found some belongings and we knew this is the car Daniel was in because of an emergency call we have received from our cell phone that has the feature of a crash call and that's how I identified the car, it was not their car but what I wanna say, Israel was surprised. Israel was not ready for the attack that came from down south. The Hamas and Islamic jihad and all of the citizens of Gaza who have joined the terror organizations in their doing, in their activities have the responsibility of what has happened and what's even more important now there are hostages that have been kidnapped into Gaza and we ask the help of the international community to help us get those hostages as soon as possible back to their families, not in bags but walking so their families can hug them again the responsibility of the hostages is on the Hamas, on the Islamic jihad and the citizens of Gaza that are part of those organizations they all came into Israel to slaughter, behead, rape, kill, burn Israeli citizens that have done nothing wrong to anyone. And there could be as many as 200, there could be as many as 200 hostages and as you mentioned among them, children, women, the elderly and men of course and these are all innocent civilians not to mention the soldiers that have been abducted. Yes, that is true and it's the responsibility and what Israel is now doing is an act of defense and Gaza, Israel, the Middle East will not be the same again after morning of Saturday, October 7th. Things will change here. No one will ever attack again or think of attacking again an Israeli citizen within the border of Israel. Imagine anywhere you live and you wake up in the morning with your family and you see five or six people trying to come and kill and rape and burn your kids, your wife, your mother. I've seen heroic things, a general, his mother was killed, fought him and another guy for nine hours, alone in a kibbutz and killed at least eight, if not 10 terrorists. I've seen stories of single-handed or two men that have broken into houses to save their families. I'll bite all that. Many villages have been destroyed, families have been destroyed. We now need to focus first to defend ourselves from Gaza and second to help rebuild the South District of Israel versus Gaza. I want to talk that even we're going through this and we need to take the Palestinians down. Our hands is still reaching out for peace. We want to live in peace with our neighbors. We want to find a way to make the two nations live in this amazing peace of world together. We have been killing each other for more than 75 years in an unbelievable manners. Let's sit down, talk and find peace. In the last 60 years, more than 70 peace settlements have been made around the world. We need to learn from them and make sure we make peace here as well. So although we're now defending Israel in a very strong way, our hand is always, always reaching out for peace with everyone that is willing to sit down. I have built multiple design centers, including in Gaza, in Rawabi, in Hevron, in Nablus. And I personally have managed to bring Apple Design Center into Rawabi and more companies. I've worked with the Gazan people to build a future together. What happened today should have never happened. We will now make sure this will never happen again, but at the same time, we want to reach out to the Palestinian neighbors, to reach out and understand that we need to find a way to live together. Because if you will need to continue killing each other, they're not in the right place and they're not in the right situation. Even all of the demonstration and protests that we had here in the last month, all the pilots, all the special units have reported to duty. There's no one missing. There's no one that bailed out. On top of that, there are more people that came from abroad and we're lacking some gear because too many people have volunteered to go and fight in Tugasa. And I would also, after we finish the shiva, will go down there to help as much as I can. But they need to understand that if we don't reach peace, they're not in the right position and we will make sure they will reach out for peace. Otherwise, they will continue suffering until they understand they cannot live this way anymore. Killing our kids, raping women, killing elderly people. This is unacceptable around the whole world. So let's do peace after we fix some things in the Gaza district in the coming weeks and months. Yeah, Waldman, I admire your strength and your desire and understanding, even in this very, very difficult time that we have to find compromise and a way to live here in peace with our neighbors. Please, we just have a minute left. I wanna thank the United States and the president of the United States for supporting and standing behind Israel. We're fully committed to be an ally of the United States throughout the future years and fight together for freedom and democracy in the area and around the world. I wanna thank you for the opportunity for this interview. Thank you very much, Eyal Waldman. Thank you. Who lost his daughter, Danielle Waldman. She was murdered together with her boyfriend at the Nova Music Festival. Innocent dancers that were shot to death. Thank you very much, Eyal and our condolences to your family. I'd like to thank you, Jonathan Regev and Avi Pazner for coming into the studio, of course. And to you, our viewers, for watching. These are difficult days for all of us here in Israel and for everyone in this region. Thank you very much for bearing with us through these difficult times and for supporting in any way you can. We're gonna take a break, our coverage here on I-24 News Continues Text, wherever you are in the world. Stay safe. Officially in a state of war. This is a very active scene and we need to get in the car as we're talking. Within 100 soldiers and civilians have been kidnapped. Help us, we don't know what to do. 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. 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And that comes after yesterday Hamas launched a rocket from Gaza to the Carmel near Haifa in the first most distant attack on that city all the way from Gaza. The IDF has been attacking in Hamas hitting targets overnight, especially Hamas tunnels that have been built to smuggle terrorists and weapons from Gaza to Israel and to Egypt. U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will arrive in Israel today amid growing regional tensions in Washington's commitment to support Israel in defending itself from Hamas, Hezbollah and Iranian aggression. More and more families in Israel have been receiving notices about their missing family members. As of today, more than 1,300 Israelis have been confirmed murdered by Hamas and more than 3,000 have been injured. Overnight, there were no rockets fired into Israel from Gaza or from Syria or Lebanon. U.N. Secretary General Antonio Gutierrez has called Israel to allow humanitarian assistance to enter Gaza that has suffered more than 900 deaths since Israel began its retaliatory attack. The Israeli parliament will today approve the entry of former Minister of Defense Benny Gantz's Opposition National Unity Party into the war cabinet and the government. We are fighting with all our strength on all fronts. We went on an offensive. Every Hamas member is a dead man. Hamas is ISIS. And it will be crushed and eliminated just as the world crushed and eliminated ISIS. The State of Israel will be the strongest state in the region. It has the most powerful army in the world. It has the best people in the world. We see it with one plane after another full of young men coming back to defend their home. And they already feel this force in Gaza and they will fill it in Lebanon if needed. And the whole world will see it. With me in studio are Avi Pazner, a former Israeli ambassador to France and Italy and the former world chairman of Canada, and how you saw the United Israel Appeal. And our Jonathan Regev, senior defense correspondent, thank you very much for being with us. Jonathan, I want to start with you and some updates from the last hour or so. The chief of the Home Command is saying that Hamas is narrowing down the scale of attack on Israel by rockets, through rockets, understanding that this is going to be a longer campaign. Yes, that's what Rafi Milo, the chief of the Home Front Command is saying. Hamas understanding we're in for a long campaign