 Welcome to this special broadcast here on I-24 News, day 66 of the war here in Israel. Massive barrage of rockets towards the central Israel this afternoon, one direct hit causing extensive damage, one person lightly injured. In the north, Hezbollah announcing 100 of its own terrorists killed by the IDF, not including Palestinian terrorists operating in southern Lebanon. In the Gaza Strip, fierce fighting continue, Israeli troops finding it again, ammunition in UNRWA bags on civilian facilities. The IDF announcing three more soldiers killed in combat, bringing the total to 104 since the ground operation began. On the diplomatic front, Italy, France and Germany calling for sanctions against Hamas, and the UN General Assembly is ready to vote on a resolution to call on Israel to cease the fire immediately. The Russia, in a possible shift maybe, demanding the release of all Israeli hostages now, Hamas meanwhile reportedly threatening to execute them, should Israel advance its operations in Hanyunas, where leader Geresinoir is believed to be hiding. And we want to begin this broadcast by heading straight to the ground to the Israel-Gaza border. I-24 News correspondent Pierre-Claude Schindler with the I-24 News team there on the ground. Can you map out for us the current state of the fighting from the northern part of the Strip to the southern part? It's very stable, I would say, so to speak, of course. There's three main combat zones right now for the past eight days, actually, in the Jebalia refugee camp, which is on the northern outskirts of Gaza City, in Shejaia, which is on the southeast outskirts of Gaza City, Gaza City being completely surrounded for a long time already. And then in Hanyunas, Hanyunas being encircled, but also battled for from within as Division 98 of commando units is striking with its ground forces in the heart of the city. In the outskirts of Hanyunas, also major battles, five of the six soldiers whose death was announced this morning died yesterday in a close combat incident in the eastern outskirts of Hanyunas in a community village called Alkarara. There, there's a school, there were Hamas terrorists locked in the school. They fired anti-tank guided missiles on the troops and on the tanks. They fired gun machine, gunfire, and the soldiers besieging the school felt in a booby-trapped area of explosive devices and died as a result of that, and that shows you the difficulty, not only close-range combat, but also areas filled, strewn with a lot of improvised explosive devices. So it's a very complicated operation. And in the background here, still, you see the destruction of infrastructure by the engineering corps. You see some aerial strike. We know from the IDF that Bet Hanyun, there was some residue of resistance by Hamas and firefights in Sherh Radoan on the northern outskirts, northwestern outskirts of Gaza City, according to Palestinian media affiliated to Hamas, also combat. So the situation is still very volatile and still very intense in terms of fighting. And at the same time, there is, oh, today, the opening of two humanitarian corridors for the population, the remaining population of the northern Gaza Strip to move to the safe zones and also from Hanyuness to move to the humanitarian zone of Al-Muassi between Rafah and the Egyptian Gaza border in Hanyuness. And Pierre, before we let you go, for the first time, we're seeing this new technology being used, a code named Gift from Heaven, an IDF operation to bring supplies from the air to the troops deep in the Gaza Strip. It's the first time since 2006 since the Second Lebanese War. They had dropped something like seven tons of ammunition and food and water for the soldiers of the commando units that are part of Division 98 and are fighting in the heart of Hanyuness. I-24 News correspondent Pierre Kloeschendler, thank you and the I-24 News team on the ground very much for your reporting throughout the day. Thank you, Pierre. And for more on what is happening on the ground, the urban warfare in Gaza is dangerous and difficult as Pierre just illustrated but is leading to results. The entire Hamas battalions are either killed or caught. The IDF is hoping to see similar results further south as the ground operation continues. I-24 News' senior defense correspondent Jonathan Regif with the details. House to house, alleyway to alleyway. This is what urban warfare in the dense Gaza neighborhoods looks like. While the IDF forces are massive but exposed, the small Hamas squads, much more familiar with the narrow streets, appear from the tunnels for just a few seconds. They hope to score with an explosive device or an anti-tank missile. The IDF's aim is to hit them from the ground or from the air before they do it. Hundreds of terrorists have been killed just in the past few days. Hundreds more understand this will be their fate if they continue fighting and choose instead to surrender among them some top officials. A group of crazy people led by Yahya Sinwar destroyed everything. They destroyed the Gaza Strip and took it 200 years backwards. Hamas itself may be trying to portray images of resilience in Gaza but the former minister is telling a different story. Hamas, the Qasem Brigades and especially Yahya Sinwar. Sinwar are responsible for the situation. This is my opinion but also the opinion of the people. They are saying that Sinwar and his people destroyed us and we have to get rid of them. The images of surrender are coming from the north of the Strip. The hope is to see them soon in the south. That is why the IDF is pushing forward towards Hanunez in order to keep this going. Supplies are constantly provided to the forces. For those deep inside, they come from the air. The 98th Division is operating in Hanunez. We keep providing them in every way possible. Together with the Air Force and the technological and logistical unit, we provide them with all types of supplies from the air. Our division is able to do that even when there is no way to reach our commando fighters by land. The constant logistical assistance along with a massive firepower should eventually lead to victory in Hanunez as well. And from south heading north now, I-24 News Correspondent Zach Kander is on the Israel-Lebanon border with the I-24 News team. Of course, Zach, what's the situation on the ground now? We do know that at least two entire tank missiles were shot towards this military compound near the community of Stula not so long ago. Which is not too far from where we just were. We're still waiting for the IDF to confirm if there was damage or injuries. And from today's earlier rocket attack, which is a barrage between six to eight rockets, it's still undetermined. The IDF says they intercepted six of the rockets from this morning at 7 AM. Appears no damage or injuries from that either. This latest red alert for Stula, again, we're waiting for confirmation. But today's two events do seem to be relatively quiet compared to yesterday when there was several more strikes. And Zach, Hezbollah is publicly acknowledging or saying at least 100 of its terrorists got killed, estimations that the number might be higher. But in any case, this number does not include the Palestinian terrorists operating from southern Lebanon. But Zach, it's not very typical for Hezbollah to state that out loud. Right. And just a short while ago, too, they confirmed the death of fighters inside Syria as well. So a bit forthcoming on their part. Just after an IDF strike in the last 72 hours targeting a senior Hezbollah operative on the ground, it does appear the IDF strategy of late has been to use the intelligence advantage that they have here to try and root out and eliminate some of the field commanders. Of course, the real leadership of Hezbollah is tucked deep away inside Lebanon. And it would be difficult with the limited scope of the operations that the IDF is trying to hold here and retaliate just near the southern border of Lebanon and not strike too much deeper into the country to risk further unrest within Lebanon. It should be noted that today there appears on social media to be large strikes inside the country in Beirut as banks are closed, places of work are closed. They're doing a general walkout strike both in Lebanon and Syria as well for Gaza and for Palestine. So the wider public of Lebanon, of course, is certainly tuned into what's happening in the south of their country. And it does seem, based on just social media collecting some of the reaction that they are starting to acknowledge the Israeli sentiment or at least the Israeli message of the last week, which is bringing UNSC, the United Nations Security Council, 1701, to the center front here to remind the public that the goal here is to have Hezbollah not within any operational capacity south of the Latani River, create that 30-mile buffer, and it does appear that that message is permeating and more and more people are talking about this goal. Yes. And yet at an editorial at a newspaper considered to be close to Hezbollah, the Akhba newspaper today, there are calls for the IDF to withdraw to Haifa should Hezbollah move further north across the Latani River. Zach Anders at 24 News Correspondent, thank you very much for this and joining us now here in studio Dan Perry, International Affairs Analyst. Thank you very much, Mr. Perry, for joining us. Well, let's do address the diplomatic front because it is packed and let's do begin with the northern front because it seems to be to an extent a mirror image of what we're seeing in the south in the sense that if military first in the south diplomacy later, in the north it seems to be the other way around. Is there some sort of a diplomatic in between solution and no one is ruling out the military option right after? Well, unlike the south, Israel does not wish to eradicate Hezbollah, at least it's not prepared to pay the price. I mean, I'm sure it would be a good idea in theory, but they're not going to actually try to do that themselves. And so I think they're wise to do diplomacy first and to have the moral high ground where they're asking the UN to implement or to bring about the implementation of its own resolution 1701 from whatever it was 16, 17 years ago, a reasonable resolution if you accept that Hezbollah is not Lebanon. Yeah, in other words, Israel is happy to have a Lebanese army be on the border. That's why the idea of having the idea for the draw is a false equivalence and complete nonsense. Hezbollah is a terrorist group that is a clear and present danger to people a mile or two way across the border. And this is why the question is, no matter what diplomatic frameworks we're talking about in the moment of truth, will Hezbollah adhere to the instructions from the newly non-existent Lebanese government or the orders coming out of terror? They don't have a president. They don't have a head of the army in Lebanon. You have to build the landscape that would enable them to feel pressure. But I think it's a reasonable goal