 Israel and the West Bank, while Israel continuing with the military operation in the Gaza Strip that began on Friday afternoon, with multiple strikes on targets of Palestinian Islamic jihad. And just this morning, rockets intercepted over Jerusalem, P.I.J., claiming responsibility for those and Israeli strike killing Khaled Mansour, the head of the Islamic jihad's military wing in the southern Strip. While also killing P.I.J. official Tessir Al-Jabari, head of the organization's military wing in the northern part of the Strip on Friday in their initial airstrike, an IDF official saying last night that all top Islamic jihad security officials in the Gaza Strip have been assassinated. Also developing this morning clashes between IDF forces and Palestinians in two villages near Jinnin in the northern West Bank where Israeli raids are ongoing to arrest members of Islamic jihad. The IDF arresting 20 Palestinian Islamic jihad operatives in the West Bank on top of the 20 it had arrested the night before. The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza saying so far the strikes have killed 29 people, several of which are children. The strikes also leaving hundreds injured. Jihad responding to the Israeli strikes with nearly 580 rockets so far, majority of which were intercepted by the Iron Dome. Now Egyptian mediators carrying out talks for a potential ceasefire, but continued escalation would largely depend on whether Hamas chooses to join the fighting. Let's head to Jerusalem now where our I-24 News senior correspondent Bianca Zanini is live for us there. Bianca good morning to you, the municipality confirming rocket sirens and interceptions near Jerusalem. Talk to us about the latest security situation there. Good morning. Well what I can tell you from the ground here is that so far things have been rather calm this morning. Of course we are seeing a large presence of security forces, police officers everywhere. We're seeing less people on the streets than usual but as you can see behind me there's still quite a lot of movement here at the entrance. Already more than a thousand Jews have visited the Temple Mount this morning including far right politician Itamar Ben-Greer. Now of course his visit there was a lot of worry about that and what could potentially happen because this area as many of us as is clear is such a key flash point. This particular place so far things have been calm but there is an acute awareness that anything can change in just a second. In just a second we know that there have been rockets fired towards Jerusalem earlier today for the first time since the beginning of this round of violence last Friday. But there's also the question of what can happen here on the ground. For the last year if you remember clashes that were happening on the Temple Mount in and around the Temple Mount at the Al Aqsa Mosque were a key factor on the ignition for the 11 day conflict between Israel and Hamas and this is essentially what the major worry on the ground here is for today that any escalation could potentially switch being a turning point in this conflict right now. Hamas seen as the protector of the Al Aqsa Mosque if there is at any point a larger amount of violence that breaks out here they could decide to join forces to enter this conflict and of course then the scenario would be completely different. Bianca Zanini live for us in Jerusalem this morning thank you. Also developing last night a strike on the northern city of Jabali it has left five Palestinians dead including three children Israel though denying the strike on the Gaza refugee camp saying it was quote failed rocket launch by Palestinian Islamic Jihad Israel releasing a video showing the short trajectory of the rocket launched in Gaza and landing nearby and an Israeli security source actually telling I-24 news that the IDF was not carrying out raids in Gaza at the time and we're now hearing reports and update for you of another strike on Jabali Israel is saying that it was another failed rocket attempt rocket launch by Palestinian Islamic Jihad and so far reports of two Palestinians killed let's take a listen tonight Islamic Jihad terrorists fired a rocket towards Israel which fell short inside Gaza hitting a Palestinian home in the Jabali neighborhood and tragically killing at least four children there is video documenting the entire thing there was no Israeli activity in the Gaza Strip in that area or at that time Islamic Jihad is killing Palestinian children in Gaza one in four rockets fired from Gaza towards Israel lands inside the Gaza Strip Iran's proxies including Islamic Jihad have a long history of hiding behind civilians to target Israeli civilians the world should be outraged at this terrorist group targeting innocent Israelis and killing innocent Gazans Israel will continue to stand up to this vicious terrorist organization which threatens Israelis and Palestinians alike let's bring in our panel now Rafael you to show me a former senior intelligence officer for the IDF and Owen Alterman I-24 news senior correspondent gentlemen good morning thank you for joining us Owen I want to start with you Prime Minister Yair Lapid meeting with opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu today for an update on the security situation but what can we expect to come out of a meeting like this not probably too much