is narrowing its daily shootings, understanding that it will be a long campaign and it will need those rockets for the continuation. The rockets are a real menace. They harass Israel, they're a problem, but Israel has found a way to mostly deal with them. Most of the rockets, we have to say, are sent to the southern communities which are practically deserted by now. The problem is of course the ground offensive which may or may not take place in the fact that there are 200 Israelis trapped somewhere in Gaza which is a huge problem. Jonathan, we're seeing this morning a rocket launched all the way to Ariel in the northern west bank and we're seeing a rocket yesterday evening launch at the Carmel in Haifa. We always thought that Haifa was in danger, under danger from Hezbollah and we've seen that of course in the war in Lebanon, the last one, but from Gaza, these are capabilities Hamas has? I think if the one al-Qulit al-Sin that the Israeli state and the Israeli security establishment did was underestimate Hamas, I'm sorry, but if they're able to carry out such an attack which was very successful for them, a very precise attack, then yes, we've underestimated their abilities and yes, they also have the ability to send long-range rockets, yes, to the northern part of the areas of Wadi Ar and so which are roughly about 100 miles to the north of the Gaza Strip, yes, they do have longer range rockets. Again, it is a menace and it is a problem, but of course far less of an issue than the fact that 2,000 of their terrorists were able to infiltrate into Israel, killed a massacre by now more than 1,000 Israelis, kidnapped hundreds of Israelis to Gaza. That's the main issue and yes, I think that everybody understands that this will not be something that will end very quickly. Javi Pazna, there seems to be a consensus in Israeli leadership over the fact that Israel should enter with its troops to the Gaza Strip and seriously damage the capabilities of Hamas to govern. Sounds like dismantling Hamas completely is currently the idea. Is there a diplomatic or a military alternative to our soldiers going by foot and in tanks into Gaza which would mean, as we know, more Israeli casualties? Yes, and the question is if the aim of the war is to dismantle Hamas, to destroy Hamas so that there is no more Hamas, no more military leadership, no more political leadership, no more economical leadership, no more terrorists of the Hamas. How do you do that? You have to enter. At one point or another, you will have to enter. It may be that after the very heavy bombing going on against Gaza, they will be so tired and their morale so low that some will surrender or many will surrender or maybe they will surrender or maybe they will ask to be permitted to leave. I don't know. But at least the threat of land operation in Gaza must be there because we have tried many times. We have tried in 2008 and 2009 and we have tried in 2014 and two years ago. We have tried somehow to live with them. It's impossible. What would fill the void? Excuse me? What would fill the void is the idea to help the Palestinian Authority reinstate itself, Fatah or Israel? No, I don't think that Israel wants to occupy Gaza and rule 2 million Palestinians. I don't think so. One of the options, certainly the Palestinian Authority, another option, maybe an international force of Arab countries who are friendly with Israel like the Emirates, like Egypt, maybe Saudi Arabia. Yes, there is an alternative to Hamas. It doesn't have to be Israel. I don't want Israel to conduct daily life in Gaza. No, absolutely not. But for the time being, we are not yet there. We are not yet there. We have not yet decided, really, to go ahead with the land operation. Maybe in a week or so when we talk, we will be within a land operation already. For the time being, what is going on is that we are... I dread that. I dread that moment and so many other Israelis dread that as well, because we all have friends and relatives who are in reserves and also in duty, in military service, and we know what the consequences will be. I dread it more than you, Ariel. I have three grandchildren, three grandchildren, in the tank corps around Gaza. But we must look at the strategic situation of Israel. Maybe we can weaken them to such an extent in a week or two of bombardment that it will be easier to go in. Or maybe they will surrender somehow and say, okay, we are ready to leave. Let us leave. For the time being, I think we have to pound and pound and pound mercilessly. And with all what we have, we have to pound Gaza and, first of all, to destroy their morale. Then, if there is a need for a land operation, it will be... And maybe we won't have to. But one thing is sure, we cannot go back to the situation where the Hamas is our neighbor. We cannot live with the Hamas. It now has been... We have tried for 17 years since they took over the Gaza Strip. It doesn't work. We will also run... I understand some alarms sounding there in the last hour or so. What is the outcome? Right, so after 12 hours of tense quiet here in the area surrounding the Gaza Strip, the area that's been targeted multiple times pretty much constantly since Saturday morning. So after 12 hours of a lull, the sirens here in the area surrounding the Gaza Strip are once again blaring. There have been two launches over the past half hour, a little more south where we're standing now. All the while we're hearing reports, but also hearing with our own ears, Israeli continuous strikes in the Gaza Strip. Now, earlier we were talking about how this community is still trying to reel from the devastation that took over it. And we talked about how the streets here are still littered with bullets. So I mean, we moved a bit from the last time, from our last hit just to show that anywhere you walk on the sidewalk here, you see bullet casings, you see broken glass. You see, I mean, this still looks like a war zone that hasn't completely been cleared up. And with a massive military presence here, police, as you can see behind me, forces come, forces go, and this, I mean, this is the biggest town in the area surrounding the Gaza Strip, but it's a ghost town, not because people don't live here, people are here. There are just many of them are at home. Yes, many have left to other areas in the country. But everyone, the only people you see here are security forces. The only vehicles you see are emergency vehicles. And this best illustrates the current situation here that these frontline communities are still in a situation of war, given that the area hasn't still been completely cleared of terrorists. There are no indications, specific indications as to where these terrorists might be, but the working assessment is that not all the terrorists who infiltrated Israel through the land border with Gaza on Saturday, not all of them are back in Gaza or dead. There still may be some of them walking around here waiting for the right time to carry out an operation of whatever sort. We have seen dozens of these terrorists being killed, picked off one by one by Israeli forces who are searching the area. And so the threat still remains. And that's why all we see here are bullet shells, security forces, and emergency vehicles. Arielle, thank you. We now want to turn to Eyal Waldman. His daughter, Daniella Waldman was killed at the Nova Music Festival. And I understand that she was there with her boyfriend as well. Eyal, my and our deepest condolences to your family. No words can express how difficult even this is for me at the moment to speak to you. I see your grief and I'm with you 100%. Do you want to tell us what happened? So Daniella Norm went to the Festival of Peace and Love in the south district in Israel. They went with thousands of kids to celebrate life, to celebrate love. On Saturday morning, they were attacked and murdered and slaughtered and raped and burned by the Islamic jihad, by the Hamas and by the civilians of Gaza who entered Israel and penetrated more than 24 villages and cities in the south district of Israel. We have now regained control, actually a few days ago, over the whole area. And now Israel is acting in defense, acting in defense to protect the borders of Israel, to protect the citizens of Israel against those animals who have done those horrible, horrifying acts of hatred. We're seeing pictures. Before we continue to talk about Gaza, we're seeing pictures of