to try to build that landscape and to create pressure on them. By the way, I would be a little bit worried about their announcement that they lost 100 fighters. Because Hezbollah is not in the business of making sure that there's a free and comprehensive and transparent flow of information. That's not what they're about. So when they atypically announced such a thing, it kind of sounds to me like they're trying to potentially build a narrative where they've been provoked and they have to strike back and this sort of thing. In Lebanon and internationally. Well, let's speak about another perhaps not too typical or yet giving it another thought, very typical move coming out of Moscow today. The Deputy Foreign Minister Bogdanov is picking up the phone and telling Hamas leaders who are willing to listen. They should release all Israeli hostages now and that comes after less than a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Tanyau spoke with President Putin over the phone. His statement, the Prime Minister's office statement said that he was very clear about his dissatisfaction with the Russian position. It seems that... Well, that's mutual. Russia is dissatisfied with Israel's position of being closer to Ukraine than they would like throughout the conflict. And part of that was a function of Russia's own position. So I think this is part and parcel of Russia's effort to remove itself from the zone of being a complete and total global pariah and try to be useful somehow. I mean, it's not like Russia wants Hamas to win or Russia wants hostages to be held. Russia wants Ukraine or a large part of Ukraine. And there is in recent weeks as the Ukrainian counter-offensive stumbles a lot more talk about how Ukraine needs to sue for peace and be done with it. I think one outcome for Russia that is good in the Ukraine war is for Ukraine to see more territory to give them a victory narrative at least at this point. And for that to happen, they need to be seen as legitimate. What could increase their legitimacy more than Putin traveling to the UAE, than Bogdanov calling on Hamas to release hostages? It's almost like they were in normal country, run by an acceptable government. They don't say that they were Qatar. Playing both sides against each other, of course. I'm mastering a discipline. Yes, we're as of a feather. Well, let's do jump back to the Gaza Strip or rather the day after what is currently happening in the Gaza Strip. German Chancellor Ulf Schultz is talking about what could, what should be happening there saying that no matter how you look at it, the two-state solution is still the only feasible solution that exists. The suffering of the Palestinian civil society in Gaza depresses us. Humanitarian aid for civilians must improve. The Dutch Prime Minister and I are convinced that the two-state solution is the only way in the medium term for Israelis and Palestinians to live together in peace. Yeah, and if anyone is giving a fight to US President Biden in terms of the support of Israel, it's sure it's not that there should be a competition in this respect, but without a doubt supporting Israel, supporting the Israeli cause, supporting the objectives of the war. And yet saying we do need to think ahead. Absolutely. I mean, this is part of the meta-narrative where to support Israel is precisely in my view indeed to support a two-state solution. I'm not saying Israel can withdraw from the West Bank in Gaza or in West Bank and also Gaza immediately, but in terms of its ultimate strategic goal, I mean, you either, you have 15 million people between the so-called river and the actual sea. The mountain and the beach is one notable. Equally divided between Arabs and Jews. Either one side dominates the other or expels the other. Or you have an effort to have a truly binational state that's not a Jewish state and many Jews will flee such a state. Or you have partition. There is no other way in the Euclidean universe. So an Israel that thinks about the future would be trying to position itself that way, and I would add, even right now as we speak, it's in Israel's interest to not be forced to end the war on Hamas before Hamas is truly gone from Gaza. As it did in every single other cycle because of destruction in Gaza got too great. If Israel wishes to enable that legitimacy to exist, it needs to articulate a day after plan. And of course, here we see again a misalignment between the interests of the country and out of the current prime minister who wishes for the war for some sort of conflict to continue out of an item. That's what preserves him in the seat. Well, the issue of the West Bank is taking center stage once again because it's not very often in Israel that the prime minister and the military want one thing and that the security cabinet decides another. But this is exactly what happened when it rejected a push to return Palestinian workers from the West Bank to jobs in a proper senior correspondent. Owen Ultraman explains the reasons behind this move. Once upon a time in an October 6th world, this was the heiress crossing, the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip, with Palestinian traders and workers lining up to cross into Israel to do business or earn a living. But this is an October 7th world, and in that world, the Israeli security cabinet Sunday night rejected a move to return even West Bank Palestinian workers to building sites and farms inside Israel. Returning Gaza workers is a non-starter. The entry of workers from Judea and Samaria is exactly the continuation of the same concept that we warn against. We know what it is when they come full of hate and motivated. I'm not saying that all of them are, but it's enough that 10% of them are like that. For decades, West Bank Palestinians have been a key part of the Israeli workforce, filling jobs that Israelis don't want to do, an imported workforce, as in many developed countries. The establishment saw this as a win-win. The Israeli economy got workers it needs. West Bank Palestinians earned money to support their families. Then came October 7th, and reports that workers from inside the Gaza Strip helped the perpetrators navigate the Kibbutzim on which those workers had worked, and slaughter Israelis, whom those workers had known. Some experts still urge caution. During the Second Defeat, I was in charge of Ramallah area, and I said that we need to let those people that are not involved with the terrorism to come and work in Israel. Eventually, the government decided not to let them work, and I think that many people were pushed into terrorism. The security cabinet rejected the advice of the National Security Council and of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself, making this a striking vote of no confidence. The politicians and likely the public do not trust those security services to keep out the bad guys, just like they didn't, on October 7th. And as we speak, Red Alert sirens being heard down south in Israeli border communities along the Gaza Strip, of course, we will keep you updated on that. Mr. Dan Perry, when it comes to the issue of the West Bank, we do know that the reason that we're not talking much about it from the security standpoint is not because there are no threats or attempts to pursue terror activity, but rather because the IDF is working there tirelessly. And yet part of the security establishment view of what could reduce the tension is to let them work the security cabinet back to differ. Security establishment is generally very practical, which is why it's no fan of never ending occupation, by the way. But the cabinet is political. And politically right now, these Israeli people don't want Palestinian workers. They want separation, which indeed aligns with the overall strategic goal of partition. And of course, it doesn't help, but there are reports that much of the intelligence that was possessed by the Hamas invaders on October 7th came from workers that were very friendly and very nice and then went back and perhaps under duress delivered information about the landscape. And perhaps not. Perhaps willingly cooperated. Or perhaps willingly cooperated. Yeah, this is also a very feasible option now, knowing at the level of support for Hamas and its ideology. But let's go back to the future. And in this respect, I wanted to take a quick listen to what the Qatari and Jordanian top diplomats had to say about this deepening problem. We're talking about it mostly in the context of the American younger generation, but the younger generation here in the Middle East that is forming its own outlook on how or what things should look like. And there's a deepening problem in this respect. Let's take a listen. Seeing these images right now that's coming out of Gaza every day is not just affecting those forces, which are in Lebanon, Yemen, or Iran. But it also affects an entire generation that might be radicalized because of these images. And seeing the international community not responding responsibly to it. If you go around the region and you talk to the younger generation who are waking up to those atrocities every day, Israel has created an amount of hatred that will haunt this region, that will define generations who will come. And therefore, it's hurting its own people as much as it is hurting everybody else in the region. In this respect, Mr. Dan Perry, of course, note the twisted, tilted image that this young generation is receiving, let it be through mainstream media in the Arab world or social media, et cetera, et cetera. Bottom line, there is a generation growing up here that will not be too supportive of a two-state solution. They would rather the river from the river to the sea. I'm not so sure that's true. I don't think they're thinking very deeply. It's sad when older people disdain the younger generation. I don't want to be that person. But something happened that's sort of global historic, which is that the younger generation gets information from 20-second videos on social media. This does not foster critical thinking. It doesn't create an understanding of historical context and precedent. It doesn't make you particularly a deep or moral or anything but reactive to stimuli. And that's the situation we have. And it's informing, of course, the awokeness in America, which doesn't help Israel and also to the green Europe. And it's radicalizing the youth here. But part of it, of course, comes back to Israel. I mean, Israel's, other than a brief respite, presented a government to the world that did not provide the Arabs with anything resembling a horizon since 2009. And right now, Israel's doing nothing to explain. I'm very sad to say, nothing to explain. It's actions in Gaza. It's only very general. It's only trust us since we know what we're doing. They're not saying we bomb this building in this area for this particular reason. You have to try a bit harder. And if you don't, the result is going to be... But we do see the IDF spokesperson facing the cameras