immediately Hamda but over time this may be a meeting that we will hear something about on the election campaign to be a fly on the wall in this meeting right again the background to viewers who haven't been keeping up yet Yair Lapid as Prime Minister is obligated and his predecessor of Tali Bennett was obligated to brief the opposition leader under Israel under Israeli law and appear regularly and Benjamin Netanyahu has been invited to these meetings over the course of time and has refused to take them again not wanting to be seen as being in a sense subservient to the person currently sitting in the Prime Minister's chair when he Netanyahu himself Israel's longest-serving Prime Minister wants to get back into that chair himself given the events of the last few days there various stories reportedly and who exactly initiated this meeting but at any event Netanyahu agreed to come and get this briefing from Yair Lapid we'll see if there are actually pictures that come out something it's now may not want to see but at any event this may be an attempt by Netanyahu to in a sense set a marker right to be able in the day after this operation when no matter what the result is there will be part of the Israeli public that will be unsatisfied because again as we often see as we always see in these conflicts in Israel and groups in the Gaza Strip the groups are left standing in one way or another after the operation is done right which could give Netanyahu a political opening to attack the government not during the campaign which wouldn't go over well politically but on the day after once the ceasefire is in effect and for the rest of the election campaign and having a meeting like this one one would imagine could be part of Netanyahu's arsenal he'll be able to say I said this to Mr. Prime Minister Lapid I told him what to do I warned him I said so at the time and here is what did not happen or what did happen against my advice and here are the consequences so in for Netanyahu's perspective maybe a way of setting himself up for the remainder of the campaign from Lapid's perspective this has something he's obligated to do under law you're looking at live images now of Gaza City there is where Palestinian Islamic jihad continues to launch rockets into Israel majority of which are intercepted by the iron dome Rafael we've only got about a minute left but very quickly I want to ask you the IDF saying last night that all top Islamic jihad security officials in the strip have been assassinated I want to ask you how long it takes a group like Islamic jihad to announce another top commander how do they now replace these officials there will be almost immediately the assistance of these commanders will take over but really some of those have been it's always like a junior it will be a junior level the problem is that now the Islamic jihad is in total disarray and this is very dangerous because they are improvising they do not have any operational instructions anymore they have just the general political message from abroad from the leaders abroad to continue attacking Israel to refuse a ceasefire until now but really on the ground now we are faced with a force that is provoking and acting and we're going to go back to it right after the break this is I-24 news we'll be right back strictly security your weekly look into security intelligence and strategic affairs our team brings the latest on the major international conflicts analysis of the major security issues right here in the Middle East and around the globe Saturdays only on I-24 news and get to the heart of the story even tougher to make sense of it all and that's where we come in I'm David Matlin in each weekday I'll take on the most important topics breaking down the issues so you can decide for yourself zoom in each weekday here that I-24 news we're on the inside of political and religious passions in Jerusalem breaking down the financial trends shaping the global economy giving you key contacts not just headlines with the stories from 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Saturday night by precision strike in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafa I can tell you we carried out another elimination of the commander of the southern area of the PIJ this is a very important achievement and according to all the data I have at the moment we hit him and he was eliminated along with others and in fact the entire military arm of the Palestinian Islamic jihad in the Gaza Strip was thwarted but who is Khaled Mansour and why was he assassinated by the IDF Mansour was the terror organization's commander of the Gaza Strip's southern region and over the last few days he planned anti-tank guided missile and high altitude missile attacks on the Israeli border but over the last couple of decades Mansour had a heavy hand in numerous attacks on Israel in July 2004 he was responsible for moderately injuring an IDF southern brigade commander of the Gaza Division then in 2010 while serving as head of the PIJ's rocket unit he claimed responsibility for the death of famed IDF combat major Ali Raaz Parrott then in 2015 he became commander of the PIJ's northern region of the Gaza Strip from mortar bomb to advanced rockets IDF intelligence says that Mansour led hundreds of rocket attacks on Israel during this time he was heavily involved in building tunnels and in