them on screen and they look so beautiful and so happy and traveling the world and going on adventures together. I understand that they were trying to save themselves and God in the car managed to get in the car when this happened. Yes, before going to that, Daniella was born in California in the United States. She was the happiest kid ever and everybody really loved her. And she grew up as an amazing young girl and woman who everybody loved and she loved everybody. Noam grew here in Israel and he's a real man. They met in the army and have planned to spend all of their lives together. Yes, we have found... I went down south with my friend Issa Al-Ziv and we have found the car that they were in. What happened, they were in the music festival and I guess Missal started hitting the location. There were a group of seven kids that fled with their cars. Noam and Daniella fell with their friends turned south and I've seen a tract with three terrorists up north coming and we saw the trails of at least three Kalashnikov guns from the back of the car, ripping the car and two, at least one came with a motorcycle from the front and we've seen the vicious inhuman attack of four or five kids that were in the car that had no chance to defend themselves. They have done nothing to hurt anyone except to come and celebrate life and love and peace. I'm so sorry. I cannot imagine how difficult these days are for you and for your family and I know the anger and I share the anger and the unfathomable cruelty of Hamas with the images and the stories that we're hearing about what was gone to innocent people on Saturday all over that area in Kibbutz, at that party in towns. I want to ask you about the situation since Saturday. You said you went down south with Issa El-Ziv. Have you heard anything from the government? Was the military there with you to try and understand what had happened to your daughter and to her boyfriend? Are you being accompanied since you received the news? No, we're not accompanied, but I came back from abroad where we were on vacation and two or three hours after I landed, I went down south and was able to find the car that they were in. What happened is we were surprised. If you hadn't gone yourself, it may have taken even longer before you even knew what happened to them. We did not know what happened. We found the car and we found some belongings and we knew this is the car Daniel was in because of an emergency call we have received from our cell phone that has the feature of a crash call. That's how I identified the car. It was not their car. What I want to say, Israel was surprised. Israel was not ready for the attack that came from down south. The Hamas and Islamic jihad and all of the citizens of Gaza who have joined the terror organizations in their doing, in their activities have the responsibility of what has happened. And what's even more important now there are hostages that have been kidnapped into Gaza and we asked the help of the international community to help us get those hostages as soon as possible back to their families. Not in bags, but walking so their families can hug them again. Again, the responsibility of the hostages is on the Hamas, on the Islamic jihad and the citizens of Gaza that are part of those organizations. They all came into Israel to slaughter, behead, rape, kill, burn Israeli citizens that have done nothing wrong to anyone. And there could be as many as 200, there could be as many as 200 hostages and as you mentioned among them, children, women, the elderly and men of course. These are all innocent civilians not to mention the soldiers that have been abducted. Yes, that is true and it's the responsibility and what Israel is now doing is an act of defense and Gaza, Israel, the Middle East will not be the same again after morning of Saturday, October 7th. Things will change here. No one will ever attack again or think of attacking again an Israeli citizen within the border of Israel. Imagine anywhere you live and you wake up in the morning with your family and you see five or six people trying to come and kill and rape and burn your kids, your wife, your mother. I've seen heroic things. A general, his mother was killed, fought him and another guy for nine hours alone in a kibbutz and killed at least eight if not ten terrorists. I've seen stories of single, handed or two men that have broken into houses to save their families. I'll bite all that. Many villages have been destroyed. Families have been destroyed. We now need to focus first to defend ourselves from Gaza and second to help rebuild the south district of Israel versus Gaza. I want to talk that even we're going through this and we need to take the Palestinians down. Our hands is still reaching out for peace. We want to live in peace with our neighbors. We want to find a way to make the two nations live in this amazing peace of world together. We have been killing each other for more than 75 years in an unbelievable manners. Let's sit down, talk and find peace. In the last 60 years, more than 70 peace settlements have been made around the world. We need to learn from them and make sure we make peace here as well. So although we're now defending Israel in a very strong way, our hand is always, always reaching out for peace with everyone that is willing to sit down. I have built multiple design centers including in Gaza, in Rawabi, in Hevron, in Nablus and I personally have managed to bring Apple Design Center into Rawabi and more companies. I've worked with the Gazan people to build a future together. What happened today should have never happened. We will now make sure this will never happen again but at the same time we want to reach out to the Palestinian neighbors to reach out and understand that we need to find a way to live together because if we will need to continue killing each other they're not in the right place and they're not in the right situation. Even all of the demonstration and protests that we had here in the last month, all the pilots, all the special units have reported to duty. There's no one missing. There's no one that bailed out. On top of that, there are more people that came from abroad and we're lacking some gear because too many people have volunteered to go and fight in Gaza and I will also, after we finish the shiva, go down there to help as much as I can. But they need to understand that if we don't reach peace they're not in the right position and we will make sure that they will reach out for peace. Otherwise, they will continue suffering until they understand they cannot live this way anymore. Killing our kids, raping women, killing elderly people, this is unacceptable around the whole world. So let's do peace after we fix some things in the Gaza District in the coming weeks and months. Yeah, Waldman. I admire your strength and your desire and understanding even in this very, very difficult time that we have to find compromise and a way to live here in peace with our neighbors. Please, we just have a minute left. I want to thank the United States and the President of the United States for supporting and standing behind Israel. We're fully committed to be an ally of the United States throughout the future years and fight together for freedom and democracy in the area and around the world. I want to thank you for the opportunity for this interview. Thank you very much, Eyal Waldman. Thank you. Who lost his daughter, Danielle Waldman. She was murdered together with her boyfriend at the Nova Music Festival. Innocent dancers that were shot to death. Thank you very much. Eyal, our condolences to your family. I'd like to thank you, Jonathan Regev and Avi Pazner for coming into the studio, of course. And to you, our viewers, for watching. These are difficult days for all of us here in Israel and for everyone in this region. Thank you very much for bearing with us through these difficult times and for supporting in any way you can. We're going to take a break or coverage here on I-24 News Continues Text wherever you are in the world. Stay safe. Since the early hours of the morning, Israel has been facing infiltrations of terrorists, kidnapping of Israelis, and a barrage of thousands of rockets emanating from the Gaza Strip. The biggest and bloodiest attack in years. Tune in for our extensive and rolling coverage of the Hamas deadly attack on Israel. For reporters on the ground in depth analysis and most