day in, day out to explain or to try and give the bigger picture of IDF actions. It seems... It's generalities. They're not saying this is why we attacked in this part of Sahaja'iyah. They're not really doing it. I know what it means to be persuasive. I know what it means to be persuaded. Okay? If I wasn't inclined a priori to believe Israel's probably trying to indeed do what it says, which is the minimum civilian casualties, I would not be persuaded. Neither would you. Neither would the viewers. They're not doing it correctly. And the flip side of that is they're not providing a day after horizon or any way out because the world sees what's happening here. And they conclude that Israel's prepared to flatten Sahaja'iyah and khanounis and risk its own hostages along the way, where there is an alternative to provide a way out, not to speak of eternal occupation of Gaza for the security reason and to risk an insurgency at an infant item and perhaps to offer the Hamas a deal where they get out in disarm in exchange for something. It would look like a more reasonable perspective if you said we're willing to end the war on these conditions. Israel doesn't even do that, not convincing and not systematically, not in any way that is eloquent and charismatic and persuasive. And yet, to end this war, there's always this option that we rarely talk about that Hamas simply lay down the arms, release the hostages and the war will end. Well, I'm not even if I think they're going to do that, but there could be pressure to brought the bear on them. The armed teddy bear that was found yesterday in Gaza. Mr. Dan Ferry, thank you very much. Back at the top. Israel is in a state of war. Families completely done down in their beds. We have no idea where is she. As our soldiers are fighting on the front line, but the general perception is something that certainly needs to be fought as well. Dozens of correspondents throughout the world brings the truth from Israel to hundreds of millions of people in scores of countries. Completely done down in their beds. Bringing Israel's story to the world. I-24 News Channels, now on Hot. Welcome to this special broadcast here on I-24 News. Day 66 of the war here in Israel. Massive barrages of rockets towards the central Israel this afternoon. One direct hit causing extensive damage. One person lightly injured. In the north, Hezbollah announcing 100 of its own terrorists killed by the IDF, not including Palestinian terrorists operating in southern Lebanon. In the Gaza Strip, fierce fighting continue. Israeli troops finding it again. Immunition in UNRWA bags on civilian facilities. The IDF announcing three more soldiers killed in combat, bringing the total to 104 since the ground operation began. On the diplomatic front, Italy, France and Germany calling for sanctions against Hamas and the UN General Assembly, Israel adding to vote on a resolution to call on Israel to cease the fire immediately. Russia in a possible shift maybe demanding the release of all Israeli, all Israeli hostages now. Hamas meanwhile, reportedly threatening to execute them should Israel advance his operations in Hanyunas where leader Yerisinoir is believed to be hiding. And we want to begin this broadcast by heading straight to the ground to the Israel-Gaza border. I-24 News Correspondent Pierre-Claude Schindler with the I-24 News team there on the ground. Pierre, map out for us the current state of fighting from the northern part of the Strip to the southern part. It's very stable I would say so to speak of course. There's three main combat zones right now for the past eight days actually. In the Jabalia refugee camp which is on the northern outskirts of Gaza City. In Shejaia which is on the southeast outskirts of Gaza City. Gaza City being completely surrounded for a long time already. And then in Hanyunas. Hanyunas being encircled but also battled for from within as Division 98 of commando units is striking with its ground forces in the heart of the city. In the outskirts of Hanyunas also major battles. Five of the six soldiers whose death was announced this morning died yesterday in a close combat incident in the eastern outskirts of Hanyunas in a community village called Alkarara. There there's a school they were Hamas terrorists locked in the school they fired anti-tank guided missiles on the troops and on the tanks they fired gun machine and gunfire and the soldiers besieging the school felt in a booby trapped area of explosive devices and died as a result of that and that shows you the difficulty not only close range combat but also areas filled strewn with a lot of improvised explosive devices so it's a very complicated operation and in the background here still you see the destruction of infrastructure by the engineering corps you see some aerial strike we know from the IDF that Bet Hanyun there was some residue of resistance by Hamas and firefights in Sherraduan on the northern outskirts north western outskirts of Gaza city according to Palestinian media affiliated to Hamas also the situation is still very volatile and still very intense in terms of fighting and at the same time there is the opening of two humanitarian corridors for the population the remaining population of the northern Gaza Strip to move to the safe zones and also from Hanyuness to move to the humanitarian zone of Al-Muassi and Rafah from the Egyptian Gaza border and Hanyuness And Pierre before we let you go for the first time we're seeing this new technology being used codenamed Gift from Heaven an IDF operation to bring supplies from the air to the troops deep in the Gaza Strip it's the first time since 2006 since the Second Lebanese War they had dropped something like 7 tons of ammunition and food and water for the soldiers of the commando units that are part of division 98 and are fighting in the heart of Hanyuness I-24 news correspondent Pierre Kloeschendler thank you and the I-24 news team on the ground very much for your reporting throughout the day thank you Pierre and for more on what is happening on the ground the urban warfare in Gaza is dangerous and difficult as Pierre just illustrated the entire Hamas battalions are either killed or caught the IDF is hoping to see similar results further south as the ground operation continues I-24 news as senior defense correspondent Jonathan Regev with the details house to house alleyway to alleyway this is what urban warfare in the dense Gaza neighborhoods looks like while the IDF forces are massive but exposed the small Hamas squads much more familiar with the narrow streets appear from the tunnels for just a few seconds they hope to score with an explosive device or an anti-tank missile the IDF's aim is to hit them from the ground or from the air before they do it hundreds of terrorists have been killed just in the past few days hundreds more understand this will be their fate if they continue fighting and choose instead to surrender among them some top officials a group of crazy people led by Yahya Sinwa destroyed everything destroyed the Gaza Strip and took it 200 years backwards Hamas itself may be trying to portray images of resilience in Gaza but the former minister is telling a different story Hamas the Qasam Brigades and especially Yahya Sinwa are responsible for the situation this is my opinion but also the opinion of the people they are saying that Sinwa and his people destroyed us and we have to get rid of them the images of surrender are coming from the north of the Strip the whole piece to see them soon in the south that is why the IDF is pushing forward towards Chanyunes in order to keep this going supplies are constantly provided to the forces for those deep inside they come from the air the 98th division is operating in Chanyunes we keep providing them in every way possible together with the air force and the technological and logistical unit we provide them with all types of supplies from the air our division is able to do that even when there is no way to reach our commando fighters by land the constant logistical assistance along with a massive firepower should eventually lead to victory in Chanyunes as well and from south heading north the I-24 news corresponds Zach Kander is on the Israel-Lebanon border with the I-24 news team of course Zach what's the situation on the ground now we do know that at least two entire tank missiles were shot towards this military compound near the community of Stula not so long ago which is not too far from where we just were we're still waiting for the IDF to confirm if there was damage or injuries and from today's earlier rocket attack which is a barrage between six to eight rockets it's still undetermined the IDF says they intercepted six of the rockets from this morning at 7am and it appears no damage or injuries from that either this latest red alert for Stula again we're waiting for confirmation but today's two events do seem to be relatively quiet compared to yesterday when there was several more strikes and Zach Hezbollah is publicly acknowledging or saying at least 100 of its terrorists got killed estimations the number might be higher but in any case this number does not include the Palestinian terrorists operating from southern Lebanon but Zach it's not very typical for Hezbollah to state that out loud and just a short while ago too they confirmed the death of fighters inside Syria as well so a bit forthcoming on their part this after an IDF strike in the last 72 hours targeting a senior Hezbollah operative on the ground it does appear the IDF strategy of late to use the intelligence advantage that they have here to try and root out and eliminate some of the field commanders of course the real leadership of Hezbollah is tucked deep away inside Lebanon and it would be difficult with the limited scope of the operations that the IDF is trying to hold here and retaliate just near the southern border of Lebanon and not strike too much deeper into the country to risk further unrest within Lebanon it should be noted that today there appears on social media to be large strikes inside the country in Beirut as banks are closed places of work are closed they're doing a general walkout strike both in Lebanon and Syria as well for Gaza and for Palestine so the wider public of Lebanon of course and into what's happening in the south of their country and it does seem based on just social media collecting some of the reaction that they are starting to acknowledge the Israeli sentiment at least the Israeli message of the last week which is bringing UNSC the United Nations Security Council 1701 to the center front here to remind the public the goal here is to have Hezbollah not within any operational capacity south of the Latani river create that 30 mile buffer and it does appear that that message is permeating and more and more people are talking about this goal Yes and yet at an editorial at a newspaper considered to be close to Hezbollah the Akhba newspaper today there are calls for the IDF to withdraw