May 2021 during operation guardian of the walls launched barrages of rockets at Israel and attempted massive plots against IDF troops and Israeli civilians as Israel continues its operation breaking dawn so far the IDF sees it as a success as they eliminate Palestinian Islamic jihad's top leadership for now let's go now to I-24 news correspondent Pia Steckelback live for us in Sturot in southern Israel Pia we understand there were some rocket interceptions earlier there you were sheltering talk to us about the latest security situation there yes you're right we heard the rocket alert and we saw a barrage of rockets being fired towards southern Israel and being intercepted by the iron domicile defense system about an hour ago at about quarter to nine now the situation since then has been calm we see a few people walking around but the situation here still is very tense and a lot of people prefer to stay in their homes near they save rooms or to walk closely to the shelter our cameraman ego will show you here in Sturot and in general in communities and southern Israel there are a lot of shelters dispersed among the streets because Gaza city is about 12 kilometers away from here and when you hear a rocket alert Hamda you have about 15 seconds to make your way to a shelter and this is what we have experienced about an hour ago when we heard the barrage of rockets fire being fired at us and the iron dome rocket missile interception system intercepting these rockets you hear a boom and even if these rockets are not directly sent towards us you hear detonations sometimes around us in the neighboring areas and earlier on amid these barrage being fired at us there was a shrapnel of the iron dome missile defense system being fired or landed on one of the local residents cars and we got the chance to speak to him and to see the shrapnel that was being landed on his car so let's take a listen to what he had to say I heard an air raid siren I stopped on the side of the road this part fell on my car as you can see this is part of an iron dome we are strong here in Sturot we are not afraid we are strengthening the army the army will do what it has to do and we have the iron dome to protect us and stay strong and Pia can you talk to us a little bit about the security situation inside Gaza we understand that the civilian population there does not have anywhere to run or hide in the event of an Israeli airstrike talk to us about that exactly Hamd I was talking about the shelter but of course this is a privilege that Israeli citizens have that gas and civilian population does not have so whenever there is an airstrike there is usually not even a warning so people just remain inside their buildings and hope that nothing will happen to them and Gaza is one of the most densely populated areas in the world and although Israel says that it conducts targeted precise targeting operations in an area that is such densely populated is very very difficult to prevent civilian casualties and also this is what we have probably seen yesterday night when the Palestinian Islamic jihad launched rockets towards Israel and the rockets landed in the Gaza envelope itself this actually happens to a lot of rockets that they are firing civilian population also might have gotten hurt this is at least what Israel says that has happened so civilian population Gaza has nowhere to go also nowhere to flee really here in Israel we hear that there are airlines who offering cheaper prices for flights to bring people from the south out of this area here we even hear that hotels offer special packages for southern residents to bring them out of this imminent danger here this is something of course that the gas and civilian population does not have P.S. Stackleback live for us in Steroot in southern Israel thank you let's bring back in our panel Raphael Yerushalmi and Owen Alterman let's talk about Jerusalem for a second right wing politician Ben Veer going on this day Tisha Beav we've already seen images of some settlers performing prayer rituals there what can we expect in Jerusalem in terms of escalation we also know Hamas has called on their supporters to ascend upon Al Aqsa and rockets also in the vicinity of Jerusalem we'll speak about Hamas' involvement in this escalation in a little but talk to us about the escalation in Jerusalem first well so far the escalation that hasn't happened it's the dog that hasn't barked right now we should say that if there were people who Jews who prayed on the Temple Mount that is against the rules that is against the law that is against the status quo that is something that the Israeli police the Israeli authorities are supposed to stop so it is not something that should have happened as for the visits themselves obviously they have a very explosive potential this is a resonant day on the Jewish calendar especially on the Temple Mount right this is the anniversary of the destruction of the two temples and a day when many Jews or some Jews should say have a tradition of visiting the Temple Mount and ascending onto the Mount an old tradition that in some sense has been revived in recent years but obviously at a sensitive point in time like this let alone someone like Itamar Ben Veer who likes to draw attention to himself into what he's doing I mean many politicians do but he doesn't in a very provocative way especially at a