updated and accurate information, stay tuned with I-24 News. This is officially in a state of war. This is a very active scene and we need to get in the car as we're talking. More than 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. We're tuning in and joining our ongoing coverage here on I-24 News of the sixth day in Israel's war with Hamas. The death toll in Israel has risen to 1,000 and 300 people who have been murdered by Hamas terrorists on Saturday. The number of abducted by Hamas who are being held hostage in Gaza is unclear. But seems to be around 200 people that are held by Hamas including women and children. Meanwhile Israel has bombarded in Gaza overnight and continues to attack in Gaza. More and more families in Israel have been receiving notices about their missing family members. And the numbers as we said are growing. This morning a few rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel. But the home front command here in Israel says that Hamas apparently is narrowing down the scale of rocket launches into Israel understanding that this could be a long campaign with Israel. UN Secretary General Antonio Gutierrez has called Israel to allow humanitarian assistance to enter Gaza that has suffered more than 900 deaths since Israel began its retaliatory attack. And today the Israeli parliament will approve the entry of former minister of defense Benny Gantz's opposition national unity party into the war cabinet and the government. Do we have Ariella Osaran with us already? Ariella Osaran, your update. Right, Ariella. So the situation here is pretty much the same. Tents quiet every 15-30 minutes. There is a siren blaring in one of the border communities surrounding the Gaza Strip. Now earlier we were talking about the trash, the bullets, the broken glass that still fill the sidewalks. But between our last conversations the cleanup has begun. And that I think illustrates the really where Israel is at right now these border communities trying to pick up the pieces, trying to clean up the devastation all evidence of the carnage that took place here just five days ago. And the other hour I could bend down no matter where I was pick up bullet shells. Now that is not the case. The city has cleaned up starting to look a little more to resemble like a normal town but it will take so long if ever for these communities. Not only this town of Sderot that its police station was conquered by Hamas terrorists but so many of these border communities that suffered so much devastation and tragedy they're trying to pick up the pieces now and in the most physical way possible cleaning up the streets the bullets in an attempt to try and have life continue nothing will ever be normal again not in Sderot and not in the rest of the country but it's good to know that our forces are there of course residents of Sderot and the adjacent communities were complaining for days of the lack of sufficient forces there to help the communities. Thank you Ariel we'll be back with you later hopefully with without any tremendous news from there. We now want to turn to Devere Neumann his brother David I understand was murdered at the party in Reim Devere thank you for finding the courage and the ability to speak with us my condolences go out to you can you tell us about the last time that you heard from David so actually I want to tell you how the whole thing started from my side and then I'll tell you how it kept on from there how it all unfolded how I heard the story from there from his girlfriend who was actually she's actually recovering thank God so this whole nightmare started for us on Shabbat in the morning where the missile started hitting and I wasn't sure what was going on we grew up in the old city drove to the old city to my family and all of a sudden I hear that there's something going on in one of these in the nature party and I know that my brother was at the nature party and I look into it and I find out that he's there he's in that whole situation and we got a message from his girlfriend saying we're okay we're waiting for them to come we're waiting for the army to come get us and that's it this was at 11 o'clock already they've been there since 6 o'clock in the morning this whole thing is going on we have no clue what's going on in a few hours and and then we get a phone call from my mother's girlfriend mom and she tells us that they found her she's injured, she's been shot she's on the way to the hospital, she's alive but my brother David doesn't know it's not with them and I tell them what do you mean not with them like he's not with her so in my head I'm thinking he either she got injured and he had to go find help and he went to look for help or he's been taken hostage or the worst of all, I don't even know what to think and we're just like trying to keep it cool and not freak out too much not freak out the whole family and they gave me the number of the guy who was with her who helped her get to the ambulance and everything and he and he gives us, he gives me the message that he is no longer with us and that he was killed Was he with her while they were waiting, it's just unbearable to think that they were waiting you said from 6am to 11, that's 5 hours they were waiting for troops to come in while they were being slaughtered and massacred by Hamas terrorists and I think none of us understand where the IDF was and all the special forces that we tried ourselves in so much because so many lives could have been saved it's just hard to grasp were they not together, what do you know about these hours that she says that they were waiting for the army to come and evacuate them so so after we were found out the whole tragedy I really looked into it I went to visit my brother's girlfriend in the hospital and I spoke to the guy who was with them the whole time and saw everything in his eyes actually the story goes like this they were at a party, not a nature party they were having good time and all of a sudden there was missiles and at first they weren't even sure what was going on, they thought it was just like fireworks, they weren't even sure what was happening and everyone was just having a good time and slowly but surely they realized that it's missiles from Gaza and people started getting some people in Israel that are used to it they'll take it easy, some people will freak out some people will leave, some people will stay my brother was the kind of guy who never nothing ever really got to him everything was always like, take it easy, it's all good everything's gonna be alright and that's really how he was a big hero in this whole story they started leaving the party and he kept on telling his girlfriend don't worry, everything's gonna be fine we're gonna leave, we're gonna go and then they realized that there's actually there's actually terrorists in the party shooting down people and they hear their gunshots and people still are not sure what's going on because even the terrorists that were there they came on on Israeli uniform, Israeli military uniform and I can't imagine how that is for people who want to come to help and they start shooting at them I mean that's it's crazy so actually they start running they start running and then my brother told his girlfriend lie down on the floor and put your hands on your head and just wait here until it like calms down a bit and then we'll keep going and that's what they did and they kept on running and they got to this dumpster, this big like it's a big metal dumpster and there was two of them and they saw a bunch of people go into one of them and they decided to go into the second one and and they went into the dumpster and they were there for about four hours four and a half hours and the whole time David was like telling everyone don't worry he was the one who was like okay let's go into the second one the dumpster who was helping people the whole time he was really being like his girlfriend said that he was just such a hero and he was completely calm the whole time and he was really really just a big hero there and what happened after that they were in the dumpster for hours and they started hearing Arabic talking and gunshots everywhere and ala wakabah, ala wakabah and that's what was going on for like a good like hour or so and they were freaking out but he was really the whole time he was just telling everyone don't worry just keep quiet they're coming to get us and my