to Haifa to the Hezbollah move further north across the Latani river Zach Anders at 24 News correspondent thank you very much for this and joining us now here in studio Dan Perry international affairs analyst thank you very much Mr. Perry for joining us well let's do address the diplomatic front because it is packed and let's do begin with the northern front because it seems to be to an extent a mirror image of what we're seeing in the south in the sense that if military first in the south diplomacy later in the north it seems to be the other way around for some sort of diplomatic in between solution and no one is ruling out the military option right after well unlike the south Israel does not wish to eradicate Hezbollah at least it's not prepared to pay I'm sure it would be a good idea in theory but they're not going to actually try to do that themselves and so I think they're wise to do diplomacy first and to have the moral high ground where they're asking the UN to implement or to bring about the implementation of its own resolution 1701 from whatever it was 16 17 years ago a reasonable resolution if you accept that Hezbollah is not Lebanon in other words Israel is happy to have the Lebanese army that's why the idea of having an idea for the draw is a false equivalence in complete nonsense Hezbollah is a terrorist group that is a clear and present danger to people a mile or two way across the border and this is why the question is no matter what diplomatic frameworks we're talking about in the moment of truth will Hezbollah adhere to the instructions from the newly nonexistent Lebanese government or the orders coming out of terror they don't have a president they don't have a head of the army in Lebanon you have to build the landscape that would enable them to feel pressure but I think it's a reasonable goal to try to build that landscape and to create pressure on them by the way I would be a little bit worried about their announcement that they lost 100 fighters because Hezbollah is not in the business of making sure that there is a free and comprehensive and transparent flow it's not what they're about so when they atypically announce such a thing it kind of sounds to me like they're trying to potentially build a narrative where they've been provoked and they have to strike back and this sort of thing in Lebanon and internationally well let's speak about another perhaps not too typical or yet giving it another thought very typical move coming out of Moscow today the deputy Prime Minister Bogdanov is picking up the phone and telling Hamas leaders who are willing to listen that they should release all Israeli hostages now and that comes after less than a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Sanyal spoke with the president putting over the phone his statement the Prime Minister's office statement said that he he was very clear about his dissatisfaction with the Russian position that that's mutual Russia is dissatisfied with Israel's position of being closer to Ukraine than they would like throughout the conflict and part of that was a function of Russia's own position so I think this is part and parcel of Russia's effort to remove itself from the zone of being a complete and total global pariah and try to be useful somehow I mean it's not like Russia wants Hamas to win Russia wants hostages to be held Russia wants Ukraine and there is in recent weeks as the Ukrainian counter offensive stumbles a lot more talk about how Ukraine needs to sue for peace and be done with it I think one outcome for Russia that is good in the Ukraine war is for Ukraine to cede more territory to give them a victory narrative at least at this point and for that to happen they need to be seen as legitimate more than Putin traveling to the UAE than Bogdanov calling on Hamas to release hostages it's almost like they were in normal country run by an acceptable government playing both sides against each other of course mastering a disability well let's do jump back to to the Gaza Strip or rather the day after what is currently happening in the Gaza Strip German Chancellor Ulif Schulz is talking about what could, what should be happening there saying that no matter how you look at it the two-state solution is still the only feasible solution that exists let's take a quick listen the suffering of the Palestinian civil society in Gaza depresses us humanitarian aid for civilians must improve the Dutch Prime Minister and I are convinced that the two-state solution is the only way in the medium term for the Israelis and Palestinians to live together in peace yeah and if anyone is giving a fight to US President Biden in terms of the support of Israel it's not that there should be a competition in this respect but without a doubt supporting Israel supporting the Israeli cause supporting the objectives of the war and yet saying we do need to think ahead absolutely we need to make a narrative where to support Israel is precisely in my view indeed to support a two-state solution I'm not saying Israel can withdraw from the West Bank in Gaza and also Gaza immediately but in terms of its ultimate strategic goal I mean you either you have 15 million people between the so-called river and the actual sea equally divide between Arabs and Jews either one side dominates the other or expels the other and offers to have a truly binational state that's not a Jewish state and many Jews will flee such a state or you have partition there is no other way in the Euclidean universe so an Israel that thinks about the future would be trying to position itself that way and I would add even right now as we speak it's an Israel's interest to not be forced to end the war on Hamas before Hamas has truly gone from Gaza as it did in every single other cycle because of destruction in Gaza got too great to enable that legitimacy to exist it needs to articulate a day after plan and of course here we see again a misalignment between the interests of the country and out of the current prime minister who wishes for the war for some sort of conflict to continue out of an item that's what preserves him in the seat Well the issue of the West Bank is taking center stage once again because it's not very often in Israel that the prime minister and the military want one thing and that the security cabinet decides another but this is exactly what happened when it rejected a push to return Palestinian workers from the West Bank to jobs in Israel proper, senior correspondent Owen Ultriman explains the reasons behind this move Once upon a time in an October 6th world this was the heiress crossing the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip with Palestinian traders and workers lining up to cross into Israel to do business or earn a living but this is an October 7th world and in that world the Israeli security cabinet Sunday night rejected a move to return even West Bank Palestinian workers to building sites and farms inside Israel returning Gaza workers is a non-starter the entry of workers from Judea and Samaria is exactly the continuation of the same concept that we warn against we know what it is when they come full of hate and motivated I'm not saying that all of them are but it's enough that 10% of them are like that For decades West Bank Palestinians have been a key part of the Israeli workforce filling jobs that Israelis don't want to do an imported workforce as in many developed countries the establishment saw this as a win-win the Israeli economy got workers it needs West Bank Palestinians earned money to support their families then came October 7th and reports that workers from inside the Gaza Strip helped the perpetrators navigate the Kibbutzim on which those workers had worked and slaughtered Israelis whom those workers had known some experts still urge caution during the second fight I was in charge of the Ramallah area and I said that we need to let those people that are not involved with the terrorism come and work in Israel eventually the government decided not to let them work and I think that many people were pushed into terrorism the security cabinet rejected the advice of the National Security Council and of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself making this a striking vote of no confidence the politicians and likely the public do not trust those security services to keep out the bad guys just like they didn't on October 7th and as we speak Red Alert Sirens being heard down south in Israeli border communities along the Gaza Strip of course we will keep you updated on that Mr. Dan Perry when it comes to the issue of the West Bank we do know that the reason that we're not talking much about it from the security standpoint is not because there are no threats or attempts to pursue terror activity but rather because the RDF is working there tirelessly and yet part of the security establishment view of what could reduce the tension is to let them work the security cabinet backs to differ security establishment is generally very practical which is why it's no fan of never ending occupation by the way but the cabinet is political and politically right now these Israeli people don't want Palestinian workers separation which indeed aligns with the overall strategic goal of partition and of course it doesn't help but there are reports that many that much of the intelligence that was possessed by the Hamas invaders on October 7th came from workers that were very friendly and very nice and then went back and perhaps under the rest delivered information about you know the landscape and perhaps not perhaps willingly cooperated or perhaps willing knowing at the level of support for Hamas and its ideology but let's do go back to the future and in this respect I wanted to take a quick listen to what the Qatari and Jordanian top diplomats had to say about this deepening problem we're talking about it mostly in the context of the American younger generation but did the younger generation here in the Middle East that is forming its own outlook on how or what things should look like and there's a deepening problem in this respect let's take a listen seeing these images right now that's coming out of Gaza every day is not just affecting those forces which are in Lebanon, Yemen or Iran it also affects an entire generation that might be radicalized because of these images and seeing the international community not responding responsibly to it. If you go around the region and you talk to the younger generation who are waking up to those atrocities every day Israel has created an amount of hatred that will haunt this region that will define generations will come and therefore it's hurting its own people as much as it is hurting everybody else in the region. In this respect Mr. Dan Perry we can of course note the twisted tilted image that this young generation is receiving let it be through mainstream media in the Arab world or social media etc etc bottom line there is a generation growing up here that will not