time like this is something that has an explosive potential so far again sitting here as we do at this hour on live TV it's an escalation that hasn't happened but again it's we're still in the morning of this day there's still an explosive potential for something to happen further our Bianca Zemini is on the ground in case something does I think the hope in Israel is that this will pass and maybe people are cautiously optimistic at this point in the morning that it will pass without further incident but certainly a sensitive issue in the Muslim world these visits are and this has been a flashpoint as we well know in recent years there's intense disagreement in Israel and Jordan which has a role in the governance of the site but exactly how these visits should be conducted and if they should be conducted and so again an escalation that hasn't happened so far dog that hasn't parked but everyone certainly is on edge waiting to see what happens and Rafael Hamas calling on its supporters to ascend to the al-Aqsa mosque today what will it take for them to join in on this escalation with Palestinian Islamic jihad we know Israel does not want that we're not quite sure what Hamas wants at this time however they have given Islamic jihad the green light to continue on with their operation so what do we think could push them towards the direction of joining right now Hamas is very happy to let the Islamic jihad to the dirty work for them so they don't need to intervene because they already have this faction that's doing the job they can just stand by the side now if I would be a leader of the Hamas right now I would think twice about joining the list of people who are eliminated because would they want to join now to enter the game then their fate will be similar to those of the leaders of the Islamic jihad I think the Israeli side has made it quite clear that this run is a bit different from the preceding rounds of course it will not change the future we will be back to square one at the end of this operation as well and after a few months we will probably face another round but right now there is such a determination I think also the meeting between Benjamin Netanyahu and Yair Lapid was showing this determination this kind of unity that the political divide is there for sure but there was a show of unity of cohesion on the Israeli part which we do not see on the Palestinian part we don't see the PLO being in such disarray at the Islamic jihad being hit by the Israelis so really right now I think the Palestinians are just letting the Islamic jihad take the fall take the hits and I do not see what interest they would have into now joining in let's just remind that and so far the Hamas calls to embrace the region about Al-Aqsa and the Temple Mount have failed there was no uprising of the Palestinian people there was no uprising of the faithful against the Zionist enemy it didn't work so to try it now again in this particular context it's bound to fail even more we'll certainly see what happens as we await escalations or calm in Jerusalem Owen Alterman and Raphael Yurushalmi joining me live in studio this morning thank you let's go now to Danny Rahamim a resident on the Israel Gaza border live for us on the phone Danny good morning to you talk to us about what the last 72 hours have been like for you okay we had lots of records and rockets in our kibbutz now it's a little bit quiet the night was very very quiet and but now we organize the family with the little children to leave the kibbutz and we send them to another kibbutz in the north okay and talk to us a little bit about the the safety measures put in place the safety guidelines you've been instructed by Israeli police to take in the event of a missile launch sorry I didn't hear you talk to us a little bit about what the Israeli authorities tell you to do in these situations when the rocket sirens are sounding okay so we get the message messages to stay at home most of the day we have to stay in the kibbutz we can't go outside but sometimes there is windows that the army tell us in these windows to leave the kibbutz anybody that wants to leave the kibbutz or go inside the kibbutz there is this for few minutes windows to go out and come to the kibbutz and we understand that daily life now has been disrupted there any idea or a sense from authorities when you'll be able to kind of get back to normal no I wish I wish we knew they can't tell us we hope that it won't take a long time but we can't know the authorities couldn't tell us when it will stop Danny Rahmima resident on the Israel Gaza border thank you so much thank you thank you very much that's it for this breaking news edition of the broadcast from the I-24 news desk for more breaking news updates be sure to follow I-24 news online at I-24 news dot TV on Facebook Twitter and Instagram we want to leave you now with some live images of Gaza City where Palestinian Islamic jihad continues to fire retaliatory rockets at Israel after the initial airstrike on Friday be sure to keep it right here on I-24 news 24-7 for continued updates on operation breaking dawn I'm Hamza Sanhout in Tel Aviv thanks for watching I-24 news team of talented correspondents are working hard for you they're in the markets on the streets in the battlefields getting the pulse of the story 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