brother at this time actually sent one of my good one of our good friends he sent him a message saying help help help and he started like he didn't really know how to explain it he just said you don't understand what's going on here I need your help and slowly he already understood by himself he sent him the location where he was and his phone ran out of battery and my friend didn't hear from him anymore my friend is connected to the army he's very high up so he decided he spoke to everyone and as much people as he could to get to on that location and they were supposed to get there as soon as possible and at this time my brother was the people the people in this dumpster were actually hiding underneath underneath garbage bags on top of each other just like hoping for their lives like really hoping that there's any anyway and and at a certain point the terrorists just walked up in front of my brother and my brother was always on top he didn't want to hide he was like making sure that everyone's okay and he was like don't worry we're gonna get out of it he was always checking to see what's happening and then he would bend down and he would look up for a second and then at a second the terrorists just showed up in front of him and he like got up for a second and he just before he could have done anything he just shot him and he killed him and there were about 10 someone told me 10 some and the guy who was with them told me 10 and my brother's girlfriend told me 16 about I'd say 10 to 16 people were in there and only four came out alive one of them is my brother's girlfriend and she's she got shot and she's now recovering in the hospital just terrible what a terrible account of of a life a way to end a life on this planet I'm so sorry for your family's loss and I send strength and good energies to you and of course our wishes for a speedy recovery to your brother's girlfriend I would like to say also that after the next day we got a message from one of the high up commanders saying that he's very sorry for our loss but we should know that he saved and he said he's not exaggerating with numbers he said at least 200 if not 300 lives with that location my brother was really and I just want to say that he was always my hero always my whole life he was my hero he was my big brother and and he's always been a hero and he's always going to be a hero and he really was a hero the whole time what a hero thank you thank you thank you our condolences go out to your family thank you very much for finding the courage and the capability to speak to us this time it's a sharp tradition but we want to listen to Daniel Agari he's the IDF spokesman giving his morning briefing it's 13 minutes after 11 let's listen in Mustafa Shahin a murderous tourist who made sure to document during the attack the horrors that he committed and spread them on social media on his and others social media films of horrors we have taken him down with his home in the city Hamas is ISIS as US president said worse than Daesh and whoever needs a proof of that during operation of the Nakhal Brigade in Kibbutz Sufa they held a battle in which 14 terrorists were captured 13 other terrorists on their bodies what did we find we found ISIS flags Hamas is ISIS tonight a senior Hamas official has been taken down he's stored in his home naval commando equipment whose purpose was to hurt Israeli civilians he was killed in his home we will continue to prioritize taking down the seniors and those involved in the attack the attacks in Gaza are massive it takes time for Hamas to even understand the scale of the damage and the number of terrorists killed we're taking down the ability of Hamas to function as a ruler of Gaza it can no longer rule Gaza in many areas and we will continue to do so until that will be the case in all of the Gaza Strip Hamas is in chaos and we need to increase that chaos defense and cleaning the communities is the main priority we continue with the mission across the Gaza area there's still firefights our fighters still kill terrorists this is still a closed military zone until it is cleared completely we call on the public to show responsibility and do not approach the area unless with coordination with the IDF just over the past day there were four clashes IDF forces took down five terrorists in addition in the early morning an Israeli aircraft took down a terrorist to move towards the fence attempting to cross anyone who comes close to the fence will be killed I repeat this to the people of Gaza anyone who attempts to approach the fence will be killed the iron dome means dozens of tanks along the border dozens of IDF fighters and aircrafts all of these will not allow terrorists to penetrate the state of Israel the IDF with all its units is preparing for the next stage of the war for preparedness of all the forces of the IDF with a logistic a wide logistic effort to complete the reserve's draft hundreds of thousands of citizens of Israel who left everything behind and came to fight the preparation of the forces will be complete with the equipment and the training in order for us to embark on our road and follow the directions of the political level as far as the north we are spread out and full alertness also both on the Lebanon and the Syria borders together with the home front command we investigated the incident yesterday there was a mistake in the identification of a threat a security event in the north yesterday it is important to stress this is not a result of a cyber attack not a technological mistake but a misinterpretation of the commanders we are investigating in order to reduce the number of such events the IDF forces continue to secure communities in the north and all across the state of Israel from the north to Elat we will update the citizens where the IDF forces are under the assessments the IDF forces will be enforced in the communities we continue to maintain high alertness in all the borders all arenas all high alertness for reaction anyone who challenges Israel we will operate against Israel will face a strong strike against him the instructions to the home front commander remain the same as for the issues of equipment and the training fighters we continue with opening our hotline for any issues of logistics and food the IDF is operating to give enough response to all the problems needed we will continue to close all the gaps we need to make sure that the equipment reaches anyone who needs it anyone who is lacking in equipment obviously there are priorities our priority in the war is first of all for those who fight around the Gaza border communities and those who are getting ready for the next stages in the war I ask you for your patience we have published that the defense ministry and the IDF have opened another hotline to assist those who wish to contribute equipment it is not because we are lacking in equipment there is a demand by the public to contribute and we are answering that call citizens who have personal defense equipment and are willing to provide it we will receive it check it and if needed we will reinforce whoever needs it this is the number 073 073 073 3, 5, 3 4 x 8 we understand the need of the people and this is the beautiful Israeli spirit thank you our anchor and correspondent for helping with the translation this is a daily routine two of them two briefings that we get from Daniel Lagari, IDF spokesman difficult times here in Israel the sixth day of fighting big questions are asked about the presence of the police forces, the presence of the IDF and how Israel was surprised in such a manner on Saturday by Hamas we now turn to Ishae Fleischer he is the spokesperson of the Jewish community in Hebron an advisor to Israel's national security minister Itamar Bengvir he joins us from the settlement of Ifat thank you for being with us first of all I imagine that you were in conversations with minister of homeland security national security Itamar Bengvir just yesterday he was warning from a possibility that the situation will escalate into a conflict in mixed cities within Israel not in the West Bank but I'm talking about the 1967 borders in Acre, in Jaffa in Haifa like we saw in Lod in May of 21 what are these assessments based on and is there an immediate risk and if so where does this lie you said it yourself we've had only two years ago such a conflict in the mixed Israeli Arab cities and this means that there's a ideology