be too supportive of a two-state solution they would rather from the river to the sea I'm not so sure that's true I don't think they're thinking very deeply it's you know it's sad when older people you know disdain the younger generation I don't want to be that person but something happened that's sort of global historic which is that the younger generation gets information from 20 second videos on social media this does not foster critical thinking it doesn't create an understanding of historical context and precedent it doesn't make you particularly a deep or moral or anything but reactive to stimuli and that's the situation we have and it's informing of course the awokeness in America which doesn't help Israel and also to the green Europe and it's radicalizing the youth here but part of it of course comes back to Israel I mean Israel's other than a brief respite presented a government to the world that did not provide the Arabs with anything resembling the horizon since 2009 and right now Israel's doing nothing to explain I'm very sad to say nothing to explain it's actions in Gaza it's only very general it's only trust us we know what we're doing they're not saying we bomb this building in this area for this particular reason you have to try a bit harder and if you don't the result is going to be we do see the idea of a spokesperson facing the cameras day in day out to explain or to try and give the bigger picture of IDF actions it's generals it's generalities they're not saying this is why we attacked in this part of such a they're not really doing it I know what it means to be persuasive I know what it means to be persuaded okay if I wasn't inclined a priori to believe Israel's probably trying to indeed do what it says which is a minimum civilian casualties I would not be persuaded neither would you and neither would the viewers they're not doing it correctly and the flip side of that is they're not providing a day after horizon or any way out because the world sees what's happening here and they conclude that Israel's prepared to flatten Sejaia and Honeunus and risk its own hostages and along the way where there is an alternative to provide a way out not to speak of eternal occupation of Gaza for the security reason and to risk an insurgency at an fin item and perhaps to offer the Hamas a deal where they get out in this arm in exchange for something it would look like a more reasonable perspective if you said we're willing to end the war on these conditions Israel doesn't even do that not convincing and not systematically not in any way that is eloquent and charismatic and persuasive and yet to end this war there's always this option that we rarely talk about that Hamas simply lay down the arms release the hostages and the world will end well I'm not even able to think they're going to do that but there could be pressure to brought the bear on there the armed teddy bear that was found yesterday in Gaza Mr. Dan Perry thank you very much is in a state of war families completely done down in their beds we have no idea where she as our soldiers are fighting on the front lines but the general perception is something that certainly needs to to be fought as well special broadcast here in I-24 news as we continue our rolling coverage on day 66 of the war here in Israel fierce fighting in the Gaza Strip continue another group of suspected Hamas terrorists surrendering in the northern part of the Strip Israeli troops finding yet again ammunition in unwrapped bags on civilian facilities in the north Hezbollah anti-tank missile fire persist Washington Post reports reports that just Israel used US white phosphorus bombs in Lebanon diplomatic front Italy France in Germany calling for sanctions against Hamas the UN General Assembly is ready to vote on a resolution to call on Israel to cease the fire and we want to begin this broadcast on the northern front near the Israel-Lebanon border at 24 news a senior Middle East correspondent Ariel Osaron joining us from there Ariel let's begin with the latest what's the situation on the ground at the moment right Elisa over the past hour continued across border fire along the border between Israel and Lebanon with rockets fired a short hour ago to the area of Stula that's in the central part of the border rockets were intercepted there were similar reports of rockets fired to the area of Manara more east and the finger of the Galilee area the upper Galilee no reports of injuries there the IDF responding to those rockets with widespread airstrikes across southern Lebanon including targeting Hezbollah military site with fighter jet now that Israel has been carrying out also airstrikes and also artillery shelling across the border now specifically in the border village of Taiba which is just across the border from Etula Lebanese reporting that the mayor of that town has been killed as a result of Israeli shelling and this comes as Hezbollah claims responsibility for second attack along the border on IDF soldiers and so this is another one of those days of battle here along the border between Israel and Lebanon. The abnormal normal and to that point exactly Ariel as we speak it's another round of red siren alerts being heard down south we will get there in a moment but Ariel this hour the Washington Post is reporting as mentioned that Israel used a US-supplied white phosphorus bombs in Lebanon what do we know? Right so according to this report they're talking about an incident on October 16th when the IDF used US made and supplied phosphorus bombs and part of their activity now as automatically the use of white phosphorus bombs is not prohibited as long as it is not used in urban areas it is a legitimate tool to use for creating a smoke screen to protect the soldiers and that's exactly what the IDF said in response to this Washington Post report however on the Lebanese side they're saying that as a result of the use of those bombs nine people were injured three of them were sent to hospital one of them stayed there for multiple days and so human rights groups are calling this a potential war crime and are calling for an investigation into Israel's use of this bomb which again Israel says it used it within the restrictions of international law but again the fact that there were multiple civilians who were injured this is a cause for concern on both sides and obviously this is what prompted the report and the investigation to the Washington Post Yes well we are obviously continuing to keep tabs on that I-24 News Senior Middle East correspondent Ariel Osteran up in the north thank you very much for this much more from Ariel later on in the evening and now I'm moving to what's happening in the Gaza Strip because the urban warfare warfare rather in Gaza is dangerous and difficult no doubt but it is leading to results that the civilians are either killed or caught the IDF is hoping to see similar results further south as the operation continues I-24 News Senior Defense correspondent Jonathan Regev with the details house to house alleyway to alleyway this is what urban warfare in the dense Gaza neighborhoods looks like while the IDF forces are massive but exposed the small Hamas Quads much more familiar with the narrow streets appear from the tunnels for just a few seconds they hope to score with an explosive device or an anti-tank missile the IDF's aim is to hit them from the ground or from the air before they do it hundreds of terrorists have been killed just in the past few days hundreds more understand this will be their fate if they continue fighting and choose instead to surrender among them some top officials a group of crazy people destroyed everything they destroyed the Gaza Strip and took it 200 years backwards Hamas itself may be trying to portray images of resilience in Gaza but the former minister is telling a different story Hamas, the Qasam Brigades and especially Yeha Sinwa are responsible for the situation this is my opinion also the opinion of the people they are saying that Sinwa and his people destroyed us and we have to get rid of them the images of surrender are coming from the north of the Strip the hope is to see them soon in the south that is why the IDF is pushing forward towards Chanyunes in order to keep this going supplies are constantly provided to the forces for those deep inside they come from the air the 98th division is operating in Chanyunes we keep providing them in every way possible together with the air force and the technological and logistical unit we provide them with all types of supplies from the air our division is able to do that even when there is no way to reach our commando fighters by land the constant logistical assistance along with the massive firepower should eventually lead to victory in Chanyunes as well and heading now to the Israel Gaza border with the IDF with the IDF thank you very much for joining us let's try to map out the current state of the fighting in the northern part of the Strip and in the southern part right Elie fighting is going on in different parts of the Gaza Strip you mentioned the north this is what we are looking at right now behind me there is one large cloud arising from the areas of Bed Hanun and Bed Lahia the IDF says it has at least operational control and where the engineering corps is or are operating to dismantle Hamas's infrastructure first and foremost the tunnel systems we can hear, as you might have heard right now we can hear booms this is the Israeli probably artillery operating there on the ground dismantling what is left of Hamas's infrastructure and the infrastructure of other groups we also do know that fighting is focused on Shuzaiye which is located in Gaza city so in the middle of the Gaza Strip but what fighting is really focused on is of course the south the city of Hanunis is the second largest city in the Gaza Strip and this is where the IDF is engaged in fighting in urban areas this is a very large city where of course fighting is facing different challenges we do know that the IDF has announced this morning that six soldiers were killed yes in operation there while they were engaged in fighting or in a battle close to a school and they were killed by explosives that were planted there in this area so fighting in urban warfare is posing many challenges for the soldiers this is a message that of course is sending a signal that the battle in Hanunis might look a bit different than the battle in the north because we are speaking about such a densely populated city and of course this is also posing many challenges for the civilians in northern and central areas of the Gaza Strip southwards there are no called upon to move further to the Amulasi area coastal region there but of course also the area in general in the Gaza Strip is very densely populated so also there are many challenges for the civilian population at the same time one of the main goals of the military operation in Gaza is to return the hostages which are expected to be hidden in the