of jihadism that supports those kind of behaviors and so there's a concrete concern that there are other fronts and in the end really Israel's fighting a multi-front war there's the Gaza front which everybody's talking about now but that could also become a northern front there's the Judea and Samaria front in cities like Hebron where it has a small Jewish minority living amongst a large Arab population Nishai Fleischer, indeed a multi-front war I'm sorry that I have to interrupt you but President Isaac Herzog is speaking and we want to tune into that you're welcome to stay with us let's listen in friendship and solidarity, I see it all over the nation I see it in the huge amount of volunteering in the huge amount of mobilization to the army in the huge amount of doing good to each other of helping each other in so many consequences in so many spheres of life I encourage my people I bless the people of Israel we shall definitely overcome we shall definitely be victorious we've always done so it will take time but we shall overcome and we shall be victorious I met the families of the hijacked and kidnapped citizens of Israel it was extremely tragic and extremely painful so many people live in a reality of a nightmare not knowing what they were about and the real facts of their loved ones each and every one of you can imagine that you've met families Israel will do whatever it can to bring them back home as soon as possible safely but this requires an immediate call to the international community not to sit idly by and do whatever it takes to bring them back home immediately as president of the state of Israel I ask you all to tell the stories of the victims I ask you all to remember it because there is a short-sightedness in the cycle of media and news but the pain the pain will remain forever thank you very much there are some questions and answers there maybe we can take a listen President Herzog taking questions from the press in English let's tune in how concerned are you that that support will wane that the tide will change the longer this goes on the higher the death toll in Gaza rises well this is exactly the moment of truth nation must stand up to the truth I just heard the comment of the Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany speaking with moral clarity he expressed moral clarity as to the situation we expect nations in the world to express clear moral clarity regarding the situation and this terrible massacre ITV please sorry there is something with your mic you see this picture I think it speaks for itself the baby caught in very I think this tells it all President Herzog Ragio from ITV news in the United Kingdom you spoke very passionately about saying that Israel was not retaliating but targeting with regard to the operations in Gaza but even President Biden who spoke so personally and passionately with regard to what was happening in Gaza spoke about the importance of the laws of war and the humanitarian situation within Gaza so with that in mind what can Israel do to alleviate the impact of this conflict on two million civilians many of whom have nothing to do with Hamas first of all we have to understand there's a state there's a state in a way that has built a machine of evil right at our doorstep it's an entire nation out there that is responsible it's not true this rhetoric about civilians not aware not involved it's absolutely not true they could have risen up they could have fought against that evil regime which took over Gaza in a coup d'etat murdering their family members who were in Fatah there's a short memory in the world Israel evacuated Gaza unilaterally in order to show that it's willing to make peace I was a member of that cabinet we said to our nation this will be Hong Kong of the Middle East well reality has turned into a tragedy okay therefore I must say that this situation impacts the entire vision of people as to the ability to adhere to the same old rhetoric we are working operating literally according to rules of international law period unequivocally but we are at war we are at war we are defending our homes we are protecting our homes that's the truth and when a nation protects its home it fights and we will fight until we break their backbone please Becky Becky Anderson from CNN the collective punishment of a civilian population amounts to a war crime under international law the US has warned Israel to uphold laws of war but I just said Becky you haven't heard probably they reply to ITV and I'm quite disappointed that that's what you're asking instantaneously haven't you seen you've seen you're all there you've seen now we're starting with the rhetoric about war crimes really truly truly you see I just said that Israel abides by international law operates by international law every operation is secured and covered and reviewed legally with all due respect I truly believe that it comes totally out of context please CBN Julie Stahl from CBN news I know people have asked you but how do you think that this is going to how are you going to be able to mitigate this like suddenly everybody's switching back to Israel the powerful one who is that's always the tragedy of short memories I get it you're saying time and again time and again for the last few months every day there was a terror attack every day okay and nobody understood our situation there is a lot of history because people did not understand what we are talking about there is no there is no excuse to murdering our innocent civilians in any way in any context and believe me Israel will operate and always operates according to the international rules and will do the same in this battle too so I was around when Israel was inside Gaza and it was a whole lot better for the Gazans when Israel was there do you foresee any scenario where Israel will go back into Gaza I'm not dealing with it right now we are in battle we are not dealing with the final outcome of this tragedy right now we are defending our citizens yesterday they wrote in their houses there were terrorists swarming around in their houses still swarming around in their houses please President Herzog Matt Frey Channel 4 News in the UK thank you very much let me first of all say that there is an enormous amount of genuine authentic sympathy for Israel and for what your country is going through right now but listening to your answers in the last few minutes I'm a little confused because on one hand you say that Israel abides by the rules of war and is very careful to avoid the loss of civilian life in the Gaza Strip but at the same time you seem to hold the people of Gaza responsible for not trying to no well I'll tell you do you hold a missile in your kitchen in your living room can I ask my question now head here and if there will be a siren it's a missile from that kitchen my question is this if I may you seem to hold the people of Gaza the civilians of Gaza responsible for not removing Hamas and therefore by implication that makes them legitimate targets no I didn't say that I want to make it clear I was asked something about separating civilians from Hamas but with all the respect if you have a missile in your goddamn kitchen and you want to shoot it at me am I allowed to defend myself yes that's the situation these missiles are there these missiles are launched the button is pressed the missile comes out from the kitchen onto my children but the question is this ultimately you can't remove the people of Gaza they're going to be stuck in this neighborhood so we have to fight so we tell them get out and we fight against the launchers what happens eventually once this war is over now you're going to have to live with them side by side what's the plan we have to make sure the Hamas will not be able to repeat this again that is the plan that's what we are trying to do with all the respect I see nations fighting terror many decent nations when they fight terror we are fighting terror humanity has to decide are we accommodating terror are we fighting terror and we saw the worst atrocity possible we see the worst atrocity if possible by a whole campaign of a movement which has major support with our neighbors major they believe many people believe in it I agree there are many many innocent Palestinians who don't agree to this but unfortunately in their homes there are missiles shooting at us, at my children at the intonation of Israel we have to defend ourselves we have the full right to do so and it's about time that the world understands it this is the tragedy of using terror and terror has no mercy to terror Greg Cashman, Jerusalem Post please Greg Cashman, Jerusalem Post Mr. President there have been a lot of complaints from people who have lost loved ones that there has been no official notification or reaction when they actually spoke to witnesses who saw their loved ones killed why is that happening so there is much more of an organizational movement we made it public following the meeting here with the families with General Galle Hirsch and two other generals who have taken upon themselves there is this much speedier process of making contact with the families it is true it's a problem but it's been dealt with because there was an overwhelming overwhelming tragedy it's like in an earthquake all of a sudden Carl, Swedish television please thank you my name is Carl discussion has occurred that the prospect of at some point negotiations to have these many captured people these hostages released do you see any possibility of any type of deal that would be struck why should there be a deal they should be released immediately you took babies, you took old people with dementia, with the Philippines or other caretakers what's the issue here isn't it the most decent moral thing because immediate release of all the prisoners of all the abducted and hostages yes but that's one thing would you be willing to enter into any type of negotiations I'm not discussing this at all it's not under my domain yes please Becky you wanted to ask something Mr President Maria Finoshina Arti from Russia I have a very specific question after a battle in Ashkelon I found among other things with markings of one of the unit of the Ukrainian forces and after that one of the chiefs of Ukrainian security confirmed that Ukrainian weapons were discovered in Israel Ukrainian weapons I don't explain to me I don't understand there was a battle in Ashkelon after IDF came there they found weapons with markings of the Ukrainian Armed Forces you know they do stamps like on weapons but I'm unaware of this directly or indirectly at all and I was in Ashkelon yesterday I'm not aware of this story at all and there is also a video circulating online where Hamas is thanking the Ukrainian government for providing them with weapons of course it's really hard to verify independently this video there is information about Ukraine not known to me at all none of this is known to us never heard of it but we can check it thank you very much for that and also you said that international media is supposed to show through the world the atrocities done by Hamas but we see kind of selection here and fortunately because for example Outchannel was not invited to any of the events like Kibbutz Kvaraza, Obirey and our request Jason you'll check it thank you very much because we would love to show what you would love us to show Alessandra Bucetti I'm Italian correspondent for TV 2000 in the Italian category TV and Vatican TV so one question is have you at any direct contact or request to the Vatican by the Pope or by the another one I commend Pope Francis' statements they were very strong and meaningful to us but do you have any specific request from them about the minority of Christians not only Gaza even in the West Bank I don't understand the question I can't hear you you have to repeat the question did you have any direct contact or with the Cardinal Pizzaballa did you receive any specific request from them no thank you right now I'm informed about two heavily wounded people in Sderot by rockets yes Becky Anderson from CNN Sir, does Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bear responsibility for this situation at present we are at war I'm not dealing with this issue at all until after the war naturally you follow up Israeli discussion and discourse but I'm not dealing with it right now okay finally I didn't know that now you know we have seen many cycles I guess you know Vivian Silver of course I can't hear about Vivian Silver everybody in the peace community in Israel is pained by what happened to Vivian Silver and so so many other peace lovers around in those areas yes we have seen so many cycles every time there is an escalation rocket fire we see many very colossal campaigns in Gaza each one more destructive each one brings lots of a program in the world and still the cycles return so this one is huge will we see any different result I think that those who are in charge are dealing with it they made it clear what their intentions are and how we are moving along we have to change the equation you're right it cannot repeat itself anymore but do we change the equation by doing more and your advice would be not to do anything what would your advice be I'm not an advisor now what do you mean what is there allow the mob to take over the city this is their intention of the mob they want to take over the city it's much worse than the mob thank you all very much final question so this is H.J. my name is H.J. from Korean news agency KRM as of last night Christians donated about $450,000 to help Israel it's nice right now we're in the middle of the war but what are you expecting the international countries to really help what can we help first of all we're getting international support in the international community we are a strong country a strong and resilient nation world jury has been fantastic with the huge solidarity so many of our friends many of our Christian friends around the world have shown immense solidarity leaders all over the world parliaments and special heritage sites have all portrayed our blue and white I hope and I request that this support continues for a while because the equation in the Middle East is very clear there's an empire of evil who's trying to derail the entire process of inclusion of peaceful dialogue of normalization there's an entire empire of evil who's trying to do that it's a historic train that has moved out of the station for the last 50 years to have the inclusion and the relation between Jew and Muslim in this region it should be a region of peace I've been portraying this region with the energy for Africa, Asia and Europe together we must not let this train be derailed the train of inclusion and peace in the region thank you President that was President Isaac Herzog in Jerusalem answering a lot of questions from foreign media most of the questions were around the Israeli campaign in Gaza Dr. Jacques Neria called on reserves your former deputy head of assessment at the Israeli military intelligence and a former advisor to Prime Minister Itzhak Rabin let's ask some of those questions that the President could not answer or did not want to answer but how is this campaign going to be different to others that Israel has conducted in Gaza if the idea is to topple the regime of Hamas what would come instead reinstating the Palestinian authority from Ramallah and looking at lessons learned from elsewhere in the world like Iraq, Afghanistan usually toppling a government doesn't really work you're right you shouldn't play God this is something that we should prevent ourselves to do in my view there are several solutions as you said let's say first that I don't see Israel controlling the Gaza Strip and controlling the life of 2.2 billion Palestinians this is not going to happen so what is the alternative the alternative is either to reach a deal with the Palestinian authority and bring back the authority as the original Oslo codes just stipulated or create an entity that is like the Kosovo the enclave in the Balkans where the United Nations would be responsible with troops from the United Nations and entirely demilitarized and this would be in a way the beginning of Singapore in the area I mean eliminating Hamas eliminating all those extremists and leaving the area like what's happening in Kosovo Kosovo is flourishing time to time but basically this is a country that has decided not to be on the military edge so this is something that we are looking at very closely and looking also at similar solutions around the world where you have enclaves or autonomies that are created on the if you don't want the Palestinian authority you should try to see the alternative I think that there are several things on the board and several solutions are being studied because I mean you won't enter, you won't put a foot