tunnels that of course the IDF is trying to get to and in the tunnel systems it is very very difficult to find the way around for the Israeli soldiers but what we are also hearing is now that they are receiving support from the air that the Israeli Air Force has been dropping ammunition, food and supplies for the soldiers from the air and this is a very special operation 7 tons are said to have been dropped from the air to the south to the city of Hanunis to supply Israeli troops there and this is the second time that this has been done since the 2006-11 war and there are many challenges on the ground there and keeping tabs on all of this, I-24 news correspondent Piaz Sikolbach, thank you very much for this much more from Piaz of course throughout our broadcast later on today and joining us now here in Studio Brigadier General Mr. Israela Relika Shafir former commander of the Telnov Air Force base thank you very much Brigadier General Shafir for joining us well let's do begin with what we are saying as a growing trend and more images of suspect Hamas terrorist surrendering putting aside the impact of those images when it comes to the you know the optics of it when it comes to public perception what do we learn when it comes to Hamas's control or lack thereof of the strip, there is a difference between cracks to a breaking point I'm not sure that all the house the POWs or whatever you want to call them are Hamas people you could see that from the way they are cut out their ages that they are not really soldiers or at least trained soldiers they are not terrorists but obviously you could see one of them who is pretty heavy laying down his Kalachnikov I think this is expected that when you're cornered into a position where you've lost most of your assets at a certain point then it is better to give up and surrender than get killed so I think they've gathered all the people who are there some of them are Hamas soldiers it doesn't mean that they've given up it just means that they were cornered into a position where they could not fight any longer so hopeful as we may want to be this is not a sign of a crack it's a sign of weakening obviously but I wouldn't count on it in the long range breaking signs perhaps not far from being the breaking point that's certain General Shafiou do stay with us because we want to welcome now Israeli lawmaker Mr. Milwitski a member of the ruling early coup party thank you very much for joining us this afternoon well let's begin perhaps with the hottest political potato at the moment the depending budget very controversial one that is now in the process of being brought into a second and third final of the parliament's plan and you member of the coalition not going to support it why? I didn't say I'm not going to support it I think the budget is a good budget overall I emphasize the certain point that I don't think most Israelis know at least I didn't know about it was brought into my attention a few weeks ago you know when a man goes to a reserve duty Milouim what we call he's supposed to his employer gets his cost back from the state I thought he gets his entire cost back but no apparently what the employer pays as social payments the country doesn't pay the employers and that's between 25 and 30% of the salary now when that happens on a regular routine schedule it's okay it's not big money but when we have more than 200,000 people listed as reserve duty and this war going on as much as it's going on it's anticipated to go on more time it's not going to end in a few weeks we're talking about big money for the employers and there's absolutely no justification in my mind for the country to call someone for reserve duty and then anticipate his employer not only to not have him in his working place not only to not be able to bring anybody to substitute him because nobody's going to come at a very short temporary time get the business that these people work and usually suffers from they're not being there and now they have to pay out of their own pocket to fund some of the reserve duties working costs that's unacceptable in my book therefore I asked over a month ago the people from the treasury department to come to some sort of a solution and I've been overlooked and I wasn't taken seriously unfortunately and I got these answers that aren't really answers that there are bigger things now and nobody had time to really deal with it and they're still thinking about it therefore yesterday I told them on a meeting we had on that schedule I'm going to have I'm not going to support this budget if this specific issue is not the result to some sort of remedy but Mr. Malewski you're pointing out one out of a long list of issues with the budget that appears in broader terms not to be a wartime budget in a sense to the entire country the economy the army of course the home front as we call it everything is in war mode the budget remains not so much I don't agree I think that the the thing we we already passed the budget a few months ago we're passing now a new budget to the end of 2023 because we added 30 billion shekels to the budget because of war issues now most of that addition was paid for from diversity between the budget sections therefore there is work going on of course when you want to go and punch a political card you're going to point a spotlight on the money that goes to the orthodox people and paint it like this is the entire thing it's not we're adding an additional 30 billion dollars and what the opposition is talking about is not more than 200 million out of 30 billion now you don't go and talk and say the things they say because of 200 million from a 600 billion budget all these things we need to pass this budget because again it's needed for security reasons it's needed for the people that got evacuated out of their homes we have 1.5% of the population out of their homes we need to deal with all of this and when we get the budget for 2024 when we're supposed to to get within two or three weeks then we'll be able to look everything see all the offices that are in controversy whether we need to continue running them or maybe we can still work in progress not the end of it when it comes to a renewed budget allocations Mr. Moldowski before we let you go we do want to get your take on what we've seen in the security cabinet last night Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu pushed for Palestinian workers from the West Bank to enter Israel security cabinet members opposed it and generally speaking it seems a bit unclear whether Netanyahu wants to strengthen the Palestinian Authority or weaken it and this also relates of course to the talks of the day after the war well I think we need to see reality as it is I think the Palestinian Authority at least not this Palestinian Authority can be a part of any solution it's actually a part of a problem the Palestinian people well you know when you see what's going on there you understand that the only reason that they didn't do what Hamas did is that they didn't have the ability that's the entire thing we need to rethink we need to understand that we cannot be dependent anymore on labor coming from the territories in Judea and Samaria therefore I think that the cabinet's decision yesterday was a justified one and I hope nobody changes their mind there we cannot afford ourselves to bring thousands and thousands of Palestinians inside Israel it's too risky these people are our enemy whether it's nice to say or not these people are our enemy and we need to understand that and we need to find new ways for this labor issue Israeli lawmaker member of the ruling liquid party Mr. Erchanoch Milwitzky thank you very much for your time this afternoon we appreciate it thank you thank you for being here with us in studio still Brigadier General your thoughts on the comments that we've just heard when it comes to the Palestinian Authority part of the problem not part of the solution I think member of parliament Milwitzky is part of the problem the way he actually paints all Palestinians as enemies these are people who were actually the backbone of our construction industry and now with a lot of Thai people going back to Thailand they are also helping us in agriculture obviously at this particular time things should be looked at in a particular way but blaming them were calling them all enemies is not only contrary to the truth but it is also irritating to anybody who is working with them and I think he doesn't understand how much Israeli industry is dependent on them and what will happen if they don't have a paycheck at the end of the day this is the best way to push them towards Hamas and this is perhaps the point that I will ask you to elaborate on Brigadier General Shafi because the security establishment is supporting that not because of the of the considerations when it comes to the Israeli construction industry or the agriculture industry they're thinking about it from the security standpoint and the belief or the assumption is that the more economic despair in the West Bank the greater the risk that the security situation is going to escalate there but it does not coincide with the diplomatic perception or the political perception that is currently reigning in Jerusalem so how do you mend it too well obviously this particular member of parliament is known to be extreme right wing and for them all Arabs and all Palestinians are enemies member of Benjamin Netanyahu's liquid party we're not talking about the far-right elements in the coalition some of the liquid party members and particularly this particular member are actually much closer to the extreme right parties than they are and the liquid the liquid is supposed to be a liberal party and he's certainly not one of those Benjamin Netanyahu understands both the in this particular case both the economic effects and the security effects and the fact that while all the world is calling for a two-state solution now they're branded as enemies this is hurting Israeli diplomacy overseas and I think Mr. Bulwitzky should learn a little bit about the way the economy and the security is managed here we are seeing as we speak Brigadier General Shafir live images of the Gaza skyline it seems that the aerial strikes continue so let's do as much as possible put the political prospects like they're on the side for a second and go back to what's happening on the ground we do see again fierce fighting from south to north in the Gaza Strip and the question remains whether those tactical achievements accumulate add up to a strategic change on the ground there is no question that this is what is going to happen it's the number of Habas terrorists that are being killed every day and their pushback will have its effect at the end of the day the question is when is this end of the day whether it's closer or farther we're under pressure to really quickly handle this but it's a long story here we should be patient we should learn from past wars let's think about ISIS it took a few years to eradicate ISIS and we're talking about coalition forces who had fought ISIS so this is an urban warfare it should take time until the pressure comes home to the leaders the Hamas leaders underground when they are cornered it'll cost lives as well but there is no way out this is all war there is no easy way and we should just press on until we get things done and things done include also the elimination of Hamas leaders can you foresee a situation in which there is an end to this intensive fight of the war without such a scenario obviously there could be different types of war and games as long as Hamas is neutralized there is at the end of the day the hostages are held as the playing cards for Hamas leaders in case they're cornered into a position where they cannot survive anymore they will pay with the hostages in order to get their ticket out of Gaza if this may come so this is what we should expect that as they are being cornered the more pressure is put on them the better the chances of releasing the hostages even though we understand that the time is a constraint desperate times, desperate measures etc Brigadier General Shafir thank you very much for this we'll be back at the top of the hour Israel is in a state of war families completely gun down in their beds we have no idea where she is our soldiers are fighting on the front lines but the general perception is something that certainly needs to be fought as well in the 24 news we continue our rolling coverage on day 66 of the war here in Israel. Fierce fighting and the Gaza Strip continue another group of suspected Hamas terrorists surrendering in the northern part of this trip Israeli troops finding yet again recognition in UNRUB bags on civilian facilities in the north. Hezbollah anti-tank missile fire persists to Washington Post, reports suggest that Israel used US-supplied white phosphorus bombs in Lebanon on the diplomatic front, Italy, France and Germany calling for sanctions against Hamas, the UN General Assembly is ready to vote on a resolution to call on Israel to cease the fire. And we want to begin this broadcast on the northern front near the Israel-Lebanon border at 24 News, a senior Middle East correspondent, Ariel Osiron, joining us from there. Ariel, let's begin with the latest, what's the situation on the ground at the moment? Right, Elias, so over the past hour continued across border fire along the border between Israel and Lebanon with rockets fired a short hour ago to the area of Shtula, that's in the central part of the border, rockets were intercepted, also there were similar reports of rockets fired to the area of Manara, more east than the finger of the Galilee area, the upper Galilee. No reports of injuries there, the IDF responding to those rockets with widespread airstrikes across southern Lebanon including targeting Hezbollah military site with fighter jet now on the Lebanese side, they're saying that Israel has been carrying out also airstrikes and also artillery shelling across the border now specifically in the border village of Taiba which is just across the border from Etula, Lebanese reporting that the mayor of that town has been killed as a result of an Israeli shelling and this comes as Hezbollah claims responsibility for a second attack along the border on IDF soldiers and yeah, so this is another one of those days of battle here along the border between Israel. The abnormal normal and to that point exactly Ariel as we speak it's another round of red siren alerts being heard down south, we will get there in a moment but Ariel this hour the Washington Post is reporting as mentioned that Israel used a US-supplied white phosphorus bombs in Lebanon, what do we know? Right, so according to this report they're talking about an incident on October 16th when the IDF used US-made and supplied phosphorus bombs and part of their activity now as automatically the use of white phosphorus bombs is not prohibited as long as it is not used in urban areas and it is a legitimate tool to use for creating a smoke screen to protect the soldiers and that's exactly what the IDF said in response to this Washington Post report however on the Lebanese side they're saying that as a result of the use of those bombs nine people were injured three of them were sent to hospital one of them stayed there for multiple days and so humanitarian or human rights groups are calling this a potential war crime and are calling for an investigation into Israel's use of this bomb which again Israel says it used it within the restrictions of international law but again the fact that there were multiple civilians who were injured this is a cause for concern on both sides and obviously this is what prompted the report and the investigation by the Washington Post. Yes well we are obviously continuing to keep tabs on that I-24 News in your Middle East correspondent Ariel Anster on up in the north thank you very much for this much more from Ariel later on in the evening and now I'm moving to what's happening in the Gaza Strip because the urban warfare in warfare rather in Gaza is dangerous and difficult no doubt but it is leading to results entire Hamas battalions are either killed or caught the IDF is hoping to see similar results further south as the operation continues I-24 News senior defense correspondent Jonathan Regev with the details house to house alleyway to alleyway this is what urban warfare in the dense Gaza neighborhoods looks like while the IDF forces are massive but exposed the small Hamas quads much more familiar with the narrow streets appear from the tunnels for just a few seconds they hope to score with an explosive device or an anti-tank missile the IDF's aim is to hit them from the ground or from the air before they do it hundreds of terrorists have been killed just in the past few days hundreds more understand this will be their fate if they continue fighting and choose instead to surrender among them some top officials a group of crazy people led by a Yia Sinwa destroyed everything that destroyed the Gaza Strip and took it 200 years backwards Hamas itself may be trying to portray images of resilience in Gaza but the former minister is telling a different story Hamas the custom brigades and especially Yia Sinwa are responsible for the situation this is my opinion but also the opinion of the people they are saying that Sinwa and his people destroyed us and we have to get rid of them the images of surrender are coming from the north of the strip the whole piece to see them soon in the south that is why the IDF is pushing forward towards Han Yunes in order to keep this going supplies are constantly provided to the forces for those deep inside they come from the air the 98th division is operating in Han Yunes we keep providing them in every way possible together with the air force and the technological and logistical unit we provide them with all types of supplies from the air our division is able to do that even when there is no way to reach our commando fighters by land the constant logistical assistance along with a massive firepower should eventually lead to victory in Han Yunes as well and heading now to the Israel Gaza border at 24 news that corresponded Pia Stakelbach with the 24 news team there on the ground Pia thank you very much for joining us well let's try to map out the the current state of the fighting in the northern part of the strip and in the southern part right Ellie while fighting is going on in different parts of the Gaza strip you mentioned the north this is what we're looking at right now behind me there is one large cloud a smoker rising from the areas of bed Hanun and bed lahya this is the area where the idea of says it has at least operational control and where the engineering corps is or are operating to dismantle Hamas infrastructure first and foremost the tunnel systems we can hear as you might have heard right now we can hear booms this is the Israeli probably artillery operating there on the ground dismantling what is left of Hamas infrastructure in the infrastructure of other groups that we also do know that fighting is a focused on the Shazair which is located in Gaza city so in the middle of the Gaza strip but what is fighting is really focused on is of course the south the city of Han Yunes the city of Han Yunes is the second largest city in the Gaza strip and this is where the idea is engaged in fighting in urban areas this is a very large city where of course fighting is facing different challenges we do know that the idea of has announced this morning that six soldiers were killed yes in an operation there while they were engaged in fighting or in a battle close to a school and they were killed by explosives that were explosives there that were planted there in this area so fighting in urban warfare is opposing a many challenges for the soldiers this is a message that of course is sending a signal that the battle in Han Yunes might look a bit different than the battle in the north because we're speaking about such a densely populated city and of course this is also posing many challenges for the civilians many of them who fled from northern and central areas of the Gaza strip southwards there are no called upon to move further to the Amowasi area coastal region there but of course also the area in general in Gaza in the Gaza strip is very very densely populated so also there are many challenges for the civilian population at the same time one of the main goals of the military operation in Gaza is to return the hostages which are expected to be head in the tunnels that of course the idea of is trying to get to but again in urban warfare and tunnel systems it is very very difficult to find to find the way around for the Israeli soldiers but what we're also hearing is now that they're receiving support from the air that the Israeli Air Force has been dropping ammunition food and supplies for the soldiers from the end this is a very special operation seven tons are said to have been dropped from the air to the south to the city of Ranyans to supplies really troops there and this is the second time that this has been done since the 2006 love and on war yes indeed many challenges on the ground there and keeping tabs on all of this 24 news correspondent p.s. Thank you very much for this much more from Pia of course throughout our broadcast later on today and joining us now here in studio Brigadier General Mr. Israela Relika Shafia former commander of the Telunofa Air Force base so thank you very much Brigadier General Shafia for joining us well let's do begin with what we're saying as a growing trend more and more images of suspect Hamas terrorist surrendering putting aside the impact of those images when it comes to the you know the optics of it when it comes to public perception what do we learn when it comes to Hamas's control or lack thereof of the strip there is a difference between cracks to a breaking point I'm not sure that all the house the the