inside Gaza without knowing what would be the end of it the Americans did this mistake in Iraq, they did this mistake also in Afghanistan, let us not repeat mistakes of others Now I want to bring in another piece of information that's coming into our newsroom now an ISIS flag was found by the IDF at Kibbutz Soufa in the south one of the possessions of Hamas terrorists who stormed the Kibbutz on Saturday morning this ISIS flag was found there another testimony to the links between Hamas and ISIS Guy Israel, this is a first If anyone had any doubts what Hamas is about and this is something that the Israeli defense establishment has been reiterating in recent days we heard it from Defense Minister Gallant as well I think perhaps for the world if the atrocities that have been committed and the testimonies are still coming out are not enough for the world perhaps that link to ISIS will eventually be enough for the world to understand for many of these correspondents, respectable correspondents that we heard there in the press conference to understand what Hamas is about another thing very important that Herzog spoke about is the link between Hamas and the Palestinian people Hamas is not disconnected from the Palestinian people Hamas is supported by the Palestinian people Hamas is the popular group among the Palestinian people not just in the Gaza Strip also in the West Bank and that is the problem the problem is that for so many years the world has allowed the Palestinian Authority and other entities in the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank to incite against Israel against the idea of living peacefully side by side next to the State of Israel bringing in that ideology of the Jew hatred that Nazi-like ideology that we saw in the killing of children and women in their homes and that is the result of that we must recognize very frankly and openly and candidly that we were wrong in the policy that we had of containment towards Hamas giving money to Hamas and caressing Hamas and saying that this is the only partner that we can have and trying to negotiate a so called I mean a sort of ceasefire between us that would last for 5-10 years this was totally wrong we just fed the beast near us and let it grow and now the beast just bit you and bit us very hard so the answer is that we have to wipe out this spread and forget about Hamas for the next 50 years I think what is important gentlemen just to reiterate you're talking about 2007 Hamas taking over the Gaza Strip all of these years there was almost in all of these years there was one Prime Minister who went ahead with this policy towards Hamas and this has been nobody is letting him off the hook definitely so this is BB's architecture and it's the same architecture and we let his Bala grow from a small militia of 10,000 rockets to 130-140,000 rockets an army of 100,000 fighters this is what we let on our northern border and now we say oh we are wrong now we were totally wrong the failure of this ideology has to be replaced we are living in a bad neighborhood unfortunately with what sort of ideology exactly that we have we have to behave like living in a bad neighborhood if you don't have a bat to protect yourself you'll be you'll be overcome you'll be overwhelmed you'll be the I mean they won't even look at you they treat you as a weak guy and as a weak guy they will allow themselves to do whatever they want and this is what Hezbollah did in the last in the last 12 months and this is what the Hamas did in the last 12 months we were so proud of differentiating between Hamas and Islamic jihad we hit Islamic jihad and luckily we did not fight with the Hamas yeah yes I couldn't agree more misconception of the Israeli leadership also misconception for so many years of the defense establishment that has managed to live with that policy to contain Hamas we have seen I'm not even speaking yet about the misconceptions of the intelligence of course which was part of it because when the intelligence tells you that everything seems to be fine with Hamas Hamas is deterred Hamas is deterred just last week we're sitting here in studio speaking about that statements from the intelligence officials when the intelligence officials tell the political level when they tell the decision makers that Hamas is not planning an attack on Israel well you know you cannot expect the necessity the prime minister to engage in a war when the intelligence is telling him there's no reason to in one sentence it is also the failure of technology this is the failure of technology we just trusted cameras we trusted all sort of devices that to protect us and this allowed us just to thin the defensive area around the war we thought that this war shakers would protect us and leave us in peace it would be an impossible obstacle to cross and this is what we likewise unfortunately the iron dome because if we didn't have the iron dome we've had thousands of Israeli casualties a long time ago which would have forced us to go and change the situation in Gaza and we have reminded ourselves that the military and the defense established was against the idea of building the iron dome gentlemen I want to bring another element to the discussion minister of defense you have Galan spoke this morning with the forum of NATO ministers of defense we're meeting in Brussels let's take a listen Hamas is the ISIS of Gaza a savage organization found and supported by Iran Hamas is ISIS the ISIS Gaza will not exist on our border the IDF will destroy Hamas and we will hunt down every last man with the blood of our children on his hand okay this is minister Galan speaking with the NATO defense ministers who are convening this morning in Brussels if you're joining us now I'll just mention that it's the sixth day for Israel's war with Hamas in the southern front and our eyes are also at the northern front to see if there's any escalation with Hezbollah coming from Lebanon or from Syria meanwhile today in Israel sad news the number of murdered in the Hamas attack has risen to 1300 people 1300 who were murdered in this attack on Saturday more than 3000 who were injured are treated in hospitals Israeli medics and of course medical teams are working around the clock to try and bring about their speedy recovery we want to check in the north soon in the northern front but before we do I want to ask my distinguished guest here about the northern front you mentioned Dr. Jacques Nerilla that Israel's policy towards Hezbollah in the last few years has proven to be wrong now considering the fact that we're going into a paradigm change we talked about this what this would look like with regards to Hamas perhaps toppling the regime there as you said hopefully the dream for all of us I think would be to turn it into a Hong Kong or Singapore of the Middle East where we live peacefully and well inshallah I would say one day what would that paradigm change look like vis-à-vis Hezbollah let us state beforehand that what Gaza is different from Lebanon we had 20 years experience in south Lebanon which was a very bloody experience I remember I was the head of the Lebanese Syrian branch in 1983 and when the government decided where to withdraw I said we have to withdraw to the international border we don't have anything to do inside Lebanon the decision was otherwise and we decided to stay in the so-called security belt which cost us hundreds and hundreds of soldiers who were killed and we realized only in the year 2000 that we could go back the solution there is not invading Lebanon is try to neutralize the area try to get back the area to what it was and implement Security Council Resolution 1701 which restricts the presence of any militias inside Lebanon we have to push the world the United States and other to exert as much pressure on the Lebanese government in order to I mean to enjoy their own sovereignty the Lebanese government has no power the solution in the past was integrating the militias inside the Lebanese army let's do that we have in Lebanon we have Lebanon Brigades, Christian Brigades, Shiite Brigades, Sunni Brigades, so let's say also a Hezbollah Brigade but under under the control and sovereignty of the state this is what would be the ultimate goal colonel in reserve thank you very much for those insights thank you very much as well and thank you our viewers for watching we're going to take a very short break I'll be waiting here for you