surrender you use or whatever you want to call them or Hamas people you could see that from there the way they are cut out their ages that they are not really soldiers or at least trained soldiers they're not no terrorists no but obviously you can see one of them who's pretty heavy laid laying down his Kalachnikov I think this is expected that when you're cornered into a position where you've lost most of your assets at a certain point then it is better to give up and surrender than get killed so I think they've gathered all the people who are there some of them are Hamas soldiers it doesn't mean that they've given up it just means that they were cornered into a position where they could not fight any any longer so hopeful as we may want to be yeah this is not a sign of a crack it's a sign of weakening obviously but I wouldn't count on it in the long race yes breaking signs perhaps not far from being the breaking point that's a certain a breather general Shafiou do stay with us because we want to welcome now Israeli a lawmaker Mr. Hanokha Milwitzky a member of the ruling garlichood party thank you very much a lawmaker a lawmaker Milwitzky for joining us this afternoon well let's begin perhaps with the hottest political potato at the moment the depending budget very controversial one that is now in them in the process of being brought into a second and third final votes essentially at the parliament's plenum and you albeit member of the coalition not going to support it why no I didn't say I'm not going to support it I think the budget is a good budget overall I emphasize the certain point that I don't think most Israelis know at least I didn't know about it was brought into my attention a few weeks ago you know when a man goes on a reserve duty Milouim what we call he's opposed to his employer gets his his cost back from the state I thought he gets his entire cost back but no apparently what the employer pays as social payments the the country doesn't pay back to the employers and that's between 25 and 30% of the salary now when that happens on a regular routine schedule it's okay it's not big money but when we have more than 200,000 people listed as reserve duty and this war going on as much as it's going on it's anticipated to go on more time it's not going to end in a few weeks we're talking about big money for the employers and there's absolutely no justification in my mind for the country to call someone for reserve duty and then anticipate his employer not only to not have him in his working place not only to not be able to bring anybody to substitute him because nobody's going to come at a very short temporary time get the business that these people work and usually suffers from they're not being there and now they have to pay out of their own pocket to fund some of the reserve duties working costs that's unacceptable in my book therefore I asked over a month ago for the people from the Treasury Department to come to some sort of a solution and I've been overlooked and I wasn't taken seriously unfortunately and I got these answers that aren't really answers that there are bigger things now and nobody had time to really deal with it and they're self-thinking about it therefore yesterday I told them on a meeting we had on that schedule that I'm going to have I'm not going to support this budget if this specific Some sort of remedy but but mr. Milewski you're pointing out one out of a long list of issues with the budget that appears In broader terms not to be a wartime Budget in a sense to the entire country the the the economy the the army of course the home front as we call it everything is in war mode the budget remains not so much I don't agree I think that the the thing we I mean we already passed the budget a few months ago we're passing now a new budget to the end of 2023 because we added 30 billion shekels to the budget because of war issues now most of that addition was paid for from diversity between the budget sections therefore there is work going on of course when you want to go and punch a political card you're gonna point a spotlight on the money that goes to the Orthodox people and paint it like this is the entire thing it's not we're adding an additional 30 billion dollars and and what the opposition is talking about is not more than 200 million out of 30 billion now you don't go and talk and say the things they say because of 200 million from a 600 billion budget yeah all these things we need to pass this budget because again it's needed for security reasons it's needed for the people that got evacuated out of their homes we have 1.5 percent of the population out of their homes we need to deal with all of this and when we get the budget for 2024 when we're supposed to to get within two or three weeks then we will be able to look everything see all the offices that are in controversy whether we need to continue running them or maybe we can still work in pro in progress not to not the end of it when it comes to renewed budget allocations mr. Moldowski before we let you go we do want to get your take on what we've seen in the security cabinet last night Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu pushed for Palestinian workers from the West Bank to enter Israel security cabinet members opposed it and generally speaking it seems a bit unclear whether Netanyahu wants to strengthen the Palestinian Authority or weaken it and this also relates of course to the talks of the day after the war well I think we need to see reality as it is I don't think the Palestinian Authority at least not this Palestinian Authority can be a part of any solution it's actually a part of a problem the Palestinian people well you know when you you see what's going on there you understand that the only reason that they didn't do what Hamas did is that they didn't have the ability that that's the entire thing we need to rethink we need to understand that we cannot be dependent anymore on labor coming from the territories in Judea and Samaria therefore I think that the cabinet's decision yesterday was a justified one and I hope nobody changes their mind there there we cannot afford ourselves to bring thousands and thousands of Palestinians inside Israel it's too risky these people are enemy whether it's nice to say or not these people are enemy and we need to understand that and we need to find new ways for this labor issue Israeli a lawmaker a member of the ruling liquid party mr. Hanocha Milwitzky thank you very much for your time this afternoon we appreciate it thank you thank you for being here and now here with us in studio still Brigadier General Israel relic Shafir Brigadier General Shafir your your thoughts on on the comments that we've just heard when it comes to the Palestinian Authority part of the problem not part of the solution I think the member of parliament will witsky is part of the problem the way he actually paints all Palestinians as enemies these are people who have were actually the backbone of our construction industry and now with a lot of five Thai people going back to Thailand they are also helping us in agriculture obviously this particular time things should be looked at in a more meticulous way but blaming them were calling them all enemies is not only contrary to the truth but it is also irritating to anybody who is working with them and I think he doesn't understand how much Israeli industry is dependent on them and what will happen if they don't have a paycheck at the end of the day this is the best way to push them towards Hamas and this is perhaps the point that I will ask you to elaborate on Brigadier General Shafir because the security establishment is supporting that not because of the of the considerations that you know when it comes to the Israeli construction industry or the agriculture industry they're thinking about it from the security standpoint and and the belief is or the assumption is that the more economic despair in the West Bank the greater the risk that the security situation is going to escalate there but it does not coincide with the diplomatic perception or the political perception that is currently reigning in Jerusalem so how do you mend it to well obviously this particular member of Parliament is known to be extreme right wing and for them all Arabs and all Palestinians are our enemies and they member of Benjamin Daniels liquid party we're not talking about the far right elements in the coalition some of the liquid the party members and particularly this particular member are actually much closer to the extreme right parties than they are and the liquid the liquid is supposed to be a liberal party and that he's certainly not one of those. Benjamin Daniels understands both the in this particular case both the economic effects and the security effects and the fact that while all the world is calling for two states solution now they're branded as enemies this is something that is hurting Israeli diplomacy overseas and I think Mr. Bluetsky should learn a little bit about the way the economy and the security is managed here. We are seeing as we speak Brigadier General Shafir live images of the Gaza skyline it seems that the aerial strikes there continue so let's do as much as possible put the political prospects or lack thereof and and decide that for a second and go back to what's happening on the ground we do see again fierce fighting from from south to north in the Gaza strip and the question remains whether those tactical achievements accumulate add up to a strategic change on the ground. There is no question that this is what is going to happen the tactical advances the number of Habas terrorists that are being killed every day and their pushback will have its its effect at the end of the day. The question is when is this end of the day whether it's closer or farther. We're under pressure to really quickly handle this but it's a long story here. We should be patient. We should learn from past wars. Let's think about ISIS. It took a few years to eradicate ISIS and we're talking about coalition forces who'd fought ISIS. So this is an urban warfare. It should take time until the pressure comes home to the leaders Hamas leaders underground when they are cornered. It'll it'll cost lives as well but there is no way out. This is this is our war. There is no easy way. Yeah and we should just press on until we get things done and things done include also the elimination of Hamas leaders. Can you foresee a situation in which there is an end to this intensive fight of the war without such a scenario? Obviously there could be different types of end games as long as Hamas is neutralized. There is at the end of the day the hostages are held as the playing cards for Hamas leaders in case they're cornered into a position where they cannot survive anymore. They will pay with the hostages in order to get their ticket out of Gaza if this may come. So this is what we should expect that as they're being cornered the more pressure is